The Morning Report — 6/ 30 /26

Good morning kids. And so here we are saying farewell to June and the first half of 2026. Perhaps more surreal than that is the fact that this Saturday marks the 250th birthday of our nation. It all seems so surreal in that although the crass commercialism that was in your face for almost a year before the Bicentennial is nowhere to be found 50 years on as we approach our semiquincentennial. In a way it is kind of a troubling barometer of the disunity of our nation and society. As I and others have pondered the mixed signals emanating from the political landscape. How can we reconcile the coming of the Donald Trump era and all the promise of a return to some semblance of America as founded with the rise of tyrannical dictatorial anti-American/Western madness in the form of the Democrat/Socialist party.

As friend and friend of the blog Prof. Victor Davis Hanson elucidates in his latest outing:

It is fascinating but ultimately depressing to watch old-style Democrats say or do anything to avoid the new mob of Robespierres. Democrat candidates who recently begged for a Schumer/Pelosi/Jeffries endorsement now are telling them to get in line at the guillotine.
Jewish American Democrats are terrified that what happened to the primaried and defeated Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, an arch-Trump hater, could befall them. Goldman’s obnoxious showboating hatred of Trump and championing of neo-socialist agendas offered no defense against the Jacobins’ antisemitism and hatred of Israel.

And his noting of the guillotine is not merely a rhetorical flourish but given who and what we're dealing with perhaps prescient:

Andy O’Brien, the communications director for the Maine AFL-CIO, a statewide federation of 160 local unions, posted on social media, suggesting Democrats who refuse to support Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner should face execution after a “revolution.”

And given the track record of Antifa, BLM and the Soros District Attorneys and thoroughly corrupt judges, you can bet your bottom dollar that is not mere hyperbole.

Well, there are the Democratic Socialists, and then of course there are the Democrat Socialites

Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) has emerged as a potential contender for the Democrat presidential nomination while denouncing the ultra-rich who "hoard wealth and engage in financial speculation." But the progressive, Silicon Valley congressman and his family live a life of staggering luxury, fueled by dynastic wealth they did not earn and protected by the same thicket of trusts, anonymous corporations, and foundations that Khanna condemns.

Oh, a slimy scumbag chutzpocritical hypocrite. I'm shocked, et tu Comrade Colonel Sanders, of the multiple multi-million dollar Vermont ski chalets?!

No flame throwers aimed at them, eh Antifa?!

On that note, I give you this little item.

Cops arrested a man outside a church in High Point, North Carolina, who allegedly had two flamethrowers, over 500 rounds of ammunition and other weapons.
High Point Police Department (HPPD) officers responded at approximately 10:15 a.m. June 28 to a report of an armed man in his vehicle outside Wesley Memorial Church, according to a police statement. The caller alleged that the man was dressed in camoflage garb. An off-duty officer in the church responded and was soon joined by additional officers. The man was arrested “without incident” and no injuries were reported, police said. . . Police identified the suspect as 44-year-old William S. Milliken III of Thomasville. Prosecutors charged him in part with “possession of weapon of mass destruction, impersonation of law enforcement officer, and possession of control substance schedule II.” Milliken’s truck was searched after he was taken into custody, police said. Officers found a CO2-powered launcher crafted to look like a handgun, a pair of flamethrowers, a pair of crossbows, over 500 rounds of ammunition, three knives, and oxycodone pills, according to the HPPD. (RELATED: ‘Teen Takeover’ Chaos Spreads After Masked Individual Pulls Out Apparent Flamethrower)

I'm sure he was just setting up for the church's July 4th festivities, nein?!

Aside from this, there is one story that is disturbing in the extreme.

Officials charged a 10-year-old Missouri boy with murder after he allegedly shot a 7-month-old baby in the head execution-style June 26, according to a report.
St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) officers responded to the incident just after 4:00 p.m. and found the baby, identified as 7-month-old Kiyomi Parker, within the residence, according to an SLMPD press release. The baby died from her wounds. Homicide Detectives and Child Abuse Detectives later opened an investigation into the incident and learned that an unidentified 10-year-old boy shot the child, the SLMPD alleged. Witnesses said the 10-year-old retrieved a gun and shot the infant, according to court documents cited by First Alert 4. The boy confessed that he shot baby in the head, WTHR13 reported, citing a probable cause statement. . . Officers allegedly learned that Ca’Marion Pawnell, the baby’s father, stored a gun beneath a mattress in one of the residence’s bedroooms by interviewing witnesses, including the 10-year-old. The minor confessed that he was aware of where the firearm was and had retrieved it before, according to the court documents.

Well chalk up another one for LBJ's Great Society — or if Barack Obama had a son, he'd be Ca’Marion. I think this story should be emblazoned on the side of his Godzilla urinal-looking Presidential Library in (Jekyll'n) Hyde Park.

Have a good day,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Victor Davis Hanson: The new socialist movement believes it can remake America—but its growing radicalism may prove the very thing that drives voters away and fuels a counterrevolution.
The New Socialists: Elite, Ungrateful, and Toxic as Ever

THE IRAN CONFLICT, "PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)

The conflicting narratives from the U.S. and Iran cast doubt on the potential for meaningful progress in resolving tensions.
Trump Announces Iran Talks, Iranian Official Denies They Are Scheduled After Weekend Strikes.
The track record for another Iran Deal is as bad as it gets.
When Has Negotiating With Islamic Terrorists Ever Worked?

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Iran's players face the regime before every opponent.
World Cup Hostages
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Andy O’Brien, the communications director for the Maine AFL-CIO, a statewide federation of 160 local unions, posted on social media, suggesting Democrats who refuse to support Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner should face execution after a “revolution.”
Labor Union Leader: Execute Democrats Who Break with Graham Platner via Firing Squad
Police identified the suspect as 44-year-old William S. Milliken III of Thomasville. Prosecutors charged him in part with “possession of weapon of mass destruction, impersonation of law enforcement officer, and possession of control substance schedule II.”
Man Allegedly Arrested Outside Church With Flamethrowers, 500 Rounds Of Ammo
According to sources familiar with the matter, the grand jury in Manhattan has issued subpoenas as part of a probe launched by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York, one of the country’s most powerful districts for federal prosecutions. Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche authorized the investigation as the Trump administration seeks to crack down on fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes in the multibillion-dollar nonprofit industry.
Report — Follow the Money: DOJ Probes China-Based Billionaire Neville Roy Singham’s Funding of U.S. Leftists
"No Kings" is not an organization. It's a brand — a coalition model with Indivisible, MoveOn, and the group 50501 serving as the national coordinating backbone, providing training, digital tools, permits, and organizational infrastructure to hundreds of local groups that plug in underneath. The DSA is one of those groups, and their participation isn't accidental or incidental. It's official policy.
'No Kings' and the DSA
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
By separating the spatial effects and then measuring the indirect “spillover effects,” this research paints a clearer picture of immigration’s overreach into communities, theoretically spread over the whole country.
New Study: Immigration Caused 40% Of Your Rent Hikes Over 10 Years
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
On Monday, Donald Trump sealed one of the most lasting parts of his legacy. In Trump v. Slaughter, the Court reaffirmed and reinforced the authority of presidents to determine who will carry out the functions of the Executive Branch. In so doing, the Court overruled one of the long-standing limits of presidential power in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States.
Jonathan Turley Op-Ed: Supreme Court allows Trump to say ‘you’re fired’ to meddling bureaucrats
Taken together, Cook and Slaughter reveal a chief justice once again attempting to split the baby between constitutional principle and institutional pragmatism.
John Roberts: Presidents Have Executive Power. Also John Roberts: No, They Don’t
This ruling reshapes the federal bureaucracy by allowing the President greater control over independent agencies, potentially preventing “unfireable” officials from undermining the agenda of elected officials.
Supreme Court Restores Presidential Power to Fire Federal Officials, Overturning 90-Year Deep State Shield.
Federal regulators, states, and tribes are battling over who controls sports betting.
The Coming Supreme Court Showdown Over Prediction Markets
Trump’s first term provided a hiatus from the abuse heaped on us by a profusion of regulations issued by an Administrative State. The second is off to an even better start.
Donald Trump – Regulation Buster
Betsy McCaughey: In 2023 and twice in 2024 a hesitant US Supreme Court declined to hear building owners’ challenges to New York state’s rent regulations. Lower courts acknowledged the regulations diminished the value of rental properties but said the state was balancing the rights of owners with the need to protect tenants. At the time, Justice Clarence Thomas said the constitutionality of New York’s rent regulations is “an important and pressing question” — and that he looked forward to a rent-control case that clearly demonstrates the government going too far to take an owner’s property.
Mamdani’s rent-freeze win could come back to bite him — at the Supreme Court

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
The state coverups continue.
French Woman Prosecuted for Telling the Truth About Muslim Rapists
Why Muslim rape gangs are more common in northern Europe and the UK than elsewhere.
Jihadis Prefer Blondes
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
“'Palestinian' Mexican American” Democrat blames Israel for fourth consecutive loss.
Munichian Candidate Update
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
The Supreme Court’s decision may mark the end of Trump’s legal avenues to overturn the $5m judgment. Carroll has also won a separate defamation case against Trump, with an $83 million judgment, which he is also appealing.
Supreme Court Declines Trump’s Appeal in E. Jean Carroll Lawsuit.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The group has been in turmoil amid growing revelations that dozens of “journalists” on its list were active combatants for Hamas and other militant Islamic groups
Committee To Protect Journalists Ousts Anti-Israel Heiress From Its Board As Group Launches Full Review of Its Controversial ‘Journalists Slain in Gaza’ List
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude now trades near $68 per barrel, but gasoline prices have declined more slowly.
Trump Demands Gas Retailers Slash Prices, Warns Of ‘Big Problems’
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The hare-like panic is already traveling rapidly through the West, but the tortoise is slowly coming through with different information.
All Eyes On The Tortoise For The Plastics-In-Blood Panic
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Officers allegedly learned that Ca’Marion Pawnell, the baby’s father, stored a gun beneath a mattress in one of the residence’s bedroooms by interviewing witnesses, including the 10-year-old. The minor confessed that he was aware of where the firearm was and had retrieved it before, according to the court documents. (LBJ's Great Society strikes again - jjs)
REPORT: 10-Year-Old Accused Of Shooting Baby In Head Execution-Style
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Despite resistance from the teachers’ unions, we must implement merit-based pay for teachers and expand parental choice to improve educational outcomes.
Two Winners in Education: Merit Pay and School Choice
SECOND AMENDMENT
Virginia Scope reporter Brandon Jarvis published Campbell’s ruling, wherein he wrote, “…the Motion for Preliminary Injunction enjoining the Defendants from enforcing the subject Firearms Ban and Magazine Bans as contemplated by the recently enacted Senate Bill 749 and House Bill 217 is GRANTED.”
In the Nick of Time: NRA Secures Injunction Against Virginia ‘Assault Weapons’ and Magazine Ban
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
The Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled that state laws allowing for the counting of mail-in ballots after election day are not in violation of federal law, a blow to the Republican National Committee and President Donald Trump’s administration. (a nearly mortal blow to our republic - jjs)
SCOTUS Rules 5-4 to Permit Counting of Mail-In Ballots that Arrive After Election Day
Trump said the ruling was proof that Republicans needed to pass the Save America Act.
Trump Reacts To ‘Tremendous Loss’ At SCOTUS
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday tossed out several proposed ballot measures that would have asked voters to redraw the state’s congressional maps before the 2028 election.
Blue State Supreme Court Derails Democrats’ Redistricting Push
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Luna accused Gallego in April of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations, prompting a months-long investigation by the committee. In a letter to Gallego, the committee concluded there was no evidence the senator violated any federal laws or Senate rules.
Senate Ethics Panel Tosses Out Complaint Against Eric Swalwell’s Buddy Ruben Gallego
"How communist of you."
Mamdani Darling Had Burner Account Flooded With Communist Fan Fiction
Khanna’s ultra-wealthy family depends on the same kind of secretive financial accounting and unearned wealth that he criticizes on the stump
‘Ro’ Me the Money! How Progressive Class Warrior Ro Khanna Lives Like the Oligarchs He ‘Fights,’ With In-Home Elevator, $190K Range Rover, and Family-Owned Golf Courses.
POLITICS
A majority of Democrat respondents, 55%, said they would rather live outside the United States than remain here. To which many of us might respond: What’s stopping you?
New Poll: Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US
Do you have any idea what the DSA stands for? . . .
10 Questions Every Democrat Must Now Be Made To Answer
In other words, more than 90% of congressional Democrats declined to sign onto a statement opposing socialism, at a time when Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidates are surging. Yet rather than mount a group effort to stop the growing rise of socialism, most Democrats appear to have no problem with it.
The DSA Is The Logical Conclusion Of Democrats’ Insane, Anti-American Positions
Democrats didn’t stop them from taking over their party, but we can and must stop them from taking over entire state governments and our nation.
The DSA Takes Over The Democrat Party
Young and college-educated voters in denser urban areas formed a core bloc for many candidates aligned with the socialist left over the past few months, an analysis of primary election data found.
Here Are The Voters Backing Democratic Socialists
This failure is causing profound harm to America and Americans.
Congress Is No Longer Performing Its Constitutional Function
How a VIP dinner dustup became a social media myth.
John Thune and the Tempest in Rapid City
Nancy Pelosi is starting a new career at age 86, teaching at the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy at the University of California, Berkeley. We applaud her for planning an active life in retirement after Congress. But the name of her new institute — well, that’s a bit rich. A more accurate name would be: The Pelosi Institute for Partisanship in the Pursuit of Power. Because that is a more accurate description of her career.
Malig-Nancy Pelosi’s legacy: Power above all
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The Great Replacement is a ‘conspiracy theory’ no more.
French Leftist Crows About How the French Are Being Replaced
An admission despite a decade-long effort to purge mass migration-critical officers.
German Police Officers: ‘This Country Is Finished’
They call him the "Batman of Lagos de Moreno.”
Authorities Hunt ‘Mexican Batman’ After Vigilante Justice
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
A rare and potentially fatal tick-borne illness currently spreading across the United States can be traced back to a 1958 case involving a young boy on a farm. The disease, known as Powassan virus, was named for the Ontario town near where it was first discovered.
Rare tick-borne virus turns deadly fast as US cases reach record high, experts warn
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
...Mayor Jacob Frey (D), who did so to support “our LGBTQIA+ neighbors.”
Democrat Minneapolis Mayor Lifts Ban on Gay Sex Bathhouses (prepping for an Obama visit- jjs)
Some members have vowed to continue the fight to keep the organization all female.
Daughters Of The American Revolution Betrays Its Mission By Rejecting Resolution To Keep Its Ranks Female
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: Misogyny! Superhero fatigue! Oh, and the movie is flat-out terrible, they admit
Legacy Media Mourns ‘Supergirl’s Box Office Collapse
But first, what exactly is Banana Ball? Imagine baseball and the circus had a baby that was naturally gifted in musical theater. This game is baseball with a sense of humor. "You've got to think differently," says owner Jesse Cole, "whatever is normal, do the exact opposite."
Banana Ball Proves That the Free Market Still Knows Best
To many younger Americans today, 'socialism' sounds less like state control and more like economic fairness — perhaps even a lifeline.
When the American Dream Dies, Socialism Rises
HITHER & YON
The story of the Jewish romance with the Left begins with the labor movement of the early 20th century—and it is one Ungar-Sargon recounts in vivid detail.
Book Review: ‘The Jews and the Left’ by Batya Ungar-Sargon

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 30, 2026 07:05 AM (0N4FZ)

2 Unmm, more people fighting for limited housing resources made the price go up?

Madness.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2026 07:11 AM (XV/Pl)

3 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

4 Top 10.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 30, 2026 07:12 AM (1IhIV)

5 thank you, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2026 07:12 AM (VyBeY)

6 "Ca’Marion Pawnell"

So much for the Rap career.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:13 AM (MWfyi)

7 *Cops arrested a man outside a church in High Point, North Carolina, who allegedly had two flamethrowers, over 500 rounds of ammunition and other weapons.*
+++++

One flamethrower a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at June 30, 2026 07:15 AM (2Ez/1)

8 There's Only The Fight™.

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at June 30, 2026 07:16 AM (2Ez/1)

9 Thank you JJ. Morning all

It is surreal to me that I remember the bicentennial in 76… 50 years ago! Is the possible??

In my head anyway it was a much bigger deal in 76 than this milestone is this year. Much less hoopla

50 years long time. Reminds me of how Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died 50 years to the day after the Declaration. I always that was a remarkable “coincidence”… and by coincidence I mean ordained by God…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 07:17 AM (YetvJ)

10 NPR would like you to know:

”Venezuelans deported from the U.S. were killed hours later in powerful quakes".

Does NPR know how many American lives were saved because they were there and not here?

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:19 AM (MWfyi)

11 Happy Tuesday

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 30, 2026 07:19 AM (/+uur)

12 I hate autocorrect with the burning passion of a thousand suns. It sometimes makes my comments look like gibberish. Maybe ALL my comments are gibberish anyway. I should at least briefly scan before hitting post but impatience doncha know… the world must see my brilliant musings now!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 07:21 AM (YetvJ)

13
Wow! A nice, bright, shiny Morning Report!

*accidentally breaks something*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 07:21 AM (O0L8i)

14 Thank you J.J.

Hope you are doing well.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

15 Does the Vigilante Batman call duct tape "Bat Tape"?

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:21 AM (MWfyi)

16 It’s sad that even before I saw that the shooters name was Ca’Marion, I knew he was black.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 07:22 AM (orF8y)

17 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 07:24 AM (sgkY8)

18 Ca’Marion Pawnell
So much for the Rap career.

We want to help you, Mr. Pawnell. My brother and I run a privately-funded program to rehabilitate culturally disadvantaged people. We'd like to supply you with a home of your own, a car, a generous bank account, and employment with our company.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at June 30, 2026 07:27 AM (K5H/e)

19
Long day awaits. Call Her Majesty at 7:00, exercise Diana, drop off dry cleaning, stop at Lowe's and Kroger, get the garbage down to the road, then mowing and trimming.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2026 07:28 AM (O0L8i)

20 “Taking all spillover effects into account, a simultaneous 1 percentage-point increase in immigration in all PUMAs is associated with an average increase in native rent of 1.46 percent,” Dr. Richwine’s abstract reads.

Supply and Demand Who da hell would have thunk that?

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 30, 2026 07:28 AM (/+uur)

21 And some of them are wondering why "The Media" is dying a miserable and comedic death.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:29 AM (Ot/FD)

22 14 Thank you J.J.

Hope you are doing well.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:21 AM (u82oZ)

Hanging in there. Off for my regular MRI...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 30, 2026 07:30 AM (x0n13)

23 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

I would prefer they live overseas too.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:30 AM (MWfyi)

24 23 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

I would prefer they live overseas too.
Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:30 AM (MWfyi)

Over, under, either works for me.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:31 AM (Ot/FD)

25 So much for all that "you people don't have a monopoly on Patriotism" stuff, huh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:32 AM (Ot/FD)

26 It is surreal to me that I remember the bicentennial in 76… 50 years ago! Is the possible??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 07:17 AM
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Something I've been paying attention to for quite a while now: I'll be in a fast food place, a grocery store, or a big box store, or even at a gas pump and I'll make note of the background music playing. Frequently it's a song I remember from high school, which was 50 years ago. And it's not a remake. It's the exact SAME recording from 50 years ago.
So, in 1975 was the background music recordings from 1925?
No, it wasn't.
I don't know what any of this means, but once you start listening for it, it's pervasive.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 30, 2026 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)

27 The ongoing scandal deepened last month after the Free Beacon reported that the CPJ had been quietly removing some militants’ names from its list of deceased "journalists" without publicly acknowledging the changes, and that the CPJ’s board of directors is brimming with anti-Israel sentiment with virtually no dissenting voices.
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Inherited great wealth is evil, I have come to believe. If the Committee To Protect Journalists did not have this billionaire heiress on it, they might be more credible, and less inclined to claim Israel is the bad guy in the Hamas fight.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:33 AM (rnoq1)

28 "the very thing that drives voters away."

Voters? F*ck voters. That's the point or goal -- to reach a post-voter or post-electoral socialist empire, to nullify the whole premise of voters and voting and accountability. It's so regressive and humiliating for a good socialist to have his credentials and performance, or his ideology's moral supremacy and right to rule, judged.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 07:34 AM (b4LBp)

29 18 - good one. Took me a second.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 30, 2026 07:35 AM (2noDb)

30 fd & Warai-otoko

North Korea would welcome new farm workers with open arms. Just think of the dating market for big, strong, American women with a nose ring to be led by NK men.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:35 AM (u82oZ)

31 "I'll be in a fast food place, a grocery store, or a big box store, or even at a gas pump and I'll make note of the background music playing. Frequently it's a song I remember from high school, which was 50 years ago. "

"The Girl From Ipanema" is timeless.

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:35 AM (MWfyi)

32 "The Girl From Ipanema" is timeless.
Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:35 AM (MWfyi)

BECAUSE TIME IS A FALSE CONSTRUCTION OF WHITE TRICKNOLOGY

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISSBERGER at June 30, 2026 07:36 AM (Ot/FD)

33 “The conflicting narratives from the U.S. and Iran cast doubt on the potential for meaningful progress in resolving tensions.
Trump Announces Iran Talks, Iranian Official Denies They Are Scheduled After Weekend Strikes.“

This is something where I honestly don’t understand Trumps motivations; I try to make sense of them and can’t. Over the last two days, he posted on Truth Social multiple assurances that Iran was coming back for more negotiations today, in Doha. The Iranian Foreign Ministry openly laughed at these claims and poured scorn on them, saying that they weren’t gonna negotiate shit anymore. Both accused the other side of lying.

So what happened? Today, Jared Kushner went to talk to some Qatari officials. Nobody from Iran showed up, obviously the “negotiations” are dead. Why pretend they’re not?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 07:36 AM (orF8y)

34 Randolph Duke

I don't get it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:37 AM (u82oZ)

35 This suit focuses on the narrow case of so-called “zombie” apartments — units that stand empty and unrented due to a 2019 state law that tightly restricts how much owners can pass along to tenants when they spend what’s needed to get apartments up to code.

That leaves an estimated 57,000 zombie units sitting vacant, exacerbating the housing crunch and impoverishing building owners.

57000/2300000=2.4%

Socialist rules always always distort markets.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 30, 2026 07:38 AM (/+uur)

36 Tom Servo

The target for all the negotiations hogwash is the easily spooked oil markets. Lower crude oil prices lead to midterm election success.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

37 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 07:40 AM (ExV1e)

38 So what happened? Today, Jared Kushner went to talk to some Qatari officials. Nobody from Iran showed up, obviously the “negotiations” are dead. Why pretend they’re not?
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 07:36 AM (orF8y)

There could be some small measure of petty dickishness involved.... "Look! Look! I'm negotiating! See! Wow, look at all the negotiating!"

Militarily, there's not much left to do but wait until the next phase of beating their asses begins anew. Let them scuttle around and generate intelligence for us while we bide our time. Might as well stand on the ropes and work the crowds, meanwhile.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:40 AM (Ot/FD)

39 So, in 1975 was the background music recordings from 1925?
No, it wasn't.
I don't know what any of this means, but once you start listening for it, it's pervasive.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 30, 2026 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)

Go to a slum dog C-store and listen to the stations theys gots playn. Someone gets shot or raped in the first 60 seconds of a song.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 30, 2026 07:41 AM (/+uur)

40 >The conflicting narratives from the U.S. and Iran cast doubt on the potential for meaningful progress in resolving tensions.
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I nominate the above for Understatement of the Year

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 07:42 AM (ZxPkt)

41 Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) has emerged as a potential contender for the Democratic presidential nomination while denouncing the ultra-rich who "hoard wealth and engage in financial speculation."

Khanna lives in a $6 million, 8,000-square-foot luxury home with a four-story elevator and so much premium marble that even the two laundry rooms have marble counters.
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Ro Khanna may not be the worst Democrat, since he hasn't publicly called for executions yet, but he certainly is right up there on the Hypocritical List. Vast wealth, all gifted to his wife and their children from her entrepreneurial father, make his material life possible. If he truly believes what he claims, he and she would renounce every penny, give it to the Treasury, and move into a Soviet style apartment. What a POS.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:43 AM (mnE7t)

42 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

43 She claims officers told her that identifying the suspect would be difficult because of a large backlog of 6,000 similar cases they were investigating involving ‘African and Black migrants’.

In fact, Muslims make up 10% of the French population, but an estimated 70% of the rapists.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 30, 2026 07:43 AM (/+uur)

44 The DAR article hits home. Mrs VIA is currently working on her eligibility to join, and is facing the moral dilemma of should she join the organization or not. Apparently there were more shenanigans taking place with the vote that took place. Including locking folks inside the room for hours with no breaks for the bathroom to wear down the older more conservative members who were voting.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 30, 2026 07:43 AM (iMotb)

45 I used to have a different nic

Good morning! Hope you are doing OK. And keeping Texas free.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

46 Ro Khanna makes my skin crawl

He is a perfect Democrat
1. A dummy
2. Inherited wealth
3. Will to power

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 07:44 AM (RIvkX)

47 *Go to a slum dog C-store and listen to the stations theys gots playn. Someone gets shot or raped in the first 60 seconds of a song.*
++++

Sitting right here at the redneck bar, boss.

Posted by: Mama, trains, trucks, prison, and getting drunk at June 30, 2026 07:45 AM (2Ez/1)

48 So, in 1975 was the background music recordings from 1925?
No, it wasn't.
I don't know what any of this means, but once you start listening for it, it's pervasive.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 30, 2026 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)

My personal conviction is that the music of the 70s and 80s was peak. Nothing better…. They’ll be playing it in a hundred years still

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 07:45 AM (YetvJ)

49 My personal conviction is that the music of the 70s and 80s was peak. Nothing better…. They’ll be playing it in a hundred years still
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 07:45 AM (YetvJ)

You really don't hear a lot of 60's music out in public anymore that isn't Beatles or Stones. You never hear Motown just out in a grocery store. Not sure what the significance is, just an observation really.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:47 AM (Ot/FD)

50 Village Idiot's Apprentice
Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Obviously the DAR needs Mrs. VIA's help. She can leave if it is overrun, and the offical organization becomes a skin-suit over a communist wreck.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:47 AM (u82oZ)

51
French Leftist Crows About How the French Are Being Replaced

German Police Officers: ‘This Country Is Finished’

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Every single sentient person knows and sees what's happening to Western Europe. There is only one solution left and that is (violent) revolution to take these countries back, hang the traitors that allowed it to happen, and kick out every usurper muslim that was thrown the welcome mat.

If these things don't happen, Western Europe is done. I don't think enough people have any understanding just what is happening or how bad it is...or how utterly traitorous those in authority that have cultivated the demise of these countries are. I'm sorry to say that violent revolution is the only thing they have left. IMO...

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 07:47 AM (qBdHI)

52 Andy O’Brien, the communications director for the Maine AFL-CIO, a statewide federation of 160 local unions, posted on social media, suggesting Democrats who refuse to support Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner should face execution after a “revolution.”
Labor Union Leader: Execute Democrats Who Break with Graham Platner via Firing Squad

As I noted in the Tech Thread, Graham "Maine Fuhrer" Platner just *looks* like he affects a cringe-inducing, poorly done, faux Irish accent when he's drunk. Now I'm not saying that anyone should be executed for that, but it would certainly be disqualifying for public office.

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 07:48 AM (Sy6m/)

53 Voters? F*ck voters. That's the point or goal -- to reach a post-voter or post-electoral socialist empire, to nullify the whole premise of voters and voting and accountability.

I honestly think that gives the DNC way too much credit. I've seen nothing resembling a cohesive plan out of them.

Used to be - you'd see a general coordination around election cycles. Two year kinda' plans. You could definitely see it out of the GOP after the Tea Party Wave. A coordinated effort to coopt what new members they could, and expel the rest, even if it cost them a couple cycles. It worked. They'd like to do it again regarding Trump - but they just can't pull it off now. Too many moles to whack. Just too much effort.

You definitely saw a DNC plan during Covid. But now ? They can't "plan" more than over a weekend until the next new cycle. I don't think they'll be much of a party in twenty years or so. Don't know if the GOP will be either. I'll put all my chips in on fractures in both parties. I think we get at least three before its over. Maybe four.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 07:48 AM (WeKpa)

54 So, in 1975 was the background music recordings from 1925?
No, it wasn't.
I don't know what any of this means, but once you start listening for it, it's pervasive.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 30, 2026 07:33 AM (2Ez/1)

In Spotify sales and other current indicators of taste, people under 30 much prefer music from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s to anything that’s been mainstream over the last 20 years, with only a couple of exceptions.
Turns out we lived through a golden age of popular music. Who knew?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 07:48 AM (orF8y)

55 In my head anyway it was a much bigger deal in 76 than this milestone is this year.

In 1976, Democrats were still in the "pretending to be Americans" phase.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 07:49 AM (ExV1e)

56 Warai-otoko

Time winnows popular music to only a few hits representative of an era. This is easily seen in classical music, and what gets played of music from 200 years ago. Only a few of those musicians are heard today.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

57 >>> 70s and 80s was peak. Nothing better…. They’ll be playing it in a hundred years still

Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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The music of the years of each generation is peak. Then the generation goes away and so does the music.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 07:50 AM (vPv7/)

58 box office analysts on Sunday noted an uncomfortable truth: Female-led superhero movies have been rejected almost uniformly over the past five years or so, perhaps reflecting a resurgent misogyny among the core fan base, which is largely male.
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Yeah, that's it NYT. You nailed it. The "Supergirl" movie sank beneath the waves because the customers free choice not to waste their hard-earned money on it is because they are misogynists, even the females customers, and not because the movie sucks donkey balls.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:50 AM (CSa7p)

59 China Imposes Export Curbs On 40 Japanese Firms As Tensions With Tokyo Rise
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This is good. The Japanese are already on the ware with China this is all Takaichi needs to gather national support.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 07:50 AM (vPv7/)

60 Only a few of those musicians are heard today.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

Poor Buxtehude.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:50 AM (Ot/FD)

61 The boy confessed that he shot baby in the head, WTHR13 reported, citing a probable cause statement. . . Officers allegedly learned that Ca’Marion Pawnell, the baby’s father, stored a gun beneath a mattress in one of the residence’s bedroooms by interviewing witnesses, including the 10-year-old. The minor confessed that he was aware of where the firearm was and had retrieved it before, according to the court documents
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Dollars to donuts Ca'Marion is a felon.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

62 more people fighting for limited housing resources"

Where exactly is this mythical "house shortage"? I suppose building a house is just not possible, no?

Heh

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 07:51 AM (XuXeR)

63 60 box office analysts on Sunday noted an uncomfortable truth: Female-led superhero movies have been rejected almost uniformly over the past five years or so, perhaps reflecting a resurgent misogyny among the core fan base, which is largely male.
==============================
Yeah, that's it NYT. You nailed it. The "Supergirl" movie sank beneath the waves because the customers free choice not to waste their hard-earned money on it is because they are misogynists, even the females customers, and not because the movie sucks donkey balls.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:50 AM (CSa7p)

Do they have a companion theory on why no women are watching any of this shit, either?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:51 AM (Ot/FD)

64 Salty!

Read the article that JJ linked to. And keep in mind that it only skims the surface aft the battle that has been going on within the ranks. Another organization being destroyed from within, and worn like a skin suit while demanding respect.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 30, 2026 07:51 AM (iMotb)

65 What are the classic rap music recordings people will still be listening to in fifty years?

Posted by: I gotta ask at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)

66 The Iran situation has descended into farce.

This is how you get endless wars.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (RIvkX)

67 The DAR article hits home. Mrs VIA is currently working on her eligibility to join, and is facing the moral dilemma of should she join the organization or not. Apparently there were more shenanigans taking place with the vote that took place. Including locking folks inside the room for hours with no breaks for the bathroom to wear down the older more conservative members who were voting.

--

It really sickens me. I'm not, to my knowledge, eligible to be part of the DAR. Mr. Black's deceased grandmother was, however. Speaking for myself, I would simply have no desire to be part of organization, however revered they may be, if they don't even have the will to say that a dude with a penis can't pretend to be a woman and therefore, a member.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (qBdHI)

68 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (mXpUo)

69 > "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"
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Incentivize it for them. It'd be worth it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (jehhT)

70 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

I would prefer they live overseas too.
Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:30 AM (MWfyi)

But... on their way out the door, they must surrender their citizenship. I'd be willing to hand them $500K to do so. A bargain in the long term.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 07:53 AM (ExV1e)

71 The bawbag is here.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 30, 2026 07:53 AM (J4Dwc)

72 Braenyard

China is being asshole to East Asia and their PLA officer corps. Hard to believe China will not pull a Great Purge or a reaction begins to stop one.

Xi has worries.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

73 16 It’s sad that even before I saw that the shooters name was Ca’Marion, I knew he was black.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 07:22 AM (orF8y)

The shooter was an unidentified 10-year-old boy. Ca’Marion Pawnell was both the possessor of the gun, which he kept under a mattress, and the father of the 7-month-old baby Kiyomi Parker who was killed.

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 07:55 AM (Sy6m/)

74 The target for all the negotiations hogwash is the easily spooked oil markets. Lower crude oil prices lead to midterm election success.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

And the even more easily spooked American voter, whose average IQ appears to hover around that of navel lint.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 07:55 AM (ExV1e)

75 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 07:55 AM (2YhKe)

76 "What are the classic rap music recordings people will still be listening to in fifty years?
Posted by: I gotta ask "

White & Nerdy

Ok I know this is all very important stuff but you have to check out the Secondhand Movie Co's $10 production of Star Wars.

youtube.com/watch?v=oa2livPC0h0

Posted by: fd at June 30, 2026 07:55 AM (MWfyi)

77 Supreme Court Declines Trump’s Appeal in E. Jean Carroll Lawsuit.

Despite John Roberts' efforts, in the end there will be no way to be "balanced". It's the same as trying to give a little bit to evil, a little bit to good. In the end, what you're doing is evil by helping evil. Take on those politically charged cases, you asshole. You're holding up Wyle E. Coyote's umbrella to the falling boulder of political bias in judges on your bench and across the country.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 07:55 AM (l3cgK)

78 China is being asshole to East Asia and their PLA officer corps. Hard to believe China will not pull a Great Purge or a reaction begins to stop one. Xi has worries.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

Posted by: Boris Yeltsin at June 30, 2026 07:56 AM (WeKpa)

79
Pulled the Who's "Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy" 1971 vinyl out yesterday by random, amazed by it.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 07:56 AM (Y8DZL)

80 The virus is primarily transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected woodchuck tick or deer tick. Like other tick-borne illnesses, Powassan is most prevalent from late spring through mid-fall, when tick populations peak and outdoor activity increases.
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Great. Yet another tick-transmitted virus with no cure.

Why are there ticks, except to kill humans who venture outdoors?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:56 AM (w+leU)

81 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

Their terms are acceptable.

Posted by: Delurker at June 30, 2026 07:56 AM (2Drhq)

82 There's probably a volume argument to me made (size, not decibels...)

Music from 1970-2000, you could even toss in up to 2010, spawned a ridiculous number of genres and subgenres. The music industry was all over the place.

After, you get homogenized Unigenre post-disco sludge-hop where the only thing that changes between acts are the face tattoos and the clothing.

People go to those decades now because that's where all the options are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:56 AM (Ot/FD)

83 In Spotify sales and other current indicators of taste, people under 30 much prefer music from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s to anything that’s been mainstream over the last 20 years, with only a couple of exceptions.
Turns out we lived through a golden age of popular music. Who knew?

Posted by: Tom Servo
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The crap of today doesn't elevate the music of the 70's.
Seventy's music appears elevated because today's is a choice between bubble gum elevator, angst and anger whereas much of the base of 70's was rooted, not necessarily expressed, but foundational in traditional forms.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 07:57 AM (vPv7/)

84 I don't think enough people have any understanding just what is happening or how bad it is"

It's bad. FWIW, check out Germany's once stellar rail system. It's a pathetic joke today.... and the weather reports are crap, too... one of the sooper hot days in the news of London was actually 80F. Hardly a heat wave, yet so many seem panicked.

Sad, really.

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 07:57 AM (XuXeR)

85 Good morning! Hope you are doing OK. And keeping Texas free.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:44 AM (u82oZ)

I do what I can wrt Texas. I have an appointment on Monday for a 2nd opinion (3rd, really, I suppose) on the cancer but that's more about having the treatment done in the city in which I live rather than having to drive into downtown Austin every day for a month or so while also being emotionally unstable due to the hormone treatments.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

86 70 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

No they wouldn't. They just say they would.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 07:58 AM (b4LBp)

87 "You're holding up Wyle E. Coyote's umbrella to the falling boulder of political bias in judges on your bench and across the country."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 07:55 AM

LOL.
Instant classic.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 30, 2026 07:59 AM (2Ez/1)

88 Do they have a companion theory on why no women are watching any of this shit, either?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:51 AM (Ot/FD)
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The Times? Well, I'd imagine they are very disappointed women movie goers do not realize they have a gender-based responsibility to but tickets to stinker films.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:59 AM (w+leU)

89 Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (RIvkX)

Play stupid neocon games, win stupid neocon prozes.

The worst part is, Trump knew better. He was against this shit from the moment he came down the golden escalator. Until he suddenly wasn't.

Posted by: Delurker at June 30, 2026 07:59 AM (2Drhq)

90 You really don't hear a lot of 60's music out in public anymore that isn't Beatles or Stones. You never hear Motown just out in a grocery store. Not sure what the significance is, just an observation really.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:47 AM (Ot/FD)

My HEB plays stuff from, probably, the '70s through 2000 or so. I assume they rotate from a list of "Songs to Make Our Customers Feel Old" compilations.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

91 "...but an estimated ~~70%~~99% of the rapists."

FIFY

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 07:59 AM (qFwJc)

92 The target for all the negotiations hogwash is the easily spooked oil markets. Lower crude oil prices lead to midterm election success.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

That must be it - but it can’t work well when every Iranian official at every level is laughing and turning around, dropping their pants and showing their backsides to us, like that line of Scots in Braveheart.

And they’re crazy. If we try not paying attention to them, pretty soon they’ll launch a bunch more missile strikes, just to make sure we have to pay attention to them. Why? Because they’re crazy that way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:00 AM (orF8y)

93 78 China is being asshole to East Asia and their PLA officer corps. Hard to believe China will not pull a Great Purge or a reaction begins to stop one. Xi has worries.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

Posted by: Boris Yeltsin at June 30, 2026 07:56 AM (WeKpa)

Or sit on it for the rest of your life...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 08:00 AM (l3cgK)

94 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

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Institute a massive "exchange student" program. Sign up on getthehelloutofamerica.com and we'll trade your pampered, whiny, ignorant a$$ with one of the 10s of 1000s of others who came to America during the World Cup and love it here.

The only stipulation is that you sign away your right to ever claim American citizenship again when you realize your gross mistake and are living in some hellscape with no air conditioning, 1 year waiting periods for your cancer surgeries, jail time for tweets, and the raping of you or your female family members at the hands of Mohammad's filthy madmen.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

95 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

No they wouldn't. They just say they would.

If they were serious, they'd talk about secession or - for those in the North East - a merge with Canada. But as you said, they are not.

Wouldn't work for New York City or Philly at any rate. But NH, VT, CT, and the MassHoles ? I doubt there would be all that much fuss, honestly. Other than those that just couldn't bear to see four less stars on the flag.

I'm a big believer sometimes in addition by subtraction.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:01 AM (WeKpa)

96 "Dollars to donuts Ca'Marion is a felon."

And not eligible to own a firearm?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 30, 2026 08:02 AM (qFwJc)

97 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at June 30, 2026 08:02 AM (53oGX)

98 99% of therapists "

/

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:02 AM (XuXeR)

99 86 70 "Majority of Democrats Would Prefer to Live Overseas Than in the US"

No they wouldn't. They just say they would.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June

Oh they do, but it is because they believe the bs it’s better than here, and they truly have no idea. The reason people keep wanting to come here is not because things are amazing everywhere else.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:03 AM (Dd38x)

100 The Times? Well, I'd imagine they are very disappointed women movie goers do not realize they have a gender-based responsibility to but tickets to stinker films.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:59 AM
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And buy tickets to our lousy-ass games.

Posted by: The WNBA at June 30, 2026 08:03 AM (2Ez/1)

101 In Spotify sales and other current indicators of taste, people under 30 much prefer music from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s to anything that’s been mainstream over the last 20 years, with only a couple of exceptions.
Turns out we lived through a golden age of popular music. Who knew?
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 07:48 AM (orF8y)

I've seen youtube reactors break down into tears when someone convinces them to finally start listening to older stuff.

It's also amusing when they find out that the Righteous Brothers, Bobby Caldwell, and the singer from Wild Cherry are all white even though the last should come as no surprise to anyone given the name of the song they react to.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

102 I saw Buck Farack open for Buck Cherry at Trees in '03.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:03 AM (2YhKe)

103 And buy tickets to our lousy-ass games.
Posted by: The WNBA"

And free dildos!

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:04 AM (XuXeR)

104 88 Do they have a companion theory on why no women are watching any of this shit, either?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 07:51 AM (Ot/FD)
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The Times? Well, I'd imagine they are very disappointed women movie goers do not realize they have a gender-based responsibility to but tickets to stinker films.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 07:59 AM (w+leU)

Technically, the movie does have a higher percentage of women than any DC recent release (normally, DC is high 60s%-low 70s% men for viewship...this one was 59% OW and going down)...so more men did fail to show than women, but at those numbers, some normal women viewers also stayed home...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 08:04 AM (tOcjL)

105 NEW YORK is SAVED!!!!!

Dave Portnoy is mulling a run against Mamdani for mayor.........

3am Pizza and obnoxious sports reporting for everyone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:05 AM (2YhKe)

106 The only stipulation is that you sign away your right to ever claim American citizenship again when you realize your gross mistake and are living in some hellscape with no air conditioning, 1 year waiting periods for your cancer surgeries, jail time for tweets, and the raping of you or your female family members at the hands of Mohammad's filthy madmen.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:01 AM (qBdHI)

Well that and when they find out you can’t just move and park in another country. You have to go through all kinds of things. Unless you are from Thirdworldistan.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:05 AM (Dd38x)

107
Oh they do, but it is because they believe the bs it’s better than here, and they truly have no idea. The reason people keep wanting to come here is not because things are amazing everywhere else.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:03 AM (Dd38x)

And every time one of them moves to their utopia country, they beg and cry until they can come back. Even the scrunts that move to Canada.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:06 AM (2YhKe)

108 People go to those decades now because that's where all the options are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Today your choice is the various forms of corporate garbage coming from the popular formats. Recently, a few commenters here have posted EweTube presentations that are quite good.
That's where the better music is, Independents. They don't have to appeal to corporate MBAs to publish, they get together, make something appealing and publish it themselves. This non-traditional publishing therefore requiring non traditional search on our part to find it.

I bookmark presentations commenters bring because I have no foo.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (vPv7/)

109 >The Iran situation has descended into farce.

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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True
at first I was all in- we were bombing the shit out of the bad guys, we were going to liberate the Iranian people and they would be free-
Now, I'm just 'enough already'
NFL training camps open soon!

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (ZxPkt)

110 3am Pizza and obnoxious sports reporting for everyone.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:05 AM
+++
And me.

Posted by: Thai food at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (2Ez/1)

111 Spotify sales and other current indicators of taste, people under 30 much prefer music from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s to anything that’s been mainstream over the last 20 years, with only a couple of exceptions.
Turns out we lived through a golden age of popular music. Who knew?

Posted by: Tom Servo
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Music from that era had melodies, harmonies, key changes, and was written by musicians. Music today is written by machine, and both the voices and the instruments are autotuned to death. Music peaked in the late 1970s.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (y1q/Y)

112 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. A nice 67 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor, though the temperature is going to climb at least 20 degrees before the day ends. Ugh.

I spent yesterday doing nothing. I don't have the energy to comment here or work on my book, but I must at least do the book today.

I have some other thoughts (ugh, I hear you say), but need to make tea first.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (qRla/)

113 China is building new coal fired power plants daily. India is an unmitigated shithole.

But France blames the US for a heat wave rolling through Europe.

F*ck off, fags.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:08 AM (2YhKe)

114 Music peaked in the late 1970s.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (y1q/Y)

The 80s beg to differ...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 08:08 AM (tOcjL)

115 >What are the classic rap music recordings people will still be listening to in fifty years?

Posted by: I gotta ask
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"Funky Cold Medina"
Tone Loc

https://youtu.be/WOkn90h_VWg

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:08 AM (ZxPkt)

116 It really sickens me. I'm not, to my knowledge, eligible to be part of the DAR. Mr. Black's deceased grandmother was, however. Speaking for myself, I would simply have no desire to be part of organization, however revered they may be, if they don't even have the will to say that a dude with a penis can't pretend to be a woman and therefore, a member.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (qBdHI)

Saddens me as well. My mother and sister are both past heads of the DAR Chapter in Phoenix, they are sickened by this idiocy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:08 AM (orF8y)

117 I spent yesterday doing nothing. I don't have the energy to comment here or work on my book, but I must at least do the book today.

https://youtu.be/fLexgOxsZu0

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

118 NYC: We need help!

Gozer: Choose the form of your destructor...........

NYC: Never Forget!!! *elects Zohran Mamdani*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:09 AM (2YhKe)

119 H8ers of America can go would be a boon to the country

Posted by: Skip at June 30, 2026 08:10 AM (sgkY8)

120 True
at first I was all in- we were bombing the shit out of the bad guys, we were going to liberate the Iranian people and they would be free-
Now, I'm just 'enough already'

That was always the fear. If we were going to supply small arms and arm a coup ? Great. But we NEVER finish the job. Never.

I'm skeptical about use of force, always, because of that. Regardless of who is in charge.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:10 AM (WeKpa)

121 Now, I'm just 'enough already'
NFL training camps open soon!

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (ZxPkt)

Hide your women and children!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:11 AM (2YhKe)

122 Friend of mine in Los Angeles wanted to relocate to Spain to help his brother and niece after his brother was laid up from an accident. Incredible hoops he had to jump through by Spanish government. Had to demonstrate liquid finances to support himself for one year, needed a complete physical by doctors certified by Spanish authorities, character references.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 08:11 AM (b4LBp)

123
I have some other thoughts (ugh, I hear you say), but need to make tea first.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 08:07 AM (qRla/)

I'm willing to bet no one said ugh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:12 AM (2YhKe)

124 South Korea is planning to invest $520 billion to expand chip production at Samsung and SK Hynix.
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Samsung is off the market here. If you want to buy it's on the Korean market at ~240. SK Hnix is privately owned. The only other company that makes DRAM is MU, an American company going for 1300. It was 20 last year.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:12 AM (vPv7/)

125 One example of modern music: Taylor Swift concerts are entirely recorded. Both the singing and the music are prerecorded and those on stage are just miming. It is documented on Wings of Pegasus.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (y1q/Y)

126 > Well that and when they find out you can’t just move and park in another country. You have to go through all kinds of things. Unless you are from Thirdworldistan.
Posted by: Piper
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This is true.

The videos of Americans, distraught over Trump fleeing to Canada only to realize they can't 'just' move there are hilarious. The couple at the border, realizing they're going to have to return to the states after selling everything off is especially amusing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (jehhT)

127 >>obnoxious sports reporting

Portnoy is a University of Michigan alum. Obnoxious fandom runs deep through Ann Arbor.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (J4Dwc)

128 Only can think of two rap songs that will have resonance - one is “Baby got back”.

The other is thanks to Steve Inman and his Ludacris cam. “Move, bitch, get out da way! Get out da way bitch, get out da way!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (orF8y)

129 Friend of mine in Los Angeles wanted to relocate to Spain to help his brother and niece after his brother was laid up from an accident. Incredible hoops he had to jump through by Spanish government. Had to demonstrate liquid finances to support himself for one year, needed a complete physical by doctors certified by Spanish authorities, character references.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 08:11 AM (b4LBp)

Just tell them that you're a North African socialist who wants to rape the Spanish women. The current government will pay for your airfare.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 08:14 AM (ExV1e)

130 The other is thanks to Steve Inman and his Ludacris cam. “Move, bitch, get out da way! Get out da way bitch, get out da way!”
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (orF8y)

There's a bluegrass version of that song out there somewhere. It's high comedy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:14 AM (2YhKe)

131
I have a nephew who owns a pizza joint in Chicago whose claim to fame is debating Portnoy on the definition of Neopolitan style on one of his YouTube videos.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 08:14 AM (Y8DZL)

132 Authorities Hunt ‘Mexican Batman’ After Vigilante Justice

Sí.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 08:14 AM (l3cgK)

133 And every time one of them moves to their utopia country"

"Bbbut the hotel was awesome, with great views, and the servants, er...employees were so respectful! And the food! You can't get this anywhere else!

/pretty much sums it up

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:15 AM (XuXeR)

134 There's a bluegrass version of that song out there somewhere. It's high comedy.

Now search "Gin and Juice" by The Gourds.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:15 AM (WeKpa)

135 But France blames the US for a heat wave rolling through Europe.

F*ck off, fags.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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News for Macron, it's going to get hotter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:16 AM (vPv7/)

136
News for Macron, it's going to get hotter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:16 AM (vPv7/)

"Go F*CK your MOTHER!!!!! Oh....wait........."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:16 AM (2YhKe)

137 News for Macron, it's going to get hotter."

And then colder.

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:17 AM (XuXeR)

138 Friend of mine in Los Angeles wanted to relocate to Spain to help his brother and niece after his brother was laid up from an accident. Incredible hoops he had to jump through by Spanish government. Had to demonstrate liquid finances to support himself for one year, needed a complete physical by doctors certified by Spanish authorities, character references.

==

All these countries' abysmal leaders run together, but wasn't it just recently that Spain's prime minister gave the green light to the 500k (and we know it will be much more) "immigrants" to come live in Spain? Something tells me those types of requirements will be immediately waived for those "marginalized" peoples.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:17 AM (qBdHI)

139 One example of modern music: Taylor Swift concerts are entirely recorded. Both the singing and the music are prerecorded and those on stage are just miming. It is documented on Wings of Pegasus.

So you're saying Milli Vanilli were just ahead of their time?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 08:17 AM (qRla/)

140 Doggie Style > Napoleon Style

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:17 AM (2YhKe)

141 News for Macron, it's going to get hotter."

And then colder.

Not to mention those transition times where its just kind of all over the place. Happens twice a year now !!!

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:17 AM (WeKpa)

142 Thank you JJ Sefton! Off to fight the war against my lazy nature. Catch y'all later.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 30, 2026 08:18 AM (t93WW)

143 128 Only can think of two rap songs that will have resonance - one is “Baby got back”.

The other is thanks to Steve Inman and his Ludacris cam. “Move, bitch, get out da way! Get out da way bitch, get out da way!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (orF8y)

https://youtu.be/5PaUTnk9k9Y&t=48s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 08:18 AM (l3cgK)

144 So you're saying Milli Vanilli were just ahead of their time?"

I want my MTV....

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:18 AM (XuXeR)

145 Napoleon ate pizza?

Posted by: Who knew at June 30, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)

146 125 One example of modern music: Taylor Swift concerts are entirely recorded. Both the singing and the music are prerecorded and those on stage are just miming. It is documented on Wings of Pegasus.

Posted by: Thomas Paine
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and poor Millie Vinilli were ridiculed and put out of business.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:20 AM (vPv7/)

147 Interesting piece on how Trump got bamboozled into that loser Coney-Barrett instead of Barbara Lagoa. In part, credit Pence.

https://tinyurl.com/y6mvntf9

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (b4LBp)

148 SO-

I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (ZxPkt)

149 Only can think of two rap songs that will have resonance - one is “Baby got back”.

The other is thanks to Steve Inman and his Ludacris cam. “Move, bitch, get out da way! Get out da way bitch, get out da way!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (orF8y)

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The first rap song I ever heard was "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang in '79 -- and I thought it was unique, clever, & funny.

It's been ALL downhill ever since ...

Posted by: ShainS at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (t/lcw)

150 All these countries' abysmal leaders run together, but wasn't it just recently that Spain's prime minister gave the green light to the 500k (and we know it will be much more) "immigrants" to come live in Spain? Something tells me those types of requirements will be immediately waived for those "marginalized" peoples.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:17 AM (qBdHI)
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I see them lined up at the Spanish consulate every morning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (RIvkX)

151 One example of modern music: Taylor Swift concerts are entirely recorded. Both the singing and the music are prerecorded and those on stage are just miming. It is documented on Wings of Pegasus.

Posted by: Thomas Paine

I saw a Hagar led Van Halen once. Before they played Right Now, Sammy came on the mic and announced the guitar at the beginning was pre-recorded by Eddie because he wanted to play the piano in front of the crowd, proving he could actually play the piano.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (2YhKe)

152 Interesting piece on how Trump got bamboozled into that loser Coney-Barrett instead of Barbara Lagoa. In part, credit Pence.

https://tinyurl.com/y6mvntf9

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (b4LBp)

Well, Trump IS a stupid poopyhead, so........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:23 AM (2YhKe)

153
Any Boney Carrot.

Posted by: I just like typing that at June 30, 2026 08:23 AM (2Ez/1)

154 What are the classic rap music recordings people will still be listening to in fifty years?
Posted by: I gotta ask

"Me So Horny" and "Hoochie Mama" are favorites at my local Winn Dixie.

Posted by: The 2 Live Crew at June 30, 2026 08:23 AM (K5H/e)

155 143 128 Only can think of two rap songs that will have resonance - one is “Baby got back”.

The other is thanks to Steve Inman and his Ludacris cam. “Move, bitch, get out da way! Get out da way bitch, get out da way!”
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Classic exemplars of high art. Fifty years from now they will be studied and taught by musicologists at Julliard.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:24 AM (vPv7/)

156 Yeah I’m not even following all that closely what’s going on with Iran and the faux negotiations anymore. It’s all a farce and kabuki theater. I’d like to think Trump is playing 4D chess but he’s not; I can’t understand his approach. My best guess is he’s kicking the can down the road continually because he wants to win the midterms… the whole thing is discouraging to me. I had such high hopes after we took out a few layers of their leadership and thought imposing the blockade was brilliant…. Somehow we lost our way when everything turned to “negotiations” sigh… I’m gonna try to ignore and hope we get off any fantasy of a deal

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 08:24 AM (D2O3S)

157 Rap on Muzik?

Rapper's Delight by Sugarhill Gang would probably work. Unedited too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 08:24 AM (jehhT)

158 Anyway. . .

I missed Ace's thread yesterday about the Dems' trashing of the 250th. There are a few flags and bunting around my little neighborhood, but while I have always celebrated the Glorious Fourth, this year holds no real joy for me.

I should never have joined Facebook (I only did for the Theda Bara club there) and I really should never have got into the habit of reading comments connected to anything Trump. It both pisses me off and depresses me immensely to see how many Dems are cheering the states refusing to join in the State Fair and how eager they are to share pictures and stories about how poorly-attended the event is. The overwhelming sentiment now is that it should all be put on hold until the next Dem president, and then celebrate. And the kicker to that is that these assholes know the right is too damned polite to boycott a Dem-led celebration of America.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 08:24 AM (qRla/)

159 SO-

I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (ZxPkt)

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Prediction: The SCOTUS (primarily Benedict Roberts and Commie Island Barrett) will over-promise and under-deliver. Because racist AND indeed The Constitution IS IN FACT a Suicide-Pact!!!

/I hope-to-God I'm wrong ... but as a retired engineer, I always assume worst-case scenarios.

Posted by: ShainS at June 30, 2026 08:24 AM (t/lcw)

160 I had some rap I had recorded off the Fairleigh Dickinson University radio station when I was living in Newark. This was before all the gangsta influence, it was all about the rhyming.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

161 So you're saying Milli Vanilli were just ahead of their time?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 08:17 AM (qRla/)

If Milli Vanilli had been WHITE WOMEN, they'd have been hailed as music geniuses. -- Music Commentary by La'Qeesha

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 30, 2026 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

162 One example of modern music: Taylor Swift concerts are entirely recorded.

Here's my theory - like a lot of stuff now, for many attending a concert or movie or sporting event is a virtue signal. Same for many ever with their home viewing choices. Same goes for shopping choices. This crosses across all demographic lines.

There was a time when people put down their money and expected to be entertained. See STYX getting booed off stage in Texas for picking there, off all places, to debut Dennis De Young's idea of Rock Opera.

Bad idea, Dennis. Wrong place, wrong time.

But now ? Sure, you can't argue taste. You always won't convince me that everybody in that area paid because they just love to watch Angel Reese brick every damn shot she threw up.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:26 AM (WeKpa)

163 154 What are the classic rap music recordings people will still be listening to in fifty years?
Posted by: I gotta ask

"Me So Horny" and "Hoochie Mama" are favorites at my local Winn Dixie.

Posted by: The 2 Live Crew at June 30, 2026 08:23 AM (K5H/e)

Songs to serenade a woman by...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 08:26 AM (l3cgK)

164 65 What are the classic rap music recordings people will still be listening to in fifty years?
Posted by: I gotta ask at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (2Ez/1)

I consider this a classic, and the video is great too:
Kanye West - Gold Digger ft. Jamie Foxx
https://youtu.be/6vwNcNOTVzY

This one may be studied, because it has levels; he's so close to a truth, yet tragically blind to much bigger liars purporting to be on his side. It also has a sick beat, and an amazing fanvid by macten:
Nas - Sly Fox (Video)
https://youtu.be/mYruoi9ZuNk

Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 08:27 AM (Sy6m/)

165 I'm planning to attend a celebration the next town over on Saturday, and I fully expect a bunch of superannuated hippies to be there protesting. If so, I'm going to unload on their asses. I am sick and tired of keeping silent in the name of courtesy.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 30, 2026 08:27 AM (qRla/)

166 Who is Taylor Swift?

Posted by: Posterity at June 30, 2026 08:27 AM (w66Vz)

167 @AmericaReal3

PSA: WARNING!
SCAM ALERT!

Be on the lookout for these two women.
They are hanging out around Port Charlotte, FL Walmart parking lot.

When you are putting your groceries away they ask you for a ride to McDonald's.

They are very convincing and very hot!

Once in your car... this one takes her clothes off and starts climbing all over you, while she keeps you busy, the other one takes your wallet.

I've had mine taken on June 20th, 24th, the 26th.. twice yesterday and probably 2 more times tomorrow. 😳

You've been warned

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:27 AM (vPv7/)

168 I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.

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Not making any predictions, but I will say this. I'm expecting the exact ruling I don't want. Since there's nothing I can do about it, I'm devoid of reaction.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:28 AM (qBdHI)

169 Andy O’Brien, the communications director for the Maine AFL-CIO, a statewide federation of 160 local unions, posted on social media, suggesting Democrats who refuse to support Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner should face execution after a “revolution.”

The left tells me everyone at the J6 protests was a traitor and insurrectionist because someone showed up with a toy gallows. But let me guess calling for murdering masses of citizens is (D)ifferent.

Also, someone should ask this guy what he thinks of The Night of Longknives since he wants to replace it for his personal fuhrer.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 08:28 AM (sKqQm)

170 I was into the early 80's rap scene. Run DMC was alright, but I got more into the 2 Live Crew, NWA, Eazy-E, Ghetto Boys era of rap. Throw in some Eric B and Rakim and Public Enemy just for fun.

Sure it was raunchy, but the stolen samples and music was damn catchy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:28 AM (2YhKe)

171 for many attending a concert or movie or sporting event is a virtue signal."

And don't confuse "paid" with "attending"...

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:28 AM (XuXeR)

172 148 SO-

I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.
Posted by: Don Black at June

This is so funny, I was just thinking the same thing. I have resigned myself to this being, at best, SCOTUS saying you can’t EO this, it has to come from Congress, so Congress DO SOMETHING. And then Congress won’t. Because do they ever do anything? Honestly, y’all. Saving our country is not going to happen by relying on the schmucks in DC. It’s changing the dynamics where semi normal people can run without 1. Needing 18 gazillion dollars and 2. Unreachable purity tests 3. Being torn apart for anything and everything, unless of course you are a nazi running as a democrat.

I would go to Congress, but I am nobody with nothing to my name except a little bit of common sense. I am no Ted Cruz intellectually, but I think I am a probably brighter than AOC. And I never have married my brother.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:28 AM (Dd38x)

173 Well, Trump IS a stupid poopyhead, so........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:23 AM (2YhKe)
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Neither is he some secret genius playing 4-D chess.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (RIvkX)

174 Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

Bring a 6'7" guy dressing in all black with no smile on his face to protect you.

Leftist regard even gentle factual criticism as heresy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

175 168 I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.

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Not making any predictions, but I will say this. I'm expecting the exact ruling I don't want. Since there's nothing I can do about it, I'm devoid of reaction.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:28 AM (qBdHI)

I expect it at no better than 7-2 against Trump on this.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (l3cgK)

176 152 Well, Trump IS a stupid poopyhead, so........
Posted by: Sponge

The BEST poopyhead ever, such a great poopyhead, nobody else in the world has a better one, you can't believe how awesome, etc.

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (Y8DZL)

177 I've had mine taken on June 20th, 24th, the 26th.. twice yesterday and probably 2 more times tomorrow. 😳

You've been warned
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:27 AM (vPv7/)

Indeed.

Time to go buy a bunch of wallets.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (Ot/FD)

178 Piper

I'd vote for you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

179 Unbelievable Damage": 131-Mph Windstorm Snaps Wind Turbines In Half Across South Dakota

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (vPv7/)

180 Turnout. Turnout. Turnout.

It's the X Factor in our politics. If you're only one in a million who are voting then the chances that your vote will decide the outcome are infinitismal. So why bother to vote?

Group solidarity. This is too often to the Left's advantage. Trump's trying to change that. Let's hope he awakens the Sleeping Giant to have terrible resolve before the Midterms.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (dtajH)

181 someone should ask this guy what he thinks of The Night of Longknives"

That was what, a hunndert years ago or sump'n?

/history. It's what's for dinner

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:30 AM (XuXeR)

182 179 Unbelievable Damage": 131-Mph Windstorm Snaps Wind Turbines In Half Across South Dakota

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (vPv7/)

So fewer birds being chopped up for a while?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 08:30 AM (l3cgK)

183 Mornin’, All.

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

184 Taylor Swift amuses me.

She has moderate musical talent but incredible business talent.

And she has gotten the Karen set which laments about "the rich" and global warming to plunk down thousands of dollars to watch one of the richest people in the world burn more fossil fuel personally then probably any other person on the planet.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 08:30 AM (sKqQm)

185 I have resigned myself to this being, at best, SCOTUS saying you can’t EO this, it has to come from Congress, so Congress DO SOMETHING. And then Congress won’t. Because do they ever do anything?

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That's my opinion. At best, it will be tossed to Congress, who is as worthless as it gets. Except sending $billions to Ukraine. They get right on that. For anything remotely associated with preserving and protecting the American people? Not so much.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:31 AM (qBdHI)

186 I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.
Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (ZxPkt)

Sure - the Dred Pirate Roberts and Amy Boneless will join the Wicked Sisters Three.

At that point ? Its a character study. Kav may side with the Right on this one, since its failure theatre. Gorsuch will take Strict Constructionism to who knows what ends ? If he found something that he thought justified Soylent Green ? Well, Green for everybody.

Gorsuch is truly Lawful Neutral. Don't trust him. Rome could be burning right outside his window - and he'd still have that nose in an obscure text looking for the answer to some judicial riddle.

Posted by: Spring Reverb at June 30, 2026 08:31 AM (WeKpa)

187 178 Piper

I'd vote for you.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM

Thank you! I would pick my staff from this board. It would be amazing. We would be like the Island of Misfit Toys goes to Washington. And then we would shock the world with our superior abilities.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:32 AM (Dd38x)

188 Nas - Sly Fox (Video)
https://youtu.be/mYruoi9ZuNk
Posted by: SciVo at June 30, 2026 08:27 AM (Sy6m/)

Throws GWBush and Fox News under the bus but no mention of MSNBC, ABC, CNN or CBS news.........Imagine that.

Plus, I find that style of rap annoying as f*ck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:32 AM (2YhKe)

189 I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.

Posted by: Don Black at June 30, 2026 08:22 AM (ZxPkt)
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They also have the trans gender ruling today. Yesterday not great, today could be worse.

Posted by: WisRich at June 30, 2026 08:32 AM (mMoRd)

190 Incentivize it for them. It'd be worth it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2026 07:52 AM (jehhT)

I would prefer they try underseas

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2026 08:32 AM (KqZez)

191 Be on the lookout for these two women."

Sadly, local wally world has Mcd's inside.

Therefore, you're more likely to be jostled aside by two broad of beams on their 'lectroid scooters than anyone else...

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:32 AM (XuXeR)

192 Turnout. Turnout. Turnout/i]

Yep. There is a class of right leaning voter that seems to only turn out when Trump is on the ballot.

We should point out to those people - you see some of Trump's initiatives that you want stalling? That's because he doesn't have a friendly congress which is up for election this Nov....(and obviously primaries as well scattered over various times)

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 08:33 AM (sKqQm)

193
Neither is he some secret genius playing 4-D chess.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (RIvkX)

Can't be. He's a stupid poopyhead. No genius there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:33 AM (2YhKe)

194 My buddy Paul z"l was CFO of a rap record label. He would send me cuts from albums he knew I would find especially offensive. Like when I was working in child welfare he sent me a song called "My Babymomma"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

195 Another classic that will put the women you love in the mood.

"Back To The Hotel".

Posted by: N2Deep at June 30, 2026 08:33 AM (K5H/e)

196 Today Is International Asteroid Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

197 At ABC: "How the Slinky was discovered by accident in the 1940s"

tl;dr: Discoverer stepped on it in the dark, and injured his foot on its razor-sharp pointy end. Darn kids never put their toys away,

Posted by: gp at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (Jr5Lq)

198 175 168 I hope everyone is mentally prepared for the SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship.

--

Not making any predictions, but I will say this. I'm expecting the exact ruling I don't want. Since there's nothing I can do about it, I'm devoid of reaction.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 30, 2026 08:28 AM (qBdHI)

I expect it at no better than 7-2 against Trump on this.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (l3cgK)

Only hope is Roberts wrote both decisions yesterday, right, on the firing fed decisions, so he's not the author. So, either a wacko liberal or a hardcore conservative has this one (Thomas hasn't written one of the last 10)...or Gorsuch does (b/c he also hasn't)...if it's Gorsuch, he probably went with the 4 and it's a Trump loss...

Posted by: Nova Local at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (tOcjL)

199 The other is thanks to Steve Inman and his Ludacris cam. “Move, bitch, get out da way! Get out da way bitch, get out da way!”

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2026 08:13 AM (orF8y)

There’s a hilarious scene in Two and a Half men where Jake has this song as his ring tone. Jake is off to parts unknown with the daughter of the hugely muscled next door neighbor who shows up at the door angry his daughter is not to be found. Charlie nervously says let’s call Jake to settle this… whereupon Jake’s cellphone sitting nearby starts to ring with this song… making huge and menacing dad even more agitated. Charlie nervously fidgets as the ring tone goes on and on. Hilarious

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (YetvJ)

200 18-1

Feed Me!

Posted by: The Barrel at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (u82oZ)

201 Venezuelan Housing Projects Collapsed "Like Sandcastles" As Twin Quakes Expose Socialist Rot
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Noticed in the clips that the hi-rises collapsed like cards while one and two story mom and pop strip centers appeared relatively undamaged.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (vPv7/)

202 Unbelievable Damage": 131-Mph Windstorm Snaps Wind Turbines In Half Across South Dakota
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2026 08:29 AM (vPv7/)

And you know they were all locked down and producing zero energy whatsoever because they can't function in winds over 35 mph without burning up.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:34 AM (2YhKe)

203 Good morning Horde thx JJ, hope you and Mrs JJ are well.
The French parliament lady cheering the replacement of the French should read VDH piece about the modern Robespierre and our Dems trying to avoid being victims. Of course since she apparently doesn't know the history of her own nation's revolution, VDH piece would not take

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2026 08:35 AM (f6yx7)

204 Rap is not music. Period.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 08:35 AM (77rzZ)

205 Another classic that will put the women you love in the mood.

"Back To The Hotel".
Posted by: N2Deep at June 30, 2026 08:33 AM (K5H/e)

'Wasn't Me' - Shaggy

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:35 AM (2YhKe)

206 Rap is not music. Period.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2026 08:35 AM (77rzZ)

It's poetry in motion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:35 AM (2YhKe)

207 The French parliament lady cheering the replacement of the French should read"

That's rayciss. Or something.

Try "Camp of the Saints"

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:36 AM (XuXeR)

208 Shooting a 7-month-old baby... That "youth" needs to never see the outside of an institution.

Posted by: pookysgirl loves her babies at June 30, 2026 08:36 AM (Wt5PA)

209 It's poetry in motion."

Blondie - Rapture

Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:36 AM (XuXeR)

210 When were those VZ high rises built?

In earthquake prone regions there are usually more significant building codes.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 08:36 AM (sKqQm)

211 Venezuelan Housing Projects Collapsed "Like Sandcastles" As Twin Quakes Expose Socialist Rot
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To save money, Hugo Chavez was encasing Styrofoam in cement and using that as walls.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 30, 2026 08:36 AM (2YhKe)

212 Has ace given up on the crows? I miss most of the day threads.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 30, 2026 08:37 AM (u82oZ)

213 The French parliament lady cheering the replacement of the French

In the old days this would have led to some lamp post decorating.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2026 08:37 AM (sKqQm)

214 209 It's poetry in motion."

Blondie - Rapture
Posted by: man at June 30, 2026 08:36

Aerosmith - Walk this Way

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2026 08:37 AM (Dd38x)

215 NY judge just gave the Chinese anti commie billionaire 30 years in prison for fraud. He was arrested in 2023 and held with no bond.

The Lefty judicial system in NY is so crooked you can't just assume the guy is guilty of the charges. How much did the CCP influence his damaged investors to testify against him. How did his relationship with the Right influence the jury and judge? The Left is directly responsible for my doubt. I really despise them.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2026 08:37 AM (04gcy)

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