Does The West Still Have The Oxford Martyr's Spark?

Hugh Latimer was the Bishop of Worcester, and a convert to the ideas of the reformation, for which he was tried and convicted of heresy, and along with his friend Nicholas Ridley, burned at the stake in 1555. They, along with Thomas Cranmer, who was burned a few months later, are called "The Oxford Martyrs."

His final words are a testament to the strength and resolve of men of the West.

Be of good cheer, Master Ridley, and play the man, for we shall this day light such a candle in England as I trust by God's grace shall never be put out.

Whether that resolve remains in Great Britain remains to be seen, But Western culture is no stranger to religious wars. The Reformation sparked conflict for a few hundred years, and it was brutal. The 30 Years War killed off at least 5,000,000 people, and smaller but no less vicious conflicts spread across Europe.

Europeans once fought and died to protect their religions and culture. From our lofty perch in the 21st century, it seems almost quaint that they would disagree so profoundly about what many of us see as, simply, Christianity. Regardless of the reasons for the conflict, we must respect the fortitude that they displayed.

Is there that same fortitude in the current population of Europe? Yes, certainly, among the Muslim invaders! But it remains to be seen whether there is any fight left in the descendants of the people who bled and died for their faith, their country, their culture.

Who will be the men who light the candle that shows the West that our culture is worth fighting for...and dying for?

PS. This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing.

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

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1 I'll fetch em

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 12:00 PM (Ia/+0)

2 PS. This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing.

What about Zoroastrians? Are they fair game?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 12:02 PM (Riz8t)

3 And don't get me started on those durn Buddhists.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 12:02 PM (Riz8t)

4 Let the bashing begin!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 25, 2026 12:03 PM (3vye3)

5 There are certainly people in England who have paid a hefty price for their beliefs. Tommy Robinson comes to mind.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

6 Can we bash Catholics and Protestants who bash Protestants and Catholics?

Posted by: GWB at January 25, 2026 12:04 PM (5tTl1)

7
I regularly bash the Catholics while having a beer with a couple of them, who I refer to, correctly, as "Romans".

Posted by: Auspex at January 25, 2026 12:05 PM (Y8DZL)

8 Surprise ending to me in Rick Atkinson's The Fate of the Day was a major religious riot in England in 1780 maybe a thousand deaths for a religious riot.
I could predict a religious war in Europe with the invasion g oing on

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 12:05 PM (Ia/+0)

9 Burned at the stake. The cruelty of man knows no bounds.

It’s unthinkable now but if Might Makes Right ever makes a comeback look for its return.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 12:06 PM (KDPiq)

10 And, always remember, Progressivism IS a religion. One that replaced God with Man, and Faith with supposed Reason.

Posted by: GWB at January 25, 2026 12:07 PM (5tTl1)

11 Religious Wars were political wars where the powers to be used there members as fodder to maintain their power.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 12:08 PM (KDPiq)

12 Most people want to pretend we can peacefully live with Islam and that it's about "respect". The Pope is one of these people, and the idea of physically fighting for faith does not seem to be in his vocabulary.

Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:08 PM (kJmLc)

13 Latimer, Ridley, and Cranmer were burned by order of “Bloody Mary”, Elizabeth’s older half sister. It took another long 4 years before she died and Elizabeth could institute a much more tolerant reign.

I believe the abuses under Mary did a great deal to bring about the vicious enmity between Catholics and Protestants in England over the centuries. And of course the other side took their revenge under Cromwell a century later, a cycle that went on and on.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2026 12:09 PM (IUuBi)

14 Europeans once fought and died to protect their religions and culture. From our lofty perch in the 21st century, it seems almost quaint that they would disagree so profoundly about what many of us see as, simply, Christianity.

I strongly suspect that the reason people were being killed over religious disagreements was NOT due to doctrinal differences, but due to threats to somebody's power. Humans are really bad about using religion to further their own selfish goals.

The New Testament teaches that if someone persists in promoting false doctrine, the proper response is to separate from them and trust God to take care of it.

Posted by: Emmie at January 25, 2026 12:09 PM (FMtrg)

15 9 Burned at the stake. The cruelty of man knows no bounds.

It’s unthinkable now but if Might Makes Right ever makes a comeback look for its return.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 12:06 PM (KDPiq)

Tell the burnt Yazidi girls about cruelty.

Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:10 PM (kJmLc)

16 I’ve never been in Europe but from what I can observe here it’s dead Jim… mainly because they’ve rejected religious faith. Western civilization survives or falls in the US

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 25, 2026 12:10 PM (xT8gx)

17 "PS. This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing."

Sigh.

*Dejectedly kicks dirt.*

Posted by: Irreligious person who just wants to stir things up at January 25, 2026 12:10 PM (2Ez/1)

18 The UK and Europe in general is likely lost if they don't eject the Muslim hordes. And soon. The US tends to follow those trends across the pond, so we'll see how we do with our own migrant hordes.

Minneapolis isn't a good sign. Neither is California, or Illinois, or New York, or....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 25, 2026 12:11 PM (qwVdq)

19 "I strongly suspect that the reason people were being killed over religious disagreements was NOT due to doctrinal differences, but due to threats to somebody's power. Humans are really bad about using religion to further their own selfish goals."

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Is this about us?

Posted by: The Pharisees at January 25, 2026 12:13 PM (2Ez/1)

20 Tytler had it right.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 25, 2026 12:13 PM (0KSrI)

21 I'm not bashing Catholics or protestants, just bashing the deliberate stupidity of Americans when it comes to this "all cultures are equal" crap. The hierarchy is full of them. Remember the UK Bishop standing there with her "We are all Muslims" sign?

Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:13 PM (kJmLc)

22 I strongly suspect that the reason people were being killed over religious disagreements was NOT due to doctrinal differences, but due to threats to somebody's power. Humans are really bad about using religion to further their own selfish goals.

The upfront reason was generally some doctrinal dispute, e.g. homoousios vs homoiousios, i.e. was Christ exactly the same as God or "similar to" God, or something else. However, in the end, you are correct. It was about who had the power.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t)

23 Oxford? Tis a silly place.

Posted by: Reforger at January 25, 2026 12:14 PM (7ujVx)

24 Lot of professed Christians ignore Christ’s teachings when it doesn’t suit their lifestyle.

My thought is always that it will take care of itself eventually.

I have to say it still bothers me that Kevin Smith made a statement that he has now rejected Religion and mocked the Holy Spirit. The only unforgivable sin. I’m bothered for him , not angry at him.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 12:14 PM (KDPiq)

25 Wait. You can punish someone just for their thoughts?

Hmmm...

Posted by: Orwell comma George at January 25, 2026 12:16 PM (2Ez/1)

26 Minneapolis isn't a good sign. Neither is California, or Illinois, or New York, or....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 25, 2026 12:11 PM (qwVdq)

Minneapolis leadership is protecting its loot, they're encouraging defense of migrants to keep voters and money

Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:17 PM (kJmLc)

27 Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:10 PM (kJmLc)

Unthinkable in western nations. There are still shithole countries where might makes right still exist.

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

28 My guess is Oxford is now a Culture Marxism Seminary these days. Bet trying to help Muslims be one and the same, or turning others to turn the cheek

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

29 13 Latimer, Ridley, and Cranmer were burned by order of “Bloody Mary”, Elizabeth’s older half sister. It took another long 4 years before she died and Elizabeth could institute a much more tolerant reign.

I believe the abuses under Mary did a great deal to bring about the vicious enmity between Catholics and Protestants in England over the centuries. And of course the other side took their revenge under Cromwell a century later, a cycle that went on and on.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2026 12:09 PM (IUuBi)
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I don't want to break the rules, but the above already has done so. Elizabeth was "tolerant" only in the sense that Catholics were executed for treason, rather than heresy.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 25, 2026 12:18 PM (s0JqF)

30 Getting close to 7 inches of snow here, not expecting any change over to wetter precipitation

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 12:19 PM (Ia/+0)

31 Most of what I have heard from Christian communities is "pray for your enemies" and "turn the other cheek"; not much about verbal fighting for truth and nothing positive about physical fighting for truth. Naturally it would take time to teach and learn the concept of a just war. Supernaturally, it could happen quite quickly I suppose.

I know my limitations. I will fight with praise and petition in prayer. And I will support, however I may, those who have the courage to fight.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 25, 2026 12:20 PM (RkOfE)

32 28 My guess is Oxford is now a Culture Marxism Seminary these days. Bet trying to help Muslims be one and the same, or turning others to turn the cheek
Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 12:17 PM (Ia/+0)

Yes, and worse WEF thrives there too. They took it down but their original plan for 15min cities was supposed to escalate into letting people buy only 3 new garments per year and banning pets. Banning pets is big with WEF monsters.

Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:20 PM (kJmLc)

33 Moe: Would you rather be burned at the stake or beheaded?

Curly: Burned at the stake!

Moe: Why?

Curly: A hot steak is better than a cold chop, anytime! Nyuk! Nyuk!

Posted by: Stoogemania at January 25, 2026 12:20 PM (oftw2)

34 The IRA wasn’t fighting for Catholicism.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 12:21 PM (KDPiq)

35 It’s fair to point out that a lot of the power behind the reformation was Northern Europe undergoing an awakening and realizing they were not going to allow themselves to be controlled by Southern Europeans any more. Not religiously, not politically, and helped by the fact that the Southern European political and religious establishments were hopelessly inbred and corrupt.

One could make an analogy and suggest that something similar is happening today, an uprising by the central and southern USA against traditional Eastern establishment USA.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2026 12:21 PM (IUuBi)

36 However, in the end, you are correct. It was about who had the power.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t)

Since we have finite knowledge, humans can sincerely hold differing views about God. It's good to hash these things out with each other. Recall that Peter was slower to accept the fact that the Good News was also for the Gentiles and there was some friction with Paul over that. But Peter and Paul didn't kill each other over the issue and their views were ultimately harmonious.

Posted by: Emmie at January 25, 2026 12:21 PM (FMtrg)

37 Martyrdom. A real man gets burned at the stake for his religious convictions. A box munching retard and unfit mother commits suicide by cop for no good reason.

Both are martyrs to their people. People will wave any bloody shirt, even if it smells like rank pussy and has cheeto stains all over it.

It's a meaningless concept. If Hugh Latimer and George Floyd are in the same category, it's not a thing that bears much discussion. It's like saying that chickens and eagles are both birds. Yes, and?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 25, 2026 12:21 PM (BI5O2)

38 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2026 12:09 PM (IUuBi)

More tolerant to whom? Elizabeth had hundreds of Catholics executed, but dressed it up as treason, rather than heresy.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 25, 2026 12:21 PM (NcvvS)

39 Minneapolis isn't a good sign. Neither is California, or Illinois, or New York, or....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 25, 2026 12:11 PM (qwVdq)

Minneapolis leadership is protecting its loot, they're encouraging defense of migrants to keep voters and money
Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:17 PM (kJmLc)

I saw the Minneapolis police chief interviewed by resting bitch face Margaret Brennan this morning… he looks the part physically but everything he said was leftist talking points. How do these people get in these positions? And how do they sleep at night?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 25, 2026 12:21 PM (xT8gx)

40
Religious Wars were political wars where the powers to be used there members as fodder to maintain their power.
Posted by: Opinion fact

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And religious differences today are often sheer tribalism. I'm talking about something personal, so don't mind me, but when someone insists, "My family is Apostolian Goans," what they mean is, "Which makes us better than other Apostolians and other Goans." And then they go about indulging in very non-Apostolian vices. This applies to religions and ethnicities/nationalities outside Islam altogether.

But WOW, have I ever seen Muslims raise their fist for Islam and then go out and drink and whore themselves blind.

Sex always seems to be the exception to the sacred rules that EVERYONE is willing to make.

Where was I? Oh yeah, tribalism masked as devoutness. It's dangerous and unAmerican and it needs to be called out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 12:22 PM (fL3jw)

41 And Eeyore beat me to it.

Posted by: Nazdar at January 25, 2026 12:22 PM (NcvvS)

42
PS. This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing.

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Are Buddhists, Hindus or Shinto fair game?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2026 12:22 PM (tgvbd)

43 The Brits and Europe are fooked because the populous are unarmed.

I think we in the US have better chances.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 25, 2026 12:23 PM (qFwJc)

44 The Chosen.

Posted by: Come And See at January 25, 2026 12:23 PM (2Ez/1)

45 PS. This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing.

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Are Buddhists, Hindus or Shinto fair game?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2026 12:22 PM (tgvbd)
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What am I? Chopped liver????

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 25, 2026 12:24 PM (LQfGe)

46 37. Lattimer stood for something, George Floyd dies from an OD after a life of crime and his "martyrdom" was entirely manufactured to cause riots, and blame Trump, who had nothing to do with MN police procedures, while letting Frey, Ellison and Walz off the hook. I never even read that the MPD had narcan available.

Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:24 PM (kJmLc)

47 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 25, 2026 12:21 PM (xT8gx)

All Police chiefs in Blue cities are political appointments. Frequently from outside the city.

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

48 This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing.

The hell you say.
Jeremiah 13:23

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 25, 2026 12:25 PM (zdLoL)

49
The big problem is that in Old Blighty particularly, Christianity has been undercut, mocked, and disparaged in popular culture for decades.

Islam? Bloody good show, mate! A bit of the alright!

F'rinstance, here's a very recent example in "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple".

The villain is named, Jimmy Crystal (JC!) who is the self-styled Son of Satan and gathers apostles to spread his word and influence. Jimmy himself knows he is a fake, buuuuuut his followers are stupid gullible wankers who really believe in him. They believe he is the true Son of Satan and they follow him about the countryside dispensing Jimmy Crystal's (JC!!) "charity" which is skinning people alive. In the end, Jimmy Crystal(JC!!!) is crucified on an upside down crucifix in accordance to "his father's will".

Geddit? Do you geddit? Huh? Do you?

That sort of messaging is constant. So, of course, who would die or risk their life for something like Christianity?

Now, Islam, those buggers believe, mate! They believe!!!

Time for a kebob and a pint down at the pub. Cheerio!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2026 12:25 PM (iJfKG)

50 We have a sick perverted version of "martyrdom" for a sort of Religion..Liberalism... Government control is their God...How do you fight it ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 12:26 PM (VE6XX)

51 Another way to look at the martyrs mentioned is that they "fought" legally and lost but in the loss expected reward for they were following their conscience.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 25, 2026 12:26 PM (RkOfE)

52 Banning pets is big with WEF monsters.
Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:20 PM (kJmLc)

It's not enough to simply divide society, and turn brother against brother, and keep everybody fearful and dependent.

No, you need them to be utterly atomized, totally alone, but for the warmth of their glowing hatefeeds.

Stamping out all relationships except for the one with the domineering State is always the perfect end goal.

Western shitlibs hate pet ownership for the same reason they hate the the family unit, and for the same reason the Khmer Rouge outlawed friendship.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 25, 2026 12:26 PM (BI5O2)

53 In the western world the religions are communism and liberty and the war is coming.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 25, 2026 12:27 PM (xvV+O)

54 This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing.

The hell you say.
Jeremiah 13:23

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 25, 2026 12:25 PM (zdLoL)
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I don't get it. That's about Somalis.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 25, 2026 12:27 PM (LQfGe)

55 I do want to say this: I learn a lot and gain a lot of insights from you Morons. I really appreciate being able to discuss and debate here (when it's done in good faith).

Posted by: Emmie at January 25, 2026 12:28 PM (FMtrg)

56 I've been pretty well toasted, but never actually set aflame.

Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High at January 25, 2026 12:28 PM (oftw2)

57 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 25, 2026 12:26 PM (BI5O2)

It’s sadly hilarious that the Left believe or claim 1984 is a story of conservative power.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 12:28 PM (KDPiq)

58
Banning pets is big with WEF monsters.
Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:20 PM (kJmLc)

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Wine aunts hardest hit.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2026 12:28 PM (tgvbd)

59 The New Testament teaches that if someone persists in promoting false doctrine, the proper response is to separate from them and trust God to take care of it.
Posted by: Emmie at January 25, 2026 12:09 PM (FMtrg)

You can't do that when the kings demand you worship a certain way. Hence, America.

Posted by: GWB at January 25, 2026 12:29 PM (gmhl3)

60 I regularly bash the Catholics while having a beer with a couple of them, who I refer to, correctly, as "Romans".
Posted by: Auspex at January 25, 2026 12:05 PM (Y8DZL)

Aaaaand here we go.

Do you refer to yourself as a silly, self-righteous asshole, just as correctly?

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2026 12:29 PM (iJfKG)

61 PS. This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing.

But atheists are fair game, right?

Posted by: tankdemon at January 25, 2026 12:29 PM (/TlUl)

62
I saw the Minneapolis police chief interviewed by resting bitch face Margaret Brennan this morning… he looks the part physically but everything he said was leftist talking points. How do these people get in these positions? And how do they sleep at night?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 25, 2026 12:21 PM (xT8gx)

O'Hara is from NJ and has a muslim wife named Wafiyya possibly Somali,

Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:29 PM (kJmLc)

63 To be fair, there ARE people willing to die for a good cause. Some are Muslim. Some aren't.

The Countdown to Iran’s Liberation Has Begun

The suffering of the Iranian people is unspeakable. The huge protests that engulfed the country have subsided, not because the regime’s crackdown is succeeding, but because it has entered the Hitlerian scorched-earth stage. The few reports that are trickling out of the carceral state are heartrending. Back on January 8, we read, “A large group of civilians was driven into the bazaar through fear and gunfire. They were trapped inside, the entire place was set on fire, and machine-gun fire rained down on anyone who tried to escape the flames to save their lives.” Since then, the massacres have become routine and bureaucratized.

A lawyer who was contacted from Tehran reports that several thousand people have been herded into large warehouse halls in Kahrizak. They are being executed in groups and registered as “killed on previous days.” “There is no trial,” he noted. “No due process. There is no real court.” There also reports that the regime is stockpiling bodies, refusing to hand them over to their families. T

https://is.gd/bYT05M

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 12:29 PM (Riz8t)

64 Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 25, 2026 12:20 PM (RkOfE)

Nicely said. I appreciate that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2026 12:30 PM (Nx5jP)

65 55 I do want to say this: I learn a lot and gain a lot of insights from you Morons. I really appreciate being able to discuss and debate here (when it's done in good faith).
Posted by: Emmie

Sorry, Ma'am, Arguments are down the hall.

Posted by: Contrary Mary at January 25, 2026 12:30 PM (oftw2)

66 Kids need to be brought up believing God is the creator, maker of heaven and earth. The Bible never explains how He did it, and since we're talking about a universe it brings into question whether a "day" is an earth day. Belief is undermined at every step by non-believers.

Posted by: Tennessee Volunteer at January 25, 2026 12:30 PM (ysRbJ)

67 Time for a kebob and a pint down at the pub. Cheerio!
Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2026 12:25 PM (iJfKG)

See you at the Winchester.

Posted by: Shaun at January 25, 2026 12:31 PM (wVcYX)

68
Actually, as a Catholic, I don't mind the bashing. It comes with the territory.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2026 12:32 PM (tgvbd)

69 It’s sadly hilarious that the Left believe or claim 1984 is a story of conservative power.
Posted by: Opinion fact

The left has sprays accused others of what they are doing, have done, or plan to do. It one of their basic traits.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 25, 2026 12:32 PM (xvV+O)

70 Banning pets is big with WEF monsters.
Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:20 PM (kJmLc)

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Wine aunts hardest hit.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2026 12:28 PM (tgvbd)
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Nah. Poor Mr. Bigglesworth!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 25, 2026 12:32 PM (LQfGe)

71 I don't want to break the rules, but the above already has done so. Elizabeth was "tolerant" only in the sense that Catholics were executed for treason, rather than heresy.
Posted by: Eeyore at January 25, 2026 12:18 PM (s0JqF)

To be fair to Elizabeth, there was certainly a great deal of treason while she was Queen. Her enemies, who were many, viewed her as the illegitimate daughter of a Usurper Dynasty that should never have held the throne to begin with.
But their biggest mistake was thinking that she would be weak. Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk is a prime example.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2026 12:33 PM (IUuBi)

72 Wine aunts hardest hit.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2026 12:28 PM (tgvbd)

I bet a lot of people would find that demand distasteful no matter how much the bastards say it will "save the planet". Fuck the planet. I'm keeping my whippets

Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:33 PM (kJmLc)

73 PS. This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing.

Well shit. Jehovah's Witnesses should be fair game though.

Amirite?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2026 12:33 PM (cYBz/)

74 As a reader of European history, I just never understood the Catholic/ Protestant wars, and the 1600s > are filled with them.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 12:33 PM (Ia/+0)

75 I’ve never been in Europe but from what I can observe here it’s dead Jim… mainly because they’ve rejected religious faith. Western civilization survives or falls in the US

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 25, 2026 12:10 PM

After the Soviet Union collapsed Europe literally lost it's purpose. They stopped caring about their defense and let their military rot away. They like the US also hit the wall on birth rates and knew it was just a matter of time before their societies would stagnate like Japan did during the lost decade.

They tried to revive everything by creating the european union but that didn't work, it just prolonged the down hill slide. Like the US they finally settled on unlimited immigration from 3rd world populations to make up for their declining populations.

There is no going back from that without mass deportations like Trump is doing here and the Euroweenie's don't have the stomach for that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 25, 2026 12:33 PM (0N4FZ)

76 Sorry, Ma'am, Arguments are down the hall.
Posted by: Contrary Mary

No they aren't.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2026 12:33 PM (cYBz/)

77 Trump should declare martial law in MN, ruthlessly suppress their insurrection, and then convict Tim Walz for treason at a drumhead tribunal and publicly hang him.

If you're going to martyr someone, let it be a fat retard nobody likes. There will be no weeping throng of people trampling one another to dip their kerchiefs in that pig's gravy-like blood.

And stringing up a Governor and VP candidate after crushing a rebellion would send a clear message that #Resistance is no longer a cost-free virtue signal.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 25, 2026 12:34 PM (BI5O2)

78 I've been pretty well toasted, but never actually set aflame.
Posted by: Cooter Brown, Flyin' High at January 25, 2026 12:28 PM (oftw2)

It's coming closer
The flames are now licking my body
Won't you help me
I feel like I'm slippin' away
It's hard to breathe
And my chest is a-heaving
Lord, have mercy
I'm burning a hole where I lay

Posted by: Elvis, Hunk-a Hunk-a Burning Love at January 25, 2026 12:34 PM (wVcYX)

79 Thx CBD.
The thing that gives hope is that a lot of younger people are becoming more religious and looking at the left as the lunatics they are. Still expecting something big and stupid from the left that will make them look even worse

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 25, 2026 12:34 PM (e4I2N)

80 Actually, as a Catholic, I don't mind the bashing. It comes with the territory.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Yeah, well, the Bishop wears a funny hat!

Posted by: Susquehanna Hat Company. at January 25, 2026 12:34 PM (oftw2)

81 Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 25, 2026 12:32 PM (xvV+O)

Yes projection is one of the ten mental defects common in all Leftists.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 12:34 PM (KDPiq)

82 Banning pets is big with WEF monsters.
Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:20 PM (kJmLc)

I did not know this. Me personally, I am not a pet person. I don’t like cats or dogs (don’t judge!)… at all

But our kids wanted cats when they were young so we got them cats and they loved those animals. It was great for them… only for that reason did I tolerate the cat hair and litter boxes (both of which I detest)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 25, 2026 12:35 PM (xT8gx)

83 As a reader of European history, I just never understood the Catholic/ Protestant wars, and the 1600s > are filled with them.
Posted by: Skip

Just like most wars, the conflict was us/not us.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2026 12:35 PM (cYBz/)

84 Trying to decide when to go out to start clearing, last light or just wait until morning and maybe it will be over.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 12:35 PM (Ia/+0)

85 66 Kids need to be brought up believing God is the creator, maker of heaven and earth. The Bible never explains how He did it…”

It’s explained just as well as any modern physicist can explain the Big Bang.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2026 12:36 PM (IUuBi)

86 I would prefer that the Protestant tribes and the Catholic tribes not fight each other but fight together. Yes there are theological differences that are worth fighting for but those should be put aside when there is a common enemy tribe that wants to destroy all Christian tribes.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 25, 2026 12:36 PM (RkOfE)

87 PS. This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing.

Well shit. Jehovah's Witnesses should be fair game though.

Amirite?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2026 12:33 PM (cYBz/)
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Knock, knock!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 25, 2026 12:36 PM (LQfGe)

88 Knew that p.s. was gonna take a hit.
Boom.

Posted by: From about That Time at January 25, 2026 12:36 PM (sl73Y)

89 Atheists are kinda sure there is no magic or God.

Steal from all including babies. Especially from the dying and dead.
If to found out there is a God, i'm sure they think that their deadly decisions are on parr with God's.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 25, 2026 12:37 PM (EyfuW)

90 Finished my first round of shoveling. We've already got six inches, but thankfully the snow is light. Problem is is that it is 8° out. Hands get cold quickly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 25, 2026 12:37 PM (e4I2N)

91 Most of your police and fire "chiefs" in large blue cities have been rapidly promoted somewhere due to their race or disordered sexual perversion and are soon untouchable and cannot be criticized and the average joe thinks the "chiefs" are like the fantasy cops and firemen heroes the average joe sees on TV when in fact most are incompetent, malfeasant, and usually hate white people and heterosexuals when not stealing taxpayer dollars.

Posted by: LGQTB and Z Police Athletic League at January 25, 2026 12:38 PM (R/m4+)

92 If to found out there is a God, i'm sure they think that their deadly decisions are on parr with God's.
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 25, 2026 12:37 PM (EyfuW)
They're more Luciferian than godless

Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:38 PM (kJmLc)

93 Actually, as a Catholic, I don't mind the bashing. It comes with the territory.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

This year, the Hadrian bashing on this site is scheduled for February 18 through April 2.

Posted by: Lenten Louie at January 25, 2026 12:38 PM (oftw2)

94 I'm not a Christian at all. None of this matters. Everyone needs to get over their shit and present the Enemy a united front. All of our heads are on the same block.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 25, 2026 12:39 PM (BI5O2)

95 Christian tribes should work together to get the Muslim and leftist tribes fighting each other

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 25, 2026 12:39 PM (e4I2N)

96
How do these people get in these positions?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt

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I was reading about the polarization of American politics t'other day and the author remarked that moderates on both sides are, for some reason, staying out of entry-level politics. School boards, city councils, that sort of thing. The people getting in and eventually rising to leadership are the extremists. Somehow, moderates have to get back into the game.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 12:39 PM (fL3jw)

97 Amirite?"

Yeah. The Amirites were SOBs...

Posted by: man at January 25, 2026 12:39 PM (XuXeR)

98 95 Christian tribes should work together to get the Muslim and leftist tribes fighting each other
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 25, 2026 12:39 PM (e4I2N)

Let's just expel most of the Muslims

Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:39 PM (kJmLc)

99 Christians should have one unifying belief that make all the other differences moot.

John 3:16

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 12:39 PM (KDPiq)

100 >>I would prefer that the Protestant tribes and the Catholic tribes not fight each other but fight together. Yes there are theological differences that are worth fighting for but those should be put aside when there is a common enemy tribe that wants to destroy all Christian tribes.

I've never felt the need to fight against any religion other than Islam. I honestly don't care what others believe, makes not a bit of difference to what I believe. Just seems like a waste of time to me.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2026 12:39 PM (viF8m)

101
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 25, 2026 12:39 PM (BI5O2)

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I'm with you 100%.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 12:40 PM (fL3jw)

102 > PS. This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing.
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Maybe not 'bashing' but many could use a vigorous shaking to quit "turning the other cheek" with every leftist stab at them and their culture.

Those verbal stabs will be real, sharp ones if they don't get a clue.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 25, 2026 12:40 PM (qwVdq)

103 I've never felt the need to fight against any religion other than Islam. I honestly don't care what others believe, makes not a bit of difference to what I believe. Just seems like a waste of time to me.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2026 12:39 PM (viF8m)

Me too...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 12:40 PM (VE6XX)

104 I think that the invasion in the churches has not come to an end. Last time it was a Baptist ( Protestant) evangelical church. Next time it will be a Roman Catholic Church, so we better stand together or we shall fall separately.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2026 12:41 PM (Nx5jP)

105
I was told by my betters that when religious sentiment disappeared then we could move into a world where science and rational thought would engender a utopia.

So Europe has largely de-Christianized and de-Judeified itself. Now it's a backward, stagnant, demographically-doomed backwater. And all those postwar "officially atheist" regimes vanished leaving only a legacy of poverty, oppression and a morally-blighted people.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2026 12:41 PM (tgvbd)

106 Since it's over 100 what a shit show MN is....WE should wall it off...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 12:41 PM (VE6XX)

107 Kids need to be brought up believing God is the creator, maker of heaven and earth. The Bible never explains how He did it…”

It’s explained just as well as any modern physicist can explain the Big Bang.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Voxday has interesting mathematical proofs of Darwinian selection.
Like him or not, the man's at the forefront of lots of discussions,.

Posted by: MkY at January 25, 2026 12:41 PM (q6tQZ)

108 Oxford spark?

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys?

Posted by: man at January 25, 2026 12:41 PM (XuXeR)

109 A lot of the “religious war” aspect of the 1600’s was propaganda to motivate the peasants. I’ve tried to understand the 30 years war, one of the most confusing conflicts ever since so many kept switching sides. And I’ve decided that it mostly comes down to Who is going to control Central Europe? The Hapsburgs, the Bourbons, or the Swedes?
Cromwell, btw, doesn’t get the credit he deserves for keeping England completely out of that one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2026 12:42 PM (IUuBi)

110 Actually, as a Catholic, I don't mind the bashing. It comes with the territory.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

*throws snowball*

Posted by: Methos at January 25, 2026 12:42 PM (vSvIl)

111 The storm is upon us here. I barely made it home from church before the bottom fell out. The big temp drop should be behind these thunderstorms.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 25, 2026 12:42 PM (jc0TO)

112 > It was about who had the power.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 12:14 PM (Riz8t)

Sure. I don't think anyone really believes that Henry VII was motivated by spiritual motives. He wanted to get laid and wanted to snatch all that sweet, sweet Church property.

See also: Philip IV coincidentally discovering that the Templars were Satan-worshiping heretics at the same time he owed them a ton of money he could pay, or any number of kings, princes, and potentates who "got religion" with respect to the Jews, again when money was owed that they could not pay. Martin Luther would have gone to the stake like many earlier and later reformers if the German princes hadn't had a beef with the Pope.

And so on.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 25, 2026 12:42 PM (IG3/x)

113 I think CBD is asking if people today will stand up to Islam and the lawless left, and as Christians are a sort of majority that will matter.

Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:42 PM (kJmLc)

114 111 The storm is upon us here. I barely made it home from church before the bottom fell out. The big temp drop should be behind these thunderstorms.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 25, 2026 12:42 PM (jc0TO)

Stay safe all you in the path of this...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 12:42 PM (VE6XX)

115 "PS. This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing."

*shifts uncomfortably in seat*

Posted by: Atheist vegan who does CrossFit at January 25, 2026 12:43 PM (2Ez/1)

116
The Thirty Years War was so religious in nature that Cardinal Richelieu was allied to the Protestant Swedes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2026 12:43 PM (tgvbd)

117 PS. This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing.

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

*pouts*

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 25, 2026 12:43 PM (jc0TO)

118 111. Thunderstorms?

Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:44 PM (kJmLc)

119 Can we at least agree on hating the Quakers? Oatmeal-eating motherfuckers...

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 25, 2026 12:44 PM (IG3/x)

120 This year, the Hadrian bashing on this site is scheduled for February 18 through April 2.

can we put it off for a couple of days? my hair is a mess

Posted by: DanMan at January 25, 2026 12:45 PM (8uzBS)

121 111. Thunderstorms?
Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:44 PM

https://tinyurl.com/5fpmc5vm

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 25, 2026 12:46 PM (jc0TO)

122 RTFM:

https://tinyurl.com/2mrvv2kw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 25, 2026 12:46 PM (LQfGe)

123 106 Since it's over 100 what a shit show MN is....WE should wall it off...

Here is a link to O'Keefe's newest. It's frightening. Anyone who says this isn't an insurrection needs to break out their dictionary.

https://is.gd/UOhvsV

Also, from the Book Thread:

268 For those who still think the riots in Minneapolis are spontaneous and unorganized mobs, I have some bad news. This really is an insurrection, and must be treated accordingly.

The Left Doesn’t Want You to Know This About Alex Pretti, the Man Shot by Border Patrol

https://is.gd/qxJW8I

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 12:46 PM (Riz8t)

124 My wife just informed me that we have to head out to church to change the altar cloths this afternoon. Even though Father relieved us of the obligation to physically attend Mass this morning.

The drive should be interesting.

Hoo boy.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2026 12:46 PM (cYBz/)

125 Thunderstorms?
Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:44 PM (kJmLc)

When it went through here it was one of the biggest lightning and thunder storms I’ve seen. Really weird considering the temperature.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 12:47 PM (KDPiq)

126 122 RTFM:

https://tinyurl.com/2mrvv2kw
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 25, 2026 12:46 PM (LQfGe)

This is not some game.. They are dead serious that they want ICE and us dead....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 12:47 PM (VE6XX)

127 Your Sunday morning posts are thought provoking on topics I enjoy, so thanks for that CBD. Unfortunately I have got to go. I'll read thru the rest of the thread later.

One final thought, while we are to pray for our enemies, I don't think that extends to God's enemies so while I may not know who is which, I can pray for blessing and favor on God's people and destruction of His enemies and, as is said, let Him sort it out

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 25, 2026 12:47 PM (RkOfE)

128 You gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.

Posted by: Church of Tony Montana at January 25, 2026 12:47 PM (wVcYX)

129 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 25, 2026 12:44 PM (IG3/x)

Well, it's always been a rather progressive faith tradition, except when it started in England, but having attended Quaker meeting as a kid in a stone meeting house with fireplaces and which dated from the 1700's I rather like Quakers and William Penn.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2026 12:47 PM (Nx5jP)

130 Antifa general who says take up arms against ICE is so butch!

https://is.gd/sSb8Fv

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 25, 2026 12:47 PM (L/fGl)

131 Posted by: AmericanKestrel at January 25, 2026 12:47 PM (RkOfE)

Amen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2026 12:48 PM (Nx5jP)

132
Hey! Speaking of thunder...

What's the dealio with "Thundersnow"?

I mean, I can see it might be a big deal in avalanche country, but here in the flatlands...?

Loud snow doesn't seem significantly different than loud rain.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2026 12:49 PM (iJfKG)

133 Weather report in general says change over to winter mix at some point, yet temperatures here are not getting much past 20 degrees.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 12:49 PM (Ia/+0)

134 This is not some game.. They are dead serious that they want ICE and us dead....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 12:47 PM (VE6XX)
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I said it a long time ago: WAR!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 25, 2026 12:49 PM (LQfGe)

135 > I rather like Quakers and William Penn.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2026 12:47 PM (Nx5jP)

Sure... it was sort of a joke.

A weak one, probably.

Like the way everyone pretends to suspect the Amish when someone succumbs to Sudden Jihadi Syndrome.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 25, 2026 12:50 PM (IG3/x)

136 99 Christians should have one unifying belief that make all the other differences moot.

John 3:16
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 12:39 PM (KDPiq)

It’s an ironic testament to human nature that the Apostle Paul said that right at the beginning, but few ever listened,
1st Corinthians 3:4 - “when one of you says, “I am a follower of Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you acting just like people of the world?”

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2026 12:50 PM (IUuBi)

137 To be fair to Elizabeth, there was certainly a great deal of treason while she was Queen. Her enemies, who were many, viewed her as the illegitimate daughter of a Usurper Dynasty that should never have held the throne to begin with.
But their biggest mistake was thinking that she would be weak. Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk is a prime example.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2026 12:33 PM (IUuBi)
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Elizabeth I invented the modern police state for the sole purpose of hunting down Papists. And during her reign, it was worth your life to be a Catholic priest or to hide one.
Ask the shade of Edmund Campion.

Henry VIII and Edward VI did the heavy lifting. "Bloody" Mary was a piker compared to those two reigns.

Posted by: mrp at January 25, 2026 12:50 PM (rj6Yv)

138 toby's link shows the storm right over the coveted Romar House on the beach!!

Posted by: DanMan at January 25, 2026 12:51 PM (8uzBS)

139 I said it a long time ago: WAR!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 25, 2026 12:49 PM (LQfGe)

Indeed it is.. And Schumer now says he is gonna shut down the Government over ICE and HS funding.. And RINO Cassidy agrees we need to investigate ICE

Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 12:52 PM (VE6XX)

140 Even though Father relieved us of the obligation to physically attend Mass this morning.

The drive should be interesting.

Hoo boy.
Posted by: Tonypete

How nice that your Dad is still with us. I've been an orphan for 30 years.

Posted by: Lonely and Hirsute at January 25, 2026 12:52 PM (oftw2)

141
Finished my first round of shoveling. We've already got six inches, but thankfully the snow is light. Problem is is that it is 8° out. Hands get cold quickly
Posted by: Smell the Glove

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I'm going to put on a t-shirt and go for a walk. Same old boring sunny, dry, and green where I am. This "weather" you morons are speaking of is a foreign country where snow is beautiful, fireplaces are cozy, deer leap about playfully, and somehow you complain?!?!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 12:52 PM (fL3jw)

142 After the storm passes I have to cover my bedding plants. I really thought that we were past the last freeze here so they are set out already.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 25, 2026 12:52 PM (jc0TO)

143 School bus drivers should run the country! Why didn't I think of that?

Meet Krista Portas. Portas is a school bus driver who pledges not to let the kids off her bus if she spots ICE agents outside.

Somehow this crazy leftist believes that ICE pulls up at bus stops to snatch migrant children. The amount of lunacy coming from the left is staggering.

https://is.gd/zbZ5KL

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 25, 2026 12:52 PM (L/fGl)

144 Indeed it is.. And Schumer now says he is gonna shut down the Government over ICE and HS funding.. And RINO Cassidy agrees we need to investigate ICE
Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 12:52 PM

Aren't they already appropriated through next October?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 25, 2026 12:53 PM (jc0TO)

145 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 25, 2026 12:50 PM (IG3/x)

I knew it was a joke. 😉 I just didn't know if anyone here had attended Quaker meeting. I went with a woman in her 70's because I didn't have my drivers license yet. She always enjoyed going to the earlier service because it was quiet. Having no ordained clergy people can get up and witness. There were a lot more people "witnessing" in the later service.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2026 12:54 PM (Nx5jP)

146 130 Another cross dressing pervert

Posted by: night lifted at January 25, 2026 12:54 PM (kJmLc)

147 116
The Thirty Years War was so religious in nature that Cardinal Richelieu was allied to the Protestant Swedes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2026 12:43 PM (tgvbd)

The French dynasty was the most treacherous. They started off fighting for the Pope and Catholic Restoration; then they realized the Hapsburgs were about to control a whole lot more than they did, so they switched sides in the middle.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2026 12:55 PM (IUuBi)

148 Promethius.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 25, 2026 12:55 PM (Kt19C)

149 Aren't they already appropriated through next October?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 25, 2026 12:53 PM (jc0TO)

I'm not sure ... The house passed a funding bill for the War Dept and HS last week I believe...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 12:55 PM (VE6XX)

150 Have they said if the ICU nurse was homo? That’s my guess.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 12:55 PM (KDPiq)

151 Indeed it is.. And Schumer now says he is gonna shut down the Government over ICE and HS funding.

Umm...on what authority?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 12:55 PM (Riz8t)

152 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 12:52 PM (fL3jw)

I'm not complaining. I just don't want the power to go out and now it's sounding like it's getting icy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2026 12:55 PM (Nx5jP)

153 >>> toby928(c)

How bad is the thunderstorm cell over your house right now?

Because it's headed my way.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 25, 2026 12:55 PM (Y1sOo)

154 > My wife just informed me

Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2026 12:46 PM (cYBz/)

The spouse is a Higher Power that one ignores at one's peril, to be sure.

Be safe, mang.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 25, 2026 12:56 PM (IG3/x)

155 Meet Krista Portas.

its always the ones with nose metal

Posted by: DanMan at January 25, 2026 12:56 PM (8uzBS)

156 Indeed it is.. And Schumer now says he is gonna shut down the Government over ICE and HS funding.. And RINO Cassidy agrees we need to investigate ICE
Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 12:52 PM (VE6XX)

The Dems have about as much leverage now as they did last fall… meaning none. Please do it Chucky because you’ll lose yet again. I’m not tired of all the winning yet. Chucky is clearly living in a 90s thru W mindset when the GOP always “lost” the shutdown fights. Has he already forgotten that his daddy Trump is in charge now and he’s not the old surrender GOP

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 25, 2026 12:56 PM (xT8gx)

157 >>Aren't they already appropriated through next October?

Next week.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2026 12:56 PM (viF8m)

158 I'm going to put on a t-shirt and go for a walk.

You aren't fooling anyone, you know. Get on the cart!

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 12:56 PM (Riz8t)

159 >>> toby928(c)

How bad is the thunderstorm cell over your house right now?

Because it's headed my way.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 25, 2026 12:55 PM

It's not bad. Steadily heavy but not hurricane levels. Not much wind. A little thunder. Supposedly we are under a tornado watch until 6pm.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 25, 2026 12:57 PM (jc0TO)

160
Umm...on what authority?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 12:55 PM (Riz8t)

All I saw was he said he was gonna block an appropriations bill that included ICE or HS funding... I Gotta do some research

Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 12:58 PM (VE6XX)

161 31 and frosty on the beach.

I don’t mind the Catholic bashing either. I’m used to it. What I will not tolerate is disrespecting Mary, the Mother of Christ.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 25, 2026 12:58 PM (IhIKR)

162 Meet Krista Portas.

What a dope! She must be virtue signaling to her comrades.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2026 12:59 PM (Nx5jP)

163 Total ICE Funding: The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA), signed into law on July 4, 2025, allocates $170.7 billion for immigration and border enforcement, with a significant portion directed to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). While the total includes funding for multiple agencies, ICE specifically receives approximately $75 billion through 2029, according to multiple sources including the American Immigration Council and Senate Democrats. You may now continue.

Posted by: @SOEarpiece at January 25, 2026 12:59 PM (jc0TO)

164 Meet Krista Portas.

its always the ones with nose metal

Posted by: DanMan at January 25, 2026 12:56 PM (8uzBS)
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Not always:

https://tinyurl.com/4w3n6r29

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 25, 2026 12:59 PM (LQfGe)

165 I think that it is time to "unite the clans."

We have a common enemy. "We must hang together or we will hang separately."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 25, 2026 12:59 PM (qFwJc)

166 And for my part, I'm dead serious about this unity thing. I live in a blood red town with a strong sense of community, and *nobody* in my congregation has voiced religious bigotry against any Christian within my earshot.

So it's not a thing I've had to deal with for years, and I never want to again. If I ever encounter another Jew who is bigoted against Christians, that relationship is OVER.

These are fine, decent people and if you're making common cause with the monsters planning their genocide because of your ancient, petty, irrelevant hatreds, then you're a horrible Jew. Fuck off. Go get a swastika tattoo and suck some more dicks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 25, 2026 12:59 PM (BI5O2)

167
I do not think The Big Dummy is going to get his daily 20-minute walk today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2026 12:59 PM (tgvbd)

168 ,deer leap about playfully"

Hey, what about us?
/ the antelope....

Posted by: man at January 25, 2026 01:00 PM (XuXeR)

169 Here's something I hadn't seen reported before:

Somewhat less reported was an incident mentioned by PJ Media’s Catherine Salgado.

McLaughlin explained, “In Minneapolis, these rioters attacked our law enforcement officer and one of them bit off our HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] officer’s finger. He will lose his finger.” What a proud victory for Walz and co.! They managed to ruin a brave officer’s life.

Just ponder how deranged and bestial you have to be to seek out a federal law enforcement officer for the express purpose of assaulting him, and then deliberately bite off his finger. I can't help but think of Gollum biting off Frodo's finger at the climax of The Lord of the Rings to obtain the Ring; and the fiction has a parallel to the reality. As Tolkien meant the Ring to represent sin and evil, and as Gollum is destroyed and driven mad by it, so leftist domestic terrorists seem drunk on and driven mad by their lust for violence and revenge.

https://is.gd/NxAAZZ

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 01:00 PM (Riz8t)

170 Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 25, 2026 12:59 PM (qFwJc)

Very true.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2026 01:00 PM (ZeH0U)

171 ,deer leap about playfully"

Hey, what about us?
/ the antelope....
Posted by: man at January 25, 2026 01:00 PM

Don't be discouraging.

Posted by: @SOEarpiece at January 25, 2026 01:01 PM (jc0TO)

172 This is not a forum for Catholic or Protestant bashing.

Since most the wars in Europe prior to The Enlightenment had to deal with land grabs or religious persecution, this topic is already dead before it can be given any breath.

Christianity has always been Narrow Gate vs Broad Gate; any religious infrastructure put into place was mainly instituted because organized anything represents secular power.

The Enlightenment diminished spirituality and its code of ethics and values and replaced it with atheistic materialism which led to the natural ends of Might Makes Right without any transcendent moral or ethical constraints.

Same thing in the former US. When smaller and defined by family, church, community, state, nation and for most its now Me and The Party you end up with Diversity is our Strength which means unending strife, conflict and malice.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 25, 2026 01:01 PM (a4flb)

173 So the Senate is going to try and defund the government for the Confederacy

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 01:01 PM (Ia/+0)

174
https://is.gd/qxJW8I

Posted by: Archimedes

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And Pretti actually was an ICU nurse. I wouldn't want to be taken to an ICU where he was on duty if I had any political or ideological identifiers on me. This is terrifying.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:02 PM (fL3jw)

175 For those who didn't see, overnight regular people broke into Antifa's Signal chats and doxxed many of the participants. The leader is a dictionary-definition AWFL who works for Tim Walz's campaign and has a taxpayer/NGO-funded "chicken farm" in her back yard.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:02 PM (QZThv)

176 When Congress pass the CR last year it was only until the end of January 2026. They have to pass the spending bills. Democrats are now saying they are not going to support funding for DHS.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2026 01:02 PM (viF8m)

177 Head bounty needed:

https://tinyurl.com/5e66wpnw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 25, 2026 01:02 PM (LQfGe)

178 Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 01:00 PM (Riz8t)

The guy wasn’t wearing gloves in MN? If so that scum must have filed their teeth to a point.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 01:03 PM (KDPiq)

179 175 For those who didn't see, overnight regular people broke into Antifa's Signal chats and doxxed many of the participants. The leader is a dictionary-definition AWFL who works for Tim Walz's campaign and has a taxpayer/NGO-funded "chicken farm" in her back yard.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:02 PM (QZThv)

Bondi's gonna get right on that...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 01:03 PM (VE6XX)

180 For those who didn't see, overnight regular people broke into Antifa's Signal chats and doxxed many of the participants. The leader is a dictionary-definition AWFL who works for Tim Walz's campaign and has a taxpayer/NGO-funded "chicken farm" in her back yard.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:02 PM (QZThv)
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Great morons think alike!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 25, 2026 01:03 PM (LQfGe)

181 Have they said if the ICU nurse was homo? That’s my guess.

He was married to a Democrat woman who divorced him for being too woke.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:03 PM (QZThv)

182 Jeepers, I thought it was the Monday morning art thread.

Good morning.

I need coffee.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 25, 2026 01:03 PM (m7pCO)

183 Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:02 PM (QZThv)

Oh yeah? Just in MN, or other places? I'd like to learn more.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 25, 2026 01:03 PM (BI5O2)

184 I thought Rambo and the Road Warrior were gonna help Trump?

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 25, 2026 01:04 PM (EyfuW)

185 175
'NGO-funded "chicken farm" in her back yard.'

You know who else was a chicken farmer?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 25, 2026 01:05 PM (fd80v)

186 Head bounty needed:

https://tinyurl.com/5e66wpnw

Thus putting the lie to the assertion that all leftist women are hideous, at least externally.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 01:05 PM (Riz8t)

187 In the States, the Mormon wars and the Slavery Abolitionists were our religious wars.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 01:05 PM (KDPiq)

188 7 inches, very fine precipitation and 13 degrees on my deck thermometer

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 01:05 PM (Ia/+0)

189 A lawyer who was contacted from Tehran reports that several thousand people have been herded into large warehouse halls in Kahrizak. They are being executed in groups and registered as “killed on previous days.”

PDJT, your bluff is being called. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 25, 2026 01:06 PM (cnBQ4)

190 In the States, the Mormon wars and the Slavery Abolitionists were our religious wars.

I think you're forgetting the Ginger vs Maryanne conflict, which has been going on now for over 60 years.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 01:06 PM (Riz8t)

191 I don’t mind the Catholic bashing either. I’m used to it. What I will not tolerate is disrespecting Mary, the Mother of Christ.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Yet, somehow I'm fair game!

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein Of Brattleboro, VT at January 25, 2026 01:06 PM (oftw2)

192 130 Another cross dressing pervert

Violent democrat homosexual.

Posted by: Ed Buck, murdering democrat homosexual at January 25, 2026 01:06 PM (R/m4+)

193 Have they said if the ICU nurse was homo? That’s my guess.

He was married to a Democrat woman who divorced him for being too woke.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:03 PM (QZThv

This is why I don’t bet on sports.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 01:07 PM (KDPiq)

194 Oh yeah? Just in MN, or other places? I'd like to learn more.

Specifically MN but I don't imagine other ones are any harder to get at.

More info on X: https://tinyurl.com/3tc56kvm

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:07 PM (QZThv)

195 And Pamela Geller is reporting on other people refusing treatment in emergency room to police officers they thought were part of ICE:

https://tinyurl.com/dephm8br

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2026 01:07 PM (ZeH0U)

196 She seems like a Bolshevik

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 01:07 PM (Ia/+0)

197 This is why I don’t bet on sports.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 01:07 PM (KDPiq)

Same, man. In photos Pretti looks like a classic flamer who'd be trying to get into James O'Keefe's pants, and may have illegal things on his hard drive.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:09 PM (QZThv)

198 Maybe we should herd the worst of the worst we have arrested so far into Minneapolis and wall it off... Give them more of their beloved "neighbors."

Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 01:09 PM (VE6XX)

199 Have they said if the ICU nurse was homo? That’s my guess.

He was married to a Democrat woman who divorced him for being too woke.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:03 PM (QZThv)

He just looks off. A wiggler, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2026 01:09 PM (wVcYX)

200 the States, the Mormon wars and the Slavery Abolitionists were our religious wars.

I think you're forgetting the Ginger vs Maryanne conflict, which has been going on now for over 60 years.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 01:06 PM (Riz8t)

One thing Howard Stern did that fun was had a bracket like the NCAA basketball tournament except for celebrity actresses . I forgot who came out on top.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 01:09 PM (KDPiq)

201
I'm not complaining. I just don't want the power to go out and now it's sounding like it's getting icy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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But-but-but -- fireplace! Flickering flame! Candlelight! Ice skating!

But really, I had to drive on slushy/icy roads in Pennsylvania one year, and I'll NEVER do it again. The friend I was visiting described some of the hated winter routines, and they were things that had never occurred to me. One was, the first one up in the morning had to open the garage door (ice cold already), turn the family car engine on, and go back in the house while the car idled until it was time to go. This was necessary because it took some time for the car to get to a warm enough state that it would drive without sputtering out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:10 PM (fL3jw)

202 One wonders how much of the current frothiness is funded by Xi. BTW, he's letting his Stalin freak flag fly. He just purged the top military guy (and number 2 in power), Zhang Youzia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW-eeWn0i2o

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 01:10 PM (Riz8t)

203 Imagine what a shitshow Minneapolis would be if it weren’t ten below zero there! Some of these people are getting frostbite… that kind of temp is not to be trifled with…. Hose down the rioters; you’d only have to do it once…. Rather than Lot’s wife as a pillar of salt, you’d have pillars of ice dotting the Minneapolis landscape

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 25, 2026 01:11 PM (xT8gx)

204 Christians should have one unifying belief that make all the other differences moot.

John 3:16

Except those who believe in the Doctrines of Grace and those who reject that doctrine (aka "free will") interpret that passage wildly different.

That is, "both sides" firmly believe that passage, but for very different reasons, and for very different ends.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 25, 2026 01:11 PM (a4flb)

205
O'Hara is from NJ and has a muslim wife named Wafiyya possibly Somali,
Posted by: night lifted

Does he report directly to Commissioner Gordon?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 25, 2026 01:12 PM (pkeXY)

206 =============

And Pretti actually was an ICU nurse. I wouldn't want to be taken to an ICU where he was on duty if I had any political or ideological identifiers on me. This is terrifying.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Nurses and docs at Langone (Manhattan) delaying and mistreating injured cops who they thought were ICE. It criminal.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 25, 2026 01:12 PM (m7pCO)

207
A lawyer who was contacted from Tehran reports that several thousand people have been herded into large warehouse halls in Kahrizak. They are being executed in groups and registered as “killed on previous days.”

PDJT, your bluff is being called. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Oddbob

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This does, in fact, sound like a crime against humanity.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:12 PM (fL3jw)

208 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 25, 2026 01:11 PM (a4flb)

I don’t see any ambiguity. Must be the same people who interpret the 2nd amendment.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 01:13 PM (KDPiq)

209 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:10 PM (fL3jw)

No, it's never fun going out to warm up the car in this kind of weather and also trying to avoid slipping on sleet

But I do like fireplaces 🙂and remembering skating and sledding as a kid and with my son.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2026 01:13 PM (ZeH0U)

210 Hose down the rioters; you’d only have to do it once…. Rather than Lot’s wife as a pillar of salt, you’d have pillars of ice dotting the Minneapolis landscape

And if its cold enough, might even be able to have the old tongue on the playground swing set pole effect and these pillars of ice are frozen to immovable objects.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 25, 2026 01:13 PM (a4flb)

211 Journalists from Reuters and NPR are in the Antifa organizing chat, by the way.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:14 PM (QZThv)

212 116
The Thirty Years War was so religious in nature that Cardinal Richelieu was allied to the Protestant Swedes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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Religion was used as an ostensible reason for the troops while for princes, the object was power and the use of it.

Islam bonds the secular world with the religious (while even under the Protestant and Catholic religious wars never quite did). The concept of a caliph is foreign to Westerners as the Emperors of Rome, aside from a few oddballs like Constantine, never really took religion itself that seriously.

Defenders of the existing Christian faiths is much different from something like Iranian society where the clergy rule over the secular government.

Posted by: whig at January 25, 2026 01:14 PM (E4rtv)

213 206
'Nurses and docs at Langone (Manhattan) delaying and mistreating injured cops who they thought were ICE. It criminal.'

Does said hospital receive federal funding?
Terminate it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 25, 2026 01:14 PM (fd80v)

214 Journalists from Reuters and NPR are in the Antifa organizing chat, by the way.

I'm shocked! Shocked and surprised!!!

Oh wait, I'm neither of those things. Never mind. At least NPR isn't getting my tax money any more.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 01:15 PM (Riz8t)

215 My wife just informed me that we have to head out to church to change the altar cloths this afternoon. Even though Father relieved us of the obligation to physically attend Mass this morning.

The drive should be interesting.

Hoo boy.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2026 12:46 PM (cYBz/)

WUTT??

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 25, 2026 01:16 PM (5xuJ/)

216 Tea time

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 01:16 PM (Ia/+0)

217 No, it's never fun going out to warm up the car in this kind of weather and also trying to avoid slipping on sleet

Just remember, Germany criminalized the use of remote starting an automobile for the purpose of warming it up - idling apparently will upset Gaia.

They forced manufacturers to disable the feature requiring people to actually go to their cold cars, fight the ice to get in, and attend the vehicle as it warms up and melts the ice off the window surfaces.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 25, 2026 01:16 PM (a4flb)

218 195 And Pamela Geller is reporting on other people refusing treatment in emergency room to police officers they thought were part of ICE:

https://tinyurl.com/dephm8br

Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Pamela doesn't get the recognition she deserves.
She's in it for the fight, hard core.
_Draw Mohammed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 25, 2026 01:17 PM (m7pCO)

219 Defenders of the existing Christian faiths is much different from something like Iranian society where the clergy rule over the secular government.
Posted by: whig at January 25, 2026 01:14 PM (E4rtv)

I know your remember that it was a big deal Kennedy was elected President as a Catholic.

Thinking any politician would follow religious orders from the Pope is hilarious.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 01:17 PM (KDPiq)

220 Saw this comment over on Insty regarding the ICE'd nurse;
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🎶 I feel Pretti
Oh so Pretti
I feel Pretti, and shïtty, and dead
Tried ICE-hitting
And then got myself shot in the head
(La-la la-la la-la-la-la)

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 25, 2026 01:18 PM (qwVdq)

221
Imagine what a shitshow Minneapolis would be if it weren’t ten below zero there!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt

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Can someone enlighten me, is ICE's operation in Minneapolis more intense than whatever is happening now in L.A., NYC, Seattle, other blue cities? It seems like that's where the worst anti-ICE action is, but I'm curious whether ICE has chosen Minneapolis for a good housecleaning right now?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:19 PM (fL3jw)

222 Sad News: Ryan Hall Y'All reporting this storm has taken 11 lives so far.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2026 01:19 PM (wVcYX)

223 PDJT, your bluff is being called. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Trump is impotent on handling the problems in his own backyard (Minnisomalia). He is fully incapable of dealing with other people's problems on the other side of the planet, and neither should be.

I didn't vote for Trump to let American crumble and burn while he makes a Quixote attempt to deal with a persistant and never ending Islam problem.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 25, 2026 01:19 PM (a4flb)

224 At least the hospital system that employed the pediatric nurse fired her for her post wishing harm on the pregnant press Secretary. It was Evil.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 01:20 PM (KDPiq)

225 Just remember, Germany criminalized the use of remote starting an automobile for the purpose of warming it up - idling apparently will upset Gaia.

Gaia doesn't really give a sh*t one way or the other but it upsets Greta which is a greater crime among the Euroweenies.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 25, 2026 01:21 PM (ojh4/)

226 Can someone enlighten me, is ICE's operation in Minneapolis more intense than whatever is happening now in L.A., NYC, Seattle, other blue cities?“

In actual fact, there have been more ICE detentions in Texas than in any other state. The difference is the the Texas State government and local police forces are cooperating completely with ICE, so there are no headlines.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2026 01:22 PM (IUuBi)

227 It's nice seeing the anti-gun left admit that the nurse was within his right under 2A to carry a concealed handgun for self defense while out and about in public.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 25, 2026 01:23 PM (Y1sOo)

228 Can someone enlighten me, is ICE's operation in Minneapolis more intense than whatever is happening now in L.A., NYC, Seattle, other blue cities? It seems like that's where the worst anti-ICE action is, but I'm curious whether ICE has chosen Minneapolis for a good housecleaning right now?

ICE in most states where local LEOs cooperate (including many blue ones!) needs 2 officers to catch a Pokemon and they're in and out in a few days. In Minnesota they need 10 people per illegal because of all the interference, and it's taking much longer. If Antifa went away ICE would've been gone already.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:23 PM (QZThv)

229 Democrats are now saying they are not going to support funding for DHS.

Praise God! Now terminate and end TSA to respect the Democrat's contempt of DHS.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 25, 2026 01:24 PM (a4flb)

230 It's nice seeing the anti-gun left admit that the nurse was within his right under 2A to carry a concealed handgun for self defense while out and about in public.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 25, 2026 01:23 PM

It's (D)ifferent when they do it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 25, 2026 01:24 PM (jc0TO)

231 It's nice seeing the anti-gun left admit that the nurse was within his right under 2A to carry a concealed handgun for self defense while out and about in public.

Guntubers are reporting that Pretti's Sig P320 may have accidentally discharged when an ICE agent took it from him, based on some of the videos. If so, Sig Sauer's well-known defect killed Pretti.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:25 PM (QZThv)

232 202 One wonders how much of the current frothiness is funded by Xi. BTW, he's letting his Stalin freak flag fly. He just purged the top military guy (and number 2 in power), Zhang Youzia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW-eeWn0i2o
Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 01:10 PM (Riz8t)

I suspect that Xi is approaching the Caligula level of Imperial paranoia.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2026 01:26 PM (IUuBi)

233 If Antifa went away ICE would've been gone already.
Posted by: Ian S.
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I thought the protestors were mostly Somalies.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 25, 2026 01:26 PM (m7pCO)

234 Also, joke of the day, seen from several people on X:

"How's ICE doing?
Pretti Good".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:26 PM (QZThv)

235 Gaia doesn't really give a sh*t one way or the other but it upsets Greta which is a greater crime among the Euroweenies.

I thought Greta was desperate to know a man, and her best path was to throw herself in front of Hamas.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 25, 2026 01:27 PM (a4flb)

236 I thought the protestors were mostly Somalies.

Nope. MN protestors are 100% white.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:27 PM (QZThv)

237
Trump is impotent on handling the problems in his own backyard (Minnisomalia).

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

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The leftist propaganda value of American military fighting "civilians" (in reality, insurrectionists) in the streets will be impossible to overcome. Trump is in a very difficult position. I think what he really needs to do is penetrate this operation using the FBI and crush it QUICKLY with legal, not military means. Yes, here come the lefty judges. It's a very bad situation for Trump.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:27 PM (fL3jw)

238 It's nice seeing the anti-gun left admit that the nurse was within his right under 2A to carry a concealed handgun for self defense while out and about in public.

Which they will forget as soon as it's no longer a talking point. Charges of hypocrisy are futile against people for whom history restarts every week.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 25, 2026 01:27 PM (d1ytA)

239 Just checking in to see if there are any theological donnybrooks or auto-da-fés.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2026 01:28 PM (kpS4V)

240 If so, Sig Sauer's well-known defect killed Pretti.

Trump should give the chief designer of the P320 a presidential medal for public service.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 25, 2026 01:28 PM (a4flb)

241 Everybody behaving?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 25, 2026 01:29 PM (fjssf)

242 >>>Trump is in a very difficult position. I think what he really needs to do is penetrate this operation using the FBI and crush it QUICKLY with legal, not military means. Yes, here come the lefty judges. It's a very bad situation for Trump.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Maybe a boss at the DOJ with some teeth.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 25, 2026 01:29 PM (m7pCO)

243 The leftist propaganda value of American military fighting "civilians" (in reality, insurrectionists) in the streets will be impossible to overcome.

Correct. Democrats are trying to provoke a Kent State-like propaganda event that the media can flood the zone on. Trump does know that, which makes it a difficult situation. He's trying to get Walz to back down, but Walz literally has nothing left to lose. If he goes down, it's prison for the remainder of his life.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:29 PM (QZThv)

244 Pope Dildo in da house!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 25, 2026 01:29 PM (kpS4V)

245
I thought the protestors were mostly Somalies.

Posted by: Braenyard

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I think Somalis are banding together around the "daycare centers" and "medical transport services" and such. They're fending off citizen reporters, as feds have YET to show up at those places.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:29 PM (fL3jw)

246 aaand the thunderstorm is passing overhead now.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 25, 2026 01:29 PM (Y1sOo)

247 229 Democrats are now saying they are not going to support funding for DHS.

Praise God! Now terminate and end TSA to respect the Democrat's contempt of DHS.
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Also get rid of the EPA, which serves no function other than make property owners miserable.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 25, 2026 01:30 PM (XjTSo)

248 Don’t resist arrest if you’re carrying. Or in the alternative resist and fight back guns blasting .

Taking the middle road will get you nothing but dead.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 01:31 PM (KDPiq)

249 I think Somalis are banding together around the "daycare centers" and "medical transport services" and such. They're fending off citizen reporters, as feds have YET to show up at those places.

One address in Minneapolis was found yesterday to have 250 taxpayer-funded Somali businesses on government records. Obviously those businesses don't exist outside of someone cashing the checks.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:31 PM (QZThv)

250 Trump is in a very difficult position. I think what he really needs to do is penetrate this operation using the FBI and crush it QUICKLY with legal, not military means.

Agreed, military option is No Go.
Pinkerton's Model is the way to go.

President Lincoln and other industrialists cleaned up a lot of protests, Indian resistance, and union riots with dedicated Pinkerton's Men.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 25, 2026 01:31 PM (a4flb)

251 Guntubers are reporting that Pretti's Sig P320 may have accidentally discharged when an ICE agent took it from him, based on some of the videos. If so, Sig Sauer's well-known defect killed Pretti.

Not impossible but totally speculative.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 25, 2026 01:31 PM (d1ytA)

252 President Lincoln and other industrialists cleaned up a lot of protests, Indian resistance, and union riots with dedicated Pinkerton's Men.

Correct. And the groundwork's already been done by Cam Higby, O'Keefe, and others.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:33 PM (QZThv)

253 238 It's nice seeing the anti-gun left admit that the nurse was within his right under 2A to carry a concealed handgun for self defense while out and about in public.

Which they will forget as soon as it's no longer a talking point. Charges of hypocrisy are futile against people for whom history restarts every week.
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Sad but true. As true (d)emocrats, their opinions & beliefs are attached to an old barn weather vane.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 25, 2026 01:33 PM (XjTSo)

254 Which they will forget as soon as it's no longer a talking point. Charges of hypocrisy are futile against people for whom history restarts every week.

It's not even that complicated. They'll say and do anything that gains them power and money. It's not hypocrisy because they don't care, and it doesn't bother them because it's all towards the same goal.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:34 PM (QZThv)

255 Correct. Democrats are trying to provoke a Kent State-like propaganda event that the media can flood the zone on. Trump does know that, which makes it a difficult situation. He's trying to get Walz to back down, but Walz literally has nothing left to lose. If he goes down, it's prison for the remainder of his life.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:29 PM (QZThv)
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Has anyone noted the similarities between that strategy and the same used by Hamas, provoke an asymmetric response, cry victim.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 25, 2026 01:34 PM (RIvkX)

256 Anyone who bashes Christians has never met an insufferable evangelical Baha'i.

I got a lotta problems with 'em.

Posted by: Frank Costanza at January 25, 2026 01:35 PM (7Q0e+)

257
Trump is in a very difficult position. I think what he really needs to do is penetrate this operation using the FBI and crush it QUICKLY with legal, not military means.

I rather suspect that the State Department still has supplies of Kaboom in storage to use as foreign aid. Gather it up and airdrop over Minneapolis. Back off and let nature take it's course.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 25, 2026 01:35 PM (y9nCu)

258
ICE in most states where local LEOs cooperate (including many blue ones!) needs 2 officers to catch a Pokemon and they're in and out in a few days. In Minnesota they need 10 people per illegal because of all the interference, and it's taking much longer. If Antifa went away ICE would've been gone already.
Posted by: Ian S.

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

Huh. So it's not ICE that's running its biggest op in Minneapolis, but anti-ICE. Interesting choice of cities to focus on, when they could be concentrating their forces in some city of sunny California. Is it to draw attention from the Somali fraudsters? Wait until someone starts a Nick Shirley-style expose of fraud in California cities, then?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:35 PM (fL3jw)

259 I have been saved from snowmaggedon doom! My son has shoveled the snow off the walkway and the porch. I am free! But as the boy spawn asked... "Where the hell do you think you're going?". Roads are bad and I couldn't ask the guy to shovel out the car. I mean... I'm really not going anywhere.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 25, 2026 01:36 PM (2J/Lj)

260 Looks like Zippy has decided to chime in. The internal polls must be concerning for Zero to urge for federal and state cooperation.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 25, 2026 01:36 PM (zDIG9)

261 Has anyone noted the similarities between that strategy and the same used by Hamas, provoke an asymmetric response, cry victim.

Yes, the communist/islamist axis has many similarities. The meme "They cry out in pain as they strike you" fits in both cases.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:36 PM (QZThv)

262 Maybe a boss at the DOJ with some teeth.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 25, 2026 01:29 PM (m7pCO)

DOJ Dentata?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2026 01:36 PM (wVcYX)

263 240 If so, Sig Sauer's well-known defect killed Pretti.

Trump should give the chief designer of the P320 a presidential medal for public service.
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So what people are saying here is that I shouldn't buy a Sig P320 & instead by another overpriced, overhyped auto pistol instead.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 25, 2026 01:36 PM (XjTSo)

264 My request is simple:

Fulfill your oath of office to protect the law.

Or suffer the consequences.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 25, 2026 01:37 PM (RIvkX)

265 Is it to draw attention from the Somali fraudsters? Wait until someone starts a Nick Shirley-style expose of fraud in California cities, then?

I suspect it's because the Democrat base considers Walz a viable 2028 candidate even though the DNC is done with him and wants him to hang.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:38 PM (QZThv)

266
One address in Minneapolis was found yesterday to have 250 taxpayer-funded Somali businesses on government records. Obviously those businesses don't exist outside of someone cashing the checks.
Posted by: Ian S.

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Insane. Not a fed in sight to so much as break the locks and take a few photos of the interior, maybe haul away a few papers.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:38 PM (fL3jw)

267 All well planned and choreographed....

https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/2015230482305126499

Posted by: Ken at January 25, 2026 01:39 PM (VgQHq)

268 I grew up attending a little quaker country church......I can tell you honestly.......all of today's ills have been caused by the lutherens

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 25, 2026 01:39 PM (jrgJz)

269 Walz seems like a cowardly fuck. He would sing like a bird if he is going down.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 25, 2026 01:39 PM (QxMMC)

270
Dicktim (n.): someone who behaves like a dick, then cries victim when faced with the consequences.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2026 01:40 PM (tgvbd)

271 This is not some game.. They are dead serious that they want ICE and us dead....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 12:47 PM (VE6XX)

Bring in one of those choppers used to fight forest fires, with a cargo of water. Hover over the mobs and dump the water. Rinse. Repeat. Let the low temps do the rest.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 25, 2026 01:40 PM (5xuJ/)

272 It's not hypocrisy because they don't care

Fair point, well stated. Hypocrisy is acting against your values and their only value is "we win."

Posted by: Oddbob at January 25, 2026 01:40 PM (9Q1fw)

273 Has anyone noted the similarities between that strategy and the same used by Hamas, provoke an asymmetric response, cry victim.

The Minneapolis rioters have yet to grasp the potency of Hamas' best weapon - a new teddy bear sitting on the ground in front of a children's hospital.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 25, 2026 01:41 PM (Riz8t)

274 Does not forgets to turn yoor heater no higher the 55 degrees even if it's cold put d ide. We be must still are part to stops Globil Warmings.

Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at January 25, 2026 01:41 PM (X7dyz)

275 Walz seems like a cowardly fuck. He would sing like a bird if he is going down.

100%, but right now he has the entire State of Minnesota apparatus protecting him. If that wall gets a crack in it, he'll absolutely sing if it saves his own ass.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 25, 2026 01:41 PM (QZThv)

276 More and more I believe the left will win the war. The right has shown absolutely no willingness to sacrifice anything. Not even a little time.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 25, 2026 01:43 PM (g8Ew8)

277 271 This is not some game.. They are dead serious that they want ICE and us dead....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 12:47 PM (VE6XX)

Bring in one of those choppers used to fight forest fires, with a cargo of water. Hover over the mobs and dump the water. Rinse. Repeat. Let the low temps do the rest.
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I've been wanting DHS to send ICE in MN some battle taxis with water cannons mounted on them. Hose those twinks down right now, that'll cool their enthusiasm soon enough. We'll get a dozen sob stories about "protesters" with colds & pneumnia, but I'll take that over all the street fighting.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 25, 2026 01:44 PM (XjTSo)

278
I suspect it's because the Democrat base considers Walz a viable 2028 candidate even though the DNC is done with him and wants him to hang.
Posted by: Ian S.

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It's funny, it truly seems that the higher-ups in the DNC are the ones who forced Walz to step down -- no one else could. They must have told him he'd have to do his own fundraising. But down on the ground, an army of foot-soldiers and true believers have chosen him as their saintly figurehead. I hope he's vanquished soon. He inspires deadly forces.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:44 PM (fL3jw)

279 I don't like carnies because they have small hands...

Posted by: Wally at January 25, 2026 01:44 PM (w/GQJ)

280
So what people are saying here is that I shouldn't buy a Sig P320 & instead by another overpriced, overhyped auto pistol instead.
Posted by: exdem13 at January 25, 2026 01:36 PM (XjTSo)

Simplicity rules. Glock 17/19 gen 3 or earlier, GI spec 1911s from the better manufacturers, the ugly but reliable early Ruger P-series, CZ75B variants, S and W or Ruger revolvers etc. The common denominator is that they're all older designs, and any bugs have already been worked out.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 25, 2026 01:44 PM (y9nCu)

281 marxist made the first move several times.

And we don't seem to attract anymore conservatives.

I know, open borders for capitalist. Fuck yeah.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 25, 2026 01:45 PM (EyfuW)

282 > Maybe a boss at the DOJ with some teeth.
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Bondi gets a lot of grief here... deservedly. She also gets a lot of support.

I'll just point out that there are several other women in the administration in charge of various things; DHS, National Intelligence, press secretary, chief of staff, etc. who don't seem to have the same sort of problem asserting themselves as Bondi apparently does.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 25, 2026 01:45 PM (qwVdq)

283 269 Walz seems like a cowardly fuck. He would sing like a bird if he is going down.
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That's why Walsh is stirring up trouble & getting reluctant support from DC. If he gets taken down for fraud he'll squeal like the little pig he is & demolish the nationwide Somali fraud kickback scheme.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 25, 2026 01:46 PM (XjTSo)

284 At RRStar, "Over 1.7 million Illinois adults will be eligible to have their nonviolent criminal records automatically sealed after Gov. JB Pritzker on Jan. 16 signed the long-debated ‘Clean Slate’ Act."

Cripes. Democrats LUV criminals.

Posted by: gp at January 25, 2026 01:46 PM (N8ZBc)

285
276 More and more I believe the left will win the war. The right has shown absolutely no willingness to sacrifice anything. Not even a little time.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 25, 2026 01:43 PM (g8Ew

I don’t. You’re mistaking fanatical footsoldiers for strength, when in fact it’s a sign of great weakness. They’re failing on almost every front, to the point that they know that an open insurrection is the only chance they have left. And yet they only have enough force to make a stink in the handful of cities they already control.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2026 01:46 PM (IUuBi)

286
Walz seems like a cowardly fuck. He would sing like a bird if he is going down.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

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100%. I'd love to see him sell out Jacob Frey! He'd do it in a heartbeat.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:47 PM (fL3jw)

287 I think Minneapolis is being singled out for a few reasons.
1. discredit the Democrats by pointing to the VP candidate of 2024
2. it's got fraud. Like, a lot of fraud. everyone sees it.
3. the Somali community, at least the Daroodi clan, is a selfproclaimed antiAmerican spearhead for Muslim dominance, which the Daroodis hope to lead in turn
4. Domino theory: if Walz is forced out and the DFL machine purged, this can shore up wobbly MI and WI and put Chicago on notice

Posted by: gKWVE at January 25, 2026 01:48 PM (gKWVE)

288 Dicktim (n.): someone who behaves like a dick, then cries victim when faced with the consequences.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2026 01:40 PM (tgvbd)

Good one!

Posted by: pookysgirl likes learning new words at January 25, 2026 01:48 PM (Wt5PA)

289 Protesters are Wine moms and their soy boys, Somalians only when its their turn to get hauled in

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 01:48 PM (Ia/+0)

290 Well shit. Jehovah's Witnesses should be fair game though.
Posted by: Tonypete at January 25, 2026 12:33 PM (cYBz/)
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Picking on my scabs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 25, 2026 01:50 PM (RIvkX)

291 The leftist propaganda value of American military fighting "civilians" (in reality, insurrectionists) in the streets will be impossible to overcome. Trump is in a very difficult position. I think what he really needs to do is penetrate this operation using the FBI and crush it QUICKLY with legal, not military means. Yes, here come the lefty judges. It's a very bad situation for Trump.
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He asked for the job and ran on "Obliterate the Deep State"

He needs to use whatever force is available to deal with the problem. If he can't manage it against the Deep State's street armies, when is ever going to get to the Deep State itself?

Posted by: Methos at January 25, 2026 01:50 PM (vSvIl)

292
The right has shown absolutely no willingness to sacrifice anything. Not even a little time.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

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

I did read, I believe, an X thread describing the incredible work ICE agents are doing now. Immense discomfort, personal risk, and sacrifice. Their thanks is their own satisfaction in ridding the country of bad guys.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:51 PM (fL3jw)

293 >>@0hour1
·
36m
>>Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is one of the admins of Signal Chat.

>>This means the State of Minnesota is behind the protests.

>>Its not organic its a insurrection at the very top.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2026 01:51 PM (viF8m)

294 I grew up attending a little quaker country church......I can tell you honestly.......all of today's ills have been caused by the lutherens
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot

Yeah, but how are you going to restring your guitar without them.
*bong rip*

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 25, 2026 01:51 PM (mlg/3)

295 >>@0hour1
·
36m
>>Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is one of the admins of Signal Chat.

>>This means the State of Minnesota is behind the protests.

>>Its not organic its a insurrection at the very top.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2026 01:51 PM (viF8m)

The calls are coming from inside the house!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 25, 2026 01:52 PM (wVcYX)

296 Oh hey, Lady Sun finally peeped between the clouds just now!

It's been snowing nonstop here in Little Oaxaca on the Miami since yesterday evening. Snowfall makes me nostalgic for winters of the 20th century. In a bit I'll go out & shovel the porch & walk so the fool cat can get inside. I don't believe he howled so much to go out last night.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 25, 2026 01:52 PM (XjTSo)

297 I don't want to break the rules, but the above already has done so. Elizabeth was "tolerant" only in the sense that Catholics were executed for treason, rather than heresy.
Posted by: Eeyore
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Yeah. The good old days......[sigh]

Posted by: stv at January 25, 2026 01:52 PM (XMeSM)

298 U2 is the best band that has ever existed.
* this is not the time to comment on U2

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 25, 2026 01:53 PM (mlg/3)

299
@0hour1
·
36m
>>Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is one of the admins of Signal Chat.

>>This means the State of Minnesota is behind the protests.

>>Its not organic its a insurrection at the very top.
Posted by: JackStraw

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

Fucking arrest her TODAY. wtf???? What the damned FUCK? HOW is she allowed to sit wherever the hell she is in her lipstick and pretty little suit tapping away at her latest-model iPhone? DAMN!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:53 PM (fL3jw)

300 Cute cat singing vid 40 secs:
https://tinyurl.com/5axzrzbj

Posted by: gp at January 25, 2026 01:53 PM (N8ZBc)

301 Who will be the men who light the candle that shows the West that our culture is worth fighting for...and dying for?

Charlie Kirk comes to mind.

Posted by: BirdRockDoc at January 25, 2026 01:53 PM (VOcQ6)

302 There another Oxford battle that is being inexorably lost in the West. We fight rearguard actions on that here, every day, every hour.

Posted by: Assistant Associate AoSHQ Copy Editor, Punctuation Brigade, Oxford Comma Company at January 25, 2026 01:54 PM (0sNs1)

303 Are there high winds at the end of this snow storm?

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 01:54 PM (Ia/+0)

304 Flanagan suspiciously sounds like a Catholic name.

Posted by: Boys Town at January 25, 2026 01:55 PM (oftw2)

305
We fight rearguard actions on that here, every day, every hour.

Posted by: Assistant Associate AoSHQ Copy Editor, Punctuation Brigade, Oxford Comma Company

___________

"Tell us about it." - 63rd Semicolon and Em Dash Regiment

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2026 01:56 PM (tgvbd)

306 Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is one of the admins of Signal Chat.

Is she the one who also dressed up in a hijab for a photo op with a Somali woman?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2026 01:56 PM (looXz)

307 You are dumber than Seriphian frogs and fishes.

From The Bondage of the Will, pg. 77 of Luther's Works, Vol. 33

Posted by: Ergofabulous at January 25, 2026 01:57 PM (miarg)

308 “ The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

Exodus 14:14

“ For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.”

Deutoronomy 20:4

Posted by: Marcus T at January 25, 2026 01:57 PM (Zm3wW)

309 Simplicity rules. Glock 17/19 gen 3 or earlier, GI spec 1911s from the better manufacturers, the ugly but reliable early Ruger P-series, CZ75B variants, S and W or Ruger revolvers etc. The common denominator is that they're all older designs, and any bugs have already been worked out.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 25, 2026 01:44 PM

What are we, chopped liver?

Posted by: Desert Eagles at January 25, 2026 01:58 PM (0sNs1)

310 285
276 More and more I believe the left will win the war. The right has shown absolutely no willingness to sacrifice anything. Not even a little time.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 25, 2026 01:43 PM (g8Ew

I don’t. You’re mistaking fanatical footsoldiers for strength, when in fact it’s a sign of great weakness. They’re failing on almost every front, to the point that they know that an open insurrection is the only chance they have left. And yet they only have enough force to make a stink in the handful of cities they already control.
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Trump getting DOGE to purge USAID has put a crimp in the Left's ability to have hordes of rioters in the streets of all major cities. The news footage makes it seems like there's a great army in Minniehaha but it's not that big, and they've been run around by prank calls, too. It's Soros money keeping the rioters in the streets. The DNC is still pretending to look for that billion-plus the Harris-Walsh campaign blew through (stole) in 100 days.

Posted by: exdem13 at January 25, 2026 01:58 PM (XjTSo)

311 Yeah, but how are you going to restring your guitar without them.
*bong rip*

A good quaker wouldn't be caught dead near a guitar.......even though we had a piano lady and sang from some baptist hymnals

People drank a lot of moonshine back then

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 25, 2026 01:58 PM (jrgJz)

312 Trump believes the Iranians when they say they are not executing protestors. Trump believes Hamas when they say they agree to disarm.

Who is advising him about the Middle East, Sweet Polly Purebread?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 25, 2026 01:58 PM (RIvkX)

313 The Dems are knocking each other over trying to get to the microphone.....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 25, 2026 01:58 PM (VE6XX)

314
Charlie Kirk comes to mind.
Posted by: BirdRockDoc

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Alas.

btw, are you in SoCal, if you don't mind confessing?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:59 PM (fL3jw)

315 X gave me a timeout. I posted that potential protesters at the Broncos game should get a beat-down.

Posted by: Don Black at January 25, 2026 01:59 PM (ZxPkt)

316 Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is one of the admins of Signal Chat.

Is she the one who also dressed up in a hijab for a photo op with a Somali woman?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2026 01:56 PM (looXz)
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Good recall.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 25, 2026 01:59 PM (RIvkX)

317 I don’t. You’re mistaking fanatical footsoldiers for strength, when in fact it’s a sign of great weakness. They’re failing on almost every front, to the point that they know that an open insurrection is the only chance they have left. And yet they only have enough force to make a stink in the handful of cities they already control.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 25, 2026 01:46 PM (IUuBi)

They're already cowing repubs in Congress to back off and pretty much submit to dem demands. Just some backwater jackoffs with the will to put themselves in harm's way in a city that no one really thinks about much. It's how CA seems to set the national standard for things we think are silly and/or corrosive. It's happened over and over again to the point where many of us don't really recognize this country anymore.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 25, 2026 02:00 PM (g8Ew8)

318 Kirk means "church" in Scottish and some Northern English dialects. It is often used to refer specifically to the Church of Scotland.
Also means church in Dutch.

Posted by: BirdRockDoc at January 25, 2026 02:00 PM (VOcQ6)

319 Trump getting DOGE to purge USAID has put a crimp in the Left's ability to have hordes of rioters in the streets of all major cities.
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Behold the power of a fully operational Somali Daycare Fraud conspiracy.

Posted by: Fat Darth Tim at January 25, 2026 02:00 PM (miarg)

320
Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is one of the admins of Signal Chat.

Is she the one who also dressed up in a hijab for a photo op with a Somali woman?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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By cracky, Yes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 02:00 PM (fL3jw)

321 303 Are there high winds at the end of this snow storm?

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 01:54 PM (Ia/+0)

I am fixing ham and bean soup and smoking blueberry Kush so the answer is yes

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 25, 2026 02:01 PM (jrgJz)

322
Alas.

btw, are you in SoCal, if you don't mind confessing?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 25, 2026 01:59 PM (fL3jw)

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Guilty as charged

Posted by: BirdRockDoc at January 25, 2026 02:02 PM (VOcQ6)

323 The right has shown absolutely no willingness to sacrifice anything. Not even a little time.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

And what have you done?

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 25, 2026 02:02 PM (IhIKR)

324 Blond Morticia invites you to the
NOOD

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2026 02:02 PM (Ia/+0)

325 Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 25, 2026 01:58 PM (jrgJz

Just curious. Did you go to Midwestern services of Quakers?. They have an order of worship and music in addition to times of silence . In the Northeast it is just 60 minutes of silence unless people get up to speak.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2026 02:03 PM (looXz)

326
What are we, chopped liver?
Posted by: Desert Eagles at January 25, 2026 01:58 PM (0sNs1)

You have one legitimate use, to cause uncontrolled gleeful giggling when someone pulls your trigger. I know, I used to own an early model 357 Deagle.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 25, 2026 02:05 PM (y9nCu)

327 The left "needs" martyrs to prop up the talking point of "see the meanie publicans are eviiiiiiiil". I would rather they not have them however part of the point is that you don't win by dying stupidly. Bust out the water cannon. Make this "winter offensive of angry children" a test of "can you do better than the Marines at Chosin"?

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 25, 2026 02:07 PM (jrgJz)

328 “ The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

Fight like you won't receive help. Don't bank on help.

People better than me died in nazi camps.

I believe in the supernatural. I'm like Constantine except i don't have any tricks or potions. Well, have some tricks and potions but they are so tiny that i don't, i mean i can't even finish this sentence

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 25, 2026 02:07 PM (EyfuW)

329 same fortitude in the current population of Europe? Yes, certainly, among the Muslim invaders!

Fanatic sociopathy is a tactic not a virtue.

Posted by: DaveA at January 25, 2026 02:07 PM (FhXTo)

330 324 Blond Morticia invites you to the
NOOD
```````````
Wha'szat?

Posted by: BirdRockDoc at January 25, 2026 02:08 PM (VOcQ6)

331 I don’t. You’re mistaking fanatical footsoldiers for strength, when in fact it’s a sign of great weakness
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Tell us about it

Posted by: Iranian Revolutionaries circa 1979 at January 25, 2026 02:09 PM (vSvIl)

332 Bust out the water cannon. Make this "winter offensive of angry children" a test of "can you do better than the Marines at Chosin"?
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 25, 2026 02:07 PM (jrgJz)

You know as well as I do that's never going to happen.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 25, 2026 02:10 PM (g8Ew8)

333 I have to say it still bothers me that Kevin Smith made a statement that he has now rejected Religion and mocked the Holy Spirit. The only unforgivable sin. I’m bothered for him , not angry at him.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 25, 2026 12:14 PM (KDPiq)
Who is Kevin Smith?

Posted by: Eromero at January 25, 2026 02:13 PM (LHPAg)

334 I said it a long time ago: WAR!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 25, 2026 12:49 PM (LQfGe)

That is a good way to look at it. Minneapolis is Gaza City; Minnesota is the Gaza Strip; and the government of those locales is Hamas. They are acting the exact same way.

And they are actively seeking martyrdom like the guy yesterday.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 25, 2026 02:14 PM (I8+9i)

335 Flanagan is a Marxist loon who alleges because she has some Native American blood that makes her down with the Somali struggle. Arrest her and make the Somalis sweat

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 25, 2026 02:15 PM (e4I2N)

336 If the country recognizes this is a war over money and many other things that are more valuable, we may have the mustard to eat that hotdog.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 25, 2026 02:17 PM (EyfuW)

337 Just curious. Did you go to Midwestern services of Quakers?. They have an order of worship and music in addition to times of silence . In the Northeast it is just 60 minutes of silence unless people get up to speak.

Indiana.......called themselves "Midwest society of Friends"......mostly southern baptists that be ame quakers to keep a bunch of 15 yo boys from running off to France in Ww1

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 25, 2026 02:25 PM (jrgJz)

338 You know as well as I do that's never going to happen.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 25, 2026 02:10 PM (g8Ew

Who said? LoL "never" is a long time.

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at January 25, 2026 02:30 PM (jrgJz)

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