The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 2/17/26

Good morning kids. Another day, another transexualism/Leftist-fueled mass slaughter to report.

Police identified the gunman who killed two people and critically injured three others at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday afternoon as Robert Dorgan, a transgender dad who railed against anti-trans hate in family legal disputes and deranged social media rants.
The 56-year-old father, who shot four family members and a family friend before he turned the gun on himself following the deadly rampage at the Pawtucket ice rink, used the female alias Roberta Esposito, Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said during a press conference Monday night.
“We have identified the person, the suspect, by a birth name, the birth name was Robert Dorgan,” Goncalves said. “We have also learned that the person does go by the name of Roberta, also uses a last name of Esposito.”
. . . A woman who was seen leaving the Pawtucket police station earlier in the day said the gunman was her father, who “has mental health issues” and was “very sick.”

No it's all of us who are sick for not using the preferred pronouns and objecting to genital mutilation of children in the name of diversity or something. If you think because you live in a reliably red/conservative/normal town or state and think you are immune from this insanity, think again my friends.

The School District of New Richmond in Wisconsin secretly implemented a transgender bathroom policy, and on last Tuesday night during an explosive school board meeting, parents revolted en masse.
New Richmond, a small northwestern city of only 10,000, is like many communities in the region — mostly white, conservative, and broadly working and middle-class. It sits in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District, where I’m currently running for Congress in 2026 and where President Trump won by more than 20 points in 2024. . .
. . . On Tuesday, I saw New Richmond fathers and mothers refuse to surrender. New Richmond leaders, however, did.
This is why all elections matter. From your local school board to your member of Congress. If we want schools that reflect our values and laws that protect our daughters, we must elect leaders willing to stand firm in their convictions, protect the vulnerable, and defend the truth.

Elsewhere, DC is evidently dealing with a massive sewage spill. No, Maxine Waters did not give a speech . . .

. . . the Potomac Interceptor release is poised to become the largest sewage spill in U.S. history.
Reportedly approaching one of the largest wastewater spills in US history, the Potomac Interceptor collapse is now entering a pivotal stretch as DC Water ramps up pumping capacity to 114 million gallons per day, while E. coli levels near the collapse site remain staggeringly high.

While we're on the topic of toxic effluent, I give you the recently discovered ramblings of Eric "Yum-Yum" Swalwell, a vile, compromised Chi-Com intel asset posing as an American politician.

Graphic erotic poetry written by Democrat California gubernatorial candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell resurfaced this week, along with his past advocacy for pardoning two criminals convicted of killing law enforcement officers.
Swalwell, who announced his run for governor on late night TV, was born in Iowa and primarily raised in the San Francisco Bay Area with three younger brothers. He attended Campbell University in North Carolina starting in 1999, where he majored in government and politics and contributed to the student newspaper. One piece, a raunchy poem titled “Hungover From Burgundy,” depicts two lovers chasing each other, with blood coming into play as they kiss. The magazine described Swalwell at the time as an “active member of the Campbell University student body,” a writer for the Campbell Times and someone completing his third screenplay. (RELATED: Inside The Scenario Where Two Republicans Win California’s Jungle Primary)
“And there beauty was, formless and magnificent— A flurry of limbs and nails. She chased and I ran, I chased and She ran. Atop my hotel she stopped And I lept for cloth and tan, My anxious arm she bit— my scar is beautiful. While I screamed, She bent her lips to mine. Kissing till veins imploded and exploded, Till blood rolled down our chins, For bounded mouths cannot speak of parting,” Swalwell wrote.

Given that this is Swalwell, I read the word "parting" as Farting".

While we're on the subject of noxious flatus, there is quite a contingent of individuals putatively Americans and on the American winter Olympic team who are opening most of their time running down their own country.

Arguably the most execrable is this Eileen Gu shit-whore . . . Who actually competes for the Red Chinese team!

Gu of course isn’t the first American athlete to defect to China, but she’s certainly the most prominent—and likely the most wealthy. According to Forbes, Gu is the fourth highest-paid female athlete in the world, in just a few years amassing a fortune worth some $23 million. Of that, only about $100,000 comes from skiing, and the rest from lucrative modeling contracts and major brand endorsements, many in China where Gu is a superstar.
This makes Gu an ideal ambassador and propagandist for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In that role, she has dutifully avoided answering even the most basic questions about her citizenship. To compete for China in the Olympics, Gu must have a Chinese passport, and since China doesn’t allow dual citizenship there has been speculation for years that she renounced her American citizenship.
Gu, who speaks Mandarin and spent time in China throughout her life, maintains a carefully cultivated public persona and refuses to engage any questions about her citizenship or her absentee American father, whose name isn’t public. She carefully redirects any politically tinged questions, adopts woke positions on most issues she does speak about, and reliably parrots CCP talking points about how wonderful and open China is.
Gu speaks Mandarin and has spent time in China her entire life, yet she lives, trains, and goes to school in America. She lives in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in San Francisco (Sea Cliff), attended the private prep school University High School (tuition $68,090), and has enjoyed all the benefits of a posh upbringing in the United States. Yet Gu competes for China on the world stage, and has enriched herself immensely from it.
This makes her a traitor, more or less. Or at the very least a defector—and a useful one. American news outlets are covering her like they did in the last one—hyping her up as if she’s an American athlete, not a Chinese one.

I haven't watched the Olympics in years, as I suspect neither have many of you for the same reasons that have led to the rapid decline of pro football, basketball, baseball and every other professional American sports league. All have degenerated into repositories of politicized, anti-American, amoral perversion. Oh well.

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DIVINE’s MADNESS — Ongoing Leftist Fueled Transgender Terrorism

The night before the suspect stormed the hockey tournament with a gun, he ominously replied, “keep bashing us. but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK” in response to an anti-trans X post.
Trans dad ID’d as RI hockey shooter who gunned down family as sick posts revealed
The shooter liked to go by Roberta.
Transgender Man Opens Fire at High School Hockey Game
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
According to the Sun report, Carroll County Sheriff James T. “Jim” DeWees is taking a hard stance regarding how he protects community members.
VIDEO: Maryland Sheriffs Vow to Defy Democrat Gov. Wes Moore’s Ban on Working with ICE
Defend the 612 will instruct viewers of the Feb. 23 virtual “Jury Nullification Training” on how to use false jury verdicts to fight “unjust laws and political persecution,” according to an event description on its website first reported by Alpha News. The Trump administration has charged hundreds of people with impeding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations around the country, including at Minneapolis protests during ICE’s enforcement surge in the Twin Cities that is now winding down after weeks of immigration arrests. (RELATED: Soros-Linked Activists Train DC Jurors To Protect ‘Marginalized’ Defendants)
Lefty Radicals Concoct Strategy To Let Anti-ICE Agitators Get Off Scot-Free
Look to the moral foundations formed from the beginning.
Yes, Leftists are 'Evil.' Here’s How They Got That Way — and Why You’ll Never Change Them
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"BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Wilkinson faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
CBP Officer Arrested for Sheltering Illegal Immigrant ‘Girlfriend’ Who is Also His Niece.
“…there will be a small force, a security force, what we call RFQs, that will be our security forces, that will respond to when our agents are out.”
Homan: ‘Small Force’ to Remain in Minnesota After Ending ICE Surge
"The program allows ICE to enhance collaboration ... to protect the homeland through the arrest aliens."
Local Police Agreements With ICE Surge 950% In First Year Of Trump’s Second Term
[So-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden not only allowed 6 million to 10 million illegal aliens to walk across the border during his term — he also granted a “quiet amnesty” to nearly 1 million. We’re only learning this now, as the Department of Justice revealed Biden officials improperly “terminated,” “dismissed” or “closed” that many cases before the nation’s immigration tribunals. (Reinstate all the cases - jjs)
Biden’s ‘quiet amnesty’ for nearly 1 million illegal immigrants
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
This man-caused disaster not merely a technical breakdown but a profound public health, environmental, and governance crisis affecting downstream communities.
Potomac Interceptor Rupture Poised to Become the Largest Sewage Spill in U.S. History (Even greater than any Maxine Waters speech - jjs)
Federal judges are losing their minds.
Fed Judge Rules George Washington Home Must Call Him a Racist Because of “Harm and Anxiety”
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Western authorities would do well to examine this claim. But they won’t.
Jihadi Says ISIS Are ‘Real Muslim. They Make Sharia’
A man who was convicted of plotting a terrorist attack on a British consulate is now campaigning for public office in the UK’s second-largest city.
Convicted Terrorist Might Hold Office In European Country He Plotted Against
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
He's one of the most hideous Jew-haters around - jjs
Spike Lee Wears Pro-'Palestinian' Outfit to NBA All-Star Game with Israeli-Born Player Competing
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Although Trump has had an adversarial relationship with the corporate media, he has set that all aside to call Savannah Guthrie and assure her all the tools of the federal government are available to bring her mother home safely.
Trump Warns Kidnappers Death Penalty Awaits if Nancy Guthrie Not Returned Alive
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
A night honoring free speech raises a few uncomfortable questions.
Is Free Speech Really the Highest Value?
If our lefty friends aren’t yet organized for this, it must be that the AI tech lords are paying them lots of money to keep quiet.
Why Hasn't the Left Declared War on AI?
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
Seriously, this is nuts, but this is what you get when you give Democrats veto-proof majorities over your state. See if you can follow this… Refined gasoline is being shipped out of the United States thousands of miles to the Bahamas… And then it is shipped from the Bahamas to the failed state of California.
Stupid California Laws Mean 40 Percent of Oil Imported from Bahamas
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Alleged ICE activity at schools is being used as a pretext to indoctrinate children.
Teachers Are Fomenting Anti-ICE Hysteria
Students who walked out of Enumclaw High School in Washington state Friday assaulted and threatened to shoot independent journalists.
‘If I Had A Gun, I’d Pew-Pew Your Motherf*cking A*S!’: Students Assault, Threaten Jounalists At Anti-ICE Walkout
Hundreds of students in the Seattle-area school district took part in the Feb. 2 walkout, some of whose parents backed the protest, according to the Seattle Times. Vance Glawe, who drove to the protest to pull his son, a seventh-grade student at Cascade Middle School, out of the event, confronted members of the school board with fiery remarks during his two-minute address.
‘You Exposed Him To Real Danger!’: Father Goes Thermonuclear On School Board After Anti-ICE Walkout
The findings highlight concerns about free expression and intellectual growth being stifled on college campuses.
Study Finds 88% of College Students Fake Being Leftists to Fit In, Score Better Grades.
More money, worse results.
The $946 Billion School Mirage
Local governments spend far too much to achieve such meager results. Here’s how to begin turning it around.
To Improve K–12 Schools, Track Educational Return on Investment
SECOND AMENDMENT
“We, the undersigned members of Congress, have waited patiently to know how many records ATF is currently maintaining in its illegal, digital, searchable gun registry, also known as the Out-of-Business Records Imaging System (OBRIS).” (I thought OBrIS was an Irish mohel - jjs)
Congress Demands Answers From ATF Over Backdoor Gun Registry
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
The third world African hellhole will have securer elections than the world’s greatest superpower…because they don’t have Democrats.
Somalia passes voter ID laws before America does
‘We can move the legislation under CURRENT rules without ‘nuking’ the filibuster,’ Roy pointed out.
EXCLUSIVE: Chip Roy Lays Out How Senate Can Vote On SAVE Act Without Nuking Filibuster
Trust must be earned through transparency, consistent rules, and procedures that make fraud difficult and detection easy.
Nobody Trusts Elections -- That’s the Crisis
L'AFFAIRE EPSTEIN
Cousin of J.B. . .
Thomas Pritzker Leaves Role with Hyatt Hotels over Ties to Epstein
French police raided the Arab World Institute in Paris on Monday as part of a probe into Jack Lang, the former French culture minister, and his daughter Caroline — after Lang’s name appeared hundreds of times in the Epstein files.
French Epstein Probe Raids Institute Tied To Islamic World
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Swalwell reportedly penned the poetry at age 19 when he was enrolled at Campbell’s University while contributing to the literary magazine The Lyricist. One poem, titled “Hungover From Burgundy,” tells a story of two lovers having “formless and magnificent” sex on top of a hotel roof in a “flurry of limbs and nails.”
Eric Swalwell’s Past Erotic Poetry Surfaces: ‘Blood Rolled Down Our Chins’
While reportedly writing for the Campbell Times under the nickname “The Radically Poetic,” Swalwell used an opinion piece to urge Americans to “wake up” and research the stories of former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier. Both had been convicted of killing law enforcement officers and were serving long prison sentences at the time.
Eric Swalwell’s Violent Sex Poems And Pleas To Pardon Cop Killer Resurface
John Arnold’s Action Now Initiative pretends to be a social welfare organization to enjoy tax-exempt status while spending heavily on campaigns, American Accountability Foundation (AAF) alleged in an IRS complaint obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. In one instance, Action Now Initiative’s IRS filings seemingly failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on a 2020 ranked-choice voting campaign in Alaska, AAF told the agency Feb. 4, citing public records.
EXCLUSIVE: Texas Facebook Billionaire Accused Of Violating Law To Fund Liberal Causes
If this had been a Breitbart News report about Hillary Clinton gone wrong, it would currently be leading the nightly news and even have pseudo-comedic mentions on late-night. . . The story here is of critical importance because this is precisely the playbook that was run during the first impeachment, and almost certainly represents a botched trial run for new impeachments come November 2026, if the Republicans lose the House.
The ‘Bombshell’ Trump Impeachment That Imploded.
POLITICS
Chlamydia Harris and JD Vance hold leads, but "not sure" also gets double-digit support.
Who Leads In 2028 Presidential Race And In 2026 Midterm Elections? I&I/TIPP Poll
“There is little room within today’s party for genuine moderation. . . My candidate and I spent hours completing detailed questionnaires. . . Mamdani worked as a housing counselor at Chhaya CDC, a South-Asian serving nonprofit. . . JB Pritzker has pushed back against Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.”
Why the Democrat Party Can’t Moderate
When you wage a wildly unpopular crusade against a majority of the American people, it’s only a matter of time before the ship sinks.
Democrats are always on the wrong side of 80/20 issues
Moore proclaimed himself a man of integrity who has never exaggerated anything about his life
Democrat Wes Moore Stumbles During CBS Town Hall When Asked To Address Free Beacon Reporting About Exaggerations and Falsehoods in His Life Story
IRAN ON the BRINK?!
The demoralizing effect of murdering protesters.
In Iran, Cracks Begin to Show Even in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
He characterized Iran’s ruling establishment as ideologically driven, stating, “We’re dealing with radical Shiite clerics… with people who make geopolitical decisions on the basis of pure theology.”
Marco Rubio on Iran Talks: ‘We Are Dealing With Radical Shiite Clerics’ Driven by ‘Pure Theology’
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS
One huge question hangs over Thursday’s meeting of President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace: What’s the plan to de-Hamas-ify Gaza? (Meh, how to de-Islamify the world?! - jjs)
Trump’s Board of Peace and Hamas cannot co-exist
The targeting of Israel and dead men walking.
IDF Takes Out Senior Member of 'Palestinian' Islamic Jihad
Commander of Islamic Jihad-Nukhba forces also killed in Israeli strikes.
IDF Eliminates Hamas Terrorist Who Filmed Himself Infiltrating Re’im Military Base
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"We are part of one civilization – Western civilization."
Marco Rubio's epic Munich speech underscores JD Vance's plea for Europe to fight for freedom
The Secretary of State goes to Munich.
Marco’s Turn
Nothing is more pernicious than the enemy within, the self-doubt that erases any confidence in the principles that have made the West uniquely free and prosperous.
Rubio’s Munich Speech: A Powerful Message Delivered With Grace and Diplomacy
"There is no constitutional right to a visa. A visa is permission to enter our country as a visitor.”
Rubio Warns Visas Will Be Revoked, Praises Orbán During Budapest Visit
Clinton also acknowledged during the same conference that migration in the United States had gone “too far.”
‘Sorry It Makes You Nervous’: Hillary Clinton Gets Into Testy Exchange With Czech Deputy PM Slamming ‘Woke Revolution’
The Argentinian explained that they have already tried that under Peronist fascism and it didn't work well for them.
The White Suit of Death strikes again, this time schooling Titty-Caca AOC on the consequences of her 'wealth tax'
One man. One prison. One broken promise.
Jimmy Lai and the Broken Covenant of Hong Kong
This seizure may prove to be more than an isolated enforcement action; it signals that Japan is prepared to move from warnings to concrete penalties against China’s distant‑water raiders.
Japan Nets Chinese Trawler as Global Backlash to Beijing’s Fishing Raiders Grows
Nikhil Gupta, 54, pled guilty on Friday to three charges of conspiracy to hire an assassin to kill Sikh separatist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in New York City in 2023.
Indian Man Pleads Guilty to Assassination Plot Against Sikh Leader in New York City
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Beijing’s charm offensive is no outreach but strategy: RIMPAC must remain closed to the PLA Navy, whose past “engagement” yielded spying, coercion, and weakened U.S. alliances.
Don’t Let the Chinese Navy Invade Pearl Harbor… Again!
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
A reminder that the cold isn’t always the worst thing you can catch in February.
New ‘Ringworm’ Outbreak Turns Minnesota Into America’s STD Fungus Hotspot
Massive. Loud. Power-sucking. What else is there to hate about our new-age industrial hubs, the data centers that are powering the internet and AI revolution? According to a Pennsylvania doctor, it’s their light.
Doctor Points Out Unnoticed Health Danger Coming From Our New-Age Industrial Centers: Light Pollution
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Across the country, reliably red communities like this one assume their schools reflect their values. One by one, they’re learning that assumption is wrong.
5 Things To Know About The Secret Wisconsin School Trans Bathroom Policy
Schumer’s introduction of the bill is largely seen as an attempt to shore up support among more radical and progressive factions in the Democrat Party, which have become increasingly critical of his leadership in Congress.
Schemer Pushes Bill to Elevate Pride Flag to Same Status as the American Flag.
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
U.S. athletes who use the Olympics as an avenue to thumb their noses at America deserve nothing but scorn and defeat.
Rooting Against Anti-American Olympians Is The Patriotic Thing To Do
For the South, none of these actual facts about Lincoln mattered. The South had developed Lincoln Derangement Syndrome, and was not going to allow itself to be ruled by Lincoln no matter what, even if that rule was weak and ineffectual.
Only the power-hungry truly lust for war
Christian Toto: Three new films prove rom-com era didn't die ... it just suffered severe neglect
Wake Up, Hollywood – Audiences Want Romantic Movies
HITHER & YON
Duvall’s wife Luciana released a statement on Facebook Monday, writing, “Bob passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love and comfort.” (RIP - jjs)
Robert Duvall, Oscar Winner, ‘The Godfather’ and ‘Apocalypse Now’ Star, Dies at 95
From Frank Burns to The Apostle, a six-decade career wrestled honestly with faith.
Actor Robert Duvall’s quiet testimony on screen
Here are some of Justice Scalia’s best moments in remembrance of the 10-year anniversary of his passing.
Here Are 10 Great Justice Scalia Quotes To Mark A Decade Since His Passing

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1
Early day today.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2026 06:02 AM (x0n13)

2 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 17, 2026 06:04 AM (bQ4nt)

3 I nooded.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 17, 2026 06:06 AM (bQ4nt)

4 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2026 06:06 AM (iMotb)

5 You're up early, J.J.

Posted by: Casket manufacturers at February 17, 2026 06:07 AM (O7YUW)

6 Top 10!

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 06:07 AM (lXoJ5)

7 Off death-box sock!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 17, 2026 06:07 AM (O7YUW)

8 So JJ, did you just wake up early or is your clock off?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 06:08 AM (lXoJ5)

9 Nice "American Thinker" article on Robert Duvall. Thanks, J.J.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2026 06:09 AM (Nx5jP)

10 Laissez les bon temps rouler!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, because I only get to say this once a year at February 17, 2026 06:09 AM (3+0K7)

11
When will Barky, he of "Apes, Grottoes, and Figs" poetry fame, stage the all time greatest poetry slam with Swallowswell?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 17, 2026 06:10 AM (xG4kz)

12 And please please please let The Right Rev. Al Sharpton give Jesse's eulogy.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 17, 2026 06:10 AM (3+0K7)

13
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 17, 2026 06:11 AM (tljrc)

14
It was Robert Duvall who made "Lonesome Dove" an epic production.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 17, 2026 06:13 AM (xG4kz)

15 In other news, Robert Duval has died.

RIP Bobby.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 17, 2026 06:14 AM (XV/Pl)

16 I had no idea Jesse Jackson was still alive.

(shrugs)

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 17, 2026 06:15 AM (sAmhv)

17 Morning again everyone, thx JJ
Hope Mrs JJ is doing well
From Pixy post, Duvall died yesterday, Jesse Jackson died last night and the Rhode Island shooter was a deranged tranny.
Eventful 24 HRS. What's in our stars today?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2026 06:15 AM (Ggsrp)

18 It would seem that no-one has ever seen Wes Moore and The Truth in the same room, at the same time.

Total strangers who have never met.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2026 06:16 AM (iMotb)

19 Jessy Jackson died?

Bye from me, a Hymie!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2026 06:17 AM (7xyr6)

20 What's in our stars today?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2026 06:15 AM (Ggsrp)

Pain.

Posted by: Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam at February 17, 2026 06:17 AM (3+0K7)

21 Another nail in the EU's coffin:

https://tinyurl.com/5n75z9kj

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2026 06:18 AM (7xyr6)

22 If we look at recent mass shootings through the lens of Basic Pattern Recognition....does anything become apparent ?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2026 06:19 AM (iMotb)

23 Every time you see or hear "civil rights icon" today, just substitute in your head "race-baiting shakedown artist."

Posted by: one hour sober at February 17, 2026 06:20 AM (Y1sOo)

24 Amanda Askell is another WEF plant:

https://tinyurl.com/vcvs4uw2

They need to be culled before the rest of us are killed. I'm not exaggerating.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2026 06:22 AM (7xyr6)

25 @21/Biden's Dog: So they're crazy, and that IS their problem.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 17, 2026 06:22 AM (O7YUW)

26 >>>Whoa...I had not realized that Jesse Jackson had died earlier this morning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

>Well... bye.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 17, 2026 06:25 AM (gVUi7)

27 My favorite Robert Duvall story was from a Marine who was an Aviation Mechanic. Robert came out with a couple of PAOs because the movie The Great Santini was being filmed and he wanted to sit in a cockpit to get an understanding of his role.

So he sits in the plane and his hands are about to grab onto the ejection handles. The Marine stopped him which caused the PAOs to start screaming at him for what he did.

Robert looked at them and said "Gentlemen, this young man just stopped me from making a stupid mistake. Back off and let him do his job."

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 06:28 AM (lXoJ5)

28 Jesse Jackson has passed away at age 84

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 06:28 AM (GITLP)

29 The Dems are going to turn the Jesse Jackson funeral into a spectacle that will dwarf McCains. If you remember the Paul Wellstone funeral "rally" in Minnesota, the Jackson funeral rally will occur in many cities. SHIT SHOW INCOMING

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2026 06:28 AM (Ggsrp)

30 If we look at recent mass shootings through the lens of Basic Pattern Recognition....does anything become apparent ?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

If crows show evidence of pattern recognition, they're intelligent. When I do it, it's called transphobia.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 06:28 AM (lXoJ5)

31 Quick check

Yep. Jane Fonda is still wasting my air.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 06:29 AM (lXoJ5)

32 Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 06:28 AM (lXoJ5)

PAO?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 17, 2026 06:30 AM (3+0K7)

33 >>So he sits in the plane and his hands are about to grab onto the ejection handles.

The seat should've been pinned.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 17, 2026 06:30 AM (Y1sOo)

34 @21/Biden's Dog: So they're crazy, and that IS their problem.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 17, 2026 06:22 AM (O7YUW)
-

As you can see by the news, the craziness is global. The US is not exempt. I'm seeing posts of warped progressive child indoctrination in schools all across the US.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2026 06:31 AM (VFv8R)

35 If we look at recent mass shootings through the lens of Basic Pattern Recognition....does anything become apparent ?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

They all consumed nuclear reactor coolant?

Posted by: Brian Stelter at February 17, 2026 06:32 AM (3+0K7)

36
"Huh het hudebba, heh hobbadobba nebba hefadep. Hebba dink."

-Inspiring words from Jesse Jackson

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 17, 2026 06:34 AM (VWtfl)

37
So the bad JJ has shuffled off this mortal coil? The best thing to say is just, may God have mercy on his soul.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 17, 2026 06:35 AM (tgvbd)

38
Jesse Jackson has passed away at age 84
Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 06:28 AM (GITLP)

He was around for so long I thought he was about 109.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 17, 2026 06:36 AM (tgvbd)

39 $uper Je$$e Jack$on retired at 84...a life well spent I guess.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 06:38 AM (MUJd1)

40 Ironic how NYC went from Hymietown to Sharia Law.

The times, they be a-changin'.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 17, 2026 06:39 AM (gVUi7)

41 And just passing note on "Wuthering Heights. It is set in Victorian England, not Paris or Milan. The outfit she's wearing and the huge cross are silly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2026 06:39 AM (PFs9e)

42 "PAO?"

Public Affairs Officer

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2026 06:39 AM (iMotb)

43 Willowed from ONT:

Yes, sir, I can boogie
If you stay, you can't go wrong
I can boogie, boogie-woogie
All night long

Not the song. The meeting:

https://tinyurl.com/4hj8utjx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2026 06:40 AM (VFv8R)

44 Good morning J.J. and fellow earlybirds.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at February 17, 2026 06:42 AM (kpS4V)

45
It is set in Victorian England, not Paris or Milan.

More accurately, Georgian England.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 17, 2026 06:42 AM (tgvbd)

46 Wait. O'Donnell, a known leftist, actually asked tough questions of another Dem? Has the Moon suddenly moved farther from the Earth?

Oh, wait. It's CBS. Maybe Bari Weiss is insisting that her "reporters" actually report something of substance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 06:45 AM (wzUl9)

47 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 17, 2026 06:42 AM (tgvbd

Thanks for the correction. I still think the costuming appears to be atrocious.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2026 06:45 AM (PFs9e)

48 I was hoping against hope that the Wash. state students were protesting *the ICE protest" -- that they were cursing the journalists for running interference for the crazies. Oh, well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 06:46 AM (wzUl9)

49 My favorite Robert Duvall story was from a Marine who was an Aviation Mechanic. Robert came out with a couple of PAOs because the movie The Great Santini was being filmed and he wanted to sit in a cockpit to get an understanding of his role.

So he sits in the plane and his hands are about to grab onto the ejection handles. The Marine stopped him which caused the PAOs to start screaming at him for what he did.

Robert looked at them and said "Gentlemen, this young man just stopped me from making a stupid mistake. Back off and let him do his job."
Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026

***
I'd never heard that. Good on Robert.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 06:49 AM (wzUl9)

50 This made me laugh. From Copilot

The costume design for "Wuthering Heights" has been a subject of much debate and criticism. Critics argue that the costumes do not adhere to historical accuracy, with some pointing out that Cathy's wedding dress is inspired by a 1951 Charles James haute couture gown and that the use of cellophane on her wedding night is a material first invented in 1908. These costumes were designed by Jacqueline Durran, who has previously won Oscars and BAFTAs for her work on other films. Despite the criticism, some have described the costumes as "wild and wonderful" by Vogue. The film's director, Emerald Fennell, has stated that the costumes were not created with historical accuracy in mind, but rather to convey the mood and style of the characters within the film's narrative

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2026 06:49 AM (PFs9e)

51 the Potomac sewage spill is not the worst disaster in the area; that is confined to the centre of town....

Posted by: paulnjax at February 17, 2026 06:51 AM (PPnyU)

52 I'd never heard that. Good on Robert.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

It's from a collection of Marine stories called "Chicken Soup for the Marine Soul." I had the honor of being printed in it.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 06:51 AM (lXoJ5)

53 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2026 06:52 AM (idVxd)

54 it's too early for horror

Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2026 06:52 AM (ZxPkt)

55 it's too early for horror
Posted by: Don Black at February 17, 2026

***
And yet the Movies! Channel is running things like Blood of Dracula and The She-Creature (no connection to HRC, AOC, or Elizabeth "High Cheekbones" Warren).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 06:58 AM (wzUl9)

56
Good morning J.J.; I hope herself is doing well and on the road to recovery.

Posted by: Auspex at February 17, 2026 07:01 AM (Y8DZL)

57 I'm an Illinois resident (unfortunately) and the lefty tards here are making that fat commie tard kid that punched the ICE shirt wearing kid at a school in the North suburbs into some sort of a Messiah. Praising his violence and intolerance. He's (protecting brown people from being harassed." And other such commie nonsense. It's amazing we made it this far as a society.

Some teacher indoctrinated that kid, some parent sis the same and they both cheer on the violence.

As I told some relatives a fair number of years ago "We are at war. And you don't know what time it is." I'm not so sure their understanding of the situation has changed.

Posted by: GigantorX at February 17, 2026 07:03 AM (d15/C)

58 Jesse did utter "Stay out the bushes". Agreed.

Posted by: kingsman at February 17, 2026 07:04 AM (ehY6c)

59 Martin Luther King Jr's protege is dead? Free at last!

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2026 07:05 AM (vFG9F)

60 This makes her a traitor, more or less.

I really despise how casually the word "traitor" is thrown around. She's not endangering American lives or selling secrets. She's just some chick who can ski really well.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 07:06 AM (lXoJ5)

61 38Jesse Jackson has passed away at age 84
Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 06:28 AM (GITLP)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

A long time passing.

I ran into him once at the University Club in Chicago 40 years ago, being treated to lunch by a group of old, fat, white business types. Grifting, no doubt.

Posted by: Auspex at February 17, 2026 07:07 AM (Y8DZL)

62 59 Martin Luther King Jr's protege is dead? Free at last!
Posted by: fd

Literally Jessie wore his bloody shirt. Performance art. Some moron would know the story better than I.

Posted by: Auspex at February 17, 2026 07:10 AM (Y8DZL)

63 Early voting today in TX
AMF Cornyn

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 07:11 AM (gbOdA)

64 Jackson: "Damn man, its hot down here!"
McCain: "Yeah, but it's a dry heat."

Posted by: Boswell at February 17, 2026 07:11 AM (V7158)

65 >>>A woman who was seen leaving the Pawtucket police station earlier in the day said the gunman was her father, who “has mental health issues” and was “very sick.”

So much for those red flag laws.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 07:12 AM (dK+Kv)

66 Female alias: Roberta Esposito. So the fucker not only identified as a female, but at an Italian southern at that. Esposito is a Neapolitan surname.

Posted by: Anacleto Mitraglia at February 17, 2026 07:12 AM (cYhtI)

67 Any odds yet on the under/over on # of people shot at Jesse's Chicago services?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2026 07:13 AM (Ggsrp)

68

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 17, 2026 07:14 AM (DDJSl)

69 Robert Duvall was the original villain, Harry Roat Jr., in the Broadway production of Wait Until Dark[/i w/ Lee Remick as the blind heroine Susy. That was about the time he appeared as a cab driver in a tiny role in Point Blank w/ Lee Marvin. He'd done some TV before that, a Twilight Zone and a Fugitive. Then came The Godfather, Joe Kidd w/ Eastwood, Apocalypse Now ("I love the smell of napalm in the morning" and "Charlie don't surf"), The Great Santini, Lonesome Dove and Open Range, and he even played Robert E. Lee.

He was apparently a conservative Republican all his life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 07:15 AM (wzUl9)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 07:16 AM (wzUl9)

71 A Libertarian tranny? Trans Fonzie?

Posted by: Wally at February 17, 2026 07:16 AM (0e5Te)

72 As I told some relatives a fair number of years ago "We are at war. And you don't know what time it is." I'm not so sure their understanding of the situation has changed.

Posted by: GigantorX at February 17, 2026 07:03 AM (d15/C)

You can tell people that here, and they'll tell you to take your black pills elsewhere.

Some people need to see and feel more, I guess.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 07:16 AM (dK+Kv)

73 >>I ran into him once at the University Club in Chicago 40 years ago, being treated to lunch by a group of old, fat, white business types. Grifting, no doubt.

"Gentlemen, you will each donate $50,000 to PUSH or I will go to the media and tell them you called me the N-word. Are we all clear on that?"

Posted by: one hour sober at February 17, 2026 07:16 AM (Y1sOo)

74 Ooh! Ooh! (Imagine that in Gunther Toody voice)

I want federal judge Cynthia Rufe to order the “ characteristics of whiteness”” poster in the Smithsonian museum of African American history etc. to be RESTORED to it’s previous prominent position!

Posted by: Fenderbender at February 17, 2026 07:17 AM (1FEc1)

75 "the gunman was her father, who “has mental health issues” and was “very sick."

This describes EVERY tranny and gender-confused person. And leftists in general.

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2026 07:17 AM (vFG9F)

76 the gunman was her father, who “has mental health issues” and was “very sick."

This describes EVERY tranny and gender-confused person. And leftists in general.
Posted by: fd at February 17, 2026

***
We used to put people like that safely away from the rest of us.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 07:18 AM (wzUl9)

77 Ooh! Ooh! (Imagine that in Gunther Toody voice) . . .

Posted by: Fenderbender at February 17, 2026

***
"There's a traffic jam in Harlem that's backed up to Jackson Heights!
A Scout troop's short a child,
Khrushchev's due at Idlewild --
Car 54, Where Are You?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 07:20 AM (wzUl9)

78 Let's discuss stereotypes. You see a big hairy guy in a dress. What assumptions can you make?

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2026 07:21 AM (vFG9F)

79 McCain: "Yeah, but it's a dry heat."
Posted by: Boswell

I was told by my Platoon Commander to help a young Marine prepare for his first trip to 29 Palms. It went like this:

"It's hot. Very hot. It sucks away your moisture and your will to live."
"Yeah but it's a dry-"
"And I swear before God if you say dry heat while we're out there, I will take my dozer, bury you and when the CO asks me why I did it, I will say you said the phrase 'dry heat' and he'll praise me for doing a good job."

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 07:21 AM (lXoJ5)

80 "You see a big hairy guy in a dress. What assumptions can you make?"

You're watching MASH?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2026 07:22 AM (iMotb)

81 I ran into him once at the University Club in Chicago 40 years ago, being treated to lunch by a group of old, fat, white business types. Grifting, no doubt.
Posted by: Auspex at February 17, 2026 07:07 AM (Y8DZL)

You couldn't put it into reverse and do it again? Coulda saved the country a lot of trouble over the decades.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 17, 2026 07:22 AM (uQesX)

82 Let's discuss stereotypes. You see a big hairy guy in a dress. What assumptions can you make?
Posted by: fd at February 17, 2026

***
It's Mardi Gras on Bourbon and St. Ann Streets?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 07:22 AM (wzUl9)

83 Let's discuss stereotypes. You see a big hairy guy in a dress. What assumptions can you make?

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2026 07:21 AM (vFG9F)

He is more likely than the average person, at any point, to pull out a gun and start shooting people around him. So, condition red and GTFO.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 07:24 AM (dK+Kv)

84
RIP, Lucky Ned Pepper

Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at February 17, 2026 07:24 AM (DDJSl)

85 Another violent democrat homosexual killing folks.

Getting routine now.

Posted by: What Is To Be Done? at February 17, 2026 07:24 AM (hXJe5)

86 Let's discuss stereotypes. You see a big hairy guy in a dress. What assumptions can you make?
Posted by: fd at February 17, 2026

You were right to get an EDC?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 17, 2026 07:24 AM (uQesX)

87 "We used to put people like that safely away from the rest of us."

Is that the 'Before Times'?

When we also put convicted criminals in prison, and removed people from our country that were here illegally?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2026 07:24 AM (iMotb)

88 Florida has 342 participating agencies, the most of any state. Texas is a close second with 296 agreements, followed by Tennessee with 63, Pennsylvania with 58, and Alabama with 53, according to the report.

Abbott is a dick but these are good numbers.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 07:25 AM (gbOdA)

89 Come on, Eileen!

Posted by: Flakey Foont at February 17, 2026 07:25 AM (kvDvI)

90 "It's hot. Very hot. It sucks away your moisture and your will to live."

***
So I found when I visited Tucson in June of '85. In the shade (where there was shade) I didn't realize it, but when I got back home and washed my face, I could taste the salt. I'd been sweating heavily but didn't know it.

I encountered the same thing in Carlsbad, NM, in '93. First time I ever saw the heat index being *lower* than the recorded temp.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 07:26 AM (wzUl9)

91 RIP, Lucky Ned Pepper
Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at February 17, 2026

***
I'd forgotten that! "That's bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 07:27 AM (wzUl9)

92
CBP Officer Arrested for Sheltering Illegal Immigrant ‘Girlfriend’ Who is Also His Niece.

-

So, Somalian?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 17, 2026 07:27 AM (4qmLN)

93 The tool for this deception was the DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review — “EOIR,” pronounced like Winnie the Pooh’s sad donkey friend — which oversees deportation cases.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan tracked this scam, and in October 2024, his staff issued a report revealing that “more than 700,000 illegal aliens have had their cases dismissed, terminated, or administratively closed” under Biden, which “allowed those aliens to stay in the country indefinitely without facing immigration consequences.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 07:27 AM (gbOdA)

94 90 I remember crawling under a tarp in a desperate need to find shade and hearing the DJ cheerfully announce that it was 124 degrees.

So glad I was never there more than two weeks a year.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 07:28 AM (lXoJ5)

95 Amanda Askell is another WEF plant:

https://tinyurl.com/vcvs4uw2

They need to be culled before the rest of us are killed. I'm not exaggerating.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2026 06:22 AM (7xyr6)
=================
Some people are serious about this. It's insane.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2026 07:28 AM (Km8js)

96 I loved Robert Duvall as Robert E. Lee in Gods and Generals. Martin Sheen was good in Gettysburg but I thought Duvall captured Lee's presence better.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at February 17, 2026 07:29 AM (h/O4U)

97 Federal judges are losing their minds.
Fed Judge Rules George Washington Home Must Call Him a Racist Because of “Harm and Anxiety”

We have a serious mental health problem on the bench. Who is vetting these people, and why are they not being removed?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 17, 2026 07:29 AM (4qmLN)

98 Over at x people have gotten posts from the Rhode Island shooter tranny. Turns out he was a big fan of MTG and Massie. Says a lot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2026 07:32 AM (Ggsrp)

99 I loved Robert Duvall as Robert E. Lee in Gods and Generals. Martin Sheen was good in Gettysburg but I thought Duvall captured Lee's presence better.
Posted by: PA Dutchman at February 17, 2026

***
Duvall, I've read, was descended from Lee on his mother's side.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 07:32 AM (wzUl9)

100 98, I'm more concerned that they will try and pin him on MAGA. It certainly looks like that, unless that's what he wanted everyone to think on his way out the door.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 17, 2026 07:33 AM (BCuCF)

101 89 Come on, Eileen!
Posted by: Flakey Foont at February 17, 2026 07:25 AM (kvDvI)

That could be an observation, a direction or an exhortation!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 17, 2026 07:34 AM (x0n13)

102 97 Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 17, 2026 07:29 AM (4qmLN)

Nobody functionally, the donks nuke anyone sane and the GOP "sincerely" believes donk Presidents are entitled to nominate donk judges.

Just another thrilling service of CON inc.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 07:34 AM (MUJd1)

103 I had never heard of Costner's film Open Range before I ran across it on a Sunday movie on a local channel some years ago. At first I thought it was a Lonesome Dove prequel until I heard Costner's Charlie call him "Boss."

A gorgeous film it is, exciting and well-cast, with a superb performance by Duvall as well as the others.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 07:34 AM (wzUl9)

104 "I'm more concerned that they will try and pin him on MAGA. "

Oh, yeah, when I see a big hairy guy in a dress the first thing I think is "MAGA".

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2026 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

105 100 Posted by: Jaimo at February 17, 2026 07:33 AM (BCuCF)

Sure MTG and Massie hole are both "Maga par excellence."

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 07:35 AM (MUJd1)

106 Massie is MAGA?

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2026 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

107 CNN says Duvall lived in Middleburg, Va. amidst the Mellon and Dupont horse farms. Pretty country.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2026 07:35 AM (vDXKw)

108 104 Posted by: fd at February 17, 2026 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

That special brand of all-inclusive "hate" I guess...it is like when Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed is suddenly "far-right" when he goes sudden Jihadist syndrome.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 07:36 AM (MUJd1)

109 Come on, Eileen
Come on Eileen
Come , on Eileen
The comma is muy importante

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2026 07:36 AM (Ggsrp)

110 “Shipments on the circuitous route are increasing. California imported more gasoline in November than ever before, with more than 40% coming from the Bahamas,” Bloomberg reports. “The … phenomenon isn’t likely to disappear soon, thanks to a combination of disappearing oil refineries, a lack of interstate pipelines and a loophole in a 106-year-old maritime law.”

I want to see donkeys pulling newer model car down the 105.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 07:36 AM (gbOdA)

111 I had never heard of Costner's film Open Range before I ran across it on a Sunday movie on a local channel some years ago. At first I thought it was a Lonesome Dove prequel until I heard Costner's Charlie call him "Boss."

A gorgeous film it is, exciting and well-cast, with a superb performance by Duvall as well as the others.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 07:34 AM (wzUl9)
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Is that the one with Annette Bening in it? If so, I agree, a great western film.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2026 07:37 AM (vDXKw)

112 110 Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 07:36 AM (gbOdA)

They vote for it repeatedly, I'd love to say Mexifornians are just misguided and not self-destructively mentally-ill because I have in-laws there but no....they are all insane.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 07:37 AM (MUJd1)

113 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 07:41 AM (ExV1e)

114 Study Finds 88% of College Students Fake Being Leftists to Fit In, Score Better Grades.

And if you can fake that...

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 07:41 AM (gbOdA)

115 104, I know, LOL but still. He supposedly was a right winger. How, I don't know.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 17, 2026 07:42 AM (BCuCF)

116 "Jesse Jackson has passed away at age 84."

And the world became a slightly better place. Go to your just deserts, Mr. Jackson.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 17, 2026 07:43 AM (GgjRE)

117 The the Rhode Island shooter is evidence of the insanity of trannies from just looking at him. He's ugly as hell and you look at him and go "yeah , he's f**led in the head". But that's expected to be normal

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2026 07:43 AM (Ggsrp)

118 Yous guys really need to do more self promotion on the Cutjib Podcast.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 07:44 AM (Wp4UD)

119 Burn in hell, racist grifting agitator.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 07:44 AM (dK+Kv)

120 And if you can fake that...
Posted by: r hennigantx

I'm amazed that so many students felt safe admitting that. I don't have any faith that things would stay confidential.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 07:44 AM (lXoJ5)

121 This trans-sanity isn't all it is cracked up to be.

And to think the Democrats recruited these people to join the military.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 07:44 AM (2GVsD)

122 "We fear that ATF could have as many as 1.1-billion-gun registration records in its database, if ATF has continued with this historic pace and digitalized an average of 50 million firearm transaction records per year," the members of Congress reminded the ATF in the recent letter. "This is a violation of the federal prohibition on gun registration at 18 U.S.C. 926(a)(3)."

1. Pay cash for guns via trade site
2. Buy from dead people (widows often sell the whole lot)

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 07:45 AM (gbOdA)

123 An ugly man with tits.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 07:45 AM (Wp4UD)

124 "Ironic how NYC went from Hymietown to Sharia Law."

Well, the Muslims found a bunch of Jews that wouldn't defend themselves.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 17, 2026 07:45 AM (GgjRE)

125 Shut up and ski, stupid commie retard.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 07:46 AM (dK+Kv)

126 "An ugly man with tits.
Posted by: Boss Moss"

Money fixes almost everything.

Posted by: Bill Gates at February 17, 2026 07:46 AM (vFG9F)

127 An ugly man with tits.

But enough about Hillary

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 07:46 AM (2GVsD)

128 "Study Finds 88% of College Students Fake Being Leftists to Fit In, Score Better Grades."

88% seems high considering more than half of students are female.

Posted by: davidt at February 17, 2026 07:46 AM (Q+gd/)

129 116 "Jesse Jackson has passed away at age 84."

And the world became a slightly better place. Go to your just deserts, Mr. Jackson.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 17, 2026 07:43 AM (GgjRE)

A M F

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 07:46 AM (gbOdA)

130 "Study Finds 88% of College Students Fake Being Leftists to Get Laid"

Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at February 17, 2026 07:47 AM (vFG9F)

131 By next year Eileen Gu will be in a fortune cookie company

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 07:48 AM (2GVsD)

132 I am going to have to get some sale price ribeyes to celebrate.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 07:49 AM (Wp4UD)

133 Jesse Jackson has passed away at age 84.

Good Riddance. Hopefully Al Sharpton will be next and soon.

Posted by: Dr. Gurgles at February 17, 2026 07:50 AM (hXJe5)

134 116 "Jesse Jackson has passed away at age 84."

And the world became a slightly better place. Go to your just deserts, Mr. Jackson.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 17, 2026 07:43 AM (GgjRE)

Gobi? Sahara? Mojave?

Posted by: Count de Monet, having you on at February 17, 2026 07:51 AM (wVcYX)

135 Democrats will absolutely 100% force through a ban on dogs if they think it will gain them muslim votes.

And they may do it out of just spite-- to show you who really is in power.

But please, keep moistening your panties, childless cat women, over your Dream Date Mamdani.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 17, 2026 07:51 AM (HXT0k)

136 Jesse Jackson is finding out if what he stored up in the afterlife was worth it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 07:51 AM (2GVsD)

137 German Chocolate Cake.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 07:52 AM (Wp4UD)

138 Democrats are always on the wrong side of ~~80/20~~ 90/10 issues

Half of the 20% are lyin

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 07:52 AM (gbOdA)

139 "She's not endangering American lives or selling secrets. She's just some chick who can ski really well."

So, how would you categorize her in a way that shows she is similar to Lord Haw-Haw or other traitorous people while not quite over the line?

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 17, 2026 07:52 AM (GgjRE)

140 83 Let's discuss stereotypes. You see a big hairy guy in a dress. What assumptions can you make?

Posted by: fd at February 17, 2026 07:21 AM (vFG9F)

He is more likely than the average person, at any point, to pull out a gun and start shooting people around him. So, condition red and GTFO.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 07:24 AM (dK+Kv)

I always liked that faraise cartoon, "how nature says, do not touch" pretty much nails the average Trans dude at a pride parade.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 17, 2026 07:52 AM (i0Hi3)

141 Given that this is Swalwell, I read the word "parting" as Farting".

*********

That poem needs a rewrite by a REAL poet.

First Love - a limerick by E. Swallowall

We chased through the night, both afraid
My first ever chance to get laid
Farting is such sweet sorrow
Parting waits 'til tomorrow
When she takes off the cuffs...and gets paid

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2026 07:53 AM (qgHp7)

142 Moore, who has made multiple, provable falsehoods about his life story—including lying about military honors, his athletic achievements, and where he spent his childhood—didn’t answer O’Donnell’s question. Instead, the Maryland governor said he is a "person of honor and integrity" who has never exaggerated anything about his life, accusing the Free Beacon, which he derided as "a conservative blog," of engaging in the "politics of personal destruction" for reporting on his missing graduate thesis and his claim that he was enrolled there as a doctoral student.

Is he really black?

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 07:54 AM (gbOdA)

143 Stupid California Laws Mean 40 Percent of Oil Imported from Bahamas

Thanks for reminding me why I don't get my "news" from Breitbart.

50% eyewash, 45% ideological rhetoric, 5% over-simplified "facts". AI Slop meets Jingo Journalism.

Back in The Day, we would have gotten fewer political swipes and more details, like Who is Refining the Oil? Where did the petro products originate before (answer: Russia) How long has this been going on? What led up to this?

I'm weary of: This Sucks, Blame Democrats. Trust Me.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2026 07:55 AM (a4flb)

144 "keep bashing us. but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK"

White men get bashed more than any other group. Does that give me an excuse to shoot up a hockey game?

Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at February 17, 2026 07:55 AM (vFG9F)

145 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2026 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

146 >There's two bulls standing on top of a mountain. The younger one says to the older one: "Hey pop, let's say we run down there and fuck one of them cows". The older one says: "No son. Let’s walk down and fuck 'em all".

Colors (198

RIP Robert Duvall

Posted by: mr tmz at February 17, 2026 07:55 AM (rJ48h)

147 My wife and I worked for a prominent Park Avenue Jewish lawyer's family as live-in help for 3 years early in our marriage. He was a big supporter of Jesse Jackson and campaigned for him.The irony is that the lawyer's Dad's name was Hymie.

Posted by: Riverdale Tales at February 17, 2026 07:56 AM (oftw2)

148 Last night asked @ the Rule of Threes - Duvall, now Jackson, who's next???

Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 07:56 AM (XuXeR)

149 J.J., thank you. Such wonderful commentary, and the news articles are well selected.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2026 07:56 AM (u82oZ)

150 BTW, lots of videos coming out of Iran of women in burkas helping abduct protestors.
Who are then raped multiple times, and murdered, for their crime of protesting.
That is what women in power means-- the feminine touch on totalitarianism.

Rumors are the organs are being sold to China.

That is true islam
That is the future Democrats want for America if that is the price of holding power for a few more years now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 17, 2026 07:57 AM (HXT0k)

151 Gobi? Sahara? Mojave?"

His namesake - "The Empty Quarter"

Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 07:58 AM (XuXeR)

152 "Jesse Jackson has passed away at age 84."

*********

Only the good die young.

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2026 07:58 AM (qgHp7)

153 Why the Bahamas? Catalina is closer.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 07:58 AM (Wp4UD)

154 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at February 17, 2026 07:58 AM (53oGX)

155 Good morning JJ, Horde

Jesse Jackson wrote some beautiful pro-life rhetoric, before he went to the dark side.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 17, 2026 07:59 AM (/AZH/)

156 I'm amazed that so many students felt safe admitting that. I don't have any faith that things would stay confidential.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 07:44 AM (lXoJ5)

A generation of people who post videos of themselves having sex online, who post videos of themselves bashing employers (by name) online, who post videos of themselves confessing to crimes online...

Why is this surprising?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

157 That is what women in power means-- the feminine touch on totalitarianism."

I know, huh?

/Catherine The Great, Horse Enthusiast

Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 08:00 AM (XuXeR)

158 "Is he really black?"

Hung like a white boy

Posted by: Dawn Moore at February 17, 2026 08:00 AM (iMotb)

159 So, how would you categorize her in a way that shows she is similar to Lord Haw-Haw or other traitorous people while not quite over the line?
Posted by: Richard Cranium

The term "defector" is better from where I stand.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 08:00 AM (lXoJ5)

160 151 BTW, lots of videos coming out of Iran of women in burkas helping abduct protestors.
Who are then raped multiple times, and murdered, for their crime of protesting.
That is what women in power means-- the feminine touch on totalitarianism.

Rumors are the organs are being sold to China.

That is true islam
That is the future Democrats want for America if that is the price of holding power for a few more years now.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 17, 2026 07:57 AM (HXT0k)

Can you tell gender in a burka? Special forces have been using that strategy before...

I mean, you see eye slits...anyone could be under there, unless they are ripping them off...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 17, 2026 08:00 AM (tOcjL)

161 Unless he gets sick, Al Sharpton will probably be around for a while. He's only 71. Jesse Jackson was 84.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2026 08:00 AM (PFs9e)

162 Baby's up.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2026 08:01 AM (iMotb)

163 Robert Duvall and James Caen in Countdown from 1967.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExhfDNTAqHk

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 08:01 AM (2GVsD)

164 My thumb looks like a Tootsie Roll!

Posted by: AliasDumbAss at February 17, 2026 08:01 AM (vFG9F)

165 1. Pay cash for guns via trade site
2. Buy from dead people (widows often sell the whole lot)"

3. Have oddly specific, yet unfortunate boating accident...

Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 08:01 AM (XuXeR)

166 White men get bashed more than any other group. Does that give me an excuse to shoot up a hockey game?
Posted by: Headlines we'd like to see at February 17, 2026 07:55 AM (vFG9F)

Absolutely not. I'd vote to acquit you for throwing dildos at a WNBA game though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 08:01 AM (ExV1e)

167 wobe s rights

What the hell is a wobe s? Did your mom not love you enough to buy a spellchecker for your computer?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 08:01 AM (lXoJ5)

168 Bravo, muldoon. Bravo.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2026 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

169 I really suck at math, but I think on average there's one shooting a week that involves a transgender. Even if it's the only shooting that week.

And they seem to go for multiple victims.

Truly a danger to society.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2026 08:02 AM (jtM2q)

170 Hey...this oral thermometer tastes like shit!

Posted by: My name is A.S.S. at February 17, 2026 08:02 AM (iMotb)

171 Wobe could be woke.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:03 AM (Wp4UD)

172 What the hell is a wobe s?"

I'm guessing the blanket in "Mister Mom"...

Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 08:03 AM (XuXeR)

173 How strange... this Tootsie Roll looks just like a thumb...

Posted by: Wonky Willy's Tunnel of Terror at February 17, 2026 08:03 AM (ZPImW)

174 dude wasn't just a transgender

he was a trans LATINA

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 17, 2026 08:03 AM (j+aD2)

175 The red thermometers are tastier.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:04 AM (Wp4UD)

176 Moore, who has made multiple, provable falsehoods about his life story—including lying about military honors, his athletic achievements, and where he spent his childhood...[/i\

**********

...and his long-time marriage to Morgan Fairchild. Yeah, THAT'S the ticket!

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2026 08:04 AM (qgHp7)

177 Seems Like Wes Moore is failing to impress.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 17, 2026 08:04 AM (iMotb)

178 Wobe's Woe?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 08:04 AM (2GVsD)

179 Latinx?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:04 AM (Wp4UD)

180 158 "Is he really black?"

Hung like a white boy
Posted by: Dawn Moore

Reminds me of a conversation I saw on Facebook.

"Got the results from Ancestry.com and I'm 9% black! You ladies with jungle fever can hit me up."

"But are you black where it counts?"

"Yeah. My credit's terrible."

And THAT is how you improve race relations.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 08:04 AM (lXoJ5)

181 What the hell is a wobe s? Did your mom not love you enough to buy a spellchecker for your computer?

btw the new iOS on our phones has a really deeply screwed up autocucumber

it's bad

I blame H1Bs! it's so bad

so, might not always be user error per se. I have to check EVERYTHING now

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 17, 2026 08:05 AM (j+aD2)

182 I remembered after a bit of Duvall talk how good he was as Frank Burns in the movie version of MASH.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2026 08:05 AM (Ggsrp)

183 Catherine the Great had quite a few lovers. There is no evidence she slept with horses and probably died of a stroke in her washroom.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2026 08:05 AM (PFs9e)

184 I liked Duvall as Harry Hogge in Days of Thunder.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 17, 2026 08:05 AM (BCuCF)

185 probably died of a stroke in her washroom."

See, it's a conspiracy!!!!

/heh

Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 08:06 AM (XuXeR)

186 Democrats are always on the wrong side of 80/20 issues
________
Only because Republicans don't have the guts to fight with less than 80% on their side.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 17, 2026 08:06 AM (AlhUl)

187 "Gobi? Sahara? Mojave?"

(The blockquote tags may be wrong. We'll see.)

"Just deserts" (spelled with one 's', pronounced like "desserts") is an idiom meaning to receive the punishment or reward that one rightly deserves, typically referring to a deserved negative outcome for bad actions. It stems from the archaic definition of "desert" as "what is deserved," rooted in principles of fairness.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 17, 2026 08:09 AM (GgjRE)

188 Well, regardless of how the results from my appointment turn out (they said it could be a few days), at least I get to see a post-Jesse Jackson world.

Posted by: XTC at February 17, 2026 08:09 AM (6Uni8)

189 Someone else is now doing AI music videos. Still the shape and number of strings on Kirsche's axe keeps changing along with the color of her nails.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DW9PhmJCPM

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 08:10 AM (2GVsD)

190 Well, they were wrong in a non-destructive way. (The above used angle brackets.)

Let's try square brackets...

[blockquote]"Just deserts" (spelled with one 's', pronounced like "desserts") is an idiom meaning to receive the punishment or reward that one rightly deserves, typically referring to a deserved negative outcome for bad actions. It stems from the archaic definition of "desert" as "what is deserved," rooted in principles of fairness. [/blockquote]

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 17, 2026 08:11 AM (GgjRE)

191 Ok. blockquotes aren't supported. Good to know.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 17, 2026 08:11 AM (GgjRE)

192 FenelonSpoke

Catherine the Great, from Germany, had a lot of Russian enemies. That tale of horses was to blacken her name for the reforms she demanded in her reign.

Her ladies in waiting were part of her system, trying out prospective lovers, and passing the best on to her.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2026 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

193 153 Why the Bahamas? Catalina is closer.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 07:58 AM (Wp4UD)

Stupid shipping laws. Jones Act

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 08:12 AM (gbOdA)

194 Look st JJ up at the crack of dawn
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2026 08:12 AM (Jh8wP)

195 Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 17, 2026 08:03 AM (j+aD2)

Esposito is Italian. Xe cannot even change races correctly.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at February 17, 2026 08:13 AM (R86kT)

196 192 FenelonSpoke

Catherine the Great, from Germany, had a lot of Russian enemies. That tale of horses was to blacken her name for the reforms she demanded in her reign.

Posted by: NaCly Dog

So Russian disinformation was a thing back then as well? Noted.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 08:13 AM (lXoJ5)

197 I suspected another Trannie murderer

Posted by: Skip at February 17, 2026 08:13 AM (Jh8wP)

198 Protocols of Zion is Russian disinformation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 08:14 AM (2GVsD)

199 188 Well, regardless of how the results from my appointment turn out (they said it could be a few days), at least I get to see a post-Jesse Jackson world.
Posted by: XTC at February 17, 2026 08:09 AM (6Uni

Flow Cytometry or FISH?

Posted by: Nova Local at February 17, 2026 08:14 AM (tOcjL)

200 At this point I just assume any mass shooting is trantifa unless and until proven otherwise.

Posted by: Delurker at February 17, 2026 08:14 AM (gtcuf)

201 r hennigantx

We have up to 110 years of data on policy that does not work on a national scale. But if it benefits insiders, it is impossible to change. The Yeoman class is long-suffering. Yet, until Trump, no one fought to stop stupid policy.

What to do? What to do?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2026 08:15 AM (u82oZ)

202 184 I liked Duvall as Harry Hogge in Days of Thunder.
Posted by: Jaimo at February 17, 2026 08:05 AM (BCuCF)

He was supposed to be Harry Hyde.
Harry Hyde was a prominent NASCAR crew chief from the 1960s to the 1980s, known for winning 56 races and 88 pole positions, including the 1970 championship with driver Bobby Isaac.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 08:15 AM (gbOdA)

203 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Eileen Gu is asshoe.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2026 08:16 AM (RIvkX)

204 That didn't take long. Second round of "talks" with Iran lasted 3 hours. Witkoff and Kushner have already left Geneva.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 17, 2026 08:16 AM (0KSrI)

205 Yet, until Trump, no one fought to stop stupid policy.

What to do? What to do?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2026 08:15 AM (u82oZ)

We have 160 years on how a Confederacy works but alas, Sanctuary States.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 08:17 AM (gbOdA)

206 Her ladies in waiting were part of her system, trying out prospective lovers, and passing the best on to her."

The Paolo, he does not, as you say, audition...

Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 08:17 AM (XuXeR)

207 Happy Fat Tuesday!

Today is the day to splurge.
Tomorrow is fast and abstinence.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2026 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

208 How about we mention to our Congressmen: Make Trannies live their lives in mental institutions.

That is new government construction I can support.
If you are liberal, why not support the Canadian plan, and then harvest the organs?

OBSF: The Organleggers stories by Larry Niven, from the 1970s.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2026 08:18 AM (u82oZ)

209 I trust most of you are not in danger from the new Fag Ringworm infection. Except ASS, raimondo, and Sid.

Posted by: No Skin In The Game at February 17, 2026 08:18 AM (oftw2)

210 Posted by: NaCly Dog

Yes, indeed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2026 08:18 AM (ix8EF)

211 "Just deserts" (spelled with one 's', pronounced like "desserts") is an idiom meaning to receive the punishment or reward that one rightly deserves, typically referring to a deserved negative outcome for bad actions. It stems from the archaic definition of "desert" as "what is deserved," rooted in principles of fairness.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at February 17, 2026 08:09 AM (GgjRE)

*Johnny Carson voice* I did not know that.

Thanks for the illumination.

Posted by: Count de Monet, having you on at February 17, 2026 08:19 AM (wVcYX)

212 Common sense tranny control laws needed.

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 17, 2026 08:19 AM (bCIku)

213
Catherine the Great

Tsarina Kate was a bit of a joker
She was known to let anybody poke 'er
Her reputation was blown
And she soon became known
As Catherine the Merely Mediocre

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2026 08:19 AM (qgHp7)

214 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

Good. Less talk, more tactical surprise.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2026 08:19 AM (u82oZ)

215 Wake Up, Hollywood – Audiences Want Romantic Movies

--

Ptooey! lol

I don't care for romance movies, I just want good movies. Where have they gone!? (rhetorical question)

For example, I watched a really great movie this weekend from only 2023 called 'The Promised Land.' Starring the extremely talented Mads Mikkelson set in the 1700s on Denmark's history and the cultivating and beginning of the country. Loosely based on a real man. No woke garbage. No silly out-of-place glamour. Just raw, rugged, good, engaging story telling. Hollywood doesn't do that anymore.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 17, 2026 08:20 AM (qBdHI)

216 The SAVE Act has overwhelming popular support, but Congress is obstructing. Now why is that?

Trump is making the SAVE Act our hill to die on.

Battle space prep: Upcoming lawsuits will expose a spider web of voter fraud in MN and GA that will involve Illegals. Can you say RICO?

Trump will then act by EO if he has to, and then dare those who oppose to go on record defending the indefensible.

Eliminating voter fraud will have momentous consequences in November.

Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 17, 2026 08:20 AM (dtajH)

217 For a tiny minority the transgenders seem to outperform on matters of murder. Seems like something the mental health community would be interested in.

M ake
A sylums
G reat
A gain

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2026 08:20 AM (jtM2q)

218 New ‘Ringworm’ Outbreak Turns Minnesota Into America’s STD Fungus Hotspot

2000 No Measles
2025 Measles

1. What was the cost to eliminate Measles? 1 B 10 B 100 B.
2. Who brought Measles back to the US?
3. What will be the cost to eliminate again? 500 B 1 T??

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 08:21 AM (gbOdA)

219 Happy Fat Tuesday!

Today is the day to splurge.
Tomorrow is fast and abstinence.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2026 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

Ah ha! So that's why the Kroger Flyer preview ad is full of fish promotions. It all makes sense now.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2026 08:21 AM (wVcYX)

220 San Franpsycho

Eileen Gu cost the Communist Chinese a lot of money and loss of face. She did good.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

221 1. Pay cash for guns via trade site
2. Buy from dead people (widows often sell the whole lot)"

3. Have oddly specific, yet unfortunate boating accident...
Posted by: man

Better: 3. No questions asked gun buy back. Go ask Austin PD. (There's no lake to even drag)

Actually did that once with some broken junk. Got Kroger gift cards out of it.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2026 08:21 AM (idVxd)

222 Early Voting Starts Today In Texas. 🤠

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2026 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

223 One of my favorite Robert Duvall movies is a forgotten 70s organized crime revenge movie. "The Outfit," 1973. Duvall is the merciless revenge-taker.

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2026 08:22 AM (5rh/l)

224 NaCly, Iran wanted all sanctions lifted to even think about anything else.As PDT said yesterday about Khamenei, " we know where you sleep".

Posted by: Ben Had at February 17, 2026 08:23 AM (0KSrI)

225 Ah ha! So that's why the Kroger Flyer preview ad is full of fish promotions. It all makes sense now.
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 17, 2026 08:21 AM (wVcYX)
******
Already stocked up on salmon.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2026 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

226 Tranny shooting at a hockey game in R.I.?

Tweet! Two minute minor penalty and a game misconduct penalty for hides dick..

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2026 08:25 AM (qgHp7)

227 223 One of my favorite Robert Duvall movies is a forgotten 70s organized crime revenge movie. "The Outfit," 1973. Duvall is the merciless revenge-taker.
Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2026 08:22 AM (5rh/l)

Sounds like it's based on one of the Parker novels (like Payback with Gibson). If so, I'm not surprised that it would be good. The source material is.

I'll have to check it out.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2026 08:25 AM (Idisy)

228 223 Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2026 08:22 AM (5rh/l)

One of several "Parker" movies that were not allowed to use "Parker."

Not bad, and more sane than Brolin's rendition of Payback.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:25 AM (MUJd1)

229 "I just want good movies. Where have they gone!?"

Name a movie that you loved that didn't have a great script.

Great scripts are original in some way, which is exactly what Hollywood can't make anymore, by its choice.

The future is smaller budget flicks with real actors, and AI used to create the mise en scene.

I just saw Send Help and loved it. Good fun, not art. It works because the two leads were so good. CGI was used to create wild boars, etc. Things hard to do in meatspace, or too expensive.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 17, 2026 08:26 AM (dtajH)

230 227 Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2026 08:25 AM (Idisy)

It was, https://youtu.be/YBLuiXCGF6A?si=MDoJvEY3Y3nlQK6P turned it into a buddy film.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:27 AM (MUJd1)

231
84
RIP, Lucky Ned Pepper
Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at February 17, 2026 07:24 AM (DDJSl)

Glad I’m not the only one thinking of that! Although he had a bit part in Bullitt, I think True Grit was his first big role, where he got noticed. This was his first western, a genre he excelled at, and I think most would say that the most iconic and memorable character he ever brought to life was Gus McCrae.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2026 08:27 AM (otNgF)

232 Has the shooter been revealed to a Trump asset that killed his family to turn attention away from the Epstein files or is it too early in the week?

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 08:27 AM (lXoJ5)

233 726 and thru da links thx jjs

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 08:27 AM (gbOdA)

234 Ben Had

Even if untrue, always good to make an enemy contemplate poor life choices. Hope the bomb has some pithy slogans painted on it by the ordnance crews.

Khamenei seems like a sociopath true believer. End his genetic line.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2026 08:27 AM (u82oZ)

235 Eileen Gu cost the Communist Chinese a lot of money and loss of face. She did good."

So, "The Fall of Gu"???

Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 08:27 AM (XuXeR)

236 Trump will then act by EO if he has to, and then dare those who oppose to go on record defending the indefensible.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 17, 2026 08:20 AM (dtajH)

Defending the indefensible hasn't stopped the Ds and GOPe before.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at February 17, 2026 08:28 AM (uQesX)

237 How can I convince my mom that trans people are not more likely to shoot up schools?

My mom made me listen to Matt Walsh and he kept saying that trans people are inherently more dangerous and are more likely to shoot up a school.

I tried showing her statistics, and she said "there have been 4 school shootings done by transgenders in the last year alone", then went on a rant about how "Tyler Robinson's boyfriend shot Charlie Kirk because of Israel" (I don't even fucking know anymore

0.3 to 0.6% of the population is trans, and .01% of mass shooters since 2013 are trans, so trans people are actually *under* represented among mass shooters.

Plus trans people are more oppressed and bullied by society than cis people, yet snap less often in violent ways.

There’s also misconstrued stats about lesbians having more domestic violence, and thus, that lesbian relationships are inherently troubled and doomed to failure

If she is listening to Matt Walsh, then she is a lost cause. Get out for your own safety, any way you can.

(OP is trans, and step mom are bi and polyamorus, they live with my dad, who doesn't know because she's afraid to tell him.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 17, 2026 08:28 AM (ycI94)

238 One of my favorite Robert Duvall movies is a forgotten 70s organized crime revenge movie. "The Outfit," 1973. Duvall is the merciless revenge-taker.

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2026 08:22 AM (5rh/l)

Thanks for the hot tip. 70s had the best rock, the best chicks, the best cars (early 70s and used market), and the best movies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 08:29 AM (dK+Kv)

239 229 Posted by: Ignoramus at February 17, 2026 08:26 AM (dtajH)

Eh I am probably going back to the information warfare side of the house on the contract, in part because I have been experimenting with AI generation for video.

https://youtube.com/shorts/bB30Wly7j7Y?si=doIOjAkAnRMYmOzQ

There is an art to babying the AI to maintain continuity and you have to learn to hide some tendencies for obvious artifacts.... the process is ongoing.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:29 AM (MUJd1)

240 If she is listening to Matt Walsh, then she is a lost cause. Get out for your own safety, any way you can.

in other words, stick your fingers in your ears and go lalalalala i can't hear you till the truth goes away

Posted by: Delurker at February 17, 2026 08:30 AM (gtcuf)

241 Ladies and Gentlebeings,

This portion of a Youtube URL si=MDoJvEY3Y3nlQK6P is a tracking marker which allow Google to create a web of related accounts.

Don't make the panopticon's job easier.

NOTE: If you remove the tracking marker, you may also remove the '?' unless there are other modifiers in the URL.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

242 A thought on Ellen Gu: Impressionable twenty somethings look at her and will think that Communism is awesome because look how well off she is!

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 08:30 AM (lXoJ5)

243 >>>0.3 to 0.6% of the population is trans, and .01% of mass shooters since 2013 are trans, so trans people are actually *under* represented among mass shooters.

I don't trust the left's numbers. But by the left's numbers, only 0.003% of the population are card carrying nazis, so long as you don't include the people who disagree with leftists.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 08:30 AM (dK+Kv)

244
So drink
To that jovial jade
And think of the history she made.
Why, she made the Congress,
She made the Premier,
She made the clergy,
And she made 'em cheer.
She made the butler,
She made the groom,
She made the maid who made the room.
She made the Army,
She made the Marines,
Made some of them princes,
And some of them queens.
And when she was still discontent,
Kate'd create a new regiment.
So, beautiful ladies, before too late,
Follow the lead of this potentate,
Give up arranging affairs of state
And stay in the hay like Kate the Great.
Hay-de-hay hay-de-hay hay-de-hay.
Stay in the hay like Kate the Great.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 17, 2026 08:31 AM (tgvbd)

245 241 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 08:30 AM (ExV1e)

Stopping the tracking is that simple is it?

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:31 AM (MUJd1)

246 panopticon's?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:31 AM (Wp4UD)

247
0.3 to 0.6% of the population is trans, and .01% of mass shooters since 2013 are trans

Why do I know those numbers are fake without looking it up.

Posted by: Delurker at February 17, 2026 08:32 AM (gtcuf)

248 How much of the trans is the idea that I can make YOU say what I want YOU to say?

Trans get their own unique set of Rules.
Trans get their own language.
Trans get Get Out of Jail card for many actions.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 08:32 AM (gbOdA)

249 ...trans people are actually *under* represented among mass shooters.

*************

Coming in on today's Top 40 countdown at "number 2, with a bullet!"

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2026 08:33 AM (qgHp7)

250 More AI music video, Tabby Thunder 'Adopt Me'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSHxyOKmKI4

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 08:33 AM (2GVsD)

251 246 Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:31 AM (Wp4UD)

Yes, *they* are deeply interested in the trailer of a 52 year old film....

of course I run to the "dazzle flouge " school and flood the zone with as many hits as possible....

you force feed the system enough shit and the works gum up.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:33 AM (MUJd1)

252 Oh, the left is interested in crime statistics again, huh?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2026 08:34 AM (Idisy)

253 Gung Hay Fat Choy
Happy Lunar new Year of the Horse!

No, not you Eileen Gu. You either Elaine Chao.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2026 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

254 248 Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 08:32 AM (gbOdA)

It is crybullying, and a humiliation ritual on the part of the elite.

They plan to use the power of a security state that would give Stalin pause to force you to say Timmy McBride is a hot chick.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:34 AM (MUJd1)

255 Stopping the tracking is that simple is it?
Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:31 AM (MUJd1)

No, but there's no reason to make their jobs easier.

Still, you do you.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

256 I had never heard of Costner's film Open Range before I ran across it on a Sunday movie on a local channel some years ago. At first I thought it was a Lonesome Dove prequel until I heard Costner's Charlie call him "Boss."

A gorgeous film it is, exciting and well-cast, with a superb performance by Duvall as well as the others.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026
===========
Is that the one with Annette Bening in it? If so, I agree, a great western film.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2026

***
It is! She plays the sister of the local doctor, and she and Costner's Charlie fall in love amid the danger and violence from the local landowner and his men.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 08:34 AM (wzUl9)

257
Oh, the left is interested in crime statistics again, huh?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2026 08:34 AM (Idisy)

Like, two-thirds of the homicides in Wisconsin take place in Milwaukee?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 17, 2026 08:35 AM (tgvbd)

258 panopticon's?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:31 AM (Wp4UD)

The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single prison officer, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

259 Wolfus, have you seen " Broken Trail"?

Posted by: Ben Had at February 17, 2026 08:35 AM (0KSrI)

260 So ? after is jettisonable on youtube links?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:36 AM (Wp4UD)

261 255 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 08:34 AM (ExV1e)

I am doing me, nothing like sitting before the feds with them thinking they have engaged in some gymnastics feat worthy of Mary-Lou Reton's 84 performance to tell you where all you have lived.

Fact is if they want you badly enough they will fabricate what they need.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:36 AM (MUJd1)

262 Have a great day, everyone.

May there be thriving.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 17, 2026 08:36 AM (u82oZ)

263 They plan to use the power of a security state that would give Stalin pause to force you to say Timmy McBride is a hot chick.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:34 AM (MUJd1)

A tranny in Congress, with the propensity of trannies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 08:36 AM (dK+Kv)

264 So ? after is jettisonable on youtube links?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:36 AM (Wp4UD)
====

Yes

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2026 08:37 AM (RIvkX)

265 Hard to believe that Jesse almost made it to the presidency. This is your proof that the Democrat party is low IQ.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 17, 2026 08:37 AM (gVUi7)

266 258 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 08:35 AM (ExV1e)

relying of course on the built-in paranoia of "they can get me and I need to throw others under the bus!'

Shrug, and explain to your interrogator that you understand the surveillance state is an exercise in tit for tat economics and ask them what they want you to knock off.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:37 AM (MUJd1)

267 Eliminating voter fraud will have momentous consequences in November.

I wonder if Congress will get a bit more serious after the primaries.

That is, secure their place by vote fraud and party mechanics before the general.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2026 08:37 AM (a4flb)

268 Why do I know those numbers are fake without looking it up"

87.6395% of all stats are fake"

/stuff Abe Lincoln said on the internet, Vol 3

Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 08:37 AM (XuXeR)

269 I wonder what Joey Bidet will have to say on the passing of Jesse Jackson.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 08:38 AM (2GVsD)

270 Oh, the left is interested in crime statistics again, huh?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2026 08:34 AM (Idisy)

Other than 'mass shootings' and other shootings in certain areas of Chicago. Thanks Jesse, you @*$%@@^!!

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2026 08:38 AM (5rh/l)

271 Seems to me we are on the inevitable downward trajectory of the tranny madness. It's starting to become more a liability to leftists than a weapon to beat us with.

The people pushing this mental condition never really believed the bullshit they tried to force us to accept and don't give a damn about the people afflicted with mental illness. It was just one more way to damage the nuclear family and western values but it just isn't worth the squeeze any longer. They'll still pretend to care occasionally but the peak importance of throwing it our faces is ending.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m)

272 Hard to believe that Jesse almost made it to the presidency. This is your proof that the Democrat party is low IQ.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 17, 2026 08:37 AM (gVUi7)
===

There were only two candidates on my ballot in 1988 and I sure as hell was not voting for the fag loser Dukakis.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2026 08:38 AM (RIvkX)

273 263 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 08:36 AM (dK+Kv)

We should be so lucky, the political class are all to whatever degree "trans" now...they sure as hell are not loyal at all to America as founded....

"trans-globalist."

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:38 AM (MUJd1)

274 One of my favorite Robert Duvall movies is a forgotten 70s organized crime revenge movie. "The Outfit," 1973. Duvall is the merciless revenge-taker. . . .

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2026

***
Without looking it up, I suspect that is another version of the first Richard Stark novel about amoral and unstoppable thief Parker. Lee Marvin played the role in '67's Point Blank, and Mel Gibson in the recent Payback (both renamed from "Parker").

One of the early Parkers is also called The Outfit, as Parker handles the Mob coming after him for stealing their funds in the first book. So this Duvall film could be based on that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 08:39 AM (wzUl9)

275 I wonder what Joey Bidet will have to say on the passing of Jesse Jackson."

That Corn Pop was a banana mutha

Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 08:39 AM (XuXeR)

276 "under represented"

If you're specifically looking at "Drive-By Shootings in Chicago", maybe.

Posted by: XTC at February 17, 2026 08:39 AM (6Uni8)

277 Not good news:

https://tinyurl.com/3c6ha4cw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2026 08:39 AM (VFv8R)

278 Broken Trail and Open Range

get blended in my brain

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 08:39 AM (gbOdA)

279 banana"

Baad. How did autocucumber get "banana"?

Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 08:40 AM (XuXeR)

280 It's jard

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 17, 2026 08:40 AM (kx5tT)

281 Re 274: Okay, The Outfit from '73 *is* based on that Parker novel, the third in the series.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 08:41 AM (wzUl9)

282 275 I wonder what Joey Bidet will have to say on the passing of Jesse Jackson."

That Corn Pop was a banana mutha
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 08:39 AM (XuXeR)

Jesse and I were crossing the Selma Bridge and son of a bitch if that badass didnt kick Sheriff Andy Taylor right in the balls.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 08:41 AM (gbOdA)

283 Hard to believe that Jesse almost made it to the presidency. This is your proof that the Democrat party is low IQ.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 17, 2026 08:37 AM (gVUi7)
====

Not a lot staked on those bets.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2026 08:41 AM (RIvkX)

284 https://tinyurl.com/3c6ha4cw"

That the same p-market that had Starmer out by last weekend?

Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 08:41 AM (XuXeR)

285 I am not buying into the midterm disaster scenario.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 17, 2026 08:42 AM (0KSrI)

286 https://tinyurl.com/3c6ha4cw

Not a lot staked on those bets.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2026 08:41 AM (RIvkX)

Sorry copy and paste error.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2026 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

287 271Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m)

Eh they plan to use the parade of the grotesque to browbeat the right, witness the adult hookers they parade as Epstein's "real victims."

Democrats have transcended reality Jack, and they may not be defeayable because of it.

Take Alexi Occasio-Cortex and "the equator" gaffe....

within 24 hours it was wokespalined that "ackshually she is correct y'all the UN labels Mexico and Cuba and India as "part of the global south and Australia is not!"

You cannot beat a voluntary retard with facts and data.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:42 AM (MUJd1)

288 277 Not good news:

https://tinyurl.com/3c6ha4cw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2026 08:39 AM (VFv8R)

=====

I invite you to regard this:

Polymarket's prediction for House control after the 2024 election.

https://polymarket.com/event/
house-control-after-2024-election

Democrats were 60%+ for the entire thing...until literally after the polls closed on election day.

People acting like the betting markets have specialized knowledge is just silliness.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 08:42 AM (GBKbO)

289 265 Hard to believe that Jesse almost made it to the presidency.

If he'd been President, it would have prevented Obama. "Oh no; we've already had one affirmative action President and we don't need another one!"

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 08:42 AM (lXoJ5)

290 I'm sorry. But I'm surprised Senile Joe never produced a campaign image stupider than the Dukakis tank photo.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 17, 2026 08:42 AM (Oxpv7)

291 Jesse Jakson would have been less of a disaster than Gaylord as President.

Debate.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 08:42 AM (2GVsD)

292 Here is a under radar violent early 70's movie with Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman called "Prime Cut".

Saw last week on a free movie channel for first time. Intense and good. sissy Spacek in her first role

Posted by: Jonah at February 17, 2026 08:43 AM (YCxFk)

293 Predicting the future is hard.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:43 AM (Wp4UD)

294
My favorite part is when you people say Robert Duvall was a a great actor.

Uhhh, speak to Freddie Prinze and JJ Walker!

You're so stuuuuuupid! You're stupid.

You think you can ignore great actors like Brie Larson just because they live below the equator!

You people are dumb! Sooooo, dumb!

Posted by: AOC at February 17, 2026 08:43 AM (iJfKG)

295 >>> I wonder what Joey Bidet will have to say on the passing of Jesse Jackson.

>That he marched with Jesse at Selma against Jim Crow?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 17, 2026 08:44 AM (gVUi7)

296 274 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 08:39 AM (wzUl9)

Read the series, Stark was really particular about allowing the use of the character's name....it was funny given how paint by numbers the actual character is.

Guy was a great writer, better in his lane than King is in his but he like Garfield and Death Wish was particular.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:44 AM (MUJd1)

297 Maybe fellow anti-semite Zohran Mandami can rename NYC "Hymietown" for a week in celebration of Jesse Jackson's legacy.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2026 08:44 AM (Idisy)

298 ...and .01% of mass shooters since 2013 are trans...

********

I can count at least 10 trans shooters just off the top of my head (Uvalde, Ashley Hale, etc). If they account for .01% or 1 out of 10,000, that would come to a total of 100,000 mass shootings since 2013.

Gosh, that seems about right. /s

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2026 08:44 AM (qgHp7)

299 293 Predicting the future is hard.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:43 AM (Wp4UD)

====

The betting markets on politics are also dominated by progressives wishcasting. It's a small market heavily biased towards progressive dreamings.

They are not vessels of specialized future knowledge. They are hives of stupid progressives.

Really, they're just easy money betting against them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 08:44 AM (GBKbO)

300 I can assemble prefab furnirure without a net.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:44 AM (Wp4UD)

301 You cannot beat a voluntary retard with facts and data.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:42 AM (MUJd1)

QOTW-worthy.

Voluntards. I like.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 08:45 AM (dK+Kv)

302 Doll Eyes Alex is the poster child for the Left.

She is wrong about everything but is never in doubt.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 08:45 AM (2GVsD)

303 I wonder what Joey Bidet will have to say on the passing of Jesse Jackson."

That Corn Pop was a banana mutha
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026

***
Joey Mushbrain: "Wuzza bubba whozis?'

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 08:45 AM (wzUl9)

304 Jesse Jakson would have been less of a disaster than Gaylord as President.

Debate.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 08:42 AM (2GVsD)

Almost certainly true. The Democrats had not yet purged all their members who pretended to be sane at that point.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

305 Not good news:

https://tinyurl.com/3c6ha4cw
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 17, 2026 08:39 AM (VFv8R)
******
Vote like your life depends on it.
I've got my ballot for the Texas Republican primary mostly filled out to take with me. I Plan to early vote.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2026 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

306 Predicting the future is hard.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:43 AM (Wp4UD)
====

Sound like my statistics professor.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

307 Worst was Howard Dean screaming during 2004 campaign

Posted by: Jonah at February 17, 2026 08:45 AM (YCxFk)

308 THX 1138 film school movie by George Lucas with Duvall in lead. Maybe Lucas's first film after film school, memory is hazy as to facts.

Posted by: kingsman at February 17, 2026 08:45 AM (ehY6c)

309 Here is a under radar violent early 70's movie with Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman called "Prime Cut".

Saw last week on a free movie channel for first time. Intense and good. sissy Spacek in her first role
Posted by: Jonah at February 17, 2026

***
Topical now, I think; it deals with trafficking of underage girls?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 08:46 AM (wzUl9)

310 291 Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 08:42 AM (2GVsD)

I was pondering making a stemwinder of a series of posts casting $uper Je$$e as John the Baptist to Mocha Jesus.

I think Jack$on was less a commie than Ogabe, but he would have been if anything more overtly racist.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:46 AM (MUJd1)

311 Jesse Jakson would have been less of a disaster than Gaylord as President.

Debate.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 08:42 AM (2GVsD)

Almost certainly true. The Democrats had not yet purged all their members who pretended to be sane at that point.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

Further, a President J. Jackson would have prevented Bush the Elder and all the bad which came from that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 08:47 AM (ExV1e)

312 THX 1138 film school movie by George Lucas with Duvall in lead. Maybe Lucas's first film after film school, memory is hazy as to facts.
Posted by: kingsman at February 17, 2026 08:45 AM (ehY6c)
====}
Yes. One of the cars in American Graffiti has the license plate THX 138.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2026 08:47 AM (RIvkX)

313 148 Last night asked @ the Rule of Threes - Duvall, now Jackson, who's next???
Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 07:56 AM (XuXeR)

I’ll just say that I have high hopes, but I’m often disappointed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2026 08:48 AM (otNgF)

314 I wonder what Joey Bidet will have to say on the passing of Jesse Jackson."

"C'mon Jesse, stand up and take a bow"

Posted by: man at February 17, 2026 08:48 AM (XuXeR)

315 The Obama Administration's Prostitution Scandal And The Ruemmler-Epstein Connection

Why did Obama's top lawyer summon the help of the disgraced sex-trafficker?

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 08:49 AM (RHGPo)

316 >>I am not buying into the midterm disaster scenario.

Me neither. I keep telling people to look at the fundraising numbers.

>>Democrats are warning that a financial advantage they enjoyed for much of the Trump era is fading, with Federal Election Commission filings showing Republicans and allied outside groups beginning 2026 with a large cash edge and new potential help on the way from the Supreme Court

https://tinyurl.com/4urkvrm5

And as of now the economy appears to be on an excellent trajectory, tax refunds are coming in higher and at least some election reforms should be in place before November.

What exactly are Democrats going to run on other than rage and a return to things the country has already rejected?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2026 08:49 AM (viF8m)

317 315 Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 08:49 AM (RHGPo)

It is a cult, and the Epstein gang was just a version of the 1700s Hellfire Club.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:50 AM (MUJd1)

318 Time to do other things, like eat breakfast.

Tensor is now generating images of three-legged cat girls in hot pants.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 17, 2026 08:50 AM (2GVsD)

319 I was reading a tech article this past weekend about everything old is cool again re: wired headphones and earbuds, because some celebutards were seen wearing them.

Bitch, I have been cool since 1986.

I still have a pair of then high-end Pioneer headphones from 1991 in rotation. My dailies are a set of Bose noise-cancelling wired headphones.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 08:51 AM (dK+Kv)

320 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

321 I’ll take dogs over muslims any day.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 17, 2026 08:51 AM (Pu/zx)

322 293 Predicting the future is hard.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:43 AM (Wp4UD)

Now do Remembering the Past

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 08:51 AM (gbOdA)

323 I still use wired Sennheisers. they are the best

313 148 Last night asked @ the Rule of Threes - Duvall, now Jackson, who's next???

I bet it's Billy Jeff

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 17, 2026 08:51 AM (j+aD2)

324 What exactly are Democrats going to run on other than rage and a return to things the country has already rejected?
Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2026 08:49 AM (viF8m)

1. Glorious, culture-enriching, migrants.
2. Making the trans run on time.
3. Nationwide dog ban.
4. FREEEEEEEEE SHIT!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 08:51 AM (ExV1e)

325 316 Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2026 08:49 AM (viF8m)

I largely agree, I think given the knife edge we are on the donks may take the house.

They have what the GOP had in 1994 when we undid over 50 years of donk domination pure rage at the status quo.

That is it, they will rely HEAVILY as they have in the special elections on a fully mobilized educrat and Karen Winemom AWFL nexus.

I do not think it will work but rage is wirth more than money.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:52 AM (MUJd1)

326 I still use wired Sennheisers. they are the best

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 17, 2026 08:51 AM (j+aD2)

Model?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 08:52 AM (dK+Kv)

327 THX 1138 film school movie by George Lucas with Duvall in lead. Maybe Lucas's first film after film school, memory is hazy as to facts.
Posted by: kingsman at February 17, 2026
====}
Yes. One of the cars in American Graffiti has the license plate THX 138.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 17, 2026

***
The financial success of American Graffiti was what led to Lucas getting the green light for Star Wars.

Lucas, I think, was a protege of Francis Ford Coppola, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 08:52 AM (wzUl9)

328 It's a crying shame that Rush Limbaugh did not live long enough to report on the demise of Jesse Hi-Jackson.

Posted by: Life Isn't Fair at February 17, 2026 08:53 AM (oftw2)

329 *worth

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:53 AM (MUJd1)

330 The Tranny shooter killed children that are probably the same age as he was when he first started to think about being a gay or a girl.

Posted by: r hennigantx at February 17, 2026 08:54 AM (gbOdA)

331
What the hell is a wobe s?"
=====
I'm guessing the blanket in "Mister Mom"...
Posted by: man

I thought those were woobees.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 17, 2026 08:54 AM (QVmho)

332 328 Posted by: Life Isn't Fair at February 17, 2026 08:53 AM (oftw2)

Eh Jackson was functionally castrated by the Obama machine while Limbaugh was alive...in a way that first death probably hurt Je$$e more than this one.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:54 AM (MUJd1)

333 328 It's a crying shame that Rush Limbaugh did not live long enough to report on the demise of Jesse Hi-Jackson.
Posted by: Life Isn't Fair at February 17, 2026 08:53 AM (oftw2)

I won't speak ill of the dead but I will say Jackson was not as bad as the Reverend Al.. And that's not much of a compliment...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2026 08:54 AM (++7nR)

334
237 How can I convince my mom that trans people are not more likely to shoot up schools?”

Don’t worry about it lib, I’ll mention it to her in bed tonight.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2026 08:55 AM (otNgF)

335 Remember the way the left talks about guns....

If it saves one life to ban guns then screw your rights!

We need to start talking about this with trannies, which were apparently yet another Chestertonian fence our leftist society decided to knock down.

You cannot change your sex. Sex is immutable. Sorry if you feel like you are a woman, you aren't.

And then don't just ban tranny surgery for kids, start arresting trans-doctors and use the existing laws against mutilating patients. You can't as a doctor remove a healthy arm why can you remove healthy sexual organs?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 17, 2026 08:55 AM (sKqQm)

336 >>You cannot beat a voluntary retard with facts and data.

There will always be a hardcore group of leftists that will fall in line with whatever stupidity their leaders tell them to believe but their ability to cow others on this issue is waning.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2026 08:55 AM (viF8m)

337 Lake Wobe be gone.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:55 AM (Wp4UD)

338 >> What exactly are Democrats going to run on other than rage and a return to things the country has already rejected?

The fraud factor.

It’s no an accident that Democrats are fighting every effort to clean their voting roles, tooth and nail, against the DoJ-CRD lawsuits. It’s also why they don’t want voter id.

Fulton County Georgia isn’t an expose of their fraud. It’s a warning.

Republicans need to get out in big numbers or we lose. So far, it doesn’t look like we are doing a very good job of that. I suppose you can hand waive off the special elections, but I don’t want to be sitting here come November on the losing side.

The GOP needs to supplement the things Pressler is doing. So far, they have been sitting on their asses.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 17, 2026 08:56 AM (Pu/zx)

339 On today's episode of Gunsmoke, Festus bets Doc he can eat 3 whole fried chickens in a row. He eats 2 then vomits. Doc goes to claim the bet but Festus says wait I'm still eating. Doc says Festus is cheating. Festus pukes again, this time on Doc. Hilarity ensues.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 17, 2026 08:57 AM (Kt19C)

340 I won't speak ill of the dead but I will say Jackson was not as bad as the Reverend Al.. And that's not much of a compliment...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2026 08:54 AM (++7nR)

In the "shoulders of giants" sense, he set the stage for obama and where we are today.

How much senseless suffering has devolved to black Americans as a result of his actions?

He deserves every ill word.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 08:57 AM (dK+Kv)

341 There will always be a hardcore group of leftists that will fall in line with whatever stupidity their leaders tell them to believe but their ability to cow others on this issue is waning.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2026 08:55 AM (viF8m)

Like that AWFL in MN who was chasing down ICE and called a Hispanic officer a race traitor. When he told her the person they were trying to arrest was a child rapist and a murderer she said " no,I don't care"

Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2026 08:57 AM (++7nR)

342 338 Posted by: Vengeance at February 17, 2026 08:56 AM (Pu/zx)

Look if America thinks the answer to actual wage growth and falling rental prices is a return to Temu Obama who are we to argue?

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:57 AM (MUJd1)

343
I won't speak ill of the dead but I will say Jackson was not as bad as the Reverend Al.. And that's not much of a compliment...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2026 08:54 AM (++7nR)

JJ was really just an old school grifter, far less dangerous than the current crop of communists and nut jobs. All Jesse ever wanted was to get paid off.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2026 08:58 AM (otNgF)

344
I have no clue what triggered it, but i just got Elvis Presley's "(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame". Now listening to my Elvis Presley channel on Pandora.

Damned rabbit hole ear worms.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 17, 2026 08:58 AM (QVmho)

345 There is a lot of time between now and November. The Dems will do more and more insane things. They can't help themselves. They tried to trot out Hillary and Barky to look like wise leaders . That didn't work because they looked like idiots and none of the leftist crazies listened to them anyway..
All the Republicans have to do is not eff things up and they'll win in Nov. I know, I know

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2026 08:58 AM (Ggsrp)

346
JJ was really just an old school grifter, far less dangerous than the current crop of communists and nut jobs. All Jesse ever wanted was to get paid off.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 17, 2026 08:58 AM (otNgF)

This is true and hardly a testimonial...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2026 08:59 AM (++7nR)

347
Lake Wobe be gone.

Posted by: Boss Moss

*golf clap*

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 17, 2026 08:59 AM (QVmho)

348 I see Jesse Jackson's reservation in Hell is now occupied.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 17, 2026 08:59 AM (CHHv1)

349 Take a good look at Virginia BTW. That’s a roadmap for what Democrats will do. They aren’t letting any judicial ruling slow them down. Not the law, constitution or popular will either.

It’s going to be all hammer.

And yet, Thune won’t ditch the filibuster for Voter ID, an 80% issues.

We play the game like pussies. Democrats are playing to win.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 17, 2026 08:59 AM (Pu/zx)

350 341 Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2026 08:57 AM (++7nR)

She is not the threat, the retards who confronted with that willful immoral idiocy who say "I don't care vote blue no matter who!" are.....

a lot of on the surface sane social workers, nurses, etc etc are THAT voter...in reducing civic duty to a religious and sports fan exercise socially and morally they are literally killing western civ.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:59 AM (MUJd1)

351 338 Republicans need to get out in big numbers or we lose. So far, it doesn’t look like we are doing a very good job of that. I suppose you can hand waive off the special elections, but I don’t want to be sitting here come November on the losing side.

The GOP needs to supplement the things Pressler is doing. So far, they have been sitting on their asses.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 17, 2026 08:56 AM (Pu/zx)

=======

It should be remembered that out of power, the RNC managed enough to...win in 2024.

The fraud peak was probably 2022, and now the DOJ has been actively fighting on our side for more than a year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:00 AM (GBKbO)

352 The tranny shooter is a big fan of Massie. Sounds like he wanted to date him.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2026 09:00 AM (QZThv)

353 Death trifecta beckons to cocaine Mitch. Best be prepared and locate the last of the irish booze.

Posted by: kingsman at February 17, 2026 09:00 AM (ehY6c)

354 People acting like the betting markets have specialized knowledge is just silliness.
---
All of these idiots get their news from the media.
They're not hearing some secret insider info, they're hearing the same slop everyone else is hearing.

It's like Nate Silver's fake AF "I averaged the polls and that makes it MORE accurate."

But, people want to believe there is this magical sauce of mass data that smooths out false and incorrect data.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 17, 2026 09:00 AM (HXT0k)

355 Didn't JJ attend the same institute for Communist rabble rousers as Rosa Parks? Eleanor Roosevelt even visited iirc.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 09:00 AM (Wp4UD)

356 Predicting the future is hard.

************

The pundits are having a blast
Prognosticate, predict and forecast
But I'll tell you what, my friends
When means are justified by ends
It's easier to just rewrite the past

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2026 09:01 AM (qgHp7)

357 352 Posted by: Ian S. at February 17, 2026 09:00 AM (QZThv)

Guy liked strong chins, MTG could teach Bruce Campbell how to shave.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 09:01 AM (MUJd1)

358 Sennheiser - I have older 500 series it's at 505 now

the nicer level is 600 series not sure where that is now but I'm not exactly an audiophile

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 17, 2026 09:01 AM (j+aD2)

359 350 341 Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2026 08:57 AM (++7nR)

She is not the threat, the retards who confronted with that willful immoral idiocy who say "I don't care vote blue no matter who!" are.....

a lot of on the surface sane social workers, nurses, etc etc are THAT voter...in reducing civic duty to a religious and sports fan exercise socially and morally they are literally killing western civ.
Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 08:59 AM (MUJd1)

I disagree.. She is one of a huge voting bloc... Karens...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2026 09:01 AM (++7nR)

360 >>It’s no an accident that Democrats are fighting every effort to clean their voting roles, tooth and nail, against the DoJ-CRD lawsuits. It’s also why they don’t want voter id.

Of course. But they are hanging on by a thread with their efforts to keep our elections unsecured.

When was the last time anyone can point to an issue that has 84% percent support across all voters including Democrats? It's not like we are ever going to back down on the issue of election integrity. Democrats in DC are playing with fire and trying to defend the indefensible. Nobody is buying the Jim Crow 2.0 bullshit.

Democrats can't win outside deep blue areas without cheating and everyone knows it. That's not a winning long term strategy.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 17, 2026 09:01 AM (viF8m)

361 345 There is a lot of time between now and November. The Dems will do more and more insane things. They can't help themselves. They tried to trot out Hillary and Barky to look like wise leaders . That didn't work because they looked like idiots and none of the leftist crazies listened to them anyway..
All the Republicans have to do is not eff things up and they'll win in Nov. I know, I know

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2026 08:58 AM (Ggsrp)

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The best pollsters are showing an environment of somewhere between D+1 and D+3.

2018 was just under D+9 in the actual vote (and the GOP gained two senate seats).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:01 AM (GBKbO)

362 354 All of these idiots get their news from the media.
They're not hearing some secret insider info, they're hearing the same slop everyone else is hearing.

It's like Nate Silver's fake AF "I averaged the polls and that makes it MORE accurate."

But, people want to believe there is this magical sauce of mass data that smooths out false and incorrect data.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 17, 2026 09:00 AM (HXT0k)

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Plus, most of the people doing the betting are progressives. The long-term bias towards progressive outcomes in the predictions makes that obvious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:02 AM (GBKbO)

363 Jesse Jackson used to brag that as a young man growing up in Greenville SC he worked as a waiter. And he would spit in white people's food.
What a great guy.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at February 17, 2026 09:02 AM (Lo97M)

364 I guess we're fortunate that Tim " Sarah" McBride hasn't flipped out and assaulted or killed people and hope that "she" doesn't.

I cannot even imagine how weird it must be if you do not accept transgenderism and your college age male kid comes home from school and tells you they're in the wrong body . I have no idea what McBride's parents feel, but they were told when he was in college.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2026 09:03 AM (Nx5jP)

365 People acting like the betting markets have specialized knowledge is just silliness.
---
All of these idiots get their news from the media.
They're not hearing some secret insider info, they're hearing the same slop everyone else is hearing.

It's like Nate Silver's fake AF "I averaged the polls and that makes it MORE accurate."

But, people want to believe there is this magical sauce of mass data that smooths out false and incorrect data.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 17, 2026 09:00 AM (HXT0k)

Nailed it in one.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 09:03 AM (dK+Kv)

366 359 Posted by: It's me donna at February 17, 2026 09:01 AM (++7nR)

Karen AWFL is the woman who otherwise able to function in a normal world looks past the lunacy of Antifa and people like that woman.

The good news is they are not long for power, the bad news is they will lose it because we are flooded by Muslims and a Star Wars Cantina of invaders who will outbreed us while we outbreed the left.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 09:03 AM (MUJd1)

367
Predicting the future is hard.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 08:43 AM (Wp4UD)

___________

It was said in the Soviet Union that the future was certain, it was predicting the past that was difficult.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 17, 2026 09:03 AM (tgvbd)

368 I'm surprised the trans shooter didn't wait to kill until March 31, which is International Trans Invisibility Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2026 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

369 Sennheiser - I have older 500 series it's at 505 now

the nicer level is 600 series not sure where that is now but I'm not exactly an audiophile

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 17, 2026 09:01 AM (j+aD2)

Me neither, but I do appreciate quality audio.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 09:03 AM (dK+Kv)

370
Death trifecta beckons to cocaine Mitch. Best be prepared and locate the last of the irish booze.
Posted by: kingsman

*rolls dice*

Please be Sharpton, please be Sharpton.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 17, 2026 09:04 AM (QVmho)

371 365 It's like Nate Silver's fake AF "I averaged the polls and that makes it MORE accurate."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 17, 2026 09:00 AM (HXT0k)

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Just a note on this tactic:

It's valid statistically. Averaging multiple polling results should result in a smaller margin of error in the statistics.

However, that assumes each poll is based on good statistics. If the samples aren't random, if there's weighting, if there's just straight up bad results, if there's statistical bias in which polls to use, then the assumption falls apart.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:05 AM (GBKbO)

372 The betting markets always lean liberal. Especially this far out. Go back and look how the clean up closer to the event when real money is involved. Barring any unforeseen events the economy is going to be going very well by Election Day. That’s a major plus

Posted by: Vengeance at February 17, 2026 09:05 AM (Pu/zx)

373 Dogs in NYC expose Occidentalphobia

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

374 One of the early Parkers is also called The Outfit, as Parker handles the Mob coming after him for stealing their funds in the first book. So this Duvall film could be based on that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 17, 2026 08:39 AM (wzUl9)

Without giving too many spoilers - the '73 movie has organized crime foot soldier Duvall getting out of prison then getting revenge for the Outfit killing his brother not long before. I can't recall if his brother was a criminal or not. It's not a terrific movie but Duvall makes it what it is. He is ruthless. Joe Don Baker is ruthless, too, as his partner.

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2026 09:05 AM (5rh/l)

375 Highlander Folk School..

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 09:06 AM (Wp4UD)

376 372 The betting markets always lean liberal. Especially this far out. Go back and look how the clean up closer to the event when real money is involved. Barring any unforeseen events the economy is going to be going very well by Election Day. That’s a major plus

Posted by: Vengeance at February 17, 2026 09:05 AM (Pu/zx)

=====

They also ignore evidence that they don't like. That shouldn't matter in a healthy betting market, but the prediction markets are not healthy.

Kamala wins 90% of primary polls, but she's 3-5 in all the betting markets. Why? Because they ignore evidence they don't like.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:06 AM (GBKbO)

377 lol

The Sennheiser 505s are about what I paid (slightly more) for my Pioneers back in 1991, although the tech, materials, and construction are likely generations better.

Curse you, Blackorchid.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 09:06 AM (dK+Kv)

378 There will always be a hardcore group of leftists that will fall in line with whatever stupidity their leaders tell them to believe but their ability to cow others on this issue is waning.

Need to win the Hearts & Minds part of the game. Women generally are conformists to whatever is the consensus opinion. Doesn't matter how insane or nutty the opinion is. As the Demonic Party keeps losing control of The Narrative, it allows other views to creep in.

That is the lever to pry on. I would prefer that the GOP just shuts the Hell up and stays on the sidelines and that the podcasters and influencers shape a narrative that makes voting for the Demonic Party unattractive.

Since a lot of women view society with a Toddler Ethic, saying mean things is a No Go. Facts & Logic are immaterial. Restoration of Peace and Order should be a priority Narrative.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at February 17, 2026 09:06 AM (rgGn5)

379 Futures Fall As AI Selloff Resumes

"The perception of AI seems to have changed completely from the angel of mercy to the kiss of death"

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

380 As a kid I knew the chinese were getting over on the round eyes. "Ancient Chinese Secret" indeed.

Posted by: connected and litigious at February 17, 2026 09:07 AM (cS1cw)

381 374 Joe Don Baker will always be Mitchell to me.

Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

382 Rep. Randy Fine warns Muslims and leftists want to get RID of your dogs

"If we choose between dogs and [Muslims] going home, THE CHOICE IS EASY!"

"They demand we change our values...a Muslim leader said dogs should be forbidden from NYC!"

https://tinyurl.com/jwbvdpca

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2026 09:07 AM (NpAcC)

383 277 Not good news:

https://tinyurl.com/3c6ha4cw
Posted by: Biden's Dog

How was Trump doing in the polls this far out in his election years? Much worse than he ended up.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 17, 2026 09:07 AM (JCZqz)

384 It was MLK and not JJ.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 09:07 AM (Wp4UD)

385 The best pollsters are showing an environment of somewhere between D+1 and D+3.

2018 was just under D+9 in the actual vote (and the GOP gained two senate seats).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:01 AM (GBKbO)
================
As voters perception of the economy improves, my optimism goes right along with it.

The good news is that a majority of voters think the Democrats are crazy radical, or something close to that, and if the GOP doesn't do stupid shit in Congress (looking at you Lindsey Graham) between now and November, the economy might just carry the day.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2026 09:07 AM (1+Dhc)

386 Italy Beckons The Rich: How Flat Taxes And Lifestyle Are Luring Global Millionaires

In Germany,... the wealthy are now being targeted to relieve the government of reform pressures. One of the biggest beneficiaries of this political debacle could be Italy

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

387 They tried to trot out Hillary and Barky to look like wise leaders .
---
His "well, (except for all the hate and division I spread) my Presidency had no hate and division" must have really sounded great in his head.

Even more amazing is that he has no idea anyone would disagree.
Like we weren't there, didn't live through it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 17, 2026 09:08 AM (HXT0k)

388 Futures Fall As AI Selloff Resumes

"The perception of AI seems to have changed completely from the angel of mercy to the kiss of death"

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

Where are you seeing this?

I need some bargains.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 09:08 AM (dK+Kv)

389 However, that assumes each poll is based on good statistics.

Garbage in, garbage out.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2026 09:08 AM (Idisy)

390 "People acting like the betting markets have specialized knowledge is just silliness."

How dare you interrupt a black pilling in progress?

How dare you?

*hurumpfff*

Posted by: Will Robinson at February 17, 2026 09:08 AM (VxFiM)

391 zerohedge.com:

Germany's Climate Policy Has Moved From Politics To The Courts... And The Economy Is Paying The Price

A leaked government strategy reveals mounting pressure on households, industry, and farmers, justified by increasingly abstract climate models

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

392 388 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 09:08 AM (dK+Kv)

I'd bet on Grok, 4.20 in testing is rather open about showing the sausage being made so to speak....

AI is being sold as a lot of things it is not, but what it *can* do will be worth about 2 trillion a year globally I think.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 09:10 AM (MUJd1)

393 However, that assumes each poll is based on good statistics.

Garbage in, garbage out.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2026 09:08 AM (Idisy)

Just how many are NOT results-driven push poll garbage? I suspect that only a very few expensive ones and ones that we mostly don't get to see.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 09:10 AM (dK+Kv)

394 I for one support Germany's self immolation.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 09:10 AM (Wp4UD)

395 PSA:
Today is BOGO at Five Guys to celebrate their 40th b'day. Have to order through the app or online. Code is:

40FGBDAY

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at February 17, 2026 09:10 AM (3ImbR)

396 Without giving too many spoilers - the '73 movie...

*********

I don't think the statute of limitations on spoilers lasts for 50+ years.

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2026 09:10 AM (qgHp7)

397 Jesse waved the bloody shirt provided by MLK balcony murder and rose to fame and grift like no other. He shed tears of joy knowing this was a good moment for JJ; a grifter's grifter.

Posted by: kingsman at February 17, 2026 09:10 AM (ehY6c)

398 385 As voters perception of the economy improves, my optimism goes right along with it.

The good news is that a majority of voters think the Democrats are crazy radical, or something close to that, and if the GOP doesn't do stupid shit in Congress (looking at you Lindsey Graham) between now and November, the economy might just carry the day.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2026 09:07 AM (1+Dhc)

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The only thing feeding the pessimism is polling firms with terrible histories saying D+10 and special elections.

Remember, the VA governor's race was R+25 in 2011, and Obama won the state a year later by a healthy margin.

Midterms are really about turnout differentials, preferring the out of power party. The GOP did great during Obama's term in midterms but crashed out in the presidential election in the middle. How fed grant cutting and serious looks at voting apparati will affect things, I don't know, but I still suspect some kind of minor D House majority mixed with the GOP retaining 53 seats in the Senate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:10 AM (GBKbO)

399 “keep bashing us. but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK”

-
Because you're crazy/evil assholes

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 17, 2026 09:10 AM (FXNzP)

400 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:11 AM (6jv/d)

401 I'd bet on Grok, 4.20 in testing is rather open about showing the sausage being made so to speak....

AI is being sold as a lot of things it is not, but what it *can* do will be worth about 2 trillion a year globally I think.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 09:10 AM (MUJd1)

Yeah, that's a good bet. But not public, yeah?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 09:11 AM (dK+Kv)

402 Common Sense Trans Control NOW!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:11 AM (6jv/d)

403 Remember when the betting markets spiked in favor of Kamala because of that IA poll that said she was going to win IA?
And all the media everywhere pushed it as the "gold standard of polling?"

There's your "wisdom of the markets."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 17, 2026 09:11 AM (HXT0k)

404 Fed Judge Rules George Washington Home Must Call Him a Racist Because of “Harm and Anxiety”

“This Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not,” 77-year-old Cynthia Rufe rants.

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 09:11 AM (RHGPo)

405 It's strange, but I have never seen a Jesse Jackson Blvd.

Maybe the mayor of Hymietown can honor him in remembrance.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 17, 2026 09:12 AM (gVUi7)

406 Good morning!

>Police identified the gunman who killed two people and critically injured three others at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday afternoon as Robert Dorgan, a transgender dad who railed against anti-trans hate in family legal disputes and deranged social media rants.

W
T
F

You know what hate is? It's murdering your family at a freaking kids hockey game. You have just traumatized an arena full of families along with snuffing out your own. That is pure evil - hatred for the world and all who are in it.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 09:12 AM (tj6OY)

407 “keep bashing us. but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK”

Go?

You cut your dick off.......You passed berserk quite some time ago.

God didn't get it wrong, you did.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:12 AM (6jv/d)

408 If they only had a building where they could house the batshit crazy.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 09:12 AM (Wp4UD)

409 Hey, TJM, what happened to your video?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

410 Mrs Kingsman sports a nice pair of wireless sennheisers for TV. Helps with dialogue.

Posted by: kingsman at February 17, 2026 09:13 AM (ehY6c)

411 401 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 09:11 AM (dK+Kv)

#SOON

In the gap if you are feeling frisky go Ubisoft....

I think they either implode completely or TenCent buys them outright.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 09:13 AM (MUJd1)

412 If they only had a building where they could house the batshit crazy.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 09:12 AM (Wp4UD)

Send them to Gitmo and let them find out exactly what akbar means.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:13 AM (6jv/d)

413 Use the veins in your brains, not the drains on your trains!

Posted by: Jesse Jackson at February 17, 2026 09:13 AM (jc0TO)

414 409 Hey, TJM, what happened to your video?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

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I made an oopsie. Re-rendering now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:13 AM (GBKbO)

415 I still suspect some kind of minor D House majority mixed with the GOP retaining 53 seats in the Senate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:10 AM (GBKbO)
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Which is fine, insofar as the House will continue to be a quagmire and the Senate will do little to nothing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2026 09:14 AM (1+Dhc)

416 NYPost:

RI hockey shooter Robert Dorgan threatened to go ‘BERSERK’ in trans-rights rant day before mass shooting

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

417 Swalwell is a communist traitor.

California will elect him overwhelmingly.

That state is proper f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:14 AM (6jv/d)

418 Evidently, the trans shooter used to show up at his kid's hockey games, dressed as a woman.
He killed his ex-wife and one of his kids and there was a family dispute. He also was defending Sara McBride, the trans Congress person online and had a meltdown.

Imagine the shame of having your dad show up at your hockey game dressed as a woman.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2026 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

419 NYPost:

RI hockey shooter Robert Dorgan threatened to go ‘BERSERK’ in trans-rights rant day before mass shooting
Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

If only there were content in this thread.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:15 AM (6jv/d)

420 Colbert Says CBS Pulled Guest Amid FCC Scrutiny, Posts Interview on YouTube Instead

Stephen Colbert’s sit-down with the Texas State Representative currently running for Senate was posted to the late-night program’s YouTube page—the URL for which Colbert was not allowed to share on-air. Colbert detailed his run-in with CBS over the interview during Monday night’s broadcast.

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

421 Late spring or early summer tends to be when the House is baked into shape. By then, primaries over, most retirements done, and candidates get selected. And you start getting district polling.

Tell me the district demos and past voting behavior, some macro economic figures like economic growth and wages, the candidates themselves, and district fundraising, and you can get to about 80-90 percent accuracy in picking winners in races.

So best to focus on macro issues like economy, etc. right now rather than polling especially the vague which side would you rather run Congress types.

Posted by: whig at February 17, 2026 09:15 AM (2swu2)

422 Last night at ~6 pm my wife announced dinner was ready, and said, "Let's eat, grandma!"

At 6:10 our internet and cable went out.

By 7:00, as hysteria and panic set in, she dropped the comma.

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (qgHp7)

423
Imagine the shame of having your dad show up at your hockey game dressed as a woman.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2026 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

He'd had transition surgery..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (6jv/d)

424 Is that Mao up top?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (Wp4UD)

425 >> I have no idea what McBride's parents feel, but they were told when he was in college.

Via my sister, who is good friends with a parent of trans: it is a death. Their child is gone. There is this new person in their place, but it is a completely different being.

Elon has referred to his son as "dead," too.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (tj6OY)

426 415 I still suspect some kind of minor D House majority mixed with the GOP retaining 53 seats in the Senate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:10 AM (GBKbO)
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Which is fine, insofar as the House will continue to be a quagmire and the Senate will do little to nothing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2026 09:14 AM (1+Dhc)

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Democrats would have to retain GA (doubtful, to be honest) while picking up NC (the registration advantage tells me that Cooper, despite being a former governor, is actually the underdog), ME (Collins ain't goin' nowhere), and TX (HA!) without losing something out of left field like MI (if that Muslim wins the primary, it'll be interesting, at least).

And Senate elections drive turnout to presidential levels (it's why the GOP picked up 2 Senate seats in 2018 despite the D+9 generic ballot in the House).

High turnout in GA means the rurals turn out at very high levels, and the rurals in GA are like 70% white. All while Atlanta is actually getting smaller every year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (GBKbO)

427 President Trump is literally “draining the swamp.” The commander in chief ordered the feds to intervene and coordinate cleanup efforts in the Potomac River Monday after a six-foot sewer pipe burst open during a cold snap last month. The pipe — which belongs to DC Water and was located in Cabin John, Md., just northwest of Washington — collapsed on Jan. 19, unleashing approximately 243 million gallons of raw sewage that had overflowed from the collapse site as of Feb. 6, per the utility.

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (RHGPo)

428 Swalwell is a communist traitor.

California will elect him overwhelmingly.

That state is proper f*cked.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:14 AM (6jv/d)

A significant portion of the Cali electorate is either gimmes, illegals, gov't workers, or Chinese infiltrators.

They think he's rad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (ExV1e)

429 334 Don’t worry about it lib, I’ll mention it to her in bed tonight.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Make sure she left out a Hot Pocket for his dinner first though.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (lXoJ5)

430 I remember when Jessuh ran for preznit and all the libs were all "sEpArAtIoN oF cHuRcH aNd sTaTe!!!"

Oh wait.

Posted by: Jetto at February 17, 2026 09:17 AM (seilQ)

431 420 Colbert Says CBS Pulled Guest Amid FCC Scrutiny, Posts Interview on YouTube Instead

Stephen Colbert’s sit-down with the Texas State Representative currently running for Senate was posted to the late-night program’s YouTube page—the URL for which Colbert was not allowed to share on-air. Colbert detailed his run-in with CBS over the interview during Monday night’s broadcast.

Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

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"FCC Scrutiny" means they demanded CBS air equal time to Crockett. Which they refused.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:17 AM (GBKbO)

432 > If they only had a building where they could house the batshit crazy.
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At one time, we had many. Then, mental illness... specifically the mental institutions, the asylums and the various treatments were demonized by liberals as "cruel." So the asylums were shuttered and the insane let out.

Today, it's rare to have someone "committed" to a mental institution. Certainly not voluntarily. And going through the motions to have someone committed is costly and time consuming.

So... the clinically insane are left to their own devices and permitted to roam freely among the sane. Doing what insane people do, without consequences. By design.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 17, 2026 09:17 AM (jtM2q)

433 Reconcilliation, not silly recreation!

Posted by: Jesse Jackson at February 17, 2026 09:17 AM (jc0TO)

434 Via my sister, who is good friends with a parent of trans: it is a death. Their child is gone. There is this new person in their place, but it is a completely different being.

Elon has referred to his son as "dead," too.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (tj6OY)

And this is unfortunately what you get when the solution to everything is Big Pharma.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:17 AM (6jv/d)

435 In the gap if you are feeling frisky go Ubisoft....

I think they either implode completely or TenCent buys them outright.

Posted by: sven at February 17, 2026 09:13 AM (MUJd1)

Hmm. I'll check out Ubisoft and maybe put down some play money on it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 09:17 AM (dK+Kv)

436 Reconcilliation, not silly recreation!

Posted by: Jesse Jackson at February 17, 2026 09:17 AM (jc0TO)

You forgot the Zombie moniker, since you're no longer with us.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:18 AM (6jv/d)

437 202, oh yes, I do know it was loosely based on Harry Hyde. I'm a Nascar person.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 17, 2026 09:19 AM (BCuCF)

438 425 >> I have no idea what McBride's parents feel, but they were told when he was in college.

Via my sister, who is good friends with a parent of trans: it is a death. Their child is gone. There is this new person in their place, but it is a completely different being.

Elon has referred to his son as "dead," too.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (tj6OY)

There's a solid two-panel meme out there:
1. Son announces: "Mom, Dad, I'm trans."
2. Both leftwing and rightwing parents: "Our son is dead."

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2026 09:19 AM (Idisy)

439 Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (tj6OY)

Sounds heartbreaking.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 17, 2026 09:19 AM (Nx5jP)

440
The idea that betting is a lens to the future is based on the idea of the Wisdom of Crowds, which has a certain validity.

But, bettors as a group have their own quirks. Sure there are bettors that play the odds in a very logical way and are most likely the most successful.

However, the vast amount of bettors are waiting for "magic" to bless them with money(!).

You can look at the lottery players like this.

Not sure I would depend on this group for great predictive ability.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2026 09:19 AM (iJfKG)

441 It's strange, but I have never seen a Jesse Jackson Blvd.

Maybe the mayor of Hymietown can honor him in remembrance.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
+++
Not that many Obama boulevards either.
I would have thought they would be everywhere by now.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at February 17, 2026 09:19 AM (Lo97M)

442 President Trump is literally “draining the swamp.” The commander in chief ordered the feds to intervene and coordinate cleanup efforts in the Potomac River Monday after a six-foot sewer pipe burst open during a cold snap last month. The pipe — which belongs to DC Water and was located in Cabin John, Md., just northwest of Washington — collapsed on Jan. 19, unleashing approximately 243 million gallons of raw sewage that had overflowed from the collapse site as of Feb. 6, per the utility.
Posted by: SMOD at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (RHGPo)

So it was kind of a vein which imploded and exploded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 09:20 AM (ExV1e)

443
I wonder what Joey Bidet will have to say on the passing of Jesse Jackson.
Posted by: Anna Puma

"I met Jesse James. I knew Jesse James. Jesse Hames was a friend of mine and you, Jasmine Jackson, were no Jesse James."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 17, 2026 09:20 AM (xG4kz)

444 There's a solid two-panel meme out there:
1. Son announces: "Mom, Dad, I'm trans."
2. Both leftwing and rightwing parents: "Our son is dead."

The difference being, of course, that the lefties are proud and joyous.

Posted by: Jetto at February 17, 2026 09:20 AM (seilQ)

445 440
The idea that betting is a lens to the future is based on the idea of the Wisdom of Crowds, which has a certain validity.

But, bettors as a group have their own quirks. Sure there are bettors that play the odds in a very logical way and are most likely the most successful.

However, the vast amount of bettors are waiting for "magic" to bless them with money(!).

You can look at the lottery players like this.

Not sure I would depend on this group for great predictive ability.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2026 09:19 AM (iJfKG)

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It's also based on the market being big enough to self-correct for biases of individuals or like-minded groups. The betting markets are notoriously tiny and can't filter out those biases the way something like the stock market theoretically can.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:20 AM (GBKbO)

446 Mrs Kingsman sports a nice pair of wireless sennheisers

Five minutes is a really long hang time for a curve ball.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 17, 2026 09:20 AM (zdLoL)

447 Imagine the shame of having your dad show up at your hockey game dressed as a woman.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2026 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

He'd had transition surgery..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (6jv/d)

1) Spot tranny.

b) Condition red.

iii) Head for the exits.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 09:21 AM (dK+Kv)

448 [0] Days Without a Tranny Mass Murder Spree

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 17, 2026 09:21 AM (FXNzP)

449 417 Swalwell is a communist traitor.

California will elect him overwhelmingly.

That state is proper f*cked.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Last polling shows a mess of a race. Hilton (R) and Bianco (R) are top for that side. Swallowell and Katie Porker Porter are at top for the Dems.

Even there, candidates are not breaking 20 percent of electorate.

Posted by: whig at February 17, 2026 09:21 AM (2swu2)

450 Whig has it right: look at the district tilt, fundraising, and the economy, and you can get pretty close on a lot of these races. I hope the President gets vocal about the economy, and can counter the inevitable Propaganda Press jawboning.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2026 09:21 AM (1+Dhc)

451 449

Posted by: whig at February 17, 2026 09:21 AM (2swu2)

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Glad to see you well enough to comment!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

452 The Rev. Jackson's Epitaph:

"It Was His Duty To Please That Booty"

May God have mercy on his soul.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 17, 2026 09:22 AM (DgMqy)

453 450 Whig has it right: look at the district tilt, fundraising, and the economy, and you can get pretty close on a lot of these races. I hope the President gets vocal about the economy, and can counter the inevitable Propaganda Press jawboning.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2026 09:21 AM (1+Dhc)

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"Trump doesn't talk up the economy enough," is a take, for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:22 AM (GBKbO)

454
Glad to see you well enough to comment!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:21 AM (GBKbO)

Too bad you can't read what he wrote.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:22 AM (6jv/d)

455 Even there, candidates are not breaking 20 percent of electorate

Yeah but to s Democrat that's not only a landslide but a mandate.

Posted by: Jetto at February 17, 2026 09:22 AM (seilQ)

456
Going trans is the closest equivalent to suicide that you can get.

You literally cut yourself out of the Grand Parade of Life, change your name, and destroy your future.

There is no "you" left, just a sad mutilation.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2026 09:23 AM (iJfKG)

457 Here's a picture of Roberta Dorgano's butt cheeks-

https://tinyurl.com/k2pe5s6j

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2026 09:23 AM (NpAcC)

458 Too bad you can't read what he wrote.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:22 AM (6jv/d)

lol

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 17, 2026 09:24 AM (Idisy)

459 >>Sounds heartbreaking.

It has been.
Worse, the kid was dating someone at college, it was serious, then there was a messy breakup. The kid then created a new identity. Still trans, but a new female name, etc.. That's taking the post-breakup haircut to an unhealthy level.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 09:24 AM (tj6OY)

460 There is no "you" left, just a sad mutilation

Deep down I think they understand that. Hence the frequent self-checkout.

Posted by: Jetto at February 17, 2026 09:24 AM (seilQ)

461 Going trans is the closest equivalent to suicide that you can get.

You literally cut yourself out of the Grand Parade of Life, change your name, and destroy your future.

There is no "you" left, just a sad mutilation.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 17, 2026 09:23 AM (iJfKG)

Wisdom.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 09:24 AM (dK+Kv)

462 Jesse Jackson was easily in the Top 100 Leftists Destroying The USA. Worse, we will now be subjected to endless slavering remembrances of the asshole. I think I am going to turn off all electronic devices for a week.

Posted by: Ripley at February 17, 2026 09:24 AM (GUOwU)

463 454 Too bad you can't read what he wrote.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:22 AM (6jv/d)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

464 Here's a picture of Roberta Dorgano's butt cheeks-

https://tinyurl.com/k2pe5s6j

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2026 09:23 AM (NpAcC)

I can't be the only one who sees Sammy Hagar in these pics.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 09:26 AM (dK+Kv)

465 Going trans is the closest equivalent to suicide that you can get.
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It's also an announcement of impending mass violence.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 17, 2026 09:26 AM (1+Dhc)

466 Worked in N.O. OR. The horror of a well used spincter muscle of some tranny is not to be forgotten. Never closes, never again. Needed the attention of surgery for stool impaction.

Posted by: kingsman at February 17, 2026 09:27 AM (ehY6c)

467 Imagine the shame of having your dad show up at your hockey game dressed as a woman.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2026 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

He'd had transition surgery..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (6jv/d)

1) Spot tranny.

b) Condition red.

iii) Head for the exits.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

iv) Hand on cc weapon as you maneuver out of there.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 17, 2026 09:27 AM (idVxd)

468 >>>Reconcilliation, not silly recreation!

Posted by: Jesse Jackson

>That's what I'm talking about! Rev. Al Sharpton never had the chops for such eloquence.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 17, 2026 09:27 AM (gVUi7)

469 Later, morons. Be safe out there. Head on a swivel.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 17, 2026 09:28 AM (dK+Kv)

470 I can't help but wonder how many of the stories eulogizing Jessuh are going to repeat his lie about MLK dying in his arms as a fact

I'm going to guess, all of them.

Posted by: Jetto at February 17, 2026 09:28 AM (seilQ)

471 396 Without giving too many spoilers - the '73 movie...

*********

I don't think the statute of limitations on spoilers lasts for 50+ years.

Posted by: muldoon at February 17, 2026 09:10 AM (qgHp7)

I did not know that. Well, here goes -

Scarlett marries Rhett.
Ben Hur survives.
The Land of Oz is a dream.

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2026 09:28 AM (5rh/l)

472 Head on a swivel, hand on the gun.

Posted by: kingsman at February 17, 2026 09:28 AM (ehY6c)

473 471 I did not know that. Well, here goes -

Scarlett marries Rhett.
Ben Hur survives.
The Land of Oz is a dream.

Posted by: Gref at February 17, 2026 09:28 AM (5rh/l)

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Stories that don't work spoiled don't work at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at February 17, 2026 09:29 AM (GBKbO)

474 He'd had transition surgery..........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at February 17, 2026 09:16 AM (6jv/d)
******
Which is even more embarrassing because he still looks like a MAN!

Posted by: redridinghood at February 17, 2026 09:29 AM (NpAcC)

475 I get the weird feeling (not wish casting) that there's going to be a mass tranny suicide event. They've been lashing out on others but the lives of trannies ain't getting better. So Jonestown

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2026 09:29 AM (Ggsrp)

476 Flavor Aids.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 17, 2026 09:30 AM (Wp4UD)

477 I get the weird feeling (not wish casting) that there's going to be a mass tranny suicide event. They've been lashing out on others but the lives of trannies ain't getting better. So Jonestown
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 17, 2026 09:29 AM (Ggsrp)

I regret to say that I will be unmoved by this. That probably says something bad about me.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 17, 2026 09:30 AM (ExV1e)

478
Five minutes is a really long hang time for a curve ball.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

$20, same as in town.

Not that one, huh?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 17, 2026 09:30 AM (xG4kz)

479 Rosebud was a sled.

Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 09:30 AM (77rzZ)

480 Darth Vader is Luke's father.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 17, 2026 09:31 AM (jc0TO)

481 Jesse Jackson kicked it?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 17, 2026 09:31 AM (bss/y)

482 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulg at February 17, 2026 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

483 A close family member shares J.Jackson's birthday. I look forward to him always having his special day off work, but not to the ensuing socialization of the occasion.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 17, 2026 09:32 AM (zdLoL)

484 Everybody on the Orient Express did it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 17, 2026 09:32 AM (FXNzP)

485 >> I get the weird feeling (not wish casting) that there's going to be a mass tranny suicide event. They've been lashing out on others but the lives of trannies ain't getting better. So Jonestown

You've read about the Zizian cult? Andy Ngo has been covering this for over a year. Add to it that there is a Texas lgbtq gun club that has been linked to both the Texas ICE facility attack and Charlie Kirk's killer. Less Johnstown and more jihadi. . .?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 17, 2026 09:33 AM (tj6OY)

486 Glad to see you well enough to comment!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Won't be doing much of it right now. Still in a pain loop requiring meds right now every six hours with icing 15 minutes on the hour.

So my lucidity/pain cycle has to meet the Moron cycle of ebb and flow in commenting for me to get in a few.

Posted by: whig at February 17, 2026 09:33 AM (2swu2)

487 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Re: The Potomac Interceptor (PI) break. Trump could be kicking some butts in directions other than the current FEMA for cleanup.

The PI is "a major sewer system operating primarily in Virginia and Maryland, conveying wastewater to the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant in Washington, D.C.. It carries sewage from areas near Dulles Airport in VA, traverses MD, and discharges into the D.C.

Virginia: The PI system serves areas in Virginia, with infrastructure located in Fairfax County, including the Sugarland Run and Difficult Run extensions.
Maryland: The interceptor runs through Maryland, where recent, significant repairs and collapses have occurred near the Clara Barton Parkway and Montgomery County.
District of Columbia: The system terminates at the Blue Plains plant in D.C..

The system specifically conveys waste from Virginia and Maryland to the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant for processing."

Maryland Department of the Environment, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Department of Energy & Environment - Wash., DC, and other state agencies have responsibility.

Where'd the infrastructure $ go?

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 17, 2026 09:34 AM (NFX2v)

488 Continued -

Reportedly: Between 2020 and 2025, Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. received significant federal water infrastructure funding, largely driven by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), totaling hundreds of millions for drinking water, wastewater, and storm water projects. Key investments include over $124M for Maryland (2024), $94M for Virginia (2024), and targeted grants for DC's water systems.

Are there more current & consistent waterway reports for the entire Potomac Intercept area on down and the Chesapeake Bay than from years 2022, 2024?

Were there state and D.C. reports to the US EPA and, if so, where are the EPA updates? (I could be missing them but...).

I'd start looking at expenditures & environmental reports beginning with Fairfax County and work all the way down the line to the Bay. (Where there are always fish consumption advisories posted.)
----

Good day. 🤗

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 17, 2026 09:37 AM (NFX2v)

489 Going trans is the closest equivalent to suicide that you can get.
===================
It's also an announcement of impending mass violence.

A friend has an adult son who recently now wants to be called a female name etc. Friend is trying to be sensitive to this kid.(I don’t know the whole story but feel lots of mental health issues not being addressed but obvious for us all on this blog) I at first thought don’t go along and enable this behavior but maybe friend is trying to gain favor so the kid doesn’t shoot up the place?

Posted by: Hyacinth at February 17, 2026 09:40 AM (/2pqF)

490 Scarlett marries Rhett.
The Land of Oz is a dream.
And Ben Hur survives.

There. Now you hai Spoiler-ku.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 17, 2026 09:42 AM (zdLoL)

491 It sounds nice, but I was living in CO when Jefferson and Douglas Counties threw out their Communist school boards and brought in conservatives.

It achieved absolutely nothing.

The teachers *immediately* went into open revolt, walked out and went on strike, lining thoroughfares with picket lines and screaming at motorists about fascism.

NEA/CEA went on a full court media press, smearing the boards as unreconstructed slavedriving racist Klansmen, and hurled cash into an off-year recall election with their advantage of concentrated interest and got them OUT.

It's not possible for a board to do very much, sadly - the people they are putatively "in charge of" are 100% spittle-flecked, barking mad ideological Marxists who are 110% dedicated to the destruction of the American enemy, and will stop at nothing to achieve it.

They're not gonna just say "whelp, the people have spoken, we better just stand down and do what these dickless Republican nerds tell us to do."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 17, 2026 10:10 AM (XYFl9)

492
CBS News Things That Matter: A Town Hall with Governor Wes Moore
Maryland Governor Wes Moore, a rising star in the Democratic Party, sits down with CBS News senior correspondent Norah O’Donnell to discuss issues impacting the nation, including the critical 2026 midterm elections and his vision for the future of the Democratic Party.
Feb 15, 2026

😂

Environmental issues on his state agenda?

They (the Left) llet it all fall down and then they need more $$$ and so much more time during the next Democratic administration.

They take no blame for 'missing' funds and lack of action, and then they'll rouse some constituents/non-profits to act in the name of Environmental Injustice.

Even locally, infrastructure & other $ is sucked up by lawyers and contractors and meetings, and then more of the same before a work contract is even bid. (Keeping the well-heeled busy and affluent.) But by mid-terms, the environmental injustice crowd will be picketing and in the liberal msm news daily.

Flint Water Crisis, Wikipedia.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 17, 2026 10:18 AM (NFX2v)

493 "...pro football, basketball, baseball and every other professional American sports league. All have degenerated into repositories of politicized, anti-American, amoral perversion. "
Not NHL hockey! We still play to win, and even play fair with countries South of the Equator, like Canada.

Posted by: Chuck Moss at February 17, 2026 10:21 AM (mFNRr)

494 I’m watching the Olympics. YMMV

Posted by: Cow Demon at February 17, 2026 10:29 AM (utKUq)

495 🔥 CNBC News,
Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon, dies at 84
“Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement Tuesday.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 17, 2026 10:48 AM (NFX2v)

496 I just adored Robert Duvall

RIP

Posted by: Gonzotx at February 17, 2026 11:21 AM (nGraA)

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