Internet Claims: Chinese PM Xi Plotted Purge of Chinese Military, So the Military Plotted a Coup and Kidnapping. But Then Xi Launched a Counter-Coup.

Allegedly.

The claims of an actual coup attempt, with senior military leaders plotting to kidnap Xi, is an internet-based claim without any legacy media confirmation.

So far.

Here's the BBC:

The senior ranks of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) are in tatters.
The weekend purging of China's top general, Zhang Youxia, and another senior military officer, Gen Liu Zhenli, has left serious questions about what triggered the elite power struggles unfolding in the country - and what this means for China's warfighting capacity, whether it be any ambition to take Taiwan by force or engage in another major regional conflict.
Zhang, 75, was vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) - the Communist Party group headed by the country's leader Xi Jinping, which controls the armed forces.
The CMC, usually made up of around seven people, has now been whittled down to just two members - Xi and Gen Zhang Shengmin.
All others have been taken down in the "anti-corruption" crackdown following previous waves of detention.
The CMC is responsible for controlling millions of military personnel. It is so powerful that when Deng Xiaoping was the paramount leader of the country during the 1980s, this was the only position he held for most of that time.
That only Xi and one CMC general remain is unprecedented, according to Lyle Morris from the Asia Society Policy Institute.
"The PLA is in disarray," he told the BBC, adding that China's military now had "a major leadership void".
Asked what was really driving the culling of so many top generals, he said: "There are a lot of rumours floating around. We don't know, at this point, what is true and what is false... but it is certainly bad for Xi Jinping, for his leadership and control over the PLA."
Associate Professor Chong Ja Ian from the National University of Singapore also said he was not sure what the real reason was for Zhang's downfall but that there was a lot of speculation about it.
"Everything from leaking nuclear secrets to the United States to plotting a coup and factional infighting. There are even rumours of a gunfight in Beijing," he said.
"But Zhang and Liu's downfall along with the wild speculation highlight two things: that Xi remains unassailable and there are significant limits to information in Beijing which fuels uncertainty and feeds this speculation."
The official announcement that said Zhang and Liu were "under investigation" also said that they were accused of "serious violations of discipline and law", which is a euphemism for corruption.
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The targeting of the generals may be about corruption, but it may also be about power politics, given how these purges have panned out in the past.
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Xi may have stamped his authority, yet again, but the upheaval means ongoing frictions, he said.
"It's certainly a bad look for Xi and I think there's going to be significant turmoil in the PLA, with Xi and his leaders -- especially in the PLA -- for years to come."
The purging of the most senior generals also brings scrutiny on the next layer of officers who may be wondering who is next?

Twitter accounts claim -- again, without confirmation by the fake media -- that the military leaders Xi was about to arrest for corruption decided to strike first and kidnap Xi, but Xi got wind of this and arrested them first.

Cryptoanarhist
@manaxer2
A coup d'etat is being prepared in China.
What happened? I explain:
-- The largest purge of China's military leadership in half a century has recently begun. Generals are being prosecuted on charges of corruption and state crimes.
-- Even General Zhang Youxia, who was considered Xi's right-hand man, was accused of treason for spying on the United States.
-- Unconfirmed information is also circulating online about the suppression of an attempted military coup and an assassination attempt on Xi Jinping himself.
-- There is an active movement of military convoys in the direction of Beijing, now they are located 40 kilometers from the center of Beijing.
-- Local media reports that some of the equipment has already reached Beijing, and armed men have taken control of the historic Forbidden City
-- Along with this, there are reports that the existing PLA system has been stopped and replaced by the direct command of the Central Military Council using encrypted telegrams.
-- All units throughout the army have moved to the first level of combat readiness.
In addition, against the background of the events, Taiwan said it was closely monitoring "abnormal" changes in China's military leadership and urged Japanese fishermen to refrain from visiting islands disputed with China.
What do you think, will there be changes in our political system?

One busy night in Beijing...

The coup attempt failed!

Unfortunately, Xi received intelligence two hours before the incident and has since arrested nearly 3,000 people, including military personnel and their families! pic.twitter.com/I4uSyKGCKF
— WarrenVsCCP | 🇺🇸🇹🇼🇺🇸 (@WarrenVsCCP) January 24, 2026

China was just rocked by an attempted military coup but you'd never guess from the virtually absent media coverage of it. This is a much bigger deal than present Western media coverage implies. pic.twitter.com/7vyFxGQjJv
— Simone & Malcolm Collins (@SimoneHCollins) January 27, 2026

Is this true? I don't know, but it's important enough to at least mention, I think.

And no one believes the "Real Media" is the real media any longer. They're incompetents. I don't consider them to be an authoritative word.

Happy Tuesday!

Posted by: Ace at 12:25 PM

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1 Onest!

Posted by: Oddbob at January 27, 2026 12:25 PM (Fs0KI)

2 I'll go nood now. Don't watch.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 27, 2026 12:26 PM (Fs0KI)

3 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2026 12:26 PM (Qbzeg)

4 LOL.

Who stole the fucking popcorn from the breakroom!?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:27 PM (bss/y)

5 In before the Game of Thrones reference!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:27 PM (wVcYX)

6 If your going to take out the King, better be sure you can first

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (Qbzeg)

7 So the Military Plotted a Coup and Kidnapping. But Then Xi Launched a Counter-Coup.

Coup-Xi-coup!

Posted by: Charo at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (Fs0KI)

8 You know what coup rhymes with!

Posted by: Tucker Shmarlson at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (cxiKi)

9 So he's going to invade Taiwan now, right?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (ULPxl)

10 Maybe the Washington Post could do a story on it?

Ha ha ha ha--I crack myself up sometimes!

Posted by: Crusader at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (Cjcf6)

11 Communists killing and/or kidnapping and imprisoning each other.

Wake me up when something new happens. Same shit story for the last 100 years.

We're about a generation away from this shit here in the US.

Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (5aZAZ)

12 Coup-poo!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (wVcYX)

13 No weeping for either team, here.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (qo38o)

14 The senior ranks of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) are in tatters ...

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Not to worry, comrades -- Rear Admiral Levine, Milley Vanilli, Lloyd Austin (Afronaut), and Lt. Col. Bearclaw are tanned, unarrested, and available!

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (5NBTt)

15 You know what coup rhymes with!
Posted by: Tucker Shmarlson

Poo!

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (77rzZ)

16 7 So the Military Plotted a Coup and Kidnapping. But Then Xi Launched a Counter-Coup.

Coup-Xi-coup!
Posted by: Charo at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (Fs0KI)

It'd be nice if they all could fucking lose.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (bss/y)

17 Seems like a big deal. I wonder why no one is covering it?

Posted by: huerfano at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (98kQX)

18 Coup coup cou-joo

Posted by: I am the Eggman at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (jc0TO)

19

I'm sure this got buried in the last thread, but the guy who got shot was an agitator known to ice who had his ribs broken the week before during a violent altercation with them in other words they knew who this guy was and when they saw a gun there was a reason for the response. Not really a justification but certainly you poke the bear enough you're going to get the claws

Posted by: imp at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (g6TN6)

20 9 So he's going to invade Taiwan now, right?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (ULPxl)

Right after purging the military? That's a Stalin before Barbarossa move there. (Note: it did not go well.)

Still, it would be on brand.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:30 PM (bss/y)

21 China is asshoe !!!

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at January 27, 2026 12:30 PM (94/H1)

22 How much of a coup can it be if shots aren't fired. These are generals, yes? Did none of their troops fire when whoever came to arrest the generals arrived?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:30 PM (jc0TO)

23 and what group can arrest generals?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:31 PM (jc0TO)

24 An issue every dictator must continually think about: Who guards the guards?

Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 12:31 PM (5rh/l)

25 He Weidong has the best name of all those guys.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2026 12:31 PM (ZcsJV)

26 So the coup against Pooh failed. *sigh*

Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 12:31 PM (NpAcC)

27
Come at the King, you best not miss.

It's all in Da Game, yo.

Posted by: Zombie Omar Little at January 27, 2026 12:31 PM (y9nCu)

28 >> The claims of an actual coup attempt, with senior military leaders plotting to kidnap Xi,

Not so fast, Rong Ranger.

Posted by: Xi Watidid at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (7kply)

29 I guess they wanted some of the honey from Comrade Pooh's honey pot.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (L/fGl)

30 and what group can arrest generals?
Posted by: toby928(c)

Specifics?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (mlg/3)

31 None of this is anything new, grasshopper.

Posted by: Zombie Master Po at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (Q+gd/)

32 1. Stage coup
2. ????
3. Profit!

Actually curious as to what would have changed in China if the coup was successful.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (Dv3i1)

33 Coupbaya, my lord, coupbaya.....

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (LxER7)

34 I am the Xi Man
I am the Zhang Man
Coup coup cachoo!!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (cYBz/)

35 Why is it unfortunate that Xi stopped the coup? Whoever succeeds him won't be any better, perhaps worse. Does this Twitiot think there is some kind of Thomas Jefferspn type in the PLA?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (BI5O2)

36 I rate this story fairly low on my "Did This Shit Really Happen?" scale. Not at zero. But low.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

37 22 so far.

Posted by: Counting Coup at January 27, 2026 12:32 PM (w9Wax)

38 When does Xi Jinping start rolling ball bearings in his hand and remarking about his disloyal officers?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:33 PM (wVcYX)

39 He Weidong has the best name of all those guys.
Posted by: garrett

It is also the alias that The Paolo adopts when visiting China.
-- The Paolo

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:33 PM (77rzZ)

40 Remember the tires falling off the Russian vehicles in the initial invasion of Ukraine?

Yeah...I get the feeling that China's Military is in worse shape than Russia's was at that moment.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2026 12:33 PM (ZcsJV)

41 Gee Willikers, I wonder which of those six generals tipped off Xi???

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 27, 2026 12:34 PM (wtvvX)

42 an internet-based claim without any legacy media confirmation.
______
Doesn't that mean it's probably true?

Posted by: Eeyore at January 27, 2026 12:34 PM (s0JqF)

43 8 You know what coup rhymes with!

Posted by: Tucker Shmarlson at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (cxiKi)

NO COUP FOR YOU!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 27, 2026 12:34 PM (wtvvX)

44 I foresee an epidemic of people falling out of windows.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 12:34 PM (L/fGl)

45 So for all their Asian wiliness and cunning, Red China is no better than some 3rd world banana republic like Nicaraguaaaaa or the United States.

Posted by: Zombie Omar Torrijos at January 27, 2026 12:34 PM (R/m4+)

46 23 and what group can arrest generals?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:31 PM (jc0TO)

My Praetorians!

Posted by: Ghosts of numerous Roman Emperors assasinated by their Praetorians at January 27, 2026 12:34 PM (5rh/l)

47 22 How much of a coup can it be if shots aren't fired. These are generals, yes? Did none of their troops fire when whoever came to arrest the generals arrived?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:30 PM (jc0TO)

How much of an actual coup was the Erdogan Reichstag fire to draw out seditious military guys (which is what I am convinced it was) in... 2016?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:35 PM (bss/y)

48 Actually, I take it back. A couple would be good. It would, at least for a time, halt the flow of payments to Congress.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 12:35 PM (BI5O2)

49 So many coupes, so little time ....

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 27, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)

50 So, Zerohedge isn't even running this, so I also rate the likelihood it happened, or happened just like this, as low...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 27, 2026 12:35 PM (tOcjL)

51 Looking at the org chart for Chinese leadership, I got a pretty good idea who leaked the coup attempt to Xi.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 27, 2026 12:35 PM (LSR8N)

52 I’m guessing we will need to lockdown for the next shamdemic soon?

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 27, 2026 12:35 PM (UM59F)

53 Russia, in particular, Putin is bending over for the Chinese. A lot of the top generals are not pleased with that. So don’t be surprised if you see Putin go full Stalin.

Posted by: Xi Watidid at January 27, 2026 12:35 PM (7kply)

54 So the one guy was gonna join the coup but then he chickened out?

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:36 PM (77rzZ)

55 Did Xi take out the political officer first (Miao Hua in the white suit)?

Posted by: Captain Ramius at January 27, 2026 12:36 PM (wVcYX)

56 44 I foresee an epidemic of people falling out of windows.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 12:34 PM (L/fGl)

GRAVITY STORM HITS CHINA

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 27, 2026 12:36 PM (wtvvX)

57 Wouldn't care if the night of the long knives is a month long
Or 2

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2026 12:36 PM (Qbzeg)

58 The media isn't even the media. They're like a playgroup.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:37 PM (cxiKi)

59 75.725 pct of internet rumors are pure bullshit.

The other 97pct are merely bullshit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2026 12:37 PM (ZrSVF)

60 Did Xi take out the political officer first (Miao Hua in the white suit)?
Posted by: Captain Ramius at January 27, 2026 12:36 PM

He had a cup of tea.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:37 PM (jc0TO)

61 The worst part about a coup in China is that an hour later you want another.

Posted by: davidt at January 27, 2026 12:37 PM (Q+gd/)

62 Zhang, 75, was vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) - the Communist Party group headed by the country's leader Xi Jinping, which controls the armed forces.

The parallels to the dying days of the USSR are eerie. Many, if not most of these guys are "princelings", i.e. descendants of the original CCP guys. Xi is 72, and this guy is 75. Admittedly, Trump is older at 79, but he's that rare specimen who can clearly still keep up the pace. Zhang looks like he should be playing mahjong somewhere.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:37 PM (Riz8t)

63 Talk about a right hand man! Maybe he's the informer.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:37 PM (cxiKi)

64 Fortune cookie says: "Don't go coup-coup today!"

Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 12:37 PM (rj6Yv)

65 The BBC you say?

I'll be over in the corner not listening to them.

Posted by: connected and litigious at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (cS1cw)

66 Is this a chopsticks within chopsticks sort of deal?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (jtM2q)

67
If only they seized Xi's Hunny Jar first.

Their coup would've succeeded.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (iJfKG)

68 I mean it's not hard to figure out who talked.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (cxiKi)

69 I can just see Odd Job flinging his hat in a room full of generals...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (wtvvX)

70 Xi was to have been taken out by military helicopter. Unfortunately, pilots Wi Tu Lo and Sum Ting Wong were not up to the task.

Posted by: Bang! Ding! Ow! at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (oftw2)

71 Go long on Crab Rangoon futures.

Posted by: dananjcon at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (8C1eU)

72 Little Xi Coup, you don't know what I've found.

Posted by: Chinese Beach Boys at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (wVcYX)

73 Why do I need to know this or be upset that I don’t? I have to have some level of trust that the people who need to know this , do.

If you try to absorb every action in the world that can possibly effect you down the road you’re going to drive yourself insane.

The AA prayer is appropriate on that subject imo.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (KDPiq)

74
What I'm wondering is what's going on with the PLA Strategic Rocket Force. Currently without a formal commander, being run on an interim basis by the Rocket Force Political Commissar. Who did HE side with? Because that could really end up being a shit-show.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (y9nCu)

75
1. Stage coup
2. ????
3. Profit!

Actually curious as to what would have changed in China if the coup was successful.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

How did you get your hands on such a highly classified document outlining CIA protocol for the last 70 years?

Posted by: imp at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (g6TN6)

76 ZH, as repeated often here, is a site run by a Russian intel operator. The news always skews to what is most beneficial to the Russians. They will not cover certain issues, or cover issues where they try to add to the chaos. They pose as libertarians, but if you read that site with the knowledge it is run by a Russian asset, you can see it a mile away.

Posted by: Xi Watidid at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (7kply)

77 And it looks like Tex Lovera beat me to the leaker comment.

Double drat on you and your family, Tex!

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (LSR8N)

78 Yeah, being a government functionary that late is bad for anything. Mind just is not quite as agile (Trump included, but I think he realized that and surrounds himself with 'young thinkers.' That actually speaks well of him as a leader.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:39 PM (bss/y)

79 There is leaked audio of the failed attempt. Transcript:

"Coup! You been here four hour! You go now!"

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:39 PM (cxiKi)

80 When does Xi Jinping start rolling ball bearings in his hand and remarking about his disloyal officers?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:33 PM (wVcYX)

Totalitarian political systems don't, generally, breed loyalty in senior people.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 12:39 PM (ExV1e)

81 How will the People's Liberation Army take Taiwan and destroy the US Pacific Fleet in a day if only a tiny fraction of its troops are trusted enough to be issued live ammo?

Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 12:40 PM (5rh/l)

82 Twitter accounts claim -- again, without confirmation by the fake media -- that the military leaders Xi was about to arrest for corruption decided to strike first and kidnap Xi, but Xi got wind of this and arrested them first.

It's the little deuce coup
We don't know 'bout the plot.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 27, 2026 12:40 PM (JN6Jq)

83 >>> 80 When does Xi Jinping start rolling ball bearings in his hand and remarking about his disloyal officers?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:33 PM (wVcYX)

Totalitarian political systems don't, generally, breed loyalty in senior people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 12:39 PM (ExV1e)

You only ever have semi-trusted lieutenants.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 12:40 PM (ULPxl)

84 I don't trust the "traditional" media, but I don't trust rando internet sleuths either. At any rate, here's hoping for both sides to lose in whatever shit is going down in China.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 27, 2026 12:41 PM (XMwZJ)

85 35 Why is it unfortunate that Xi stopped the coup? Whoever succeeds him won't be any better, perhaps worse. Does this Twitiot think there is some kind of Thomas Jefferspn type in the PLA?

Maybe. Or maybe there's intense dissatisfaction because enough other members of the Politburo understand that what they're doing now isn't working, and they're tired of having everything decided by Xi, who is completely isolated because nobody wants to bring him bad news. There are probably quite a few who wanted to continue the liberalization that was happening before Xi, if for no other reason than to save their own skins before the people revolt.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:41 PM (Riz8t)

86 You know what coup rhymes with!
Posted by: Tucker Shmarlson at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM

GROUP!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 27, 2026 12:41 PM (y9ksN)

87 Reminds me of how much I loved the movie Death Of Stalin.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 12:41 PM (KDPiq)

88 80 When does Xi Jinping start rolling ball bearings in his hand and remarking about his disloyal officers?
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:33 PM (wVcYX)

Totalitarian political systems don't, generally, breed loyalty in senior people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 12:39 PM (ExV1e)

Just read pretty much any account of Stalin. It is one long thing of him suspecting first this guy, then that, then the guy who accused the first guy gets axed (literally.) These guys are often talented, but paranoid (to be able to rise within the system) and then the power does NOT make them feel more secure. It just gives them the ability to strike first.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (bss/y)

89 77 And it looks like Tex Lovera beat me to the leaker comment.

Double drat on you and your family, Tex!

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (LSR8N)

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (wtvvX)

90 I remember an historical precedent. When Big Adolph murdered Ernst Roehm and the SA in the Night of the Long Knives, our betters at the NYT and the rest of the MSM interpreted it as Hitler rejecting radicalism and indicating his desire to join the brotherhood of nations. Peace was at hand.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (L/fGl)

91 :-)

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (wtvvX)

92 Rhymes with 1989

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (0U5gm)

93 Pooh got bloodied ... tough days

Posted by: illiniwek at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (vbXSk)

94 Steiner-sahn will come.

Posted by: Xi at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (Q+gd/)

95 Also, a power shake up in China could actually help world stability as they focus inward instead of fucking around globally.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (bss/y)

96 Who will write the first article about this story, tying it to their hope that someone can coup Trump? Because that would be some original shit.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (cxiKi)

97 Looks like the Chicoms had their own version of Milley. I have a feeling that their version will receive a bit more harshness than merely having their portrait taken down.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 27, 2026 12:43 PM (CwhoI)

98 Media quiet because they have not received their existence instructions.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 27, 2026 12:43 PM (EyfuW)

99 Is the survivor (for now) Zhang the dude responsible for inspecting and disciplining the Chinese women military units in the PLA?

Lucky guy.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:43 PM (wVcYX)

100 94 Steiner-sahn will come.
Posted by: Xi at January 27, 2026 12:42 PM (Q+gd/)

Isn't -san honorific Japanese?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y)

101 Oh no won't someone think of the Pokemen?

Posted by: fd at January 27, 2026 12:43 PM (BuPGZ)

102 76 ZH, as repeated often here, is a site run by a Russian intel operator. The news always skews to what is most beneficial to the Russians. They will not cover certain issues, or cover issues where they try to add to the chaos. They pose as libertarians, but if you read that site with the knowledge it is run by a Russian asset, you can see it a mile away.
Posted by: Xi Watidid at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (7kply)

True, but it does post worldwide stuff, especially stuff that would weaken China. Anything that weakens other powers is good...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 27, 2026 12:44 PM (tOcjL)

103 Totalitarian political systems don't, generally, breed loyalty in senior people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Bearded Spock world taught us that.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 12:44 PM (L/fGl)

104 The media hasn't written anything because their editor/boss in China was recently mysteriously disappeared. They will get back to you.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:44 PM (cxiKi)

105 our betters at the NYT and the rest of the MSM interpreted it as Hitler rejecting radicalism and indicating his desire to join the brotherhood of nations. Peace was at hand.

Well, back in the 30s the NYT didn't like Pedos either.

Of course were the modern FNM to cover it they would focus on Hitler engaging in homophobia by killing Rohm...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 12:44 PM (sKqQm)

106 Does this mean Trump will lift the tariff on egg rolls?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 27, 2026 12:44 PM (oT7pT)

107 Chinese PM Xi Plotted Purge of Chinese Military.
Military Plotted a Coup and Kidnapping.
Xi Launched a Counter-Coup.

This is just begging to be put into Spy VS Spy format

Posted by: Fen at January 27, 2026 12:44 PM (ciYHQ)

108 Looks like the Chicoms had their own version of Milley. I have a feeling that their version will receive a bit more harshness than merely having their portrait taken down.
Posted by: Citizen Cake

It was Milley who called Xi to tell him about the planned coup.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 27, 2026 12:44 PM (w9Wax)

109 Isn't -san honorific Japanese?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Yes, "san" is Japanese.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:45 PM (77rzZ)

110 Also, a power shake up in China could actually help world stability as they focus inward instead of fucking around globally.

Yup, that has been pointed out. Chris Chappell at China Uncensored does good work on this.

Xi Jinping Has Gone Full Stalin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW-eeWn0i2o

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:45 PM (Riz8t)

111 Just being inscrutable.

Posted by: Xi at January 27, 2026 12:45 PM (Q+gd/)

112 As of now, I am in control here in The Peking Restaurant, pending return of Zhang Shawbang and that other yellow fella, XI JinPingapong".

Posted by: Zombie Alexander Haig at January 27, 2026 12:46 PM (R/m4+)

113 I'm grooving on the satellite-tracking website that someone posted a link to earlier.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:46 PM (77rzZ)

114 109 Isn't -san honorific Japanese?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Yes, "san" is Japanese.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:45 PM (77rzZ)

The Japs stole it from us!

Posted by: Mao Tse-Tung at January 27, 2026 12:46 PM (5rh/l)

115 Good. This is useful if we go into Iran.

Posted by: Rip N Read at January 27, 2026 12:46 PM (Xm0J1)

116 Never go Full Stalin

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 27, 2026 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

117 You only ever have semi-trusted lieutenants.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 12:40 PM (ULPxl)

There was a reason that emperors played host to their underlings offspring.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 12:46 PM (ExV1e)

118 99 Is the survivor (for now) Zhang the dude responsible for inspecting and disciplining the Chinese women military units in the PLA?

Lucky guy.

He's the guy supposedly running their anti-corruption campaign.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:46 PM (Riz8t)

119 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 12:46 PM (Zz0t1)

120 ZH, as repeated often here, is a site run by a Russian intel operator

TBH you can learn a lot by reading a wide swatch of media - I occasionally watch Indian news and their perspectives on Western issues are interesting...

ZH in particular was about the best media source on COVID back during the Junta's reign.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 12:46 PM (sKqQm)

121 Totalitarian political systems don't, generally, breed loyalty in senior people.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Can you expand? I spent last semester at the Chi Omega house.

Posted by: Fen at January 27, 2026 12:47 PM (ciYHQ)

122 Forget it Ace, it's China.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

123 But what about the counter counter counter coup?

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:47 PM (cxiKi)

124 Was the failed coup led by Wei Tu Lo?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 12:47 PM (LxER7)

125 Serenity now...?

Posted by: Hong Kong Phooey at January 27, 2026 12:47 PM (vneJl)

126 Well, one thing we can be certain of is that Trump wasn't behind the coup. If he was, the media would be all over this story as it would be framed as an "epic diplomatic failure".

Posted by: supremejaxx at January 27, 2026 12:47 PM (BudYP)

127 WTF is wrong with South Korea? They’ve become even more anti-American. I didn’t think they would renege on the trade agreement.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 12:47 PM (KDPiq)

128 A shiny new donkey for the man who brings me the head of Colonel Montoya.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:47 PM (jc0TO)

129 Never go Full Stalin
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Actually, those who knew both men actually thought that Lenin was more ruthless than Stalin.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:48 PM (77rzZ)

130 But what about the counter counter counter coup?

Soon to be a song by Boy George.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:48 PM (Riz8t)

131 Oh no won't someone think of the Pokemen?
Posted by: fd

All the time.

Posted by: Don Le Mon at January 27, 2026 12:48 PM (JN6Jq)

132 When will CBD and Sefton stage a Coup against Ace and move the blog to Israel?

Posted by: Mister Ghost at January 27, 2026 12:48 PM (TGPs7)

133 This is big. Zhang was his oldest friend and longtime collaborator. Zhang's parents and Xi's parents were business partners.

As he was being hauled away, Zhang must have thought, "Want a friend in Beijing? Buy a dog."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 12:48 PM (PtAHv)

134 Seen on twitter:

Some Leftist Jan 8, 2026: The most disappointing thing to come out of this ICE shooting is that the right doesn't give a gunch about human life. Watching people malign a mother for being murdered by her country is insane

Same Leftist Jan 6 , 2025: Happy Ashli Babbit FAFO day to all who celebrate

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 12:49 PM (sKqQm)

135 When will CBD and Sefton stage a Coup against Ace and move the blog to Israel?
Posted by: Mister Ghost at January 27, 2026 12:48 PM

More fool you, there is no Ace.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:49 PM (jc0TO)

136 The most disappointing thing to come out of this ICE shooting is that the right doesn't give a gunch about human life.

A gunch?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:49 PM (Riz8t)

137 But what about the counter counter counter coup?
Posted by: ...

Chinese counting coup? They stole it from us!! Cultural appropriation!!!
-- Plains Indians

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:49 PM (77rzZ)

138 I'm no expert on Chinese politics but I love to make fun of their haircuts.

Posted by: wth at January 27, 2026 12:50 PM (UjdFS)

139 Know what they call a Whopper in Beijing?

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 27, 2026 12:50 PM (EyfuW)

140 It's like J6 all over again!
- the US media, probably

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2026 12:50 PM (n5tGW)

141 A gunch?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:49 PM

Shh. Xe's rolling.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 12:50 PM (jc0TO)

142 off sock

Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 12:50 PM (5rh/l)

143 Simone and Malcolm are not the presenters of information one would tolerate without drugs.
Possibly if there were a transcript.
A transcript is sometimes provided. Going to check.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2026 12:50 PM (UZwsW)

144 If you order a cocktail at a bar, does it come in a counter coupe?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:50 PM (Riz8t)

145 But what about the counter counter counter coup?
Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:47 PM (cxiKi)

Seems like we should go back to the art thread and read that one post describing cricket.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 12:50 PM (Zz0t1)

146 Wow somehow my text to speech rendered f*ck as gunch.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 12:50 PM (sKqQm)

147 I bet Candice Owens knows what happened.

Posted by: Cray Cray at January 27, 2026 12:51 PM (UM59F)

148 Coup Buster Buster Buster 2000!

Posted by: Every dictator should have one at January 27, 2026 12:51 PM (TbWk/)

149 An hour later they'll just want another coup

Posted by: Sifty boones at January 27, 2026 12:51 PM (Q8RbM)

150 very interesting...

Posted by: runner at January 27, 2026 12:51 PM (g47mK)

151 Never go Full Stalin
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

Actually, those who knew both men actually thought that Lenin was more ruthless than Stalin.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:48 PM (77rzZ)

Stalin was John Gotti. Lenin was Lucky Luciano.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 12:51 PM (KDPiq)

152 Know what they call a Whopper in Beijing?
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 27, 2026 12:50 PM (EyfuW)

——————-

A Royale with Dog?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 27, 2026 12:51 PM (u73oe)

153 Time for a remake of 'Aguirre, The Wrath of God', with Xi, having purged everyone else, sitting alone on a raft screaming, "I, the Wrath of God, will marry my own daughter and with her I will found the purest dynasty the world has ever seen. Together, we shall rule this entire continent. We shall endure. I am the Wrath of God!"

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 27, 2026 12:51 PM (CwhoI)

154 So that's Xinnie the Pooh 1 and The Hundred Acres of lesser Commies 0

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 12:51 PM (sKqQm)

155 140 It's like J6 all over again!
- the US media, probably
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2026 12:50 PM (n5tGW)

J6-J7

*up and down hand gesture*

Posted by: My God...they've brainrotted everything! at January 27, 2026 12:52 PM (TbWk/)

156 He did not arrest one guy! He is the one who betrayed the others!

Posted by: runner at January 27, 2026 12:52 PM (g47mK)

157 Know what they call a Whopper in Beijing?
Posted by: thug dolphin

A Loyale wit cheese?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at January 27, 2026 12:53 PM (JN6Jq)

158 I'm no expert on Chinese politics but I love to make fun of their haircuts.
Posted by: wth at January 27, 2026 12:50 PM (UjdFS)

1.2 Billion Moe Howard's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 12:53 PM (Zz0t1)

159 In other news, Marco Rubio will soon be named General Contractor for Pacific Palisades.

Trump signs executive order for feds to take over LA’s ‘nightmare’ wildfire rebuild in huge boost for victims

https://is.gd/vRmma3

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:53 PM (Riz8t)

160 For all you Fetterman lovers. He just called for Trump to fire Noem, and provide a path to citizenship for all the illegal already here who haven’t committed a crime.

There’s your moderate. Right on queue with getting New Democrat voters.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 27, 2026 12:53 PM (i7wqn)

161 WTF is wrong with South Korea? They’ve become even more anti-American. I didn’t think they would renege on the trade agreement.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 12:47 PM (KDPiq)

Remember when the SK President tried to remove the Parliament on the basis that they had been infiltrated by NK? Remember how he was removed and then the Parliament started cozying up to NK.

Probably a continuation of the same thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2026 12:53 PM (ExV1e)

162 very interesting...
Posted by: runner at January 27, 2026 12:51 PM (g47mK)

And Laugh In lives on!

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at January 27, 2026 12:53 PM (LSR8N)

163 147 I bet Candice Owens knows what happened.
Posted by: Cray Cray at January 27, 2026 12:51 PM (UM59F)

The Jooos decided to stick with Xi for now. He does the best of extending their tendrils (they also wanted to reward him for his hand in Charlie Kirk's assassination and getting them pictures of Charlie Kirk with Abby Shapiro's Giant Jugs (which they really liked) and Erika Kirk with Vance.)

Probably.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:53 PM (bss/y)

164 I lost my J6 meme of a lawn chair knocked over, lil help?

Posted by: Fen at January 27, 2026 12:54 PM (ciYHQ)

165 Anyone ever think of skulking around behind a VPN and posting dumb leftist drivel here to "own the rightards"?

I imagine someone with some ingenuity could do it every day but it would take immense brains and skill.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:54 PM (cxiKi)

166 You look at that guy and think, He has never held a gun.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 27, 2026 12:54 PM (EyfuW)

167 No transcript, thought it was the tube.
Surely they appeal to some.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2026 12:54 PM (UZwsW)

168 Actually, those who knew both men actually thought that Lenin was more ruthless than Stalin.

If you can force a socialist to address Stalin's crimes they'll usually argue Lenin and Trotsky would have been more humane.

But...its a bunch of bullshit. You can only have communism if you kill a shit-ton of people. And then you get the USSR not Marx's stupid Utopia.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 12:54 PM (sKqQm)

169 Now my cousin by marriage is going to be insufferable. I commented here a few days ago that she grew up in Mainland China, and recently returned from a trip to visit her family. She said that the first thing that struck her was the lessening of compliance (without questions) displayed the Chinese worker in the past.

Her words: "Something is brewing. Something big."

Oh, and she's convinced that COVID was not an accident. She, and a lot of people she knows in China, strongly believe it was a miscalulated effort to test what they thought was a controllable virus which would cull the non-producing (Elderly, infirm) while merely grazing the more healthy (producers). It was paired up with the draconian personal credit policies China put into place around the same time as the virus breakout. All to accomodate the dire situation created by the past one child rule.

Posted by: Orson at January 27, 2026 12:54 PM (dIske)

170 >>>Wow somehow my text to speech rendered f*ck as gunch.

Posted by: 18-1

>Chinese AI tech. There's a glitch in the matrix.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 27, 2026 12:54 PM (oT7pT)

171 So this whole thing was a Little Deuce Coup?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2026 12:54 PM (n5tGW)

172 Look, if you're Russian, or anyone, it's not hard to push news that damages the United States.

Just report truthfully about its government. It would make a buzzard retch.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 12:55 PM (BI5O2)

173 > An issue every dictator must continually think about: Who guards the guards?

Saddam Hussein did a ruse a couple of times where he would stage a fake coup. He would have some of his guards rush in, take other guards hostage with a gun to their head and say something like, "We're taking over, you're with us or you're dead." If the guard accepted, they killed him. The people who refused would live.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 27, 2026 12:55 PM (Yp6az)

174 Know what they call a Whopper in Beijing?
Posted by: thug dolphin

A Meowmeow Surprise?

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:55 PM (cxiKi)

175 Actually, those who knew both men actually thought that Lenin was more ruthless than Stalin.
Posted by: Bulg
__________

Lenin didn't shoot other Bolsheviks. I guess he at least had that going for him.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 27, 2026 12:55 PM (XvL8K)

176 Is the survivor (for now) Zhang the dude responsible for inspecting and disciplining the Chinese women military units in the PLA?

Lucky guy.

He's the guy supposedly running their anti-corruption campaign.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:46 PM (Riz8t)

There are two Zhangs! I meant the lower right one, not the room-temperature upper left vice chairman.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 12:55 PM (wVcYX)

177 Good time to EMP the fishing fleet which is ruining Pacific South America's food supply.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 27, 2026 12:56 PM (gKWVE)

178 Remember when the high-ranking Chinese intelligence officer defected to the US during the first Trump term? Maybe Xi's purge had something to do with that.

Posted by: Brisco County Sr at January 27, 2026 12:56 PM (A/tlT)

179 171 So this whole thing was a Little Deuce Coup?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2026 12:54 PM (n5tGW)

You don't know what I got.

Posted by: Xi at January 27, 2026 12:56 PM (bss/y)

180 I spent last semester at the Chi Omega house.
Posted by: Fen

Chi O, Chi O,
It's off to bed we go.
For just a buck you'll get a f**k,
Chi O, Chi O.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:56 PM (77rzZ)

181 Internet Claims: Chinese PM Xi Plotted Purge of Chinese Military, So the Military Plotted a Coup and Kidnapping. But Then Xi Launched a Counter-Coup.
—Ace
---
All in service to the Chinese People.

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2026 12:56 PM (krQz2)

182 1.2 Billion Moe Howard's.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Why, I ought ta . . .
- Winnie Xi Pooh

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 12:56 PM (L/fGl)

183 General Keyser Soze was seen leaving the room right before it all came down

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 12:56 PM (XHNFq)

184 He is no longer Chairman Xi, he is known amongst the ranks as Warlord Xi.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2026 12:56 PM (UZwsW)

185 From the NY Post coverage of the President signing the LA Palisades EO:

"Trump signed the executive order in front of The Post, seated at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. When he finished adding his name, he held it up and noted, “No autopen” in a jab at President Joe Biden’s notable use of the mechanical signature device. "

Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 12:56 PM (rj6Yv)

186 Orson I mean ... that all sounds pretty plausible

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 27, 2026 12:57 PM (emBoF)

187 "Coup's yo daddy now, beyotches??!!"

- Xi

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 27, 2026 12:57 PM (LxER7)

188 During the arrests, was everyone kung-fu fighting?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 27, 2026 12:57 PM (CwhoI)

189 If I were Taiwan, I'd sleep a little better tonight.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 27, 2026 12:57 PM (XHNFq)

190 coup coup for coup coup puffs

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 12:58 PM (KDPiq)

191 Oh, WTAF?!

Now I'm gonna be paying to rebuild homes for Marxist millionaires who want me dead?

Damn it. Damn it again. This is NOT what I voted for.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 12:58 PM (BI5O2)

192 So he's going to invade Taiwan now, right?

I suspect the ongoing purge of the PLA is a decent sized portion of why he hasn't.

(To clarify: the purge atop the PLA has been verified by e.g. the Wall Street Journal, as have several others in recent months. The coup attempt is the unverified part).

Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 12:58 PM (2ocoG)

193 Know what they call a Whopper in Beijing?
Posted by: thug dolphin

2 inches.

Posted by: Fang Fang Love You Loooong Time at January 27, 2026 12:58 PM (R/m4+)

194 During the arrests, was everyone kung-fu fighting?
Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 27, 2026 12:57 PM (CwhoI)

Sho Nuff

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 12:58 PM (KDPiq)

195 If the guard accepted, they killed him. The people who refused would live.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 27, 2026 12:55 PM (Yp6az)

So you're saying if they refused the fake coup they were rewarded but the people who went along with the fake coup were punished. But the fake coup people who went along with the fake coup were also rewarded but only because it was fake and they knew. And if you tried to fake the coup with the fakers but you were not a pre authorized faker, you would be punished, but if you were with the real fakers or one of the original real fakers, then you were rewarded. But only if you pretended to go along.

Got it.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 12:58 PM (cxiKi)

196 An issue every dictator must continually think about: Who guards the guards?

In an authoritarian system the dictator has to rely on the people below him because he can't do everything himself. Generally he does this by formally or informally making them rich. Then those henchmen have to do with the people under them and so on.

It is a tough system to maintain because it is always in a henchman's benefit to remove the man above him if he can, which then leads to the need for constant terror and a cult of personality as you see in socialist systems. And you have to produce enough goods to keep your henchmen and the chain on down fat and happy.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 12:58 PM (sKqQm)

197 Maybe they’ll have to leave Iran alone long enough for that to run its course.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at January 27, 2026 12:59 PM (jYRYu)

198 So now Xi made himself Generalissimo ?? Great...

Posted by: runner at January 27, 2026 12:59 PM (g47mK)

199 During the arrests, was everyone kung-fu fighting?

No, but the kung-fu grip was widely used.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 12:59 PM (Riz8t)

200 If I were Taiwan, I'd sleep a little better tonight.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

They're gonna hit the bars and taiwan on in celebration.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 12:59 PM (77rzZ)

201 Interesting. There is an anti-ICE protest going on in London right now.

Are they stupid, or just showing us the international links of terrorist groups?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 01:00 PM (0U5gm)

202 Meh, Chyna court intrigue has always been.
Let us know when is overthrown by a bunch of eunuchs.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2026 01:00 PM (/lPRQ)

203 I quit Zerohedge when they ran a haha-so-funny article about the Turkish ship that was going to Gaza to... I don't know what. Make a big spectacle and test Israeli resolve mostly.
So Zerohedge weighed in and joked that the Turks were bringing the fearsome "Turkish cavalry".

Posted by: gKWVE at January 27, 2026 01:00 PM (gKWVE)

204 In an authoritarian system the dictator has to rely on the people below him because he can't do everything himself. Generally he does this by formally or informally making them rich. Then those henchmen have to do with the people under them and so on.
---
Socialism, just like they drew it up!

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2026 01:00 PM (krQz2)

205 Now I'm gonna be paying to rebuild homes for Marxist millionaires who want me dead?

Damn it. Damn it again. This is NOT what I voted for.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 12:58 PM (BI5O2)

It doesn't say the government would pay for the rebuilding, only that they'll come in and clear the path for the permits to be issued. The EPA was only there for the cleanup and shockingly didn't screw it up and make things worse.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)

206 I mean, I know that international groups are paying protestors, but this looks stupid.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 01:00 PM (0U5gm)

207 Never go Full Stalin
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
.......

I hesitate to comment until Field Marshal Zhukov weighs in.

Posted by: wth at January 27, 2026 01:00 PM (UjdFS)

208 Maybe they’ll have to leave Iran alone long enough for that to run its course.

==
I wanted to withdraw 5 Trillion Rial to buy an egg, but none of the banks were open and none of the ATMs worked !

Posted by: IRGC member at January 27, 2026 01:00 PM (g47mK)

209 No more yanky my wanky, the Weidong needs coup.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2026 01:00 PM (n5tGW)

210 I remember an historical precedent. When Big Adolph murdered Ernst Roehm and the SA in the Night of the Long Knives, our betters at the NYT and the rest of the MSM interpreted it as Hitler rejecting radicalism and indicating his desire to join the brotherhood of nations. Peace was at hand.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Roehm was a homosexual, as were a lot of the SA, and later the SS. Hitler feared Roehm wanted to replace him as leading the NASDP. In the world of those kind of people, violent , harsh homosexuality was viewed as being the ultimate in manliness, and heterosexuality was viewed as weakness. A total moral inversion....and you wonder why today, in the 21st century, birth rates in Europe have fallen through the floor, way below replacement rate.
But Xi Jinping is probably very wary now of who he can trust and who he can't. I don't foresee any "invasion" of Taiwan just this moment. I think all along this was a Sun Tzu gambit, to put so much pressure on Taiwan that they would voluntarily submit. I think that is still the plan.

Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at January 27, 2026 01:01 PM (vcOmj)

211 So soon before Lunar New Year!

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 27, 2026 01:01 PM (iFTx/)

212 The checks will keep coming, right?

Posted by: Fang Fang at January 27, 2026 01:01 PM (wVcYX)

213 I had a very popular album titled Poohcoups of Blues.

Posted by: Ringo Starr at January 27, 2026 01:01 PM (oftw2)

214 Interesting. There is an anti-ICE protest going on in London right now.

Are they stupid, or just showing us the international links of terrorist groups?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 01:00 PM (0U5gm)

They want a piece of that global racket money.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)

215 Why is Trump doing this? Why is he taking money from his voters and giving it to the wealthiest of our sworn enemies? What the everloving hell is that man thinking?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 01:01 PM (BI5O2)

216 True fact: The American disease naming scientists skipped Xi when they were using Greek letters for COVID variants.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 01:02 PM (cxiKi)

217 It will be interesting to see how AI impacts socialist tyrannies, because it could reduce the number of henchmen the dictator needs - fewer henchmen means more stability.

But I suspect that this will make the standard socialist problem of information worse. Sure, AI can in theory analyze ridiculous amounts of data - but if one man is still making all the decisions that won't matter.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)

218 The Brownshirts out numbered Hitler’s troops significantly. Paranoia ain’t always incorrect.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 01:03 PM (KDPiq)

219
Unfortunately, Xi received intelligence two hours before the incident and has since arrested nearly 3,000 people, including military personnel and their families!

_________

*runs in breathless*

Didja hear someone got shot in Minneapolis?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2026 01:03 PM (tgvbd)

220 160 For all you Fetterman lovers. He just called for Trump to fire Noem, and provide a path to citizenship for all the illegal already here who haven’t committed a crime.

There’s your moderate. Right on queue with getting New Democrat voters.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 27, 2026 12:53 PM (i7wqn)

Tells me the Dems intend to push hard to sell voters on compassion for everyone's lawn care guys and their illegal wives, kids, and abuelas, applying "all politics is local" across the nation. All politics is local is why Dems stay competitive in too many House elections.

Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 01:03 PM (5rh/l)

221 zerohedge is usually BS so why would I care if they reported on anything

and YD the EO is not giving them money, it's TRYING to allow people there to rebuild in a reasonable fashion.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 27, 2026 01:03 PM (emBoF)

222 Taiwan should know what happened.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 27, 2026 01:03 PM (EyfuW)

223 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Jimmy Kimmel BURST into tears while telling an unhinged leftist mob in Minneapolis that he stands with them.

https://tinyurl.com/4s95wdhp

Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 01:03 PM (NpAcC)

224 I imagine someone with some ingenuity could do it every day but it would take immense brains and skill.
Posted by: ...

Nah, like I said last week, this is a hardened site - sophisticated skeptics with zero tolerance for bullshit. I've been counter-trolling for 30 years and I doubt I could get one past you guys ("oh that's exactly what a troll say!") although provoking friendly fire might be the way.

If I was the enemy I don't think I would disrupt, would be better to let the site flow naturally so you could study character

Posted by: Fen at January 27, 2026 01:03 PM (ciYHQ)

225 But Xi Jinping is probably very wary now of who he can trust and who he can't. I don't foresee any "invasion" of Taiwan just this moment. I think all along this was a Sun Tzu gambit, to put so much pressure on Taiwan that they would voluntarily submit. I think that is still the plan.
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at January 27, 2026 01:01 PM (vcOmj)
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Some reports have the PRC birthrate below replacement rates, too. How many parents want to send their only child to war?

Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 01:04 PM (rj6Yv)

226 Interesting. There is an anti-ICE protest going on in London right now.

Are they stupid, or just showing us the international links of terrorist groups?/i]

Complaining about unlimited immigration can get you arrested in Britain.

Imagine if Trump did the exact opposite here and arresting people for posting on social media that they were opposed to ICE...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 01:04 PM (sKqQm)

227
It doesn't say the government would pay for the rebuilding, only that they'll come in and clear the path for the permits to be issued. The EPA was only there for the cleanup and shockingly didn't screw it up and make things worse.

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Well at least there's that. But I still can't see why he's helping these bastards. If anything, he should be driving around SoCal starting more fires.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 01:04 PM (BI5O2)

228 The prot thickens!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 01:05 PM (ib8fW)

229 BREAKING! General Tso overthrown by Kung Pow!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 01:05 PM (L/fGl)

230 177 Good time to EMP the fishing fleet which is ruining Pacific South America's food supply.
Posted by: gKWVE
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Very civilized, I like it.
My thought had been for a sub to sink every 4th boat and admonishing the other boats to pick up survivors and leave. Then rinse and repeat in South China Sea.
Your idea is more sophisticated.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2026 01:05 PM (UZwsW)

231 Some reports have the PRC birthrate below replacement rates, too. How many parents want to send their only child to war?
ng up

Some reports? Nay nay. ALL of them. The only question is how much do the official stats downplay the catastrophic birth rate, which is now below 1 per fertile woman?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 01:05 PM (Riz8t)

232 16 7 So the Military Plotted a Coup and Kidnapping. But Then Xi Launched a Counter-Coup.

Coup-Xi-coup!
Posted by: Charo at January 27, 2026 12:28 PM (Fs0KI)

It'd be nice if they all could fucking lose.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:29 PM (bss/y)

Would be awesome they all end up in the same place, have an enormous gun battle and all that's left is one lowly PFC bleeding out with an empty gun sitting next to a bag of money. Rest in p*ss, commies.

Posted by: Nelly at January 27, 2026 01:05 PM (7gpcF)

233 If you are a coup-poo-pooer, remember that poo-pooing the coup against Xi-Pooh ignores the principal element: Xi's bearing down on corruption and fraud in the PLA and in the economy in general,

And that, for example, Dr Oz is estimating $30Billion in medical fraud in CA alone starting in the Russian-Armenian community, and if MN is any indicator, we will have antifa and "immigration" riots in LA reaaaaally soon.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2026 01:05 PM (rbvCR)

234 An issue every dictator must continually think about: Who guards the guards?

In an authoritarian system the dictator has to rely on the people below him because he can't do everything himself. Generally he does this by formally or informally making them rich. Then those henchmen have to do with the people under them and so on.

It is a tough system to maintain because it is always in a henchman's benefit to remove the man above him if he can, which then leads to the need for constant terror and a cult of personality as you see in socialist systems. And you have to produce enough goods to keep your henchmen and the chain on down fat and happy.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 12:58 PM (sKqQm)

You bet your sweet bippy!

Posted by: Junior Soprano at January 27, 2026 01:05 PM (wVcYX)

235 Some reports have the PRC birthrate below replacement rates, too. How many parents want to send their only child to war?
Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 01:04 PM

If only the CCCP had some way to force them.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 01:05 PM (jc0TO)

236 For all you Fetterman lovers. He just called for Trump to fire Noem, and provide a path to citizenship for all the illegal already here who haven’t committed a crime.

There’s your moderate. Right on queue with getting New Democrat voters.

Posted by: Vengeance at January 27, 2026 12:53 PM (i7wqn)

Almost the same as Rand Paul except work permits instead of citizenship.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 01:06 PM (KDPiq)

237 History teaches us that when a dictator purges the military of top brass, and then takes control of the armed forces nothing good comes of it. It most of the time is ignited by generals trying to tell the dictator that his ideas are slightly "off" and will lead to collapse of the country or a World War, and then dictator insisting on it, and then the brass realizing that the dude in charge is insane, the plot to remove him follows, betrayal, etc. etc....

Posted by: runner at January 27, 2026 01:06 PM (g47mK)

238 Jimmy Kimmel BURST into tears while telling an unhinged leftist mob in Minneapolis that he stands with them.

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Tears of an unfunny clown.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 01:06 PM (L/fGl)

239 Interesting. There is an anti-ICE protest going on in London right now.

Are they stupid, or just showing us the international links of terrorist groups?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 01:00 PM (0U5gm)
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I'm not at all surprised that the Starmerites are anti-ICE. If DJT succeeds (and I believe he will), then the pressure on Starmer to institute a MBGA program will be overwhelming.

Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 01:07 PM (rj6Yv)

240 Lenin didn't shoot other Bolsheviks. I guess he at least had that going for him.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Oh, sure he did, in the basement of the Big Lubyanka. "Iron Feliks" oversaw that. He wanted to eliminate anyone who might think about being a counter-revolutionary to his rule. Lenin's number of killed was nowhere close to Stalin's, just because he died (and Stalin probably was a party to him being poisoned).

Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at January 27, 2026 01:07 PM (vcOmj)

241 o now Xi made himself Generalissimo ?? Great...
Posted by: runner

Short on the "general" and long on the "-issimo," as the saying goes.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2026 01:07 PM (77rzZ)

242 Some reports have the PRC birthrate below replacement rates, too. How many parents want to send their only child to war?

That's verified. China's got a demographic spiral just as bad as Korea and Japan. Worse in some ways. That's why the clock is ticking on Xi's ability to invade Taiwan.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2026 01:07 PM (UmGiD)

243 So you're saying if they refused the fake coup they were rewarded but the people who went along with the fake coup were punished. But the fake coup people who went along with the fake coup were also rewarded but only because it was fake and they knew. And if you tried to fake the coup with the fakers but you were not a pre authorized faker, you would be punished, but if you were with the real fakers or one of the original real fakers, then you were rewarded. But only if you pretended to go along.
Posted by: ...

How about we just shoot everyone and break early for the Kit Kat Club? I hear Ginger just got her DDs

Posted by: Fen at January 27, 2026 01:08 PM (ciYHQ)

244 Frok Yu, Frok Yu, Frok Yu, You're Cool and Frok Yu!

Posted by: Woo Coup It Be Now at January 27, 2026 01:08 PM (UqwQn)

245 The claims of an actual coup attempt, with senior military leaders plotting to kidnap Xi, is an internet-based claim without any legacy media confirmation.
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So you are telling me this is most likely true then.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 01:08 PM (xvV+O)

246 So this whole thing was a Little Deuce Coup?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2026 12:54 PM (n5tGW)

You don't know what I got.

Posted by: Xi
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Only at AoSHQ

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 27, 2026 01:08 PM (XeU6L)

247 The Night Coupchago Died
Brother what a night it really was

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 27, 2026 01:08 PM (n5tGW)

248 @ImMeme0
Jimmy Kimmel BURST into tears while telling an unhinged leftist mob in Minneapolis that he stands with them.

https://tinyurl.com/4s95wdhp
Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 01:03 PM (NpAcC)

"We also want to see those Epstein files....."

Oh FFS........You mean the one's the Biden administration had for 4 years and didn't find ONE THING to topple the Trump candidacy in 2024?

You are SUCH a f*cking jackass. You're gonna have a DHS official on to make up for your woeful coverage of the right side of the aisle?

Asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 01:08 PM (Zz0t1)

249 Kimmel cries more than a teenage girl who has an acne outbreak before school photos.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 01:09 PM (KDPiq)

250 I am just speculating about the goings on in the Middle Kingdom, of course !

Posted by: runner at January 27, 2026 01:09 PM (g47mK)

251 Tears of an unfunny clown.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 01:06 PM (L/fGl)
******
Too much estrogen.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 01:09 PM (NpAcC)

252 Jimmy Kimmel BURST into tears while telling an unhinged leftist mob in Minneapolis that he stands with them.
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How you gonna do that from NYC, ya little bitch?

Man up. Quit crying. Get a gun, go to MN and take on ICE agents. That's how you stand with the Pretti boys.

Do it. Do it now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 01:09 PM (BI5O2)

253 214 Interesting. There is an anti-ICE protest going on in London right now. ... Are they stupid, or just showing us the international links of terrorist groups?
...
...They want a piece of that global racket money.

forWAR'd: CARPING FOR IT
MOUTHY LIBS WANT YOUR CHEESECAKE !!!

Release and deploy the deep magazine of NEPO-LIBs that have awaited their moment in the wings; indeed, FREE AND SPONSOR! the HUNTER BIDEN's, the NICK REINER's, the ever now, and future present Epstein's, Clinton's, Soros', the John Walker/American Taliban's, the James Fergie Chambers (Cox Heir and professional revolutionaries) who will proudly do unto their own people PRECISELY what they forbid us to do to our Adversaries.

We can`t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans -- Arch Traitor-Bill Clinton'93

Some politco's are obviouslyl regretting the choice not to Depose DIMON and indict Brennan and his chorus-line of Dancin' Undead.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-WhoRtheTargets
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-ctHARRIS19takedown

Like Seriously. What could go Wrong?
Why so Serious?
https://tinyurl.com/EvilDoktor-HillarySoSerious
https://tinyurl.com/EvilDoktor-GavinUberAlles

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at January 27, 2026 01:09 PM (xSVfc)

254 Is the group aware of Maga man? https://youtu.be/654p_58VZhc?si=dxGWCWqunZbf0FvA

Posted by: John at January 27, 2026 01:10 PM (mrQ1i)

255 Chinese Fire Drill

Posted by: Wally at January 27, 2026 01:10 PM (65cLN)

256 The Emperor is still in charge. It could be worse. Imagine China split up by military warlords, each with his own stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 27, 2026 01:10 PM (+ltn5)

257 203 I quit Zerohedge when ...
Posted by: gKWVE
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ZH can be stupid and biased But they also bring articles of national and personal monetary (not as much) interest that are pertinent and untouched by the MSM.

The DM was also a spot but it's moved to more trash less info.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2026 01:10 PM (UZwsW)

258 Location! Location! Location!

Dustin Grage @GrageDustin
5h

So a lot of people are asking why police actually did their jobs last night.

What happened wasn’t in Minneapolis. It was in Maple Grove, a wealthier suburban community.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 01:10 PM (ib8fW)

259 Unfortunately, Xi received intelligence two hours before the incident and has since arrested nearly 3,000 people, including military personnel and their families!
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Internal State Police agile enough to liquidate thousands on a moments notice.

This is the domestic police force more powerful than the military that Obama promised us.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2026 01:11 PM (/lPRQ)

260 Is the group aware of Maga man? https://youtu.be/654p_58VZhc?si=dxGWCWqunZbf0FvA
Posted by: John at January 27, 2026 01:10 PM (mrQ1i)

"Fume"

LMMFAO

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 27, 2026 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

261 A woman named Fanny Kaplan tried to assassinate Lenin for betraying the revolution, sort of like Charlotte Corday with Marat.

The Soviets blamed the "right" Socialist Revolutionaries and under Lenin persecuted them.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)

262 "Jimmy Kimmel BURST"

Thoughts and Prayers etc

Posted by: Laced Romney Wig Mirror Salesmen Union 4 and Half at January 27, 2026 01:11 PM (UqwQn)

263 Interesting. There is an anti-ICE protest going on in London right now.

Are they stupid, or just showing us the international links of terrorist groups?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 01:00 PM (0U5gm)

YES!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 01:12 PM (xvV+O)

264 Kimmel cries more than a teenage girl who has an acne outbreak before school photos.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026

In my dad's HS chemistry class, they were doing an experiment with ammonium tri-iodide right before. One girl biffed it and blew a little bit up. Stained her hands and face brown and purple. Not happy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 01:12 PM (BI5O2)

265 Commie Bastard Follies never get old.

Posted by: tubal at January 27, 2026 01:12 PM (pDt9x)

266 Frok Yu, Frok Yu, Frok Yu, You're Cool and Frok Yu!

Posted by: Woo Coup It Be Now at January 27, 2026 01:08 PM (UqwQn)

Lol

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 01:13 PM (cxiKi)

267
I can count on the fingers of one hand how many times I've cried as an adult.

Jimmy Kimmel cries weekly.

So, yes I'm more of a man than Jimmy, which sets the bar so low it's on the floor.

Posted by: Auspex at January 27, 2026 01:13 PM (Y8DZL)

268 How will the People's Liberation Army take Taiwan and destroy the US Pacific Fleet in a day if only a tiny fraction of its troops are trusted enough to be issued live ammo?
Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2026 12:40 PM (5rh/l)

During the final years of East Germany, the Russian armored units poised to roll through the Fulda gap had almost no operable tanks.
From the news and narrative, NATO was just about ready to surrender or die.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2026 01:13 PM (rbvCR)

269 Jimmy needs a hormone adjustment.

Posted by: tubal at January 27, 2026 01:13 PM (pDt9x)

270 The Emperor is still in charge. It could be worse. Imagine China split up by military warlords, each with his own stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Intra nuke war in China would be my best guess.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 01:13 PM (xvV+O)

271 ImMeme0
Jimmy Kimmel BURST into tears while telling an unhinged leftist mob in Minneapolis that he stands with them.

https://tinyurl.com/4s95wdhp
Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 01:03 PM (NpAcC)
_

There is something seriously wrong with this guy. We joke about TDS, but this clown really has it. Trump broke his brain into mush. I really hope Kimmel commits suicide one day. The world is better off without him.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 27, 2026 01:14 PM (iFTx/)

272 What happened wasn’t in Minneapolis. It was in Maple Grove, a wealthier suburban community.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 01:10 PM (ib8fW)

Oh. So the people paying for the riots are the only ones being protected from them. Figures.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 01:14 PM (BI5O2)

273 Good to see so many of you brought your coup-puns.

Posted by: Editor at January 27, 2026 01:14 PM (8zVx0)

274 So was Walz an advisor in the coup?

Posted by: torabora at January 27, 2026 01:14 PM (6P8se)

275 So, yes I'm more of a man than Jimmy, which sets the bar so low it's on the floor.
Posted by: Auspex at January 27, 2026 01:13 PM (Y8DZL)
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So low, the bar is in the basement, next to the sump pump.

Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 01:14 PM (rj6Yv)

276 During the final years of East Germany, the Russian armored units poised to roll through the Fulda gap had almost no operable tanks.
From the news and narrative, NATO was just about ready to surrender or die.

During the late cold war period the US intelligence agencies claimed that the socialist country's economies were strong and that they weren't going anywhere so we would have to learn to co-exist...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 01:14 PM (sKqQm)

277 I find it interesting that the anti-ICE thing has gone international.

What business is it of the UK or the Italians or whomever else how we enforce our immigration laws? I think it would be comically retarded for there to be, for example, protests in the US over UK citizens being prosecuted for Mean Tweets.

Why, unless they have a stake in the game, do residents of other countries give a shit about US immigration enforcement?

Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 01:15 PM (5aZAZ)

278 202 Meh, Chyna court intrigue has always been.
Let us know when is overthrown by a bunch of eunuchs.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2026 01:00 PM (/lPRQ)

Y'know, we just happen to have a bunch of spare eunuchs in this country. Does Beijing University give out student visas for cash?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 27, 2026 01:15 PM (w/O5Q)

279 OT: Hawaii Five-O is Nostradamus. ME TV is running an episode from 1969 in which this chick quack has a machine that diagnoses and treats disease from just a single drop of blood! Shades of Elizabeth Holmes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 01:15 PM (L/fGl)

280 Or is the left just the same smooth-brained faggots everywhere and they use the same hive mind to care about the same shit, regardless of whether or not it actually affects them?

Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (5aZAZ)

281 Good to see so many of you brought your coup-puns.

Posted by: Editor at January 27, 2026 01:14 PM (8zVx0).
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In my best Chinese accent: Tears from the crip.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (ib8fW)

282 I can count on the fingers of one hand how many times I've cried as an adult.

Jimmy Kimmel cries weekly.

So, yes I'm more of a man than Jimmy, which sets the bar so low it's on the floor.

Posted by: Auspex
===

I cried at my father's funeral.

When my mother died.

When 9 of my12 died.

At other extremely sad times I cussed and broke things.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (xvV+O)

283 Why, unless they have a stake in the game, do residents of other countries give a shit about US immigration enforcement?

Its for home consumption. Its easier to arrest a Britain for opposing immigration on twitter if at the same time the British media is telling their LIVs that anti-immigration thought gets people murdered...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (sKqQm)

284 Kimmel's wife crushed his balls into powder

that's what's wrong

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (emBoF)

285 The Emperor is still in charge. It could be worse. Imagine China split up by military warlords, each with his own stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Where do you think those missiles would point, towards us, or towards the other warlords who want to kill them?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (Riz8t)

286 Why, unless they have a stake in the game, do residents of other countries give a shit about US immigration enforcement?
Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 01:15 PM (5aZAZ)

Why do you call the plumber when your drain backs up?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (JwNbV)

287 I wonder how many illegals live within a 20 mile radius of Fag Kimmel

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (cxiKi)

288 270 The Emperor is still in charge. It could be worse. Imagine China split up by military warlords, each with his own stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Intra nuke war in China would be my best guess.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 01:13 PM (xvV+O)

This. They are a historically self obsessed people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (bss/y)

289 History teaches us that when a dictator purges the military of top brass, and then takes control of the armed forces nothing good comes of it. It most of the time is ignited by generals trying to tell the dictator that his ideas are slightly "off" and will lead to collapse of the country or a World War, and then dictator insisting on it, and then the brass realizing that the dude in charge is insane, the plot to remove him follows, betrayal, etc. etc....
Posted by: runner
++++

Wait until Xi figures these Generals did not pull these ideas out of their asses... Next on deck - 100,000 Staff Weenies and Intel staff.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (/lPRQ)

290

Counter coup?!?!

I thought there was no math on this blog!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (iJfKG)

291 Even General Zhang Youxia, who was considered Xi's right-hand man, was accused of treason for spying on the United States.

Wait, hold on: a Chinese general is being prosecuted for spying on the U.S.?

Posted by: PeregrineJohn at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (M21OK)

292 really hope Kimmel commits suicide one day. The world is better off without him.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January

I understand the sentiment. But never wish that on any family.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (W2Pud)

293 I Meme Therefore I Am
@ImMeme0
Jimmy Kimmel BURST into tears while telling an unhinged leftist mob in Minneapolis that he stands with them.

https://tinyurl.com/4s95wdhp
Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 01:03 PM (NpAcC)

I owe you an apology, Jimmy. I always thought that you were a cold, unimaginative, tight-lipped unfunnyman. But you're really quite emotional, aren't you?

Posted by: Major John Reisman at January 27, 2026 01:17 PM (wVcYX)

294 Why, unless they have a stake in the game, do residents of other countries give a shit about US immigration enforcement?

Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 01:15 PM (5aZAZ)
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Worried that it will give native populations some bravery in standing up to what their elitists are doing to them.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 01:17 PM (xvV+O)

295 Kimmel's wife crushed his balls into powder

that's what's wrong

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (emBoF)

Kimmel will think what you pay him to think.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 01:17 PM (cxiKi)

296 During the late cold war period the US intelligence agencies claimed that the socialist country's economies were strong and that they weren't going anywhere so we would have to learn to co-exist...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 01:14 PM (sKqQm)
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The sooner everyone realizes that the last 30 years of the Cold War were just diplomats and spies on both sides jealously protecting their cushy-ass jobs, the better off we'll all be. That's all it boils down to.

Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 01:17 PM (5aZAZ)

297 Good to see so many of you brought your coup-puns.
Posted by: Editor

Pardon me, do you have any Grey Coupon?

Posted by: The Xi Man's Mustard at January 27, 2026 01:18 PM (w9Wax)

298
Remember that when they call you a fascist it's the Stalinist term for Trotskyite.

Posted by: Auspex at January 27, 2026 01:18 PM (Y8DZL)

299 >> For all you Fetterman lovers. He just called for Trump to fire Noem, and provide a path to citizenship for all the illegal already here who haven’t committed a crime.

There’s your moderate. Right on queue with getting New Democrat voters.

Well, Lindsay Graham came out before the 2020 Elections and attempted to pass an Abortion Ban...

Never forget that these people aren't playing exclusively for their own side.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2026 01:18 PM (ZcsJV)

300 Xi is on borrowed time (even if it's just old age). No successor, and now he's alienated a big chunk of the PLA leadership. And now the PLA generals have to worry about getting arrested.

Couldn't happen to a better bunch of Commies. Hopefully, they can both lose.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at January 27, 2026 01:18 PM (pJWtt)

301 284 Kimmel's wife crushed his balls into powder

that's what's wrong
Posted by: BlackOrchid

And she probably despises him in his weakness.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 01:18 PM (Dv3i1)

302 So was Walz an advisor in the coup?

Posted by: torabora at January 27, 2026 01:14 PM (6P8se)

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They don't wire transfer him Yuan as "Tiannemann Tim" for nothin'.

Posted by: ShainS -- Who's Gonna Be Today's FAFO Darwin Award Winner? at January 27, 2026 01:18 PM (l79zN)

303 When 9 of my 12 dogs died.

I have got to proof read better.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 01:18 PM (xvV+O)

304 For all you Fetterman lovers. He just called for Trump to fire Noem

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 01:06 PM (KDPiq)
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Trump says otherwise:

https://tinyurl.com/46w9ez6y

So much fake nooz!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 01:19 PM (ib8fW)

305 Even General Zhang Youxia, who was considered Xi's right-hand man, was accused of treason for spying on the United States.

Wait, hold on: a Chinese general is being prosecuted for spying on the U.S.?

No, he was accused of spying FOR the US.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 01:19 PM (Riz8t)

306 OT: Hawaii Five-O is Nostradamus. ME TV is running an episode from 1969 in which this chick quack has a machine that diagnoses and treats disease from just a single drop of blood! Shades of Elizabeth Holmes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer

Yeah, wasn't she also the actress that played the Romulan commander in the Star Trek episode "The Enterprise Incident"?
Steve McGarrett is....The Jack Lord!

Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at January 27, 2026 01:19 PM (vcOmj)

307 254 Is the group aware of Maga man? https://youtu.be/654p_58VZhc?si=dxGWCWqunZbf0FvA

MSNOW's UncleSourpuss cornered that market long ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJgL9pbDLBE
TRA-LA-LA: Brennan's battle cry striking fear into the hear of Maga... and the reality.

Depose (not sue) DIMON.
Indict Brennan, at least 6 of the ctHARRIS/19
along with the Epstein Collaborators and offer it for PPV. we'd be back to normal by Dinnnertime.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at January 27, 2026 01:19 PM (xSVfc)

308 Illegal alien felon fans now conducting recon in Milwaukee for ICE personnel and their lodgings.

Very curious if DOJ has a legal basis to go after systematic activity that supports interference with/harassment of LE.

Saw one speculative analysis a few days ago, there were the usual roundabout kinds of violations. But nothing specifically about what we're seeing in terms of organized planning and action up to the point of actual interference.

Posted by: rhomboid at January 27, 2026 01:19 PM (U/Byj)

309 Too bad Milley's picture is up there with a red X across his face.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 27, 2026 01:19 PM (GGatE)

310 Jimmy Kimmel BURST into tears while telling an unhinged leftist mob in Minneapolis that he stands with them.
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Did anybody try to tell Jimmy Kibble to "Calm the fuck down!"

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 01:19 PM (xvV+O)

311 >>The sooner everyone realizes that the last 30 years of the Cold War were just diplomats and spies on both sides jealously protecting their cushy-ass jobs, the better off we'll all be. That's all it boils down to.

'The Spy and the Traitor' by Ben Macintyre is an interesting read.

Posted by: garrett at January 27, 2026 01:20 PM (ZcsJV)

312 Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 01:18 PM (xvV+O)

I thought that it was a reference to the demise of some sexy woman on some Star Trek Episode which I hadn't seen.

Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at January 27, 2026 01:20 PM (ix8EF)

313 Now I'm gonna be paying to rebuild homes for Marxist millionaires who want me dead?

Damn it. Damn it again. This is NOT what I voted for.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 12:58 PM (BI5O2)

Well you are already paying for the welfare, delta smelt and homeless fraud, surely you can't gibe at this modest expansion of the budget! It is for the children!

Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2026 01:20 PM (rbvCR)

314 Worried that it will give native populations some bravery in standing up to what their elitists are doing to them.

There it is. Can't have the plebs getting ideas.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 01:20 PM (Riz8t)

315 "Jimmy Kimmel BURST into tears while telling an unhinged leftist mob in Minneapolis that he stands with them."

Wow. Nothing screams "out of touch elitist" better than when a stand with the street protestors is treated ad a life altering event

"Some of my best friends are You People!"

Sure Jimmy

Posted by: Fen at January 27, 2026 01:20 PM (ciYHQ)

316 Where are the women? No DEI?

Posted by: Avi at January 27, 2026 01:21 PM (fBZro)

317 I wonder if the guy that came up with the Amelia game has been fired yet?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2026 01:21 PM (sKqQm)

318 Wait, hold on: a Chinese general is being prosecuted for spying on the U.S.?

No, he was accused of spying FOR the US.
Posted by: Archimedes

Before Trump got in office, there would have been a coin flip between the CCP and the Biden DoJ to see who would win the pleasure of prosecuting him.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 01:21 PM (Dv3i1)

319 Did anybody try to tell Jimmy Kibble to "Calm the fuck down!"
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 01:19 PM (xvV+O)
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I think the AoS style guide would say that one should tell Jimmy Kimmel to "calm his tits."

Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 01:21 PM (5aZAZ)

320 Yeah, wasn't she also the actress that played the Romulan commander in the Star Trek episode "The Enterprise Incident"?
Steve McGarrett is....The Jack Lord!
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers

I think so. Whiny little cry bully.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 27, 2026 01:21 PM (L/fGl)

321 I don't trust anything the Beeb publishes.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 27, 2026 01:22 PM (qFwJc)

322 What role did public sector unions play in this attempted coup?

Posted by: torabora at January 27, 2026 01:22 PM (6P8se)

323 I thought that it was a reference to the demise of some sexy woman on some Star Trek Episode which I hadn't seen.
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7 of 9 was a 10!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 01:22 PM (Dv3i1)

324 Illegal alien felon fans now conducting recon in Milwaukee for ICE personnel and their lodgings.
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I'm so old I remember when Kyle Rittenhouse going 5 miles across state lines meant double super secret prosecution and other shit.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 01:22 PM (xvV+O)

325 Jimmy Kimmel BURST into tears while telling an unhinged leftist mob in Minneapolis that he stands with them.
===

Did anybody try to tell Jimmy Kibble to "Calm the fuck down!"
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious

He's .....ACTING!

Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at January 27, 2026 01:22 PM (vcOmj)

326 really hope Kimmel commits suicide one day. The world is better off without him.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January

I understand the sentiment. But never wish that on any family.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2026 01:16 PM (W2Pud)
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Why not? He's a deranged cocksucker who wants me dead. I'm happy to return the sentiment.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 27, 2026 01:22 PM (iFTx/)

327 Remember that when they call you a fascist it's the Stalinist term for Trotskyite.
Posted by: Auspex at January 27, 2026 01:18 PM (Y8DZL)

Stalinist term for Trotskyite was Trotskyite.

Posted by: runner at January 27, 2026 01:23 PM (g47mK)

328 During the late cold war period the US intelligence agencies claimed that the socialist country's economies were strong and that they weren't going anywhere so we would have to learn to co-exist...
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It’s more specific than that, if memory serves, they claimed this just a month or two prior to the collapse.

Both the Soviet Union and Mao’s Communists received crucial support through the US State Department, the FDR administration first formally recognized the Soviets, among a great many other things. Chaing was slow rolled on supplies and arms and left hanging.

Sen. McCarthy was correct about the communist subversion in the State Department, it resulted in communist gains in Yugoslavia as well. They had their thumb on the scale in a great many countries.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 27, 2026 01:23 PM (zcETD)

329
Lenin didn't shoot other Bolsheviks. I guess he at least had that going for him.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Oh, sure he did, in the basement of the Big Lubyanka. "Iron Feliks" oversaw that. He wanted to eliminate anyone who might think about being a counter-revolutionary to his rule. Lenin's number of killed was nowhere close to Stalin's, just because he died (and Stalin probably was a party to him being poisoned).
Posted by: Pepperidge Farms remembers at January 27, 2026 01:07 PM (vcOmj)

Also, remember that Lenin was still dealing with the aftermath of the Civil War when he stroked out. He was still hunting down White Russians and simply hadn't gotten around to internal party purges yet.

One of the big mistakes the Spanish commies made during their civil war is that they spent more effort slaughtering their own fellow travelers than they did fighting Franco.

For every democide, there is a season.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 27, 2026 01:23 PM (y9nCu)

330 > She said that the first thing that struck her was the lessening of compliance (without questions) displayed the Chinese worker in the past.

I'm not sure what this means. Are you saying the average Chinese person is less compliant now to the government than they were in the past? I'm also not sure what the without questions parenthetical means. Are you saying they are less compliant, but that it's not necessarily due to questioning leadership, but something else like motivation?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 27, 2026 01:23 PM (Yp6az)

331 OT - Any new info on how NDH is doing after her transplant? Is Alex Pretti's heart working for her?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 01:23 PM (jc0TO)

332 Remember that when they call you a fascist it's the Stalinist term for Trotskyite.
Posted by: Auspex

That's alot to process. Again, can I just shoot them?

Posted by: Fen at January 27, 2026 01:24 PM (ciYHQ)

333 “Roehm was a homosexual, as were a lot of the SA, and later the SS. Hitler feared Roehm wanted to replace him as leading the NASDP. In the world of those kind of people, violent , harsh homosexuality was viewed as being the ultimate in manliness, and heterosexuality was viewed as weakness. A total moral inversion....and you wonder why today, in the 21st century, birth rates in Europe have fallen through the floor, way below replacement rate.“

Source?

Posted by: Cow Demon at January 27, 2026 01:25 PM (2oNrx)

334 Another RINO wuss, this one from NY:

https://tinyurl.com/27zmhuyz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 27, 2026 01:26 PM (ib8fW)

335 Hawaii Five-O is Nostradamus. ME TV is running an episode from 1969 in which this chick quack has a machine that diagnoses and treats disease from just a single drop of blood! Shades of Elizabeth Holmes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

That is probably where she got the idea from.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 01:26 PM (0U5gm)

336 When 9 of my 12 dogs died.

I have got to proof read better.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 01:18 PM (xvV+O)
******
I thought you meant siblings.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2026 01:26 PM (NpAcC)

337 When 9 of my 12 dogs died.

I have got to proof read better.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 01:18 PM (xvV+O)
******
I thought you meant siblings.

Posted by: redridinghood

I thought he had a cyborg chick.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2026 01:27 PM (0U5gm)

338 5 In before the Game of Thrones reference

The Rannisters send their regards

Posted by: tintex at January 27, 2026 01:27 PM (jb0k+)

339 Anyone who has a "D" after their name after everything, they are telling you what they are.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 01:28 PM (cxiKi)

340 73 Why do I need to know this or be upset that I don’t? I have to have some level of trust that the people who need to know this , do.

If you try to absorb every action in the world that can possibly effect you down the road you’re going to drive yourself insane.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 27, 2026 12:38 PM (KDPiq)

If you had an Asian vacation scheduled, consider putting it off until things settle down.

China's demographics, particularly with regard to excess males, leaves a limited window of opportunity for military adventurism, e.g. in Taiwan; IIRC, if they don't do it by 2050 at the outside, it won't get done. Chicoms are evil, not stupid, so they are presumably aware of what even strangers can see in their own society; as such, any major leadership changes in the military could be a signal for an increase or decrease in the imminence of action, and it's hard to say which as they are genuinely inscrutable.

Posted by: SciVo at January 27, 2026 01:28 PM (Sy6m/)

341 Coup coup kachoo!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 27, 2026 01:28 PM (H6cKs)

342 As of now, I am in control here in The Peking Restaurant, pending return of Zhang Shawbang and that other yellow fella, XI JinPingapong".
Posted by: Zombie Alexander Haig

I know the above a joke, but the way Haig got treated of his statement has bugged me since 1981, and is one of my top peeves.

"I'm in charge, here, now" wasn't Haig trying to be president in violation of the order of succession. It was him saying to the USSR that there is someone in charge answering the phones who *will* retaliate if the USSR tries anything in the chaos. (Chaos like the vice president being over the Pacific on Air Force Two at the time)

Sorry for the rant

Posted by: Chuck C at January 27, 2026 01:28 PM (D0HYP)

343 Greg Price
@greg_price11
Arlington, Virginia County Board Chairman Matt de Ferranti tells residents to call 9-11 if they see ICE in the community.

Democrat politicians are now encouraging people to use emergency services to track ICE.

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Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 27, 2026 01:28 PM (NFX2v)

344 The entire Chinese system is corrupt, so an "anti-corruption" crackdown could happen of any given day.

Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2026 01:28 PM (RHGPo)

345
It's a nice day to start again
It's a nice day for a red wedding
It's a nice day to start again

Posted by: Birry Idol at January 27, 2026 01:29 PM (jc0TO)

346 Fortune cookie says "Tomorrow many rice bowls will be broken"

Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 01:29 PM (rj6Yv)

347 I think the AoS style guide would say that one should tell Jimmy Kimmel to "calm his tits."
Posted by: ballisti

That is too much talking.

Here we call them, pussies. Not to be confused with you good women here.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 27, 2026 01:29 PM (EyfuW)

348 Why not? He's a deranged cocksucker who wants me dead. I'm happy to return the sentiment.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

It still falls under Jinx Rules (blame April Gillespie). Short version, if he has it coming he can exchange 3 Bad Karmic Comments for a Thwart Fate card.

Posted by: Fen at January 27, 2026 01:30 PM (ciYHQ)

349 Remember that when they call you a fascist it's the Stalinist term for Trotskyite.
Posted by: Auspex

That's alot to process. Again, can I just shoot them?
Posted by: Fen
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Don't axe me these questions.

Posted by: Trotsky at January 27, 2026 01:30 PM (XeU6L)

350 Democrat politicians are now encouraging people to use emergency services to track ICE.

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Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 27, 2026
01:28 PM (NFX2v)

Of course they are they believe the polls that say they are "winning."

Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2026 01:30 PM (VE6XX)

351 OT: Hawaii Five-O is Nostradamus. ME TV is running an episode from 1969 in which this chick quack has a machine that diagnoses and treats disease from just a single drop of blood! Shades of Elizabeth Holmes.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer

Thing is, if Holmes hadn't been such a star-f___ she might have been able to keep the equipment and goals modest, and incrementally improved the system.
Instead she had people like Henry Kissinger on her board giving money and they were too big to ignore, welsh on, or survive screwing them over.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2026 01:31 PM (rbvCR)

352 Why not? He's a deranged cocksucker who wants me dead. I'm happy to return the sentiment.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 27, 2026 01:22 PM (iFTx/)

Thats the spirit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2026 01:31 PM (snZF9)

353 I thought a Trotskyite was someone with the Mexican Two-Step.

Posted by: wth at January 27, 2026 01:31 PM (UjdFS)

354 If you had an Asian vacation scheduled, consider putting it off until things settle down.

Posted by: SciVo at January 27, 2026 01:28 PM (Sy6m/)
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Lmao.

Just don't go to China in general, because supporting commie trash with tourist dollars is for losers and faggots.

The rest of Asia is fine. The Chicoms aren't going to do shit because they are a paper tiger that has a hard time projecting power onto the man-made islands they've created for themselves a couple hundred miles off their own shores.

Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 01:31 PM (5aZAZ)

355 Orchid how are you feeling

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 01:31 PM (cxiKi)

356 The sooner everyone realizes that the last 30 years of the Cold War were just diplomats and spies on both sides jealously protecting their cushy-ass jobs, the better off we'll all be. That's all it boils down to.
Posted by: ballistic

And those swinging resorts and casinos that James Bond was always staying at (felly reimbursed).

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 27, 2026 01:31 PM (/lPRQ)

357 >>>BREAKING! General Tso overthrown by Kung Pow!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer

>P.F. Chang has mobilized an armored division to Tiananmen Square to stablize the Mongolian Beef Uprising.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 27, 2026 01:32 PM (oT7pT)

358 Anyone who has a "D" after their name after everything, they are telling you what they are.
Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 01:28 PM (cxiKi)

Does Double Ditto (double d's!) for anyone styling themselves in everyday social situations as:

Dr. Joe Shmendrik, PhD.

Begins and ends with a "D".

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2026 01:32 PM (wVcYX)

359 Democrat politicians are now encouraging people to use emergency services to track ICE.

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Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 27, 2026 01:28 PM (NFX2v)
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Just last week, the Minneapolis Chief of Police had to release a statement begging snitches NOT to use 911 to report ICE movements because it was interfering with real emergencies.

Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 01:32 PM (rj6Yv)

360 Why not? He's a deranged cocksucker who wants me dead. I'm happy to return the sentiment.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 27, 2026 01:22 PM (iFTx/)
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Let the retribution flow through you.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 27, 2026 01:33 PM (xvV+O)

361 >>>LOL.

Who stole the fucking popcorn from the breakroom!?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 27, 2026 12:27 PM (bss/y)

The breakroom has been annexed by The Barrell LTM due to concerns over lack of space.

Posted by: Max Power at January 27, 2026 01:33 PM (SwyyQ)

362 We should invade now.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 27, 2026 01:33 PM (NtVYv)

363 Doesn't emergency services have enough to do helping sick people, putting out fires, etc. without also tracking ICE?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 01:34 PM (ix8EF)

364 Had a two week group tourist/historical trip to China forty years ago. Not good food, although they said they served us Peking duck in Beijing. We saw many dirt poor people back then. No doubt it looks way different now.

I would never go back.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 27, 2026 01:34 PM (RuRlp)

365 Strike them now while they are weak. Vaporize them like we should have done in 1966.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2026 01:34 PM (abIsI)

366 Democrat politicians are now encouraging people to use emergency services to track ICE.

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If it saves just one child.........

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2026 01:34 PM (cxiKi)

367 Greg Price
@greg_price11
Arlington, Virginia County Board Chairman Matt de Ferranti tells residents to call 9-11 if they see ICE in the community.

Democrat politicians are now encouraging people to use emergency services to track ICE.

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Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 27, 2026 01:28 PM (NFX2v)
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All part of Cloward-Piven. Overwhelm the system (emergency services in this case) until collapse.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 27, 2026 01:34 PM (ESVrU)

368 Afternoon Ace.
Kind of amusing to see Canada and the EU making nice with the Chinese when the Chinese are on the verge of collapse

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 27, 2026 01:35 PM (IDEQi)

369 Just last week, the Minneapolis Chief of Police had to release a statement begging snitches NOT to use 911 to report ICE movements because it was interfering with real emergencies.
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How is ICE in the neighborhood not a real emergency? ICE is literally, LI-TERRR-ILL-EEE, LITERALLY!!!!!, sending people back to their home countries!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 27, 2026 01:35 PM (Dv3i1)

370 363 Doesn't emergency services have enough to do helping sick people, putting out fires, etc. without also tracking ICE?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 27, 2026 01:34 PM (ix8EF)
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In Arlington, Virginia, tracking ICE takes precedence for 911 operators and first responders rather than any of that other crap.

Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 01:35 PM (5aZAZ)

371 We should invade now.
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 27, 2026 01:33 PM (NtVYv)

Where is ZOD, we should seek his counsel ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 27, 2026 01:35 PM (NtVYv)

372
I used to root for Wo Fat when he came up against Steve McGarrett.

Posted by: Auspex at January 27, 2026 01:35 PM (Y8DZL)

373 Don't axe me these questions.
Posted by: Trotsky at January 27, 2026 01:30 PM (XeU6L)

We don't get to pick and choose the results

Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2026 01:35 PM (rbvCR)

374 "Associate Professor Chong Ja Ian from the National University of Singapore also said he was not sure what the real reason was for Zhang's downfall but that there was a lot of speculation about it."

Was Walz in on it? 😉

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 27, 2026 01:36 PM (NFX2v)

375 Is there any such thing as a "counter-coup"? Or does a counter-coup just neutralize the original coup?

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 27, 2026 01:36 PM (iFTx/)

376 364 Had a two week group tourist/historical trip to China forty years ago. Not good food, although they said they served us Peking duck in Beijing. We saw many dirt poor people back then. No doubt it looks way different now.

I would never go back

Posted by: JM

I go there all the time. Honeymooned there, even.
.
.
.
Jazz Hands!!!!

Posted by: Tim Walz at January 27, 2026 01:36 PM (Dv3i1)

377 Is there any such thing as a "counter-coup"? Or does a counter-coup just neutralize the original coup?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 27, 2026 01:36 PM (iFTx/)

No coup for you !

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 27, 2026 01:36 PM (NtVYv)

378 Wan Hung Lo unavailable for comment

Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 01:37 PM (5aZAZ)

379 China Observer has a new report out about the "coup." I don't know how accurate they are but after watching them for months now the channel seems to know what is happening. YMWV.

https://youtu.be/mlKdLEqwEa0

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at January 27, 2026 01:37 PM (HTCU3)

380 Democrat politicians are now encouraging people to use emergency services to track ICE.
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Minnesota must be put down ruthlessly. If these people aren't dealt with harshly, this will be happening in every Dem city by summer.

They are probing for weakness, and appear to have found it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 01:37 PM (BI5O2)

381 The Germans engineered a counter-coup for Mussolini.

It didn't last.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 27, 2026 01:38 PM (jc0TO)

382 Wait, hold on: a Chinese general is being prosecuted for spying on the U.S.?
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No, he was accused of spying FOR the US.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2026 01:19 PM (Riz8t
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That's some crazy shit right there!

Posted by: Mark Milley at January 27, 2026 01:38 PM (8vUlE)

383 Minnesota must be put down ruthlessly. If these people aren't dealt with harshly, this will be happening in every Dem city by summer.

They are probing for weakness, and appear to have found it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 01:37 PM (BI5O2)
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Nah. I think I'm coming down on the "Let 'em" side of the ledger. Let these retards tear each other limb from limb and then piss on the smoldering ashes after several cold beers.

Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 01:39 PM (5aZAZ)

384 "The Rannisters send their regards"

Really wish they would pick a lane. They're either paying their debts or sending regards. And now House Tyrell is insisting they rate two. I just told them that "Growing Stronger" doesn't really count.

That wasn't my brightest.

Posted by: Fen at January 27, 2026 01:39 PM (ciYHQ)

385 Another visitor? Send him away.

*mutters to self*
I need another visitor like I need another hole in my head.

Posted by: Trotsky at January 27, 2026 01:39 PM (wVcYX)

386 I hope Walz is using lube while he's porking Trump in his keister.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2026 01:39 PM (abIsI)

387 Minnesota must be put down ruthlessly. If these people aren't dealt with harshly, this will be happening in every Dem city by summer.

They are probing for weakness, and appear to have found it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 01:37 PM (BI5O2)

if the MN NatGuard and state police put it down, then it just becomes a "local problem solved as it should be" and it is a flash in the pan.

And if the pro-protesters go on to the next place to kick stuff apart, and maybe just then the Feds will start picking up the interstate travelers who conspired to commit crimes

Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2026 01:40 PM (rbvCR)

388 Nood

Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 01:40 PM (5aZAZ)

389 That's some crazy shit right there!
Posted by: Mark Milley at January 27, 2026 01:38 PM (8vUlE)
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Not as crazy as the price for a 3-bedroom condo in Vancouver, BC!

Posted by: mrp at January 27, 2026 01:40 PM (rj6Yv)

390 Nah. I think I'm coming down on the "Let 'em" side of the ledger. Let these retards tear each other limb from limb and then piss on the smoldering ashes after several cold beers.

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I said that in 2020. They burned and looted and murdered from coast to coast.

They're preparing to do it again.

Send in the Marines. Suppress the rebellion. Arrest all of its leaders. Execute.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 27, 2026 01:40 PM (BI5O2)

391 Wan Hung Lo unavailable for comment
Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 01:37 PM (5aZAZ)

Maybe he's retracted prior comments.

Posted by: I Was In The Pool! at January 27, 2026 01:41 PM (wVcYX)

392 Democrat politicians are now encouraging people to use emergency services to track ICE.

Can't the operators just say "OK, thanks for calling" and hang up? Yeah, it's a disruption but it's not like they have to stay on the line and take a full report, is it?

Posted by: Oddbob at January 27, 2026 01:41 PM (Fs0KI)

393 Media is just waiting to see who signs their next check.

Posted by: JoshO at January 27, 2026 01:42 PM (xL2KH)

394 The MN state police began their baton charge with the announcement, "you are under arrest. Sit down where you are and await instructions"

That is an amazing thing, since that makes everyone who doesn't comply and gets nabbed resisting arrest.
Of course it makes the smart ones run away faster.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 27, 2026 01:42 PM (rbvCR)

395 291 Even General Zhang Youxia, who was considered Xi's right-hand man, was accused of treason for spying on the United States.

Wait, hold on: a Chinese general is being prosecuted for spying on the U.S.?
Posted by: PeregrineJohn
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Proof, Warlord Xi is an honorable man.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2026 01:43 PM (UZwsW)

396 Wan Hung Lo unavailable for comment
Posted by: ballistic at January 27, 2026 01:37 PM

Sad!

Posted by: Sum Ting Wong at January 27, 2026 01:43 PM (0sNs1)

397 NOOD

8th circuit overrides timwalzed MN "judge"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 27, 2026 01:43 PM (ULPxl)

398 One of the most offensive mechanisms the media uses for censorship is deciding what is or is not a story.

Massive riots and deaths in Iran? Ho hum

Attempted coup in China? Meh.

Renee Good being shot by a police officer? Stop the presses!

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 27, 2026 01:47 PM (urppY)

399 Something about China? I'll wait for the DNC press release to report it. -- The Real Media

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 27, 2026 01:55 PM (wBaIH)

400 Iran
Venezuela
Russia
Cuba
China
Yemen

What do these countries have in common? They all are foes of the U.S. Notice all of them are in deep trouble at the moment. The only name missing is North Korea, and they have been VERY quiet.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 27, 2026 02:11 PM (urppY)

401 Bad and evil countries should be afraid of us. They can keep being bad and evil, but should be terrified of interfering with other countries, go crossing certain lines.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at January 27, 2026 02:12 PM (urppY)

402 So we get snacks when in the Barrel?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 27, 2026 02:39 PM (H6cKs)

403 I like to read this site. Really like Ace's amusing contempt for these grifting dirt bags.
However.
Why the Hell has nobody said what I've been watching for ever since China's and Russia's radar showed that they truly are paper tigers?
Here, I'll be magnanimous and spell it out:
M-A-D-U-R-O. R-A-D-A-R D-I-D N-O-T W-O-R-K.
Heads have to roll.

Posted by: Jack Hagan at January 27, 2026 02:59 PM (3b927)

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