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The Morning Report — 1/12/26

Good morning kids. In the lead this morning are the massive anti-regime protests all over Iran that at long last might very well lead to the collapse of this accursed Islamic government that for close to half a century has not only brutally repressed its own people but fomented and exported much of the terrorism that has spilled oceans of blood around the world, including scores of Americans. When they chanted "Death to America" they meant it, and for far too long virtually every administration in this country ignored it and worse, Obama & Biden aided and abetted them, with billions in cash to fuel their nuclear weapons program and as well as their IRGC thugs as well as Hamas, Hezbollah and other proxy groups.

And then came Donald Trump who put a stop to that insanity, and in the wake of the Iranian backed 10/7 attack from Gaza on Israel joined with the Israelis in flattening the Iranian nuclear weapons sites. This, combined with the already collapsing Iranian currency, crumbling fresh water systems and oil refining capacity on top of a disaffected populace that had been on the brink of uprising for years already, is why the Mullahocracy might at long last be on the verge of collapse.

What comes afterwards is of course anyone's guess. Unfortunately, Iran has been a repressive police state and its internal security apparatus along with a very well-armed and no doubt motivated IRGC who will do whatever it deems it must to cling to power as well as save their own skin from an enraged citizenry out for revenge. My gut tells me unless some elements of their armed forces and police back the people or maybe even the son of the Shah if he dares return, then the likelihood of a Moammar Qaddafi or Saddam Hussein coming to power perhaps minus the Islam or the Islamic influence way in the background is a likely scenario.

As for Prsident Trump, there's this item:

The Iranian regime slaughtered upwards of 500 protesters over the weekend, marking one of the bloodiest crackdowns in the Islamic Republic’s history, as President Donald Trump weighs a range of military options that reportedly include precision strikes on regime assets and cyber warfare. . . "Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday, his most recent comments on the matter. "The USA stands ready to help!!!" A State Department spokesman told the Free Beacon that the Trump administration is closely monitoring the uprising, adding that "the Iranian regime is fully aware of President Trump’s warning and should not test U.S. resolve." Asked about the regime’s threats to activate a global network of terror cells in response to the protests, the State Department said the Islamic Republic "should carefully consider the consequences of its actions and not underestimate the resolve of the United States under President Trump’s leadership."

While it certainly is a good thing to publicly back the Persian people in their struggle for liberation. Military action of course is fraught with problems and I certainly do not want any kind of massive (or even minimal) boots on the ground. If our intelligence and special ops capabilities can blind or otherwise help defang or neutralize any military forces/assets the Mullahs are still in control of, then why not deploy them. We've already pulverized their nuclear sites with absolute impunity so taking out military barracks and other installations should pose much less of a risk. And Iran's air defenses are essentially useless thanks to the Israeli air force obliterating them earlier last year in preparation for the follow-on attack on their nuke sites.

In regards to that bit about the regime's threats to activate a global network of terror actions, this happened over the weekend:

A U-Haul driver allegedly plowed into a massive crowd of protesters at an anti-Iran regime rally in Los Angeles on Sunday — injuring at least two people in a chaotic scene caught on video.
Authorities responded to the scene after the U-Haul truck drove into a sea of an estimated 3,000 people at the large demonstration in Westwood around 3:40 p.m. local time, an LAPD spokesperson told The Post.
The rental truck, which had the words “NO SHAH. NO REGIME. USA: DON’T REPEAT 1953. NO MULLAH” emblazoned on one side, was swarmed by protesters as tensions quickly escalated, according to harrowing footage obtained by KABC.
The truck had both pro-Iranian regime and anti-Iranian regimes on both its sides, police said. It is not immediately clear what pro-regime text was on the U-Haul.
Some of the scrawlings appeared to warn against the US’s involvement in Iran’s anti-regime demonstrations, where nearly 500 protesters have been killed.
At least two people were injured in the chaos and suffered minor injuries, cops said. Both declined to be transported to the hospital, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. One man was hit by the U-Haul and was treated for non-significant injuries by an ambulance on the scene, cops said.
The driver, who has not yet been identified, was taken into custody, police confirmed.
Officers at the scene were spotted pulling a man into custody from the truck as angered protesters reportedly tried to punch and hit him with flag poles, the outlet reported.
Footage circulating on social media captured protesters punching and shattering the windshield of the U-Haul as others screamed in fear at the speeding truck.
The driver was being treated in the hospital for unspecified injuries and will likely face attempted assault with a deadly weapon charges, officials said at a press conference on Sunday evening, according to KABC.
Bill Essayli, the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, wrote on X that the FBI is on the scene and will assist the LAPD in determining the motive of the driver.
The incident remains under investigation.

As an aside, considering the mass exodus of however many normal people remain in California, I'd think there'd be a severe shortage of U-Haul trucks available . . .

Anyway, vehicles driven by terrorists. Why does that ring a bell? Oh, yeah, of course!

By now, most people have seen about six different angles of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent’s encounter with left-wing radical Renee Nicole Good, proving he was fully justified in using lethal force to stop her from bulldozing over innocent people.
Good was reportedly a member of an insurgency cell called “ICE Watch,” where she received training as a “warrior” to act against ICE agents conducting lawful enforcement operations against illegal aliens. . . But why are we just hearing about this domestic extremist group now? Why does it seem like law enforcement doesn’t know anything about the very active, well-funded, and mobile groups hellbent on obstruction at a minimum, and in many cases, violence? Vice President J.D. Vance addressed some of these concerns in a Thursday press conference, going after corporate media headlines that never mentioned Good’s use of her vehicle as a murder weapon. . .
Good was the mother of a 6-year-old, and the left-wing media will keep regurgitating that she was simply driving through the area after dropping her child off at school. But based on all the evidence, she was there for the sole purpose of obstructing ICE, as part of her duties to her insurgency cell. That reality reveals something more sinister, as Vance argued. . . Vance said something fairly revealing when answering a question about who is behind these terror networks: “It’s one of the things we’re going to have to figure out.” He then added:
When somebody throws a brick at an ICE agent, or somebody tries to run over an ICE agent, who paid for the brick and who told protesters to show up and engage in violent activity against our law enforcement officers? You see just with this most recent terrible incident in Minneapolis, you see friends of this woman’s or other people who are eyewitnesses saying basically that she was there to engage in obstruction of a legitimate law enforcement operation. How did she get there? How did she learn about this? There’s an entire network . . .

I'm not trying to connect the dots between Iran and what happened in Minneapolis. But, then again, look at who and what we are dealing with both abroad and at home. When you hear a chant of DEATH TO AMERICA it could just as easily be coming from the quad of Columbia University as it could from the campus at Teheran U. or 25 years ago from the rooftops of Jersey City as they passed out candy and ululated with orgasmic delight while watching the Twin Towers burn and collapse.

$9 billion Somalian Simoleons grifted from the Minnesota and US treasuries didn't just buy expensive cars, furs, jewelry and homes but much of it likely bought semtex, AK-47s and RPGs back home in Mogadishu that is fueling the anti-Christian bloodbath in the horn of Africa and across the continent. Regardless of whether the Mullahs in Tehran control Boko Haram in Nigeria and Al-Shabab in Somalia, their goals are the same. Global conquest by Jihad in the name of Islam.

It is no coincidence that the anti-American Democrat/Left while trying to beatify the clearly brainwashed woman who got herself killed by attempting to ram ICE agents in Minneapolis are also silent or worse when it comes to the Iranian people in their fight for freedom:

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the western media and western Left are not covering or supporting the Iranian protests for freedom. It is anathema for them to give a helping hand to such an ‘Islamophobic’ nightmare. What is transpiring in Iran is a dreadful nightmare for the Left – because it’s oxygen, blood-supply and identity are rooted in its alliance with communism, Islam and every other adversarial totalitarian monstrous genocidal death-cult.
What is transpiring in Iran is a revolution for individual rights, which the Left reviles and detests. It is a revolution against Islam, which the Left worships and adores – and yearns to submit to.
Iranian women are even burning their hijabs! Oh, the horror of it all. This is a horrifying nightmare for the Left, especially for leftist feminists in the West. Poor Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin, what nightmarish sleepless nights they must be having. . . Beneath the leftist believer’s veneration of the despotic enemy lies one of his most powerful yearnings: to submit his whole being to a totalist entity. This psychological dynamic involves negative identification, whereby a person who has failed to identify positively with his own environment subjugates his individuality to a powerful, authoritarian entity, through which he vicariously experiences a feeling of power and purpose.. .

But wait, I thought Donald Trump was literally Hitler?! . . .

Judd Apatow at Golden Globe Awards: ‘We’re a Dictatorship Now’ . . .“There’s a good chance that some of you in this room voted for Trump. I won’t judge you, I won’t judge you. But God will,” he added.

Funny how Godless heathen Atheists always invoke and take the name of the Lord in vain. But if we truly were a dictatorship, surely Apatow would be sipping his tree bark soup through a straw into his wired shut jaw in the FEMA camp infirmary, nein?

I am so sick to death of these bastards, but cratering box office receipts and TV ratings I'll take as a positive sign that the Apatows of this world are on the wane.

God save the brave Persian people and may they see deliverance from their Islamic tormenters and have at least a chance to establish some sort of ordered and normal society where they can prosper and coexist peacefully (no, not like that cockamamie bumper sticker) with their neighbors and become the thriving nation they once were prior to 1979.

And I hope the brave ICE agent who stood his ground and took out a domestic terrorist is awarded some sort of citation for valor.

Have a great day.

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The driver, who has not yet been identified, was taken into custody, police confirmed. Officers at the scene were spotted pulling a man into custody from the truck as angered protesters reportedly tried to punch and hit him with flag poles, the outlet reported.Footage circulating on social media captured protesters punching and shattering the windshield of the U-Haul as others screamed in fear at the speeding truck.
Crowd control U-Haul plows into massive crowd at Iran protest in LA — as demonstrators attack driver, chaotic video shows

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

When anti-Americanism meets delusions of grandeur.
Tim Walz’s One-Man Civil War
The recent (and ongoing) events in Minneapolis invoke historical parallels that are both instructive and alarming.
Anatomy of an Insurrection
We live under manufactured narratives—modern myths engineered to direct our outrage, reward performative heroism, and push ordinary people to bear the costs of elite political theater.
Myth, Narratives, and the Death of Renee Good
Roger Kimball: The left tried to reboot George Floyd–style chaos after an ICE shooting, but video evidence, public dissent, and firm federal response exposed the narrative as hollow agitprop.
Anatomy of a Failed Moral Panic
"The issue is not the issue, the issue is the revolution."
Riot. Make Martyrs. Radicalize.
Democrats created the conditions that led to the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, and they are now capitalizing on the chaos.
Democrats Want Anti-ICE Protesters To Die So They Can Protect Their Fraudulent Patronage With Riots
One expert says yes...but wait a second.
Criminal charges for the ICE officer?
The chief said he "hesitated" to share the truth with the public.
Blubbering Portland Police Chief Admits DHS Was Right About Border Patrol Shooting, Tren De Aragua
They welcome violence, because it gives them what they want, whether that's the death of an important right-wing leader like Charlie Kirk or the creation of a "martyr" they can rally round and use to shape and control the political narrative....
RAW EGG NATIONALIST: Leftists refuse to believe ICE agent shot Renee Good in self-defense, no matter how much evidence they see
A crowd of anti-ICE activists tried to force a street shutdown near the Texas Capitol on Saturday, but Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers moved in within seconds, forming a line and driving protesters back as tensions flared on the pavement. The protests follow the shooting by an ICE officer of a woman who appeared to weaponize her vehicle by driving at the officer while she interfered with the enforcement operation.
Mob Confronts Texas DPS Troopers in Street Takeover Attempt near Capitol
It’s been a year since Trump took back the White House — how is it possible we know so little about these cells, and when will we see mass arrests of these paid agitators and the politicians who are determined to use whatever power they have to help them?
When Can We Start Uprooting Domestic Terror Cells Attacking Law Enforcement?
The Mamdani administration is discussing driving white people out of New York.
Investigate Mamdani’s Systemic Racism Against White People (What's to investigate? End it! - jjs)
A warning to America about collectivism’s smiling face.
When the Joke Stops Being Funny: Collectivism, Communism, and the American Memory
IRAN ON the BRINK?!
The president is set to hold a briefing this Tuesday on options that include U.S. intervention
Iranian Regime Escalates Crackdown on Protesters, Slaughtering Hundreds as Trump Weighs Military Action
At least 192 protesters have been killed in Iran’s biggest movement against the Islamic republic in more than three years, a rights group said Sunday, as warnings grew that authorities were committing a “massacre” to quell the demonstrations.
Iran protest death toll rises as alarm grows over crackdown ‘massacre’
Iranian women are burning their hijabs. Oh, the horror of it all!
Of Course the Western Left is Terrified By the Iranian Revolution
Iran’s protesters demand democracy, not a return to the Shah—but the regime and some media push a false narrative to bury the real opposition.
Tehran’s Trojan Horse: How Iran’s Regime Manufactures a Monarchist Mirage
Devotion to Islam and tyranny is leftists' top - and most sacred - priority.
Why the Left Reviles the Iranian People’s Fight for Freedom
Iran is a nation wanting its soul back. . . From Qom and Mashhad, the most religious cities, to Rasht and Anzali, the most secular, people took to the streets.
The end is near for Iran’s mullahs

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
The Trump administration must bring anti-ICE obstructionists to justice with the same tenacity and dedication Biden poured into the politically weaponized J6 prosecutions.
We Need A J6-Level Manhunt For Everyone Who Obstructs Immigration Law Enforcement (and summary executions - jjs)
Pathetic: Minneapolis Public Schools last week announced they’ll allow remote attendance for students at least through mid-February — and teachers unions are pushing for similar policies throughout the metro region. Pathetic: The pretext — ongoing ICE activities — impacts only a few blocks here and there; this is just performative politics serving adults at the expense of learning. The school system acted at the request of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators; teacher unions are always looking for excuses for their members to slough off work, and this has the added advantage of hyping the supposed ICE menace: Along with every other local lefty institution, the union is “demanding” ICE’s exit from the city.
Minneapolis schools betray kids to feed ICE hysteria
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
Hideous ruling.
Biden judge forces Trump administration to fund fraud-filled daycare centers
A Somali councilman in Maine, who was embroiled in a criminal scandal from the day he was sworn in, has already resigned due to the magnitude of the controversy. . . Osman’s crimes drew national attention amid a Somali fraud scandal involving fake daycares and food assistance fraud. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) had to give up his reelection bid over complicity in covering up the fraud.
Somali Councilman Resigns After Days in Office Amid Fraud Scandal
Widespread statistics use a misleading comparison; apples-to-apples shows a two- to fivefold difference.
Yes, Somali Immigrants Commit More Crime Than Natives

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
From income taxes to the administrative state, Democrats learned to buy power by redistributing the treasury—locking in constituencies and leaving taxpayers with the bill.
Plundering the Treasury and Destroying Common Law
Spending has increased by $135 billion since Newsom took office.
Newsom’s California Deficit Climbs to $22 Billion Next Year
Caving to progressive activists, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill late last month that will all but guarantee more child abuse goes unreported — in the name of fixing “racial disparities” in the child-welfare system. The new law bars callers to the city Administration for Children’s Services from leaving tips anonymously — on the supposed grounds that false tips help drive “inexcusable racial disparities that disproportionately impact Black and Brown families by leading to unnecessary interactions with child welfare services.” What this really means is that more kids will be abused — and some killed — with minority children suffering the most. (the inference about who commits the vast majority of these crimes is clear - jjs)
Hochul agrees to allow more child abuse in New York City
The investigation centers around the skyrocketing costs for the renovation of Federal Reserve headquarters, which greatly exceeded previous estimates of $2.5 billion. Powell confirmed the probe in a statement released Sunday. (RELATED: Congress Wants To Keep Agency Despised By Gun Lovers Flush With Cash)
DOJ Opens Probe Into Fed Chair Jerome Powell

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
After 1,500 years of uninterrupted Christian witness, Egypt’s seizure of St. Catherine’s Monastery puts one of Christianity’s oldest living communities at existential risk.
The Closure of the World’s Oldest Monastery
'Genocide' can never be inflicted by Muslim terrorists, only on Muslim terrorists.
2,000 Dead in Iran and No One Calls Its Genocide
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
The name of the suspect or the charges the person could face have not been released. No motive has been publicly notified. (Achmed bin Son of Somalia?-jjs)
Official: Mississippi’s Largest Synagogue Torched, Suspect Arrested
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The Atlanta Federal Reserve's GDP-Now Estimate just doubled!
The Next GDP Report Could Be Very Bad News … For Democrats
Thad McCotter: Democrats smashed the economy with trillion-dollar spending, then cry “affordability” while blaming the cleanup crew—hoping voters forget who swung the sledgehammer.
The Democrats’ ‘Affordability’ Ploy to Avoid Accountability
Consumer sentiment showed modest gains, but concerns about unemployment and inflation persist, with higher-educated and higher-income Americans expressing greater worry.
Consumer Confidence Is Rising, Here’s Why:
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The Post and Courier noted that the law enforcement center “is the headquarters of the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office and the location of the county jail.”
Police: Suspect Dead After South Carolina Officer Ambushed, Shot

FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Why does the famed leftist radio bastion have all its broadcasters speak in that insufferable whisper? Here is the somewhat disturbing answer.
The Awful Truth about ‘NPR Voice’
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The case addresses whether Chevron and other energy companies can move a Louisiana state lawsuit to federal court under the federal-officer removal statute, based on actions taken on behalf of the federal government during World War II. Roughly 40 lawsuits have been filed since 2013 over oil and gas companies’ alleged role in Louisiana’s coastal erosion, and the Supreme Court’s upcoming review of Chevron U.S.A. v. Plaquemines Parish decides whether those cases can be moved from state to federal court.
Supreme Court Case Will Set Major Precedent For American Energy
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The pattern is clear: foreign born, Neo-Marxist academics come to America, work at major universities, teach Neo-Marxist ideas to their students, and their children, inheriting their parents’ ideologies, enter politics.
Children of the Long March
Educators declare “All Resistance is Righteous” and “Honor the Martyrs.” (I will assume they do not include the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto 1943, or me kicking the Trayvon-resembling mugger in the groin who pulled a knife on me back in 1981 - jjjs)
Philly Teachers Promote Jew Hatred, Marxism to Students in Rule-Breaking Online Chat

DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The ousted Democrat National Committee (DNC) vice chair repeatedly used the word “dangerous” to refer to Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials making the case the ICE agent shot Good in self-defense Wednesday in Minneapolis. On the day of the shooting, Assistant Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Good was “attempting to run over our law enforcement officers” and the agent fired the fatal shot “fearing for his life.” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem likewise likened Good’s last actions to “domestic terrorism.”
David Hogg Claims Criticism Of Renee Good Is Dangerous While Blasting ‘Vice Tyrant’ JD Vance (If only Little Shitler didn't play hooky that day - jjs)
Compass will control nearly 20 percent of the U.S. home-sales volume, raising concerns over market share in major metropolitan areas.
REPORT: MAGA-World Figures Aid Major Corporate Mergers, Avoiding Anti-Trust Scrutiny.
POLITICS
Newsom touts California as a model for progress, even as homelessness, crime, and high costs haunt his record.
Newsom Strains To Flip Script on California’s Failures
In the last few years, as our nation has balkanized, we’ve experienced a new type of carpetbagger in the red states: a liberal fed up with the natural end results of the policies he/she/they espoused. This weekend one TikTok user, @thecarolinerfiles, went viral expressing her disgust with the hordes of newcomers moving in and changing their new homes. Warning: the video has some NSFW language . . .
Red State Residents Speak Out on the Blue State Invasion, Sparking Viral Videos
MADURO TAKEN DOWN
The situation on the ground in Venezuela is a mixed bag right now, which is to be expected. One doesn't just pluck the lead narco-terrorist from a "government" that's basically organized crime and expect sunshine and roses within a week. It's going to take time for Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and the United States team to pull all the weeds, and I have no doubt that, if anyone can do it, those two men can.
Arrests, Prisoners, U.S. Warnings — What's Really Happening on the Ground In Venezuela

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela ... NOT ANYMORE!"
Trump Warns Cuba To Make A Deal ‘Before It’s Too Late’
The question of who should dominate global energy is not a matter of personal preference but a matter of global consequence.
New Geopolitical Chessboard: Energy and Freedom
The U.S. shouldn’t ignore this small Asian nation, because it offers interesting options for addressing some American concerns.
Myanmar Votes While China Schemes
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
And who pulled the strings.
Robert Spencer Video: How I Was Stopped From Teaching U.S. Military Personnel about Islam
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The case reveals that killings of people with mental illnesses in Canada are occurring despite the practice being supposedly banned until 2027.
Doctors Euthanized a Healthy 26-Year-Old Because He Had Depression, Mother Claims.
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Based on present theories of galaxy evolution as well as Big Bang cosmology, spiral galaxies like this should not yet exist this early.
Another spiral galaxy that should not exist discovered in the early universe
...he finds NASA’s engineering claims that Orion’s heat shield will work using a different less stressful return trajectory as it dives back into the atmosphere about 25,000 mph to be false and untrustworthy. Worse, he sees it as proof that this is a continuation of the same culture at NASA that resulted in the Columbia failure.
Former astronaut once again blasts NASA decision to fly Artemis-2 manned
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“There’s a good chance that some of you in this room voted for Trump. I won’t judge you, I won’t judge you. But God will,” he added.
Judd Apatow at Golden Globe Awards: ‘We’re a Dictatorship Now’ (If true, his mouth would've been wired shut before he took the stage - jjs)
Nations ceased to see themselves as Christian societies and came to regard themselves as neutral spaces in which all beliefs were interchangeable.
AMNESIA OF THE WEST: How Christendom won the battles, but forgot the war
Christian Toto: MTV's Weasel laments Hollywood's rage against Fox News, differing views
Pauly Shore Explains Why the ’90s Ruled
The model Democrat.
Pop Star Rant: ‘I Love Criminals’
HITHER & YON
More than 70 years on, Alfred Hitchcock’s classic still shines—even in an otherwise lackluster new book on the film.
Looking Back at Rear Window

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1 Funny how Godless heathen Atheists always invoke and take the name of the Lord

Yep, and they always know that God would vote.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 07:12 AM (PFs9e)

2 Meant "how" God would vote

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 07:14 AM (PFs9e)

3 Happy Monday

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:15 AM (gbOdA)

4 Thanks, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 12, 2026 07:16 AM (Cjt/F)

5 We need to go in and finish iran. We have been dicking around with them since the 80s when I was in the Gulf and they were blowing stuff up.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 12, 2026 07:17 AM (0N4FZ)

6 Yep, and they always know that God would vote.

That is my favorite part - as if God is their peer and His vote can be thwarted by the usual fraud tactics.

Sadly, Evangelicals, if we go by the bumper stickers, prefer reducing God even further by demoting Him to mere "co-pilot".

Some people might need personal reminders of what happened to Nebuchadnezzar when his ego got too large.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 07:17 AM (a4flb)

7 Top 10! I would have identified as first, but the paperwork for that is not worth the effort.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 12, 2026 07:18 AM (BpO1e)

8 And why do some people think saying "fuck you" is some brilliant bit of courageous thinking a
analysis and clever put down ? I may have never seen an Aptow film. I certainly can't think of any, as I can think of films by Stanley Kubrick.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 07:19 AM (PFs9e)

9 What comes afterwards is of course anyone's guess. Unfortunately, Iran has been a repressive police state and its internal security apparatus along with a very well-armed and no doubt motivated IRGC who will do whatever it deems it must to cling to power as well as save their own skin from an enraged citizenry out for revenge.
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Two ways to look at it, which are "outcomes for Iran" and "outcomes for the wider region or world."

For the former, well, who knows. Things could get worse if they kick out the Mullahs, at least for a while. The fall of a state is a big deal. It could turn out that the Mullahs were better on average for Iran itself. Unlikely, but possible.

I am not sure the same can be said for the second. For non-Iran, it would take one hell of a downgrade inside Iran for things to get worse. Iran is a very, very bad actor in its region and beyond. If you're Hezbollah or a Houthi, the fall of Iran would suck for you. If you're the Middle East more generally, or even The World more generally, it's unlikely that whatever comes next will be worse than what is being replaced.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 07:20 AM (GyQIQ)

10 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2026 07:21 AM (iMotb)

11 Judd apatow hasn’t been relevant for about 15 years, guy is still running off of the fumes of the 40 year old virgin.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 07:21 AM (dAZi+)

12 Judd Apatow? Wait...isn't he the guy repeatedly accused of sexual assault? Oh well, not certain, and his throwing political stones at an industry event is unrelated completely anyway. His personal moral degradation probably doesn't invalidate his complaints about other voters.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 07:22 AM (4nevv)

13 So multi millionaire got mouthy at the Golden Globes? He and Jacob Frey ( another f you politician) can go out together and talk about how much they loathe Trump. Whoopee!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 07:22 AM (PFs9e)

14 Renee fought the law.
And the law won.

Posted by: You could write a song about it at January 12, 2026 07:23 AM (2Ez/1)

15 The rental truck, which had the words “NO SHAH. NO REGIME. USA: DON’T REPEAT 1953. NO MULLAH” emblazoned on one side, was swarmed by protesters as tensions quickly escalated, according to harrowing footage obtained by KABC.
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I don't get it.

No Shah restoration, I get. No Mullahs, I get. US non-intervention, I get. No "regime" is ambiguous.

But all of these in combination seems like a "slogan shotgun" was fired at the truck. No Mullahs and no Shah and still no Regime? Okay. What does the guy actually want? For the Mullahs to fall and the Shah to not be restored? I can understand that argument, too.

I can't understand running down a bunch of people, either. But what does/did this dude actually want>

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 07:24 AM (GyQIQ)

16 I will give Apatow credit for bagging Leslie Mann though.

Way above his pay grade.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 07:24 AM (dAZi+)

17 Ha! Great minds and all.

The real story - where’d someone find a U-Haul truck in California?? Demands an investigation

Posted by: Common Tater at January 12, 2026 07:24 AM (WmF8p)

18 Sydney Sweeney has great golden globes.

Posted by: But you already knew that at January 12, 2026 07:25 AM (2Ez/1)

19 I'm not trying to connect the dots between Iran and what happened in Minneapolis. But, then again, look at who and what we are dealing with both abroad and at home.
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That's good, because there probably is no connection.

Similar tactics. Common violence. General revolutionary fervor. But probably no connection.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 07:25 AM (GyQIQ)

20 No nukes!
No blood for oil!
Nuke the unborn baby whales for Jesus!

Posted by: Slogans R Us at January 12, 2026 07:27 AM (2Ez/1)

21 How soon before the next violent homosexual/lesbian/transexual democrat attacks and kills?

Just a matter of time...

Posted by: Hate Has A Home at January 12, 2026 07:27 AM (n+1Zi)

22 Somehow I managed to miss the Golden Globe?

Oh no.....

Anyway..

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 12, 2026 07:27 AM (iMotb)

23 California has gained so many more people that they lost congressional seats.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 07:27 AM (dAZi+)

24 From the article about the Portland PD Chief:

“I hesitated to even share this information initially because I’m very aware of the historic injustice of victim-blaming oftentimes portrayed by law enforcement, including this very agency.”

Mind you, if the malefactors had been as pasty white as me, that would have been released immediately.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 12, 2026 07:29 AM (BpO1e)

25 Euthanasia appears to be the fourth leading cause of death now in Canada, at 16,499 people in 2024 (latest number I was able to find), behind Cancer, Heart disease, and "accidental deaths" grouped.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 07:29 AM (wsp19)

26 It should come as no surprise to anyone that the western media and western Left are not covering or supporting the Iranian protests for freedom. It is anathema for them to give a helping hand to such an ‘Islamophobic’ nightmare.
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Sure. Iran is the "good guy" and so this should be ignored. But there's another angle to this, which is being loudly ignored.

Another reason for non-coverage is ownership. The globalists have had a bad year (and kind of a bad half-decade), but they're by no means down or out. Iran is central to the globalist strategy to remake the world as one without superpowers and with coordinated regional hegemons. Iran is to be the Middle East's hegemon, the center of one of the six major hegemonies.

If Iran falls and the government is replaced by some kind of "Iran First" regime or even an empire-skeptical regime, it blows a gaping hole in the globalist vision. And since all of the papers are owned and operated by those in Globalist Club, there is a double reason to not cover it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 07:29 AM (GyQIQ)

27 "Somehow I managed to miss the Golden Globe?

Oh no....."

Not much happened. Timothy Fagalett took the award for sucking the most Kardasian dick.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

28 Morning, Horde...how goes it?

I see J.J's missing that ever elusive closing list tag again...

Maybe the Somalis stole it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 07:29 AM (ESVrU)

29 Funny how Godless heathen Atheists always invoke and take the name of the Lord in vain. But if we truly were a dictatorship, surely Apatow would be sipping his tree bark soup through a straw into his wired shut jaw in the FEMA camp infirmary, nein?
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Doubtful. Guys like Apatow are useless. Can't even use them as slave labor. If we were actually a dictatorship, people like Apatow would have been in the first wave of mass graves.

But we're not, which is why he says what he does.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 07:30 AM (GyQIQ)

30 Yesterday I was very upset/angry at what I saw as US dithering while the Iranian rebels were being murdered. I think I ranted here a little.
Then I remembered a scene from Band Of Brothers, where a character said, 'once you accept that you are already dead, you can function and do your job' (paraphrasing).
So I decided, once I accept that Nothing Will Happen©️, I can just breeze thru X and the news sites and not get all worked up over the state of things.
Have a great day!

Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT DENMARK at January 12, 2026 07:30 AM (ZxPkt)

31 I studied Farsi in college, I should brush it up and be a welcoming ambassador to the Persian ladies if they come to the states.

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 12, 2026 07:31 AM (yuMli)

32 "So I decided, once I accept that Nothing Will Happen©️, I can just breeze thru X and the news sites and not get all worked up over the state of things.
Have a great day!
Posted by: Don Black"

This guy finally gets it.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at January 12, 2026 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

33 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at January 12, 2026 07:32 AM (D2Zmc)

34 Yes, I'm sure G-d is super pissed about people voting for Trump. And I'm sure that a room full of people who serve up satanic filth that corrupts billions of people for a living, at least when they aren't competitively sodomozing one another as well as random children, are of little concern to Him.

You go with that, Judd.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 07:32 AM (BI5O2)

35 People equating Iran with "regime change" or meddling in the affairs of nations are missing the significance of what's happening there. Trump does not.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 12, 2026 07:33 AM (t+TFX)

36
Finally got to the comments here and off that endlessly reloading merry-go-round that is the front page of this site! And I did not take a side trip to Harv's coffees even once!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 12, 2026 07:33 AM (xG4kz)

37 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 07:34 AM (NwnyJ)

38 The driver was being treated in the hospital for unspecified injuries and will likely face attempted assault with a deadly weapon charges[/b[, officials said at a press conference on Sunday evening, according to KABC.

So NOW it's a deadly weapon.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 07:34 AM (u/kd+)

39 Screw you barrel. Not today.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 07:35 AM (u/kd+)

40 29 Morning, Horde...how goes it?

I see J.J's missing that ever elusive closing list tag again...

Maybe the Somalis stole it.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 12, 2026 07:29 AM (ESVrU)

Please explain?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 12, 2026 07:35 AM (x0n13)

41 Western nations opened their borders without demanding assimilation into Christian moral frameworks. Multiculturalism replaced integration.

So I went at read the author's doctrinal statement. The language suggests that he is yet another DIY nominal Christian. (sigh)

Christianity as a Culture can only happen in pockets, and that is by deliberate choice. Where he fails greatly is in he has absolutely no idea what the purpose of the Paraclete serves in the Godhead and thus he feels that the heathen and the reprobate can LARP as a Christian aka "assimilation".

I would also note, that in the past generation, we haven't had traditional immigration, we had wholesale invasion facilitated by rogue governments and NGO accomplices.

As he should be able to see in various "sanctuary" breakoff territories, the warlords prevent any at-scale deportation. They also rebuke any attempts to encourage assimilation - recent evidence is the confiscation and redirection of public monies to establish and maintain foreign cultural centers.

The author has a very confused and materialistic world-view and doesn't realize it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 07:35 AM (a4flb)

42 “You’ve got to be a little brainwashed to get to that point to where you’re willing not, not just to protest — that’s fine — not peacefully protest, but throw your vehicle in front of legitimate law enforcement officers and drive your car into them. To get to that point, you have to be, I think, radicalized in a very, very sad way.”

Vance make this seem like she had no choice in becoming a radical. This is a common language that the left uses to quote unquote PROVE that the person had no choice but to become a violent radical.

See also college student, illegal alien, Mohammedan, etc etc.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:36 AM (gbOdA)

43 Lest you think we South Carolinians and other Deep South Red Staters hate Yankees, rest assured we do love our like-minded conservative friends who don’t vote for insane policies. If you promise not to come down and vote the way that led to ruin in California and other blue states, we’ll fill you up with the best Southern cooking like biscuits and gravy, and lots of sweet tea.
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Many of the people I see moving to red states, to escape taxes and Democrat insanity, are going to bitch and moan about Trump and then votes virtuously to elect machine Democrats. Good luck South Carolina, Florida etc.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 07:36 AM (7EPvM)

44

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 12, 2026 07:36 AM (DDJSl)

45 If you comply, you won't die.

Good chose death when she put her foot on the gas.

My hate feed is hyperventilating, trying to revive and buttress the lies in order to stoke hate and violence.
It's hilarious.

But they mean to manufacture more death.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 12, 2026 07:38 AM (HXT0k)

46 So NOW it's a deadly weapon.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 07:34 AM (u/kd+)

They should have known not to stand in front of a moving truck.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:38 AM (gbOdA)

47 If this theory about humans is true, it's pretty scary:

https://tinyurl.com/3c326zuw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 07:38 AM (EtDTo)

48 Good luck South Carolina, Florida etc.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 07:36 AM (7EPvM)

We have had this in Texas for over 50 years.
See Austin

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:38 AM (gbOdA)

49 > ....But what does/did this dude actually want>

........

Attention.. and an asswhippin..

Posted by: Dawnbringer at January 12, 2026 07:39 AM (koFAO)

50 Hezbollah got a healthy dose of bombing last night. Israel is responding to hamas's refusal to disarm. Odd that Iran can launch a missile attack don't look good for the regime.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 12, 2026 07:39 AM (sDNVV)

51 Know who else told people "If you comply, you won't die?"

Posted by: Sorry. Couldn't resist at January 12, 2026 07:40 AM (2Ez/1)

52 Stupid is as stupid does, Mama always said

https://tinyurl.com/nfntptph

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 07:40 AM (7EPvM)

53 Warren Buffet is an enemy of the US:

https://tinyurl.com/2nrjz5ax

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 07:41 AM (EtDTo)

54 There would be no ICE raids if there were no sanctuary cities.

If these blue cities would cease their insurrection and turn over the criminal aliens arrested for other crimes, none of this would be necessary.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 12, 2026 07:41 AM (HXT0k)

55 "We have had this in Texas for over 50 years.
See Austin"
###

This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Asheville and Charlottesville at January 12, 2026 07:41 AM (2Ez/1)

56 If these blue cities would cease their insurrection and turn over the criminal aliens arrested for other crimes, none of this would be necessary.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

I'll take it a step farther.

Reagan gave amnesty in return for border security and enforcing the law. The democrats never planned to honor that agreement. But from where I stand, those two items are still valid and we're seeing that being done now. Had this happened back in the 80s when it was supposed to, we would not have the problems we are facing now.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 12, 2026 07:44 AM (BpO1e)

57 Yes, I'm sure G-d is super pissed about people voting for Trump.

Yeah, the One who forms a nation's boundaries and raises up and takes down its leaders "cares" about how someone votes.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 07:45 AM (a4flb)

58
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 12, 2026 07:45 AM (tljrc)

59 26 Euthanasia appears to be the fourth leading cause of death now in Canada
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Grief over the loss of Cuban vacations no doubt a contributing factor.

Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 07:46 AM (Y8DZL)

60 Aircraft carrier landing eye candy video:

https://tinyurl.com/mr4cbfvp

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 07:47 AM (EtDTo)

61 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 07:47 AM (//AjX)

62 Warren Buffet is an enemy of the US:

https://tinyurl.com/2nrjz5ax
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 07:41 AM (EtDTo)
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I wonder what they could possibly have spent $300 million on? Signs? Free busses?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 07:47 AM (gDbHk)

63 Had this happened back in the 80s when it was supposed to, we would not have the problems we are facing now.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 12, 2026 07:44 AM (BpO1e)

Bush Jr signed at least 3 fundings for boarder security and did nothing.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:48 AM (gbOdA)

64 Know who else told people "If you comply, you won't die?"

Pretty much every person who has and exercises authority.

Maybe lesser variations of "die" like "won't get banned" or "fired" or "get jailed" or "get fined".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 07:49 AM (a4flb)

65 Point Of Order.
It's not boarder.
It's border.

Posted by: That's almost a limerick at January 12, 2026 07:50 AM (2Ez/1)

66 Many of the people I see moving to red states, to escape taxes and Democrat insanity, are going to bitch and moan about Trump and then votes virtuously to elect machine Democrats. Good luck South Carolina, Florida etc.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 07:36 AM (7EPvM)
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This is the big open question, and it will take another 3-5 years to figure it out.

The pre-COVID migration was almost entirely colonial. Leftists flooded out of places like LA and Silicon Valley and into places like Colorado and New Mexico, mostly for employment or environmental reasons. They colonized the new territories and destroyed them.

We're winding down the biggest peacetime migration in US history now. It had different factors and was much more widespread and it's not a lay-up for anyone. Go to talk to some leftists in places like South Carolina or Tennessee. They fear the consequences of the migration, too - they worry that it's the Garbage People flooding in, and that the flood will permanently end their nascent revolutions.

The COVID migrations could be reinforcing rather than degenerative. Nobody knows yet. I remain terrified.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 07:50 AM (GyQIQ)

67 Aircraft carrier landing eye candy video:

https://tinyurl.com/mr4cbfvp
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 07:47 AM (EtDTo)
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Great video

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 07:50 AM (cTuVd)

68 Here in North Florida we had the discussion about northerners coming to the area. there's a big difference between someone coming on their own (more conservative) and if they come here because of company relocation (more liberal). there's a distinct difference in attitudes between these demographics.

Posted by: paulnjax at January 12, 2026 07:50 AM (PPnyU)

69 Mullahs be shipping their moolah to Moscow.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 07:52 AM (gbOdA)

70 Many of the people I see moving to red states, to escape taxes and Democrat insanity, are going to bitch and moan about Trump and then votes virtuously to elect machine Democrats.

Many of these people are highly mimetic and don't know what they want or desire. Put them in an environment that isn't rabid communist and they might change due to the fact their "deeply held beliefs" change according to the approval they get from their neighbors.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 07:52 AM (a4flb)

71 > Had this happened back in the 80s when it was supposed to, we would not have the problems we are facing now.
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The fraud we're seeing now, especially in blue shitholes, was rampant back then.

And the Republicans were in on it then.

And back to when it all started to generate massive wealth for the political class. At our expense. Literally.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 07:52 AM (NwnyJ)

72 So far, so good in SC. The shit libs seem to be going to NC and GA.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 12, 2026 07:53 AM (/a1Sq)

73 There's a picture floating around that makes the protest in Minnesota look like it's in the hundreds of thousands.

Except it's like the football stands during covid.
People picked out the same brown jacket half a dozen times equidistant from each other going down the street. LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 07:53 AM (u/kd+)

74 Post # 48 Biden's dog-that was very interesting. thanks. I also enjoyed the remarks following it by Jackie Chen on the leftist mother killed in Minneapolis.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 07:54 AM (Nx5jP)

75 I wonder what they could possibly have spent $300 million on? Signs? Free busses?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 07:47 AM (gDbHk)
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Paid protesters.

Community organizers.

Politicians.

The DNC.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 07:56 AM (EtDTo)

76 What are “Golden Globes”? What is a “Jud Apatow”??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 12, 2026 07:58 AM (YobFY)

77 70 Mullahs be shipping their moolah to Moscow.

+++
We're sitting right here.

Posted by: Switzerland at January 12, 2026 07:59 AM (2Ez/1)

78 Waiting for ICE to start working on Philadelphia, sheriff promised to start a civil war II right then and there.

Posted by: Skip at January 12, 2026 07:59 AM (//AjX)

79 Except it's like the football stands during covid.
People picked out the same brown jacket half a dozen times equidistant from each other going down the street. LOL.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 07:53 AM (u/kd+)
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It shouldn't be surprising that a bunch of people appreciate a good value in outerwear and shopped the same sale!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 08:00 AM (GyQIQ)

80 >> I wonder what they could possibly have spent $300 million on? Signs? Free busses?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 07:47 AM (gDbHk)
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Paid protesters.

Community organizers.

Politicians.

The DNC.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 07:56 AM (EtDTo)
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Add in the RNC

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 08:00 AM (NwnyJ)

81 "What are “Golden Globes”? What is a “Jud Apatow”??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt"

Twenty bucks. Same as in Sodom.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 08:00 AM (vFG9F)

82 I wonder what they could possibly have spent $300 million on? Signs? Free busses?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 07:47 AM (gDbHk)

Hookers and blow.

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Sex Pest at January 12, 2026 08:00 AM (n+1Zi)

83 I wonder what they could possibly have spent $300 million on? Signs? Free busses?

Posted by: Huck Follywood

A guy could have a good weekend in Vegas with $300 million.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:01 AM (u/kd+)

84 "Add in the RNC"

*ahem*

Posted by: CAIR at January 12, 2026 08:01 AM (2Ez/1)

85 Waiting for ICE to start working on Philadelphia, sheriff promised to start a civil war II right then and there.

That is her culture's base-line communication, not much different than from how they casually greet each other in the morning.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 08:02 AM (a4flb)

86 Paid protesters.

Community organizers.

Politicians.

+++
Don't forget my ten percent.

Posted by: The Big Guy at January 12, 2026 08:03 AM (2Ez/1)

87 Add in the RNC

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 08:00 AM (NwnyJ)
-

I posted this yesterday - DataRepublican:

https://tinyurl.com/yhkvvhta

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 08:03 AM (EtDTo)

88 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 08:04 AM (ExV1e)

89 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

The silence of the Western media is yet another shameless crime.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 08:04 AM (RIvkX)

90 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

91 I voted for this.

Civilization is winning or making progress against stubborn resistance.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

92 "Add in the RNC"

*ahem*

Posted by: CAIR at January 12, 2026 08:01 AM (2Ez/1)
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Wanna see how money is spread around? This is sickening!

https://tinyurl.com/3ukyp2en

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 08:06 AM (EtDTo)

93 90 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

The silence of the Western media is yet another shameless crime.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 08:04 AM (RIvkX

The media doesn't have time to cover Iran... They're too busy covering the murder of that Sainted Mother in Minneapolis...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 08:06 AM (VE6XX)

94 If the Mullah’s fall it all started with their support and applause of 10/7…. That murderous rampage was a huge strategic mistake by the Israel haters. It gave the Israeli people a grim resolve (and illustrated for any sane people left in the world how evil the Israel haters are) and they’ve been kicking the shit out of their enemies since then with a big assist by us in taking out their nuke program….

Will the regime fall? I’d judge chances are less than 50% but they have been greatly weakened but who knows…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 12, 2026 08:07 AM (/iXAp)

95 "You don't want this smoke." --Philadelphia "Sheriff"

Maybe things have changed. In my day sonny, calling somebody a "smoke" was out beyond the n-word. She's right, I don't want her, but I sure wouldn't have said it that way 'in mixed company.'

I guess I don't want that jazzbo or that pickaninny either, then.
Remember the nappy-headed ho's?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 12, 2026 08:07 AM (zdLoL)

96 Waiting for ICE to start working on Philadelphia, sheriff promised to start a civil war II right then and there.

She talks about ICE being fake law enforcement.

Uh, lady, while the Sheriff’s Office does not conduct routine street patrols or criminal investigations like the Philadelphia Police Department, it serves a different—and equally critical—role: enforcing the authority of the courts.

You're a glorified constable.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:07 AM (u/kd+)

97 There is no more "Western media."

Today it's Joe Rogan, Nick Sortor, Nick Shirley, and Andy Ngo.

Posted by: Please try to keep up at January 12, 2026 08:07 AM (2Ez/1)

98 Sign of the times:

https://tinyurl.com/3jjt9dtb

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 08:08 AM (EtDTo)

99 If I had $300 million, the first 100 of you would get a crisp new $5 bill!

Posted by: Weasel at January 12, 2026 08:08 AM (1S3fY)

100 100

Posted by: NR Pax at January 12, 2026 08:08 AM (BpO1e)

101 San Franpsycho

Thanks for the answer last night on the ONT.

The list is long, and I aver the best we can do is press forward, change the policies, and let the old guard die. Their goals relied on a static human condition. Clearly, they know only how to repress others, not how to grow widespread wealth.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 08:08 AM (u82oZ)

102 Today it's Joe Rogan, Nick Sortor, Nick Shirley, and Andy Ngo.
Posted by: Please try to keep up

"But they aren't REAL journalists!"

Posted by: NR Pax at January 12, 2026 08:09 AM (BpO1e)

103 So far, so good in SC. The shit libs seem to be going to NC and GA.

--

I'm in the upstate. I've said it here before, but over the last 5+ years, out-of-staters have been swarming this area. For the first time ever, I believe Greenville elected its first all Democrat city council. I've also noticed other things I've never seen here before: the kinds of people you'd see in Asheville...effeminate men wearing makeup, truly odd looking characters that were nowhere before. This place is changing, and it's very disconcerting. I've been here 27 years and it was (and still is for the most part) a great place to live. But I see the seeds of change, and I attribute it to the mass influx of people coming in from elsewhere and bringing their leftism with them.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 12, 2026 08:10 AM (qBdHI)

104 "... or 25 years ago from the rooftops of Jersey City as they passed out candy and ululated with orgasmic delight while watching the Twin Towers burn and collapse."

This video has never been broadcast, although I heard the very same thing shortly after 9/11. It wouldn't surprise me if W told the networks not to broadcast or report any of this at the time. It's probably in the same vault where Obama's endorsement of Rashid Khalidi is, never to see the light of day.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 12, 2026 08:10 AM (0CU3H)

105 If Iran falls and the government is replaced by some kind of "Iran First" regime or even an empire-skeptical regime, it blows a gaping hole in the globalist vision. And since all of the papers are owned and operated by those in Globalist Club, there is a double reason to not cover it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 07:29 AM (GyQIQ)
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Absolutely positively enraging.

When this is done, they must also be swept away.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

106 I'll show you what REAL journalism looks like!

Posted by: Dan Rather, fake but accurate at January 12, 2026 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)

107 He failed to mention that from 2019 to 2024, under his watch, homelessness rose to 188,000, a net increase of 37,000, or 24%, even though the state spent roughly $24 billion trying to curb it.

24000000000 / 188000
127,659
Around $20k per year.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 08:12 AM (gbOdA)

108 I am beginning to worry that the mullahs have snuffed out the people's revolution.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 08:13 AM (EtDTo)

109 Don't you black pillers ever get tired of yourself? Do you get some kind of perverse joy from being hopeless and depressed?

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 12, 2026 08:13 AM (G+z4C)

110 Biden's Dog, how so ?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 12, 2026 08:14 AM (sDNVV)

111
Georgia man with arsenal charged with pulling gun on man at Planet Fitness

Investigators searched his home and found five guns, two fake guns, several magazines and more than 1,500 rounds of ammo.

https://tinyurl.com/mry48pf7

😂😂😂 1500 rounds.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:14 AM (u/kd+)

112 "I am beginning to worry that the mullahs have snuffed out the people's revolution.'

Have you been watching Goldie or tousi?

The demonstrations have only been getting larger.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 12, 2026 08:15 AM (G+z4C)

113 Don't you black pillers ever get tired of yourself? Do you get some kind of perverse joy from being hopeless and depressed?

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 12, 2026 08:13 AM (G+z4C)
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Not all realists are hopeless and depressed. Try not to overimagine.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 08:15 AM (EtDTo)

114 1 Funny how Godless heathen Atheists always invoke and take the name of the Lord

Yep, and they always know that God would vote.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 07:12 AM (PFs9e)

They used to love to ask, "What Would Jesus Do?"

I say they don't want to experience what Jesus would do. To them.

Posted by: Gref at January 12, 2026 08:15 AM (5rh/l)

115 I am beginning to worry that the mullahs have snuffed out the people's revolution.

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I'm hardly an expert, but it's going to be hard for the revolution to succeed unless the ones carrying the guns for the mullahs change sides and join the protestors to help get their country back. I hope I'm wrong.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 12, 2026 08:16 AM (qBdHI)

116 Have you been watching Goldie or tousi?

The demonstrations have only been getting larger.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 12, 2026 08:15 AM (G+z4C)
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Indeed they have:

https://tinyurl.com/34ff5rcn

There are other signs.

HOPING to be proven wrong.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 08:16 AM (EtDTo)

117 When jokes followed about Secretary of State Marco Rubio soon becoming President of Cuba, Trump responded simply, “Sounds good to me.”

Maybe Marco can get a phone booth to jump in and change his suit based on if he is an Iranian Mullah leader or an Caribbean Military Fascist.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 08:18 AM (gbOdA)

118 Don't you black pillers ever get tired of yourself? Do you get some kind of perverse joy from being hopeless and depressed?

Some times for some people, Things don't work out as they might have hoped. Hope is a strange thing, A currency for people who know they're losing. The more fimiliar you are with hope the less beautiful it becomes. This is a story about hope, Hope and desire, A dream of an extraordinary world where Angels watch over you as storm clouds gather. Some times for some people things don't work out as they might have hoped.

Posted by: Frankie at January 12, 2026 08:18 AM (n+1Zi)

119 One expert says yes...but wait a second.
Criminal charges for the ICE officer?

Jessica Levinson is an American law professor and political commentator. Levinson teaches at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where she lectures in the areas of constitutional law, election law and privacy torts.

Quite the expert on criminal law.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

120 116 The turning point in Iran will be conflict between the regular armed forces and the Republican Guard.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 12, 2026 08:18 AM (gm9Sb)

121 The truck had both pro-Iranian regime and anti-Iranian regimes on both its sides, police said. It is not immediately clear what pro-regime text was on the U-Haul.

You sort of wonder what was going on in his home that morning where the best plan for the day ended up making the local news.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 08:19 AM (PVBkQ)

122 118 When jokes followed about Secretary of State Marco Rubio soon becoming President of Cuba, Trump responded simply, “Sounds good to me.”

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What about us?

Posted by: Greenland at January 12, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)

123 I say they don't want to experience what Jesus would do. To them.
Posted by: Gref at January 12, 2026 08:15 AM (5rh/l)

This one time
At the Temple
Jesus beat the crap out of people

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 08:19 AM (gbOdA)

124 I am beginning to worry that the mullahs have snuffed out the people's revolution.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 08:13 AM (EtDTo)
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That would be the norm. The mullahs usually get a lot of help (pallets of cash, new deals, etc.). This time is different from that standpoint. I guess we'll see. But it is typical for the mullahs to retain power - after all, they're still there and more hated than they were yesterday.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 08:20 AM (GyQIQ)

125 rickb223

Every 'ron: 1,500 rounds! That's a starter set. Tis nothing.

We are ready for North Korean paratroopers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 08:20 AM (u82oZ)

126 I am so sick to death of these bastards, but cratering box office receipts and TV ratings I'll take as a positive sign that the Apatows of this world are on the wane.

WhoTF is Judd Apatow, and why does he think I should GAF?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 12, 2026 08:20 AM (bFu5X)

127 I posted this yesterday - DataRepublican:

https://tinyurl.com/yhkvvhta

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 08:03 AM (EtDTo)
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Very disappointed to see Elise Stephanik on that list.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 08:21 AM (DOm7r)

128 California is trying to put a wealth tax on wealthy people in the state. The tax is 5 percent of their net wealth for, I believe, 5 years.

In the past two weeks alone, people whose net worth is collectively a trillion dollars have left the state permanently.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 12, 2026 08:21 AM (0U5gm)

129 WhoTF is Judd Apatow, and why does he think I should GAF?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 12, 2026 08:20 AM (bFu5X)
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He makes movies. He is a simpering communist and slavering male feminist and his movies are all vehicles for The Message.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 08:21 AM (GyQIQ)

130 Iran’s protesters demand democracy, not a return to the Shah

Seems like a not insignificant number of them are calling for the Shah.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

131 > But I see the seeds of change, and I attribute it to the mass influx of people coming in from elsewhere and bringing their leftism with them.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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Here too.

The leftists always infiltrate local governments first. Whether it be a city council, a state or county board of something or other, like a school board or whatever. They then begin to float "ideas." Agitate for "equality."

They get like minded people to support them. Join them on these small, local government institutions.

Then implement the exact same shit that drove them out of the hell hole they came from.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 08:22 AM (NwnyJ)

132 When anti-Americanism meets delusions of ~~grandeur~~ adequacy.
Tim Walz’s One-Man Civil War

FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 12, 2026 08:23 AM (bFu5X)

133 Seems like a not insignificant number of them are calling for the Shah.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 08:21 AM (ExV1e)
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Seems like a problem for Iran to work out. Neither the democrats nor the royalists have a chance unless the mullahs fall. Call for elections, call for a kind, call for an omniscient computer, whatever - none of it matters while the mullahs are thee.

This is why post-revolution civil war is so common.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 08:23 AM (GyQIQ)

134 Good morning Horde, Happy Monday. Thx JJ.
NY passed a bill legalizing assisted suicide. I believe it's just awaiting Hochul's signature.
Unless you are physically unable to commit suicide, why does someone need an assist to kill themselves?
I assume that Drs have helped people end their pain since the beginning of the medical profession but legalizing it only monetizes it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 08:23 AM (9ShUO)

135 He makes movies. He is a simpering communist and slavering male feminist and his movies are all vehicles for The Message.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 08:21 AM

Thank you. He's still so far down on my GAF Curve that he's dangling off the end.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 12, 2026 08:25 AM (bFu5X)

136 Don't you black pillers ever get tired of yourself? Do you get some kind of perverse joy from being hopeless and depressed?

Start with first defining what it means to be "black pilled". You automatically assume that it must require hopelessness and depression. Which tells me you have no idea what black-pilled means.

Actually, your own words make it appear that you are a candidate for hopelessness and depression because the idea is if can only think happy thoughts, no matter the evidence or circumstances, then all is well. That is childish thinking and will be painful when reality hits.

For some, black-pilled is recognizing the cursed nature of a fallen world and that our time on Earth is a mere sojourn compared to what eternity holds. The rest take on the spin you have with a materialistic / nihilistic world view, and regardless of what pill you take, results in hopelessness and depression with a side of tranquilizers to cope.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 08:25 AM (a3CJ+)

137 135 I assume that Drs have helped people end their pain since the beginning of the medical profession but legalizing it only monetizes it
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 08:23 AM (9ShUO)

I often wonder about terminal patients who have access to giving themselves morphine at the push of a button and that the nurses just let them OD if not give the injection themselves.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 12, 2026 08:25 AM (x0n13)

138 Sigh. Cocksucking Troll doesn't get it and is clearly illiterate.

There is a lot of *hope* that the mullahs might fall. There is a lot of disagreement regarding odds, with a decent split between "probable" and "improbable," with smaller groups of "done deal" and "impossible, never gonna happen ever."

Try reading, dude. You might find it interesting.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 08:26 AM (GyQIQ)

139 Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Ok, postulate that the repression in Iran works, with the current government killing its way to stay in power.

They have no levers to make things better. So things will get even worse. Can they put water back in the rivers? No.
Can they maintain infrastructure with money pulled from foreign adventurism? No.
Can they give Iranians hope for a better future? No.

The current Iranian government, if they "win" will resemble a Slinky going down stairs. The next uprising would be even more savage.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 08:26 AM (u82oZ)

140 Indeed they have:

https://tinyurl.com/34ff5rcn

There are other signs.

HOPING to be proven wrong.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 08:16 AM (EtDTo)

You have have posted an old video. It's winter time in Iran and its cold but where are the winter coats?

Hmm I dunno how that happens.!!

That video is from a reuters article dated june 28.

The shark. Jumped you have.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 12, 2026 08:26 AM (G+z4C)

141 Good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 12, 2026 08:27 AM (ls+iU)

142 This video has never been broadcast, although I heard the very same thing shortly after 9/11. It wouldn't surprise me if W told the networks not to broadcast or report any of this at the time. It's probably in the same vault where Obama's endorsement of Rashid Khalidi is, never to see the light of day.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 12, 2026 08:10 AM (0CU3H)
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I had that video and shared it which was the final major break between me and my erstwhile party comrades.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 08:27 AM (RIvkX)

143 Every 'ron: 1,500 rounds! That's a starter set. Tis nothing.

We are ready for North Korean paratroopers.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 08:20 AM

*checks stocks*

Well, I'm a little low in 6.5 Creed, but otherwise I think I'm doing my part not to embarrass the Horde.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 12, 2026 08:27 AM (bFu5X)

144 For Christians hope is different than wishful thinking. "Got questions" Biblical answers website:

https://tinyurl.com/3t55nv44

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 08:27 AM (ix8EF)

145 Today is NatIonal Hot Tea Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2026 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

146 Even if the mullahs manage to survive this attempt at a revolution, Iran is still screwed. Their water problems trump all politics.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 08:28 AM (9ShUO)

147 139 My Dad was laying in the hospital bed, pretty much out of it. I saw Mom and the family Doc having a hushed conversation. Dad passed away shortly after that. I never asked Mom but I always think the morphine drip got turned up to max.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 12, 2026 08:28 AM (gm9Sb)

148 Then implement the exact same shit that drove them out of the hell hole they came from.

You are describing metastasizing cancer.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 08:28 AM (a3CJ+)

149 Sadly, Evangelicals, if we go by the bumper stickers, prefer reducing God even further by demoting Him to mere "co-pilot".

Worse are the ones who Him as Santa Claus who will manifest all their dreams if they just believe enough (in the dream, not God).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 08:29 AM (ExV1e)

150 JJ! Good morning and thank you!

Posted by: Doof at January 12, 2026 08:30 AM (dP47V)

151 The turning point in Iran will be conflict between the regular armed forces and the Republican Guard.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 12, 2026 08:18 AM (gm9Sb)
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Please to correct IRGC
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 08:30 AM (RIvkX)

152 One thing I can't get over is how ... "feminized" these protests are.

That is, the whole purpose seems to be shaming.
Shame the officers for taking the job.
Shame the officers for responding to their provocations.
Shame the public, as if the injuries and injustice from their provocations are the fault of the public.

There is no conversation.
There is no debate.
There is no persuasion.

It's pure coercion.
Manipulation.
Extortion.
Toxic femininity.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 12, 2026 08:31 AM (HXT0k)

153 The current Iranian government, if they "win" will resemble a Slinky going down stairs. The next uprising would be even more savage.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 08:26 AM (u82oZ)
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There is a potential spoiler in that, and I would be shocked if it's not a topic of discussion at mullah strategy sessions.

If they put down this current rebellion and retain position - certainly possible - then they retain position. They're still in charge and still in power.

No, they can't refill the rivers or put major infrastructure online, but they'll still be in power and that may be enough because time is a thing, and so is the rest of the world. If they can smash the rebellion, how long can they keep things together? A few years? Half a decade? That might be enough.

Because they don't have to be faster than the bear, they just have to be faster than the antiglobalist sentiment in the west. How long does *that* have in a meaningful way? When Congress flips next year, it gets easier for the mullahs. As Europe continues to decline, it gets easier for the mullahs. If the executive flips in 2029, things get *much* easier for the mullahs.

Time is a factor.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 08:31 AM (GyQIQ)

154 151 I always make that mistake. Thinking back to Iraq I guess.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 12, 2026 08:32 AM (gm9Sb)

155 My Dad was lucid but in a lot of pain. I went to the nurse station and asked for the doctor do something. The next evening, Dad was in no pain, but he was in la la land.

He died that night.

Posted by: no one at January 12, 2026 08:32 AM (qFwJc)

156 If I had $300 million, the first 100 of you would get a crisp new $5 bill!
Posted by: Weasel at January 12, 2026 08:08 AM (1S3fY)

I'd be OK with an old wrinkly one

Posted by: Doof at January 12, 2026 08:32 AM (dP47V)

157 I'd be OK with an old wrinkly one
Posted by: Doof at January 12, 2026 08:32 AM (dP47V)
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Sucker.

The odds of crisp, new bills sticking together is higher. You *could* end up with ten bucks purely by accident. Play the odds, bro!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 08:33 AM (GyQIQ)

158 This one time
At the Temple
Jesus beat the crap out of people

I like how He fashioned a whip Right There in the Temple. He didn't walk in with one, nor borrow one.

Those are skillz!

(too bad the Catholics haven't found the whip and made it a relic)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 08:33 AM (a3CJ+)

159 Unless you are physically unable to commit suicide, why does someone need an assist to kill themselves?...
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 08:23 AM (9ShUO)
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Asked and answered.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

160 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 08:27 AM (ix8EF

Sorry. That was another website, but along the same lines of thought.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 08:34 AM (ix8EF)

161 California has gained so many more people that they lost congressional seats.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 12, 2026 07:27 AM (dAZi+)

And would have lost more but for shenanigans with the census.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

162 >Today is National Hot Tea Day.
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and it's the last day of Wild Card Weekend

HOU v PIT

Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT DENMARK at January 12, 2026 08:35 AM (ZxPkt)

163 Sucker.

The odds of crisp, new bills sticking together is higher. You *could* end up with ten bucks purely by accident. Play the odds, bro!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 08:33 AM (GyQIQ)

Dang. I didn't think that through.

What other sage financial wisdom can you share with me?

Posted by: Doof at January 12, 2026 08:35 AM (dP47V)

164 *I'd be OK with an old wrinkly one.*

Hey, big boy!

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at January 12, 2026 08:36 AM (2Ez/1)

165 I do not think our government, or most Americans, myself included, understand Iran and the people who live there. What may or may not rise from the unrest will likely be something we don't fully grasp.

I do not think a "new" Iran, Persia, whatever, will immediately be our friend. May never be.

Shocking many.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 08:36 AM (NwnyJ)

166 Re: Iranian uprising. How about USAID sent arms to the Iranian resistance? Maybe parachute drop to pre-arranged sites or Israeli agents (they are everywhere, you know) could distribute to reliable leaders. I think the Persian chick who lit her cig from burning Ayatollah pic deserves an AR or AK.

Posted by: Martin Tell at January 12, 2026 08:36 AM (sFNX2)

167
47 If this theory about humans is true, it's pretty scary:

https://tinyurl.com/3c326zuw
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 07:38 AM (EtDTo)

Of course it’s true. What may not be true are our theories about democracy being a viable basis of government.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 08:36 AM (QkvGw)

168 Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Good comments.

The corrective is to specifically go after the families of the current leaders. Leave none of their DNA to go forward. Give them no reason to hold power.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 08:37 AM (u82oZ)

169 A U-Haul driver allegedly plowed into a massive crowd of protesters at an anti-Iran regime rally in Los Angeles on Sunday — injuring at least two people in a chaotic scene caught on video.

This fine Iranian man is just running down the protestors Americans won't. Really it is an act of love

Posted by: Jeb Bush at January 12, 2026 08:37 AM (sKqQm)

170 Tennesee Jed>>>Hollywood Judd

Posted by: RIP Bob Weir at January 12, 2026 08:37 AM (oftw2)

171 I do not think a "new" Iran, Persia, whatever, will immediately be our friend. May never be.

Shocking many.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 08:36 AM (NwnyJ)
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I fully expect it to not be, and I don't care. It is unlikely to be as bad as Iran today. Less inclined to make war on us or our allies. Less likely to be willing or able to maintain vast proxy armies across the region.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 08:37 AM (GyQIQ)

172 Martini Farmer

Their ingratitude would shock many who do not study history.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 08:38 AM (u82oZ)

173 I like how He fashioned a whip Right There in the Temple. He didn't walk in with one, nor borrow one.

Not unlike Mexican mothers breaking out the chancla.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 12, 2026 08:38 AM (BpO1e)

174 This play rarely works, but when it does, oh my

https://x.com/NFL/status/
2010502445810786767

Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT DENMARK at January 12, 2026 08:38 AM (ZxPkt)

175 Tennesee Jed>>>Hollywood Judd
Posted by: RIP Bob Weir at January 12, 2026 08:37 AM (oftw2)
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I second that emotion

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 08:39 AM (D1po+)

176 It's pure coercion.
Manipulation.
Extortion.
Toxic femininity.

And the officer goes home that night, and if married, might have marital problems right now, think about the freaks and shrews out in the streets that day, and falls in love with his relatively sane and beautiful wife all over again.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 08:39 AM (c3sdc)

177 "The turning point in Iran will be conflict between the regular armed forces and the Republican Guard."

I agree.

Posted by: pawn at January 12, 2026 08:39 AM (rbIOb)

178 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at January 12, 2026 08:39 AM (53oGX)

179 Chip Diller>Black Piller

Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 08:40 AM (IlL6s)

180 Hmm I dunno how that happens.!!

That video is from a reuters article dated june 28.

The shark. Jumped you have.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 12, 2026 08:26 AM (G+z4C)
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Thanks. I like being corrected.

Still doesn't change my opinion on your "black pilling" comment nor my concern of the overthrow not succeeding.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 08:40 AM (EtDTo)

181 So Epstein's brother is saying a new autopsy to be released in February will prove Jeffrey didn't kill himself. If true , this could be a real shit show to watch. Probably another nothing burger

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 08:40 AM (9ShUO)

182 "171 I do not think a "new" Iran, Persia, whatever, will immediately be our friend. May never be."

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Nations don't have friends.
They have interests.

Posted by: Foreign Policy 101 at January 12, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

183 "I'd be OK with an old wrinkly one
Posted by: Doof"

Me too!

Posted by: Emmanuel Jean-Michel Fr�d�ric Macron at January 12, 2026 08:41 AM (vFG9F)

184 With all the killing being done, I hope this wonderful chick made it past the Mullahs forces.

https://tinyurl.com/ym7t2twz

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 08:41 AM (D1po+)

185 So Epstein's brother is saying a new autopsy to be released in February will prove Jeffrey didn't kill himself. If true , this could be a real shit show to watch. Probably another nothing burger
Posted by: Smell the Glove
__________

Was it done at the time, or did they dig him up?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 12, 2026 08:42 AM (XvL8K)

186 What other sage financial wisdom can you share with me?

You need to smash that Subscribe button and get on the newsletter list.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 08:42 AM (c3sdc)

187 I love immigrants
I love criminals

Why da fuck must you bring the hate to normal folks? If you love shithole societies then pick up and move there.
But alas, no, you wish to have them in your country.
You may go your whole life and never be effected by the rape, murder, and theft.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 08:42 AM (gbOdA)

188 and it's the last day of Wild Card Weekend

HOU v PIT
Posted by: Don Black. Message: DEFEAT DENMARK at January 12, 2026 08:35 AM (ZxPkt)
******
Go Texans!

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2026 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

189 I feel sorry for U-Haul Corporation. Not the first time a U-Haul has been weaponized by Jihadis. Though it was a Ryder truck in the '93 World Trade Center explosion.

Calling for a complete ban on renting anything to Mooslims. Even an apartment. Or a washer/dryer.

Posted by: Rent-a-Center Ralph at January 12, 2026 08:42 AM (oftw2)

190 Doof

You set that up with a slow pitch over the plate. Well done.

FWIW, I'll take an old wrinkly one. No gold diggers remain.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 08:42 AM (u82oZ)

191 The truck had both pro-Iranian regime and anti-Iranian regimes on both its sides, police said.

Goldie Ghamari and Armin Navabi seemed to recognize the truck's writing as a MEK slogan. MEK is both Islamic and Communist:

https://youtu.be/dL7CeG0j5zU?t=2788

I can understand how LA police would interpret it as "pro- and anti-Iranian regime."

Posted by: pjungwir at January 12, 2026 08:43 AM (noE7F)

192 Of course it’s true. What may not be true are our theories about democracy being a viable basis of government.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 08:36 AM (QkvGw)
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Constitutional Republic!

CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC!!!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 08:43 AM (EtDTo)

193 So Epstein's brother is saying a new autopsy to be released in February will prove Jeffrey didn't kill himself. If true , this could be a real shit show to watch. Probably another nothing burger
Posted by: Smell the Glove
----------------------

~shifty-eyes~

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at January 12, 2026 08:43 AM (DDJSl)

194 Dang. I didn't think that through.

What other sage financial wisdom can you share with me?
Posted by: Doof at January 12, 2026 08:35 AM (dP47V)
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The best way to rob a bank is to own one.

One if by land, two if by sea.

Don't cross the streams.

Rub some salt in it.

I might've gone off the rails. Don't take any advice from me.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 08:43 AM (GyQIQ)

195 Your concern has been noted and place in your file right next to your ability to investigate links you post.

My last word on this subject and you.

Please direct any further comments to me to the circular file.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 12, 2026 08:43 AM (G+z4C)

196 Germany is set to lose another 20,000 jobs as Mercedes begins moving production to Hungary.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 12, 2026 08:44 AM (0U5gm)

197 Trump made a huge error serving subpoenas on the Fed. Certainly, he has legitimate beefs with Powell and the board, and certainly there is a good argument for lower rates, but bullying Powell with the DOJ is big-time stupid, insofar as the action has zero upside and huge downside.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 08:44 AM (D1po+)

198 I'm not really interested in a black pill.
Could you show me something in mauve?

Posted by: Lovey Howell sipping wine at the cosmetics counter of a high end department store at January 12, 2026 08:44 AM (2Ez/1)

199 Doof

You set that up with a slow pitch over the plate. Well done.

FWIW, I'll take an old wrinkly one. No gold diggers remain.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 08:42 AM (u82oZ)

Yes, my friend - it's almost like I knew what I was doing!

Posted by: Doof at January 12, 2026 08:44 AM (dP47V)

200 Millions of people are in the streets calling for Pahlavi to return. Should that happen do some of you see him as being anti American?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 12, 2026 08:44 AM (sDNVV)

201
Goldie Ghamari and Armin Navabi seemed to recognize the truck's writing as a MEK slogan. MEK is both Islamic and Communist:

====

And they are terrorists

Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

202 Ilhan Omar is mad that investigating fraud in Minnesota and enforcing immigration federal law is “wasting so much of our taxpayer resources.”

It’s hard to make this up.

Posted by: SMOD at January 12, 2026 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

203 Thomas Paine

Hungary has a lot of expatriate Germans living there. The brain and finance drain started 10 years ago.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

204 Today's Birthdays:
Rob Zombie
Jeff Bezos
Howard Stern

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2026 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

205 Ilhan Omar is mad that investigating fraud in Minnesota and enforcing immigration federal law is “wasting so much of our taxpayer resources.”

It’s hard to make this up.
Posted by: SMOD at January 12, 2026 08:45 AM (RHGPo)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 08:45 AM (GyQIQ)

206 Chris Murphy attacks ICE officer, calls the shoot*ng:

“The most high profile and most heinous act of violence."

Really odd way to describe self-defense, Chris.

Posted by: SMOD at January 12, 2026 08:46 AM (RHGPo)

207 > Calling for a complete ban on renting anything to Mooslims. Even an apartment. Or a washer/dryer.
---------
I doubt they know how to use a washer or dryer.

But I support your ban.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 08:46 AM (NwnyJ)

208 I don't really know the difference between the pills. Is there a pink one that makes you turn gay?

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 08:46 AM (vFG9F)

209 A vast number of humans, probably a majority, aren't people.

They are large language models.

Its an interesting take.

In my experience in talking with leftists they generally fall into three groups.

1) The ones that are not very knowledgeable - they get talking points from "the experts". They have no interest in deeper thought and will get angry when exposed to evidence that the experts are wrong.

2) The ones that know leftism is fundamentally incorrect but don't care. If you mouth the narrative you get cash and prizes so really who cares? Just say the right words and you can be an actor or a bureaucrat or any number of restricted easy professions

3) The ones that disagree with reality itself. This group knows leftism is incorrect but they believe reality is a shared construct - so if we can just make everyone think the right way things will change.

Take trannyism. Group 1 would have told you trannyism was a pervert thing 20 years ago but is brave and stunning now. Group 2 knows trannys are sex freaks but as long as they are getting paid and don't have to have sex with them...who cares? And Group 3? The reason a man can't become a woman is YOUR badthink

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 08:46 AM (sKqQm)

210 177 "The turning point in Iran will be conflict between the regular armed forces and the Republican Guard."

I agree.
Posted by: pawn at January 12, 2026 08:39 AM (rbIOb)

Republican Guard was Iraq. the IRGC is the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Council

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 12, 2026 08:47 AM (x0n13)

211 I like how He fashioned a whip Right There in the Temple. He didn't walk in with one, nor borrow one.

Those are skillz!

(too bad the Catholics haven't found the whip and made it a relic)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 08:33 AM (a3CJ+)

They are lucky he did not pull out a 22 oz framing hammer.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 08:47 AM (gbOdA)

212 One U haul a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at January 12, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

213 “The most high profile and most heinous act of violence."

Last year we had an urban thug set a woman on fire on a subway train and she burned to death.

But yeah shooting a woman trying to kill a cop tops that...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 08:47 AM (sKqQm)

214 Republican Guard was Iraq. the IRGC is the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Council
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 12, 2026 08:47 AM (x0n13)

Whos on first?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 08:48 AM (gbOdA)

215 Happy Grand Jury in the Southern District of Florida Day!

Judge Aileen Cannon presiding.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 08:48 AM (viF8m)

216 Thoughtful commentary from Professor Jacobsen, at LegalInsurrection, speculating on the sudden Demofascist support for Iranian protestors:

I think it’s an election set up, they are going to use the “Woke Right” against Republicans not only in the 2026 midterms, but particularly if JD Vance is the Republican nominee in 2028. His proximity and friendship with Tucker Carlson and the Groypers will be a major Democrat theme, but that can’t work unless Democrats switch gears from their anti-Israel, pro-Hamas — and yes antisemitic — persona.

So they are up so to something. No one believes they had a change of heart.

And now Democrats have come out supporting the protesters in Iran, despite doing everything dating back to Obama to keep the Mullahs in power.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 08:48 AM (D1po+)

217 "b, b, but the Shah was brutal n heavy handed!"

Brutal with who? Islamic crazies? What tactics did it take to keep them bastards in line?

"1953!" < so tired of hearing that shit being used as an excuse. Last I checked the Islamic crazies(along with the United States and Britain) wanted Mosaddegh gone in 1953 before they hitched their horse to foreigners(Soviet Union).

Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 08:48 AM (IlL6s)

218 Show of hands. How many here have ever watched the PBS weekend news show? How many here will miss it?

Posted by: Viewers Like You? at January 12, 2026 08:48 AM (oftw2)

219 >>I don't really know the difference between the pills.

Go ask Alice. She'll get you dialed in.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 08:49 AM (viF8m)

220 I asked Alice and she told me to kiss her grits.

Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 08:50 AM (vFG9F)

221 The dilemma in Iran is that it’s one thing to help the protestors; but the US is in no position to launch a war of Regime Change in Iran. Unless some part of the Iranian Army declares against the current regime, it is hard to see how it will happen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 12, 2026 08:50 AM (QkvGw)

222 I might've gone off the rails. Don't take any advice from me.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 08:43 AM (GyQIQ)

Your nuggets of financial advice seems to be much like your Mannix Babe links - they're not all winners, but all must be considered!

Posted by: Doof at January 12, 2026 08:50 AM (dP47V)

223 "b, b, but the Shah was brutal n heavy handed!"

This is a reoccurring pattern honestly. Compare the Tzar with Lenin and Stalin. Or Pinochet with Castro and on and on.

If a non-leftist political figure imprisons political opponents and occasionally kills them its the greatest crime in human history. If a leftwing figure kills millions of people, just normal people not even political figures, its just breaking some eggs to make an omelet.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 08:51 AM (sKqQm)

224 Euthanasia appears to be the fourth leading cause of death now in Canada
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Grief over the loss of Cuban vacations no doubt a contributing factor.
Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 07:46 AM (Y8DZL)

If, when, the commies fall in Cuber, the shout from up north will shake the ground.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 12, 2026 08:51 AM (uQesX)

225 If this theory about humans is true, it's pretty scary:

https://tinyurl.com/3c326zuw
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And the discussion that follows.
Wow.

I liked the one who observed this is a deliberate de-training of the mind, away for logic, avoiding reason and shunning thought.

To build an adult that is unreachable by any of those ....
Just ... unquestioning followers.

I'll add: This is part and manifestation of the greater battle. The evil of Satan, who delights in the destruction of man's soul. You can see the fingerprints of his evil all through the modern left.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 12, 2026 08:52 AM (HXT0k)

226 >>So far, so good in SC. The shit libs seem to be going to NC and GA.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 12, 2026 07:53 AM (/a1Sq)

--
FWIW because SC doesn't have particularly large cities, lefty transplants have greater difficulty sequestering themselves from the well-adjusted.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 12, 2026 08:52 AM (NYInA)

227 Praying for the people of Iran, specially the women.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 12, 2026 08:52 AM (DoBxX)

228 Ilhan Omar is mad that investigating fraud in Minnesota and enforcing immigration federal law is “wasting so much of our taxpayer resources.”

The money spent on partisan and rayciss fake investigations could be used to help fund the woefully underfunded Somali-run daycares, Medicaid programs, and non-ambulance patient transportation in Minnesota! Those programs help millions of people!

Posted by: Ilhan Omar at January 12, 2026 08:52 AM (5rh/l)

229 197 Trump made a huge error serving subpoenas on the Fed. Certainly, he has legitimate beefs with Powell and the board, and certainly there is a good argument for lower rates, but bullying Powell with the DOJ is big-time stupid, insofar as the action has zero upside and huge downside.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 08:44 AM (D1po+)

Not sure this is "helpful"

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 08:52 AM (VE6XX)

230 219 >>I don't really know the difference between the pills.

Go ask Alice. She'll get you dialed in.
Posted by: JackStraw

How tall is she?

Posted by: Grace Slick at January 12, 2026 08:52 AM (JCZqz)

231 The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Council?

Pffffttt...
The Guards Council of Iranian Revolutionaries!

Posted by: Monty Python at January 12, 2026 08:53 AM (2Ez/1)

232 Have a great day, everyone.

Head on a swivel, and have a plan. Because some people hate you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 12, 2026 08:53 AM (u82oZ)

233 I don't really know the difference between the pills. Is there a pink one that makes you turn gay?
Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 08:46 AM (vFG9F)

No, we turn you gay.

Posted by: Homosexual Groomers and Pederasts at January 12, 2026 08:53 AM (n+1Zi)

234 for you dog lovers

https://x.com/ThePosieParker/status/
2004892080301388093

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 08:53 AM (gbOdA)

235 If, when, the commies fall in Cuber, the shout from up north will shake the ground.

My understanding is that one of the big draws in Canuckistan is the sex tourism. Hookers are cheap in Cuba and the government isn't that concerned about the age of those girls either...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 08:54 AM (sKqQm)

236 Leftists refuse to believe ICE agent shot Renee Good in self-defense, no matter how much evidence they see

My husband ALSO refuses to believe no matter what I show HIM

so this applies to RINO/"moderate"/TDS sufferers not just the leftist ones.

it's deeply weird.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 12, 2026 08:54 AM (emBoF)

237 Anatomy of a Failed Moral Panic
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I'm not surprised that at least Kimball got it right, putting quotation marks around "wife" in talking of Ms Good. Most writers on our side have failed in that.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 12, 2026 08:54 AM (s0JqF)

238 You may go your whole life and never be effected by the rape, murder, and theft.
Posted by: r hennigantx

This brings up my old point about the leftist mindset. They react to nice neighborhoods and safer streets by saying "It's not fair those exist" and do their best to bring in criminals to make everyone equally miserable.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 12, 2026 08:54 AM (BpO1e)

239 I don't really know the difference between the pills. Is there a pink one that makes you turn gay?
Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 08:46 AM (vFG9F)

No, we turn you gay.

Me too!

Posted by: Vecna at January 12, 2026 08:54 AM (sKqQm)

240 - Ben Had

From vids on Tousi TV it seems many calling for Pahlavi's return.
Tousi talks of a constitutional monarchy type of govt.
Not sure exactly how that works. The people vote for representatives and Pahlavi, separate from politics, seated as king.
Above the political fray, maybe able to quash something the politicians vote for he deems not in the best interests of the people?

Posted by: TeeJ at January 12, 2026 08:54 AM (oN30K)

241 Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 08:46 AM (sKqQm)
___________________________

I break down the left into two groups; sociopaths and saps.

The sociopaths are generally the political leadership. They don't really believe in gay race communism except as a source of wealth and power.

The saps are the idiots who do believe in gay race communism, and are exploited by the sociopaths for wealth and power.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 12, 2026 08:55 AM (B2AL/)

242 >>I think it’s an election set up, they are going to use the “Woke Right” against Republicans not only in the 2026 midterms, but particularly if JD Vance is the Republican nominee in 2028.

There is nothing so overrated as the influence and importance of Tucker, Candace, Fuentes and crew. They already been largely been rebuked and made irrelevant among Republican voters, those who have actually heard of them.

Cheering on murderous religious fanatics who are clearly loosing their power is not a great look for either voters or funders.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 08:56 AM (viF8m)

243 Leftists refuse to believe ICE agent shot Renee Good in self-defense, no matter how much evidence they see

In response to "she tried to run him down" I get a lot of "why couldn't they have just disabled the car?"

I wonder if this is a side effect of action movies where the hero can easily disable a criminal without serious injury to anyone versus in real life you have a guy who will be killed by that car in 3 seconds and he has to decide what to do in those 3 seconds...or die.

Posted by: Vecna at January 12, 2026 08:56 AM (sKqQm)

244 208 I don't really know the difference between the pills. Is there a pink one that makes you turn gay?
Posted by: fd at January 12, 2026 08:46 AM (vFG9F)

Pinkpilling is trying to get guys to troon out.

Posted by: XTC at January 12, 2026 08:56 AM (uEmCf)

245 [i[]I don't really know the difference between the pills. [/i[]

As I understand it, it is a "The Matrix" cultural reference

• Blue Pill: go back to being a LIV and live your life without concern.
• Red Pill: everything is a lie, fight to restore order and truth
• Black Pill: the world is on fire, nothing you can do about it. Brace for the collapse

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 08:57 AM (nAS9C)

246 I'm burning all my Channel 13 WNET Tote Bags in protest of the end of their Weekend News show. Hoping JJS will do the same.

Posted by: Murray Hill Bill at January 12, 2026 08:57 AM (oftw2)

247 Me too!
Posted by: Vecna

That scene would have been redeemed if the reaction from the other characters after the monologue was "Yeah, dude. We figured that out years ago."

But there would have been angry mobs over that approach.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 12, 2026 08:57 AM (BpO1e)

248 241 I break down the left into two groups; sociopaths and saps.

The sociopaths are generally the political leadership. They don't really believe in gay race communism except as a source of wealth and power.

The saps are the idiots who do believe in gay race communism, and are exploited by the sociopaths for wealth and power.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 12, 2026 08:55 AM (B2AL/)

I'm generally cynical enough to think that even the saps WANT to be the sociopaths. They don't believe it either, they just want to be admitted into the club.

Posted by: XTC at January 12, 2026 08:58 AM (uEmCf)

249 Mercedes Relocates Production To Hungary, 20,000 Germans Set To Lose Their Jobs

Posted by: SMOD at January 12, 2026 08:58 AM (RHGPo)

250 It’s been a year since Trump took back the White House — how is it possible we know so little about these cells, and when will we see mass arrests of these paid agitators and the politicians who are determined to use whatever power they have to help them?

What?? I can't work on stuff like that, given my extremely full schedule of Fox News apparances.

Sheesh! Give a girl a break! What are you going to ask about next, the Epstein List?

Posted by: Pam Bondi at January 12, 2026 08:59 AM (0sNs1)

251 249 Mercedes Relocates Production To Hungary, 20,000 Germans Set To Lose Their Jobs
Posted by: SMOD at January 12, 2026 08:58 AM (RHGPo)

Oh no.... Well anyway....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 08:59 AM (VE6XX)

252 ‘We don’t need them. We don’t like them’: Trump says MAGA has no room for antisemites

Posted by: SMOD at January 12, 2026 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

253 2 lbs of bacon gone in four days. WTF?

Stopped at Kroger on the way home Thursday night. Breakfast Friday, Saturday, Sunday & this morning and it's gone.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:59 AM (u/kd+)

254 'You Are Murderers!' 'Get the F*ck Out!': Fury at ICE Agents Boils in Minneapolis (Commondreams.org article)

ICE is back at it in LA as well. I guess the local goons got re-energized and excited by seeing a woman shot in the head.

Energized by seeing the entire administration give them blanket permission to shoot a woman in the head. There was a murder in the street a week ago. We know who the killer is. The administration has offered literally nothing. A black-box investigation with no transparency and totally shielding the killer from all consequences.

people can't endure much more of this, and there’s an inevitability to the situation boiling over at some point. You can only live under an occupying force for so long before resistance becomes a foregone conclusion.

These goons are NOT the police! I'm sick of seeing that stupid cosplay patch on them. They have no jurisdiction over US citizens. Their job is supposedly to enforce immigration laws, not police the general populace.

So Reddit won’t let us threaten freakishly evil people but ICE can shoot us willy nilly? Fuck you Reddit for being such a spineless bitch.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 12, 2026 08:59 AM (JCZqz)

255 The silence of the Western media is yet another shameless crime.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - Pahlavi Will Return at January 12, 2026 08:04 AM (RIvkX)

Western media is alive and well. It's just not in the same form as in the past, thanks to the internet.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2026 08:59 AM (g8Ew8)

256 @223 18-1 -the left sure is calling for the breaking of eggs over that loopy broad that got her ticket punched in Minnesota. More n more from pols to everyday citizens calling for armed confrontation with ICE. Social media is rife with these a-holes and they're not bots.

Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 08:59 AM (IlL6s)

257 CNA-

Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the Vatican today in an audience that was not initially included in the official schedule for the day.

The meeting was added to the pontiff's agenda in the Holy See's 12:00 p.m. news bulletin. The Vatican has not released any details about the audience.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2026 09:00 AM (NpAcC)

258 If this theory about humans is true, it's pretty scary:

https://tinyurl.com/3c326zuw
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 07:38 AM (EtDTo)

It is definitely true. These are the people we've been calling NPCs for a decade now. This guy is using LLMs for an analogy, but it's virtually the same assessment of these people.

And he's right, they're unreachable. They will reject any attempt to impose reality, often angrily.

One of the most useful bits of their programming was introduced to my generation (millennials). You may have heard the NPCs in my generation frequently using the phrases "my truth" or "my lived experiences."

This barbaric backsliding into atavistic solipsism, perhaps the oldest logical and philosophical fallacy, is awesome for my well-programmed peeps. They can and do use it to handwave away *anything* that contradicts their carefully curated and highly limited data sets.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 09:01 AM (BI5O2)

259 As I understand it, it is a "The Matrix" cultural reference

• Blue Pill: go back to being a LIV and live your life without concern.
• Red Pill: everything is a lie, fight to restore order and truth
• Black Pill: the world is on fire, nothing you can do about it. Brace for the collapse
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 08:57 AM

Don't forget the Rainbow Pill. Every month is Pride Month!

Posted by: LGBQTFWs at January 12, 2026 09:01 AM (0sNs1)

260 That scene would have been redeemed if the reaction from the other characters after the monologue was "Yeah, dude. We figured that out years ago."

Amusingly you could read the whole thing with Vecna/Will now as a statement on homosexuality.

Why was Will gay? Vecna molested him as a boy and literally shoved Mindflayer particles down his throat. Why is Venca gay? He also had Mindflayer particles inserted into him as a boy...

What is the Mindflayer? This alien thing that takes over your mind and makes you part of the hive mind instead of a normal human being.

Posted by: Vecna at January 12, 2026 09:01 AM (sKqQm)

261 Walmart and Google said Sunday that shoppers will soon be able to use Google’s artificial intelligence assistant Gemini to more easily discover and buy products from the retail giant and its warehouse club, Sam’s Club.

Within 30 days the algorithm will have 20 lb Nestle Crunch bars at the checkout.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 09:01 AM (gbOdA)

262
Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the Vatican today in an audience that was not initially included in the official schedule for the day.

Old Leo must have hated to talk to a woman who admires Trump...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 09:02 AM (VE6XX)

263 I'm generally cynical enough to think that even the saps WANT to be the sociopaths. They don't believe it either, they just want to be admitted into the club.
-----------------

Particularly true among AWFLs. They have no meaning in life outside of politics, which makes them easy to manipulate.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 12, 2026 09:02 AM (6oFTq)

264 Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 12, 2026 08:59 AM (JCZqz)

If this stuff is widely believed we are doomed....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 09:04 AM (VE6XX)

265 253 2 lbs of bacon gone in four days. WTF?

Stopped at Kroger on the way home Thursday night. Breakfast Friday, Saturday, Sunday & this morning and it's gone.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:59 AM (u/kd+)

half pound of pig a day seems about right

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 09:04 AM (gbOdA)

266 Energized by seeing the entire administration give them blanket permission to shoot a woman in the head. /i]

I am seeing this sort of exchange quite a bit:

Lefty: The government doesn't have the right to shoot a woman in the head just because some cop thinks she is maybe a threat!!!

Non-lefty: So the guy that shot Ashli Babbit should go to jail?

Lefty: That's different she deserved it!

Posted by: Vecna at January 12, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

267 Dan Bongino will be returning to the airwaves on Feb. 2 at 10AM ET after departing from the FBI.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 12, 2026 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

268 In response to "she tried to run him down" I get a lot of "why couldn't they have just disabled the car?"

I wonder if this is a side effect of action movies where the hero can easily disable a criminal without serious injury to anyone versus in real life you have a guy who will be killed by that car in 3 seconds and he has to decide what to do in those 3 seconds...or die.
Posted by: Vecna

It is.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 09:05 AM (u/kd+)

269 Very disappointed to see Elise Stephanik on that list.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 08:21 AM (DOm7r)

Put not your faith in princes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

270 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulg at January 12, 2026 09:06 AM (77rzZ)

271 half pound of pig a day seems about right
Posted by: r hennigantx

I know. It just doesn't seem right.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 09:06 AM (u/kd+)

272 If you want to know how someone who shrieked about Big Pharma for years winds up with a Pfizer tattoo - NPCs. Same with antiwar women suddenly flicking their beans to footage of dead Russians, or envirodorks who once worshipped Musk like a living god suddenly torching his dealerships.

They just introduced a change to their datasets, and off they go. They're just computers.

Really shitty computers.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 09:06 AM (BI5O2)

273 And just as a reminder, the left has previously state the "deeply held opinion" that police should be able to shoot people they see as a threat in the cases of Ashli Babbit, Rosanne Boyland, and Lavoy Finicum

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 09:06 AM (sKqQm)

274 ICE WARRIORS SAS-style Arctic forces who train UNDER ice will defend Greenland from Trump & why only strongest beat brutal drills

Dogs fed and now to wax the sled

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 09:06 AM (gbOdA)

275 California is trying to put a wealth tax on wealthy people in the state. The tax is 5 percent of their net wealth for, I believe, 5 years.

In the past two weeks alone, people whose net worth is collectively a trillion dollars have left the state permanently.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 12, 2026 08:21 AM (0U5gm)

Unfortunately for them, the tax is retroactive. Unless they changed their residence in 2025, they'll still get hit by it. Admittedly, it'll be a one-time thing at that point.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

276 I do not think a "new" Iran, Persia, whatever, will immediately be our friend. May never be.
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They will convert to Christianity.

"friend" is irrelevant then.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 12, 2026 09:07 AM (HXT0k)

277 The investigation of the Fed is causing a lot of screaming. What it turns up could be interesting. Trump stated he has nothing to do with the investigation. Powell will be gone in four months, so doing the investigation to "get him" makes no sense

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 12, 2026 09:07 AM (9ShUO)

278 At its core, I think "NPR voice" is hypnosis.

If I have to struggle to hear you I have to listen more carefully. That directs attention, but a different mode of attention than listening to someone who is shouting.

The calming soothing safe in mother's arms feeling that accompanies the message is then associated with the message. Classical conditioning.

Posted by: ... at January 12, 2026 09:07 AM (B+PQY)

279 It is definitely true. These are the people we've been calling NPCs for a decade now. This guy is using LLMs for an analogy, but it's virtually the same assessment of these people.

Mimetic Theory beat him to it. Also, I think he is off on the theory of mind aspect of it.

The interesting thing about modern psychology and psychiatry is that there is no science to it. There is no diagnosis, there is no cure there is only the treating of symptoms. There is no test for it thus its a "disorder" or "syndrome" not "disease" which could be tested.

Mankind is bipartite, temporal and spiritual; modern psychology doesn't recognize the latter. Thank The Enlightenment.

Given the above throat clearing: everything the guy describes can be attributed to an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 09:07 AM (PVBkQ)

280 If you want to know how someone who shrieked about Big Pharma for years winds up with a Pfizer tattoo

Nothing RFK has done would have been considered outside the leftwing mainstream 6 years ago. Yet today the left will tell you he is a science hating NAZI extremist...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

281 Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 09:02 AM (VE6XX)

Does Leo hate Trump? . I think he disagrees with some of his policies, but I wouldn't t call him a Trump hating leftist, just as I think the idea Bondi is doing nothing but buffing her nails and looking cute in front of a camera is a simplification . I'm not in either of their heads.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 09:08 AM (Nx5jP)

282 Does Leo hate Trump?

I don't think he's a fan...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 09:09 AM (VE6XX)

283 It's a tad ironic that the left is obsessing over one of their "warriors" being off'd when they've been obsessing over killing as many of us as possible for the last several decades.

And succeeding in it. It's about time the odds are evened up.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 12, 2026 09:09 AM (NwnyJ)

284 In an argument, the quieter more grounded person is generally more persuasive to an outsider. Think about watching two people going at each other and one is shouting and flailing and the other is just calmly coolly disagreeing.

Posted by: ... at January 12, 2026 09:09 AM (B+PQY)

285 What the dems really want is a USA version of what is going on in Iran.

Revolution. Overthrow. A socialist revolution, resulting in arrests and executions of the entire MAGA leadership.

And in that leadership's place, an entire new crowd with all the usual names. Newsome, Jefferies, Walz, AOC, Omar.

If you think it cannot happen in the 21st century, just look at the videos.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 12, 2026 09:09 AM (KiBMU)

286 And just as a reminder, the left has previously state the "deeply held opinion" that police should be able to shoot people they see as a threat in the cases of Ashli Babbit, Rosanne Boyland, and Lavoy Finicum

Point of Order: Rosanne Boyland was not gunned down, she was beaten and stomped to death by the police.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 09:09 AM (PVBkQ)

287 In the past two weeks alone, people whose net worth is collectively a trillion dollars have left the state permanently.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Thing is: it's on the ballot this November. But would be retroactive to 1.1.2026. So if you're not already gone, you're hosed.

1% per year for 5 years. This is an effort for politicians to show exactly how much "wealth " these folks have rather than some estimate on some website.

I see a Trump like court case where the court says a painting is worth 5M and the individual said it was worth 2M (upside down of Trump’s case) but getting courts involved to say what something is "worth."

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 12, 2026 09:10 AM (FxH7T)

288 Fed spending $2.5 B up to $3.2 B to renovate a building.
Trumps new golden palace is just a little over $250 M.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 09:11 AM (gbOdA)

289 Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 09:09 AM (VE6XX

Probably not, but has he had any extended conversations with him? I don't know.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 09:11 AM (Nx5jP)

290 271 half pound of pig a day seems about right
Posted by: r hennigantx

I know. It just doesn't seem right.
Posted by: rickb223

My guess is that you unknowingly bought the 12 ounce packages at were at a deficit from the start. You are a victim of the subversive plot of...

Posted by: ....Big Bacon at January 12, 2026 09:11 AM (oftw2)

291 I still say that unless the Iranians get hold of some guns and perhaps a few units of the Iranian army on their side, all that we're seeing now will be in vain.

I'm not optimistic.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2026 09:11 AM (g8Ew8)

292 The calming soothing safe in mother's arms feeling that accompanies the message is then associated with the message. Classical conditioning./i]

I was watching some leftwing videos where they were discussing the siren call of "rightwing propaganda".

The take away was no matter how strident and sure you are of your politics as a leftist you should never directly listen to rightwing speakers. Why?

Well the arguments those rightwing speakers are making were enough to convince that guy and they might lead YOU astray as well.

It is amazing that the left KNOWS rightwing arguments are strong and their answer isn't "ours are stronger" but just "bury yourself in the narrative". Its like a parody of religious dogma.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 09:11 AM (sKqQm)

293 just as I think the idea Bondi is doing nothing but buffing her nails and looking cute in front of a camera is a simplification . I'm not in either of their heads.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 09:08 AM (Nx5jP)

True. I mean we don't really know if her nails are all that well taken care of.

By the way I learned recently that women are not supposed to smooth the ridges out of their nails, as the ridges are actually valleys, not ridges, and you are getting rid of the part that matters.

Posted by: ... at January 12, 2026 09:12 AM (B+PQY)

294 >>just as I think the idea Bondi is doing nothing but buffing her nails and looking cute in front of a camera is a simplification .

As I mentioned above, today is the opening day of a grand jury in Florida to begin hearing evidence of the years long conspiracy against Trump. We only have one DOJ and that's the one in charge of presenting evidence at this grand jury.

The idea the DOJ/FBI is doing nothing has become a meme morning than anything. People see what they want to see.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 09:12 AM (viF8m)

295
Probably not, but has he had any extended conversations with him? I don't know.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 09:11 AM (Nx5jP)

I don't know if he has either...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 09:12 AM (VE6XX)

296 "Iran is to be the Middle East's hegemon, the center of one of the six major hegemonies."

What are the other five? I'm genuinely curious

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 12, 2026 09:12 AM (dtajH)

297 I see a Trump like court case where the court says a painting is worth 5M and the individual said it was worth 2M (upside down of Trump’s case) but getting courts involved to say what something is "worth."

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 12, 2026 09:10 AM (FxH7T)

Pokemon collector and bros with 100 pr of Nikes be like dayum, am I next?

PS YES

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 09:12 AM (gbOdA)

298 Unfortunately for them, the tax is retroactive.

I know Clinton got away with it, but how can a massive looting and plunder be retroactive ?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 09:13 AM (PVBkQ)

299 It's a tad ironic that the left is obsessing over one of their "warriors" being off'd when they've been obsessing over killing as many of us as possible for the last several decades.

They cheered the assassination of Kirk. They claim the death of Good is unacceptable because a cop killed her in self defense.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 09:13 AM (sKqQm)

300 "Judd Apatow at Golden Globe Awards: ‘We’re a Dictatorship Now’ "

Never heard of him that I can recall. But now that I have I will avoid his movies. Good way to build an audience in a declining market, asshole

Posted by: Ripley at January 12, 2026 09:13 AM (GUOwU)

301 What are the other five? I'm genuinely curious
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 12, 2026 09:12 AM (dtajH)

I was out that day on hegemonism but I know 6 of the 7 seas.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 09:13 AM (gbOdA)

302 With all the killing being done, I hope this wonderful chick made it past the Mullahs forces.

https://tinyurl.com/ym7t2twz
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 08:41 AM (D1po+)

Reports are that she's in Canada so she's probably already been killed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

303 Unfortunately for them, the tax is retroactive. Unless they changed their residence in 2025, they'll still get hit by it. Admittedly, it'll be a one-time thing at that point.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 09:07 AM (ExV1e)
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Well, they can *try* to collect it retroactively. I doubt the person's new state will extradite over it. and if the assets are gone, the assets are gone. I doubt banks and trading houses are going to rob their customers for a potentially illegal demand from California, either.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 12, 2026 09:13 AM (GyQIQ)

304 Hello Ralph. It's GOOD to see youuuu!!!! (smack!!)

Posted by: Uncle Leo at January 12, 2026 09:14 AM (B+PQY)

305 if you have ridges in your nails you have a vitamin deficiency

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 12, 2026 09:14 AM (emBoF)

306 Retroactive taxes are pretty clearly unconstitutional. If I was impacted I'd certainly try to take it to the courts...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 09:14 AM (sKqQm)

307 Posted by: JackStraw at January 12

I agree with you. I am not a lawyer but I think all these things take time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 12, 2026 09:14 AM (Nx5jP)

308 This barbaric backsliding into atavistic solipsism...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 12, 2026 09:01 AM (BI5O2)
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/searches yellow pages for twisted tongue medical specialist

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 09:15 AM (EtDTo)

309 My guess is that you unknowingly bought the 12 ounce packages at were at a deficit from the start. You are a victim of the subversive plot of...
Posted by: ....Big Bacon at January 12, 2026 09:11 AM (oftw2)

youtube the 12 oz sausage voice mail.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 09:15 AM (gbOdA)

310 From DU:

"I'm not on Facebook, but my wife is.

I signed on the other day to lurk the people I went to high school with. I do this once in a blue moon.

I wanted to see what these assholes were saying about Ms. Good's killing.

Dozens and dozens of responses affirming what I typed above.

These people were assholes in high school, and they are assholes 50 years later. They are not bots, they are people I know. A few of them are bullies that taunted me until I fought back with my fists. They are popular to this day.

Rebuttals to their nonsense are sparse.

We are on the correct side...too many people are not.

Take this info for what it is worth. These are dangerous times that are going to be difficult to reconcile reasonably.

They're out there, and you know them. It's scary stuff."

///

He's not wrong, you know, in a 180 degree fashion.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 09:15 AM (0sNs1)

311 Judd Apatow at Golden Globe Awards: ‘We’re a Dictatorship Now’ "
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Yes because everyone knows the defining feature of all dictatorships is the award ceremonies where idiots freely and openly criticize them.

Posted by: ... at January 12, 2026 09:16 AM (B+PQY)

312 Very disappointed to see Elise Stephanik on that list.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 08:21 AM (DOm7r)

Put not your faith in ~~princes~~ JAPs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 09:05 AM (ExV1e)
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FIFY.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 09:16 AM (EtDTo)

313 This psychological dynamic involves negative identification, whereby a person who has failed to identify positively with his own environment subjugates his individuality to a powerful, authoritarian entity, through which he vicariously experiences a feeling of power and purpose..

**********

Sort of like Philadelphia Eagles fans, eh?

Posted by: muldoon at January 12, 2026 09:16 AM (/iMjX)

314 I just had clam chowder straight from the can for breakfast. Yummy!

Posted by: Bulg at January 12, 2026 09:17 AM (77rzZ)

315 Reports are that she's in Canada so she's probably already been killed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 09:13 AM (ExV1e)
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Asian youth, from what I'm reading here.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 09:17 AM (EtDTo)

316 Yes because everyone knows the defining feature of all dictatorships is the award ceremonies where idiots freely and openly criticize them.

Indeed There are dictatorships and oligarchies with movie industries and the actors their praise the regime and damn its opponents. Which, amusingly, was the state of the American film industry under the Biden junta.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 09:17 AM (sKqQm)

317 the Shah was brutal n heavy handed!

He's dead, Jim.

The current Shah is not the Shah that was. And he's been living in southern Cali. The biggest worries Iranians have from him is the possible importation of a fuckload of plastic surgeons.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 09:18 AM (ExV1e)

318 The left is not opposed to police brutality or government violence.
Do not fall for that lie.

What they are against is those terrible tools being turned on them.

None of them have said a word against the near-constant attacks on conservatives by both police and government since 2008.

But one of their brainwashed losers gets a hot lead injection and suddenly they are all crying about the violence inherent in the system?

GTFO

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 12, 2026 09:18 AM (HXT0k)

319 if you have ridges in your nails you have a vitamin deficiency

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 12, 2026 09:14 AM (emBoF)
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Ruffles have ridges.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 12, 2026 09:18 AM (EtDTo)

320 This psychological dynamic involves negative identification, whereby a person who has failed to identify positively with his own environment subjugates his individuality to a powerful, authoritarian entity, through which he vicariously experiences a feeling of power and purpose..

Reminds me of when lefties get together and start chanting things like "the people united can never be divided"

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 09:18 AM (sKqQm)

321 Within the last week or two, I came in here and asked why Ace wasn't saying a damn thing about what was going on in Iran, and most of the replies just gave me a hard time and told me to make my own blog. WTH? Nice to see things getting on track though.

Personally, I can't believe that Trump and Israel aren't involved in the insurgency overthrowing the mullahs. Trump wasn't going to go in and wipe out the nuclear program, only to have some future POTUS pull an Obama. He was going to solve this, once and for all, just like he's solving dozens of other huge problems throughout the world.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 12, 2026 09:19 AM (hOOi9)

322 2 lbs of bacon gone in four days. WTF?

Stopped at Kroger on the way home Thursday night. Breakfast Friday, Saturday, Sunday & this morning and it's gone.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 12, 2026 08:59 AM (u/kd+)

half pound of pig a day seems about right

Posted by: r hennigantx

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Not technically a violation of "a pig like that you don't eat all at once," but definitely pushing the limits.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at January 12, 2026 09:20 AM (8AONa)

323 Retroactive taxes are pretty clearly unconstitutional. If I was impacted I'd certainly try to take it to the courts...

If the state demands that you liquidate Right Now 5% of your investment portfolio its more than a 5% tax because of the beatings one would take in the market over the distressed sale of assets.

OTOH, having a few billion dollars in hand to litigate this obscenity could keep the lawyers happy for years.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 09:21 AM (PVBkQ)

324 youtube the 12 oz sausage voice mail.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Yeah, that was great. Jimmy Dean must be rolling over in his grave!

Posted by: You Never Sausage A Place at January 12, 2026 09:21 AM (oftw2)

325 Oh and as an example of film industries in authoritarian regimes is Fan Bingbing.

She got in trouble with the Chinese government and was forced into internal exile. After a few years of punishment and a lot of groveling and rumors about sexual favors they eventually allowed her to act again.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 09:21 AM (sKqQm)

326 Sort of like Philadelphia Eagles fans, eh?

too soon Muldoon!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 12, 2026 09:21 AM (emBoF)

327 I'm pissed because the triumph of taking out Maduro is now overshadowed by the shooting of the ICE attacker..Saint Renee....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 09:22 AM (VE6XX)

328 Their job is supposedly to enforce immigration laws, not police the general populace.

Someone should gently point out that they are doing just that and the protesters are interfering which means they are fair game.

"ICE can't touch me. That's illegal!" seems to be their belief right now.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 12, 2026 09:22 AM (BpO1e)

329 That scene would have been redeemed if the reaction from the other characters after the monologue was "Yeah, dude. We figured that out years ago."
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Best and most realistic coming out scene was Xandir on Drawn Together

https://is.gd/eY8xK4

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 12, 2026 09:22 AM (/xKmq)

330 Reminds me of when lefties get together and start chanting things like "the people united can never be divided"
Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 09:18 AM (sKqQm)

We laugh, but they are willing to sacrifice for their cause. I don't see that with the right.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2026 09:23 AM (g8Ew8)

331 314 I just had clam chowder straight from the can for breakfast. Yummy!
Posted by: Bulg

Manhattan Style, I'm hoping!

Posted by: The Campbell Clan at January 12, 2026 09:23 AM (oftw2)

332 "Many of the people I see moving to red states, to escape taxes and Democrat insanity, are going to bitch and moan about Trump and then votes virtuously to elect machine Democrats."

Be wary of any that start yapping about 'moral clarity.' It is an indicator of hard left beliefs/brainwashing. Something I noticed recently.

Posted by: Ripley at January 12, 2026 09:24 AM (GUOwU)

333 We laugh, but they are willing to sacrifice for their cause. I don't see that with the right.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2026 09:23 AM (g8Ew

Exactly.. How many counter protests have we seen ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 09:24 AM (VE6XX)

334 Their job is supposedly to enforce immigration laws, not police the general populace.
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The local police should be assisting by keeping the local malcontents out of ICE's business. But they won't because the Democrat Mafia won't let them.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 12, 2026 09:24 AM (/xKmq)

335 Best and most realistic coming out scene was Xandir on Drawn Together

That show was hilarious and that's the reason it could not be made today.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 12, 2026 09:24 AM (BpO1e)

336 Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 12, 2026 09:15 AM (0sNs1)

Only in their dreams did they fight back with their fists.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 09:24 AM (KDPiq)

337 These people were assholes in high school, and they are assholes 50 years later. They are not bots, they are people. A few of them are bullies that taunted me until I fought back with my fists.

**********

Fond memory of a world-class wedgie.

Posted by: muldoon at January 12, 2026 09:25 AM (/iMjX)

338 In an argument, the quieter more grounded person is generally more persuasive to an outsider. Think about watching two people going at each other and one is shouting and flailing and the other is just calmly coolly disagreeing.
Posted by: ...
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I do not hold with that.

Posted by: Stephen A. Smith at January 12, 2026 09:25 AM (XvL8K)

339 Two things seems certain is the left is using the about ICE self-defense shooting as propaganda to incite further insurrection and that the left now has two martyrs: St. George of Fentanyl and St. Renee of Insurrection.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 12, 2026 09:25 AM (HTCU3)

340 Exactly.. How many counter protests have we seen ?
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Normies have to work during the week and spend weekends with our families. We don't have the bandwidth to protest.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 12, 2026 09:25 AM (/xKmq)

341 "ICE can't touch me. That's illegal!" seems to be their belief right now.

The same group also defended the Department of Education having armed agents when that was a talking point a few years ago...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 09:25 AM (sKqQm)

342 Arrests them all. They have to watch murder porn until they can guess and spell the country they live in.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 12, 2026 09:26 AM (EyfuW)

343 These goons are NOT the police! I'm sick of seeing that stupid cosplay patch on them. They have no jurisdiction over US citizens. Their job is supposedly to enforce immigration laws, not police the general populace.
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this is going to get even more stupids killed.
Adam Kinzinger was even repeating this lie.

But, there are multiple federal statutes that 1) give them police power and 2) give them specific authority to detain--and even arrest--US citizens. Especially if they are obstructing or interfering with immigration enforcement.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 12, 2026 09:26 AM (HXT0k)

344 I'm still on the sidelines trying to figure out how these people are recruited to obstruct Federal Law Enforcement. What is the sales pitch? "Hey, we have all these Somali people here who are setting up fake day care centers so they can send money back to their warlords. We need you to try and hit a few ICE agents with your car."

Posted by: Taylor at January 12, 2026 09:26 AM (wdFPu)

345 I expect we'll be seeing polls released soon saying the folks want ICE to ease off... Not that I'd believe them...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 09:27 AM (VE6XX)

346 Broken record but it’s the most apt analogy.

90% of people in the world are sheep and 5% are wolves and 5% are sheepdogs. The problem is the majority of sheep can’t tell the difference between the wolf and the sheepdog.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 09:27 AM (KDPiq)

347 Every welfare is built on 12% to 15% grift except for those built on 80% to 90% grift graft.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 09:27 AM (gbOdA)

348 too soon Muldoon!
Posted by: BlackOrchid

********

You know I keed, right?

Posted by: muldoon at January 12, 2026 09:28 AM (/iMjX)

349 I know Clinton got away with it, but how can a massive looting and plunder be retroactive ?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 12, 2026 09:13 AM (PVBkQ)

Politicians in robes said that politicians in suits could do it.

The prohibition against ex-post facto only counts for laws with punishment and paying taxes, even confiscatory taxes, isn't punishment. According to SCOTUS.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 09:28 AM (ExV1e)

350 338 I do not hold with that.
Posted by: Stephen A. Smith at January 12, 2026 09:25 AM (XvL8K)

Screamin' A didn't want to go 15 rounds with Muhammad Kellermann (Max Kellermann).

Posted by: XTC at January 12, 2026 09:28 AM (uEmCf)

351 Normies have to work during the week and spend weekends with our families. We don't have the bandwidth to protest.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 12, 2026 09:25 AM (/xKmq)

And, unfortunately, it's why we'll probably lose in the long run.

The right is always looking for someone else to do something.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2026 09:29 AM (g8Ew8)

352 Red State Residents Speak Out on the Blue State Invasion, Sparking Viral Videos
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Well, my next door neighbor and I are both solidly MAGA refugees, he from Oregon, I from VA (originally NY).

But it is true that the Chinese food sux here.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 12, 2026 09:29 AM (s0JqF)

353 What are the other five? I'm genuinely curious
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 12, 2026 09:12 AM (dtajH)

I was out that day on hegemonism but I know 6 of the 7 seas.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 09:13 AM (gbOdA)

Are you including the Great Penguin Collective?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 09:29 AM (ExV1e)

354 I'm still on the sidelines trying to figure out how these people are recruited to obstruct Federal Law Enforcement

I think its more subtle. Want a gig at an NGO doing not much work? Then get out and protest and make connections. You'll also get access to sex, drugs, and parties...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 09:29 AM (sKqQm)

355 Retroactive taxes are pretty clearly unconstitutional. If I was impacted I'd certainly try to take it to the courts...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 12, 2026 09:14 AM (sKqQm)

Courts have, repeatedly, ruled them okay.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 12, 2026 09:30 AM (ExV1e)

356 I'm still on the sidelines trying to figure out how these people are recruited to obstruct Federal Law Enforcement. What is the sales pitch? "Hey, we have all these Somali people here who are setting up fake day care centers so they can send money back to their warlords. We need you to try and hit a few ICE agents with your car."

Posted by: Taylor

Many are convinced the are involved some great, heroic civil rights struggle like in the 60's and will be recognized for bravely taking part in an historic , right-side -of history movement. This is deeply embedded in the leftist psych

Posted by: Ripley at January 12, 2026 09:30 AM (GUOwU)

357
Just to review:

Has this thread covered movies and tits yet?

Posted by: Auspex at January 12, 2026 09:30 AM (Y8DZL)

358 I have to say I'm becoming discouraged over Our chances in the midterms...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 12, 2026 09:30 AM (VE6XX)

359
A
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Posted by: r hennigantx at January 12, 2026 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

360 Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2026 09:29 AM (g8Ew

The only way we lose for sure is if you think we’re going to lose.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 09:30 AM (KDPiq)

361 These leftist people have a warped mind or just plain stupid or both. Most are on the take and don't give a f*ck about the country. To bitch and moan is their way of life.

Posted by: Case at January 12, 2026 09:31 AM (4rWc3)

362
nood art

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 12, 2026 09:31 AM (tljrc)

363 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

Have a feeling this week might be a dilly as it also leads to a long, holiday weekend, that being MLK Day, Monday, January 19, 2026. (OTOH most weeks & months of late have been.)

The Chester County, PA election problems, known as "the poll book snafu," was big news months ago. Reportedly, findings are finally coming:

WHYY, January 7, 2026, 'Chester County poll book error investigation is complete, but findings won't be released until later.' Chester County officials are reviewing the report and will release it to the public at the county Board of Election meeting on Jan. 27.

70,000 third-party voters were omitted from poll books during the 2025 general election. Investigation was complete and a final report went to the county on Dec. 19, 2025. Learning investigative findings and effective corrective action should be fascinating.

Did you know, 'Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to become highest-paid govenor in the U.S.'? WGAL8, Dec. 31, 2025

Of course. 😉

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 12, 2026 09:31 AM (NFX2v)

364 Crazy leftist at works lost his mind Thursday and was sent home/security notified.

These people really do want us dead one way or another.

Posted by: melodicmetal at January 12, 2026 09:32 AM (61TgR)

365 The only way we lose for sure is if you think we’re going to lose.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 12, 2026 09:30 AM (KDPiq)

You've just made my point. We're NOT going to just think our way out of this.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 12, 2026 09:34 AM (g8Ew8)

366 @317 I used to have a different nic-uh, yeah. Im aware he died from cancer in 1980. I'm talking about the left and some on the right continually using excuses of 53' and the Shah being brutal.

Posted by: JROD at January 12, 2026 09:35 AM (IlL6s)

367 "How many counter protests have we seen ?"

The value of a particular protest is iffy.

I Marched For Life for many years, and while it was valuable to the Marchers and allies for inspiration, it was all but completely ignored by the media generally, and it took a politically aligned Supreme Court to kind of make the impact felt to the opposition.

Pro-Lifers rally all across the county at various times to this day. Don't know that it does a whole lot to or for an irrational opposition. I'm just sayin' protests are not any silver bullet of any kind.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 12, 2026 09:35 AM (DgMqy)

368 >>I have to say I'm becoming discouraged over Our chances in the midterms...

If it's any comfort the prevailing belief around here months before the 2024 election was that Biden was going to be reelected.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 12, 2026 09:36 AM (viF8m)

369 Local Indivisible news:

Facebook, Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon
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At the Delco Indivisible Vigil for Peace, I joined members of our community to condemn the lawless ICE operations across our country, including the tragic killing of Renee Good.
The federal government’s recklessness has spread fear across America, but the power of the people is still more than that of the people in power.
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Another:
Facebook, Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon
21h
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I joined 159 of my House Democratic colleagues to demand accountability for the killing of Renee Good.
The surge of ICE agents to Minneapolis must end, and there must be a third-party investigation of this tragic event to ensure transparency for the American people.

Omar, Jayapal, Raskin, Thompson Lead 156 Lawmakers in Demanding Accountability Following the Death of Minneapolis Woman by ICE Agents, 1/9/26

What is Indivisible, you wonder?

Good day. 🤗🙏

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 12, 2026 09:39 AM (NFX2v)

370 The only way we lose the House is with a bunch of louses retiring.

Posted by: ... at January 12, 2026 09:42 AM (B+PQY)

371 The odds of crisp, new bills sticking together is higher. You *could* end up with ten bucks purely by accident. Play the odds, bro!

And with my luck I would be number 100 in line. "Oops, no more bills. Sorry. *shrug*"

Posted by: Oddbob at January 12, 2026 09:42 AM (8krkj)

372 Despite the hard work of Senate Republicans to lose it all, Trumpy will pull out the House in the midterms. I have faith.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 12, 2026 09:44 AM (D1po+)

373 Is there not an administrative switch to immediately cut funding off for all NGOs?

Posted by: Fen at January 12, 2026 09:44 AM (ciYHQ)

374 The Mamdani administration is discussing driving white people out of New York.

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'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth'

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 12, 2026 09:46 AM (xHp2Q)

375 The right is always looking for someone else to do something.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

I sometimes muse that the Right only exists because it's unified by the hatred of the Left. Ironically if the Left could simply ignore us, the Right would splinter apart into selfish individuals all pursuing their particular interests, everyone wishing to be left alone.

Posted by: Fen at January 12, 2026 09:52 AM (ciYHQ)

376 Libertarian groups on Twitter are cycling between being useless and treacherous again

Posted by: Fen at January 12, 2026 09:53 AM (ciYHQ)

377 375 The right is always looking for someone else to do something.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

I sometimes muse that the Right only exists because it's unified by the hatred of the Left. Ironically if the Left could simply ignore us, the Right would splinter apart into selfish individuals all pursuing their particular interests, everyone wishing to be left alone.
Posted by: Fen at January 12, 2026 09:52 AM (ciYHQ)

The financially successful contingent of the right is waiting for the financially struggling/"trailer trash" contingent to be the draw all the gunfire of the left first.

Posted by: XTC at January 12, 2026 10:04 AM (uEmCf)

378 Mercedes Relocates Production To Hungary, 20,000 Germans Set To Lose Their Jobs

This is a direct consequence of Friedrich Merz’s green climate and energy policies...

Posted by: SMOD at January 12, 2026 10:23 AM (RHGPo)

379 off sock

Posted by: Gref at January 12, 2026 10:35 AM (5rh/l)

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