Filthy Despicable RINO Coward John Cornyn: On Second Thought, Now that GOP Voters Are Set to Boot My Defeat-Mechanism Ass Out of My Cushy Job, Maybe We Don't Need the Filibuster After All

All it took to make this filthy RINO represent his constituents was a multimillion dollar effort to boot him out of office.

As you know, the disgraceful cucks in the Senate desperately want their cuck ally John Cornyn to keep his seat. They are pressuring Trump to endorse Cornyn.

Cornyn's primary challenger Ken Paxton says he will not leave the race, even if Trump does bend to John Thune and endorse the cuck John Cornyn.

However, he has offered a deal: He will leave the race and let Cornyn accept his last coronation if and only if the SAVE Act is passed before the primary runoff.

Not scheduled for a vote -- passed and put on the president's desk for his signature.

And suddenly this liberal dirtbag says he finally understands that Nostalgia RINOism won't stop the Democrats from undoing the filibuster themselves the next chance they get.

Something we've been saying for a decade.

If a man takes a swing at you and barely misses, that doesn't make him a pacifist -- it just means he has bad aim.
Standing still and giving him a second free swing wouldn't be wise or honorable; it would be foolish.
In 2022, Chuck Schumer and 47 other Senate Democrats tried to change the rules of the US Senate and "nuke" the filibuster to ram through a left-wing takeover of election laws.
They were just barely stopped by two holdout Democrats who were promptly driven out of their party and into retirement.
In 2024, Schumer confirmed to reporters that Democrats mean to finish the job and kill the filibuster's 60-vote threshold the next time they take the majority.
For many years, I believed that if the US Senate scrapped the filibuster, Texas and our nation would stand to lose more than we would gain.
My fellow conservatives and I have proudly used the 60-vote threshold to protect the country from all sorts of bad ideas and dangerous policies.
But when the reality on the ground changes, leaders must take stock and adapt.
Today, Democrats are weaponizing the Senate's rules to block the SAVE America Act, defund the Department of Homeland Security and hurt the American people -- all to spite President Donald Trump.
But they say openly that if these same rules ever get in Democrats' way, they won't hesitate to rip them up.
A rule is only a rule if both sides follow it.
I believe that Democrats, with their votes and statements, have already dealt the filibuster a fatal blow: The Senate rules will change eventually, whether Republicans like it or not.
This leaves conservatives with two options.
We can either unilaterally disarm, or we can stand and fight.
We can let the Democrats keep obstructing today and then smash the rules the first chance they get, or we can act now and use the mandate the American people gave this president and this Congress to secure our elections, protect our homeland and bring back common sense.
The answer is clear: We need to stand, fight and win.
Democrats started this fight. Now Republicans should finish it.
When 48 Democrats nearly killed the filibuster, it was to pass radical legislation designed to increase election fraud.
They tried to ban voter ID requirements, to decriminalize ballot harvesting, and even to send taxpayer dollars into Democrats' own campaign funds.
The SAVE America Act, which I've cosponsored, would do the opposite.
It would make it easy to vote but harder to cheat, by requiring proof of citizenship and voter ID.

He also realizes that it's time to end the Democrat filibuster on funding DHS unilaterally:

But it's also urgent to overcome other aspects of the far left's obstruction.
Americans are being forced to wait in line for three hours at airport security checkpoints because the Democrats are blocking funding for homeland security and immigration law enforcement.
Bad enough that Democrats' political tantrum is ruining travelers' days -- but at this time of hostilities with Iran, their financial siege of DHS is not just inconvenient, it's dangerous.

Hello! Happy Humpday!

I had to turn on air conditioning last night. Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:09 PM

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1 This fucking guy.

Posted by: Just sayin... at March 11, 2026 12:09 PM (G1ktt)

2 Sock off.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 11, 2026 12:09 PM (G1ktt)

3 Hump Day is my favorite day!

Posted by: B J Clinton at March 11, 2026 12:09 PM (K7Zpu)

4 This fuckin' guy!

Posted by: GigantorX at March 11, 2026 12:09 PM (ttLB5)

5 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2026 12:10 PM (EtnSa)

6 Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling.

Lucky. We got snow last night.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 11, 2026 12:11 PM (a+4eV)

7 Wrong person doing the right things?

Or just a coward being a coward and seeing which way the wind is blowing?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 11, 2026 12:11 PM (G1ktt)

8 TSA lines at Newark airport yesterday were very short.

I wonder whether the hysteria over the delays is being amplified by our oh-so-unbiased media...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2026 12:11 PM (n9ltV)

9 I had to turn on air conditioning last night. Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling.

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"house" is a funny way to describe a cardboard box with shelves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

10 Paxton is a slime but, he's our slime.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 12:12 PM (4NO2D)

11 A week of 90° plus forecast for van nuys

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 11, 2026 12:12 PM (Kt19C)

12 TSA lines at Newark airport yesterday were very short"

D gates at IAH had two of us in line. Period

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 12:12 PM (XuXeR)

13 If I saw Cornyn in public, it would be difficult to restrain myself from spitting on him, but I suppose that would be a waste of moisture.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2026 12:12 PM (Riz8t)

14 10 Paxton is a slime but, he's our slime.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 12:12 PM (4NO2D)

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I don't doubt his desire to punch the left in the nose for fun and profit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

15 Not get rid of the filibuster, just make them work for it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:13 PM (bss/y)

16 Could be worse, TX. You could have our congressional delegation.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 12:14 PM (ZANHd)

17 "house" is a funny way to describe a cardboard box with shelves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

There aren't any shelves in there. As we all know, and as garrett will attest, ace can't drill boxes.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at March 11, 2026 12:14 PM (G1ktt)

18 15 Not get rid of the filibuster, just make them work for it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:13 PM (bss/y)

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Yup.

Cloture vote is an end run around debate. That's it.

Just open up the floor to the debate on the bill. Deal with the amendments one by one. Send out one final amendment that undoes all the other amendments and puts only the original language back in.

Vote to get 50+1.

It'll take like a week. If Democrats really do filibuster and get like 5 of them to talk for a day. 2 weeks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

19 'Get the wrong people, to do the right thing for the wrong reasons. Yeah motherfuckers!'
-James Madison- the real one, not the soy jack pansy

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:14 PM (bss/y)

20 8 TSA lines at Newark airport yesterday were very short.

I wonder whether the hysteria over the delays is being amplified by our oh-so-unbiased media...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2026 12:11 PM (n9ltV)

It's not. There are sickouts at certain airports. And there are agents quitting in certain areas (300 since the shutdown), and they are probably doing that in groups. And with no hiring authority and sickouts, this gets bad in those airports quickly.

It's bad. But it's more bad in places where folks have other work options or stronger group dynamics to make a point.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 12:15 PM (tOcjL)

21 19 'Get the wrong people, to do the right thing for the wrong reasons. Yeah motherfuckers!'
-James Madison- the real one, not the soy jack pansy

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:14 PM (bss/y)

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I feel seen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

22 Make it a true filibuster. Three minutes only for bag changes.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 11, 2026 12:15 PM (gm9Sb)

23 Welcome to the party pal,now get lost,

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2026 12:15 PM (1nfzE)

24 I had to turn on air conditioning last night. Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling.

I thought hovels were built into the sides of hills to maintain a constant comfortable temperature.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 11, 2026 12:15 PM (w9Wax)

25 "Not get rid of the filibuster, just make them work for it."

If the Dems take the Senate, then the GOP has to work for it, too.

Also, the SAVE ACT has been so delayed it won't really influence the midterms I think.

So annoying.

Posted by: Harun at March 11, 2026 12:16 PM (IuIym)

26 cbsnews...

"Unscheduled absences among airport security officers have more than doubled during the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown, with more than 300 employees leaving the agency since the start of the DHS shutdown, according to internal TSA statistics obtained exclusively by CBS News.

TSA officer call-out rates have climbed into double-digit percentages at some airports, including half the officers at Houston's Hobby Airport, straining screening operations and contributing to longer security lines. "

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 12:16 PM (tOcjL)

27 I don't doubt his desire to punch the left in the nose for fun and profit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

All politicians are filthy, vile, acquisitive sleazes. But the sea change we need is exactly that... politicians who hate the other side and want them destroyed.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2026 12:16 PM (n9ltV)

28 Cont...

"At John F. Kennedy International Airport, TSA officers averaged a 21% absence rate during the shutdown, the highest among major airports. Other heavily affected hubs included Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (19%), William P. Hobby Airport in Houston (18%), Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (14%) and Pittsburgh International Airport (13%)."

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 12:17 PM (tOcjL)

29 And 400 million barrels of oil are being released from global reserves,

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2026 12:17 PM (1nfzE)

30 " Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling."

That's climate change for ya. Who should we blame?

Posted by: fd at March 11, 2026 12:17 PM (vFG9F)

31 27 All politicians are filthy, vile, acquisitive sleazes. But the sea change we need is exactly that... politicians who hate the other side and want them destroyed.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2026 12:16 PM (n9ltV)

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*dancing on Trump's political grave*
-Cornyn, January 2021

Sorry, that was completely unrelated.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

32 "These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 11, 2026 12:17 PM (8AONa)

33 Willownoted:

Spellings of multiple names of Iranian big shots are similar, possibly as a security measure.

Probably so, meaning we still have Khumeini, Khemeini, Khimeini and Khaminowicz left to go.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 11, 2026 12:17 PM (zdLoL)

34 I want a GOP that hates the Bolsheviks more than it hates its own voters.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 12:17 PM (4NO2D)

35 All politicians are filthy, vile, acquisitive, LOOTING COCK sleeves. But the sea change we need is exactly that... politicians who hate the other side and want them destroyed.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2026 12:16 PM (n9ltV)

Suggested edit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:18 PM (bss/y)

36 34 I want a GOP that hates the Bolsheviks more than it hates its own voters.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 12:17 PM (4NO2D)

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"Fuck you, hobbit."
-John McCain

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

37 Is it politics as usual or extortion as usual?

I can't tell....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2026 12:18 PM (jtM2q)

38 How come China isn't ordering their shadow tanker fleet to run the Strait?

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 12:18 PM (4NO2D)

39 32 "These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 11, 2026 12:17 PM (8AONa)

Ah, Groucho, we hardly knew ye.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:18 PM (bss/y)

40
It was 12 degrees this morning in SW Wyoming.

Next week it is supposed to be in the 70's.

The weather has been crazy this year.

Posted by: four seasons at March 11, 2026 12:19 PM (3ek7K)

41 Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 12:15 PM (tOcjL)

The data I have seen show shorter lines and fewer delays than is being reported.

Look at the private companies reporting the delays before you rush to accept the media lies.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2026 12:19 PM (n9ltV)

42 I want a GOP that hates the Bolsheviks more than it hates its own voters.

I don't care who they hate as long as they fear me and my wrath.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2026 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

43 we still have Khumeini, Khemeini, Khimeini and Khaminowicz left to go.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 11, 2026 12:17 PM

That last one might be a Mossad infiltrator. Just saying.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2026 12:19 PM (2ocoG)

44 It'll take like a week. If Democrats really do filibuster and get like 5 of them to talk for a day. 2 weeks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:14 PM (GBKbO)
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If the Dems pick 5 women, it'll take a month, or even six weeks.

Posted by: mrp at March 11, 2026 12:19 PM (rj6Yv)

45
Whoever wrote that essay for Cornyn did a good job. I wonder when it was written.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 11, 2026 12:20 PM (QOikT)

46 "Unscheduled absences among airport security officers have more than doubled during the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown, with more than 300 employees leaving the agency since the start of the DHS shutdown, according to internal TSA statistics obtained exclusively by CBS News.

TSA officer call-out rates have climbed into double-digit percentages at some airports, including half the officers at Houston's Hobby Airport, straining screening operations and contributing to longer security lines. "
Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 12:16 PM (tOcjL)

Keep a list of the names of TSA agents who are feigning sickness for political reasons, and fire their skank asses once the shutdown is ended.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2026 12:20 PM (8zz6B)

47 Had a woman in my car pool who thought hump day meant it was the day to have sex. She was pretty excited about it when she told us. It was rather awkward explaining to her that hump day meant being over the work week hump. Though I did offer to honor her tradition and have sex with her.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 11, 2026 12:20 PM (+Evw/)

48
This is horse trader-traders trading horse traders with horse-trader traders.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 11, 2026 12:21 PM (zk5UJ)

49 Happy Humpday!

Happy Harumphday to you, too!

Posted by: John Cornyn at March 11, 2026 12:21 PM (yv1Au)

50 I think Cornyn looks like a wraith. Am I the only one?

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at March 11, 2026 12:21 PM (dzZCL)

51 Whatever we are hearing and reading about this now will probably be different in the end. Lotsa backroom deals and negotiations going on, I'm sure. Sadly, the most likely result is that SAVE doesn't get saved and Pax does drop out.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at March 11, 2026 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

52 Cornyn knows it's consequence-free to say what he's saying because Thune doesn't have 50+1 votes to do away with the filibuster. So he can pretend to be for doing away with it (pretending is Cornyn's specialty), and he can even vote for doing away with it, while knowing that it is a pointless gesture for the rubes because enough safe and lame-duck RINOs (looking at you, Mitch) will vote against to make 51.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 11, 2026 12:21 PM (eStot)

53 After decades of Iranian threats, why aren't their fat pipelines from the Gulf States down to ports in Oman outside the Strait?

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 12:21 PM (4NO2D)

54 So TSA agents are endangering the public safety with a strike.

PATCO them.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 11, 2026 12:21 PM (1nfzE)

55 41 Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 12:15 PM (tOcjL)

The data I have seen show shorter lines and fewer delays than is being reported.

Look at the private companies reporting the delays before you rush to accept the media lies.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2026 12:19 PM (n9ltV)

It's not a reach to think some TSA bosses are supporting their folks virtually shutting down their airports with sickouts...and some are not. Thus, a have/have not scenario for which airports are running well and which are not.

If you don't pay folks, their work effort goes down...and this is the 2nd time in 6 months for them. The quitting is also now not unexpected. If my spouse was TSA, I'd be having him find a new job and then quit this one.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 11, 2026 12:22 PM (tOcjL)

56 Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:09 PM
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So YOU are the reason temperatures are plummeting in my neck of the woods...Got tired of winter and sent it my way.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 11, 2026 12:22 PM (ESVrU)

57 Cornyn is near his mid-70s, and he lost out on being majority leader. What's he even sticking around for?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 11, 2026 12:22 PM (2+SeL)

58 Willowed:
257 I'd take Robert Stack beating the shit out of some airport hippies.

https://tinyurl.com/y8nttdwc
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Without even following the link I know what you are talking about.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2026 12:18 PM (MwdeY)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)

59 Hello! Happy Humpday!

I had to turn on air conditioning last night. Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:09 PM

Shit, man, you have a house?

Way to fucking humble-brag!

Posted by: The Guy Living in That Refrigerator Box You Left On The Curb. at March 11, 2026 12:22 PM (dmDsy)

60 50 I think Cornyn looks like a wraith. Am I the only one?

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at March 11, 2026 12:21 PM (dzZCL)

He always reminds me of one of those creepy British kids from Village of the Damned.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 11, 2026 12:22 PM (eJ/ld)

61 We are all slime, but some of us have pretensions.

Posted by: John Cornyn at March 11, 2026 12:23 PM (nvKZ7)

62 Had a woman in my car pool who thought hump day meant it was the day to have sex. She was pretty excited about it when she told us. It was rather awkward explaining to her that hump day meant being over the work week hump. Though I did offer to honor her tradition and have sex with her.

I was watching a couple of squirrels doing the old grab and tickle this morning. One of them (presumably the female) ran up a tall tree, was chased by the other (presumably the male) and was then knocked out of the tree to fall about 40' to the ground. She picked herself up, and just walked away as if nothing happened.

Why do I bring this up? Beats me, but I hope I never have that experience.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t)

63 The State of Washington passed a 10% income tax yesterday on incomes over a million dollars, and purely coincidentally Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks, also announced yesterday that he was retiring to Miami.

It wasn't a long term political equilibrium - Washington was the only blue state without an income tax, which made Seattle very, very rich, but it was obvious that at some point the looters in power would be unable to restrain themselves and kill the golden goose.

Technically, income taxes are illegal in the State of Washington, but who do you think appointed the Washington supreme court?

The legislation was passed so that the legislature can reduce the million-dollar threshold at any time.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 11, 2026 12:23 PM (n1OCj)

64 I had to turn on air conditioning last night. Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:09 PM

I enjoyed the two days where I was able to turn everything off but the ceiling fans.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:23 PM (bss/y)

65 The second Dems get 51 seats they’ll nuke the filibuster. So fuck it, do it first and pass save.

Posted by: Heroq at March 11, 2026 12:23 PM (HF36u)

66 Cornyn is near his mid-70s, and he lost out on being majority leader. What's he even sticking around for?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 11, 2026 12:22 PM

It's much harder to put a sitting Senator in SuperMax.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 12:24 PM (4NO2D)

67 Filthy Despicable RINO Coward John Cornyn

Set phasers to maximum redundancy, Mr. Sulu!

Posted by: Capt. James Tiberius Kirk at March 11, 2026 12:24 PM (rxwdW)

68 Cornyn knows it's consequence-free to say what he's saying because Thune doesn't have 50+1 votes to do away with the filibuster. So he can pretend to be for doing away with it (pretending is Cornyn's specialty), and he can even vote for doing away with it, while knowing that it is a pointless gesture for the rubes because enough safe and lame-duck RINOs (looking at you, Mitch) will vote against to make 51.

Sadly, this sounds plausible.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2026 12:24 PM (Riz8t)

69 I noted below, if Paxton withdraws by the 18th, John will be declared the winner.

But if he doesn't, even if he later "withdraws" the run-off will still be held.

LOL, so John can talk all he wants but unless he gets it done, Paxton will keep campaigning.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 11, 2026 12:24 PM (HXT0k)

70 That's climate change for ya. Who should we blame?
Posted by: fd
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I'm already seeing articles blaming the "early" tornados in Illinois and Indiana last night on climate change.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 11, 2026 12:24 PM (XvL8K)

71 State of Washington passed a 10% income tax yesterday on incomes over a million dollars

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Within 5 years that $1M will be $50k.

Posted by: Heroq at March 11, 2026 12:25 PM (HF36u)

72 Also Willowed:

I have no problem with optimism or even overly optimistic outlooks.

But, really, our state governments really suck. No one pays attention to them, and they're in charge of hundreds of billions. And the people who rise in them were part of cartels at the local levels controlled by things like developers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

Intellectually, I have to agree with you, because you are stating what I believe to be facts.

But.... just like no one predicted the popularity of Trump (at least as far as I know, Trump was probably the only one who thought he had a shot), there has to be, statistically, many other Trumps out there that could, theoretically, achieve comparable results as Trump has, but on a more local scale.

I think that could bring about the societal transformation my newly-discovered long-lost twin Pollyanna yearns for so badly.
Posted by: Denny Crane - Genetic Testing Rules! at March 11, 2026 12:16 PM (dmDsy)

Posted by: Denny Crane - I Fixed It!! at March 11, 2026 12:25 PM (dmDsy)

73 I had to turn on air conditioning last night. Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:09 PM

Our AC's been on since late January. Now we have oak pollen piling up in drifts...

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at March 11, 2026 12:25 PM (dzZCL)

74 57 Cornyn is near his mid-70s, and he lost out on being majority leader. What's he even sticking around for?

It tells you how these people see themselves. They are vain, self-important, and absolutely sure they are the only thing standing between the country and Armageddon.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2026 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

75 Spellings of multiple names of Iranian big shots are similar, possibly as a security measure. Probably so, meaning we still have Khumeini, Khemeini, Khimeini and Khaminowicz left to go.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 11, 2026 12:17 PM (zdLoL)

Sort of related: A few years ago, there was reporting that "Muhammad" was the most popular baby name in the UK. The BBC popped up and said, "No, it's George." But they linked to the data from the Home Ministry. It was true that there were more "Georges" than "Muhammads." But when you added in Mohammed, Mohamed, Muhamed, Mahmoud, Mohamet, etc., etc., the Muhammeds way outnumbered the Georges.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 11, 2026 12:25 PM (eStot)

76 It’s 77 out there, AC has been on for awhile now.

Posted by: Piper at March 11, 2026 12:26 PM (OoFl2)

77 I had to turn on air conditioning last night. Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling.

And for the first time this winter, we have blizzard warnings in the Cascades. The snow pack is way down so it is welcome.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 11, 2026 12:26 PM (2WIwB)

78 Mid 70s for a Republican senator is like middle age. He has 3 elections left in him.

Posted by: Heroq at March 11, 2026 12:27 PM (HF36u)

79 Sometimes i feel like life's dream is being a Senator no one has ever heard of. Rake in the cash. Sleep quietly. Life on easy mode.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2026 12:27 PM (Ot/FD)

80 It tells you how these people see themselves. They are vain, self-important, and absolutely sure they are the only thing standing between the country and Armageddon.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2026 12:25 PM (Riz8t)

Royalty. The urge to Patrician is strong in humanity- even if they do not call themselves Patricians. Nomenklatura, Technocrat, whatever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:27 PM (bss/y)

81 I was watching a couple of squirrels doing the old grab and tickle this morning. One of them (presumably the female) ran up a tall tree, was chased by the other (presumably the male) and was then knocked out of the tree to fall about 40' to the ground. She picked herself up, and just walked away as if nothing happened.

Why do I bring this up? Beats me, but I hope I never have that experience.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t)

Hey, cool story Bro!

Posted by: Crazy Animal Sex Lover at March 11, 2026 12:27 PM (dmDsy)

82 Who's better to replace Mitch the Bitch? I don't like either choice, Andy Barr or Nate Morris.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 11, 2026 12:28 PM (XvL8K)

83
Our AC's been on since late January. Now we have oak pollen piling up in drifts...
Posted by: Beto Ochoa at March 11, 2026

It’s that time of year here where everything is yellow and everyone is sneezing.

Posted by: Piper at March 11, 2026 12:28 PM (OoFl2)

84 Mid 70s for a Republican senator is like middle age. He has 3 elections left in him."

What? No!

/GOPe

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 12:28 PM (XuXeR)

85 71 Within 5 years that $1M will be $50k.
Posted by: Heroq at March 11, 2026 12:25 PM (HF36u)

25K.

Gotta make sure you hit the no-degree, no-special-skills people, too.

Posted by: XTC at March 11, 2026 12:28 PM (3wOGw)

86 Isn't the thing that squirrels are one of the few living animals that cannot reach terminal velocity?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:28 PM (bss/y)

87 I saw Filthy Despicable RINO open for Cage the Elephant at the Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival back in 2023!

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2026 12:28 PM (GD0B3)

88 "Well, see heah, Andy, what we gon' do 'bout disheah li'l condomundrum is, we gon' make b'leeve we ackshully listen to Da People so we get voted in again. Lookaheah: It's only one vote an' if that 'SAVE' act saves our sorry ass and protex our retirement money, why hell, son, whut's wrong wit' dat? Now move along - I got bid'ness to take care of, seemsayin' … ?"

(The above 'conversation / speech' is aught but an fig newton of my emancipation … ).

Posted by: Dr_No at March 11, 2026 12:29 PM (ayRl+)

89 Mid 70s for a Republican senator is like middle age. He has 3 elections left in him."

What? No!

/GOPe

Surely it's 6-7 elections, minimum.

Posted by: Chuck Grassley at March 11, 2026 12:29 PM (Riz8t)

90 Within 5 years that $1M will be $50k.

Of course.

Amusingly, Seattle just went from having the lowest marginal state and local income tax rate to the highest, beating out both New York and Portland.

Washington earlier passed a tax on capital gains on the "ultra-rich" (the Washington supreme ruled that capital gains weren't income).

Jeff Bezos was supposed to pay 45% of that, and he immediately moved to Florida - to be closer to his parents, he said.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 11, 2026 12:29 PM (n1OCj)

91 82 Who's better to replace Mitch the Bitch? I don't like either choice, Andy Barr or Nate Morris.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 11, 2026 12:28 PM (XvL8K)

I had a buddy who said Andy Barr went to bat for him on something (veteran stuff.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:29 PM (bss/y)

92 The Guy Living in That Refrigerator Box You Left On The Curb"

You have a curb? Luxury.

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 12:29 PM (XuXeR)

93 Nomenklatura, Technocrat, whatever.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:27 PM (bss/y)

"Whiz Kid".

Better to be the whizzer than the whizzee

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2026 12:29 PM (Ot/FD)

94 I had to turn on air conditioning last night. Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:09 PM

Had to do that a few weeks ago.
Supposed to hit 90 today.
Pollen has painted my car yellow-green.

Then next week it’s supposed to be back in the 30s at night.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 11, 2026 12:30 PM (6ydKt)

95 90 Washington earlier passed a tax on capital gains on the "ultra-rich" (the Washington supreme ruled that capital gains weren't income).

Jeff Bezos was supposed to pay 45% of that, and he immediately moved to Florida - to be closer to his parents, he said.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 11, 2026 12:29 PM (n1OCj)

======

Looting the treasury is a late stage empire thing.

And these blue states aren't even empires.

All it means is that they should end up...far less important on the national stage over the next couple of decades.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

96 Isn't the thing that squirrels are one of the few living animals that cannot reach terminal velocity?

It kind of looked like she fell more slowly than you'd expect from gravity. They have lots of fur, so I imagine that slows their descent, and in any case, there isn't enough mass behind them to splatter them on the ground.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2026 12:30 PM (Riz8t)

97 Cornyn knows it's consequence-free to say what he's saying because Thune doesn't have 50+1 votes to do away with the filibuster. So he can pretend to be for doing away with it (pretending is Cornyn's specialty), and he can even vote for doing away with it, while knowing that it is a pointless gesture for the rubes because enough safe and lame-duck RINOs (looking at you, Mitch) will vote against to make 51.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon

Pass SAVE & put it on the President's desk for signature or face Paxton & fight for your political life.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 11, 2026 12:30 PM (MwdeY)

98 "Whiz Kid".

Better to be the whizzer than the whizzee
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2026 12:29 PM (Ot/FD)

What did they call the group of young guys who came up with JFK and got us into the Cuban Missile crisis? Was it Whiz Kids?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (bss/y)

99 91 I had a buddy who said Andy Barr went to bat for him on something (veteran stuff.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:29 PM (bss/y)

=======

That's how Lindsay Graham keeps getting re-elected, by the way.

He and his staff are very ready to help any SC vet who knocks on his office door.

And Lindsay Graham sucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

100 Pollen has painted my car yellow-green."

The one time of year my Bronco doesn't show much...

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (XuXeR)

101 After decades of Iranian threats, why aren't their fat pipelines from the Gulf States down to ports in Oman outside the Strait?
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 12:21 PM (4NO2D)

UAE has one that feeds to a port in Oman south of the strait.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (Y1sOo)

102 Washington has very high sales and property tax along with the highest gas tax in the country.

So of course now that they’ve introduced an income tax, those taxes will be reduced.

Right?

🤣

Posted by: Heroq at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (HF36u)

103 86 Isn't the thing that squirrels are one of the few living animals that cannot reach terminal velocity?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:28 PM (bss/y)

I believe you are almost correct! They have a terminal velocity, but it is close to 100% survivable.

Posted by: Crazy Animal Sex Lover at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (dmDsy)

104 And Lindsay Graham sucks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

Valid. By choice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (bss/y)

105 That's how Lindsay Graham keeps getting re-elected, by the way.

He and his staff are very ready to help any SC vet who knocks on his office door.

And Lindsay Graham sucks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM

He also funds conservative spoiler candidates for the primary.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 12:32 PM (4NO2D)

106 those taxes will be reduced."

Is that English?

Posted by: man at March 11, 2026 12:32 PM (XuXeR)

107 104 104 And Lindsay Graham sucks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

Valid. By choice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (bss/y)

He sips.

For maximum "mincing queer" points.

Posted by: XTC at March 11, 2026 12:32 PM (3wOGw)

108 I believe you are almost correct! They have a terminal velocity, but it is close to 100% survivable.
Posted by: Crazy Animal Sex Lover at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (dmDsy)

Yeah, the fastest they can fall without speeding up, but it can't kill them. At least on flat ground.

sidenote: I just had an image of dropping a bag of squirrels out of an airplane to test. I am going to Hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:33 PM (bss/y)

109 101 After decades of Iranian threats, why aren't their fat pipelines from the Gulf States down to ports in Oman outside the Strait?
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 12:21 PM (4NO2D)

UAE has one that feeds to a port in Oman south of the strait.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (Y1sOo)

======

50 years has made the strait not nearly as important to much of the world as it once was.

It's important to China, and not that many other people.

We get less than 10% of our imports from the Middle East at all. While we produce a shit ton ourselves.

Market shocks aren't even. They affect different places more than others. China's gonna get real hit by this slowdown in strait traffic. Us? Not so much.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

110 I think the airport/airline delays depend on where the airport is located. If it's in a blue shithole... delays. If not, the delays (if any) are short. And it's not that the flights are impacted (they are, sort of) but the time it takes to get through security can be.... prolonged.

Flight tracking websites don't typically reflect TSA wait times. Thus, the US looks pretty good, even with the stormy weather. But travelers will tell you there are horrendous TSA delays in some locations.

But... TSA has always been fucked.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2026 12:33 PM (jtM2q)

111 That's how Lindsay Graham keeps getting re-elected, by the way.

He and his staff are very ready to help any SC vet who knocks on his office door.

And Lindsay Graham sucks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

I don't doubt he loves hearing from men in uniform.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 11, 2026 12:33 PM (2+SeL)

112 And the other NC Senator is.....

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2026 12:33 PM (GD0B3)

113 105 He also funds conservative spoiler candidates for the primary.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 12:32 PM (4NO2D)

======

He wins his primaries by like 50 points.

The spoilers are an excuse. SC Republicans like Graham.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

114 That's how Lindsay Graham keeps getting re-elected, by the way.

He and his staff are very ready to help any SC vet who knocks on his office door.

And Lindsay Graham sucks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM

Same with Kennedy. Even after no one gave a single f@4k about the Kennedy name, every Dem I talked to gushed about how his office helped great-aunt Mildred out with some issue.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 12:34 PM (ZANHd)

115 Isn't the thing that squirrels are one of the few living animals that cannot reach terminal velocity?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:28 PM (bss/y)

No. They reach it real quickly. Terminal velocity for a squirrel is less than the velocity needed to injure them when they fall.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2026 12:34 PM (8zz6B)

116 Looting the treasury is a late stage empire thing.

And these blue states aren't even empires.

I always thought it was interesting that although Seattle and Portland culturally are very similar, Seattle was one of the most entrepreneurial cities on Earth. in terms of the companies that started there, while Portland was bleh.

Portland had a hefty state income tax, and Seattle had no income tax.

That just ended.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 11, 2026 12:34 PM (n1OCj)

117 sidenote: I just had an image of dropping a bag of squirrels out of an airplane to test. I am going to Hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:33 PM (bss/y)

Yes...yes you are!

LOL

Posted by: Denny Crane - That Was Funny! at March 11, 2026 12:34 PM (dmDsy)

118 I mean SC...

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2026 12:34 PM (GD0B3)

119 112 And the other NC Senator is.....

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2026 12:33 PM (GD0B3)

======

Well, NC is Budd and Tillis.

Budd's staff showed me and my family around the Capitol. That was neat.

Tillis is gone soon.

But SC...that's Tim Scott. Who's...okay. Weird on racial issues but just kind of a non-entity anywhere else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

120 Every major airport is in a blue city shithole since every big city is a blue shithole.

But I think weather is the biggest factor.

Posted by: Heroq at March 11, 2026 12:35 PM (HF36u)

121 -8 this morning.
I wish I could feel your pain :-)

Posted by: Bosk at March 11, 2026 12:35 PM (VMFAF)

122 All it means is that they should end up...far less important on the national stage over the next couple of decades. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

I've had a theory for some time that federalism is going to save us from going over the fiscal cliff. It is inevitable at the federal level that some programs are going to have to be cut. The easiest way to do it is to devolve to the states (maybe with declining block grants) the programs that are already being administered by the states: housing, Medicaid, SNAP, etc. Red states will cut benefits and blue states won't. People and businesses will vote with their feet, the red states will grow members of Congress and electoral votes, and the blue states will decline or change. The federal government (and the government sector overall) will be a smaller slice of the economy and less important in people's lives. It's already happening.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 11, 2026 12:35 PM (eStot)

123 hey now, Tim Scott ran for president!

Posted by: runner at March 11, 2026 12:35 PM (GD0B3)

124 114 Same with Kennedy. Even after no one gave a single f@4k about the Kennedy name, every Dem I talked to gushed about how his office helped great-aunt Mildred out with some issue.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 12:34 PM (ZANHd)

======

This is the major reason Jeff Flake lost so badly in his one re-election effort.

His staff was dismissive of constituent services, not helpful.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

125 It kind of looked like she fell more slowly than you'd expect from gravity. They have lots of fur, so I imagine that slows their descent, and in any case, there isn't enough mass behind them to splatter them on the ground.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 11, 2026 12:30 PM (Riz8t)
======

We always get our squirrel!

Posted by: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation at March 11, 2026 12:36 PM (rj6Yv)

126 AoSHQ:

Come for the boob talk, stay for the discussion of squirrel physics.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2026 12:36 PM (cz/sd)

127 The grand irony is that the opposite is the case. They believe in falsehood over facts, and literally anything else over truth.

No, it’s more complicated than that. They don’t believe in objective reality, or a shared substrate.

What they mean by that, any given opinion, no matter how crazy, is equally valid as the Pythagorean Theorem or whatever. it’s “moral relativism” and Critical Theory on bath salts.

That’s what the execrable “My Truth” rhetoric is about. It’s an end run around scholarship and knowledge, and observable reality. And facts, logic, and Reason. Infantile.

Our Universities, among other things, are totally fucked in the long run, unless they can excise this bit of sophistry and fairy tale thinking. A variant of Lysenkoism, perhaps. Whatever you call it, it ain’t good.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 11, 2026 12:37 PM (KP4aP)

128 I was watching a couple of squirrels doing the old grab and tickle this morning. One of them (presumably the female) ran up a tall tree, was chased by the other (presumably the male) and was then knocked out of the tree to fall about 40' to the ground. She picked herself up, and just walked away as if nothing happened.

Why do I bring this up? Beats me, but I hope I never have that experience.
Posted by: Archimedes

Terminal velocity of a falling tree rat is far below that required for a fatal impact. Unless they land on a punji stake.

Posted by: Operator Error at March 11, 2026 12:37 PM (89+to)

129 126 AoSHQ:

Come for the boob talk, stay for the discussion of squirrel physics.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2026 12:36 PM (cz/sd)

======

Isn't that Mark Rober's thing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

130 Didn't Ted Nugent do 'Squirrel Meat Fever' … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at March 11, 2026 12:38 PM (ayRl+)

131 Phat Gus.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 11, 2026 12:38 PM (eJ/ld)

132 There literally is no Senate rule regarding so-called filibusters, it's a fiction put forth by both parties and enforced by the capo de tutti, The Senate Parliamentarian.

It's literally just a agreement between the two parties nothing more.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 11, 2026 12:38 PM (XV/Pl)

133 So TSA agents are endangering the public safety with a strike.

PATCO them.

Our job is to delay and inconvenience (and pilfer small items). It is all we have ever accomplished and our record of service is exemplary.

Posted by: TSA at March 11, 2026 12:38 PM (rxwdW)

134 Isn't the thing that squirrels are one of the few living animals that cannot reach terminal velocity?

Let's ask squirrel boss!
https://is.gd/32q9DR

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 11, 2026 12:39 PM (Kt19C)

135 Say you built a squirrel-shooting cannon and aimed it straight upward. Are you saying you couldn't shoot them high enough that they'd never need a parachute to avoid going splat?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 11, 2026 12:39 PM (2+SeL)

136 The grand irony is that the opposite is the case. They believe in falsehood over facts, and literally anything else over truth.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2026 12:00 PM (Ot/FD)

Think about it. What is the fun in saying something like "we value truth over facts" if it's not a boldfaced lie? Think about how ecstasy inducing it is to lie something like "truth is my forever butt buddy".

And I wouldn't even call it irony. The whole point of them saying it is forcing you to drink their piss and call it ice cream. They know that you know that they know that you know that they are full of shit, it's just at that moment they believe you can't do a damn thing about it. And that gives them a ladyboner.

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2026 12:40 PM (KTbq2)

137 Isn't the thing that squirrels are one of the few living animals that cannot reach terminal velocity?

Let's ask squirrel boss!
https://is.gd/32q9DR
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 11, 2026 12:39 PM

*makes Shake Weight motion*

Posted by: Rocky at March 11, 2026 12:40 PM (ZANHd)

138 Isn't the thing that squirrels are one of the few living animals that cannot reach terminal velocity?

Aetius451AD
---------------------

Terminal velocity? Been there done that...

Posted by: Flyin' Green Dildo at March 11, 2026 12:41 PM (OUPZt)

139 What makes this philosophy so insidious, it renders adherents immune to any persuasion using facts, logic, and reason. “My Truth” means they can believe whatever they want, despite evidence refuting their cherished delusions.

That’s what “we believe in truth over facts” signifies. A rejection of the last 5,000 years of accumulated wisdom. Maoist, perhaps.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 11, 2026 12:41 PM (KP4aP)

140 sidenote: I just had an image of dropping a bag of squirrels out of an airplane

It's Raining Squirrels, Hallelujah!

Posted by: The Weather Girls at March 11, 2026 12:41 PM (rxwdW)

141
There's a lot of squirrel remains on the road around here.

They thought they were invincible, too.

Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2026 12:41 PM (Y8DZL)

142 We all knew they would need to be dragged kicking and screaming to do anything that would actually help the country or, perish the thought, Trump.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 11, 2026 12:42 PM (b4LBp)

143 101 After decades of Iranian threats, why aren't their fat pipelines from the Gulf States down to ports in Oman outside the Strait?
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 12:21 PM (4NO2D)

UAE has one that feeds to a port in Oman south of the strait.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (Y1sOo)

Saudi Arabia has a pipeline that runs from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea.

Previously it only did a million barrels per day, and coincidently it’s about to open up to 7 million bpd.
I just read about it yesterday.

It won’t replace the Strait route but every bit helps right now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 11, 2026 12:42 PM (6ydKt)

144 Cats are among the largest animals known to survive falls from extreme heights, including those reaching terminal velocity. A 1987 study of 132 cats that fell from high-rise buildings found a 90% survival rate, with cats falling from higher floors (e.g., 7+ stories) often sustaining fewer injuries than those from lower floors—likely because they reach terminal velocity and can reorient themselves mid-fall to land more safely. You may now continue.

Posted by: @SOEarpiece at March 11, 2026 12:42 PM (4NO2D)

145 Say you built a squirrel-shooting cannon and aimed it straight upward. Are you saying you couldn't shoot them high enough that they'd never need a parachute to avoid going splat?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 11, 2026 12:39 PM (2+SeL)

The ensplatment would occur inside the barrel of the cannon.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2026 12:42 PM (8zz6B)

146 It's not. There are sickouts at certain airports. And there are agents quitting in certain areas (300 since the shutdown), and they are probably doing that in groups. And with no hiring authority and sickouts, this gets bad in those airports quickly.

It's bad. But it's more bad in places where folks have other work options or stronger group dynamics to make a point.
Posted by: Nova Local
---

There's another remedy, get rid of the TSA and give security back to the airlines.

Another thought along those lines - Get rid of Homeland Security. We already have agencies to do those jobs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2026 12:42 PM (N15rr)

147 What would Al Bundy say about squirrels and terminal velociraptoricity … ?

Posted by: Dr_No at March 11, 2026 12:42 PM (ayRl+)

148
Phat Gus.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary

I don't know how many times the gKids watched that Rober video, but I fully prepared to have Phat Gus immolated by a flame thrower toward the end of that viewing run.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 12:42 PM (xG4kz)

149 Late in the war Germans experimented with squirrel-shooting cannons

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 11, 2026 12:42 PM (Kt19C)

150 A flying squirrel would glide for miles

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2026 12:42 PM (EtnSa)

151 Dial back the cinematic clock and remember the Stagecoach cast; Cornrow is the crooked bank president absconding with the bank deposits. Same guy.

Posted by: Pool of Hate at March 11, 2026 12:42 PM (ehY6c)

152 I always turn on the AC on a March day like yesterday. It's the best time to make sure it's working. You can't wait until the first prolonged heat event.

OMG prolonged heat event? Why do I sound like a dumb lib?

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2026 12:43 PM (KTbq2)

153
So what?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 12:43 PM (xG4kz)

154 135 Say you built a squirrel-shooting cannon and aimed it straight upward. Are you saying you couldn't shoot them high enough that they'd never need a parachute to avoid going splat?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 11, 2026 12:39 PM (2+SeL)

I think the cannon shot would explode the squirrel instantly, so .....

Posted by: Denny Crane - Poor Astronaut Squirrel! at March 11, 2026 12:43 PM (dmDsy)

155 There's a lot of squirrel remains on the road around here.

They thought they were invincible, too.
Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2026 12:41 PM (Y8DZL)

Gravity has nothing on a F-150 moving at 55.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:44 PM (bss/y)

156 Sean Davis
@seanmdav

[1 of 2]

Understand what Thune is doing right now. It’s not enough for him to kill the SAVE America Act. Thune has to kill it while also protecting his worst RINO colleagues from being exposed for opposing it.

How does Thune accomplish his? By avoiding a simple majority vote at all costs. Thune knows a public vote where Republicans get less than 50 votes—with people like Tillis and Curtis and McConnell and Murkowski voting against IT—is electoral poison. He doesn’t want it to pass, but he also can’t have it die at the hands of his own puke colleagues.

So how does Thune do this? By refusing to move to the already-passed House bill (this only requires a simple majority because the House message is privileged) and instead moving to a new, standalone Senate bill. A new Senate bill is not privileged, and therefore the motion to proceed to it is debatable, meaning it requires 60 votes.

Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2026 12:44 PM (SJ0Wp)

157 It's Raining Squirrels, Hallelujah!

Posted by: The Weather Girls at March 11, 2026 12:41 PM (rxwdW)

I wish somebody would drop a clutch of mexican weather girls out of an airplane over my head. With parachutes, of course. Don't want splattered ones.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2026 12:44 PM (8zz6B)

158 144 Cats are among the largest animals known to survive falls from extreme heights, including those reaching terminal velocity. A 1987 study of 132 cats that fell from high-rise buildings found a 90% survival rate, with cats falling from higher floors (e.g., 7+ stories) often sustaining fewer injuries than those from lower floors—likely because they reach terminal velocity and can reorient themselves mid-fall to land more safely. You may now continue.
--------------
Imma gonna share this with my cats.

Posted by: pudinhead at March 11, 2026 12:44 PM (pZ64F)

159 Sean Davis
@seanmdav

[2 of 2]

Thune needs to kill the SAVE America Act, not expose any of his GOP colleagues as being against it, and be able to pretend that he tried. This is the actual Senate GOP trifecta—doing nothing while pretending they tried everything and protecting the worst of the worst the whole time.

So when you watch the GOP Senate bring up a brand new SAVE America Act bill and hold a single vote on a motion that needs 60 to pass, know that they’re doing it because they think you’re stupid.

Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2026 12:44 PM (SJ0Wp)

160 Say you built a squirrel-shooting cannon and aimed it straight upward. Are you saying you couldn't shoot them high enough that they'd never need a parachute to avoid going splat?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 11, 2026 12:39 PM (2+SeL)

Yes. Theoretically.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:44 PM (bss/y)

161
The left is leaving the left coast because they never want to clean up the mess they left behind.

Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2026 12:44 PM (Y8DZL)

162 What would Al Bundy say about squirrels and terminal velociraptoricity … ?

I think Les Nessman would have more to say about that kind of thing.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2026 12:45 PM (2ocoG)

163 Okay replace it with a device of your choice. A squirrel-shooting slingshot. Or a squirrel shooting ballista. The little fella never needs a helmet or parachute?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 11, 2026 12:45 PM (2+SeL)

164 I put some warm weather plants I had wintering in the garage out in the wild over the weekend because the temp has been mild.

This evening they're going back inside. And we're going to have sub-freezing high temps next week.

Global Warming is to blame.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at March 11, 2026 12:45 PM (DgMqy)

165 I don't know how many times the gKids watched that Rober video, but I fully prepared to have Phat Gus immolated by a flame thrower toward the end of that viewing run.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Lol. My hubby loved those vids. I was ready to launch Rober out of a cannon.

Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at March 11, 2026 12:45 PM (eJ/ld)

166 Squirrels are tough. Sometimes they’ll hit hard enough to get knocked out, but they look like they are dead. Poor little guy.

And then 20 minutes later he’s gone, hopping around somewhere and apparently none the worse for wear.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 11, 2026 12:45 PM (KP4aP)

167 I want that damn squirrel that was making divots in my yard yesterday would go splat. Little bastard.

Posted by: Bulg at March 11, 2026 12:45 PM (cz/sd)

168 My ire with TSA goes back to the last time I flew. I had an agent pull every piece of my CPAP machine out of it's case, finger it, and then dropped in a bin to be rescanned.

Then... had me repack the thing in the bag while people were trying to get through.

I was mortified by the ordeal.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2026 12:45 PM (jtM2q)

169 In the senate there are no rinos or dinos, just the uniparty, it's all pretend. Vote this way or that way to get 6 more years pretending to your constituents and then once secure be a blocker for the third that are up in the next election.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 11, 2026 12:46 PM (n5tGW)

170
There's a lot of squirrel remains on the road around here.

They thought they were invincible, too.

Posted by: Auspex

When we'd come across the expired wee beasties on the road, on their backs with legs upward, I'd sing, "'Xcuse me while I kiss the sky."

Now our two kids do so, too. My work here is done!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 12:46 PM (xG4kz)

171 A 1987 study of 132 cats that fell from high-rise buildings found a 90% survival rate, with cats falling from higher floors (e.g., 7+ stories) often sustaining fewer injuries than those from lower floors—likely because they reach terminal velocity and can reorient themselves mid-fall to land more safely. You may now continue.
Posted by: @SOEarpiece

Nobody takes a dead cat to the vet for injuries from a fall.

Posted by: Operator Error at March 11, 2026 12:46 PM (89+to)

172 So what?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
________.

So let's dance!

Posted by: Al Czervick at March 11, 2026 12:46 PM (XvL8K)

173 I wish somebody would drop a clutch of mexican weather girls out of an airplane over my head. With parachutes, of course. Don't want splattered ones.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2026 12:44 PM (8zz6B)

https://tinyurl.com/2s4zd7jx

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:46 PM (bss/y)

174 You can always count on Republicans to sound conservative for a couple months every election year.

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2026 12:47 PM (KTbq2)

175 Thune could make a good living as an actor playing a politician. He’s from central casting, has that look.

Posted by: Heroq at March 11, 2026 12:47 PM (HF36u)

176 Cats are among the largest animals known to survive falls from extreme heights, including those reaching terminal velocity.

You would think a bird could do it, wouldn't you?

Posted by: Cincinatti Turkeys at March 11, 2026 12:47 PM (rxwdW)

177 You can always count on Republicans to sound conservative for a couple months every election year.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2026 12:47 PM (KTbq2)

Build the dang fence.

Posted by: Heroq at March 11, 2026 12:48 PM (HF36u)

178 160 Say you built a squirrel-shooting cannon and aimed it straight upward. Are you saying you couldn't shoot them high enough that they'd never need a parachute to avoid going splat?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 11, 2026 12:39 PM (2+SeL)

Yes. Theoretically.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:44 PM (bss/y)

If you see a headline like Texas man indicted for so-called squirrel astronaut program, please consider contributing to my legal defense fund.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 11, 2026 12:48 PM (2+SeL)

179 Nobody takes a dead cat to the vet for injuries from a fall.
Posted by: Operator Error at March

The cat on my lap is not laughing.

Posted by: Piper at March 11, 2026 12:48 PM (OoFl2)

180
The only thing this post needs now is a movie pitch for a squirrel pron epic.

Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2026 12:48 PM (Y8DZL)

181 >>The little fella never needs a helmet or parachute?

Nope. He just needs goggles.

Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2026 12:48 PM (erF49)

182 SAVE Act is dead. It just doesn't know it yet.
We should prepare for the midterms in some other way. I admit, I don't know what that way would look like.

Thoughts?

Posted by: Don Black at March 11, 2026 12:48 PM (ZxPkt)

183
There's another remedy, get rid of the TSA and give security back to the airlines.

Another thought along those lines - Get rid of Homeland Security. We already have agencies to do those jobs.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2026 12:42 PM (N15rr)

TSA and airport staff are largely Somalis. Luckily, the Somalis are more interested in theft than jihad, otherwise we'd have had a lot more air terrorism.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 11, 2026 12:48 PM (y9nCu)

184 Proof that Congress doesn't represent We The People, they represent only their own interests.

80/20s they will never pass:

• Balanced Budget Amendment
• End Insider Trading
• Term Limits
• Reveal Pervert Payoff List
• SAVE America Act
• End Obamacare
• Implement DOGE

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 12:49 PM (WCaCG)

185 Bucc-ee's is coming to Mansfield, Ohio - thank you, President Trump!

Posted by: Oglebay at March 11, 2026 12:49 PM (GPa4z)

186 We should launch a squirrel from the upper atmosphere and see if it survives impact. For science!

Posted by: Max Power at March 11, 2026 12:49 PM (q177U)

187 The Thuniparty

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2026 12:49 PM (KTbq2)

188 182 SAVE Act is dead. It just doesn't know it yet.
We should prepare for the midterms in some other way. I admit, I don't know what that way would look like.

Thoughts?

Posted by: Don Black at March 11, 2026 12:48 PM (ZxPkt)

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After Democrats just didn't try that hard in 2024 and lost because their hearts weren't in it, maybe we can just convince them to fight 2026 as hard as they fought 2024.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

189 I have a cat who fell from a 2nd story ledge. 12-13 ft tall onto tile floors. Landed, got up, looked around like wtf just happened. Then walked away.

Posted by: Heroq at March 11, 2026 12:50 PM (HF36u)

190 184 Proof that Congress doesn't represent We The People, they represent only their own interests.

80/20s they will never pass:

• Balanced Budget Amendment
• End Insider Trading
• Term Limits
• Reveal Pervert Payoff List
• SAVE America Act
• End Obamacare
• Implement DOGE
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And, end the time change!

Posted by: beckster at March 11, 2026 12:50 PM (I7J98)

191
Imagine a squirrel to be a sphere of radius 0 and mass "m"...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 12:50 PM (xG4kz)

192 Okay replace it with a device of your choice. A squirrel-shooting slingshot. Or a squirrel shooting ballista. The little fella never needs a helmet or parachute?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Squirrel.catapult has been done.

Posted by: Operator Error at March 11, 2026 12:50 PM (89+to)

193 182 SAVE Act is dead. It just doesn't know it yet.
We should prepare for the midterms in some other way. I admit, I don't know what that way would look like.

Thoughts?
Posted by: Don Black
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Unpredictable on SAVE act. Senate GOP is coming under increasing pressure and the forthcoming probes into the elections in GA and AZ along with Nat Sec report on Chinese interference in US elections is forthcoming.

Right now, Iran is consuming the headlines but that is unlikely to be the case going forward. So, we shall have to wait and see.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 12:50 PM (E4rtv)

194 Ace has a house. I have never thought of ace as having a house.

Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2026 12:51 PM (pDt9x)

195 Okay replace it with a device of your choice. A squirrel-shooting slingshot. Or a squirrel shooting ballista. The little fella never needs a helmet or parachute?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 11, 2026 12:45 PM (2+SeL)

If the launch doesn't injure him, the fall won't. Terminal velocity doesn't mean "terminal". as in "dead". It means the point at which aerodynamic drag (a force) on a falling object equals the force of gravity. It stops accelerating downwards, and simply falls at a steady speed. A parachute is simply a device that reduces the terminal velocity of its user to a seped low enough that impact with the ground is survivable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2026 12:51 PM (8zz6B)

196 TSA and airport staff are largely Somalis. Luckily, the Somalis are more interested in theft than jihad, otherwise we'd have had a lot more air terrorism.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 11, 2026 12:48 PM (y9nCu)
True, but the shaitan has not whispered in their ear yet.

Posted by: Eromero at March 11, 2026 12:51 PM (LHPAg)

197
wish somebody would drop a clutch of mexican weather girls out of an airplane over my head. With parachutes, of course. Don't want splattered ones.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2026 12:44 PM (8zz6B)

https://tinyurl.com/2s4zd7jx
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:46 PM

And then there's our girl:

https://youtube.com/shorts/kMzRzfOUG2c

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 12:51 PM (CGHQ6)

198 Imagine a squirrel to be a sphere of radius 0 and mass "m"...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 12:50 PM (xG4kz)

So we are going for neutron star with that density?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:51 PM (bss/y)

199 @ 186 We should launch a squirrel from the upper atmosphere and see if it survives impact. For science!
_____________________________________________

Or, just use a vacuum chamber and a slingshot …

Posted by: Dr_No at March 11, 2026 12:51 PM (ayRl+)

200 Neutron Squirrel!

I'd watch that movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:51 PM (bss/y)

201 And, end the time change!
Posted by: beckster
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Support on that is more mixed. Not an 80/20 issue.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 12:51 PM (E4rtv)

202 This gives me a pain behind my right eye.

So many senile old degenerates in DC that shouldn't even be allowed outside unsupervised. They seem to live forever like fucking retarded Skeksis.

It isn't whether they'll fuck us over or not, it's just a matter of how much lube we'll get on any given day.

Posted by: sifty boones at March 11, 2026 12:51 PM (87jGq)

203 >> I have never thought of ace as having a house.

The Fall of the House of Shelvey

Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2026 12:52 PM (erF49)

204 A 1987 study of 132 cats that fell from high-rise buildings found a 90% survival rate

The fat ones couldn't squeeze thru the railings. You know they would leave a mess.

Posted by: t-bird at March 11, 2026 12:52 PM (AhCY4)

205 https://youtube.com/shorts/kMzRzfOUG2c
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 12:51 PM (CGHQ6)

She is funny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:52 PM (bss/y)

206 inews.co.uk: Hegseth's fragile masculinity has doomed the US. This is a salutary lesson for other nations: thuggishness and machismo will not make you stronger.

You kill people and break things for a living,” he told the gathered generals, as they sat in baffled silence. Real men and soldiers strive to keep those two things from happening. Hegseth is a child.

I spent an entire year in high school learning about the checks and balances of government and I have a lot of questions.

He is not a leader. He is a 3rd rate TV anchor that could only get a job at one place, Fox News. His boasting and overall eSports league mentality is despicable. That's not how leaders talk.

The level of supplemental testosterone in the Trump regime would go down if you replaced everyone with trans men. Wait till they figure out that hormone supplementation is GENDER AFFIRMING CARE...

THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER ALLOW PEOPLE OF LOW CHARACTER INTO HIGH OFFICE

Sorry for yelling. It just seems like the people in the back still need the message.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2026 12:52 PM (JCZqz)

207 Squirrel astronaut program>

More like Squirrel astroNUT program, amirite?

Astronauts do need to be short in stature to fit inside the capsules.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at March 11, 2026 12:52 PM (w9Wax)

208 We should launch a squirrel from the upper atmosphere and see if it survives impact. For science!
Posted by: Max Power at March 11, 2026 12:49 PM

On it!

Posted by: Red Bull at March 11, 2026 12:52 PM (ZANHd)

209 Cats are among the largest animals known to survive falls from extreme heights, including those reaching terminal velocity. A 1987 study of 132 cats that fell from high-rise buildings found a 90% survival rate, with cats falling from higher floors (e.g., 7+ stories) often sustaining fewer injuries than those from lower floors—likely because they reach terminal velocity and can reorient themselves mid-fall to land more safely. You may now continue.
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Imma gonna share this with my cats.
Posted by: pudinhead at March 11, 2026 12:44 PM (pZ64F)

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Imma gonna confirm this with experiments on my cats.

/

Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2026 12:53 PM (SJ0Wp)

210 https://youtube.com/shorts/kMzRzfOUG2c

Moo.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 11, 2026 12:53 PM (Kt19C)

211 Squirrels shall be granted no quarter.

Those little nut busters, though cute, are a menace and I will not tolerate their insolence and bravado.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 11, 2026 12:53 PM (M9gjJ)

212 193 Unpredictable on SAVE act. Senate GOP is coming under increasing pressure and the forthcoming probes into the elections in GA and AZ along with Nat Sec report on Chinese interference in US elections is forthcoming.

Right now, Iran is consuming the headlines but that is unlikely to be the case going forward. So, we shall have to wait and see.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 12:50 PM (E4rtv)

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I went through too many, "Thune is betraying us by not passing the OBBB" last year to act like he's just trying to knife us. Since, you know, he passed it and even got 95% of what the Parliamentarian wanted out of it back in.

Corralling the cats on this one may be harder than OBBB, so I wouldn't consider it a slam dunk. However, he has earned some modicum of trust.

He's definitely not Mitch 2.0. ("oh, gosh...McCain voted down the ACA repeal, gosh darn it. just, gosh darn. oh well. we'll get 'em next time. donate.")

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:53 PM (GBKbO)

213 The Old Squirrel Astronaut League never gets it's due recognition.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 12:53 PM (4NO2D)

214 Afternoon Ace.
Just did a 2 1/2 mile walk. 63° at the moment got a sweat up wearing a hoodie. Of course it will be down around freezing the next few days. Winter in mid Hudson

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 11, 2026 12:53 PM (qBBPl)

215 206 inews.co.uk: Hegseth's fragile masculinity has doomed the US. This is a salutary lesson for other nations: thuggishness and machismo will not make you stronger.

You kill people and break things for a living,” he told the gathered generals, as they sat in baffled silence. Real men and soldiers strive to keep those two things from happening. Hegseth is a child.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2026 12:52 PM (JCZqz)

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"The military exists to do diplomacy!"
-idiots

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:54 PM (GBKbO)

216
Ace has a house. I have never thought of ace as having a house.

Posted by: tubal

Hoarders get rapped within the dwellings by all the crap that they collect.

Ace will get trapped within his when his orgiastic building of shelves will leave no room for him.

His shelves will have shelves. It'll be shelving all the way down.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 12:54 PM (xG4kz)

217 194.

Ace, much like Elvis, is everywhere.

Posted by: sifty boones at March 11, 2026 12:54 PM (87jGq)

218 I spent an entire year in high school learning about the checks and balances of government and I have a lot of questions.

Well, I have questions about you spending a year in high school.

Posted by: dantesed at March 11, 2026 12:54 PM (Oy/m2)

219 206 THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER ALLOW PEOPLE OF LOW CHARACTER INTO HIGH OFFICE

Sorry for yelling. It just seems like the people in the back still need the message.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2026 12:52 PM (JCZqz)

======

Dude single-handedly turned around a communist dictatorship by greenlighting a daring midnight raid to take their leader.

But yes, he's just a drunk who doesn't know what he's doing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:54 PM (GBKbO)

220 Is this about me?

Posted by: Rocky The Flying Squirrel at March 11, 2026 12:54 PM (K7Zpu)

221 "I had to turn on air conditioning last night. Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling."

I gotta shovel 6 inches of snow that fell overnight.

Posted by: davidt at March 11, 2026 12:55 PM (Q+gd/)

222 Rocket J. Squirrel

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 12:55 PM (+nEug)

223 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 12:55 PM (/BPde)

224 If the launch doesn't injure him, the fall won't. Terminal velocity doesn't mean "terminal". as in "dead". It means the point at which aerodynamic drag (a force) on a falling object equals the force of gravity. It stops accelerating downwards, and simply falls at a steady speed. A parachute is simply a device that reduces the terminal velocity of its user to a seped low enough that impact with the ground is survivable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2026 12:51 PM (8zz6B)

Way to throw out facts about this important topic! You ruined it for all of us!!!

Posted by: Petulant Teen Who Likes To Talk About Weird Shit. at March 11, 2026 12:55 PM (dmDsy)

225 Imagine a squirrel to be a sphere of radius 0 and mass "m"...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

To be released soon on all gaming platforms:

Squirrel Effect

Posted by: Entertainment Arts at March 11, 2026 12:55 PM (w9Wax)

226 206 THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER ALLOW PEOPLE OF LOW CHARACTER INTO HIGH OFFICE
###

Da bish set me up...

Posted by: Marion Barry at March 11, 2026 12:55 PM (K7Zpu)

227 inews.co.uk: Hegseth's fragile masculinity has doomed the US.

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"Sun Tzu 2: Fragile Masculinity Boogsloo"

Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2026 12:55 PM (SJ0Wp)

228 Slappy Squirrel is Best Squirrel

Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2026 12:56 PM (erF49)

229 132 There literally is no Senate rule regarding so-called filibusters, it's a fiction put forth by both parties and enforced by the capo de tutti, The Senate Parliamentarian.

It's literally just a agreement between the two parties nothing more.

Posted by: Thomas Bender
=======
Not true. The Senate has always operated under an unlimited debate presumption and yes, that is in the rules. Unanimous consent, cloture, reconciliation, and the talking filibuster are all the special exceptions to unlimited debate that allow the Senate to function at all.

House has no unlimited debate per se other than the right of the minority leader to speak as long as they want without yielding the floor just before a vote for final passage. Otherwise, the House Rules committee sets the debate times and amendment rules. Temu Obama Hakeem holds the current record for that.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 12:56 PM (E4rtv)

230 I'm skeptical the SAVE Act will pass, in any event. More than anything else, Republicans are loyal to The Hive, and The Hive can't countenance it. It's ride-or-die time for the Uniparty, and I expect enough Republicans are willing to fall on their swords over this. It will only end their political careers, and their "wounds" will spout gouts of donor cash into their bank accounts.

But if it does pass - now us the time for Trump to defy the Courts, who will inevitably enjoin it to save the midterms. Just tell them "no, you have no right to do this, it's a federal law and I'm going to enforce it even if it means using the Army to do it."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2026 12:56 PM (BI5O2)

231 SAVE Act is dead. It just doesn't know it yet.
We should prepare for the midterms in some other way. I admit, I don't know what that way would look like.

If there was some way to tie their health to the passage of this Bill.

SAVE America Act is existential. We need to keep the pressure on. The mere fact the Uniparty will go to these ends to make sure it doesn't pass means that it is critical to their continued dominance over We The People.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 11, 2026 12:56 PM (WCaCG)

232 206 I spent an entire year in high school learning about the checks and balances of government and I have a lot of questions.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2026 12:52 PM (JCZqz)

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This dude's against the executive writing regulation without congressional approval because of the non-delegation doctrine, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

233 Cornyn wrote an op-ed about how he'd entertain enforcing the talking filibuster to get the SAVE act passed, then shortly after it was published, backtracked and wouldn't answer any questions with regards to the op-ed.

He's a piece of shit that needs to be launched into the Gulf of America to become shark shit via trebuchet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 12:56 PM (/BPde)

234 Squiiiiiirrel!!!!

Posted by: Clark Griswold's Dad at March 11, 2026 12:56 PM (qBdHI)

235 226 206 THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER ALLOW PEOPLE OF LOW CHARACTER INTO HIGH OFFICE
###

Da bish set me up...
Posted by: Marion Barry at March 11, 2026 12:55 PM (K7Zpu)

'Low Character'. Interesting choice of words. Trash people. Plebs. Peasants.

Always Patrician wannabes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:57 PM (bss/y)

236 They don’t believe in objective reality, or a shared substrate...Whatever you call it, it ain’t good.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 11, 2026 12:37 PM (KP4aP)

That's exactly what i mean when i say "ontoclasm"

It's not a word, i don't think, but I'm trying to make it one.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2026 12:57 PM (Ot/FD)

237
"So, we make a film about cat furries and squirrel furries overcoming species gender fascist conformity, and use Randy Newman's "Falling in Love" tune as a title and double entendre, and show it at libraries and selected elementary schools, financed by government non-government non-profits!

What do you think, sirs?"

Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2026 12:57 PM (Y8DZL)

238 "Real men and soldiers strive to keep those two things from happening. "

And unleash hell when they do anyway.

Posted by: fd at March 11, 2026 12:57 PM (vFG9F)

239 Rocket J. Squirrel

Posted by: Ben Had at March 11, 2026 12:55 PM (+nEug)

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*: golf clap *

Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2026 12:57 PM (SJ0Wp)

240 People who want to be nobility based on their political positions. Fucking hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:57 PM (bss/y)

241 After Democrats just didn't try that hard in 2024 and lost because their hearts weren't in it, maybe we can just convince them to fight 2026 as hard as they fought 2024.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:50 PM (GBKbO)
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If the GOP-controlled Senate doesn't try as hard as DJT did to win in 2026, they deserve the hammer.

Heck, even a 50% effort might be enough. At the moment, they're just coasting.

Posted by: mrp at March 11, 2026 12:58 PM (rj6Yv)

242 Ace has a house. I have never thought of ace as having a house.

I mean, he lives in something with walls to fail to install shelving on.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2026 12:58 PM (2ocoG)

243
To be released soon on all gaming platforms:

Squirrel Effect
Posted by: Entertainment Arts at March 11, 2026 12:55 PM (w9Wax)

AVENGE ME!!!!

Posted by: Peanut at March 11, 2026 12:58 PM (/BPde)

244 I'm traveling in airport land today. TSA was a breeze!

To make that happen, we didn't take off shoes, didn't take a single thing out of our carryons at the screening, even electronics, and no one took extra time to grope me.

Can it be this way every time???

Waiting in line to see if we can get on a later flight to our destination for a massive amount of airline credit. Fingers crossed!

Posted by: LizLem at March 11, 2026 12:58 PM (Mzv/D)

245 238 "Real men and soldiers strive to keep those two things from happening. "

And unleash hell when they do anyway.

Posted by: fd at March 11, 2026 12:57 PM (vFG9F)

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"Real men let Venezuela ship their criminals into US territory and Iran fund the killing of American soldiers and worldwide terrorism because breaking their shit would be against the ethos of the military."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 12:58 PM (GBKbO)

246 His shelves will have shelves. It'll be shelving all the way down.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 12:54 PM (xG4kz)

The shelves have become sentient, and now post articles on the HQ...

Posted by: Praise Be The Shelves. at March 11, 2026 12:58 PM (dmDsy)

247 This situation reminds me of the Mikton Friedman quote:

"I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office."

Posted by: tankdemon at March 11, 2026 12:58 PM (cMLgw)

248 Fellow Republicans, we still have a choice if the SAVE Act doesn't pass. We can stay home on election day and let the Democrats block the MAGA agenda for the next 2 years. OR, my dear friends, we can vote for the Republicans and they will block the MAGA agenda for the next 2 years.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2026 12:58 PM (Dv3i1)

249 Generations without a non-molesting male role model in their lives has crippled the average femboy's mind.

I'd love to see them all be forced to watch a John Wayne marathon just to watch them melt like that fuckin Nazi in Raiders of the Lost Arc.

Posted by: sifty boones at March 11, 2026 12:59 PM (87jGq)

250
Ace has a house. I have never thought of ace as having a house.

Of course he does. Think of how many hobo leftovers he could bury in the crawlspace.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 11, 2026 12:59 PM (y9nCu)

251 134 Isn't the thing that squirrels are one of the few living animals that cannot reach terminal velocity?

Let's ask squirrel boss!
https://is.gd/32q9DR
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 11, 2026 12:39 PM (Kt19C)

No ...

This, THIS is the Squirrel Boss:

https://shorturl.at/u9Lni

Posted by: browndog says woof at March 11, 2026 12:59 PM (3sXRv)

252
"So, we make a film about cat furries and squirrel furries overcoming species gender fascist conformity, and use Randy Newman's "Falling in Love" tune as a title and double entendre, and show it at libraries and selected elementary schools, financed by government non-government non-profits!

What do you think, sirs?"

Posted by: Auspex

"Will this get us to queered maps more rapidly than the current trajectory?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 12:59 PM (xG4kz)

253 2024, of course.

Posted by: mrp at March 11, 2026 12:59 PM (rj6Yv)

254 "You kill people and break things for a living,” he told the gathered generals, as they sat in baffled silence. Real men and soldiers strive to keep those two things from happening. Hegseth is a child.

My FiL, a former Marine, has a bumper sticker in his garage that reads, "When it absolutely, positively needs to be destroyed overnight."

Yeah, I'm sure the generals were just baffled.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 11, 2026 12:59 PM (KbCG3)

255 I had Kudlow on in the background yesterday when he was interviewing Cornyn, and Kudlow was absolutely fellating him. Metaphorically. I think.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 11, 2026 12:59 PM (qwx/I)

256 Drinking twelve of your own beers is "low character", but drinking two of the ones you stole from your neighbor's garage fridge when he wasn't looking is just "equitable distribution".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2026 12:59 PM (Ot/FD)

257 This is the actual Senate GOP trifecta—doing nothing while pretending they tried everything and protecting the worst of the worst the whole time.
———

Yup. “And we shall never speak of this again” is somewhere in there part of the routine, too.
Democrats fuck shit up. Republicans make sure it stays that way. Seen this movie my whole life.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 11, 2026 12:59 PM (KP4aP)

258 Ace has a house. I have never thought of ace as having a house.

Does he have a dungeon with a hobo in it?

Posted by: dantesed at March 11, 2026 12:59 PM (Oy/m2)

259 We can stay home on election day and let the Democrats block the MAGA agenda for the next 2 years. OR, my dear friends, we can vote for the Republicans and they will block the MAGA agenda for the next 2 years.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2026 12:58 PM

It's a no-brainer then.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 01:00 PM (4NO2D)

260 Astronauts do need to be short in stature to fit inside the capsules.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-suck

Me,me!
-Kelly

Posted by: Az Deplorable moron at March 11, 2026 01:00 PM (f9h0J)

261 I went through too many, "Thune is betraying us by not passing the OBBB" last year to act like he's just trying to knife us. Since, you know, he passed it and even got 95% of what the Parliamentarian wanted out of it back in.

Corralling the cats on this one may be harder than OBBB, so I wouldn't consider it a slam dunk. However, he has earned some modicum of trust.

He's definitely not Mitch 2.0. ("oh, gosh...McCain voted down the ACA repeal, gosh darn it. just, gosh darn. oh well. we'll get 'em next time. donate.")
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I just don't worry about future predictions because events come and trip up our tidy assumptions about the future. And btw, I answered your post last thread. I figured out that money is a cubic, not linear function. Earlier, some folks noted that you had to raise enough money to compete up to a certain point to raise your chance for election, then the trend line becomes negative because more money indicates your opponent is raising a bunch too and the seat is competitive, then when you get extreme outliers like Huffington or Corzine buying the race, the curve turns up again. Thus, cubic function, not a parabola nor linear.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 01:00 PM (E4rtv)

262 >Ace has a house. I have never thought of ace as having a house.
----

I always thought of him having an apartment like Mel Gibson's in Conspiracy Theory

Posted by: Don Black at March 11, 2026 01:00 PM (ZxPkt)

263 https://youtube.com/shorts/kMzRzfOUG2c
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 12:51 PM

She is funny.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 12:52 PM

And could probably bench press me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 01:01 PM (ZANHd)

264 237
"So, we make a film about cat furries and squirrel furries overcoming species gender fascist conformity, and use Randy Newman's "Falling in Love" tune as a title and double entendre, and show it at libraries and selected elementary schools, financed by government non-government non-profits!

What do you think, sirs?"
Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2026 12:57 PM (Y8DZL)

Awesome reference!

Posted by: Denny Crane - MST3K Is The Best!!! at March 11, 2026 01:01 PM (dmDsy)

265 Ace has a house. I have never thought of ace as having a house.

C'mon inside, he said, we'll have some laughs, he said...

Posted by: Zombie Hobos at March 11, 2026 01:01 PM (iFEms)

266 I have a big 'ol red squirrel who periodically comes up to hang out on my front porch or in the garage.

Just squirrel chillin'. Not remotely scared of people or the cats. Unless you get into his space. Which is apparently pretty damn close.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 11, 2026 01:01 PM (jtM2q)

267
Bigger shelves have smaller shelves upon their shelves to shelve them.
The smaller shelves have even smaller shelves and so on to further delve them.

Posted by: Nash Ogden at March 11, 2026 01:01 PM (K7Zpu)

268 . OR, my dear friends, we can vote for the Republicans and they will block the MAGA agenda for the next 2 years.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2026 12:58 PM

It's a no-brainer then.
Posted by: toby928(c)
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Looking at born winners there, yes sir.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2026 01:01 PM (N15rr)

269 >>I always thought of him having an apartment like Mel Gibson's in Conspiracy Theory

I always assumed that he lived in one of the Con Edison Service Vaults that you access from an Underpass.

Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2026 01:01 PM (erF49)

270 201 And, end the time change!
Posted by: beckster
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Support on that is more mixed. Not an 80/20 issue.
Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 12:51 PM (E4rtv)
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OK, I see it's at 63-72% in favor.......

Posted by: beckster at March 11, 2026 01:02 PM (I7J98)

271 We have foxes hanging about and the squirrels are keeping a low profile.

Posted by: Oglebay at March 11, 2026 01:02 PM (GPa4z)

272 I always thought of him having an apartment like Mel Gibson's in Conspiracy Theory
Posted by: Don Black at March 11, 2026 01:00 PM (ZxPkt)

All the strings tie back to a Polaroid of Jake Tapper holding an empty box of Kaboom! brand breakfast product.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2026 01:02 PM (Ot/FD)

273 261 I just don't worry about future predictions because events come and trip up our tidy assumptions about the future. And btw, I answered your post last thread. I figured out that money is a cubic, not linear function. Earlier, some folks noted that you had to raise enough money to compete up to a certain point to raise your chance for election, then the trend line becomes negative because more money indicates your opponent is raising a bunch too and the seat is competitive, then when you get extreme outliers like Huffington or Corzine buying the race, the curve turns up again. Thus, cubic function, not a parabola nor linear.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 01:00 PM (E4rtv)

======

Probably a good model.

But then, all models are wrong, some are useful.

The Cantor example just provides me with food for thought that a little-known race can just be thrown completely upside down by overspending.

Weird side cases that rarely pop up, meaning the most of reality probably does fit the cubic pattern. But, still, we live in reality, not a series of equations. It should be considered a possibility by incumbents.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 01:02 PM (GBKbO)

274 >>> Washington earlier passed a tax on capital gains on the "ultra-rich" (the Washington supreme ruled that capital gains weren't income).

I believe they also passed a law to supposedly affect only the rich, but it means it's hard to pass in farms to kids so more family farms will go under.

How you like them Washington apples now?

Posted by: LizLem at March 11, 2026 01:02 PM (Mzv/D)

275 It's such an obvious thing to pass, a large majority of Americans want it. I swear neither side wants to be in power too long or have 60 votes because then they would have to actually work instead of saying "we don't have the votes" and go golfing.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 11, 2026 01:02 PM (n5tGW)

276 262 >Ace has a house. I have never thought of ace as having a house.
----

I always thought of him having an apartment like Mel Gibson's in Conspiracy Theory
Posted by: Don Black at March 11, 2026 01:00 PM (ZxPkt)

I was hoping for more of a 3's Company situation.....

Posted by: Denny Crane - I'm Furley! My Mouth is Your Toilet! at March 11, 2026 01:02 PM (dmDsy)

277 I pressed both my Senators to tell me which Republicans are holding up the SAVE bill so I could donate to their opponents.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 01:03 PM (4NO2D)

278 275 It's such an obvious thing to pass, a large majority of Americans want it. I swear neither side wants to be in power too long or have 60 votes because then they would have to actually work instead of saying "we don't have the votes" and go golfing.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 11, 2026 01:02 PM (n5tGW)

=======

Do people talk about Democrat voters getting mad at their Democrat senators for not passing this legislation that Democrat voters want, specifically around the SAVE act?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

279 The level of supplemental testosterone in the Trump regime would go down if you replaced everyone with trans men. Wait till they figure out that hormone supplementation is GENDER AFFIRMING CARE...

THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER ALLOW PEOPLE OF LOW CHARACTER INTO HIGH OFFICE

Sorry for yelling. It just seems like the people in the back still need the message.

You sick f*cks forced Owebama upon the nation. A man who was smoking some whack drug and having sex with fat white homo men. Then, you followed him up with Joe Biden who's character is so flawed, he would swim naked in front of his female SS and fingerbanged an intern in a federal building.

You can all GFY.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 01:03 PM (/BPde)

280 >>C'mon inside, he said, we'll have some laughs, he said...

"Will there be drinks?", I asked.

'Oh, there will be drinks", he replied.

"Will there be dancing?", I asked.

'Oh, there will be dancing", he replied.

...

Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2026 01:03 PM (erF49)

281 247 This situation reminds me of the Mikton Friedman quote:

"I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office."
Posted by: tankdemon
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On this, he is correct. Politicians will break your heart if you are committed to this or that policy or principle. People need to know betrayal is always a possibility with pols. But if retaining their job or getting other incentives to listen to their constituency exist, then that will sort out most of them, not all, but most. Also see David Mayhew's Electoral Connection book.

His naive assumption is that politicians exhibit behavior as if winning their next election is their primary incentive. And by and large empirical evidence indicates truth to that.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)

282 269.

Kinda like Blade's place but with more shelves and empty pudding cups.

Posted by: sifty boones at March 11, 2026 01:04 PM (87jGq)

283 I am curious if Rep Luna can succeed in tying FISA re-authorization to the SAVE act. FISA is supposedly 'must-pass' but I don't see what makes it so, unless you like the deepstate to keep spying on American citizens with Roberts and the FISA court giving blank checks to the malefactors. We'll get a view into who run BarterTown if this comes to a vote.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2026 01:04 PM (Dv3i1)

284 8 TSA lines at Newark airport yesterday were very short.

I wonder whether the hysteria over the delays is being amplified by our oh-so-unbiased media...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 11, 2026 12:11 PM (n9ltV)

All I know is I have flights going through ATL, DTW and SATX the next few weeks and the TSA lines at all of them are reportedly minimal to below average...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 11, 2026 01:04 PM (wtvvX)

285
From yesterday:

Sometimes it just takes a slight adjustment to make a map more gay.

Posted by: Panama C. Anal

C. Anal was more brilliant than was recognized, I believe, for if you recall your Panama Canal history, the city located at its northern terminus is named...

...wait for it...

..."Colon".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 01:04 PM (xG4kz)

286 >>> believe they also passed a law to supposedly affect only the rich,

yeah that was how the 16th amendment was marketed

Posted by: brak at March 11, 2026 01:05 PM (jGJov)

287 His naive assumption is that politicians exhibit behavior as if winning their next election is their primary incentive. And by and large empirical evidence indicates truth to that.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)

The naive assumption is that the voters decide who wins elections.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 11, 2026 01:05 PM (KbCG3)

288 My FiL, a former Marine, has a bumper sticker in his garage that reads, "When it absolutely, positively needs to be destroyed overnight."

Yeah, I'm sure the generals were just baffled.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Their formative field-grade years were spent during the Obama error...I bet these new rules and expectations are quite a shock to them.

Posted by: Military Moron at March 11, 2026 01:05 PM (bcX03)

289 Predictions are hard. Especially about the future.

Posted by: Y. Berra at March 11, 2026 01:05 PM (K7Zpu)

290 Do people talk about Democrat voters getting mad at their Democrat senators for not passing this legislation that Democrat voters want, specifically around the SAVE act?

They aren't in the majority with the option to have a talking filibuster.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 11, 2026 01:05 PM (n5tGW)

291 >>We have foxes hanging about and the squirrels are keeping a low profile.

When the Hawthorne Trees start budding, here, the Squirrel Kits come out.

When the Squirrel Kits come out, the Swainson's Hawks will pass through, and they will pick the Hawthorne Trees clean.

Happens every year.

Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2026 01:05 PM (erF49)

292 Cornyn may not represent the Texas voters, but he definitely represents the Texas GOP.

Posted by: brak at March 11, 2026 01:05 PM (jGJov)

293 I am Cornholio I need TP for my bunghole

Posted by: John Cornyn at March 11, 2026 01:06 PM (KTbq2)

294 Does he have a dungeon with a hobo in it?
Posted by: dantesed at March 11, 2026 12:59 PM (Oy/m2)

Do you really think hobos last more than a couple of hours before being put in the stew pot?

Posted by: tankdemon at March 11, 2026 01:06 PM (cMLgw)

295 garrett's squirrels come from a kit?

I thought he'd be more of a handmade, bespoke squirrel kind of guy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2026 01:06 PM (Ot/FD)

296 292 Cornyn may not represent the Texas voters, but he definitely represents the Texas GOP.
Posted by: brak at March 11, 2026 01:05 PM (jGJov)

That is the first time I have ever heard a rational argument against the 17th Amendment.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 11, 2026 01:07 PM (cMLgw)

297 I am Cornholio I need TP for my bunghole
Posted by: John Cornyn at March 11, 2026 01:06 PM

-------

Cornholionyn. A Russian agent all along.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2026 01:07 PM (BI5O2)

298 293 I am Cornholio I need TP for my bunghole

Posted by: John Cornyn at March 11, 2026 01:06 PM (KTbq2)

Was it ever established that Beavis and Butthead had parents? Did they just live together?

What was the situation there?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 11, 2026 01:07 PM (KbCG3)

299 "Will there be drinks?", I asked.

'Oh, there will be drinks", he replied.

"Will there be dancing?", I asked.

'Oh, there will be dancing", he replied.

...
Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2026 01:03 PM (erF49)

"In fact, there may be some sex at the end of the night!"

"Cool! Great! What time should I be there?"

Oh, anytime, it'll just be you and me."

Posted by: Norm MacDonald at March 11, 2026 01:07 PM (dmDsy)

300
garrett's stockpile of crocs for his squirrel buddies is immense.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 01:07 PM (xG4kz)

301 I think he has harvest gold appliances. Either that or avocado green.

Posted by: Ace's kitchen at March 11, 2026 01:08 PM (K7Zpu)

302 Cornyn's fellow simp and apparent dimwit James Lankford was on the radio just this morning explaining how they couldn't do anything on SAVE without some Democrat votes. I hope these noises Cornyn is making constitutes pulling the rug out from under Lankford and the other Quislings.

Posted by: IronDave at March 11, 2026 01:08 PM (K6UoY)

303 Thune wants to avoid any vote that would require a simple majority to pass.

A 60 vote threshold means all the GOP senators can pretend to support it.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at March 11, 2026 01:08 PM (V6W16)

304 Cornyn may not represent the Texas voters, but he definitely represents the Texas GOP.
Posted by: brak at March 11, 2026 01:05 PM (jGJov)

WWWERRRRELLLP!!!!

*hic*

Posted by: Former Speaker Dade Phelan at March 11, 2026 01:09 PM (/BPde)

305 143 101 After decades of Iranian threats, why aren't their fat pipelines from the Gulf States down to ports in Oman outside the Strait?
Posted by: toby928(c) at March 11, 2026 12:21 PM (4NO2D)

UAE has one that feeds to a port in Oman south of the strait.

Posted by: one hour sober at March 11, 2026 12:31 PM (Y1sOo)

Saudi Arabia has a pipeline that runs from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea.

Previously it only did a million barrels per day, and coincidently it’s about to open up to 7 million bpd.
I just read about it yesterday.

It won’t replace the Strait route but every bit helps right now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 11, 2026 12:42 PM (6ydKt)

Daily Mail reports some international energy group I never heard of says it will release 400 million barrels of oil from its reserves. I have no idea where their reserves are located. Hopefully not all inside the Strait of Hormuz. Also I have no idea how it will be allocated. Good news, I suppose. Who knows if and when this will have an effect on crude price.

Posted by: Gref at March 11, 2026 01:09 PM (5rh/l)

306 I suppose I should go walk the Official Unofficial
AOSHQ Mascot tm, our very own doge himself.

Posted by: Piper at March 11, 2026 01:09 PM (Wmg4n)

307 garrett's squirrels come from a kit?

I thought he'd be more of a handmade, bespoke squirrel kind of guy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2026 01:06 PM

Garrett is building a MechaSquirrel army? Oh, f@#k...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 01:10 PM (ZANHd)

308 290 Do people talk about Democrat voters getting mad at their Democrat senators for not passing this legislation that Democrat voters want, specifically around the SAVE act?

They aren't in the majority with the option to have a talking filibuster.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 11, 2026 01:05 PM (n5tGW)

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True, but they can promise to vote for cloture to end run around the debate/filibuster issue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 01:10 PM (GBKbO)

309 Cornyn's fellow simp and apparent dimwit James Lankford was on the radio just this morning explaining how they couldn't do anything on SAVE without some Democrat votes.

--------------

That's Thune's talking point and it's, of course, a bullshit lie.

They really do think we're fucking idiots ...

Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2026 01:10 PM (SJ0Wp)

310 THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NEVER ALLOW PEOPLE OF LOW CHARACTER INTO HIGH OFFICE

Sorry for yelling. It just seems like the people in the back still need the message.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 11, 2026 12:52 PM (JCZqz)
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Give me the biggest fucking break possible

Billy Jeff
Joe "The Big Guy" Biden
Killary
Bathhouse Barry
Whatever that six-mask-and-a-faceshield-wearing fat sack of shit we had as a SecDef a few years back

The left has absolutely no sense of irony.

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at March 11, 2026 01:10 PM (3BwY8)

311 Was it ever established that Beavis and Butthead had parents? Did they just live together?

What was the situation there?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 11, 2026 01:07 PM (KbCG3)

Mom's were whores who got knocked up by a couple of roadies after a Mötley Crüe concert.

Posted by: Former Speaker Dade Phelan at March 11, 2026 01:10 PM (/BPde)

312 Garrett is building a MechaSquirrel army? Oh, f@#k...
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 01:10 PM (ZANHd)

Like the Skaven, but more nuts.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at March 11, 2026 01:11 PM (Ot/FD)

313 whellllshit......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 01:11 PM (/BPde)

314 Cornholionyn. A Russian agent all along.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2026 01:07 PM (BI5O2)

LOL nice I was trying to find an angle like that

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2026 01:11 PM (KTbq2)

315 One thing I find baffling, some people reserve the ire ordinarily held for Mice and Rats, (justifiably) to Chipmunks. Maybe if I had a Garden I would think differently.

They claim they “undermine foundations” by their burrowing, which I find implausible. If anything, it should improve drainage. They don’t try to get in my house, or eat wiring, and all those things that cause Mice to to be persona non grata since time immemorial.

Plus, they have that cool racing stripe thing going on. I didn’t know they eat Juniper berries. They were climbing them to the top, and looked like they were picking Apples. Cutest thing ever. I freely admit my anthropomorphic biases.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 11, 2026 01:11 PM (KP4aP)

316 287 His naive assumption is that politicians exhibit behavior as if winning their next election is their primary incentive. And by and large empirical evidence indicates truth to that.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)

The naive assumption is that the voters decide who wins elections.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 11, 2026 01:05 PM (KbCG3)

Our traditional talisman has been that 'naive assumption'. Facts and social media -- and most recently Harmeet Dillion's initial review of 'voter' rolls tell us that we are being played Bigly... by whom exactly Is yet TBD.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at March 11, 2026 01:11 PM (srSCS)

317 You Fucked up, Morty! You messed with Squirrels!!

Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2026 01:11 PM (erF49)

318
Whatever that six-mask-and-a-faceshield-wearing fat sack of shit we had as a SecDef a few years back

It was more than a mask -- it made him a bona fide conehead.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 01:11 PM (xG4kz)

319 TJM, I looked it up, from wiki,

In 2014, Brat challenged House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a Republican primary. Brat's campaign was notable for its lack of resources and traditional campaign tactics. Brat was outspent by Cantor 40 to 1; Cantor spent over $5 million, while Brat raised $200,000 and did not spend all of it.

The race was outside the time period I did the analysis on and that was focused on general election success, not primaries.

I also did some early work on candidate efficiency in that some candidates could turn money into votes more efficiently than other candidates but that only got as far as a conference paper investigating factors affecting primary and general election vote share.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 01:12 PM (E4rtv)

320 It's such an obvious thing to ~~pass~~ OPPOSE, as a large majority of Americans want it.

This 'large majority of Americans', did they elect us? No, they didn't. In a representative democracy, we represent the interests and the system that put us here.

Posted by: The RNC/DNC at March 11, 2026 01:12 PM (iFEms)

321 275 It's such an obvious thing to pass, a large majority of Americans want it. I swear neither side wants to be in power too long or have 60 votes because then they would have to actually work instead of saying "we don't have the votes" and go golfing.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

The self-described "Greatest Deliberative Body in the World" ceased to be so when the 17th amendment passed and they all had to shift focus from deliberating to campaigning.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2026 01:12 PM (Dv3i1)

322 We can sing, too.

Posted by: Chipmunks at March 11, 2026 01:12 PM (K7Zpu)

323 Not if Thune won't have a cloture vote. They are all in cahoots.

BTW, I think Cahoots must be a great vacation spot.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 11, 2026 01:12 PM (n5tGW)

324 We can sing, too.

Posted by: Chipmunks at March 11, 2026 01:12 PM (K7Zpu)

You do squeal when shot.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 01:13 PM (/BPde)

325 Look how many of these useless RINO POS desperately want their good buddy John Cornyn re-elected. Democrats will happily represent whatever whacko-ism their constituents can conceive, and they'll do it proudly and vociferously. Republicans have to have guns put to their heads to even begin mouthing vaguely conservative notions.

God, but I hate the GOP. A party founded on the vision of ending slavery, a party that willingly went to WAR to achieve that end, just can't summon the courage to champion free and fair elections as favored by 80% of the American people. Un-fucking-believable.

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 11, 2026 01:13 PM (X+xvk)

326 So squirrels, hobos, cornholio... What did I miss ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 01:13 PM (fdJ1A)

327 The castrato GOP makes just as much money off of slave labor and the illegal economy as the Dems.

Until the financial incentives are gone and replaced by prison terms for hiring illegals, any change will be cosmetic.

Posted by: sifty boones at March 11, 2026 01:13 PM (87jGq)

328 Everyone go ahead and wish in one hand and shit in the other and tell me which one fills up first.

The faggots in the Senate will spend weeks tying themselves into rhetorical knots in order to execute the very finest in Failure Theater rather than spend a couple of days actually making an earnest effort to get the SAVE act passed. It's their natural state because actually getting it passed would vaguely resemble real, actual work, and most of these dipshits haven't been anywhere near that in decades.

Posted by: ballistic at March 11, 2026 01:13 PM (3BwY8)

329 garrett's stockpile of crocs for his squirrel buddies is immense.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 01:07 PM (xG4kz)

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Squirrels wearing Crocs sounds like a Furry Convention.

Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2026 01:14 PM (SJ0Wp)

330 The left has absolutely no sense of irony.

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at March 11, 2026 01:10 PM (3BwY

Don't forget the Left used to argue that stuff like character and morality was gay authoritarian shit that only Christians cared about.

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2026 01:14 PM (KTbq2)

331 Whatever that six-mask-and-a-faceshield-wearing fat sack of shit we had as a SecDef a few years back

worm known as loyd austin

Posted by: DanMan at March 11, 2026 01:14 PM (8uzBS)

332
Tree turdy tree!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 01:14 PM (xG4kz)

333 319 The race was outside the time period I did the analysis on and that was focused on general election success, not primaries.

I also did some early work on candidate efficiency in that some candidates could turn money into votes more efficiently than other candidates but that only got as far as a conference paper investigating factors affecting primary and general election vote share.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 01:12 PM (E4rtv)

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It's just that it's a weird counter case.

Most of the time, that kind of dollar advantage will win the day.

But not this time.

And, I think there's an argument that the massive spending advantage by Cornyn might have been a factor in him only getting 42%, similar to the Cantor situation.

It wouldn't be a general rule, but I wouldn't need to hire a political consultant to tell me general rules. I can come up with conventional wisdom myself. The point of a political consultant would be to say, "I know conventional wisdom says this, but it doesn't always work. Here's an example of the opposite. Be careful."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

334 326 So squirrels, hobos, cornholio... What did I miss ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 01:13 PM (fdJ1A)
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boobs, probably.

Posted by: ballistic at March 11, 2026 01:14 PM (3BwY8)

335
crap

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 01:14 PM (xG4kz)

336 318
Whatever that six-mask-and-a-faceshield-wearing fat sack of shit we had as a SecDef a few years back
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Lloyd Austin. "The Phantom Prostate"

Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2026 01:15 PM (Y8DZL)

337 It's funny how the Left kind of makes you forget yesterday's argument. The wall in Animal Farm. The eternal present of 1984.

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2026 01:15 PM (KTbq2)

338
Tree fiddy > Tree turdy tree

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 01:15 PM (/BPde)

339 So squirrels, hobos, cornholio... What did I miss ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 01:13 PM (fdJ1A)

I think you're all caught up!

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2026 01:16 PM (KTbq2)

340 Cornyn's bad but the one I really despise is Murkowski..

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 01:16 PM (fdJ1A)

341 331 Whatever that six-mask-and-a-faceshield-wearing fat sack of shit we had as a SecDef a few years back

worm known as loyd austin
Posted by: DanMan

How dare you speak ill of Captain Sneeze Guard! Show some respect!

Posted by: Sam Adams at March 11, 2026 01:16 PM (X+xvk)

342 So squirrels, hobos, cornholio... What did I miss ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 01:13 PM (fdJ1A)

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Fragile Masculinity.

* starts sobbing and runs away to a safe space *

Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2026 01:17 PM (SJ0Wp)

343 I'm a know-nothing. But I've never had any sense that the Save Act would come to a vote. I think Paxton was just calling Cornyn a fag.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 11, 2026 01:17 PM (2+SeL)

344 DataRepublican has an extended series of threads on how Punchbowl Media has turned into the Axios of Congress, and focused on selling access.

I am sure the best sort work there, though.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2026 01:17 PM (rbvCR)

345 Cornyn's bad but the one I really despise is Murkowski..
Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 01:16 PM (fdJ1A)

It's all academic to me.

You could hurl every GOP Senator headfirst into a gas chamber and I'd be fine with it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2026 01:17 PM (BI5O2)

346 I'm thinking that maybe our nation's political discourse has declined due to the 17th also - Senators had to work hard to persuade other Senators in debate, they knew each others tricks and had to continuously up their game. Now they just have to persuade an electorate that is, frankly, pretty dumb on average. Or not even that if their state is bright blue or to a lesser extent, bright red.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2026 01:18 PM (Dv3i1)

347 worm known as loyd austin
Posted by: DanMan

How dare you speak ill of Captain Sneeze Guard! Show some respect!
Posted by: Sam Adams at March 11, 2026 01:16 PM (X+xvk)

I'm pretty sure he's the sole reason Hegseth put fitness requirements on top brass.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 01:18 PM (/BPde)

348 309 Cornyn's fellow simp and apparent dimwit James Lankford was on the radio just this morning explaining how they couldn't do anything on SAVE without some Democrat votes.

Fucking Lankford. He's an albino rat fucker if there ever was one.

Oklahoma & Texas, DO BETTER.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 11, 2026 01:19 PM (IifOV)

349
I had to turn on air conditioning last night. Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling.

Does it "cook"? * nudge, nudge, wink, wink *

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at March 11, 2026 01:19 PM (xG4kz)

350 The naive assumption is that the voters decide who wins elections.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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Depends on the number of candidates and depending on voting rules. Ranked choice voting, for example, runoffs, open primaries, etc.

That is why one of the classic GOPe moves is the splitter strategy to prevent a gen election winner, thus Hunt, a no hoper for winning, got in at the behest of someone in the GOPe establishment of TX. Let Cornyn survive until a runoff. RCV is a notorious mess where the candidate coming in 3 or 4 can suddenly become no. 1 when 2,3,4 votes are tallied and so on.

And lastly, voters don't get to pick the candidates offered, the candidates do. Voters are then always faced with the dilemma of the lesser of evils voting approach as no candidate can support everything that a particular voter wants. So at best, it is a constrained choice. Those are not naive assumptions.

Mayhew's was--simply put, looking at elected official's behavior, what would be the single biggest factor in explaining their behavior in office. And yes, it is running for reelection (barring a few beautiful losers or those that are retiring).

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 01:19 PM (E4rtv)

351
You could hurl every GOP Senator headfirst into a gas chamber and I'd be fine with it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2026 01:17 PM (BI5O2)

He's not wrong here........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 01:19 PM (/BPde)

352 Who needs a gas chamber? Just lock Cornyn, Thune, Tillis and their buddies into a sealed room. Their own flatulence will do the trick

Posted by: gKWVE at March 11, 2026 01:19 PM (gKWVE)

353 Lloyd Austin led the 10th Mountain Division during the GWB presidency. Shockingly, he is apparently a non-skier.

Posted by: Oglebay at March 11, 2026 01:20 PM (GPa4z)

354 Whatever that six-mask-and-a-faceshield-wearing fat sack of shit we had as a SecDef a few years back

worm known as loyd austin
Posted by: DanMan

How dare you speak ill of Captain Sneeze Guard! Show some respect!
Posted by: Sam Adams at March 11, 2026 01:16 PM (X+xvk)

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Exactly -- dude had more made-up medals than Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, and Robert Mugabe combined!

Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2026 01:20 PM (SJ0Wp)

355 >>You could hurl every GOP Senator headfirst into a gas chamber and I'd be fine with it.

Lock and chain the doors and flood the Capitol with Argon Gas.

See if I care.

Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2026 01:20 PM (erF49)

356 Who needs a gas chamber? Just lock Cornyn, Thune, Tillis and their buddies into a sealed room. Their own flatulence will do the trick
Posted by: gKWVE at March 11, 2026 01:19 PM (gKWVE)

Pikers.......

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at March 11, 2026 01:21 PM (/BPde)

357 You could hurl every GOP Senator headfirst into a gas chamber and I'd be fine with it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2026 01:17 PM (BI5O2)

He's not wrong here........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 01:19 PM

True, but if you put them in a woodchipper first, it would optimize the space in the gas chamber.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 01:21 PM (ZANHd)

358 I had to turn on air conditioning last night. Winter just ended, and now I need air conditioning to keep the house from boiling.

We've had the AC on in our room all winter. My wife is having hot flashes so I shiver at night until she tosses off all the blankets onto me. Then she gets gold and pulls all the covers back on her.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 11, 2026 01:22 PM (IifOV)

359 True, but if you put them in a woodchipper first, it would optimize the space in the gas chamber.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 01:21 PM (ZANHd)

Why gas slurry?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 01:22 PM (bss/y)

360
True, but if you put them in a woodchipper first, it would optimize the space in the gas chamber.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 01:21 PM (ZANHd)

Gas chamber first would remove the struggles getting them in the chipper, however.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 01:22 PM (/BPde)

361 Lloyd Austin led the 10th Mountain Division during the GWB presidency. Shockingly, he is apparently a non-skier.

Posted by: Oglebay at March 11, 2026 01:20 PM (GPa4z)

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"I believe that his MOS was "Cadaver Dog," H8R!"

Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2026 01:22 PM (SJ0Wp)

362 360
True, but if you put them in a woodchipper first, it would optimize the space in the gas chamber.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 01:21 PM (ZANHd)

Gas chamber first would remove the struggles getting them in the chipper, however.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 01:22 PM (/BPde)

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"Are you sure there's $10,000 down there?"
-not as hard as you think

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at March 11, 2026 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

363 Gas chamber first would remove the struggles getting them in the chipper, however.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 01:22 PM (/BPde

Where's the fun in that ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 01:23 PM (fdJ1A)

364 317 You Fucked up, Morty! You messed with Squirrels!!
Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2026 01:11 PM (erF49)

I appreciate you!

Posted by: Justin Roiland at March 11, 2026 01:23 PM (dmDsy)

365 Rank Choice voting is un-democratic. Let's say you vote for one person and they don't make it into the second round. Your vote counted in the first round, but it didn't get counted in the second round, you've been disenfranchised!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 11, 2026 01:23 PM (Dv3i1)

366 Actress Candace Cameron Bure Reveals She Accidentally Walked Into ‘Dark and Demonic’ Underground ‘S&M Sex’ Party

"Accidentally "

Posted by: Operator Error at March 11, 2026 01:23 PM (89+to)

367 ][]i
"I believe that his MOS was "Cadaver Dog," H8R!"
Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2026 01:22 PM (SJ0Wp)

He carried the cask of grog under his chin. Just in case.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 01:23 PM (/BPde)

368 Gas chamber first would remove the struggles getting them in the chipper, however.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 01:22 PM (/BPde)

Just put them in a chamber, and suck all the air out of it. No point in wasting good air.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 11, 2026 01:23 PM (8zz6B)

369 346 I'm thinking that maybe our nation's political discourse has declined due to the 17th also - Senators had to work hard to persuade other Senators in debate, they knew each others tricks and had to continuously up their game. Now they just have to persuade an electorate that is, frankly, pretty dumb on average. Or not even that if their state is bright blue or to a lesser extent, bright red.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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The Senate did not work that way before the 17th. And in fact, very few state legislatures selected senators by legislative election by that time. Most used plebiscites disguised as elections and simply nominated the winner.

The classic period of the US Senate was viewed as the tail end of the Jackson presidency 1834 to about the early 1850's. And that Senate promptly squandered its reputation with the Compromise of 1850 that did in the Whigs and the Kansas-Nebraska Act finished it. After the Civil War, those state legislative elections of senators produced such putrid politicians that Mark Twain wrote the Gilded Age to mock them.

And a common misconception of the Senate is that states after voting for a senator could recall them. Nope.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 01:24 PM (E4rtv)

370 Fucking Rick and Morty....not even once.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 11, 2026 01:24 PM (xcxpd)

371 ACE HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at March 11, 2026 01:24 PM (EtnSa)

372
Where's the fun in that ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 11, 2026 01:23 PM (fdJ1A)

Meh.....it completely removes the chance of escape and is more cost effective.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 11, 2026 01:24 PM (/BPde)

373 Why gas slurry?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2026 01:22 PM

The same reason you nuke the site from orbit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 01:25 PM (ZANHd)

374 >>Fucking Rick and Morty....not even once.

The first 3-4 seasons are fantastic stuff. If you like to laugh.

Posted by: garrett at March 11, 2026 01:25 PM (erF49)

375 Gas chamber or as it's better known, Congress

Posted by: ... at March 11, 2026 01:25 PM (KTbq2)

376 366 Actress Candace Cameron Bure Reveals She Accidentally Walked Into ‘Dark and Demonic’ Underground ‘S&M Sex’ Party

"Accidentally "

Posted by: Operator Error
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Momma Told Me Not to Come by Randy Newman comes to mind here.

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 01:25 PM (E4rtv)

377 370 Fucking Rick and Morty....not even once.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 11, 2026 01:24 PM (xcxpd)

I really honestly don't get what you are saying here.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 11, 2026 01:26 PM (dmDsy)

378 50 I think Cornyn looks like a wraith. Am I the only one?
Posted by: Beto Ochoa at March 11, 2026 12:21 PM (dzZCL)
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I think he looks like a dog butt licking, back-stabbing, pile of stepped in shit.
/I don't much care for him.

Posted by: Bonecrusher at March 11, 2026 01:26 PM (JNTt1)

379 366 Actress Candace Cameron Bure Reveals She Accidentally Walked Into ‘Dark and Demonic’ Underground ‘S&M Sex’ Party

"Accidentally "

Posted by: Operator Error at March 11, 2026 01:23 PM (89+to)

With her husband no less.
Unequally yoked.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 11, 2026 01:26 PM (xcxpd)

380 357 True, but if you put them in a woodchipper first, it would optimize the space in the gas chamber.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 11, 2026 01:21 PM (ZANHd)

I still prefer the "Shatter all their bones with a sledgehammer or jackhammer" method.

Posted by: XTC at March 11, 2026 01:27 PM (wa/yD)

381 377 370 Fucking Rick and Morty....not even once.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 11, 2026 01:24 PM (xcxpd)

I really honestly don't get what you are saying here.
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 11, 2026 01:26 PM (dmDsy)

I really, really hate Rick and Morty. I do not vibe with its nihilism or its origin as a Back to the Future gay pedo porn joke.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 11, 2026 01:27 PM (xcxpd)

382 That's the difference between conservatives and dirty commies.

Conservatives elect temp employees to work for us so we can go to work and take care of shit.
Commies elect gods to worship.

Average commie would march through Hell carrying gas cans for their "Leaders" and the Head Reds know it.

I wouldn't piss on the average RINO if they were on fire. And they hate us more than the commies do. Evil collaborating cntz like Collins and Murkowski especially.

Tough to stomach. But I still go vote and show face. Beats surrender.

Posted by: sifty boones at March 11, 2026 01:27 PM (HWyCo)

383 Hey. We're right here.

Posted by: Boobs at March 11, 2026 01:31 PM (K7Zpu)

384 381 377 370 Fucking Rick and Morty....not even once.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 11, 2026 01:24 PM (xcxpd)

I really honestly don't get what you are saying here.
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 11, 2026 01:26 PM (dmDsy)

I really, really hate Rick and Morty. I do not vibe with its nihilism or its origin as a Back to the Future gay pedo porn joke.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 11, 2026 01:27 PM (xcxpd)

Alright, gotcha! I can see exactly what you are saying.

This is why it's so cool to talk to people. I feel the exact opposite as you, I love the cringy, edgy humor of that show, and you feel the opposite.

Life is fucking great!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 11, 2026 01:31 PM (dmDsy)

385 You sick f*cks forced Owebama upon the nation. A man who was smoking some whack drug and having sex with fat white homo men. Then, you followed him up with Joe Biden who's character is so flawed, he would swim naked in front of his female SS and fingerbanged an intern in a federal building.

You can all GFY.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2026 01:31 PM (N15rr)

386 "You kill people and break things for a living,” he told the gathered generals, as they sat in baffled silence. Real men and soldiers strive to keep those two things from happening. Hegseth is a child."

These Redditt posts are always crazy, but when I start to read them I usually have a very general feel for what is likely to be there.

This group of posts goes so far beyond delusion... I have no words to describe...

Posted by: RM at March 11, 2026 01:32 PM (n/1Oj)

387 382
Conservatives elect temp employees to work for us so we can go to work and take care of shit.
Commies elect gods to worship.

Posted by: sifty boones

Pure distilled truth.

Posted by: Auspex at March 11, 2026 01:33 PM (Y8DZL)

388 Hey, lay off. She needs page views and mouse clicks.

Posted by: Candace Cameron Bure's agent at March 11, 2026 01:34 PM (K7Zpu)

389 Have had the a/c on for a week here. /sigh/

Posted by: GWB at March 11, 2026 01:37 PM (TfbiM)

390 @159 Sean Davis

"Thune needs to kill the SAVE America Act, not expose any of his GOP colleagues as being against it, and be able to pretend that he tried. This is the actual Senate GOP trifecta—doing nothing while pretending they tried everything and protecting the worst of the worst the whole time."

This has always been the purpose of the filibuster. To protect Senators from having to vote according to the wishes of their constituents. "I tried, but we just couldn't overcome the dang filibuster! Send more money so we can continue to fight the [other party]!"

Posted by: Tar Bae at March 11, 2026 01:37 PM (HpQep)

391 People need to know betrayal is always a possibility with pols. ...

Posted by: whig at March 11, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)
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Putin said that he will tolerate most anything from a person except betrayal. Trump, Thune and Tillis should have a meeting at the Watergate, 5th floor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 11, 2026 01:39 PM (N15rr)

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