The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 1/23/26

Good morning kids. I suppose every so often the weather is something that should be mentioned. The forecasters are warning about a massive winter storm that's primed to hit much of the nation this weekend.

Several emergency declarations have already been issued as a massive winter storm barrels toward more than 35 states, putting more than 200 million people in its path and threatening “considerable disruption” across the US.
Texas, Georgia and the Carolinas were the first to issue preemptive emergency declarations after the National Weather Service warned that “nearly everyone east of the Rockies” will be affected by snow, ice, or cold from Friday into early next week.
The potentially historic winter storm, dubbed Winter Storm Fern, is expected to span more than 2,000 miles, putting more than 200 million people at risk of crippling snow and travel chaos starting Thursday night.

Please be safe, avoid traveling unless absolutely necessary and take all appropriate precautions, especially if you live in an area that typically does not experience severe/extreme winter conditions and you and your vehicles aren't used to dealing with it.

With that out of the way, the metaphor of cold and ICE could not be more appropriate. VP JD Vance visited the front line of the war being waged to eliminate our national sovereignty and in point of fact to erase America as founded.

Vice President JD Vance doesn’t believe there’s a need to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota for the time being, he told The Daily Wire on Thursday. Vance touched down in Minneapolis, meeting with federal immigration officers to assess the chaos on the ground. For weeks following the fatal shooting of an ICE watch activist, left-wing agitators have followed federal agents arresting illegal immigrants across the Twin Cities trying to thwart their actions.

Given the incitement and the loud proclamations of Democrat leaders from Walz to Frey and Pritzker and others that they will refuse to cooperate with ICE and other Federal Law enforcement officials in enforcing our laws to protect our sovereignty and citizenry, by virtually ordering their own police forces to physically confront and thwart their efforts. If that is not a green light for the Democrat Party's organized or even lone wolf street thugs and brain damaged fools to physically attack ICE officers . . then I now give you this massive dog-whistle cum Fuhrer Befehl declaring open season on ICE agents.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes wildly suggested that residents can open fire on masked ICE agents if they feel their life is in danger under the state’s self-defense laws.
The Democrat, in a sit-down with 12 News anchor Brahm Resnik, warned that Arizona’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows citizens to use deadly force if they believe they’re in imminent danger, could become a “recipe for disaster” if protesters clash with immigration officers.
“It’s kind of a recipe for disaster because you have these masked federal officers with very little identification, sometimes no identification, wearing plain clothes and masks,” Mayes said in the Monday interview, calling ICE “very poorly trained.” “And we have a Stand Your Ground law that says that if you reasonably believe that your life is in danger and you’re in your house or your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force.” A flabbergasted Resnik repeatedly challenged Mayes, cautioning that her remarks could be interpreted as a “license” to residents to shoot a federal agent. She shot back that she was merely stating a “fact,” not encouraging violence.
“If you’re being attacked by someone who is not identified as a peace officer — how do you know?” the state’s top prosecutor pressed, adding that “real cops don’t wear masks.”
“I mean if somebody comes at me wearing a mask, by the way, I’m a gun owner, and I can’t tell whether they’re a police officer, what am I supposed to do? No, I’m not suggesting people pull out their guns, but this is a don’t tread on me state.”
The attorney general, who was elected in 2022, unleashed her jaw-dropping comments as immigration officers begin to spread into parts of the Grand Canyon State.
. . . She vowed to prosecute any ICE agent who violates state laws after operations in Minnesota sparked widespread unrest when an federal officer fatally shot protester Renee Nicole Good when she clipped him with her car during a heated confrontation on Jan. 7.
Arizona GOP Rep. David Schweikert blasted the attorney general, calling her rhetoric “reckless.”

No, it's not an insurrection Mr. Vice President. It's merely the latest eruption of violent anti-American revolution from within.

To conservatives, it might appear at first blush that these anti-ICE radicals and DNC Commiecrats are all about the F word. It seems to reflect unimaginable rage and irrational hysteria relating to an issue about which the radicals are so passionate that all reasonable expression is abandoned. Don’t be lulled into believing, though, that the beginning and end of these incoherent, obscene rants is that they’re suffering from some serious lack of creative expression or a mind-wiping anger. It’s more than that.
They have a mission beyond the superficial rage they would have us focus on. . . When the left protests, there’s more than rage or frustration. There’s seething enmity. We saw it with the Pussy March when Trump was first elected, during the impeachments and prosecutions levied against him, during the George Floyd/BLM/DEI protests, and now with the ICE insanity.
Every time a congressional Commiecrat, the governor of a blue state, or the mayor of a blue city speaks, bile drips out all over. Journalists and talk show hosts spew their anti-anything American venom daily and with impunity. Don Lemon did it at the church invasion in Minnesota and then brazenly lied and hid behind his immunity as a “journalist” and the fact that he is a gay, black man. Do I hear Jussie Smollett, anyone?
It’s more than rage about the issues or mental illness, prescription meds, weed, or street drugs driving the behavior. It’s even more than demonic possession. Again, these are the things they want us to perseverate on, while they pursue their mission: a collective determination to destroy.
It’s easy to think of our Commiecrats as zombie-like, reacting in lockstep, converging on something en masse, walking in hordes over cliffs and into raging rivers. The impression they give is that they’re not responsible for their actions. That lets them off too easily. . . They don’t do this merely out of rage about an issue but because it is the only path to revolution and cannot be brought about by polite debate and collegial cooperation. . . They don’t need the facts or stats, logic, or reasoning to accomplish their goals. Just a place to compulsively and convulsively shout “F you” while destroying everything in their way—not just buildings and property, but love of country, American culture, and resilience—courageously remaking this nation as they believe it should be, as Obama once said.
So, when you hear a Karen ranting, “F you,” it’s not anger about the American Dream slipping away, but about the fury needed for their Marxist Utopian Dream. And make no mistake: they relish in that fury. If you doubt me, listen to Minnesota Church Stormer-in-Chief William Kelly rant about death threats against him, inviting people to “Go ahead, kill me...because...you can kill the revolutionary, but you can’t kill the Revolution.”

Beyond merely the droogs and deadhead scum that are the tip of the spear, this nation needs to be absolutely purged from sea to shining sea of everything and everyone of the Left, including the complete dismantling of the Democrat Party and most especially the malign influence of our schools. If we fail, it will be our undoing. This madness ends with us or it ends us.

As tensions rise in Minneapolis and other sanctuary cities and ICE officers confront violent protestors in the line of duty, some teachers are indoctrinating their students to believe the left’s woke narratives—even when they are demonstrably false.
At Manson Northwest Webster High School in Iowa, a language arts teacher, identified by other outlets as Kim Keller, was caught in an audio recording delivering a virulent partisan diatribe to her class in which she accused ICE agents of murdering Renee Nicole Good—and told her students they would likely be next.
The teacher begins by scolding her class for allegedly laughing at TikTok videos about the incident: “Then why are you laughing? Because that is what is happened [sic]. And if you do not process that, you need to process that right now.”
The angry tirade that follows is full of misrepresentations and outright lies.

The school is not on the Upper West Side of Mamdani's Manhattan but in Iowa. Trouble in River City folks.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

“I mean if somebody comes at me wearing a mask, by the way, I’m a gun owner, and I can’t tell whether they’re a police officer, what am I supposed to do?”
Arizona AG wildly suggests residents can shoot masked ICE agents under state’s self-defense laws
The backlash to the supposed Republican renaissance and sweeping cultural conservative agendas is here. . . Across the country, the jargon of wokeness invented on campuses is spilling back out into the broader culture again, much like it did in 2020. . . The truth is, the right declared victory too early. Wokeness never died. . . It’s the weed that grows back stronger. We ignore it at our own peril.
Woke never really died, it’s coming back with a vengeance — and we should be terrified
A powerful follow-up surge of Arctic air tied to the polar vortex will follow closely behind, creating dangerous refreezing conditions that could lead to prolonged power outages and bring travel to a near standstill for several days, according to the FOX Forecast Center. (Bundle up everyone - jjs)
Over 235 Million Americans In More Than 40 States Now In Path Of Historic Winter Storm Packing Snow, Ice, Arctic Cold

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

“A Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused to sign a complaint bringing charges against Don Lemon in connection with the church protest on Sunday,” reports the far-left and still unreformed CBS News.
Federal Judge Refuses to Sign Complaint Against Don Lemon for Church Riot
Trump has a momentous choice ahead of him: stand firm against chaos or allow the situation to spiral out of control.
Trump Needs To Emulate One Of His Favorite Presidents To Crush The Blatant Insurrection In Minnesota
Federal action highlights a zero-tolerance stance on attacks against religious institutions by far-left activists.
DOJ Arrests Radical Black Activist Behind Anti-ICE Church Invasion. (Find and cut off where this bloody beast gets her money - jjs)
Mayor Jacob Frey previously stopped short of condemning anti-ICE activists for storming St. Paul’s Cities Church
Minneapolis Mayor Calls for Release of Activists Who Stormed Church Service (they should be released -- directly into a tank of starving piranha - jjs)
“We’re not saying we had teams comprised of HUNDREDS of off-duty cops and veterans volunteer to run decoy operations so far-left activists THOUGHT they were conducting ICE raids.”
Blue Lives Matter Reveals Pro-ICE Decoy Operation With ‘Combat Veterans, Off-Duty Officers’
It’s not that lefts are angry, incoherent dimwits (although many are). However, for most, rage is their power source, and their goal is America’s destruction.
The True Meaning Behind All The Rage
Democrats find the worst reason for a civil war ever.
The Illegal Alien Pedophile Insurrection

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The lawsuit says that on February 19, 2021, Trump received notice, “without warning or provocation,” that several of his and his company’s bank accounts would be closed “just two months later, on April 19, 2021.”
Trump Files $5 Billion Debanking Lawsuit Against JPMorgan & CEO Jamie Dimon
“If enacted, this bill would require Virginia state agencies be racist in who they do business with.”
Virginia Introduces Bill That Discriminates Against White Men in Government Contracting
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
Radical leftist former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly known as AMLO, and his protege and current Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum have both publicly embraced the concept of reconquista and actively discouraged Mexican Americans, much less Mexicans illegally present in the United States, from assimilating or in any way embracing American identity, the book reveals. Officials under both presidencies have declared illegal immigrants who send remittances home “heroes” and champion propaganda songs that celebrate rejecting American identity.
SHOCK CONFESSION: Mexican President Admits That Mass Migration Is a Tool to Reclaim and Conquer America’s Southwest
"As agents approached, the driver Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias fled on foot—abandoning his child."
DHS Slaps Bro-Fo Omar With Fact Check Over Claim ICE ‘Detained’ 5-Year-Old Child
“Our efforts were not aimed at interfering with authorities...The Chicago Chief of Patrol told police officers en route to help the ICE agents to stand down...This is not an action movie...Crime in Memphis fell by 41 percent.”
How Pro-Immigrant Activism Turned Dangerous
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
The Dominion State Democrat’s bill was introduced as the nation has increasingly scrutinized the misuse of taxpayer funds. The Trump administration has moved to clamp down on fraud across many federal benefit programs.
Virginia Democrat Moves to Squash Oversight of Nonprofits After Somali Fraud Scandal
. . . the horrifying truth the Deep State wants buried.
‘SOMALIMERICA’: The Rise of Somali Fraud, Crime and Terror in America
The real taboo cause of the fraud epidemic.
In Sweden as in Minnesota, Somali Welfare Fraud

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Republican governors launch ambitious efforts to fight fraud, reduce regulations, and lower costs.
The States Play DOGE Ball
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: The ISIS flag flies again in Raqqa, thanks to the man who drove them out a decade ago.
The Two Mr. Trumps
CAIR's not thwarting terrorism, but evading scrutiny.
xNo, Hamas-Linked CAIR Did Not Help Thwart an Assassination Plot Against President Trump
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Comey cleared Clinton, Obama boarded Air Force One with her, and the Russia hoax took flight—new evidence suggests the fix was in long before voters ever weighed in.
Obama’s Fingerprints All Over Investigations of Trump And Clinton
The hearing is being billed by House Republicans as an essential step in transparency—and possible criminal charges—surrounding Smith and the former Biden government’s Arctic Frost investigation
Jack Smith Said He Expects to Be Indicted at Nightmare Hearing. Here’s What Happened:
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
If the goal is to restore the American Dream, then we have to Make America Affordable Again. That starts with breaking the grip of players who treat families as data points and neighborhoods as cash cows. Zillow is towards the very top of that list.
Trump Thumps Davos’ ‘You’ll Own Nothing’ Plan. And Here’s Another Target for His Sights.
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
With four murders and several other shootings, the year is not starting out well for Macon, Georgia.
Yet Another Macon Murder-Funeral
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The European Union on Monday unveiled an "anti-racism" plan that presses member states to censor online "hate speech" and adopt an "intersectional approach" to "structural racism." The plan, which also calls for training on "unconscious bias" and "microaggression," is likely to intensify the Trump administration’s diplomatic fusillade against European hate speech laws. It also illustrates the degree to which American racial politics have been exported to the European Union.
European Union Doubles Down on ‘Hate Speech’ Censorship in New ‘Anti-Racism’ Strategy
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Robert Zimmerman: "What must be understood about Mann is that he is a very typical leftist radical, who thinks that because his cause is just and good, he is somehow immune from any consequences for bad behavior. Such leftists increasingly believe they are allowed to lie, cheat, defame, and even sometimes commit violence, because anyone who disagrees with them is evil. Mann did not do the last item (though many other leftists now are), but he did all the others, and truly believed he could get away with it. He is now finding out otherwise.
Fake scientist Michael Mann slapped down hard by DC superior court
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Indoctrinating our children to hate federal officers.
Public School Teachers Rail Against ICE
There’s a stark reality gripping America’s urban public school districts, caused by massive enrollment hemorrhages as parents flee to alternatives.
Kids Dumb As Rocks Now So Parents Across Country Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands
New world rankings undermine Ivy League's claim that diversity is 'essential to academic excellence'
Chinese Universities Surpass Harvard Despite Glaring Lack of Racial Diversity
ABORTION
For pro-lifers the NIH’s decision is a payoff on their decades-long lobbying effort to end taxpayer-funded experiments involving aborted babies.
Feds Will No Longer Use Your Tax Dollars To Do Experiments On Aborted Babies’ Bodies
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) were suing Trump’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS) over a freeze on $27.5 million worth of Title IX family planning grants to Planned Parenthood. The Trump administration, however, quietly restored the grants, prompting the ACLU and NFPRHA to drop their lawsuit.
EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood Asks Trump Admin Not To Refund Them
Pro-lifers should realize how little political power they have, and to take the modest wins for life that this administration can offer.
Here’s Where J.D. Vance And Pro-Lifers Should Compromise, And Where They Shouldn’t
SECOND AMENDMENT
Blanche began by noting that even as we walked, the DOJ was arguing against Hawaiian gun control before the Supreme Court of the United States.
EXCLUSIVE: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Describes DOJ Fight to Protect Second Amendment Rights
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
So, what we have here is a perfect example of Democrats getting what they wished—getting it good and getting it hard.
Democrats Vote to Hold Clintons in Contempt over Epstein Subpoena
As with all conspiracy theories, anything that fails to prove the “truth” — especially anything that debunks it — just becomes more proof of the plotters’ reach: The believers will never be convinced otherwise.
You’ll never guess what the new Epstein scandal is
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Hunt, who is vying in a brutal three-way Texas Senate primary, was absent while House Republicans advanced a rule teeing up votes on four appropriations bills, including a measure funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Though House Republicans did not end up needing Hunt’s vote to advance the funding bills, GOP leadership has voiced irritation about the Senate hopeful’s frequent absences while he campaigns ahead of the March 3 primary.
‘Expected Him To Be Here’: Mike Johnson Stunned Rep. Wesley Hunt Was Missing For Key House Vote
It’s about whether New York’s constitutional safeguards against gerrymandering mean anything at all — or whether they can be exploited by partisans whenever election results don’t go their way.
How New York’s gerrymander fight endangers GOP House seats everywhere
POLITICS
Trump’s unapologetic, America-first action—even when politically incorrect—should serve as the blueprint moving forward and the new standard to which all future presidents are held.
President Trump Redefining What It Means to Be Presidential, Putting Predecessors to Shame
IRAN ON the BRINK?!
They seem to know that jihad is not just a “spiritual struggle”.
Islamic Republic of Iran Threatens Worldwide Jihad if the Supreme Leader is Killed
Standing on the brink of its own reckoning.
Blood is the Last Currency of Iran’s Failing Theocracy
The announcement comes as President Donald Trump reportedly considers ‘decisive’ action against the Islamic Republic
Iranian Regime Claims It Tested a Long-Range Missile That Can Hit US Eastern Seaboard
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS
Kushner and Witkoff outline plans for "new Gaza." (masturbation unless the elimination of Islam is part of the plan - jjs)
‘New Gaza’: Trump’s Board Of Peace Unveils Ambitious Postwar Vision At Davos
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The contrast between the international assemblage of sophisticates and the president from Queens brings onto a global stage one of the longest-running dramas in American political history. Mastering the forces unleashed by Jacksonian America is the key not only to Trump's presidential success, but also to the preservation and renewal of the American-led international order. If the announced agreement with NATO secretary general Mark Rutte holds, this act in the drama will end on a high note.
Andrew Jackson Comes to Davos
Fred Fleitz: European leaders panicked over imaginary Trump crises, only to be outflanked at Davos as he exposed their failures, calmed Greenland fears, and seized the global stage.
Trump Owned Davos
But Milei's speech wasn't just a warning. It was filled with pure optimism and "good news." The thing is, the good news was coming from the Americas, not Europe.
Europe Fades As Latin America Rises. Milei Is Leading the Way.
Potential end of communist rule in Cuba after nearly 67 years.
U.S. Targets Regime Change in Cuba by Year’s End. (can we abolish the Democrat party and secure real peace and prosperity? - jjs)
The Times of London: “Videos show tents burning at the al-Hol camp, which holds more than 40,000 people, after the Syrian military began to take control of the Kurdish northeast.”
ISIS Terrorists Escape Syrian Prisons as Regime Forces Advance on Kurdish-Held Territory
“We’re going to have total access to Greenland. We’re going to have all military access that we want.”
Trump on Greenland Deal: ‘It’s Essentially Total Access’
Trump has earned reasonable deference in his diplomacy.
Let Him Cook: Trump is Right on Greenland and the National Interest
These are the ones who enforced conformity to their ideology countless times, whether those who accepted the boot on their neck agreed with them or not.
Canadians don’t need a lecture on enforced conformity from Mark Carney
The Nordic model may inflate the sort of numbers politicians like to recite at press conferences, but it does little to make northern Europe safer in any meaningful sense.
The Nordic Conscription Myth: How a False Success Story Is Driving Europe’s Draft Revival
The Beijing-controlled puppet government in Hong Kong began a trial under China’s tyrannical “national security law” on Thursday for the leaders of a group that organized candlelight vigils in memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.
China Prosecutes Hongkongers Who Mourned Tiananmen Square Massacre (Truman failed when he prevented Macarthur from crossing the Yalu and driving all the way to Peking to skin Mao alive - jjs)
How much influence does the deep-pocketed Gulf country hold in America?
Qatar as Daddy Warbucks
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
“President Trump’s historic Rural Health Transformation Program could not come at a more urgent time,”. . . “After years of targeting and neglect under the Biden administration, across the United States, hospitals are entering a systemic distress cycle that is visible in financial markets before doors close to patients. In 2025 alone, at least 90 hospitals have experienced credit rating downgrades, service eliminations, or full closures. These distress events reveal a patterned, multi-signal collapse with credit downgrades often preceding a loss of essential services.”
Exclusive — Report: Rural Hospital Closures, Downgrades Represent ‘National Health Access Emergency’ Trump Can Fix
Current law lets hospitals charge patients significantly more than they were quoted. Trump could change that by making hospitals pay it back.
How Hospitals Gouge Americans By Gaming Trump’s Order To Post Prices
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The German startup Spark Microgravity announced yesterday it is negotiating with two commercial space stations, one re-entry capsule company, and one French rocket startup to launch the first commercial cancer lab in space.
German startup Spark Microgravity to build first space-based commercial cancer lab
What causes these gullies remains an open question. ... More recent research suggests they are formed by the seasonal dry ice frost cycle that in the high latitudes has carbon dioxide condense to fall as snow in autumn and then sublimate away in the spring.
New gullies on Mars?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
It is expected that every American transgender claiming refugee status will be denied asylum and deported back to the United States.
American Transgender ‘Refugees’ Put in Camp With Migrants.
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
They care nothing about preserving our culture (No shit Sherlock1 - jjs)
Democrats Apparently Hate Western Civilization
HITHER & YON
Claire Foy excels, yet again, in unexpected tale of love, death and healing
‘H Is for Hawk’ Will Catch Everyone Off Guard

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1 Gray?

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at January 23, 2026 07:25 AM (MmTZZ)

2 Happy Friday

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 07:25 AM (gbOdA)

3 Morning Horde

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at January 23, 2026 07:25 AM (MmTZZ)

4 Oooh...gray...like the weather....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 23, 2026 07:26 AM (3Ope8)

5 And then, BAM. It was clear. I guess Jews really do control the weather. Good morning and happy birthday JJ ;-)

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 23, 2026 07:27 AM (3Ope8)

6 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 23, 2026 07:29 AM (iMotb)

7 Weaver has declared that implementing rent control is “a strategic and critical first step in the fight for full social housing,” and bragged that activists could “strike a blow to the entire real estate industry.”

She’s also disparaged homeownership as a “weapon of white supremacy.”

Interesting that one of the better investments for middle class people of color is their homes. A place to pay off and live rent free in retirement and maybe even leave a small legacy to your children.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 07:29 AM (gbOdA)

8 Thank you, JJ! you rock!

and a gut shabbes to you! stay warm!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 23, 2026 07:30 AM (Cjt/F)

9 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2026 07:30 AM (RIvkX)

10 8 Thank you, JJ! you rock!

and a gut shabbes to you! stay warm!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 23, 2026 07:30 AM (Cjt/F)

I'm freezing my Tzitzis off!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2026 07:30 AM (x0n13)

11 Giovanni Gentile, a neo-Hegelian philosopher, was the intellectual author of the “doctrine of fascism,” which he wrote in conjunction with Benito Mussolini. Gentile’s sources of inspiration were thinkers such as Hegel, Nietzsche, and also Karl Marx.

Gentile went so far as to declare “Fascism is a form of socialism, in fact, it is its most viable form.” One of the most common reflections on this is that fascism is itself socialism based on national identity.

Gentile believed that all private action should be oriented to serve society. He was against individualism, for him there was no distinction between private and public interest.

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 07:31 AM (fXVlG)

12 I haven't seen any explanations of how global warming is causing ice storms lately.

Posted by: fd at January 23, 2026 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

13 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 23, 2026 07:33 AM (qwVdq)

14 Maybe if a Mexican head of state were extracted like Maduro she would shut her mouth about reconquista.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 23, 2026 07:33 AM (rJ48h)

15 BOING and שבת שלום.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 23, 2026 07:34 AM (gsBYv)

16 Oh noes!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 23, 2026 07:35 AM (Cjt/F)

17 First, please do not use their names, do not make them famous. They do not deserve even infamy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2026 07:35 AM (RIvkX)

18 Well, not news, but the sun is up beautifully and the light shining on the hills turns the trees red.

Thanks, J.J. And have a good day everyone!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2026 07:37 AM (guLpK)

19 hospitals are entering a systemic distress cycle that is visible in financial markets before doors close to patients

I don't even want to get started on that shit. Had a routine visit with the cardiac doc (typical age and diabetic management stuff) and asked for a stress test to support my recurrent flight physical. I told the provider I'd pay out of pocket and they gave me a (pretty cfuking spendy) price.

Of course, it's 'elective' so the insurance company said nope. Then, the provider came back and said since I have insurance the price was gonna be another $500, even though the insurance wouldn't pay for the procedure.

Fuck this Obamacare BS, the people who foisted it on use, and these people in particular.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 23, 2026 07:38 AM (3Ope8)

20 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at January 23, 2026 07:38 AM (53oGX)

21 I guess Jews really do control the weather.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 23, 2026 07:27 AM (3Ope

-

It's twue! It's twue!

https://youtu.be/CzpIcBw63l8

https://youtu.be/3fX_kAh4TsQ

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 23, 2026 07:39 AM (gsBYv)

22 “I mean if somebody comes at me wearing a mask, by the way, I’m a gun owner, and I can’t tell whether they’re a police officer, what am I supposed to do?

Two things here. This retard is clearly telling the sub 100 IQ community to open fire on anyone wearing a mask.

Her statement is even more retarded because this statement is in proximity to her calling ICE Agents "very poorly trained" - as if the sub 100 IQ protestors have SEAL level training.

Second thing: Spending literally trillions on a military is absolutely senseless when the biggest threat to the US is Soros AGs and judges.

Congress, in the face of the collapse of Western Civilization and a hot civil war refuses to do the most simple and laziest thing: Pass the SAVE Act.

They aren't serious. Why should anyone be on April 15th?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 07:39 AM (a4flb)

23 What if the Church Invaders wanted violence?
Interesting to know if any of them were armed.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 07:40 AM (gbOdA)

24 Fuck this Obamacare BS, the people who foisted it on use, and these people in particular.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 23, 2026 07:38 AM (3Ope

Let's see. House: R, check; Senate: R, check; White House: R, check.

So, tell me again why we still have Ozero Care?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 23, 2026 07:40 AM (uQesX)

25 The teacher begins by scolding her class for allegedly laughing at TikTok videos about the incident: “Then why are you laughing? Because that is what is happened [sic]. And if you do not process that, you need to process that right now.”

The angry tirade that follows is full of misrepresentations and outright lies.
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Willowed:
My MiL, my lib little sister, my idiot kindergarten friends, Mrs. F.'s friend...

They live in a literally alternative version of reality fed to them by state media.

It is amazing to learn what they DON'T KNOW they don't know.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2026 07:29 AM (RIvkX)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2026 07:40 AM (RIvkX)

26 The attacks on Minnesota churches serve the Democrat Party on several fronts, all with a unified purpose. They get to show their base that they are "fighting the right," they get to pretend they're defending innocent minorities, they get to pose as victims if there is any pushback, and most importantly, they are changing the subject away from any further scrutiny of the Democrat Party's willing participation in facilitating Somali financial fraud/Democrat vote harvesting/kickback scandal.

It is vital to their survival that everyone stop asking questions about the massive and undeniable Somali financial fraud.

Posted by: Sam Adams at January 23, 2026 07:40 AM (X+xvk)

27 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2026 07:41 AM (ExV1e)

28 Fuck this Obamacare BS, the people who foisted it on use, and these people in particular.

Have you considered medical tourism?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 07:41 AM (a4flb)

29
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2026 07:41 AM (tljrc)

30 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 23, 2026 07:39 AM (gsBYv)

*Snort* Nice!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 23, 2026 07:41 AM (3Ope8)

31 > Vice President JD Vance doesn’t believe there’s a need to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota for the time being, he told The Daily Wire on Thursday.
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"for the time being"

Talk about hedging. I would imagine the entire state isn't in full blown insurrection, but Minneapolis sure is. I don't think the litmus test is that the "whole state" has to be at the insurrection point. But I think all of the criteria, legally speaking, has been met.

What are they waiting for? Favorable polling? 🙄

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 23, 2026 07:42 AM (qwVdq)

32 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere. This will wake you up, & in a good way. Enjoy. https://youtu.be/fqwIpH6phJs

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 23, 2026 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

33 Read the meaty text. Good job, JJ.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 23, 2026 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

34 Hello, Horde! One of the things that has me not so stressed about the storms coming in is that my wife is making Asiago Bagels. Life is bearable with good food.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2026 07:43 AM (BpO1e)

35 "President Trump Redefining What It Means to Be Presidential, Putting Predecessors to Shame"

I think that is part of why some older folks find PDT revolting. He is demonstrating what losers that his predecessors that they put so much faith in really were.

Posted by: fd at January 23, 2026 07:44 AM (vFG9F)

36 33 Read the meaty text. Good job, JJ.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 23, 2026 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

thanks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2026 07:44 AM (x0n13)

37
Will Snowmageddon be NYC's and Muh, Muh, Muh, Muh, Muh Mamdani's Michael Bilandic moment?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 23, 2026 07:44 AM (xG4kz)

38 What are they waiting for? Favorable polling? 🙄
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 23, 2026 07:42 AM (qwVdq)

The Enemy Press would go into orgasms if troops came in and took over. Some more ground work has to be done before declaring it and taking action. Too many people still believe what they see on tv, and having the loudest voices, the enemy will prevail in quite a few places because most people aren't willing to pick up a weapon and attack their neighbors.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 23, 2026 07:44 AM (uQesX)

39 “Given that Plaintiffs have always complied with all applicable banking rules and regulations and their wealth management accounts were in good standing, JPMC’s publication of President Trump, the other Plaintiffs, the Trump Organization and its affiliated entities, and/or the Trump family’s names on this blacklist, is an intentional and malicious falsehood,”.

The PROCESS is the PUNISHMENT.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 07:45 AM (gbOdA)

40 Re: AZ shooting ICE

Stand your ground, if you’re not in full legal uniform I don’t know who you are, Levi’s and t shirt. I don’t know if your sew on badge is real, break in, kicking door down no warrant, oh well, and I will request a jury trial.

Remember, if you're ever on a jury all you need to say is guilty or not guilty. You don't need to explain shit...like why shooting the brownshirt was morally right.

MAGA bootlickers need to somehow get the message that the 2nd amendment is not compatible with where Trump is taking this country and *they will take your guns eventually*. Maybe not today, but far sooner than you think may be possible.

Stand your ground if it’s one of you and many of them means you’re dead. If you think ICE is coming, you had better organize a crew to help you stand your ground. Or the whole neighborhood needs to be armed and on patrol

The Trump Admin is intentionally sending ICE agents to states that don’t have Stand Your Ground laws: California, Oregon, Minnesota, Illinois, Maine. It’s by design; there are more millions more undocumented immigrants in Texas and Florida but they have very strong stand you ground laws.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 23, 2026 07:45 AM (ycI94)

41 The Democrat, in a sit-down with 12 News anchor Brahm Resnik, warned that Arizona’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows citizens to use deadly force if they believe they’re in imminent danger, could become a “recipe for disaster” if protesters clash with immigration officers.

Sounds to me like this, particular, utterance is less anti-ICE than trying to set up a scenario where they could drum up support for removing SYG and, potentially, disarming citizens.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2026 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

42 37
Will Snowmageddon be NYC's and Muh, Muh, Muh, Muh, Muh Mamdani's Michael Bilandic moment?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 23, 2026 07:44 AM (xG4kz)

I remember about 10 years or so ago, Michelito Lo-Lo Doomberg declared a major snowmaggedon and the next morning we woke up to exactly ZERO snow falling.

Total douchebag.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2026 07:47 AM (x0n13)

43 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 23, 2026 07:47 AM (0N4FZ)

44 Willowed:
My MiL, my lib little sister, my idiot kindergarten friends, Mrs. F.'s friend...

They live in a literally alternative version of reality fed to them by state media.

It is amazing to learn what they DON'T KNOW they don't know.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2026 07:29 AM (RIvkX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2026 07:40 AM (RIvkX)

You should share...in a comedic way...one of those "Can you believe how ugly the Church rioters were in Minnesota?" Negative, but not in a political negative, and yet framed as all negative (including rioter vs protestor)...forces them to find and look at the story...it's a baby steps way...any story that works this way should be the weekly joke...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2026 07:48 AM (tOcjL)

45 "What are they waiting for? Favorable polling?"

They're waiting for Timmy & Co to be hit with charges over massive fraud and vote stealing. It's a microcosm of what the Ds have been doing nation-wide.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 23, 2026 07:48 AM (dtajH)

46 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 23, 2026 07:44 AM (xG4kz

From what I can determine from the conservative radio news commentary, Mamdani actually seems to be prepared for the snow. ( Well, the people who have the jobs clearing snow away will have 12 hours shifts) but whatever they gave Him to read he sounds like he's on top of things.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2026 07:48 AM (guLpK)

47 On the topic of hospitals:

My dad is currently in one. The hospitalist (Never heard of that specialty before) suggested to my brother that he sign off on a DNR without even evaluating my dad.

There are people who are alive only because jail is a deterrent for most of us.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2026 07:48 AM (BpO1e)

48 What if the Church Invaders wanted violence?
Interesting to know if any of them were armed.

I was war gaming the Church Invader BLM Donation Jumpstart Stunt.

It will be interesting to see what happens to those arrested (thanks Bondi for actually doing your job). If they walk like the thug in Chicago, then all of the rules change since it is a license to attack churches. Undoubtably this will lead to people testing how far these attacks can go before there is any meaningful resistance. Vandalism? Shootings? Arson?

I doubt that the perps in this case were armed since it was a Donation Hustle and Narrative Amplifier - gunning down women and children would only force other congregations to harden, not disperse.

Fortunately, congregations are forced to draw up security plans (like they should have decades ago).

Other than that, get off the X. Move. MN is enemy territory and Congress will let the nation fall into riot and collapse.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 07:48 AM (a4flb)

49 31 > Vice President JD Vance doesn’t believe there’s a need to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota for the time being, he told The Daily Wire on Thursday.
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"for the time being"

Talk about hedging. I would imagine the entire state isn't in full blown insurrection, but Minneapolis sure is. I don't think the litmus test is that the "whole state" has to be at the insurrection point. But I think all of the criteria, legally speaking, has been met.

What are they waiting for? Favorable polling? 🙄
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 23, 2026 07:42 AM (qwVdq)

They are gonna see if arrests and fed charges on the Church rioters work 1st...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2026 07:49 AM (tOcjL)

50 You should share...in a comedic way...one of those "Can you believe how ugly the Church rioters were in Minnesota?"

I'd say "At least those rioters are going to slim down in prison."

Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2026 07:50 AM (BpO1e)

51 I am happy people are getting it in the ass with Obamacare.

People cried and bitched and moaned for years about HMOs this and Blue Cross/Blue Shield that all because they wanted free shit and other folks to pay for their "health" care.

Well enjoy! Don't forget to get your prelubed hands free catheters at no cost to you if you qualify!

Posted by: Zombie John McCain, Shitbird at January 23, 2026 07:50 AM (n+1Zi)

52 34 Hello, Horde! One of the things that has me not so stressed about the storms coming in is that my wife is making Asiago Bagels. Life is bearable with good food.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2026 07:43 AM (BpO1e)

I have to shop today - spouse left me the car and took transit. Dreading the shopping part but better in the workday vs tonight.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2026 07:50 AM (tOcjL)

53
Insurrection. The porn title is Insert Erection.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2026 07:50 AM (x0n13)

54 "I read my Chomsky back in the day."
-Gavin Newsom
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No. No you didn't. We all know you can't read.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2026 07:50 AM (RIvkX)

55 OrangeEnt

The danger from the Left is a Cromwellian takeover of the current government. That would be an extreme danger to the Left.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 23, 2026 07:51 AM (u82oZ)

56 Forecasting over 2ft in my area.

I figure all the French Toast fixings will be snarfed up by today.

This is going to be a pierogi and potato pancake worth event.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 23, 2026 07:52 AM (ARykC)

57 Good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 23, 2026 07:52 AM (aIM+X)

58 I am happy people are getting it in the ass with Obamacare.

I have warned people that if they supported that abomination and are having problems because of it to keep their mouths shut around me because I will mock them.

I have to shop today - spouse left me the car and took transit. Dreading the shopping part but better in the workday vs tonight.

Good luck. Hopefully you can get some supplies before the horde (The bad kind. Not us.) clears out the shelves.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2026 07:52 AM (BpO1e)

59 Thank you as always JJ

Here in DFW freezing rain (aka wintry mix) begins tonight, lasts all day tomorrow and is followed by some inches of snow Saturday night into Sunday morning. Once I get home from work today I’ll not venture out until Monday earliest. Unless…. Authorities are saying ice on power lines could cause outages… if my neighborhood loses power I can huddle indoors or perhaps sally out on the icy roads in an attempt to get to my work building which will have power no matter what… where I could get some warmth and microwave some food… such excitement!!

On this topic I am SO SICK of the sensationalizing of weather on the news… listening to the radio on the way to work you’d think we’re all gonna die from an ice storm. Good grief

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 07:53 AM (/iXAp)

60 But on another note, there were about 45 swastikas spray painted on a playground in a heavily Jewish neighborhood of the city, and Mamdani said zilch, nada, nothing, about this being repellent and totally unacceptable. What a surprise!! Not!!.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2026 07:54 AM (guLpK)

61 If your own intentions and actions will lead to the violation of laws, then you have no ground to stand on.

Posted by: clarence at January 23, 2026 07:54 AM (jgwdN)

62 The danger from the Left is a Cromwellian takeover of the current government. That would be an extreme danger to the Left.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 23, 2026 07:51 AM (u82oZ)

How so? Once they take over, they've signaled their intentions to never leave power again.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 23, 2026 07:54 AM (uQesX)

63 One of the commenters at Breitbart uncovered an X link that identifies that rogue judge who refused to sign off on an arrest warrant for Lemon. Link goes to Jack Posoblec's X account.

https://tinyurl.com/yc4s3x3m

Also, another account that identifies the judge and his wife's employer. No surprises there.

https://tinyurl.com/yzz7r6wb

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 23, 2026 07:55 AM (5xuJ/)

64 It’s by design; there are more millions more undocumented immigrants in Texas and Florida but they have very strong stand you ground laws.

What is not said by these retards is that Texas and Florida coöperate with the Feds and there is no drama except for the illegal aliens winding up out-bound.

Out of curiosity, which department is responsible for totally fucking up the H1-B program screening allowing Indians to flow into this country by the tens of thousands on bogus sponsoring claims?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 07:55 AM (a4flb)

65 PDT during reconquista negotiations with the Messicans. "OK,we agree that you won't take back CA. You don't really want it in its present state. And we kinda want to keep AZ. Now, just sign here and we give you New Mexico."

Messicans. "Gee, thanks Senor Presidente."

6 months later. "Ayee, the Gringo really screwed us!"

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 23, 2026 07:55 AM (gm9Sb)

66 There used to be 4 hospital systems in SF.
Now there are three.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2026 07:55 AM (RIvkX)

67
The Trump Admin is intentionally sending ICE agents to states that don’t have Stand Your Ground laws: California, Oregon, Minnesota, Illinois, Maine. It’s by design; there are more millions more undocumented immigrants in Texas and Florida but they have very strong stand you ground laws.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 23, 2026 07:45 AM

They've stumbled on to the truth here: we have to flood the zone with ICE in the aforementioned states (without stand your ground laws) because those are the states that are not cooperating with immigration enforcement. Not only not cooperating, but actively hindering immigration enforcement.

There's no need to send ICE en masse to Texas or Florida because the "locals" in Texas & Florida are actively helping the ICE actions.

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2026 07:56 AM (tljrc)

68 From the Federalist article: "There cannot and should not be a compromise effort on immigration in the same vein as the compromise bill on tariffs in 1833. The uncontrolled mass migration into this country is an existential threat and must be treated as such."

Exactly. If Trump were to compromise, he would be seen as weak -- and the only compromise is to let more illegals remain here. Unacceptable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 23, 2026 07:56 AM (wzUl9)

69 58 I am happy people are getting it in the ass with Obamacare.

I have warned people that if they supported that abomination and are having problems because of it to keep their mouths shut around me because I will mock them.

I have to shop today - spouse left me the car and took transit. Dreading the shopping part but better in the workday vs tonight.

Good luck. Hopefully you can get some supplies before the horde (The bad kind. Not us.) clears out the shelves.
Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2026 07:52 AM (BpO1e)

See, I have all my needs - this is a "want" trip (like fresh bread and freshest produce), b/c it may be a week for new fresh deliveries...was putting it off til it's probably time.

Like I have bread, milk, eggs...so the question is are apples and bananas and berries gonna also be slammed (if they are, I make do with oranges, which I'm swimming in and no sugar applesauce)...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2026 07:56 AM (tOcjL)

70 Just wet water do far, frozen tonight.

Posted by: Eromero at January 23, 2026 07:57 AM (yw3eV)

71 Geez, is there any good news anymore?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 23, 2026 07:58 AM (g8Ew8)

72 Maybe if a Mexican head of state were extracted like Maduro she would shut her mouth about reconquista.
Posted by: mr tmz at January 23, 2026 07:33 AM (rJ48h)

Talking about reconquista isn't a crime so there's no basis for using Delta to snatch the Mexican President. Given the actions of Mexicans in the US, however, it could be argued that it's an informal declaration of war so we should kick the shit out of Mexico and remind them who's the big dog in this hemisphere. Sadly, even the war-lover members of the Congressional GOP would balk at that because they're only interested in fight the WW2 European theater over and over again, ad infinitum.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2026 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

73 How so? Once they take over, they've signaled their intentions to never leave power again.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 23, 2026 07:54 AM (uQesX)

Anyone else who wants that power instead can say "Oh, well in that case...." and it's Vae Victis o'clock in what used to be America.

And to be honest, that would probably be a slightly better outcome than slouching along under Default Progressivism for another fifty years. So we should be somewhat grateful that they've forgotten the raw eldritch strength of Default Progressivism, thrown it out the window, and fully embraced dandyish crybully retard-ism.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 07:58 AM (06Hmj)

74 Book title for the past two decades - The Insane Years.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 23, 2026 07:58 AM (2GVsD)

75 “Exclusive: Muslim group Greg Abbott deemed a terrorist threat says it helped stop attack on Trump,” by Benjamin Wermund, Houston Chronicle, January 12, 2026.

There may be a more wrong, more times news agency than the Houston Chronicle but it has yet to be discovered.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 07:59 AM (gbOdA)

76 “ See, the enemy is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness”

Habakkuk 2:4

Posted by: Marcus T at January 23, 2026 07:59 AM (xZEBF)

77 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 08:00 AM (77rzZ)

78 "When the left protests, there’s more than rage or frustration. There’s seething enmity."

You don't say! You mean the issue isn't the issue?

One thing about Vance's statement in Minneapolis: I wish we'd stuff this expression of "turning the temperature down." It's stupid and implies dual responsibility for the insanity. The Left created this crisis in its every stage and dimension.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 23, 2026 08:00 AM (WHfpM)

79 There's no need to send ICE en masse to Texas or Florida because the "locals" in Texas & Florida are actively helping the ICE actions.
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2026 07:56 AM (tljrc)

1 out of 4 ICE arrest are in Texas.
Last summer almost 50% of all ICE arrest were in TX.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:01 AM (gbOdA)

80 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 23, 2026 08:01 AM (2Ez/1)

81 12 I haven't seen any explanations of how global warming is causing ice storms lately.
Posted by: fd at January 23, 2026 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

That’s easy - it’s because global warming is Tricksie that way!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2026 08:01 AM (xVja5)

82 Good morning Horde, Happy Friday. Thx JJ.
The best news of the Report is seeing that arrogant , fraudulent ahole Michael Mann lose in court , again. Unfortunately Marc Steyn had his health destroyed by the stress. How U of Penn keeps him as a professor is very telling vid the death of academia

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2026 08:02 AM (e4I2N)

83 One thing about Vance's statement in Minneapolis: I wish we'd stuff this expression of "turning the temperature down." It's stupid and implies dual responsibility for the insanity. The Left created this crisis in its every stage and dimension.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 23, 2026 08:00 AM (WHfpM)

I'm inclined to agree. The cry should be "You wanna party, let's party", not "golly gosh gee we should all be a little more civil".

It's like berating the guy mugging you with a kitchen knife because he said the word "fuck".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 08:02 AM (06Hmj)

84 Remember, if you're ever on a jury all you need to say is guilty or not guilty. You don't need to explain shit...like why shooting the brownshirt was morally right.

Remember, if you're ever on a jury all you need to say is guilty or not guilty. You don't need to explain shit...like why shooting the purple hair was morally right.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2026 08:02 AM (ExV1e)

85 76 “ See, the enemy is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness”

Habakkuk 2:4
Posted by: Marcus T at January 23, 2026 07:59 AM (xZEBF)

Puffed up puffery would best describe the Puffins on the left.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:02 AM (gbOdA)

86 Because Global Warming transitioned to Climate Change.

The scum moved the goalposts again by changing the words. And the pawns fell for it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 23, 2026 08:03 AM (2GVsD)

87 On this topic I am SO SICK of the sensationalizing of weather on the news…

That is the new normal.

When they are wrong, people are relieved, not angry.

If every weather event was not promoted as an existential threat and something bad did happen, then they would be blamed and scapegoated under the old shoot the messenger blame storming.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 08:03 AM (a4flb)

88 Sounds like they should’ve named the storm “Tamerlane,” not “Fern.”

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 08:03 AM (77rzZ)

89 I think Pritzker is more than merely 'puffed' up.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 23, 2026 08:03 AM (2GVsD)

90 "When the left protests, there’s more than rage or frustration. There’s seething enmity."

I heard Hillary had regular vodka enmities. I'd imagine that's pretty seething, but I don't know why protestors are doing it. I guess it keeps you warm in the Minnesota cold.

Posted by: Very Confused Moron at January 23, 2026 08:05 AM (ycI94)

91 I love it when Trump smacks around those WEF Euroweenie Elitists. He is at his best when he slams them with the unvarnished truth, which is exactly what he did. Oh, how I wish we could have him be president for the next 20 years. There's so much that needs to be fixed, and so little time. Especially when we're up against half of our countrymen who want to burn this own country to the ground to rebuild it into a grotesque vision of what America should be.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 23, 2026 08:06 AM (qBdHI)

92
I'm inclined to agree. The cry should be "You wanna party, let's party", not "golly gosh gee we should all be a little more civil".

I want to see more and more ICE confrontations with these retards lead to viral Steve Inman "Unnecessary Comment" videos.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 08:06 AM (a4flb)

93 My dad is currently in one. The hospitalist (Never heard of that specialty before) suggested to my brother that he sign off on a DNR without even evaluating my dad.

My wife and I recently made out a will. The forms came with more advance medical directives than will. We chose to not sign the medical parts as we felt that the wording was unnecessarily vague* and didn't want to give someone the opportunity.

*maybe it wasn't vague and was just needlessly bullshit legal jargon but it wasn't concretely understandable by two people with college degrees.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2026 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

94 FERN is used to absolve insurance carriers and allow then to add 100% to your deductible.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:07 AM (gbOdA)

95 IMO the administration's handling of the issues in Minneapolis as, apparently, strictly legal matters is a huge mistake. There's speculation that if the DoJ can win a couple cases in Minnesota it's a legal framework for other states.

The judiciary has their own thoughts on all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 23, 2026 08:08 AM (qwVdq)

96 "That’s easy - it’s because global warming is Tricksie that way!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo"

We hates it.

Posted by: fd at January 23, 2026 08:09 AM (vFG9F)

97 Camping World Roseville California had its 40' x 80' American flag stolen.
Cops recovered it a few miles away apparently okay. No word on the thieves.
Whew...

Posted by: torabora at January 23, 2026 08:09 AM (KtOUo)

98 I don't want civility uber alles.

You get a normal ICE arrest, and the target/subject goes along with hardly any fuss, lovely. Keep being professional.

You get some jumped up protestards* causing a ruckus, go ahead and break some limbs and spit on them for all I care. You want to be outside the law, then you get to be outside the law.

Civility is a luxury reserved for the Civil.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 08:09 AM (06Hmj)

99 the war-lover members of the Congressional GOP would balk at that because they're only interested in fight the WW2 European theater over and over again, ad infinitum.

They listen to the same consultants as Hollywood who keep recommending reboots of successful Originals.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 08:09 AM (a4flb)

100 Manson Northwest Webster High School in Iowa

Hrmmm.... That's near Fort Dodge, a medium-sized town. It's not too far from Des Moines, either. I've never heard of it, which means its basketball and volleyball teams suck. Maybe they're a football school? Anyway, it is concerning that a rural Iowa teacher would be ranting about ICE and trying to instill paranoia into her students.

Posted by: pookysgirl, up too early at January 23, 2026 08:09 AM (Wt5PA)

101 See, I have all my needs - this is a "want" trip

Doing the same thing after work. Sparkling water and maybe some tonic water.

71 Geez, is there any good news anymore?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

My dad is out of ICU and in regular care right now. Does that help?

Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2026 08:10 AM (BpO1e)

102 "Racism has existed around the world and throughout history, but ‘antiracism’ is a recent American export rejected by American voters," Rogers told the Washington Free Beacon. "One of its most consistent claims is that racial spoils, not markets or merit or moral sense, should structure our economy, our laws, and even our ‘micro’-level social interactions.

Racial Spoils is about 15% of all State and Federal contracting.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:10 AM (gbOdA)

103 *(I meant to say, thanks to whichever Moron I stole that from)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 08:11 AM (06Hmj)

104 Do Sun through Mon they are now forecasting 12-18 inches of snow here in the mid Hudson. We've already had a relatively snowy and cold first month of winter so, so the snow piles will grow

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2026 08:11 AM (e4I2N)

105 On this topic I am SO SICK of the sensationalizing of weather on the news… listening to the radio on the way to work you’d think we’re all gonna die from an ice storm. Good grief
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 07:53 AM (/iXAp)

Youngest child was telling me a couple days ago that the weather app they favor was forecasting 4 inches of snow in the Austin area. I look at two different apps and one of them only has the temperature below freezing overnight.

Fortunately, if it does get really bad, I don't have to go into the office.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2026 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

106 When the left says, regarding immigration, "without a warrant" just know they are lying.

1st, note they don't say why another warrant is required.
Next, they don't say why the person is arrested.

Let me put it this way:
You get a traffic ticket. You sign and agree to appear. You don't. A bench warrant will be issued for your arrest.
That is a, as the new euphemism goes, an "administrative warrant."
A warrant. There is no functioning distinction-- you are authorized arrested anywhere you're found.
Even in your house.

That is exactly like these arrests.
When you seek to enter the US, you agree to appear at a port of entry.
If you fail to appear, and a warrant is issued for your arrest.
Anywhere you can be found.
Even in your house.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 23, 2026 08:11 AM (HXT0k)

107 OrangeEnt

Cromwell was a right wing revolutionary. The broad base of military support, especially in the NCO ranks, is conservative.

They would not follow a Leftist general taking over. But if things get dire, the inverse could happen.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 23, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

108 I want to see a remake of "Nanook of the North", but in this one, instead of Nanook killing a walrus, he lives with it.

Posted by: fd at January 23, 2026 08:12 AM (vFG9F)

109 You get some jumped up protestards* causing a ruckus, go ahead and break some limbs and spit on them for all I care. You want to be outside the law, then you get to be outside the law.

I have mentally prepared myself for this possibility. They can get out of my way and leave me in peace of they can discover what the ambulance response time actually is.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2026 08:13 AM (BpO1e)

110 >>>Insurrection. The porn title is Insert Erection.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton

>Just the tip, Sugar Plum.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 23, 2026 08:13 AM (oT7pT)

111 "87 On this topic I am SO SICK of the sensationalizing of weather on the news…"

Just another part of the panic culture.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 23, 2026 08:13 AM (WHfpM)

112 At trial, Dr. Mann elected through his attorneys to present to the jury a blown-up demonstrative, without redaction or explanation, a demonstrative intentionally prepared for its use at trial, which included a budget (loss) amount of $9,713,924.00, when the correct amount, previously corrected during a third round of discovery, was $112,000.

Who be the biggest liar?
Climate Fraudster
or
The Shyster?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:13 AM (gbOdA)

113 PDT during reconquista negotiations with the Messicans. "OK,we agree that you won't take back CA. You don't really want it in its present state. And we kinda want to keep AZ. Now, just sign here and we give you New Mexico."

But if a single Mexican crosses the border illegally, we nuke Mexico City.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

114 Hrmmm.... That's near Fort Dodge, a medium-sized town. It's not too far from Des Moines, either. I've never heard of it, which means its basketball and volleyball teams suck. Maybe they're a football school? Anyway, it is concerning that a rural Iowa teacher would be ranting about ICE and trying to instill paranoia into her students.
Posted by: pookysgirl

It's not that surprising. Even though Iowa is pretty Red now, and that part of the state more so, there are plenty of woke Lefties throughout the state, and they're all drawn to teaching to indoctrinate children. It's almost unavoidable.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at January 23, 2026 08:14 AM (ycI94)

115 Gullies on Mars is a good article, but still no word from Uranus? Is JJS part of the cover-up?

Posted by: Concerned Reader at January 23, 2026 08:14 AM (oftw2)

116 Good news? You woke up this morning now it's up to you to make it a good day

Posted by: Ben Had at January 23, 2026 08:15 AM (0KSrI)

117 88 Bulg

Now that's funny.

Smart military blog and all that.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 23, 2026 08:15 AM (u82oZ)

118 Cromwell was a right wing revolutionary. The broad base of military support, especially in the NCO ranks, is conservative.

They would not follow a Leftist general taking over. But if things get dire, the inverse could happen.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 23, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

Ozero pretty much gutted the general officer ranks, didn't he? Can we really be sure how they would act? The Hero of New Orleans, Gen. Honore, has been caught up in some kind of payoff scheme with the Chinese - whether true or not, I don't know.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 23, 2026 08:16 AM (uQesX)

119 116 Good news? You woke up this morning now it's up to you to make it a good day
Posted by: Ben Had at January 23, 2026 08:15 AM (0KSrI)

Amen.

And it's Friday, so how bad can that be?

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2026 08:16 AM (tOcjL)

120 Geez, is there any good news anymore?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 23, 2026 07:58 AM (g8Ew

Lil Pooky is feeling much better after I gave him Tylenol and appreciates the Frankfurt Radio Symphony playlist I made for him. Pookette got her report card last week and it was mostly A's. She has a late school start today due to the cold (current windchill: -30F) and plans to use the time to practice "purrrrrcussion."

Posted by: pookysgirl, up too early at January 23, 2026 08:16 AM (Wt5PA)

121 Gullies on Mars is a good article, but still no word from Uranus? Is JJS part of the cover-up?
Posted by: Concerned Reader at January 23, 2026 08:14 AM (oftw2)

Please, always keep information about Uranus covered up.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 23, 2026 08:17 AM (uQesX)

122 Man, that's a lot of words just to say you like shitpebbles.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 08:18 AM (06Hmj)

123 ave a great day, everyone.

Hug someone. It's warming.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 23, 2026 08:18 AM (u82oZ)

124 It's those fucking squareheads and those bulb-headed cocksuckers they brought from Africa

Posted by: Al Swearingen at January 23, 2026 08:18 AM (/h6AA)

125 Wot Dis about Reconquista?

Posted by: XTC at January 23, 2026 08:19 AM (iXqHn)

126
Amelia invokes Shakespeare:

https://x.com/ChiefPieEater/status/2013700999257473409?s=20

Very nice.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 23, 2026 08:19 AM (iJfKG)

127 -26F this morning in Minny - hoodie and gloves(maybe hat) weather - both vehicles and ATV started.

Any paid commie Sallies protesting today? Didn't think so, especially after some arrests...

Stay warm and fuzzy!

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 23, 2026 08:20 AM (mNOhh)

128 "I am SO SICK of the sensationalizing of weather on the news…"

One of the array of reasons I stopped watching The News years ago...

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 23, 2026 08:20 AM (DgMqy)

129 Alias, you're a pathetic and broken person. Nothing you say here matters and the worst part is that we probably give you more attention than your family.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 23, 2026 08:21 AM (BpO1e)

130 There are only 30000000 individual Doritos in the greater Omaha area, and the mass of an electron at rest is seven pounds, therefore ASS's mother is a whore.

Hey, this is pretty fun, actually. All that worrying about reality and contiguity and making sense is so restrictive and boring.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 08:21 AM (06Hmj)

131 You know, there's something so many of these vocal idiots and fools have in common....

Yeah. We've been suicided by empathy.

Lovely, huh?

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 08:21 AM (XuXeR)

132 It's those fucking squareheads and those bulb-headed cocksuckers they brought from Africa
Posted by: Al Swearingen at January 23, 2026 08:18 AM (/h6AA

You may be on to something. Maybe it's a breeding program, and they figure if they cross-pollinate the blockheads and balloonheads they can achieve normal physiological characteristics.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 23, 2026 08:21 AM (BI5O2)

133 So when the left lies and says, " it's a civil crime" just say, and every day thousands of American citizens are arrested, cuffed and hauled to jail for traffic tickets.
A crime is a crime.
And every crime you commit means you can be arrested.

Thousands of Americans get arrested every day because they refused to appear at court.

Just like the illegal aliens refused to appear at the port of entry.
Under immigration law, they agreed to "appear at court" to enter the US.
To have their right to enter determined by an officer of the law.
They failed to appear and a bench warrant was issued for their arrest.
No due process is violated. None.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 23, 2026 08:22 AM (HXT0k)

134 We've had a ton of juncoes visiting our back yard and they seem to be loving this cold.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 23, 2026 08:22 AM (h/O4U)

135 When the left says, regarding immigration, "without a warrant" just know they are lying.

For a few days after the Renee Good purification, I was posting the applicable law granting ICE agents all sorts of powers. While the "true believers" didn't care, there were a decent number of normies that seemed to accept ICE agents have legal jurisdiction.

Here's the primary legal reference: https://tinyurl.com/3ucbc9ac
It's pretty clear, simple to read and understand. Let me just share the beginning:

8 USC 1357: Powers of immigration officers and employees
(a) Powers without warrant
Any officer or employee of the Service authorized under regulations prescribed by the Attorney General shall have power without warrant-

(1) to interrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien as to his right to be or to remain in the United States;

And it goes on beautifully from there.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 23, 2026 08:22 AM (ycI94)

136 134 We've had a ton of juncoes visiting our back yard and they seem to be loving this cold.
Posted by: PA Dutchman at January 23, 2026 08:22 AM (h/O4U)

Same here. And the finches are already nesting.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 08:23 AM (06Hmj)

137 Nice and prompt troll clean-up, JJ. Thank you.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 23, 2026 08:23 AM (WHfpM)

138 67 today- but some rain. The weekend even more rain, but upper 60s. Then it drops like a rock Monday and stays with highs in the 40s. Yuck.

Posted by: Piper at January 23, 2026 08:23 AM (OoFl2)

139 Will Snowmageddon be NYC's and Muh, Muh, Muh, Muh, Muh Mamdani's Michael Bilandic moment?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Weren't John Lindsay in NYC and Jane Byrne in Chicago exposed, then voted out mostly as a result of not being able to clear the streets after a storm? Details murky in my aging hippocampus.

Posted by: Departmente Sanitaire at January 23, 2026 08:24 AM (oftw2)

140 jay Jones, the Democrat who wants to kill kids and is now Virginia's attorney general, put out a statement that as "Attoney General" he's going to dedicate his entire job to fighting Trump.

I guess he graduated from the Learing Center?

Posted by: Ian S. at January 23, 2026 08:25 AM (OyOhQ)

141 Oh, and wasn't today supposed to be the super strike walkout in Minneland? Traffic cameras show... traffic.

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 08:25 AM (XuXeR)

142 One of our sides weaknesses is that we don’t have any street level groups that could counter the antifa fighters

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2026 08:25 AM (xVja5)

143 134 We've had a ton of juncoes visiting our back yard and they seem to be loving this cold.
Posted by: PA Dutchman

Better Juncoes than Junkies, I must say!

Posted by: Slate-Colored Ed Grimley at January 23, 2026 08:26 AM (oftw2)

144 "put out a statement that as "Attoney General" he's going to dedicate his entire job to fighting Trump."

I guess like his role model, Letitia.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 23, 2026 08:26 AM (WHfpM)

145 One of the more interesting bios I’ve ever read was a bio of Oliver Cromwell… the guy came from modest origins (landed gentry but definitely not in the upper crust) all the way to Lord Protector. I discovered he was controversial when I mentioned the bio to a coworker who had Irish ancestors and she hated the guy. You know he inspired hate of the TDS variety when you find out they dug up his body umpteen years after he died to put his skull on a pike. That’s TDS level! I think he probably made a mistake chopping off Charles I head…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 08:26 AM (/iXAp)

146 The Camping World guy threw down on the gauntlet about his flags recently. Wrote a letter to Leftist cunts in various municipalities who were trying to make him remove them, saying (paraphrasing) "this is America, and this is Camping World, and the flags are part of the bargain. Deal with it. If I can't have my flag, I'll move the store somewhere else, and you can explain to your constituents about why those jobs are gone. ESAD."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 23, 2026 08:27 AM (BI5O2)

147 143 Better Juncoes than Junkies, I must say!
Posted by: Slate-Colored Ed Grimley at January 23, 2026 08:26 AM (oftw2)

But how many of them can you fit in your JNCOs?

Posted by: XTC at January 23, 2026 08:27 AM (iXqHn)

148 jay Jones, the Democrat who wants to kill kids"

Oh, it's ok. He's dreamy, Black, and is pro abortion!

/every... well, you know who in NoVa

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 08:27 AM (XuXeR)

149 Today is National King Day. 👑

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2026 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

150 Oh, and now there's no school for Pookette. (-34 windchill when she would've started.) Not sure how well the buses would do in this weather.

Posted by: pookysgirl, enjoying Dvorak's 9th Symphony at January 23, 2026 08:27 AM (Wt5PA)

151 144 "put out a statement that as "Attoney General" he's going to dedicate his entire job to fighting Trump."

I guess like his role model, Letitia.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 23, 2026 08:26 AM (WHfpM)

As Secretary of Health Waraiotoko will dedicate his entire job to finding Steven Seagal and giving him a wedgie on live stream.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 08:27 AM (06Hmj)

152 142 One of our sides weaknesses is that we don’t have any street level groups that could counter the antifa fighters
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2026 08:25 AM (xVja5)

We did -- the Proud Boys. Until their leader was sentenced to 22 years in prison.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 23, 2026 08:27 AM (WHfpM)

153 149 Today is National King Day. 👑
Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2026 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

Son of a crap, you mean I can only move one square at a time? All day?

Well that's a nuisance.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 08:28 AM (06Hmj)

154 When they say "administrative warrant" correct them and say, " you mean a bench warrant?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 23, 2026 08:28 AM (HXT0k)

155 who had Irish ancestors and she hated the guy."

??? Yeah, the existing royals were sooo good for the Irish...

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 08:29 AM (XuXeR)

156 I like that those school kids in Iowa were laughing at the Renee Good video.

They probably didn’t pay much attention to that teacher.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 08:29 AM (77rzZ)

157 Good morning Mr. Sefton, and thank you. Have you heard about the stores in Minneapolis closing next Friday to oppose ICE? I feel like our side should say we will never darken the door of any business that participates in this protest. I also think we should pause ICE operations in Minnesota while we sort out all the fraud and theft and, until the courts shut us down, stop federal funding of welfare programs in Minnesota. As you have stated before, the Dems are going to turn this into a George Floyd nationwide astroturf campaign to win the mid-terms and keep the theft of taxpayer money going at an ever-increasing rate. The New York Times, of course, is trying to help light the fuse under these fake protests but maybe we can take away the fuel.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 23, 2026 08:29 AM (GPa4z)

158 137 Nice and prompt troll clean-up, JJ. Thank you.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 23, 2026 08:23 AM (WHfpM)

I saw it before cleaning and thought it’s sad we don’t have any good trolls anymore, just boring boilerplate leftist crap. Remember MUMR? Annoying but damn, some of his stuff was funny and pretty good. The trolls now just post dispatches from angry tranny clearinghouse.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2026 08:30 AM (xVja5)

159 Jason Miyares snarked that Jones didn't misspell "attorney", he was just saying "Eh, Tony" in a Jersey accent.

Scott Jennings went darker with "Jones has already come out in favor of killing 'R's".

Posted by: Ian S. at January 23, 2026 08:30 AM (OyOhQ)

160 As Secretary of Health Waraiotoko will dedicate his entire job to finding Steven Seagal and giving him a wedgie on live stream.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 08:27 AM (06Hmj)

Steven Seagal and wedgie is a disturbing combo….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 08:31 AM (/iXAp)

161 We did -- the Proud Boys."

Ok, that's funny right there.

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 08:31 AM (XuXeR)

162 The Trump Admin is intentionally sending ICE agents to states that don’t have Stand Your Ground laws: California, Oregon, Minnesota, Illinois, Maine. It’s by design; there are more millions more undocumented immigrants in Texas and Florida but they have very strong stand you ground laws.
----------------------------
Lefties can actually identify something true...and then backflip into stupidity faster than I thought possible.

They are ice cream and shark attack kind of people.

Posted by: MJ at January 23, 2026 08:31 AM (XOmY9)

163 Trolls must live meaningless lives.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 23, 2026 08:32 AM (8CIFn)

164 Just like the illegal aliens refused to appear at the port of entry.
Under immigration law, they agreed to "appear at court" to enter the US.
To have their right to enter determined by an officer of the law.
They failed to appear and a bench warrant was issued for their arrest.
No due process is violated. None.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 23, 2026 08:22 AM (HXT0k)

May I add that any immigration official or deputy of said may PROCESS the illegal by directing them to be removed.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:33 AM (gbOdA)

165 133 So when the left lies and says, " it's a civil crime" just say, and every day thousands of American citizens are arrested, cuffed and hauled to jail for traffic tickets.
A crime is a crime.

-----

And it isn't just the crime of crossing the border illegally. They are also breaking labor laws, tax laws, there's identity theft, and on and on.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 23, 2026 08:33 AM (y9ksN)

166 Juncos seem to like the snow.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 08:33 AM (77rzZ)

167 160 Steven Seagal and wedgie is a disturbing combo….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 08:31 AM (/iXAp)

Even more once you've heard his shitty reggae song, "Strut".

Did you ever want to hear Steven Seagal sing about how he "wants the punani"?

Posted by: XTC at January 23, 2026 08:33 AM (iXqHn)

168 Have you heard about the stores in Minneapolis closing next Friday to oppose ICE?"

Hmm. The goobers I see online said Minne today, nationwide next week. Who knows?
It does seem that (rather suddenly), some of the most organized on the Left just... aren't.
It's as if they don't have the manpower or $$$.

Hmmm.

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 08:34 AM (XuXeR)

169 PS This happens all the time at airports when Mohamed Mohhammmeddd shows up with no visa and is sent back home by CBP agent.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:34 AM (gbOdA)

170 "...you can kill the revolutionary, but you can’t kill the Revolution.”
-------

Challenge accepted

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2026 08:34 AM (bb1Tf)

171 "The school is not on the Upper West Side of Mamdani's Manhattan but in Iowa. Trouble in River City folks."

I keep telling anyone that will listen - this is not just a blue state problem. Public schools in the reddest of red places are infested with these whackjobs.

Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 08:34 AM (TkJMd)

172 The Trump Admin is intentionally sending ICE agents to states that don’t have Stand Your Ground laws: California, Oregon, Minnesota, Illinois, Maine. It’s by design; there are more millions more undocumented immigrants in Texas and Florida but they have very strong stand you ground laws.

I'm sure I saw DeSantis touting FL's cooperation with ICE agents, including having local and state LEOs assist.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 23, 2026 08:34 AM (OyOhQ)

173
What is Trump up to in the Middle East? I don't get it. I assume there's a plan, I just have no idea what it is. He has a history of having a plan when it appears he doesn't.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 23, 2026 08:34 AM (mS8PE)

174 Actually, Trumps poll numbers are holding steady. You need better info. Stop being an ass. Please.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 23, 2026 08:35 AM (k1gZr)

175 Look thru your change jars, Horde. Any pre 1965 Quarters are almost 20 bucks today, due to Silver going thru the roof

Posted by: Jonah at January 23, 2026 08:35 AM (YCxFk)

176 This happens all the time at airports when Mohamed Mohhammmeddd shows up with no visa and is sent back home"

Oh, the poor dear. Here, let's use money we took from an evil corporation to live a better life here in Somaliappolis!
We'll even change our flag to look like his at home.

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 08:35 AM (XuXeR)

177 Overslept. Did I miss the Don Lemon perp walk?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 23, 2026 08:35 AM (2Ez/1)

178 As you have stated before, the Dems are going to turn this into a George Floyd nationwide astroturf campaign to win the mid-terms and keep the theft of taxpayer money going at an ever-increasing rate. The New York Times, of course, is trying to help light the fuse under these fake protests but maybe we can take away the fuel.
Posted by: Oglebay at January 23, 2026 08:29 AM (GPa4z)

If you noticed the “going nationwide” is not working. They’re concentrating their forces in Minneapolis but not having much of an effect outside that, certainly not in red states.
This is an attempt to manufacture rebellion by the Dem party. It has no effect in any area they do not control.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2026 08:35 AM (xVja5)

179 I keep telling anyone that will listen - this is not just a blue state problem. Public schools in the reddest of red places are infested with these whackjobs.

Education majors all come from the same colleges.

The first school to have tranny madness was in rural Texas.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 23, 2026 08:35 AM (OyOhQ)

180 8 U.S.C. § 1325, which prohibits improper entry and establishes fines and imprisonment for violations.

Criminal Penalties Violations can lead to fines, imprisonment, or both, depending on the severity of the offense.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:36 AM (gbOdA)

181 "145 One of the more interesting bios I’ve ever read was a bio of Oliver Cromwell… the guy came from modest origins (landed gentry but definitely not in the upper crust) all the way to Lord Protector. I discovered he was controversial when I mentioned the bio to a coworker who had Irish ancestors and she hated the guy. You know he inspired hate of the TDS variety when you find out they dug up his body umpteen years after he died to put his skull on a pike. That’s TDS level! I think he probably made a mistake chopping off Charles I head…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 08:26 AM (/iXAp)"

English history is largely various groups competing to be the biggest giga-cunts possible, so of course their figures are divisive.

Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 08:36 AM (TkJMd)

182 It's also, National Pie Day. 🥧

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2026 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

183 So we went from "No person is illegal" to "What they're doing isn't illegal".

Interesting.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2026 08:36 AM (bb1Tf)

184 Purdue blocks admission of many Chinese grad students in unwritten policy

The directive, which was first reported in early December 2025 by the Lafayette Journal & Courier and the Purdue student newspaper, has never been put in writing. But several faculty members confirmed to Science that it is in effect. Last spring it apparently led Purdue to rescind departmental letters of acceptance to more than 100 graduate students, most from China. More recently it is impacting students that faculty members would like to employ as research assistants in their lab but whom the university has not admitted into a doctoral program.

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 08:36 AM (RHGPo)

185 It's also, National Pie Day. 🥧"

??? It's not March 14th, is it?

Oh... pie

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 08:37 AM (XuXeR)

186 142 One of our sides weaknesses is that we don’t have any street level groups that could counter the antifa fighters.
----

As it has been said before by many people; shoot the first few and the rest will go away.

The more people go out of their way to terrorize just assures a reaction in kind.

Posted by: clarence at January 23, 2026 08:37 AM (jgwdN)

187 Mark Steyn has suffered immensely and paid millions to fight the charlatan Mann in DC's horrible treadmill courts. Mann's appeal smackdown makes me happy!

Posted by: Hockey Stick Hokum at January 23, 2026 08:37 AM (oftw2)

188 What is Trump up to in the Middle East? I don't get it. I assume there's a plan, I just have no idea what it is. He has a history of having a plan when it appears he doesn't.

He's moving the entire Abraham Lincoln group to sit off the mullahs' coast so they understand how fucked they are if they don't cooperate. That seems pretty straightforward to me.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 23, 2026 08:37 AM (OyOhQ)

189 @139 John Lindsey took a political beating because of his crappy response to snow storms and because of garbage strikes . And because he was a crappy mayor. But he was pretty

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2026 08:38 AM (e4I2N)

190 One of our sides weaknesses is that we don’t have any street level groups that could counter the antifa fighters
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2026 08:25 AM (xVja5)

Nor could it, which is why it doesn't.

I frequently point out that the collapse of our legal order is pretty much the mirror image of what happened during Weimar. They allowed Freikorps and Stahlhelm (and eventually SA) paramilitaries to do more or less as they pleased, and ruthlessly suppressed the Communist.

Interestingly, that was the genesis of our beloved Antifa. The courts proscribed the KPD paramilitary (Roter Frontkämpferbund). Its dead-enders kept the torch alive by pulling from the street rabble instead of the labor unions to form up an unofficial, illegal paramilitary - Antifaschistische Aktion.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 23, 2026 08:38 AM (BI5O2)

191 Co-Pilot:

The trucker boycott in California is primarily a response to recent regulations and actions affecting immigrant truck drivers, particularly the revocation of commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) for those without permanent work authorization.

NO!!

The trucking industry in California has faced significant challenges due to the implementation of Green Diesel mandates, which have led to a boycott by thousands of independent truckers. These mandates, part of California's efforts to combat air pollution and climate change, have effectively banned a large portion of the trucking fleet. The boycott has resulted in a supply chain crisis, with reports of food shortages and empty shelves in California due to the refusal of truckers to cross the state line. Governor Gavin Newsom has expressed concern over the impact of this situation on the state's economy and food security. The situation has sparked discussions about the feasibility and impact of such mandates on the trucking industry and the broader economy.

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 08:38 AM (RHGPo)

192 But he was pretty"

#metoo!!/newsome

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 08:39 AM (XuXeR)

193 Today is National King Day. 👑
Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2026 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

Unpossible. We were successfully rid of those with recent protests. Were you not paying attention?

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 08:39 AM (3r1VB)

194 My Advance Directive gives my kids the authority to pull the plug. That's fine. But it's not in the document. You have to tell your agent what you want and trust them to do it. Don't choose anyone untrustworthy.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 23, 2026 08:39 AM (qFwJc)

195 The last really decent troll was palinsteel and before that was raykon. If you want to go back even further, seattleslough could sometimes say something intelligent.

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 23, 2026 08:40 AM (k1gZr)

196 67 today- but some rain. The weekend even more rain, but upper 60s. Then it drops like a rock Monday and stays with highs in the 40s. Yuck.
Posted by: Piper at January 23, 2026 08:23 AM (OoFl2)

My golf clubs are very jealous of the current temperature in your area!

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 08:40 AM (3r1VB)

197 A snarky liberal cousin tried to go toe to toe with me on past US election results at Bday party the other day.

Said the GOP was wiped out 2018, lost everything. Told her the Republicans had a net gain in the Senate races, which helped replace her idol Ginsberg. She threatened to punch me, of course i laughed

Posted by: Jonah at January 23, 2026 08:40 AM (YCxFk)

198 Lace Wigs.

Posted by: davidt at January 23, 2026 08:41 AM (Q+gd/)

199 191 Co-Pilot:

The trucker boycott in California is primarily a response to recent regulations and actions affecting immigrant truck drivers, particularly the revocation of commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) for those without permanent work authorization.

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 08:38 AM (RHGPo)

=====

ChatGPT is the same. It insists that the decline in murder rates is another data point in what has been an ongoing trend. If 2025 looks unusual, the explanation is gun purchases were down,.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 23, 2026 08:41 AM (GPa4z)

200 The Olympic Pipeline, which supplies 90% of Oregon's fuel, partially restarted after a leak caused a shutdown for over a week. The pipeline, which carries gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from refineries near Seattle to Portland, was shut down due to a leak near Everett, Washington. The governor declared a fuel emergency to ensure fuel availability, and the pipeline's operator, BP, confirmed that part of the system has restarted, although the exact duration of repairs is not specified. The situation has led to temporary waivers for fuel delivery regulations, allowing for longer hours for truck drivers.

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 08:41 AM (RHGPo)

201 189 @139 John Lindsey took a political beating because of his crappy response to snow storms and because of garbage strikes . And because he was a crappy mayor. But he was pretty
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2026 08:38 AM (e4I2N)

And not far leftist enough. He was a RINO. and then officially became Democrat in '71. I knew his niece many years ago. Very sweet gal and cute though she didn't want to date me. Oh well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 23, 2026 08:41 AM (x0n13)

202 You must give Mr. Sefton credit. Posting voluminous links and snark irregardless of weather is what made America great! I don't understand the mechanics of getting the internet signals through the frozen tundra muck, but the answer must lie in access to the Weather Machine.

Posted by: Mazel Tough! at January 23, 2026 08:41 AM (oftw2)

203 LOL. My son's son-in-law quit Purdue because he couldn't understand his Chinese Professors.

I went to Naval Nuclear Power School and is very happy now.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 23, 2026 08:41 AM (qFwJc)

204 Lace Wigs."

Bl@zer!

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 08:41 AM (XuXeR)

205 Most Importantly, Today is March For Life Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2026 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

206 He went to....

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 23, 2026 08:42 AM (qFwJc)

207 Good morning. A day for the last bit of winter storm prepping.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2026 08:42 AM (wVcYX)

208 Where’s a Kyle Rittenhouse when you actually need one?

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat state AGs at January 23, 2026 08:43 AM (HeR4S)

209 Education majors all come from the same colleges.

The first school to have tranny madness was in rural Texas.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 23, 2026 08:35 AM (OyOhQ)

This is why Christian teaching colleges (like my sort-of alma mater) are so important. Although they're running into problems that their student teachers aren't being accepted at die-hard Leftist urban schools. Which is illegal, but they have to go to court to get it fixed.

Posted by: pookysgirl, keeping tabs on Christian education at January 23, 2026 08:43 AM (Wt5PA)

210 That storm the Congressional offices protest sure worked out well.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 23, 2026 08:44 AM (0KSrI)

211 "Most Importantly, Today is March For Life Day."

Agreed. I am there marching in prayer and in spirit.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 23, 2026 08:44 AM (DgMqy)

212 Okay, I understand the original reason for the March for Life being in January. The anniversary of the Roe. v. Wade decision.

But that was overturned.

Let's move the March for Life into some nicer time of the year, like late April for example.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 23, 2026 08:44 AM (qFwJc)

213 You know he inspired hate of the TDS variety when you find out they dug up his body umpteen years after he died to put his skull on a pike. That’s TDS level! I think he probably made a mistake chopping off Charles I head…
--------------
Now do Lincoln. Evidently, killing your brother Able has consequences.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 23, 2026 08:45 AM (pLaQB)

214 A guy named Mohammed Husein went on a carjacking spree in San Jose and shot and wounded a cop
Husein got ventilated and then run over by a cop car. Not quite drawn and quartered with his head stuck on a pike , but this will do

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2026 08:45 AM (e4I2N)

215 You must give Mr. Sefton credit. Posting voluminous links and snark irregardless of weather is what made America great! I don't understand the mechanics of getting the internet signals through the frozen tundra muck, but the answer must lie in access to the Weather Machine.
Posted by: Mazel Tough! at January 23, 2026 08:41 AM (oftw2)

*throws grammar flag*

"irregardless"??? Among my top 3 grammar pet peeves. I'd tell you the other two, but I know what you all would do with that information!

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 08:45 AM (3r1VB)

216 "202 You must give Mr. Sefton credit. Posting voluminous links and snark irregardless of weather...

Posted by: Mazel Tough! at January 23, 2026 08:41 AM"

Point of order: irregardless = regardless.

Posted by: Person who likes to say Point Of Order at January 23, 2026 08:45 AM (2Ez/1)

217 I remember Seattleslough. He was one of those who lost his mind over Covid, wallowed around in “we’re all gonna die!” mode for a while and then was gone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2026 08:45 AM (xVja5)

218 I appreciate very much the link to the article from I&I about DemoNcrats hating western civilization. Thank you very much. I missed that in my own browsing. Very important article.

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat state AGs at January 23, 2026 08:46 AM (HeR4S)

219 The Grammar Wars have begun.

I'll take .45

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 08:46 AM (XuXeR)

220 Posted by: Jonah at January 23, 2026 08:40 AM (YCxFk)

Without 40+ R "retirements", Democrats wouldn't have taken back shit.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2026 08:48 AM (bb1Tf)

221 "irregardless"??? Among my top 3 grammar pet peeves. I'd tell you the other two, but I know what you all would do with that information!

I gave up on protesting "for free" when the Wall Street Journal began running that phrase back in the early '90s.

Eventually we will return to a more primitive form of communication of vocalizing and tree scraping.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 08:48 AM (a4flb)

222 "Point of order: irregardless = regardless."

Supposably.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 23, 2026 08:49 AM (2Ez/1)

223 "irregardless"??? Among my top 3 grammar pet peeves. I'd tell you the other two, but I know what you all would do with that information!

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 08:45 AM (3r1VB)

I could care less what your other two are.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2026 08:49 AM (bb1Tf)

224 "
This is why Christian teaching colleges (like my sort-of alma mater) are so important. Although they're running into problems that their student teachers aren't being accepted at die-hard Leftist urban schools. Which is illegal, but they have to go to court to get it fixed.

Posted by: pookysgirl, keeping tabs on Christian education at January 23, 2026 08:43 AM (Wt5PA)"

Don't automatically trust those teaching colleges, quite a few are now overrun with "in this house...." sign bullshit. Those on the left coast will know all about which denonimations are obsessed with the homeless grift, and of course the Catholics have their own challenges.

I personally think govt public education isn't salvageable.

Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 08:49 AM (TkJMd)

225 The last really decent troll was palinsteel and before that was raykon. If you want to go back even further, seattleslough could sometimes say something intelligent.
Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 23, 2026 08:40 AM

the most effective troll (as trolls go) we've ever had was q d p steve

Posted by: heywood the third at January 23, 2026 08:49 AM (NI/hz)

226 Trump was referring to recent figures showing significantly stronger U.S. economic growth: U.S. real GDP growth in Q3 2025 was 4.4%, compared to a paltry 0.4% for the European Union.

20 years ago EU = US $22 Trillion GDP
Today US $34 T and EU $24 T.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:49 AM (gbOdA)

227 I apologize about the wrong date for the protests. I wish Minnesotans would take notes on what businesses are closed for the strike and share it so our side can avoid the cowards.

The link is to The NY Times story about the strike.

https://archive.is/iyszv

Posted by: Oglebay at January 23, 2026 08:49 AM (GPa4z)

228 223 I saw what you did there

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat state AGs at January 23, 2026 08:50 AM (HeR4S)

229
"irregardless"??? Among my top 3 grammar pet peeves. I'd tell you the other two, but I know what you all would do with that information!

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 08:45 AM

I could care less what your other two are.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2026 08:49 AM

for all intensive purposes, it's a mute point

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2026 08:51 AM (tljrc)

230 It’s not a grammar issue, but a usage issue.

People misuse the word “grammar” all the time.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

231 Mayor Jacob Frey Wants BLM Ringleader Responsible for Storming Minnesota Church to Be Released by Feds

... and I want new episodes of the Three Stooges on TV

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 08:51 AM (RHGPo)

232 I personally think govt public education isn't salvageable.
Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 08:49 AM (TkJMd)

It would take a slash and burn approach.
End Pre K and K.
Year 1 2 and 3:Half Day Reading/Writing Half Math
Year 4 5 and 6: 2 hours Math, 2 Read Write 2 Hard Science.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:52 AM (gbOdA)

233 Let's move the March for Life into some nicer time of the year, like late April for example.
____

The advantage for January is there are fewer crazies willing to risk frostbite to counter-protest. Late April is more favorable for the screaming mimis to swarm.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 23, 2026 08:52 AM (Dv3i1)

234 So my claim to fame was years ago being The Official Correspondent to the March for Life for a blog that was run by a guy across the pond. I would send videos and pics from down on the front lines and he would post them.

It's amazing how memories lie dormant and then pop back up.

Loved every second of it.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 23, 2026 08:52 AM (DgMqy)

235 Minnesota juries will acquit anyone, abolutely anyone, charged with anything even remotely linked to the anti-Trump actions happening now, or the fraud that's been happening for years.

We are in for a long long slog of rage and disappointment through what I'll term reverse lawfare, in which every single arrestee pleads not guilty, and every single jury says "fuck you" to Trump by voting not guilty.

The courtrooms will be packed with the same karens and soy boys as are in the roads and plazas and Targets and schools today, staring at the judge, and staring at the jurors.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 23, 2026 08:52 AM (KiBMU)

236 People misuse the word “grammar” all the time.

... my grammar tells me she likes to be called "Gramy"

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

237 Eventually we will return to a more primitive form of communication of vocalizing and tree scraping.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 08:48 AM (a4flb)

click clock click click click

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:53 AM (gbOdA)

238 Bwahahahahahah! Smell *my* finger!

Posted by: Don Lemon at January 23, 2026 08:53 AM (0sNs1)

239 A friend who's a big liberal, but who helped me a few years back when I got sick, has a son who's trying to become a teacher. Nice young man but I never thought he was that sharp. He posted about the five year old who the left alleges was used as bait to arrest her illegal alien father. Several of his friends tried to point out what really happened , that the father left the kid and took off running. Nothing would change his mind. This delusional thinking vis what the nation is dealing with

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2026 08:53 AM (e4I2N)

240 It’s not a grammar issue, but a usage issue.

People misuse the word “grammar” all the time.
Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

I find it especially humorous when a grammar enthusiast advocates for "good grammer".

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 23, 2026 08:53 AM (wVcYX)

241 212 Okay, I understand the original reason for the March for Life being in January. The anniversary of the Roe. v. Wade decision.

But that was overturned.

Let's move the March for Life into some nicer time of the year, like late April for example.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 23, 2026 08:44 AM (qFwJc)

It's safer for the kids to be out and marching when no one else wants to be in DC.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2026 08:53 AM (tOcjL)

242 The advantage for January is there are fewer crazies willing to risk frostbite to counter-protest. Late April is more favorable for the screaming mimis to swarm.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 23, 2026 08:52 AM (Dv3i1)

Notice also how lily white the “protestors” are.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2026 08:54 AM (xVja5)

243 Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2026 08:51 AM (tljrc)

I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN!

*gets out her list of Pooky's old contacts*

Posted by: pookysgirl, Grammar Nazi at January 23, 2026 08:54 AM (Wt5PA)

244
It would take a slash and burn approach.
End Pre K and K.
Year 1 2 and 3:Half Day Reading/Writing Half Math
Year 4 5 and 6: 2 hours Math, 2 Read Write 2 Hard Science.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:52 AM

add an hour of civics starting around year 5 (and every year going forward) and you've got a deal

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2026 08:54 AM (tljrc)

245 It’s not a grammar issue, but a usage issue.

People misuse the word “grammar” all the time.
Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

Please define "grammar"

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 08:55 AM (3r1VB)

246 Just remember the phrase ... "... and I identify as a judge"

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 08:55 AM (RHGPo)

247 ... and I want new episodes of the Three Stooges on TV
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 08:51 AM

With a gender and orientation reversal, this could be big! Big, I'm telling you!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Hollywood writer at January 23, 2026 08:55 AM (0sNs1)

248 The courtrooms will be packed with the same karens and soy boys as are in the roads and plazas and Targets and schools today, staring at the judge, and staring at the jurors.
____

You know what happens to Speakers of the House of my own party who cross me. You think being a member of a jury will prevent me from doing what I do?
*Jazz Hands!*
-Gov. Timmy Walz

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 23, 2026 08:55 AM (Dv3i1)

249 Now that I know Doof is upset by my use of "irregardless", I will use it against him on all eight nights a week he runs the ONT. Awakened a Sleeping Giant, you have, things will get expodentially worse for you from now on.

Posted by: The Eyes of Nostrildamus at January 23, 2026 08:55 AM (oftw2)

250 "irregardless"??? Among my top 3 grammar pet peeves. I'd tell you the other two, but I know what you all would do with that information!

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 08:45 AM

I could care less what your other two are.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2026 08:49 AM

for all intensive purposes, it's a mute point

Their over they're bragging about how there grammar is flawless.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 08:56 AM (a4flb)

251 Oh, it's GrammerTime!

/homage to MCHammer

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 08:56 AM (XuXeR)

252
I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN!

*gets out her list of Pooky's old contacts*

Posted by: pookysgirl, Grammar Nazi at January 23, 2026 08:54 AM

I'd better tow the line, toot sweet

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2026 08:56 AM (tljrc)

253
237 Eventually we will return to a more primitive form of communication of vocalizing and tree scraping.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 08:48 AM (a4flb)

click clock click click click
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:53 AM

To wit:
https://youtu.be/nWglfC5CNS4

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at January 23, 2026 08:57 AM (2Ez/1)

254 I'm more of a Grammar Anarcho-Syndicalist, really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 08:57 AM (06Hmj)

255 Now that I know Doof is upset by my use of "irregardless", I will use it against him on all eight nights a week he runs the ONT. Awakened a Sleeping Giant, you have, things will get expodentially worse for you from now on.
Posted by: The Eyes of Nostrildamus at January 23, 2026 08:55 AM (oftw2)

I expect nothing less!

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 08:57 AM (3r1VB)

256 "irregardless"??? Among my top 3 grammar pet peeves. I'd tell you the other two, but I know what you all would do with that information!
Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 08:45 AM

Anything you say can, and will, be used against you, especially typos or automagic corrections.

Posted by: J. Random Commenter at January 23, 2026 08:58 AM (0sNs1)

257 Anything you say can, and will, be used against you, especially typos or automagic corrections.
Posted by: J. Random Commenter at January 23, 2026 08:58 AM (0sNs1)

I still miss buzzion.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 08:58 AM (06Hmj)

258 Minnesota juries will acquit anyone, abolutely anyone, charged with anything even remotely linked to the anti-Trump actions happening now, or the fraud that's been happening for years.

Minnisomalia's interpretation of "Due Process".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 08:58 AM (a4flb)

259 NY Times poll Q that will go unnoticed but worth pointing out.

When asking childless voters if they want to have children one day.

43% of Trump voters said yes, 34% say no
46% of GOP said yes, 31% say no

47% of Harris voters say no, 25% say yes
39% of Dems say no, 29% say yes

Conservatives Are Having Babies – And the Numbers Show We'll Outbreed the Left

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 08:58 AM (RHGPo)

260 add an hour of civics starting around year 5 (and every year going forward) and you've got a deal
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2026 08:54 AM (tljrc)

Yes in year 5 hard core history (no school books but real history from McCullogh) and hard core civics.
30 minutes to read subject
15 minutes to discuss or research
10 minutes to write down 1 page summary of subject and results.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:59 AM (gbOdA)

261 Personally, I don't care as much as some of the others about your grammar, as long as your Oxford Commas are properly positioned.

Posted by: Assistant Associate AoSHQ Copy Editor, Punctuation Brigade, Comma Company at January 23, 2026 09:00 AM (0sNs1)

262 I think it takes character to hear someone utter "irregardless" in conversation and not visibly cringe in disgust.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2026 09:00 AM (RIvkX)

263 One of the more interesting bios I’ve ever read was a bio of Oliver Cromwell… the guy came from modest origins (landed gentry but definitely not in the upper crust) all the way to Lord Protector. I discovered he was controversial when I mentioned the bio to a coworker who had Irish ancestors and she hated the guy. You know he inspired hate of the TDS variety when you find out they dug up his body umpteen years after he died to put his skull on a pike. That’s TDS level! I think he probably made a mistake chopping off Charles I head…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 08:26 AM (/iXAp)

Since the Irish more or less regard Cromwell as a genocidal fuckhead(which he pretty much was), in much the same way that the Jews regard Hitler, it's zero surprise that he inspired and still inspires lots of hate.

From what I've read, praising Cromwell is more or less like praising Hitler for making the trains run on time.

YMMV.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 23, 2026 09:00 AM (iJfKG)

264
I find it especially humorous when a grammar enthusiast advocates for "good grammer".
Posted by: Count de Monet

Then it's "well grammar" FTW!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 23, 2026 09:00 AM (xG4kz)

265 When Trayvon was ground pounding George Zimmerman I was told that you have no right to defend yourself with a fire arm even with FL's stand your ground laws.

To paraphrase MANY leftists - some times you just have to take a beating.

Well, sorry leftists but you don't get to use stand your grounds laws in general based on what you yourselves have said and of course any illegal that has a firearm should be shot on sight as an enemy illegal combatant.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:00 AM (sKqQm)

266 "It would take a slash and burn approach.
End Pre K and K.
Year 1 2 and 3:Half Day Reading/Writing Half Math
Year 4 5 and 6: 2 hours Math, 2 Read Write 2 Hard Science.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 08:52 AM (gbOdA)"

Aside from the obvious problem of multiple generations of marxist freak schoolteachers in great numbers, the other thing is the administrators. You will find no greater group of chickenshits than public school administrators and staff.

We need to let parents pick the type of educators that suit their personal beliefs; the moonbats already have public schools - those freaks could just re-form into their own private schools. Non-moonbats are left in the cold (by design) because there just aren't enough non-moonbat schools to go around due to cost and red tape. The ONE non-woke school here costs 5 figures a year.

And you can't say academic rigor prevents it; colleges are off the deep end doing shit like no longer using SAT's, grade inflation, etc.

Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 09:00 AM (EjI8X)

267 What a great idea for a protest in Minneapolis. We'll show Trump and ICE .... by losing money. And that is why Minneapolis is fubar

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2026 09:01 AM (e4I2N)

268 Their over they're bragging about how there grammar is flawless.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 08:56 AM (a4flb)

Your annoying. Take you're attempts at being humerus elsewhere!

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 09:01 AM (3r1VB)

269 I'd better tow the line, toot sweet

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2026 08:56 AM (tljrc)

Should I tell you your license plate number now or let the guys in plain black windbreakers tell you?

Posted by: pookysgirl, mostly kidding at January 23, 2026 09:01 AM (Wt5PA)

270 Conservatives Are Having Babies – And the Numbers Show We'll Outbreed the Left/i]

Yes but leftists propagandize them in the government schools so the long term advantage isn't as clear as we would hope

Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:01 AM (sKqQm)

271 Where do we stand on Fully Funding Head Start and Quality Learing Centers?

Posted by: Fo' the Chillums at January 23, 2026 09:02 AM (oftw2)

272 "We are in for a long long slog of rage and disappointment through what I'll term reverse lawfare, in which every single arrestee pleads not guilty, and every single jury says "fuck you" to Trump by voting not guilty.

The courtrooms will be packed with the same karens and soy boys as are in the roads and plazas and Targets and schools today, staring at the judge, and staring at the jurors.
Posted by: M. Gaga at January 23, 2026 08:52 AM (KiBMU)"

It's not like there aren't solutions to that problem, but there is no going back once it starts.

Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 09:02 AM (EjI8X)

273 Medicare is your money and your doctor
SS is your money and your life
EBT is your money and your food
School is their money

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:02 AM (gbOdA)

274 The left in the 00s: Soon snow will be a thing of the past

The left now: People are going to die because the Trump admin isn't taking this historic blizzard seriously enough!

Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:03 AM (sKqQm)

275 Irish more or less regard Cromwell as a genocidal"

Well, they're the Irish (the Civil war started what, a decade before Cromwell???)

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 09:03 AM (XuXeR)

276 Conservatives Are Having Babies – And the Numbers Show We'll Outbreed the Left
____

As someone pointed out on X, Leftists breed asexually. Keep your kids away from the groomers and gropers in government schools.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 23, 2026 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

277 "267 What a great idea for a protest in Minneapolis. We'll show Trump and ICE .... by losing money. And that is why Minneapolis is fubar
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2026 09:01 AM (e4I2N)"

I'll let you in on a secret. Many of these moonbat-run small businesses are also hoovering up government money in scammy ways. It's not going to hurt them as much as you might think.

Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 09:03 AM (EjI8X)

278 Head Start on a lifetime of WIC, SNAP, SSI, and Medicaid.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2026 09:03 AM (RIvkX)

279 I started reading the Lord of the Rings recently… for the 3rd or 4th time but it’s been a few decades. What I noticed this time is that if somehow Frodo and Gandalf and Strider could’ve recruited Tom Bombadil into the fellowship they might’ve defeated Sauron with much less sweat and tears… that Bombadil feller just had to sing to accomplish amazing wonders. Why didn’t they bring him along?? I’ve always wondered why Tolkien included that character as he doesn’t really add anything to the story… but JRR was the genius not me so who am I to complain…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 09:04 AM (/iXAp)

280 And you can't say academic rigor prevents it; colleges are off the deep end doing shit like no longer using SAT's, grade inflation, etc.
Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 09:00 AM (EjI8X)

Also end Bachelors for ED.
Get a real degree first.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:04 AM (gbOdA)

281 262 I think it takes character to hear someone utter "irregardless" in conversation and not visibly cringe in disgust.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 23, 2026 09:00 AM

+++
It would like totally like freak me out. I would like be like so embarrassed. My neighbor who I like sometimes like talk to like when I'm like out you know like walking the dog and I'll like stop to like talk for a few minutes...

Posted by: Just about every woman in her 30s at January 23, 2026 09:04 AM (2Ez/1)

282 To paraphrase MANY leftists - some times you just have to take a beating"

Well of course. YOU have to take a beating. They, however, don't.

Brownshirts never see it coming.

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 09:04 AM (XuXeR)

283 It's not like there aren't solutions to that problem, but there is no going back once it starts.

There were problems with the KKK doing similar things in the past, I suspect there are solutions the Trump admin can use in between letting the locals let their friends out and going full Pinochet

Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)

284 Posted by: pookysgirl, Grammar Nazi at January 23, 2026 08:54 AM (Wt5PA)

Hi pg, I hope you are ok.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2026 09:05 AM (bb1Tf)

285 add an hour of civics starting around year 5 (and every year going forward) and you've got a deal
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 23, 2026 08:54 AM (tljrc)

Yes in year 5 hard core history (no school books but real history from McCullogh) and hard core civics.
30 minutes to read subject
15 minutes to discuss or research
10 minutes to write down 1 page summary of subject and results.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Unfortunately in Home Economics they teach how to exploit a myriad of social welfare programs and mix Molatov Cocktails. In Shop class they learn to make piercings; Art class is mixing bright hair colorings and tattoos, making protest signs, and AI generated child pr0n.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 09:05 AM (a4flb)

286 I'm still reeling at the cosmic scale of the obtuseness required to apply SYG laws to federal law enforcement.

We seriously need to formalize a policy on Outlaws declaring themselves outside of the law.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:05 AM (06Hmj)

287 More recent research suggests they are formed by the seasonal dry ice frost cycle that in the high latitudes has carbon dioxide condense to fall as snow in autumn and then sublimate away in the spring.

Frozen CO2 WTF?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:05 AM (gbOdA)

288 I could care less what your other two are.
Posted by: ... at January 23, 2026 08:49 AM (bb1Tf)

ISWYDT

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2026 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

289
No more reaching across the isle!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 23, 2026 09:06 AM (xG4kz)

290 Based on my courtroom experience (Perry Mason re-runs), I thought defense and prosecution were involved in jury selection. How do we end up, time and again, with juries comprised of 12 people all suffering from the same mental illness?

Posted by: Oglebay at January 23, 2026 09:06 AM (GPa4z)

291 ICE STORM CLOSES STORES

Posted by: Confusing headlines we expect to see at January 23, 2026 09:06 AM (vFG9F)

292 I’ve always wondered why Tolkien included that character as he doesn’t really add anything to the story

My vague recollection was that Bombadil comes from other stories he told his children. The character was basically immune to Sauron and his minions but also had no interest in involving himself in such a conflict.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:06 AM (sKqQm)

293 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0

White leftist woman fills shopping carts to the brim, blocking the checkout line at Target to protest “fascism,” and demands that everyone, including the staff, walk out of the store.

Leftist women are the cancer of our society!

https://tinyurl.com/yx55dfea

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2026 09:06 AM (NpAcC)

294 People misuse the word “grammar” all the time.
Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

It literally kills me every time they do.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2026 09:07 AM (ExV1e)

295 279 I started reading the Lord of the Rings recently… for the 3rd or 4th time but it’s been a few decades. What I noticed this time is that if somehow Frodo and Gandalf and Strider could’ve recruited Tom Bombadil into the fellowship they might’ve defeated Sauron with much less sweat and tears… that Bombadil feller just had to sing to accomplish amazing wonders. Why didn’t they bring him along?? I’ve always wondered why Tolkien included that character as he doesn’t really add anything to the story… but JRR was the genius not me so who am I to complain…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 09:04 AM (/iXAp)

Yes, Tom Bombadil would have led to a very short book, which I would have welcomed. So, Tolkien wouldn't do that

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2026 09:07 AM (tOcjL)

296 It would like totally like freak me out. I would like be like so embarrassed. My neighbor who I like sometimes like talk to like when I'm like out you know like walking the dog and I'll like stop to like talk for a few minutes...
Posted by: Just about every woman in her 30s

I literally, totally agree with her!

Posted by: Literally at January 23, 2026 09:07 AM (oftw2)

297 Bonus points to Chuck Martel @276 for the phrase "government schools."

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at January 23, 2026 09:07 AM (2Ez/1)

298 The left now: People are going to die because the Trump admin isn't taking this historic blizzard seriously enough!

Where "historic" = "hasn't happened yet".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 09:07 AM (a4flb)

299 QOTD

Notably, the presence of the American asylum seekers isn’t sitting well with the nearly 2,000 other migrants from around the world housed at Ter Apel. “My dream is to go to America or the UK. America for me is the paradise,” a 21-year-old North African woman living at the camp said in a recent interview. “You can work, you can make a million if you have a good idea. Why they come here?”

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:07 AM (gbOdA)

300 Arizona AG wildly suggests residents can shoot masked ICE agents under state’s self-defense laws

I have a more important job ..
I want you to kill every goofer on the course

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

301 It’s not cold here yet but it’s very gray. Looking out to the north, I feel like Pluskat in his bunker watching for the d-day invasion fleet.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2026 09:07 AM (xVja5)

302 I’ve always wondered why Tolkien included that character as he doesn’t really add anything to the story

Because the prosecutor wants to lose the case.

Ironically you can also find legal arguments about prosecutors outwitting defense attorneys and getting a just of people likely to convict and that is seen as unfair.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:07 AM (sKqQm)

303 Their over they're bragging about how there grammar is flawless.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 08:56 AM (a4flb)

Talking to a left-leaning coworker a few days ago about the impending snow. He mentioned "the models" and the varying predictions of snowfall amounts. His summation was basically "nobody knows". I took the opportunity to point out to him that climate hysteria is based on computer models and simulation. I asked him if we can't even rely on models for a storm we know exists and is only a few days away, why would we rely on future models of weather patterns for long term policy decisions. I think his brain began to rewire!

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 09:08 AM (3r1VB)

304 I remember Seattleslough. He was one of those who lost his mind over Covid, wallowed around in “we’re all gonna die!” mode for a while and then was gone.

------

In a larger sense, I'll always be grateful for COVID in one regard.

NPCs are pretty obvious in any case, but it can be hard in life to sort the stand-up cats from the bitchmade pussies born with no nutsack. That gave us a clear picture of our people. And a sad one. The bitchmade ratio is very much higher than I anticipated, cynical as I was before that.

It also gave me way more respect for freethinkers, who are very much rarer than I thought.

And it forced me to reset a lot of parameters with regard to what I think can or should be done in this country.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 23, 2026 09:08 AM (BI5O2)

305 Damn, karens. Protesting at Targets? Don't crap where you eat, man.

It's like an LDS missionary picking a BYU dorm for their mission.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:08 AM (06Hmj)

306
I mismatched an open parenthesis with a closing brace in my nickname?

That will be an eternal source of deep seated shame for me.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2026 09:08 AM (xG4kz)

307 I liked this. Bald eagle lands on overhead intersection in MN and the memes are quite clever. "Not the bee" website:

https://tinyurl.com/nhhvm2sx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 23, 2026 09:09 AM (KxQqp)

308 No more reaching across the isle!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 23, 2026 09:06 AM (xG4kz)

No more reach arounds either! The GOPe specializes in reach arounds when dealing with Dems…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 09:09 AM (/iXAp)

309
I don't pay attention to how well other people abide by linguistic rules because half of grammar rules are made up bullshit anyway. I'm more interested in whatever dumb shit they are trying to say than how they say it.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2026 09:09 AM (bb1Tf)

310 Washington Post: Jasmine Crockett is daring Democrats to rethink electability. Some aren’t sold.

Crockett: “My theory of the case is this: If you believe we're going to lose anyway then what difference does it make if it's me or anybody else?”

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

311 Based on my courtroom experience (Perry Mason re-runs), I thought defense and prosecution were involved in jury selection. How do we end up, time and again, with juries comprised of 12 people all suffering from the same mental illness?

Because Communist courts and DOJ prosecutors play on the same team.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 09:09 AM (a4flb)

312 Spoke to a friend in SE Michigan last night. Mexican, first generation, my age (over 29), who said she and her family are afraid to go out because ICE is going door to door in town. A fairly small town but the largest in the county, and yes, home to lots of illegals, I am sure.
But I do question the door to door. Really? In a town of less than 21,000? With what resources? I asked if she actually knew of anyone being "taken" (her word) and she said yes, she knows families who have had relatives taken.
I'm guessing, since there is a lot of gang activity there, that these are gang-related arrests.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 23, 2026 09:09 AM (nz1sK)

313 Tom Bombadil is Switzerland.

Posted by: prove me wrong at January 23, 2026 09:09 AM (vFG9F)

314 Please define "grammar"
Posted by: Doof

"Grammar" properly refers to the set of rules governing the forms words take based on their role in a clause. Basically, conjugating verbs and declining nouns, pronouns, and adjectives.

For example, "John and me went to the store" is ungrammatical because "me" cannot properly be used as a subject. It should be "John and I...".

"Irregardless" is not "ungrammatical." It's merely a disfavored usage.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 09:09 AM (77rzZ)

315 bad copy/paste in 303.

was supposed to have quoted this:
The left in the 00s: Soon snow will be a thing of the past

The left now: People are going to die because the Trump admin isn't taking this historic blizzard seriously enough!
Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:03 AM

I denounce myself.

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 09:09 AM (3r1VB)

316 Trump should put a whacking big tariff on Canadian cold air.

Posted by: Fred_Z at January 23, 2026 09:09 AM (VQIqq)

317 293

Throat Punch on Lane 3 would end this bullshit

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:10 AM (gbOdA)

318 Several of his friends tried to point out what really happened , that the father left the kid and took off running. Nothing would change his mind. This delusional thinking vis what the nation is dealing with
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2026 08:53 AM (e4I2N)

He was given the unvarnished truth over at communism.com and he's not about to let you counter-revolutionaries cloud his scientific soviet understanding of the truth. It's not just a leftist thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2026 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

319 I love the weather reporting here on this storm. "It might be snow, or it might be an icestorm. Somewhere between 1 and 1000" are expected."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 23, 2026 09:10 AM (BI5O2)

320 To be fair, Tom Bombadil probably exists in the book so the children/Hobbits get a taste of how real and deadly their mission is, and how much help they'll need...without actually dying, like they should have...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 23, 2026 09:10 AM (tOcjL)

321 My theory of the case is this: If you believe we're going to lose anyway then what difference does it make if it's me or anybody else?”

"who gets the money" - the part left unsaid.

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 09:10 AM (XuXeR)

322 Also end Bachelors for ED.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:04 AM

The Bob Dole doesn't know too many bachelors (or married, for that matter) who are for ED. Quite the opposite, actually.

Posted by: zombie Bob Dole at January 23, 2026 09:10 AM (0sNs1)

323 Also end Bachelors for ED.
Get a real degree first.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:04 AM (gbOdA)

I agree with you for middle and high school, but not for early elementary. Do you really need a physics degree to teach first grade?

Posted by: pookysgirl's mom had an Ed degree at January 23, 2026 09:10 AM (Wt5PA)

324 "There were problems with the KKK doing similar things in the past, I suspect there are solutions the Trump admin can use in between letting the locals let their friends out and going full Pinochet
Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:04 AM (sKqQm)"

Yeah they can. But they are running out of time, and I have yet to see any serious effort to *criminally* go after conspirators in courts and state/local government. As long as those remain, the commie goons can continue to act up.

IMHO we have passed the point in the blue shitholes where going Pinochet is justified. 4 years of J6 raids and the egregious pedo- and rape-enabling in public schools sealed the deal on that.

If Vance wins in 28 we have 4-8 more years to try and right the ship. If he does not - we are off to the races immediately. What is going on in VA removes any doubt of that.

Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 09:10 AM (EjI8X)

325 "Irregardless" is not "ungrammatical." It's merely a disfavored usage.
Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 09:09 AM (77rzZ)

Inflammable and Flammable

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:11 AM (gbOdA)

326 And it forced me to reset a lot of parameters with regard to what I think can or should be done in this country.

If you had described the COVID response under the Biden Junta say in 2000 I suspect most people would have expected an armed uprising, led by the non-coopted governors.

And...the closest we got to that was DeSantis telling Biden he would call out the FL NG if Biden tried to put vaxport road closures on the FL border with other states...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:11 AM (sKqQm)

327 I keep being reminded of Kinky Freidman lately, watching the humorless scolds on the left try to make everyone's life as miserable as possible. He would laugh and light a cigar; we need more of that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 23, 2026 09:11 AM (cmYp8)

328 310 Washington Post: Jasmine Crockett is daring Democrats to rethink electability. Some aren’t sold.

Crockett: “My theory of the case is this: If you believe we're going to lose anyway then what difference does it make if it's me or anybody else?”

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

=====

Well, no names who run as sacrificial lambs don't raise tens of millions of dollars that could go to Roy Cooper in NC who has a decent chance of being the Larry Hogan of 2026.

Attention hogs with some level of cult followings do scoop up tens of millions of dollars to just lose at the same level as the no-name.

But, hey...I'm not the one wasting my money on you. Go right ahead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

329 Up To 25% Of US Colleges May Close Soon, Brandeis President Warns

Higher education is approaching a period of profound disruption, and many colleges may not survive...

... how will Democrats train their operatives for the future ?

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 09:11 AM (RHGPo)

330
I asked him if we can't even rely on models for a storm we know exists and is only a few days away, why would we rely on future models of weather patterns for long term policy decisions. I think his brain began to rewire!
Posted by: Doof

That's a good start.

Next time ask him "How sensitive to starting parameters' values are the predictions?" and then raise your blast shields.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2026 09:11 AM (xG4kz)

331 Do you really need a physics degree to teach first grade?
Posted by: pookysgirl's mom had an Ed degree at January 23, 2026 09:10 AM (Wt5PA)

My point is the Education Degree is the problem.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:12 AM (gbOdA)

332 White leftist woman fills shopping carts to the brim, blocking the checkout line at Target to protest “fascism,” and demands that everyone, including the staff, walk out of the store.
____

F.U. you're not my boss, you fascist b*tch.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 23, 2026 09:12 AM (Dv3i1)

333 Southeastern AZ got a half inch of rain overnight and still getting more this morning. Completely different storm than what's happening to the east, though.

Mayes can KMA. Castle doctrine does not apply to criminals evading arrest. Illegals are not allowed to possess firearms in this country. Since ICE/CBP are clearly identified by patch and badge so this 'poorly identified' claim is crap. Nothing will happen here in AZ because state and local authorities cooperate with ICE/CBP and detainers lodged by them are honored. Phoenix may get an enforcement operation merely because of the number of illegals in the state of Maricopa.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 23, 2026 09:12 AM (I8+9i)

334 If Vance wins in 28 we have 4-8 more years to try and right the ship. If he does not - we are off to the races immediately. What is going on in VA removes any doubt of that.
Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 09:10 AM (EjI8X)
======================
First things first-- we need to win in November.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 23, 2026 09:12 AM (cmYp8)

335 "Up To 25% Of US Colleges May Close Soon, Brandeis President Warns"

It's a start.

Posted by: fd at January 23, 2026 09:12 AM (vFG9F)

336 Up To 25% Of US Colleges May Close Soon, Brandeis President Warns"

Well, you leftists railed against having chillins, so... demographics win again.

Reality. It's what's for dinner.

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 09:12 AM (XuXeR)

337 Wish the new Ballroom was finished. Cold, snow, ice, it's a good weekend to have a Ball.

Posted by: Dancing Fool at January 23, 2026 09:13 AM (oftw2)

338 What I noticed this time is that if somehow Frodo and Gandalf and Strider could’ve recruited Tom Bombadil into the fellowship they might’ve defeated Sauron with much less sweat and tears… that Bombadil feller just had to sing to accomplish amazing wonders. Why didn’t they bring him along?? I’ve always wondered why Tolkien included that character as he doesn’t really add anything to the story… but JRR was the genius not me so who am I to complain…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 09:04 AM (/iXAp)
---
Tom Bombadil was very powerful, but his power was constrained by boundaries. He couldn't leave the Old Forest and its environs. His fate was bound up with Goldberry's. As for his importance, the hobbits find their first respite from their journey in his sanctuary, just like Rivendell and Lothlorien. There's also important foreshadowing of Frodo's fate that occurs there, as well as a gift of comfort and solace that Frodo can draw upon at need.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 23, 2026 09:13 AM (ESVrU)

339 Inflammable and Flammable

Because illiterate retards saw "Inflammable" written on tanker trucks and believed they were carrying water - so it was OK to crash into them.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 23, 2026 09:13 AM (a4flb)

340 Cornyn gonna burn thru $100 M in TX to take an ass whoopin.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:13 AM (gbOdA)

341 that Bombadil feller just had to sing to accomplish amazing wonders. Why didn’t they bring him along?? I’ve always wondered why Tolkien included that character as he doesn’t really add anything to the story… but JRR was the genius not me so who am I to complain…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 09:04 AM (/iXAp)

My favorite theory (yeah all theories have holes) is that he’s really Aule the Smith who’s gotten sick of the whole Demi-god thing in Valinor and is just slumming it at a vacation home in middle earth with his favorite Maia.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 23, 2026 09:13 AM (xVja5)

342 334 First things first-- we need to win in November.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 23, 2026 09:12 AM (cmYp

=====

Losing the House in November would affect surprisingly little.

2026 is one of the least consequential elections in recent memory.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

343 I wonder if 18 U.S. Code § 1751(a) applies to the Auto-Pen

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

344 Lots of leftists calling for armed assault on ICE agents.

This occasionally happens on the right as well, but right-wingers are generally mentally stable, understand the ramifications, have families and businesses to be responsible for, and have a Christian moral foundation against murder.

Leftists, conversely, are mentally unstable, take no accountability for their actions, have aborted their children and do only make-shift work, and have an atheistic child-sacrificing moral grounding.

Things could get interesting.

Posted by: Strange Brew at January 23, 2026 09:14 AM (Ut9DU)

345 "Grammar" properly refers to the set of rules governing the forms words take based on their role in a clause. Basically, conjugating verbs and declining nouns, pronouns, and adjectives.

For example, "John and me went to the store" is ungrammatical because "me" cannot properly be used as a subject. It should be "John and I...".

"Irregardless" is not "ungrammatical." It's merely a disfavored usage.
Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 09:09 AM (77rzZ)

I'd say that definition is a bit narrow. I like this one from Britannica...

"rules of a language governing the sounds, words, sentences, and other elements, as well as their combination and interpretation"

Words and their usage are definitely a part of grammar.

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 09:14 AM (3r1VB)

346 That's a good start.

Next time ask him "How sensitive to starting parameters' values are the predictions?" and then raise your blast shields.

You can also ask if the models have correctly predicted the outcomes we are seeing now - is NYC under water? Or FL? Does it no longer snow in England? And so on...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:14 AM (sKqQm)

347 The point of Tom Bombadil, according to the Professor himself, is that the universe is just REALLY weird, and sometimes that impacts the narrative in ways that you don't expect. Which is kind of amazing from a man who almost ended his friendship with C.S. Lewis over Santa Clause showing up in Narnia.

Posted by: American Hawkman at January 23, 2026 09:14 AM (6nplM)

348 >>>People misuse the word “grammar” all the time.
Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

Please define "grammar"

Posted by: Doof

>When I was in grammar school, a young lady showed me her naughty bits.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 23, 2026 09:14 AM (oT7pT)

349 Woke is back and we should be terrified?

Yeh, imma nope out on that. Terrified of crybullies who think they get to be the thought and speech Gestapo? These little bitches don't impress me much. They can fuck right off.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at January 23, 2026 09:14 AM (2J/Lj)

350 ... how will Democrats train their operatives for the future ?
------------------
Maybe they will re-energize the Boy Scouts?

Posted by: pudinhead at January 23, 2026 09:14 AM (pLaQB)

351 Leftists, conversely, are mentally unstable, take no accountability for their actions, have aborted their children and do only make-shift work, and have an atheistic child-sacrificing moral grounding."

And have cats. You left out the cats.

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 09:14 AM (XuXeR)

352 I didn't know I could get a Bachelor's for ED.

Posted by: ... at January 23, 2026 09:15 AM (bb1Tf)

353 "I asked if she actually knew of anyone being "taken" (her word) and she said yes, she knows families who have had relatives taken.
I'm guessing, since there is a lot of gang activity there, that these are gang-related arrests.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 23, 2026 09:09 AM (nz1sK)"

I have a hard time figuring out how many of the cat ladies are wholly ignorant of the dynamic where the people being rounded up were previously convicted, or wanted in their home countries, usually for pretty horrific offenses ... and how many know but don't care because "feels".

You don't even need a lot of gang activity, you just need local gov't that refuses to hand offenders directly to ICE or to honor detainer requests.

Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 09:15 AM (EjI8X)

354 And it was useful in another way: at the margins, it created a lot of freethinkers. Marginal for the bitchmade population, but a significant force multiplier for the stand-up cats.

Lots of people who started with masks on their faces and needles in their arms who, by the end, we're saying "I just never believed our leaders are evil liars who want us enslaved, but now I understand, and I can never unsee what I've seen."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 23, 2026 09:16 AM (BI5O2)

355 352 I didn't know I could get a Bachelor's for ED.
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Many bachelor's have ED. Zombie Bob Dole can help with that.

Posted by: Zombie Bob Dole at January 23, 2026 09:16 AM (Dv3i1)

356 I didn't know I could get a Bachelor's for ED."

/The Paolo, he is unfamilar with any level of ED.

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 09:16 AM (XuXeR)

357 The decision acknowledges Malliotakis was “the first elected official of Latin American descent elected in Staten Island” — but dismisses this, explaining that electing an actual minority candidate is different from electing a minority-preferred candidate.

A Latina congresswoman represents the district, yet the court finds the district lines dilute Latino voting power because she’s the wrong kind of Latina — a Latina Republican.
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Disgusting scumbags of the judiciary, actively working on behalf of Demofascists.

John Roberts just closes his eyes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 23, 2026 09:16 AM (cmYp8)

358 Why didn’t they bring him along?? I’ve always wondered why Tolkien included that character as he doesn’t really add anything to the story… but JRR was the genius not me so who am I to complain…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 09:04 AM (/iXAp)

I think Gandalf explained this later, maybe during their respite at Rivendell.
Of course an even simpler solution that would have cut the epic down to size was recruiting Gwaihir to fly over Mt. Doom and drop in the ring.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 23, 2026 09:17 AM (WHfpM)

359 Jane Fonda: “We’re seeing things happen that have never happened before. Authoritarianism has made it’s way into every single nook and cranny of our government. They are kidnapping people. They are illegally deporting American citizens. They’re shooting people. They’re blinding people. It’s not a question of right or left. It’s a question of right or wrong.”

US Murders Fall to Lowest Level Since 1900; Largest One-Year Decline on Record

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 09:18 AM (RHGPo)

360 In 1997 and ice storm, which when it began and progressed, made the forests of the northern Adirondacks, and across Quebec's eastern provinces look like a Dr Zhivago winter fairyland. But the wet storm continued and the trees bent and broke and huge treefall wrecked the forests, blocked roads, and knocked down powere lines.

In the most remote areas of Quebec's eastern provinces, power was not restored for almost a month.

Power pumps your water, heats your house, and refrigerates your food. Without it, you are back suddenly to 1890, except you don't have the tools, the understanding, the stored fuel, or the mechanisms to cope.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 23, 2026 09:18 AM (KiBMU)

361 Losing the House in November would affect surprisingly little.

2026 is one of the least consequential elections in recent memory.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:13 AM (GBKbO)
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Why so?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 23, 2026 09:18 AM (cmYp8)

362 You can also ask if the models have correctly predicted the outcomes we are seeing now - is NYC under water? Or FL? Does it no longer snow in England? And so on...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:14 AM (sKqQm)

I actually did! I mentioned that not a single future model has ever proven to be correct. I actually keep an article in an open browser tab on my phone for just such an opportunity. It's 50 years of failed climate doom and gloom predictions. I think it was something Buck had in one of his rants a few years ago.

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 09:18 AM (3r1VB)

363 heya

I did talk about that, about the kinds of criminals ICE is collecting, and what kind of illegals flooded the country under Biden.
We don't usually talk politics, have been friends a long time, and she was not a teacher but worked in the school system for a long time. I know she is a Dem, but she is not a rabid lefty.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 23, 2026 09:18 AM (nz1sK)

364 338 — Thanks Perfessor! It would take a member of the faculty to understand that Bombadil subtlety…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 09:19 AM (/iXAp)

365 359 Jane Fonda: “We’re seeing things happen that have never happened before. Authoritarianism has made it’s way into every single nook and cranny of our government. They are kidnapping people. They are illegally deporting American citizens. They’re shooting people. They’re blinding people. It’s not a question of right or left. It’s a question of right or wrong.”

US Murders Fall to Lowest Level Since 1900; Largest One-Year Decline on Record

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 09:18 AM (RHGPo)

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"We've never seen mass deportations before."

Bitch is old enough to remember Eisenhower's administration which included Operation Wetback.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:19 AM (GBKbO)

366 359 Jane Fonda: “We’re seeing things happen that have never happened before. Authoritarianism has made it’s way into every single nook and cranny of our government. They are kidnapping people. They are illegally deporting American citizens. They’re shooting people. They’re blinding people. It’s not a question of right or left. It’s a question of right or wrong.”
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J6 - Don't Cry For Me Jane.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 23, 2026 09:19 AM (pLaQB)

367 Posted by: TecumsehTea"

No offense, but she's either hallucinating or just... lying.

Sad, really. You can let her know that Mrs' extended family from SA are 100% behind efforts to remove illegals, so there's that...

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 09:19 AM (XuXeR)

368 Also end Bachelors for ED.
Get a real degree first.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:04 AM (gbOdA)

Honestly, a high school education should be sufficient to teach first grade.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

369 There were 9% fewer reported aggravated assaults, 22% fewer gun assaults, and 2% fewer domestic violence incidents last year than in 2024. Robbery fell by 23% while carjackings (a type of robbery) decreased by 43%.

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 09:19 AM (RHGPo)

370 Words and their usage are definitely a part of grammar.
Posted by: Doof

No usage is not a part of grammar, any more than phonetics is. They are separate aspects of language.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

371 Irregardless of what you think, the decision was up to Tolkien.

Posted by: I crossed the streams at January 23, 2026 09:20 AM (2Ez/1)

372 ... how will Democrats train their operatives for the future ?
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Maybe they will re-energize the Boy Scouts?

Posted by: pudinhead

The Scouts can't keep their IT working and seem hell-bent on inviting a new round of sex abuse scandals with the new "Family Troops". They won't be around in five years at this rate.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 23, 2026 09:20 AM (OUMaO)

373 Geez! Did they hire Butt Gigitty or what?

Spain Suffers Fourth Rail Accident in a Week as Commuter Train Collides With Crane Arm

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 23, 2026 09:20 AM (L/fGl)

374 Power pumps your water, heats your house, and refrigerates your food. Without it, you are back suddenly to 1890, except you don't have the tools, the understanding, the stored fuel, or the mechanisms to cope.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 23, 2026 09:18 AM (KiBMU)

It would be a shame if Minnesota lineman refused to restore power to leftists in Minneapolis because they are observing the call for the No Work, No School, No Shopping protest.

Posted by: Strange Brew at January 23, 2026 09:20 AM (Ut9DU)

375 Lots of people who started with masks on their faces and needles in their arms who, by the end, we're saying "I just never believed our leaders are evil liars who want us enslaved, but now I understand, and I can never unsee what I've seen."

COVID was another one of those examples of the left having to break some eggs to make an omelet.

Did some people die from the jab? Well....maybe...but we were all in it together and wasn't it wonderful?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:20 AM (sKqQm)

376 361 Losing the House in November would affect surprisingly little.

2026 is one of the least consequential elections in recent memory.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:13 AM (GBKbO)
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Why so?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 23, 2026 09:18 AM (cmYp

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1. Impeachment is toothless. There is a 0% chance of conviction in the Senate. It'd be failure theater for Democrat rubes.

2. ICE is funded through 2028.

3. Congress hasn't used its power of the purse to limit the administrative state in decades, maybe more than a century. A Democrat Congress isn't going to start stripping actual powers from the imperial presidency, especially if Trump has to sign anything into law.

4. House committee hearings don't affect DOJ business.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:20 AM (GBKbO)

377 "First things first-- we need to win in November.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 23, 2026 09:12 AM (cmYp

"

Which I also don't exactly have warm fuzzies about.

Hard to tell if there is more going on under the table regarding anti-fraud efforts. I have to assume the NGO funding-pocalypse has disrupted a lot of things, but the Dems are clearly still pulling USB sticks of votes out of their ass post-election without any real consequences. I would wager the White House has a few things in mind for the run-up to the midterms, though.

And, of course, half the GOP in DC are con artists, as usual. I come from a GOP political family and the conversation at family gatherings is pretty disgusting. They aren't serious about anything but their gravy train.

Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 09:20 AM (EjI8X)

378 With Snowmageddon descending, I have had to dip into funds to prepare, which leaves me a tad short in the food column this week. Bottom line is, I would be most pleased to pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger sandwich today.

Posted by: J. Wellington Wimpy. at January 23, 2026 09:20 AM (oftw2)

379 Bitch is old enough to remember Eisenhower's administration which included Operation Wetback.
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Oddly, she doesn't remember FDR Concentration Camps. And her daddy was a big fan of FDR.

Posted by: pudinhead at January 23, 2026 09:20 AM (pLaQB)

380 Tom Bombadil was the name of a doll belonging to Tolkien's children. He wrote stories and poetry with it as a character to entertain his children.

Posted by: davidt at January 23, 2026 09:21 AM (Q+gd/)

381 I think Gandalf explained this later, maybe during their respite at Rivendell.
Of course an even simpler solution that would have cut the epic down to size was recruiting Gwaihir to fly over Mt. Doom and drop in the ring.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 23, 2026 09:17 AM (WHfpM)
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Why would Gwaihir be immune to the lure of the One Ring?

It's made pretty clear that beings of power are particularly susceptible to its lure. Gwaihir might be non-humanoid, but he's still tremendously powerful in his own way.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 23, 2026 09:21 AM (ESVrU)

382 Honestly, a high school education should be sufficient to teach first grade."

Public sckrools are pretty much babysitting anyway...

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 09:21 AM (XuXeR)

383 369 There were 9% fewer reported aggravated assaults, 22% fewer gun assaults, and 2% fewer domestic violence incidents last year than in 2024. Robbery fell by 23% while carjackings (a type of robbery) decreased by 43%.

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 09:19 AM (RHGPo)

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$5 says that major leftist cities start reporting crimes again just to make Trump's America look bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

384 75% of the budget for fire mitigation in Mt. Diablo State Park has gone to compliance costs, not actual mitigation

Most California thing ever: spending 3/4 of your fire prevention budget complying with regulations to ensure you are not damaging endangered plants etc only for them all to be obliterated in the wildfire you failed to prevent

... Gavin Newsom call your office

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

385 Just what middle earth needed. A race of giant murder eagles led by Murder Eagle Prime with the ring of power, subjugating all of humanity and elfity under a brutal regime of aquiline oppression.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:21 AM (06Hmj)

386 TecumsehTea, since you have ties to SE Michigan, is your nic in honor of Tecumseh, Mich?

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

387 I've met Jane Fonda many times and she is a delusional lunatic.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 23, 2026 09:21 AM (oT7pT)

388 “I mean if somebody comes at me wearing a mask, by the way, I’m a gun owner, and I can’t tell whether they’re a police officer, what am I supposed to do?”
Arizona AG wildly suggests residents can shoot masked ICE agents under state’s self-defense laws"
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Last person I heard who backed that kind of talk was David Koresh and his Branch Davidian bravos. How did that turn out?

Posted by: mrp at January 23, 2026 09:22 AM (rj6Yv)

389 Honestly, a high school education should be sufficient to teach first grade.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2026 09:19 AM (ExV1e)

My 13 YO babysitter Sheri taught me to read at 5 and I never went to KG.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:22 AM (gbOdA)

390 "369 There were 9% fewer reported aggravated assaults, 22% fewer gun assaults, and 2% fewer domestic violence incidents last year than in 2024. Robbery fell by 23% while carjackings (a type of robbery) decreased by 43%.
Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 09:19 AM (RHGPo)"

With the apparent demographic breakdown of my attempted carjackers the last few years, this is not surprising when coupled with ICE enforcement.

Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 09:22 AM (EjI8X)

391 Man

I don't think she's lying to me -- we go back a long way. Her friends may very well be lying to her, and I think the Mexican community, which is quite large in that town, is very close-knit.

I asked her why when Obama deported more people it wasn't an issue, but didn't get an answer. Thankfully we don't live near there anymore, and I don't want to damage this relationship. I already lost dear friends, who are black and live in Chicago, to the race hustling of Obama.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 23, 2026 09:22 AM (nz1sK)

392 It would be a shame if Minnesota lineman"

Ah, just imagining such a person....

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 09:22 AM (XuXeR)

393 "Was a big fan of FDR" was really just the Boomer's own version of "Sounds vaccinated", wasn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:22 AM (06Hmj)

394 Bulg, yes it is! Do you know Tecumseh?

Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 23, 2026 09:23 AM (nz1sK)

395 393 "Was a big fan of FDR" was really just the Boomer's own version of "Sounds vaccinated", wasn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:22 AM (06Hmj)

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"FDR personally gave my daddy a job through the NRA during the Great Depression that Herbert Hoover personally caused. Democrat 4 ever."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:23 AM (GBKbO)

396 PS things I never learned:

1. Share everything.
2. Play fair.
3. Don't hit people.
4. Put things back where you found them.
5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS.
6. Don't take things that aren't yours.
7. Say you're SORRY when you HURT somebody.
8. Wash your hands before you eat.
9. Flush.
10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

I must constantly remind friends and family of this.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:23 AM (gbOdA)

397 Jane Fonda: “We’re seeing things happen that have never happened before. Authoritarianism has made it’s way into every single nook and cranny of our government. They are kidnapping people. They are illegally deporting American citizens. They’re shooting people. They’re blinding people. It’s not a question of right or left. It’s a question of right or wrong.”

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Are they ~~manning~~ womanning commie anti-aircraft guns?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 23, 2026 09:24 AM (L/fGl)

398 Losing the House in November would affect surprisingly little.

2026 is one of the least consequential elections in recent memory.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:13 AM (GBKbO)
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Why so?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 23, 2026 09:18 AM (cmYp

******
If we lose the Senate and one or two Supreme Court Justices happen to die or get shot that will have a huge impact on the future of our country.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2026 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

399 Just what middle earth needed. A race of giant murder eagles led by Murder Eagle Prime with the ring of power, subjugating all of humanity and elfity under a brutal regime of aquiline oppression.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:21 AM (06Hmj)

I didn't know that I needed this!

Posted by: pookysgirl wishes she had time to write at January 23, 2026 09:24 AM (Wt5PA)

400 The train in Spain derails mainly on the plain.

Posted by: Perini Scleroso In My Fair Lady at January 23, 2026 09:24 AM (oftw2)

401 Oddly, she doesn't remember FDR Concentration Camps. And her daddy was a big fan of FDR.

I was watching a "profile in courage" type video a leftist had made about himself.

He was asian and had been selected as the Earl Warren scholar at some CA college.

Warren was a leftwing lunatic SC judge, hence why the left loves him but he was also the CA gov behind the japanese internment so they should hate him.

Or brave leftist noted this bothered him and he felt he should refuse. But then he had a better idea. He asked them to rename the position to the Justice Earl Warren scholar.

Brilliant right? He gets the money, he gets to make himself a martyr, and the college doesn't really have to do anything either...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:24 AM (sKqQm)

402 385 Just what middle earth needed. A race of giant murder eagles led by Murder Eagle Prime with the ring of power, subjugating all of humanity and elfity under a brutal regime of aquiline oppression.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:21 AM (06Hmj)

Imagine the chaos if a penguin had The Ring.

Posted by: davidt at January 23, 2026 09:24 AM (Q+gd/)

403 Bulg, yes it is! Do you know Tecumseh?
Posted by: TecumsehTea

I passed through it once or twice when I was in college in Ann Arbor.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 09:24 AM (77rzZ)

404 388 “I mean if somebody comes at me wearing a mask, by the way, I’m a gun owner, and I can’t tell whether they’re a police officer, what am I supposed to do?”

How would seeing their faces allow the average person to tell of they are police officers?

I would suspect the most obvious tell would be the big giant ICE insignias pasted all over their uniforms.

Posted by: Strange Brew at January 23, 2026 09:24 AM (Ut9DU)

405 Wasn't the issue with Obama that he called catch and release numbers as deported? Deported means they've gone through the system and got deportation orders. Catch and release are lucky if they even got a name. He counted those as deported elevating his actual deported totals.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 23, 2026 09:24 AM (BCuCF)

406
A couple of days ago at my gDaughter's Cub pack meeting, Marie Curie's name came up as a discoverer of nuclear radiation (the topic was "symbols of our country"). I corrected my gDaughter (as it turned out) that Marie was Polish and lived in France and that Roentgen discovered nuclear radiation. Nevertheless, I was inpressed by her knowing what she did.

Anyway, I asked my son to pull up the photo of the attendees at the 1927 Solvay Conference. The kids picked out Marie and Albert Einstein, of course. I told them that every person in that picture played substantial or major roles in advancing chemistry and physics one hundred years ago and, at some point, they will become familiar with more of them.

This got me to asking why are there not pictures of such assemblies of notable and great scientists today? Is it possible that too many scientists today have been sent off to pursue will-o-the-wisps such as My String-a-Ling Theory or Klimate Katastrophe? And who funds such wasted pursuits? The world wonders.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2026 09:24 AM (xG4kz)

407 Morn' all.. I do think all this negative coverage of ICE is having a negative effect on the populace...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 23, 2026 09:25 AM (VE6XX)

408 Honestly, a high school education should be sufficient to teach first grade.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

You would think!

Posted by: Baltimore School System at January 23, 2026 09:25 AM (wj4wL)

409 Most California thing ever: spending 3/4 of your fire prevention budget complying with regulations to ensure you are not damaging endangered plants etc only for them all to be obliterated in the wildfire you failed to prevent

... Gavin Newsom call your office

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

2 of those plants are NOT NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICAN

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:25 AM (gbOdA)

410 which is quite large in that town, is very close-knit."

Yeah, there is a tendency to believe local "family" or "relations" over everyone else.

It's called "tribalism", and it's how humans survived for thousands of years....

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 09:25 AM (XuXeR)

411 Glenn Campbell was a lineman for the county.

Posted by: Back in the day at January 23, 2026 09:25 AM (2Ez/1)

412 398 If we lose the Senate and one or two Supreme Court Justices happen to die or get shot that will have a huge impact on the future of our country.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 23, 2026 09:24 AM (NpAcC)

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We are not going to lose the Senate.

Absolute worst case scenario is 50/50. And that's not going to happen.

Collins will win Maine...again.
The GOP will easily hold TX.
There's a 50/50 chance of keeping NC (it might be 55-45, actually, with PVI of the state).
GA is probably a 40/60 pickup opportunity. MI is probably a 35-65 pickup opportunity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

413 The masks mandates and lockdowns and jab mandates of 2020-21 are so infuriating that even now my BP skyrockets when they come to mind…. Totalitarian bastards

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 23, 2026 09:25 AM (/iXAp)

414 Gold about to break $5K.
Silver about to break $100!

Posted by: Heavy Metals at January 23, 2026 09:26 AM (oftw2)

415 Authoritarianism has made it’s way into every single nook and cranny of our government.

You mean like the government censoring people on the internet for noting the clot shot has side effects? Or arresting people for going to the beach?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:26 AM (sKqQm)

416 Imagine the chaos if a penguin had The Ring.
Posted by: davidt at January 23, 2026 09:24 AM (Q+gd/)
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The rise of Big Penguin didn't start until AFTER the One Ring was destroyed. For all we know, Sauron would have unleashed a genocidal wave of terror against the penguins in Middle Earth, saving us from Big Penguin in the modern day.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 23, 2026 09:26 AM (ESVrU)

417 Man.

One day it's "wear the mask or I'll kill you", the next it's "if you're wearing a mask, I get to kill you".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:26 AM (06Hmj)

418 417 Man.

One day it's "wear the mask or I'll kill you", the next it's "if you're wearing a mask, I get to kill you".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:26 AM (06Hmj)

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"Any look at a federal law enforcement officer that made him feel funny on 1/6 is an insurrection."
-2 weeks ago

"Kill all fed law enforcement officers."
-today

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:27 AM (GBKbO)

419 One day it's "wear the mask or I'll kill you", the next it's "if you're wearing a mask, I get to kill you"."

+++

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 09:27 AM (XuXeR)

420 Bulg --

MrTea spent 27 years at Tecumseh Products, and we raised our three sons there. It was a nice place for them to grow up. Now so many libs have moved there from Ann Arbor it's different. Still got a lovely downtown, though.

Also, prayers are being said for you, I see you are going through a rough spot. Hold on, things will get better. Sounds trite, but it's still true.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 23, 2026 09:28 AM (nz1sK)

421 How do you italicize or bold text here at this stylish military blog? On a Windows PC.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 23, 2026 09:28 AM (KiBMU)

422 My memory is the Obama numbers include people turned away at the border.

So if Unlucky Juan tried to cross three times and failed...but then succeeded the fourth time he got into the US and stayed here but counted as three "deportations" under Obama

Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:28 AM (sKqQm)

423 "391
I don't think she's lying to me -- we go back a long way. Her friends may very well be lying to her, and I think the Mexican community, which is quite large in that town, is very close-knit.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at January 23, 2026 09:22 AM (nz1sK)

I mean, it's not like people are going to be forthcoming about ICE rounding them up because they diddled their underaged niece or accumulated 12 DUI's. If they're lying, it's probably about that.

Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 09:28 AM (EjI8X)

424 421 How do you italicize or bold text here at this stylish military blog? On a Windows PC.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 23, 2026 09:28 AM (KiBMU)

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Straight brackets.

Bold: [ b ] (without the spaces)
Close the bold: [ /b ] (without the spaces)

Et cetera.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:28 AM (GBKbO)

425 422 My memory is the Obama numbers include people turned away at the border.

So if Unlucky Juan tried to cross three times and failed...but then succeeded the fourth time he got into the US and stayed here but counted as three "deportations" under Obama

Posted by: 18-1 at January 23, 2026 09:28 AM (sKqQm)

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Internal enforcement per year under Obama was like 30,000-50,000.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:29 AM (GBKbO)

426 Words and their usage are definitely a part of grammar.
Posted by: Doof

No usage is not a part of grammar, any more than phonetics is. They are separate aspects of language.
Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

Well then, one of us is obtuse. And both of us are stubborn.

Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 09:29 AM (3r1VB)

427 Losing the House in November would affect surprisingly little.

2026 is one of the least consequential elections in recent memory.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

But, but, but... no legislation would get passed. Lol.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 23, 2026 09:29 AM (ExV1e)

428 Straight brackets.

Bold: [ b ] (without the spaces)
Close the bold: [ /b ] (without the spaces)

Et cetera."

The Barrel. It awaits your efforts.

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 09:29 AM (XuXeR)

429 Also, prayers are being said for you, I see you are going through a rough spot. Hold on, things will get better. Sounds trite, but it's still true.
Posted by: TecumsehTea

Thank you very much, TecumsehTea.

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 09:29 AM (77rzZ)

430 A Latina congresswoman represents the district, yet the court finds the district lines dilute Latino voting power because she’s the wrong kind of Latina — a Latina Republican.

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She's a New York City hot sauce Latina.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 23, 2026 09:30 AM (L/fGl)

431
The idea of a giant freaking raptor like Gwaiihir having the power of the One Ring terrifies me beyond the capacity for rational thought. That might be worse than actual Sauron.

Posted by: American Hawkman at January 23, 2026 09:30 AM (6nplM)

432 Weren't John Lindsay in NYC and Jane Byrne in Chicago exposed, then voted out mostly as a result of not being able to clear the streets after a storm? Details murky in my aging hippocampus.
Posted by: Departmente Sanitaire at January 23, 2026 08:24 AM

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Jane Byrne was voted in by making hay of Michael Bilandic's poor management of the 1979 Chicago blizzard.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 23, 2026 09:30 AM (1Au9i)

433 How do you italicize or bold text here at this stylish military blog? On a Windows PC.
Posted by: M. Gaga at January 23, 2026 09:28 AM (KiBMU)

*perks up*

Posted by: The Barrel at January 23, 2026 09:30 AM (3r1VB)

434 Well then, one of us is obtuse. And both of us are stubborn.
Posted by: Doof at January 23, 2026 09:29 AM (3r1VB)

Ooooh, wait, I know this one.

I send Doof and the bag of grain across the pond first, and then I send TJM over... wait, no, then the fox will eat the chicken.

I hate these stupid logic puzzles.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:30 AM (06Hmj)

435 How do you italicize or bold text here at this stylish military blog? On a Windows PC.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 23, 2026 09:28 AM (KiBMU)

====

Straight brackets.

Bold: [ b ] (without the spaces)
Close the bold: [ /b ] (without the spaces)

Et cetera.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 23, 2026 09:28 AM (GBKbO)

Soon.

Posted by: The Barrel at January 23, 2026 09:30 AM (dK+Kv)

436 And both of us are stubborn.
Posted by: Doof

Posted by: Bulg at January 23, 2026 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

437 "400 The train in Spain derails mainly on the plain.
Posted by: Perini Scleroso In My Fair Lady at January 23, 2026 09:24 AM (oftw2)"

I mean, we're far enough removed from Franco that the trains are not longer entirely running, let alone running on time. It requires periodic re-application.

Posted by: heya at January 23, 2026 09:31 AM (EjI8X)

438 "She's a New York City hot sauce Latina."

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Get a rope.

Posted by: Pick up the Pace at January 23, 2026 09:31 AM (2Ez/1)

439 I recall a number of years ago, some feminazi organization was doing a "tribute to great woman scientists" or some such horseshit.

Rachel Carson made the cut. Marie Curie did not.

I guess being a lesbian communist trumps having a Nobel Prize in Chemistry AND one in Physics.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 23, 2026 09:32 AM (IG3/x)

440 The Trump administration's primary venue at the World Economic Forum in Davos, known as USA House, issued a pointed warning on its website Tuesday after reports surfaced that some high-profile attendees had been duped by scalpers peddling counterfeit VIP access packages, Fox Business reports.

"Caveat billionaires," the notice began dryly, "It has been brought to our attention that again this year external parties are selling ‘VIP access to USA House’ and other Stromback Global venues in Davos.”

Posted by: SMOD at January 23, 2026 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

441 Just talked with my parents in northeastern Ohio, and snowmagedden has socked them into their house completely. But silver is rising, and they own some, so they are feeling pretty good.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 23, 2026 09:32 AM (9LIkP)

442 “nearly everyone east of the Rockies” will be affected by snow, ice, or cold from Friday into early next week.

Not us! We've got schedules to keep. No time for mandated sleep periods, or waiting for snowplows, or replacing tires, or learning English. Business as usual, full speed ahead!

Posted by: Sikh Regional Trucking, Inc. at January 23, 2026 09:32 AM (wj4wL)

443 Glenn Campbell was a lineman for the county.
Posted by: Back in the day

Shut down many a pass rush.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 23, 2026 09:33 AM (L/fGl)

444 Gnood

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 23, 2026 09:33 AM (e4I2N)

445 and other Stromback Global venues in Davos."

What, Stromberg was already taken???

Posted by: man at January 23, 2026 09:33 AM (XuXeR)

446 I send Doof and the bag of grain across the pond first, and then I send TJM over... wait, no, then the fox will eat the chicken.

I hate these stupid logic puzzles.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:30 AM

+++
But who's having sex with the chicken?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at January 23, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

447 389 My 13 YO babysitter Sheri taught me to read at 5 and I never went to KG.
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 23, 2026 09:22 AM (gbOdA)

I don't know what age I was when I started being able to read things, but I know it was before I even started pre-school.

I know I was already better at spelling than my father by the time I was 4. And he still can't spell, even though I'm sure he's a lot more intelligent than I am (he can generally intuit how to do most things well very quickly, where I can not.)

Posted by: XTC at January 23, 2026 09:33 AM (uEmCf)

448 Those symbols are dark magic. Bad juju.

Posted by: fd at January 23, 2026 09:34 AM (vFG9F)

449 Business as usual, full speed ahead!
Posted by: Sikh Regional Trucking, Inc. at January 23, 2026 09:32 AM (wj4wL)

Just in that little bit of nothing we got the other day, the small highway running through town was completely ballsed up by at least six different trucks jackknifed in the coating to an inch of snow there was on the ground.

It was like the cop car pileup scene in Blues Brothers, but truckier.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:34 AM (06Hmj)

450 434 I hate these stupid logic puzzles.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:30 AM (06Hmj)

I preferred those peg jump puzzles they'd sell at the little gift shop in the roadside Amish-style Restaurants.

Posted by: XTC at January 23, 2026 09:35 AM (uEmCf)

451 But who's having sex with the chicken?
Posted by: Frank Costanza at January 23, 2026 09:33 AM (2Ez/1)

The pheasant plucker?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:35 AM (06Hmj)

452 RE: Snowpocalypse.

Longsuffering spouse asked what we'll do whilst being snowed in.

I made a suggestion involving nudity.

She responded:

"Maybe reorganize the basement."

Posted by: RS at January 23, 2026 09:36 AM (SuU/K)

453 "Maybe reorganize the basement."

Posted by: RS at January 23, 2026 09:36 AM (SuU/K)

That's the greatest euphemism for going in through the out door that i've ever heard.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 23, 2026 09:37 AM (06Hmj)

454
Fancier text

"^" here stands in for "b", "i", "s", or "u" (leave out the quote marks)

Opening bracket is "[^]" and goes before the text
Closing bracket is "[/^]" and goes after the text

The Four Horsemen of Fancier Text are

replace "^" with "b" for bold
replace "^" with "i" for italic
replace "^" with "s" for strike through, and
replace "^" with "u" for underline

Fair warning -- mishandling fancier text, especially a closing bracket, results in an express elevator ride to The Barrel.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 23, 2026 09:38 AM (xG4kz)

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