The Soldier Who Was Mocked by Unemployed Nazi Gerald Platner Speaks

Let me ask veterans here: If you collect full 100% disability from the military, are you able to also work? Because Platner claims to be an "oyster farmer" but also receives full 100% "disability." It seems to me he's that either:

1, he can work, but is bilking the system, because he's another Bernie Sanders laybout who refuses to work and exists perpetually on welfare;

or,

2, he actually can't work, but pretends to be an "oyster farmer" because that sounds like he might actually do some rough-handed work and wants to hide the fact that he's a layabout like his hero Bernie Sanders.

Any ideas? How can he be both so incapable of labor that he's on 100% full disability while also being an "oyster farmer"?

Which is it-- is he a Workin' Man or a Welfare Case? It can't be both, can it?

Update:

Ace, I'm a disabled Vet,yes you can draw 100% and still work.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

I know lots of 100% disabled vets who work. Lots of them work for federal, state, and local governments.
Posted by: lin-duh

I guess "disability" here doesn't have the meaning one might assume it does.

Okay, I guess I should have figured he wouldn't commit benefits fraud right out in the open.

But I've also read he declares no income from his "job" as an "oyster farmer." I think it's his wife's business, and he does not declare income from it on his income tax forms.

Update: From commenters, I think I can guess how this works: You get a percentage "disability" from various wounds you take while in service. This number is not dependent on whether you are or are not actually disabled. It's just a tally of woundings, and you're paid a stipend for life based on that, and it's called "disability" but isn't what your average man on the street would call "disability."

Is that right?

Next item: You may remember that the Nazi Communist Gerald Platner mocked a US soldier who had been shot by a terrorist. Platner laughed about the shooting of an American soldier, critiqued the soldier's abilities, declared that he was incompetent, and said further that he "didn't deserve to live."

That soldier now reveals himself in the WSJ:

Steve Guest
@SteveGuest
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Army combat veteran and a Purple Heart recipient Teddy Daniels in the Wall Street Journal: I'm the Soldier Graham Platner Mocked
"Flannel shirt and all, Graham Platner is Tim Walz on steroids. An entitled brat who campaigns with socialist Bernie Sanders. A real man by the lights of the Democratic Party, he presents himself as "relatable" to working-class Americans, but in reality he's a typical elitist who believes blue-collar, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth rural Americans are stupid and racist. I couldn't care less about the comments he made about me, but they are a reflection of his character. I never thought I'd see the day when Democrats would even consider backing a candidate like this."
https://wsj.com/opinion/im-the

Democratic men are having an identity crisis. Maine's Graham Platner, the party's presumptive nominee for U.S. Senate, is a prime example. Mr. Platner presents himself as a savior for working-class Americans while his background screams the opposite and his offensive comments about fellow veterans--including me--speak poorly of his character.
The tough-talking Marine veteran struts around in a Carhartt jacket and jeans, but recent reporting relates that he comes from a prestigious family where he had access to an elite private-school education and a lifestyle of privilege. He also plays up his job as an "oyster farmer," but the only client mentioned in his federal financial disclosure was the restaurant his mother owns.
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Flannel shirt and all, Graham Platner is Tim Walz on steroids. An entitled brat who campaigns with socialist Bernie Sanders. A real man by the lights of the Democratic Party, he presents himself as "relatable" to working-class Americans, but in reality he's a typical elitist who believes blue-collar, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth rural Americans are stupid and racist. I couldn't care less about the comments he made about me, but they are a reflection of his character. I never thought I'd see the day when Democrats would even consider backing a candidate like this.

28 Don't forget, Platner also mocked Chris Kyle.
Posted by: Bulg

Oh I did forget that. He claimed Kyle was murdering civilians to pad his kill-count.

Update: Some say the scam isn't the disability -- it's the claim of being an "oyster farmer."

Oyster farming is not really "work," it is - as far as I can tell - either a hobby for eccentrics or a grift. I knew an oyster farmer and it seem you have to get a plot from the state - something like an allotment in UK, where you sign up and wait on a list and then pay a small fee, but then you contract out the actual, you know, farming - the digging and shit.
Posted by: bob

The Nazi Public Masturbator Who Is Sexually Aroused by the Smell of Male Feces has been attacking Susan Collins for sending him off to war. She voted for the Iraq War, he says, which resulted in this non-working Nazi being shipped off to fight in a war he never signed up for.

Of course, the Nazi Korprophiliac is lying. Collins did vote to authorize military action in Iraq, but Platner signed up for the military two years into the Iraq War, which means his claims of having been sent there against his will by Susan Collins are just more Nazi shit-aroused propaganda.

In new news, Collins points out that not only did he sign up knowing he'd be going straight to war, but additionally, he then signed up to be a mercenary in Blackwater after he was discharged by the US Military.

Now I'm using the word "mercenary" as the left uses it. I have never thought there was anything wrong with military men signing up to make a large salary doing what they had just been doing for Uncle Sam for a small salary. To me it's like giving up your amateur status in golf to accept a prize (which only declared pros can receive).

But that's the way the left sees it-- if you're a private military contractor, you're a "mercenary." And "screw them, I feel nothing," as Platner's no-doubt supporter DailyKos said of four murdered contractors.

This once again proves this Nazi feces-fanatic is lying about Collins "sending him to war." He was a private citizen with no further military obligations when he signed a private contract with a private military contracting firm. Did Susan Collins force this Nazi scum to take a signing bonus and nice salary?

Sen. Susan Collins: "Platner's Decision" To Go To War, "He Was Not Drafted"

"The anger I feel is for the people who sent me," Platner said. "We destroyed Iraq."

"He not only enlisted twice —after the war was started— but he also went to work for... Blackwater," Collins said. https://t.co/HWAQqvN8rJ pic.twitter.com/Yaz6dGgywf
— RealClearPolitics (@RCPolitics) May 28, 2026

Legal Phil
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People really do not appreciate how insane it is that Platner went to work for Blackwater--which had to change its name because it was so reviled due to scandal--and now is trying to pass himself off as some poor kid who was sent off to war.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:23 PM

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1 Ha

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:24 PM (Za1vu)

2 This is the guy the Dems have chosen to be their standard bearer.

Keep that in mind.

They really, REALLY mean it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:24 PM (Kdi1r)

3 Ace, I'm a disabled Vet,yes you can draw 100% and still work.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 29, 2026 02:24 PM (iMotb)

4 Can you be 100% disabled and find Porta Potties to whack off in?

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 02:25 PM (Gqar8)

5 Oyster farming isn't even really a thing. He made up the term.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 29, 2026 02:25 PM (YZ0Fo)

6 I know lots of 100% disabled vets who work. Lots of them work for federal, state, and local governments.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (Za1vu)

7 Where' Lt. Dan in all of this?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (XV/Pl)

8 FURST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (jCuxY)

9 Or.....first.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (jCuxY)

10 Great article ace...

For a party that seems to get about 48% of the vote, the Dems seem to be having a ton of trouble connecting with real men, women, blacks, hispanics.....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (Sco7b)

11 >>>3 Ace, I'm a disabled Vet,yes you can draw 100% and still work.

Oh okay, thanks.

Posted by: Douglas Quaid at Rekall at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (1wjle)

12 I hate typing on screens.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (jCuxY)

13 I don't even know what "layabout" even means. HA HAAA!

Posted by: Tucker layabout Carlson at May 29, 2026 02:27 PM (3uBP9)

14 Wow.

Why are Dermocrats all such vile scumbags?

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:27 PM (77rzZ)

15 I suspect that the oyster farm is a political put-on. Not to discount the possibility that it is also a scam since I read that his only "customer" is his mother's restaurant.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 29, 2026 02:27 PM (vTZFs)

16 Deserves a carryover.

The View remains, if you can believe it, dumber than mud that's been fucked by retards.

Oh shit that's funny. Don't care who ya are.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:27 PM (jCuxY)

17 I bested sponge for first😜

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:27 PM (Za1vu)

18 Willowed:
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Obama doesn't like Joey. Obama doesn't like the Clintons. Obama doesn't like Trump. Obama doesn't like anyone. He tolerates people giving him tongue baths because they are useful idiots. Obama only like himself
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 02:21 PM (SW0z7)
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That actually fits in brilliantly with former Hollywood Dem, Burt Prelustky's observation:

Liberals really don't like each other. Their social cohesion is based on commonality of politics. Which is why when you break with their politics, there is no etiquette they are required to observe.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:28 PM (Fi81e)

19 I figured "oyster farmer" was a metaphor for something else. Probably gay.
Pearls..pearl necklace...farming...gay.

Posted by: 29Victor at May 29, 2026 02:28 PM (0MjtC)

20 Platner sounds like a Blue Falcon, a Buddy F**ker.

I wonder what his fellow servicemembers thought at the time he was over in Iraq.

Also, remember John F'ing Kerry and the Swiftboat Veterans. The latter didn't have many good things to say about Kerry, and the media went after them instead of their darling presidential contender who was "Reporting For Duty!"

Posted by: Another Anon at May 29, 2026 02:28 PM (4h45B)

21 Hocks loogies for profit?

Posted by: connected and litigious at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (cS1cw)

22 One question I have, and I hope it's not taken as trolly or annoying.
I assume Putzkommandant Platner wasn't 100% disabled when he switched over to XE-formerly-Blackwater. I don't know what they hire over there but I assume it's people who know how to fuck shit up and can still do that. Which is a lot of assumptions but let's roll with it.
If you aren't disabled going into XE but you get hurt doing work for XE (alongside Uncle Sam): does that count toward your disability rating with the VA?

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (gKWVE)

23 suspect that the oyster farm is a political put-on. Not to discount the possibility that it is also a scam since I read that his only "customer" is his mother's restaurant.
Posted by: Oddbob

His "business" loses money. He's a silver spoon socialist through and through. He's father was very involved in big time Maine politics.

Posted by: BruceWayne at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (YZ0Fo)

24 Platner is not a very clever liar, is he?

I have never been in the military, but based on my research that included watching the terminal list, it seems to be the case that at least some soldiers do receive higher pay for combat or special ops. According to what I heard without trying to raise my corpoulent body from the recliner is that the special ops guys all drove land cruisers and wore rolexes. And good for them!

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (m5VHW)

25 >>>The View remains, if you can believe it, dumber than mud that's been fucked by retards.
Oh shit that's funny. Don't care who ya are.

I stole that from Ethan Van Sciver, a former DC comics artist now an independent due to cancellation, who got it from Warren Ellis, who was also cancelled for liking big-titty goth girls (who doesn't) who claimed that he would woo them and have sex with them but then not make them his wife. These adult women claimed they were being "Groomed."

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (1wjle)

26 I don't know how honest his claims are but I'm assuming he's getting 100% veteran's disability which isn't like Social Security disability as I understand it.

I believe veteran's disability has a max rate and various issues you have related to service can add up to your max rate.

Posted by: Austin in TC at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (l00bX)

27 Democrats will say absolutely anything they need to say in order to win. Any inconsistencies in what they say will be covered up by the official press and anyway do not exist until Republicans pounce on them. Logic is a tool of the white patriarchy.

Posted by: PG at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (1aX52)

28 Don't forget, Platner also mocked Chris Kyle.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

29 Like a lot of classifications that come with benefits, disability attracts a lot of fraud.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (Y6K7e)

30 >>> suspect that the oyster farm is a political put-on. Not to discount the possibility that it is also a scam since I read that his only "customer" is his mother's restaurant.

Huh!

Workin' Man!

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (1wjle)

31 Grant Planter IS: TMI.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (Fi81e)

32 The Nazi Public Masturbator Who Is Sexually Aroused by the Smell of Male Feces

That's some cruelty gold, Ace.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (Kt19C)

33 I know lots of 100% disabled vets who work. Lots of them work for federal, state, and local governments.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:26 PM (Za1vu)

Are they doing desk jobs or physical labor? I suspect that's what Ace really is trying to ask. Oyster farming seems likely to require physical labor, but I'm from Colorado so it's not like I'd know for sure.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (lFFaq)

34 I'm 100% a quadriplegic of the mind.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:31 PM (7RBt4)

35 Platner is in IC (oh shadow IC I guess) asset plainly

are they getting off on putting up asshats like this, just laughing away? or is their bench just that short?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:31 PM (j+aD2)

36 And yeah, throwing Teddy Daniels under that bus was purest Norwegian Blue energy. I'm past done listening to Platner sqawk

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:31 PM (gKWVE)

37 their darling presidential contender who was "Reporting For Duty!"
Posted by: Another Anon

"John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam"

I miss Rush

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (77rzZ)

38 Democrats and leftists in general are juat miserable assholes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (jCuxY)

39 oh crap i coulda been first. damn bladder

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (CWTWj)

40 >>> I figured "oyster farmer" was a metaphor for something else. Probably gay.
Pearls..pearl necklace...farming...gay.

this makes sense to me.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (1wjle)

41 Don't forget, Platner also mocked Chris Kyle.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:30 PM (77rzZ)

No.

Platner called Kyle a murderer and stated directly that Kyle deliberately targeted and killed civilians.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (Kdi1r)

42 Chris Kyle wasn't man enough to get it up for the smell of male excrement.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (Fi81e)

43 oyster farmer is another part of the joke

these people have a very odd sense of humor

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (j+aD2)

44 Oyster farming seems likely to require physical labor, but I'm from Colorado so it's not like I'd know for sure.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette

Harvesting Rocky Mountain oysters is demanding and dangerous physical labor.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (77rzZ)

45 These adult women claimed they were being "Groomed."

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (1wjle)

I would like to be groomed by Sydney Sweeney.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (iERP6)

46 43 oyster farmer is another part of the joke

these people have a very odd sense of humor

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (j+aD2)

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I remember reading that Platner's mother is the only customer of the oyster farm.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (7RBt4)

47 >>>28 Don't forget, Platner also mocked Chris Kyle.
iOh I did forget that. He claimed Kyle was murdering civilians to pad his kill-count.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (1wjle)

48 I figured "oyster farmer" was a metaphor for something else. Probably gay.
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Oysters are definitely vaginal, though.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (Fi81e)

49 I bested sponge for first😜
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:27 PM (Za1vu)

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I yield the spot, for now. Posting from my phone at 34,000 ft kinda sucks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (jCuxY)

50 Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (gKWVE)

This seems like a good question. Are we paying for injuries he received while not in the military?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (lFFaq)

51 I was giving Platner a slight pass over Chris Kyle because there does exist a subculture of vets who grumble that Kyle got a movie and they didn't. Since both sides are vets and I'm not, I'm unqualified to judge that position.
Platner's take on Daniels on the other hand was clear b.f.'ing. Nobody has to be a vet to see that.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (gKWVE)

52 Platner called Kyle a murderer and stated directly that Kyle deliberately targeted and killed civilians.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (Kdi1r)

Based on zero evidence.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (iERP6)

53 I'm 0%. I didn't know they did that until they did it to me.
I have a service connected disability that get's me no money.
That's okay. I don't need their "care" nor thier money.

Posted by: Reforger at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (Rxz7v)

54 ... it also shows a pattern of behavior.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (gKWVE)

55 52 Platner called Kyle a murderer and stated directly that Kyle deliberately targeted and killed civilians.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (Kdi1r)

Based on zero evidence.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (iERP6)

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Just like the efficacy of socialism!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (7RBt4)

56 35 > are they getting off on putting up asshats like this, just laughing away? or is their bench just that short?

Their bench must be short enough if they're recruiting tattoo carrying nazis.

Posted by: Gaff at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (EqzMw)

57 No.

Platner called Kyle a murderer and stated directly that Kyle deliberately targeted and killed civilians.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

OK, thanks. I knew he was somehow saying that Kyle deserved what he got, and took it as mockery.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:35 PM (77rzZ)

58 The Nazi Public Masturbator Who Is Sexually Aroused by the Smell of Male Feces ...

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"You're gonna need to be A LOT MOAR specific."

/Cucker Qatarlson

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 02:35 PM (BGLxh)

59 Oyster farming.

Shoving your meat in a man's fartclam.

Fartoyster.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:35 PM (jCuxY)

60 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:33 PM (jCuxY)

I hope this is not a continuation of the awful flight you were talking about yesterday with the plane change and delays.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 02:35 PM (Nx5jP)

61 What's the common bond here?

Oh, yeah. Nazis like socialism, too.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (Fi81e)

62 Graham Platner Is Forcing Centrist Dems to Reckon With “Vote Blue No Matter Who." Rep. Jake Auchincloss urging Democrats to vote against the presumptive Maine Senate nominee exposes the limits of party unity.

Susan Collins will 100% fuck Democrats over every time. She will never be a tie-breaker, or “reach across the aisle” unless she’s the designated Republican. Even if he's a Democrat spoiler, like Fetterman or Sinema, you might get a vote with Democrats occasionally.

Bring RCV to all elections. Newsom just vetoed a bill to allow jurisdictions in California to adopt Ranked Choice Voting.

What a shit headline designed to cause dissension. Obviously he’s the person to vote for. His opponent has garbage policies that hurt people. Never mind that she’s also older, thus less likely to be affected by her bad policies and she’s clearly out of touch with her constituents

Ah yes, more articles trying stoke the divide in Democratic voters. Can tell we're getting close to election season. Far left, center leaning, either Democrat should get your vote against MAGA. Anything less is enabling fascism.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (JCZqz)

63 I was giving Platner a slight pass over Chris Kyle because there does exist a subculture of vets who grumble that Kyle got a movie and they didn't.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:34 PM (gKWVE)

The vets grumbling that they didn't get a movie aren't calling Kyle a deliberate killer of civilians like Platner is, though.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (Kdi1r)

64 If you aren't disabled going into XE but you get hurt doing work for XE (alongside Uncle Sam): does that count toward your disability rating with the VA?
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:29 PM (gKWVE)

No.

Dude is a serial liar.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (DwqWV)

65 Someone on the morning doomscroll made an observation. Democrats spent the last few years calling everyone on the right a Nazi. Now, they are running literal Nazis. Platner, the guy in New Jersey who joined Al Qaeda, the woman in Texas who wants to out Jews in camps. It's like they were desensitizing the public while preparing to run actual fascists.

Lately, they have started to call everyone on the right a pedophile. And they are running a guy in California who decriminalized gay pedophilia and blocked a bill making child sex trafficking a felony.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (gb7Bj)

66 35 Platner is in IC (oh shadow IC I guess) asset plainly

are they getting off on putting up asshats like this, just laughing away? or is their bench just that short?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:31 PM (j+aD2)

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The establishment really, REALLY didn't want him. That's why Schumer recruited Janet Mills to run against him.

It's just that the Democrat base desire authentic middle-class appeal so much that they run towards anyone who can put on a flannel shirt and with a beard who says the same things that the progressive base already wants.

They want their Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (7RBt4)

67 My cousin Congress critter Pat Ryan tweeted out an attack on Collins. He's a West Pointer who did two tours in Iraq. He's a politician in a hurry and has taken to cursing to prove his points

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (SW0z7)

68 I yield the spot, for now. Posting from my phone at 34,000 ft kinda sucks.
Posted by: Sponge

You aren't in NJ yet? Did the flight go by way of Skagway, Alaska.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:37 PM (77rzZ)

69 62 Susan Collins will 100% fuck Democrats over every time. She will never be a tie-breaker, or “reach across the aisle” unless she’s the designated Republican. Even if he's a Democrat spoiler, like Fetterman or Sinema, you might get a vote with Democrats occasionally.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (JCZqz)

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Oh, look, I agree with Reddit.

Collins comes through whenever leadership actually needs her. She voted for Kavanaugh, for instance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:37 PM (7RBt4)

70 >>>It's just that the Democrat base desire authentic middle-class appeal so much that they run towards anyone who can put on a flannel shirt and with a beard who says the same things that the progressive base already wants.

yeah but someone pushed this guy to the press. He got write ups in major media before he'd ever announced.

I think he's a Soros Special.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (1wjle)

71 remember, platner got the nomination from maine's female gov. dems up there are cookoo

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (CWTWj)

72 This guy so dirty, and not just from jagging off at truck rest stops!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (GD0B3)

73 Wow.

Why are Dermocrats all such vile scumbags?
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:27 PM (77rzZ)
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I'm pretty sure it is a requirement to join the party.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (XB1Qt)

74 Not cousin, but I did work with Ryan's family

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (SW0z7)

75 The establishment really, REALLY didn't want him. That's why Schumer recruited Janet Mills to run against him.

come on if that's true Janet would have stayed in

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)

76 I hope this is not a continuation of the awful flight you were talking about yesterday with the plane change and delays.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 02:35 PM (Nx5jP

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No ma'am. That was Wednesday. I'm on my way home now. No delays thus far.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (jCuxY)

77 1. Oyster farming is not really "work," it is - as far as I can tell - either a hobby for eccentrics or a grift. I knew an oyster farmer and it seem you have to get a plot from the state - something like an allotment in UK, where you sign up and wait on a list and then pay a small fee, but then you contract out the actual, you know, farming - the digging and shit.

2. It is worse than you think - you can be 100% disabled, and still work. Because Why the fuck not, we just print up the shit so lets hand it out to anyone for any excuse we can think up. All due regards to vets, but disability is a scam and you all know it. It demeans those who were really injured to hand it out to people who have all the normal diseases and problems that every human gets from living and aging.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (nEyOj)

78 Let me ask veterans here: If you collect full 100% disability from the military, are you able to also work?

Able? Or willing?
I know several vets who are 100% disabled and they do not work. Two have brain cancer and one can barely walk. Another has a sit down, keyboard job.
That said, I know many vets who are disabled (myself included) who have ratings from 10% up to 90% who are able to hold down a job and are happy to do so. What they receive from the VA is separate from anything an employer would pay them, or what they might earn if running their own business. VA entitlements are something earned as a part of the service commitment. If injured in the line of duty, the government recognizes that and will support the veteran.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (2WIwB)

79 Far left, center leaning, either Democrat should get your vote against MAGA. Anything less is enabling fascism.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (JCZqz)

Quick question: What fascism are they complaining about? What actual actions have been taken that took away anyone's "rights?" Has Trump seized the means of production? Does he routinely take away private property? Has he rounded up and shot any dissidents?

Can any of these asshats bring actual facts to any of their arguments, or are they just monkeys flinging poo?

Okay, that was more than one question.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 02:39 PM (DwqWV)

80 You may not be able to hump that pack or swing that 100 pound shell like you need to in the army and still work a desk or light duty shop.

In the American Civil War when manpower needs were severe the north re-signed up wounded vets and some missing limbs to rear area duties, guarding posts who could not stand front line service, but did good work guarding blockhouses and guard duty in rear areas. One unit of 'volunteer vets' drove off some Confed raiders who attacked their post.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 02:39 PM (8avO+)

81 Don't forget, Platner also mocked Chris Kyle.

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Maybe Kyle's fellow sniper buddies can return the favor.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 02:39 PM (BGLxh)

82 Good. Prayers for your safety and all on the plane , birthday brother.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 29, 2026 02:39 PM (Nx5jP)

83
Everything is about money.

The aholes running for office don't give a shit about our country.

It's all about how much taxpayer money they can steal.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 02:39 PM (3ek7K)

84 come on if that's true Janet would have stayed in

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)

I don't agree. The major money on the left wouldn't prop her up. Schumer KNOWS Platner's a loser which is why he didn't want him. But the major money on the left hates him, too, for reopening the government.

The donors are radical leftists now. All of them. There's nothing Mills could have done about that.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:39 PM (Kdi1r)

85 yeah but someone pushed this guy to the press. He got write ups in major media before he'd ever announced.

I think he's a Soros Special.

right I think there are two sets politically on the Left as there is on the Right

the Revolution (backed by Soros who wants to sweep up when the USA collapses) and the Old Guard Libs (like Schumer, just want their grift to keep going).

this guy is a set up for sure.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:40 PM (j+aD2)

86 Based on research consisting of reading the old man and the boy by Robert Ruark, I didn't think it took much farming to grow oysters.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 02:40 PM (m5VHW)

87 You aren't in NJ yet? Did the flight go by way of Skagway, Alaska.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:37 PM (77rzZ)

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I made it to the hotel Wednesday night, 5 hours late.

Heading home now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:40 PM (jCuxY)

88 Can any of these asshats bring actual facts to any of their arguments, or are they just monkeys flinging poo?

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"ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME IS A FASCIST, FASCIST! Q.E.D.!"

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 02:40 PM (BGLxh)

89 Lately, they have started to call everyone on the right a pedophile. And they are running a guy in California who decriminalized gay pedophilia and blocked a bill making child sex trafficking a felony.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 29, 2026 02:36 PM (gb7Bj)

Whenever they start calling their enemies a real word, as opposed to islamophobic and other made-up slurs, you can pretty well bet it's because they are training people to ignore the word so they can freely behave in the way they really have wanted to behave all along.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (lFFaq)

90 I yield the spot, for now. Posting from my phone at 34,000 ft kinda sucks.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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Excuses, excuses 🎻🎻

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (VCgbV)

91 In the American Civil War when manpower needs were severe the north re-signed up wounded vets and some missing limbs to rear area duties, guarding posts who could not stand front line service, but did good work guarding blockhouses and guard duty in rear areas. One unit of 'volunteer vets' drove off some Confed raiders who attacked their post.
Posted by: Oldcat

Phil Kearney died leading troops at my local battle of Chantilly -- with one arm.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (77rzZ)

92 37 their darling presidential contender who was "Reporting For Duty!"
Posted by: Another Anon

"John Kerry, who, by the way, served in Vietnam"

I miss Rush
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:32 PM (77rzZ)
___________________________

My dad was a mailman!!!! I SAID, MY DAD WAS A MAILMAN!!!!

Posted by: John Kasich at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (dIske)

93 Oyster farming is indeed a real thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (viF8m)

94 The donors are radical leftists now. All of them. There's nothing Mills could have done about that.

how tho?

not American radicals surely. they don't have any money, or not much.

foreigns I guess? a little cabal led by Soros Inc?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (j+aD2)

95 This is Maine. Much like Alaska, it has devolved into a 3rd world socialist sh—hole where stupidity and corruption are resume enhancements. Major industries are welfare fraud and meth cooking.

John Galt don’t live there.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at May 29, 2026 02:42 PM (OJ3CE)

96 I aksked the internets about employment:

"Employment Options for 100% Disabled Veterans
Schedular 100% Disability Rating
Veterans with a 100% schedular disability rating can work full-time without any impact on their VA benefits. This rating indicates that the veteran's service-connected disabilities are severe enough to warrant full compensation, but it does not restrict their ability to earn income.

Total Disability Individual Unemployability (TDIU)
In contrast, veterans rated under Total Disability Individual Unemployability (TDIU) face different rules. TDIU is designed for veterans who cannot maintain substantially gainful employment due to their service-connected disabilities, even if their combined rating is less than 100%. Engaging in full-time work while receiving TDIU benefits could jeopardize their compensation."

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 02:42 PM (GD0B3)

97 All due regards to vets, but disability is a scam and you all know it. It demeans those who were really injured to hand it out to people who have all the normal diseases and problems that every human gets from living and aging.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (nEyOj)

I know enough disabled vets to say that your comment here is really quite obnoxious. You may or may not see a disability, but when it exists, the person who was injured surely knows it changes his or her life. You are treating compensation for disability like it was winning a lottery. I can assure you, the folks who qualify for disability do so because they volunteered to protect you and yours.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 02:42 PM (DwqWV)

98 I told you Jill Biden was made a public sacrifice. I walked past the living room TV with Fox on and Jon Favreau of all people, is on making his disgust of the Biden deception known on some podcast clip.

This is a total (bad) attempt at a clean-up job. But it may yet work with Dem brand voters.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:42 PM (Fi81e)

99 75 The establishment really, REALLY didn't want him. That's why Schumer recruited Janet Mills to run against him.

come on if that's true Janet would have stayed in

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM (j+aD2)

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If it's true, then Schumer would have sent her money to run.

Which he did.

https://shorturl.at/X8lOI
"Union leaders in recent days have urged Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to end their support for Gov. Janet Mills in Maine’s Senate primary, pointing to what they see as her weaker record with labor."

https://shorturl.at/AWSsp
"A new memo from the DSCC claims that “Democrats have created multiple paths to flip the majority in 2026.” Democrats believe they’ve recruited their best possible candidate in multiple states: ...former Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, Gov. Janet Mills in Maine"

https://tinyurl.com/4w9su8y3
"Mills received $2.7 million after launching her campaign two weeks into the reporting period in October." That 2.7 was all from Schumer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:43 PM (7RBt4)

100 I chose not to file for anything because I was good and ready to get out as fast as I could. After seeing the country being robbed by democrats through lightbulb heads...it makes me want to not be a chump and get my slice of sweet sweet taxpayer dollars.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 29, 2026 02:43 PM (nCTkv)

101
tcn,

You are correct.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 02:43 PM (3ek7K)

102 In Texas being 100% military disabled means you pay no property taxes on your primary residence. And the Hazelwood act which pays college tuition in state up to a certain amount for you or your dependents. That's huge, or can be. I don't begrudge them that though.

Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:43 PM (VCgbV)

103 Oyster farming is indeed a real thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (viF8m)
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Is it like a sex farm?

Posted by: Nigel at May 29, 2026 02:43 PM (Fi81e)

104 Excuses, excuses 🎻🎻
Posted by: lin-duh in Texas at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (VCgbV)

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Touche

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM (jCuxY)

105 Like Biden , Platner was always a scumbag psychopath. It wasn't sudden onset.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM (XMuV+)

106 The donors are radical leftists now. All of them. There's nothing Mills could have done about that.

how tho?

not American radicals surely. they don't have any money, or not much.

foreigns I guess? a little cabal led by Soros Inc?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (j+aD2)

I don't know if I agree with that either - the radical left has all the billionaires not named Musk. The richest 10 Congressional districts are represented 100% by leftists. They're the monied party now.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM (Kdi1r)

107 I know lots of 100% disabled vets who work. Lots of them work for federal, state, and local governments.
Posted by: lin-duh

Yeah. I am a vet working for the VA and have co-workers who are also vets who get disability. One co-worker and friend has chronic back pain from all of the jumps he made as an Army medic in combat. He's had multiple surgeries, therapies, etc. but he will have this for the rest of his life and only 52. He can work but there are days he can't get out of bed. There are other co-workers who get disability at a certain percentage who are milking the system. They got a doctor to sign off on a small complaint writ larger but weightlift, hike, mountain bike, etc. and are perfectly fine but get that check every month.

Posted by: Cheri at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM (oiNtH)

108 Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM (59BGO)

Plater is a peverted degenerate just like you.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 02:45 PM (XMuV+)

109 Kinda sorta vaguely related but not really...

I just got my 4K disc of Penkinpah's "Cross of Iron".

Probably watch it tonight.

Found it at a good price so went for it.

I remember it being a pretty good movie.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 02:46 PM (iJfKG)

110 >>>Ace was prime age to enlist.

um, bless you for thinking that.

Say Paul, tell us about your adventures in the military.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:46 PM (1wjle)

111 Can any of these asshats bring actual facts to any of their arguments, or are they just monkeys flinging poo?

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If any of them could argue, they wouldn't need the Demedia machine. The Demedia machine works to gain power without competency.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 02:46 PM (Fi81e)

112 Based on research consisting of reading the old man and the boy by Robert Ruark, I didn't think it took much farming to grow oysters.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 02:40 PM (m5VHW)

Put out a frame for the eggs/babies to attach to, wait a while to let them grow, then pull it out of the water and detach a mess of oysters, then put it back in. Some light hauling and frame making, not strenuous if you only are moving a small amount each day.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 02:46 PM (8avO+)

113 108 Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM (59BGO)

Plater is a peverted degenerate just like you.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 02:45 PM (XMuV+)

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Platner is a national socialist who hates Jews, which makes him not a socialist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:46 PM (7RBt4)

114 When I was still unemployed, my neighbor talked me into going down to the local VA office to see what I could get. I have diabetes, which is considered a disability. But it's not service-related, so the VA guys told me that they couldn't help me. Which is fine, I have no problem with that. But it was worth the try.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:46 PM (77rzZ)

115 Plenty of vets game the disability system...then they end up on Caleb Hammer's show.

Posted by: Cray Cray at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (nCTkv)

116 Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM (59BGO

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You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (jCuxY)

117 gee Paul turns out to be a Nazi-Super-Fan because his Cult told him that Nazis are cool now

what a non-surprise.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (1wjle)

118 95 This is Maine. Much like Alaska, it has devolved into a 3rd world socialist sh—hole where stupidity and corruption are resume enhancements. Major industries are welfare fraud and meth cooking.

John Galt don’t live there.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at May 29, 2026 02:42 PM (OJ3CE)

John Galt might not live here, but I do. Is this just the day for everyone to crap on everyone else? Alaska is not socialist, nor a shithole. Anchorage has the same stupid problems most urban areas have, but Anchorage is not Alaska, and the rest of us who are sane and self supporting would prefer you types stay in Anchorage where you belong.

And for the record, our economic drivers are oil, forestry, fishing, mining and tourism.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (DwqWV)

119 Lying and killing for money is a democrat resume enhancer if yo are a democrap NAZi shit house masturbator.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (xvV+O)

120 Posted by: Paul at May 29, 2026 02:44 PM

WTF are you talking about? Please tell me about your military experience and try to type in the English language scumbag.

I would love to see Platner speak before his local VFW group

Posted by: Cheri at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (oiNtH)

121 I could probably learn some unpleasant things by looking into the big money supporting the Rs. Those things would likely make it obvious why we are not allowed to have nice things, such as the SAVE Act.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (m5VHW)

122 Paul, do you agree we should Punch Nazis, if we encounter them in real life? Like on a campaign trail in Maine?

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (1wjle)

123 Look at me! Look at me!

I am the American people now!

Posted by: Somali Refugees at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (Fi81e)

124 122 Paul, do you agree we should Punch Nazis, if we encounter them in real life? Like on a campaign trail in Maine?

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (1wjle)

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"He said he was sorry for getting the Nazi tattoo. That's so much better than Trump not admitting he's a Nazi for doing Nazi things like protecting Jews in Israel or deporting immigrants to countries with socialized healthcare where they can be free of racism in America."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (7RBt4)

125 "oyster farmer" ...

Is that like a Cleveland Steamer?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (iFTx/)

126 Hi guys,
I can assure you that Oyster Farming is a real thing, and very lucrative...if you have a good dry cleaner who doesn't over-charge.
Yours Truly,
Hawk Tuah Girl

Posted by: Hawk Tuah Girl at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (dIske)

127 Oyster farming is indeed a real thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 02:41 PM (viF8m)

It's why you can find safe year-round oysters now.

Also, a lot of different breeds(?) available that weren't before.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (iJfKG)

128 Paul is an oyster farmer as defined by me up thread.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (jCuxY)

129 This has been gnawing at me recently and I apologize if someone has mentioned it before.

Apparently white QB Jaxon Dart of the NY Giants introduced Trump at some rally and video of the intro made it to social media, causing Abdul Carter -- the giants third-round pick in the 2025 draft and an overrated clown who is easily pushed off the line and controlled by O linemen -- to respond "Hey what the fuck we doing? I thought this shit was AI."

So Dart now has to explain himself to that clown and to the idiot media. The idiot media jumped in by "writing" scolding editorials about how incidents like Dart's "obvious political statement" should be strictly banned from the league.

The NFL, and all their black nationalist bullshit, who demand their own national anthem and the right to lecture their white customers on how they can be better, along with the jock-sniffing NYC media idiots who demand "Pride Nights" at Ranger games, they are just shocked... shocked... at this blatant political agitprop from Dart.

Fuck the NFL. (I grew up and NFL fanatic with Oakland Raiders posters on my bedroom wall. I never thought in a million years I'd say that.)

Posted by: front toward enemy at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (TIizU)

130
Would you want our taxpayer money going to people who honorably served our Country or to the filthy scum who are pussies who are cowards?

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (3ek7K)

131 tcn,

You are correct.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 02:43 PM (3ek7K)

Spot on!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (2WIwB)

132 "ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME IS A FASCIST, FASCIST! Q.E.D.!"
Posted by: ShainS

Except the guy running as a Democrat for congress who has a literal Nazi tattoo. That was just a silly mistake in his youth, and he's cool now.

Posted by: Deranged Leftist Apologist at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (JCZqz)

133 Paul is a Boyster Farmer.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (1wjle)

134 Who is gayer? Oyster Nazi or Talafreako?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (iFTx/)

135 >>Put out a frame for the eggs/babies to attach to, wait a while to let them grow, then pull it out of the water and detach a mess of oysters, then put it back in. Some light hauling and frame making, not strenuous if you only are moving a small amount each day.

Pretty much like any crop.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 02:50 PM (viF8m)

136 Paul is an oyster farmer as defined by me up thread.

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hahahah!!

xhe never worked a day in his life!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 02:50 PM (GD0B3)

137 >>>Apparently white QB Jaxon Dart of the NY Giants introduced Trump at some rally and video of the intro made it to social media, causing Abdul Carter -- the giants third-round pick in the 2025 draft and an overrated clown who is easily pushed off the line and controlled by O linemen -- to respond "Hey what the fuck we doing? I thought this shit was AI."

so much angry feminine energy from the "men" of the left

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:50 PM (1wjle)

138 I still think Talarico is Nick Fuentes wearing a wig.

Posted by: Orson at May 29, 2026 02:50 PM (dIske)

139 Paul has supplied much protein for the Blue Oyster Bar, so, there's that.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (gKWVE)

140 "He said he was sorry for getting the Nazi tattoo. That's so much better than Trump not admitting he's a Nazi for doing Nazi things like protecting Jews in Israel or deporting immigrants to countries with socialized healthcare where they can be free of racism in America."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (7RBt4)

Then why hasn't he covered up his Nazi tattoo?

Just asking...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (Kdi1r)

141 5 Oyster farming isn't even really a thing. He made up the term.
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 29, 2026 02:25 PM (YZ0Fo)

I'd be afraid to look up oyster farming in the urban dictionary.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (7apRy)

142 140 Then why hasn't he covered up his Nazi tattoo?

Just asking...

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (Kdi1r)

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Listen, man, if you can't realize that saying sorry about the Nazi tattoo once and then talking about how much he hates Jews doesn't absolve him of being a Nazi, then I don't know what to tell you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (7RBt4)

143 "I never thought I'd see the day when Democrats would even consider backing a candidate like this."

Somebody hasn'tbeen paying attention to the types of people the Democrats have been nominating since the 1830's.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (PMi3m)

144 Except the guy running as a Democrat for congress who has a literal Nazi tattoo. That was just a silly mistake in his youth, and he's cool now.

Posted by: Deranged Leftist Apologist at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (JCZqz)
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THE PARTIES SWITCHED!!!....

(Because that's what parties do...)

Posted by: Somali Refugees at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (Fi81e)

145 I think Abdul Carter was a bit higher than a third round pick.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (m5VHW)

146 Based on research consisting of reading the old man and the boy by Robert Ruark, I didn't think it took much farming to grow oysters.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 02:40 PM (m5VHW)

Put out a frame for the eggs/babies to attach to, wait a while to let them grow, then pull it out of the water and detach a mess of oysters, then put it back in. Some light hauling and frame making, not strenuous if you only are moving a small amount each day.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 02:46 PM (8avO+)

I don't know.

Watching the oyster farmers at work in Hiroshima Bay, I got the idea that it wasn't an easy life.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (iJfKG)

147 Paul let's his mom pound him in the fartoyster.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (jCuxY)

148
Who is gayer? Oyster Nazi or Talafreako?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (iFTx/)

"Oyster farming" will be the new euphemism for cruising for teen boys.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (HdYcL)

149 Someone who forms a 'corporation' that is hired to perform combat duties for a state is the textbook definition of a mercenary. It isn't necessarily pejorative, although historically they often have a bad reputation because if the money runs out for their bosses, they have the whip hand and have done what they like.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (8avO+)

150 Listen, man, if you can't realize that saying sorry about the Nazi tattoo once and then talking about how much he hates Jews doesn't absolve him of being a Nazi, then I don't know what to tell you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (7RBt4)

This seems reasonable, and I have completely changed my previous position.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (Kdi1r)

151 Oyster farming is a real job. Here in the Pacific Northwest, there are lots of oyster farms. Local restaurants charge top dollar for them, Willapa Bay, Penn Cove, Lummi Island, etc. Farmers have to fight off those cute otters from stealing their harvests.

Still, Platner is a retarded douche canoe.

Posted by: fly gal at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (+8HoB)

152 I don't know how many NFL players were vocal supporters of Kamala but there were a lot.

The Left have absolutely no self awareness.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 02:53 PM (XMuV+)

153 Watching the oyster farmers at work in Hiroshima Bay, I got the idea that it wasn't an easy life.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (iJfKG)

They are likely moving a lot more product.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 02:53 PM (8avO+)

154 Oyster farming sounds like muffler grease or mopping up prop wash.

Hey recruit.. Yeah you! I need you to take that oyster hook, the one that looks exactly like an anchor, yeah that one, and throw it overboard, we goin oyster farming.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 02:53 PM (3uBP9)

155 I think Abdul Carter was a bit higher than a third round pick.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 02:52 PM (m5VHW)

Third OVERALL.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (Kdi1r)

156 Watching the oyster farmers at work in Hiroshima Bay, I got the idea that it wasn't an easy life.
Posted by: naturalfake

Well, huge, nuclear-mutated oysters are another matter...

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (77rzZ)

157 >>>Except the guy running as a Democrat for congress who has a literal Nazi tattoo. That was just a silly mistake in his youth, and he's cool now.

Posted by: Deranged Leftist Apologist

the New Hotness is to claim he got an "accidental" tattoo. Muslim propagandist Zaid Jilani pushed this claim of "accidentally" getting a Nazi SS Tottenkopf tattoo.

Muslims have historically made "accidental" pacts with Hitler, so I get his confusion.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (1wjle)

158 "He said he was sorry for getting the Nazi tattoo. That's so much better than Trump not admitting he's a Nazi for doing Nazi things like protecting Jews in Israel or deporting immigrants to countries with socialized healthcare where they can be free of racism in America."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (7RBt4)
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Trump's a Nazi for ... being a puppet for Israel!

Posted by: People Who Don't Get Consistency at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (Fi81e)

159 I'm a clam rancher.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (3uBP9)

160 As an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.

That, and eel.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (0aYVJ)

161 >>> Farmers have to fight off those cute otters from stealing their harvests.

monsters!

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (1wjle)

162 Yes, I would be allowed to work, but my problems don't allow me to, so the threw SSDI at me too.

No3w I barely leave the house, because, well, people.

Posted by: SGT Mortis von Gobbleshanks at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (D4Jc5)

163 158 "He said he was sorry for getting the Nazi tattoo. That's so much better than Trump not admitting he's a Nazi for doing Nazi things like protecting Jews in Israel or deporting immigrants to countries with socialized healthcare where they can be free of racism in America."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (7RBt4)
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Trump's a Nazi for ... being a puppet for Israel!

Posted by: People Who Don't Get Consistency at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (Fi81e)

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"Well, Zionists are the new Nazis because Zionists do genocide of Palestinians worse than what Jews got in the Holocaust (which didn't happen). So, yeah, backing Israel does make you Nazi."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (7RBt4)

164 >>>I'm a clam rancher.

I used to be. Sigh.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (1wjle)

165 Oyster farming isn't even really a thing. He made up the term.
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 29, 2026 02:25 PM (YZ0Fo)

Do you know how few oysters even survive branding time?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (+5YP2)

166 I liked to hunt for the elusive bearded clam back in the day.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (jCuxY)

167 115 Plenty of vets game the disability system...then they end up on Caleb Hammer's show.
Posted by: Cray Cray at May 29, 2026 02:47 PM (nCTkv)

And plenty who deserve it get rejected...

Almost like any other government service - delivered badly and with little rhyme or reason.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (tOcjL)

168 >>It's why you can find safe year-round oysters now.

>>Also, a lot of different breeds(?) available that weren't before.

Guy who lives in my neighborhood is an oyster farmer and a lobsterman. There are something like 75 oyster farms in RI and it's really interesting how different they taste, even ones that are grown relatively close to each other.

Water flow, salinity, sediment, etc. make a huge difference in the taste.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (viF8m)

169 164 >>>I'm a clam rancher.

I used to be. Sigh.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (1wjle)

======

Confirmed:

ace is married.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (7RBt4)

170 "I never thought I'd see the day when Democrats would even consider backing a candidate like this."

Somebody hasn'tbeen paying attention to the types of people the Democrats have been nominating since the 1830's.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 29, 2026 02:51 PM (PMi3m)

(thinking about the "filibuster" expeditions organized to take over Central American countries to introduce slavery there in that period).....yeah, about right.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (8avO+)

171 You are treating compensation for disability like it was winning a lottery. I can assure you, the folks who qualify for disability do so because they volunteered to protect you and yours.
Posted by: tcn in AK

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But some due treat it like winning the lottery -- i have met then and they said so. In fact, I think I have heard those exact words. This is a shame as, as I said, it demeans those who really were injured.

If someone is injured, then they should get proper compensation, but why do you think this one group of people are immune to grifting? Why do you think this one government program is properly cautious in handing out Other People's Money?

Maybe I am too pissed about this because I know too many people milking the government to think that all vets on disability are honest and not taking advantage.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (nEyOj)

172 >>>160 As an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.

they're not bad once you get used to them. Like, you know.

Also they supposedly have some rare-ish nutrients in them.

Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (1wjle)

173 160 As an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.

me either. and no mussels and no eel and NO OCTOPUS

freaking octopus. how can you eat them? they are so smart

Greek people - am disappoint

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (j+aD2)

174 I'm a clam rancher.

I used to be. Sigh.
Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (1wjle)

*spins up Clam Caravan, Spinal Tap*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (0aYVJ)

175 s an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.

That, and eel.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (0aYVJ)

heh..you eat puffer fish ? lionfish ??

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (GD0B3)

176 Platner also went after Chris Kyle, Navy Seal sniper, who conveniently is deceased, saying that he inflated his kill numbers. Kyle's widow called him what he is - a coward, liar and attention whore.

Posted by: Cheri at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (oiNtH)

177 Do they harvest pearls from the oysters along with the meat, or is that a totally different thing?

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (77rzZ)

178 Apparently white QB Jaxon Dart of the NY Giants introduced Trump at some rally and video of the intro made it to social media, causing Abdul Carter -- the giants third-round pick in the 2025 draft and an overrated clown who is easily pushed off the line and controlled by O linemen -- to respond "Hey what the fuck we doing? I thought this shit was AI."

Posted by: front toward enemy at May 29, 2026 02:49 PM (TIizU)
_________

So many of these football players claim to be hard-nosed tough macho guys with big swinging dicks and devil-may-care attitudes ... but they almost invariably squeal and cry like little faggot bitches at the first hint of micro-aggressions.

And I'll bet if the truth were revealed, a lot of them are like all the "gansta rappers" at Puffy Daddy's parties: closet homos who like the taste of ass as much as Gay Oyster Nazi.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

179 Confirmed:

ace is married.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (7RBt4)

You bitch!

- garrett

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (Kdi1r)

180 Trump's a Nazi for ... being a puppet for Israel!
Posted by: People Who Don't Get Consistency at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (Fi81e)

The crazy woman running in TX was pushing that "zionists" were the anti-semetic ones because they were pushing teh "real" semites out of their lands.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (lFFaq)

181 Watching the oyster farmers at work in Hiroshima Bay, I got the idea that it wasn't an easy life.

You should watch the leather dyers in Fez, Morocco, knee deep in the outdoor dye pits. If you can stand the smell.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (+5YP2)

182

Head em' up

Move 'em out!

Posted by: Oyster wrangler at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (Cqx++)

183 Third OVERALL.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (Kdi1r)
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If you saw the wash-out rate for high-first rounders, nobody needs to be that impressed about what somebody who has never shown himself on an NFL field says about a more established player.

Posted by: People Who Don't Get Consistency at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (Fi81e)

184 I hear there are "services" for vets that will do all the legwork for vets to get them a disability rating.
I hear because another vet told me so.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (/lPRQ)

185 Platner's main line of work isn't oyster farming.

Its giving $20 handies in port a potties around Portland.

4 Stars on yelp in fact.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 02:58 PM (sKqQm)

186 I love it when ace reads the comments.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 02:58 PM (jCuxY)

187 Platner also went after Chris Kyle, Navy Seal sniper, who conveniently is deceased, saying that he inflated his kill numbers. Kyle's widow called him what he is - a coward, liar and attention whore.

Posted by: Cheri at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (oiNtH)

Saying he inflated his kill numbers by deliberately targeting and killing civilians.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 02:58 PM (Kdi1r)

188 The crazy woman running in TX was pushing that "zionists" were the anti-semetic ones because they were pushing teh "real" semites out of their lands.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (lFFaq)
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Words? How do they work?

Posted by: People Who Don't Get Consistency at May 29, 2026 02:58 PM (Fi81e)

189 But some due treat it like winning the lottery -- i have met then and they said so. In fact, I think I have heard those exact words. This is a shame as, as I said, it demeans those who really were injured.

If someone is injured, then they should get proper compensation, but why do you think this one group of people are immune to grifting? Why do you think this one government program is properly cautious in handing out Other People's Money?

Maybe I am too pissed about this because I know too many people milking the government to think that all vets on disability are honest and not taking advantage.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (nEyOj)

Oh, trust me - I know many as well. No pot of money is immune to the selfish...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (tOcjL)

190 172 >>>160 As an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.

they're not bad once you get used to them. Like, you know.

Also they supposedly have some rare-ish nutrients in them.
Posted by: ace at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (1wjle)

Too bad they’re nasty and disgusting.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (Gqar8)

191 As an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.

They're an acquired taste, but once you acquire it a good raw oyster is heavenly.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (+5YP2)

192 Oyster farming is a real thing (though that doesn't exclude this particular one from being a scam).

There's no digging involved. That would be clams. Clams are mobile as adults, oysters are not. Once an oyster settles, it's there for life.

Like many marine critters, oysters produce about a zillion spawn at a time, only one of which normally needs to survive to adulthood to replace the population. That means if you can put oysters in a protected environment, you can easily crank out them out by the thousand.

People have been raising oysters for thousands of years, and oyster pirates have been stealing them for just about as long.

Good-writer-despite-being-a-communist Jack London was an oyster pirate in his younger days.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (IG3/x)

193 158 "He said he was sorry for getting the Nazi tattoo. That's so much better than Trump not admitting he's a Nazi for doing Nazi things like protecting Jews in Israel or deporting immigrants to countries with socialized healthcare where they can be free of racism in America."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:48 PM (7RBt4)
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Yeah, i remember the time I tripped on a loose cobblestone and ended up across town at a seedy tatoo parlor with my shirt off getting operated on for hours to get a Nazi tattoo, paid for it, and then neglected to get it 'edited' or removed for the last 25 years.

Happens to us all.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (8avO+)

194 2. It is worse than you think - you can be 100% disabled, and still work. Because Why the fuck not, we just print up the shit so lets hand it out to anyone for any excuse we can think up. All due regards to vets, but disability is a scam and you all know it. It demeans those who were really injured to hand it out to people who have all the normal diseases and problems that every human gets from living and aging.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 02:38 PM

I blew out both of my knees doing 22 years in the service. The VA gives me the princely sum of $1,241.90 every month for that. I could have been making that every week if I could still drive a truck which I can't due to my knees. It's not a scam for me.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (0N4FZ)

195 190 Too bad they’re nasty and disgusting.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (Gqar

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The proper way to eat them is to douse them in horseradish so all you can do is taste the horseradish.

Oysters are delivery vehicles for actual tasty things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (7RBt4)

196 >>> As an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.

That, and eel.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 02:55 PM (0aYVJ)

How about scallops? Very similar but more meat. Another delivery mechanism for butter into one's pie hole. I like butter sauteed scallops. But then again, I'm a clam rancher so it makes sense.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (3uBP9)

197 As an aside, Oysters are pretty much the only seafood I will not eat.
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Anchovies?

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:00 PM (Fi81e)

198 Those aren't oysters.

Posted by: Gerald Platner at May 29, 2026 03:00 PM (n/5F5)

199 OT- Rufo's got another piece in City Journal about how us CA taxpayers are paying for a slush fund for Indians, owl watching and ceremonial fire lighting lessons!

https://tinyurl.com/bddtk95j

Posted by: beckster at May 29, 2026 03:00 PM (kX27y)

200 Watching the oyster farmers at work in Hiroshima Bay, I got the idea that it wasn't an easy life.
Posted by: naturalfake

Well, huge, nuclear-mutated oysters are another matter...
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:54 PM (77rzZ)

Ackshewallee, the oysters served on Miyajima Island just offshore of Hiroshima are pretty damn huge

you know, for an oyster..

In theory that's due to the nutrient rich waters there, not radiation.

But who knows?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (iJfKG)

201 I want to know who the nazi supplies with his oysters. SO WE CAN BOYGOT THEM!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (GD0B3)

202 I have a friend who grows oysters in a cage attached to his bulkhead. Does this make him an oyster farmer?

Posted by: LMD at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (hUI3V)

203 lionfish can be good, and it's good to eat them/harvest them bc they are obnoxious and invasive

puffer fish no. I did that once. never again!

I sadly like turtle a lot. poor guys.

but octopi are on the list with little lambs and calves...

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (j+aD2)

204 "they're not bad once you get used to them. Like, you know."

Clams?
Those things are disgusting too.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (W5mpo)

205 Oysters are delivery vehicles for actual tasty things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (7RBt4)
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Disagree.

Although "Oyster Stew" is mostly cream, butter, and potatoes.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (Fi81e)

206 Trust The Blade: Find a girl who likes oysters. You are in for a very fun night. IYKWIMAITYD.

I like oysters and all kinds of seafood. The Blade eats cannibals.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (iFTx/)

207 "they're not bad once you get used to them. Like, you know."

Clams?
Those things are disgusting too.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (W5mpo)
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Chow-dah.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (Fi81e)

208 The only thing I don't like about oysters is the sand. Even the smallest amount isn't great. They need real good washing or something. I scrub all my clams down with a good stiff loofa down on the clam ranch.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (3uBP9)

209 If you have a problem with vets collecting disability by scamming, try going after the asshole doctors falsifying the records.

Vets EARN their goddamn pay in most cases.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (jCuxY)

210 The oyster operation is a front.

It was established after his campaign website was set up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (RIvkX)

211
Better services for veterans than pieces of shit illegals stealing our tax money.

Has anyone ever done a study on the money the illegals are stealing versus the money spent for veterans?

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (3ek7K)

212 How about scallops? Very similar but more meat. Another delivery mechanism for butter into one's pie hole. I like butter sauteed scallops. But then again, I'm a clam rancher so it makes sense.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 02:59 PM (3uBP9)

I like scallops, especially the big sea scallops. But sometimes them are fake (dollops of fish meat), so you have to be careful.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, aka Agent Frank at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (0aYVJ)

213 OT- Rufo's got another piece in City Journal about how us CA taxpayers are paying for a slush fund for Indians, owl watching and ceremonial fire lighting lessons!

https://tinyurl.com/bddtk95j

We can only do that kind of shit here because all of the freeways are in absolutely first-rate condition and there's nothing else to spend the money on.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (+5YP2)

214 Do not believe the Maine Nazi unless he publishes his 214 and VA disability letter.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (enLlh)

215 The oyster operation is a front.

It was established after his campaign website was set up.

==

WHOA!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (GD0B3)

216 How long before a certain horrible woman I shannot name starts Asking Questions about Kyle's widow too?

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (gKWVE)

217 All disability is gonna need a rethink with both the recent cancer diagnoses of the young and the recent cancer advances where treatment no longer requires one to be caretaken...this is just one example...

Like the fed gov admin systems Elon was overheauling, it's another system that needs a serious overhaul and rethink...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (tOcjL)

218 >>me either. and no mussels and no eel and NO OCTOPUS

>>freaking octopus. how can you eat them? they are so smart

One of the guys in my old dive shop in PR was a local. We'd go spear fishing and grab all kinds of stuff after work and his mother would make delicious seafood stew and stuff.

I couldn't kill the octopi. Way too cute and smart. Right near the top of my favorite creature chart.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (viF8m)

219 *A front for his nazi activities!!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (GD0B3)

220
If you knew Sushi, like I know Sushi....

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (Fi81e)

221 Paul is a meadow muffin farmer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (jCuxY)

222 Also, his disability is due to PTSD.

Better than "back pain" I guess.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (RIvkX)

223 > 177 Do they harvest pearls from the oysters along with the meat, or is that a totally different thing?
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (77rzZ)

While many types of shellfish will occasionally produce pearls, the species known as the pearl oyster is not generally eaten, and the various species consumed for food don't often produce pearls.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (IG3/x)

224 You should watch the leather dyers in Fez, Morocco, knee deep in the outdoor dye pits. If you can stand the smell.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (+5YP2)

Back in Rome one year Emperor Vespasian put a fee on the leather curers who used to haul off the urine from the city baths and latrines for free. His son Titus complained it was unseemly to do this, and Vespasian pulled out a silver coin from the fee and said 'this does not stink'.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (8avO+)

225 The weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (Ia/+0)

226 Posted by: People Who Don't Get Consistency at May 29, 2026 02:58 PM (Fi81e)

People like her always point to the Ashkenazi Jews from eastern Europe and ignore all the other diaspora lines like the Sephardim, Yemeni, and Mizrahi who all look more middle-eastern because they didn't travel as far away.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (lFFaq)

227 Just worthless trivia, but eel was Steve Jobs's favorite.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (m5VHW)

228 People have been raising oysters for thousands of years, and oyster pirates have been stealing them for just about as long.

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Minnesota Somali Pirates have adapted to stealing freshwater mussels instead of saltwater oysters.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (BGLxh)

229 overheauling = overhauling plus healing...there, I've created a new word with my typo that works...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (tOcjL)

230
Crab!!

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (Fi81e)

231 Saw a show about octopus. Smart little things. Only live a year or two though. Weird to have evolved smarts for such a tiny period of time.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (Gqar8)

232 Has anyone ever done a study on the money the illegals are stealing versus the money spent for veterans?

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (3ek7K)

Illegals cost exponentially more, just because of the raw numbers. There are orders of magnitude more illegals here than veterans, even if 100% of the vets are falsely collecting 100% disability.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (Kdi1r)

233 >>> Ackshewallee, the oysters served on Miyajima Island just offshore of Hiroshima are pretty damn huge

you know, for an oyster..

In theory that's due to the nutrient rich waters there, not radiation.

But who knows?
Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (iJfKG)

History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.

Posted by: banana Dream - oh wow this comment is meta at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (3uBP9)

234 I do like squid (calamari) and clams tho so not sure how that squares. clams are not gooey (not as much anyway)

and hopefully squid are mean and stupid?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (j+aD2)

235 Eel is one of my favorites in sushi restaurants because it's cooked.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (m5VHW)

236 VA Disability is a complicated issue. And to clarify, it is a 100% disability rating, not 100% disabled.

VA Disability rating math is also convoluted, as individual medical conditions recieve specific assessments and they may not be directly compounding. So two separate medical conditions that both receive a 50% rating, don't add up to 100%. (I consider the blog's "math free-zone" to be a silent tribute to the VA's special math process.)

Mental conditions like PTSD carry high VA Disability ratings and yet the veteran may have few physical limitations.

But no system is void of fraud and abuse.

Posted by: GuardianB at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (dLJqZ)

237 Crab!!
Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (Fi81e)

Jelly fish!!

Posted by: runner at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (GD0B3)

238 OT- Rufo's got another piece in City Journal about how us CA taxpayers are paying for a slush fund for Indians, owl watching and ceremonial fire lighting lessons!

https://tinyurl.com/bddtk95j

We can only do that kind of shit here because all of the freeways are in absolutely first-rate condition and there's nothing else to spend the money on.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (+5YP2)

I imagine most of the 'Indians' in the program are as authentic as Elizabeth Warren is.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (8avO+)

239 Maybe I am too pissed about this because I know too many people milking the government to think that all vets on disability are honest and not taking advantage.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 02:56 PM (nEyOj)

Got a friend with TBI. You'd never know it to look at him. But getting blown up overseas does all sorts of nasty things to a person.

Another with an ankle fractured so badly he can turn his foot. You would likewise not realize it if you met him, but it is a real disability.

Not all injuries are physical, either.

Maybe there are scammers, but there are plenty of checks and balances on the system, and at least those who need help get it.

I'm willing to withhold judgment of another person's injury status if that person volunteered to walk into combat on my behalf.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (DwqWV)

240 Ackshewallee, the oysters served on Miyajima Island just offshore of Hiroshima are pretty damn huge

you know, for an oyster..

In theory that's due to the nutrient rich waters there, not radiation.

But who knows?
Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 03:01 PM (iJfKG)

In theory, I could become "Oyster Man!"

Wow, a dream come true...

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (Sco7b)

241 Saw a show about octopus. Smart little things. Only live a year or two though. Weird to have evolved smarts for such a tiny period of time.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (Gqar

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They are like an alien intelligence.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (Fi81e)

242 "Oyster farming" will be the new euphemism for cruising for teen boys.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

If you think a teen boy is better hung than a proper oyster, you're woefully mistaken... https://tinyurl.com/4xk4vpk6

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (JCZqz)

243 Feel free to eat as much squid as you like. They are dumb as a post.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:06 PM (viF8m)

244 I did not know of the Blackwater connection.

Figures they would take a guy claiming PTSD. Must be a prerequisite or something.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 03:06 PM (RIvkX)

245 If you think a teen boy is better hung than a proper oyster, you're woefully mistaken...

I'm thinking I'll leave that calculation to our colleages at the Bulwark, the Dispatch, and the Lincoln Project.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 03:06 PM (gKWVE)

246 You should watch the leather dyers in Fez, Morocco, knee deep in the outdoor dye pits. If you can stand the smell.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 29, 2026 02:57 PM (+5YP2)

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U.S. Grant refused to follow in his father's profession as a leather tanner and merchant owing to the awful stench.

So we have his father to thank for all of Ulysses' future accomplishments ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:07 PM (BGLxh)

247 Octopi live only a very short time -- maybe a year or two -- and the last quarter to even half of their lives are miserable. The female starves herself to death caring for the eggs. So eating them before the misery sets in is almost doing them a favor.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 03:07 PM (iFTx/)

248 Has anyone ever done a study on the money the illegals are stealing versus the money spent for veterans?

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (3ek7K)

Illegals cost exponentially more, just because of the raw numbers. There are orders of magnitude more illegals here than veterans, even if 100% of the vets are falsely collecting 100% disability.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (Kdi1r)

And pretty much 100 percent of vets have been of value to the country for the service in some way, even if just being ready for a need that never comes up.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:07 PM (8avO+)

249 jack we had an octopus by our overwater bungalow once

he'd hang out by the ladder

(or she I mean I don't want to misgender!)

so sweet tho. I felt like it was waving when I'd go down in the morning!

still miss that little guy

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at May 29, 2026 03:07 PM (j+aD2)

250 Oysters are gross. Just this squishy thing covered in fluid right in front of your face while your girlfriend waits for you to eat it.

Thankfully I never had to worry about that with Michelle!

Posted by: Barack Obama at May 29, 2026 03:07 PM (sKqQm)

251 The weekend is here
Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:03 PM (Ia/+0)

Everybody's been working for it.

Posted by: Mike Reno at May 29, 2026 03:08 PM (fmbc9)

252 Saw a show about octopus. Smart little things. Only live a year or two though. Weird to have evolved smarts for such a tiny period of time.
Posted by: tubal

I kid I knew who was an aspiring marine biologist told me that mother octopodes (the formal Greek plural) die before they can pass any knowledge they may have to their offspring. So I guess every octopus has to reinvent the wheel for itself.

Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 03:08 PM (77rzZ)

253
Crab!!

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:04 PM (Fi81e)

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Having crab >>>> Getting crabs

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 29, 2026 03:09 PM (HdYcL)

254 VA Disability is a complicated issue. And to clarify, it is a 100% disability rating, not 100% disabled.

I'll be retiring soon. My favorite fact is you can get a disability rating of 0%, but it's still a rating, so you get access to benefits.

Veterans with a 0% rating are eligible for several key benefits, including:

VA Health Care: Free treatment and prescription medications for the specific service-connected condition (income limits may apply for other care).
Travel Pay: Reimbursement for mileage and travel costs to VA medical appointments.
Federal Hiring Preference: A 10-point preference when applying for federal government jobs.
Commissary/Exchange Privileges: Access to military bases, commissaries, and MWR facilities (online and in-person).
Life Insurance: Eligibility for Service-Disabled Veterans Life Insurance (S-DVI).
Home Loan: Potential waiver of the VA funding fee (specifics vary by case).

As well as al sorts of state and county benefits like free hunting licenses, tax breaks, etc.

Posted by: Military Moron at May 29, 2026 03:09 PM (JCZqz)

255 I saw an argument that octopi are even smarter then we realize because very few of them survive more then a couple of years so they don't get a time to learn things.

Imagine how we would judge human intelligence if humans didn't generally make it past 2...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 03:09 PM (sKqQm)

256 Well I learned what I know 'bout octopodes by reading remarkably bright creatures.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (m5VHW)

257 This obsession Collins guy needs to be locked up in a mental hospital
Oh, forgot, there isn't any

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (Ia/+0)

258 Feel free to eat as much squid as you like. They are dumb as a post.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:06 PM (viF8m)

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The most disgusting thing ever was watching an Asian movie ("Oldboy" IIRC) where they're at a sushi bar or the like and eating living & writhing squid, octopus, or the like.

Damn -- and don't get us started on the Chinese Wet Markets ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (BGLxh)

259 And pretty much 100 percent of vets have been of value to the country for the service in some way, even if just being ready for a need that never comes up.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:07 PM (8avO+)

You can say VA Disability is a good thing while also saying it needa a rethink b/c of the permanency given to conditions medicine has made no longer permanent and the ability to game so many of the mental and physical issues (while folks with cancers, who can't game, usually get denied b/c their diability didn't come "fast enough")...

Even the 0-100% system needs a total rethink...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (tOcjL)

260 Eel is one of my favorites in sushi restaurants because it's cooked.
Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 03:05 PM (m5VHW)

Grilled eel is wonderful. Has gotten really expensive though, because the favored type breed in the ocean and the elvers grow in really deep water. That makes it difficult to replicate their life cycle and environment to be able to farm them.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 29, 2026 03:11 PM (lFFaq)

261 >>jack we had an octopus by our overwater bungalow once

They were all over the big reef we used to dive on. Most were pretty shy but every now and then one would let you pick it up. There was clearly some level of intelligence there.

Not atom splitting intelligence, maybe just about Paul. But too cute to eat.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:11 PM (viF8m)

262 I knew someone (now sadly deceased) who developed hearing problems after many years hanging around Air Force flight lines, going back to the days well before modern hearing protection.

The VA never did approve the claim.

So, while I have no doubt there are VA disability scammers out there, scamming that system isn't trivial.

I'd guess you'd need a crooked doctor at a minimum.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2026 03:11 PM (IG3/x)

263 Imagine how we would judge human intelligence if humans didn't generally make it past 2...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 03:09 PM (sKqQm)

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

Thats a win in the Talarico book of Mother, Mary and abortion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 03:11 PM (jCuxY)

264 Crab people.
Crab people.
Look like crab.
Talk like people.
Crab people.
Crab people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:11 PM (7RBt4)

265
Eating raw oysters is like trying to Hock up mucus from your airways.

YMMV

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 03:12 PM (3ek7K)

266 Has anyone ever done a study on the money the illegals are stealing versus the money spent for veterans?

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 03:02 PM (3ek7K)
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No comparison, I would bet. Illegals are part of the Circle of Graft.

Chances are that corruption cuts into the money that actually goes to veterans, while corruption is the source of most money going toward illegals.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:12 PM (Fi81e)

267 This obsession Collins guy needs to be locked up in a mental hospital
Oh, forgot, there isn't any

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (Ia/+0)

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Excepting Congress. And Califzuela. And Seattle. And ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:12 PM (BGLxh)

268 Feel free to eat as much squid as you like. They are dumb as a post.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:06 PM (viF8m)

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The most disgusting thing ever was watching an Asian movie ("Oldboy" IIRC) where they're at a sushi bar or the like and eating living & writhing squid, octopus, or the like.

Damn -- and don't get us started on the Chinese Wet Markets ...
Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (BGLxh)
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Live baby octopus. The Blade ate that. Once. Never again.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 03:12 PM (iFTx/)

269 268 The most disgusting thing ever was watching an Asian movie ("Oldboy" IIRC) where they're at a sushi bar or the like and eating living & writhing squid, octopus, or the like.

Damn -- and don't get us started on the Chinese Wet Markets ...
Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (BGLxh)
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Live baby octopus. The Blade ate that. Once. Never again.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 29, 2026 03:12 PM (iFTx/)

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"It's usually sliced. They say I'm a good sushi chef despite being a woman because my hands are unusually cold."
-Mi Do

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:13 PM (7RBt4)

270 There was a photograph recently, maybe last year, of a big whale, like a sperm whale, breaching with an absolute unit of a gaint squid in its mouth just chomping away like it was chewing gum.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:13 PM (3uBP9)

271 Ace, the "oyster farm" has one customer, a restaurant owned by his mother in Blue Hill, Maine. Blue Hill is one of the toniest of wealthy Maine summer towns.

Platner is a fraud in every conceivable way.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 29, 2026 03:13 PM (r7+k8)

272 I saw an argument that octopi are even smarter then we realize because very few of them survive more then a couple of years so they don't get a time to learn things.

Imagine how we would judge human intelligence if humans didn't generally make it past 2...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 29, 2026 03:09 PM (sKqQm)

Humans are bad examples because we are born only part ready because we have to get the baby out before the head gets too big.

Look at something like a puppy or kitten. A few weeks of blind feeding on the mom and they are getting ready to be a little cat or dog.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:13 PM (8avO+)

273 OT: John Cornyn is being a passive aggressive little b!tch on Twitter.

An old, but apt fable:
A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across [... and blah blah blah] it's my character.

Don't go away mad, John . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 03:13 PM (gKWVE)

274 I can assure you farming is rigorous work. Particularly organic tree farming.

Posted by: Weasel at May 29, 2026 03:14 PM (vt7xw)

275 There was a photograph recently, maybe last year, of a big whale, like a sperm whale, breaching with an absolute unit of a gaint squid in its mouth just chomping away like it was chewing gum.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:13 PM (3uBP9)

Sperm whales often have scars from hunting big squids from the suckers and perhaps beak.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:14 PM (8avO+)

276 Oysters Rockefeller are good, except for the oyster part.

Posted by: Oglebay at May 29, 2026 03:14 PM (m5VHW)

277 I can assure you farming is rigorous work. Particularly organic tree farming.
Posted by: Weasel at May 29, 2026 03:14 PM (vt7xw)

Try inorganic tree farming. It's even harder.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:15 PM (8avO+)

278 You can say what you want to say about the rest of seafood. Won't stop me from eating it.

But dungeness crab, or king crab, smothered in butter and me with a shell-cracker....

Delectible.

Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:15 PM (Fi81e)

279 275
Sperm whales often have scars from hunting big squids from the suckers and perhaps beak.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:14 PM (8avO+)

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To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:15 PM (7RBt4)

280 276 Oysters Rockefeller are good, except for the oyster part.
Posted by: Oglebay

Let me tell you about Rocky Mountain oysters!!!

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at May 29, 2026 03:15 PM (JCZqz)

281 As well as al sorts of state and county benefits like free hunting licenses, tax breaks, etc.
Posted by: Military Moron at May 29, 2026 03:09 PM (JCZqz)

So many military folks leave the services in AK. I think we have the most vets per capita of any state. Lots of bennies for military and past service up here, plus no income tax, and lots of hunting and fishing, etc.

And a pretty good VA.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 03:16 PM (DwqWV)

282 Ace, the "oyster farm" has one customer, a restaurant owned by his mother in Blue Hill, Maine. Blue Hill is one of the toniest of wealthy Maine summer towns.

Platner is a fraud in every conceivable way.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 29, 2026 03:13 PM (r7+k

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When you start to make Somalis look honest by comparison, there's a problem.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 29, 2026 03:16 PM (gnNyN)

283 Thats a win in the Talarico book of Mother, Mary and abortion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 03:11 PM (jCuxY)

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"Maybe if Mary was black, we would have never had Jesus?"

/White Democrat Death Cultists and fans of Margaret Sanger

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:16 PM (BGLxh)

284 "Made from organic cotton."

Find me some inorganic cotton........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 03:16 PM (jCuxY)

285 We should register octopuses to vote.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 29, 2026 03:16 PM (1D2Ie)

286 John Ford the Directors Series
https://tinyurl.com/3ephj5v3

Like and hype please

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:17 PM (Ia/+0)

287 >>The most disgusting thing ever was watching an Asian movie ("Oldboy" IIRC) where they're at a sushi bar or the like and eating living & writhing squid, octopus, or the like.

We get a lot of them around here. A lot. Probably RI's biggest seafood business and shipped all over the country. When they are running we get a lot of ethnic types flocking down here to catch them. Portuguese, Vietnamese, etc.

It's so big for the marine economy a few years Calamari was made the official state appetizer of RI. And you people say RI doesn't exist. Does your state have an official appetizer?

I didn't think so.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:17 PM (viF8m)

288 Damn -- and don't get us started on the Chinese Wet Markets ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (BGLxh)
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I want to fry like an eagle
To the sea.
Fry like an eagle
Revolution.

Posted by: Steve Mirrel at May 29, 2026 03:17 PM (Fi81e)

289 > So we have his father to thank for all of Ulysses' future accomplishments ...
Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:07 PM (BGLxh)

His original plan was to graduate from West Point, do his time, and then become a math teacher, as I recall.

I recommend his autobiography highly to those who haven't read it. Besides the excellent first-hand accounts of the Civil War, there's a great deal of dry humor in it, which is even more impressive when one considers that Grant was dying, painfully, of cancer while he was writing the book.

One of my favorite parts was him describing how, as a young Army quartermaster, he found himself in charge of a bunch of (allegedly) trained mules and a bunch of (allegedly) expert teamsters. Hilarity ensued.

The completely unbroken mules were sold to Uncle Sam by unscrupulous dealers, while the "expert teamsters" mostly only claimed to be so because teamsters got to ride on wagons rather than humping 50 pounds of gear on foot.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2026 03:18 PM (IG3/x)

290 Saw a show about octopus. Smart little things. Only live a year or two though. Weird to have evolved smarts for such a tiny period of time.
Posted by: tubal

I kid I knew who was an aspiring marine biologist told me that mother octopodes (the formal Greek plural) die before they can pass any knowledge they may have to their offspring. So I guess every octopus has to reinvent the wheel for itself.
Posted by: Bulg at May 29, 2026 03:08 PM (77rzZ)

I like octopi...they're yummy!

I also think their intelligence is grossly overstated. I was willing to be convinced but I watched a show on how intelligent octopuses were and despite all the heavy praise they were throwing the genius mollusk...nothing I saw couldn't be explained by instinct.

And their life-cycle as described above and short life doesn't indicate an extended childhood with parental teaching in the mix which is usually required for intelligent critters.

Octopuses are the Somalians of the Sea and you've fallen for the scam.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 03:18 PM (iJfKG)

291 Jeebus, just briefly tuned into Hugh Hewitt's radio show and he's STILL crying and wetting his panties over Paxton kicking the FAFO out of Cornyn.

My guess is he'd hate vote against Paxton and for Talafreako if he lived in Texas ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:19 PM (BGLxh)

292 I also think their intelligence is grossly overstated. I was willing to be convinced but I watched a show on how intelligent octopuses were and despite all the heavy praise they were throwing the genius mollusk...nothing I saw couldn't be explained by instinct.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 03:18 PM (iJfKG)
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Big Octopus.

Posted by: Steve Mirrel at May 29, 2026 03:20 PM (Fi81e)

293 >>Sperm whales often have scars from hunting big squids from the suckers and perhaps beak.

If you've never seen them checkout videos on youtube and elsewhere of Humboldt Squid.

You don't want to be in the water around them when they are feeding.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (viF8m)

294 You can say VA Disability is a good thing while also saying it needa a rethink b/c of the permanency given to conditions medicine has made no longer permanent and the ability to game so many of the mental and physical issues (while folks with cancers, who can't game, usually get denied b/c their diability didn't come "fast enough")...

Even the 0-100% system needs a total rethink...
Posted by: Nova Local at May 29, 2026 03:10 PM (tOcjL)

I am fully for a vigorous check on qualification and honesty in any government payout. Some conditions show up later so rechecking the status should be a thing.

I got my great great grandfathers military records years back and it showed he started getting a pension in his later years due to a wound in the foot at Kennesaw Mountain from his Civil War service in the artillery, which his wife also got after his death in the 1910s until her death some years later.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (8avO+)

295 I’ve heard that the DOD sets aside a significant amount of money for every person that enlists just for disability benefits. Most don’t even ask about it, myself included.

I’ve got a friend that’s 100 percent disabled from being burned by an IED in Iraq. The guy still can run sub 7 minute miles; he might not be human

Posted by: UGAdawg at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (4MsaP)

296 My kindle tablet is pushing me Prime video on me, to watch Caro Doda, Topless At The Condor.
Why would I want to watch a near 100 year old topless woman?
And I thought the Condor was torn down long ago.

Posted by: From about That Time at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (sl73Y)

297 Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley
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As Democrats demand the removal of the masks of ICE agents, a protester was shown yesterday yelling at an agent, "I've got your face. I'll kill your whole f**king family. You whole f**king family is dead. Your child, your wife, and all are dead. I have your face mother f**ker. You re dead."
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Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (Fi81e)

298 I kid I knew who was an aspiring marine biologist ...

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George Costanza?

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM (BGLxh)

299 https://youtu.be/pIYWzuIgchY

My favorite thing about octopi.

Posted by: tcn in AK at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM (DwqWV)

300 I blew out both of my knees doing 22 years in the service. The VA gives me the princely sum of $1,241.90 every month for that. I could have been making that every week if I could still drive a truck which I can't due to my knees. It's not a scam for me.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)

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I guess I shouldn't have said anything. I understand that many people were legitimately injured. I said that from the start.

But I also know that, like most gov. programs, it is taken advantage of by those who are dishonest. The problem is that as soon as you point out fraud people get defensive. I am sorry I said what I said since I appreciate that any criticism is going to hurt people who were legitimately injured.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM (gDedl)

301 291 Jeebus, just briefly tuned into Hugh Hewitt's radio show and he's STILL crying and wetting his panties over Paxton kicking the FAFO out of Cornyn.

My guess is he'd hate vote against Paxton and for Talafreako if he lived in Texas ...

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:19 PM (BGLxh)

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Compare and contrast how establishment Democrats are treating Platner, dude with a Nazi tattoo, and how establishment Republicans are treating Paxton.

Establishment Democrats have accepted that Platner is the nominee, at least in public (they have until June 9), and are just pushing against Collins.

Establishment Republicans are in two camps. One, like Thune, are treating Paxton like a normal Republican, saying that he's going to support him. But you still have this group like Hewitt who refuse to treat Paxton like a normal Republican. Instead of focusing attacks on the Democrat, he'd rather talk about the weaknesses of the Republican.

It's just an interesting look at how, institutionally, the two parties are actually quite different still. No matter the internal strife, Democrats will put on a face of unity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM (7RBt4)

302 I think the proper term is "oysterman."

Posted by: Word nerd at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM (2Ez/1)

303 I've a son who tried for two years to get a disability rating (tried to stop a jet engine coming off its stand). Got no where til he contacted a VA group who helped him tremendously.
BTW, he quit because while he was arguing, his command started okaying sex change operations.

Posted by: MkY at May 29, 2026 03:23 PM (q6tQZ)

304 Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley
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As Democrats demand the removal of the masks of ICE agents, a protester was shown yesterday yelling at an agent, "I've got your face. I'll kill your whole f**king family. You whole f**king family is dead. Your child, your wife, and all are dead. I have your face mother f**ker. You re dead."
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Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (Fi81e)

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That sounds a little like Domestic Terrorism-y.

"Kash Patel, please pick up the white-adjacent privilege courtesy phone ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:23 PM (BGLxh)

305 My kindle tablet is pushing me Prime video on me, to watch Caro Doda, Topless At The Condor.
Why would I want to watch a near 100 year old topless woman?
And I thought the Condor was torn down long ago.
Posted by: From about That Time at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (sl73Y)
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Still there.

The Condor, I mean. Carol Doda is no longer there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 03:24 PM (RIvkX)

306 Oysterman - rejected by Marvel Superhero Name.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 03:24 PM (Gqar8)

307 As Democrats demand the removal of the masks of ICE agents, a protester was shown yesterday yelling at an agent, "I've got your face. I'll kill your whole f**king family. You whole f**king family is dead. Your child, your wife, and all are dead. I have your face mother f**ker. You re dead."
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Posted by: Axeman at May 29, 2026 03:21 PM (Fi81e)
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Someone will have to explain to me why that "person" was not shot in the face.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 29, 2026 03:25 PM (RIvkX)

308 Pooky gets 110% VA disability (I don't know how the math works on that, but it does) and he does very occasional volunteering. And really, the only reason he's able to volunteer at all is due to JT The Wonder Dog.

Posted by: pookysgirl, weighing in at May 29, 2026 03:25 PM (Wt5PA)

309 It's just an interesting look at how, institutionally, the two parties are actually quite different still. No matter the internal strife, Democrats will put on a face of unity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM (7RBt4)

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Yep.

Excellent observation and analysis, per usual, TJM.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:25 PM (BGLxh)

310

Bob

So there are vets scamming the system. They served.

Fucking pieces of shit illegals haven't served and they don't deserve to get any of our hardened earned money.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 03:26 PM (3ek7K)

311 Every thing connected to the federal government is full of corruption and grift.

Posted by: It's A Swindle, A Swindle at May 29, 2026 03:26 PM (54bnG)

312 Oysterman would be dc

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 03:27 PM (bXbFr)

313 Best thing I like about octopuses is they are not walking around land as in my yard

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:27 PM (Ia/+0)

314 It's just an interesting look at how, institutionally, the two parties are actually quite different still. No matter the internal strife, Democrats will put on a face of unity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:22 PM (7RBt4)

It might look different from the inside. The 'establishment' candidate withdrew before the primary, and was an ex governor. Not sure how unified she feels if she spoke freely.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:28 PM (8avO+)

315 Is it like a sex farm?
Posted by: Nigel at May 29, 2026 02:43 PM (Fi81e)

No,

Herr Oberoysterfuhrer's sex farm was apparently the chemical potty room.

Posted by: Nelly at May 29, 2026 03:28 PM (6+ehB)

316
AMERICA FIRST!

Fuck anyone who doesn't agree.

I'm so sick of this shit.

Posted by: four seasons at May 29, 2026 03:28 PM (3ek7K)

317 309 Yep.

Excellent observation and analysis, per usual, TJM.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:25 PM (BGLxh)

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Republicans implied their own president might be a Russian asset for more than 2 years.

Democrats just accepted the culturally foreign Obama because he won votes, even as he was trying to prop up Iran despite the party's long-held and fairly deep loyalty to Israel over Iranian proxies in the Middle East.

I mean...there are downsides.

But, seriously, the primary's over. Time to treat Paxton like a boring Republican.

I mean, it's not like Hewitt is some kind of ideologue. He's a partisan for the party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:28 PM (7RBt4)

318 Isn't everyone in Maine an oyster farmer? Go for a walk on the beach, see some 86 shells, walk farther, hey look oysters! Dinner!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 03:28 PM (n5tGW)

319 Who is who whoitt and why should pay any attention to that joker?

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 29, 2026 03:29 PM (HIzgC)

320 314
It might look different from the inside. The 'establishment' candidate withdrew before the primary, and was an ex governor. Not sure how unified she feels if she spoke freely.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:28 PM (8avO+)

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Oh, the fissures exist, and there are some minor Democrats saying things about a brewing civil war because of Platner.

But, the national party either supports Platner or says nothing. The mouth pieces support Platner, or they say nothing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at May 29, 2026 03:29 PM (7RBt4)

321 Who is who whoitt and why should pay any attention to that joker?
Posted by: Will Robinson at May 29, 2026 03:29 PM (HIzgC)

I felt that way even when he was a somebody.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:30 PM (8avO+)

322 For the less-than-29-year-olds who don't know who Carol Doda was:

https://tinyurl.com/ynkbhx9y

(NSFW, obviously)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2026 03:30 PM (IG3/x)

323 I mean, of course a Nazi would love Scheisse.

Posted by: XTC at May 29, 2026 03:30 PM (iXqHn)

324 There's actually a lot to like about octopi and squid. Generally.

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at May 29, 2026 03:31 PM (3uBP9)

325 > 306 Oysterman - rejected by Marvel Superhero Name.
Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 03:24 PM (Gqar

Barnacle Man.

Origin: scraped himself on a radioactive barnacle in the outflow of a malfunctioning nuclear power plant.
Super power: clinging to the hull of vessels below the waterline, thus slightly reducing speed and fuel economy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 29, 2026 03:33 PM (IG3/x)

326 I worked Workers Comp claims for 35 years. Even the most honest people took advantage of the system because it was there to take advantage of.

That said I never saw the people who got legitimately injured but kept working and never made a claim.

The thing honest people mostly did was after they got a legitimate injury they took off more time than they normally would have , if any, from the exact same injury if it would have occurred outside of work.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 03:33 PM (XMuV+)

327 Barnacle Man >> Particle Man

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:34 PM (3uBP9)

328
Bezos is Number One. He now has taken the crown for largest rocket explosion in US history. He pulled off about 1 kT TNT equivalent.

Thankfully, it's the Rooskies who still hold the all-time title for biggest rocket boom-boom, with the N-1, their ill-fated attempt at a moon rocket. That was 7 kT TNT equivalent, and besides the biggest rocket explosion, it also holds the title as the largest non-nuclear explosion in history.

Elon's Starship 36 hit 0.5 kT, and before all this, an Atlas-Centaur exploded in 1965, which until these latest was the biggest American rocket explosion at maybe 0.25 kT.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 03:34 PM (w6EFb)

329 Hugh hewitt waa a boring sominrx on a better bill with steyn and lileks once upon a time

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 03:35 PM (bXbFr)

330 Considering his stability, I wonder if he is one of the reasons Blackwater has a bad rep?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 03:36 PM (zZu0s)

331 On a radio station sold to haitian evangelicals

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 03:36 PM (bXbFr)

332 Apparently rocketry has not been perfected.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at May 29, 2026 03:37 PM (n5tGW)

333 Looks more and more like Trump is gonna sign that "deal" with Iran... Damned if he does damned if he doesn't...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 03:37 PM (yLn/F)

334 That was 7 kT TNT equivalent, and besides the biggest rocket explosion, it also holds the title as the largest non-nuclear explosion in history.

I wonder what Halifax was?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 03:37 PM (zZu0s)

335 Platner is simply a thinner LTC Vindaloo Bearclaw.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 03:37 PM (ZpG08)

336
For the less-than-29-year-olds who don't know who Carol Doda was:

She and Ken "The Snake" Stabler, QB of the Oakland Raiders, got caught in some sort of naked and / or lewd romp in San Francisco around 1980.

"Snake" bleated piteously to the local press, "This will hurt my work with local youths. Folks in the area rolled their eyes and said, "Sure it will, Snake."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 29, 2026 03:37 PM (ixS3i)

337 Elon's Starship 36 hit 0.5 kT, and before all this, an Atlas-Centaur exploded in 1965, which until these latest was the biggest American rocket explosion at maybe 0.25 kT.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 03:34 PM (w6EFb)

Other notable booms:

On the morning of 6 December 1917, the French cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc was hit by the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Mont-Blanc, laden with high explosives, caught fire and detonated, devastating the Richmond district of Halifax. At least 1,782 people, largely in Halifax and Dartmouth, were killed by the blast, debris, fires, or collapsed buildings, and an estimated 9,000 others were injured. The blast was the largest human-made explosion at the time.[1] It released the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 kilotons of TNT (12 TJ).[2]

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (8avO+)

338 To quote Elon Musk - How unfortunate. Rockets are hard.

Posted by: tubal at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (Gqar8)

339 Its a misnomer, Yes the "Disability" Can be visible, i.e. Wheel chair, missing limbs, scarred. But they can be invisible, overall health, pain, ptsd, illnesses. It's mostly COMPENSATION for injuries, visible or INVISIBLE to the average person. Compensation owed from the military damaging your body over your time in service. Period. And if anyone is up in arms about it all, you probably never served and you will continue to sit on your high chair and judge those who answered the nations call.

Posted by: saar at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (lexfv)

340 As Democrats demand the removal of the masks of ICE agents, a protester was shown yesterday yelling at an agent, "I've got your face. I'll kill your whole f**king family. You whole f**king family is dead. Your child, your wife, and all are dead. I have your face mother f**ker. You re dead."
____

Why? what has this (or any) particular ICE agent done that warrants mass murder to him and his family? Is it just a threat to try to mess with the guy's head? Again, why?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (Dv3i1)

341 Blackwater has been libeled since the fallujah bridge (recreated in the dark knight rises) to the nisan gates incident

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (bXbFr)

342 The tough-talking Marine veteran struts around in a Carhartt jacket and jeans

I'm told that Carhartt is now a fashionable brand that got bought by the GAP or some fashion clothing company like that.

It's only a matter of time before it's crapifacted into uselessness as work gear.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 29, 2026 03:39 PM (vJrRc)

343 Barnacle Man will have a tough job standing apart in our Senate.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 03:39 PM (gKWVE)

344 Collins is no prize but seriously Maine ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 03:40 PM (yLn/F)

345 Posted by: saar at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (lexfv

All benefit systems are taken advantage of because they serve humans.

Posted by: polynikes at May 29, 2026 03:40 PM (XMuV+)

346 Beirut was equivalent to 1.4 KT the internet says.

Wasn't there a test of conventional explosives where they wanted to test the damage of a nuclear blast but not have the radiation so they used and absolutely massive amount of conventional explosives. I bet that was pretty high on the equivalent scale?

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:41 PM (3uBP9)

347 Barnacle Man will have a tough job standing apart in our Senate.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 29, 2026 03:39 PM (gKWVE)

He can cling on a rafter.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:41 PM (8avO+)

348 Halifax was 2.9 KT but killed almost 1,800.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 03:41 PM (ZpG08)

349 "Made from organic cotton."

Find me some inorganic cotton........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 29, 2026 03:16 PM

*whistles innocently*

- steel wool

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 29, 2026 03:41 PM (Wnv9h)

350 285 We should register octopuses to vote.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Can they, you know,.... "Consent"?

Posted by: Kurt at May 29, 2026 03:42 PM (gKWVE)

351 According to the net, Halifax was 2.9 kt equivalent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 03:42 PM (zZu0s)

352 I'm told that Carhartt is now a fashionable brand that got bought by the GAP or some fashion clothing company like that.

It's only a matter of time before it's crapifacted into uselessness as work gear.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 29, 2026 03:39 PM (vJrRc)

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Yesterday, I got a chuckle out of hearing Dana Loesch refer to Talafreako as looking like an Old Navy Mannequin.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:42 PM (BGLxh)

353 Does your state have an official appetizer?

I didn't think so.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 29, 2026 03:17 PM (viF8m)

If we did, it'd either involve corn or be deep-fried. Our unofficial dessert is Snicker Salad (not an actual salad).

Posted by: pookysgirl uses Granny Smith apples for hers at May 29, 2026 03:42 PM (Wt5PA)

354 >> I wonder what Halifax was?

Listed as 2.9 kT equivalent.

We hit about 5 kT or so intentionally in some military tests way back in the day to simulate nuclear blast waves.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 03:42 PM (w6EFb)

355 The idiotic thing about the VA disability rating game is that you can be unable to work but they’ll fight like hell to avoid giving a 100% rating while folks with 100% work full time.

Posted by: epador at May 29, 2026 03:42 PM (5JNK/)

356 >>> Why? what has this (or any) particular ICE agent done that warrants mass murder to him and his family? Is it just a threat to try to mess with the guy's head? Again, why?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (Dv3i1)

All leftists want to murder anyone, destroy anything in their way. That's it. That's the answer.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:43 PM (3uBP9)

357 Beirut was equivalent to 1.4 KT the internet says.

Wasn't there a test of conventional explosives where they wanted to test the damage of a nuclear blast but not have the radiation so they used and absolutely massive amount of conventional explosives. I bet that was pretty high on the equivalent scale?
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:41 PM (3uBP9)

I don't recall the test myself, but the 2.9 kiloton was an entire cargo ship full of munitions. Hiroshima was estimated at 15, so that would require 5 cargo ships full.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:44 PM (8avO+)

358 How does Blue Origin compare to the Soviet Moon rocket explosion?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 03:44 PM (ZpG08)

359
I got tired of Hewitt years ago.

He always seemed like a Crypto-Democrat constantly pushing the GOP Weak-Sisters like Mutt Rombly or cucks like Corny.

Do. Not. Need.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 29, 2026 03:44 PM (iJfKG)

360 Wasn't there a test of conventional explosives where they wanted to test the damage of a nuclear blast but not have the radiation so they used and absolutely massive amount of conventional explosives. I bet that was pretty high on the equivalent scale?
Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:41 PM (3uBP9)

Iirc, the calibration test for the instruments was .1kt. Its at the beginning of the Atomic Bomb Movie (narrated by the Shat.) I think it on ewetub. Ill check real quick.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 03:44 PM (zZu0s)

361 Now a judge has ruled that Trump can't close the Trump/Kennedy Center and his name has to be removed

Posted by: It's me donna at May 29, 2026 03:45 PM (yLn/F)

362 I know Planter is not a real veteran 'cause Jake Tapper isn't running to his defense ....

Jake Tapper supports the veterans.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 29, 2026 03:45 PM (73/SM)

363 >>> How does Blue Origin compare to the Soviet Moon rocket explosion?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 29, 2026 03:44 PM (ZpG0

Publius got it above.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:45 PM (3uBP9)

364 Other notable booms:

On the morning of 6 December 1917, the French cargo ship SS Mont-Blanc was hit by the Norwegian vessel SS Imo in the harbour of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Mont-Blanc, laden with high explosives, caught fire and detonated, devastating the Richmond district of Halifax. At least 1,782 people, largely in Halifax and Dartmouth, were killed by the blast, debris, fires, or collapsed buildings, and an estimated 9,000 others were injured. The blast was the largest human-made explosion at the time.[1] It released the equivalent energy of roughly 2.9 kilotons of TNT (12 TJ).[2]
Posted by: Oldcat at May 29, 2026 03:38 PM (8avO+)

The Port Chicago disaster was a massive munitions explosion on July 17, 1944, at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Concord, California (near Suisun Bay). The blast, caused by the detonation of approximately 2,000 tons of TNT equivalent in munitions being loaded onto the Liberty ship SS E.A. Bryan, killed 320 sailors and civilians instantly, making it the largest loss of life on U.S. soil during World War II.

Posted by: ShainS -- During Trans Period Pride Month AKA Menstrual Equity??? at May 29, 2026 03:45 PM (BGLxh)

365 Disability percentages are additive. You can get say 10% for tinnitus and 20% for neuropathy for example. They have an odd way of adding them but you need a lot of conditions to add up to 100%.

There are lawyers that work with people to get pensions.

Posted by: javems at May 29, 2026 03:45 PM (zFsEm)

366 nood

hollyrooood!

Posted by: banana Dream at May 29, 2026 03:45 PM (3uBP9)

367 Kurt is nevarr going to live that down

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at May 29, 2026 03:46 PM (bXbFr)

368 343 Barnacle Man will have a tough job standing apart in our Senate.

barnacle man
barnacle man
doing the things
a barnacle can

Posted by: anachronda at May 29, 2026 03:46 PM (v3pYe)

369 >> How does Blue Origin compare to the Soviet Moon rocket explosion?

N-1 explosion was 7 kT, and remains the biggest non-nuclear, man-made explosion in history.

Bezos Boom-Boom was 1 kT.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 29, 2026 03:46 PM (w6EFb)

370 THE BOSS HAS A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at May 29, 2026 03:47 PM (Ia/+0)

371 Its not on ewetub that I can find.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 29, 2026 03:47 PM (zZu0s)

372 I prefer clam farming.

Posted by: wth at May 29, 2026 03:48 PM (UjdFS)

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