The Morning Report -- 4/ 16/26

Good morning kids. Hoping that you all had at least a little carfare in your pockets that the shakedown artists at the IRS missed yesterday. In any case, the Democrats in California are smelling blood and flatus in the water as they circle the political carcass of Eric Swalwell. As the estimable Miranda Devine reminds us, the only reason he's gone is they are fearful of the possibility that the GOP could in theory, thanks to that state's fercockter electoral system wind up actually winning the Governorship. regardless of the mass of illegal aliens, dead people and deadbeats and Democrat election thievery.

Eric Swalwell was Nancy Pelosi’s made man, the golden child of San Francisco’s rotten machine politics.
Today he’s roadkill, his name erased from the sign outside his congressional office, vultures feasting on his remains.
Swalwell’s clinical political eradication this week tells you everything about the Democratic Party and how ruthlessly and efficiently they will move to keep to power in the state they have controlled for 15 years and run into the ground.
California, our most populous and richest state, is the engine of their vast patronage system, fueled in part by illegal migration and social services fraud that has ripped tens, perhaps hundreds, of billions of dollars off the taxpayer and recycled it through unions and “grassroots” donations back into the party.
That’s why Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, calls California the “kingdom of fraud” as he confronts massive organized ripoffs of Medicaid, home health services and hospice care... Illegal migration, turbocharged under Joe Biden by his Homeland Security secretary, California hit man Alejandro Mayorkas, also served the machine well, by artificially inflating the state’s census counts and enabling voter fraud.
The census inflation led to extra House seats for California and more electoral votes, and thus more power in presidential elections.
In return, the machine sponsors and protects useful buffoons like Swalwell, who was one of “Pelosi’s boys” from the minute he threw his hat into national politics as a 31-year-old San Francisco councilman with a mischievous grin and a lackluster legal career behind him.

Yes the ramifications are indeed national and so Swalwell had to go, lest the Democrats lose more than just a statehouse and control of one state, albeit a massive and important one.
Sadly the cancer of Democrat Leftism has metastasized all over the place, and while California, regardless of its electoral system is most likely a lost cause barring some sea change in the societal/political landscape that might happen (I am not holding my breath), the Democrats have a very deep and dark bench, including the absolutely horrendous Tom Steyer.

Meanwhile 3000 miles or so to the east, we have this blonde beast to contend with, who likely has national aspirations for national socialism as this trio of links indicates
https://freebeacon.com/campus/moderate-governor-abigail-spanberger-signs-bill-forcing-virginia-schools-to-consider-restorative-disciplinary-practices-before-suspending-students/

'Moderate' Governor Abigail Spanberger Signs Bill Forcing Virginia Schools To Consider 'Restorative Disciplinary Practices' Before Suspending Students

Such practices include a 'restorative circle,' a 'centuries-old indigenous practice' in which participants sit in a circle to discuss their actions

Then... She goes Gun Crazy, Quelle Surprise?!

The DOJ’s warning signals potential federal litigation, challenging the constitutionality of the Virginia Democrats’ proposed laws. Pro-Second Amendment critics of the legislation argue the measures could restrict firearms commonly used for lawful purposes, while proponents of gun control, including Spanberger, have attempted to frame the legislation as necessary to address gun violence.

Turd and finally...

By signing this compact, Spanberger has agreed to hand Virginia’s 13 electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the national popular vote.

Now you can see how crucial it is for the Dems that there isn't even a sliver of an iota of a scintilla of a chance that they lose control of California. But then again, if more states follow VIrginia in handing over their electoral votes to the popular vote winner thus de facto destroying the Electoral College, that's ball game, even if the Golden State should flip Red. Assuming that a GOP candidate even wins the popular vote ever again.

On that cheery note...

Have a great day!

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AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!

U.S. President Donald Trump says China has agreed not to provide weapons to Iran as reports circulate that Beijing has considered transferring arms.
The Latest: US blockade of Iranian ports ‘fully implemented’ as Trump says war is near end
President Trump’s campaign against the Iranian regime carries broad implications — many of them directly advancing American interests and reshaping the strategic landscape for years to come.
Crude new world Oil markets will never be the same – regardless of how the war in Iran ends

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Notice that events are developing. . .
Democrats Can’t Update Their Script On The Iran War To Incorporate New Realities

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
President Donald Trump signaled a willingness Wednesday to extend a hotly debated surveillance tool while also commenting that he would willingly surrender his rights and privileges to do so.
Trump Sides With Deep State, Signals Intent To Preserve Spy Tool That Snarled His First Term
Theirs is the party of cruelty, sadism and derangement..”
The ‘Disease’ That Drives The Democrats
In a saner world, the political weaponization of the Department of Justice under [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden would be a bipartisan scandal, but the “moderates” in today’s Democrat Party won’t lift a finger to protect traditional norms.The latest horror story is this week’s report on flagrant abuses, including the withholding of evidence and “aggressive arrest tactics” when targeting pro-life defendants; the nearly 900-page review also shows Attorney General Merrick Garland’s prosecutors demanding far harsher prison sentences for pro-lifers than pro-choicers convicted on similar charges.
Biden’s weaponized Justice Department is just Democrats vs. democracy
Larry Elder: Gasp! Candidates were all white.
California’s Think-Alike Dems Cancel Debate Over ‘Lack of Diversity’
“At a recent appearance at the University of Kansas School of Law, I referred to a disagreement with one of my colleagues in a prior case, but I made remarks that were inappropriate,” Sotomayor said. “I regret my hurtful comments. I have apologized to my colleague.”
Justice Sotomayor Apologizes for ‘Hurtful Comments’ Suggesting Justice Kavanaugh Is Privileged
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
On Wednesday, Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL), the sponsor of the DIGNIDAD Act, and Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Don Bacon (R-NE), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), all co-sponsors of the DIGNIDAD Act, voted with House Democrats to advance a bill that will stop Trump from ending TPS for Haitians.
‘DIGNIDAD’ Republicans Defy Trump, Advance Democrat Plan to Keep 350K Haitians in U.S.
Tom Steyer, the now top polling Democrat for California governor, has unveiled his extremely radical, open-door, anti-ICE immigration platform as he continues his run for the state’s top office.
California Gov. Candidate Tom Steyer Pledges to Open Borders and Arrest ICE Agents
The solicitor general’s arguments in the birthright citizenship case now before the Supreme Court should remind us all why and how we’re Americans.
Sauer Saved US Citizenship. Was SCOTUS Listening?
“These acts of pure evil have devastated our Department."
DHS Employee Murdered While Walking Dog As Biden-Era Naturalized Suspect Emerges
“The cut to legal entries was 2.5 times as large” as the cut to illegal entries, David J. Bier wrote in his report, noting that illegal entries have also fallen under Trump. But “cuts in legal immigration broke the trend of rising legal immigration from 2021 to 2024.”
Study: Trump Cut Bloated Legal Immigration By Bigger Numbers Than Illegal Crossings
Cut off the cash and they'll leave.
Debanking is Another Way to Get Illegal Aliens Out

THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
Shirley has turned his sights on California in recent months, claiming to have “uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud” in the state. A bill proposed by the wife of California Attorney General Rob Bonta might criminalize the sort of on-the-ground journalism Shirley does.
Fraud Whistleblower Nick Shirley Announces Sights Set On California. Wife Of AG Floats Silencing Whistleblowers
California’s ruling class just sent a loud message via AB 2624: expose fraud, and they’ll come after you, not the fraudsters.
California Democrats Advance ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ to Shield Fraud From Citizen Journalists
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
California faces a structural budget deficit, but that doesn’t stop the state from using taxpayer money to fund radical left transgender procedures for illegal immigrants, according to a report.
Breast Implants And ‘Bottom Surgeries’ — Taxpayers On Hook For Funding Sex Changes For Homeless, Illegal Aliens
A surge of affluent New Yorkers leaving the city and moving to places with lower taxes such as Florida was a major story in the run-up to the 2025 mayoral election. Mamdani repeatedly called for massive tax increases to pay for a slew of social welfare programs and reports of the exodus exploded as his win looked increasingly likely. But when speaking in front of a “Tax The Rich” banner at a Tax Day event on Wednesday, Mamdani denied there has been any such exodus, calling it imaginary and arguing that the opposite was true.
Mayor Mamdani Says Exodus From New York Is Just Your Imagination
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The Tennessee attorney general said that the accommodations were an attempt to "propagandize and proselytize" non-Muslim students. (separation of Church and State, but not Mosque and state, eh?Q! - jjs)
School Helped Organize Muslim Prayer And Now It’s Putting The First Amendment To The Test
America welcomes you — but only under American rules.
State Lawmakers Nationwide Erect Firewalls Against Sharia Law
One million Catholics shrank to 8,000 through mass murder.
Pope Leo Celebrates Christian Genocide in Algeria

SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
In February, Just the News discovered that the DOJ allegedly “invited” Willis to apply for a grant in 2022 as she started investigating Trump.
Georgia Lawmaker to Investigate Fani Willis Over Biden Grant Given During Trump Probe
There was never a genuine complaint. It wasn’t an opportunistic hit job either. It was something far more deliberate, a coordinated effort.
New Documents Reveal Democrats’ Plot To Frame Trump With Ukraine Call
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“The seductive promise of direct action is the promise of exerting agency over the future.”
The AI Backlash Turns Violent
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Let's consider the merits of a regressive tax code.
A Modest Proposal On Tax Day
The April 15 event, held alongside Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA) and Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR), came as Democrats used Tax Day to promote a different message focused on higher taxes for wealthy Americans.
Chairwoman McClain Focuses on Working Families Tax Cuts While Democrats Push ‘Tax the Rich’
When a model swings from loss to gain on its own assumptions, it isn’t proving tariffs failed—it’s exposing the limits of the model.
The Anti-Tariff Priesthood Strikes Again
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
The ruling could alter the competitive landscape of the concert industry, where Live Nation has been a dominant force. Potential court-ordered divestments might disrupt Live Nation’s business model, which relies on interconnected operations to drive ticket sales and sponsorship deals. Live Nation will have to pay damages following the jury’s decision. Jurors ruled that Ticketmaster overcharged customers by $1.72 on each ticket. The judge will determine the total damages amount based on that finding.
Jury Finds Live Nation (Ticketmaster) is Monopoly That Overcharged Consumers.'
If certain individuals by virtue of their mental condition pose a continuing and unpredictable threat, then the appropriate response is permanent removal from situations where they can harm others.
The Insanity Defense: A Public Danger
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Such practices include a 'restorative circle,' a 'centuries-old indigenous practice' in which participants sit in a circle to discuss their actions
'Moderate' Governor Abigail Spanberger Signs Bill Forcing Virginia Schools To Consider 'Restorative Disciplinary Practices' Before Suspending Students
With one question during congressional hearings on campus antisemitism, Rep. Elise Stefanik became the general of a war against antisemitism on college campuses across America: “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate your university’s code of conduct?” The viral video of her query became the most-watched congressional hearing clip in history.
Elise Stefanik reveals the sick truth of elite colleges’ moral collapse
“Despite pursuing a financial sustainability plan and raising more than $55 million through its Change in the Making campaign, efforts in enrollment growth, debt refinancing and land development did not yield a viable path forward.”
Iconic Leftist Hampshire College Permanently Closing at End of the Year
SECOND AMENDMENT
The DOJ’s warning signals potential federal litigation, challenging the constitutionality of the Virginia Democrats’ proposed laws. Pro-Second Amendment critics of the legislation argue the measures could restrict firearms commonly used for lawful purposes, while proponents of gun control, including Spanberger, have attempted to frame the legislation as necessary to address gun violence.
Virginia’s Far-Left Governor is In a Pitched Battle Against the 2nd Amendment.
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
By signing this compact, Spanberger has agreed to hand Virginia’s 13 electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the national popular vote.
Spanberger Pushes Nation To Brink, Signs Law Rendering State’s Votes ‘Null and Void’
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Miranda Devine: Eric Swalwell was Nancy Pelosi’s made man, the golden child of San Francisco’s rotten machine politics.
All the Queen's men Swalwell’s fall from grace was by design — and so Dems can keep their grubby hands on California
Eric Swalwell will be a quickly forgotten nobody in American politics. But to understand why these allegations are coming out now and what they mean, we have to see that this is an indictment of more than Swalwell’s dirtbaggy ways.
Swalwell’s dirtbagginess caught up with him, but the timing of his downfall is coldly calculated
The fallout has destroyed Swalwell’s political career, with his withdrawal from the California governor’s race and mounting legal and reputational challenges. Cloobeck’s public denunciation also highlights growing dissatisfaction among some high-profile Democratic donors with the party’s current trajectory.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/04/15/this-dem-mega-donor-says-hes-a-libertarian-republican-after-swalwell-scandal/
'ActBlue, I want my money back,' says Swalwell donor (Swalwell ays "LOL-GFY!" - jjs)
Swalwell Accuser's Allegations Corroborated by Campaign Disbursements, Raising Fresh Legal Questions

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A man with a mangled biography.
The Next Obama Can’t Stand ‘Right-Wing Media’ Scrutiny
POLITICS
In terms of a political apocalypse, Abigail Spanberger is more like one of Homer’s sirens. Her song has lulled the electorate to sleep. She creeps softly over us, a bug whose hard exoskeleton boasts a layer of warm human skin, injecting our institutions with low-grade acid that melts them from the inside out.
Spanberger Spins A Siren Song As She Melts America From The Inside Out
The man can be tone deaf, but he’s doing wonderful things, both at home and abroad.
Reasons to forgive Trump his trespasses
Talarico said the total marks a record for money raised by a Senate candidate in the first quarter of an election year. The leftist Democrat is set to face the winner of the GOP primary runoff between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Senate Candidate Reports Massive Fundraising Haul In Bid To Flip Seat Blue
San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan escalated his attacks on fellow Democrat gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer on Wednesday, accusing the billionaire former hedge fund manager of attempting to use his wealth to buy the California governor’s office despite a record that Mahan argued conflicts with Steyer’s current political message.
‘He Thinks You’re Stupid’: Leftwing Democrats Take Gloves Off In Fight Against Billionaire Tom Steyer
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
If I had a dollar for every time the president said something about what's coming in Cuba over the last three months, I'd have enough cash to buy a plane ticket to Washington, D.C., so I could stand outside the State Department, hold a boombox over my head, and beg Marco Rubio to give me an interview on the topic. And if I had a dollar for every "anonymous sources" exclusive the MSM put out about what the president plans to do in Cuba, I'd have enough money to fly back home when the State Department inevitably takes out a restraining order. Sigh.
Is the Pentagon Preparing for Military Action in Cuba?
The CCP’s valued stability is at risk.
Reading the Tea Leaves at China’s 2026 ‘Two Sessions’
“Well, as regards to relations with China, we share many of the concerns with the U.S. including with imbalance in our trading relationship, including with China’s industrial overcapacities and non-market policies and practices, including China attempting to use our dependency for example on critical minerals like rare earths supplies as a leverage or choke point,” Dombrovskis further explained regarding China. “So we are engaged with the U.S. on many of those aspects I was mentioning. It is also among the big topics here for the IMF Spring Meetings — global economic imbalances is one of those topics — and they will be discussing in different forums this including directly with China. So there are many of the concerns which we are sharing and which we need to cooperate to address. Then economically I was mentioning the U.S. is EU’s largest trading partner. China is EU’s second largest trading partner. So also, obviously, there is lots at stake economically. So we are not pursuing decoupling. We are pursuing what you call de-risking, so continuing engagement but addressing imbalances, addressing unfair competition, and also finding a way how to address existing or potential dependencies from China.”
Exclusive — Top European Economic Minister Says Europe Rooting for Trump in Beijing Talks: ‘We Share Many of the Concerns’ U.S. Has with China
The Global Times said Xi declared China is ready to share “the opportunities brought about by Chinese modernization to strengthen the foundation for regional development and security” in the Middle East.
China Welcomes UAE Crown Prince, Straining to Defend Its Middle East Ties (Up yours and don't starch the collars, Hop Sing! - jjs)
Ireland’s fuel protests have grown into a broader revolt over immigration, identity, and EU policy, exposing deep fractures between voters and political elites.
From Protest to Real Power: Why Irish Eyes Aren’t Smiling
The IMF is also concerned about rising global debt levels, with Britain’s gross debt projected to reach 104.1 percent of GDP. Meanwhile, despite Britain’s enormous and growing tax burden, some economists are warning that further tax rises may be necessary to meet relatively modest commitments to increase defensespending.
One G7 Country is Raising Taxes Faster Than the Rest of The Group PUT TOGETHER.
The findings highlight the exploitation of the British asylum system while exposing those who are profiting from it. The Home Office—roughly equivalent to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security—has claimed it will take action against those abusing the system.
Legal Advisers Coach Migrants to Fake Gayness for Asylum Claims.
David Harsanyi: Even partial capitalism works every time.
Argentina is Booming — Capitalism Remains Undefeated
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS
Any guesses what they had in mind?
60 "Palestinians" Hide in a Garbage Truck to Infiltrate Israel
The UNRWA bill would codify President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze funding for the Hamas-tied UN agency
GOP Senators Push To Prohibit US Funding for UNRWA
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The articles are unlikely to pass in the current Congress, as Republicans control the House of Representatives. The Pentagon has dismissed the resolution as a political stunt, and President Donald J. Trump has expressed strong support for Hegseth, praising his leadership at the Department of War.
Dems Plan 5 Impeachment Articles Against Hegseth. (destroying the prospects of a future, winning GOP presidential prospect - jjs)
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, most Americans, regardless of political beliefs, placed strong trust in the medical establishment. But that confidence took a major hit during the pandemic...Today, that erosion of trust reflects a deeper concern. Many people believe healthcare decisions are no longer driven solely by patient well-being, but increasingly influenced by corporate interests and financial incentives...Dr. Peter McCullough and his colleagues have led a first-of-its-kind study exploring the use of Ivermectin + Mebendazole in cancer treatment, opening the door to a new line of investigation.
Groundbreaking New Study Links Ivermectin to Cancer TreatmentBenefits (but, but, but horse paste?! - jjs)
We're breaking up with popular activewear.
The $130 Leggings In Your Closet Could Be Packing Chemicals Linked To Infertility
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
...the goal is part of a series of missions that began earlier this month with the Artemis II mission, which successfully saw the first orbital manned flight around the moon in decades. The plan positions the U.S. as the leader in space nuclear power, a critical component for long-term missions and for maintaining military and technological superiority amid growing competition from China and Russia. (Gabrielle Drake in the silver moon bikini - jjs)
White House Unveils Plan for Nuclear Moon Bases.
By comparing how galaxies clustered in the past with their distribution today, researchers can trace dark energy’s influence over 11 billion years of cosmic history. Surprising results using DESI’s first three years of data hinted that dark energy, once thought to be a “cosmological constant,” might be evolving over time. . .
DESI telescope completes its nominal mission, mapping more than 47 million galaxies
The entire interview is worth reading. It indicates a very practical and honest mindset. Everyone might not agree with every proposal Isaacman has put forth, but he is clearly approaching things from a very good place.
A very interesting and revealing interview of NASA administrator Jared Issacman
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
They ‘trust the science’ in Canada, until it comes to gender transition.
How Pushing Back On Gender Ideology Cost One Man $750,000
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Why is the Vatican allowing leftist U.S. politicians to exploit the pope? (he's one himself - jjs)
Has the Vatican becomes a DNC satellite office?
In a world where basic etiquette is scarce, it is ironic that the burden of perfection continues to fall on the performer, not the crowd.
Why Sabrina Carpenter’s reaction to fan's 'zaghrouta' wasn’t the problem
HITHER & YON
Another interesting addition to the 2026 Bingo Card.
When Primate Politics Turn Deadly: ‘Civil War’ Shattering Uganda’s Ngogo Chimps
We do the exact same thing with human experts. We treat people who are undeniably smart as if they were automatically also wise. We let them substitute their intelligence for our judgment, then lower our own standards to meet them halfway.
The Real Danger Isn’t Dumb People — It’s Smart People Without Wisdom
Christian Toto: 'Saul' star has action-movie chops but story suffers from split personality
Odenkirk’s Fargo-Style ‘Normal’ Goes Full Tarantino
How an Iranian diplomat turned Nazi paperwork into a weapon and saved thousands during the Holocaust.
Born in Tehran – Tested in Nazi Paris

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1 Yo!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 16, 2026 07:31 AM (ewuvP)

2 Little black diamonds are back… morning JJ!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 16, 2026 07:31 AM (ewuvP)

3 Good morning, Horde!

Posted by: NR Pax at April 16, 2026 07:32 AM (+4yJ5)

4 Otters dutifully called…

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 16, 2026 07:32 AM (ewuvP)

5 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 16, 2026 07:33 AM (u82oZ)

6 Thirsty Thursday

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 07:34 AM (/+uur)

7
'Moderate' Governor Abigail Spanberger Signs Bill Forcing Virginia Schools To Consider 'Restorative Disciplinary Practices' Before Suspending Students

When I was in fifth grade, I saw a teacher (retired Marine) slam a kid into a locker. That's the sort of "Restorative Disciplinary Practice" we need today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 16, 2026 07:34 AM (tgvbd)

8 Ah, ya ya ya ya, ya ya ya ya, ya ya ya ya
Little darling oh little darling
O-oh where a-are you?
My lover I was wronger
To try to love two
Ahh uha uha uha uha
Knowing well that my lover
Was just for you uh only you...

Posted by: The Diamonds at April 16, 2026 07:35 AM (79nfv)

9
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 16, 2026 07:35 AM (2/MrR)

10 Uh-oh.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at April 16, 2026 07:35 AM (3AwA+)

11 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2026 07:37 AM (AkEZC)

12 Thank you JJ. Morning all

Trump is making a big mistake on FISA 702. Surprising given everything he went through with Russia Russia Russia… I can’t figure his motivation here….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 07:38 AM (OY1AQ)

13 Restorative Disciplinary Practices

There are seventeen people from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that would have had a difference of opinion with the effectiveness of this approach but they have a case of death that prevents that from happening.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 16, 2026 07:38 AM (+4yJ5)

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The Real Danger Isn't Dumb People - It's Smart People Without Wisdom

We have a whole class of "experts", "thought leaders", bureaucrats and legislators who have no idea where stuff comes from, how it's made or how it gets to them. They've never had a job outside an office, never been on a farm, never seen a production line or been in a factory.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 16, 2026 07:39 AM (tgvbd)

15 Hampshire College

Go woke, get broke. More of this, please.

Like voting with your feet. At some point reality breaks through the Leftist cant.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 16, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

16 When I was in fifth grade, I saw a teacher (retired Marine) slam a kid into a locker.

At my school, we had a security guard that was a Former Marine. It was basically understood that if he was looking for you, go find him first and atone for whatever sins you may have committed.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 16, 2026 07:39 AM (+4yJ5)

17 I didn't know who Sabrina Carpenter was until the NY Post had a "word search" puzzle on her . When I looked her up , there were the usual provocative pictures in lingerie, as well as her left wing statements on various issues, but I guess her objection to some one shouting "appreciation" at one of her shows gave some of the Muslims and Muslim supporting friends the sads. "it's my culture" Boo hoo.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 16, 2026 07:40 AM (rZCVI)

18 When I was in fifth grade, I saw a teacher (retired Marine) slam a kid into a locker. That's the sort of "Restorative Disciplinary Practice" we need today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 16, 2026 07:34 AM (tgvbd)

I got the wooden paddle in 4th grade (for playing tackle football at recess which was forbidden). I’m still alive…. Yes we should restore that because a little healthy fear of teacher is good. My only slight hesitation is knowing how many purple-haired crazies are teachers today…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 07:41 AM (OY1AQ)

19 LinusVanPelt

Can those powers be used to target the Deep State? Only reason I can think of.

Well, maybe for fighting foreign subversion, rather than US citizens.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 16, 2026 07:41 AM (u82oZ)

20
This morning's report raises a lot of questions.

Posted by: Auspex at April 16, 2026 07:41 AM (Y8DZL)

21 > When I was in fifth grade, I saw a teacher (retired Marine) slam a kid into a locker. That's the sort of "Restorative Disciplinary Practice" we need today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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No shit.

In 7th grade, my buddy was body slammed into one by an administrator after he mouthed off to a substitute. Junior high seemed to have a significant number of "issues."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2026 07:42 AM (AkEZC)

22 There are seventeen people from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that would have had a difference of opinion with the effectiveness of this approach but they have a case of death that prevents that from happening.
Posted by: NR Pax
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They are the lucky ones. I have to live with it FOREVER!

Posted by: David Hogg at April 16, 2026 07:42 AM (DDJSl)

23 NR Pax

Congrats on your new delivery service for knitted breast replacements. Are you there for the fittings as well?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 16, 2026 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

24 >Such practices include a 'restorative circle,' a 'centuries-old indigenous practice'
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drums
gonna need drums

sidenote: the diamonds are back

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 07:44 AM (ZxPkt)

25 Don Black

We can power through the diamonds.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 16, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

26 Apparently, Swalwell's phone isn't pinging, his financial problems are enormous, and he hasn't been seen in quite awhile...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 07:45 AM (FmapG)

27 “If you end [temporary protections] without addressing work authorization, it will cause a huge crisis in our health care system, especially in an area like mine, where a lot of our Haitian TPS holders are nurses,” Lawler said.

New Yorkers were opposed to slavery in 1860. Today, not so much.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 07:45 AM (/+uur)

28 Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

Another one bites the dust.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 16, 2026 07:46 AM (u82oZ)

29 Morning, News Folken,

My local (regionally syndicated) talk show hosts, Walton & Johnson, mentioned an event yesterday where they trotted old Mushbrain out to speak at a college. Joe spied the one black man in the audience, called out, "Hey, he looks like Barack!" Which, apparently, he didn't except for skin color.

Why are his wife and his other handlers letting Joe out in public?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2026 07:47 AM (wzUl9)

30 Let's hope the buzzards are festooning the entrails of Fartsmell on the Tree of Woe for the final time.

It's jail time for this despicable Democrat. One down, five hundred to go.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 16, 2026 07:47 AM (Fbc0I)

31 Congrats on your new delivery service for knitted breast replacements. Are you there for the fittings as well?
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Apparently, my health insurance does not cover spouse-induced injuries so I will have to content myself with dropping them off.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 16, 2026 07:48 AM (+4yJ5)

32 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

33 Saw a post on X with the electoral map for 2024 had NPV been in place - 534 votes for Trump-Vance, 4 for the other guys.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at April 16, 2026 07:48 AM (NlEaG)

34 They are the lucky ones. I have to live with it FOREVER!
Posted by: David Hogg

That boy (He has a long way to go before becoming a man) is the kind of person that has me rethinking my hardline stance against bullying.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 16, 2026 07:49 AM (+4yJ5)

35 > Apparently, Swalwell's phone isn't pinging, his financial problems are enormous, and he hasn't been seen in quite awhile...
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He's probably with Hunter, who purportedly sneaked out of the country to avoid $15M in back taxes he never paid.

I mentioned the *biden's tax issues yesterday in on of the threads. The IRS had even opened a case on them back before the VP slot. Lots of "irregularities" with their returns.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2026 07:49 AM (AkEZC)

36 NR Pax

You are a good man, restoring bilateral symmetry to a select group of women. Huzzah!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 16, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

37 29 Morning, News Folken,

My local (regionally syndicated) talk show hosts, Walton & Johnson, mentioned an event yesterday where they trotted old Mushbrain out to speak at a college. Joe spied the one black man in the audience, called out, "Hey, he looks like Barack!" Which, apparently, he didn't except for skin color.

Why are his wife and his other handlers letting Joe out in public?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2026 07:47 AM (wzUl9)

Why they are putting Biden out there is explicable: money. Why someone would attend an event to listen to him is the puzzler.

Posted by: sir, that's retarded at April 16, 2026 07:50 AM (hlJBQ)

38 "thanks to that state's fercockter electoral system"

Good morning, JJ. Had to look that word up. Thanks for adding it to my repertoire of fun words!

Posted by: Doof at April 16, 2026 07:50 AM (LVvlK)

39 Trump also capped refugee admissions to 7,500 per year, meaning only about 500 refugees can be admitted each month.

Who Edits this stuff. Who does not know 12 * 6 is 72.
It is over 600. 625 to be exact.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 07:52 AM (/+uur)

40 Pscientists say that on Neptune, it rains diamonds, and the planet's solid core may actually be one huge diamond

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 07:52 AM (ZxPkt)

41 Good morning Horde, thx JJ.
Pope Leo shooting his mouth off again. Every 500 years or so the Catholic Church needs a good scism. It would be ironic if in the split between American Catholics and Rome , the final kick was from an American pope

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 16, 2026 07:52 AM (TLxw1)

42 Saw a post on X with the electoral map for 2024 had NPV been in place - 534 votes for Trump-Vance, 4 for the other guys.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at April 16, 2026 07:48 AM (NlEaG)

NPV??

Posted by: Doof at April 16, 2026 07:53 AM (LVvlK)

43 I dimly recall my first-grade teacher rapping our knuckles with a ruler as discipline in class. That vanished soon after, as did the "moment of morning prayer."

The two things may be connected.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2026 07:53 AM (wzUl9)

44 I mentioned the *biden's tax issues yesterday in on of the threads. The IRS had even opened a case on them back before the VP slot. Lots of "irregularities" with their returns.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2026 07:49 AM (AkEZC)

1 Bank had 150 SARs.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 07:53 AM (/+uur)

45
Why they are putting Biden out there is explicable: money. Why someone would attend an event to listen to him is the puzzler.
Posted by: sir, that's retarded at April 16, 2026

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Well, sure, money -- but didn't they grift millions from us and Ukraine and who knows how many other sources while he was in politics for FIFTY YEARS???

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2026 07:55 AM (wzUl9)

46 40 Pscientists say that on Neptune, it rains diamonds, and the planet's solid core may actually be one huge diamond
Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 07:52 AM (ZxPkt)

Shes are rich girl
Dont try to hide it
Shes got diamonds on the soles of her shoes

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 07:55 AM (/+uur)

47 NPV??
Posted by: Doof at April 16, 2026 07:53 AM (LVvlK)
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National Popular Vote?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 16, 2026 07:56 AM (gnNyN)

48 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE 13 ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES IS CHUMP-CHANGE AND WHEN EITHER RUBIO OR VANCE WIN THE POPULAR VOTE, VA'S MEASLY 13 VOTES GO TO THEM.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 16, 2026 07:56 AM (qFwJc)

49 Who Edits this stuff. Who does not know 12 * 6 is 72.
It is over 600. 625 to be exact.
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 07:52 AM (/+uur)

I was told there would be no math.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at April 16, 2026 07:56 AM (NlEaG)

50
Saw an article about how Cardinal Cupich of Chicago has had a "profound influence" on reshaping the American hierarchy. My comment was that that was like saying the Enola Gay had a "profound influence" on reshaping Hiroshima.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 16, 2026 07:56 AM (tgvbd)

51 The diamonds I see are black in regular text, and red in links.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2026 07:56 AM (wzUl9)

52 Threats to the electoral college are very serious IMO. The Dems wanna end it and if they succeed it’ll be very hard for the GOP to ever win the presidency…. Because CA and NY can roll up huge vote totals in their column that are fake using mail-in ballots cheating…. I’m not a lawyer but I wonder if this VA move (our EVs go to the national popular vote winner) is even constitutional?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 07:56 AM (SSHra)

53 Diamonds are not rare.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 16, 2026 07:56 AM (qFwJc)

54 In a world where basic etiquette is scarce, it is ironic that the burden of perfection continues to fall on the performer, not the crowd.
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That's a mistake. The performer is being paid, BY the crowd. The trouble is that this sort of yelling is interfering with the experience of one's fellow crowd members.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 16, 2026 07:57 AM (AlhUl)

55 Debanking is Another Way to Get Illegal Aliens Out

hell yes

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 07:57 AM (/+uur)

56
Shes are rich girl
Dont try to hide it
Shes got diamonds on the soles of her shoes
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026

***
She can rely on the old man's diamonds;
She knows it don't matter anyway

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2026 07:57 AM (wzUl9)

57 52 Threats to the electoral college are very serious IMO. The Dems wanna end it and if they succeed it’ll be very hard for the GOP to ever win the presidency…. Because CA and NY can roll up huge vote totals in their column that are fake using mail-in ballots cheating…. I’m not a lawyer but I wonder if this VA move (our EVs go to the national popular vote winner) is even constitutional?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 07:56 AM (SSHra)

None of it is likely constitutional, but no one has brought up a challenge yet, at least to the Supreme Court, probably b/c it hasn't come into play yet...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 16, 2026 07:58 AM (tOcjL)

58 You are a good man, restoring bilateral symmetry to a select group of women. Huzzah!
Posted by: NaCly Dog

All credit to my wife who came across this by accident and then promptly got to work.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 16, 2026 07:58 AM (+4yJ5)

59 South American Pope. Leo went to Peru and "went native" even so far as to worship the Pachamama demon.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 16, 2026 07:59 AM (qFwJc)

60 NPV??
Posted by: Doof at April 16, 2026 07:53 AM (LVvlK)

National Popular Vote. That pact about states decaring their electoral votes go to the winner of the most votes nationally.

My sadness is that the NPV was not in place for Trump's election to cause the 534 EV outcome. They would have declared NPV unconstitutional so fast....

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at April 16, 2026 07:59 AM (NlEaG)

61 I’m not a lawyer but I wonder if this VA move (our EVs go to the national popular vote winner) is even constitutional?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 07:56 AM (SSHra)

In one place, the Constitution says the States can decide how to allocate their electors on their own.

In another place, the Constitution says the States can't enter into any inter-state compacts.

I'm not sure how SCOTUS would rule, but it will absolutely end up there. Judges matter.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 08:00 AM (FmapG)

62 File this under "you just can't hate them enough."

Utah Valley University has selected their keynote speaker for this year's graduation, and its some G-d AWFL Karen who went on a bitter tirade about how no amount of public outrage about an assassination could outweigh the monstrous evil perpetrated by Charlie Kirk.

A senseless murder that rocked a nation took place on *their campus,* and their response is "good, we're glad it happened. Fuck all of you."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 16, 2026 08:00 AM (BI5O2)

63 St. Vincent De Paul’s MSC-South facility in San Francisco reportedly admitted to housing illegal immigrants from El Salvador, Venezuela, and other countries. The outlet says it spoke to two Honduran men, “Lyca” and “Alondra,” who were staying at the facility and identified as transgender women.

Lyca
‘Tengo Medi-Cal,’

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 08:01 AM (/+uur)

64 60 "Palestinians" Hide in a Garbage Truck to Infiltrate Israel
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Gotta admit they picked the right camouflage.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 16, 2026 08:01 AM (AlhUl)

65 They're having that French Quarter Fest here in town this weekend, right as the weather gets hotter. I don't recall any such thing when I was a kid living there. Turns out they've been doing this thing since '84 -- which means $$$ for vendors there, but blocked-off streets and even less street parking (which is getting to be a mythical monster anyway) for locals.

I'm glad to be leaving town.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2026 08:01 AM (wzUl9)

66 Assuming that a GOP candidate even wins the popular vote ever again

Right now the incentive for the Dems is to focus fraud on battlegrounds states and races. This makes it harder because there are generally non-leftists involved in the vote counting.

Now fraud does happen and it is non-trivial in these areas. But...as we've seen in the blue states the left can easily produce millions of fake votes. A political system that would elect the president based on just total votes counted when then mean they could move their fraud to the deepest blue districts - where you would see absurd numbers of mail in ballots suggesting nearly 100%...or more...of eligible voters voted this way - and yes we saw some of this in 2020 so this isn't hypothetical.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2026 08:02 AM (sKqQm)

67
The Vatican has always had a disdainful attitude toward the US and Americans. Leo is like Chips Channon, the British MP who was also born in Chicago, went abroad and became deeply anti-American.

The Vatican maintains this attitude despite the fact that it's kept afloat financially by the generosity of the same Americans it despises.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 16, 2026 08:02 AM (tgvbd)

68 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 08:02 AM (RIvkX)

69 > I’m not a lawyer but I wonder if this VA move (our EVs go to the national popular vote winner) is even constitutional?
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it's not
but that's never stopped Democrats

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 08:02 AM (ZxPkt)

70 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at April 16, 2026 08:03 AM (RiKhU)

71 The $130 Leggings In Your Closet Could Be Packing Chemicals Linked To�Infertility"

It's not the leggings. It's the "wide load" covered by said "leggings" that reduce the number of kidlets...

Posted by: man at April 16, 2026 08:03 AM (XuXeR)

72 >60 "Palestinians" Hide in a Garbage Truck to Infiltrate Israel
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imagine the stink in there

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 08:04 AM (ZxPkt)

73
imagine the stink in there
Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 08:04 AM (ZxPkt)

It was so bad the garbage was complaining.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 16, 2026 08:06 AM (tgvbd)

74 "Palestinians" Hide in a Garbage Truck to Infiltrate Israel
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imagine the stink in there
Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026

***
Garbage truck is no bargain either

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2026 08:06 AM (wzUl9)

75 Pope Leo shooting his mouth off again. Every 500 years or so the Catholic Church needs a good scism. It would be ironic if in the split between American Catholics and Rome , the final kick was from an American pope
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 16, 2026 07:52 AM (TLxw1)

I always wonder why the conclave picked old Lefty Bob for Pope A Dope.

Father Pfleger Kids In Danger was unavailable?

Posted by: Reverend Mariann Budde, Not a lesbian....yet. at April 16, 2026 08:07 AM (79nfv)

76 "thanks to that state's fercockter electoral system"

Good morning, JJ. Had to look that word up. Thanks for adding it to my repertoire of fun words!
Posted by: Doof at April 16, 2026 07:50 AM (LVvlK)
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This is the best Yiddish word especially when used by someone who cannot pronounce it properly like my Boston blueblood college roommate.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 08:07 AM (RIvkX)

77 The $130 Leggings In Your Closet Could Be Packing Chemicals Linked To�Infertility"

It's not the leggings. It's the "wide load" covered by said "leggings" that reduce the number of kidlets...
Posted by: man

I think that link is messed up.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 16, 2026 08:08 AM (OyiDH)

78 This is the best Yiddish word especially when used by someone who cannot pronounce it properly like my Boston blueblood college roommate.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026

***
"Fahcocktah"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2026 08:08 AM (wzUl9)

79 The $130 Leggings In Your Closet Could Be Packing Chemicals Linked To Infertility

Good link: https://tinyurl.com/2fv9yd47

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

80 Good morning!
Almost typed "TGIF" - d'oh!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 08:10 AM (5xoct)

81 New Yorkers were opposed to slavery in 1860. Today, not so much.
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 07:45 AM (/+uur)
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That is debatable. The 1860 part.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

82 The man can be tone deaf, but he�s doing wonderful things, both at home and abroad.
Reasons to forgive Trump his trespasses

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This is what I could never quite understand. Yes, Trump has his "trespasses" and many times says things that make me cringe, or at the very least, wish he'd had kept quiet.

But his personal foibles simply do not concern me because they do not personally affect me. What he's doing for the country affects me. And that's all I care about.

Why can't people understand this? It's not the man that affects me. It's his actions. Not. Rocket. Science.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 16, 2026 08:11 AM (qBdHI)

83
Pipe meets with Democrat operative David Axelrod (who isn't Catholic), then denounces Trump. And the. 79 Minutes hosts 3 anti-Trump bishops to frame a narrative that Catholics are turning on Trump.

All a coincidence, I'm sure

https://is.gd/urh9MS

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 16, 2026 08:11 AM (J6hI7)

84 >Almost typed "TGIF" - d'oh!
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S o
H appy
I t's
T hursday

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 08:12 AM (ZxPkt)

85
Swalwell's not the exception, he's the norm.

Democrats gather children around and do struggle session tactics to berate them into compliance; it's not rape but follows the same perverted impulse.

It you can stand it, there's a picture of Swalwell's wife and kids out there, very much his victims, she's got Ozempic face and looks terrified.

Posted by: Auspex at April 16, 2026 08:12 AM (Y8DZL)

86 Pope meets with Democrat operative David Axelrod (who isn't Catholic), then denounces Trump. And the. 60 Minutes hosts 3 anti-Trump bishops to frame a narrative that Catholics are turning on Trump.

All a coincidence, I'm sure

https://is.gd/urh9MS

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 16, 2026 08:12 AM (J6hI7)

87 French criminal, involved in well publicized Israeli hit and run case, meets bitch:

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-893233

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 16, 2026 08:12 AM (5UTWB)

88 I think it's great that DeBeer's is sponsoring The Morning Report. Who will sponsor the Mid-Morning Art Thread?

Posted by: Art For the (M)asses at April 16, 2026 08:13 AM (oftw2)

89 Pope was elected because Vatican needed American money. Elected a Chicago one because Rome knew Obama, Pritzker, and Axelrod would help him get that $ .

Do not want to offend my Catholic friends here, but Leo and Cardinal Cupich are part of the Chicago Dem machine sadly, and are following orders not to talk about Late Term Abortion and Infantacide

Posted by: Jonah at April 16, 2026 08:13 AM (YCxFk)

90 "Fahcocktah"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 16, 2026 08:08 AM (wzUl9)
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Exactly. He knew a lot more Yiddish than me but his pronunciation was hysterical.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 08:13 AM (RIvkX)

91 The $130 Leggings In Your Closet Could Be Packing Chemicals Linked To Infertility

Good link: https://tinyurl.com/2fv9yd47
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I seem to recall that we discussed here that the studies on polyester clothing were flawed in that they were finding traces of chemicals that also naturally occur.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 16, 2026 08:14 AM (OyiDH)

92 I didn't know who Sabrina Carpenter was until the NY Post had a "word search" puzzle on her .

Sabrina Carpenter’s songwriting advice: “Add the weird chord progression and key change, and call men stupid in as many ways as you can”.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

93 A senseless murder that rocked a nation took place on *their campus,* and their response is "good, we're glad it happened. Fuck all of you."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 16, 2026 08:00 AM (BI5O2)

Shocking, even for academic scumbags. The Charlie Kirk murder really shook me; just awful and the response has been even worse ( if that’s possible… Candace Owens is a monstrosity and just one example)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 08:14 AM (SSHra)

94 and you know Axelrod answers to the Jug-Eared Fuckstick

so by association, the Pope does too

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 08:14 AM (ZxPkt)

95 When I first heard that Pope Francis gave a Vatican audience to Bernie Sanders a few years back, I knew the fix was in.

Posted by: Jonah at April 16, 2026 08:15 AM (YCxFk)

96 I’m just one person but I’m a very serious Christian and you know what? That “controversial” photo of “Trump as Jesus” (it’s not that… good grief) didn’t offend me in the least… lighten up Francis

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 08:16 AM (SSHra)

97 Apparently, Swalwell's phone isn't pinging, his financial problems are enormous, and he hasn't been seen in quite awhile...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 07:45 AM (FmapG)

Maybe he took Brother Bluto's advice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

98 Wretchard bringing insight to the Pope's sparring with Trump:

As I remarked elsewhere, while most politicians deal with Christianity by ignoring it or uttering pieties they neither mean nor understand the exchange between Pope Leo and Donald Trump forces the thoughtful reader to understand the Just War theory, which underpins the mainstream Christian approach to conflict.

Inevitably it requires us to consider not only what Christians believe but what the Islamic equivalent to Just War -- the doctrine of Jihad -- actually teaches. In many ways the two are as different as chalk and cheese. In the first place Christianity is a nonstate religion while Islam aims to be a “universal religion and a universal state”. From this arises a host of differences.
In Just War, the core intention of hostilities is the “righting of wrongs.”. . Heads of states do not go to war with the intention of pleasing God but to do particular things. This is not the case with the Jihad, which clearly states that the core intention to wage war must be to please Allah. Just War is a human creation while Jihad is a divine one.

https://tinyurl.com/53b8mme3

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 08:17 AM (5xoct)

99 But his personal foibles simply do not concern me because they do not personally affect me. What he's doing for the country affects me. And that's all I care about.

Why can't people understand this? It's not the man that affects me. It's his actions. Not. Rocket. Science.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 16, 2026 08:11 AM (qBdHI)
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To a Marxist the personal is political.

Everything is political.

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

100 26 Apparently, Swalwell's phone isn't pinging, his financial problems are enormous, and he hasn't been seen in quite awhile...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 07:45 AM (FmapG)

So this perverted clown has been on the grift for 10 years at least and he didn't save any money to a off shore account?

Honestly feel bad for his kids. No kid deserves a dad like this guy.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 16, 2026 08:18 AM (qE8vU)

101 "Millions of people feel they were harmed, and the murder that was horrific and should never have happened does not magically erase what was said or done.

To many Americans, especially if you are Black, LGBTQ or Muslim, Charlie Kirk was not a person who simply engaged in good-faith debates on college campuses.

It’s important to remember that the incredible tragedy of a public assassination does not erase the harm many experienced from his words and the ensuing actions his followers took."

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This is the degenerate scrunt UVU chose to come dance on Charlie Kirk's grave. Totally shameless.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 16, 2026 08:18 AM (BI5O2)

102 I am just a Pro life peon, but what baffles me is that a pro infanticide politician from any country would get a audience with any church, of any faith

Posted by: Jonah at April 16, 2026 08:19 AM (YCxFk)

103 I seem to recall that we discussed here that the studies on polyester clothing were flawed in that they were finding traces of chemicals that also naturally occur.

--

"I love those new outfits. I love that polyester look!"

Posted by: Pete, Saturday Night Fever at April 16, 2026 08:19 AM (qBdHI)

104 Who Edits this stuff. Who does not know 12 * 6 is 72.
It is over 600. 625 to be exact.
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 07:52 AM (/+uur)

This looks suspiciously like math.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

105 "Do not want to offend my Catholic friends here, but Leo and Cardinal Cupich are part of the Chicago Dem machine sadly, and are following orders not to talk about Late Term Abortion and Infantacide"

I am not offended. You are preaching to the choir.

Pope Leo is continuing Francis' policy a schism.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 16, 2026 08:20 AM (qFwJc)

106 This is the degenerate scrunt UVU chose to come dance on Charlie Kirk's grave. Totally shameless.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 16, 2026 08:18 AM (BI5O2)
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Gee I hope there are no disruptions when she speaks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 08:20 AM (RIvkX)

107 >>S o
H appy
I t's
T hursday

Heh.
Stolen!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 08:21 AM (5xoct)

108 89 Pope was elected because Vatican needed American money. Elected a Chicago one because Rome knew Obama, Pritzker, and Axelrod would help him get that $ .

Do not want to offend my Catholic friends here, but Leo and Cardinal Cupich are part of the Chicago Dem machine sadly, and are following orders not to talk about Late Term Abortion and Infantacide
Posted by: Jonah at April 16, 2026 08:13 AM (YCxFk)

They said dont mention them!

Posted by: Not to mention anti Christian pograms in africa at April 16, 2026 08:21 AM (qE8vU)

109 But his personal foibles simply do not concern me because they do not personally affect me. What he's doing for the country affects me. And that's all I care about.

Why can't people understand this? It's not the man that affects me. It's his actions. Not. Rocket. Science.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 16, 2026 08:11 AM (qBdHI)

This.

I'm a transactional voter. His personal foibles do not rise to the level of 'Can't vote for' like Billy Clinton, et al.

Do what I want vis a vis US policy and I'll - absent some catastrophic moral failing - vote for you. Don't and I won't.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 08:21 AM (FmapG)

110 Today Is National Eggs Benedict Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2026 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

111 "How many good Catholics voted for Hilary?

None."

- Fr. James Altman.

He got cancelled over this.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 16, 2026 08:22 AM (qFwJc)

112 Morning all.

"Deyanna Ostroushko, the woman who you see assaulting Savannah Hernandez in the video below, will NOT be charged for assaulting her on Saturday.

The Hennepin County Sheriffs department stated to me that they feel they do not have sufficient evidence to recommend charges against her".

IOW, with it being on film, the sheriff is blind. Hopefully the FBI is looking into it like they said.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2026 08:22 AM (ERade)

113 Marcus T made a great point yesterday about how the left is trying to divide American Catholics with dis info, and he is probably right. but what concerns me is that outside of a few lower level Bishops, not a peep about the abortion issue

Posted by: Jonah at April 16, 2026 08:24 AM (YCxFk)

114 I dimly recall my first-grade teacher rapping our knuckles with a ruler as discipline in class. That vanished soon after, as did the "moment of morning prayer."

When I graduated high school in '82 we still had paddles and morning prayer. I spent one semester working in the office and had to give the morning prayer one day - I was unprepared for that honor but managed, and had to witness a student paddling - a student witness of the same sex was required so the disciplined person could not claim that they were groped or anything.

Principal also kept a .45 in his desk drawer which he was known to have pulled once when some troublemakers came to the school.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 08:24 AM (ExV1e)

115 I like the "ensuing actions his followers took" bit.

What actions would those be, you rancid whore?

What exactly did these buttoned-up, clean-cut, nerdy Chistian kids do to *anyone?*

Oh, right, I know... they voted for Donald John Trump, and that's the real sin here.

KYS, Sharon McMahon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 16, 2026 08:24 AM (BI5O2)

116 >>On Wednesday, Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL), the sponsor of the DIGNIDAD Act, and Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Don Bacon (R-NE), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), all co-sponsors of the DIGNIDAD Act, voted with House Democrats to advance a bill that will stop Trump from ending TPS for Haitians.

Un-f$cking-believeable.
WHY WHY WHY do we need to keep Haitians that have been here "temporarily" for 15 years?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 08:24 AM (5xoct)

117 96 I’m just one person but I’m a very serious Christian and you know what? That “controversial” photo of “Trump as Jesus” (it’s not that… good grief) didn’t offend me in the least… lighten up Francis
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 08:16 AM (SSHra)

People who went hammer and tong at mitt Romney's mormonism are now clutching their pearls at a goofy meme.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 16, 2026 08:24 AM (qE8vU)

118 "Deyanna Ostroushko, the woman who you see assaulting Savannah Hernandez in the video below, will NOT be charged for assaulting her on Saturday.

she's the Middle Eastern (Iranian?) chick? I wonder if her citizenship status has anything to do with their fear of charging her.

the daughter seems to be off the soccer roster for next season I guess we'll see

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 16, 2026 08:25 AM (j+aD2)

119 This is the degenerate scrunt UVU chose to come dance on Charlie Kirk's grave. Totally shameless.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Someone needs to shave her head. Parade her down the avenue whilst hitting her with sticks. I volunteer.

Posted by: Vile, Stupid, Woman at April 16, 2026 08:25 AM (oftw2)

120 110 Today Is National Eggs Benedict Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2026 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

Screw those traitorous eggs

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at April 16, 2026 08:25 AM (NlEaG)

121 116 >>On Wednesday, Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL), the sponsor of the DIGNIDAD Act, and Reps. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Don Bacon (R-NE), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), all co-sponsors of the DIGNIDAD Act, voted with House Democrats to advance a bill that will stop Trump from ending TPS for Haitians.

Fitzpatrick is ridiculous. No idea why he pretends - he is a liberal Dem.

Posted by: BlackOrchid (j+aD2) at April 16, 2026 08:25 AM (j+aD2)

122 112. Rick, you have to have Federal charges in Blue States now, or nothing will be prosecuted. That county attorney up there is a Marxist Woman.

Remember, Minnesota was the only state to not vote for Ronald Reagan

Posted by: Jonah at April 16, 2026 08:26 AM (YCxFk)

123 52 Threats to the electoral college are very serious IMO. The Dems wanna end it and if they succeed it’ll be very hard for the GOP to ever win the presidency…. Because CA and NY can roll up huge vote totals in their column that are fake using mail-in ballots cheating…. I’m not a lawyer but I wonder if this VA move (our EVs go to the national popular vote winner) is even constitutional?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 07:56 AM (SSHra)
*******
The Dems are very sneaky and calculating.
They are getting their ducks in a row for the day they return to power when they will add more SCOTUS seats who will allow their scheme to be constitutional.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2026 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

124 When you see the rapidity with which the Dems destroyed Swalwell, you know for sure they have nothing on Trump.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at April 16, 2026 08:27 AM (NlEaG)

125 I’m not a lawyer but I wonder if this VA move (our EVs go to the national popular vote winner) is even constitutional?

We would be fools to trust our federal judges to uphold the Constitution if it meant stifling, or delaying, the totalitarian rise to power of the Democrats in this country.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 08:27 AM (ExV1e)

126 121. Fitz and Lawler are in Dem districts, Bacon Retiring.
Show votes, because they know that crap will not get a past a filibuster in the Senate

Posted by: Jonah at April 16, 2026 08:27 AM (YCxFk)

127 110 Today Is National Eggs Benedict Day.

Despite being a good cook, I've never mastered the art of making Hollandaise. I've read all the tips and tricks and watched countless videos, to no avail, and it's a lot of work if it fails, so I've stopped trying. One of these days.

Posted by: Delurker at April 16, 2026 08:27 AM (gtcuf)

128 Legal Advisers Coach Migrants to Fake Gayness for Asylum Claims.

Lesson 1: Crocs and Vespas?

Posted by: Ian S. at April 16, 2026 08:27 AM (sabhw)

129 124 When you see the rapidity with which the Dems destroyed Swalwell, you know for sure they have nothing on Trump.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at April 16, 2026 08:27 AM (NlEaG)

Word

Posted by: Swalwells two dollar suitcase at April 16, 2026 08:27 AM (qE8vU)

130 >>To many Americans, especially if you are Black, LGBTQ or Muslim, Charlie Kirk was not a person who simply engaged in good-faith debates on college campuses.

Please explain to me how Charlie Kirk "harmed" so many victim groups, I'd really like to know. What harm did he inflict that makes his very public assassination a footnote in your assessment of how people should feel about him.
Mean words doesn't count.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 08:29 AM (5xoct)

131 Cracker Jack math is the best kind of math.

My decoder ring was configured to solve the the Riemann Hypothesis. It tells me the solution is three. Hacks.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 16, 2026 08:29 AM (Fbc0I)

132 123. Red, you cannot change the const without 67 votes in the Senate? like a treaty?

Posted by: Jonah at April 16, 2026 08:29 AM (YCxFk)

133 Tired of any absurd reverence for this "Pope." He's a Chicago leftist with TDS and a fool; he's degrading his position and his church.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 16, 2026 08:29 AM (INQN/)

134 Mornin’, All. Happy Thursday.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2026 08:30 AM (77rzZ)

135 I had a 5th grade teacher and a 7th grade teacher who still paddled. Holes drilled in them and everything.

Our middle school vice-principal literally carried around a baseball bat. He was famous for it. It was mostly for show. He'd whack it on a lunch table to get attention when he was about to berate us for being loud and unruly. Different times. man.

Posted by: Delurker at April 16, 2026 08:31 AM (gtcuf)

136 Somewhere out there in a fleabag hotel there is an ex congressman banging a 10 dolla ho plotting hiz epics comeback.

He rides at dawn!

Maybe he and that other guy do a Thelma and Louise?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 16, 2026 08:31 AM (qE8vU)

137 I think NPV is unconstitutional. I don't see how it could pass muster under the 14th Amendment to assign a state's EVs based on what voters in another state do.

Like I said, sad it did not happen for Trump's election. That would have sealed its fate.

But now the way it will happen is that it will go into place, a Dem will lose the electoral college but get taken over the top in the national tally by a wave of mail-in California ballot harvesting, and then no one can go to court for it until the Dem is already President. It may be declared unconstitutional, but no way can the courts unroll a Presidential election.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at April 16, 2026 08:31 AM (NlEaG)

138 Hampshire College
Academic staff 40
Administrative staff 115

nuf said

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 08:31 AM (/+uur)

139 Pope meets with Democrat operative David Axelrod (who isn't Catholic), then denounces Trump. And the. 60 Minutes hosts 3 anti-Trump bishops to frame a narrative that Catholics are turning on Trump.

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It was as apparent as the nose on Klinger's face why Axelrod was over there with the Pope. The schemes never, ever end with Democrats. They're always plotting to frame a narrative, plotting to create a narrative, and in the case of doing end runs around the Electoral College, always working on any way they can to seize power when they can't do it in the normal manner. Simply put, they're evil, dishonest, deceitful scum.

Posted by: Pete, Saturday Night Fever at April 16, 2026 08:31 AM (qBdHI)

140 Red, you cannot change the const without 67 votes in the Senate? like a treaty?

Posted by: Jonah at April 16, 2026 08:29 AM (YCxFk)

No, but a 13-justice SCOTUS can simply rule the national popular vote compact to be Constitutional.

Done, sir, done.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 08:31 AM (FmapG)

141 136 Somewhere out there in a fleabag hotel there is an ex congressman banging a 10 dolla ho plotting hiz epics comeback.

You're going to have to narrow that down.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at April 16, 2026 08:31 AM (NlEaG)

142 Please explain to me how Charlie Kirk "harmed" so many victim groups, I'd really like to know.

Modern leftist victimology (and modern leftism in general, really) is heavily tied to the traits of women with Cluster B disorders, aka AWFLs. They're the main character, and if you aren't glorifying them you are literally destroying them.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 16, 2026 08:32 AM (sabhw)

143 /Saturday Night Fever sock

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 16, 2026 08:32 AM (qBdHI)

144 " I've never mastered the art of making Hollandaise."

Since the invention of the microwave oven, it's really easy.

Search for recipes online.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 16, 2026 08:33 AM (qFwJc)

145 130 >>To many Americans, especially if you are Black, LGBTQ or Muslim, Charlie Kirk was not a person who simply engaged in good-faith debates on college campuses.

Please explain to me how Charlie Kirk "harmed" so many victim groups, I'd really like to know. What harm did he inflict that makes his very public assassination a footnote in your assessment of how people should feel about him.
Mean words doesn't count.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 08:29 AM (5xoct)

Those words are their comfort wooby to absolve their conscience of the glee the felt watching someone they disagree with get shot in the face.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 16, 2026 08:33 AM (qE8vU)

146 Please explain to me how Charlie Kirk "harmed" so many victim groups, I'd really like to know. What harm did he inflict that makes his very public assassination a footnote in your assessment of how people should feel about him.
Mean words doesn't count.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 08:29 AM (5xoct)

Your expression of ideas is violence
Their violence is expression of ideas

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 08:33 AM (/+uur)

147 While the merry bells keep ringing
Happy Hollandaise to you!

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 16, 2026 08:33 AM (DgMqy)

148 It’s important to remember that the incredible tragedy of a public assassination does not erase the harm many experienced from his words and the ensuing actions his followers took."

It's not my fault that inferior people get a case of butthurt from mere words. Perhaps their parents should have prepared them for life instead of handing it off to others.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 16, 2026 08:34 AM (+4yJ5)

149 The man has ignored the slaughter of Christians across Nigeria, the Sahel, India, Syria, Bangladesh, Pakistan. Hundreds of believers murdered, churches burned, pastors kidnapped. His response? Platitudes about dialogue.

OF COURSE he won’t even name who’s doing the killing.

But he’ll fly across continents to make interfaith gestures the week after his people coordinated a media hit on a sitting US president.

The weaponization of belief is obvious. You get the Pope to pick a fight with Trump, and suddenly millions of conservative Catholics have to choose between their faith and their vote. - Scott Johnson
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Obviously trying to pry voting Catholics away from Trump.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

150 I don't view Trump's most controversial statements as a problem. I view them as a means to open the apeture of what can be discussed and where lines get drawn.

This Pope, for example, is hyper political and very far left. He literally just met with Obama's wingman and then took shots at Trump and then three cardinals followed up on 60 Minutes. It was blatantly political, organized and anti-Trump. And us.

A normal Republican would have said something wishy washy like "Well that's like just his opinion, man." and gotten rolled. Not Trump. He fired right back and helped expose the hypocrisy of a Pope who says almost nothing when Christians and Iranian citizens are slaughtered.

The attempts by the organized left, and Obama is up to his skinny ass in it, to take down Trump are still going on. We are in a fight for western civilization and the time for pinky out politics is over. Don't give a single inch to any of them, not even fake holy men.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2026 08:34 AM (Dwo6u)

151 137 but no way can the courts unroll a Presidential election.

Yep, as we learned in 2020.

Posted by: Delurker at April 16, 2026 08:34 AM (gtcuf)

152 Microwave oven and hand blender.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 16, 2026 08:34 AM (qFwJc)

153 Three fag Cardinals.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 16, 2026 08:35 AM (qFwJc)

154 Is Jane Sanders on the Board of Hampshire College? She has a track record of academic excellence.

Posted by: Down the Tubes at April 16, 2026 08:36 AM (oftw2)

155 “Not only does it keep in place the de facto ban on some of the most common firearms in Virginia, it goes further and appears to create a ban on any firearm that can accept a magazine of more than 15 rounds.

Why do you need a 30 round Magpul?
There a 2 thugs at the door with Glock 19s.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 08:36 AM (/+uur)

156 Is Swallwell the Repulsive anything other than just another Demoncrat?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 16, 2026 08:38 AM (xkBw4)

157 >>I don't view Trump's most controversial statements as a problem. I view them as a means to open the apeture of what can be discussed and where lines get drawn.

This

Trump fights back.
Not always pretty, but he won't ensnared in your Lefty gotcha traps.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 08:38 AM (5xoct)

158 Swalwell is not from San Francisco he was on the city council for some crackerbox suburb in the East bay called Dublin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 08:39 AM (RIvkX)

159 No reason for military action in Cuba. Cuba is no longer a military threat of any kind; they don’t even have the fuel needed to keep any of their fighter planes in the air, if they wanted.

Also their electrical grid goes on and off daily, most of the country is without electricity as a regular matter now. As a result, they’re sinking into a humanitarian crisis that could see mass starvation. If the US were to take military action, we’d suddenly be on the hook for feeding 10 million starving people. Better to stand back and watch them collapse, don't do anything until they beg us for help.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 16, 2026 08:39 AM (yGQJD)

160 I said they only ran that minstrel show idiot in the Texas primary to raise Talarico's national profile and it looks like I was correct.

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2026 08:39 AM (TxYmD)

161 This year, me and Mrs. Dr. Defenestrata received a refund from the federal gov that was 2x anything we've gotten before. This is despite us cutting back already on our withholdings from our paychecks.
But of course, the state of Maine continues to insist that I owe it more than that its taken already.

Posted by: Defenestratus at April 16, 2026 08:40 AM (WYStd)

162 "fercockter"

The dictionary according to JJ Sefton is splendiferous

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 16, 2026 08:41 AM (b11hU)

163 Trump fights back.
Not always pretty, but he won't ensnared in your Lefty gotcha traps.
Posted by: Lizzy

The problem in my eyes is this: He fights back. The media gasps, clutches pearls and says "Well, I NEVER!"

Meanwhile the normal person (Who matters more than the average media type) cheers this on. And rank and file Republicans refuse to follow his example.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 16, 2026 08:41 AM (+4yJ5)

164 >>>Screw those traitorous eggs

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat

>I will have poached eggs, but not the fancy French sauce or Canadian bacon or English muffin.

Screw those namby-pamby NATO deadbeats.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 16, 2026 08:41 AM (Fbc0I)

165 Obviously trying to pry voting Catholics away from Trump.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

The op is to divide Republicans and it is going on from several angles at once.

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2026 08:42 AM (TxYmD)

166 Today he’s roadkill, his name erased from the sign outside his congressional office, vultures feasting on his remains.
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Dems are in full retreat now, trying to protect Gallego from becoming collateral damage. The media will cooperate, and no women are coming forth with horror stories, so the money must be flowing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 16, 2026 08:42 AM (b11hU)

167 Imagine if the Pope met with the heads of the American pro-life organizations then came out and attacked President Biden/Obama about abortion.

How would the FNM, the Dem party, and the left handle this? Probably something like:

"We aren't a theocracy, the Pope doesn't know anything he's an entitled old white guy sticking his nose into our politics. "

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2026 08:42 AM (sKqQm)

168 Speaking of Virginia

>A man killed a woman and then himself in a murder-suicide at the $1 million Virginia home of top former Democrat lawmaker Justin Fairfax.

Daily Mail

Posted by: mr tmz at April 16, 2026 08:43 AM (rJ48h)

169 But of course, the state of Maine continues to insist that I owe it more than that its taken already.
Posted by: Defenestratus

I voted with my feet nearly 40 years ago.

Posted by: NYC Refugee Since 1988! at April 16, 2026 08:43 AM (oftw2)

170 Swalwell has always been a bit weird and dumb.

Could never figure out why he was such a prominent spokesman for the Democrats. Turns out it was because he is such an amoral jerk and liar in his personal life, too.

Scott Adams' assessment was spot on: Democrat Designated Liars - the ones who have no qualms repeating the big lies that normie Democrats (relatively speaking) would be uncomfortable saying on camera.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 08:43 AM (5xoct)

171 The attempts by the organized left, and Obama is up to his skinny ass in it, to take down Trump are still going on. We are in a fight for western civilization and the time for pinky out politics is over. Don't give a single inch to any of them, not even fake holy men.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2026 08:34 AM (Dwo6u)
~~~~~

And this guy just won't quit. Here's what he just said in Cameroon:

"Jesus told us, 'Blessed are the peacemakers,' but woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth."

Of course, only the first line is actually what Jesus said, the rest is leftist crap, and just like the good commie that he is, Leo obfuscates and deliberately misleads.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 16, 2026 08:43 AM (3ImbR)

172 153 Three fag Cardinals.
____

Chicago Cardinal Cupcake Cupich probably, he seems to love the rainbow. The other two I don't know enough about to say one way or another.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 16, 2026 08:43 AM (Dv3i1)

173 "We aren't a theocracy, the Pope doesn't know anything he's an entitled old white guy sticking his nose into our politics. "

That's the translated version. The actual words would be "SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!!!"

Posted by: NR Pax at April 16, 2026 08:43 AM (+4yJ5)

174 Dems are in full retreat now, trying to protect Gallego from becoming collateral damage. The media will cooperate, and no women are coming forth with horror stories, so the money must be flowing.

One of the Dem leaders, probably Steyer, allowed the women to come forward now against Swalwell. It is possible Steyer didn't know Gallego was going to get caught up in this....

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2026 08:43 AM (sKqQm)

175 Spanberger is getting her Maoist credentials solidly in-place in order to win Democrat primaries. Every other contender will have to go even farther left to appeal to the insane Democrat base. That will hurt them in many states, at least enough for Abigail Mao to win a majority of delegates. I believe she's depending on the DNC to eventually clear the primary battlefield for her. If she wins the nomination she'll immediately campaign again as Moderate Mommy Abigail. The Media will be more in love with her than with Obama in 2008, if possible.

Posted by: Gref at April 16, 2026 08:43 AM (5rh/l)

176 ACK shually, internet sez it's spelled 'fakakta'

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 08:44 AM (ZxPkt)

177 Dems are in full retreat now, trying to protect Gallego from becoming collateral damage. The media will cooperate, and no women are coming forth with horror stories, so the money must be flowing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 16, 2026 08:42 AM (b11hU)
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He is just as greasy and gross and guilty as Swallwell.

But if the Party wants him, well fvck his victims then.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 08:44 AM (RIvkX)

178 "Jesus told us, 'Blessed are the peacemakers,' but woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth."

Let's Godwin this guy.

Who was right in the 30s - peacemaker Chamberlain or war proponent Churchill?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2026 08:45 AM (sKqQm)

179 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at April 16, 2026 08:45 AM (53oGX)

180 R. I. P. Joy Harmon - car washing scene in Cool Hand Luke.

IMDb-
Born in Flushing, New York, the impressively endowed Patty Jo Harmon was discovered as a guest on You Bet Your Life (1950) by Groucho Marx and later was invited to work with him on Tell It to Groucho (1961). The TV exposure parlayed into roles in such obscure films as Village of the Giants (1965) and more famous fare like Cool Hand Luke (1967), but she was used mostly for eye candy. With only a handful of television appearances to her name, she made a bigger career as a pin-up girl during the late 1960s and early 1970s, but she ultimately retired from acting to get married and start a family. Baking has always been a favorite pastime and she since started Aunt Joy's Cakes. She first started sharing her treats while working at Disney Studios and runs a wholesale bakery based in Burbank, California.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2026 08:45 AM (ERade)

181 President Donald Trump signaled a willingness Wednesday to extend a hotly debated surveillance tool while also commenting that he would willingly surrender his rights and privileges to do so.
======================
Unless real penalties are paid by the IC scumbags wo misused this law the first six times, why renew it for a seventh? Tailor it some to add protections, extend those to Five Eyes, send a bunch of people to jail or the gallows, and then maybe yes. Until then I cannot understand why it gets renewed for more than about two or three months.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 16, 2026 08:45 AM (b11hU)

182 "Jesus told us, 'Blessed are the peacemakers,' but woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth."
____

And if peace comes to that unholy region because of Trump's leadership and despite Leo's desperate attempt to prevent peace, will Leo concede and credit Trump and the US military? Not likely. Too bad.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 16, 2026 08:46 AM (Dv3i1)

183 USA Today's headline promises an exclusive, and the article says, "Military planning for a possible Pentagon-led operation in Cuba is quietly ramping up, in case President Donald Trump gives an order to intervene there, USA TODAY has learned. Two sources familiar with the order spoke to USA TODAY on condition of anonymity because they're not authorized to speak to media."

hahahaha

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 08:46 AM (/+uur)

184 "Jesus told us, 'Blessed are the peacemakers,' but woe to those who manipulate religion in the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth."

Colt SAA 1873. Blessed are the Peacemakers.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2026 08:46 AM (ERade)

185 The real problem is credentialed people that think they are smart.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 16, 2026 08:47 AM (xvV+O)

186 But now the way it will happen is that it will go into place, a Dem will lose the electoral college but get taken over the top in the national tally by a wave of mail-in California ballot harvesting, and then no one can go to court for it until the Dem is already President. It may be declared unconstitutional, but no way can the courts unroll a Presidential election.
Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at April 16, 2026 08:31 AM (NlEaG)
*******
Yes, this is more likely where the Democrats are going with this because they know the judges and justices will not overturn a presidency.
So how do we get ahead of this before it happens?

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2026 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

187 New Yorkers were opposed to slavery in 1860. Today, not so much.
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Most Northerners had little problem with slavery.

But it was a damned useful excuse to hate the South and feign a moral justification for controlling them.

When it came time to actually fight for those "beliefs," New York City had draft riots.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 16, 2026 08:47 AM (HXT0k)

188 >>One of the Dem leaders, probably Steyer, allowed the women to come forward now against Swalwell. It is possible Steyer didn't know Gallego was going to get caught up in this....

Sleazewell is Pelosi's creature. She made him and protected him. His job was to go after political opponents like Trump. He was never a thought leader or power player.

He outlived his usefulness and threatened control of the Democrate golden goose. I see Pelosi's bony hands all over this hit.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 16, 2026 08:47 AM (Dwo6u)

189 Spanberger is getting her Maoist credentials solidly in-place in order to win Democrat primaries. Every other contender will have to go even farther left to appeal to the insane Democrat base. That will hurt them in many states, at least enough for Abigail Mao to win a majority of delegates. I believe she's depending on the DNC to eventually clear the primary battlefield for her. If she wins the nomination she'll immediately campaign again as Moderate Mommy Abigail. The Media will be more in love with her than with Obama in 2008, if possible.

Posted by: Gref at April 16, 2026 08:43 AM (5rh/l)

She will 100% be on the ticket.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 08:48 AM (FmapG)

190 The real problem is credentialed people that think they are smart.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 16, 2026 08:47 AM (xvV+O)
=====

Why do you hate the disabled?

Posted by: Greasy Gavin Newsom at April 16, 2026 08:48 AM (RIvkX)

191 As with Beto, all of Talarico’s money comes from out of state. Crockett’s loss, and the publicized way the party put its fingers on the scale to boost Talerico have doomed him. Democrats in Texas depend on huge black voter turnout in elections, but this time they’re just going to stay home.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 16, 2026 08:48 AM (yGQJD)

192 Gallego has some woman problems… he’s a sexual jerk? Is this Sen Gallego from AZ? AZ elects the worst senators… what’s up with that?

Remember Jeff Flake?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 08:49 AM (SSHra)

193 > Two sources familiar with the order spoke to USA TODAY on condition of ....

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two guys the author had drinks with

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 08:49 AM (ZxPkt)

194 Right about now, I wish I had the charisma of a Charlie Kirk. If I had a movement of young men that numerous behind me, you can best believe they'd actually "harm millions of people" like Little Miss Ladybitch. They'd wipe that g-ddamned smirk off her face with a gloved fist full of barbed wire.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 16, 2026 08:49 AM (BI5O2)

195 So how do we get ahead of this before it happens?

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2026 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

I don't know that you can.

The entire issue will be decided at SCOTUS, and likely not until after the results of an election have been altered because of it.

And by that point, it's all OBE anyway. One single Dem administration and the whole thing goes up in smoke. The Balkans, Spanish Civil War, et al.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 08:50 AM (FmapG)

196 I don’t see Mao Spanberger as a viable national figure…. Ugly and no charisma not gonna work nationally. She’s a boring party functionary….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 08:51 AM (SSHra)

197 The hits keep coming. Enjoy your Paki rape gangs, losers.

@Polymarket
JUST IN: New analysis reveals Brits thought the UK ranked 7th against US states in income per person — it actually ranked 51st.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 16, 2026 08:51 AM (Dv3i1)

198 >>>Colt SAA 1873. Blessed are the Peacemakers.

Posted by: rickb223

>Amen.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at April 16, 2026 08:51 AM (Fbc0I)

199 Only the Left could celebrate turning the Papacy into a political pissing contest. Who the hell ever wanted that besides the obviously godless?

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2026 08:52 AM (TxYmD)

200 Spanberger is CIA

This should be hung on her neck like a noose.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

201 198
yes

Posted by: MAC V SOG at April 16, 2026 08:53 AM (1Kjow)

202 The weaponization of belief is obvious. You get the Pope to pick a fight with Trump, and suddenly millions of conservative Catholics have to choose between their faith and their vote. - Scott Johnson
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Thanks incorrect. I'm not a RC. and I don't think you have to agree on every political announcement the Pope makes .He's not speaking Ex Cathedra (sp) about religious dogma.What does repenting of sins, believing faithfully in the risen Lord Jesus Christ, desiring by the power of the Holy Spirit, to be transformed as much as possible in this life into the image of Christ by sacraments, Bible study prayer etc have to do with whether you support TRump. The Pope is not the Chief executive of the US

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 16, 2026 08:54 AM (8Xy/A)

203 195 Right about now, I wish I had the charisma of a Charlie Kirk. If I had a movement of young men that numerous behind me, you can best believe they'd actually "harm millions of people" like Little Miss Ladybitch. They'd wipe that g-ddamned smirk off her face with a gloved fist full of barbed wire.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 16, 2026 08:49 AM (BI5O2)

Peterson often states that young men need to be dangerous. Not thugs or criminals but people that can cause an action that stops harms from those that cannot protect themselves.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 08:54 AM (/+uur)

204 Dems are in full retreat now, trying to protect Gallego from becoming collateral damage. The media will cooperate, and no women are coming forth with horror stories, so the money must be flowing.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 16, 2026 08:42 AM (b11hU)

If he transgresses, the women will appear, he'll go away, and redditors will stroke themselves over how noble Democrats are for removing one of their own.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 08:54 AM (ExV1e)

205 Trump won the popular vote beyond the margin of their possible fraud last time. If Vance or whomever is next in line aggressively sticks to Trump's policies, that will continue. It will be hilarious when blue states have to give all their EVs to someone like Trump because they signed this compact.

Posted by: DPICM at April 16, 2026 08:55 AM (zweKz)

206 How is that not illegal in Virginia with the electoral votes?
Supreme Court

Posted by: Gonzotx at April 16, 2026 08:55 AM (nGraA)

207 Spanberger is CIA

This should be hung on her neck like a noose.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

That wouldn't do anything. She literally ran on it. She took the 'law and order' label for herself. She had commercials of her at the gun range, her dad talked about how proud he was of her career at CIA, et al.

Her being CIA was literally central to her campaign.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 08:55 AM (FmapG)

208 SCOTUS won't take a case until it's been adjudicated in a lower court

ipso fact and corpus delecti, somebody could be installed as 'president' via the Popular Vote Compact, and it might not get to SCOTUS until that guy's 2nd term

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 08:55 AM (ZxPkt)

209 Hampshire College closing is just a harbinger of what's coming. Could lose 20% of colleges in the next ten years, mostly Liberal Arts type places. Numbers of recruits is down, men aren't lining up for this crap anymore. Good riddance to useless losers.

Posted by: Up The Academy at April 16, 2026 08:55 AM (oftw2)

210 SOUNDS REASONABLE: The moon’s oldest and darkest craters could be hiding the most water ice. That’s good news for future astronauts.
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They'll be able to enjoy their whiskey with a chunk of moon ice. How cool is that!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 16, 2026 08:56 AM (Dv3i1)

211 > He outlived his usefulness and threatened control of the Democrate golden goose. I see Pelosi's bony hands all over this hit.
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I saw a post earlier (I'll see if I can find it again) that purports Pelosi knew all about Swalwell's proclivities. She knew about his relationship with a Chinese spy and said nothing. It was only when he became a liability to her did she bail. Which sounds about right for Pelosi.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2026 08:56 AM (AkEZC)

212 Her being CIA was literally central to her campaign."

Indeed. It's a factory town...er, state.

Posted by: man at April 16, 2026 08:56 AM (XuXeR)

213 It's the "those darn joos!" guy

He's fercockter.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 08:56 AM (RIvkX)

214 Well, Gallego is a combat vet, Hispanic, from a swing state, and his wife is mayor of Phoenix. High up on the 2028 VP list.

That is finished now, thankfully

Posted by: Jonah at April 16, 2026 08:56 AM (YCxFk)

215 the court has said you can't claim harm until the alleged harm has already occurred

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 08:56 AM (ZxPkt)

216 Only the Left could celebrate turning the Papacy into a political pissing contest. Who the hell ever wanted that besides the obviously godless?

The papacy has definitely been a political office for pretty much its whole existence

BUT

traditionally it was an argument as to who should hold which powers over Christendom - secular but completely Christian rulers, or the Pope.

Between the Red Pope and Pope Kyle though they are using men of questionable Christianity* to demand that Christendom subordinate itself to atheists and Muslims.

*The Red Pope brought in pagans to the Vatican to conduct pagan rituals

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2026 08:56 AM (sKqQm)

217 Trump won the popular vote beyond the margin of their possible fraud last time. If Vance or whomever is next in line aggressively sticks to Trump's policies, that will continue. It will be hilarious when blue states have to give all their EVs to someone like Trump because they signed this compact.

Posted by: DPICM at April 16, 2026 08:55 AM (zweKz)

Nope.

Once the National Popular Vote goes live, states like NY, CA, and IL will have 100% voter participation. There are plenty of ballots there to overturn the votes of the rest of the nation.

Interestingly, that's exactly why there's an Electoral College in the first place...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 08:57 AM (FmapG)

218 I sincerely doubt they plan on running another woman in 2028 unless the full scope of cheat is completely locked and loaded.

As I have said - if by some insanely unlikely miracle "Kamala" is the nominee again take it from me she has the whole thing sewn up. Either the R is a patsy or they have unassailable cheating numbers.

That said, expect it to be a guy. The Democrat Primary is theater. Their voters don't choose any more than the 108% of Iranians who voted for Ahmadinejad.

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2026 08:57 AM (TxYmD)

219 Military planning for a possible Pentagon-led operation in Cuba is quietly ramping up, in case President Donald Trump gives an order to intervene there, USA TODAY has learned.

If we didn't already have a plan in place, someone at the Pentagon needs to be fired. We should have a plan to invade everywhere, just in case. That's why the building is so fucking big.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 08:57 AM (ExV1e)

220
Slotkin is CIA, too. Someone should make a list.

Posted by: Auspex at April 16, 2026 08:57 AM (Y8DZL)

221 I’m no constitutional scholar like preezy Shit Midas but would not you have to have a constitutional convention to change the way we elect a president?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 16, 2026 08:57 AM (xvV+O)

222 Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2026 08:56 AM (sKqQm)

Yes, I think you know that wasn't the sort of politics I was referring to.

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2026 08:58 AM (TxYmD)

223 Peterson often states that young men need to be dangerous. Not thugs or criminals but people that can cause an action that stops harms from those that cannot protect themselves.
Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 08:54 AM (/+uur)

In my Bible reading I ran into this verse yesterday:

The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head. — Proverbs 20:29

Yes, young men have the advantage of physical strength and vitality and should use it productively. Old men have the advantage of wisdom (the grey head)… at least theoretically. Alas, not all men accumulate wisdom as they age

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 08:58 AM (czfTj)

224 Mass immigration to Ireland has destabilized the country. At least one out of every five people living in Ireland is foreign-born, and the real numbers may be one out of four.

Great Replacement anit just a theory

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 08:58 AM (/+uur)

225 It is however the first time he has put NASA’s budget in the context of the entire federal budget, which is badly out of control. Isaacman does not want more money from Congress because he thinks it is bad for the nation to spend itself into debt. He thinks he has enough to do the job.
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I saw him say much the same in an interview with Maria Bartiromo. A very good guy, it seems to me, especially for the job he is in.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 16, 2026 08:59 AM (9DDVk)

226 The real problem is credentialed people that think they are smart.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 16, 2026 08:47 AM (xvV+O)

I have a PhD in "Struggles of Feminism in the Years 150 - 100 BCE" so you should listen to me about global energy markets.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 08:59 AM (ExV1e)

227 Being CIA might sell in VA but I do not think most of the country sees it as a plus.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 08:59 AM (RIvkX)

228 Alas, not all men accumulate wisdom as they age
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I've accumulation in my pants!

Posted by: Joe Biden at April 16, 2026 08:59 AM (Dv3i1)

229 They'll be able to enjoy their whiskey with a chunk of moon ice. How cool is that!
Posted by: Chuck Martel

The water up there has a taste of stinky green cheese. Pass.

Posted by: Larry Limburger at April 16, 2026 09:00 AM (oftw2)

230 It's hard out there for a chimp.

Posted by: Toad-0 at April 16, 2026 09:00 AM (H43OY)

231 LVP thanks

The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head. — Proverbs 20:29

Good to know

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 09:00 AM (/+uur)

232 Once the National Popular Vote goes live, states like NY, CA, and IL will have 100% voter participation. There are plenty of ballots there to overturn the votes of the rest of the nation.

Interestingly, that's exactly why there's an Electoral College in the first place...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 08:57 AM (FmapG)
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Not that anyone will do anything about it, but it's gonna look suspicious when over half the popular vote comes from just three states...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 16, 2026 09:01 AM (gnNyN)

233 My only slight hesitation is knowing how many purple-haired crazies are teachers today

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Libs of TikTok got famous for showing exactly who is in charge of America's children. Total freak show. she is on X of course, but way back then ( a year ago) he was threatened, doxxed, cancelled.

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2026 09:01 AM (GD0B3)

234 The muslim prayer room in the Vatican is far more blasphemous--by a thousand times--than all of the alleged offenses of Trump.

Some liberal dick-gobbling priest was on X defending it because these "scholars" are there for research all day and need a place to pray.

If you want to invite in and accommodate satanic demons in your temple, that's on you.
But don't try and pretend you have some sort of Christian faith then.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 16, 2026 09:01 AM (HXT0k)

235 Alas, not all men accumulate wisdom as they age
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 08:58 AM (czfTj)
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I peaked at 14.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 09:02 AM (RIvkX)

236 @41 Every 500 years or so the Catholic Church needs a good scism scaphism.

Fixed, for The Boats.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 16, 2026 09:02 AM (zdLoL)

237 Hampshire College closing is just a harbinger of what's coming"

It's here. Many degree programs have been cut across the country, and many more are completely indifferent to the demographic collapse of roughly 2008...ish. There just aren't enough bodies to fill the slots.
Everyone has to go to kolledge! (Just like everyone must graduate high school)

Posted by: man at April 16, 2026 09:02 AM (XuXeR)

238 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reported that the United Kingdom’s tax burden is set to reach a peacetime high of 42.1 percent of GDP by 2030, driven by tax hikes orchestrated by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Tending the goatfucker, child rapist, and serial slashers aint cheap

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 09:02 AM (/+uur)

239 I’m no constitutional scholar like preezy Shit Midas but would not you have to have a constitutional convention to change the way we elect a president?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 16, 2026 08:57 AM (xvV+O)

Nope.

The Constitution gives the several States the authority to determine on their own how their elections will take place.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 09:03 AM (FmapG)

240 Everything I don't like is Jewish!

Posted by: Uninteresting but even worse Boring and Repetitive to the point of Obsessession so get the fvck over at April 16, 2026 09:04 AM (RIvkX)

241 Hampshire College closing is just a harbinger of what's coming"

It's here. Many degree programs have been cut across the country, and many more are completely indifferent to the demographic collapse of roughly 2008...ish. There just aren't enough bodies to fill the slots.
Everyone has to go to kolledge! (Just like everyone must graduate high school)
Posted by: man at April 16, 2026 09:02 AM (XuXeR)

Back in the good times, the Before Times, it was, "Everybody must get stoned!"

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 16, 2026 09:04 AM (wVcYX)

242 Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the OR.

Florida doctor charged with manslaughter after removing a man's liver instead of his spleen.

https://is.gd/YDINa4

Trying to understand how this could be done. My first thought was situs inversus, where the positions of the internal organs are right-left reversed. But the autopsy showed an intact spleen in its normal left-sided position. This is simply unfathomable.

Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2026 09:04 AM (qgHp7)

243 Who was right in the 30s - peacemaker Chamberlain or war proponent Churchill?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2026 08:45 AM (sKqQm)

Lets ask "Interesting at April 16, 2026 08:53 AM (jrGN

Posted by: gKWVE at April 16, 2026 09:04 AM (gKWVE)

244 Everything I don't like is Jewish!

Posted by: Uninteresting but even worse Boring and Repetitive to the point of Obsessession so get the fvck over at April 16, 2026 09:04 AM (RIvkX)

The new hit song from Frozen III

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2026 09:05 AM (TxYmD)

245 Posted by: Interesting at April 16, 2026 08:53 AM (jrGN

Whites Creek, TN must be a boring place. Nothing better to do than let your inner retard emerge on this blog?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 16, 2026 09:05 AM (g0MSz)

246 Israeli security forces find SIXTY Palestinians hiding INSIDE GARBAGE TRUCK attempting to infiltrate into Israel.

I would have been tempted to push the BRB

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 09:05 AM (/+uur)

247 My only slight hesitation is knowing how many purple-haired crazies are teachers today"

Thus the population/ demographics quandary...

Posted by: man at April 16, 2026 09:05 AM (XuXeR)

248 Hampshire College closing is just a harbinger of what's coming. Could lose 20% of colleges in the next ten years, mostly Liberal Arts type places. Numbers of recruits is down, men aren't lining up for this crap anymore. Good riddance to useless losers.

Hahaha...good. Another money making scam going down the toilet.

Posted by: Worthless and Overpriced at April 16, 2026 09:05 AM (79nfv)

249 Once the National Popular Vote goes live, states like NY, CA, and IL will have 100% voter participation. There are plenty of ballots there to overturn the votes of the rest of the nation.

Interestingly, that's exactly why there's an Electoral College in the first place...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 08:57 AM (FmapG)

And this is where they can’t see how it will break down quickly. They will claim the Fed government doesn’t have the authority to question state approved vote totals; so what would stop Texas and Florida from each officially submitting 10 Billon votes for the candidate they support?

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 16, 2026 09:05 AM (yGQJD)

250 >>244 Everything I don't like is Jewish!

Hitler is Jewish!

Posted by: Extremely Confused Anti-Semite at April 16, 2026 09:06 AM (NcvvS)

251 Slotkin is CIA, too. Someone should make a list.
Posted by: Auspex at April 16, 2026 08:57 AM (Y8DZL)
~~~~~

DataRepublican is all over it:

@DataRepublican
I already generated a dossier on Spanberger, but the most interesting part of it is that she is part of a cohort of 50+ military-intelligence veterans that have been recruited to run as Democratic candidates starting in 2018. @SomeBitchIIKnow first hypothesized this, but my new dossier pipeline independently captured them.
A Democrat retires. A CIA member takes over.
Spanberger is part of a much deeper, much more disturbing story here.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 16, 2026 09:06 AM (3ImbR)

252 Most Northerners had little problem with slavery.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 16, 2026 08:47 AM (HXT0k)
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A single issue, newly-created political party was able to win the Presidency in 1860, and the north was willing to go into a bloody war over that same issue, so I'd say your unsupported opinion looks a little make-believish. As for draft riots, of course there were. Show me any military draft in history popular with the meat-grinder candidates.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 16, 2026 09:06 AM (BU0oz)

253 Not that anyone will do anything about it, but it's gonna look suspicious when over half the popular vote comes from just three states...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 16, 2026 09:01 AM (gnNyN)

I don't think it would look suspicious at all. That's where the people are. Obviously that's where the votes are going to come from.

The Dems would absolutely own that - Yes, three states decided the election. Because those three states created a majority. Our democracy demands majority rule (but only when we get our way, otherwise, the rights of the minority are paramount).

Then we'll rehash the arguments that created the EC in the first place.

"Tradition" is just a fancy word for 'solutions to problems we've forgotten about.' When you get rid of the solution, the problem comes back.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 09:06 AM (FmapG)

254 First?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 16, 2026 09:07 AM (Dv3i1)

255 ???? All the comments just disappeared! Where are the hamsters??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 09:07 AM (czfTj)

256 Hollandaise is Jewish! poured on a poached egg, salmon and toast.

Posted by: skip the ham tho' at April 16, 2026 09:07 AM (gKWVE)

257 @EricLDaugh

Pete Hegseth FIRES BACK at Joe Kent saying President Trump's Iran policy is foisted on him by Israel

"Nothing gets foisted on President Trump!"

"As someone who, UNLIKE the individual you referenced, is in the presence of the President nearly every day and has been inside every single key meeting that has happened surrounding the idea of Operation Epic Fury — not a SINGLE thing has been foisted upon the President of the United States."

"President Trump makes his own decisions about the interests of this country and defending our interests and then working with allies and partners, in this case Israel who's got a lot of will and a lot of capabilities which we're grateful for."

"So, those people who are not in those meetings who like to say things about that are just flat wrong."

https://tinyurl.com/p8bv8bsa

Posted by: redridinghood at April 16, 2026 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

258 >>This is simply unfathomable.

Either drunk, high, or deliberate.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 16, 2026 09:08 AM (NcvvS)

259 > Slotkin is CIA, too. Someone should make a list.
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Astute readers will recall a couple commenters here referring to a lengthy post on X by the poster called "data republican / small r" In that X post she outlined a CIA "plot" to install some 30+ current and former CIA employees as part of a larger color revolution to realign the US with... some other vision these clowns have.

IMO any current politician who was CIA should be disbarred from ever holding office. As a start. There are likely a bunch of other government positions that should be barred.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2026 09:08 AM (AkEZC)

260 My first thought was situs inversus, where the positions of the internal organs are right-left reversed. But the autopsy showed an intact spleen in its normal left-sided position. This is simply unfathomable.

Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2026 09:04 AM (qgHp7)

Was the patient doinking the doctor's wife?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 09:08 AM (FmapG)

261 Who was right in the 30s - peacemaker Chamberlain or war proponent Churchill?
Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2026 08:45 AM (sKqQm)
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well, Qataralson has made his opinion pretty clear.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 16, 2026 09:08 AM (BU0oz)

262 Unemployed ghey nazis are infesting this site again. Sad.

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2026 09:08 AM (GD0B3)

263 muldoon at April 16, 2026 09:04 AM (qgHp7)

Are you saying a surgeon can't tell the difference between a liver and a spleen?

Posted by: dantesed at April 16, 2026 09:08 AM (Oy/m2)

264 Trying to understand how this could be done. My first thought was situs inversus, where the positions of the internal organs are right-left reversed. But the autopsy showed an intact spleen in its normal left-sided position. This is simply unfathomable.
Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2026 09:04 AM (qgHp7)

I can only guess that the surgeon was on some kind of mind altering narcotics. I am no doctor, certainly not a surgeon, but even I know the difference between a liver and a spleen if I had to look at them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 16, 2026 09:09 AM (yGQJD)

265 In the first-of-its-kind report, 197 cancer patients were treated with The Wellness Company’s U.S. compounded Ivermectin (25 mg) + Mebendazole (250 mg), according to a newly released study from The Wellness Company’s Chief Medical Board and the McCullough Foundation.

Of the 122 patients who completed the 6-month follow-up: 84.4% reported clinical benefit (no evidence of disease, tumor shrinkage, or stable disease)

Ivermectin and its related drugs act by interfering with the nerve and muscle functions of helminths and insects.

Is cancer a type of parasite?

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 09:10 AM (/+uur)

266 @DataRepublican
I already generated a dossier on Spanberger, but the most interesting part of it is that she is part of a cohort of 50+ military-intelligence veterans that have been recruited to run as Democratic candidates starting in 2018. @SomeBitchIIKnow first hypothesized this, but my new dossier pipeline independently captured them.
A Democrat retires. A CIA member takes over.
Spanberger is part of a much deeper, much more disturbing story here.

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ugh

Posted by: runner at April 16, 2026 09:10 AM (GD0B3)

267 Eh... I see IrishEi ?! beat me to it.

It's still an interesting post. Very detailed. With receipts.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2026 09:10 AM (AkEZC)

268 257 ???? All the comments just disappeared! Where are the hamsters??
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 09:07 AM (czfTj)

Psyche! They’re back!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 16, 2026 09:10 AM (yGQJD)

269 I saw Unemployed Ghey Nazis open for Rage Against the Machine at UC Berkeley Commons in '96.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 16, 2026 09:11 AM (Dv3i1)

270 "We aren't a theocracy, the Pope doesn't know anything he's an entitled old white guy sticking his nose into our politics. "

Posted by: 18-1 at April 16, 2026 08:42 AM (sKqQm)
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I like this! PDJT should take your advice, and maybe add the Pope is anti-abortion (even if he isn't) and Democrat women should particularly stand against the Pope. Maybe wear their Handmaids outfits...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 16, 2026 09:11 AM (/IDZu)

271 I'm sorta partial to Tradition! myself.

Posted by: Tevye at April 16, 2026 09:11 AM (wVcYX)

272 Maybe the internal organs should have labels on them to help the doctors.

Posted by: dantesed at April 16, 2026 09:12 AM (Oy/m2)

273 Tending the goatfucker, child rapist, and serial slashers aint cheap"

Never was. Bunch of us were watching the "last tent" episode of The Grand Tour a few years back, and James May casually mentioned that a 3,000 pound income would have nearly half taken in taxes ...

Posted by: man at April 16, 2026 09:12 AM (XuXeR)

274 Israeli security forces find SIXTY Palestinians hiding INSIDE GARBAGE TRUCK attempting to infiltrate into Israel.

I would have been tempted to push the BRB
Posted by: r hennigantx

I watched the video of them unloading the palis.
Should have just dropped a grenade or two in it.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2026 09:12 AM (ERade)

275 Interesting story from SDA:

Did Viktor Orbán Just Play the EU?

https://tinyurl.com/yrvff8wx

This is just too good to be true.

Posted by: pawn at April 16, 2026 09:12 AM (qVdj1)

276 I think it was secession more than slavery that pissed most Northerners off.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2026 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

277 271 I saw Unemployed Ghey Nazis open for Rage Against the Machine at UC Berkeley Commons in '96.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 16, 2026 09:11 AM (Dv3i1)

I love their cover of Springtime for Hitler

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 09:12 AM (/+uur)

278 Unlike Swalwell, Gallego might be staying out of Penn State after all.
The Senator is headed to FEDERAL prison. He used campaign funds for his 2021 wedding in Puerto Rico.
Well, at least Canon City has a nice view

Posted by: gKWVE at April 16, 2026 09:12 AM (gKWVE)

279 Should have just dropped a grenade or two in it.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2026 09:12 AM (ERade)

Throwing away a perfectly good white boy

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 09:13 AM (/+uur)

280 Made out like a bandit this year. The No Tax On Tips made all the difference!

Posted by: The Wealthy Mohel at April 16, 2026 09:13 AM (oftw2)

281 My first thought was situs inversus, where the positions of the internal organs are right-left reversed. But the autopsy showed an intact spleen in its normal left-sided position. This is simply unfathomable.

Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2026 09:04 AM (qgHp7)

The nurse held the instruction picture book upside down! It wasn't my fault!

Posted by: FL Surgeon Doctor Person at April 16, 2026 09:14 AM (wVcYX)

282 You know how we need a 20+ year moratorium on immigration to actually fix the problems?

We need the same on women teachers in public schools.
Flush out all the College of Ed grads; any 4-year degree meets the minimum qualifications; no new women hires for 20 years.
Restore men as equally necessary in the education of children.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 16, 2026 09:14 AM (HXT0k)

283 When you get rid of the solution, the problem comes back"

The Gods of the Copybook Headings...

Posted by: man at April 16, 2026 09:14 AM (XuXeR)

284 273 — Patent nonsense

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 09:15 AM (czfTj)

285 It's still an interesting post. Very detailed. With receipts.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2026 09:10 AM (AkEZC)
~~~~~

It is. @DataRepublican is a treasure. I should have posted the link. Here's one:

https://tinyurl.com/bddy7uun

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 16, 2026 09:15 AM (3ImbR)

286 > R. I. P. Joy Harmon - car washing scene in Cool Hand Luke.

That scene and the Jane Fonda (piss be upon her, They Shoot Traitors, Don't They) getting naked scene in her fur-lined spaceship in Barbarella went a long way toward making Young Rodrigo into a man.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 16, 2026 09:13 AM (IG3/x)

*fist bump*

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 16, 2026 09:15 AM (wVcYX)

287 287 — the 273 to which I referred was removed (thank you moderators) so ignore my 287

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 09:16 AM (czfTj)

288 I’m no constitutional scholar like preezy Shit Midas but would not you have to have a constitutional convention to change the way we elect a president?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at April 16, 2026 08:57 AM (xvV+O)

Nope.

The Constitution gives the several States the authority to determine on their own how their elections will take place.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 09:03 AM (FmapG)

Further, the Constitution does not require that states hold an election for President. The EC votes are assigned in whatever manner the Legislature decides.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 09:16 AM (ExV1e)

289 IIRC, wayyyyy back with the 2016 John Podesta email hack, there were emails between him and another Hillary insider discussing how to create a split within the Catholic church.

This plan to infiltrate and manipulate various denominations (I'm thinking about how Evangelical leaders have also gone woke recently) has been in the works for years.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 09:17 AM (5xoct)

290 IC, LE, and military officers are an automatic "no" for me. These institutions are shot through with enemy infiltrators.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 16, 2026 09:17 AM (BI5O2)

291 Bulg, there was also the Dred Scott decision.
Northern farmers disliked the idea of Southerners flocking north no matter how the North had voted, and cutting down prices by the novel expedient of "not paying the staff". Free State? How quaint! Take it up with the Federal judiciary.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 16, 2026 09:17 AM (gKWVE)

292 No comment.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 16, 2026 09:17 AM (DgMqy)

293 Throwing away a perfectly good white boy
Posted by: r hennigantx

I know that joke.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 16, 2026 09:17 AM (ERade)

294 Trump could solve this by prioritizing a ballroom, renaming more buildings after himself , mocking a few more deaths on Truth Social and threatening to invade Greenland unless a Venezuelan opposition leader gives him her Nobel Peace prize. I can’t imagine how the crossover voters that trusted him with the economy could possibly go back, right?

Posted by: Shumway at April 16, 2026 09:18 AM (2kwtl)

295 Are you saying a surgeon can't tell the difference between a liver and a spleen?
Posted by: dantesed

*********

I'm sure saying THAT surgeon couldn't. A first year medical student wouldn't make that mistake. It sounded like somebody in the OR questioned it at the time and the surgeon insisted it was the spleen. He's not a foreign medical graduate, though he was a D.O. instead of an M.D.

Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2026 09:18 AM (qgHp7)

296 290 287 — the 273 to which I referred was removed (thank you moderators) so ignore my 287
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 09:16 AM (czfTj)

I was told there would be no maths.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 16, 2026 09:19 AM (/+uur)

297 I got exactly what I voted for with Spanberger. I’m a single issue voter in state level politics. Minimum wage. To my great happiness it’s finally happening! I got EXACTLY what I voted for. First politician I’ve ever voted for to do what I want. 10/10 will vote blue again next governors election.

Restorative justice according to every credible theorist should be victim centered. If the victim wants to make amends, that’s great. If the victim just wants the perpetrator to stay the f*ck away, make sure the offender stays away.

It’s so sad that we’ve lost the plot here. It makes a mockery of a truly invaluable practice.

Larry Sabato said Gov. Spanberger's drop-off in voter approval is “stunning” months into her first term at the helm of the Old Dominion State.

Her approval rating sat at 47 percent...13 percentage points below the average for Virginia governors since 1990.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 16, 2026 09:19 AM (JCZqz)

298 I'm thankful that I got to come out as straight for Princess Aura in Flash Gordon, rather than for Jane Fonda.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 16, 2026 09:19 AM (gKWVE)

299 Posted by: Shumway at April 16, 2026 09:18 AM (2kwtl)

That's a lot of pearls to clutch at once. You've got a bright future as a jewel thief.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 16, 2026 09:19 AM (BI5O2)

300 Hmm...I definitely did not have chimp civil war in my 2026 Bingo card.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 16, 2026 09:20 AM (kgE5c)

301 Restore men as equally necessary in the education of children.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 16, 2026 09:14 AM (HXT0k)

I've learned right here in the Ace of Spades comments that men only want to be teachers to get access to children.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 09:21 AM (FmapG)

302 he was a D.O. instead of an M.D.

Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2026 09:18 AM (qgHp7)

Which reinforces my own rule never to be treated by an Osteopath.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 16, 2026 09:21 AM (g0MSz)

303 I'm sorta partial to Tradition! myself.
Posted by: Tevye at April 16, 2026 09:11 AM (wVcYX)

IIRC, you let women (your daughters) browbeat you into ignoring it, though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 09:21 AM (ExV1e)

304 Jane Goodall documented how chimps were fighting wars a while ago.

Posted by: and then the chimps taught her how to fling poo at April 16, 2026 09:21 AM (gKWVE)

305 Trying to understand how this could be done. My first thought was situs inversus, where the positions of the internal organs are right-left reversed. But the autopsy showed an intact spleen in its normal left-sided position. This is simply unfathomable.
Posted by: muldoon at April 16, 2026 09:04 AM (qgHp7)

This limerick needs some work.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at April 16, 2026 09:22 AM (NlEaG)

306 *This year* there were puzzling TurboTax questions on simple retirement funds, same ones as last year. I sent the forms in and hoped for the best

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 16, 2026 09:22 AM (vnmN0)

307 Larry Sabato said Gov. Spanberger's drop-off in voter approval is “stunning” months into her first term at the helm of the Old Dominion State.

Her approval rating sat at 47 percent...13 percentage points below the average for Virginia governors since 1990.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 16, 2026 09:19 AM (JCZqz)

And also completely irrelevant. The voters aren't necessary anymore. She can do whatever she wants.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 09:23 AM (FmapG)

308 > Jane Goodall documented how chimps were fighting wars a while ago.
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Might make a good movie plot too....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2026 09:23 AM (AkEZC)

309 277 Interesting story from SDA:

Did Viktor Orbán Just Play the EU?

https://tinyurl.com/yrvff8wx

This is just too good to be true.
Posted by: pawn at April 16, 2026 09:12 AM (qVdj1)

I have been wondering why the left was cheering - I could never find any direct quotes from Magyar indicating that he supported Eutotrash goals. Also 16 years in power is long enough for any man, it was time for Orban to retire.

So not completely surprised that the Left’s spin turns out to be all hype.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 16, 2026 09:23 AM (yGQJD)

310 We need the same on women teachers in public schools.
Flush out all the College of Ed grads; any 4-year degree meets the minimum qualifications; no new women hires for 20 years.
Restore men as equally necessary in the education of children.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 16, 2026 09:14 AM (HXT0k)

Why do you need a college degree to teach elementary school?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 09:24 AM (ExV1e)

311 Spanberger's approval rating doesn't mean much. She cannot be re-elected.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at April 16, 2026 09:24 AM (NlEaG)

312 Men have never been equal to women in the education of children. Children spend most of their time with women.

We need to put women back under the authority of men, as G-d's nature intends.

That would solve a lot of problems - not least of which is education.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 16, 2026 09:24 AM (BI5O2)

313 You know who else wanted a Chimp Civil War?

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2026 09:24 AM (TxYmD)

314 Speaking of Virginia

>A man killed a woman and then himself in a murder-suicide at the $1 million Virginia home of top former Democrat lawmaker Justin Fairfax.

Daily Mail

Posted by: mr tmz at April 16, 2026 08:43 AM (rJ48h)

Police have confirmed Justin Fairfax shot his wife before turning the gun on himself. His son called 911. He was Ralph Northam's Lt Gov; his own run for governor was scuttled after sexual assault allegations were made against him.

Posted by: Vendette at April 16, 2026 09:24 AM (PrsTH)

315 Restore men as equally necessary in the education of children.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 16, 2026 09:14 AM (HXT0k)

I've learned right here in the Ace of Spades comments that men only want to be teachers to get access to children.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 09:21 AM (FmapG)

Then homeschool them

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 16, 2026 09:24 AM (vnmN0)

316 >>Spanberger is part of a much deeper, much more disturbing story here.

Yup.

Something interesting I read on X (so fact check me?): Spanberger and the new NJ governor (Navy intelligence?) were once roommates. Spanberger is from NJ and now governor of VA. Mikie Sherrill grew up in VA, now gov of NJ.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 09:25 AM (5xoct)

317 313 You know who else wanted a Chimp Civil War?
Posted by: ...

Big banana?

Posted by: Confused Moron at April 16, 2026 09:25 AM (JCZqz)

318 "A man killed a woman and then himself in a murder-suicide at the $1 million Virginia home of top former Democrat lawmaker Justin Fairfax. "
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I'll take intentionally confusing news reports for $500 Alex

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2026 09:26 AM (TxYmD)

319 Laura Ingalls was teaching at the age of 17. If you believe her hyper-libertarian daughter Rose.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 16, 2026 09:26 AM (gKWVE)

320
308 > Jane Goodall documented how chimps were fighting wars a while ago.
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Might make a good movie plot too....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 16, 2026 09:23 AM (AkEZC)

I’m sick of stories about Barack and Michelle’s home life.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 16, 2026 09:26 AM (yGQJD)

321 I’m a single issue voter in state level politics. Minimum wage.

Hmmm... are you a union member who gets paid a multiple of the minimum wage, or an economic illiterate who thinks that raising the minimum wage benefits the people making that?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 09:27 AM (ExV1e)

322 313 You know who else wanted a Chimp Civil War?
Posted by: ... at April 16, 2026 09:24 AM (TxYmD)

Jews?

Posted by: gKWVE at April 16, 2026 09:27 AM (gKWVE)

323 I'm hoping Spanberger's abrupt change from self-proclaimed moderate to actual radical Leftist will scare Iowa voters thinking of voting for Dem Rob Sand in the upcoming governor's race.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at April 16, 2026 09:27 AM (JCZqz)

324 If the victim just wants the perpetrator to stay the f*ck away, make sure the offender stays away.

Yeah, that'll work.

"Stay away! Or, I'll yell Stay Aaway again!"

Posted by: Delurker at April 16, 2026 09:27 AM (gtcuf)

325 Something interesting I read on X (so fact check me?): Spanberger and the new NJ governor (Navy intelligence?) were once roommates. Spanberger is from NJ and now governor of VA. Mikie Sherrill grew up in VA, now gov of NJ.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 09:25 AM (5xoct)

This is true.

They lived together for several years on Capitol Hill.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 09:28 AM (FmapG)

326 - Wisdom

Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Jeremiah 8:9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

Posted by: TeeJ at April 16, 2026 09:28 AM (EcT7r)

327 313 You know who else wanted a Chimp Civil War?
Posted by: ... at April 16, 2026 09:24 AM (TxYmD)

.... Charlton Heston?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 16, 2026 09:28 AM (Ot/FD)

328 Wow found the real story:

“Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife and then turned the gun on himself in an apparent murder-suicide in their home in Annandale, Virginia, police said Thursday.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 16, 2026 09:28 AM (yGQJD)

329 The Constitution says that states may not enter into compacts- that's the word in the text, 'compacts'- with other states

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 09:28 AM (ZxPkt)

330 What happened to Rodrigo Borgia's comment?

Posted by: Nazdar at April 16, 2026 09:29 AM (NcvvS)

331 Trump at war with the Catholic Church. That’s gotta be great for mid term prospects.

Posted by: Make it end at April 16, 2026 09:29 AM (Qf50x)

332 The Constitution says that states may not enter into compacts- that's the word in the text, 'compacts'- with other states
Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 09:28 AM (ZxPkt)

This isn't about travel makeup. -- 'Justice' Jackson

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 16, 2026 09:30 AM (ExV1e)

333 Trump at war with the Catholic Church. That’s gotta be great for mid term prospects.
Posted by: Make it end at April 16, 2026 09:29 AM (Qf50x)

Don't go getting your buns all askew....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 16, 2026 09:30 AM (Ot/FD)

334 >>Restorative justice according to every credible theorist should be victim centered. If the victim wants to make amends, that’s great. If the victim just wants the perpetrator to stay the f*ck away, make sure the offender stays away.

Uh, no, that's not how justice works - the victim doesn't get to decide the level of prosecution, penalty if found guilty. For example, just ask anyone who's dealt with domestic abuse cases how well the above described "victim centered" approach would work out.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 09:30 AM (5xoct)

335 Clarifying: previous comment.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 16, 2026 09:30 AM (NcvvS)

336 The Constitution says that states may not enter into compacts- that's the word in the text, 'compacts'- with other states

Posted by: Don Black at April 16, 2026 09:28 AM (ZxPkt)

It does. It also says the States can hold elections however they want and apportion their electors however they want.

That's why it'll end up at SCOTUS, but not until after a presidential election has been overturned -- at which point it's too late.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at April 16, 2026 09:30 AM (FmapG)

337 NOOD art

Posted by: Delurker at April 16, 2026 09:31 AM (gtcuf)

338 I don't view Trump's most controversial statements as a problem. I view them as a means to open the apeture of what can be discussed and where lines get drawn.

His statements often overshoot where he wants to end up and then he seems more reasonable when he says what he actually wants. It's as if the guy was known for making deals and wrote a book about it.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 16, 2026 09:31 AM (C/4uM)

339 NOOD. Waterfowl.

Posted by: Bulg at April 16, 2026 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

340 Hmm. Previous 2 comments, now.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 16, 2026 09:31 AM (NcvvS)

341 how well the above described "victim centered" approach would work out.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 09:30 AM (5xoct)

At its extreme, that theory means that all murder is legal. Dead people can't press charges.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 16, 2026 09:32 AM (Ot/FD)

342 Yep. That's 3, RB.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 16, 2026 09:33 AM (NcvvS)

343 >>At its extreme, that theory means that all murder is legal. Dead people can't press charges.

Ugh, yes. Also thinking about insular groups, where a victim would be pressured to go easy on a perpetrator to protect the family/community/institution.

These people want to destroy what has been our superior justice system with more primitive, relative and highly exploitable approaches. The erosion that's already taken place (e.g. crazy judges) is bad enough!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 16, 2026 09:36 AM (5xoct)

344 Spanberger will get her gerrymander no matter her approval ratings. An electorate is calibrated to punish an asshole in the Oval Office. Stupid as that is, it’s a fact.

So it would be a good idea to dial back on “asshole.”

Never mind. We’re fucked.

Posted by: Shumway at April 16, 2026 09:36 AM (2kwtl)

345 If she wins the nomination she'll immediately campaign again as Moderate Mommy Abigail. The Media will be more in love with her than with Obama in 2008, if possible.
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I never feared Hillary.
Evil, cold, calculating? Yes. But she also knew power came from voters. She still saw herself as part of the Party.

Spanberger? That bitch is demonic. Just looking at her makes my skin crawl.
She's the type that would lament to the Bitch of Buchenwald, in that those lampshades are nice but the set doesn't perfectly match.
And she would see to the tattooing the Republicans in her camps to ensure matching sets are for sale.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 16, 2026 09:37 AM (HXT0k)

346 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 16, 2026 09:37 AM (HXT0k)

I always felt that from Crazy Maizie. Like she couldn't wait to pave over all the skulls

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2026 09:40 AM (TxYmD)

347 Hopefully, Trump will keep his mouth shut about the Virginia vote.

But he won’t. He’s got an amazing track record of mobilizing the opposition. He practically elected Mark Carney with his 51st state bullshit. Trump didn’t like the other guy because he didn’t fellate him.

Posted by: Shumway at April 16, 2026 09:40 AM (2kwtl)

348 Made out like a bandit this year. The No Tax On Tips made all the difference!
Posted by: The Wealthy Mohel at April 16, 2026 09:13 AM (oftw2)
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Ha!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 16, 2026 09:41 AM (RIvkX)

349 Yeah it's Trump's fault the Republicans who won't do a thing they promise their voters and spend most of their time telling us how great Democrats are and how mean conservatives are can't win elections.

Posted by: ... at April 16, 2026 09:43 AM (TxYmD)

350 CNBC -- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is preparing banks to collect citizenship data

Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2026 09:44 AM (RHGPo)

351 322 313 You know who else wanted a Chimp Civil War?
Posted by: ... at April 16, 2026 09:24 AM (TxYmD)

Jews?

Posted by: gKWVE at April 16, 2026 09:27 AM (gKWVE)

More truth to that comment than CBD would like people to know.

Posted by: Sin o Gog of Satan at April 16, 2026 09:48 AM (H4cxe)

352 The annual festival of Songkran usually signifies a dazzling week-long celebration — but this year’s death toll paints a picture that’s anything but. While the Thai holiday is globally famous for being the “world’s largest water fight,” the reality on the ground is a horrific cycle of road accidents, drunk driving and reckless behavior. In the first three days of Songkran this year, more than 191 deaths have been recorded with 951 accidents and 911 injuries.

Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2026 09:48 AM (RHGPo)

353 Spanberger will get her gerrymander no matter her approval ratings. An electorate is calibrated to punish an asshole in the Oval Office. Stupid as that is, it’s a fact.

It's adorable that post-2020 you still believe elections aren't fake and gay.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 16, 2026 09:49 AM (2ocoG)

354 Murder-suicide at $1m Virginia home of Democrat, former Lt Governor Justin Fairfax and wife sees man kill woman then himself

... apparently, Governor "Spook" Spanberger was just too much

Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2026 09:50 AM (RHGPo)

355 Democrat Rep. Bonnie Coleman called for President Trump to be "ELIMINATED"

Expel her from office NOW.

"If we wanted to eliminate abuse and fraud, we'd eliminate the PRESIDENT of the United States from the office right now, and the REST of the sycophants in his administration!"

Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2026 09:52 AM (RHGPo)

356 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Something stinks.

Open Secrets: Remedy Pac is a Leadership PAC affiliated with Eric Swalwell (D-Calif).

Designed to support Democratic candidates, mobilize voters, and train grassroots activists to secure Democratic majorities in the U.S. House and Senate. It focuses on electing candidates who aim to strengthen the middle class and improve representation. (The training academy website has been shutdown, but "Eric Stalwell & his Remedy Team! provide 1st class training..")

Federal Election Committee data: REMEDY PAC
Active - Monthly PAC - Qualified - Leadership PAC ID: C00566059 Registration date: July 16, 2014
Financial summaries for two year periods

NOTUS org: Former Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Republican from Texas, had more than $327,000 in his campaign’s coffers at the end of March, according to the campaign’s latest report to the Federal Election Commission. His leadership PAC, the Honor Courage Commitment PAC, had more than $208,000 in cash on hand at the end of February.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 16, 2026 09:52 AM (NFX2v)

357 The House campaign committee of former Rep. Eric Swalwell, a Democrat from California, had more than $288,600 in cash on hand. His leadership PAC, Remedy PAC, had more than $32,000.
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So Swalwell was "winding down costs" well before his 'resignation' from the House.

>fec dot gov/ help-candidates-and-committees: Winding down costs

>The House Ethics Committee could technically proceed with a investigation, though this is rare once a member has departed, as the primary purpose of the committee is to discipline sitting members. However, he is not beyond the reach of criminal justice or civil legal action.

>KTVU Fox: Apr. 13, 2026, Eric Swalwell resigns from Congress: What happens next?

In part, Under California law, the governor is responsible for calling a special election within 14 calendar days of a vacancy.

Once Newsom issues the formal proclamation, a special election must be held between 126 and 140 days later. However, because the vacancy occurs near the June 2 primary and Swalwell was not seeking reelection to his House seat, Newsom may have the discretion to skip a standalone special election.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 16, 2026 09:52 AM (NFX2v)

358 >FOX News, Apr 15, 2026, 'Gavin Newsom sets August 2026 special election to fill Eric Swalwell's vacant congressional seat'

>Remember, "Congress Terrorized and Trapped in Capitol Riots Sues Trump." Courthouse News Service, March 5, 2021

The complaint comes from California Congressman Eric Swalwell, who had been a House Impeachment manager in Trump's Senate trial.

"A Dec. 26, 2020, tweet from then-President Donald Trump calls on supporters to fight for him on Jan. 6. Including the post in a March 5 complaint, Congressman Swalwell says that is just what happened in the storming of the Capitol building."

>Swalwell v. Trump: Representative Eric Swalwell sued Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and Rep. Mo Brooks, alleging they made false fraud claims and incited the violent mob that attacked the Capitol.

>Facebook Eric Swalwell
March 31
BREAKING NEWS: In my lawsuit, a court ruled Trump must face trial for January 6th. This is justice for the officers who defended our Capitol. A jury will decide.

Alleged violations of civil rights (Ku Klux Klan Act), negligence & inciting violence.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 16, 2026 09:52 AM (NFX2v)

359
Positives about muzzie prayer rooms in Catholic Churches:

1. They won't be in such a hurry to burn the place down.

2. Weapon storage in a safe, out of the house location.

3. Nice Persian rugs so the alter boys won't skin thier knees.

Posted by: Auspex at April 16, 2026 09:53 AM (Y8DZL)

360 Dems file 6 impeachment articles against Hegseth

Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2026 09:53 AM (RHGPo)

361 Gov. Mikie Sherrill demands FIFA foot the bill for World Cup transportation after reports NJ Transit (a state agency) could inflate train tickets by 775%

Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2026 09:56 AM (RHGPo)

362 A European-led mission to clear the Strait of Hormuz and keep it open for global oil traffic is being spun as a snub to President Donald Trump, despite it being exactly what the American leader has been asking for allies to step up and do for weeks.

Britain Will Send Minesweepers to Strait of Hormuz, Says Starmer, But Not Yet

Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2026 09:58 AM (RHGPo)

363 “For now, 10 years, every day for 10 years, I have been bullied and attacked. And I was the most trolled person in the entire world,” Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, despaired.

Trump: hold my Diet-Coke

Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2026 10:01 AM (RHGPo)

364 Trump needs the DOJ on top of this immediately

Posted by: Gonzotx at April 16, 2026 10:03 AM (nGraA)

365 354 Murder-suicide at $1m Virginia home of Democrat, former Lt Governor Justin Fairfax and wife sees man kill woman then himself

... apparently, Governor "Spook" Spanberger was just too much
Posted by: SMOD at April 16, 2026 09:50 AM (RHGPo)
Lord have mercy.

Posted by: Eromero at April 16, 2026 10:15 AM (LHPAg)

366 And something else... (356, 357, 35

Thompson and Swalwell, in distinct legal action, filed suits under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.

👉Rep. Bennie Thompson WITHDREW TO AVOID A CONFLICT OF INTEREST after being named Chairman of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack.

Other members of Congress continued in a related lawsuit (later known as Lee v. Trump) now led by Democratic Representative Barbara Lee (later AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN) & represented by the ACLU, with NAACP support.) Note: Emphasis mine.

And Swalwell, who served as a House impeachment manager in 2021, proceeded with his own lawsuit but, suddenly, he's also a private citizen.

And there's more:
Smith v. Trump (1:21-cv-02265) a civil lawsuit filed in the District of Columbia by U.S. Capitol Police officers against Donald Trump, his 2020 campaign, and extremist groups.

There are seven officers, five of which were Black, listed in the lawsuit who, collectively, “have dedicated more than 150 years” to protecting Congress. (Both racial slurs & physical assault has been alleged.)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 16, 2026 10:42 AM (NFX2v)

367 have

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 16, 2026 10:44 AM (NFX2v)

368 ...erected by former Islamic-Socialist terrorist dictator Houari Boumédiène who had headed the ALN, one of whose specialties was the “Smile of Kabylie” in which the tongue was pulled through a slit throat

Also called a Columbian necktie...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 16, 2026 11:17 AM (ynpvh)

369 Your method of describing everything in this article is really fastidious,
every one be capable of easily be aware of it, Thanks a lot.

Posted by: hh3d at April 16, 2026 11:26 AM (bwbaZ)

370 THIRTEEN electoral votes!!!!!!11!11
BWAHAHAHA

Posted by: Count DNC at April 16, 2026 11:52 AM (KtOUo)

371 Of course, CIA Barbie has gone all in on gun control. As an almost inviolable rule, elected and public official.are for gun control to one degree or another because they fear, with at least a small.amount of justification, political.assassination. Spanberger's stint in the CIA showed her how powerful a 9mm veto could be, and now, with her ass out front, that fact has become deeply personal.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 16, 2026 12:38 PM (i3DU8)

372 Lizzy--Trump fights back.
"Not always pretty, but he won't ensnared in your Lefty gotcha traps."

he just got ensnared in a plot to fracture the Catholic vote. And 100 percent of the energy for this success was to use Trump's fragile ego against him.

Trump in office is the greatest gift the left ever had. We had a good run, but Dennis Miller was right; the minute Trump won, the left ultimate did by extension. Every move he makes is countered in spades. Great job pressuring Abbot for a few more seats. California dn Virginia saw your bet and upped the ante.

We're toast. January 2029, it over. Hopefully I've talked my daughter out of having kids, because what's coming will never be reversed.

Posted by: Marley's Ghost at April 16, 2026 12:43 PM (uxXx0)

373 57 52 Threats to the electoral college are very serious IMO. The Dems wanna end it and if they succeed it’ll be very hard for the GOP to ever win the presidency…. Because CA and NY can roll up huge vote totals in their column that are fake using mail-in ballots cheating…. I’m not a lawyer but I wonder if this VA move (our EVs go to the national popular vote winner) is even constitutional?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at April 16, 2026 07:56 AM (SSHra)

None of it is likely constitutional, but no one has brought up a challenge yet, at least to the Supreme Court, probably b/c it hasn't come into play yet...

I think they base constitutionality on a constitutional provision which allows "interstate compacts" among the States. I've seen law review articles advocating it. The unanswered question is whether the states can unravel the US Constitution by interstate compacts. My answer would be no. This ploy is meant to create chaos and enhance cheating. Imagine you live in a state which votes for an R prez, but electoral votes go D in popular vote due to cheating in another state. Do you have standing to even challenge the result in the other state?

Posted by: Mr. Barky at April 16, 2026 01:06 PM (vnzIL)

374 If the popular vote compact becomes effective, watch for some red states to choose electors in some other manner, most likely by the state legislature. The Constitution does not provide for popular vote for presidential electors; only that they be chosen "in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct" (Article II, Section 1).

Posted by: Flakey Foont at April 16, 2026 02:49 PM (kvDvI)

375 In high school our assistant principal was a retired Marine Corps major.
Capitol punishment was still en vogue.
When he broke "The Paddle" while vigorously applying it to.the butt of a male factor the woodshop class took great joy in building him a new one with a core of aluminum laminated between two pieces of maple using epoxy.

The next year they eliminated The Paddle and they eliminated the dress code and boxing in PE.
Woodstock and the moon landing were two years prior.
Thinks have been downhill ever since.

Posted by: waepnedmann at April 16, 2026 04:12 PM (qGgDN)

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