The Morning Report — 7/ 29 /26

Good morning kids. Lots of news to unpack this morning, especially the thoroughly unsurprising yet utterly disgusting revelations about Anthony Fauci courtesy of his little red book, that is his diary. It is not hyperbole to state that he has the blood of tens if not hundreds of thousands of people on his hands because of his direct actions in creating the COVID-19 virus for the Red Chinese and then unleashing it on the world in a lab that was in whole or in part funded by our taxpayer dollars. This horrid bastard will for sure be roasting in Hell one day, but likely will be untouched by our justice system, such as it is.

As it turns out, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is good for something after all.
Just to recap, Paul obtained and released more than 1,100 pages of the private diaries Fauci kept between 2019 and 2022 as part of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s investigation into the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. You've probably seen by now that they contained a lot of Fauci fawning over himself and tracking his own celebrity, awards, and media coverage, as well as him saying some not so nice things about his critics.. . Then-Sen. Rubio was quite critical of many of Fauci's statements back then, particularly saying that there was no need for people to go around wearing masks. He also accused Fauci of distorting the percentage of the population that would require vaccinations to reach herd immunity. Fauci's response? He said he was being a "real a*****e."

Speaking of Marco Rubio, Democrat election thievery as well as Democrat-fomented assassination attempts and political terrrorism notwithstanding, I think Marco Rubio stands a pretty good chance at becoming POTUS if not in this go round then perhaps 2032 or afterwards. His tenure as Secretary of State has been outstanding, the situation in Iran notwithstanding, although that situation really is on President Trump, and it is his to resolve despite the fact that he's dealing with dark age savages intent on unleashing armageddon on the world as the precursor to total Islamic conquest of the planet,

But as for Rubio, under the aegis of Trump, he is on the cutting edge of helping transform the perpetually socialist Latin America into free-market America friendly nations. And as CBD and I discussed on the latest episode of the podcast (linked here and in the sidebar)

Cuba might at long last be on the verge of if not at the very least have a shot at liberating itself as the tropical paradise caribbean gulag that it has been condemned to suffer for 67 years. It seems that Rubio and Trump are making the moves to see that come to fruition.

The truth is it's a complicated process. This isn't Venezuela. We likely won't have a clean and tidy(-ish) ending to the regime. You can't just take out one guy, neutralize his cronies, cut off their revenue stream, and start over with Marco Rubio in charge. The Cuban regime is older, more decentralized, and designed to withstand such moves. The power lies within the Communist Party, the military’s economic empire (GAESA), and a deep security apparatus.
There's also the media problem. The number of MSM fake news stories from anonymous sources about Cuba is exhausting, and it drives me insane how many prominent people report on them or share them as if they are fact. For example, for a while, there was this idea that the Trump administration's goal for liberating Cuba was the end of this year. It was fun to buy into, and I didn't find it all that outlandish pre-Iran, but Rubio put a stop to that kind of talk last week when speaking to the press.

Well, as the President himself is wont to say, we'll just have to wait and see. Look how far we've come from "Little Marco" to perhaps being his most trusted and effective ally.

As for Iran, this just underscores who and what we're dealing with.

Both men were convicted on charges stemming from clashes that Iranian authorities say resulted in the deaths of four security officers. Human rights groups say the men were sentenced after proceedings marred by allegations of torture, forced confessions, and closed-door trials.
The executions stem from the nationwide uprising that began in late December after a currency collapse, soaring inflation, and worsening living conditions sparked protests across Iran. Iranian regime forces responded with a sweeping crackdown that included internet shutdowns, mass arrests, and the widespread use of lethal force. . . Videos shared by Iran International showed residents gathering overnight in hopes of stopping the executions before authorities dispersed the crowd.

We've long hoped and prayed that something might ignite the spark that at long last lets the Iranian people take to the streets and directly take on the regime, or gives those within the security services the ability to turn on their overlords and join the people.

At this point, it's a pipe dream but that's what the Ceaucescus thought as they were hoisted up on a lamp post not all that long ago.

And who knew that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were Mullahs (here they whip the women round about midnight)...

¡Cuba Libre, Iran Libre!

And most importantly AMERICA LIBRE!!!!!!

You’d think socialism’s 100-plus-year record of failure would be enough to dissuade people from embracing tenets that led to the horrors of Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, etc. But hope springs eternal, apparently.
(And, just for the record, despite what Bernie Sanders says, the Nordic countries are not socialist. Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway come in seventh, eighth, 10th, and 11th, respectively, in the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom. Switzerland comes in second place. The U.S. ranks 22nd.)
What’s even more unfathomable is why Democrats have such a positive view of the DSA when they reject many of its central positions.

Have a good day,

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

The Court has had 9 seats since 1869, and every serious attempt to alter that number has been understood as an effort to capture the Court for political ends
Pete Buttigieg Wants to Pack Supreme Court With 13 Justices (and pack Chasten's fudge - jjs)
Prosecuting a young mother for her angry words seems poisonously symbolic.
There Is No Justice in Minnesota
The moral framework shaped by past inequalities that has not been updated to reflect present day realities.
Minorities Are Privileged
Christian father of 11 Paul Vaughn has reached a seven-figure settlement with the Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) after being targeted by the Biden DOJ for his pro-life beliefs, his attorneys announced.
Trump DOJ Reaches Settlement with Pro-Life Christian Father of 11 Targeted by Biden Junta
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"A blow to the state of Ohio."
Ohio’s GOP Gov Slams Trump’s Plans To Send ICE After Haitian Migrants
A Cook County judge wrote anti-ICE comments on Facebook but won’t be punished. A conservative judge was removed from his traffic court role for his private comments while retired.
‘F*** ICE’: Illinois Liberal Judge Keeps Bench While Conservative Judge Fights Removal
“A philosophical stance underlies this view.”
How Immigration Created a Two-Tier Legal System
THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
The Iranian proxy terror group continues drone attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure.
Houthis Escalate Attacks on Saudi Arabia, Reportedly Fire Ballistic Missiles at Oil Tanker
“From February through April 2026, there were more than 600 attempted attacks on U.S. citizens and facilities by Iran-aligned terrorist militias in Iraq,” the combatant command said in a statement.
US, Saudi Arabia launch joint strikes on Iran’s terrorist proxies in Iraq in response to drone attacks
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concluded a White House meeting Tuesday with both governments describing the talks as “positive and productive” and reaffirming their shared commitment to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, as the president weighs whether to continue negotiations with Tehran or authorize additional military action.
Netanyahu, Trump Meeting in D.C. ‘Positive, Productive’ — Reaffirmed Iran Nuclear Red Line

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Rights groups warn Iran is increasingly using executions to silence dissent.
Crowds Tried To Stop The Hangings. Iran Carried Them Out Anyway.
In the middle of a war, the Islamic Republic still finds time to flog women.
In Iran, a Singer Gets 74 Lashes for . . . Singing

WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Worst surge in New York City terrorism in almost a decade.
NYC Islamic Terror Attacks Up 243% Under Mamdani
Radio Free Europe (RFE) reported on Sunday that the crackdown on Muslim attire has been effective. One Tajik Muslim interviewed by the outlet explained that he was arrested, fined about $18, and held for three days because he had a long beard – and he is now required to send weekly selfies to the police, to prove that he remains clean-shaven.
Tajikistan Punishing Citizens for ‘Alien’ Islamic Headscarves and Beards
The Muslim pushback failed.
Enforcing the Burkini Ban in Burgos
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
'I’m a United States member of Congress,' says Auchincloss, sounding America-first
In Packed Synagogue, a Democrat Scrambles to Defend Vote Against Arms for Israel
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
The change is the latest in a series of moves by the Trump administration to remove the names and images of officials it views as having failed or worked against the country’s intelligence and defense institutions, and it comes amid renewed scrutiny of Clapper’s own record atop the intelligence community.
Pentagon Strips James Clapper’s Name From DIA Auditorium(at least we still get to call syphillis the Clap - jjs)
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
When it comes to political comedy or satire, the left only tolerates it from their side. As soon as someone makes a joke they don’t like, they bring out the cancel culture mob. This phenomenon is easily observable when the leftist media tries to cover President Donald Trump, which is what Ali Velshi did on Monday’s episode of The 11th Hour on MS NOW when he and Vox correspondent Zack Beauchamp took issue with Trump joking about running for president a fourth time at his recent rallies and the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
‘It's a Joke, But It's Not a Joke’: MS Nsdap Claims Trump Wants 2028 Run

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Lux Claridge was yanked out of a chair by three police officers and carried out of the Emporia City Commission meeting on July 22 for seemingly disobeying the mayor’s orders regarding clapping against the controversial Flint Hills Digital Campus data center proposed in Emporia, Kansas, the Emporia Police said.
Kansas high school teacher dragged out, arrested for clapping at city meeting over proposed data centers
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The mayor isn't asking the market what bread should cost; he's telling it.
Mamdani Mart And The Death Of The Bodega
We have enough recent history under our belt at this point to make a good guess.
What Really Causes Inflation?
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Twenty-five years and trillions of dollars later, the world still runs on fossil fuels. The energy transition has changed far less than its advocates claim.
Global and U.S. Reliance on Fossil Fuel Unchanged in 25 Years
The Federal Communications Commission announced the restrictions, extending a push that has already targeted foreign-made drones and wireless routers. The new rule covers mobile robots, including humanoid and quadruped models, along with power inverters used to connect solar energy systems to the electric grid, equipment increasingly common as green energy mandates spread across the country.
Trump Administration Blocks Imports of Advanced Robots, Solar Power Inverters Over China Security Fears

CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Video footage showed the group zooming through an intersection where what appeared to be an ambulance was trying to move through traffic with its lights flashing, per WKMG.
WATCH — Police: Hundreds on E-Bikes Swarm Downtown Orlando in ‘Teen Takeover’
It begins with public order, not merely addressing biases.
New York City’s Hate Crime Problem Needs a Law-and-Order Solution
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
It's so important that all of this wash of poison sloshing around in our culture has been underwritten by foolish spending of taxpayer money.
Trump is about to gut woke higher education with one common sense rule change
THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
The survey underscores broad public backing for election integrity measures. These findings make congressional Democrat obstruction of the SAVE America Act in Congress even less tenable, considering that a clear majority of the party’s supporters back election integrity measures, including voter ID. This is likely to reinforce the President’s argument that congressional Democrats only oppose the Act because it would hurt their chances of getting elected via fraud.
Another Poll Reveals Overwhelming Public Support for the SAVE America Act.
In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals shot down Democrats’ lawfare against Trump’s March elections order. That directive, as summarized by the court, “directs the Department of Homeland Security, the United States Postal Service, and other agencies to begin developing new rules and procedures for mail voting in the upcoming midterm and future elections.”
D.C. Circuit Court Hands Trump Win In Battle Over Mail-In Voting Order
Circuit Judges Patricia Millett, Robert Wilkins, and Gregory Katsas upheld U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols' refusal to issue a preliminary injunction. The executive order isn't self-executing, and the injuries claimed by the plaintiffs depended on agency decisions that hadn't been made.
D.C. Circuit Tells Democrats They Sued Trump’s Voting Order Too Soon
“We’ve got to know the results of the election that night or shortly thereafter if it’s close.”
Sen. Kennedy on the SAVE Act: ‘We Need to Go Back to Having Election Day, Not Election Month’
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
The far-left Senate hopeful suggests he fixed a massive safety hazard in Detroit's schools. At best, his efforts were ineffective.
Abdul El-Sayed Falsely Claims He 'Removed' Lead from the Water in Detroit Elementary Schools When He Was City's Health Director
El-Sayed said he delayed the release of his financial disclosure due to complications with his and his wife's 'property abroad'
Abdul El-Sayed Discloses Rental Property in Dubai—and Outstanding Debt to Luxury Developer Behind ‘Resort-Style’ Community With ‘White Sandy Beaches’ in ‘New Dubai’
It’s an interesting twist in the key Senate race, given that Talarico has accused his opponent of illegally voting in elections.
Exclusive: Mama’s Boy Talarico Appears To Have Broken Texas Election Law
Don Leonard supports the Bernie Sanders-backed Working Families Party and pushed for a socialist ‘counter-movement’ in an academic paper
Ohio Dem Running in Swing District Says He's Not a Socialist But Would 'Lie to the People' To 'Get Their Votes' if He Was
POLITICS
Beshear’s demand raises further questions about McConnell’s health and ability to serve, increasing pressure on Republican leadership to address his long absence from Congress publicly.
Kentucky Governor Pressures McConnell to Show He Can Serve or Step Down.
Vance remembered Graham as a man who could disagree without being disagreeable, recalling how Graham quietly backed a rail bill Vance had supported as a senator even though the issue meant little to him personally. Vance also credited Graham with helping save Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination during the bruising 2018 confirmation fight.
'He Never Quit.' Trump Honors Lindsey Graham’s Relentless American Spirit at D.C. Funeral.
Martin, who has found himself increasingly isolated as he worries about losing his job, threw a phone at a junior aide’s desk earlier this month in frustration, sparking a human resources complaint, according to a report by the New York Times.
Report: Democrats Frustrated with Embattled DNC Chair
Why do so many support the DSA yet oppose its policy.
Do Democrats Even Know What The DSA Stands For?
The political consulting industry is going to go the way of the dinosaur, as politicians embrace more dynamic, creative ways to reach voters.
How the Un-Campaign Revolution Is Upending Modern Politics
The job of a think tank is to generate the ideas that politicians implement in office. If politics were the movie industry, those we elect would be the stars on the big screen; think tanks help write the script.
What is a Think Tank?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East share operational, financial and strategic connections. Recognizing those links changes how the United States should approach both conflicts and American alliances.
US is fighting one war on many fronts against axis of Russia, China and Iran
Spain will hold new elections next year, expected to occur no later than August 22, 2027. Although the Spanish conservative People’s Party obtained the most amount of seats in the August 2023 elections, Sánchez and the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) managed to cling to power by securing alliances with minority leftist parties — allowing PSOE to secure enough votes for Sánchez’s current four year term.
Spain: 60% Reject Current Socialist Government While 30% Find It ‘Disastrous’
Last month, the High Court approved an injunction brought forward by Oxfordshire Council which prevented the flags of England and Britain from being displayed on public infrastructure. Back in March, a leaked draft of the British government’s social cohesion policy suggested the British, English, and Scottish flags could be “tools of hate.”
UK Govt Minister Calls for Removal of ‘Unsettling, Intimidating’ British Flags.
Mladifest, a Catholic youth festival at the Medjugorje shrine, opens on August 1.
‘Devil in a Skirt’: Medjugorje Virgin Mary Vandalized, Altar Set on Fire
The practical problems with spinning the Jewish state.
The Misplaced Fixation with Israel’s ‘Image’
The leader history now demands.
Israel’s Next Churchill
The truth is it's a complicated process. This isn't Venezuela. We likely won't have a clean and tidy(-ish) ending to the regime. You can't just take out one guy, neutralize his cronies, cut off their revenue stream, and start over with Marco Rubio in charge. The Cuban regime is older, more decentralized, and designed to withstand such moves. The power lies within the Communist Party, the military’s economic empire (GAESA), and a deep security apparatus.
Cuba Falling: A Lot Happened Last Week. Let's Talk About It.
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
Discussions were expected to include a possible agreement limiting long-range strikes between Russia and Ukraine.
Zelensky meets with Trump at White House ahead of Lindsey Graham funeral
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The start of the review could spell a radical alteration in the structure of NATO, including reduced U.S. military presence in Europe. “It’s a review that some countries will fail, and others will pass with flying colors,” Hegseth warned at the time.
U.S. Launches Comprehensive Review of Military Presence in Europe.
The Senate is expected to vote on Pulte's replacement, Jay Clayton, on Tuesday evening.
Hours Ahead Of His Replacement as Spy Czar, Pulte Touts More DNI Cuts
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
Raw Egg Nationalist: Tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, of Americans may now have a meat allergy.
Back on the Menu? Why a Horrible Little Insect Could Jeopardize RFK Jr’s Quest to Heal America With Red Meat
Peptides are short chains of amino acids that help regulate metabolism, growth and tissue repair, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Some, including insulin and GLP-1 weight loss drugs, are already FDA approved, while others have remained in regulatory limbo even as demand exploded among patients seeking help with weight loss, muscle building, chronic disease and performance.
FDA Panel Backs Wider Access to Six Peptide Therapies, Citing Grey Market Concerns
Scanning the code takes consumers to a new website called Good to Know, which explains more than 140 ingredients commonly found in beverages.
Coke, Pepsi and other beverage brands are adding new QR codes to cans — here’s what they’re for
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
For starters, he insisted time and again that the “lab leak hypothesis” was a wacky conspiracy theory, that the virus had jumped naturally from animals to humans, presumably at the “wet market” in Wuhan, China.Yet the diaries reveal that he knew early on that it had not come from the wet market, and was confronted with scientists he’d selected who argued with strong evidence that “lab leak” was the truth — and that the bug was likely bio-engineered in the Wuhan Institute Virology.
Anthony Fauci’s own diary proves what a despicable villain he truly is
Kennedy’s comments will raise further questions about the honesty, transparency, and accountability of public health officials during the pandemic.
RFK Jr. Accuses Fauci of Concealing Personal COVID Vaccine Injury.
When Fauci appears before the Senate on Wednesday, he should not be permitted to deflect with bureaucratic theater, selective memory, and semantic evasion.
10 Questions For Congress To Ask Fauci About His Covid Corruption And Coverup
The hidden side effect of the Covid lockdown nobody talks about.
PragerU Video: Dave Landau on American Recovery From Addiction
Well, that didn't age well. The nation's most famous public health official — at least, most famous, according to himself — was having a private meltdown over then-Sen. Rubio's challenges. He literally sounds like a 12-year-old girl writing about how a mean girl named Jennifer called her names at school because she did a lame science fair project or something.
Anthony Fauci Just Handed Marco Rubio One Heck of a Campaign Ad
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
The black hole itself is estimated to have a mass about a million times that of the Sun, placing it in the middle range of sizes between stellar-mass black holes, formed when a star dies, and super-massive black holes, found in the center of galaxies and formed by the swallowing of massive amounts of the galaxy’s material.
Astronomers discover the first mid-sized black hole wandering outside of a galaxy
Engineers are presently working to stop the spin. If they succeed, they will upload new software to accommodate operations using one reaction wheel (the equivalent of a gyroscope) and the issues with the cold gas thruster system. At that point Katalyst and NASA engineers will access whether Link’s mission to save Gehrels-Swift can go forward.
Problems with Katalyst’s Link rescue spacecraft
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Karishma Manzur, seeking the Democratic Senate nomination in New Hampshire, has given her full-throated endorsement to so-called gender affirming care for minors, which has been banned or restricted in 27 states
'Care for Their Mental Health': Senate Hopeful in New Hampshire Backs Sex-Change Procedures for 12-Year-Olds, Has Dodged Deportation Orders
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: 'Odyssey' alum shines, spars with Bernthal's Punisher and proves his mettle
‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ – Holland’s Heart Carries MCU Sequel

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 29, 2026 07:31 AM (0N4FZ)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 07:31 AM (ExV1e)

3 I haz nooded.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

4 Happy Wednesday

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2026 07:32 AM (/+uur)

5 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:32 AM (RIvkX)

6 Anthony Fauci must swing for his crimes against humanity. His diary is a confession. No presidential pardon is valid for such vast crimes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:33 AM (RIvkX)

7 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

8 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2026 07:34 AM (jehhT)

9 Good morning JJ and horde
Fauci and his backers on Congress get to get on the stand to duck and dodge today. Not expecting a whole lot for a one causing mega deaths.

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2026 07:35 AM (80Irg)

10 China is restocking the IRGC with missiles.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 07:35 AM (abScH)

11 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at July 29, 2026 07:36 AM (kmSxS)

12 San Franpsycho

Let Italy or China prosecute him.

Transferring him to China and cutting off his pension would be. ... Justice.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 07:37 AM (u82oZ)

13 10 China is restocking the IRGC with missiles.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 07:35 AM (abScH)

Odds of us interdicting the shipments? Yikes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2026 07:38 AM (x0n13)

14 Ben Had

There is a tactical counter to that. For now, I assume we track the destinations and target them later.

It is too thuggish to hit the Chinese planes as they are in a landing pattern over an Iranian airfields.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

15 Destroy on Delivery

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:40 AM (RIvkX)

16 Morning, all.

I expect absolutely nothing from today's episode of DC Bukkake Theatre. Fauci won't so much as get his hair mussed. I guarantee one or most of these responses from him:

1. I don't remember.
2. I plead the Fifth (or not; I'm told he can't).
3. That's your interpretation.
4. I did the best I could with the knowledge at the time.
5. The diaries are fake.
6. I'm being quoted out of context.
7. The Sideshow Bob defense (you NEED me, America).
8. America couldn't handle the truth!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 29, 2026 07:41 AM (qRla/)

17
A rolled French one egg omelet sauteed in Irish butter with grated Compte served on a bed of chive and curley parsley.

Made by a 7 year old girl with dairy and egg allergies for her grand pa.

God is great.

Posted by: Auspex at July 29, 2026 07:41 AM (Y8DZL)

18 Skip

Adding in the wrong AIDS policy advice, Fauci is responsible fro more than 6 million deaths.

Like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot, he did not personally kill people. His ordered their deaths, and minions complied.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

19 Mamdami's grocery store plan is beyond stupid and doomed to fail. I live in the South Bronx, so I know.

The plan is to put one large store in each borough. In The Bronx, it'll be over in Hunts Point which is four miles from me. The stores will have limited offerings, and only promise deep discounts on a few items.

Now here's the thing: Most South Bronx residents don't have cars. That's why they use bodegas.

They're not going to schlepp without a car to save a dollar on a gallon of milk. You could make the milk free and they still wouldn't go. That's why they use bodegas.

Only Bubble Boy Shitheads like Mamdami could not understand this.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2026 07:42 AM (dtajH)

20 6. I was just following orders.

Posted by: Fauci at July 29, 2026 07:42 AM (Q+gd/)

21 7. The Sideshow Bob defense (you NEED me, America).
8. America couldn't handle the truth!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 29, 2026 07:41 AM (qRla/)
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I gotta admit, I am kind of hoping he'll be pushed into going full Colonel Nathan Jessup and deliver a tirade about how his actions, while deplorable to most people, saved lives. How his decisions saved the entire country.

We want him on that wall--we NEED him on that wall!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 29, 2026 07:43 AM (FZ29D)

22 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at July 29, 2026 07:43 AM (53oGX)

23 Got a text inviting me to campaign for Scott Weiner. He makes my skin crawl.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:44 AM (RIvkX)

24 I think Marco Rubio stands a pretty good chance at becoming POTUS if not in this go round then perhaps 2032 or afterwards.

Yeah, I think his stock went up. Don't see much about JD. I think Marco might take his spot.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 07:45 AM (1Ff7Z)

25 Trump is about to gut woke higher education with one common sense rule change

A better choice would be to remove the federal government altogether, make the universities back the loans, and allow them to be dischargeable in bankruptcy - although I understand that last point is open to abuse.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 07:45 AM (ExV1e)

26 "Mister MD" Rand Paul v "Tony Mengele" Fauci in a steel cage death match!

Promises not to be your usual boring Congressional hearing, with Revelations galore.

Because Fauci's been pardoned, he must answer. Or will he try to plead the Fifth with claims that he still has state law exposure?

Will the Ds on the panel fillibuster in support of Fauci, or realize he's Toxic?

Fauci's crimes affected all Americans, often badly and tragically. Will Media try to ignore the revelations?

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2026 07:45 AM (dtajH)

27 Talarico under investigation for campaign fraud.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 07:46 AM (abScH)

28 Almost 70 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. It's supposed to be a very rainy day here, so that gives me plenty of time to finish editing my novel.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 29, 2026 07:46 AM (qRla/)

29 Made by a 7 year old girl with dairy and egg allergies for her grand pa.

God is great.
Posted by: Auspex at July 29, 2026 07:41 AM (Y8DZL)
=====

Best omelet ever.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)

30 Well, China is now officially in the game with backing and supplying the IRGC with weapons, cash and supplies. Probably happening for a while now but it's out in the open and they aren't hiding it. That's probably not a good sign.

Trump, again, caved on escalation of bombing power plants and such....then did the cease fire thing again, allowing China unfettered access to flood Iran with material for war. Now Iran has the means to continually strike Gulf states and that includes our bases. We also haven't figured out drone defense to a large degree. And Trump is begging for a deal and an off ramp. Not gonna happen, in for a penny in for a pound. Let's hope he doesn't fall for the ground troops trick.

Reordering global energy markets? Good.
Screwing with China and setting them back in that regard? Good
Gulf States turning on Iran? Good.
Everything else? Catostrophic.

At least Lindsey Graham got his war before he passed.

Posted by: GigantorX at July 29, 2026 07:47 AM (f2q4M)

31 Mamdami's grocery store plan is beyond stupid and doomed to fail. I live in the South Bronx, so I know.

The plan is to put one large store in each borough. In The Bronx, it'll be over in Hunts Point which is four miles from me. The stores will have limited offerings, and only promise deep discounts on a few items.

Now here's the thing: Most South Bronx residents don't have cars. That's why they use bodegas.

They're not going to schlepp without a car to save a dollar on a gallon of milk. You could make the milk free and they still wouldn't go. That's why they use bodegas.

Only Bubble Boy Shitheads like Mamdami could not understand this.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2026 07:42 AM (dtajH)

that's one thing i've wondered, how do they intend to make sure only the needy get the groceries?

I mean, what's to stop an evil capitalist from going to that store and buying what they need then reselling it at the bodega with their markup? or to stop the stripping of the shelves by people buying it all up to hoard?

or my favorite, the "rich" people in town using the store as well for it's discounts.

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at July 29, 2026 07:47 AM (nXhwP)

32 Talarico touting reparations in pandering to the black vote.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 07:47 AM (abScH)

33 The survey underscores broad public backing for election integrity measures. These findings make congressional Democrat obstruction of the SAVE America Act in Congress even less tenable, considering that a clear majority of the party’s supporters back election integrity measures, including voter ID.

Name one Democrat who'll lose their position due to their opposition to SAVE. I can't say that any of the Republican incumbents who've lost their offices are due, specifically, to that but Cornyn could have saved himself if only his comrades had preferred to keep him in the Senate over continuing to permit election fraud.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

34 Abdul El-Sayed Falsely Claims He 'Removed' Lead from the Water in Detroit Elementary Schools When He Was City's Health Director

He then held up ingots of gold which he claims he transformed the lead into.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 07:50 AM (ExV1e)

35 Another Poll Reveals Overwhelming Public Support for the SAVE America Act.

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And as the Pharoah's heart remained hardened, Thune will still do nothing to pass this act.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 29, 2026 07:50 AM (qBdHI)

36 Yeah, I think his stock went up. Don't see much about JD. I think Marco might take his spot.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 07:45 AM (1Ff7Z)
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He has been a huge disappointment. He is so far the only administration official to somehow wind up with egg on his face over Iran.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

37 Talarico under investigation for campaign fraud.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 07:46 AM (abScH)
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Damn. I'll bet it's the democrats who are behind this. Nutcase Talarico was too great a candidate for our side.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 29, 2026 07:51 AM (3ImbR)

38 And as the Pharoah's heart remained hardened, Thune will still do nothing to pass this act.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 29, 2026 07:50 AM (qBdHI)
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Second look at abolishing the Senate?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:52 AM (RIvkX)

39 Kentucky Governor Pressures McConnell to Show He Can Serve or Step Down.

Pressures? McConnell is retiring in January and Beshear can do, precisely, nothing about him before then unless he is proved to be dead, and not only mostly dead.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

40 Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 07:46 AM (abScH)

Ben Had, while I have you here, I wanted to make sure that the email address on the side bar for TxMoMe info is a current one. I sent you one the other day and it looked to be one of those older extensions, like AOL, that I rarely see nowadays. But IT was never my forté. TIA

Posted by: TxAnn at July 29, 2026 07:52 AM (SjAWL)

41 TxAnn, received and will be answered a little later this is morning. Thank you for contacting me.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 07:55 AM (abScH)

42 > Kentucky Governor Pressures McConnell to Show He Can Serve or Step Down.
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It's cute he thinks the GOP or even McConnell give a shit what he wants. Neither gives a shit what their constituents want.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2026 07:55 AM (jehhT)

43 He has been a huge disappointment. He is so far the only administration official to somehow wind up with egg on his face over Iran.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

I think JD will sink quietly into the background and try a half-hearted run in '28, then disappear.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 07:55 AM (1Ff7Z)

44 Biden's pardon of Fauci is our "horse in the Senate" moment for the republic.

It is such a gross abuse of the law that there is no law anymore if it stands.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 29, 2026 07:55 AM (3cUTc)

45 Chicago spent ove $13 million to buy and run city managed grocery stores 2 years ago. They set up 7 stores. They closed for good last weekend.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 07:56 AM (viF8m)

46 UK Govt Minister Calls for Removal of ‘Unsettling, Intimidating’ British Flags.

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If ever there was a brightly flashing, siren screaming sign that the UK is just about lights out, here ya go.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 29, 2026 07:56 AM (qBdHI)

47 Rand Paul’s Fauci Diary website has quietly REDACTED the June 2021 entry where Fauci describes suffering a pulmonary infarction (lung blood clot).

… HIPAA ?

like they worried about HIPAA when they demanded your vaccine status

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 07:56 AM (UlcIw)

48 Trump's fault.

Posted by: Tony Fauci at July 29, 2026 07:57 AM (Q+gd/)

49 Let Italy or China prosecute him.

Why would China prosecute him? They used covid as an excuse to kill off some unwanted citizens, just like some Governors here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

50 Going to an early showing of Young Washington before the thermometer breaks. Hope the kid likes it. Perfect movie to watch before school starts next week.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 07:58 AM (1Ff7Z)

51 {{{Lady in Black}}}

To whom does the UK military owe obedience to when their flags are symbols hated by the civilian overlords?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 07:58 AM (u82oZ)

52 Mamdami's grocery store plan is beyond stupid and doomed to fail. I live in the South Bronx, so I know.

What Mamdami is saying is that he and his tribe of misfit blue hairs and third world savages in suits think that they know how to run a grocery chain better than an established grocery chains that already runs on tight margins.

They get to learn about establishing a supply chain, handling multiple vendors, distribution centers, union rules, staffing, shoplifting, rotation of product, regulation and health code compliance, building maintenance, covering utility, insurance and taxes from cash flow.

Essentially they will hire according to DEI totem pole, will have deadbeats and entitled bureaucrats in shop aprons and we see a repeat of the empty shelves, rats and filth that accompany every other attempt of command and control economies.

The woman who was punching out a MdDonald's employee over nugget count last week? She's the manager of the store now.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 29, 2026 07:58 AM (pawvM)

53 Good morning again Horde, thx JJ hope you and Mrs JJ weren't impacted by the tornado
Simple way of looking at the lefts split. The DSA is the Bolsheviks, the old Dems are the Mensheviks
Look up the history, it's where we've been and where we're going

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 07:59 AM (BlDDt)

54 I used to have a different nic

Good point. I forgot Xi does not care.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 07:59 AM (u82oZ)

55 Also, what's up with Doug Collins sinking Trump's veterans bill?

Posted by: GigantorX at July 29, 2026 08:00 AM (f2q4M)

56 >> China is restocking the IRGC with missiles.

Says Reuters. Denied by every intel agency.

Think of who would benefit from floating that narrative. Then you will find the source.

Most MANPADS have unique signatures. Imagine one launching against our combat aircraft, and what a shitstorm that would produce. China has a very small interest in propping up Iran. It’s mostly devoted to spreading out our forces so we can’t concentrate on them. That’s not worth the confrontation that supplying those weapons would produce.

BTW Reuters is one of the organizations on the China graft list.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 29, 2026 08:00 AM (zfkPG)

57 Six years ago, I bestowed LRB status on Tony Fauci.

Posted by: Little Rat Bastard at July 29, 2026 08:00 AM (JM9I6)

58 Cynical me sees an uptick in food delivery trucks being hijacked

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:00 AM (abScH)

59 Rand Paul’s Fauci Diary website has quietly REDACTED the June 2021 entry where Fauci describes suffering a pulmonary infarction (lung blood clot).

The genocidal Monster's arbitrary HIPAA "rights" are far more important than the lives of the millions he murdered and permanently maimed.

Typical Babylon DC: Protect the Government Employee at any cost.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 29, 2026 08:01 AM (BvPIe)

60 Here's a recap of the doomed government run grocery stores in Chicago. I'm sure it will be different in NYC. That's how communism works, it will always be different next time.

https://tinyurl.com/yss3vfp2

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:01 AM (viF8m)

61 Vengeance, Xi said so himself.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:02 AM (abScH)

62 Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 07:55 AM (abScH)

Much appreciated. I live in the Bermuda Triangle of connectivity and half the time don’t know if things go through or not.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 29, 2026 08:03 AM (SjAWL)

63 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2026 08:03 AM (77rzZ)

64 58 Cynical me sees an uptick in food delivery trucks being hijacked
Posted by: Ben Had

But the re-routers need the food more than the city, and if the wealth from selling it is shared, we all win.

Posted by: Auspex at July 29, 2026 08:03 AM (Y8DZL)

65 @58 the crazy thing is that HIPAA doesn't apply to the Congress.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 08:03 AM (BlDDt)

66 What kind of an idiot would shop at a government food store?

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at July 29, 2026 08:03 AM (qC81n)

67 Vengeance, Xi said so himself.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:02 AM (abScH)

Said they're sending Iran materiel?

Now, about that Three Gorges Dam....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 08:04 AM (1Ff7Z)

68 Fauci has arrived at the Congress

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 08:04 AM (BlDDt)

69 Salty can't argue with that

Posted by: Skip at July 29, 2026 08:04 AM (80Irg)

70 To whom does the UK military owe obedience to when their flags are symbols hated by the civilian overlords?

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At this point Salty, and seeing the police force's abysmal behavior on countless occasions, I don't think I even want to know the answer to that question!

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 29, 2026 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

71 Have any of you ever been to an empty grocery store?

I still have very strong memories of long refrigerator and freezer cases, still cold, but no food in them being chilled. Leningrad, 1984. Bronx, 2027.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 08:05 AM (RIvkX)

72 Is there even a Hump Day for us retired persons of leisure?

Posted by: Bone Idle Onslow at July 29, 2026 08:05 AM (JM9I6)

73 Ben Had

Xi and his purges for loyalty is helping the US.
He does need a foreign crisis as a distraction from his doomed priorities.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

74 Good morning, friends, and as always, thank you J.J. for pulling this together for us. I am positive Fauci believes he was doing the right thing, even on the side of the angels. His ends justified his means, his hubris overshadowed truth. It is more scary to me that he was unable to see how awful he was over someone who knew what they were doing was wrong but did it anyway. He should be hung from the gallows, but we have a legal system, not a justice system. We can at least hang on to the fact his whole motivation was being seen as a savior, and that has been completely ripped away from him. He will be remembered as a small, tiny, ugly man whose legacy is evil, not the canonized version he imagined himself to be in history books.

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 08:05 AM (Wmg4n)

75 Kentucky Governor Pressures McConnell to Show He Can Serve or Step Down.

What exactly does that mean? That Andy is in McConnel's room pinching off one of his palliative care IV tubes?

Posted by: Community Notes at July 29, 2026 08:06 AM (xE0sV)

76 Hey, American Greatness, ticks are not insects!

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2026 08:06 AM (77rzZ)

77 @6

>>Anthony Fauci must swing for his crimes against humanity. His diary is a confession. No presidential pardon is valid for such vast crimes.

At the very least, test the pardons and charge him for his manifest crimes.

Fauchi deserves the justice that can only be delivered at the maw of an industrial wood chipper, barring that at least administer a little, The Process Is The Punishment on that filthy animal.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 29, 2026 08:06 AM (XV/Pl)

78 Have any of you ever been to an empty grocery store?

I still have very strong memories of long refrigerator and freezer cases, still cold, but no food in them being chilled. Leningrad, 1984. Bronx, 2027.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 08:05 AM (RIvkX)

USA during the distribution disruptions caused by the Fauci Fever.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:06 AM (ExV1e)

79 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:07 AM (2YhKe)

80 I think it's safe to say Rand Paul hates Dr. Men.....Fauci.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:07 AM (2YhKe)

81 At this point Salty, and seeing the police force's abysmal behavior on countless occasions, I don't think I even want to know the answer to that question!
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 29, 2026 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

The thing that matters is, how do the Brits themselves see it? There are quite a few UK YTers who just loving coming here. What will it take for them to decide to actually move here permanently? Some times I think it might be worthwhile to tell them to come before it's too late, but we really don't know what life is like for them. It might be out of bounds to tell them their homeland is gone and they need to come here.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 08:07 AM (1Ff7Z)

82 Kentucky Governor Pressures McConnell to Show He Can Serve or Step Down.

What exactly does that mean? That Andy is in McConnel's room pinching off one of his palliative care IV tubes?
Posted by: Community Notes at July 29, 2026 08:06 AM (xE0sV)

He published a letter. It's political theater to show the Dems that he's a WARRIOR for their cause. That headline is in support of Beshear's theater.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:08 AM (ExV1e)

83 Funny meme: guy who hoarded toilet paper during COVID now laughing at people during explosive diarrhea outbreak

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 08:08 AM (BlDDt)

84 @75

>>What exactly does that mean? That Andy is in McConnel's room pinching off one of his palliative care IV tubes?

I don't know, do an on camera interview and extemporaneously take questions and talk for, say, 10 minutes.

If he can't do that, he can't serve as Senator.

Remember, most of what these guys do is bloviate for the record in the well of the Senate.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 29, 2026 08:08 AM (XV/Pl)

85 >>I still have very strong memories of long refrigerator and freezer cases, still cold, but no food in them being chilled. Leningrad, 1984. Bronx, 2027.

I had a business associate who grew up in Romania under Ceaușescu. Government run food stores inevitably end up in rationing and then selection of which citizens deserve food.

And then they fail.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:08 AM (viF8m)

86 Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Conduct explicitly states that journalists should "Refuse gifts, favors, fees, free travel and special treatment, and avoid political and other outside activities that may compromise integrity or impartiality, or may damage credibility."

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 08:08 AM (UlcIw)

87 "we have a legal system, not a justice system".
Posted by: Piper

Well stated. Filing this away for further use.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 08:09 AM (u82oZ)

88 The nice stuff at the food stores with be given away to solid Politburo Party Officials.

None of it will go to waste.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 29, 2026 08:09 AM (qFwJc)

89 Please show me where Xi stated that. Both China and Pakistan (transshipment point) have denied the reports. Reuters did not confirm the reports. They cited intelligence “sources”. No independent confirmation, and they are now trying to state it was some type of “private” deal, full knowing nothing happens in China without the state blessing.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 29, 2026 08:09 AM (zfkPG)

90 The power lies within the Communist Party, the military’s economic empire (GAESA), and a deep security apparatus."

There are many people in every group who wish power over the rest...

Posted by: man at July 29, 2026 08:09 AM (XuXeR)

91 but we have a legal system, not a justice system

Hey Rip Van Winkle, we have "progressed" from a legal system to a "court" system where Rule of Law and any form of recognized jurisprudence is optional.

One day you might get Sharia. Another day you get Toddler Ethics. Another day you get shrieking rage and score settling. Another day you get "I don't give a fuck". You hope that your day before the magistrate is Magic Eight Ball.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 29, 2026 08:09 AM (xE0sV)

92 Tousi fled England for the U.S.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX)

93 Enter longtime Democrat strategist James Carville. He recently named the person he wants to take over the DNC and his choice will blow your mind.

It’s David Hogg. Yes, really.

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 08:10 AM (UlcIw)

94 Is there even a Hump Day for us retired persons of leisure?
Posted by: Bone Idle Onslow at July 29, 2026 08:05 AM (JM9I6)

No.

Posted by: It's pronounced, "bouquet" at July 29, 2026 08:10 AM (1Ff7Z)

95 Thank you JJ

I’ve become very impatient with Trump’s approach on Iran. I am, quite frankly, tired of the hollow threats and talk of “deals”… the whole notion of any deal with these savages is ridiculous.

My advice (for what it’s worth which is probably not much): Stop talking. Stop talking. Blockade and bomb. Targeted leadership decapitation strikes if you have the intel. Bridges. Power plants. That last nuclear site that I just heard about that inexplicably we haven’t already hit. Bomb military infrastructure into rubble then make the rubble bounce. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

IOW, quit fucking around.

Probably a good thing I’m not in charge…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2026 08:10 AM (+gA9j)

96 "we have a legal system, not a justice system".
Posted by: Piper

Well stated. Filing this away for further use.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 08:09 AM (u82oZ)
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I noted this also and frankly, found sudden relief.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

97 Justice is civil authorities prosecuting criminals using the publish law as the lodestone.

Divergence from the law is tyranny.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 29, 2026 08:11 AM (qFwJc)

98 Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Conduct
Posted by: SMOD

Ha. Ha! HaHa. HahaHA. *holds belly as I fall to the floor laughing*

*whew*

Good one, SMOD.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

99 >>Good morning, friends, and as always, thank you J.J. for pulling this together for us. I am positive Fauci believes he was doing the right thing, even on the side of the angels.
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I admire your charitable take on this. I am somewhat more cynical. Fauci had direct financial interests in making the decisions he did, and those interests were in direct conflict with the public good. In those cases, he sided with his own financial and celebrity interests. That was a conscious and deliberate choice, and he knew what he was doing.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at July 29, 2026 08:11 AM (bNf8H)

100 He will be remembered as a small, tiny, ugly man whose legacy is evil, not the canonized version he imagined himself to be in history books.
Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 08:05 AM (Wmg4n)

Not if we can help it.

Posted by: The Enemy Press at July 29, 2026 08:12 AM (1Ff7Z)

101
I, for one, am excited about the diversity of healthy foodstuffs people embracing the warmth of our shared values will provide for free, seeing as nobody is likely to want to pay for it.

Posted by: Auspex at July 29, 2026 08:12 AM (Y8DZL)

102 ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive - The New York Times

… how many protesters will show up if they have to pay for parking?

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 08:12 AM (UlcIw)

103 A lot of interest in McConnell, but what about Mad Maxine Waters? She's been AWOL from Congress for months, with some jackass Democrat "voting for her" in her absence.

Seems like that should draw some attention too, no?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2026 08:12 AM (jehhT)

104 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 29, 2026 08:12 AM (2Ez/1)

105 Papist, who posts videos of herself online singing in English and Persian without a head covering, confirmed that her passport was confiscated and her mobile phone blocked, punishments that the Iranian legal advocacy group Dadbaan said were “imposed solely for posting her artwork on social media.”

This is what the left wants for you.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:13 AM (2YhKe)

106 A little known fact. China gets about 62% of its energy from coal. Throw that out the next time someone talks about how China mostly uses “alternatives” to oil and gas.

Posted by: Vengeance at July 29, 2026 08:13 AM (zfkPG)

107 Remember, most of what these guys do is bloviate for the record in the well of the Senate.

Most of what they do is saunter in maybe once or twice a day and give a thumb down for anything which would improve the US for its citizens. Talking is just for campaigning and McConnell is retiring so he doesn't care.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:13 AM (ExV1e)

108 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at July 29, 2026 08:14 AM (ueR9s)

109 The U.S. Senate approved Manhattan federal prosecutor Jay Clayton as the next director of national intelligence on Tuesday.

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 08:14 AM (UlcIw)

110 103 A lot of interest in McConnell, but what about Mad Maxine Waters? She's been AWOL from Congress for months, with some jackass Democrat "voting for her" in her absence.

Seems like that should draw some attention too, no?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2026 08:12 AM (jehhT)

We want a picture of them together!

But yeah, it’s really, really weird. And Maxine is why the left can’t be too crazy about Weekend at McConnell antics.

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 08:14 AM (Wmg4n)

111 BTW Reuters is one of the organizations on the China graft list."

But I must believe what urinalists say!

Posted by: man at July 29, 2026 08:14 AM (XuXeR)

112 @103

>>Seems like that should draw some attention too, no?

She's in a safe donk district and the donks would gladly sacrifice her in a trade for McConnell.

Not for nothing, all McConnell/GOPe, has to do is hang on for a couple of more months.

But at the end of the day, Beshar is correct, sadly.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 29, 2026 08:15 AM (XV/Pl)

113 What’s even more unfathomable is why Democrats have such a positive view of the DSA when they reject many of its central positions.

Because they're lazy and stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:15 AM (2YhKe)

114 Fauci's relentless push for gain of function research, even when it was shot down by the DoD and others, is what led to research being done in Wuhan. He knew as soon as he saw the design of the virus where it came from and he knew he was ultimately at least partially responsible.

It was obvious from day 1 the virus didn't come from a pangolin getting in on with a bat in a wet market, Fauci knew it didn't and said so in his diary, but he continued to lie to the world to protect himself. And it all spiraled from there.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:15 AM (viF8m)

115 Vengeance, ynet news and jpost.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:15 AM (abScH)

116 24 Yeah, I think his stock went up. Don't see much about JD. I think Marco might take his spot.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 07:45 AM (1Ff7Z)

In June, when some reporter asked Trump whether the next President would remove his gold decorations in the oval office he said "Cubans love gold." It didn’t sound like a slip ‘o the tongue. He’s come a long way since the reviled Gang of Eight.

Posted by: TxAnn at July 29, 2026 08:15 AM (SjAWL)

117 USA during the distribution disruptions caused by the Fauci Fever.

What are you talking about? Those were the Golden Days where strangers would drive up to your house and leave scores of filled grocery bags at your door then drive off.

Since then people drive up to your house to remove anything containerized and then scramble.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 29, 2026 08:16 AM (a3CJ+)

118 This is what the left wants for you......."

It's for your own good, you know.

Posted by: man at July 29, 2026 08:16 AM (XuXeR)

119 One thing about McConnell or any other elected official being ill and not doing their job is that at least they're not doing anything stupid

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 08:16 AM (BlDDt)

120 Alive & Kicking is from Breakfast Club...godh!!!

Posted by: qmark at July 29, 2026 08:16 AM (hzpDl)

121 Fauci's Diary and Biden's Tapes. The rantings of corrupt, befuddled, geriatric, enemies of the American people. Both belong in Gitmo.

Posted by: Friend of the Blog at July 29, 2026 08:17 AM (JM9I6)

122 Enter longtime Democrat strategist James Carville. He recently named the person he wants to take over the DNC and his choice will blow your mind.

It’s David Hogg. Yes, really.
Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 08:10 AM (UlcIw)

JUST DO IT!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:17 AM (2YhKe)

123 Vengeance

How is corruption affecting nuclear reactor safety for the operators and public? The Three Gorges Dam is not even anchored to bedrock, FGS.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 08:17 AM (u82oZ)

124 @103 Waters has been there for the last month or so. No explanation for her earlier absence

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 08:17 AM (BlDDt)

125
I think Marco Rubio stands a pretty good chance at becoming POTUS if not in this go round then perhaps 2032 or afterwards.

Yeah, I think his stock went up. Don't see much about JD. I think Marco might take his spot.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 07:45 AM (1Ff7Z)

I as general proposition, I like JD a lot. He might make a good Prezzy.

But, he's certainly making some odd decisions like palling around with Ol' Tucky Tuckerson.

I'm beginning to think that he's finally figured out that whoever follows Trump in office will have to have the same will of iron to get things done, because enemies are all-around and will feel freer to act once Trump no longer has the Presidency.

It will be a tough 8 years and he has young kids. That may be the deciding factor because it's unlikely he'll get to spend a lot of time with them.

And, a 'kinder, gentler Trump" won't fly in those circumstances.

But, eh, we'll see.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2026 08:17 AM (iJfKG)

126 Those were the Golden Days where strangers would drive up to your house and leave scores of filled grocery bags at your door then drive off.

I was never either too lazy or too paranoid to do my own grocery shopping.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:17 AM (ExV1e)

127 From now on, Napoleon Complex will be known as Fauci Complex. The little gnome has an ego the size of Jupiter. If he does testify in congress he will continue to lie his ass off because this narcissist believes he’s untouchable (and sadly he probably is… in this life anyway)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2026 08:18 AM (+gA9j)

128
I had a business associate who grew up in Romania under Ceaușescu. Government run food stores inevitably end up in rationing and then selection of which citizens deserve food.

--

As I've mentioned here before, when Elena Ceausescu (a nasty, horrible woman in her own right), came to the states with her husband, she saw American grocery stores stocked full of everything imaginable and thought it was all fake...staged for their visit. She would not, could not believe that capitalist prosperity provided such a good life.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 29, 2026 08:18 AM (qBdHI)

129 120 Alive & Kicking is from Breakfast Club...godh!!!
Posted by: qmark at July 29, 2026 08:16 AM (hzpDl)

I think of the group Alive & Kicking and their one hit wonder "Tighter Tighter"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2026 08:19 AM (x0n13)

130 What’s even more unfathomable is why Democrats have such a positive view of the DSA when they reject many of its central positions.

Its not just "Democrats" its any feckless politicians who doesn't care what the *-ism is, just as long as they are on the benefit side of dispersed costs, concentrated benefits mechanism which exists in any form of human organization.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 29, 2026 08:19 AM (a3CJ+)

131 The Three Gorges Dam is not even anchored to bedrock, FGS.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 08:17 AM (u82oZ)

Is it still leaking profusely?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:19 AM (2YhKe)

132 Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2026 08:17 AM (iJfKG)

Assuming that a Republican, currently in the Administration, follows Trump, I suspect that a lot of people here will be surprised that they behave differently than they did when they were doing Trump's bidding.

Even the Great Cuban Hope.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:20 AM (ExV1e)

133 What’s even more unfathomable is why Democrats have such a positive view of the DSA when they reject many of its central positions.

Because they're lazy and stupid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:15 AM (2YhKe)

And the crocodile will eat them last, if they hold it, and love it, and give it hugs and sweet pats on the head.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2026 08:21 AM (iJfKG)

134 Sponge - F*ck Cancer

All I know is earlier flooding has pushed the entire dam back a bit. Details are doubtlessly Top Secret.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

135 Is it legal and not against the rules for one member of congress to vote for another? Or for congress critter staff to vote for them?

This should not be allowed. Not physically present you can’t vote

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2026 08:21 AM (+gA9j)

136 The Three Gorges Dam is not even anchored to bedrock, FGS.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 08:17 AM (u82oZ)

Is it still leaking profusely?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:19 AM (2YhKe)

I hadn't heard that it was leaking but there are satellite photos which show that it's shifted on its foundation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

137 It's a challenge to make a legal case on complicated matters solely using paper. It helps enormously to have a live witness connect the dots on the paper.

In Fauci's case, his diary serves as the live witness. Hoist meet petard.

Surfer Girl Tulsi dropped NSA-sourced evidence on Fauci when she left. He's not the only one. Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2026 08:22 AM (dtajH)

138 I have zero faith whatsoever that the current dog and pony show with Anthony Fauci will lead to anything against the evil little troll.

I must take solace in the fact that God will judge him and banish him to the Hell in which he's earned in spades.

For I will get no solace in this life on it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:22 AM (2YhKe)

139 That was a conscious and deliberate choice, and he knew what he was doing.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at July

That is what I meant by hubris overshadowing truth. If you read his diaries, which are very candid, he never says “this is wrong, I shouldn’t, but the cash…” or “I have concerns with the efficacy and we should stop to look at data objectively” . He did make many conscious decisions, but he never thought those decisions were wrong, or unethical. The man solicited prizes and awards, but never once did he think that might be sketchy. He believed he was right. He never thought earning money from this would be unethical. I don’t know that he has any ethics, beyond those he created and those ethics are frightening. The only thing he didn’t do was commission a cape.

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 08:23 AM (Wmg4n)

140 I was never either too lazy or too paranoid to do my own grocery shopping."

6 feet in every direction. Even diagonally...

*the stupid, it burned

Posted by: man at July 29, 2026 08:23 AM (XuXeR)

141
I hadn't heard that it was leaking but there are satellite photos which show that it's shifted on its foundation.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:21 AM (ExV1e)

Rumors had it leaking 30k gallons a minute or some such.

Satellite photos of that thing show it waving to the crowd, for sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:23 AM (2YhKe)

142 Alive & Kicking is from Breakfast Club...godh!!!
Posted by: qmark at July 29, 2026 08:16 AM (hzpDl)

IMHO that movie is seriously overrated. So boring… not John Hughes’ best effort (by far)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2026 08:23 AM (+gA9j)

143 Ospreys have returned to my yard. Two of them this year, and one of them already killed a bird at my feeder. They've got a whole damn ocean full of fish just down the street.

Gonna get my Nerf gun. brb.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 29, 2026 08:24 AM (3ImbR)

144 I remember when they rolled Pete Wilson into the Senate on a hospital gurney so he could cast a vote on some important bill.

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2026 08:24 AM (77rzZ)

145 I think of the group Alive & Kicking and their one hit wonder "Tighter Tighter"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2026 08:19 AM (x0n13)

Great. Earworm. Thanks.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 29, 2026 08:24 AM (qRla/)

146 >>As I've mentioned here before, when Elena Ceausescu (a nasty, horrible woman in her own right), came to the states with her husband, she saw American grocery stores stocked full of everything imaginable and thought it was all fake...staged for their visit. She would not, could not believe that capitalist prosperity provided such a good life.

One time when I visited Romania on business he took me to one of Ceausescu's old mansions, he had a few, that had been turned into a sort of museum and park. One of the out buildings had been turned into a cafe.

As we were eating lunch he kept looking over his shoulder and speaking in hushed tones. I asked him what he was doing and he apologized and said it was habit. Under communism, every public place was bugged or had people hired to listen for subversive talk.

It boggles my mind that given what communism always produces how anyone, no matter how stupid, thinks this time it will be different.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:24 AM (viF8m)

147 The ethics committee sure did a bang up job too.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:24 AM (abScH)

148
I think of the group Alive & Kicking and their one hit wonder "Tighter Tighter"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2026 08:19 AM (x0n13)

I prefer Kicking Harold's "Ugly & Festering."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:25 AM (2YhKe)

149 6 feet in every direction. Even diagonally...

I live in Texas. Even here, within spitting distance of Austin, people didn't do that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:25 AM (ExV1e)

150 I think Fauci's arrogant enough to flaunt his pardon and tell the assembled Congressional dorks to piss off. Saying he did what he did and he'd do it again.

It's Science.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2026 08:25 AM (jehhT)

151 The diaries themselves are evidence of his hubris- he wrote them on government computers. He chronicled what he did every day, there was not consideration for it being a potential exhibit A. It was more a potential, here history book writers, I made this so easy for you! I am sure he saved all of this and brought it home when he retired. The only thing pointing to him knowing this may not be as amazing as originally thought was when he deleted it all. But did he delete it? Or did someone else?

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 08:27 AM (Wmg4n)

152 Ally Sheedy was adorable in The Breakfast Club.

Posted by: Bulg at July 29, 2026 08:27 AM (77rzZ)

153 The ethics committee sure did a bang up job too.
Posted by: Ben Had

The leader of that ethics committee for his NIH Institute was his wife.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 08:27 AM (u82oZ)

154
It boggles my mind that given what communism always produces how anyone, no matter how stupid, thinks this time it will be different.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:24 AM (viF8m)

Our guys will do it right this time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:27 AM (2YhKe)

155 I apologize to Tiny Tony. I called him a bastard above, but his parents were married. Dad was a Pharmacist, Mom helped run the store and in his childhood lived above the store in Brooklyn.

Posted by: Bensonhurst Benny at July 29, 2026 08:27 AM (JM9I6)

156 Sad deal with JD as this was Trump's idiotic, moronic move to go at Iran now. Now poor JD has to go out and defend Trump's stupid position and the constant messaging about they want to deal with us now, cease fire. Over and over. Poor JD. Rubio is smart and has been able to stay out of it due to other issues he has to deal with, JD, not so lucky.

Posted by: Jaimo at July 29, 2026 08:27 AM (2noDb)

157 As I've mentioned here before, when Elena Ceausescu (a nasty, horrible woman in her own right), came to the states with her husband, she saw American grocery stores stocked full of everything imaginable and thought it was all fake...staged for their visit. She would not, could not believe that capitalist prosperity provided such a good life.

The paratrooper in charge of the firing squad said Elena was a horrible woman who slapped him and had a horrible smell about her from her nether regions. He was more than happy to shoot her.

Posted by: Got To Wash Your Ass at July 29, 2026 08:28 AM (qC81n)

158 What’s even more unfathomable is why Democrats have such a positive view of the DSA when they reject many of its central positions.

Really? Really? They reject them?

Smh...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 29, 2026 08:29 AM (bFu5X)

159 @146 JackStraw, it's because each generation produces the same level of ignorance and arrogance that produced a Fauci

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 08:29 AM (BlDDt)

160 I live in Texas. Even here, within spitting distance of Austin, people didn't do that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:25 AM (ExV1e)

DFW did it everywhere. Denton did it everywhere.

LOTS of Texans were roped into the farce. The schools were the worst. My daughter was in marching band and we had to set chairs 10 ft apart on the track around the football field for them to still play at games.

They all had to wear gaiters or masks. The football players, however.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:29 AM (2YhKe)

161 Today Is National Lasagna Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2026 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

162 Today is lobster in champagne sauce at my house.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:31 AM (abScH)

163 I live in Texas. Even here, within spitting distance of Austin, people didn't do that."

Yeah, they did.

*looks around at the Greater Houston Area Co-Prosperity Sphere*

Posted by: man at July 29, 2026 08:31 AM (XuXeR)

164 >> Sad deal with JD as this was Trump's idiotic, moronic move to go at Iran now.

Let's suppose for a moment that Trump isn't lying and Iran really was on the verge of having weapons grade enriched uranium. We already know the intelligence we were told about the capability of their ballistic missile program was completely wrong and they already had ballistic missiles that could reach central Europe.

Would you have allowed Iran to get nuclear capable weapons that could reach Europe and soon the US mainland or tried to stop them?

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:31 AM (viF8m)

165 162 Today is lobster in champagne sauce at my house.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:31 AM (abScH

Be there in12 hours!

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 08:33 AM (Wmg4n)

166 DFW did it everywhere."

This. Flew back north in June of 20. Pretty much all direct flights were no bueno, so had a connection from IAH to DFW (go figure).
DFW was locked down. Shops closed, "one person at a time" into gate areas, most of the lounge chairs/benches gone or taped off. It was surreal.
Charlotte NC airport was worse.

Posted by: man at July 29, 2026 08:34 AM (XuXeR)

167 Rand Paul live now on F&F

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

168 161 Today Is National Lasagna Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Overrated. Ricotta is pseudo-cheese.

Posted by: No Whey I'm Eatin' That Slop at July 29, 2026 08:34 AM (JM9I6)

169 Vengeance, we're not talking MANPAD s but ballistic missiles

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:35 AM (abScH)

170 Would you have allowed Iran to get nuclear capable weapons that could reach Europe and soon the US mainland or tried to stop them?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:31 AM (viF8m)

If I were President, absolutely not.

Posted by: dantesed at July 29, 2026 08:35 AM (Oy/m2)

171 GOP CATASTROPHE: Democrats Effectively Flip Florida House Seat After Republican Incumbent Misses Financial Disclosure Deadline — NO Republican Will Appear on Ballot

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 08:35 AM (RHGPo)

172 Overrated. Ricotta is pseudo-cheese.
Posted by: No Whey I'm Eatin' That Slop at July 29, 2026 08:34 AM (JM9I6)
====

I use bechamel sauce.
/smugly

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

173 a horrible woman who slapped him and had a horrible smell about her from her nether regions.

Horror

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 29, 2026 08:36 AM (iD6/2)

174 Today Is National Lasagna Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2026 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

This guy preferred it over turkey for Thanksgiving dinner:

https://tinyurl.com/3wx45dwx

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 08:36 AM (1Ff7Z)

175 In a suspicious development, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) just announced she will BLOCK the release of 6,000+ noncitizens to the Trump admin who were ILLEGALLY registered to vote in her state.

And she just referred to the noncitizens as "CITIZENS OF NEW JERSEY"

.. is there a process to become a citizen of New Jersey ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 08:37 AM (RHGPo)

176 SanFranpsycho, I have to disagree. Bechamel is no comparison to cheeses

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:37 AM (abScH)

177 It boggles my mind that given what communism always produces how anyone, no matter how stupid, thinks this time it will be different.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:24 AM (viF8m)

"It'll be different this time because I'll be in charge!"

- purple-haired, nose-ringed useful idiot.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 29, 2026 08:38 AM (qRla/)

178 >>If I were President, absolutely not.

Me neither. And Trump has always been against endless ground wars in the Middle East. So he's trying a different route using strategic strikes that are increasing in intensity and economic strangulation instead.

Will it work? Remains to be seen. But I don't think Trump acted foolishly and nothing Iran has done since the start of this leads me to believe if they had gotten nukes they wouldn't have used them to threaten the world, control the Strait or worse, use them.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:38 AM (viF8m)

179 GOP CATASTROPHE: Democrats Effectively Flip Florida House Seat After Republican Incumbent Misses Financial Disclosure Deadline — NO Republican Will Appear on Ballot
Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 08:35 AM (RHGPo)

Florida House, 2025, was 86 Republicans, 33 Democrats, and 1 vacancy. This is stupid, and the asshole deserves to not be in office, but it isn't a catastrophe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

180 165 162 Today is lobster in champagne sauce at my house.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:31 AM (abScH

Be there in12 hours!
Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 08:33 AM

I'll make it in 11.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 29, 2026 08:39 AM (2Ez/1)

181 175 In a suspicious development, New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill (D) just announced she will BLOCK the release of 6,000+ noncitizens to the Trump admin who were ILLEGALLY registered to vote in her state.

And she just referred to the noncitizens as "CITIZENS OF NEW JERSEY"

.. is there a process to become a citizen of New Jersey ?
Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 08:37

She is worse than Spanberger.

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 08:39 AM (Wmg4n)

182 The truth is it's a complicated process. This isn't Venezuela. We likely won't have a clean and tidy(-ish) ending to the regime.

------

???

There was no end to the Communist regime in Venezuela, clean & tidy, or otherwise.

The regime is still completely in control of Venezuela. It's just been brought to heel for the time being. That's not a bad outcome, but why would anyone write that?

It's statements like those that make me wonder about ConInc media. Do they think their readers are so retarded they'll just believe anything and say "yep, there was regime change in VZ?" Or are they the retarded ones, because they're the right wing version of Ben Rhodes' vaunted echo chamber, and believe whatever *they're* being told to say? Is it both?

Everything is just so dumb anymore.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2026 08:39 AM (BI5O2)

183 The paratrooper in charge of the firing squad said Elena was a horrible woman who slapped him and had a horrible smell about her from her nether regions. He was more than happy to shoot her.

This, too, is the story of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 29, 2026 08:39 AM (qRla/)

184 Today is lobster in champagne sauce at my house.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:31 AM (abScH

Be there in12 hours!
Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 08:33 AM

I'll make it in 11.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 29, 2026 08:39 AM (2Ez/1)

1.5 hours.

If I only knew where it was.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:39 AM (2YhKe)

185 GOP CATASTROPHE: Democrats Effectively Flip Florida House Seat After Republican Incumbent Misses Financial Disclosure Deadline — NO Republican Will Appear on Ballot

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 08:35 AM (RHGPo)

I definitely read this as being about the Federal House of Representatives and was livid.

It's about Florida's HoR, which is massively, massively red.

Less livid, but this is still stupid. I hope it's not indicative of the GOP's level of effort this cycle.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 29, 2026 08:40 AM (AdHga)

186 GOP CATASTROPHE: Democrats Effectively Flip Florida House Seat After Republican Incumbent Misses Financial Disclosure Deadline — NO Republican Will Appear on Ballot
Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 08:35 AM (RHGPo)
*******
Yeah, my blood has been boiling all morning about this. Unreal!

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2026 08:40 AM (NpAcC)

187 145 I think of the group Alive & Kicking and their one hit wonder "Tighter Tighter"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2026 08:19 AM (x0n13)

Great. Earworm. Thanks.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 29, 2026 08:24 AM (qRla/)

My cousin dated one of the guys in the band way back when.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 29, 2026 08:40 AM (x0n13)

188 Piper and Quarter Twenty, I'm breaking out the big table.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:40 AM (abScH)

189 741 and thru da links

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2026 08:41 AM (/+uur)

190
She is worse than Spanberger.

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 08:39 AM (Wmg4n)

They were roommates for years.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 29, 2026 08:41 AM (AdHga)

191 *tweet* (blows whistle)

Throws flag

5 yard penalty, redundancy - “Bechamel” is French for “sauce”

I betcha

Posted by: Common Tater at July 29, 2026 08:41 AM (kX/iT)

192 188 Piper and Quarter Twenty, I'm breaking out the big table.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:40 AM

I'll pick up a bottle of Trump wine.
Make that two bottles.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 29, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

193 I don't dislike ricotta, but I find it doesn't cook so well. I make the bechamel with a lot of parmesan so it is quite "cheesy" tasting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

194 "You’d think socialism’s 100-plus-year record of failure would be enough to dissuade people from embracing tenets that led to the horrors of Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, etc. But hope springs eternal, apparently."

The problem is, two generations of public-school graduates have been taught nothing about communism's failures. While being ceaselessly lectured to despise the US, its Founding Fathers, and its form of government.

Posted by: Gref at July 29, 2026 08:42 AM (5rh/l)

195 Today is lobster in champagne sauce at my house.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:31 AM (abScH

Be there in12 hours!
Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 08:33 AM

I'll make it in 11.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 29, 2026 08:39 AM (2Ez/1)

Hour and a half.

You'll be too late, bitchez!

Turn around now and eat at McDonald's.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2026 08:43 AM (iJfKG)

196 > GOP CATASTROPHE: Democrats Effectively Flip Florida House Seat After Republican Incumbent Misses Financial Disclosure Deadline — NO Republican Will Appear on Ballot
---------
Bet there was some "financial disclosures" that this idiot didn't want, you know, disclosed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2026 08:44 AM (jehhT)

197 definitely read this as being about the Federal House of Representatives and was livid.

It's about Florida's HoR, which is massively, massively red.

Less livid, but this is still stupid. I hope it's not indicative of the GOP's level of effort this cycle.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 29, 2026 08:40 AM (AdHga)
******
Still inexcusable. This just pisses me off.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2026 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

198 Rand Paul is methodically hammering Fauci. This is really good.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:44 AM (viF8m)

199 "...I make the bechamel with a lot of parmesan..."

Parmesan?

Posted by: H. Biden at July 29, 2026 08:44 AM (2Ez/1)

200 SanFranpsycho, I use 6 cheeses along with a spinach florentine meat sauce.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:45 AM (abScH)

201 Bet there was some "financial disclosures" that this idiot didn't want, you know, disclosed.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2026 08:44 AM (jehhT)

Maybe, but apparently she's the incumbent so she really had no excuse.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

202 Senator Gary Peters (D-MI)

Who??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 08:45 AM (RIvkX)

203 Rand Paul is methodically hammering Fauci. This is really good.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:44 AM (viF8m)

Unless the little f*cker is hanged for his crimes against humanity, it's all for naught and relatively meaningless.

People are STILL wearing f*cking masks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:45 AM (2YhKe)

204 Rand Paul is methodically hammering Fauci.

I thought we were done with phrasing.

Posted by: dantesed at July 29, 2026 08:46 AM (Oy/m2)

205
Making oatmeal this morning with milk.

Milk is tastier but trickier. It overbuilt easily.

But, it's under control now.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2026 08:46 AM (iJfKG)

206 Elena was Romania's DOCTOR Jill.

She was a dull normal who could barely read at an elementary school level, but Nicolae made her the country's top scientist. Their scientists would have to explain basic concepts to her, then listen to her mumble them out incorrectly at conferences, and applaud her towering genius. Then go home and drink slivo during an hour-long shower, presumably.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2026 08:46 AM (BI5O2)

207 Just saw that Dave Jolly a former Republican congressman is now running for the governorship of Florida as a Democrat. The new Charlie Crist . Complete political geek

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 08:46 AM (BlDDt)

208 SanFranpsycho, I use 6 cheeses along with a spinach florentine meat sauce.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:45 AM (abScH)
======

That is a lot of cheese.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 08:47 AM (RIvkX)

209 Turn around now and eat at McDonald's.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2026 08:43 AM (iJfKG)

Wow! McDonald’s? I feel unsafe. lol.

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 08:47 AM (Wmg4n)

210 Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Masks worn today ID the true, bitter-ender, believers. Useful information.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 08:47 AM (u82oZ)

211 Heat indices up to 116 degrees today here on The Redneck Riviera. Yikes!

Posted by: one hour sober at July 29, 2026 08:48 AM (J4Dwc)

212 Requirements to Be a Citizen of New Jersey

If you are asking about U.S. citizenship in New Jersey, you must meet federal naturalization requirements. If you are asking about New Jersey residency (not citizenship), the state has its own rules for establishing domicile.
1. U.S. Citizenship (Naturalization) in New Jersey

To apply for U.S. citizenship in New Jersey, you must meet USCIS requirements, which are the same nationwide but you must file your application in NJ USCIS GuideUSCIS Guide+1:

- At least 18 years old at the time of filing.

- Lawful permanent resident (green card holder) for at least 5 years (3 years if married to a U.S. citizen).

- Physical presence in the U.S. for at least half of the required residency period (e.g., 30 months in 5 years).

- Residency in New Jersey for at least 3 months before filing.

- English language proficiency (reading, writing, speaking).

- Knowledge of U.S. history and civics.

- Good moral character.

- Oath of allegiance to the United States.

... the Governor needs to take the Oath of allegiance to the United States.

Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 08:48 AM (RHGPo)

213 Just saw that Dave Jolly a former Republican congressman is now running for the governorship of Florida as a Democrat.

I've come to the conclusion that every Republican politician is a future Democrat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:49 AM (ExV1e)

214 Sometimes people try to cheat and use Cottage cheese in lieu of Ricotta for Lasagna. Might as well throw some Kale in there too, while yer at it.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 29, 2026 08:49 AM (kX/iT)

215 So many fvcking luminaries in the U.S. Senate.

I marvel at the magnificence of such geniuses.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 08:49 AM (RIvkX)

216 >>“These are people who have helped Springfield really come back. Springfield has been making a real comeback. The Haitians who are living there and are employed there, they came there to work and they came there because there were jobs that were not being filled by other people,” he said.

“These are people who have opened restaurants, they’ve opened other businesses, they’ve rehabbed houses, they’ve created jobs, as well as filled jobs. And so to lose them and have them not be able to work anymore and possibly taken out of this country is frankly a blow to Springfield, and it’s a blow to the state of Ohio,” he said.

And how have Springfield's residents fared, governor?
What? Haven't heard you talk about them yet.

As far as them having "opened restaurants, they’ve opened other businesses, they’ve rehabbed houses, they’ve created jobs," yeah, because we've since learned they were given priority over citizens for SBA loans, housing, etc.. You made that happen - they are not naturally industrious or entrepreneurial.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 29, 2026 08:49 AM (X8xt3)

217 Hour and a half.

You'll be too late, bitchez!

Turn around now and eat at McDonald's.
Posted by: naturalfake
___________

I'll be there in ten minutes.

Posted by: Winston Wolfe at July 29, 2026 08:49 AM (XvL8K)

218 The problem is, two generations of public-school graduates have been taught nothing about communism's failures. While being ceaselessly lectured to despise the US, its Founding Fathers, and its form of government.
Posted by: Gref at July 29, 2026 08:42 AM (5rh/l)

and whitey.

Posted by: Zombie Gil Scott-Heron, Racist at July 29, 2026 08:49 AM (qC81n)

219 It's also, National Lipstick Day. 💋💄

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2026 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

220 SanFranpsycho, Sponge will vouch for my lasagna.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:49 AM (abScH)

221 219 It's also, National Lipstick Day. 💋💄
Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2026 08

I can get behind this one!

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 08:50 AM (Wmg4n)

222 Would you have allowed Iran to get nuclear capable weapons that could reach Europe and soon the US mainland or tried to stop them?

Europe didn't seem to care.

In fact: European powers tried to create a special payment system called INSTEX in 2019 to bypass U.S. sanctions and keep trade alive with Iran

in 2015 with the JCPOA, the EU sprinted to work deals with Iran. In 2018, Trump threatened EU to stop or that the EU would lose access to the US's financial system.

So Europe never had any fear of Iran lobbing nukes in their direction. EU's only fear was pissing off Trump. Once Trump leaves office, the EU is going right back in to Iran to do business as usual.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 29, 2026 08:50 AM (rgGn5)

223 To Florida Horde. Can a person run as a write in in the Florida house race? The area is purple as I understand , so it might be worth a shot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 08:50 AM (BlDDt)

224 Florentine is just a fancy word that drives up the price. Like using the preface...

Posted by: Tuscan. at July 29, 2026 08:51 AM (JM9I6)

225 Masks worn today ID the true, bitter-ender, believers. Useful information.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 08:47 AM (u82oZ)

I point and laugh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:51 AM (2YhKe)

226 SanFranpsycho, Sponge will vouch for my lasagna.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 29, 2026 08:49 AM (abScH)

Confirmed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:51 AM (2YhKe)

227 I point and laugh.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:51 AM (2YhKe)

I give them a wide berth. Delusional leftists get violent.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:52 AM (ExV1e)

228 Too bad Paul Vaughn's seven-figure settlement can't come directly from the hides of the individuals who persecuted him. But I'm glad to see restitution, at least.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at July 29, 2026 08:52 AM (OlzlW)

229 Nazi level evil

"He got vaccinated at a very, very public press conference in January of 2021," Kennedy said, noting that five months later, the diary reveals, Fauci "had a pulmonary infarction, which is one of the adverse events that NIH, CDC and FDA said are expected from the vaccine."

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2026 08:53 AM (/+uur)

230 These are people who have helped Springfield really come back. Springfield has been making a real comeback"

Translation:

"My brother in laws apartments are empty, and the other family businesses aren't getting cheap labor"

Posted by: man at July 29, 2026 08:53 AM (XuXeR)

231 Fauci has no problem testifying because he's a premier narcissist . They will always think they are the smartest person in the room and have no trouble handling the lower life forms.

Posted by: polynikes at July 29, 2026 08:53 AM (KC5Lt)

232 >>"You’d think socialism’s 100-plus-year record of failure would be enough to dissuade people from embracing tenets that led to the horrors of Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, etc. But hope springs eternal, apparently."

Probably not a coincidence that a lot of these DSA leaders are foreigners coming from non-western and/or non-democratic countries. Exhibit A: Ugandan-Indian Mamdani.
Then they go to Cuba for ~~final brainwashing~~ finishing school for Socialism. See: Hassan Piker.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 29, 2026 08:53 AM (X8xt3)

233 Everything is just so dumb anymore.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 29, 2026 08:39 AM (BI5O2)

I take some small solace in the likelihood that everything had always been this dumb. A lot of us have just reached the point where we’ve pulled back the curtain and seen the actual wizard at the controls of the machine; and we say “you’re kidding, that’s all it is?”

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2026 08:54 AM (y4wXR)

234 26 "Mister MD" Rand Paul v "Tony Mengele" Fauci in a steel cage death match!

Promises not to be your usual boring Congressional hearing, with Revelations galore.

Because Fauci's been pardoned, he must answer. Or will he try to plead the Fifth with claims that he still has state law exposure?

Will the Ds on the panel fillibuster in support of Fauci, or realize he's Toxic?

Fauci's crimes affected all Americans, often badly and tragically. Will Media try to ignore the revelations?

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 29, 2026 07:45 AM (dtajH)

I expect the Democrats' game today will be to ask Fauci leading questions about the health care policies and actions to-date of RFK Jr and Trump. To get soundbite video clips of St. Fauci slamming both men. Because the idiots watching CNNABCNBCCBSMSNOW will continue to mindlessly believe everything their saint says. Gotta keep the base energized. And donating.

Posted by: Gref at July 29, 2026 08:54 AM (5rh/l)

235 >>Europe didn't seem to care.

I'm thrilled we no longer have a president who gives a wet fart what European leaders think. That hasn't worked out for us very well for the last, well, ever.

If Europe was attacked we were going to war. NATO membership assures that. If Trump is successful in the Middle East, and things are happening like Saudi Arabia joining the US in attacks on Iran last night for the first time, we won't have to worry about the region as much as we did prior to Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:55 AM (viF8m)

236 >>It's also, National Lipstick Day.

Guess I celebrate that every day, if one counts tinted lip balm. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at July 29, 2026 08:55 AM (X8xt3)

237 210 Masks worn today ID the true, bitter-ender, believers.

I just flew for the first time in a couple years, NY to Denver, and was really surprised at the large number of maskholes in the airports and on the plane. So many sheeple allowed themselves to be permanently damaged.

Posted by: Delurker at July 29, 2026 08:55 AM (2Drhq)

238 Fauci is calling out Paul as being after him. No shit Sherlock.
He is taking the 5th.
Murderous little prick

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 08:55 AM (BlDDt)

239 Here we go, he's taking the 5th.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:56 AM (viF8m)

240 Because the idiots watching CNNABCNBCCBSMSNOW will continue to mindlessly believe everything their saint says. Gotta keep the base energized. And donating.
Posted by: Gref at July 29, 2026 08:54 AM (5rh/l)

Sadly, this.

For about 40% of Americans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:56 AM (2YhKe)

241 If you are a praying person, and you haven't already done so, please pray for Rand Paul. He's already been the target of at least one attack by a deranged leftist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 29, 2026 08:56 AM (xSAlF)

242 Here we go, he's taking the 5th.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:56 AM (viF8m)

"Here's to all that said he couldn't do that......"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:57 AM (2YhKe)

243 Did Biden actually sign the pardon, or was it autopen?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 29, 2026 08:57 AM (qFwJc)

244 Laura Ingraham is sitting behind Fauci. Lol.
Early on during the pandemic she was one of the fiercest people in the media exposing Fauci and what a fraud he was.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2026 08:57 AM (NpAcC)

245 >>These are people who have helped Springfield really come back. Springfield has been making a real comeback"

Further translation: It's not a community, it's an economic zone.

As long as tax revenue is up, the other effects of dropping 20K dysfunctional foreigners into a town of 40k is immaterial.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 29, 2026 08:57 AM (X8xt3)

246 "He got vaccinated at a very, very public press conference in January of 2021," Kennedy said, noting that five months later, the diary reveals, Fauci "had a pulmonary infarction, which is one of the adverse events that NIH, CDC and FDA said are expected from the vaccine."

I remember when Fauci got the shot, a lot of people here wondered if he was actually getting a placebo rather than the real thing.

Pity the bastard didn't die screaming in agony.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 29, 2026 08:57 AM (qRla/)

247 Here we go, he's taking the 5th.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 08:56 AM (viF8m)

And are they pointing out that it's impossible to incriminate himself as a mechanized signature machine posing as the President gave him a pardon? And are they following that explanation with a thorough beating?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

248 Did Biden actually sign the pardon, or was it autopen?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 29, 2026 08:57 AM (qFwJc)

The only one that was actually signed by him, according to some reports, was the one for Hunter.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:58 AM (2YhKe)

249 Pathetic. Fauci is going to take the 5th on every question.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2026 08:58 AM (NpAcC)

250 Fauci invoking 5th amendment. Lock him up now. Have the Sergeant-at-Arms arrest him now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 08:58 AM (RIvkX)

251 Wow…. Faux-Chi is taking the 5th

Didn’t expect that

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2026 08:59 AM (yz/88)

252 OK, I am out. I have no desire to see or hear Fauci make a fool of Rand.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 29, 2026 08:59 AM (qRla/)

253 Not a Rand Paul fan but he has been on top of Fauci and the Covid scam since day one.

Posted by: polynikes at July 29, 2026 08:59 AM (KC5Lt)

254
Further translation: It's not a community, it's an economic zone.

As long as tax revenue is up, the other effects of dropping 20K dysfunctional foreigners into a town of 40k is immaterial.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 29, 2026 08:57 AM (X8xt3)

Springfield is the state capital. It's where all the corruption and graft is, other than Chitcago.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:59 AM (2YhKe)

255 Did Biden actually sign the pardon, or was it autopen?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 29, 2026 08:57 AM (qFwJc)

Doesn't matter. I suspect that it wouldn't be retracted even if Biden testified that he neither signed it nor authorized the use of the autopen.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:59 AM (ExV1e)

256 It's a challenge to make a legal case on complicated matters solely using paper. It helps enormously to have a live witness connect the dots on the paper.

In Fauci's case, his diary serves as the live witness. Hoist meet petard.

Surfer Girl Tulsi dropped NSA-sourced evidence on Fauci when she left. He's not the only one. Developing ...
Posted by: Ignoramus

In before the Nothing Will Happen guy.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 29, 2026 08:59 AM (ueR9s)

257 Just had hail hit the house. Radar gave no warning. Just a weak squall line moving through.

Have a great day, everyone. Hail is a bad sign, and shutting down to protect the computer, even though it's on a UPS.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 29, 2026 08:59 AM (u82oZ)

258 And are they pointing out that it's impossible to incriminate himself as a mechanized signature machine posing as the President gave him a pardon? And are they following that explanation with a thorough beating?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

Can't the committee chair bang the gavel, call the sergeant at arms and arrest the guy, then take him to the congressional jail? If so, he should do it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 08:59 AM (1Ff7Z)

259 Taking the 5th after a pardon should bless to a charge of obstruction. Let's see if anyone has the guts to do it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 29, 2026 08:59 AM (BlDDt)

260 Florentine is just a fancy word that drives up the price. Like using the preface...
Posted by: Tuscan
_______

I had the famous Florentine tbone at a place on the piazza duomo 25 years ago. Unimpressed. But it was probably touristy and not the best place to go. The gelato, on the other hand, was friggin' fantastic.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 29, 2026 09:00 AM (XvL8K)

261 I always wonder how you get to sit in one of the seats right behind the star witness. It puts you on TV while the blathering drones on.
Today it would be great if one of the seats behind Saint Garden Gnome was occupied by a photogenic female wearing a T-shirt bearing the picture of a cute beagle puppy.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 29, 2026 09:00 AM (2Ez/1)

262 Guilty as sin.

Free as a bird.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 09:00 AM (2YhKe)

263 I am off to teach my 815a. I overbooked it thinking someone would drop. But nope. It’s going to be a little crazy!

Posted by: Piper at July 29, 2026 09:00 AM (OoFl2)

264 Did Biden actually sign the pardon, or was it autopen?
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 29, 2026 08:57 AM (qFwJc)

Doesn't matter. I suspect that it wouldn't be retracted even if Biden testified that he neither signed it nor authorized the use of the autopen.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Process is the punishment. Let him fight it in court.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 29, 2026 09:00 AM (ueR9s)

265 So he's taking the 5th!!!

Wonderful.

Piece of human filth.

May he live forever and be haunted by the ghosts of beagles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 29, 2026 09:01 AM (XV/Pl)

266 I am off to teach my 815a. I overbooked it thinking someone would drop. But nope. It’s going to be a little crazy!
Posted by:

You need to bring in puppies!

Puppy yoga. It's a thing.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 29, 2026 09:01 AM (ueR9s)

267 I remember reading here that he couldn’t take the 5th because he’s been pardoned. Can’t they compel his testimony?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2026 09:01 AM (yz/88)

268 I think it was a given that Fauci doesn't give a shit about what Rand Paul, or anyone in Congress thinks about what he did.

He's got a pardon and an ego. And a whole lot of fuck you money.

He'll be fine.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 29, 2026 09:01 AM (jehhT)

269 "Let's see if anyone has the guts to do it."

*somber narrator voice*

No one has the guts to do it.

Posted by: Narrator at July 29, 2026 09:02 AM (2Ez/1)

270 Fraudci may be fine in this world. But he will face Judgement.

Posted by: Delurker at July 29, 2026 09:03 AM (2Drhq)

271 I remember reading here that he couldn’t take the 5th because he’s been pardoned. Can’t they compel his testimony?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2026 09:01 AM (yz/8

How? Have him charged with contempt? In DC?

Wife points out that he was only pardoned at the federal level and COULD be prosecuted by any state with the balls to do it provided that any of their citizens were adversely affected.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 29, 2026 09:03 AM (ExV1e)

272 Fraudci may be fine in this world. But he will face Judgement.
Posted by: Delurker at July 29, 2026 09:03 AM (2Drhq)

But there's nothing wrong with a little redemption in this life.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 09:03 AM (2YhKe)

273 The nation's "leading expert" in COVID contracted COVID 3 times after being vaccinated and boosted 6 times.

He had a pulmonary embolism 6 months after his second Moderna shot. This was, of course, not publicized.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2026 09:03 AM (/+uur)

274 The nation's "leading expert" in COVID contracted COVID 3 times after being vaccinated and boosted 6 times.

He had a pulmonary embolism 6 months after his second Moderna shot. This was, of course, not publicized.
Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2026 09:03 AM (/+uur)

I do not believe for one minute this little prick took the mRNA shots at any point.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 09:04 AM (2YhKe)

275 I remember reading here that he couldn’t take the 5th because he’s been pardoned. Can’t they compel his testimony?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2026 09:01 AM (yz/8

You gotta make him want to testify. Here's one way:

The chair says, ok, you choose to not speak. You have five minutes to change your mind. If, after that time, you still refuse, I'll publicly call for any state or country to demand your extradition to face charges of genocide. And you know President Trump will honor that extradition request. The clock starts now.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 09:05 AM (1Ff7Z)

276 I do not believe for one minute this little prick took the mRNA shots at any point.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Thank you. I was saying that yesterday.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 29, 2026 09:05 AM (ueR9s)

277 Ohio Dem Running in Swing District Says He's Not a Socialist But Would 'Lie to the People' To 'Get Their Votes' if He Was
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👀

Posted by: ... at July 29, 2026 09:06 AM (3SZh8)

278 Fauci is seething. I'm loving this.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 29, 2026 09:07 AM (3ImbR)

279 Scrolling through the MR I noticed the post on Alpha Gal red meat allergy. I have that, have had it for atound seven years. It has been a wild ride.

Posted by: tubal at July 29, 2026 09:07 AM (f6ii3)

280 276 I do not believe for one minute this little prick took the mRNA shots at any point.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Thank you. I was saying that yesterday.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 29, 2026 09:05 AM (ueR9s)

I think he did.. He was so full of himself as some sort of Savior and the vaccine was more or less his doing... Trump just did what the "experts" told him was gonna save us all...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 29, 2026 09:08 AM (FtULh)

281 Well at least the current attempt at a cease fire only lasted 4 days before it fell apart. In case anyone wondered, this is what Iran does with any time to rest given by ceasefires:

“ Reuters: Iran is expected to receive the first shipment in the coming weeks (from China) in a deal to purchase hundreds of shoulder-fired air defense missiles, as part of its preparations for the possibility of renewed fighting. According to the report, Tehran and Beijing are exploring options for transporting the shipment by land, including additional military shipments, to reduce the chance of the shipment being intercepted.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2026 09:08 AM (y4wXR)

282
Thank you. I was saying that yesterday.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 29, 2026 09:05 AM (ueR9s)

Remember how they made a big deal about Biden getting the vax, then they shove a massive syringe, bigger than any actual vaccine needle, likely full of saline in his arm?

Yeah, NO ONE in DC took the vax.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 09:08 AM (2YhKe)

283 Is it still leaking profusely?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:19 AM (2YhKe)

Nah. Ever since Dr Jill purchased a new plug. Oh, wait, what are we talking about again?

Posted by: Joe B at July 29, 2026 09:08 AM (hmYU4)

284 Fauci is seething. I'm loving this.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 29, 2026 09:07 AM (3ImbR)

With congressional immunity for speech inside Congress, the Rs should insult, demean, and imprecate his name with every minute they have to speak. Let him hear it all.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 09:08 AM (1Ff7Z)

285 I've come to the conclusion that every Republican politician is a future Democrat.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Abe Lincoln has been voting Democrat in Illinois for the last 150 years.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 29, 2026 09:08 AM (TChLS)

286 Have any of you ever been to an empty grocery store?

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Zagreb 1980. Tito died and the economy collapsed. Walked into a grocery store and there were no processed goods of any kind. Local peaches and beef. That's it, no sugars oil, flour etc.

Came home and kissed the ground. That's the day I understood communism and have feared the day it would rear its ugly head here.

It is to be fought to the death.

Posted by: Derak at July 29, 2026 09:09 AM (TJ+s2)

287 If you write Madagascar into every answer to every question no one will know you are using AI.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2026 09:09 AM (/+uur)

288 >>Fauci is seething. I'm loving this.

He's watching his carefully cultivated reputation over 50 years being meticulously being destroyed and he's being forced to assist.

He is no longer The Science.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 09:09 AM (viF8m)

289 Is that weasel really going to sit there and take the fifth to every question? I had thought he couldn't do that based on his """"""pardon."""""""

But if he's going to do that, I hope they commence to read every entry in his fabulous diary and ask him a question after each one. Every single page. That should take days and provide a lot of fine video.

Posted by: bluebell at July 29, 2026 09:09 AM (afFes)

290 The singer's name is Anita Papist - any chance she is actually a Christian?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 29, 2026 09:09 AM (sKqQm)

291 This FUCK stuff is worthy of the executioners song to be song and song loud. But I have a feeling this Admin and GOP in general will let it sail like a fart in the wind. Would be great to rassle up some MAHA peeps and let them know they are on the radar still.

Throw the book at Fauci, arrest him do whatever make the Dems and media defend him, Birx and all the other traitors before the midterms. See what the pardon for "Stuff that Fauci totally didn't do" is made of.

They won't.

Iran Iran Iran.

Posted by: GigantorX at July 29, 2026 09:09 AM (f2q4M)

292 Among his many, many loathsome traits, Fauci's utter lack of empathy really stood out.

I remember him disingenously spouting that he wasn't aware that businesses would close due to lockdowns because he's a doctor, not an economist, when a third grader could tell you that if you force businesses to shutter their doors for months at a time, they're going to close down for good. That evil, despicable little troll should burn in the hottest corner of hell for all eternity for his crimes.

Posted by: Delurker at July 29, 2026 09:09 AM (2Drhq)

293 According to the report, Tehran and Beijing are exploring options for transporting the shipment by land, including additional military shipments, to reduce the chance of the shipment being intercepted.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2026 09:08 AM (y4wXR)

"All your train are belong to us."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 09:09 AM (2YhKe)

294 164 - Jack, yes I would have tried to stop them, but how credible was that intel? Just a year ago we were told that we blew everything up. After the decision was made to go in there, then we should have just leveled the place and stopped dicking around with this stop and go shit for months on end. It's getting old. Finish the job and move on. The Iranian people are gonna have to figure out the rest of it on their own. They're the idiots who got rid of the Shah, even though he was bad too, he wasn't the Ayatollahs.

Posted by: Jaimo at July 29, 2026 09:10 AM (2noDb)

295 Local peaches and beef. That's it, no sugars oil, flour etc.

Came home and kissed the ground. That's the day I understood communism and have feared the day it would rear its ugly head here.

It is to be fought to the death.
Posted by: Derak at July 29, 2026 09:09 AM (TJ+s2)

Peach and Beef sounds like a bad gay soul band.

Posted by: r hennigantx at July 29, 2026 09:10 AM (/+uur)

296 He is no longer The Science.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 09:09 AM (viF8m)

But he isn't inmate number 59343054 either.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 09:10 AM (1Ff7Z)

297 Prosecuting a young mother for her angry words seems poisonously symbolic./i]

The same judge gave a man found guilty of having kiddie pron half the sentence he gave the woman who said the naughty word.

And along those lines the Somali filming her had just had sexual assault charges against a 16 year old dropped when he was at the park filming the woman

Posted by: 18-1 at July 29, 2026 09:11 AM (sKqQm)

298 I thought a presidential pardon doesn't allow you to take the 5th.

I'm not a lawyer, thank God.

Posted by: dantesed at July 29, 2026 09:11 AM (Oy/m2)

299 The only one that was actually signed by him, according to some reports, was the one for Hunter.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 08:58 AM (2YhKe)

Biden didn’t even sign, or write, the letter in which he dropped out of the Democrat campaign race.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2026 09:11 AM (y4wXR)

300 With congressional immunity for speech inside Congress, the Rs should insult, demean, and imprecate his name with every minute they have to speak. Let him hear it all.

I'm just not hearing the words "genocidal maniac", "sociopath", "spawn of Hell", "Mengele" and "mass murderer" enough. If these were drinking game words, we all should have alcohol poisoning by now.

Posted by: Community Notes at July 29, 2026 09:11 AM (xE0sV)

301 So . . . . . . . .that weasel bastard Fauci took the 5th.

More than ever, tie a chain around his ankle, hook the other end to the hitch on a hot 3/4 ton pickup, and hit the gas to the floor. Or, given that azzwipe receives the highest pension in the realm of Fed employees, convert one year's pay into dollar bills, stuff them up his lying, coup-leading, murderous, self-aggrandizing ass, and light him up with a propane enema.

Fk these people. Enough. To the breach, if necessary.

Posted by: Despise Weasel Deep State Rat Bastards at July 29, 2026 09:12 AM (nECb0)

302 Among his many, many loathsome traits, Fauci's utter lack of empathy really stood out.

Shortly after Fauci flopped from arguing masks do not good to arguing everyone had to be double masked we have an email chain he had with a friend of his where she pointed out people around her weren't masking and asked Fauci if that was dangerous.

His answer? No.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 29, 2026 09:12 AM (sKqQm)

303 I thought a presidential pardon doesn't allow you to take the 5th.

I'm not a lawyer, thank God.
Posted by: dantesed at July 29, 2026 09:11 AM (Oy/m2)

Many of us believed what we read on the internet.......we're fools.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 09:12 AM (2YhKe)

304 I.. is there a process to become a citizen of New Jersey ?
Posted by: SMOD at July 29, 2026 08:37

Betch your ass. Secret hand shakes and shit too.

Posted by: Frank Boombatz-Vinnie's brother at July 29, 2026 09:12 AM (hmYU4)

305 So Fauci has used the 5th to hide behind.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 29, 2026 09:13 AM (Q/FnY)

306 Biden didn’t even sign, or write, the letter in which he dropped out of the Democrat campaign race.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 29, 2026 09:11 AM (y4wXR)

I'm about 72% convinced Kamala's campaign forged that letter and dared him to say something about it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at July 29, 2026 09:13 AM (AdHga)

307 Florentine is just a fancy word that drives up the price. Like using the preface...
Posted by: Tuscan
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I had the famous Florentine tbone at a place on the piazza duomo 25 years ago. Unimpressed. But it was probably touristy and not the best place to go. The gelato, on the other hand, was friggin' fantastic.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 29, 2026 09:00 AM (XvL8K)

The beautiful and globe-trotting Mrs naturalfake and I ate a wonderful Bistecca alla Fiorentina in Florence.

The recipe is dead simple. So, the important part is in the technique. Basically, a two inch Porterhouse, salt and a masterful sear completely covering the steak in Maillard Reaction glory while leave the interior rare.

I have a relative in the food biz who recommended the place as the place to get Steak Florentine. It was a dumpy, little, out of the way, five table restaurant but the food was really, really good.

Anyway, Florentine isn't just a word, unless they're not actually making a Steak Florentine.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 29, 2026 09:14 AM (iJfKG)

308 With congressional immunity for speech inside Congress, the Rs should insult, demean, and imprecate his name with every minute they have to speak. Let him hear it all.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 29, 2026 09:08 AM (1Ff7Z)
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Agreed. They should be reading aloud all the outrageous items from his diary. Hit him hard on a very personal level. I suspect, being such a narcissist, he won't be able to control himself.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at July 29, 2026 09:15 AM (3ImbR)

309 The only one that was actually signed by him, according to some reports, was the one for Hunter.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Biden didn’t even sign, or write, the letter in which he dropped out of the Democrat campaign race.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Since he is receiving a federal paycheck, we should get proof of life monthly updates. Because I think that fuck is spending a weekend at Bernie's.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 29, 2026 09:15 AM (ueR9s)

310 >> Jack, yes I would have tried to stop them, but how credible was that intel? Just a year ago we were told that we blew everything up. After the decision was made to go in there, then we should have just leveled the place and stopped dicking around with this stop and go shit for months on end. It's getting old.

Why is it getting old? Aside from higher gas prices how is what's happening in Iran affecting any of us in any way?

Gas prices would be going up if Trump completely destroys Iran. You can't just remove that supply of oil from the world supply and have it not have an affect.

What is not being reported nearly enough is that while this is happening the Middle East is being reordered. The Saudis are now actively attacking Iran and so are others. The Abraham Accords are growing. We don't need another ISIS in Iran just like we got in Iraq, Syria and Libya. There are repercussions to blowing up a Middle East country and leaving. We've seen that movie repeatedly. Let's try something different.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 29, 2026 09:16 AM (viF8m)

311 Never been a fan of the seared steak.

Heaping a meat charred to coal with a cold red center on my plate is not my idea of a good time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 09:16 AM (2YhKe)

312 Good on Rand for chucking out that lawyer.

Posted by: bluebell at July 29, 2026 09:16 AM (afFes)

313
@EricLDaugh

BREAKING: Sen. Rand Paul announces Dr. Fauci is officially OBSTRUCTING an investigation by Congress today by pleading the 5th and there will be "consequences"

Fauci's illegal activity happened AFTER THE BIDEN PARDON, meaning he's now VULNERABLE.

"The Chairman has denied your assertion of privilege and directed you to answer. But you nonetheless refuse and stand on privilege despite the existence of the pardon."

"The Committee will have to consider, after this hearing, what appropriate action should be taken against you for the failure to testify after being directed to do so."

"It's against the law to obstruct an investigation of Congress. There will be repercussions to your refusal to testify today." @RandPaul

Posted by: redridinghood at July 29, 2026 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

314 Rand Paul is so embarrassing. Lies like Trump.

Posted by: Sid at July 29, 2026 09:16 AM (3O7sv)

315 Even though Fauchi has a whatever pardon, taking the 5th shields him from exposure to potentially any new crimes.

He's vile scum, but he's got a team of lawyers advising him.

Also, the donk chair of this committee is in serious need of a nut punch.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 29, 2026 09:16 AM (XV/Pl)

316 Many of us believed what we read on the internet.......we're fools.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 29, 2026 09:12 AM (2YhKe)

The exceptions are your comments… and mine. They are always true and nuggets of wisdom

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 29, 2026 09:17 AM (yz/88)

317
lol, Fauchi's lawyer booted from the room!

Posted by: Auspex at July 29, 2026 09:17 AM (Y8DZL)

318 Why is the Democrat co-chair protecting Fauci?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 29, 2026 09:17 AM (RIvkX)

319 G'day, blogmates!🌞

Nothing says humility quite like keeping a diary of one's deceptions, full of self-praise.

The cost of Fauci's reign of terror is not just in blood, but also in wrecked lives and destroyed families and livelihoods. In my own family are those gone insane in response to maskism (and TDS, et al.), still far from recovered, if they ever will be.

Already too warm and humid here in the Ozark corner of Land of the Red Man. Daisy the wild Malinois took me for a nice walk. Coffee is brewed. Praise Heaven, it's another day begun. ☕

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