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The Morning Rant-CBDless Edition
Mr. CBD is on a remote scouting mission. Something about Bourbon, snails, maple syrup and unsalted butter.
Lately life has been happening here in the Frozen Tundra and current events and politics has taken a back seat. I know there are multiple problems around the world including here in the Good Old USA. For the first time in my *life* the USA has a president who is not a politician. Of course that would be Donald J. Trump. The nearest example of a president who was not a full-time, life-time politician was Ronald Reagan. This country is poised to become a bigger and better light on the shining hill. However, the
*Remember I'm only 29 years old*
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 23, 2025 10:58 AM (22p5n)
Posted by: kactus at December 23, 2025 10:58 AM (twS2i)
And the next time the Dems have both houses of Congress, the entire filibuster will be going away. Harry Reid got rid of it for judicial nominees, and no one even cared.
GOP should nuke it now and get some things passed.
Posted by: Leupold at December 23, 2025 10:58 AM (eIzlH)
I'm getting too old for this garbage. Younger folk, your turn. Good luck, and God bless, you're gonna need it.
(No, I'm not doing anything rash and irreversible. Just admitting what I've known for years.)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 11:00 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 11:01 AM (WeQvm)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (uWKK8)
Grifters find excuses not to do so.
Let's see what happens.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (of9Mm)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (WeQvm)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (uWKK
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"This is only happening because no one is buying gas."
-troll, soon
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)
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I don't know how old you are, but for me, the first such President was Ike. And he had some predecessors, though he was also the first of my parents' lives.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2025 11:03 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)
The mainstream media, who have always had my best interests at heart, has named them the "New Faces of MAGA". So I have to follow them now (as they attempt to lead us away from MAGA)
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (6LzyB)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 23, 2025 11:05 AM (22p5n)
And the next time the Dems have both houses of Congress, the entire filibuster will be going away. Harry Reid got rid of it for judicial nominees, and no one even cared.
GOP should nuke it now and get some things passed.
Posted by: Leupold at December 23, 2025 10:58 AM (eIzlH)
I disagree, but the manner of reforms have to change, and it's a bit sad. (It's happening already) Congress is already mostly irrelevant, it will become completely irrelevant, much like happened to the old Roman Senate. They will sit in the building and talk, but it's just kabuki theater. All reform and control will come through taking charge of the bureaucracy, the military, and the courts. Dems figured that out before our side did, but this is our chance to take it all back.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:05 AM (uWKK8)
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I think that's a source (one of them) of so much vitriol directed at him from all sides. Because he has no political past. He came into the organization at the CEO level, and this really burns all the careerists in politics. How dare he crash the party!
I think of him as the Rodney Dangerfield character in Caddyshack.
Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 11:06 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 11:06 AM (3ek7K)
Obamacare has one metric. "Maximize the number of people insured." Quality of care .... pffft. Cost of insurance ... pffft, just subsidize it to meet the metric.
And that's why health care sucks.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (f0sNM)
Posted by: banana Dream
No Ruth Bader Meinhoff gambit?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (lEejK)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (3uBP9)
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Not a favorite, but he has my prayers. That's what took my father.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (s0JqF)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)
Sometimes vertigo issues need special exercises.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (k8boH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:05 AM (uWKK
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The most important part:
Congress is mostly irrelevant.
They do political theater and almost nothing else. The actual power of the federal government has lied with the executive for a very long time.
"Oh, no! Congress will impeach Trump if Democrats win in 2026!"
"And the Senate won't convict, all while Trump runs the executive as he wants, deporting millions of people, culling regulations, and prosecuting criminal activity by his enemies."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)
MisHum, I don't see support for Israel as an Israel v. US thing. I see it as a Western Civilization vs. Islam thing. It transcends the two countries as I see it.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)
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This is LITERALLY what Tucker and Nick Fuentes say as well. But when they say it they’re Nazis somehow?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (3uBP9)
Well I'm sorry for him, he's only 53, a tragedy for his family.
(I do recall that he always talked a big game but always voted with the deep state)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (uWKK8)
NEW: Hunter Biden Reveals He’s Nearly $15 Million in Debt
“I’ve got $15 Million in debt that I have no idea that I'm going to be able to pay off … We have no generational wealth.”
NEW: Hunter Biden Now Says His ‘Laptop From Hell’ Was Fabricated
“There is no laptop … What they did is they cobbled together a stolen, concocted, fabricated, mishmash of digital information, largely, which is thousands and thousands and thousands of emails from 25 years. No laptop could have held all of that."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)
The center of power has shifted, and the GOP is terrified of it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (jvxGE)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (3uBP9)
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Not a favorite, but he has my prayers. That's what took my father.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (s0JqF)
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After his vote to convict PDJT in the second impeachment trial he dropped off my list, but I now wish him and his poor family the very best in this last race. This is sad news indeed.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (of9Mm)
Sometimes vertigo issues need special exercises.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 11:07 AM (k8boH)
The Epley Maneuver has already been mentioned, but I'll tell her this as well.
We've met the insurance deductible, again, so maybe this would a covered item.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (Zz0t1)
100 at random?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (Kt19C)
How's that going?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (VE6XX)
How is this even remotely a thing? A judge is now ordering other countries around?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM (3uBP9)
Well I'm sorry for him, he's only 53, a tragedy for his family.
(I do recall that he always talked a big game but always voted with the deep state)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Took my brother in law at the same age.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (lEejK)
@AP
Hundreds of underage girls married off and hundreds more children kidnapped as U.S. foreign aid cuts contribute to surge in violations against persecuted Rohingya children.
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And Islam has nothing to do with it!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (L/fGl)
100 at random?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (Kt19C)
I guess he said he has "information" that these poor souls are innocent.. Innocent I tell you !
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (LgsNJ)
“There is no laptop … What they did is they cobbled together a stolen, concocted, fabricated, mishmash of digital information, largely, which is thousands and thousands and thousands of emails from 25 years. No laptop could have held all of that."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)
Lying sack of shit lies, proves he's a sack of shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:11 AM (Zz0t1)
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Just checked, my main email has over 20,000 emails (this includes after the occasional deleting which isn't much fun. though I'll see if AI can help with this task)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 11:11 AM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 11:11 AM (of9Mm)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (of9Mm)
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At the lowest point in Trump's presidency, 1/6 in the recent past, the greatest sin against DC power that DC power could manage to imagine, and they still fell 10 votes short in the Senate.
That's how pointless fear of impeachment is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (VE6XX)
Somewhere, there's a Queensrÿche lyric that covers this........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (Zz0t1)
“I’ve got $15 Million in debt that I have no idea that I'm going to be able to pay off
Then why worry about it? Heck, make it $1.5 billion (was that Alex Jones' bill?)
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (6LzyB)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (3uBP9)
sure bob
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (emBoF)
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Boasberg orders Trump to nuke Moscow. Bondi files appeal.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (Dv3i1)
Expecting a Gen Z or Gen Alpha to have an emotional reaction to the Holocaust or WW2 is like expecting a Boomer to have an emotional reaction to the Maine, or the Civil War. They look at footage of Nazis and see the Hugo Boss uniforms, and the confidence of young fighting men fighting for a cause they believe in, and think "Hey - the skulls and lightning bolt insignias are kinda cool, I wish I were one of those guys. I wonder if that is the 'White Privilege I am supposed to have."
Posted by: Josh at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (hLJSV)
I dunno. Trump moves fast. His name is already on the Kennedy Center.
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It'd take 5 years to design, another 5 of redesign, and a decade to build the first one. Presuming it isn't canceled by the Democrats before it sees the light of day.
Shipbuilding in the US sucks. Unless we're talking submarines or, maybe, aircraft carriers.
It's supposed to be built by a Korean-owned shipyard here in the US. That could make a BIG difference.
I think it's just a continuation of the LEGEND Class Coast Guard cutters being built by Ingalls in Mississippi.
Doing this keeps the production line hot and doesn't create a delay for design and development.
The cutters are about the size of a frigate so instead of being painted white and going to the Coast Guard they'll be painted gray and go to the Navy.
Put some missiles and laser weapons on board and designate it as a cruiser.
The CG has a cutter the size of a battleship?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (Riz8t)
Anyway, in evaluating the therapist puts special goggles on the patient and makes them do stuff (look right, look left, stand, lie down, etc) to figure put what is wonky.
If the ER didn't do this then that would be next.
Of course if it's just sinuses it might clear up on its own.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 11:13 AM (WeQvm)
Boom!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 11:11 AM (of9Mm)
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False, the economy can't grow if we're deporting people and if no one is buying anything and if government jobs are being slashed.
It's literally impossible.
Trump should be impeached for GDP growth while destroying the American economy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)
They're taking the dump in our beds, because we aren't the party they wanted us to be and they want us to stop demanding they fill the promises they never meant to keep.
Posted by: Voyager at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (lk05u)
Posted by: Josh
I've had plenty of arguments with my Boomer BiL about the Civil War.
And probably with many Boomers here.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (UJWr0)
They're not going to do it, probably not going to be able to. Boasberg is coming up with orders that he think will allow him to make a contempt charge; he needs to be kicked out of all of these cases by a higher court.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (uWKK
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Doing this while facing a writ of mandamus is ballsy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (GBKbO)
From the 60 Minutes segment:
"The administration considers anyone who crosses the border illegally to be a criminal."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)
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Some biblical discussion last night. The first thing the Maccabees did before attacking the Romans was to kill the Hellenized Jews.
Moses came down from the mount and ordered the Levites to clean house.
If Trump could take a page from that book.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (Mis34)
Posted by: Voyager at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (lk05u)
That's hot.
Posted by: Amber Heard at December 23, 2025 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)
From the 60 Minutes segment:
"The administration considers anyone who crosses the border illegally to be a criminal."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)
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"Wait...that's a problem?"
-like, 80% of the country
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)
I wish I could post photos here - I'd post a picture of the $1.99 gas at the pump I just got this morning.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (uWKK
I used to text photos of $1.97 Texas gas to my conservative death beast brother here in Clownifornia, just to be a dick. No caption, I just let the photo do the talking.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 11:15 AM (y9nCu)
From the 60 Minutes segment:
"The administration considers anyone who crosses the border illegally to be a criminal."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)
What part of "illegal" do they not understand ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:15 AM (VE6XX)
"The administration considers anyone who crosses the border illegally to be a criminal."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (L/fGl)
What exactly do you think 'illegally' means?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)
the only "younger crowd" he is making a stir with are the ones who inhabit the bot farms of India and Nigeria.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (uWKK8)
Central Iowa now has gas at under $2/gallon. E85 is $1.28/gallon lol.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (ycI94)
What part of "illegal" do they not understand ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:15 AM (VE6XX)
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They have some didactic point about crossing the border illegally being a civil, not a criminal, offense.
It's still deportable, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)
And the next time the Dems have both houses of Congress, the entire filibuster will be going away. Harry Reid got rid of it for judicial nominees, and no one even cared.
GOP should nuke it now and get some things passed.
Posted by: Leupold at December 23, 2025 10:58 AM (eIzlH)
The filibuster isn't going away. People have been saying that for forty years. It's too useful and neither side in the Senate really gives a shit about going on the record as changing things.
Let's assume for a moment that we do get rid of the filibuster to "get some things passed". Every one of those things will be undone as soon as the Democrats have power again. Day 1. The country will, at best, be whipsawed between radically different visions and, at worst, they'll settle for an EU-like bureaucratic hellhole in an effort to have some consistency.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (ExV1e)
$3.79 at Costco here in NorCal
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (VE6XX)
sure bob
Posted by: BlackOrchid
His word as a Biden!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:17 AM (L/fGl)
the only "younger crowd" he is making a stir with are the ones who inhabit the bot farms of India and Nigeria.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (uWKK
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This has apparently been confirmed. The vast majority of his traffic comes from the Middle East.
It's an op, best ignored, because it doesn't actually involve many Americans.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)
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Iowa grows corn to feed your vehicle.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 11:17 AM (Dv3i1)
Central Iowa now has gas at under $2/gallon. E85 is $1.28/gallon lol.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (ycI94)
E85 should not exist.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:17 AM (Zz0t1)
100 at random?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:09 AM (Kt19C)
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His 100 fellow bathhouse pedos.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:17 AM (LgsNJ)
Once more, for those in Rio Linda: DePena CAN speak English. There is video of him doing so. He CHOSE NOT to speak English.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:17 AM (ufSfZ)
Does he realize what that can do to a gal?
I sure hope they have a safe word.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:18 AM (3uBP9)
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During his interview with Nick Fuentes, Piers Morgan showed a clip of some British lord talking about his grandparents being killed by Hitler and Stalin. And this was supposed to make Nick Fuentes see the folly of his ways and realize his entire world view is wrong.
Nick’s reaction was; I was born in 1978 in Chicago. I don’t care what happened to this guy’s grandparents in Europe in 1940.
Piers was all whaaaaaa? How can you say that? The perfect boomer vs zoomer mindset on this.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:18 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2025 11:19 AM (rj6Yv)
$2.73 here in my corner of Maskachusetts.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:19 AM (ufSfZ)
sure bob
Posted by: BlackOrchid
His word as a Biden!
What is his point? Biden pere can't even get his homies to build him a library. Nobody is going to give Hunter a penny.
It's over, dude. Your best bet now is to jump into a volcano.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:19 AM (Riz8t)
He was shilling for Kumswala Harris last election. To suddenly say he's a far right wing juggernaut is disingenuous at best.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)
we have the second highest gas tax I think? and it's pegged to inflation or just a general increase annually.
rrrrrrr
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: No Tech Whiz Here at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (oftw2)
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There is an interpretation where it is not a lie.
1. Create a dependent underclass that is the majority of all people
2. Make sure the dependent underclass is dependent on the government
3. Make sure the government on which the underclass depends is controlled by you, and therefore by proxy the underclass depends on you
4. Enthusiastically support majority rule, looting and killing the minority to support your position by transferring a small portion of the loot the majority
5. Keep it up until there is nothing left to loot
Only when step 5 fails do you need to become non-"democratic"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (avHHk)
He was shilling for Kumswala Harris last election. To suddenly say he's a far right wing juggernaut is disingenuous at best.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (Zz0t1)
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And he's so powerful and effective that he went to Michigan to make sure Trump lost the state...and Trump won the state.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)
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Who confirmed it? Oh right NCRI. The far left group funded by Soros and started to fight “online misinformation”. As a bonus Liz Cheney is involved with them.
A totally unbiased source if I’ve ever seen one.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (UJWr0)
oh hunt is full of shit
he has plenty of money, just doesn't want to be on the hook for legal fees or alimony/child support
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (xvV+O)
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)
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Who confirmed it? Oh right NCRI. The far left group funded by Soros and started to fight “online misinformation”. As a bonus Liz Cheney is involved with them.
A totally unbiased source if I’ve ever seen one.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:20 AM (UJWr0)
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So...a far left source has verified, against interest, that Nick Fuentes isn't actually appealing to the American right?
Also, Elon Musk confirmed it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)
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These people are subversives and should be handled as such. Alex Jones is hyperbolic, extreme, and totally pro-American. Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro are not pro-American they are despicable subversives.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (Mis34)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 23, 2025 11:22 AM (+mUZM)
Regardless, that won’t be “paid off” or whatever. That isn’t how government financing works. “Reserve currency” status of the US dollar may well have been a curse. When government spending ended gold convertibility, the dollar was allowed to “float”, and certain security arrangements were made with respect to crude oil being priced, purchased and settled in dollars worldwide. Thus the “petrodollar”, a huge market for dollars outside the US.
I’m not smart enough to know if all those dollars could somehow return to the US. If so, Katy bar the door.
Some sort of debt repudiation, re-valuation + monetary inflation is baked into this cake. The real issue is how the government plans to continue to make timely interest payments on the debt. It will continue to eat ever larger portions of tax revenue until it subsumes everything.
Do they have a plan for that? Do they act like they have a plan for that? They act like they are looting a corpse. When was the last time a major Democrat or Republican politician or candidate talked about a favorable balance of trade? We are well into fairy tale economics.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 11:22 AM (+/0+/)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (ycI94)
E85 should not exist.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Agreed. E18 is about as high as we go, but it's grape-based, not grain.
Posted by: Hillary and Kamala at December 23, 2025 11:22 AM (ycI94)
we have the second highest gas tax I think? and it's pegged to inflation or just a general increase annually.
rrrrrrr
Posted by: BlackOrchid
I might suggest burning down the governor's mansion, but I guess that's been tried already.
Posted by: The Little Match Girl at December 23, 2025 11:22 AM (oftw2)
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govern, v: to acquire and maintain power and wealth by making false promises to constituents and then working against their interests in favor of your own
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:22 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (Riz8t)
No, but they have cutters whose preferred pronouns are BB.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2025 11:19 AM (rj6Yv)
I knew an older navy guy in a machine shop I worked in that absolutely hated Eisenhower. I knew this not only because he talked at length about how the whole navy was wronged by him but also because his worst possible curse, that he reserved for very special occasions, was to invoke the name. You knew shit was about to go down whenever you heard him say Eisenhower.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (3uBP9)
“I’ve got $15 Million in debt that I have no idea that I'm going to be able to pay off
Then why worry about it? Heck, make it $1.5 billion (was that Alex Jones' bill?)
Posted by: t-bird
If you owe the bank $1 million you have a problem.
If you owe the bank $1 billion, the bank has a problem.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (lEejK)
Woke Lutheran church holds "Queer Apocalyptic Nativity" led by angry lesbians
https://is.gd/XYi2TH
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'Tis the season to be faggy
Fa la la la la la la la la
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)
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govern, v: to acquire and maintain power and wealth by making false promises to constituents and then working against their interests in favor of your own
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:22 AM (avHHk)
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Here's my thing:
Do we need...more laws?
Or is the problem that we have a shit ton of laws that the powerful simply don't enforce?
What's another law, "This time, we're serious," going to do? The problem in America isn't the law, it's the enforcement side.
Congress not being that productive doesn't bother me that much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (GBKbO)
Which is why the TPUSA AmFest was devoted to Kong but talking about him. And why Mark Levin and Little Ben are both on a jihad against him. Because he’s so inconsequential I guess.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:24 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (GBKbO)
Yeah. If he keeps this up he might get another. /shudder
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 11:24 AM (ExV1e)
We don't even recognize Maduro as the legitimate leader of Venezuela. It's a completely idiotic ruling.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 11:24 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Josh
I've had plenty of arguments with my Boomer BiL about the Civil War.
And probably with many Boomers here.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:14 AM (77rzZ)
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Bottom Line: Those of us over 29 (primarily Boomers and Gen X) were actually taught history.
The Millennials and subsequent generations have been taught little if any history -- and primarily to hate Western Civilization and their countries.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:24 AM (LgsNJ)
Posted by: runner at December 23, 2025 11:25 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:02 AM (uWKK
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"This is only happening because no one is buying gas."
-troll, soon
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)
No one uses gas anymore. It's too expensive.
Posted by: yogi berra's abused corpse at December 23, 2025 11:25 AM (IVZwn)
Woke Lutheran church holds "Queer Apocalyptic Nativity" led by angry lesbians
https://is.gd/XYi2TH
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'Tis the season to be faggy
Fa la la la la la la la la
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)
I guess they put new meaning to Now we wear Our Gay apparel...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:25 AM (VE6XX)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:25 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:24 AM (UJWr0
They are ALL bought and paid for shills that have NO interest in American Greatness other than their f*cking bank account.
Period.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: runner at December 23, 2025 11:25 AM (g47mK)
Posted by: mrp at December 23, 2025 11:19 AM (rj6Yv)
Part of the reason the Taf crowd hated him so much.
Ike deserves a lot of credit for not letting the asshole generals and clown-shoe politicos bum-rush the US into WW3, but he didn't have any desire to tame the incipient welfare state.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:26 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Bah!
https://shorturl.at/ZyXKy
I prefer DDs.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 23, 2025 11:26 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:26 AM (Riz8t)
How's that going?
Posted by: Bulg
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We're not really looking until the spring at the earliest.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 23, 2025 11:26 AM (22p5n)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:17 AM (GBKbO)
And both of those are Moo Moo, and Joe Xiden.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:26 AM (npFr7)
We're not really looking until the spring at the earliest.
Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at December 23, 2025 11:26 AM (22p5n)
If I can get off my lazy ass and get things done around here, that's when we're hoping to have ours on the market.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:27 AM (Zz0t1)
Ike burned a LOT of political capital talking about the MIC and how to control it. The welfare state didn't really get going until Johnson.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:27 AM (Riz8t)
Woke Lutheran church holds "Queer Apocalyptic Nativity" led by angry lesbians
https://is.gd/XYi2TH
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'Tis the season to be faggy
Fa la la la la la la la la
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)
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Have yourself ...
A furry little Christmas
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:27 AM (LgsNJ)
Vest & turtleneck with white shoes?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 11:28 AM (lEejK)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 11:22 AM (+/0+/)
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It has certain benefits, like being able to outsource inflation. When you're the reserve currency, a lot of it needs to be outside your borders. If you can keep your new emissions (new unbacked credit - I'm looking at you, US federal budget) to at or below the amount of growth in global trade flow that settles in your currency, you get to print money for free by locking up the excess overseas.
What happens when either global trade flow growth fails to offset printing growth, or when trade stops settling in your currency, is "look out below" territory because that money *will* repatriate over time because it has to. Nobody holds worthless money for no reason. If you the reason away, back it comes while it can still buy something.
We've done both. Trade flows are reducing and our punitive actions against Russia broke trust in a uniform reserve currency controlled by a single party.
Absorbing repatriating money is one of the reasons tariffs aren't a bad idea right now, but it's a narrow window.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:28 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)
Slowly. I owe a couple of people other writing projects, so I probably won't get back to it until after the new year. Other than that, just trying to keep loneliness and depression at bay.
How you?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:28 AM (ufSfZ)
I prefer DDs.
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at December 23, 2025 11:26 AM (ycI94)
You asked for it.........
https://is.gd/z48ltX
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)
$3.79 at Costco here in NorCal
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (VE6XX)
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Done seen some $1.99 cash, but we're down to about $2.05 here in Brazoria County, TX.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:28 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 23, 2025 11:29 AM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:29 AM (UJWr0)
Whip is not only a title it is a job description.
Whip is selected by committee or something but those choosing the Whip are part and parcel of our problem with the House.
We're not getting anywhere until these slugs have some salt on their tails and get moving.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:29 AM (Mis34)
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Mmm, that's cuz they are running slaves.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 11:29 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Navy Joan Biden at December 23, 2025 11:30 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 11:30 AM (9VT5v)
Mmm, that's cuz they are running slaves.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 11:29 AM (pLaQB)
Some things never change.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:30 AM (Zz0t1)
The Scrooges at the Associated Press say Christmas candles and fireplaces should be used "in moderation"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:30 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)
Have yourself ...
A furry little Christmas
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Speaking of which ... * channels Nurse *
IT'S TUMMY-RUB TUESDAY! RUB THOSE LITTLE FURRY TUMMIES ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (LgsNJ)
Do we need...more laws?
Or is the problem that we have a shit ton of laws that the powerful simply don't enforce?
What's another law, "This time, we're serious," going to do? The problem in America isn't the law, it's the enforcement side.
Congress not being that productive doesn't bother me that much.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (GBKbO)
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Far too many, and too many contradictions. Add in regulatory codices (as they have the force of law in many cases) and it gets even worse.
There is one question every aspirational Draco needs to ask himself before uttering, "there ought to be a law," which is "is this thing worth killing someone over?" That *is,* like it or not, the final point of any law: comply or face enforcement, resist enforcement and die."
Is it important to kill a man over? No? Then it shouldn't be a law.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (lXoJ5)
Period.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:25 AM (Zz0t1)
Nick has been doing this for 10 years. The first 8 of those 10 years he made nothing because he was banned everywhere. Even banks refused to do business with him.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Trump has gotten rid of thousands but still enough remain to foul our system and foul his goals.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (Mis34)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (0sNs1)
I'm not sure what we should call this group, perhaps NutCasesTM
Googley-eyed NutCasesTM works for me.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:32 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Its quite tedious watching you shill for those two. That's not "LITERALLY what Tucker and Nick Fuentes say"--they say a LOT of antisemitic bullshit. Fuentes dry humps the history of Hitler and Tucker is fascinated with Islam and critical of pretty much anything related to supported Israel. Your daily support of them is bigoted and pathetic.
Posted by: Crusader Channelling Godwin at December 23, 2025 11:32 AM (TN0g+)
It's still deportable, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)
Which is dumb. Because it is in fact a criminal offense.
Posted by: 8 USC 1325, 1326 at December 23, 2025 11:33 AM (IVZwn)
The Scrooges at the Associated Press say Christmas candles and fireplaces should be used "in moderation"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:30 AM (L/fGl)
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Pacific Palisades hardest hit ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:33 AM (LgsNJ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM
It's not the same, but hopefully this fills the void slightly:
* considers mentioning Prometheus *
* decides to keep Thread Prometheus-free *
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 11:33 AM (0sNs1)
Tucker et al are a reflection of this. Call them Nazis until you’re blue in the face it’s not going to change anything.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:34 AM (UJWr0)
Nick has been doing this for 10 years. The first 8 of those 10 years he made nothing because he was banned everywhere. Even banks refused to do business with him.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:31 AM (UJWr0)
I don't care. He's a piece of shit sellout shill in place to splinter the right in an effort to "get Trump."
He, along with the REST of the loudmouth f*cktards, can ESAD. That goes for Levin. That goes for Shapiro. That goes for Owens. They can ALL just f*ck RIGHT OFF. You too, Carlson.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:34 AM (Zz0t1)
The Scrooges at the Associated Press say Christmas candles and fireplaces should be used "in moderation"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!
See if you can keep a candle burning while the burning end is shoved up your asses, Scoldy McScoldFaces.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:34 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:34 AM (Kt19C)
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"Nick" isn't one of ours--what is your obsession with him? He openly stated he supported Kamala Harris, and he's also on record that he intends to disrupt Republican primaries in 2028, targetting Vance and Rubio. Why do continue with this bullshit mantra that he's worth any conservative's attention when he has made it clear he's not on our team?
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 11:35 AM (TN0g+)
True, but I meant that the country had already gone through years of social security, Roosevelt's alphabet agencies taking over the economy and wartime demands which accustomed people to a large, intrusive government that would, in theory, protect your money and help provide for your old age.
Ike was the closest thing to a laissez-faire prexy since Coolidge, but there was never going to be any political appetite or will to roll back the New Deal.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:35 AM (ufSfZ)
Tucker et al are a reflection of this. Call them Nazis until you’re blue in the face it’s not going to change anything.
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I told you guys, years ago, to wear berets. But you ignored me and here we are.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 11:35 AM (pLaQB)
https://is.gd/XYi2TH
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'Tis the season to be faggy
Fa la la la la la la la la
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)
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Have yourself ...
A furry little Christmas
Posted by: ShainS
I'm shocked it isn’t Connecticut's Hopeville Church. This one picture from the inside will blow your mind lol
https://shorturl.at/6qMIw
Their website address is https://hopeville.church/
I...didn't know you could have an address that doesn't end with a period and three characters, but it seems to
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 11:35 AM (ycI94)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:35 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 23, 2025 11:35 AM (Y1sOo)
A fish in your pants?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:34 AM
A codpiece is a piece of cod.
A codice is a frozen cod.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 11:35 AM (0sNs1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpIV69pq_Tw
Posted by: Duncanthrax
First time I've ever uptwinkled one of your posts!
Posted by: Penguin Pete at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (oftw2)
just super tiresome mobying
for Christmas? would be a lovely present!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (emBoF)
The popular image of course is a nice, grandfatherly figure. FDR, Marshall, Bradley, and Ike abandoned millions behind the Iron Curtain, sent back thousands of refugees back to the Soviet Union to certain death. All in efforts to appease “Uncle Joe” Stalin. They wanted assurances he would invade Japan. Approx 20k American POWs held by the Soviets were never heard from again. “They just write it off, Jerry” applied to troops.
They could have ended the war in Europe 6 months earlier, but instead they let the Soviets take Berlin, which was surrounded by Soviet controlled territory. “Cold War” resulted in millions of deaths. China went communist. Korean invasion. Hungary, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Viet Nam, etc.
They “liberated” Europe from one dictator and let a worse one take over, and spent another 50 years fighting that. How stupid is that?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (hlNSv)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
OK. Having a hard time getting into the Christmas spirit this year. Too many people I know are battling major health problems. Our neighbor lady and former babysitter died of colon cancer right before Thanksgiving. We went to her memorial service on Saturday. Several other people I know have cancer, and my wife's brother's wife is in a memory-care unit with early-onset dementia.
All I have is trust in the Lord at this point. I'm not very good at praying, but I'm trying to do more of it. Practice makes perfect. There's certainly enough to pray about.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:32 AM (xG4kz)
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* Brings back fond memories of the character Grady on Sanford & Son *
"Good goobily goop!" and "Great googly moogly!"
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (LgsNJ)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (3ek7K)
It'd take 5 years to design, another 5 of redesign, and a decade to build the first one. Presuming it isn't canceled by the Democrats before it sees the light of day.
Shipbuilding in the US sucks. Unless we're talking submarines or, maybe, aircraft carriers.
There's part of me that wishes the Trump class would just be a mass of guns and missiles. A VLS for Tomahawk cruise missiles, about 6 CWIS and a shitload of 5"/54 guns for shore bombardment, at least 20. It'd be like shooting a gigantic, full-auto Carl Gustav. The only problem would be keeping enough ammo in the magazines to fight anything more than a short engagement.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (y9nCu)
Tucker et al are a reflection of this. Call them Nazis until you’re blue in the face it’s not going to change anything.
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Nope, just more bullshit from you. 87% of those surveyed at TPUSA counted Israel as the prime ally of the US or a key ally of the US--I saw the article earlier today. If you are in love with Nick, you're not in love with conservatism--he's an anti-semitic prick who isn't part of the "right" or conservatism.
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 11:37 AM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 11:37 AM (f0sNM)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (GBKbO
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If congress has the power to de-throne judges and they are not in the process of doing so that is a problem.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:37 AM (Mis34)
What's the difference between a troll and an attention whore? Discuss.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:37 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Pudinhead
A question I've been pondering for years without satisfactory result. In Dylan's song Tangled Up In Blue, a song clearly set in contemporary America, he describes his chick's boyfriend.
Then he started into dealing with slaves
And something inside of him died
She had to sell everything she owned
And froze up inside
So what the hell is he talking about?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)
A codice is a frozen cod.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
On a good sized cod, the sweetest, white meat is a chunk in the skull between the eyes. Rivals lobster in taste.
Posted by: Norseman at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (oftw2)
Hunter Biden is a timeline hopper, his special power as an eternal consumer of banned substances.
Ask him right now where he is and it is likely that he'll reply, "Riding shotgun for the Voyagers satellites -- both of them."
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (xG4kz)
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Or maybe he’s pointing out how Trump has not done much of what he said he’d do.
End Ukraine war on day 1? Remember that.
Mass deportations. Remember that? No 300k a year is not mass deportations.
No more wars? Venezuela says hi. Iran bombing says hi.
600k Chinese students. Is that America First?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (EyfuW)
coke is pricey!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (emBoF)
“There is no laptop … What they did is they cobbled together a stolen, concocted, fabricated, mishmash of digital information, largely, which is thousands and thousands and thousands of emails from 25 years. No laptop could have held all of that."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)
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LOL K.
My email has about 25k messages and consumes about three gigs of space. It is not media rich, but still. Not much. Quintuple each value to 125k messages and 75 gigs and you're still in thumb drive territory, not datacenter territory. Quintuple it all again to 625k messages and 375 gigs and you're still well inside "modern hard drive" territory.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (avHHk)
Merry Christmas and I hope you soak up tons of Christmas joy.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (3ek7K)
Thank you so very much. I'm trying. I'm much less bah humbug this year, for some reason.
I'm praying for 2026 to stop kicking my ass the way the past couple of years have.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 23, 2025 11:39 AM (cCn4/)
*raise hands*
Posted by: Millions of GIs who want to go home, and certainly don't want another war with the USSR at December 23, 2025 11:39 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:39 AM (VE6XX)
right bc you just KNOW Hunter was super on top of clearing out computer files!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:40 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:04 AM
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He voted to impeach Trump. He has to answer for that.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 11:40 AM (IifOV)
https://is.gd/XYi2TH
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'Tis the season to be faggy
Fa la la la la la la la la
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:23 AM (L/fGl)
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At what point - if any - do you realize that you're in a Satanist church rather than a Christian one?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:40 AM (avHHk)
YouTube has a few of the "Eisenhower Speaks To The Nation" commercials. They're quite interesting to watch.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:40 AM (ufSfZ)
Then he started into dealing with slaves
And something inside of him died
She had to sell everything she owned
And froze up inside
So what the hell is he talking about?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!
He anticipated, by several decades, Tucker C and his Qatar connection (first two lines) and Candace O and her JOOOOOOS!!!! connection (last two lines).
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
You'll always be FIRST!! in our hearts!!
Posted by: Old Yeller!! at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: It's me donna
Absolutely.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)
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Operation Wet Back was a very good move.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:40 AM (avHHk)
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I believe the proper Protestant thing to do is to just stop going and start another church until you do something that pisses off someone in the new congregation who then split off into a new church...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (cS1cw)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:38 AM (UJWr0)
Ah, so you ARE a never Trumper.
Good to know. Trump has done more for this country than any president in my lifetime. But you just keep swallowing Fuentes's excretion and spewing your "Trump isn't America First" bullshit.
I won't be reading it anymore. You've seriously worn out your welcome.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: It's me donna
Absolutely.
One could argue it was "avoided nuclear Armageddon".
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: America at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (ycI94)
The angry lesbians never try to disparage Ramadan, I've noticed.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (f0sNM)
Posted by: Old Yeller!!
Hold up now...who's first?
Posted by: America at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (ycI94)
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Wakanda's first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: See Rock City barns at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (Y1sOo)
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87%? Yeah, no.
“On Israel, 53.4% of respondents said they saw Israel “as one ally out of many” and about a third called Israel Americas “top ally”.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (UJWr0)
I'd like unlimited ice cream and a pony but even I'm mature enough not to expect them. I'm not indulging in fault judging Trump. Are there things I wish he'd do? Sure, but who else would do a tenth of what he's done so far? By my standard for a president, I'm not withholding ribbons; Trump is Best in Show at Westminster.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (tgvbd)
sure bob
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:12 AM (emBoF)
Ha ha, who said that! Before workplaces started stifling my creativity I would have multimillion email collection. I'm sure there were whole IT branches formed to try to stop me. And then when they started stupid auto delete, which is being done for legal purposes, not space, I found ways around that.
I have no brain memory. I'm lucky to remember what I did this morning let alone years ago. Email is my memory. And someone will always come at me with some report I wrote and why did I do this or that and I smack them right in the face with, SEE RIGHT HERE ON THIS DATE YOU TOLD ME TO, HA! IN YOUR FACE. They love that and find it very informative. So thousands? pffft!
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 11:40 AM (emBoF)
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Exactly the point. Even with little to no management, hard drives are *big* and have been for a long time. A terabyte is a lot of data unless you're accumulating a lot of video or very high-resolution images. It takes a whole lot of text and pictures to fill up your average laptop.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (avHHk)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 11:42 AM (gm9Sb)
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Every poll is weighted Democrat.
Every poll is a push poll.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:43 AM (Mis34)
Posted by: It's me donna
Bullcrap! It ruined me!
Posted by: Route 66-No Kicks at December 23, 2025 11:43 AM (oftw2)
I'm rooting for you all.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 11:41 AM (3ek7K)
We are forever indebted to you. Thank you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (ufSfZ)
In Stunning Interview, Hunter Biden Rips Dad Joe’s Presidency Over Immigration and Afghanistan: “Obvious F–Ing Failure”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (3ek7K)
NEW: Hunter Biden Now Says His ‘Laptop From Hell’ Was Fabricated
“There is no laptop … What they did is they cobbled together a stolen, concocted, fabricated, mishmash of digital information, largely, which is thousands and thousands and thousands of emails from 25 years. No laptop could have held all of that."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!
Perhaps "Doctor" Jill can no longer satisfy his ravenous sexual drive (which may or may not be hard).
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (xG4kz)
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Ahh yes the binary position of either you’re 100000% for Trump or you love Kamala.
Answer the question please: is 600k Chinese students America first?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
See you tomorrow, Sir. I hope you have a great rest of the day.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)
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87%? Yeah, no.
“On Israel, 53.4% of respondents said they saw Israel “as one ally out of many” and about a third called Israel Americas “top ally”.
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Ok, show us all that you can do math--add 53.4% to 33.3% and tell the class what you came up with?
I'll put it bluntly--you're an antisemitic prick if you think anything about Nick Fuentes is worth mentioning.
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 11:45 AM (TN0g+)
Scrap steel went to China I think when they demo-ed it.
New bridge has issues already.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 11:45 AM (cS1cw)
http://tiny.cc/yrsw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 11:45 AM (avHHk)
Remember when the Hunt brothers were running up the price of silver in the early 80's? I remember my dad dumping a bunch of silver before it tanked. He bought a new Datsun/Nissan.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 11:45 AM (IifOV)
Cash depreciates, while silver and gold appreciate. Your choice which one you want.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at December 23, 2025 11:45 AM (Da7Vv)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 23, 2025 11:46 AM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:46 AM (tgvbd)
http://tiny.cc/yrsw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Busty and bespectacled is a great combination.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:46 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM
Osteoperosis makes Jills Hips not so movable. Hunter got the sadz.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 11:47 AM (IifOV)
Righteous rant, Mis Hum. Thanks.
We miss you around here. I hope all is well with you and yours, and we wish you and yours a Merry Christmas.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 11:47 AM (dK+Kv)
First time I've ever uptwinkled one of your posts!
Posted by: Penguin Pete at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM
Odd. We find many of his posts worthy of uptwinkles.
Posted by: Leopard Seals at December 23, 2025 11:47 AM (istnK)
Answer the question please: is 600k Chinese students America first?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:44 AM (UJWr0)
They're not doing that. And I didn't say you were a Kumswala fan, now did I.
Seacrest Out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:47 AM (Zz0t1)
What I’m Not too crazy about is Venezuela and Iran. 600k Chinese students. The comments he made about the need for H1Bs. And the fact Ukraine is still a thing and we’re still sending money there to be stolen by Zelensky.
I guess that makes me a never Trumper huh? lol.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:48 AM (UJWr0)
Scrap steel went to China I think when they demo-ed it.
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We sent scrap to the Japanese before WWII and they eventually shot it back at us.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:49 AM (tgvbd)
They “liberated” Europe from one dictator and let a worse one take over, and spent another 50 years fighting that. How stupid is that?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 11:36 AM (hlNSv)
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If the Soviets hadn't murdered (poisoned in his hospital room after a "car accident"?) General George Patton ...
We need an alternate history series in which Patton, not Eisenhower, becomes the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War II, subsequently pushes Soviet forces back and liberates countries such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and East Germany from Soviet control, and ultimately becomes the 34th POTUS.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:49 AM (LgsNJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
You're not alone. I've never even listened to the one allegedly on this blog.
Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp at December 23, 2025 11:49 AM (oftw2)
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Bro!!!!
You said 87% saw Israel as a prime ally. 33% is prime ally. 53% is one of many allies. Can you not distinguish between the two?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:49 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 11:50 AM (3ek7K)
Ballsy alright. Stupid, but ballsy.
Posted by: Ford Prefect at December 23, 2025 11:50 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 23, 2025 11:50 AM (O7YUW)
Eisenhower was the first to hire Madison avenue advertising to craft a modern style political campaign.
The only Happy Days episode that replays in my head is when Ritchie Cunningham gets all depressed because he campaigns for Adlai Stevenson and Ike kicks his ass. THAT'S when Happy Days really jumped the shark
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 11:51 AM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (Kt19C)
I wish I could post photos here - I'd post a picture of the $1.99 gas at the pump I just got this morning.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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"This is only happening because no one is buying gas."
-troll, soon
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Gonna do my part this weekend, it'll take about 40 gallons to make the round trip to visit Mom for a turn-n-burn health and welfare check. I'd fly her here, but she can't get here without going through either ATL or DFW, and she refuses to set foot in either of them.
#SucksToBeTheMiddleKid
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (QVmho)
We need an alternate history series in which Patton, not Eisenhower, becomes the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War II
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Patton as the Supreme Commander is inherently implausible. Patton was lucky not to have been sent home.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect
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If a child was born in 1925 he was five when Wall St crashed. He was ten at the height of Roosevelt's bs.
From awareness to adulthood he grew up in the shadow of FDR's government.
That was his world. He knew nothing else.
Erase history. Write the new history.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (Mis34)
Vice President JD Vance is not mincing his words, telling the news outlet UnHerd during an interview that those who attack his wife Usha "can eat s---."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (L/fGl)
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham pressed Trump during an interview on "The Ingraham Angle," questioning how the proposal was "pro-MAGA" if it crowded out spots for American students and whether universities were "getting rich" from Chinese money.
Trump argued that foreign students — particularly from China — are vital to keeping U.S. universities financially stable, adding that cutting the number of Chinese students in half would cripple the system.
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As America First as it gets.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:53 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 11:53 AM (xcxpd)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
Chuck Cunningham campaigned for Gus Hall, which is why he was sent off to Siberia.
Posted by: TV Fax and Figgers at December 23, 2025 11:54 AM (oftw2)
Scrap steel went to China I think when they demo-ed it.
We sent scrap to the Japanese before WWII and they eventually shot it back at us.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
As was narrated by e e cummings in his poem, "Told Him":
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/states-war/
ee-cummings-told-him
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 11:54 AM (xG4kz)
Looking back on things, I wish I had invested in a mutual fund which held shares in all 100 US Senators.
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 11:54 AM (6LzyB)
The best thing Eisenhower did as President was the Interstate Highway system
Wir fahr'n, fahr'n, fahr'n auf der Autobahn
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 11:55 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: It's me donna
Bullcrap! It ruined me!
Posted by: Route 66-No Kicks at December 23, 2025 11:43 AM (oftw2)
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I think he did it to be able to move military equipment efficiently into and across the country.
Unintended Consequences? YUGE Blue Shithole Cities.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:55 AM (LgsNJ)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 11:55 AM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 11:56 AM (xcxpd)
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I'm pretty sure that's not how that works. I guess they should be happy no one has called them fags.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 11:56 AM (oHAzj)
So, he is actually making our argument for us. Cripple away!
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 11:56 AM (6LzyB)
And I refuse to get sucked into the MSM description of how MAGA has fractured. Tempest in a teapot.
Once President Trump hits the road, these clowns will either toe the line of find themselves in the dustbin of history.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 11:56 AM (2WIwB)
If you read that in a story, the first thing you think may be lesbians
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 23, 2025 11:56 AM (EyfuW)
Patton as the Supreme Commander is inherently implausible. Patton was lucky not to have been sent home.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Patton was not sent home because he got the job done.
If so ordered he would have taken Russia.
Ike did the job he was ordered to do, as Patton, better than any other.
There was much interference between what Eisenhower wanted and what he wanted to do just as there was for Patton. But Eisenhower was the better negotiator. Patton negotiated himself out of a job.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:57 AM (Mis34)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:57 AM (3uBP9)
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 11:54 AM (6LzyB)
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There is an investment fund that follows the stock trades of Democratic members of Congress, named in reference to Nancy Pelosi. The Unusual Whales Subversive Democratic Trading ETF (ticker: NANC) was launched in February 2023 and tracks publicly disclosed trades made by Democratic lawmakers, not just Pelosi alone.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 11:57 AM (LgsNJ)
Fox News’ Laura Ingraham pressed Trump during an interview on "The Ingraham Angle," questioning how the proposal was "pro-MAGA" if it crowded out spots for American students and whether universities were "getting rich" from Chinese money.
Trump argued that foreign students — particularly from China — are vital to keeping U.S. universities financially stable, adding that cutting the number of Chinese students in half would cripple the system.
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As America First as it gets.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:53 AM (UJWr0)
Simple answer is to ensure that any university that admits a Chinese student has to offer admission to all Americans that applied as well - they don't have to offer them money, but they do have to offer them a spot...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2025 11:57 AM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:48 AM (UJWr0)
Not a Never-Trumper, just an Always Asshole.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:58 AM (npFr7)
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Minor quibble. That’s not investing, that’s currency speculation. An investment by definition is something other than money, expected or hoped to provide a return. Stocks of course, rental income.
Paper currencies are not ordinarily a wise way to hold wealth. The US dollar has been better than most.
Note the government reneged on gold bonds paying interest, and made holding gold illegal. Only two other countries ever outlawed gold. Take a guess who they were?
Greenspan, before he went over to the dark side, wrote an excellent treatise in 1966 entitled “Gold and Economic Freedom”. In short, in the absence of a monetary standard, it is impossible for anyone to protect their wealth. As we are witnessing now.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 11:58 AM (hlNSv)
The Q3 GDP sprung to 4.3%. Up from the Q2 3.8%. Pretty hot stuff.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 11:57 AM (3uBP9)
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The Looming Spectre of Inflation! Overheated economy!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:58 AM (tgvbd)
We need an alternate history series in which Patton, not Eisenhower, becomes the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during World War II
____________
Patton as the Supreme Commander is inherently implausible. Patton was lucky not to have been sent home.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (tgvbd)
Practically true. But Patton would have done a damn good job at the soldiering part. And he was a better diplomat than most give him credit for.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 11:58 AM (xcxpd)
It's literally impossible.
Trump should be impeached for GDP growth while destroying the American economy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 11:13 AM (GBKbO)
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Yes!!
Posted by: Eric Swallwell at December 23, 2025 11:59 AM (GJXh3)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:59 AM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:58 AM (npFr7)
He's also a troll
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 11:59 AM (xcxpd)
Once President Trump hits the road, these clowns will either toe the line of find themselves in the dustbin of history.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Concur. Great expectations of a superior House and better Senate after the election. I do think he shit on my girl Stefanik.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 11:59 AM (Mis34)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 12:00 PM (3uBP9)
They are whores who say what they say for likes, clicks, and money. They have no convictions. They go where the money is. Hell, Tucker ain't even trying to hide that he's bought and paid for by Qatar. CO hopes to one day be that bought.
I don't pay attention to any of them. The more anyone talks about them -- even if it's to say "oh no she didn't!" -- is giving them what they want. In their world, there ain't so such thing as bad publicity.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:00 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 11:56 AM (xcxpd)
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Allegations that Tucker Carlson is being funded by Qatar stem from Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings revealing that the Qatari government hired the firm Lumen8 Advisors for $180,000 per month to conduct public relations, including arranging an interview between Carlson and Qatar’s Prime Minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, on the topic of a potential war with Iran.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 12:00 PM (LgsNJ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:00 PM (5DEFi)
Just as you do not call a man who puts balloons in their shirt a woman, and just as you do not call a deer a horse, you should not call the blue slip a filibuster.
Make these tyranical geezers take the floor and talk and actually filibuster. They certainly like to talk when cameras are around. With the different CSPAN channels, they've got an audience. No
The filibuster was a time-honored tradition, not a procedural hurdle to move the goalposts. If you feel strongly that an invader from Germany (at least the last stop prior to a 1st class flight to the USA) should be free to stab old ladies in the eye and young ladies in the *****, then stand up and speak out. And do it for hours, so you can change the hearts and minds of other congresscritters so that, they too, will want to stab women young and old.
Or, maybe just reevaluate your life decisions. Maybe even retire from the Senate.
But make the filibuster a filibuster. They want to halt progress on a bill or an appointment, make them work for it. And that goes for ALL, regardless if they're on the right, the left, or dangling off the left cliff.
Posted by: Another Anon at December 23, 2025 12:00 PM (4h45B)
More of a Malorian I think. Malorted?
Grew up with a guy who's last name became synonimous with failure. I could conjugate it right now from memory.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 12:01 PM (cS1cw)
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Imagine the intense propaganda effort it takes to get people to side against a flawed pluralistic democracy in favor of a totalitarian theological death cult.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 12:01 PM (f0sNM)
The CCP must really have the US over a barrel if Trump is surrendering our university developed tech underwritten by the tax payer to our mortal enemy.
Given the absolute slop that is the main product of non STEM Us Universities, I would argue that the system is already crippled and crushing it under financial losses (WTF happen to the half trillion in aggregate university endowment money) would be in this nation's best interests.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 12:01 PM (nCgQz)
I must be a weirdo. I don't have the patience to listen to more than two minutes of a podcast.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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If that's the definition, then I'm also a weirdo. No patience for them.
Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2025 12:01 PM (2bFN5)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 12:01 PM (cS1cw)
Joe Webber in my home town.
Never knew the kid but his name was a pejorative.
I wonder what the story was there?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:59 AM (5DEFi)
A good poking might tune her up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM (BI5O2)
http://tiny.cc/yrsw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Busty and bespectacled is a great combination.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:46 AM (77rzZ)
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I suspect the glasses are CGI, but ... she's very nice and juicy. TBWB.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Archimedes
There is at least one dude out there who would look at her and says "I will smash that like an angry god."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 12:03 PM (lXoJ5)
Posted by: Billy Silly at December 23, 2025 12:04 PM (Vu7A1)
We were still fighting Japan at the time. Had we invaded, Stalin would have just thrown in his lot with the Japanese, possibly making the Pacific War unwinnable.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 12:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 12:04 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Crawl Space Carl at December 23, 2025 12:04 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM
Have her call me.
Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard alumnus at December 23, 2025 12:04 PM (0sNs1)
http://tiny.cc/yrsw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
That is a FINE body
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 23, 2025 12:05 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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If that's the definition, then I'm also a weirdo. No patience for them.
Posted by: scampydog at December 23, 2025 12:01 PM (2bFN5)
The old AoS podcasts were actually kind of good. And there was a very old, like the dawn of the internet podcast called Tiki Bar TV that was very good. Just about alcohol, making mixed drink, and a very very cute Lala. They were all drunk out of their gourds. I loved it.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 12:05 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Bulg
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Right there with you. The Golden Years have not lived up to their promise. Putting aside my own, I am surrounded by people with troubles. It's an every-waking-moment situation. My thoughts and prayers will be with you, as with others here.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 12:05 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Archimedes
There is at least one dude out there who would look at her and says "I will smash that like an angry god."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 23, 2025 12:03 PM (lXoJ5)
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"I will smash that like an angry god"
-- Louis Braille
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:05 PM (iFTx/)
It's not like they're freaking classical music or anything.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 12:06 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 12:06 PM (6LzyB)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 12:06 PM (77rzZ)
http://tiny.cc/yrsw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Busty and bespectacled is a great combination.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 11:46 AM (77rzZ)
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I suspect the glasses are CGI, but ... she's very nice and juicy. TBWB.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:02 PM (iFTx/)
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Bespectacled, beauty, bewbs and the ability to think. Dang! I think I'll tell Mrs D I'm going out to get some bread.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 12:06 PM (2WIwB)
IT’S COME TO THIS: Boston Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu Says Somalis To Thank For City’s ‘Every Achievement.’
Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said on Monday that Somalis are to thank for “every achievement” that the city has ever had.
I most appreciate when the Somali immigrants threw the tea in the harbor.
-Nick Freitas
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:07 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:08 AM (VE6XX)
How is this even remotely a thing? A judge is now ordering other countries around?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 11:10 AM (UJWr0)
Tell him to STFD and STFU. Period. Enough of his crap.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 23, 2025 12:07 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Let's go see the freak show.
What's it all about?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:07 PM (Mis34)
Posted by: Diogenes
So, that's what the kids are calling it now.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 12:08 PM (77rzZ)
The big fiction is that the Soviets were ever “allies”, the whole thing was a colossal waste. 1914 thru 1945, and look at Europe today. They had a 4 year window before the Soviets got their own bomb. Totalitarian governments slaughtered maybe 100 million trying various Utopian schemes from Russia to Germany to Cambodia to Chinw, and that’s not even counting the wars.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:08 PM (hlNSv)
Patton as the Supreme Commander is inherently implausible. Patton was lucky not to have been sent home.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:52 AM (tgvbd)
I have mixed feelings about Patton. As much as I agree with him in regards to the commie cocksuckers, his rep for battlefield aggressiveness and the offensive is based on the fact that he wasn't facing German heavy tank formations like the Limeys were. He ran rampant right up until he hit the prepared fortifications at Metz, where the Germans stopped him cold. After that, he had to slowly grind his way through.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 12:08 PM (y9nCu)
Democratic Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said on Monday that Somalis are to thank for “every achievement” that the city has ever had.
I most appreciate when the Somali immigrants threw the tea in the harbor.
-Nick Freitas
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:07 PM (Riz8t)
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Throwing Somalis into the harbor may be the best way they can contribute to the city.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 12:08 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:08 PM (5DEFi)
-Nick Freitas
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:07 PM (Riz8t)
Without Somalis, the Bruins would never have won the Super Bowl!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:09 PM (npFr7)
Indiana has earned national recognition as the first-ever “State of the Year,” the Washington Post Editorial Board said, citing policies and decisions it called worthy of emulation in 2025.
The Post highlighted Indiana’s redistricting fight, where 21 Republican senators resisted months of pressure from the Trump White House and Gov. Mike Braun to redraw congressional maps, a move the board says could influence other states.
New Hampshire and California were runners-up. New Hampshire eased housing pressures and expanded education savings accounts. California got credit for housing and infrastructure but was criticized for mid-decade redistricting.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 12:09 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 12:09 PM (2vrAX)
The big fiction is that the Soviets were ever “allies”, the whole thing was a colossal waste. 1914 thru 1945, and look at Europe today. They had a 4 year window before the Soviets got their own bomb. Totalitarian governments slaughtered maybe 100 million trying various Utopian schemes from Russia to Germany to Cambodia to Chinw, and that’s not even counting the wars.
You should build a time machine, go back in time, and tell all those GIs that they're a bunch of pussies.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:09 PM (Riz8t)
I most appreciate when the Somali immigrants threw the tea in the harbor.
-Nick Freitas
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:07 PM (Riz8t)
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Throwing Somalis into the harbor may be the best way they can contribute to the city.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 12:08 PM (2WIwB)
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You really wanna poison the harbor and all the fish like that? You're a bad person.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 12:09 PM (iFTx/)
I must be a weirdo. I don't have the patience to listen to more than two minutes of a podcast.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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If that's the definition, then I'm also a weirdo. No patience for them.
Posted by: scampydog
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High value podcasts (VDH) are OK.
Especially on the road.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 12:10 PM (Mis34)
Somalis ? What am I missing here ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 12:09 PM (2vrAX)
Another consequence of the clot shot?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (npFr7)
I'm praying for 2026 to stop kicking my ass the way the past couple of years have.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
You ain't the only one, brother, on either count.
Merry Christmas.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (OUMaO)
Somalis ? What am I missing here ?
A total lack of shame.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (Riz8t)
Boston Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu Says Somalis To Thank For City’s ‘Every Achievement.’
Squanto? Somalian! (yeah, yeah, Plymouth, not Boston)
Crispus Attucks? Somalian!
Emily Dickenson? Somalian!
Joseph Kennedy, Sr? Somalian!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (xG4kz)
Somalis ? What am I missing here ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)
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Most likely:
Somali fraud in Boston has exploded and Wu has no desire to tamp down on it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)
Somalis ? What am I missing here ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (VE6XX)/i]
Gaslighting. It's what's for dinner.
Somali's haven't done anything for SOMALIA. They DAMN sure haven't done a f*cking thing for America.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)
You left put the Spanish American War
- Eromero, boomer with emotional reaction (connection really) to WW II and the Holocaust.
Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 12:12 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 12:12 PM (3uBP9)
You ain't the only one, brother, on either count.
Merry Christmas.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 12:11 PM (OUMaO)/i]
Same to you, sir.
I hope you have a great time with friends and family and may 2026 be a prosperous and healthy one for us all.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Somali fraud in Boston has exploded and Wu has no desire to tamp down on it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)
AS long as she gets her ten percent.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (npFr7)
Once President Trump hits the road, these clowns will either toe the line of find themselves in the dustbin of history.
Posted by: Diogenes
I think this whole Carlson / Levin / Owens / Shapiro slap fight is all about ratings and engagements. Just like Rush Limbaugh and the CNN / MSNBC mutual outrage segments were all about boosting each other's ratings and advert revenue.
The fact that so many here are swept up into this obvious scheme to the amusement of our enemies is an external expression of what Trump literally warned us about:
"You will get tired of all the Winning."
Indeed, many here have.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (NzX/y)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (luW68)
Posted by: Isophorone at December 23, 2025 12:13 PM (IG5iM)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 11:39 AM (VE6XX)
and the worst was not dismantling the New Deal when it still could have been scaled back, as there was no more Great Depression.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2025 12:14 PM (0CU3H)
The NTSB Report has finally been released:
December 24th, 1988: A Bell UH-1 Helicopter operated by the California Air National Guard suffered a loss of control and subsequent impact with terrain.
The cause of the accident was attributed to the pilot's proximity to the associated effects of a shockwave/fireball resulting from a construction zone explosion on the 35th floor of the unfinished Nakatomi Plaza office building in Century City, Los Angeles, California. The ANG pilot of the helicopter and Federal Bureau of Investigation officers Agent Johnson and Special Agent Johnson (no relation) were lost in the accident.
A local witness was quoted, "We're gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess..."
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 12:14 PM (2WIwB)
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He was the right man in the right place at the right time and then he died at the right time.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 12:16 PM (L/fGl)
If "Harbor" is a brand name of tree-chipper, than I agree.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 12:17 PM (NzX/y)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 12:17 PM (lEejK)
Posted by: It's me donna
Everyone fixates on Larry Bird, but he was nothing without Somalis.
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 12:18 PM (6LzyB)
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Sure, Jan. Nice try at deflecting.
The US government fucked up, because FDR had communists in key positions at State, Treasury, etc. It was a fuck up of global proportions and one reason the world is so FUBAR today. FDR thought the Soviets would play nice. How’d that work out?
Posted by: Common Tater at December 23, 2025 12:25 PM (hlNSv)
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