Why Did John Brennan Deliver a Secret CIA Award to Obama's White House Counsel and Very Good Friend of Jeffrey Epstein Kathryn Ruemmler?

We know she received this secret award from John Brennan for unknown services provided to the CIA only because she immediately wrote to her BFF Jeffrey Epstein-- who sent her gifts like a $9,400 handbag -- immediately after receiving the secret honor.

Why?

And why was it kept secret? People usually publicize their CIA awards. They show you're In the Club.

We only know about this secret CIA award because Ruemmler bragged about it to Jeffrey Epstein, and his emails were just released.

So why was the reward given? I'm quoting Mike Benz's thread, but he points out this wasn't awarded for work she did during the Obama Administration. This was awarded when she was in the private sector, specifically working for Democrat law firm Lantham and Watkins.

A firm that was instrumental in perpetrating the Russiagate hoax on the country.

So... is that why John Brennan gave the award to her? Because she assisted in his own disinformation campaign against the American taxpayer, which he perpetrated while being paid by the taxpayers?

Mike Benz

@MikeBenzCyber
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A couple interesting notes on the reveal that Obama's White House Counsel (top lawyer to the President) Kathy Ruemmler emailed Jeffrey Epstein she was awarded the CIA Agency Medal just hours after getting the award 🧵
2) When I saw this, I wondered why I'd never heard this before. Her CIA Agency Award in 2015 was not and still has never been reported by any press outlet whatsoever, not even a fringe one. It's not in her Wikipedia. It's not in her extensive current Goldman Sachs bio.
3) I've covered many times, for example, how BlackRock's Vice Chairman proudly lists his winning the CIA's Director's Award openly on his official BlackRock bio.
4) The award is a big deal and she was clearly so excited and proud of it she rushed to tell Jeffrey Epstein mere hours after CIA Director John Brennan awarded her, and then sought validation from Epstein over it.
5) Now, this is where it gets interesting. Ruemmler had already left government and returned to private practice at Latham & Watkins 8 months earlier. When she won the CIA Agency Medal, she was a private citizen. A civilian.
6) As it turns out, non-CIA civilians can receive the CIA Agency Medal -- privately with no public release -- if they have played a meaningful role in enabling CIA operations, providing critical access, or helping clear high-stakes legal or operational obstacles the CIA faced
7) The reason the CIA doesn't publicly disclose CIA Agency Medal winners who are non-CIA civilians is because those winners, as nominal civilians with no CIA overlap, may not want the public to know they covertly helped the CIA overcome sensitive legal or political obstacles.
Of course, you can't rule out simple cronyism back-scratching. It was Ruemmler who fought to legally block CIA disclosures on Benghazi from Congress to save not-yet-CIA-Director John Brennan's Senate confirmation bid, 2 years before Brennan gave her the CIA Agency Award.

9) Worth noting Kathy Ruemmler, who fought to make John Brennan the CIA Director and then won the CIA Agency Award, was so close to Epstein she was the backup executor of Jeffrey Epstein's will.

Wait, what?

Remember, Ruemmler continues insisting that she was never a paid client of Epstein's and barely even knew him.

Despite him giving her $9,400 handbags and other luxury gifts.

10) But the pure cronyism explanation doesn't sit right with me. For one, anyone can get a CIA Agency Award at any time. It's not "once a year" doled out in one batch. Brennan became CIA chief in March 2013. He didn't give her the award until 2 years later, after she left gov't
11) Second, if Brennan had given Ruemmler the CIA Agency Medal earlier while she was still White House Counsel, she could forever-after confidently share the honor publicly without needing to hide it, since everyone would presume it related to her official White House legal role
12) Now, it's possible Brennan issued her the award while she was White House Counsel but then kept it in CIA custody until she left gov't, if political sensitivities or the covert operation the award related to were still ongoing. I found examples of that in declassified docs
13) But still, something doesn't sit right. Even if you never announce the CIA Agency Award to the public, there's still a real benefit to getting one: privileged inside access, weight & deference, plus more opportunities channeled to you in ongoing and future CIA relationships.
14) So wherever Ruemmler worked when she got the award, the CIA effectively had "their woman" in the room for all manner of "informal consultation" or info-sharing. Well, in 2015, when she got it, she was at Latham & Watkins: a central firm in the CIA-led 2016 Russiagate affair

The full thread, with screencaps of supporting documents, is here.

Posted by: Ace at 03:30 PM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 02, 2026 03:29 PM (bFu5X)

2 tryjunrt6

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 02, 2026 03:29 PM (jQTkK)

3 5e6yb56eby

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 02, 2026 03:30 PM (jQTkK)

4
tryjunrt6
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 02, 2026 03:30 PM (jQTkK)

5 It's the kind of question I'd love to know the answer to. Sadly, I doubt we'll get a satisfactory answer in this life.

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at February 02, 2026 03:30 PM (aVO1v)

6 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 02, 2026 03:30 PM (bFu5X)

7 A firm that was instrumental in perpetrating the Russiagate hoax on the country.

===

WHOA!

Posted by: runner at February 02, 2026 03:31 PM (g47mK)

8
I read that as "Kathryn Rumrunner".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 02, 2026 03:31 PM (tgvbd)

9 Wheels within wheels.

Interesting.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 02, 2026 03:32 PM (jc0TO)

10 Does a $9400 handbag sound any better than a $94 handbag?

Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2026 03:33 PM (ZcsJV)

11 Kathy Ruemmler, who fought to make John Brennan the CIA Director and then won the CIA Agency Award, was so close to Epstein she was the backup executor of Jeffrey Epstein's will.

--

Nothing to see here. Move along.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 02, 2026 03:33 PM (0U5gm)

12 I'd suspect me if I bought something worth 10k for myself.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 02, 2026 03:33 PM (zZu0s)

13 Today there is finally liquid water on the roads. We're melting!

Course, that didn't stop me from falling on my butt by the mailbox.

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 03:34 PM (77rzZ)

14 Does a $9400 handbag sound any better than a $94 handbag?

Posted by: garrett

That depends upon whether it has humbuckers or single coil.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 02, 2026 03:34 PM (0U5gm)

15 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 02, 2026 03:34 PM (LdBR/)

16 Does a $9400 handbag sound any better than a $94 handbag?
Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2026 03:33 PM (ZcsJV)

Maybe it holds crap better.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 02, 2026 03:34 PM (zZu0s)

17 "Wait, what?

Remember, Ruemmler continues insisting that she was never a paid client of Epstein's and barely even knew him.

Despite him giving her $9,400 handbags and other luxury gifts."

If someone gives me a 9,400 handbag I am never going to forget their name and they will hold a special place in my heart.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 02, 2026 03:34 PM (NpAcC)

18 2 tryjunrt6
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Posted by: XTC at February 02, 2026 03:34 PM (iXqHn)

19
If there's no money or access or immunity attached to this award, why did Brennan give it to her? Those two were clearly on the same side and no one needed any bribing or extortion.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 02, 2026 03:34 PM (jQTkK)

20 Brother!

Posted by: the insensible rock at February 02, 2026 03:35 PM (jc0TO)

21 wheels within wheels within a $9.4k handbag. That shit better be a Bag of Holding

Posted by: gKWVE at February 02, 2026 03:35 PM (gKWVE)

22 Because our elites are all corrupt.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 02, 2026 03:35 PM (zjgNU)

23 And the DoJ case against Brennan is....?

Grinding through the massive cogs in the machine at breakneck speed? Yea, sure.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 02, 2026 03:35 PM (jtM2q)

24 If someone gives me a 9,400 handbag I am never going to forget their name and they will hold a special place in my heart.

Posted by: redridinghood

I don't know that I would go that far, but I would certainly call it a messenger bag.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 02, 2026 03:36 PM (0U5gm)

25 There are so many jokes I am typing and deleting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 02, 2026 03:37 PM (zZu0s)

26 The disclosures on Kathy Ruemmler are something. Not just the revelations that she was tight with Epstein and the CIA connection. I'm talking about her emails and writings.

She's an insecure, needy, passive-aggressive mediocrity with the personality and mental temperance of a giggling high school girl. Those exchanges she had with Epstein over the handbag and apple watch? Wow, just wow.

Somehow she managed to become a very powerful and connected lawyer, now making tens of millions at Goldman. Unreal.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 02, 2026 03:37 PM (iFTx/)

27 Ruemmler sounds rather Germanic. Like a Nazi or something.

Posted by: wth at February 02, 2026 03:37 PM (UjdFS)

28
1. Epstein was an asset of the agency.
2. The agency is as nasty as the KGB ever was.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 02, 2026 03:38 PM (JZkx/)

29
Does a $9400 handbag sound any better than a $94 handbag?

Posted by: garrett at February 02, 2026 03:33 PM

tone wood, my dude

you pay extra for the tone wood

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 02, 2026 03:38 PM (tljrc)

30 Is that the same kind of handbag the wife of the Hamas leader was carrying as she scurried thru the Gazan tunnels?

Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2026 03:38 PM (2WIwB)

31 If someone gives me a 9,400 handbag I am never going to forget their name and they will hold a special place in my heart.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 02, 2026 03:34 PM (NpAcC)

Especially after I sell it to buy something actually useful.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 02, 2026 03:38 PM (zjgNU)

32 I think she's the one who wore short dresses with stilettos in court.

Butter face, tho

Posted by: one hour sober at February 02, 2026 03:38 PM (Y1sOo)

33 The disclosures on Kathy Ruemmler are something. Not just the revelations that she was tight with Epstein and the CIA connection. I'm talking about her emails and writings.

She's an insecure, needy, passive-aggressive mediocrity with the personality and mental temperance of a giggling high school girl. Those exchanges she had with Epstein over the handbag and apple watch? Wow, just wow.

Somehow she managed to become a very powerful and connected lawyer, now making tens of millions at Goldman. Unreal.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

It is the legacy of DEI. Competence and maturity are no longer valued, or wanted, only party loyalty.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 02, 2026 03:39 PM (0U5gm)

34
Wait, what?

Remember, Ruemmler continues insisting that she was never a paid client of Epstein's and barely even knew him.

Despite him giving her $9,400 handbags and other luxury gifts.

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

Another thing I shouldn't have done, I watched MSNOW's "coverage" of the latest Epstein revelations. ALL they're doing is trying to make connections to Trump. The only people they're mentioning are "Trump associates" and assessing the "significance" of these communications.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 02, 2026 03:39 PM (jQTkK)

35 That one Italian handbag company is coming out a new design with prints of duck heads on it.

It's a duckbilled Prada purse.

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

36 28
1. Epstein was an asset of the agency.
2. The agency is as nasty as the KGB ever was.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 02, 2026 03:38 PM (JZkx/)

Can't speak to the first one.
Got no problems with the second, until they turn on our own.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2026 03:41 PM (2WIwB)

37 It's a duckbilled Prada purse.
Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 03:40 PM

*groan*

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 02, 2026 03:41 PM (jc0TO)

38 Drag this skumpt in front of Congress to testify. Yes, it would be theater, but so what? Make her squirm and squeal.

"What, exactly, did you do for Epstein to cause him to buy you a $10k handbag?"

We all know what the implication is.

She can't duck out on attorney-client privilege, because she already said he was never a client.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 02, 2026 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

39 Brennan looks like one of the Easter Island statures. Apparenty is dumber than one of them.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 02, 2026 03:41 PM (4p0Xq)

40 It's a duckbilled Prada purse.
Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 03:40 PM

*golf clap*
Well played!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2026 03:41 PM (2WIwB)

41 It's a duckbilled Prada purse.
Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 03:40 PM (77rzZ)

Yes? And then what happened?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 02, 2026 03:42 PM (rbvCR)

42 I want my intel agency nasty. But I want it nasty against foreign enemies...

Posted by: steevy at February 02, 2026 03:42 PM (YwEeS)

43 *golf clap*
Well played!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2026 03:41 PM (2WIwB)

Golfball hit you in the head?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 02, 2026 03:43 PM (zZu0s)

44 Does a $9400 handbag sound any better than a $94 handbag?

Dunno. But every song sounds better with a great guitar solo. Even this one. (Solo starts at 4:30)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AjVTwzL3sg

Posted by: Ian S. at February 02, 2026 03:43 PM (2ocoG)

45 Despite him giving her $9,400 handbags and other luxury gifts.

A common complaint from the yacht girl set is that it isn't fair that the guys with the yachts expect sex in return for trips, cash and prizes.

Looks like Ms Ruemmler here was Epstein's yacht girl...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 02, 2026 03:44 PM (sKqQm)

46 2 tryjunrt6
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 02, 2026 03:29 PM (jQTkK)

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Posted by: Talk to your doctor today! at February 02, 2026 03:44 PM (TbWk/)

47 The CIA should've stuck with its original mission: Collection of intelligence.

But no, Allen Dulles had to play his reindeer games.

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 03:44 PM (77rzZ)

48
Drag this skumpt in front of Congress to testify. Yes, it would be theater, but so what? Make her squirm and squeal.

"What, exactly, did you do for Epstein to cause him to buy you a $10k handbag?"

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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

You want to make her squeal, tell her to read the email out loud. "Please read this email, which was written by you to Jeffrey Epstein on [date]. The subject line is 'O-M-G."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 02, 2026 03:44 PM (jQTkK)

49 Worth noting Kathy Ruemmler, who fought to make John Brennan the CIA Director and then won the CIA Agency Award, was so close to Epstein she was the backup executor of Jeffrey Epstein's will.

So does this mean the left is about to go back to arguing that there is no Epstein list and the only person to engage in Epstein's sex crimes was Epstein himself?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 02, 2026 03:45 PM (sKqQm)

50 I hope I live to see Brennan hanged. I know I shouldn't say that, but he deserves it.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 02, 2026 03:46 PM (AlhUl)

51 So does this mean the left is about to go back to arguing that there is no Epstein list and the only person to engage in Epstein's sex crimes was Epstein himself?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 02, 2026 03:45 PM

Of course not. They'll insist it was only Epstein and Trump.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 02, 2026 03:46 PM (bFu5X)

52 >>The full thread, with screencaps of supporting documents, is here.

Am I the only one that hates all the clutter we have to deal with at every other website? The stupid gifs, the meaningless images. And the screenshots of documents that are too small to read even if you take the effort of clicking ....

And that is not even including the news sites like Post of Guardian where they have a photo between each and every line of text.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at February 02, 2026 03:47 PM (2wNzd)

53 50 I hope I live to see Brennan hanged. I know I shouldn't say that, but he deserves it.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 02, 2026 03:46 PM (AlhUl)

Set on fire and his fat used to make torches, like Dong Zhuo.

Posted by: XTC at February 02, 2026 03:47 PM (iXqHn)

54 So does this mean the left is about to go back to arguing that there is no Epstein list and the only person to engage in Epstein's sex crimes was Epstein himself?

No, they're continuing to insist there's unreleased material that's all about Trump having sex with every man, woman, and child in the United States.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 02, 2026 03:47 PM (2ocoG)

55 Because Trump!

Thats all I gotfor a Leftist

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2026 03:47 PM (Ia/+0)

56 I don't think Epstein was a CIA "asset." As in, on its payroll. Maybe Agency adjacent, as in conned into doing stuff on their behalf by actual CIA assets.

I guess, maybe he could have been an asset.... but why be so "flamboyant" so as to draw attention to whatever you're doing and whomever you're doing it to? That's not the CIA way.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 02, 2026 03:47 PM (jtM2q)

57 51 So does this mean the left is about to go back to arguing that there is no Epstein list and the only person to engage in Epstein's sex crimes was Epstein himself?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 02, 2026 03:45 PM

Of course not. They'll insist it was only Epstein and Trump.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 02, 2026 03:46 PM (bFu5X)

They've already BEEN insisting that.

Posted by: XTC at February 02, 2026 03:47 PM (iXqHn)

58 Jim Cramer on NVIDIA: “That’s the Best Place to Be”
Insider Monkey - 27m ago

When this was pushed on Yahoo, NVDA lost $4/share.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 02, 2026 03:48 PM (jc0TO)

59 I hope I live to see Brennan hanged. I know I shouldn't say that, but he deserves it.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 02, 2026 03:46 PM (AlhUl)

It's a big club.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, diseased garbage human at February 02, 2026 03:48 PM (P7vXf)

60 Despite him giving her $9,400 handbags and other luxury gifts.

A common complaint from the yacht girl set is that it isn't fair that the guys with the yachts expect sex in return for trips, cash and prizes.

Looks like Ms Ruemmler here was Epstein's yacht girl...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 02, 2026 03:44 PM (sKqQm)
_____

I don't think she's attractive enough. More likely, she was a fixer and a liaison to other very politically connected Democunts.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at February 02, 2026 03:48 PM (iFTx/)

61 Golfball hit you in the head?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

I actually took a golf ball to my right temple when I was kid. My brothers were practicing in the front yard and I happened to walk across the path of drive.

Maybe that's why I've never cared for golf.

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 03:48 PM (77rzZ)

62 I'd like to be able to post images, but you know it would be nothing but boobs and schlong.

I got $20 saying that the first sad, important thread we had would have like huge clown boobs or something. Cobs would be banning like the wind.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 02, 2026 03:49 PM (zZu0s)

63 See this ring? I got it for my birthday. My brother 'gave' it to me. But I have to keep it secret. Because.
G. Rheummler

Posted by: Eromero at February 02, 2026 03:49 PM (LHPAg)

64
she managed to become a very powerful and connected lawyer, now making tens of millions at Goldman. Unreal.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

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

And that business secretary got sacked by Gordon Brown from the UK government because of an Epstein connection.

I wish there was some way to harass Ruemmler so badly she wishes she was never born.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 02, 2026 03:50 PM (jQTkK)

65 Iirc news a couple days ago, Nvidia was backing off the gigantic deal with openai.

Plus there have been a ton of stories about openai hemorrhaging money.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 02, 2026 03:50 PM (zZu0s)

66 Can't speak to the first one.
Got no problems with the second, until they turn on our own.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2026 03:41 PM (2WIwB)

The CIA isn't supposed to play home games. Somebody needs to answer for that alone.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 02, 2026 03:50 PM (w/O5Q)

67 I don't think she's attractive enough. More likely, she was a fixer and a liaison to other very politically connected Democunts.

I did mean figuratively here...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 02, 2026 03:51 PM (sKqQm)

68
New York Post
@nypost

Hospital evacuated after 8-inch WWI artillery shell discovered in patient’s butt

Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 02, 2026 03:51 PM (TGPs7)

69 A common complaint from the yacht girl set is that it isn't fair that the guys with the yachts expect sex in return for trips, cash and prizes.

Even though, literally, the only value that I bring to these guys is my willingness to do freaky stuff, they should spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on me just for my company cuz I'm a princess. -- Yacht girls who complain

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 02, 2026 03:52 PM (ExV1e)

70 New York Post
@nypost

Hospital evacuated after 8-inch WWI artillery shell discovered in patient’s butt
Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 02, 2026 03:51 PM

Are we talking length, or caliber, here? Scratch that...I really don't want to know.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 02, 2026 03:53 PM (bFu5X)

71 @56

>>I don't think Epstein was a CIA "asset."

There were many twists and turns in Epsteins life between being hired by former OSS operative Donald Barr to being murdered in a federal prison run by his son Bill Barr, these twists and turns would make for a great Spotlight type movie, if Hollywood would make such film, I'll be there to watch it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 02, 2026 03:53 PM (qGMHR)

72 A lot of Epstein's kink involved humiliation of the "goyim" as he incessantly called the blond girls. MOSSAD of that what you will.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 02, 2026 03:53 PM (wBaIH)

73 >>>
Somehow she managed to become a very powerful and connected lawyer, now making tens of millions at Goldman. Unreal.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
--

Two different lanes. Technical skill and emotional maturity or development in any other area does not run parallel and often does not.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 02, 2026 03:53 PM (JZkx/)

74 Hospital evacuated after 8-inch WWI artillery shell discovered in patient’s butt
Posted by: Mister Ghost

Wonder what the code for THAT is.

Muldoon, you around?

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

75 Plus there have been a ton of stories about openai hemorrhaging money.

Discovery started in Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, and it turns out they had emails plainly stating their intentions to fuck him over.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 02, 2026 03:54 PM (2ocoG)

76 >> So... is that why John Brennan gave the award to her?

I think the alternative explanation is she blew Brennan’s micro penis on his prayer rug. Using a technique Obama taught her.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 02, 2026 03:55 PM (rkCBr)

77 Hospital evacuated after 8-inch WWI artillery shell discovered in patient’s butt
Posted by: Mister Ghost

Wonder what the code for THAT is.

Muldoon, you around?
Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 03:54 PM (77rzZ)

2026 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code T18.5XXA
Foreign body in anus and rectum, initial encounter

Posted by: Not muldoon, but pinch hitting at February 02, 2026 03:56 PM (TbWk/)

78 I hope to Brennan sit in a jail cell but won't hold my breath

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2026 03:56 PM (Ia/+0)

79 Hard to believe, but the corruption endemic to our government is even worse than I previously imagined.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 02, 2026 03:57 PM (G/X21)

80 >>> Despite him giving her $9,400 handbags and other luxury gifts.

Is it really "giving" if you leave the receipt in the handbag?
If they don't declare the "gift" as income?
How about if you drop a 1099 on them?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 02, 2026 03:57 PM (/lPRQ)

81 This means the Walls are Closing in on Trump, right?!!

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 02, 2026 03:57 PM (9mw3J)

82 Foreign body in anus and rectum, initial encounter
Posted by: Not muldoon, but pinch hitting at February 02, 2026 03:56 PM

I think that part is more disturbing.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 02, 2026 03:57 PM (bFu5X)

83 Iirc news a couple days ago, Nvidia was backing off the gigantic deal with openai.

Plus there have been a ton of stories about openai hemorrhaging money.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 02, 2026 03:50 PM (zZu0s)

If this bubble pops it could take everything down.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 02, 2026 03:57 PM (rbvCR)

84 Golfball hit you in the head?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

No golf here this.week.
Cold and rainy, and I'm headed to the Super Bowl.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 02, 2026 03:57 PM (2WIwB)

85 John Brennan has information that can lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 02, 2026 03:58 PM (jc0TO)

86 oppai > openai

Posted by: Just sayin' at February 02, 2026 03:58 PM (TbWk/)

87 Donald Barr was 82 years old and had Parkinson's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 02, 2026 03:58 PM (JZkx/)

88 Is there anything good about the CIA? I respect John Ratcliffe and it appears he's trying to clean the mess but the Agency has missed a lot of necessary intelligence over the years on top of a lot of dirt coming out of there

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 02, 2026 03:58 PM (BWnHZ)

89 I find it strange that a lawyer like her could not afford $9400 fancy bag.

Posted by: runner at February 02, 2026 03:58 PM (g47mK)

90 Example #23,246,919 why the Left is PAGAN

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 03:58 PM (2GVsD)

91 Kathy Ruemmler is the epitome of modern "girl boss."

No talent, easily duped, narcissistic to the point it is embarrassing, Democrat.

Posted by: Jay in PA at February 02, 2026 04:00 PM (9mw3J)

92 82 Foreign body in anus and rectum, initial encounter
Posted by: Not muldoon, but pinch hitting at February 02, 2026 03:56 PM

I think that part is more disturbing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 02, 2026 03:57 PM (bFu5X)
- - - - - - - - -
Need a few more repeats before it becomes the Third Kind.

Posted by: Another Anon at February 02, 2026 04:00 PM (4h45B)

93
77 Fearing a potential fire in the hole

LOL

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 02, 2026 04:00 PM (Kt19C)

94 If this bubble pops it could take everything down.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 02, 2026 03:57 PM (rbvCR)

Temporarily. More stuff than just the tech sector will be affected because people are sheep. Lots of normies will lose a fortune. Then the whole thing will return to normal.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 02, 2026 04:00 PM (ExV1e)

95 Is there anything good about the CIA? I respect John Ratcliffe and it appears he's trying to clean the mess but the Agency has missed a lot of necessary intelligence over the years on top of a lot of dirt coming out of there
Posted by: Smell the Glove a

The CIA World Factbook used to be a useful source of information of foreign countries.

It's probably gone to shit like everything else, though.

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:00 PM (77rzZ)

96 85 John Brennan has information that can lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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They are all in it, they all did it. And they'll kill you too without blinking an eye. None of them are going anywhere. [(- in this lifetime -)]

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 02, 2026 04:00 PM (JZkx/)

97 I could posit a guess. Epstein Island was about 5% targetted personages to acquire leverage, overseen by an Intellligence Agency. This was set up back in 2008 when the DOJ hijacked the Palm Beach County investigation and only applied two lesser charges in exchange for a NPA from the DOJ and a pseudo sentence where Epstein didn't even show up at the half-way house.

Instead, he was to continue with business as usual and periodically, the intelligence agency involved would send an assignment for targeted individuals. This was likely coordinated with the administration in office, and Ruemmler was the intermediary for the Obama administration. She must have convinced some big fishes to participate.

95% of what went on at Epstein Island was to give the impression of being untouchable by law enforcement. This was reinforced by bringing in industry leaders, former presidents, politicians, movie moguls et al. That put the targets at ease and they decided "OK, no risk...I'm in."

Maxwell said she had no list, and Epstein didn't have a list. That's because Epstein got assignments. The applicable intelligence agency has a list though. Ruemmler was rewarded for setting up targets.

Posted by: Orson at February 02, 2026 04:01 PM (dIske)

98 T185XXA is ICD code for foreign body in rectum. You are welcome

Posted by: kingsman at February 02, 2026 04:01 PM (ehY6c)

99
I'd suspect me if I bought something worth 10k for myself.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

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

lol.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 02, 2026 04:01 PM (jQTkK)

100 @87

>>Donald Barr was 82 years old and had Parkinson's.

Donald Barr was 50 when he hired Epstein.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 02, 2026 04:01 PM (qGMHR)

101
I guess, maybe he could have been an asset.... but why be so "flamboyant" so as to draw attention to whatever you're doing and whomever you're doing it to? That's not the CIA way.

Actually, the CIA sucks at HUMINT. Always has. Their analysis division was even worse, misreading just about every important historical event since 1947.

The real intel champion in the US community is the NSA, who were world-class when it came to SIGINT.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 02, 2026 04:01 PM (y9nCu)

102 Actually, the CIA sucks at HUMINT.

No. REALLY?!

Posted by: the Pahlevis at February 02, 2026 04:02 PM (gKWVE)

103 > Discovery started in Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, and it turns out they had emails plainly stating their intentions to fuck him over.

If true, I'll bet Musk's team of lawyers had a collective orgasm when they read those emails.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 02, 2026 04:03 PM (Yp6az)

104 Wait

They found Richard Gere's gerbil in Don Le'Mon's anus?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:03 PM (2GVsD)

105 Wake me when you get to 7.0
Posted by: San Franpsycho

As a veteran of Loma Prieta, i agree. I slept through all of them today.

Posted by: Dark L at February 02, 2026 04:04 PM (KAi1n)

106 Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 02, 2026 03:53 PM (wBaIH)

Strictly speaking, humiliation seems to be a large part of kink going both ways. Either guys inflicting it or it being inflicted on them. Odd.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 02, 2026 04:04 PM (zZu0s)

107 If this LLM bubble bursts, video card prices will drop.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:05 PM (2GVsD)

108 Eisenhower tacitly warned of them.
Truman wrote two op-eds saying they needed to go.
Kennedy was actively working to disband them.
They cookie crumbed Johnson.
They defeated Nixon.
They owned Carter

..on and on, it keeps on going

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 02, 2026 04:05 PM (JZkx/)

109 That fucking muzzie godless commie Brennan.

There should be a lamppost with his name on it.

But alas.....

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 02, 2026 04:05 PM (ufFY8)

110 If this LLM bubble bursts, video card prices will drop.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:05 PM (2GVsD)

And RAM prices will drop.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 02, 2026 04:06 PM (ExV1e)

111 I have no faith the CIA is out to protect the country

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2026 04:06 PM (Ia/+0)

112
That fucking muzzie godless commie Brennan.

There should be a lamppost with his name on it.

But alas.....
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 02, 2026 04:05 PM (ufFY

Hope springs eternal.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 02, 2026 04:06 PM (y9nCu)

113 110 If this LLM bubble bursts, video card prices will drop.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:05 PM (2GVsD)

And RAM prices will drop.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 02, 2026 04:06 PM (ExV1e)

======

But Leon will get LARGER!!!!

*jumps off screen*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 02, 2026 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

114 Wake me when you get to 7.0
Posted by: San Franpsycho

As a veteran of Loma Prieta, i agree. I slept through all of them today.
Posted by: Dark L

When I was at DLI, we had a quake in the middle of the night once. I woke up to see my clothes locker, which stood right next to my bed, and could have seriously injured or killed me had it fallen on me, rocking back and forth.

"Oh, we must be having an earthquake," I thought. And then went promptly back to sleep.

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:07 PM (77rzZ)

115 You ask these questions like you know what's going on in the inside. I unfriend you!

Posted by: Danny Bongino at February 02, 2026 04:08 PM (abIsI)

116 Earthquake?

That was Disney rolling in his grave again. He just watched the trailer for Hoppers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:08 PM (2GVsD)

117 Johnny's best line?

"Rapunzel!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:09 PM (2GVsD)

118 101
I guess, maybe he could have been an asset.... but why be so "flamboyant" so as to draw attention to whatever you're doing and whomever you're doing it to? That's not the CIA way.

Actually, the CIA sucks at HUMINT. Always has. Their analysis division was even worse, misreading just about every important historical event since 1947.

The real intel champion in the US community is the NSA, who were world-class when it came to SIGINT.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
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Girls weren't the play, they were the distraction.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 02, 2026 04:09 PM (JZkx/)

119 That was Disney rolling in his grave again. He just watched the trailer for Hoppers.
Posted by: Anna Puma

If I were Walt, I would have already risen from the grave like Kharis the Mummy and started strangling folks.

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:09 PM (77rzZ)

120 92 82 Foreign body in anus and rectum, initial encounter
Posted by: Not muldoon, but pinch hitting at February 02, 2026 03:56 PM

I think that part is more disturbing.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 02, 2026 03:57 PM (bFu5X)
- - - - - - - - -
Need a few more repeats before it becomes the Third Kind.
Posted by: Another Anon at February 02, 2026 04:00 PM (4h45B)

You don't really come here for the medical diagnoses do you?

Posted by: Let's go camping! at February 02, 2026 04:10 PM (TbWk/)

121 I don't think the AI bubble will burst, just deflate a little and right size itself to a party ballon.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 02, 2026 04:10 PM (qGMHR)

122 The federal government is totally corrupt.

Nothing will change that. Like a rabbit avoiding a dog, it's all you can do.

Posted by: Corrupt, Venal and Without Morals at February 02, 2026 04:11 PM (IKhxE)

123 121 I don't think the AI bubble will burst, just deflate a little and right size itself to a party ballon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 02, 2026 04:10 PM (qGMHR)

Then we can twist it up into a poodle! Or maybe a giraffe!

Posted by: It'll be so much fun! at February 02, 2026 04:12 PM (TbWk/)

124 How many Left-wingers will be destroyed or tainted by Epstein file releases before the Democrat National Committee sues DoJ to STOP releasing the remaining Epstein files? How delicious would that be????

Aw, it won't happen. Democrats KNOW there is "Trump is a pedo!" evidence somewhere in the pile of manure. The know it because they tell it to each other 500 times a day. It's the sole remaining Destroy Trump Holy Grail. They'll never stop their quest.

Posted by: Gref at February 02, 2026 04:12 PM (5rh/l)

125 > Maxwell said she had no list, and Epstein didn't have a list. That's because Epstein got assignments. The applicable intelligence agency has a list though

Remember that Jizzlane Maxwell's dad was reportedly working for Mossad, MI-6, AND the KGB at various times.

He was found floating in the Atlantic Ocean with no identifiable cause of death.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 02, 2026 04:12 PM (IG3/x)

126 That was Disney rolling in his grave again. He just watched the trailer for Hoppers.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:08 PM (2GVsD)
_____________________________________

Here's the description for Hoppers:

"It follows an animal lover named Mabel whose mind is transferred into a lifelike robotic beaver in order to communicate with animals and save their habitat from destruction."

You want to save the habitat, then kill all the damn beavers. They destroy habitats where ever they go.

(Note: almost went for the obvious "robotic beaver" joke, but I restrained myself)

Posted by: Orson at February 02, 2026 04:12 PM (dIske)

127 If this bubble pops it could take everything down.

OpenAI going down would not constitute popping a bubble. Pretty much the entire rest of the industry has already brushed them off.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 02, 2026 04:13 PM (2ocoG)

128 I don't think the AI bubble will burst, just deflate a little and right size itself to a party ballon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Then we can twist it up into a poodle! Or maybe a giraffe!
Posted by: It'll be so much fun!

If it's an AI balloon, it'll have 5 legs.

Posted by: mikeski at February 02, 2026 04:13 PM (VHUov)

129 “Discovered”? How can you not know an artillery round is up yer ass?

“It it was up yer ass you’d know!” is an Axiom, after all.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 02, 2026 04:13 PM (rA756)

130 “Discovered”? How can you not know an artillery round is up yer ass?

“It it was up yer ass you’d know!” is an Axiom, after all.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 02, 2026 04:13 PM (rA756)

131 Inspector Frank Drebin to Mabel, "nice beaver."

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:13 PM (2GVsD)

132 (Note: almost went for the obvious "robotic beaver" joke, but I restrained myself)
Posted by: Orson at February 02, 2026 04:12 PM (dIske)

Vagina dentata indeed.

Posted by: Chews right through wood at February 02, 2026 04:14 PM (TbWk/)

133 Democrats KNOW there is "Trump is a pedo!" evidence somewhere in the pile of manure. The know it because they tell it to each other 500 times a day. It's the sole remaining Destroy Trump Holy Grail. They'll never stop their quest.

Yup. I've even seen lefties seriously say it's known that he showered with his daughter. Projection and stupidity are a powerful mix.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 02, 2026 04:14 PM (2ocoG)

134 At one time, Canada had a beaver damn so large it could be seen from space.

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:15 PM (77rzZ)

135 The traitor John Brennan is a traitor is deserves a traitors fate.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2026 04:15 PM (sAmhv)

136 Kathryn Ruemmler has information that could lead to the arrest and prosecution of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Posted by: Quinn at February 02, 2026 04:15 PM (dK+Kv)

137 Is this a coterie or a cabal that is executing this treasonous conspiracy against the United States?

Posted by: Minuteman at February 02, 2026 04:15 PM (47/pr)

138 No way that was an 8 inch "artillery" shell. That would be a few hundred pounds, easy.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 02, 2026 04:15 PM (XvL8K)

139 A 203mm artillery round is hard to misplace.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:16 PM (2GVsD)

140 You want to save the habitat, then kill all the damn beavers. They destroy habitats wherever they go.
Posted by: Orson

Eh, they're like people. They build things, modify the environment to their own benefit, and create new habitats in the process.

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:16 PM (77rzZ)

141 OT: “The United Nations is at risk of ‘imminent financial collapse’ due to member states not paying their fees, the body’s head has warned.

I call dibs on the those cool blue helmets.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 02, 2026 04:16 PM (abIsI)

142 136 Kathryn Ruemmler has information that could lead to the arrest and prosecution of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Posted by: Quinn at February 02, 2026 04:15 PM (dK+Kv)

Her funeral is already scheduled for next Monday.

Posted by: *hic* at February 02, 2026 04:17 PM (5rh/l)

143 > Is there anything good about the CIA?
------------
The CIA is able to fund itself through various "fronts," businesses that are borderline legit and make money for the Agency. The CIA owns many different businesses; airlines, various commercial enterprises that sell products, financial services, restaurants... you name it and the CIA has their fingers in it.

They employee more accountants than the IRS to keep track of the money.

So much money that the Agency doesn't even need the budget allocated to it every year by Congress... which is black and never disclosed.

It is by any measure, totally self sufficient and totally ungovernable. Ratcliffe couldn't do a thing with it even if he wanted to. They'd either have him killed or removed inside of a week if he tried.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 02, 2026 04:17 PM (jtM2q)

144 Sign seen on the UN building at Turtle Bay - This Space For Rent

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:17 PM (2GVsD)

145 Kathryn Ruemmler has information that could lead to the arrest and prosecution of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"Hello? Suicide hotline? I'd like to place an order. *cackle*" - somewhere in Chappaqua

Posted by: Ian S. at February 02, 2026 04:18 PM (2ocoG)

146 The way the Epstein files are breaking they will hasten the destruction of the old time Dems. A lot of older Dems are being named and that will make it easy for the younger crazies to push the OldGuard out of the way. Hopefully before Nov .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 02, 2026 04:18 PM (BWnHZ)

147
OT: “The United Nations is at risk of ‘imminent financial collapse’ due to member states not paying their fees, the body’s head has warned.

I call dibs on the those cool blue helmets.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Why don't they just print their own currency?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2026 04:18 PM (Cqx++)

148 I call dibs on the those cool blue helmets.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

The coolest helmets ever were morions and pickelhaubes.

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:18 PM (77rzZ)

149 T185XXA is ICD code for foreign body in rectum. You are welcome
Posted by: kingsman

The XX are detailed categories added by ObamaCare.
Cost extra for the illustrated manual.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 02, 2026 04:18 PM (/lPRQ)

150 How long before the UN building has a Spirit Halloween sign?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 02, 2026 04:18 PM (2ocoG)

151 139 A 203mm artillery round is hard to misplace.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:16 PM (2GVsD)

I once thought so.

Posted by: Mayor Pete at February 02, 2026 04:18 PM (5rh/l)

152 I guess, maybe he could have been an asset.... but why be so "flamboyant" so as to draw attention to whatever you're doing and whomever you're doing it to? That's not the CIA way.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Mike Benz makes a compelling case that Epstein was a money launderer. Got his first investment banking job at Bear Stearns and was involved in their BCCI account. BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International) was an international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier, with backing from Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi. Favorite of intel agencies, those belonging to the Safari Club in particular, funnelled cash to the Afghan rebels, financed Adnan Khashoggi's weapons dealings, etc. etc.

Hedge fund management was even more obscure as to moving money around for intel agencies and criminals (hard to tell apart at times) to do shit off the books. Someone like Epstein would be useful as his predilections of sex crimes means he wouldn't squeal or go public if things went fubar like BCCI. His perversity might have also led to few kompromat situations for his minders but probably was a useful cover. Intel agencies love to use criminals.

Posted by: whig at February 02, 2026 04:19 PM (2swu2)

153 146 The way the Epstein files are breaking they will hasten the destruction of the old time Dems. A lot of older Dems are being named and that will make it easy for the younger crazies to push the OldGuard out of the way. Hopefully before Nov .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 02, 2026 04:18 PM (BWnHZ)

=====

It will hasten nothing.

No one actually cares.

It's like predicting that the Panama Papers would destroy...anyone.

Epstein is an excuse to hate Trump, like Russian collusion. That's all it is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 02, 2026 04:19 PM (GBKbO)

154 The XX are detailed categories added by ObamaCare.
Cost extra for the illustrated manual.

Obama adding extra detail to "foreign object in rectum" is the most believable thing I've heard all day.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 02, 2026 04:19 PM (2ocoG)

155 The Chilean army still uses Pickelhaubes and Stahlhelms for parades.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:19 PM (2GVsD)

156 How long before the UN building has a Spirit Halloween sign?

Thread Winner!

Posted by: Casper The Friendly Ghost at February 02, 2026 04:20 PM (IKhxE)

157 How long before the UN building has a Spirit Halloween sign?

But who would want to wear a mask of Kofi Anan?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:21 PM (2GVsD)

158 OT: “The United Nations is at risk of ‘imminent financial collapse’ due to member states not paying their fees, the body’s head has warned.
.....

What does the body's torso say?

Posted by: wth at February 02, 2026 04:21 PM (UjdFS)

159 133 Democrats KNOW there is "Trump is a pedo!" evidence somewhere in the pile of manure. The know it because they tell it to each other 500 times a day. It's the sole remaining Destroy Trump Holy Grail. They'll never stop their quest.

Yup. I've even seen lefties seriously say it's known that he showered with his daughter. Projection and stupidity are a powerful mix.
Posted by: Ian S.

Disqualify is the first tool in the box that leftists like to use in debate. Not the substance but an attempt to demote the opposition into a non person, a non expert, a nobody. So claiming Trump is a pedo is simply an inversion of what Biden actually was and an attempt to disqualify Trump and administration by lazy and cheap smears.

Posted by: whig at February 02, 2026 04:21 PM (2swu2)

160 How long until UN building has s For Sale sign?

Posted by: Skip at February 02, 2026 04:22 PM (Ia/+0)

161 155 The Chilean army still uses Pickelhaubes and Stahlhelms for parades.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:19 PM (2GVsD)

The French Army still wears kepis as head wear with non-combat uniforms

Posted by: Gref at February 02, 2026 04:22 PM (5rh/l)

162 Has anyone heard the rumor that the UN is thinking of relocating to Qatar?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 02, 2026 04:22 PM (rbvCR)

163 OT: “The United Nations is at risk of ‘imminent financial collapse’ due to member states not paying their fees, the body’s head has warned.
.....

What does the body's torso say?
Posted by: wth

Sydney Sweeney works for the UN???

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

164 "The only people they're mentioning are "Trump associates" and assessing the "significance" of these communications.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia"

So pretty much anybody Trump met and talked to for more than 10 seconds.

Posted by: Ripley at February 02, 2026 04:23 PM (GUOwU)

165 Saw a bumper sticker today. 'Harris/Waltz' and right below it, 'RESIST'. You'll be shocked to find out a woman of advanced years stepped out of the car (60s-70s). Just an interesting observation.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2026 04:23 PM (sAmhv)

166 The French Army still wears kepis as head wear with non-combat uniforms
Posted by: Gref

Are Zouaves still a thing?

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

167 The UN head

"I ain't got nobody!"

"Is the head dead yet?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:24 PM (2GVsD)

168 Vagina dentata indeed.

One in the pooter too, in case you didn't chew your food enough on the way in, you can on the way out.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 02, 2026 04:24 PM (Kt19C)

169 Buy You Guys Drumpf is Totally a Pedo!

I know the evidence will come out soon! My buddies on Reddit and the guy that keeps my wife sexually satisfied have told me so!

Posted by: ballistic at February 02, 2026 04:24 PM (3BwY8)

170 165 Saw a bumper sticker today. 'Harris/Waltz' and right below it, 'RESIST'. You'll be shocked to find out a woman of advanced years stepped out of the car (60s-70s). Just an interesting observation.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2026 04:23 PM (sAmhv)

======

"This is an attack on all Boomers."
-at least one person

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 02, 2026 04:24 PM (GBKbO)

171 That's quite a post. So many fingers in so many pies.

Posted by: mrp at February 02, 2026 04:25 PM (rj6Yv)

172 I got an award once. No cash but a very nice mug.

#1 Dad

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 02, 2026 04:25 PM (RIvkX)

173

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh

Emily Austin — who went viral for defying the "ICE OUT" standing ovation at the Grammys — reveals MANY people approached her and supported ICE

"It's all fake. How many people approached me, whispered, 'you're so brave, we agree with you.' If only they spoke up!

https://tinyurl.com/56ctrsxf

Posted by: redridinghood at February 02, 2026 04:26 PM (NpAcC)

174 172 I got an award once. No cash but a very nice mug.

#1 Dad

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 02, 2026 04:25 PM (RIvkX)

======

They must have voted again.

Because I'm #1 dad. I have the mug to prove it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 02, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

175
1. I sat down on a chair and didn't know it was there, pointed up.

2. I was bending over to pick something up, lost my balance and it was on the wall.

3. I was trying to get a bowel movement going and was just using it to go.

4. I slipped in the shower.

5. I woke up and it was there, don't know how it got there.

My nephew works E.R.. There's a million of 'em.

Posted by: Auspex at February 02, 2026 04:26 PM (Y8DZL)

176 127 If this bubble pops it could take everything down.

OpenAI going down would not constitute popping a bubble. Pretty much the entire rest of the industry has already brushed them off.
Posted by: Ian S.

Microsux stock will be hurt if OpenAI goes down in flames but its cash burn rate is simply not sustainable. So far Elon with xAI and Gemini by Google can finance their investment arms races in new hardware. Google garnered Apple as a partner/investor for Gemini. Dunno about Anthropic but it has Amazon behind it and I think Google hedged its bets.

"The growth story is mostly enterprise-driven. Anthropic has found real traction selling access to its models through APIs, particularly for coding-heavy workloads. Its coding agent, Claude Code, crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue by November 2025, helping push the company's overall revenue run rate above $9 billion by year-end.

But the spending is just as eye-catching. Anthropic now expects to turn cash-flow positive in 2028, a year later than previously planned, as costs keep climbing. In 2026 alone, it expects to spend about $12 billion training models and another $7 billion running them. "

Posted by: whig at February 02, 2026 04:26 PM (2swu2)

177 169 Buy You Guys Drumpf is Totally a Pedo!

I know the evidence will come out soon! My buddies on Reddit and the guy that keeps my wife sexually satisfied have told me so!
Posted by: ballistic

You see this on 'X' too. It doesn't even have to be a political post, just some random 'DRUMPF IZ A PEDO!!!' on a cat video. It's odd and probably bots.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2026 04:26 PM (sAmhv)

178
Mike Benz makes a compelling case that Epstein was a money launderer.

Who isn't?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2026 04:27 PM (Cqx++)

179 The Chilean army still uses Pickelhaubes and Stahlhelms for parades.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:19 PM (2GVsD)

I recently heard the complaint that "the main problem with Chilean is that it sounds like Spanish, confusing just about everyone"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 02, 2026 04:27 PM (rbvCR)

180 Ilham Nur and her vaporware winery was money laundering.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:28 PM (2GVsD)

181 Bulg you were right downstairs there's no native etymology for clown.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 02, 2026 04:28 PM (RIvkX)

182 172 I got an award once. No cash but a very nice mug.

#1 Dad

did you have to wrestle tyrus for it?

Posted by: anachronda at February 02, 2026 04:28 PM (oY6Yp)

183 135 The traitor John Brennan is a traitor is deserves a traitors fate.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2026 04:15 PM (sAmhv)

Something involving pig blood and pig semen so that he cannot go to Muslim Paradise.

Posted by: XTC at February 02, 2026 04:28 PM (iXqHn)

184 173: Hollywood is the epicenter of 'Everything is fake and gay'.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 02, 2026 04:28 PM (sAmhv)

185 Speaking of Brennan, why didn't the KGB appoint a John Birch Society member as its Chief back in the old USSR days?

Answer: Because they weren't brain dead stupid turn-coat fuckers like Barack the Hussein commie muther'effer! That's why.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 02, 2026 04:28 PM (Lu/kZ)

186 Mike Benz makes a compelling case that Epstein was a money launderer.

Who isn't?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I leave change in my pants pockets all the time. The dryer is never happy about it.

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:28 PM (77rzZ)

187 178
Mike Benz makes a compelling case that Epstein was a money launderer.

Who isn't?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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Eliminating distinctions is not really useful for any discourse.

Posted by: whig at February 02, 2026 04:29 PM (2swu2)

188 166 The French Army still wears kepis as head wear with non-combat uniforms
Posted by: Gref

Are Zouaves still a thing?

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

apparently, no
https://emergingcivilwar.com/2016/05/15/les-zouaves/

Posted by: Gref at February 02, 2026 04:29 PM (5rh/l)

189 I mean, it's not like we didn't know the whole Epstein island thing was a blackmail intelligence operation.

The only real question was for who, and who knew about it. We do know the feds quashed charges related to it several times.

Posted by: heya at February 02, 2026 04:29 PM (GjImx)

190 If Sydney Sweeney works for the UN I would recommend increased funding for a year or two.

Posted by: wth at February 02, 2026 04:29 PM (UjdFS)

191 They must have voted again.

Because I'm #1 dad. I have the mug to prove it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 02, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)
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It's GO time!

Posted by: The Mandelbaums including Lloyd Bridges at February 02, 2026 04:30 PM (RIvkX)

192 191 They must have voted again.

Because I'm #1 dad. I have the mug to prove it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 02, 2026 04:26 PM (GBKbO)
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It's GO time!

Posted by: The Mandelbaums including Lloyd Bridges at February 02, 2026 04:30 PM (RIvkX)

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*moves TV*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 02, 2026 04:30 PM (GBKbO)

193 t will hasten nothing.

No one actually cares.

It's like predicting that the Panama Papers would destroy...anyone.

Epstein is an excuse to hate Trump, like Russian collusion. That's all it is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 02, 2026 04:19 PM (GBKbO)
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Everytime I hear a Trump-hater belching "What about the Epstein files!?" , I see a crazy cultist.

They are being pressed, hard, and it hurts them.

Posted by: mrp at February 02, 2026 04:30 PM (rj6Yv)

194 A French guy had an 8inch WWI artillery shell removed from his rectum. The hospital was evacuated as the shell was live. Interesting weekend

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 02, 2026 04:31 PM (BWnHZ)

195 180 Ilham Nur and her vaporware winery was money laundering.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Classic case, same as how Killary made a fortune in cattle options with the broker assigning all wins to Killary's account and all losses to Tyson's general counsel at the time.

Mike Benz speculates that a lot of intel agency money flows are disguised as payoffs on options, overvalued assets, and other property hard to evaluate.

Posted by: whig at February 02, 2026 04:31 PM (2swu2)

196 178 Mike Benz makes a compelling case that Epstein was a money launderer.

Who isn't?

i prefer a nice patina on my money

Posted by: anachronda at February 02, 2026 04:32 PM (oY6Yp)

197 194 A French guy had an 8inch WWI artillery shell removed from his rectum. The hospital was evacuated as the shell was live. Interesting weekend
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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The story had it perhaps related to a party dare. Who among us would consider that a neat party trick. Says a lot about the party attendees.

Posted by: whig at February 02, 2026 04:32 PM (2swu2)

198 193 Everytime I hear a Trump-hater belching "What about the Epstein files!?" , I see a crazy cultist.

They are being pressed, hard, and it hurts them.

Posted by: mrp at February 02, 2026 04:30 PM (rj6Yv)

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Jimmy Carr has seen more blowback from evading British taxes through tax havens in 2012 than Bill Gates ever will for allegedly contracting an STD from a Russian hooker, joking about it with Epstein, and then surreptitiously feeding antibiotics to his wife.

And Jimmy Carr never got dropped from his television gigs in England.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 02, 2026 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

199 "OpenAI going down would not constitute popping a bubble. Pretty much the entire rest of the industry has already brushed them off.
Posted by: Ian S."

The amount of money involved and the breadth of the exposure, direct, and indirect, means that if it crashes and burns we're in a world of shit.

For context, though, everyone is flinging money at AI because it's widely assumed that the race is "probably" winnable, and whoever wins it rules the world. Unfortunately US business culture is too dedicated to scamming people and slash and burn practices, vs - irony alert - China, who is going about this in what is probably a more effective, and certainly cost effective, manner.

If this blows up and/or we lose the race (assuming there even is a finish line, which is debatable), history will forever associate people like Altman with a "China burning their ships" sort of fuckup.

Posted by: heya at February 02, 2026 04:32 PM (GjImx)

200 I got an award once. No cash but a very nice mug.

#1 Dad

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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They must have voted again.

Because I'm #1 dad. I have the mug to prove it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook
.......

You guys can fight it out.
I won Best Grandpa Ever and even got a t-shirt.

Posted by: wth at February 02, 2026 04:33 PM (UjdFS)

201
The French Army still wears kepis as head wear with non-combat uniforms
Posted by: Gref

Are Zouaves still a thing?
Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:23 PM (77rzZ)

The Legion has all that kind of shit. For example, their Pioneers (engineers) have ZZ Top beards, leather aprons and carry axes, shovels and picks. Plus the 88 pace per minute slow march means that on Bastille Day they have to march at the end of the parade.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 02, 2026 04:33 PM (y9nCu)

202 I still think the Beret is a fag cover.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 02, 2026 04:33 PM (abIsI)

203 The French Army still wears kepis as head wear with non-combat uniforms
Posted by: Gref

Speaking of which, when the French army realized that the British wore red coats to cover their wounds and not give a morale boost to their enemies, the French army immediately ordered their soldiers to wear brown pants in order to not give succor to their enemies who would see them shitting their pants upon sight of the enemy.

A little know historical fact from your resident amateur historian. Heh.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at February 02, 2026 04:33 PM (cZRYl)

204 Bulg you were right downstairs there's no native etymology for clown.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Well, "fool" and "clown" are close in meaning, so I didn't think you were entirely wrong. I wasn't aware of its usage as a synonym for "shmuck," though, so thank you for that.

Na zdorovye! *Franpshyco and Bulg clink glasses*

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:33 PM (77rzZ)

205 Everytime I hear a Trump-hater belching "What about the Epstein files!?" , I see a crazy cultist.

They are being pressed, hard, and it hurts them.
Posted by: mrp
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I see the left as dishonest lying pieces of shit that vaguely resemble something human. But that is just me I guess.

Posted by: whig at February 02, 2026 04:33 PM (2swu2)

206
There's a forceps removal tool he uses as bbq tongs. Caused great hilarity at the last family picnic.

Posted by: Auspex at February 02, 2026 04:34 PM (Y8DZL)

207 The Chilean army still uses Pickelhaubes and Stahlhelms for parades.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 02, 2026 04:19 PM (2GVsD)
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And the main boulevard and park in Santiago is named for Gen. Bernardo O'Higgins.

Posted by: The Mandelbaums including Lloyd Bridges at February 02, 2026 04:34 PM (RIvkX)

208 205 I see the left as dishonest lying pieces of shit that vaguely resemble something human. But that is just me I guess.

Posted by: whig at February 02, 2026 04:33 PM (2swu2)

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The walls closed in on Trump for having hookers pee on a Russian bed years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 02, 2026 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

209 Remember that Jizzlane Maxwell's dad was reportedly working for Mossad, MI-6, AND the KGB at various times.

He was found floating in the Atlantic Ocean with no identifiable cause of death.
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I'll help with that one--his heart stopped.

Posted by: Crusader at February 02, 2026 04:35 PM (TN0g+)

210 I think that #1 Dad is an annual award.

I have the one from 1988.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 02, 2026 04:35 PM (jc0TO)

211 171 So many fingers in so many pies.

only thumbs get plums

Posted by: anachronda at February 02, 2026 04:35 PM (oY6Yp)

212 Jimmy Carr has seen more blowback from evading British taxes through tax havens in 2012 than Bill Gates ever will for allegedly contracting an STD from a Russian hooker, joking about it with Epstein, and then surreptitiously feeding antibiotics to his wife.

And Jimmy Carr never got dropped from his television gigs in England.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 02, 2026 04:32 PM (GBKbO)
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In the "Quantity v. Quality" vein:

$XX,XXX,XXX,XXX has a quality all its own.

Posted by: mrp at February 02, 2026 04:35 PM (rj6Yv)

213 5. I woke up and it was there, don't know how it got there.

My nephew works E.R.. There's a million of 'em.
Posted by: Auspex

0. Forgot to dummy cord it.

Covers pretty much every scenario.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 02, 2026 04:36 PM (/lPRQ)

214 Limited seeing any documents but still a fascinating "link."

If so, likely it took place via the Incentives Award Act.

If the individual worked under classified, non-public, or sensitive arrangements, any cash award or monetary incentive (often authorized by the Incentive Awards Act in conjunction with Agency-specific authorities) would have been processed through covert, classified channels to protect the person’s identity and their affiliation with the CIA.

It's likely the 2015 accounting for a private industry recipient of a CIA award would have been handled by the Director of Personnel and authorized by the Director of the CIA, processed through secure channels that often bypass public recognition for security reasons, often supported by special statutory authorities for the intelligence community.

Wikipedia has a long list of possible recipients.
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Other interesting links emerging:
>Sky News has confirmed that a photo of Peter Mandelson in his underwear was taken in Jeffrey Epstein’s Paris flat.

>Elmundo America: The shameless friendship between Princess Mette-Marit and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein plunges the Norwegian Royal Family into its biggest crisis.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 02, 2026 04:37 PM (NFX2v)

215 What other lower lifeforms did Obama have in his Cabinet other than the Worms and Rats?
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird

He asked us, but we refused. We have our standards, you know.
-- Tardigrades

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:37 PM (77rzZ)

216

Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen

He was Number One!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 02, 2026 04:37 PM (Cqx++)

217 The Pickelhaubes keep the paratroopers off but attract pigeons.

Posted by: wth at February 02, 2026 04:39 PM (UjdFS)

218 There's a forceps removal tool he uses as bbq tongs. Caused great hilarity at the last family picnic.
Posted by: Auspex at February 02, 2026 04:34 PM (Y8DZL)

I once gave a glass bedpan urinal to a friend's brother as a "wine decanter"

You know, broad so it won't tip, but it has an extended area to breath the wine. And a cork! He knew exactly what it was.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 02, 2026 04:39 PM (rbvCR)

219 I'll help with that one--his heart stopped.
Posted by: Crusader

Leonid Brezhnev's cause of death was reported either as "his heart stopped" or "he stopped breathing." I forget which, but it was funny at the time.

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:39 PM (77rzZ)

220 A French guy had an 8inch WWI artillery shell removed from his rectum. The hospital was evacuated as the shell was live. Interesting weekend
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Could have had Bugs Bunny wack it with a 🔨

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 02, 2026 04:39 PM (/lPRQ)

221 I took the boy to the cat cafe yesterday and Mrs. F. hasn't stopped sneezing. His newest perseveration is "bring the cat home!" Oh what fun!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 02, 2026 04:40 PM (RIvkX)

222 And the main boulevard and park in Santiago is named for Gen. Bernardo O'Higgins.
Posted by: The Mandelbaums including Lloyd Bridges

I hope he made them say their vowels.

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:40 PM (77rzZ)

223 Epstein had a Paris flat?

Posted by: mrp at February 02, 2026 04:40 PM (rj6Yv)

224 Leonid Brezhnev's cause of death was reported either as "his heart stopped" or "he stopped breathing." I forget which, but it was funny at the time.
Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:39 PM (77rzZ)
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It was a case of we know that you know that we know that you're lying.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 02, 2026 04:41 PM (RIvkX)

225 What other lower lifeforms did Obama have in his Cabinet other than the Worms and Rats?
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird

This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Joe Biden, Ben Rhodes, and Valerie Jarrett at February 02, 2026 04:42 PM (5rh/l)

226 Epstein had a Paris flat?
Posted by: mrp

Paris Hilton, flat on her back?

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

227 223 Epstein had a Paris flat?

fortunately, there was a spare in his 2cv

Posted by: anachronda at February 02, 2026 04:43 PM (oY6Yp)

228 Billie Eilish looks retarded.

Posted by: Crusader at February 02, 2026 04:43 PM (TN0g+)

229 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at February 02, 2026 04:43 PM (77rzZ)

230 I would more imagine a $5000 Hermes handbag and several thousand in cold hard cash tucked inside.

What good is such a bag alone when you dress to suit the Federal government?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 02, 2026 04:44 PM (NFX2v)

231 217 The Pickelhaubes keep the paratroopers off but attract pigeons.

dill pickelhaube is best pickelhaube

Posted by: anachronda at February 02, 2026 04:44 PM (oY6Yp)

232 Bill Gates ever will for allegedly contracting an STD from a Russian hooker, joking about it with Epstein, and then surreptitiously feeding antibiotics to his wife.
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for twisted thrills with Park Chan-wook at February 02, 2026 04:3
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And if Billy will slip drugs into his wife's meal what will he do to you?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 02, 2026 04:45 PM (JZkx/)

233 Nude Corruption

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 02, 2026 04:47 PM (jc0TO)

234 Epstein and Trump were friends for decades
Did you vote for that pedophile ?

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at February 02, 2026 04:47 PM (frUd/)

235 Shut up, fool.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 02, 2026 05:06 PM (jc0TO)

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