People who keep us thinking past artificial intelligence

R.I.P. Scott Adams

Scott Adams never lost the ability to surprise me with his ideas and observations. He could comment on the same event or situation everyone else was looking at and reveal a new angle or a whole new world. My brain grew every time I heard his voice. What a loss. What a figure.

Walter Kirn

Scott Adams Quotes

Which is your favorite? Do you recall the context of your favorite?

You will see lots of fake news today describing how and why Scott Adams was canceled three years ago. If you want an accurate version of events you should read his obituary at @nypost. The context was crucial and was often misrepresented or omitted, deliberately, by his opponents https://t.co/srzSQD154B
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) January 13, 2026

No, Scott Adams didn't hate black people. Interview with Zuby on the AI threat

And some black people also listened to Scott Adams. Coleman Hughes' comments on Scott Adams and understanding Trump go deeper than usual.

R.I.P Scott Adams (1957-2026) –– creator of Dilbert

As I write in @TheFP, I didn't always agree with Scott, but he did make me a better thinker.https://t.co/JNgAGomwJq
— Coleman Hughes (@coldxman) January 14, 2026

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Thomas Sowell Keeps Going

THOMAS SOWELL: My Experience With Artificial Intelligence.
Another target of this particular AI fraud is military historian Victor Davis Hanson. In addition to his profound scholarly writings on military history, Prof. Hanson has also spoken out strongly on many current and controversial issues.
Apparently those who do not agree with him cannot argue effectively against what he said. So they use AI to make him seem to be saying something different.

It's easy enough for the legacy media to change the meaning of what people say WITHOUT AI. We're in for some new experiences.

VDH discusses what happen with his image and voice, prior to his recent surgery.

Victor Davis Hanson: AI Is Hijacking My Image

Artificial intelligence is being used to steal voices, faces, and reputations. Victor Davis Hanson knows this firsthand.@VDHanson explains the growing problem of AI-generated deepfake videos that falsely use his image, voice, and… pic.twitter.com/2gRrE1fVsr
— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) December 29, 2025

And here is an update on his successful surgery for a rare lung cancer. He did have a bleeding complication after the surgery, but seems to be on the road to recovery. Prayers may still be in order. Jack Fowler is keeping VDH's business going.

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WEEKEND

The Week in Pictures: Swap Market Edition

This week we said hello to a new heroine in Iran, and goodbye to a hero at home. But “The Crazy” marches on, both on the streets and in Supreme Court case arguments, where liberal justices continue to not disappoint, providing endless comic entertainment. Here’s a suggestion for the Wall Street swap market types: let’s swap Minnesota for Greenland and Alberta, and swap the Iranian cigarette girl for every AWFL in America.

Music

Everybody's Talkin'

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, Collectivists vs. Rugged Individualists, January 10
Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:11 AM

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1 Morning, KT!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 17, 2026 11:13 AM (2UnvF)

2 Called em

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 17, 2026 11:14 AM (2UnvF)

3 Thank You!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2026 11:14 AM (iMotb)

4 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:15 AM (U2OZr)

5 Good Morning! Steve Hayward back on the Week in Pictures.

Posted by: KT at January 17, 2026 11:16 AM (7vIsy)

6 Just when I thought AI couldn't get any worse.

OpenAI to Start Testing Ads on ChatGPT in the U.S.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:19 AM (L/fGl)

7 The racism thing is constant and they can still make it stick. They just hammer it relentlessly and we can say the race card is overplayed but it still seems to work, doesn't it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 11:19 AM (bss/y)

8 6 Just when I thought AI couldn't get any worse.

OpenAI to Start Testing Ads on ChatGPT in the U.S.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:19 AM (L/fGl)

Well, they have people using it, now comes to monetize the fuck out of it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 11:20 AM (bss/y)

9 Scum gonna scum.

Rockstar Games Bans “Grand Theft Auto Online” Player-Created Missions Recreating Charlie Kirk Assassination

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

10 7 The racism thing is constant and they can still make it stick. They just hammer it relentlessly and we can say the race card is overplayed but it still seems to work, doesn't it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 11:19 AM (bss/y)

Yes. And in only one direction. Some Muz politician in Belgium is demanding that everyone who does not agree with Islam leave Belgium. Conquest is nearly complete.

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:21 AM (kJmLc)

11 Sorry I'm late, stuck on Spider solitaire again

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 11:23 AM (Ia/+0)

12 Sorry I'm late, stuck on Spider solitaire again
Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 11:23 AM (Ia/+0)
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Dude, you need to join SS Anonymous to rid you of your evil addiction.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2026 11:25 AM (ESVrU)

13 Silent movie.

Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY
I recommend watching with the sound off.

https://is.gd/pcX4P3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:25 AM (L/fGl)

14 Was only a casual observer of Dilbert, but always thought Scott did a fantastic job on the strip, very good observations of society

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 11:26 AM (Ia/+0)

15 I mentioned this before, but Scott Adams had a funny story in one of his books.

Scott's career arc was:

Working for the phone company in San Francisco and living in worker bee housing.

Getting rich from Dilbert and getting fired by the phone company (his boss didn't like the portrayal of "the boss" in Dilbert).

Moving to Blackhawk, one of the wealthiest and most exclusive developments in the East Bay.

Since Scott was a minor celebrity, he got invited to a lot of parties in Blackhawk.

Now the people at these parties are wealthy people living in the San Francisco Bay Area. They have won at the game of life.

You'd think they would have nothing to complain about, and you would be wrong. They were constantly complaining, and Scott made a lengthy list of all the things they complained about.

It was hilarious.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 17, 2026 11:26 AM (n1OCj)

16 Mamdani is giving some speech.
And this fat Asian gal next to him is clearly staring at him with bedroom eyes.
Like, it's clear she's deep in X-rated daydreams.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2026 11:27 AM (HXT0k)

17 Thank G-d for VDH's recovery, and RIP, Scott.

I always liked Adams, though he could be a bit of a nut at times.

But at no time did I ever consider him remotely "conservative" and he certainly was not a "pundit." I don't know exactly what he was, but it's definitely not a pundit. They're all shills and tards, and he wasn't that.

Media people are so simplistic, and reductive, and shallow, and stupid. It's just amazing to watch these people "think."

"Hurr durrrrr, famous man is famous. Famous man mentions politics sometimes. Famous man is pundit. Famous pundit man says things my drunk idiot friends don't like. Famous pundit man is conservative pundit man duhhhh"

I'm surprised these people don't need assistance feeding themselves.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 11:29 AM (BI5O2)

18 Mamdani is giving some speech.
And this fat Asian gal next to him is clearly staring at him with bedroom eyes.
Like, it's clear she's deep in X-rated daydreams.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 17, 2026 11:27 AM (HXT0k)
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No doubt she's imagining Mamdani as a minotaur studmuffin.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2026 11:29 AM (ESVrU)

19 It was hilarious.

Scott also eviscerated a lowly Marxist professor who tried to make a name for himself denouncing Dilbert.

The Dilbert comic strip, you see, implied that there was a lot of deadwood in large organizations.

This is completely wrong - every person in large organizations is absolutely necessary, and Scott was supporting mass unemployment or something by implying that you could reduce headcount and make these organizations more efficient.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 17, 2026 11:31 AM (n1OCj)

20 this is breaking :

Trump: “It’s time to look for new leadership in Iran”

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 11:34 AM (g47mK)

21 Moving to Blackhawk, one of the wealthiest and most exclusive developments in the East Bay.

Sadly, moving to Blackhawk did mark the end of the best period of Dilbert.

Scott claimed that he could write about corporate bureaucracy just as well from his lovely redwood deck at his fancy house as he could from a cubicle, and it just wasn't the case - Dilbert definitely lost some of its edge.

At the time, I observed that Scott should pay some large bureaucracy to employ and abuse him, to keep his muse intact.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 17, 2026 11:35 AM (n1OCj)

22 Scott made the fatal mistake of commenting on race being a white, heterosexual male.

It is forbidden even if what he said was common sense.

Only the privileged races can speak about race even if what the privileged races say is racist.

Posted by: Shut Up Honky at January 17, 2026 11:36 AM (R/m4+)

23 One of my favorite Dilberts has Dogbert announcing he's writing a book on compulsive shopping. Dilbert asks what he knows about compulsive shoppers. He replies, "I know they buy a lot of books."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

24 We hike Scott Adams was dying he publicly called on Trump to try and get In sidet Permannete to approve payment for an experimental drug. Trump refused. Scot Adams died

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 17, 2026 11:37 AM (5naI3)

25 The AI stuff is going to be insane and get worse very quickly.

Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 11:38 AM (nTi7N)

26 No doubt she's imagining Mamdani as a minotaur studmuffin.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2026 11:29 AM (ESVrU)

Probably helped him secure the female vote. THat stupid smile he has makes me sick

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:39 AM (kJmLc)

27 Scott made the fatal mistake of commenting on race being a white, heterosexual male.

He was also incorrect. White people don't try to stay as far away as possible from black people generally - everybody (including affluent black people) tries to stay as far away as possible from the black underclass.

There is a difference.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at January 17, 2026 11:39 AM (n1OCj)

28 Trump cancelled Adams last hope

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 17, 2026 11:39 AM (5naI3)

29 24 We hike Scott Adams was dying he publicly called on Trump to try and get In sidet Permannete to approve payment for an experimental drug. Trump refused. Scot Adams died
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 17, 2026 11:37 AM (5naI3)

A man with $50M could have paid it himself.

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:40 AM (kJmLc)

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Posted by: HOME PROFIT at January 17, 2026 11:40 AM (eZWdu)

31 Newest Commissar Judge Kate Menendez, ICE cant detain or use non lethal munitions, or dispersal tools on protesters

I think she said "peaceful" protesters. If they're "peaceful" why would ICE be using teargas or non-lethal munitions on them in the first place?

spoiler: they weren't

The "non-peaceful" protesters on the other hand....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:01 AM

Saw a meme the other day shared on X highlighting the fact that there is no protected right to protest in the U.S. Constitution. There is only the protected right to "peacefully assemble".

This has been forgotten by pretty much everyone (myself included). There is no right to protest. Only peacefully assemble. We need to start separating protesting from peacefully assembling. Protesting is not protected, peaceful assembly is.

X: https://bit.ly/3Lz7xH0

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 11:40 AM (P5BPp)

32 Adams' remarks about black people are only true up to a point. Are you living in NYC or Chicago? Then yeah, black people are racist AF, they're violent about it, and you should give them a wide berth.

Are you living in heritage America? That's where it falls apart. The black people in my small city I've lived in the past few years are not racists. They work jobs, they go to church, and are nice to their white neighbors. A couple of blacks on my block are lesbos, but they're the rarest of birds - pleasant lesbos who don't annoy me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 11:43 AM (BI5O2)

33 Posted by: HOME PROFIT

What have you done with Sarah? We loved her. Is she OK?

Posted by: Wellness Check at January 17, 2026 11:43 AM (oftw2)

34 28 Trump cancelled Adams last hope
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 17, 2026 11:39 AM (5naI3)

He did nothing of the sort

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:43 AM (kJmLc)

35 "There is no Constitutional right that protects you to protest. What does exist is the right to peacefully assemble. That's it. No riots, no chaos, no burning shit down, no intimidation, no blocking roads, no screaming obscenities. Only peacefully assemble.

You have the right to stand there. You have the right to hold a sign. You have the right to assemble peacefully. Quite lawfully without trampling everyone else's rights.
The moment it becomes loud, destructive, coercive or threatening, it stops being protected and it becomes lawlessness."

X: https://bit.ly/3Lz7xH0

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 11:44 AM (P5BPp)

36 Saw a meme the other day shared on X highlighting the fact that there is no protected right to protest in the U.S. Constitution. There is only the protected right to "peacefully assemble".

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That's been amended to "mostly peacefully assemble."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:45 AM (L/fGl)

37 Happy to see AoS finally embracing Scott's influence after his death. Sad he was mocked and vilified here before he died. His take on the ADL was spot on.
https://x.com/i/status/1787769934833233959

Note, he's talking about the government and its lobbying strong arm, not Jews.

Posted by: MikeN at January 17, 2026 11:46 AM (Iutv3)

38 That's been amended to "mostly peacefully assemble."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 11:45 AM (L/fGl)

"Fiery but mostly peaceful" comes to mind

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:47 AM (kJmLc)

39 ASS just became Super Retard.

Trump intervened and got the Pluvicto treatment Adams wasn’t getting from Kaiser Permante.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 11:47 AM (KDPiq)

40 Poor Skip, bound in the clutches of Spider Solitaire. I feel for him and understand. About 2 weeks ago, I watched my first bodycam video. They're being fed to me by the shovelful and I am unable to resist. Intervention may be next.

Posted by: HALP! at January 17, 2026 11:48 AM (oftw2)

41 I've come a long way, baby!

Posted by: Iranian cigarette girl at January 17, 2026 11:49 AM (w6EFb)

42 651 moves but I won

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 11:50 AM (Ia/+0)

43 > Mamdani is giving some speech.
And this fat Asian gal next to him is clearly staring at him with bedroom eyes.
Like, it's clear she's deep in X-rated daydreams.
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I've seen a photo of Mamdani's "wife" or whatever she is.

I've no doubt she'd bite that chick's head off and eat it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:51 AM (U2OZr)

44 Scott Adams Quotes

Which is your favorite? Do you recall the context of your favorite?

I have used Dilbert comics at work for my entire career. One that hit home for me in my current engineering job is one where he comments on how management always wants "one-pagers". One PowerPoint slide which summarizes weeks or months of work and pages and pages of data for design proposals, etc.

So after discussing this with his manager, Dilbert comes to the meeting with one slide that is just one big black blotch. When asked, he says all the months of work and data is all stuffed in that one slide and that is the result of fitting it in there.

I hate one-pagers. There's never enough space and you can never sufficiently summarize the work with enough detail to give to management to understand everything. Inevitably there will be a question "What does this generic statement you have here mean?" and I'll want to say "well, you wanted me to summarize 50 slides worth of data and information into one sentence, of course it doesn't explain every single detail."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 11:51 AM (P5BPp)

45 Dude, you need to join SS Anonymous to rid you of your evil addiction.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2026 11:25 AM (ESVrU)

My name is Miley and I'm a sudoku addict.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 17, 2026 11:51 AM (w6EFb)

46 Trump intervened and got the Pluvicto treatment Adams wasn’t getting from Kaiser Permante.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 11:47 AM (KDPiq)

Really?

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:51 AM (kJmLc)

47 ASS is way too drunk for so early in the day.

Sad.

Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 11:52 AM (nTi7N)

48 Shortly after the new pope was installed, my sister sent me video (still image + audio) of what was purportedly one of his sermons. The statements were all common sense things that believing Christians would like to hear from clergy. But it was weirdly repetitive and the cadence was a bit off. I couldn't find a written source for this particular sermon online. So I finally wrote back and said, "There's something weird about this. How did you hear about it?" She told me one of her friends sent it to her and she didn't think it was real but she liked it anyway. But here she is, spreading it around without offering any caveats. Maybe she figured it was so obvious she didn't have to tell me.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at January 17, 2026 11:53 AM (FMtrg)

49 Yes I recall at the time. Mind I think it wasn't Trump himself who helped Adams, but Bobby K as head of HHS who cleared some red tape.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 11:53 AM (hhkIi)

50 47 ASS is way too drunk for so early in the day.

Sad.
Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 11:52 AM (nTi7N)

He had to start getting into the liquor early, his mom's last client stayed late this morning and she's always loud.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 11:53 AM (bss/y)

51 Have to leave within the hour, might have 3 inches of snow and its still snowing

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 11:54 AM (Ia/+0)

52 49 Yes I recall at the time. Mind I think it wasn't Trump himself who helped Adams, but Bobby K as head of HHS who cleared some red tape.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 11:53 AM (hhkIi)

I'm liking BobbyK. The idea of pulling harmful additives from food, like Apeel, is a great idea and 50years overdue

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:54 AM (kJmLc)

53 Irony alert…

The people who live in 99% white neighborhoods are the ones who got the most mad at Scott.

Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 11:55 AM (nTi7N)

54 I'm liking BobbyK. The idea of pulling harmful additives from food, like Apeel, is a great idea and 50years overdue
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:54 AM (kJmLc)

I don't trust him.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 17, 2026 11:56 AM (g8Ew8)

55 Really?
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:51 AM (kJmLc)

Unless it was just a coincidence that Kaiser made the appointment afterwards. Adams said the intervention corrected the Kaiser red tape mistake that had caused the lack of scheduling the approved drug treatment.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 11:56 AM (KDPiq)

56 The people who live in 99% white neighborhoods are the ones who got the most mad at Scott.

Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 11:55 AM (nTi7N)

Of course. They have no experience with thugs as busses usually don't run in those hoods.

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:56 AM (kJmLc)

57 Oh lord. "Scott Adams passed away. How can I relate this to my obsession about the Jews?"

Doesn't this monomania EVER get boring?

Is it ever challenging? Like, does your dog ever poop on the floor, and you find yourself struggling to figure out how the Jews are mixed up in that crime?

Or is it just natural and effortless? "My dog is a German Shepherd. Mossad clearly poisoned his water bowl."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 11:58 AM (BI5O2)

58 > "There is no Constitutional right that protects you to protest. What does exist is the right to peacefully assemble. That's it.
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And when that assembly becomes non-peaceful?

Local authorities are supposed to disperse the crowd. Failing that, they should arrest or at the minimum, detain those failing to disperse.

The Insurrection Act, as invoked by the President uses very specific language about this. And gives a timeline for the locals to take care of it.

Or the Feds will. And I believe all the requirements for the Act to be invoked have been met. Certainly in Minneapolis they have.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:58 AM (U2OZr)

59 Yes I recall at the time. Mind I think it wasn't Trump himself who helped Adams, but Bobby K as head of HHS who cleared some red tape.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 11:53 AM (hhkI

Trump replied to Adams plea for help with ‘ on it!’ RFK Jr replied also with ‘the President wants to help’

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 11:59 AM (KDPiq)

60 I don't trust him.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 17, 2026 11:56 AM (g8Ew

I trust him more than any democrat HHS Secretary, and the fact that his family banned him from Tatiana's funeral, says that his tribe believes that he believes what he's saying.

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:59 AM (kJmLc)

61 "My dog is a German Shepherd. Mossad clearly poisoned his water bowl."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 11:58 AM (BI5O2)

Finally someone gets it!!!
- Candace

Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 11:59 AM (nTi7N)

62 Yes I recall at the time. Mind I think it wasn't Trump himself who helped Adams, but Bobby K as head of HHS who cleared some red tape.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 11:53 AM (hhkIi)

Scott had Trump's personal cell in his contacts.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 17, 2026 11:59 AM (w6EFb)

63 I had a klondike solitare app on my phone and I had to delete it last year. I don't know why that simple solitare game which has a large chunk of luck was so addictive to me but I was playing it during online meetings and such.

A couple weeks ago I got into a matching tiles game I'd had on my phone for a couple of years and same deal, I was starting to be compulsive about finishing a level and wasting too much time and decided I needed to just delete the game.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 12:00 PM (hhkIi)

64 >>>Posted by: Opinion fact
~~~~~

Scott Adams thanked PDT and his team for intervening and getting him the treatment.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 17, 2026 12:00 PM (3ImbR)

65 I don't trust him.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 17, 2026 11:56 AM (g8Ew

I don't trust anyone.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at January 17, 2026 12:00 PM (w6EFb)

66 Well, I guess this is serious...

@disclosetv 10m
JUST IN - Trump announces 10% tariff for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and Finland from Feb 1st, increasing to 25% on June 1st, until "a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (mlg/3)

67 "See, I told you, the Kaiser intervened and he wanted all research to go into withered arm treatment!"

Some imbecile with a cell phone and dreams

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (gm9Sb)

68 Trump just announced 10% tariffs on European countries opposing the US buying Greenland. Tariffs to take effect Feb 1 and escalating to 25% on June 1 if no deal.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:02 PM (viF8m)

69 "There is no Constitutional right that protects you to protest. What does exist is the right to peacefully assemble. That's it.
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And when that assembly becomes non-peaceful?

Local authorities are supposed to disperse the crowd. Failing that, they should arrest or at the minimum, detain those failing to disperse.

The Insurrection Act, as invoked by the President uses very specific language about this. And gives a timeline for the locals to take care of it.

Or the Feds will. And I believe all the requirements for the Act to be invoked have been met. Certainly in Minneapolis they have.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:58 AM

Absolutely.

I think the issue is that over the past 20 years or so, the right to peacefully assemble has been transformed into a "right to protest" and the definition of "protest" has been completely mangled to allow for breaking all sorts of laws (rioting, blocking roads, attacking people peacefully assembling supporting a different opinion, etc).

That needs to end. Laws should be enforced.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 12:03 PM (P5BPp)

70
@disclosetv 10m
JUST IN - Trump announces 10% tariff for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and Finland from Feb 1st, increasing to 25% on June 1st, until "a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (mlg/3)

This ones a head scratcher

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 12:03 PM (VE6XX)

71 Yeah, Trump may have helped Adams by asking Bobby K to take care of it. I certainly didn't mean to imply Trump blew Adam's off like the lying ASS typed.

I liked the Dilbert comics. I had a co-worker whose wife worked for one of the ATT spinoffs and he said the comics were too true to life to be really funny to them. Our smaller workplace we had just a bit of that stuff and could really laugh at them.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 12:05 PM (hhkIi)

72 What do the Greenlanders actually want?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 12:05 PM (Nx5jP)

73 Or is it just natural and effortless? "My dog is a German Shepherd. Mossad clearly poisoned his water bowl."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

You know who else had a German Shepherd?

Posted by: Blondi at January 17, 2026 12:05 PM (oftw2)

74 66 Well, I guess this is serious...

@disclosetv 10m
JUST IN - Trump announces 10% tariff for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and Finland from Feb 1st, increasing to 25% on June 1st, until "a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (mlg/3)

lol

Has Trump started tweeting about Denmark's sterilization of Greenlanders yet?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 17, 2026 12:05 PM (hG7ox)

75 America has a new President! Her name is Kate Menendez, a Biden appointee, and she has spoken.

https://tinyurl.com/ytzhzz7z

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2026 12:06 PM (U/Eoe)

76 Greenland baby!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 17, 2026 12:06 PM (Kt19C)

77 @disclosetv 10m
JUST IN - Trump announces 10% tariff for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and Finland from Feb 1st, increasing to 25% on June 1st, until "a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (mlg/3)

So lets say they agree.. Doesn't Congress have to okay it?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 12:06 PM (VE6XX)

78 Or the Feds will. And I believe all the requirements for the Act to be invoked have been met. Certainly in Minneapolis they have.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:58 AM

I think every city or state over the past 20+ years which has not had their law enforcement disperse crowds who block streets and arrest each and every one of them who does not disperse has allowed for invocation of the Insurrection Act.

This stuff has been going on for decades now and has just gotten worse and worse and worse, because of the mangling of the "right to protest", which does not exist. Anything beyond peacefully assembling is breaking the law and should be met with arrest. Because it has not, domestic terrorism has been allowed to be considered "protesting".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 12:07 PM (P5BPp)

79 Among fake trolls, ASS > Sid.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:08 PM (jc0TO)

80 > 47 ASS is way too drunk for so early in the day.

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You've got to start in the morning if you want to drink all day.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at January 17, 2026 12:08 PM (2Ez/1)

81 36 Saw a meme the other day shared on X highlighting the fact that there is no protected right to protest in the U.S. Constitution. There is only the protected right to "peacefully assemble".

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That's been amended to "fiery, but mostly peacefully assemble."

fixt

Posted by: pray i don't alter it further at January 17, 2026 12:08 PM (edU/H)

82 >>> 66 Well, I guess this is serious...

@disclosetv 10m
JUST IN - Trump announces 10% tariff for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and Finland from Feb 1st, increasing to 25% on June 1st, until "a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (mlg/3)

But they're going to take on *both* Poo Tin and OrangeMadBad, and win.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 17, 2026 12:09 PM (ULPxl)

83 That needs to end. Laws should be enforced.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

Yep. Same playbook, Minneapolis is the problem, again. George Floyd 2.0. Trying to goad Trump into an appropriate response that can be recast by media liars and democrats as another Kent State or hurr durr dictator. In advance of a major election cycle, of course.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 17, 2026 12:09 PM (umaaa)

84 What do the Greenlanders actually want?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 12:05 PM

I would start my offer with six hams per year. Twice what they get from Denmark.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:09 PM (jc0TO)

85 >>This ones a head scratcher

As I've been saying since Trump first started on his campaign to make a deal about Greenland it is easily explained if you look at a globe from the top instead of the side.

Greenland is the most strategic location in the western hemisphere when it comes to the Arctic region and national defense not to mention shipping. That why we have had a base in Greenland since the Nazis took Denmark in WWII.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:09 PM (viF8m)

86 I can't help but laugh at Denmark and friends proclaiming they will defend Greenland from a military takeover. I'm sure that Trump wants to pay a fair price for Greenland, not take it by force. Jesse Kelly theorized a few weeks ago that Denmark is saying no way we'll ever sell just to increase the purchase price.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 12:09 PM (hhkIi)

87 > What do the Greenlanders actually want?
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Probably to be left alone.

Or heat.

Greenland's not all that big. The typical maps we see use a certain "projection" that elongates Greenland. It's really about 1/3 the size of the US.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 12:09 PM (U2OZr)

88 79 Among fake trolls, ASS > Sid.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:08 PM (jc0TO)

Today's comments have the whiff of raimongoloid.

All three are probably the same poorly medicated shut-in posting from mom's basement.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 17, 2026 12:10 PM (hG7ox)

89 Is that tariff thing real?

Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 12:10 PM (nTi7N)

90 Remember NYC paid protestors millions of dollars during the Floyd riots because police used tear gas.

Lefty politicians just giving taxpayer money to their cohorts.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 12:10 PM (KDPiq)

91 Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:09 PM (viF8m)

No, I meant the new tariffs...I understand the value of Greenland

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 12:11 PM (VE6XX)

92 79 Among fake trolls, ASS > Sid.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:08 PM (jc0TO)

Hmmm. It is like deciding between a weeping sore on your ass or ureteral discharge...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:11 PM (bss/y)

93 What do the Greenlanders actually want?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 12:05 PM

All trolls are Average Joe.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:11 PM (jc0TO)

94 > Greenland is the most strategic location in the western hemisphere when it comes to the Arctic region and national defense not to mention shipping. That why we have had a base in Greenland since the Nazis took Denmark in WWII.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Strategic. Arctic. Shipping. Things our chattering class can't grasp.

You know who does?
China. Russia. Trump.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 12:11 PM (U2OZr)

95 C&P fail.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (jc0TO)

96 His take on the ADL was spot on.

ADL is a prime example of "every organization eventually becomes Communist". Starting to wonder about AIPAC, too, which spent millions on ads attacking Brandon Herrera the last time he ran. (The whole Unsubscribe crew is 100% pro-Israel).

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (QZThv)

97 Denmark sounds like it's been terrible to Greenland ( and no, I am not endorsing its purchase) "NY Post" article:

https://tinyurl.com/mkp2fban

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (Nx5jP)

98 I'll just go out and come back in again.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (jc0TO)

99 >>No, I meant the new tariffs...I understand the value of Greenland

Because European countries are trying to block Trump. Some are even saying this will be the end of NATO if Trump gets Greenland.

Which I consider icing on the cake.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (viF8m)

100 Has Trump started tweeting about Denmark's sterilization of Greenlanders yet?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 17, 2026 12:05 PM

Whenever I see "Greenlanders" I think of the great Netflix series "Vikings: Valhalla" with Leif Erickson and his Greenlanders being the main focus of the series.

Leif Erickson played by Sam Corlett. Harald Sigurdsson played by Leo Suter.

IMDb: https://imdb.to/4pN1b4R

This focus on Greenland is now making me want to re-watch the series again...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (P5BPp)

101 Yeah I don’t understand conservatives who don’t know why Trump has such a hard on for Greenland.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (KDPiq)

102 AI fakes with images and voices.
Huh.
Guess holding rallies may be a thing again.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (2WIwB)

103 Most of the 56,000 or so Greenlanders are native artic people
Doubt they care much

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (Ia/+0)

104 Because European countries are trying to block Trump. Some are even saying this will be the end of NATO if Trump gets Greenland.

Which I consider icing on the cake.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (viF8m)

Yeah, I agree

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 12:13 PM (VE6XX)

105 I have an Irish potato baking in the microwave. When it cools, a half is going to one of my box turtle friends who has come up to the porch looking for it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:13 PM (jc0TO)

106 >>> 99
==
Because European countries are trying to block Trump. Some are even saying this will be the end of NATO if Trump gets Greenland.

Which I consider icing on the cake.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (viF8m)

Can they vote us out of the UN while they're at it?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 17, 2026 12:13 PM (ULPxl)

107 Really?
Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 11:51 AM (kJmLc)

Yes, Pluvicto is not "standard of care"
He also got Anktiva from Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong which is a T-cell booster that is in first human trials.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 12:14 PM (rbvCR)

108 Scott Adams's reflections on his meeting with Trump was one of my favorites. He went in a skeptic and came out a supporter. He did a deep analysis on why Trump was, is so phenomenal.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2026 12:14 PM (WHfpM)

109 One of my favorite Dilbert strips is where Dogbert is announcing his creation of the Dogbert Power Company and he states that they generate electricity with the help of California Environmentalists. Last panel shows a couple of guys about to feed a trussed-up environmentalist into a furnace and one remarks to the other that they were getting a lot harder to find these days.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at January 17, 2026 12:15 PM (V362x)

110 96 His take on the ADL was spot on.

ADL is a prime example of "every organization eventually becomes Communist". Starting to wonder about AIPAC, too, which spent millions on ads attacking Brandon Herrera the last time he ran. (The whole Unsubscribe crew is 100% pro-Israel).
Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (QZThv)

Was it Conquests law that said any organization not explicitly conservative will become infiltrated? Well, Boy Scouts got infiltrated and destroyed. Supposedly the Lincoln Project and Bulwark are conservative.

The people are what always matters.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:15 PM (bss/y)

111 What do the Greenlanders actually want?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Not sure. But I assume they just want to build knock-down furniture and nuke-powered saunas.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:15 PM (mlg/3)

112 Because European countries are trying to block Trump. Some are even saying this will be the end of NATO if Trump gets Greenland.

Which I consider icing on the cake.
Posted by: JackStraw

Throw in the end of the UN and we've got a deal!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 17, 2026 12:15 PM (L/fGl)

113 This stuff has been going on for decades now and has just gotten worse and worse and worse, because of the mangling of the "right to protest", which does not exist. Anything beyond peacefully assembling is breaking the law and should be met with arrest. Because it has not, domestic terrorism has been allowed to be considered "protesting".
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 17, 2026 12:07 PM (P5BPp)

There may not be the express words "right to protest" but protesting is a Constitutionally protected activity under freedom of speech, assembly, and petition. It does not mean that you have carte blanche to do anything you want under the label of "protest," such as physically interfere with arrests, burn, loot, riot, steal, commit battery, block vehicles, ram cars, etc. This is where the line is crossed and those actions need to be dealt with appropriately in accordance with the law.

Posted by: But be careful where that line is at January 17, 2026 12:15 PM (TbWk/)

114 mebbe nuke-powered furniture and seal blubber... It's a crap shoot.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:16 PM (mlg/3)

115 If you are going to take the Pascal Wager, I think you shouldn't wait until you are on your deathbed to do it.

Posted by: no one at January 17, 2026 12:16 PM (qFwJc)

116 Or is it just natural and effortless? "My dog is a German Shepherd. Mossad clearly poisoned his water bowl."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 11:58 AM (BI5O2)

"Trump is funneling all the Venezuelan oil-money into Qatari banks" is a better one. What a maroon.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 12:17 PM (rbvCR)

117 >>> 113
==
There may not be the express words "right to protest" but protesting is a Constitutionally protected activity under freedom of speech, assembly, and petition. It does not mean that you have carte blanche to do anything you want under the label of "protest," such as physically interfere with arrests, burn, loot, riot, steal, commit battery, block vehicles, ram cars, etc. This is where the line is crossed and those actions need to be dealt with appropriately in accordance with the law.
Posted by: But be careful where that line is at January 17, 2026 12:15 PM (TbWk/)

TbWk/ Johnson is right! We should *not* use the same terms the commies do. All the "physically interfere with arrests, burn, loot, riot, steal, commit battery, block vehicles, ram cars" things are NOT peaceable assembly, no matter how much the mockingbird media tries to tell us they are.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 17, 2026 12:18 PM (ULPxl)

118 Which I consider icing on the cake.
Posted by: JackStraw

No. Getting out of NATO is the cake. Greenland is the icing, literally.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at January 17, 2026 12:18 PM (KAi1n)

119 Tim Pool had a debate with an insufferable leftist girl explaining what "due process" did and did not mean in the cases of illegal immigrants. Expectedly, she was immovably, defiantly ignorant. He finally leaned back in exasperation, crying, "you liberal retards!"

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2026 12:18 PM (WHfpM)

120 Trump is being much kinder than I would with Europe. I would have withdrawn from NATO the second they sent military assets to Greenland to ‘defend’ it ( human shields) against the US no matter how small the contingent was. All troops come home. Yeah I know there are other long term considerations but I have been known to to take a chance that I may be cutting of my nose to spite my face.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 12:18 PM (KDPiq)

121 Because European countries are trying to block Trump. Some are even saying this will be the end of NATO if Trump gets Greenland.

Which I consider icing on the cake.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (viF8m)

NATO exists to counter a particular threat from a state of affairs that no longer exists. There is no Soviet Bloc anymore. If it's to continue it needs to be entirely retooled to deal with extant threats to civilized countries, or just abandoned altogether and willing countries can start over with a new structure. Or not.

Posted by: Cold War's over, Jack! at January 17, 2026 12:19 PM (TbWk/)

122 GREENLAND IS OURS!

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 12:20 PM (g47mK)

123 121 Because European countries are trying to block Trump. Some are even saying this will be the end of NATO if Trump gets Greenland.

Which I consider icing on the cake.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:12 PM (viF8m)

Forget Europe.. it's lost.. Trump is right to concentrate on Our Hemisphere..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 12:20 PM (VE6XX)

124 Yeah I don’t understand conservatives who don’t know why Trump has such a hard on for Greenland.

The meme showing a Risk board and saying he just needs Greenland and Kamchatka gets far closer to the truth than all of the "it's a joke/distraction" takes. If you look at a globe, Greenland is *extremely* strategically located.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2026 12:21 PM (QZThv)

125 Yes, Pluvicto is not "standard of care"
He also got Anktiva from Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong which is a T-cell booster that is in first human trials.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 12:14 PM (rbvCR)

And I apologize, Pluvicto is standard of care.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 12:22 PM (rbvCR)

126 Will it go Alberta 51, Greenland 52 or the other way?

Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 12:22 PM (nTi7N)

127 Give Denmark Puerto Rico with a territory in the Pacific to be named later in exchange for Greenland

Call it an evening.

Deal?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 12:23 PM (U2OZr)

128 If Ellipsis is around, I tried the Ascent protein powder you mentioned. It is pretty tasty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:24 PM (bss/y)

129 And I apologize, Pluvicto is standard of care.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 12:22 PM (rbvCR)

It was approved but for some reason Kaiser wouldn’t schedule the treatment. That’s when he asked for help.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 12:24 PM (KDPiq)

130 Will it go Alberta 51, Greenland 52 or the other way?
Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 12:22 PM (nTi7N)

There is a complicated process for admitting new states, so the chances are that they will request being protectorates or territories first.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 12:24 PM (rbvCR)

131 Please let this be the end of NATO. NATO going by the boards because of *checks notes* Greenland?! wasn't on my radar.

But whatever gets us out of it is fine by me. Get Europe out from under our defense umbrella. Withdraw all our nuclear armaments, and perhaps use them to nuke up the Slavs. Destroy the rest. Tell them they can assist in the disarmament, or we can bomb their silos and leave a mess for them to clean up. And France needs to switch to dinosaur bones for their electricity.

Reciprocal+ tariffs on Western Europe from here on out. No aid, ever. Diplomatically isolate them and realign our interests to Eastern Europe, and a detente with Russia - no more provocations there, but give them Ukraine as a consolation prize.

Let the Arabs have what's left of Western Europe after it catastrophically fails to stand on its own.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:25 PM (BI5O2)

132 Everything fake, nothing is real
You had to know that.

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 12:25 PM (Ia/+0)

133 127 Give Denmark Puerto Rico with a territory in the Pacific to be named later in exchange for Greenland

Call it an evening.

Deal?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 12:23 PM (U2OZr)

I doubt that is how it will work. It is like the peace prize- they will deny it because he wants it no matter what he offers in return. They are explicit enemies now.

THAT is why NATO should be dissolved.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:25 PM (bss/y)

134 Give Denmark Puerto Rico with a territory in the Pacific to be named later in exchange for Greenland

The Puerto Ricans almost certainly wouldn't like that.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2026 12:25 PM (QZThv)

135 Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 12:23 PM (U2OZr)

Puerto Rico is a strategic asset in its own right.

You’ll take nothing and like it !!!

😀

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 12:25 PM (KDPiq)

136 NATO has outlived its usefulness by 30 years.

Posted by: Really? at January 17, 2026 12:26 PM (nTi7N)

137 Tim Pool had a debate with an insufferable leftist girl explaining what "due process" did and did not mean in the cases of illegal immigrants. Expectedly, she was immovably, defiantly ignorant. He finally leaned back in exasperation, crying, "you liberal retards!"
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2026 12:18 PM (WHfpM)

Most people have zero clue about due process in general, and no understanding of what it means in civil v criminal v administrative proceedings. Immigration is its own animal with specific statutory and procedural rules that constitute all the "due process" to which immigrants are entitled. And it's very truncated and streamlined, especially when compared to, say, a citizen's rights to due process in a criminal proceeding. But they don't actually want to know what the law is, they just want to keep bitching, moaning, crying and boohooing.

Posted by: Derp process at January 17, 2026 12:26 PM (TbWk/)

138 126: I'd rather we go back to less than 50 states. Knock Minnesota down to a territory, and probably California as well.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (hhkIi)

139 THAT is why NATO should be dissolved.

"NATO's explicit mission ended in 1991" is why it should have been dissolved 35 years ago. But "they're just a bunch of gay race Islamist commies now" is a perfectly serviceable second reason.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (QZThv)

140 Said it before and I'll say it again:

I want to live over on the alternate timeline where Thomas Sowell was the first black President of the United States.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (IG3/x)

141 55,000 of the 56,000 Greenlanders are addicted to Spider Solitaire. The other 1,000 huff gasoline.

Posted by: Ripe For Conquest at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (oftw2)

142 Has anyone here ever used worcestershire sauce on their grocery store sushi because you ran out of soy sauce? I just done did it. Not bad. A little sweet/vinegary but seems to work. I think my hillbilly ancestors would be fully on board with the substitution. 8/10 would try again

Posted by: banana Dream at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (3uBP9)

143 @113 But be careful that line is-.......right, we must be careful with people whose mantras are "by any means necessary' and "your speech is violence, our violence is speech".
We on the right are careful. Don't wear a red MAGA hat in public. Do not put right leaning bumper stickers on your vehicle. Don't fly the American flag. Don't counter protest or we will run up and murder you in cold blood(as has happened). But yeah, we'll be careful where that line is and not inadvertently trample anyones rights.
Crossing any "line" at this point with these lunatics regarding their "rights"is a matter of self preservation.

They continually "cross the line" just ask Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: JROD at January 17, 2026 12:28 PM (IlL6s)

144 142 Has anyone here ever used worcestershire sauce on their grocery store sushi because you ran out of soy sauce? I just done did it. Not bad. A little sweet/vinegary but seems to work. I think my hillbilly ancestors would be fully on board with the substitution. 8/10 would try again
Posted by: banana Dream at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (3uBP9)

Worcestershire sauce is just good. But there is an absolute difference between generic kroger brand and Lea and Perrins. It just tastes wrong (Kroger.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:29 PM (bss/y)

145 will be the end of NATO if Trump gets Greenland."

Don't tease me bro...

Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 12:29 PM (XuXeR)

146 JUST IN - Trump announces 10% tariff for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany and Finland from Feb 1st, increasing to 25% on June 1st, until "a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (mlg/3)

So lets say they agree.. Doesn't Congress have to okay it?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2026 12:06 PM

congress delegated that authority to the president decades ago.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 17, 2026 12:30 PM (0N4FZ)

147 Said it before and I'll say it again:

I want to live over on the alternate timeline where Thomas Sowell was the first black President of the United States.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (IG3/x

Booker T Washington would of worked also.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 12:30 PM (KDPiq)

148 Fish sauce on fish, why not of you loke it

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 12:31 PM (Ia/+0)

149 > I've seen a photo of Mamdani's "wife" or whatever she is.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 11:51 AM (U2OZr)

That's just MummyDummy's "cover wife".

His real wife says "baaaaa" and would probably taste good with mint jelly.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:31 PM (IG3/x)

150 Posted by: banana Dream at January 17, 2026 12:27 PM (3uBP9)

I would try it if you cooked my sushi first.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 12:32 PM (KDPiq)

151 Give MN away to Canada. It would increase their GDP by 25%, and clear a weeping sore off our body politic. The Minnesotans and Somalis will be happier as Canadians. Everybody wins, just cut it loose.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:32 PM (BI5O2)

152 The typical maps we see use a certain "projection" that elongates Greenland"

The Paolo, he knows this...

Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 12:33 PM (XuXeR)

153 We're going to corner the market on Greenland sharks.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2026 12:33 PM (viF8m)

154 DO PROCESS!!!

Posted by: protest sign of the year at January 17, 2026 12:33 PM (rbIOb)

155 Has anyone here ever used worcestershire sauce on their grocery store sushi because you ran out of soy sauce? I just done did it. Not bad. A little sweet/vinegary but seems to work. I think my hillbilly ancestors would be fully on board with the substitution. 8/10 would try again
Posted by: banana Dream

This is just evil. You have not just joined a cult, you've created one. I denounce with all my fervor.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:33 PM (mlg/3)

156 >>> Worcestershire sauce is just good. But there is an absolute difference between generic kroger brand and Lea and Perrins. It just tastes wrong (Kroger.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:29 PM (bss/y)

I think it's made through fermentation too like soy sauce. I don't know how they differ exactly but I think they're close and it seemed to work well enough for grocery store sushi+sashimi.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 17, 2026 12:34 PM (3uBP9)

157 42 Has anyone here ever used worcestershire sauce on their grocery store sushi because you ran out of soy sauce? I just done did it. Not bad. A little sweet/vinegary but seems to work. I think my hillbilly ancestors would be fully on board with the substitution. 8/10 would try again
Posted by: banana Dream

How could anyone ever run out of soy sauce? I thought everyone had a kitchen junk drawer filled with duck sauce and soy sauce packets going back to the 70s. It never goes bad.

Posted by: MSG For Thee And Me! at January 17, 2026 12:34 PM (oftw2)

158 67 "See, I told you, the Kaiser intervened and he wanted all research to go into withered arm treatment!"

Some imbecile with a cell phone and dreams
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 17, 2026 12:01 PM (gm9Sb)

withered arm treatment?

Perhaps our friend TRex would be interested...?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 12:34 PM (QGaXH)

159 > Or is it just natural and effortless? "My dog is a German Shepherd. Mossad clearly poisoned his water bowl."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 11:58 AM (BI5O2)

My theory is some kind of childhood trauma. Like accidentally walking in on their mom being spitroasted by a couple of Jewish guys.

Or a cute Jewish girl laughing at their micropenis.

Or something like that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:34 PM (IG3/x)

160 The shitty britties are bashing Trump like crazy over this, while they hand their countries to Islam.

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 12:35 PM (kJmLc)

161 They continually "cross the line" just ask Charlie Kirk.
Posted by: JROD at January 17, 2026 12:28 PM (IlL6s)

You completely missed the point. I'm talking about reactionary unconstitutional abridgment of established rights under first amendment as an inappropriate (and unconstitutional) response to left wing scum using it as a pretext and shield for clearly criminal acts. I prefer not to go down the "you can't criticize the government" road but will not go down the "ramming ICE with your car is protected free speech" road either. Roll all those fuckers up and send them to prison.

Posted by: Hope that clears things up a bit at January 17, 2026 12:35 PM (TbWk/)

162 Booker T Washington would of worked also.
Posted by: Opinion fact

Or Willie Mays.

Posted by: Say Hey! at January 17, 2026 12:36 PM (oftw2)

163 The shitty britties are bashing Trump like crazy"

Oh no.

Anyway,

Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 12:36 PM (XuXeR)

164 >>> This is just evil. You have not just joined a cult, you've created one. I denounce with all my fervor.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2026 12:33 PM (mlg/3)

The Great Old Ones are totally on my side bro.

Posted by: banana Dream - The Cthulhu Seal of Approval at January 17, 2026 12:36 PM (3uBP9)

165 > I think it's made through fermentation too like soy sauce.

Soy sauce gets the umami flavor from fermented soybean proteins.

Wash-Your-Sister sauce (and several other world-wide sauces) gets it from fermented fish proteins.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:36 PM (IG3/x)

166 151 Give MN away to Canada. It would increase their GDP by 25%, and clear a weeping sore off our body politic. The Minnesotans and Somalis will be happier as Canadians. Everybody wins, just cut it loose.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:32 PM (BI5O2)

No, just smash it to smithereens. They deserve it. No secession.

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 12:36 PM (kJmLc)

167 Worcestershire is just fish sauce for white people. I'm sure it's fine on sushi.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:37 PM (BI5O2)

168 Or Willie Mays.

Willie Mays Hayes?

Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 12:37 PM (XuXeR)

169 Harry Nilsson>> Harry Sisson

Posted by: GWB at January 17, 2026 12:38 PM (YlgSU)

170 >>> How could anyone ever run out of soy sauce? I thought everyone had a kitchen junk drawer filled with duck sauce and soy sauce packets going back to the 70s. It never goes bad.
Posted by: MSG For Thee And Me! at January 17, 2026 12:34 PM (oftw2)

I just cleaned out over the Christmas break. Chick-fil-a packets, arby's sauce, it was getting bad.

Posted by: banana Dream - The Cthulhu Seal of Approval at January 17, 2026 12:38 PM (3uBP9)

171 RIP Scott Adams

Someone mentioned this particular strip before but one of my favorites involved the Dept Secretary being told by her doctor to maybe cut down on caffeine..

Next frame - she switches office coffee to decaf....

Last frame shows everyone slumped in hallway - like on Star Trek TOS - and Wally saying..'must find antidote....'

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 12:38 PM (QGaXH)

172 > 166 151 Give MN away to Canada

They can have Minneapolis. There's no way we're gonna give the Canucks all that valuable farm land.

Same deal for California, Oregon, Washington. The shithole cities can secede. The farm land and natural resources stay.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:39 PM (IG3/x)

173 168 Or Willie Mays.

Willie Mays Hayes?
Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 12:37 PM (XuXeR)

'Hit like Mays, run like Hayes.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:39 PM (bss/y)

174 Clear!

https://tinyurl.com/39wwu77b

LIVE, damn you!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:45 PM (bss/y)

175
'Hit like Mays, run like Hayes.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Willie Mays led the National League in stolen bases four consecutive years, 1956-59. Had 339 total in his career. He could run, throw, hit.

Posted by: Say Hey Kid at January 17, 2026 12:45 PM (oftw2)

176 Trump needs to appoint an Anti-Insurrection Task Force (whatever he wants to call it). The purpose would be primarily public information, education and propaganda -- informing the people every single day of what is going on, why it is illegal, why it possibly constitutes insurrection, and the organizations and funding behind the "protests." Reps from the task force would open or close every one of Leavitt's briefings, and otherwise flood social media and legacy media with messages, memes and narrative challenges. This would also prepare the public if and when he invokes the Insurrection Act. Every domestic battle Trump is fighting will be decided in the court of public opinion, and right now we are not fighting with the force equal to the Left.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2026 12:45 PM (WHfpM)

177 Willie Mays led the National League in stolen bases four consecutive years, 1956-59. Had 339 total in his career. He could run, throw, hit.
Posted by: Say Hey Kid at January 17, 2026 12:45 PM (oftw2)

*sigh*

'Tis a sad thing when a Major League reference goes unnoticed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:47 PM (bss/y)

178 Tis a sad thing when a Major League reference goes unnoticed."

Jobu no help...

Posted by: man at January 17, 2026 12:49 PM (XuXeR)

179 Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:50 PM (jc0TO)

180 Give MN away to Canada. It would increase their GDP by 25%, and clear a weeping sore off our body politic. The Minnesotans and Somalis will be happier as Canadians. Everybody wins, just cut it loose.

Canada allows the ChiComs to have the PLA on their territory. We don't want them any closer to us than they already are.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2026 12:50 PM (QZThv)

181 Melissa Chen
@MsMelChen
Jan 16
Honestly this is a great premise for a sitcom:

In the icy wasteland of Greenland, a ragtag NATO detachment of 13 Germans, 2 Norwegians, 3 Swedes, 15 French and 1 lone Brit must "defend" the Arctic from... well, mostly boredom, polar bears, and each other's national stereotypes.

Stationed at a remote outpost in Nuuk, their biggest enemies are cabin fever, frozen plumbing, the Danes who keep forgetting they're there, and each other. They’re constantly prepping to counter the absurd threat of an American takeover with the total force smaller than a pub trivia team.

The show will have everything - petty national rivalries that project from history, offensive cultural stereotypes, frustration due to NATO bureaucracy, and because this is so European, the whole thing will be pretty gay.

Oh and a recurring theme is that they will constantly be picking on the lone Brit.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2026 12:52 PM (rbvCR)

182 179 Are you saying Jesus can't hit a curve ball?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 17, 2026 12:50 PM (jc0TO)

And the truly hilarious thing: that was President Allstate from 24.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2026 12:53 PM (bss/y)

183 I just cleaned out over the Christmas break. Chick-fil-a packets, arby's sauce, it was getting bad.
Posted by: banana Dream
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One kitchen drawer has years of accumulated cellophane-wrapped plastic utensils.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2026 12:53 PM (XeU6L)

184 With weather not too many people here at pub

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 12:53 PM (1vknR)

185 I traditionally think NY, IL, and the West Coast as the states that need to be reverted to territorial status and governed by cruel plenipotentiaries (DC delenda est, salt the earth).

But in the last decade, MN and CO have managed to join the ignominious club of hostile foreign governments in our midst. The mind virus spreads.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 12:53 PM (BI5O2)

186 @161 Hope that clears things up a bit- point taken. Good luck though if/when people on our side have had enough if no actions are taken against these lunatics and those who fund them.
They've done enough to have their rights abridged by those that have had their rights abridged by these a-holes like having our speech (or just going about our daily living) suppressed by threats of violence or actual physical violence/death.

I guess I can just say I could give two shits about their rights when they don't observe mine and/or my children's right to exist.

Posted by: JROD at January 17, 2026 12:54 PM (IlL6s)

187 Inevitably there will be a question "What does this generic statement you have here mean?" and I'll want to say "well, you wanted me to summarize 50 slides worth of data and information into one sentence, of course it doesn't explain every single detail."
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

"Sorry Boss. It's very technical. You are not capable of understanding it therefore I cannot explain it to you." has always worked for me.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 17, 2026 12:54 PM (/lPRQ)

188 172 > 166 151 Give MN away to Canada

They can have Minneapolis. There's no way we're gonna give the Canucks all that valuable farm land.

Same deal for California, Oregon, Washington. The shithole cities can secede. The farm land and natural resources stay.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 17, 2026 12:39 PM (IG3/x)

Starting from L.A. county and going north to Marin - just above S.F. should be peeled off and revert to territorial status. The rest stays as California.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 17, 2026 12:56 PM (QGaXH)

189 If the Europeans sent their new Immigrants they at least would have something in common.

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 12:58 PM (1vknR)

190 But have a cognac while waiting

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2026 12:59 PM (1vknR)

191 My favorite Dilbert dates from a few decades back when the pointy-haired boss was running a competion for best name for the new Quality Assurance program. Wally's entry?

Qualicide

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 17, 2026 01:00 PM (/HDaX)

192 Adams wrote a book on success and the importance of systems over goals. With goals you either achieve them and stop striving or fail and quit.
With systems, you're always working, A-B testing and tweaking for incremental improvement.
Very perspicacious view on motivation and human nature.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 17, 2026 01:01 PM (wBaIH)

193 As usual, the troll lied. They cleared up the issue with Kaiser on a Monday, after he reported it on Friday. He was on the experimental drug until it quit working this month.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 17, 2026 01:01 PM (+mUZM)

194
The show will have everything - petty national rivalries that project from history, offensive cultural stereotypes, frustration due to NATO bureaucracy, and because this is so European, the whole thing will be pretty gay.

Oh and a recurring theme is that they will constantly be picking on the lone Brit.
Posted by: Kindltot

Dad's Army 2026

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2026 01:01 PM (pkeXY)

195 Qualicide
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 17, 2026 01:00 PM (/HD

That was good. My favorite is the character Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, the guy from "Heck".

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 01:01 PM (kJmLc)

196 I traditionally think NY, IL, and the West Coast as the states that need to be reverted to territorial status and governed by cruel plenipotentiaries (DC delenda est, salt the earth).

If I had the power to make constitutional amendments happen, that would be one: upon a vote of 50% of the states of the USA and specific cultural and economic conditions, a state may be reverted to territorial status.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2026 01:02 PM (PYyV9)

197 Remember NYC paid protestors millions of dollars during the Floyd riots because police used tear gas.
———

Here we go again. Protesters don’t get tear gassed. Words mean things. Don’t. accept leftist premise. You’re making their case, their argument, their rhetoric without even realizing it.

It was a Riot. Guaranteed.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2026 01:03 PM (lqKtE)

198 If I had the power to make constitutional amendments happen, that would be one: upon a vote of 50% of the states of the USA and specific cultural and economic conditions, a state may be reverted to territorial status.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2026 01:02 PM (PYyV9)

NJ and PA are well on their way. Josh and Mikie are fully in favor of illegals

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 01:04 PM (kJmLc)

199 It was a Riot. Guaranteed.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2026 01:03 PM (lqKtE)

The left sees riots as legitimate protest, who can forget Chris Cuomo saying he doesn't believe that protests need to be peaceful.

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 01:05 PM (kJmLc)

200 Regarding VDH’s surgery and tumor. Staging is key here, was there any lymph one involvement? Bland statements like “there was no spread” may or may not be accurate about that kind of issue. Secondly, was surgery conventional or robotic. A post op arterial bleed is a big thing. A deft surgeons hands with touch feedback are a lot safer than a video assist robot. Or did they use clips? Inquiring medical minds wanna know. Stanford used to be a pretty great medical center and place of learning but wokeness and DEI have invaded there (it is in California after all).

Posted by: epador at January 17, 2026 01:06 PM (TRnzq)

201 . Stanford used to be a pretty great medical center and place of learning but wokeness and DEI have invaded there (it is in California after all).
Posted by: epador at January 17, 2026 01:06 PM (TRnzq)

Ditto Penn and Penn Medicine Hospitals.

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 01:07 PM (kJmLc)

202 @176 Ordinary American-Agree'd 100% this is right under their noses and God forbid they steal another presidential election it'll be open season on us.

Posted by: JROD at January 17, 2026 01:07 PM (IlL6s)

203 From Dilbert’s Business Language Explained:

Buzzword: “We’re market driven.”

Meaning: “We blame customers for our lack of innovation.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2026 01:08 PM (EXyHK)

204 I wonder if Belgium or the UK will be the first to fall to Islam. Some muz pol made a proclamation that it was time for all those who do not agree with Islam to leave Belgium, so it looks like game on.

Posted by: night lifted at January 17, 2026 01:09 PM (kJmLc)

205 Strategic. Arctic. Shipping. Things our chattering class can't grasp. You know who does? China. Russia. Trump.
——-

Don’t be fooled, the chattering class understands this very well. They just pretend not to understand.

Everything they do, or don’t do, in the last 60 years or so is with an eye towards making the West weak and ineffectual, and dependent, and lacking the ability to protect itself. America is persona non grata in that regard.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2026 01:09 PM (lqKtE)

206 If Greenland becomes a territory, give every single incentive for colonization. If anybody can turn that chunk of shit into an awesome country, it's us.

Pay people to settle it. Tax free. Let it be more or less self-governing and not subject to federal laws aside from those dictating its territorial disposition and military installations.

Give us a pressure valve to ventilate freedom loving young people into somewhere far away from all these CHUDs and their stupid bullshit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 01:09 PM (BI5O2)

207 From his essay “How to Get a Real Education”:

“If there’s a loophole, someone’s going to drive a truck through it, and the people in the truck will get paid better than the people under it.”

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at January 17, 2026 01:10 PM (EXyHK)

208 NYC also paid around 750K to Occupy Wall Street squatters, who after months of infesting a public space, had all their gear chucked in Sanitation Dept. trucks and they were finally rousted by cops. I knew their lead lawyer. He got a third of that taxpayer money. What a scam!

Posted by: Old Fossil at January 17, 2026 01:11 PM (oftw2)

209 Starting to see the media and leftist pollsters fanning out to peddle stories that Dems are gonna take it all in the midterms - this is always part of their playbook - Cook Report always leads the pack with an "its all over for Trump" poll like today's in Newsweek - the Dems are switching 18 seats! Then Emerson and others follow on later - same bogus BS. Yeah, no.

You can't hate these liars enough...

Posted by: Boswell at January 17, 2026 01:11 PM (BGfwC)

210 Posted by: epador at January 17, 2026 01:06 PM

All we know is in the statement from VDH that Jack Fowler posted on X.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 17, 2026 01:12 PM (1Au9i)

211 Nick Shirley went to Greenland and interviewed some locals. Asked if they'd sell Greenland for $20,000 apiece. Guy said, no way, he'd never sell Greenland. Then Nick said something about them getting $100,000 each. Same guy said I'd go for that. Nick said, " What, you said you'd never sell". Kid said "money is money".

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 17, 2026 01:13 PM (+mUZM)

212 Greenland under our control would put a huge dent, if not outright eliminate the whole "rare earth minerals" argument about where and from whom we get them.

Also, put all the fucking data centers there. Plenty to keep them cool. Just build a couple nuke reactors to power them or use geothermal. I know... no nukes. Whatever.

There's a whole host of possibilities what could be done with Greenland that'd benefit the US.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 01:16 PM (U2OZr)

213 I think the issue is that over the past 20 years or so, the right to peacefully assemble has been transformed into a "right to protest" and the definition of "protest" has been completely mangled to allow for breaking all sorts of laws (rioting, blocking roads, attacking people peacefully assembling supporting a different opinion, etc).

That needs to end. Laws should be enforced.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

Belligerent is quite the opposite of peaceful even if it hasn't come to blows yet.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 17, 2026 01:18 PM (/lPRQ)

214 Ordinary American-Agree'd 100% this is right under their noses and God forbid they steal another presidential election it'll be open season on us.

Democrats are openly stating that they will stack the supreme court, eliminate filibuster, and use the federal government to destroy their enemies. They are saying that straight up in interviews. They are warning people about what will happen when they get in power.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2026 01:22 PM (PYyV9)

215 I'm too old and established here to settle Greenland. I wouldn't go there unless I need to flee the regime here - it would probably be much like the arctic under Soviet rule, largely ignored.

But if I were 20 years old, and GWB said we're paying tax free stipends to young men and women to colonize it, and they won't have to be lorded over by our CHUDs and their legislators, I'd be a Greenlander today.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 01:25 PM (BI5O2)

216 Re:210
Zactly. We got diarrhea of the thread on Scott’s illness complete with lying trolls and such, but Scott is gone. VDH is still here. He is valuable. While there is a thing such as HIPAA and I respect his privacy a major post op complication happened at a fairly prestigious center. There’s a news quality to that at least.

Posted by: epador at January 17, 2026 01:27 PM (TRnzq)

217 So a Canadian court ruled that Trudeau had no legal power to seize money from truckers, years after the fact when he's out of office. Not that anything will happen to him.

Of course their far-left Supreme Court can overturn this and almost certainly will.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2026 01:27 PM (PYyV9)

218 13 Germans, 2 Norwegians, 3 Swedes, 15 French and 1 lone Brit walk into a Greenland bar.

The bartender says ‘ So your the NATO guys that said something bad about Muslims ‘

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 17, 2026 01:28 PM (KDPiq)

219 Honestly this is a great premise for a sitcom:

In the icy wasteland of Greenland, a ragtag NATO detachment of 13 Germans, 2 Norwegians, 3 Swedes, 15 French and 1 lone Brit must "defend" the Arctic from... well, mostly boredom, polar bears, and each other's national stereotypes.
...

Oh and a recurring theme is that they will constantly be picking on the lone Brit.
-
Blackadder season 5

Posted by: Methos at January 17, 2026 01:35 PM (vSvIl)

220 Can the series finale feature the NATO detachment being eaten alive by polar bears?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2026 01:38 PM (BI5O2)

221 13 Germans, 2 Norwegians, 3 Swedes, 15 French and 1 lone Brit

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🤡🤡🤡 🚌

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2026 01:38 PM (g47mK)

222 >>> One kitchen drawer has years of accumulated cellophane-wrapped plastic utensils.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 17, 2026 12:53 PM (XeU6L)

Oh, I keep those too. But I have them in a cabinet I use for hobbies because those things are great for fashioning little tools out of, mixing paint, using as a spatula for spreading filler, but not in the kitchen.

Posted by: banana Dream - also great for making shivs at January 17, 2026 01:38 PM (3uBP9)

223 > 13 Germans, 2 Norwegians, 3 Swedes, 15 French and 1 lone Brit
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Arrived on an American built, NATO C-130, to "defend" Greenland from the US.

The irony is so lost on them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2026 01:46 PM (U2OZr)

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