Dr. Oz: Minnesota is <i>Still</i> Refusing to Turn Over Evidence of Their Looting of the American Treasury

Dr. Oz: Minnesota is Still Refusing to Turn Over Evidence of Their Looting of the American Treasury

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
🚨 NOW: Dr. Oz confirms Minnesota is STILL NOT COOPERATING with federal anti-fraud efforts, despite over $350 MILLION in federal funding being withheld
Clearly we need to be withholding EVERY PENNY then.
I'm so sick of being scammed by Walz and his Somalis.

Vance trumpeted the news:

JD Vance
@JDVance
14h
Today, the task force and the DOJ announced a massive take down of two of the largest Medicaid fraud cases in Minnesota state history, as well as the largest autism fraud scheme ever charged by the federal government. Our message is simple: if you're committing fraud, we will find you, and we won't rest until justice is served.

🚨 NOW: Dr. Oz confirms Minnesota is STILL NOT COOPERATING with federal anti-fraud efforts, despite over $350 MILLION in federal funding being withheld

Clearly we need to be withholding EVERY PENNY then.

I'm so sick of being scammed by Walz and his Somalis. pic.twitter.com/v6dToo1xOa
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 21, 2026

And now they're busting the largely-Somali defrauding of Americans for "autism" services:

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Health Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces the LARGEST autism fraud bust in US HISTORY in Minnesota

Initial cost: $38M
Cost this year: $442 MILLION.

"This was organized theft that EXPLOITED the most vulnerable children in America!"

Lay the hammer on these… pic.twitter.com/fGaRSA7QV9
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 21, 2026

Correct: We had a high-trust society before alien tribalists came in to exploit that trust and pillage from us:

"All of our social programs were built for a high-trust society… That social trust has become diminished."

From the DOJ's $90M fraud bust in MN: pic.twitter.com/QqHRKquNrw
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 21, 2026

They caught the Somali pirate who jumped from a fourth story roof to avoid capture:

BREAKING: Muhammad Abdulqadir Omar, one of the Medicaid fraudsters in Minnesota who was recently indicted for stealing $3.3M, was caught and arrested after he attempted to FLEE from the FBI.

Footage captures Omar limping away during his attempted escape after he jumped from a… pic.twitter.com/PXLxaywNY3
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 21, 2026

This isn't an aberration: Looting the country is the Democrat agenda.

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 OMG. Trump SBA chief Kelly Loeffler just revealed the Biden admin ORDERED their staff to ignore the US Treasury's "do not pay list" for grants -- and 70% WERE FLAGGED FOR FRAUD.
"That's how $14 BILLION got out the door so quickly!" 🤯
"They ordered SBA employees to take 4 hours per applicant and not any more."
This is criminal.
"Then we come to find out in the GAO report that 70 percent of it was fraudulent!"
"Now we, from day one at the SBA, have come in with a zero-tolerance policy on fraud. And so we began cracking down on it right away."
"We've already sent out 1,000 demand letters demanding that those who took the money -- now these were not loans. These were grants. These were the federal government writing checks of taxpayer money!" @RapidResponse47

They LEGALIZED FRAUD.

Their only ambition is plunder:

Judge Glock
@judgeglock
California high-speed rail cost now up to $231 billion. That means the average worker in the state will pay out over $12,000 to fund a single project that almost no one will ride.
CA rail will be studied for generations, a truly once-in-a-lifetime level of government failure.

Ron DeSantis
@RonDeSantis
Is this $200+ billion dollar "high-speed" rail a policy failure? Of course.
But if the goal was simply to commandeer tax dollars for distribution to politically-connected constituencies then I'd imagine those with that goal are probably quite pleased.

Flashback: Ilhan "Omar" declared that the Real Victims of fraud were the Somalis themselves.

Some people did some things to some buildings, doncha know.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:14 PM

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1 St

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:14 PM (YZ0Fo)

2 Well, if they did then they'd go to jail. Hopefully.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:14 PM (bss/y)

3 top 5 finish

time to read the content

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 22, 2026 12:14 PM (nXhwP)

4 Dudes wearing flip flops.

Flop-a-long Cassidy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:15 PM (bss/y)

5 Minnesota not cooperating with Federal demands? Hm...

Posted by: William Tecumseh Sherman at May 22, 2026 12:16 PM (gKWVE)

6 Greetings from our Somali Overlords.

Posted by: Hamitchell at May 22, 2026 12:16 PM (nQm/s)

7 Time for the FBI to start raiding the homes of the Governor and other elected officials in Minnesota.

And make sure to leak the time and places to Fox so we can get them in handcuffs wearing their PJ's

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at May 22, 2026 12:16 PM (qoLdL)

8 It's not a sign of intelligence jumping from a fourth floor balcony.

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 12:17 PM (q177U)

9 Jumping from a 4th story balcony in slides is certainly a choice.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:17 PM (YZ0Fo)

10 Did they ever catch the flip flop fleeing felon?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 12:17 PM (jehhT)

11 You almost have to admire someone willing to jump out of a 4th story building to avoid capture.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 12:17 PM (Riz8t)

12 5 Minnesota not cooperating with Federal demands? Hm...
Posted by: William Tecumseh Sherman at May 22, 2026 12:16 PM (gKWVE)

Mr President, I recommend the Grand Tour- cut the head off the Minnesotan Chicken!

Posted by: Rip Torn in By Dawn's Early Light at May 22, 2026 12:17 PM (bss/y)

13 Muhammad al-Shitforbrains steals $3.3 Million, but still can't afford decent clothes?

Posted by: XTC at May 22, 2026 12:17 PM (iXqHn)

14 10 Did they ever catch the flip flop fleeing felon?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 12:17 PM (jehhT)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:18 PM (bss/y)

15 Shoulda jumped headfirst. Hopefully he'll be made to pay his own medical bill for his broken ankles

Posted by: Polka will never die at May 22, 2026 12:18 PM (9Rl/+)

16 "Muhammad Abdulqadir Omar, one of the Medicaid fraudsters in Minnesota who was recently indicted for stealing $3.3M, was caught and arrested after he attempted to FLEE from the FBI."

Where was this mutant leper planning on fleeing to? He was gonna swim back to Somalia?

I always gotta laugh at criminals running from police who already built a case against them and came specifically to arrest them. Like, the police know who you are and will find you. Running only makes it worse.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

17 Speaking of Omar, Vance said that she's a subject in his Task Force's investigations for fraud:

https://shorturl.at/OFiP3

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:19 PM (46HP8)

18 Can’t afford clothes because all his money’s tied up in Escalades. Riding in style is the only way for Mohammed.

Posted by: Hamitchell at May 22, 2026 12:19 PM (nQm/s)

19
They would say their intentions were good, but I now increasingly doubt even that. Public funding is like money just blowing around in the wind; stick a basket up and catch it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 12:19 PM (HdYcL)

20 And why is Ilhan Omar still breathing free air? Surely the roads to all of this fraudulent Somali daycares, learing centers, autism services goes right through her front door.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2026 12:19 PM (N39Ws)

21 And he jumped down again! What a fucking maroon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:20 PM (bss/y)

22 I thought American food was harsh go Somalis, maybe I'm thinking of fast food. Anyway, that guy must have been putting away a lot of rice.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 22, 2026 12:20 PM (cWLG3)

23 How did they NOT catch a flip flop fleeing foriegner with a spained/broken ankle?

Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 12:20 PM (594J6)

24 20 And why is Ilhan Omar still breathing free air? Surely the roads to all of this fraudulent Somali daycares, learing centers, autism services goes right through her front door.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2026 12:19 PM (N39Ws)

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Fraud investigations take time to collect evidence.

Intent has to be proven either explicitly (very rare) or through a preponderance of evidence, and that has to be a lot of evidence that needs to be sorted through, organized, and arranged to tell the story of the fraud.

Oh, and Vance said she is a target of the Fraud Task Force.

https://shorturl.at/OFiP3

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:21 PM (46HP8)

25 Somali Running Man was wearing Adidas slides. Yet the FBI lardasses couldn't catch him on the fly.

They need PF. Flyer Redball Jets -- You run faster and jump higher

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 22, 2026 12:21 PM (wBaIH)

26 23 How did they NOT catch a flip flop fleeing foriegner with a spained/broken ankle?
Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 12:20 PM (594J6)

I think they did later. That was something someone mentioned last night.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:21 PM (bss/y)

27 The officials that are withholding the evidence are the ones who coordinated the fraud in the first place. They aren't going to give up information voluntarily.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 22, 2026 12:21 PM (6kcwX)

28
And if 68 IQ Somalis are doing this, imagine what sophisticated operators are getting up to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 12:22 PM (HdYcL)

29 CA rail will be studied for generations, a truly once-in-a-lifetime level of government failure.

Failure? I've got 3 Lamborghinis and 5 mistresses which say that it was a roaring success. -- CA Rail contractor

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 12:22 PM (ExV1e)

30 It's racist to notice, y'know.

Posted by: Bigotry! It's all I see! at May 22, 2026 12:22 PM (TbWk/)

31 Denaturalize and deport all of these fucking pirates.

We cannot as a nation support enclaves of primitive raiders who exist to do nothing but loot our treasury for their own gain because that's all they know.

Posted by: ballistic at May 22, 2026 12:22 PM (oqH4h)

32 Insurrection.

It's 1861 all over again.

Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2026 12:22 PM (Av6i5)

33 Fraud investigations take time to collect evidence.

Intent has to be proven either explicitly (very rare) or through a preponderance of evidence, and that has to be a lot of evidence that needs to be sorted through, organized, and arranged to tell the story of the fraud.

Oh, and Vance said she is a target of the Fraud Task Force.

https://shorturl.at/OFiP3
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering

Nope. Lock her up today. Even if it means she goes free because a case can't be made. That's all that matters.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:22 PM (YZ0Fo)

34 > Speaking of Omar, Vance said that she's a subject in his Task Force's investigations for fraud
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Vance speaks of "intentions" with regards to Omar.

How about this; make your goddamn "intentions" ones to jettison her from the US, pronto.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 12:23 PM (jehhT)

35 I don't know why more people aren't being arrested, with all the fraud we hear about.

I guess Minnesota pols are untouchable.

Posted by: Don Black at May 22, 2026 12:23 PM (ZxPkt)

36 28
And if 68 IQ Somalis are doing this, imagine what sophisticated operators are getting up to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 12:22 PM (HdYcL)

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The 68 IQ are doing no more than checking boxes laid out before them. It's the more sophisticated ones who are doing the actual work.

Like this lady who just got 41 years in prison:

https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/
2057501486477680854

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:23 PM (46HP8)

37 Oh, and Vance said she is a target of the Fraud Task Force.

I hope they've confiscated her passport. I know they haven't.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 22, 2026 12:23 PM (Riz8t)

38 33 Nope. Lock her up today. Even if it means she goes free because a case can't be made. That's all that matters.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:22 PM (YZ0Fo)

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What matters is conviction.

Followed by denaturalization and deportation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:23 PM (46HP8)

39 11 You almost have to admire someone willing to jump out of a 4th story building to avoid capture.

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That's some real Spiderman shit right there.

Posted by: Marlo Stanfield at May 22, 2026 12:24 PM (ubRhE)

40
Followed by denaturalization and deportation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:23 PM (46HP

___________

Then defenstration.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 12:24 PM (HdYcL)

41 What matters is conviction.

Followed by denaturalization and deportation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:23 PM (46HP

Yes I assumed my /s was implied.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:25 PM (YZ0Fo)

42
40
Followed by denaturalization and deportation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:23 PM (46HP

___________

Then defenstration.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 12:24 PM (HdYcL)

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What Somaliland does to her is up to them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:25 PM (46HP8)

43 41 What matters is conviction.

Followed by denaturalization and deportation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:23 PM (46HP

Yes I assumed my /s was implied.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:25 PM (YZ0Fo)

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Ah...intentional satirization of failure theater demanders.

I get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:25 PM (46HP8)

44 Is that the great and powerful Oz?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 12:26 PM (Cqx++)

45
You almost have to admire someone willing to jump out of a 4th story building to avoid capture.

_____________

The height where you have a 50:50 chance of dying from a fall is remarkably low.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 12:26 PM (HdYcL)

46 > What matters is conviction.

Followed by denaturalization and deportation.
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Sometimes, what also matters is making an example of someone, regardless of the situation.

I think a lot of people would be happy with her being made an example of, conviction and/or deportation aside.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 12:26 PM (jehhT)

47 I wonder how much my Somali ceremonial mask is worth now. I paid 5 bucks for it back in 94.

Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 12:26 PM (594J6)

48 46 Sometimes, what also matters is making an example of someone, regardless of the situation.

I think a lot of people would be happy with her being made an example of, conviction and/or deportation aside.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 12:26 PM (jehhT)

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Arresting her and then her getting off because the evidence wasn't collected completely enough would make another example of her.

One you don't want.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:27 PM (46HP8)

49 THe Biden Junta doubled the budget.

Every dollar they added was stolen

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 12:27 PM (sKqQm)

50 Muhammad al-Shitforbrains steals $3.3 Million, but still can't afford decent clothes?
Posted by: XTC at May 22, 2026 12:17 PM (iXqHn)
________

The guy in the pic is just the frontman, the stooge, the idiot set up to take the fall.

Individual idiots like this mangy mutt didn't steal 100s of billions of dollars from taxpayers. The true perpetrators of this scheme were very coordinated, very high-level organized crime in cahoots with the government.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

51 The height where you have a 50:50 chance of dying from a fall is remarkably low.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 12:26 PM (HdYcL)

Tuck and roll.

I'll also note that if he were wearing crocs, they would not have fallen off. But then he'd be gay AND lame.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:28 PM (bss/y)

52 California high-speed rail cost now up to $231 billion. That means the average worker in the state will pay out over $12,000 to fund a single project that almost no one will ride.

CA rail will be studied for generations, a truly once-in-a-lifetime level of government failure.

Hey, did you hear? They're already pivoting away from high-speed rail, and are now planning to build high-speed BUSES.

Think I'm joking? Think again:

https://abc7news.com/post/ caltrans-considering-high-speed-bus-would-take- passengers-san-francisco-los-angeles-state- freeways-heres-look/19140657/

Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles

Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2026 12:28 PM (Av6i5)

53 It isn’t merely “social programs”.

A “high trust” society isn’t a luxury or just one of those “nice things to have”, it is the pre-requisite for a functioning society. It doesn’t guarantee it, by any means. Without it, however, there is no chance.

You have to lock up the crooks. Not the toothpaste.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 12:28 PM (B4klT)

54 "All of our social programs were built for a high-trust society… That social trust has become ~~diminished~~ non-existent."

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FIFM

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 12:28 PM (aDC+n)

55 THe Biden Junta doubled the budget.

Every dollar they added was stolen
Posted by: 18-1 at

And every dollar before that was stolen too.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:28 PM (YZ0Fo)

56 >>>Ron DeSantis
@RonDeSantis

Is this $200+ billion dollar "high-speed" rail a policy failure? Of course.

But if the goal was simply to commandeer tax dollars for distribution to politically-connected constituencies then I'd imagine those with that goal are probably quite pleased.
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There is no incentive for anyone to complete the stupid thing. The politicians and proponents have no doubt seen survey results indicating not enough people will buy tickets to even cover the (unionized) operating costs. Better to keep promising the Moon and get paid every year until forever, than delivering a failure you'll be pressed to explain.

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 12:28 PM (5rh/l)

57
CA rail will be studied for generations, a truly once-in-a-lifetime level of government failure.

Textbook case on how to steal billions and not get caught.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (Cqx++)

58 TGIF, ace!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (0nHVk)

59 Individual idiots like this mangy mutt didn't steal 100s of billions of dollars from taxpayers. The true perpetrators of this scheme were very coordinated, very high-level organized crime in cahoots with the government.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

So, you're saying a truly intelligent, organized individual with great cunning and guile?

That leaves out Tim Waltz.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (bss/y)

60 50% of federal government spending is fraud, waste and abuse.

Thom Tillis voted for every penny of it.
Trillions and trillions of our dollars.

But now he and his Lilting Band of Liars are balking at a few million to compensate those illegally prosecuted by Biden.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (73/SM)

61 They viewed Federal funding in the same way Stacey Abrams eyes a chocolate fountain at an All-U-Can Eat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (4iEwa)

62 "She's a flight risk...", I believe is the modern excuse?

Posted by: RandomDave at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (aJQbY)

63 Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles
Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2026 12:28 PM (Av6i5)

140 mph on a bus? No fucking way.

Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (594J6)

64 but what about the presumption of innocence!! said no democrat about trump

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 22, 2026 12:30 PM (CWTWj)

65 60 50% of federal government spending is fraud, waste and abuse.

Thom Tillis voted for every penny of it.
Trillions and trillions of our dollars.

But now he and his Lilting Band of Liars are balking at a few million to compensate those illegally prosecuted by Biden.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (73/SM)

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Let's be honest...Roy Cooper would be an improvement over Tillis.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:30 PM (46HP8)

66 Minnesota is STILL NOT COOPERATING

So? That's what handcuffs are for. You don't wait for the arrestees to 'cooperate'.

Posted by: t-bird at May 22, 2026 12:30 PM (ReYtg)

67 61 They viewed Federal funding in the same way Stacey Abrams eyes a chocolate fountain at an All-U-Can Eat.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (4iEwa)

*shakes head sadly*

Like Stacey Abrams at a Golden Corral.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:30 PM (bss/y)

68 Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles
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Didn't they make a crappy movie with this premise?

Posted by: clarence at May 22, 2026 12:30 PM (31e/z)

69 CA rail will be studied for generations, a truly once-in-a-lifetime level of government failure.

One of the seasons of True Detective focused on LA elites stealing a bunch of money from the hi speed rail project.

They were way, way too optimistic though as eventually the line does get built...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 12:31 PM (sKqQm)

70 63 Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles
Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2026 12:28 PM (Av6i5)

140 mph on a bus? No fucking way.
Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (594J6)

Spending your last moments in a rattling death trap with homeless people is not the way I'd want to go.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:31 PM (bss/y)

71 And if 68 IQ Somalis are doing this, imagine what sophisticated operators are getting up to.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 22, 2026 12:22 PM (HdYcL)

This IS what the sophisticated operators are up to.

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 12:31 PM (J8APv)

72 Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles

Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2026 12:28 PM (Av6i5)

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Please tell me that it's self-driving and security is provided by cartel gang bangers.

/I would pay Waymo for that!

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 12:31 PM (aDC+n)

73 Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles
Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2026 12:28 PM (Av6i5)

Please tell me they will be designed by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Lie if you must, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 12:31 PM (wVcYX)

74 I saw Waltz and the Somalis front for Fraud Without Borders at the Minneapolis Orpheum back in '24...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 12:31 PM (ynpvh)

75 68 Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles
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Didn't they make a crappy movie with this premise?

Posted by: clarence at May 22, 2026 12:30 PM (31e/z)

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The one where the bus' speed couldn't go under 55 mph and if its speed went under 55 mph then it would blow up so they had to keep the speed over 55 mph which meant a constant race to keep the speed up?

I think it was called..."The Bus that Couldn't Slow Down."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:31 PM (46HP8)

76 140 mph on a bus? No fucking way.
Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (594J6)

Watch me, saar

Posted by: Panjeet Singh at May 22, 2026 12:32 PM (gKWVE)

77 Is this $200+ billion dollar "high-speed" rail a policy failure? Of course.

But if the goal was simply to commandeer tax dollars for distribution to politically-connected constituencies then I'd imagine those with that goal are probably quite pleased
_________________________________

DeSantis is correct, but I would add that a bigger part of the high-speed rail project was to confiscate generational farmland, private property and high value properties through eminent domain. As of this year, the State of California has laid claim on over 800 properties in the name of the high-speed rail.

When the project finally tanks, California will turn to their cronie developers as prospective buyers.

Posted by: Orson at May 22, 2026 12:32 PM (dIske)

78 140 mph on a bus? No fucking way.
Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (594J6)

Maybe it's another one of those population reduction schemes.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 22, 2026 12:32 PM (zYpTz)

79 But now he and his Lilting Band of Liars are balking at a few million to compensate those illegally prosecuted by Biden.

Reminds me of the money to build the southern wall.

Millions for illegals, not a penny for defense!

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 12:32 PM (sKqQm)

80 Walz is (surely) doing his own investigation to find the real fraudsters, since he knows the feds are too biased.

Walz learned this tactic from OJ, who did his own investigation to find Nicole's real killer. (iirc)

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2026 12:32 PM (vbXSk)

81 I think it was called..."The Bus that Couldn't Slow Down."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:31 PM (46HP

Let's add an insipid romance!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:32 PM (bss/y)

82 73 Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles
Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2026 12:28 PM (Av6i5)

Please tell me they will be designed by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Lie if you must, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 12:31 PM (wVcYX)

Like the movie "Speed"? Don't let the bus fall below 100mph!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

83 What matters is conviction.

Followed by denaturalization and deportation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Here you go bringing logic to a rhetorical argument.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 12:33 PM (E4rtv)

84 > Sometimes, what also matters is making an example of someone, regardless of the situation.

I think a lot of people would be happy with her being made an example of, conviction and/or deportation aside.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 12:26 PM (jehhT)

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Arresting her and then her getting off because the evidence wasn't collected completely enough would make another example of her.

One you don't want.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:27 PM (46HP

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*shrugs*

She'll suffer no consequences or conviction. Being made an example of would be an inconvenience for her, maybe even humiliating.

Beats the alternative of most certain acquittal.

I'm just positing an alternative view. Because I seriously doubt she'll face any recriminations.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 12:33 PM (jehhT)

85 The one where the bus' speed couldn't go under 55 mph and if its speed went under 55 mph then it would blow up so they had to keep the speed over 55 mph which meant a constant race to keep the speed up?

I think it was called..."The Bus that Couldn't Slow Down."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering

The should do that on a cruise ship!

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:33 PM (YZ0Fo)

86 80 Walz is (surely) doing his own investigation to find the real fraudsters, since he knows the feds are too biased.

Walz learned this tactic from OJ, who did his own investigation to find Nicole's real killer. (iirc)

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2026 12:32 PM (vbXSk)

OJ just couldn't find the real killer(s) no matter how many golf courses he played through.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 12:33 PM (ynpvh)

87 Where was this mutant leper planning on fleeing to? He was gonna swim back to Somalia?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

The standard play is to run to MX or Central America, buy new papers, and then sneak back in.

"Muhammad Abdulqadir Omar? No, I am Omar Adbulqadir Muhammad! Simple mistake. Please direct me to the nearest NGO. Please and thank you~!"

Posted by: CCP at May 22, 2026 12:33 PM (diia5)

88 Like the movie "Speed"? Don't let the bus fall below 100mph!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

Too simple. I like 'The Bus that Could Not Slow Down.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:33 PM (bss/y)

89 Maybe it's another one of those population reduction schemes.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at May 22, 2026 12:32 PM (zYpTz)

There has to be cheaper ways.

Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 12:34 PM (594J6)

90 Rat Fink?

That's Cal Trans.

Morgan&Morgan, "If you've been injured..."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 12:34 PM (4iEwa)

91 Wasn't Speed... good, though? Made some staxx.
Wonder why there wasn't a Speed 3.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 12:34 PM (gKWVE)

92 85 The one where the bus' speed couldn't go under 55 mph and if its speed went under 55 mph then it would blow up so they had to keep the speed over 55 mph which meant a constant race to keep the speed up?

I think it was called..."The Bus that Couldn't Slow Down."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering

The should do that on a cruise ship!

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:33 PM (YZ0Fo)

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Yeah, but then you have to call it something stupid like The Cruise Ship that Couldn't Slow Down or The Bus that Couldn't Slow Down 2: Cruise Control, and no one would understand it.

This is definitely a one and done enterprise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:34 PM (46HP8)

93 Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles
Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2026 12:28 PM (Av6i5)

140 mph on a bus? No fucking way.
Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (594J6)

Spending your last moments in a rattling death trap with homeless people is not the way I'd want to go.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:31 PM (bss/y)

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Are you ready for the upcoming Hollyweird Blockbuster "Speed 2: Hunter Biden Boogaloo?"

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 12:34 PM (aDC+n)

94 Individual idiots like this mangy mutt didn't steal 100s of billions of dollars from taxpayers. The true perpetrators of this scheme were very coordinated, very high-level organized crime in cahoots with the government.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

So, you're saying a truly intelligent, organized individual with great cunning and guile?

That leaves out Tim Waltz.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (bss/y)
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Organized? Yes, for sure. But not great intelligence or cunning is needed. The Somali scam was just another government-benefits scam of the type that has been going on since there were government benefits.

The Italian, Jewish, and Russian mobs have been scamming benefits for decades. The names may change, but the scam stays the same.

What was different about the Somali scam was the size and scope, which was made possible by insanely stupid covid spending and lack of oversight. But even then, it wasn't just the Somalis stuffing their faces with stolen loot. It was mostly the Russian mob in LA stealing all the hospice money.

Probably 50% of every dollar spent on "healthcare" in the last 5 years was stolen.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 12:35 PM (iFTx/)

95 91 Wasn't Speed... good, though? Made some staxx.
Wonder why there wasn't a Speed 3.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 12:34 PM (gKWVE)

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Speed 2 was too expensive and didn't make enough money.

That's like 99% of the reasons why we don't get more in franchises.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:35 PM (46HP8)

96 CA rail will be studied for generations, a truly once-in-a-lifetime level of government failure.

Textbook case on how to steal billions and not get caught.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (Cqx++)

Just wait for the musical to come out:

How To Steal Billions Without Really Trying.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 12:35 PM (wVcYX)

97 Wasn't Speed... good, though? Made some staxx.
Wonder why there wasn't a Speed 3.
Posted by: gKWVE at

Ummm. Because there was speed: cruise control.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:35 PM (YZ0Fo)

98 https://abc7news.com/post/ caltrans-considering-high-speed-bus-would-take- passengers-san-francisco-los-angeles-state- freeways-heres-look/19140657/

Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles

Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2026 12:28 PM (Av6i5)

That is the worst idea I've heard of since High-Speed Rail between LA and SanFran. On second thought, it is a worse idea.

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 12:35 PM (5rh/l)

99 When I lived in Riverdale, Bronx, on Palisade Avenue, there were some swanky highrises a couple lots down. A worker was on a 7th floor balcony fixing something and fell to the ground. He got up and started walking, but died before the ambulance got there from internal bleeding.

Posted by: Gravity of the Situation at May 22, 2026 12:36 PM (oftw2)

100 This is definitely a one and done enterprise.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:34 PM (46HP

Like 'The Hacker who can dodge bullets and bend spoons- with his mind!'

Great movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:36 PM (bss/y)

101 Out:High Speed Rail
In:High Speed Buses?

Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2026 12:36 PM (YwEeS)

102 That's be more like "Speed: And All The Other Drugs" if Hunter was in it

Posted by: gKWVE wouldn't insure this one at May 22, 2026 12:36 PM (gKWVE)

103
Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles
****

Didn't they make a crappy movie with this premise?
Posted by: clarence

The Big Bus

www.imdb.com/title/tt0074205

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 12:36 PM (Cqx++)

104 Speed 2 was too expensive and didn't make enough money.

That's like 99% of the reasons why we don't get more in franchises.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:35 PM (46HP

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It did capture the spirit of traveling on the oceans, though.

I was seasick due to the terrible cinematography.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 12:36 PM (gnNyN)

105 100 This is definitely a one and done enterprise.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:34 PM (46HP

Like 'The Hacker who can dodge bullets and bend spoons- with his mind!'

Great movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:36 PM (bss/y)

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I prefer "Elder Assassin Who Kills Everyone Because of a Cute Pooch".

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:36 PM (46HP8)

106 Using Karen "Chia Pet" Bass logic:

No money was stolen! It was already allocated!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 12:37 PM (73/SM)

107 104 It did capture the spirit of traveling on the oceans, though.

I was seasick due to the terrible cinematography.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 12:36 PM (gnNyN)

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I've only seen the big crash at the end.

Quite convincing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:37 PM (46HP8)

108 Or 'Arnold and an Elite Squad of mercenaries get trapped in a jungle with a space alien with a body horror fetish.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:37 PM (bss/y)

109 Speed 2 was terrible.

Oh no we are crashing into the dock at 5 knots!!!!

Which, I get it unless you are a New Zealand Captain-ette you aren't supposed to crash into a dock but just didn't feel high stakes like Speed 1

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 12:37 PM (sKqQm)

110 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:31 PM (46HP

In Germany it was called Derbüssenflyen

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 12:37 PM (J8APv)

111 And yeah I know Speed 2 was a legendary box office dog. It surpasses even Battle Star Galactica 1980 in How Not To Sequel.
A Highlander 2 also exists. I am told.

Posted by: gKWVE in the town of Nilbog at May 22, 2026 12:38 PM (gKWVE)

112 97 Wasn't Speed... good, though? Made some staxx.
Wonder why there wasn't a Speed 3.
Posted by: gKWVE at

Ummm. Because there was speed: cruise control.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:35 PM (YZ0Fo)

Tom Cruise was terrible in that one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 12:38 PM (ynpvh)

113 "CA rail will be studied for generations, a truly once-in-a-lifetime level of government failure."

"You mean SUCCESS." All the families that now have generational wealth

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2026 12:38 PM (vbXSk)

114 108 Or 'Arnold and an Elite Squad of mercenaries get trapped in a jungle with a space alien with a body horror fetish.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:37 PM (bss/y)

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Speaking of which...

Arnold is training for King Conan.

It's a project that's come together and fallen apart like 5 times over the last 15 years or so, but it look like it's actually happening now.

Christopher McQuarrie is writing and directing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:38 PM (46HP8)

115 I prefer "Elder Assassin Who Kills Everyone Because of a Cute Pooch".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:36 PM (46HP

That's a great one!

Also loved 'Big shark goes to the cafeteria and a Deputy, a retard and a WWII vet blow him up with an oxygen tank.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:38 PM (bss/y)

116 111 And yeah I know Speed 2 was a legendary box office dog. It surpasses even Battle Star Galactica 1980 in How Not To Sequel.
A Highlander 2 also exists. I am told.

Posted by: gKWVE in the town of Nilbog at May 22, 2026 12:38 PM (gKWVE)

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What, exactly, is a quickening?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:39 PM (46HP8)

117 Follow the money.
If the Rs have any political sense (hah!) they'll track the cash and find who got the kickbacks, then use the hell out of that info in political ads.

If that doesn't happen, it's because some high ranking Rs got their beak wet.

Posted by: buddhaha at May 22, 2026 12:39 PM (Y2dJL)

118 >>> Speed 2 was too expensive and didn't make enough money.

That's like 99% of the reasons why we don't get more in franchises.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:35 PM (46HP

The one with the boat was ridiculous. OH NO! HERE COMES A BOAT! VERY SLOWLY! ... still coming ... (five hours later) ... (checks watch) ... (orders pizza) ... (takes selfie with boat) ...

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 12:39 PM (3uBP9)

119 >>>"CA rail will be studied for generations, a truly once-in-a-lifetime level of government failure."

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It will be studied by the wrong people, for the wrong reasons.

Posted by: Turn 2 at May 22, 2026 12:39 PM (CyFyf)

120 It’s a shame we don’t hang those who prove to be corrupt thieves in charge of the public purse. Apparently there are no deterrents any longer, no accountability, no responsibility, no punishment.

What would you expect to happen, then? Politicians have a license to steal. You’ll see this at the very local forms of government all the way down to the county level.

Some accountant gets busted for stealing a half million dollars. Gets 3 hours in-home probation or whatever. Even if they get say, astonishingly a year in jail - there’s no shortage of people who are willing to go to jail for 500 large.

Innmy home state some broad was convicted of Arson, destroyed 3 homes, nearly killed people.

Probation. Arson is easily among the most heinous of crimes. It is historically a Capital offense, and with good reason.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 12:39 PM (B4klT)

121 115 I prefer "Elder Assassin Who Kills Everyone Because of a Cute Pooch".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:36 PM (46HP

That's a great one!

Also loved 'Big shark goes to the cafeteria and a Deputy, a retard and a WWII vet blow him up with an oxygen tank.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:38 PM (bss/y)

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Some would call it the best movie of all time, but those some have never seen "My Dinner with Andre."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:39 PM (46HP8)

122 Highlander with Karen Gillian and Henry Cavill has my attention.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:40 PM (YZ0Fo)

123 Christopher McQuarrie is writing and directing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:38 PM (46HP

Arnold has had a couple open heart surgeries. If you see him in clips, he can hardly move. They are going to lean heavily on AI methinks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:40 PM (bss/y)

124 Is the jumping fraudster named "Omar" related to Ilhan Omar, or that's a common name like "Smith"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 22, 2026 12:40 PM (OYsYV)

125 Out:High Speed Rail
In:High Speed Buses?
Posted by: steevy at May 22, 2026 12:36 PM (YwEeS)

Coming soon: High Speed Stagecoaches

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 12:40 PM (qx7Zg)

126 I've seen the Chinee Megabus do 140MPH, in a 35 MPH zone!

Posted by: The Hugest Manatee! at May 22, 2026 12:40 PM (oftw2)

127 122 Highlander with Karen Gillian and Henry Cavill has my attention.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:40 PM (YZ0Fo)

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I've never liked Highlander.

I'm open to a new take that makes it...good and beyond a couple of special effects shots and the line "There can be only one."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:40 PM (46HP8)

128 Sounds quite insurrection-y. People were held without charges or bail for four years for less. Much much less.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at May 22, 2026 12:41 PM (M0V4/)

129 Morgan&Morgan, "If you've been injured..."

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 12:34 PM (4iEwa)

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... in a motorcycle accident with a high-speed bus driven by an illegal alien -- call "Law Tigers."

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 12:41 PM (aDC+n)

130 Probably 50% of every dollar spent on "healthcare" in the last 5 years was stolen.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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As Willie Sutton said about banks, that is where the money is.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 12:41 PM (E4rtv)

131 Individual idiots like this mangy mutt didn't steal 100s of billions of dollars from taxpayers. The true perpetrators of this scheme were very coordinated, very high-level organized crime in cahoots with the government.

--

With every fiber of my being, I know that vile, evil BroFo is involved in this, even if it was only to instruct her fellow garbage people how to commit massive fraud against the American taxpayer.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 22, 2026 12:41 PM (qBdHI)

132 Wasn't Speed... good, though? Made some staxx.
Wonder why there wasn't a Speed 3.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 12:34 PM (gKWVE)

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Speed 2 was too expensive and didn't make enough money.

That's like 99% of the reasons why we don't get more in franchises.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:35 PM (46HP

____

"Sure, let's make a sequel to a surprisingly successful film. But we'll spend way too much money on a dumb script that has nothing to do with the original movie. Then we'll shoot it all jerky and kinetic so the audience can barely see what's going on. Sounds great, right? Well, we haven't even told you the best part! The star of the original movie, the guy who basically made the movie work, isn't gonna be in the sequel! See? Genius!"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

133 Show me people being marched off to jail. Then I'll be impressed, and astonished.

Posted by: Don Black at May 22, 2026 12:41 PM (ZxPkt)

134 Runaway Bus

An action thriller starring (to be named later) as two escaped convicts who inadvertently board a Hi-Speed Bus in California.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 12:41 PM (wVcYX)

135 116 111 And yeah I know Speed 2 was a legendary box office dog. It surpasses even Battle Star Galactica 1980 in How Not To Sequel.
A Highlander 2 also exists. I am told.

Posted by: gKWVE in the town of Nilbog at May 22, 2026 12:38 PM (gKWVE)

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What, exactly, is a quickening?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:39 PM (46HP

a) when a splinter goes up your quick
b) When the light turns yellow before you get to the interection
c) Your pulse when you see what you owe the IRS
d) How you sink in the faster version of quick sand: quickening sand
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 12:42 PM (ynpvh)

136 Never got the love for 'Skeevy Cabbie takes Cybil Shepard to a porn movie and then shoots up some drug dealers. Also creepy underage Jodie Foster.'

Maybe it was the title.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:42 PM (bss/y)

137 As a rule, if Brian May and Freddy Mercury are on the soundtrack
1. watch the movie
2. beat anyone who proposes a sequel with a rubber hose

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 12:42 PM (gKWVE)

138 ace, small amendment to your post. The erosion of high trust in the US has much more to do with collapse of standards among native-born and collapse of public institutions than any mangy imported humans.

We discuss this reality all day long. From the DOJ and FBI to "education" and on and on and on. National government deliberately erasing borders and rule of law.

Somali looting is much more symptom than cause.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 22, 2026 12:42 PM (U/Byj)

139 123 Christopher McQuarrie is writing and directing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:38 PM (46HP

Arnold has had a couple open heart surgeries. If you see him in clips, he can hardly move. They are going to lean heavily on AI methinks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:40 PM (bss/y)

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He says the script leans into his age, but yeah, there's going to be CG and body doubles for stuff for sure.

Still, a good Conan movie (McQuarrie gives me hope), which we haven't had since 1982? That'd be fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:42 PM (46HP8)

140 Probably 50% of every dollar spent on "healthcare" in the last 5 years was stolen./i]

The left: LOL American healthcare sucks look at how expensive it is

Also the left: Look for fraud and abuse in healthcare spending?!? Are you racist?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 12:42 PM (sKqQm)

141 Coming soon: High Speed Stagecoaches
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 22, 2026 12:40 PM (qx7Zg)

We're gonna need more horses!

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:42 PM (YZ0Fo)

142 In Germany it was called Derbüssenflyen

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 12:37 PM (J8APv)

Which loosely translated means

FUCK THE PAIN AWAY

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 12:42 PM (J8APv)

143 King Conan could be written as an elderly Conan in the role of Beowulf riding to defend his kingdom.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 12:42 PM (4iEwa)

144 132 "Sure, let's make a sequel to a surprisingly successful film. But we'll spend way too much money on a dumb script that has nothing to do with the original movie. Then we'll shoot it all jerky and kinetic so the audience can barely see what's going on. Sounds great, right? Well, we haven't even told you the best part! The star of the original movie, the guy who basically made the movie work, isn't gonna be in the sequel! See? Genius!"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

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It's like you don't believe in the star power of Christian Slater.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:42 PM (46HP8)

145
Some would call it the best movie of all time, but those some have never seen "My Dinner with Andre."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

Babette's Feast!

Posted by: Subtitle Lover at May 22, 2026 12:43 PM (oftw2)

146 Ok, SPEED 3, IN SPACE! Instead of slowly moving boat, It's a giant wheel space craft slowly rolling on the ground and you are trying to get away from it. Not by moving perpendicular to it's obvious path, but directly in it's path, because that's movie magic right there.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 12:43 PM (3uBP9)

147 When I lived in Riverdale, Bronx, on Palisade Avenue, there were some swanky highrises a couple lots down. A worker was on a 7th floor balcony fixing something and fell to the ground. He got up and started walking, but died before the ambulance got there from internal bleeding.
Posted by: Gravity of the Situation at May 22, 2026 12:36 PM (oftw2)
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My cousin and I threw ice cubes off the ??th floor balcony and the cops came looking for us. That was probably our first time smoove-talking. We must have been 9 or 10.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 22, 2026 12:43 PM (RIvkX)

148 I've never liked Highlander.

I'm open to a new take that makes it...good and beyond a couple of special effects shots and the line "There can be only one."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Then again, you are the guy that rated Bridge over a River Kwai over Lawrence of Arabia.

And spoke well of Prometheus.

I think you've turned auteur on us.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 12:43 PM (E4rtv)

149 Runaway Bus
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Biden and the Podestas can't wait for that one.

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 12:43 PM (J8APv)

150 136 Never got the love for 'Skeevy Cabbie takes Cybil Shepard to a porn movie and then shoots up some drug dealers. Also creepy underage Jodie Foster.'

Maybe it was the title.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:42 PM (bss/y)

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Well, NYC in the period did suck ass.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:43 PM (46HP8)

151 I've never liked Highlander.

I'm open to a new take that makes it...good and beyond a couple of special effects shots and the line "There can be only one."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:40 PM (46HP

The original Highlander was the epitome of boy cool. Swords. Sean Connery. A great performance by Clancy Brown. Boobs. Swords. Made for peanuts.

It was silly- but it was neat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y)

152 TMJ I saw My Dinner with Andre when it came out. Everyone agreed it was an intolerable waste of time.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 22, 2026 12:44 PM (U/Byj)

153 @127

>>I'm open to a new take that makes it...good and beyond a couple of special effects shots and the line "There can be only one."

They will also be using Queen in the score/soundtrack.

Looking at the behind the scenes stuff and the fact the Caville is invested in making this awesome, I have high hopes.

This will be the 2nd time Russel Crowe plays a Spaniard.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 12:44 PM (XV/Pl)

154 Ok, SPEED 3, IN SPACE! Instead of slowly moving boat, It's a giant wheel space craft slowly rolling on the ground and you are trying to get away from it. Not by moving perpendicular to it's obvious path, but directly in it's path, because that's movie magic right there.

I asked the director if I could use my girl power to just kick it aside and he said no. What a bigot

Posted by: Charlize Theron at May 22, 2026 12:44 PM (sKqQm)

155 Speed: In Space is pretty much any asteroid-impact movie.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 12:44 PM (gKWVE)

156 145
Some would call it the best movie of all time, but those some have never seen "My Dinner with Andre."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

Babette's Feast!

Posted by: Subtitle Lover at May 22, 2026 12:43 PM (oftw2)

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Babette's Feast is marvelous!

I own it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:44 PM (46HP8)

157 148 Then again, you are the guy that rated Bridge over a River Kwai over Lawrence of Arabia.

And spoke well of Prometheus.

I think you've turned auteur on us.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 12:43 PM (E4rtv)

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Alec Guinness' look at the end of Bridge > all of Lawrence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:45 PM (46HP8)

158 So the only the person the Feds name, once again, has been known about for over a year. They are just dredging up old instances of already found fraud and making noise about them. Anything to distract us from the files right?

They're just taking revenge on the Somali community for existing, essentially. Because they dared survive accusations of eating the cats and the dogs. This is usually how fascists operate.

There might be fraud, there might not be, who knows? The problem is the Trump administration has absolutely zero credibility. They've lied about everything, so why should I believe this? The only legitimate action anybody in the Trump administration can take, up to and including the president, is to resign.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 22, 2026 12:45 PM (ycI94)

159 The original Highlander was the epitome of boy cool. Swords. Sean Connery. A great performance by Clancy Brown. Boobs. Swords. Made for peanuts.

And my boy that last part is the best part!

Posted by: Mr Krabs at May 22, 2026 12:45 PM (sKqQm)

160 I think a lot of it is the movies that were out and the age I saw it. I was a shade too young, but saw it and the swords captivated me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:45 PM (bss/y)

161 Cut off the money to all federal claims everywhere.
Then have the entity justify need or cause and delineate and verify exactly where its going.

Federal assistance is socialism.
Federal taxation is theft.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 12:45 PM (LIEok)

162 I've never liked Highlander.

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The "Spaniard" Sean Connery character with a Scottish accent, and the "Scottish" Christopher Lambert character with a French-Swiss accent?

What's not to like!?

/Heavy suspension of disbelief required ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 12:45 PM (aDC+n)

163 145
Some would call it the best movie of all time, but those some have never seen "My Dinner with Andre."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

Babette's Feast!
Posted by: Subtitle Lover

Eating Raul?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 12:45 PM (7ySGn)

164 They caught the Somali pirate who jumped from a fourth story roof to avoid capture

Broken lightbulbhead.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 12:45 PM (gtcuf)

165 They're just taking revenge on the Somali community for existing, essentially. Because they dared survive accusations of eating the cats and the dogs. This is usually how fascists operate.

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Ummmmmm that was the Haitians you RACIST!

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:46 PM (YZ0Fo)

166 They're just taking revenge on the Somali community for existing, essentially.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 22, 2026 12:45 PM (ycI94)

Okay, we're taking away the construction paper until some of you can learn to draw with the approved crayons and not with your own feces.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 12:46 PM (gKWVE)

167 Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles
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Ho lee fuk--the amount of fraud and stupid it takes to even think of that.

Distance to SF and LA: 383 miles
Formula 1 average speed: 130-165
Tire changes in F1: every 110-160 miles

so, magical tires that'd be the envy of every racer in the world.

And that's before the mechanical limits of pushing a bus at 140--how many HP will that engine have to push?

To say nothing of the fuel costs.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 12:46 PM (73/SM)

168 132 Wasn't Speed... good, though? Made some staxx.
Wonder why there wasn't a Speed 3.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 12:34 PM (gKWVE)

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Speed 2 was too expensive and didn't make enough money.

That's like 99% of the reasons why we don't get more in franchises.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:35 PM (46HP
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"Sure, let's make a sequel to a surprisingly successful film. But we'll spend way too much money on a dumb script that has nothing to do with the original movie. Then we'll shoot it all jerky and kinetic so the audience can barely see what's going on. Sounds great, right? Well, we haven't even told you the best part! The star of the original movie, the guy who basically made the movie work, isn't gonna be in the sequel! See? Genius!"

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

Super Easy! Barely an Inconvenience!

Posted by: Hollyweird at May 22, 2026 12:46 PM (ynpvh)

169 152 TMJ I saw My Dinner with Andre when it came out. Everyone agreed it was an intolerable waste of time.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 22, 2026 12:44 PM (U/Byj)

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I've seen it once, and I genuinely enjoyed it.

It's very New York actor setpiece, Louis Malle kind of just finding something to make with his actors while they did Uncle Vanya in apartments, which ended up being prep for Vanya on 42nd Street.

Just an interesting conversation well acted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:47 PM (46HP8)

170 Russel Crowe as a Spanish popping jay?

He better slim down from his role as Goring or he will need a Clydesdale.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 12:47 PM (4iEwa)

171 Ummmmmm that was the Haitians you RACIST!
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:46 PM (YZ0Fo)

They all look alike to us. Dark skinned black people.
-average redditor

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:47 PM (bss/y)

172 Anything to distract us from the files right?

This has become a sickness. Epstein Derangement Syndrome.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 12:47 PM (gtcuf)

173 I've been robbed!

Posted by: American taxpayer at May 22, 2026 12:47 PM (UjdFS)

174 I've only been on one Greyhound bus in my life. A completely miserable trip that smelled like urine and vomit. Would not suggest. Even if it goes 140MPH.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 12:47 PM (jehhT)

175 I think its time to bring back public caning.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 22, 2026 12:47 PM (Vh9CX)

176 TMJ I saw My Dinner with Andre when it came out. Everyone agreed it was an intolerable waste of time.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 22, 2026 12:44 PM (U/Byj)

I never imagined going out with you to be THAT bad.

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 12:47 PM (J8APv)

177 158 There might be fraud, there might not be, who knows? The problem is the Trump administration has absolutely zero credibility. They've lied about everything, so why should I believe this? The only legitimate action anybody in the Trump administration can take, up to and including the president, is to resign.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 22, 2026 12:45 PM (ycI94)

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"I could look at the charging documents and the successful prosecution of the lady who ran the Friends charity, but then I'd be informed about something, and we can't have that."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:48 PM (46HP8)

178 Kng Conan sits atop his throne with a furrowed brow. Arms resting uoon his well earned beer belly. Lamenting his loss of body mass due to the unavailibility of certain potions meant to increase bulk and mass. A small bi-racial child wanders into the almost empty throne room.
"Daddy. Dinner time."
Conan heaves his formarly world class body off his rest.
"Ahhh. It * cough * is good to be king.

Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 12:48 PM (594J6)

179 I've seen it once, and I genuinely enjoyed it.

It's very New York actor setpiece, Louis Malle kind of just finding something to make with his actors while they did Uncle Vanya in apartments, which ended up being prep for Vanya on 42nd Street.

Just an interesting conversation well acted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering

I like when abed did My Dinner with Jeff

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:48 PM (YZ0Fo)

180 Alec Guinness' look at the end of Bridge > all of Lawrence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:45 PM (46HP

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To be fair, wasn't Peter O'Toole basically shit-faced throughout the filming of Lawrence?

/Didn't he fall off a camel or something?

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 12:49 PM (aDC+n)

181 179 I like when abed did My Dinner with Jeff

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 22, 2026 12:48 PM (YZ0Fo)

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Quality Community episode.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:49 PM (46HP8)

182 At Cali Post: "Harvard scientists have been honored for creating the world’s first “vagina-on-a-chip,” a groundbreaking device that mimics the female reproductive tract using living human cells."

Harvard plans to price the chip at $20/ea, same as in town.

Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 12:49 PM (N8ZBc)

183 180 To be fair, wasn't Peter O'Toole basically shit-faced throughout the filming of Lawrence?

/Didn't he fall off a camel or something?

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 12:49 PM (aDC+n)

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Are you implying that there was a moment in Peter O'Toole's life when he wasn't shit-faced?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:49 PM (46HP8)

184 "Cut off the money to all federal claims everywhere.
Then have the entity justify need or cause and delineate and verify exactly where its going."

They have a code for each procedure (whether it was performed or not, and whether it was needed or not) ... everything has a code.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 22, 2026 12:50 PM (vbXSk)

185 Time to make Minnesnowda a satellite of Somaliland. Jettison the whole pile of 'em.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at May 22, 2026 12:50 PM (affD0)

186 Babbette's Feast

Spinster sister never realize their cook is a world class chef.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 12:50 PM (4iEwa)

187 145
Some would call it the best movie of all time, but those some have never seen "My Dinner with Andre."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films

Babette's Feast!
Posted by: Subtitle Lover

Eating Raul?
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 12:45 PM (7ySGn)

*close to lunchtime*
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 12:50 PM (wVcYX)

188 The "Spaniard" Sean Connery character with a Scottish accent, and the "Scottish" Christopher Lambert character with a French-Swiss accent?

What's not to like!?

/Heavy suspension of disbelief required ...
Posted by: ShainS
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To be fair, if they had actually used Highlands dialect, it would have had to have subtitles. Even lowland Scots often don't understand what Highlanders say, let alone the rest of the English speaking world.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 12:50 PM (E4rtv)

189 To be fair, wasn't Peter O'Toole basically shit-faced throughout the filming of Lawrence?

/Didn't he fall off a camel or something?
Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 12:49 PM (aDC+n)

I think Peter O'Toole stayed shitfaced after he turned 16.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:50 PM (bss/y)

190 Are you implying that there was a moment in Peter O'Toole's life when he wasn't shit-faced?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

*burp*

Posted by: Richard Burton at May 22, 2026 12:50 PM (gKWVE)

191 187 *close to lunchtime*
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 12:50 PM (wVcYX)

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That movie's fuckin' weird, bruh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:50 PM (46HP8)

192 I've never liked Highlander.

I'm open to a new take that makes it...good and beyond a couple of special effects shots and the line "There can be only one."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:40 PM (46HP

The original Highlander was the epitome of boy cool. Swords. Sean Connery. A great performance by Clancy Brown. Boobs. Swords. Made for peanuts.

It was silly- but it was neat.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:43 PM (bss/y)
_____

Original Highlander was awesome, one of the best action flicks of the 80s. The Kurgan was one of the best movie villains ... ever.

The movie was also very well shot too. Russell Mulcahy can shoot a movie. Too bad he's a mentally-ill homosexual.

Fun fact: Mulcahy was hired to direct Rambo III. He went to Israel (where the film was shot) to cast the Russian baddies. Stallone specifically wanted big bruiser types who looked like they ate lead and shit bullets.

Who does Mulcahy hire? A bunch of flamingly gay Israeli male models who he was obviously casting-couching. Stallone was like "wtf?????" He then fired Mulcahy.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 12:50 PM (iFTx/)

193
In theaters this summer

Harold & Kumar Get Killed

Posted by: Don Black at May 22, 2026 12:50 PM (ZxPkt)

194 “vagina-on-a-chip”

Um, I'll stick with salt and vingar.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 12:51 PM (gtcuf)

195 There might be fraud, there might not be, who knows? The problem is the Trump administration has absolutely zero credibility.

Remember when you wanted Biden to round up people for not getting the clot shot and send them to concentration camps and the slightly saner Dems said the president can't just round up people for no reason and you called them racist science denying NAZIs?

See this is why we have laws and give people trials. You as a private person can see the evidence laid out in the case, review what the judge does, and watch the system try to prove these people are guilty of breaking an actual criminal statuette beyond a reasonable doubt.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 12:51 PM (sKqQm)

196 To be fair, if they had actually used Highlands dialect, it would have had to have subtitles. Even lowland Scots often don't understand what Highlanders say, let alone the rest of the English speaking world.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 12:50 PM (E4rtv)

I saw a stream Critical Drinker did with Count Dankula. Usually either is perfectly understandable, but as this chat went on, they started to get thicker and thicker accents to where they started to get hard to understand.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:52 PM (bss/y)

197 I remember when Shirley Manson came on the scene she sounded 100% American singing. And then I heard her interviewed and...nope that was quite a burr.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 12:52 PM (sKqQm)

198 Meh.

Some people *may* have done some things.
If so, mistakes *may* have been made.
If so, they were done in the enthusiasm of the moment.
Old news.
What difference, at this point, does it make.
Time to move on.
Release the Epstein Files!
OrangeMan Bad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: (D)emocrats at May 22, 2026 12:52 PM (0sNs1)

199 162 I've never liked Highlander.

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The "Spaniard" Sean Connery character with a Scottish accent, and the "Scottish" Christopher Lambert character with a French-Swiss accent?

What's not to like!?

/Heavy suspension of disbelief required ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 12:45 PM (aDC+n)

What's wrong with that?

Posted by: Zombie John Wayne as Ghengis Khan at May 22, 2026 12:52 PM (ynpvh)

200 198 Meh.

Some people *may* have done some things.
If so, mistakes *may* have been made.
If so, they were done in the enthusiasm of the moment.
Old news.
What difference, at this point, does it make.
Time to move on.
Release the Epstein Files!
OrangeMan Bad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: (D)emocrats at May 22, 2026 12:52 PM (0sNs1)

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This isn't satire. It's just recitation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:53 PM (46HP8)

201
You go, girl.......good response to Newsom's misfits having a hissy fit over Chevron's gall to put posters up at their stations saying gas is high because of Sacramento, NOT Trump.
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Justine Bateman
@JustineBateman
·
2h
This is unconscionable. The Governor of CA, an elected official meant to serve the constituents of this state, both individuals and their companies, is urging us to AVOID a company here. Incredibly unethical and disqualifying.
No doubt a spiteful response to @Chevron informing the CA citizens that the reason our gas is always outrageously expensive is because of the CA gas tax. That is a FACT cause by the CA Gov.
I will be intentionally buying gas at Chevron this week in LA.
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Governor Newsom Press Office
@GovPressOffice
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22h
Californians, if you’re hitting the road this holiday weekend, be sure to AVOID Chevron.

Posted by: beckster at May 22, 2026 12:53 PM (kX27y)

202 I think its time to bring back public caning.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 22, 2026 12:47 PM (Vh9CX)

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Make Keel Hauling Great Again!

/Doesn't Jack~~Straw~~Sparrow have a boat we can use?

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 12:53 PM (aDC+n)

203 close to lunchtime*
The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover.
Posted by: Count de Monet

I saw that in the theater with my artsy fartsy in laws. They gushed over it. I thought is was disturbing.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 22, 2026 12:53 PM (f9bGF)

204 Are you implying that there was a moment in Peter O'Toole's life when he wasn't shit-faced?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Most of the talent during Hollywood's golden age was regularly shit-faced and chain smoking as well. Check out the incidence of cancer. Bogart's death was gruesome.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 22, 2026 12:53 PM (W5mpo)

205 Shirley Manson became a real disappointment. Another one who caught The Jew Thing.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 12:53 PM (gKWVE)

206 197 I remember when Shirley Manson came on the scene she sounded 100% American singing. And then I heard her interviewed and...nope that was quite a burr.

Same with the actress who played Lydia on Breaking Bad. No trace of an accent on the show. The Scots are good at hiding it.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 12:53 PM (gtcuf)

207 It can happen. It SHOULD happen!

Maximum Overdrive II - Full Send

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 12:54 PM (wVcYX)

208 I love Babette's Feast too. Then again, all my relatives are Norwegian and I can understand the language well. Babette's is in Danish, but I can understand enough that I hardly have to look at the subtitles. It's a gem.

Posted by: Only Other Reason Jutland Is Famous at May 22, 2026 12:54 PM (oftw2)

209 The white chick the Feds arrested and charged with "masterminding" the Minnesota - Somali pirates fraud, one Aimee Bock, is facing 41 years in prison and a healthy fine.

What are the odds she rolls over on some of the others involved to mitigate her sentence?

Will any MN politico face consequences?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 12:54 PM (jehhT)

210 Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles

I would pay money to see that and I would sit along the Pacheco Pass.

Posted by: t-bird at May 22, 2026 12:54 PM (ReYtg)

211 They're just taking revenge on the Somali community for existing, essentially. Because they dared survive accusations of eating the cats and the dogs. This is usually how fascists operate.
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Paint thinner is not a breakfast beverage.

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 12:54 PM (J8APv)

212 207 It can happen. It SHOULD happen!

Maximum Overdrive II - Full Send

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 12:54 PM (wVcYX)

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Yeah, but Stephen King stopped doing cocaine and instead just does TDS.

It would be a very, very thin metaphor about how Trump is the devil. The main truck would be called Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:54 PM (46HP8)

213 To say nothing of the fuel costs.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 12:46 PM (73/SM)
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It's gonna be electric, of course...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 12:54 PM (gnNyN)

214 172 Anything to distract us from the files right?

This has become a sickness. Epstein Derangement Syndrome.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 12:47 PM (gtcuf)

The Dems are afraid of being Epstein-Barred infected themselves...how many are in the Epstein files?

Posted by: Zombie John Wayne as Ghengis Khan at May 22, 2026 12:55 PM (ynpvh)

215 Imagine crashing in a bus going 140 miles an hour!!!

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 12:55 PM (q177U)

216 "The Scots are good at hiding it."

Is Colin Farrell Scottish? He can do any and every regional American accent. Talented guy.

Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 12:55 PM (N8ZBc)

217 > I remember when Shirley Manson came on the scene
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I liked her

Posted by: Don Black at May 22, 2026 12:55 PM (ZxPkt)

218 "Californians, if you’re hitting the road this holiday weekend, be sure to AVOID Chevron."

Basically, he wants his people to be able to avoid lines when refueling. Like the rich care about a few extra cents/gal?

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 22, 2026 12:55 PM (W5mpo)

219 Californians, if you’re hitting the road this holiday weekend, be sure to AVOID Chevron.

Posted by: beckster at May 22, 2026 12:53 PM (kX27y)

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BREAKING and UNEXPECTEDLY: Chevron Announces Plans To Relocate Corporate Headquarters to Florida or Texas. Developing ..

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 12:55 PM (aDC+n)

220 Shirley Manson made two of the best female fronted rock albums and then...had a nervous break down and made a crappy third album.

And she never really bounced back

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (sKqQm)

221 They're just taking revenge on the Somali community for existing, essentially. Because they dared survive accusations of eating the cats and the dogs. This is usually how fascists operate.

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How to say you're uninformed about anything with these 3 easy sentences!

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (qBdHI)

222
tHiS iS jUsT rEpArAtIonS!

Posted by: Black Minnesotans at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (IifOV)

223 "Leading Report
@LeadingReport
1h
CIA was tracking DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s team, including allegedly monitoring every keystroke on their government computers and devices, per Catherine Herridge"

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (GD0B3)

224 TMJ I saw My Dinner with Andre when it came out. Everyone agreed it was an intolerable waste of time.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 22, 2026 12:44 PM (U/Byj)

When it comes out in IMAX it will be awesome.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (rbvCR)

225 >>> At Cali Post: "Harvard scientists have been honored for creating the world’s first “vagina-on-a-chip,” a groundbreaking device that mimics the female reproductive tract using living human cells."

Harvard plans to price the chip at $20/ea, same as in town.
Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 12:49 PM (N8ZBc)

Within 30 minutes the vagina on a chip connected to every internet browser on the planet, opened a million tabs in each browser, and crashed the internet, and the world.

Posted by: banana Dream - TERMINATOR 7: VAJUDGMENT DAY at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (3uBP9)

226 209 The white chick the Feds arrested and charged with "masterminding" the Minnesota - Somali pirates fraud, one Aimee Bock, is facing 41 years in prison and a healthy fine.

What are the odds she rolls over on some of the others involved to mitigate her sentence?

Will any MN politico face consequences?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 12:54 PM (jehhT)

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She wasn't just charged. She was convicted. Her sentence as laid out by the judge is 41 years.

Yes, a jury trial led to a massive conviction against an AWFL progressive, but I've been assured that all jury trials are just like the 1/6 trials in DC.

The time for negotiating over her sentence was months ago before the trial. I bet she gave some stuff up and this is a reduced sentence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (46HP8)

227 Did I tell you ? Yes, I did tell you!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (GD0B3)

228 It didn’t help that they made a John Wayne film on location in a desert area that had significant radioactive fallout in the soil. Just about the entire cast eventually died of cancer, including Dick Powell.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (B4klT)

229 Russell Crowe talked about going out drinking with Richard Harris and Oliver Reed during the filming of Gladiator. He could not begin to keep up with them.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (PSEDc)

230 178 Kng Conan sits atop his throne with a furrowed brow. Arms resting uoon his well earned beer belly. Lamenting his loss of body mass due to the unavailibility of certain potions meant to increase bulk and mass. A small bi-racial child wanders into the almost empty throne room.
"Daddy. Dinner time."
Conan heaves his formarly world class body off his rest.
"Ahhh. It * cough * is good to be king.

Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 12:48 PM (594J6)

There's Cohen the Barbarian in the Terry Pratchet "Disc World" novels...He's ninety, has no teeth, and has hemorrhoids...

Posted by: Zombie John Wayne as Ghengis Khan at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (ynpvh)

231 "Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles."

If it dips below 140 mph the bus blows up!

Posted by: Movie Fan at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (tM5h4)

232 Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 12:53 PM (gtcuf)

Lydia's accent was amazing. I caught her slipping a couple times though which is how I knew she was Scottish or Irish. Can't help it, it's like auditory viagra.

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 12:57 PM (J8APv)

233 "The Scots are good at hiding it."

Is Colin Farrell Scottish? He can do any and every regional American accent. Talented guy.
Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 12:55 PM (N8ZBc)
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He's Irish as a leprechaun drinking Guinness and vomiting up green puke

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 22, 2026 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

234 Just pointing out our anti-racist friends on the left are confusing our Somali Pirates with our Haitian Canadian Goose eaters - presumably because they are both black.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 12:57 PM (sKqQm)

235

BEECH GROVE, Ind. — Beech Grove City Schools said it will have no transportation services Friday after catalytic converters were stolen from all of the district's school buses overnight.

"Beech Grove City Schools will be in session today; however, we will have NO transportation services. If you can't drop your child off at school, the school day is excused."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 12:57 PM (Cqx++)

236 They would say their intentions were good, but I now increasingly doubt even that.

If they don't follow up with "Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood", then their intentions were always venal.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 12:57 PM (ExV1e)

237 216 "The Scots are good at hiding it."

Is Colin Farrell Scottish? He can do any and every regional American accent. Talented guy.

Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 12:55 PM (N8ZBc)

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He's Irish.

Fun little story:

All of the Greeks in Alexander have Irish accents because Oliver Stone cast the movie in Ireland and filled the movie with Irish actors, not because he didn't think Farrell couldn't do another accent.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:57 PM (46HP8)

238 >>>a) when a splinter goes up your quick
b) When the light turns yellow before you get to the interection
c) Your pulse when you see what you owe the IRS
d) How you sink in the faster version of quick sand: quickening sand
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 12:42 PM (ynpvh)

Are you secretly Bannana Dream?

Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 12:57 PM (q177U)

239 Illegal aliens are not supposed to be existing here, that’s kind of the point asshat

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 12:58 PM (B4klT)

240 Harvard scientists have been honored for creating the world’s first “vagina-on-a-chip,” a groundbreaking device that mimics the female reproductive tract using living human cells.

Just because you can do something doesn't, ah, mean you should.

Posted by: Jeff Goldblum at May 22, 2026 12:58 PM (gKWVE)

241 222
tHiS iS jUsT rEpArAtIonS!

Posted by: Black Minnesotans at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (IifOV)

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But these Somalis are the descendants of slave traders, not slaves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:58 PM (46HP8)

242 "The Scots are good at hiding it."

Is Colin Farrell Scottish? He can do any and every regional American accent. Talented guy.

Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 12:55 PM (N8ZBc)

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I'm always stunned at the ability of Brits to portray faithful America accents.

For example, I had no idea that Hugh Laurie (of "House MD" fame) was British until I saw a subsequent interview with him ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 12:58 PM (aDC+n)

243 I didn't like Colin Farrell at all...then I saw him In Bruges and he was great and I've liked his work since then.

Also he was in the season of True Detective based on Newsom stealing the CalTrans money

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 12:58 PM (sKqQm)

244 Welcome to AoSHQ's tits and ass, movie carousel.

You think it's war, you think it's money. It ain't nothing but tits and ass, honey.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 22, 2026 12:58 PM (LIEok)

245 194 “vagina-on-a-chip”

Um, I'll stick with salt and vingar.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 12:51 PM (gtcuf)

We got fish 'n chips...

Posted by: UK Regular at May 22, 2026 12:58 PM (ynpvh)

246 Russell Crowe talked about going out drinking with Richard Harris and Oliver Reed during the filming of Gladiator. He could not begin to keep up with them.

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I've read that, too. Also remember that same thing being said about Robert Shaw during the filming of Jaws.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 22, 2026 12:58 PM (qBdHI)

247 Imagine crashing in a bus going 140 miles an hour!!!
Posted by: Max Power at May 22, 2026 12:55 PM (q177U)

Any more Evel Knieval descendants around?

Have the bus jump 140 motorcycles and the fountain at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas. The carnage! In super de-duper slo-mo!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 12:58 PM (wVcYX)

248 158 So the only the person the Feds name, once again, has been known about for over a year. They are just dredging up old instances of already found fraud and making noise about them. Anything to distract us from the files right?

They're just taking revenge on the Somali community for existing, essentially. Because they dared survive accusations of eating the cats and the dogs. This is usually how fascists operate.

There might be fraud, there might not be, who knows? The problem is the Trump administration has absolutely zero credibility. They've lied about everything, so why should I believe this? The only legitimate action anybody in the Trump administration can take, up to and including the president, is to resign.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 22, 2026 12:45 PM (ycI94)

Whooo boy. The old we've known about for a year gambit. Of course Walz and crew have done nothing about it and are hiding documents, but vance is the bad guy for noticing.

Run with that instead of recognizing that team blue are the baddies in this situation.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 22, 2026 12:59 PM (cSOsh)

249 229 Russell Crowe talked about going out drinking with Richard Harris and Oliver Reed during the filming of Gladiator. He could not begin to keep up with them.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (PSEDc)

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They did that to calm his nerves.

Crowe was going up to Harris for help because the production was so big, so Harris and Reed just decided to get him pissed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:59 PM (46HP8)

250 There's Cohen the Barbarian in the Terry Pratchet "Disc World" novels...He's ninety, has no teeth, and has hemorrhoids...
Posted by: Zombie John Wayne as Ghengis Khan at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (ynpvh)
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It's not entirely true that he has no teeth. Yeah, his own teeth all fell out years (or decades) ago.

But he has a nice, shiny diamond grill made out of troll teeth.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 12:59 PM (gnNyN)

251 All of the Greeks in Alexander have Irish accents because Oliver Stone cast the movie in Ireland and filled the movie with Irish actors, not because he didn't think Farrell couldn't do another accent.

Out: Hide your boys

In: Hide your liquor

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 12:59 PM (sKqQm)

252 Fun little story:

All of the Greeks in Alexander have Irish accents because Oliver Stone cast the movie in Ireland and filled the movie with Irish actors, not because he didn't think Farrell couldn't do another accent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 12:57 PM (46HP

Joaquin Phoenix' American accent in Napoleon is the best!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 12:59 PM (GD0B3)

253 the world’s first “vagina-on-a-chip,”
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Betcha can't eat just one!

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 12:59 PM (J8APv)

254 A good O'Toole movie: My Favorite Year.
Included the line: "I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star."

Posted by: clarence at May 22, 2026 12:59 PM (31e/z)

255 I believe the Greeks have done some competent low-budget renditions of their epic cycle. Even up to the modern period. It's an art they didn't lose with Euripides.
But nooo, we have to have Hollywood to incompetent renditions on a high budget, and make it thooper gay too.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 22, 2026 12:59 PM (gKWVE)

256 If MN won't turn over their records at the cost of $350M, then the fraud they fear being discovered must be over $350M.

Posted by: WisRich at May 22, 2026 01:00 PM (uVg5W)

257 Vagina on a chip?

Does it come with a Cherry 2000 attached?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 22, 2026 01:00 PM (4iEwa)

258 243 I didn't like Colin Farrell at all...then I saw him In Bruges and he was great and I've liked his work since then.

Also he was in the season of True Detective based on Newsom stealing the CalTrans money

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 12:58 PM (sKqQm)

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He's genuinely a good actor whom Hollywood tried to turn into a movie star.

He's better just being an actor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 01:00 PM (46HP8)

259
We're witholding $350m from you but don't sweat it, we'll keep sending the other $20b for your scams.

All of this is just playacting. The administration has to look like they're addressing the fraud without actually toppling the US government, so we get... whatever this is supposed to be.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 22, 2026 01:00 PM (BI5O2)

260 $Billions in fraud in MN.

$Billions isn't money, it's a motive with a universal adapter(Movie, The Way of the Gun)

That assassination of those Democrats in MN sure did drop out of the news fast, didn't it.

Posted by: davidt at May 22, 2026 01:00 PM (Q+gd/)

261 IMO, a movie example of an accent that didn't work was Anthony Hopkins as Nixon

Posted by: Don Black at May 22, 2026 01:00 PM (ZxPkt)

262 246 I've read that, too. Also remember that same thing being said about Robert Shaw during the filming of Jaws.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 22, 2026 12:58 PM (qBdHI)

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Shaw screwed up the first day's work on the Indianapolis speech so badly because he was so drunk that he was borderline crying to Spielberg about it and did it all again the next day. The next day is what's in the film.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 01:01 PM (46HP8)

263 "The Scots are good at hiding it."

Is Colin Farrell Scottish? He can do any and every regional American accent. Talented guy.

Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 12:55 PM (N8ZBc)

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I'm always stunned at the ability of Brits to portray faithful America accents.

For example, I had no idea that Hugh Laurie (of "House MD" fame) was British until I saw a subsequent interview with him ...
Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 12:58 PM (aDC+n)
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Same with Hugh Jackman and the Helmsworth brothers. They sound like Crocodile Dundee in interviews.

Euro and Aussie actors are trained from a young age to do American accents, because that's where the $$ is. It's the dream of all of them to break into the USA market. So they absolutely must develop a convincing American accent.

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

264 For example, I had no idea that Hugh Laurie (of "House MD" fame) was British until I saw a subsequent interview with him ...
Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 12:58 PM (aDC+n)

Same with Damien Lewis. (MAJ Winters)

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 22, 2026 01:01 PM (PSEDc)

265 BTW the season of True Detective on CA stealing the Caltrans money came out in 2015.

So this has been out and in public for more then a decade.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 01:01 PM (sKqQm)

266 Beech Grove City Schools said it will have no transportation services Friday after catalytic converters were stolen from all of the district's school buses overnight.
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Back in the day the janitor and Gym coach would have installed a sleeve over the gap and they could get those poor dears to class.

Learned Helplessness, nobody has achieved greater proficiency in this endeavor than our Courageous Educators and their Administrator Bretheren.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 22, 2026 01:01 PM (B4klT)

267 @242

>>For example, I had no idea that Hugh Laurie (of "House MD" fame) was British until I saw a subsequent interview with him ...

They are good at doing the General American accent, and exaggerated Brooklyn accents.

And Aussies are generally incapable of effecting any type accent other than Aussie, except Toni Collette, who can pretty much do any accent.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 01:01 PM (XV/Pl)

268 252 Joaquin Phoenix' American accent in Napoleon is the best!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 12:59 PM (GD0B3)

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All the French in Paths of Glory sound like they're from New York City.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 01:02 PM (46HP8)

269 I see that "Waiting For Godot" has already been filmed, so there goes my idea.

Posted by: Watching Paint Dry at May 22, 2026 01:02 PM (oftw2)

270 Hugh Laurie has incredible range.

He was believable as Dr House and as a stupid, silly noble in Blackadder...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)

271 250 There's Cohen the Barbarian in the Terry Pratchet "Disc World" novels...He's ninety, has no teeth, and has hemorrhoids...
Posted by: Zombie John Wayne as Ghengis Khan at May 22, 2026 12:56 PM (ynpvh)
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It's not entirely true that he has no teeth. Yeah, his own teeth all fell out years (or decades) ago.

But he has a nice, shiny diamond grill made out of troll teeth.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 22, 2026 12:59 PM (gnNyN)

Indeed. That came later. Also ended up with a young woman...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 01:03 PM (ynpvh)

272 Joaquin Phoenix' American accent in Napoleon is the best!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 12:59 PM (GD0B3)

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lol

I remember being really bugged by that non-effort.

He did, however, pull off the American accent -- along with Russell Crowe's Australian accent -- in Gladiator (one of about a dozen movies I never tire of watching).

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 01:03 PM (aDC+n)

273 253 Ha!

Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 01:04 PM (N8ZBc)

274 Dude told me he hated Luther because of that "fake accent" Idris Elba was putting on.

He had seen him in The Wire and thought he was a homey.

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 01:04 PM (J8APv)

275 >>> He was believable as Dr House and as a stupid, silly noble in Blackadder...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 01:02 PM (sKqQm)

Also an army Lieutenant.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 01:04 PM (3uBP9)

276 Joaquin Phoenix' American accent in Napoleon is the best!

I like historical movies, so showing a different side of a historical figure is something I usually like - for example the coming Young Washington.

But...the Phoenix Napoleon movie was focused on what a horny dog Nappy was which, true or false, is an odd focus for a movie.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 01:04 PM (sKqQm)

277 >>>Harvard scientists have been honored for creating the world’s first “vagina-on-a-chip,” a groundbreaking device that mimics the female reproductive tract using living human cells.

Crap. I bet it is USB-C

F___ the EU standards, man.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 01:04 PM (rbvCR)

278 I saw a stream Critical Drinker did with Count Dankula. Usually either is perfectly understandable, but as this chat went on, they started to get thicker and thicker accents to where they started to get hard to understand.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Same issue with a genuine Cockney accent. We get the homogenized version as even Brits can have a problem understanding a Cockney born within earshot from Bow Bells. And that is leaving off rhyming slang.

Michael Caine and Michael Myers had a brief conversation in Goldmember using Cockney and rhyming slang.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)

279 Wait, maybe a "Godot" with an all-Somali cast!

Posted by: Harold Hecuba at May 22, 2026 01:04 PM (oftw2)

280 They are in on it.
They can’t risk having the full extent of the problem be seen.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 01:04 PM (4KUe5)

281
You almost have to admire someone willing to jump out of a 4th story building to avoid capture.

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That's some real Spiderman shit right there.
Posted by: Marlo Stanfield at May 22, 2026 12:24 PM (ubRhE)

Like I care what a straight-up bitch thinks....

Posted by: Omar Little at May 22, 2026 01:05 PM (y9nCu)

282 The women, always the women:

https://tinyurl.com/4cn6cr8s
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Los Angeles residents and business owners are fuming over claims that the sister-in-law of lefty late-night host Jimmy Kimmel bullied a longtime grocer for selling pro-Spencer Pratt cookies.

Carly Kimmel, Jimmy’s sister-in-law, was accused in a viral social media post of complaining about the Pratt-themed sweets sold at Vicente Foods, a 78-year-old grocery store in Brentwood.

Posted by: beckster at May 22, 2026 01:05 PM (kX27y)

283 Vagina on a chip. I prefer the slightly more poetic Venus on the half-shell.

Posted by: JuJuBee at May 22, 2026 01:05 PM (tM5h4)

284 Betcha can't eat just one!
Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 12:59 PM (J8APv)

That's good.

Posted by: Reforger at May 22, 2026 01:05 PM (594J6)

285 Elmer Fudd in Apocalypse Now:

da howwah
da howwah

Posted by: Don Black at May 22, 2026 01:06 PM (ZxPkt)

286 268 252 Joaquin Phoenix' American accent in Napoleon is the best!

Posted by: runner at May 22, 2026 12:59 PM (GD0B3)

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All the French in Paths of Glory sound like they're from New York City.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 01:02 PM (46HP

Worst accent ever was in the latest season of Jack reacher. The woman who played the Boston cop sounded like she had a stroke instead of a Boston accent. Just terrible.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 22, 2026 01:06 PM (cSOsh)

287 “Vagina on a chip?”

Feminism has no idea what’s coming…

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 01:06 PM (4KUe5)

288
But then he'd be gay AND lame.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 22, 2026 12:28 PM (bss/y)

Well, he doesn't LOOK French...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 22, 2026 01:06 PM (y9nCu)

289 Doritos >>>> Vagina on a chip > Sour cream chips

Posted by: Obligatory at May 22, 2026 01:06 PM (sKqQm)

290 "Leading Report
@LeadingReport
1h
CIA was tracking DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s team, including allegedly monitoring every keystroke on their government computers and devices, per Catherine Herridge"
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Just saw a rumor Tulsi is resigning.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 22, 2026 01:06 PM (73/SM)

291 >>> Same issue with a genuine Cockney accent. We get the homogenized version as even Brits can have a problem understanding a Cockney born within earshot from Bow Bells. And that is leaving off rhyming slang.

Michael Caine and Michael Myers had a brief conversation in Goldmember using Cockney and rhyming slang.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)

The Trip (2010) has a good bit on that sort of thing. I think ace has linked it before.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 01:07 PM (3uBP9)

292 289 Doritos >>>> Vagina on a chip > Sour cream chips

Posted by: Obligatory at May 22, 2026 01:06 PM (sKqQm)

Pringles?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 01:07 PM (ynpvh)

293
Muhammad al-Shitforbrains steals $3.3 Million, but still can't afford decent clothes?
Posted by: XTC

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I went on this rant yesterday morning. Somali-For-Brains grab millions of dollars and live like rats. What gives? Get a haircut, buy some clothes -- hell, shop at The Rack -- fix your teeth, BRUSH your damn teeth, get a facial, get a personal trainer. Do all that before you climb into a limo and drive home to your mansion.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 01:07 PM (n7rxJ)

294 286 Worst accent ever was in the latest season of Jack reacher. The woman who played the Boston cop sounded like she had a stroke instead of a Boston accent. Just terrible.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 22, 2026 01:06 PM (cSOsh)

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There's a difference?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 01:07 PM (46HP8)

295 BTW the season of True Detective on CA stealing the Caltrans money came out in 2015.

So this has been out and in public for more then a decade.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 01:01 PM (sKqQm)

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Yeah, that was amazing -- I couldn't believe they actually WENT THERE back then.

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 01:07 PM (aDC+n)

296 Vagina on a chip. I prefer the slightly more poetic Venus on the half-shell.

Baron Munchausen was not a good movie, but their introduction of Uma Thurman as Venus/Aphrodite was inspired.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 01:07 PM (sKqQm)

297 It's like the mirror universe Star Trek episode. Easier for civilized folks (Brits) to behave like barbarians (Amis), than vice versa.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 22, 2026 01:08 PM (W5mpo)

298 Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 01:06 PM (4KUe5)

And they have attacked and alienated Christians, the only people who will protect them.

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 01:08 PM (J8APv)

299 Vance speaks of "intentions" with regards to Omar.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Her intentions were pretty obvious.
Look at that disappearing $30M. She and her husband were setting up their money laundering operation. Bribers don't just hand bundles of cash anymore. They pay a company (owned by the bribee) inflated invoices for products and services that are never delivered.
It's called "plausible deniability", but that's a misnomer. It's really legally defensible activity. I don't mean that it's legal, I mean that there's enough material for a good attorney to create doubt in the mind of one juror.
Clinton Foundation.
Actually it goes way back and it's how people enter Congress with $50k in assets and retire ten years later, after a

Posted by: buddhaha at May 22, 2026 01:08 PM (Y2dJL)

300
Shawn Connery's "Spaniard" accent in the Highlander was special.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 22, 2026 01:08 PM (IifOV)

301 Actors never get the Boston accent right.
Only locals like Mark Wahlberg can pull it off.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 01:08 PM (4KUe5)

302 There's a difference?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 01:07 PM (46HP

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lmao

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 01:08 PM (aDC+n)

303
Sean not Shawn

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 22, 2026 01:08 PM (IifOV)

304 Get that Omar cunt the fuck out of our country now

Posted by: melodicmetal at May 22, 2026 01:08 PM (ayb5b)

305 Same with Hugh Jackman and the Helmsworth brothers. They sound like Crocodile Dundee in interviews.

Euro and Aussie actors are trained from a young age to do American accents, because that's where the $$ is. It's the dream of all of them to break into the USA market. So they absolutely must develop a convincing American accent.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

American accents are derived from UK in the first place. Basically requires reversion to peel off subsequent history after the Revolution. Same for Australians and New Zealanders wanting to revert to std. British accents.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 01:08 PM (E4rtv)

306 That assassination of those Democrats in MN sure did drop out of the news fast, didn't it.

Posted by: davidt at May 22, 2026 01:00 PM (Q+gd/)

That's because she was the only Democrat to vote with Republicans and strip illegals of medicaid.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 22, 2026 01:09 PM (Kdi1r)

307 Vagina on a chip. And who says Harvard has gone downhill. Their revered scientists are now working on equally profound endeavors to both enrich and advance humanity. What would we do without them!?

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 22, 2026 01:09 PM (qBdHI)

308 Had a GF from MA. She didn't have the Boston accent but a bunch of her friends did.

I remember she put one friend on the phone and I asked the friend to stop kidding around, and after her asking confusedly what I meant several times I finally got there was no kidding around in fact going on.

When I met the friend in person she was attractive...as long as she wasn't speaking.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 01:10 PM (sKqQm)

309
Late to the thread, but what are Oz's and Vance's options with MN withholding info?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 01:10 PM (n7rxJ)

310 People used to teach actors to speak like me, with my authentic Kansas gibberish. Also newscasters.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 01:11 PM (3uBP9)

311 Yep, Christians who have told them motherhood is a gift, not a burden, and who told them not to kill their children.

They will be amazed at how much they value that formerly unique ability once they are stripped from the process.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 01:11 PM (4KUe5)

312 Stanford just now received a grant to develop scrotum-on-a-chip. They're thinking outside the box.

Posted by: gp at May 22, 2026 01:11 PM (N8ZBc)

313 One of the worst accents I've ever heard is Keanu Reeves in Dracula.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 22, 2026 01:11 PM (qBdHI)

314 That assassination of those Democrats in MN sure did drop out of the news fast, didn't it.

On lefty forums he comes up as there sole example of "right wing violence"

When you ask why Walz didn't roll up his network of Republican terrorists then you don't get a coherent answer...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 01:11 PM (sKqQm)

315 Textbook case on how to steal billions and not get caught.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 22, 2026 12:29 PM (Cqx++)

Steal? My good sir, we were merely following the duly proscribed steps required by the bureaucrats duly appointed by the leaders duly elected by the 'people'. You couldn't expect to build something like Hoover Dam in five years, you cannot expect to build a near light speed rail line in an area prone to earthquakes in less than 200.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 22, 2026 01:11 PM (ExV1e)

316 The Trip (2010) has a good bit on that sort of thing. I think ace has linked it before.
Posted by: banana Dream
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England has an amazing variety of accents (though sadly lessening now due to TV, movies, etc.) for such a small country. Welsh, Geordie, Yorkshire, Liverpuddlian, Cockney (which people here mistake as std. british accent), Southeast and London, etc.

Toss in Irish, Scots both lowland and highland, and you get people speaking English that don't quite understand each other, especially when speaking fast.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 01:12 PM (E4rtv)

317 Yonder lies the castle of my fadder.

*speaking of accents*

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 22, 2026 01:12 PM (wVcYX)

318
why is Ilhan Omar still breathing free air?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 22, 2026 12:19 PM (N39Ws)

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Fraud investigations take time to collect evidence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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The evidence has been available for years.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 01:12 PM (n7rxJ)

319 @308

>>Had a GF from MA. She didn't have the Boston accent but a bunch of her friends did.

I was born and raised in The Bronx in an Irish/Italian neighborhood, I do not have a single trace of a Bronx accent.

It really is something you have to cultivate, embrace and lean into.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 01:13 PM (XV/Pl)

320 Stripping illegals from Medicaid = Stopping a billion dollar grift

Yeah, a lot of bad people needed that bill defeated.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 01:13 PM (4KUe5)

321 One of the worst accents I've ever heard is Keanu Reeves in Dracula.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 22, 2026 01:11 PM (qBdHI)

Vhoa

Posted by: Keanu Reeves at May 22, 2026 01:13 PM (J8APv)

322 313 One of the worst accents I've ever heard is Keanu Reeves in Dracula.
Posted by: Lady in Black
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Dick van Dyke, Mary Poppins. Even Dick admits his was terrible which he blames on that Disney hired an Irishman who liked to drink as his dialect coach.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 01:13 PM (E4rtv)

323 318 The evidence has been available for years.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 01:12 PM (n7rxJ)

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Yeah, but when did it start being collected?

During Biden's term?

Day 1 of Trump's term?

When did his appointed USA get into office in MN? It was about August of last year.

That's when the fraud investigations...started.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 01:13 PM (46HP8)

324 Yeah, just ask the Powerline blog guys for the documents and their source.

They had ALL of the evidence assembled and verified.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 01:14 PM (4KUe5)

325 319
I was born and raised in The Bronx in an Irish/Italian neighborhood, I do not have a single trace of a Bronx accent.

It really is something you have to cultivate, embrace and lean into.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 01:13 PM (XV/Pl)

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All of my dad's family has thick middle Tennessee country accents.

But he doesn't. No idea where it went. It's not like he went to college in the northeast or something. UTenn and VTech.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 01:14 PM (46HP8)

326 >>> Late to the thread, but what are Oz's and Vance's options with MN withholding info?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 01:10 PM (n7rxJ)

Trying to cut off fed $$$. They've done some of that and JD implies they should do more above.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 01:15 PM (3uBP9)

327 I studied German in Dresden for a month back in 2011. Class of about 12. Not a beginner class, like 2nd or 3rd semester. Best guy was Libyan. I was 2nd or 3rd. Worst was this Scot. Nice guy, but no one could understand him in German or English.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 22, 2026 01:15 PM (W5mpo)

328 174 I've only been on one Greyhound bus in my life. A completely miserable trip that smelled like urine and vomit. Would not suggest. Even if it goes 140MPH.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

If you watch the news report about the high-speed bus carefully, at the end they say,"Oh, yeah, and if 140mph isn't feasible, then the buses will go 80 mph instead."

Uhhhh...most traffic on Highway 5 already goes ~80mph. So what they're talking about is spending tens of billions of dollars to re-invent...the Greyhound bus system. Which already exists. And which nobody ever rides.

Posted by: zombie at May 22, 2026 01:15 PM (Av6i5)

329 *side eyes*

Posted by: Dick Van Dyke as Burt the Chimney Sweep in Mary Poppins at May 22, 2026 01:15 PM (wVcYX)

330 Not gonna hold my breath waiting for Omar to be punished.

Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 01:15 PM (J8APv)

331 Stripping illegals from Medicaid = Stopping a billion dollar grift

The left: It is impossible for undocumented immigrants to get any welfare or federal aid! That's a fact!

Also the left: If you require proof of citizenship or at least legal presence in the US for welfare or federal aid millions will die!

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 01:15 PM (sKqQm)

332
Send in the U.S. Marshals. Haul the miscreants out in leg irons.

Enough of this insurrectionist shit.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 22, 2026 01:15 PM (s9VOe)

333 307 Vagina on a chip. And who says Harvard has gone downhill. Their revered scientists are now working on equally profound endeavors to both enrich and advance humanity. What would we do without them!?

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 22, 2026 01:09 PM (qBdHI)

Vagina-on-a-chip >>> Dick-in-a-box...

https://youtu.be/VHQBgOZKk6k

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 01:16 PM (ynpvh)

334 The reason why Americans don't really do good British accents is because, they don't have to, generally, most movies are made for the American box office, and if you need a genuine British accent, there are numerous British actors you can cast.

The reason British actors can do American accents well, is they have to.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 01:16 PM (XV/Pl)

335 Baron Munchausen was not a good movie, but their introduction of Uma Thurman as Venus/Aphrodite was inspired.
Posted by: 18-1
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Quirky fantastical movie but near the end, a nasty leader (Jonathan Pryce) trying to prevent people led by Baron von Munchausen from going beyond the walls to see what is what reminds me of the Covid lockdowns versus the people.

Like then, we opened the gates and nothing was there outside it.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 01:16 PM (E4rtv)

336 What is Marisa Tome's accent in My Cousin Vinny. That's a cute accent. Maybe it's just her. She's was hellacute in that movie.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 01:16 PM (3uBP9)

337
That Bock lady getting 40+ years for the Minnesota fraud without her turning and ratting everyone out is shocking. If the Clintons were involved, people would have died before trial.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 22, 2026 01:17 PM (IifOV)

338 330 Not gonna hold my breath waiting for Omar to be punished.
Posted by: ... at May 22, 2026 01:15 PM (J8APv)

She knows where the bodies are buried.
So to speak.

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 01:17 PM (6wpGE)

339 Oooo...

The Bride is on Max now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 01:17 PM (46HP8)

340 When I met the friend in person she was attractive...as long as she wasn't speaking.
****

Announcer: "There's a hanging curve ball over the middle of the plate."

Posted by: clarence at May 22, 2026 01:17 PM (31e/z)

341 337
That Bock lady getting 40+ years for the Minnesota fraud without her turning and ratting everyone out is shocking. If the Clintons were involved, people would have died before trial.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 22, 2026 01:17 PM (IifOV)

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Who says she didn't?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 01:17 PM (46HP8)

342 209 The white chick the Feds arrested and charged with "masterminding" the Minnesota - Somali pirates fraud, one Aimee Bock, is facing 41 years in prison and a healthy fine.

What are the odds she rolls over on some of the others involved to mitigate her sentence?

Will any MN politico face consequences?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 22, 2026 12:54 PM (jehhT)

My take is the 41 year sentence is a message to others who will be arrested, to quickly roll over on their higher-ups. Or else. I'm sure the prosecutors and whatever pro bono defense attorneys they get will tell them, numerous times, there is no parole in the Federal system.

Posted by: Gref at May 22, 2026 01:17 PM (5rh/l)

343 Sucked to find out the guy who plays Jack Reacher has a raging, and I mean raging case of TDS. Total retard.

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 01:18 PM (gtcuf)

344 @325

>>All of my dad's family has thick middle Tennessee country accents.

You have what I would consider a standard American accent with almost no regional specificity.

You sound like you a from nowhere'sville, population 1.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 01:18 PM (XV/Pl)

345 Had Peckinpah not drunk/drugged himself to death, he could have done a spiffy sequel to Babette's Feast that I would pay to see.

Posted by: (The Sisters Are Prostitutes In This One) at May 22, 2026 01:18 PM (oftw2)

346 Marisa Tome was one of the most beautiful women in hollywood.

Not a bad actress either, but really when she was onscreen that wasn't always as easy to notice

Posted by: 18-1 at May 22, 2026 01:18 PM (sKqQm)

347 344 @325

>>All of my dad's family has thick middle Tennessee country accents.

You have what I would consider a standard American accent with almost no regional specificity.

You sound like you a from nowhere'sville, population 1.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 22, 2026 01:18 PM (XV/Pl)

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Some dude I used to know was really good with accents. Said I was from Michigan.

I've spent roughly 24 hours in Michigan once.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 01:18 PM (46HP8)

348 Worst accent ever was in the latest season of Jack reacher. The woman who played the Boston cop sounded like she had a stroke instead of a Boston accent. Just terrible.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 22, 2026 01:06 PM (cSOsh)

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We liked the first season of Reacher, but then the asshat actor who played the main character had to go all #NeverTrump -- so we said "Fuck You" in response.

We also really liked the first season of The Terminal List (based on the novels by former Navy SEAL and conservative Jack Carr) and looking forward to its second season NOW 4 YEARS LATER beginning in October!

Posted by: ShainS at May 22, 2026 01:19 PM (BcFIZ)

349 Tulsi just quit, sources say her husband is battling a very rare cancer......

Posted by: beckster at May 22, 2026 01:19 PM (kX27y)

350 345 Had Peckinpah not drunk/drugged himself to death, he could have done a spiffy sequel to Babette's Feast that I would pay to see.

Posted by: (The Sisters Are Prostitutes In This One) at May 22, 2026 01:18 PM (oftw2)

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There is an alternate universe out there where this happened.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 01:19 PM (46HP8)

351 >>> Who says she didn't?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 01:17 PM (46HP

I guess we'll see where she gets put, in general population, probably not. Somewhere cushy and isolated, maybe she did.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 01:19 PM (3uBP9)

352 Pretty much guaranteed all new spending since 2020 was going to fraud. I can tell becuase even though trillions in additional spending was done my personal standard of living (the standard of living of everyone I know) never improved.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 22, 2026 01:19 PM (Vh9CX)

353 All of my dad's family has thick middle Tennessee country accents.

But he doesn't. No idea where it went. It's not like he went to college in the northeast or something. UTenn and VTech.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Accents come from mirroring peer groups over time. And accents from early in life get softened or even vanish because of that. Plus they can be a professional hindrance to careers.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 01:19 PM (E4rtv)

354 What’s interesting about Brits doing American accent is that their voice gets lower. British speaking generally = higher pitched voice.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 01:19 PM (4KUe5)

355 333 307
Vagina-on-a-chip >>> Dick-in-a-box...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 01:16 PM (ynpvh)

sh*t-on-a-shingle

Posted by: m at May 22, 2026 01:19 PM (6wpGE)

356 336 What is Marisa Tome's accent in My Cousin Vinny. That's a cute accent. Maybe it's just her. She's was hellacute in that movie.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 22, 2026 01:16 PM (3uBP9)

Loved the court room scene.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 22, 2026 01:20 PM (cSOsh)

357 349 Tulsi just quit, sources say her husband is battling a very rare cancer......

oh no! that's terrible.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 22, 2026 01:20 PM (j+aD2)

358 American accents are derived from UK in the first place. Basically requires reversion to peel off subsequent history after the Revolution. Same for Australians and New Zealanders wanting to revert to std. British accents.
Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 01:08 PM (E4rtv)

There is some argument about that. Colonial language is supposed to be more conservative than the home country, but this is based on a number of assumptions. One is that the Metropole is the leading force behind language change and conservation of accent in the colonies which is based on the Spanish in South America model and was an element of the relatively high status "Spaniards" had in the new world as opposed to the "criollos" who were born in the Americas. It ignores the various parochial accents that were also the home accents when there was less sending home of young men for education in the home country.
There has been a lot of linguistic innovation and multi culti mixing in the colonies as well, not just static conservatism.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 22, 2026 01:20 PM (rbvCR)

359 That popular young rightie influencer Angela Rose spent much of her childhood in her mother's native Peru. She's fully bilingual and has no trace of an accent in either English or Spanish.

I can barely speak English LOL

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 01:20 PM (gtcuf)

360
Tulsi Gabbards husband has bone cancer,

Posted by: four seasons at May 22, 2026 01:21 PM (3ek7K)

361
Who says she didn't?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 22, 2026 01:17 PM

I'd have thought we'd be hearing about it by now. They leak like a sieve.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 22, 2026 01:22 PM (IifOV)

362 354 What’s interesting about Brits doing American accent is that their voice gets lower. British speaking generally = higher pitched voice.
Posted by: Lizzy
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Interesting observation. I will listen and try to figure out that.

Posted by: whig at May 22, 2026 01:22 PM (E4rtv)

363 The British secret agent fella asked if I was named after my father.

Posted by: Plenty O'Toole at May 22, 2026 01:22 PM (wVcYX)

364
Traitor is right. Trump should just ignore him and do the recess appointments......

@amuse
@amuse
·
5h
TRAITOR: Leader Thune just sent the Senate home for a 12 day paid vacation but he’s having one senator stay behind to gavel in every three days to block Trump from making recess appointments. No other president has had his own party use pro forma sessions against him.

Posted by: beckster at May 22, 2026 01:22 PM (kX27y)

365
I rode Greyhound buses from Northern Michigan to New Hampshire in 1976. There was a three plus week gap between heading out to NH and heading home. I stopped overnight in Chicago on the way back to MI.

These were not luxurious trips, but they were tolerable. Under no circumstances would I care to repeat that circuitous journey today.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 22, 2026 01:23 PM (s9VOe)

366 Word is that TJM will next rank all 31 "Carry On" films in order. Waiting on tenterhooks, here!

Posted by: Charles Hawtrey at May 22, 2026 01:23 PM (oftw2)

367 359 That popular young rightie influencer Angela Rose spent much of her childhood in her mother's native Peru. She's fully bilingual and has no trace of an accent in either English or Spanish.

I can barely speak English LOL

Posted by: Delurker at May 22, 2026 01:20 PM (gtcuf)

My wife, God rest her soul, was fluent in English (her 3rd language) and Spanish (her 2nd language). Both were flawless. Her first language (Cantonese/Toisan) she admitted sucked. She took French in HS and Mandarin in College (professor told her she had no business learning Mandarin with her Cantonese accent)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 22, 2026 01:23 PM (ynpvh)

368 I think it’s because the British accent requires more control, and the American accent is much more relaxed, so their mouth is relaxed?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 22, 2026 01:24 PM (4KUe5)

369
That Bock lady getting 40+ years for the Minnesota fraud without her turning and ratting everyone out is shocking. If the Clintons were involved, people would have died before trial.
Posted by: Frank Barone

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She did rat out a few people in between conviction and sentencing, presumably to get a lighter sentence. She even said that Ilhan "had to have known."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 22, 2026 01:24 PM (n7rxJ)

370
Tulsi Gabbards husband has bone cancer,
Posted by: four seasons

Prayers for her and him.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 22, 2026 01:24 PM (s9VOe)

371
Just watched a Peckinpah movie, "The Osterman Weekend".

Interesting.

Posted by: Frank Barone at May 22, 2026 01:24 PM (IifOV)

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