Thwarted True Venezuelan President Presents Her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump

She had previously dedicated the Prize to Trump when she was awarded it.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado told reporters on Thursday that she had presented her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump when the pair met at the White House.
Machado dedicated the prize to Trump when she first received it. The U.S. president has long lobbied for the award and has received multiple nominations for his role in ending myriad global conflicts.
"I presented the president of the United States the medal, the Nobel Peace Prize," she told reporters. She further recounted a historical episode in which Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette presented Simon Bolivar with a medal bearing the face of Washington.

Yes, she's obviously currying favor with Trump so that he will help her take the presidency when Maduro's regime falls.

Similarly, Crown Prince Pahlavi is saying he anticipated that Trump will "keep his promise," that promise being that America would come to the aid of Iranian protesters. He reminds Trump of that promise multiple times in this press conference:

He doesn't insult Trump. He doesn't accuse him of not honoring his promise. He says he believes Trump will keep the promise.

But he's definitely reminding Trump of that promise.

I saw a news report stating that Trump felt "obligated" to come to the aid of the Iranian protesters after encouraging them to keep marching and "keep fighting." Someone, I think Bonchie from RedState, commented, "He is obligated after encouraging them to keep marching and keep fighting."

I hope he continues feeling that obligation.

General Keane notes that Trump has made this "promise." He details Trump's moves against Iran, including stopping all of their oil shipments and cyber operations against Iran's ability to surveil and target its own population.

He also expects Trump to move decisively against the Revolutionary Guards.

Meanwhile, the USS Abraham Lincoln is closing in on Iran...

Happy Friday! Best day of the week!!!!

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1 Never as Good as the First Time

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

2 Exactly.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:27 PM (3AyDK)

3 Good afternoon good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 12:27 PM (cYBz/)

4 st

Posted by: RUReadingthis at January 16, 2026 12:27 PM (aQ25I)

5

THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)

6 Fine line here.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 12:29 PM (tV890)

7
THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)

Of course they did...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 12:29 PM (VE6XX)

8 Similarly, Crown Prince Pahlavi is saying he anticipated that Trump will "keep his promise," that promise being that America would come to the aid of American protesters. He reminds Trump of that promise multiple times in this press conference:

'Iranian' protestors, sir!

Posted by: Patsy at January 16, 2026 12:29 PM (bss/y)

9 Scandahoovians are increasingly annoying.

Posted by: Joe Mama at January 16, 2026 12:30 PM (TezPK)

10 Pahlavi seems to know how to handle Trump. This puts him ahead of all but a half-dozen formal national leaders today. I don't know if he has what it takes to pull Iran out of its long nightmare, but if he does he seems like he has a decent toolbox for what comes next.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 16, 2026 12:30 PM (OUMaO)

11 Maria Corina Machado is giving her medallion to Trump, as a show of gratitude for getting rid of Maduro.

I wish Trump wouldn't lobby for a peace prize - I like him better when it is obvious he just doesn't care.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 16, 2026 12:30 PM (tV890)

12 I saw a news report stating that Trump felt "obligated" to come to the aid of the Iranian protesters after encouraging them to keep marching and "keep fighting." Someone, I think Bonchie from RedState, commented, "He is obligated after encouraging them to keep marching and keep fighting."
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That would be ... different.

Posted by: The Kurds at January 16, 2026 12:30 PM (GyQIQ)

13 What I don't expect is Trump telegraphing everything. 78D Space Chess aside, I have never seen anyone in the spotlight play possum better than that dude.

And his enemies whether for blindness or hubris or just no choice in the matter, still don't see it. Is there any stupider sentence in the English language than "We've got Trump THIS time!!"?

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:30 PM (3AyDK)

14 THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)

Of course they did...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 12:29 PM (VE6XX)

TRUMP IS A POOPY HEAD!!!!!!
-Nobel committee

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (bss/y)

15 THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.

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LMAO, NOBEL is a Loan ???

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (g47mK)

16 5

THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)

Then she can dare them to come and take it.

Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (iXqHn)

17 Friday, the day with the promise of two no-work days ahead. Except for me ... I barely work, and do work whenever I want. Every day is the weekend here.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (vbXSk)

18 The policy we are following in Venezuela may be hard to swallow, but it's necessary. It's the answer to the question, how do we enforce control over Venezuela without putting 100,000 troops in Caracas? The only way is to use the existing power structure, and to convince them that cooperation with us is a far better path for them, personally, than continued defiance.

A time will come when elections are possible, and they will have to be monitored. But that time is not now. Machado would be killed quickly if she tried to go back now, and then where would we be?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (uWKK8)

19 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (gBfG5)

20
I saw a news report stating that Trump felt "obligated" to come to the aid of the Iranian protesters after encouraging them to keep marching and "keep fighting." Someone, I think Bonchie from RedState, commented, "He is obligated after encouraging them to keep marching and keep fighting."

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Fucking yes. I remember when Bush I idiotically encouraged the Kurds to resist Saddam Hussein and then left them to shift as best they could. It was stupid of Bush in the first place because the Kurds had no strategic significance for us, but taking down the mullahcracy would be a huge contribution to world peace, regional stability, economic welfare, need I go on it's so obvious?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (x4Mz/)

21 THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement ~~that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.~~ and stomped their feet and shook their tiny fists in rage to show us they are big boys and girls.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (cYBz/)

22 THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)

Then they mobilized the legendary 1st Nobel Division of the Ever Victorious Nobel Army to begin writing a scathing letter to Ms. Machado indicating their deep disappointment in her decision to be seen publicly with OMB.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (ExV1e)

23 It's nice to see that Machado and and Pahlavi both understand diplomacy/politics. Emphasize what they want, make nice without being disgustingly smoozy. Unlike EU-types who never miss an opportunity to insult us.

Posted by: RandomDave at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (aJQbY)

24 They are dead set on NEVER giving him one.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (g47mK)

25 I would have a really hard time accepting a Nobel Peace Prize or a Nobel Prize in Economics. I might go to the gala for the purpose of hurling invective at the committee, but I don't know that I could accept it.

They handed the Peace Prize to the likes of Yassar Arafat, Al Gore and Barack Obama. They handed the Economics prize to the likes of Paul Krugman and Ben Bernanke.

It would be an insult to receive either, and accepting either would bring shame on your family.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (GyQIQ)

26 Trump will keep his promise to the Iranian people if for no other reason than to stick his finger in Obama's eye for being a candy-ass faggot that let the last uprising die because he's obsessed with swinging from the mullahs' sweaty ballsack.

Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (5aZAZ)

27 I find myself really not wanting to get involved in Iran. I mean, we sent Stealth bombers and disabled their nuclear program.

I supported that, but "protecting a side" in this skirmish is boots on the ground and ultimately nation building.

Just looks like Iraq 2.0

Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (eIzlH)

28 The left: NO KINGS! NO DICTATORS!

Also the left: LEAVE MADURO ALONE

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (sKqQm)

29 I found out that today is National Do Nothing Day.
So, here I am with my feet tucked under the covers.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 16, 2026 12:33 PM (t/2Uw)

30 THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)

The butthurt feels so strong here.

When you get a pie in the face, wipe it off and laugh in good humor. But whatever you do, don't shake your fist and tell people you will not be made a fool of.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:33 PM (3AyDK)

31 I wish Trump wouldn't lobby for a peace prize - I like him better when it is obvious he just doesn't care.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law

==

It makes him look so thirsty.

It's usually a Leftist prize anyway, just move on.

Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:33 PM (eIzlH)

32 Trump made a mistake in allowing Machado to give him the prize. Instead, he should have graciously thanked her for the offer and insisted that she keep it.

Just a better look.

Posted by: No Name Today at January 16, 2026 12:33 PM (8mulE)

33 7
THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)

Of course they did...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 12:29 PM (VE6XX)

If it wouldn't be so disrespectful to Machado, I'd love to see Trump on camera taking that Peace Prize and rubbing his bare ass on it while he grins.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:33 PM (uWKK8)

34 It's nice to see that Machado and and Pahlavi both understand diplomacy/politics.

Posted by: RandomDave at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (aJQbY)

Good point. They are adults, unlike so many of those EU types you point out.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (n9ltV)

35 Fair or not, I compare Pahlavi and Machado to Zelenskyy, in their public statements.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (pDt9x)

36
Who cares if Machado gives Trump her fricking medal? Is she supposed to take it with her when she dies, too?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (x4Mz/)

37 THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.

Trump: Here is my answer.
The Nobel Committee: "What the hell does EABOD mean".

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (Riz8t)

38 The left is absolutely sputtering with rage over her presenting the Nobel to Trump.

That is prime among the reasons I am glad she did.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (HXT0k)

39 I hate to even ask this but did thingymabob get banned again or is he just on hiatus

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (3AyDK)

40 THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)

Then she can dare them to come and take it.
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 12:31 PM (iXqHn)

How many divisions does the Nobel Committee have?

Posted by: They probably can't even perform division at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (TbWk/)

41 Happy Saturday Eve.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (2Ez/1)

42 THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)
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It can be transferred if the recipient says it can.

It doesn't mean Trump suddenly becomes a Nobel Laureate. It means the recipient thought Trump deserved it. Nothing more, and everyone knows it.

The Nobel Committee must be *really* pissed. This is like when an angry girl makes a TikTok and says, "he said he didn't want to go out with me! Why does he think I'm ugly?!" He never said you were ugly, you're just furious and tail-spinning.

Nobody said this makes Trump a Peace Prize winner, but the Committee hates him so much they felt the need to set the record straight when absolutely nobody believed the thing they're refuting.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (GyQIQ)

43 The Nobel Prize is completely worthless as it is awarded purely on political favoritism.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (+Zbod)

44 Hate to say it, but I think the moment for the Iran revolution has passed.

As I've said here before, I questioned how serious the uprising was. Almost all the powerful images coming out were fake (those pretty defiant girls) or had a strong whiff of "Ghost of Keeeev" bullshit.

There would be no need for ops and propaganda if indeed there was a serious revolution under way. And after the endless bullshit coming out of Uke, I don't trust any foreign reporting any more.

Something was going on in Iran, but I don't know what. Who burns down their own mosques? I don't think freedom fighters do that. Radical lunatics do.

The moment seems to have passed. Even Trump seems to have backpedaled. I suspect he got real intel that confirmed what I suspected that this was mostly bullshit. We'll see in the coming days or weeks if I am correct or not.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)

45 39 I hate to even ask this but did thingymabob get banned again or is he just on hiatus
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (3AyDK)

Gonna need a little more info here …

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (pDt9x)

46 Iran and VZ are interesting tests for Trump.

Shrub provides an example of what not to do.

But I've argued endlessly that there are plenty of effective options that don't require sending 100K troops. Let's see if Trump is willing to use them because they are "mean"

And a couple of specific examples:

1) Assassinate the enemy leadership
2) Target infrastructure being used by the enemy leadership and his allies
3) Arm the opposition

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (sKqQm)

47 25 It would be an insult to receive either, and accepting either would bring shame on your family.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (GyQIQ)

I mean, you could always go up there and do the full Robert Smigel-as-Triumph act.

"Blah, blah, blah.... for me to poop on."

Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (iXqHn)

48 There's a pretty wild story out there about a group of vets "smuggling" Machado out of Venezuela so she could receive the Nobel prize.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (U2OZr)

49 Why does Trump even want the worthless Nobel?? It became worthless the moment Yasser Arafat won it… yuck

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (xT8gx)

50 38 The left is absolutely sputtering with rage over her presenting the Nobel to Trump.

That is prime among the reasons I am glad she did.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (HXT0k)

This. It sends them into fits of rage because they think so much of credentialism and giving each other awards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (bss/y)

51 "protecting a side" in this skirmish is boots on the ground and ultimately nation building.

Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (eIzlH)

Nope. We can do a lot militarily without a physical presence in Iran. In fact, politically that is the best option.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (n9ltV)

52 It makes him look so thirsty.

Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:33 PM (eIzlH)

No it doesn't, it makes him look like Trump. It also shows the prize for what it is, to a wider audience than just me and you.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (3AyDK)

53 44 Hate to say it, but I think the moment for the Iran revolution has passed.

As I've said here before, I questioned how serious the uprising was. Almost all the powerful images coming out were fake (those pretty defiant girls) or had a strong whiff of "Ghost of Keeeev" bullshit.

There would be no need for ops and propaganda if indeed there was a serious revolution under way. And after the endless bullshit coming out of Uke, I don't trust any foreign reporting any more.

Something was going on in Iran, but I don't know what. Who burns down their own mosques? I don't think freedom fighters do that. Radical lunatics do.

The moment seems to have passed. Even Trump seems to have backpedaled. I suspect he got real intel that confirmed what I suspected that this was mostly bullshit. We'll see in the coming days or weeks if I am correct or not.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)

That would be bad.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (pDt9x)

54 39 I hate to even ask this but did thingymabob get banned again or is he just on hiatus
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (3AyDK)

Which thingamabob?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (bss/y)

55 I mean, you could always go up there and do the full Robert Smigel-as-Triumph act.

"Blah, blah, blah.... for me to poop on."
Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (iXqHn)
++++
I would go with dripping sarcasm, ending with rejection. Probably. I'll never find out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (GyQIQ)

56 I wonder if the play is to give the mulllahs however long before the carrier group arrives to GTFO, and take their RG dogs with them.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (NYInA)

57 Scandahoovians are increasingly annoying.

The EU/NATO thing where they sent 34 people to defend Greenland against Trump is hilarious though. 34 people can't even defend something from Jason Statham, never mind if Trump sent any serious military that way.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (2ocoG)

58 43 The Nobel Prize is completely worthless as it is awarded purely on political favoritism.
Posted by: Halfhand at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (+Zbod)
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No way bro! Obama totally deserved it for [checks notes] being half-black and getting elected (and subsequently bombing more countries than any president since WWII).

Posted by: ballistic at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (5aZAZ)

59 Someone, I think Bonchie from RedState, commented, "He is obligated after encouraging them to keep marching and keep fighting."

He really isn't. The US has encouraged and abandoned in the past. This isn't a moral issue. All that matters is what serves our interests. I think it serves our interests to topple Iran, and I approve of us getting involved (probably to a degree others would not). But I don't want to hear a bunch of weepy "we owe them" talk. Because we don't. That's no basis for foreign policy or putting American lives in harm's way.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (zUe/H)

60 Tremendous peace prize the best prize you’ve ever seen.

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (kgFPv)

61 Nobody said this makes Trump a Peace Prize winner, but the Committee hates him so much they felt the need to set the record straight when absolutely nobody believed the thing they're refuting.

Machado's actions refute the left's statements about Trump and they can't attack her because they just gave her their top award.

No wonder they are so furious...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm)

62
THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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So the Nobel Committee and Trump are equally silly over that prize. Really, Donald, it's a meaningless prize at this point.

caveat: I haven't closely read any of his statements on it except maybe some vague "I deserved it," which is true, so I don't know how much he actually _wants_ it. I've felt I deserved things that I didn't actually want.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (x4Mz/)

63 The Nobel still carries weight in people's minds. It is used against us, like many things, and fortunately, Trump understands that.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (3AyDK)

64 The moment seems to have passed. Even Trump seems to have backpedaled. I suspect he got real intel that confirmed what I suspected that this was mostly bullshit. We'll see in the coming days or weeks if I am correct or not.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)
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Dunno. We'll see. I hope the mullahs fall, but I also know they have a history of not falling. They also have a history of 11th-hour salvation from Washington, but this time they don't and the Rial is at zero outside of Iran. That's a difference. Whether it's enough of a difference is well beyond my knowledge.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (GyQIQ)

65 suddenly cold again in the northeast. i blame walz because he's a schmuck

Posted by: gnats local 678 at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (CWTWj)

66 OT:

Portland has a pilot program where it is giving $1600 to lucky people to help buy an "e-bike".

Well, they released the results of the pilot program, and the result is as expected:

Amazingly, giving away money is popular! The program sponsors were so worried that it wouldn't be.

And, because it's Portland:

The gender split between male and female was relatively even, with males receiving 80 rebates and females receiving 72. Non-binary people received 34 rebates.

The "full program", which will cost the city millions, rolls out in two months.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (u6/wt)

67 I think it serves our interests to topple Iran, and I approve of us getting involved (probably to a degree others would not). But I don't want to hear a bunch of weepy "we owe them" talk.

This.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (2ocoG)

68 THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)

Impotent Euro-weenies say what? LOL

Maria Machado can give that medal to whomever she pleases. The Nobel Commission is just pissed that she publicly humiliated them by given the Peace Prize Medal to Pres. Trump.

That's like the blustering of NATO concerning Greenland. The military contingent they sent there totaled 34 soldiers! Besides, the U.S. is not going to mount an invasion of Greenland, we already have a base there. Let's say a Brigade Combat Team is deployed there for an Arctic Warfare training exercise: what are the Europeans going to do except cry?

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (pJWtt)

69 It makes all the right people cry tears of impotent rage as they shake their widdwe fists and kick their widdwe feets, so I'm all for it.

Posted by: The adult world is kindergarten at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (TbWk/)

70
Someone, I think Bonchie from RedState, commented, "He is obligated after encouraging them to keep marching and keep fighting."

He really isn't. The US has encouraged and abandoned in the past. This isn't a moral issue. All that matters is what serves our interests. I think it serves our interests to topple Iran, and I approve of us getting involved (probably to a degree others would not). But I don't want to hear a bunch of weepy "we owe them" talk. Because we don't. That's no basis for foreign policy or putting American lives in harm's way.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

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It's the "after encouraging them to keep marching and keep fighting" part.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (x4Mz/)

71 56 I wonder if the play is to give the mulllahs however long before the carrier group arrives to GTFO, and take their RG dogs with them.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 16, 2026 12:37 PM (NYInA)

Don't know.. I'm pretty sure we know what's going on there.. Israel and the US have people on the ground... Also.. The Mullahs have been shipping all their money out of the Country..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (VE6XX)

72 27 I find myself really not wanting to get involved in Iran. I mean, we sent Stealth bombers and disabled their nuclear program.

I supported that, but "protecting a side" in this skirmish is boots on the ground and ultimately nation building.

Just looks like Iraq 2.0
Posted by: Leupold

We've bombed a lot more places than we were stupid enough to put boots on teh ground. Even then, we did not suffer near the casualties by taking out regimes that we did when trying to fix them.

Punitive expeditions require a cold hard heart and that the perfect is the enemy of the good enough.
In Iraq, it would have been decapitating the Hussein regime while leaving the Iraqi military to run it. In Afghanistan, blow the place up, let the Northern Alliance run the place including letting the Pushtun areas be autonomous and leave.

Punitive raids for the US go way back to the Barbary Pirates where the US Marines went to Tripoli and kicked pirate ass after they seized one of our frigates. We did not stay there obviously.

In these cases, casualties and even costs were not that much--it was the occupation that ran up the loss of blood and treasure.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (WDjG6)

73 The last election was Maduro vs Gonzales but I think it was because Machado was forced to flee.
However:
Academics, news outlets and the opposition provided strong evidence showing that González won the election by a wide margin with the opposition releasing copies of official tally sheets collected by poll watchers from a majority of polling centers showing a landslide victory for González.The National Electoral Council (CNE) announced falsified results

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (t/2Uw)

74 If “we” say help is on the way, it better be. Otherwise, keep one’s mouth firmly closed.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (pDt9x)

75 Which thingamabob?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (bss/y)

The person that has been missing for a couple weeks. I didn't want to make it a thing. Just wanted to know if I missed a Banning because those are sometimes fun to go back and read.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (3AyDK)

76 The EU/NATO thing where they sent 34 people to defend Greenland against Trump is hilarious though. 34 people can't even defend something from Jason Statham, never mind if Trump sent any serious military that way.

I saw some people pointing out that the EU is pumping out a bunch of propaganda images now with tough looking white guys geared up but until just now all their "We are Europe!" memes were women or men from outside of Europe.

But the funniest response to one of these images was a guy noting that if the EUnicks really tried to kit out 7 operators at the same time they might have trouble finding that many kits...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (sKqQm)

77 Dunno. We'll see. I hope the mullahs fall, but I also know they have a history of not falling. They also have a history of 11th-hour salvation from Washington, but this time they don't and the Rial is at zero outside of Iran. That's a difference. Whether it's enough of a difference is well beyond my knowledge.

Do we believe the reports by Bessent that the mullahs are spiriting their money out of Iran? I do, so I think the revolution will succeed.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (Riz8t)

78 I supported that, but "protecting a side" in this skirmish is boots on the ground and ultimately nation building.

Just looks like Iraq 2.0
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:32 PM (eIzlH)

The reason for supporting, as much as we can, the overthrow of the Mullah's is that such a thing will truly change the world far more than even the collapse of the USSR in 1991 did. It'd take a page to explain all the things that will come crashing down with them.
(Start with Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthi, all cut loose with no support once the Mullahs are gone)

BUT because of recent US successes, too many people believe that it's possible to do this in a single strike, a single night. It isn't. It can be done, but I do not believe they're going to let go easily.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (uWKK8)

79

Snow back, Lukefisk-eating degenerates that they are. Remember this blog's position on the Scandi Menace

Posted by: imp at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (g6TN6)

80 Do we believe the reports by Bessent that the mullahs are spiriting their money out of Iran?

Correction: the people of Iran's money.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

81 Congratulations, President Trump, on your Nobel Peace Prize, the only American President that has done anything to actually deserve it since Reagan.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (dK+Kv)

82 The last election was Maduro vs Gonzales but I think it was because Machado was forced to flee.

They made it illegal for Machado to be on the ballot. The USAID/CIA playbook is the same every place its run.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (2ocoG)

83
THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.

He should give it back to Machado so that she can melt it down and cast it as a big middle finger.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (y9nCu)

84
{rips off mask}

Maria Machadowicz!!!! I knew it!!!

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (3AyDK)

85 The Nobel Prize is completely worthless as it is awarded purely on political favoritism.
Posted by: Halfhand at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (+Zbod)
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No way bro! Obama totally deserved it for [checks notes] being half-black and getting elected (and subsequently bombing more countries than any president since WWII).

What about me?

Posted by: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Paul Krugman! at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (u6/wt)

86 Do we believe the reports by Bessent that the mullahs are spiriting their money out of Iran?

Bessent doesn't strike me as someone that lies.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (2ocoG)

87 THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM

--

Or what? What bell will they unring?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (NYInA)

88 The person that has been missing for a couple weeks. I didn't want to make it a thing. Just wanted to know if I missed a Banning because those are sometimes fun to go back and read.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (3AyDK)

Hmmm. Trying to think of who you would mean. n caught a big ace banhammer to the face last week (earlier this week?)

I cannot think of anyone else in the past couple weeks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y)

89 The only way is to use the existing power structure, and to convince them that cooperation with us is a far better path for them, personally, than continued defiance.

A time will come when elections are possible, and they will have to be monitored. But that time is not now.
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How is that working out for us when it comes to the federal government?

Posted by: Methos at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (vSvIl)

90 I emptied the dishwasher and put the dishes away. I only did it so I could look busy for the pest inspector. He was a nice young doofus. In another hour or two I will have to look busy for the VA required house inspector.

We are refinancing our mortgage with the intention of paying it off in 8 - 10 years.

Oh and we have no pest issues. Other than the cat. She is a bitchy little diva. And a pest.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (2J/Lj)

91 In Iraq, it would have been decapitating the Hussein regime while leaving the Iraqi military to run it

One addendum - the destruction of Tikrit via bombs/missiles as well. Killing Hussein and his spawn would send one message. Devastating his clan would send a far more serious one to the Arab world.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (sKqQm)

92 Cryptic. The HQ does not do cryptic well.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:42 PM (pDt9x)

93 ... The gender split between male and female was relatively even, with males receiving 80 rebates and females receiving 72. Non-binary people received 34 rebates. ...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (u6/wt)
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Uhhhhh, that's not "fairly even."
80+72+34 = 186

34/186 = 0.1827

If a full 18.3% of your population is sex-confused, you don't have a city, you have an insane asylum.

The results of this "pilot program" mean either nothing because it is not representative, or they mean that Portland is approaching the conclusion of its death spiral.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 12:42 PM (GyQIQ)

94 Taking money out of country doesn't necessarily mean the mullahs are about to go down.

But it does have a cost to it...so they would not do it lightly...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

95
Who burns down their own mosques? I don't think freedom fighters do that. Radical lunatics do.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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Except the mosques aren't "their own." The protestors hate the Islamist regime and even Islam itself from all indications.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (x4Mz/)

96 Wait, María Conchita Alonso won the Nobel prize?!

Who knew?

Posted by: Dumb & Dumber at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (47KAQ)

97 It's the "after encouraging them to keep marching and keep fighting" part.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (x4Mz/)

Yeah, and I don't think that makes any difference. We have done that and then not followed through before. Just like we've encouraged foreign powers to do something and then punished them for it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (zUe/H)

98 The person that has been missing for a couple weeks. I didn't want to make it a thing. Just wanted to know if I missed a Banning because those are sometimes fun to go back and read.
Posted by: ...
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n, aka yankee fifth, confederate fifth, etc. got banned by head Ewok himself but that is all I can recall like Aetius.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (WDjG6)

99 The moment seems to have passed. Even Trump seems to have backpedaled. I suspect he got real intel that confirmed what I suspected that this was mostly bullshit. We'll see in the coming days or weeks if I am correct or not.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)
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Dunno. We'll see. I hope the mullahs fall, but I also know they have a history of not falling. They also have a history of 11th-hour salvation from Washington, but this time they don't and the Rial is at zero outside of Iran. That's a difference. Whether it's enough of a difference is well beyond my knowledge.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 12:38 PM (GyQIQ)
_____

The Iran regime is weakened on the international stage, along with several of its main evil partners (Venezuela). The new sanctions should twist the knife deeper. That's all very good news, and great for American security and interests. Thank Trump for that.

As for the Iranians? Dunno. Long term, the mullahs may have no future. But even dying regimes can last a long time. I've been hearing about how the mullahs were on their way out for ... I dunno ... about 30 years now?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (iFTx/)

100 74 If “we” say help is on the way, it better be. Otherwise, keep one’s mouth firmly closed.
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (pDt9x)

We didn't say what the "help" was...it could be as simple as support reorganizing underground while trying to topple the military from within...help that takes years, not days...

People took "help" to mean imminent bombs and boots on the ground - it doesn't have to be.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (tOcjL)

101 Cryptic. The HQ does not do cryptic well.

Tell me about it

Posted by: Bigfoot from the AOS Straight-Cryptid Alliance at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (sKqQm)

102 > Who cares if Machado gives Trump her fricking medal? Is she supposed to take it with her when she dies, too?

I'm fairly certain the left wanted to be sure to have a talking point ready if anyone said Trump won the Nobel Peace Prize. They wanted to be able to say, "Nuh uh, the Nobel Prize committee said the prize is non-transferrable, so there!"

Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (Yp6az)

103 One of the biggest levers of who and what is "good" that the left abuses is their control of awards, prizes and recognitions.

Notice how every major leftist has a closet full of such?
I don't think you could list all of the honorifics Hillary has been given on a single page.

Yet, anyone who does actual good, who actually is good, remains unrecognized.

Related: This is why they are throwing such a goofy tantrum over the Trump-Kennedy Center.
That was _their_ honor, that they controlled, the accomplishment of "playing at the Kennedy Center."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (HXT0k)

104 Who burns down their own mosques? I don't think freedom fighters do that. Radical lunatics do.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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Except the mosques aren't "their own." The protestors hate the Islamist regime and even Islam itself from all indications.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (x4Mz/)

This, Islam has been forced on them as their dominant religious force. Plus, that is where all the regime weapons are stored.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y)

105 I saw some people pointing out that the EU is pumping out a bunch of propaganda images now with tough looking white guys geared up but until just now all their "We are Europe!" memes were women or men from outside of Europe.

It's amusing, but we've done the same thing. The ads for the armed services no longer exclude straight white men and sound like a trailer for Starfleet Academy.

There was a picture of the Delta Team that took Maduro, but with their faces blacked out. As far as I could tell, every single one was a white male.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (Riz8t)

106 Except the mosques aren't "their own." The protestors hate the Islamist regime and even Islam itself from all indications.

Also there were reports of large secondary explosions at several of the burning mosques. I really doubt the regime wanted that.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (2ocoG)

107 Several EU countries blew their whole defense budget sending 34 troops to Greenland. Probably can't afford to get them back.

No matter, they can caddy or bellhop in the new Nuuk-a-lago resort opening later this year.

Posted by: Bedminster-el-Norte at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (oftw2)

108 Remember when the commies started crowing about "a brown woman" being awarded the Prize, and how much this must irk Trump?

Then they found out she was a Trump fan. It was epic... nearly as good as watching election night coverage in '16 and '24.

Posted by: Dennis the Peasant at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (IG3/x)

109 >> I supported that, but "protecting a side" in this skirmish is boots on the ground and ultimately nation building.

Just looks like Iraq 2.0

What makes you believe we’re not already there?

It will never be Iraq. We will continue asymmetric operations and probably at some point kinetic bombing operations to selectively take out offensive capabilities of the IRGC and various missile sites.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (T7fic)

110 37 THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.

Trump: Here is my answer.
The Nobel Committee: "What the hell does EABOD mean".
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 12:34 PM (Riz8t)

*******

Heh.

Posted by: EFG at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (z6+HA)

111 Every nation should be supporting Pahlavi.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (0KSrI)

112 I think at this point, President Trump is just rubbing the Nobel Committee's nose in it. They are obviously so politicized and that has reduced the award to Oscar levels of irrelevance.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (2WIwB)

113 96 Wait, María Conchita Alonso won the Nobel prize?!

Who knew?
Posted by: Dumb & Dumber at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (47KAQ)

They really liked Running Man. The fat opera character made them horny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (bss/y)

114 How many of those e-bikes will be sold on marketplace for $1000 with which drugs will be purchased within 48 hours of acquiring? I suspect 90% of them.

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 12:44 PM (kgFPv)

115 > Wait, María Conchita Alonso won the Nobel prize?!

She looked good in a spandex suit.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 12:45 PM (Yp6az)

116 Posted by: t-bird at January 16, 2026 12:40 PM (OjHyA)

He's just poking holes in them. If he stays silent or says he doesn't care they write a narrative that sources say he secretly does and paint him as a "loser" with "sour grapes". They elevate themselves above him, in the skin suit of a "prize" attached to many famous names including scientists, writers, etc

This way by declaring it should rightfully be his, he writes the story and makes a mockery of it at the same time. He exposes the truth, and controls the direction and flow. Do people STILL not get how Trump works? He probably WOULD like the prize. It's big and shiny. Who wouldn't?

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:45 PM (3AyDK)

117 They really liked Running Man. The fat opera character made them horny.

I saw the remake of the Running Man.

Better FX, better action, and honestly better acting

but the script was not very good.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)

118 100 74 If “we” say help is on the way, it better be. Otherwise, keep one’s mouth firmly closed.
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (pDt9x)

We didn't say what the "help" was...it could be as simple as support reorganizing underground while trying to topple the military from within...help that takes years, not days...

People took "help" to mean imminent bombs and boots on the ground - it doesn't have to be.
Posted by: Nova Local at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (tOcjL)

Fair enough. But it had better something more substantial than “ good luck”, we are behind you, over here, way way over here. Our reputation in the world is no small thing, and it has been sullied so much in the past.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (pDt9x)

119 Who burns down their own mosques? I don't think freedom fighters do that. Radical lunatics do.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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Except the mosques aren't "their own." The protestors hate the Islamist regime and even Islam itself from all indications.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (x4Mz/)
____

So they say. You really believe that? I don't. They may hate the regime, but burning down mosques seems a very odd way to strike at the regime. This seems more likely a kinda of antifag lunatic movement that just wants to burn and destroy. That's not a revolution.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

120 I saw the remake of the Running Man.

Better FX, better action, and honestly better acting

but the script was not very good.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)

Points:
-no Arnold (and I like Glen Powell.)
-No Richard Dawson
-no hot chick?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (bss/y)

121 I saw some people pointing out that the EU is pumping out a bunch of propaganda images now with tough looking white guys geared up but until just now all their "We are Europe!" memes were women or men from outside of Europe.

But the funniest response to one of these images was a guy noting that if the EUnicks really tried to kit out 7 operators at the same time they might have trouble finding that many kits...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:39 PM (sKqQm)

It's been well over a year ago, but I read an article that alleged that Zero of Germany's 6 submarines were operational, only one-third of their Tornado fighter-bombers were flight-worthy and they had enough operational Leopard II tanks to equip One Panzer Brigade.

If we wanted to, the U.S. could invade Europe, eject the Muslims, and at least half of the population would greet us as liberators.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (pJWtt)

122 117 They really liked Running Man. The fat opera character made them horny.

I saw the remake of the Running Man.

Better FX, better action, and honestly better acting

but the script was not very good.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)

But no evil Richard Dawson. Two immediate strikes against.

Posted by: Got to have evil Richard Dawson at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (TbWk/)

123 Iran must be defeated. Political Islam cannot be allowed to rule. It is a dictatorship mandating Sharia law which goes against everything Western moral values stands for. If allowed to win, it will continue to infiltrate and promote it's perverted tenets around the world through terrorist tactics.
The defeat of Iran is more meaningful than any average regional conquest. It could be a turning point in stopping the spread of Islam into the West.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (t/2Uw)

124 Iran is a very sketchy place right now. Getting reliable intel, IMO, requires our own assets on the ground, not some second or third hand reporting from Ahmed down the road. Who's probably on the mullah's payroll.

That takes a bit of time. And patience.

Like many, I presume we've got eyes on the situation and if there was a good chance that an op would result in a favorable outcome, we'd do it now. That does not appear to be the case, currently.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (U2OZr)

125 Tehran still doesn't have water.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (jc0TO)

126 The Economics Prize isn't even a real Nobel Prize to begin with. It's the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel", not established until 1968 (long after the death of Alfred Nobel).

There's also a long-time rumor that Nobel didn't set up a prize for mathematics because a mathematician stole his girlfriend, but I think that's apocryphal.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (IG3/x)

127 n, aka yankee fifth, confederate fifth, etc. got banned by head Ewok himself but that is all I can recall like Aetius.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (WDjG6)

O he did? I meant someone else, but n always walked a line. When was that??

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (3AyDK)

128 The moment seems to have passed. Even Trump seems to have backpedaled. I suspect he got real intel that confirmed what I suspected that this was mostly bullshit. We'll see in the coming days or weeks if I am correct or not.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)

That would be bad.
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (pDt9x)

It's not that the moment passed; it's that everyone thought that a glitzy Internet revolution with a bunch of unarmed civvy's dancing in the street might work. Against a western government, maybe - against a Fanatical Regime of Evil as vicious as the 3rd Reich at its peak, no way would that work. And we love to think we could do a decapitation strike, but now that they're warned and in hiding, that's really not possible. They can be taken out, but it's going to take many such strikes, and it will involve ballistic missile retaliation by the Iranians both against US bases and against Tel Aviv, because that's what the Iranians have said they are going to do.

What has to be done can be done, but no one should think it will be easy, or brief.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (uWKK8)

129 Hmmm. Trying to think of who you would mean. n caught a big ace banhammer to the face last week (earlier this week?)

I cannot think of anyone else in the past couple weeks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y)

I go on vacation and miss all the fun. That'll learn me.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (dK+Kv)

130 How many of those e-bikes will be sold on marketplace for $1000 with which drugs will be purchased within 48 hours of acquiring? I suspect 90% of them.

I was on a lefty thread where they were complaining about urban stores locking products in those plastic things the employees have to unlock for you to get them. Someone posted a picture of even tins of Spam in this setup and asked "Do these store owners think people are stealing and selling...SPAM?!?"

So I jumped over to Ebay and...plenty of people selling SPAM below market prices...

Now, maybe they just were able to buy some overstock and figured Ebay was the best way to move it but I suspect a lot of Ebay products are stolen property as well...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (sKqQm)

131 People took "help" to mean imminent bombs and boots on the ground - it doesn't have to be.

I initially read that as imminent boobs and boots on the ground, because, ah hell, I don't need a reason.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (Riz8t)

132 125 Tehran still doesn't have water.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (jc0TO)

Fortuitous situation for mosque burning times.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (pDt9x)

133 91 In Iraq, it would have been decapitating the Hussein regime while leaving the Iraqi military to run it

One addendum - the destruction of Tikrit via bombs/missiles as well. Killing Hussein and his spawn would send one message. Devastating his clan would send a far more serious one to the Arab world.
Posted by: 18-1
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Good point. And the Sunni faction that ran Iraq were probably willing to let that happen or even assist with information.

But we can't fix the Arab world, we did poorly in colonial governance in places like the PI after the Spanish American War, and Puerto Rico and other island dependencies have not flourished without Uncle Sam spending a bunch of bucks to prop up the existing places.

Brits and Netherlands did better at colonial governance because they essentially ignored moral questions of who should rule, what is just, etc. Elections and native government to them were not an option.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (WDjG6)

134 So they say. You really believe that? I don't. They may hate the regime, but burning down mosques seems a very odd way to strike at the regime.

It does? The regime is literally Islamics that took over a largely non-Islamic country. Burning down mosques seems like Job 1 in that case, in much the same way that Europe's Muslims have been destroying all of the churches.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (2ocoG)

135 If we wanted to, the U.S. could invade Europe, eject the Muslims, and at least half of the population would greet us as liberators.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM

Poland could take Berlin in two weeks.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (jc0TO)

136 We need to get the hottest Iranian chicks out of Iran and to the US asap. And there are a lot of them This is a refuge program I can support .

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (kgFPv)

137 Trying to figure out who Ellipsis means. I am curious now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (bss/y)

138 > but the script was not very good.

The first script was bad too.

Alonso, "Go ahead, make up some more lies about me!"

*shudder*

Arnold, "Here is Subzero, now plain zero!"

*cringe*

Posted by: bonhomme at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (Yp6az)

139 Trump pardons talking fraudster. Right one ne all a jew do a christianist.
trump pardons former tenn speaker and you listen

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith... the anal behind anal sex at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (pJqZ+)

140 I cannot think of anyone else in the past couple weeks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y)

Go time aka

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (3AyDK)

141 I saw the remake of the Running Man.

It looked much truer to the original Bachman / King story. Probably will see it at some point:

Posted by: Alien Collaborator at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (REOC8)

142 That's so fucking awesome.

These supine European castrati wanted to get their cucked out, tucked under jollies by denying Trump his coveted medal, so one of its recipients obviated that catty silliness, and awarded it to him herself.

Suck it, icebacks. You can't stop the orangeman.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (BI5O2)

143 I love that Machado gave it to him.
Trump deserves it and it's a big middle finger to the Nobel Peace Prize committee.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (NpAcC)

144 Pahlavi laid out the 5 points he considered help and only one was military action to strike the IRGC. He also made clear that he was not looking for boots in the ground.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (0KSrI)

145 >> So they say. You really believe that? I don't.

Ever been there? Believe it. The greatest amount of their oppression has come from Islamic fanatics. Burning down mosques is a direct shot at their authority. The Persian people are very aware of their history and despise the Arab Islamists.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (T7fic)

146 I cannot think of anyone else in the past couple weeks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y)

"itsgotimedonald", aka Joe Xiden, aka MooMoo

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (8zz6B)

147 Iran is a very sketchy place right now. Getting reliable intel, IMO, requires our own assets on the ground, not some second or third hand reporting from Ahmed down the road. Who's probably on the mullah's payroll.

That takes a bit of time. And patience.

That's what Mossad is for. Division of labor, my friend.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

148 Tehran still doesn't have water.

And they have runaway mega-inflation. We sent from 1 million rials to the dollar to 1.5 million in 24 hours.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (2ocoG)

149 But no evil Richard Dawson. Two immediate strikes against.

Josh Brolin wasn't bad as the newer villain. He probably acted the role better then Dawson but...again...the script made the character weaker however Brolin played it.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (sKqQm)

150 O he did? I meant someone else, but n always walked a line. When was that??
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (3AyDK)

Week or so ago. He's crossed the line many a time but this is the first time I'm aware of that he got an ace-initiated banning. Not sure of any other recent banhammer activity.

Posted by: Stop. Hammer time! at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (TbWk/)

151 Not completely unheard of among Nobel prizes. Knut Hamsun gave away his Nobel Prize for litterature to Joseph Goebbels...

Now Trump will start collecting people's Nobel Peace Prizes like they're Infinity Stones. Sacha Baron Cohen needs to make The Dictator 2, a Bigger Dick

it should be given for actual accomplishments not just acknowledgement of a struggle (i.e. when given to opposition figures). Machado didn't seem much for peace at all.

It's almost like she didn't deserve it in the first place. she supports Trump even though he behaves like a pure dictator

From Norway, not stunned. Stopped being stunned about the world since Trump wasnt barred from becoming president.

None of this crap would have gone down with VZ if the Nobel committee had just awarded to Pope Leo or the girl trying to get aid to Gaza. in fact, the Nobel committee may be responsible for sparking WW3 for that boondoggle.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (kgG3s)

152 I think the entire Greenland spectacle of us taking it is dumb, but if it accomplished beclowning the EU and NATO, I'll take it as a win.

I saw some poll were almost 90% of americans are opposed to the idea. It's just so silly. We have a military base there and the idea this land is going to be pumping out resources like rare earths for us is silly. The local euroweenie population will not allow it. Even if you call them "americans".

Just try and sign a mining deal if that's the goal, but we don't need it. Something like Alaska is basically the same thing. Plenty of natural resources but it doesn't pencil out for any companies.

Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (eIzlH)

153 Best plan is to take out Davos/WEF and the UN

Posted by: Night Lifted at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (kJmLc)

154 "itsgotimedonald", aka Joe Xiden, aka MooMoo

IIRC he crashed out and attacked CBD.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (2ocoG)

155 Afternoon ace.
Help them overthrow the mullahs and then , as much as possible, stay out of the way. The Persians will set up a stable government. Eventually

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (r8eU0)

156 O he did? I meant someone else, but n always walked a line. When was that??
Posted by: ...
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Within this week. Bad form to talk tough to the head Ewok at his storefront.

The only other ban I can recall recently is Quora Steve whose nic I cannot remember. Guy inevitably gets up the nose of the cobs and then spazzes when they tell him to fix his shit.

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (WDjG6)

157 Mosques in Iran are FOBs for the Basij militia. That's why they are being targeted by protestors.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (BI5O2)

158 From Norway, not stunned. Stopped being stunned about the world since Trump wasnt barred from becoming president.

Oh brother...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (VE6XX)

159 MOSSAD...there are other intelligence agencies who had access to Iran for 47 years non-stop.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (g47mK)

160 The smellies in MN keep yelling, "We are citizens!" and "These are our people!"

They are severely out-numbered now.

Some smellie is driving by in a pickup blasting Tejano.
(go with Banda, loser, better beat you can dance to, since it's just a polka)

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (HXT0k)

161 146 I cannot think of anyone else in the past couple weeks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y)

"itsgotimedonald", aka Joe Xiden, aka MooMoo
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (8zz6B)

OHHHHH I hadn't even noticed.

Posted by: Such keen powers of observation have I at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (TbWk/)

162 154 "itsgotimedonald", aka Joe Xiden, aka MooMoo

IIRC he crashed out and attacked CBD.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (2ocoG)

Did not start up with the Joo thing, did he?

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (pDt9x)

163 Is it a movie thread yet?

Posted by: Just got here at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (2Ez/1)

164 I tend to assume that the Greenland stuff is Trump using Obama's stray voltage strategy.

Get the EU-niks and Karens wound up and then...don't really do anything

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:52 PM (sKqQm)

165 > Trump even though he behaves like a pure dictator

Yes, that certainly explains why you're in a death camp, or hiding in an attic shitting your pants every time someone knocks on the door.

Oh, wait: you're not. You're screeching like a retard on Reddit, with absolutely no fear that the secret police are going to show up and take you away.

These are fundamentally unserious people with mental illnesses. They need to be confined for their own safety and that of others.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 12:52 PM (IG3/x)

166 96 Wait, María Conchita Alonso won the Nobel prize?!

Who knew?
Posted by: Dumb & Dumber at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (47KAQ)

It's funny because she played a freedom fighter in "McBain," as featured on Rifftrax.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at January 16, 2026 12:52 PM (PSEDc)

167 The moment seems to have passed. Even Trump seems to have backpedaled. I suspect he got real intel that confirmed what I suspected that this was mostly bullshit. We'll see in the coming days or weeks if I am correct or not.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)

That would be bad.
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 12:36 PM (pDt9x)

It's not that the moment passed; it's that everyone thought that a glitzy Internet revolution with a bunch of unarmed civvy's dancing in the street might work. Against a western government, maybe - against a Fanatical Regime of Evil as vicious as the 3rd Reich at its peak, no way would that work. And we love to think we could do a decapitation strike, but now that they're warned and in hiding, that's really not possible.

What has to be done can be done, but no one should think it will be easy, or brief.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:47 PM (uWKK

_____

I agree and that's kinda my point; that this was never "real" as a true revolution. But you can still see the Hopeium on display here. Maybe they are right. I hope they are. I don't think they are.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:52 PM (iFTx/)

168 This months question is not "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin" but "How many Ayatollahs can you stuff in the back of a Blackhawk".

Posted by: DaveA at January 16, 2026 12:52 PM (FhXTo)

169 Just try and sign a mining deal if that's the goal, but we don't need it. Something like Alaska is basically the same thing. Plenty of natural resources but it doesn't pencil out for any companies.

Look at a globe. Putin and Xi have expressed interest in putting military hardware there. Relatively cheap Palestinian-type rockets on that real estate could cheaply reach NYC and Washington, DC. (And Ottawa and Toronto, but nobody cares about Canada).

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (2ocoG)

170 We won Iraq. Twice. DoS and the civilians lost it, largely with their Baathist ban. And the CPA was the devils spawn

Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (T7fic)

171 "itsgotimedonald", aka Joe Xiden, aka MooMoo
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
=======
I scrolled past him anyway and did not realize he got the ban hammer again.

I'll predict he will be back in time for the midterms under a shiny new nic .

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (WDjG6)

172 Who burns down their own mosques? I don't think freedom fighters do that. Radical lunatics do.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

==============

Except the mosques aren't "their own." The protestors hate the Islamist regime and even Islam itself from all indications.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (x4Mz/)
____

So they say. You really believe that? I don't. They may hate the regime, but burning down mosques seems a very odd way to strike at the regime. This seems more likely a kinda of antifag lunatic movement that just wants to burn and destroy. That's not a revolution.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

You are apparently unaware that Persians historically practiced Zoroastrianism before being conquered by the Muslims. Also, there has been an increase of converts to Christianity. How many people in Iran are Zoroastrians or Christian is open to debate, but there's certainly a pool of people of other religions with little reason to love what the Mullahs have done to Iran.

There are reports that many mosques are empty. An abandoned mosque would be a pretty inviting target.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (pJWtt)

173 ~~But you have heard of me~~ But you do remember it, 39 years later.

Posted by: Captain Jack Sparrow at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (kgG3s)

174 Except the mosques aren't "their own." The protestors hate the Islamist regime and even Islam itself from all indications.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (x4Mz/)
____

So they say. You really believe that? I don't. They may hate the regime, but burning down mosques seems a very odd way to strike at the regime. This seems more likely a kinda of antifag lunatic movement that just wants to burn and destroy. That's not a revolution.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

You missed a report that went out during the beginning of the street riots - that the Regime, much like Hamas, had constructed chambers underneath almost all the mosques where weapons stores for the Security forces were kept, and also special detention cells for their use. That's why so many were burned.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (uWKK8)

175 MENDOZAAAAA!!!

Posted by: McBane at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (jc0TO)

176

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (WDjG6)

Why do I miss all the good stuff

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (3AyDK)

177 161 146 I cannot think of anyone else in the past couple weeks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:41 PM (bss/y)

"itsgotimedonald", aka Joe Xiden, aka MooMoo
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 12:49 PM (8zz6B)

OHHHHH I hadn't even noticed.
Posted by: Such keen powers of observation have I at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (TbWk/)

Huh. I did not see it if it happened. I thought I saw him yesterday or the day before.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (bss/y)

178
None of this crap would have gone down with VZ if the Nobel committee had just awarded to Pope Leo or the girl trying to get aid to Gaza. in fact, the Nobel committee may be responsible for sparking WW3 for that boondoggle.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (kgG3s)

Your mental fortitude is beyond impressive. To be able to descend into the depths of insane retardation and reemerge with your mind and psyche still intact is no small feat.

Posted by: Brains of steel at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (TbWk/)

179
Just watched this on Iran: https://tinyurl.com/yc3hktfp

And idiots claim the US is tyrannical for deporting illegal aliens. They have no idea.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (n5tGW)

180 The religon is baked into the Gov. Striking at a mosque makes perfect sense...the oppressor.

Pedestal destroyed.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (cS1cw)

181 Within this week. Bad form to talk tough to the head Ewok at his storefront.

The only other ban I can recall recently is Quora Steve whose nic I cannot remember. Guy inevitably gets up the nose of the cobs and then spazzes when they tell him to fix his shit.
Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (WDjG6)

and then his stupid ass tried to rotate through VPN and kept coming back with his usual whining, baiting, and trolling some more; what a loser

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (g47mK)

182 I tend to assume that the Greenland stuff is Trump using Obama's stray voltage strategy.

Get the EU-niks and Karens wound up and then...don't really do anything
Posted by: 18-1

==

I guess, but I actually think it does have a cost to Republicans and Trump domestically.

It just sort of negates legitimate foreign policy victories when you have lopsided majorities in agreement that it's a stupid idea.

Trump never ran on taking Greenland and frankly the last thing I want is "more Americans" to take care of. I'd gladly sell Puerto Rico off to the highest bidder.

The population of Greenland is basically just a free shit army, the same as Puerto Rico.

Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (eIzlH)

183 Why would Pope Kyle get a noble prize? I mean seriously?

Also, since Popes are no longer catholic do bears still shit in the woods?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (sKqQm)

184 Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (WDjG6)

Why do I miss all the good stuff
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (3AyDK)

Because life's not fair.

Posted by: Full circling at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (TbWk/)

185 I'll predict he will be back in time for the midterms under a shiny new nic .

Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (WDjG6)

Maybe shiny, maybe not. He generally maintains more than one at a time so when he comes "back" he doesn't seem new. It's a whole thing.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (3AyDK)

186
The Nobel Peace Prize committee is probably to the right of the Motion Picture Academy but not by much.

At least their prize doesn't double as a dildo like "Oscar".

Posted by: Auspex at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (D5naB)

187 Because life's not fair.

Posted by: Full circling at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (TbWk/)

LOL

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (3AyDK)

188 Except the mosques aren't "their own." The protestors hate the Islamist regime and even Islam itself from all indications.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (x4Mz/)
____

So they say. You really believe that? I don't. They may hate the regime, but burning down mosques seems a very odd way to strike at the regime. This seems more likely a kinda of antifag lunatic movement that just wants to burn and destroy. That's not a revolution.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

You missed a report that went out during the beginning of the street riots - that the Regime, much like Hamas, had constructed chambers underneath almost all the mosques where weapons stores for the Security forces were kept, and also special detention cells for their use. That's why so many were burned.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (uWKK

Can't we stop and enjoy the burning mosques without overthinking things?

Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (sDpug)

189 Also...afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:56 PM (sDpug)

190 Hmm ...

On 30 June 2023, the Comptroller General of the Republic of Venezuela [es] announced that former National Assembly member María Corina Machado was disqualified from holding public office for 15 years.

Nicolás Maduro faced off against Edmundo González

Posted by: SMOD at January 16, 2026 12:56 PM (RHGPo)

191 Remember that Hamas, which has long been operating with Iranian help, turned every mosque in Gaza into a military HQ and a weapons storage facility.
Is it any surprise that the Iranian Regime would have done the same thing?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:56 PM (uWKK8)

192 > Something like Alaska is basically the same thing. Plenty of natural resources but it doesn't pencil out for any companies.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (eIzlH)

What? Alaska exported $3.3 billion in minerals in 2024.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 12:56 PM (IG3/x)

193 Posted by: whig at January 16, 2026 12:51 PM (WDjG6)

Why do I miss all the good stuff
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:54 PM (3AyDK)

The n one was fairly silly. n was being contrary (as he is wont to do.) ace took it personally (even though I do not think n was being contrary towards ace but towards someone else.) ace took his belt off and n is like 'hey...'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:56 PM (bss/y)

194 I thought we always had a carrier parked by the Persian Gulf? There's always some shit going on there.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (y9ksN)

195 In Winston Wolfe's immortal, and oft-quoted-here-at-the-AoSHQ phrase, WLNSSEODQY.

The organizers of the prize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the Norwegian Nobel Institute, had already said that the prize “cannot be revoked, shared or transferred”.

Kirsti Bergstø, the leader of Norway’s Socialist Left party and its foreign policy spokesperson, said: “This is, above all, absurd. The peace prize cannot be given away.” Trygve Slagsvold Vedum, the leader of the Centre party, said: “Whoever has received the prize has received the prize. The fact that Trump accepted the medal says something about him as a type of person: a classic showoff who wants to adorn himself with other people’s honors and work."

Raymond Johansen, the Labour former governing mayor of Oslo who is now secretary general of Norwegian People’s Aid, said “This is unbelievably embarrassing and damaging to one of the world’s most recognized and important prizes. The awarding of the prize is now so politicized and potentially dangerous that it could easily legitimize an anti-peace prize development. I can’t believe she actually gave the prize to Trump. What on earth is the Nobel committee going to say?"

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (0sNs1)

196 Trump really wants Greenland and I think he wants to do something by the 250th.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (3AyDK)

197 The population of Greenland is basically just a free shit army, the same as Puerto Rico.

Saw a guy interviewing native Greenlanders.

One group was funny - the three agreed they didn't want to be part of the US or "sell" Greenland.

Then the interview asked if they would for $100K. And they all said yes. When chided as to why that was now different the answer was "Because that's a lot of money!"

Of course the funny part of that - if such a thing were to happen you'd see incredible local inflation. Yes it would still be a big payout but anyone still selling groceries or fixing cars there is going to be asking 10X what they were before

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (sKqQm)

198 Except the mosques aren't "their own." The protestors hate the Islamist regime and even Islam itself from all indications.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2026 12:43 PM (x4Mz/)
____

So they say. You really believe that? I don't. They may hate the regime, but burning down mosques seems a very odd way to strike at the regime. This seems more likely a kinda of antifag lunatic movement that just wants to burn and destroy. That's not a revolution.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

You missed a report that went out during the beginning of the street riots - that the Regime, much like Hamas, had constructed chambers underneath almost all the mosques where weapons stores for the Security forces were kept, and also special detention cells for their use. That's why so many were burned.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (uWKK

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I didn't miss the report. I don't believe it. Even if that were true, a largely weaponless revolution doesn't burn weapons, when the regime has an almost endless supply and can always get more. A weaponless revolution steals the weapons to use against the regime.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

199 Elric, the Iranians have burned dowm over 250 mosques.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (0KSrI)

200 Can't we stop and enjoy the burning mosques without overthinking things?
Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (sDpug)

I'm overjoyed to hear of it - it saves us the criticism, when we do finally launch an attack, for having to bomb every mosque in the country (Like the Israelis have had to do in Gaza)

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (uWKK8)

201 Seriously, it's not a high minded attack on Islam. These large mosques being put to the torch by rioters are staging areas for militiamen, their arms, and ammunition, and comms. They attack them for tactical reasons, not ideological or religious ones.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 12:58 PM (BI5O2)

202 Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (2ocoG)

Well, if he did, I didn't notice, because I didn't ban him. Somebody else must have.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 12:58 PM (n9ltV)

203 > How many people in Iran are Zoroastrians or Christian is open to debate, but there's certainly a pool of people of other religions with little reason to love what the Mullahs have done to Iran.

Jews, too, and probably some other weird stuff like Yazidis. Maybe even some tribal religions in the hinterlands.

All operating under deep cover.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 12:58 PM (IG3/x)

204 Then the interview asked if they would for $100K. And they all said yes. When chided as to why that was now different the answer was "Because that's a lot of money!"

"We've established what you are, now we are simply negotiating price."

Posted by: Churchillin' like a villain at January 16, 2026 12:58 PM (TbWk/)

205 Poland could take Berlin in two weeks.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:48 PM (jc0TO)

I remembered watching Pres. Trump's speech in Warsaw (?) during his first term. The Poles seemed pretty enthusiastic and liked what they heard.

If Pres. Trump had told them "Assemble the Pancerni! On to Berlin!" they would have done it.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 12:58 PM (pJWtt)

206 I didn't miss the report. I don't believe it. Even if that were true, a largely weaponless revolution doesn't burn weapons, when the regime has an almost endless supply and can always get more. A weaponless revolution steals the weapons to use against the regime.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

A revolution does destroy opposition hardpoints though. You take everything you can carry and then destroy the rest to deny it to the enemy. Fairly standard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:58 PM (bss/y)

207 What on earth is the Nobel committee going to say?"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM

Harrumph.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:59 PM (jc0TO)

208 Basij deploys from your neighborhood mosque. You're protesting, and they want to come out and kill you.

Where do you attack first?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 16, 2026 01:00 PM (BI5O2)

209 ace took his belt off and n is like 'hey...'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:56 PM

Now that the annual AoSHQ Commenter Reviews are done, it's easy to slip back into old habits, but it's not wise to disappoint Ace.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 01:00 PM (0sNs1)

210 Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 12:56 PM (bss/y)

Hmm. The steve one sounds better.

I honestly don't know why yankee would suddenly decide to be contrary after all these years of open polite affability.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:00 PM (3AyDK)

211 Can't we stop and enjoy the burning mosques without overthinking things?

Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (sDpug)

It really is marvelous.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (n9ltV)

212 I honestly don't know why yankee would suddenly decide to be contrary after all these years of open polite affability.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:00 PM

ISWYDT

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (jc0TO)

213 > Yes it would still be a big payout

$100k per capita works out to around $5 billion total.

A pittance by federal government standards.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (IG3/x)

214 The population of Greenland is basically just a free shit army, the same as Puerto Rico.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (eIzlH)

Except there's only 55,000 Greenlanders, less than the number of welfare queens in any blue city. And they sit on a metric fuckton of resources. Welfare queens just sit on their fat asses.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (8zz6B)

215 What? Alaska exported $3.3 billion in minerals in 2024.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

===

My meaning is that the state is basically empty and you could mine WAY more than we are currently. People don't understand just how big Alaska really is.

Greenland is just more of Alaska. Just because it's there doesn't automatically mean it makes financial sense to process.

Rare earth metals actually aren't all that rare in the Earth, its the refining process that's messy and expensive.

Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (eIzlH)

216 Raymond Johansen, the Labour former governing mayor of Oslo who is now secretary general of Norwegian People’s Aid, said “This is unbelievably embarrassing and damaging to one of the world’s most recognized and important prizes. The awarding of the prize is now so politicized and potentially dangerous that it could easily legitimize an anti-peace prize development. I can’t believe she actually gave the prize to Trump. What on earth is the Nobel committee going to say?"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (0sNs1)
++++
The Peace Prize counts among its laureates terrorists, charlatans and warlords. It is recognized, but not important. It is not an honor.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (GyQIQ)

217 Can't we stop and enjoy the burning mosques without overthinking things?

Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (sDpug)

It really is marvelous.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM

I opened my windows.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (jc0TO)

218 Maybe the slow deployment of a carrier strike force is a ruse, keeping the towel heads minds away from the big aircraft carrier, Whiteman AFB.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (gm9Sb)

219 > How many people in Iran are Zoroastrians or Christian is open to debate, but there's certainly a pool of people of other religions with little reason to love what the Mullahs have done to Iran.

Jews, too, and probably some other weird stuff like Yazidis. Maybe even some tribal religions in the hinterlands.

All operating under deep cover.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 12:58 PM (IG3/x)

The Mullahs want pretend that everybody is Iran is Muslim, but it's simply not so.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (pJWtt)

220 You really believe that? I don't. They may hate the regime, but burning down mosques seems a very odd way to strike at the regime.

That's true with some religious leaders like the pope, who don't actually believe or care about their religion, but Khamenei has to at least pretend, because many of his supporters are zealots. Burning down mosques is a direct attack against the supreme religious leader.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (kgG3s)

221 Best plan is to take out Davos/WEF and the UN
Posted by: Night Lifted

I hope it is the missile that doesn't blow up, it cuts.

A rocket from a tiny jet would do the trick. Then

i want to direct the movie. That wonder woman girl has a part.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (EyfuW)

222 Oh, I think the mullahs are, in reality, every bit as popular as democrats and GOPe in the USA.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the children They do not Kill at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (gxokI)

223 This bikini brunette with nice teeth hopes the mullahs fall:
http://tiny.cc/y0rx001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (GyQIQ)

224 IIRC, there are less than 700 Danes in all of Greenland.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (jc0TO)

225 I honestly don't know why yankee would suddenly decide to be contrary after all these years of open polite affability.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:00 PM (3AyDK)

ROFLMAO.

He went from Stuart Smalley to Andrew Dice Clay so suddenly, I never noticed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (bss/y)

226 211 Can't we stop and enjoy the burning mosques without overthinking things?

Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (sDpug)

It really is marvelous.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (n9ltV)

Yes indeed, considering they are the club houses for the Cult from Hell.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (pDt9x)

227 I'm hoping for some good ol' fashioned global warming here but the weather is all glaciers well into next week. Air should never be painful. Air should be warm and comforting with soft, relatively humid, kisses all over.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (3uBP9)

228 I thought we always had a carrier parked by the Persian Gulf? There's always some shit going on there.
Posted by: Josephistan at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (y9ksN)

I think the whole carrier business is a ruse. there are other things going on. they really don't need it to start, to eliminate the missile sites, or hit other targets for example. Israel did not need a carrier to bomb the crap out of the Islamic Republic just 6 months ago. Though I not a military planner....

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (g47mK)

229 The left: Duh why would we want Greenland its like all frozen and stuff. Like is Trump gonna mine through the ice?

Also the left: All the world's snow and ice will be gone within 12 years

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)

230 I didn't miss the report. I don't believe it. Even if that were true, a largely weaponless revolution doesn't burn weapons, when the regime has an almost endless supply and can always get more. A weaponless revolution steals the weapons to use against the regime.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

I think one thing we forget in the west is that in a radical Islamist country like Iran, there is *no* separation of Church and State. The Church IS the State, and the State IS the Church. Go back and look at how many Cathedrals were destroyed and ransacked during the Reformation and later, the English Civil Wars. Iran is now beginning to go through the same thing. It's very violent, very destructive, and unstoppable once it gets going.

We in the west learned to separate church and state by having to go through all of that 4 - 5 centuries ago.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (uWKK8)

231 Also, since Popes are no longer catholic do bears still shit in the woods?
Posted by: 18-1

Apparently not according to the Charmin commercials. Disgusting.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (cYBz/)

232 207 What on earth is the Nobel committee going to say?"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM

Harrumph.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:59 PM (jc0TO)

Vi må beskytte våre falske pølsejobber, herrene!

Posted by: Du b�r passe deg at January 16, 2026 01:03 PM (TbWk/)

233 I thought we always had a carrier parked by the Persian Gulf? There's always some shit going on there.

IIRC, the George Washington task group is on the way and will take about a week to get there. I doubt this is by accident. It's basically a countdown clock for the mullahs. They can FA for a bit, but an imminent visit by an aircraft carrier concentrates the mind wonderfully.

"Do you want to be Maduro'd, because this is how you get Maduro'd."

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:03 PM (Riz8t)

234 207 What on earth is the Nobel committee going to say?"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM

Harrumph.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 12:59 PM (jc0TO)

Vi ma beskytte vare falske polsejobber, herrene!

Posted by: Du bor passe deg at January 16, 2026 01:03 PM (TbWk/)

235 223 This bikini brunette with nice teeth hopes the mullahs fall:
http://tiny.cc/y0rx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (GyQIQ)

I have always been a fan of tanlines.

They are wonderful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 01:03 PM (bss/y)

236 This bikini brunette with nice teeth hopes the mullahs fall:
http://tiny.cc/y0rx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (GyQIQ)
_________

TBWB

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:04 PM (iFTx/)

237 Oops. Sorry the first one got red errored so I thought it didn't go through.

Posted by: Mea culpa. In Norwegian. at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (TbWk/)

238 I mean to get banned from here you either need to be a real jerk or to piss off some number of the eleven Jews who secretly run the world. That's pretty much it.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (3AyDK)

239 I found out that today is National Do Nothing Day.
So, here I am with my feet tucked under the covers.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
......

That's a good citizen.

Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (UjdFS)

240 I hope Trump hangs it in the Oval Office with his name under it in Yuge Gold Letters.

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (qwype)

241 I mean to get banned from here you either need to be a real jerk or to piss off some number of the eleven Jews who secretly run the world. That's pretty much it.

Wait a minute I thought it was 13

Posted by: THe 12th highest ranking Jew in the world at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

242 Vi må beskytte våre falske pølsejobber, herrene!
Posted by: Du b�r passe deg at January 16, 2026 01:03 PM

"Drikk mer ovaltin."
-- Lille foreldreløse Annie

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (0sNs1)

243 And every communist in the world looked up and screamed at the sky.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 16, 2026 01:06 PM (XXNjE)

244 I found out that today is National Do Nothing Day.
So, here I am with my feet tucked under the covers.
Posted by: Sharon

But Sharon, having tucked your tootsies under the covers did you not do something?

I'm so confused.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 01:06 PM (cYBz/)

245 What on earth is the Nobel committee going to say?"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 12:57 PM

Something even less meaningful than whatever the UN says?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 16, 2026 01:06 PM (kgG3s)

246 Can't we stop and enjoy the burning mosques without overthinking things?

Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (sDpug)

No. We are incapable of enjoying the good things in life.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:06 PM (dK+Kv)

247 to piss off some number of the eleven Jews who secretly run the world. That's pretty much it.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (3AyDK)

One of them is a coblogger and another is in an intimate personal relationship with ace.

Posted by: Don't know about the remaining nine at January 16, 2026 01:06 PM (TbWk/)

248 I found out that today is National Do Nothing Day.
So, here I am with my feet tucked under the covers.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
---
I'm trying not to do my part, but people keep sending me emails asking me to do things.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (ESVrU)

249 > My meaning is that the state is basically empty and you could mine WAY more than we are currently. People don't understand just how big Alaska really is.

Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (eIzlH)

That has far more to do with communists than it does with economics.

I know... I live here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (IG3/x)

250 We are incapable of enjoying the good things in life.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder,Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:06 PM (dK+Kv)

This is why we can't have nice things.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (3AyDK)

251 Ugh, Trump should not be that excited about the peace price. He did not get it and it was wrong to accept it from Machado. He just looks stupid doing it.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (BCuCF)

252 You know sending 34 guys to Greenland is almost comical.

Their mission is specifically to die if the US invades to generate sympathy for the EUniks.

If they sent a few thousand one could argue the EUniks were trying to actually defend their colony with the limited resources they had.

But 34?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)

253 The Nobel Prize has always cracked me up. A guy who sold dynamite which has killed millions sets up prizes which reward human achievements. The judges are Swedes and Norwegian. The money is nice but it's as self indulgent as the Oscars

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (r8eU0)

254 Also the left: All the world's snow and ice will be gone within 12 years
Posted by: 18-1

Ahh, bikini babes frolicking on Greenland's beaches. We definitely need to invade now.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (L/fGl)

255 This bikini brunette with nice teeth hopes the mullahs fall:
http://tiny.cc/y0rx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
.......

sneaker wave on target

Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 01:08 PM (UjdFS)

256 >>I found out that today is National Do Nothing Day.
So, here I am with my feet tucked under the covers.
Posted by: Sharon

Get one of those no-show union jobs with the Teamsters.

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 01:08 PM (qwype)

257 It's almost like she didn't deserve it in the first place. she supports Trump even though he behaves like a pure dictator

The fact that anyone on Reddit can post that and still live is proof Trump isn't a dictator.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 01:08 PM (GK5Hx)

258 241 I mean to get banned from here you either need to be a real jerk or to piss off some number of the eleven Jews who secretly run the world. That's pretty much it.

Wait a minute I thought it was 13

Posted by: THe 12th highest ranking Jew in the world

That's what the 11 Jews who secretly run the world want you to think.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:08 PM (Riz8t)

259 I so frickin sick of our destabilization/regime change ops. The New Boss is almost always as bad as the Old Boss.
And we typically end up "owning" another million refugees from the unstable hell-hole /power vacuum/failed state we created.
Winning!

Posted by: Zek at January 16, 2026 01:08 PM (5FPX4)

260 I'm trying not to do my part, but people keep sending me emails asking me to do things.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM

Can't you delegate them to your trusted Professional Pleasure Procurer Sciuridae?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (0sNs1)

261 I hope they recind the Nobel.

YOU CAN DO IT! PLEASE!

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (cS1cw)

262 to piss off some number of the eleven Jews who secretly run the world. That's pretty much it.
Posted by: ...

One of them is a coblogger and another is in an intimate personal relationship with ace.
Posted by: Don't know about the remaining nine

That causes me to wonder - Are there any good Yiddish songs dumping on shiksas?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (cYBz/)

263 I misinterpreted "I mean to get banned from here" to mean "I intend to get banned from here." I thought,"Oh man! It's about to get spicy in here!"

Posted by: Wally at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (0e5Te)

264
We won Iraq. Twice. DoS and the civilians lost it, largely with their Baathist ban. And the CPA was the devils spawn
Posted by: Marcus T at January 16, 2026 12:53 PM (T7fic)

Rather like Vietnam. For all his many faults, Nixon bombed the N Viets back to the peace table and they were scared shitless of what would happen next, so they capitulated. The US got what it wanted, an end to hostilities, an independent S Vietnam and US troops out of the country. A messy, expensive victory but a victory nonetheless.

The North just waited until Nixon was gone and they rearmed to start another war with the South 2 years later, secure in the knowledge that their Donk commie cocksucker allies in the US Congress would prevent the US from aiding the South.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (y9nCu)

265 Teddy Roosevelt: "Speak softly and carry a big stick."

Donald Trump: "Speak VERY LOUDLY and carry FUTURISTIC RAY GUNS."

Joe Biden: "Babble incoherently and carry a limp noodle."

Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (se8lQ)

266 > Trump really wants Greenland and I think he wants to do something by the 250th.
---------
There are legit reasons to "want" Greenland. Almost every single one revolves around national security.

Russia and Chine understand its importance. I'm not sure Denmark does. Or cares.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (U2OZr)

267 A pittance by federal government standards.

Heck, that doesn't even reach Somali fraud standards.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 01:10 PM (n5tGW)

268 Except there's only 55,000 Greenlanders, less than the number of welfare queens in any blue city. And they sit on a metric fuckton of resources. Welfare queens just sit on their fat asses.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

==

Why then are they not mining it currently? Why do you think an American flag changes all that? Who will work in these mines if the locals basically just get a UBI type check for being there?

Even if this country becomes part of America, there's going to be some level of local control from the population. So pretend you give every Greenlander a million dollars to "vote" to be part of the US, what will stop them from saying "no" to any strip mining after they cash the check?

If the goal is resources, just sign a mining deal like we do all the time. You could just mine federal lands in the US, way easier than adding a new country to the US.

Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 01:10 PM (eIzlH)

269 That's what the 11 Jews who secretly run the world want you to think.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:08 PM

Yes .. err .. hmm .. quite ..

Those bastards!

Posted by: Crab People at January 16, 2026 01:10 PM (jc0TO)

270 I tend to assume that the Greenland stuff is Trump using Obama's stray voltage strategy.

Get the EU-niks and Karens wound up and then...don't really do anything
Posted by: 18-1

==

I guess, but I actually think it does have a cost to Republicans and Trump domestically.

It just sort of negates legitimate foreign policy victories when you have lopsided majorities in agreement that it's a stupid idea.

Trump never ran on taking Greenland and frankly the last thing I want is "more Americans" to take care of. I'd gladly sell Puerto Rico off to the highest bidder.

The population of Greenland is basically just a free shit army, the same as Puerto Rico.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM (eIzlH)

Greenland is a strategic piece of real estate. I suppose you are unconcerned about Russia or China putting some IRBM there.

As is typical, many of the "America First! (tm)" folks put forth an incoherent argument that espouses isolationism, pacifism and a willingness to allow hostile nations to do whatever they want.

As far as the American people are concerned, I doubt that there is "lop-sided opposition" to protecting American interests. We're not invading Greenland.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 01:10 PM (pJWtt)

271 Can't we stop and enjoy the burning mosques without overthinking things?

Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM
###

Open your windows. Enjoy the aroma.

Posted by: Gwen Walz at January 16, 2026 01:10 PM (2Ez/1)

272 "There are legit reasons to "want" Greenland. Almost every single one revolves around national security."

Very true. And we've now pissed away almost all our domestic political appetite for foreign intervention on Venezuala and Iran.
Winning !

Posted by: Zek at January 16, 2026 01:11 PM (5FPX4)

273 Mullahs: "You and what army?"
Trump: "Me and these 20 Army Rangers."

Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:11 PM (se8lQ)

274 If the goal is resources, just sign a mining deal like we do all the time. You could just mine federal lands in the US, way easier than adding a new country to the US.
Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 01:10 PM (eIzlH)

The goal is military bases to keep the Rooskies and China commies under control.

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 01:11 PM (qwype)

275 Oh I also ran across someone posting global warming propaganda

It showed southern portions of the world become uninhabitable by certain dates and argued humans would have to move to the poles.

And there were a bunch of lefties telling him to knock it off because a certain someone could use it to justify seizing Greenland. It was hilarious.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)

276 238 I mean to get banned from here you either need to be a real jerk or to piss off some number of the eleven Jews who secretly run the world. That's pretty much it.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (3AyDK)

LOL.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 01:11 PM (bss/y)

277 Joe Biden: "Babble incoherently and ~~carry a limp noodle~~ pay the Danegeld."
Posted by: zombie

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 16, 2026 01:11 PM (kgG3s)

278 ... And there were a bunch of lefties telling him to knock it off because a certain someone could use it to justify seizing Greenland. It was hilarious.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)
++++
LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:12 PM (GyQIQ)

279 "We are a sovereign nation and if we decide to execute half of our civilians, we will do so. Stay out of our affairs."
Khomeini, IRGC, and the murderous foreign mercenaries

Putin, China, Maduro are the same, but only some of them have nukes.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 16, 2026 01:12 PM (vbXSk)

280 I'm just waiting for Trump to declare the Moon as the 51st state.

Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:12 PM (se8lQ)

281 Even if this country becomes part of America, there's going to be some level of local control from the population. /i]

Amusingly this is one of the complaints the natives currently have with their colonial overlords.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:12 PM (sKqQm)

282 247 to piss off some number of the eleven Jews who secretly run the world. That's pretty much it.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:05 PM (3AyDK)

One of them is a coblogger and another is in an intimate personal relationship with ace.

Posted by: Don't know about the remaining nine at January 16, 2026 01:06 PM (TbWk/)

Garret is Jewish?

Posted by: davidt at January 16, 2026 01:12 PM (Q+gd/)

283
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Florida Rep Maxwell Frost (D) posted this video alerting illegals about ICE activities and locations and how to evade ICE.

CHARGE HIM.

https://tinyurl.com/4enhny7u

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 01:12 PM (NpAcC)

284 271 Can't we stop and enjoy the burning mosques without overthinking things?

Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 12:55 PM

--------

My gosh, this man is in my head.

When I read about mosques being burned, I enjoyed the moment. Do I know what is actually happening in Iran? No.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 16, 2026 01:13 PM (aZm/F)

285 "But 34?"

Give me 266 more.

Posted by: King Leonidas at January 16, 2026 01:13 PM (0e5Te)

286 If we take over Greenland the same leftist cocksucker judges and

r Democrats will ban mining there. Like they ban mining or drilling for oil in Alaska.

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:14 PM (kgFPv)

287 I found out that today is National Do Nothing Day.
So, here I am with my feet tucked under the covers.
Posted by: Sharon

But Sharon, having tucked your tootsies under the covers did you not do something?

I'm so confused.
Posted by: Tonypete
......

She might be doing something under the covers but it's really none of our business.

Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 01:14 PM (UjdFS)

288 here we go:

"🚨@Cloudflare has detected Iranian authorities targeting Instagram accounts with bulk data extraction tools."

(don't know about the account , but judge for yourselves)

https://tinyurl.com/3ff72yka

are they using North Korean resources ?

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 01:14 PM (g47mK)

289 So when Venezuela and Iran descend into civil war and millions pressure to immigrate to the US, I'm sure we'll be well positioned just to say "no" because we had nothing to do with it.
Winning !

Posted by: Zek at January 16, 2026 01:14 PM (5FPX4)

290 You know sending 34 guys to Greenland is almost comical.

-
I've forgotten the identities but as WWI was hotting up, some big shot Brit asked some big shot Frenchmen how few Brits they could send to France that would help. The Frenchman answered, "One, and we'll make sure he is killed."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:14 PM (L/fGl)

291 Greenland is obviously very important because they made not one, but two movies about it with Gerard Butler. Duh.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:15 PM (iFTx/)

292 Internet says we already have 1.2M VZ people

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:15 PM (sKqQm)

293 Why then are they not mining it currently? Why do you think an American flag changes all that? Who will work in these mines if the locals basically just get a UBI type check for being there?

Probably because Denmark would play Maduro and take everything. Denmark needs hellacious infusions of cash to prop up their welfare state.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 01:15 PM (GK5Hx)

294 The number shall be eleven. It shall not be ten, nor shall it be twelve, eleven being the eleventh number.
Thirteen is right out.

Posted by: A reading from the Book of Armaments, Chapter 4, Verses 16 to 20 at January 16, 2026 01:16 PM (2Ez/1)

295 But 34?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)

Rule 34. They're signaling to the internet to make porn if them.

Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 01:16 PM (sDpug)

296 Lot of proven resources in Greenland?

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 01:16 PM (pDt9x)

297 Hakeem Penis (Dick -NY) says that when Democrats get back in control they’re gonna prosecute everyone who disagrees with them, especially DHS.

Raise your hand is you’re surprised. You know since this is what they did during their last reign.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 16, 2026 01:17 PM (bd7Xf)

298 285 "But 34?"

Give me 266 more.

Posted by: King Leonidas

THIS. IS. GREENLAND!!!!!

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:17 PM (Riz8t)

299
This bikini brunette with nice teeth hopes the mullahs fall:
http://tiny.cc/y0rx001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (GyQIQ)

Well, she isn't British.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 16, 2026 01:17 PM (y9nCu)

300 296 Lot of proven resources in Greenland?
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 01:16 PM (pDt9x)

Snow is a resource technically.

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:17 PM (kgFPv)

301 289 So when Venezuela and Iran descend into civil war and millions pressure to immigrate to the US, I'm sure we'll be well positioned just to say "no" because we had nothing to do with it.
Winning !
Posted by: Zek

North Koreans barely even know there is an outside world. They'd be afraid to cross the border into South Korea.

If Iran booted the Mullahs and went capitalist/democratic/free, I suspect millions of expat Iranians who fled in 1979 would return to Iran, rather than the other way around.

Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:17 PM (se8lQ)

302 That's true with some religious leaders like the pope, who don't actually believe or care about their religion, but Khamenei has to at least pretend, because many of his supporters are zealots. Burning down mosques is a direct attack against the supreme religious leader.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 16, 2026 01:01 PM (kgG3s)

Why would you say that Pope Leo XIV doesn't believe or care about the Roman Catholic Church? The man was an Augustinian monk, and was a missionary for almost 20 years. He's currently trying to restore traditions that Pope Francis saw fit to ignore.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 01:17 PM (pJWtt)

303 That's what the 11 Jews who secretly run the world want you to think.

Also now that they've confirmed they have Jewish Space Lasers it's a good idea not to annoy them.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:18 PM (noPDf)

304 Why then are they not mining it currently? Why do you think an American flag changes all that? Who will work in these mines if the locals basically just get a UBI type check for being there?

Probably because Denmark would play Maduro and take everything. Denmark needs hellacious infusions of cash to prop up their welfare state.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 16, 2026 01:15 PM (GK5Hx)
_____

Who works the Alaskan oil fields? It ain't natives or yeti. If the USA were ever to open up mines or other developments in GL, there would be no shortage of Americans to work them. Just like every other time new territory was opened up.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

305 I just love this police chief's reaction to Frey's lunacy. (0:34)

https://is.gd/hBNK5R

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:18 PM (Riz8t)

306 > Like they ban mining or drilling for oil in Alaska.

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:14 PM (kgFPv)

That's changed a lot.

Still a long way to go, but it's way better under Trump than it was before.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (IG3/x)

307 And I meant to say -- a million Venezualan Miss Universe contestants? That kind of immigration I can live with.

Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (se8lQ)

308 Religious wars begun, they have.

Posted by: Where's my magic underwear? at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (2Ez/1)

309 Hakeem Penis (Dick -NY) says that when Democrats get back in control they’re gonna prosecute everyone who disagrees with them, especially DHS
-

This is a message aimed at front line I.C.E. agents. Keep working there and we will fuck you up when we take power.

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (kgFPv)

310 The US currently has a military base in Greenland.

The idea that if we don't take it, Russia then puts ICBMs on it, seems a little ridiculous.

I have no issue with "let's expand our military base in Greenland" instead of "let's make Greenland part of the US"

It has nothing to do with the euroweenies complaining, just seems nutty.

Posted by: Leupold at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (eIzlH)

311 I'm just waiting for Trump to declare the Moon as the 51st state.
Posted by: zombie
......

Yes, and build some nice casinos and golf courses!

Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (UjdFS)

312 The Chicago Sky will host the 2026 WNBA All-Star Game and related events for the second time in franchise history on July 25, 2026, assuming there hasn't been a player's strike or lockout.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (0sNs1)

313 I intend to be the 51st state...

Posted by: Confusion at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (Bo9Yf)

314 And I meant to say -- a million Venezualan Miss Universe contestants? That kind of immigration I can live with.
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (se8lQ)
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Looks-based immigration policy is stupid, but way less stupid than what we do now. I say go for it. Give it a shot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (GyQIQ)

315 Headline (Fox News):

"Top Iran prayer leader who dubbed protesters 'Trump's soldiers' calls for executions amid ongoing unrest
Iran state radio broadcast sermon claiming 350 mosques, 400 hospitals damaged in protests"

"The cleric claimed 350 mosques, 126 prayer halls and 20 other holy places had sustained damage, the AP reported. Khatami also claimed that 400 hospitals, 106 ambulances, 71 fire department vehicles and another 50 emergency vehicles sustained damage."

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/2vp2u8wh

Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (rj6Yv)

316 244 I found out that today is National Do Nothing Day.
So, here I am with my feet tucked under the covers.
Posted by: Sharon

I didn't get where I am today by lying about with my feet tucked under the covers. One must get up, get out, seize the day.

Posted by: C.J., Head, Sunshine Desserts at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (oftw2)

317 She might be doing something under the covers but it's really none of our business.
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 01:14 PM (UjdFS)

Just closing her eyes and thinking of England?

Posted by: Roy at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (qwype)

318 I watched golf on the moon live.

Posted by: davidt at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (Q+gd/)

319 Lot of proven resources in Greenland?
Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 01:16 PM (pDt9x)

I think the "Northern Sea Route" is the resource. Cut's China's travel to the west by about 3k nautical miles.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (g47mK)

320 a million Venezualan Miss Universe contestants? That kind of immigration I can live with.
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (se8lQ)

The Alex Stein "Don't Deport The Big-Booty Latinas" protests have joined the chat.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (noPDf)

321 Jonah Goldberg says Trump doesn't want to be "honorable" just feared. A ) that's ok by me and 2) have another donut Jonah you far grifter puke

Posted by: Smell the Glove and at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (r8eU0)

322 cuts not cut's

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (g47mK)

323 Yes, and build some nice casinos and golf courses!

"Country clubs and cemeteries are the biggest wastes of prime real estate."

Posted by: Al Czervik at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (Riz8t)

324

Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI)
49,493.19 +50.75 (+0.10%)
As of 1:20:34 PM EST. Market Open.

Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (jc0TO)

325 LOL, Newscum and CA have a brand, new, brilliant idea to solve homelessness:

They're gonna build a 4 story treatment and housing center, "The Villages of SF"

Under their slogan "Treatment not tents."

I wonder how many more $200k+ salaries will be needed to run that place?
And I bet the minimum cost is $100 million to build.

LOL, CA voters have to be the stupidest MFers on the planet.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (HXT0k)

326 311 I'm just waiting for Trump to declare the Moon as the 51st state.
Posted by: zombie
......

Yes, and build some nice casinos and golf courses!
Posted by: wth

And the capital's just gotta be called Armstrong City.

Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (se8lQ)

327 And we wold like China to stay in China.

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (g47mK)

328 Looks-based immigration policy is stupid, but way less stupid than what we do now. I say go for it. Give it a shot.

As an interesting thought point - we are a country with a serious birth dirth brought on mostly by women in aggregate wanting to have fewer or no kids.

You can argue our immigration policy should be to only take women of child bearing years and require them to marry an American man within a certain amount of time.

But then we'd get endless Handmaid's Tale spin offs I suppose

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)

329 "If Iran booted the Mullahs and went capitalist/democratic/free, I suspect millions of expat Iranians who fled in 1979 would return to Iran, rather than the other way around."

We know this or we hope this? And in the case of Venezuela? There is always potential upside, but I think history cautions that our ability to predict "the next phase" much less shape it is far less than the policy wonks think. Dearborn is Dearborn and Minnesota Somaliland because we broke half the Middle East. But lets keep f*cking that chicken because someday it may give birth to a Golden Retriever.

Posted by: Zek at January 16, 2026 01:22 PM (5FPX4)

330 LOL, CA voters have to be the stupidest MFers on the planet.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (HXT0k)

Uhm…
- Minnesota voters

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:22 PM (kgFPv)

331 > Who works the Alaskan oil fields? It ain't natives or yeti.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

There are a fair number of people who actually live in Texas and commute.

Not kidding. A typical schedule is two weeks of "7-12s" (seven days a week, 12 hours a day) followed by two weeks off. You can afford the commute when you're raking in that sweet, sweet North Slope money.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 01:22 PM (IG3/x)

332 LOL, CA voters have to be the stupidest MFers on the planet.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (HXT0k)

Hold our beer.

Posted by: Delaware Voters at January 16, 2026 01:22 PM (dK+Kv)

333 Silver spot price today 88.51/ounce.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 01:23 PM (pDt9x)

334 "20 other holy places"

How many holy places does Islam have? Is this one of those "Mohammed slept here" things?

Posted by: Wally at January 16, 2026 01:23 PM (0e5Te)

335 You can argue our immigration policy should be to only take women of child bearing years and require them to marry an American man within a certain amount of time.

But then we'd get endless Handmaid's Tale spin offs I suppose

The women who would make those spinoffs will be aging out and dying, so that's fine.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:23 PM (noPDf)

336 This is a message aimed at front line I.C.E. agents. Keep working there and we will fuck you up when we take power.
Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (kgFPv)
===

I wouldn't limit that to ICE. He's threatening DOJ, DOD, and any agency that threatens the Dems' hold on power.

Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 01:23 PM (rj6Yv)

337 You can argue our immigration policy should be to only take women of child bearing years and require them to marry an American man within a certain amount of time.

But then we'd get endless Handmaid's Tale spin offs I suppose
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)
++++
You'd have applicants stacked twelve deep under these rules. After all, our divorce laws are globally famous...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (GyQIQ)

338 "...350 mosques, 126 prayer halls and 20 other holy places..."

Is that a lot?

Posted by: I gotta ask at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (2Ez/1)

339 > You can argue our immigration policy should be to only take women of child bearing years

The women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

Posted by: Doctor Strangelove at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (IG3/x)

340 Posted by: Zek at January 16, 2026 01:22 PM (5FPX4)

Whoever was missing It's Go Time Donald, I think we've found him.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (noPDf)

341 Looks-based immigration policy is stupid, but way less stupid than what we do now. I say go for it. Give it a shot.

As an interesting thought point - we are a country with a serious birth dirth brought on mostly by women in aggregate wanting to have fewer or no kids.

You can argue our immigration policy should be to only take women of child bearing years and require them to marry an American man within a certain amount of time.

I bought a suit today, and while the salesman was an older gentleman of about 55, his internee was an absolutely smoking 6' model. Gad she was gorgeous. It's so sad that I'm 29.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (Riz8t)

342 This bikini brunette with nice teeth hopes the mullahs fall:
http://tiny.cc/y0rx001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:02 PM (GyQIQ)

Teeth are overrated.

Posted by: Winston Wolf at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (n9ltV)

343 338 "...350 mosques, 126 prayer halls and 20 other holy places..."

Is that a lot?
Posted by: I gotta ask at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (2Ez/1)

A good start.

Posted by: tubal at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (pDt9x)

344 A typical schedule is two weeks of "7-12s" (seven days a week, 12 hours a day

—

That’s nuts. Especially for a job that demands a lot of physical work. By day 10 these people have to be walking zombies

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (kgFPv)

345 320 The Alex Stein "Don't Deport The Big-Booty Latinas" protests have joined the chat.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (noPDf)

I recently watched the season of Worst Cooks in America that he was on over a decade ago.

He was just as loud then as he is now.

Posted by: XTC at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (FpHTM)

346 310 The US currently has a military base in Greenland.

The idea that if we don't take it, Russia then puts ICBMs on it, seems a little ridiculous.

I have no issue with "let's expand our military base in Greenland" instead of "let's make Greenland part of the US"
Posted by: Leupold

Making it US territory gives us control over ALL the ocean around it to a significant extent. That alone is of immense strategic value. Plus, our small military presence can be ordered out at any time. Not if the land is ours. Right now, if we want the land for security purposes, we have to play nice with Europe. If we take the land, we can tell the EU and NATO to go fuck themselves.

Posted by: Military Moron at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (kgG3s)

347 As an interesting thought point - we are a country with a serious birth dirth brought on mostly by women in aggregate wanting to have fewer or no kids.

You can argue our immigration policy should be to only take women of child bearing years and require them to marry an American man within a certain amount of time.

But then we'd get endless Handmaid's Tale spin offs I suppose
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM

The women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

Posted by: Doctor Strangelove at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (jc0TO)

348 LOL, Newscum and CA have a brand, new, brilliant idea to solve homelessness:

They're gonna build a 4 story treatment and housing center, "The Villages of SF"

Under their slogan "Treatment not tents."

-
I have a somewhat different solution, work or starve. Mao had his Little Red Book. I have The Little Red Hen.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (L/fGl)

349 And I meant to say -- a million Venezualan Miss Universe contestants? That kind of immigration I can live with.
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (se8lQ)
++++
Looks-based immigration policy is stupid, but way less stupid than what we do now. I say go for it. Give it a shot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:20 PM (GyQIQ)
_______

We already have a looks-based immigration policy. It's just that the current policy favors mutations, malformations, abnormalities, and freaks. Will you look at the Somalis and hispanics we let in? These ain't Iman or weather girls.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (iFTx/)

350 Yeah, ok. Our invasion is about the Democrats unquenchable thirst for power. Period full stop.

It has zero to do with anything that happened as a result of our Middle East policies other than it created groups they could import by subverting the immigration system.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (bd7Xf)

351 311 I'm just waiting for Trump to declare the Moon as the 51st state.
Posted by: zombie
......

Yes, and build some nice casinos and golf courses!
Posted by: wth

318 I watched golf on the moon live.
Posted by: davidt

The first course will be called The Alan Shepard Country Club.

Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (se8lQ)

352 "They don't kill you because you're a fascist -- they call you a fascist so they can kill you. "

---Someone

Posted by: Beverly at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (reMys)

353 Teeth are overrated.

Posted by: Winston Wolf

Hi there, big boy.

Posted by: Granny Clampett at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (Riz8t)

354 ...350 mosques, 126 prayer halls and 20 other holy places...

and a partridge in a pear tree.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:26 PM (jc0TO)

355 Yes, and build some nice casinos and golf courses!
Posted by: wth at January 16, 2026 01:19 PM (UjdFS)
++++
Geeze. How long would a Par 3 be on the friggin' *moon*?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 16, 2026 01:26 PM (GyQIQ)

356 Damn! If my ears hadn't gone south years ago I would start wearing earplugs. Damn Finnish Air Force is giving Sebastian County AR a beat down with the F35s. Sisu.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 16, 2026 01:26 PM (gm9Sb)

357 Who works the Alaskan oil fields? It ain't natives or yeti.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:18 PM (iFTx/)

There are a fair number of people who actually live in Texas and commute.

Not kidding. A typical schedule is two weeks of "7-12s" (seven days a week, 12 hours a day) followed by two weeks off. You can afford the commute when you're raking in that sweet, sweet North Slope money.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 16, 2026 01:22 PM (IG3/x)
_______

Yup, I know. I've been to Alaska to ski and met some of the guys working the fields.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (iFTx/)

358 None of this crap would have gone down with VZ if the Nobel committee had just awarded to Pope Leo or the girl trying to get aid to Gaza. in fact, the Nobel committee may be responsible for sparking WW3 for that boondoggle.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 16, 2026 12:50 PM (kgG3s)
*******
Well, this will them off. lol
Machado had hundreds of rosaries given to her by the Venezuelans. When she fled the country she took 8 of them with her.
She met with Pope Leo and he blessed the rosaries.
Machado gave one of the blessed rosaries to Trump.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (NpAcC)

359 Posted by: Wally at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (0e5Te)

If I ever wanted to get banned I would make it unforgettable.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (3AyDK)

360 318 I watched golf on the moon live.
Posted by: davidt

The first course will be called The Alan Shepard Country Club.
Posted by: zombie at January 16, 2026 01:25 PM (se8lQ)
===

I'm fore that!

Posted by: mrp at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (rj6Yv)

361 LOL, Newscum and CA have a brand, new, brilliant idea to solve homelessness:

They're gonna build a 4 story treatment and housing center, "The Villages of SF"

Under their slogan "Treatment not tents."

This would be what, Newscum's fifth failed attempt at eradicating homelessness?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (0sNs1)

362 No atmosphere on the moon, so no hooks or slices.

Posted by: davidt at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (Q+gd/)

363 ...350 mosques, 126 prayer halls and 20 other holy places...

and a partridge in a pear tree.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:26 PM (jc0TO)

FIVE GOLDEN RINGS!!!!!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (bss/y)

364 If I ever wanted to get banned I would make it unforgettable.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM

a blazer of glory, as it were.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM (jc0TO)

365 Seen at Insty: the Atlantic says antisemitism is the fault of the Jews. Is there nothing they can't do?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM (noPDf)

366 You can argue our immigration policy should be to only take women of child bearing years and require them to marry an American man within a certain amount of time.

But then we'd get endless Handmaid's Tale spin offs I suppose
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)

I am positive this will result in a shizzle ton of marriages based in love and respect, obviously rooted in biblical principles. It will absolutely not be a goldmine for divorce lawyers. 😂

Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM (OoFl2)

367 ItsGoTimeDonald was banned?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM (iFTx/)

368 Seen at Insty: the Atlantic says antisemitism is the fault of the Jews. Is there nothing they can't do?
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM

Pay retail?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM (jc0TO)

369 364 If I ever wanted to get banned I would make it unforgettable.
Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM

a blazer of glory, as it were.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM (jc0TO)

Better to die a hero than live a mewling quim.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2026 01:28 PM (bss/y)

370 I just love this police chief's reaction to Frey's lunacy. (0:34)

https://is.gd/hBNK5R
Posted by: Archimedes at January 16, 2026 01:18 PM (Riz8t)

I saw that last night. I told Mrs. Cop at the time that the Minneapolis Police Chief looked pretty subdued. He knows that "fighting ICE" is a really bad idea.

He should have interrupted the Mayor and just said that his police officers were not going to "fight ICE" as long as he's Chief. But he didn't, so he values his job more than his reputation.

Walz and Frey are stirring-up their flying monkeys because they both a deep trouble over the billions of dollars stolen by the Somalis.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 16, 2026 01:29 PM (pJWtt)

371 This would be what, Newscum's fifth failed attempt at eradicating homelessness?

I just don't get it. We keep giving away huge amounts of money with no metrics or deadlines, and the problem just keeps getting worse.

Posted by: Gavin Newsome at January 16, 2026 01:29 PM (Riz8t)

372 This is it. This is the big one, ladies and gentlemen. This is for all the moon rocks...

Posted by: Bill Murray at January 16, 2026 01:29 PM (2Ez/1)

373 Posted by: Wally at January 16, 2026 01:09 PM (0e5Te)

If I ever wanted to get banned I would make it unforgettable.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:27 PM (3AyDK)

Dangling participle?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:29 PM (dK+Kv)

374 It's better to live on your feet than to die on your knees.

Posted by: That Old Italian Pimp at January 16, 2026 01:29 PM (jc0TO)

375 Is Shep Smith still around? I'm serious did he die? I feel like I haven't heard anything from xe/xer in forever.

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:30 PM (3AyDK)

376 Nood.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:30 PM (dK+Kv)

377 Newsom solved homelessness in San Francisco for 48 hours when Xi visited . Super easy barely an inconvenience.

Posted by: Really?? at January 16, 2026 01:31 PM (kgFPv)

378 I don't really have an opinion of Greenland as a US territory other than cool, we own Greenland.

And also we need a strategic place to launch aircraft for our war with the nuclear armed UK mullah regime in a few years.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 16, 2026 01:32 PM (n5tGW)

379 Why porn stars shouldn't run for office.

https://is.gd/w5xWrG

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 16, 2026 01:32 PM (L/fGl)

380 Dangling participle?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 16, 2026 01:29 PM (dK+Kv)

Can't, not since they instituted the size limit for comments

Posted by: ... at January 16, 2026 01:32 PM (3AyDK)

381
5

THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM

-------

The Nobel Committee will also cite the transfer as a reason Trump is not eligible for the prize in the future, "in case you had any doubts about who and what we really are."

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 16, 2026 01:32 PM (HLgI3)

382 ICE is eating people in Minneapolis!!!!

Posted by: Shep Smith Comeback Tour at January 16, 2026 01:33 PM (0e5Te)

383 Posted by: Zek at January 16, 2026 01:22 PM (5FPX4)

Whoever was missing It's Go Time Donald, I think we've found him.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2026 01:24 PM (noPDf)

His stalkery hate boner for Fen will not be so easily circumscribed.

Posted by: Robert at January 16, 2026 01:34 PM (sDpug)

384 NOOD ALERT

Posted by: Max Power at January 16, 2026 01:34 PM (SwyyQ)

385 7
THE Nobel Committee issued a defiant statement that its prizes “cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others” following Maria Corina Machado’s decision to gift hers to Donald Trump.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2026 12:28 PM (pkeXY)

Of course they did...
Posted by: It's me donna
---

Indian givers.

If they gave it to her it belongs to her. They cannot tell her what she can or cannot do with it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2026 01:39 PM (3UR/I)

386 382 ICE is eating people in Minneapolis!!!!
Posted by: Shep Smith Comeback Tour at January 16, 2026 01:33 PM (0e5Te)

I love you Morons!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 02:50 PM (WONhk)

387 Once Barky Obungo "won" the award I figured it was a woke popularity award.

Which always surprises me that Trump wants it so badly. He deserves it, yes, but it seems to be less worthy of an award than in the distant past.

This lady should be the President of Venezuela, not that I know squat. But a very nice thing for her to do. She has to be better than Maduro's VP.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 16, 2026 02:52 PM (WONhk)

388 This guy accepted it with a straight face #facepalm

Posted by: Severe Conservative at January 16, 2026 02:57 PM (QSOcm)

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