Tuq'r Qarlson, Marjorie Trailer-Queen, Thomas Massie, and Joe Kent Meet and Announce New Party for Nazis and Lunatic Conspiracy Theorists

I wonder if there's any chance J.D. Vance will stop courting Tuq'r Qarlson and his audience now that he's announced he's running against him.

Probably not.

MTG, Massie get onboard with Tucker Carlson plan to launch third party, 'movement has come'
Greene's photo featured the Republicans who have been sidelined over their opposition to Trump's agenda and suggests discussions on a third party are continuing.

Former Republican Majorie Taylor Greene posted a photo this weekend of herself, Tucker Carlson and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., along with the statement that "the movement has come."
Last month, Carlson said he was planning to create a new political party, the Columbia Journalism Review reported.
Greene's photo, posted on X on Saturday, featured the three, who have been sidelined over their opposition to President Trump's agenda and suggests discussions on a third party are continuing.

Plus Joe Kunt.

"We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise. But he's betrayed us all. Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center," Greene stated in the post.

We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise.
But he’s betrayed us all.
Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center.
The movement has begun. pic.twitter.com/mZXadw0kBr
— Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@FmrRepMTG) August 1, 2026

The Demolition Crew of the American Right.

Tucker Carlson was registered as a Democrat in Washington, D.C., from 2006 until 2020.

Joe Kent switched to the Libertarian Party in 2004 and then registered as a Democrat before the 2020 election. He also voted for Bernie Sanders in… pic.twitter.com/8RAMdrri97
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) August 1, 2026

WHOA: Tucker just called for President Trump and the congressmen pushing for American-Israeli military cooperation in the NDAA to face Nuremberg-style treason charges pic.twitter.com/gQCVlQZ3Ei
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) July 24, 2026

Related, because Tuq'r and Joe Kent and Thomas Massie are all leftists attempting to hijack the right and turn it into a socialist party: Mamdani says you'll have to present, get this, ID when you shop at one of his illegal government-operated markets.

But I was told that black and brown people can't get ID...?

And the Democrats claim that married women can't get it either?

I can’t believe married woman - who often have children - are effectively being barred from these grocery stores. Monsters. https://t.co/S1AHadJ4Ow
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) August 3, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:20 PM

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1 Lincoln Project 2.0

Posted by: red speck at August 03, 2026 03:22 PM (Ve/HL)

2 Ahoy!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 03, 2026 03:23 PM (zZu0s)

3 Clowns

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 03, 2026 03:23 PM (5nGGo)

4 I like that they're pretending it's about Iran and that this is all just so super spontaneous and shit.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:23 PM (ZWBDi)

5 ID for grocery, but free pass on hookers and crack on any street corner? Weird.

Posted by: H at August 03, 2026 03:23 PM (A7Rvw)

6 They've doomed themselves to Third Party Irrelevance.

Posted by: gp at August 03, 2026 03:24 PM (Jr5Lq)

7 The Retarded Party

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 03:24 PM (KC5Lt)

8 What we need is a Reform Party.

Posted by: Rots Perot at August 03, 2026 03:24 PM (MWfyi)

9 Any room for Platner in this Party?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 03, 2026 03:24 PM (0sNs1)

10 Throw all sides in the burn barrel

Posted by: nckate at August 03, 2026 03:24 PM (enNUy)

11 All Americans, right, left and center.
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Has "No Labels" been tried?

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:24 PM (ZWBDi)

12 Is. Is that chandelier made up of...of deer antlers?

*faints dead away*

Posted by: Karen McKarenface, PETA supporter at August 03, 2026 03:25 PM (n9eFH)

13 Since they have all lost their elections or fired from their jobs the Loser Party would be an appropriate name.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 03:25 PM (KC5Lt)

14 "the movement has come."
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Get a towel

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:26 PM (ZWBDi)

15 5 ID for grocery, but free pass on hookers and crack on any street corner? Weird.
Posted by: H at August 03, 2026 03:23 PM (A7Rvw)

Now, hear me out...

Posted by: Jeffery Dahmer at August 03, 2026 03:26 PM (88C+u)

16 The ~~movement~~ grift has begun.

Fixed.

Posted by: far cry at August 03, 2026 03:26 PM (+IsEU)

17 I can't wait for their first cruise convention!

Posted by: Dr. T at August 03, 2026 03:26 PM (jGGMD)

18
A new "Last Supper" picture.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 03, 2026 03:26 PM (OkYzo)

19 Though they might as well be up front about it and call themselves the American PLO party.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 03:27 PM (KC5Lt)

20 Cookies, Water and Mugs. Oh my!!!

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:27 PM (ZWBDi)

21 >>>We said no more foreign wars

What a stupid thing to have said!

Posted by: m at August 03, 2026 03:27 PM (odBC9)

22 That group at the table looks like a group of swingers who don't know what goes where or in which hole.

Posted by: Thy Neighbor's Wife at August 03, 2026 03:27 PM (F1rMs)

23 'movement has come'

Bowel movement, am I right?

Posted by: mikeski, mugging for the camera at August 03, 2026 03:27 PM (VHUov)

24 "no more foreign wars "

This is the same old war that has been going on unaddressed for 47 damn years.

Posted by: fd at August 03, 2026 03:27 PM (MWfyi)

25 I guess "Former Congresswoman MTG" polled better than "Disgraced Congresscritter MTG" or "Ordinary Citizen With a Barely-Granted Congressional Pension MTG."

Posted by: red speck at August 03, 2026 03:27 PM (Ve/HL)

26

That Modmadmi has dead eyes.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at August 03, 2026 03:27 PM (2jv4y)

27 Trailer-Queens are fine Americans and should be tolerated, yea, applauded.

Posted by: Iona Traylor at August 03, 2026 03:27 PM (JM9I6)

28 If they put their ballot collection boxes inside the "free" grocery stores will the collective lunacy make the store implode? Somebody think of a socialist excuse for this, just to see if they take the bait ...

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at August 03, 2026 03:27 PM (k+oif)

29 Are they selling merch? I hope they're selling merch. Where can I get some merch?

Posted by: that guy who loves saying "merch" at August 03, 2026 03:27 PM (+IsEU)

30 To whom exactly is the new party supposed to appeal to?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 03, 2026 03:28 PM (y8wRt)

31
This looks like the dinner table at Pankot palace where they serve monkeys brains, and baby snakes.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 03, 2026 03:28 PM (OkYzo)

32 no more foreign wars "

So no problem with a domestic war?

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 03:28 PM (KC5Lt)

33 Caption Time

"Quick everyone, look casual!"

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:28 PM (ZWBDi)

34 The movement has begun.

Brought to you by Miralax.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 03, 2026 03:29 PM (bFu5X)

35 'movement has come'

Bowel movement, am I right?
Posted by: mikeski, mugging for the camera at August 03, 2026 03:27 PM (VHUov)

Do you hate chronic constipation? Then the Milk of Magnesia Party could be for you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 03, 2026 03:29 PM (zZu0s)

36 The movement has begun.

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The diarrhea type or is it constipated?

Posted by: Decaf at August 03, 2026 03:29 PM (ZNpJk)

37 30 To whom exactly is the new party supposed to appeal to?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 03, 2026 03:28 PM (y8wRt)

Yaar, all of us the heritage Amrikis, please do not the redeeming

Posted by: true blue americans! at August 03, 2026 03:29 PM (88C+u)

38 Brilliant idea to not crop out the toilet.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:29 PM (ZWBDi)

39 Ooh! a new grift has appeared!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 03, 2026 03:30 PM (j+aD2)

40 Did they name it the DOA party?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2026 03:30 PM (n5tGW)

41 I like the wood wall look, but the trophy hunter chandelier is a bit too much.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 03, 2026 03:30 PM (zZu0s)

42 Gaaaaaay

Posted by: The Bulwark and Lincoln Party at August 03, 2026 03:30 PM (/y3Vc)

43 I don't much like these guys, but Trump walked into an open-ended war with Iran that gave them leverage, and now he's stuck like a tar baby.

I cannot believe he thought they would not close the Hormuz...did the Israelis tell him that bullshit?

Or were they are also miscalculating?

Posted by: Harun at August 03, 2026 03:30 PM (IuIym)

44 38 Brilliant idea to not crop out the toilet.

omg so CLASSY

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 03, 2026 03:31 PM (j+aD2)

45 Maine is our East Coast insane asylum.

Lock it down.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 03, 2026 03:31 PM (bX16E)

46 btw, Laura Loomer noticed that Tuq'r has a wine glass in front of him. The glass is not half full. Absolutely HARAM

Posted by: 88C+u at August 03, 2026 03:31 PM (88C+u)

47 Who's the chick with the cleavage?

Posted by: far cry at August 03, 2026 03:31 PM (+IsEU)

48 I remember when it was impossible for Massie to lose his primary because he was an incumbent who was just doing what his constituents wanted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 03:32 PM (bzPaY)

49 I really don't understand how Trump mis-judged this.

But its a huge fuck up.

Posted by: Harun at August 03, 2026 03:32 PM (IuIym)

50 Kent's wife who was killed in Afghanistan was from the county across the river from me. I know people who knew her and her family and they said she was great. Kent, not so much

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 03, 2026 03:32 PM (BFvh9)

51 Ballon + lead = fail

Posted by: torabora at August 03, 2026 03:32 PM (Wt1Rs)

52 Is that chandelier made up of...of deer antlers?

Ann Colter is joining this party?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 03, 2026 03:32 PM (0sNs1)

53 Posted by: Harun at August 03, 2026 03:30 PM (IuIy

You gave yourself away.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 03:32 PM (KC5Lt)

54 I really don't understand how Trump mis-judged this.

But its a huge fuck up.

Posted by: Harun at August 03, 2026 03:32 PM (IuIym)

Read the room.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:32 PM (ZWBDi)

55 Seven famous people bound by their furious hatred of Trump, come together in a closed room and emerge as-

Pick one:

1) The League of Unwashed Genitals

2) The Maggot-filled Seven

3) The Seven UTIs

4) Seven Gays in Drag

5) Seven Brides for Seven Muslims

6) Seven Psychopaths (no change needed!)

Posted by: naturalfake at August 03, 2026 03:32 PM (iJfKG)

56 Tucker Carlson was registered as a Democrat in Washington, D.C., from 2006 until 2020.

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So never a Republican but demands the right to order how Republicans vote and if you don't you are a Nazi.

Posted by: Decaf at August 03, 2026 03:33 PM (ZNpJk)

57 43 I don't much like these guys, but Trump walked into an open-ended war with Iran that gave them leverage, and now he's stuck like a tar baby.

I cannot believe he thought they would not close the Hormuz...did the Israelis tell him that bullshit?

Or were they are also miscalculating?

Posted by: Harun at August 03, 2026 03:30 PM (IuIym)

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Someone should tell the oil markets that 20% of the world's oil supply is cut off because Iran says so.

Because oil prices don't reflect that, almost like no one actually believes it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 03:33 PM (bzPaY)

58 Someone might want to tell them that we've been at war with Iran since 1979.

Posted by: torabora at August 03, 2026 03:33 PM (Wt1Rs)

59 Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center.
The movement has begun.
- MTG

Um yeah, it's just not physically possible for a political party to represent the left, right, and center in America 2026.
They'd all kill each other in a month.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 03:33 PM (6ydKt)

60 Read the room.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:32 PM (ZWBDi)

IOW this thread is a party, we're having a good time. You won't hijack this one.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:33 PM (ZWBDi)

61 Why is no one mentioning Ann Coulter, hanging from the ceiling above the table?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 03, 2026 03:33 PM (/y3Vc)

62 45 Maine is our East Coast insane asylum.

really tho?

Delaware exists

New Jersey exists

Maine is creepy, sure. But man. You can't live there and be TOO insane. A bear will eat you.

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 03, 2026 03:33 PM (j+aD2)

63 Posted by: Harun at August 03, 2026 03:32 PM

Your concern is:

[X] Noted

[ ] Other Than Noted

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 03, 2026 03:33 PM (bFu5X)

64 Ladies and gentlemen the new improved Know-Nothing Party. They really, really know nothing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 03, 2026 03:34 PM (BFvh9)

65 The movement has begun.
Turtle head.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 03, 2026 03:34 PM (zlKAS)

66 That Modmadmi has dead eyes.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq
.......

and a shit eating grin.

Posted by: wth at August 03, 2026 03:34 PM (UjdFS)

67 ignore the IC apparatchik

meanwhile! Tucker sure is a big smarty isn't he!

a true intellectual

the best of us!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 03, 2026 03:34 PM (j+aD2)

68 I was just reading someone commenting on the Request For Proposal on the NYC gov groceries stores.

It's as insane as you'd expect from some theater losers who never ran a business in their lives.

- Wants them to bid on all 5 sites; only 3 have been chosen. But they should assume 15k sqft.
- bidder on all 5 gets preference. But each site awards separate. So you bid cost-of-scale for all 5, and you could win only 1.
- must carry full grocery, household goods, culturally specific products and the whole range of kosher, halal, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free options.
- no on-site deli allowed, but req. to provide full deli products
- NYC sets final design, equip., fridges; operator pays all utilities, maintenance, cleaning and security.
- core basket must always be discounted
- membership cards for tiered discounts

So, your average Super Walmart--which is what is needed to stock and carry all these items--is 180k sqft.
They want to stuff all that in less than 10% of a typical Walmart sqft.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 03:34 PM (3cUTc)

69 Why is no one mentioning Ann Coulter, hanging from the ceiling above the table?
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 03, 2026 03:33 PM

See #52.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 03, 2026 03:35 PM (bFu5X)

70 Posted by: Black Orchid at August 03, 2026 03:33 PM (j+aD2

Maine is the East Coast Alaska.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 03:35 PM (KC5Lt)

71 Grifters gonna grift. Surprised Egg McMullin hasn't thrown in with this lot yet.

Posted by: Delurker at August 03, 2026 03:35 PM (2Drhq)

72 This is pure mental masturbation and it's not something I want to watch.

Posted by: ballistic at August 03, 2026 03:35 PM (3BwY8)

73
The He-Man Jew Haters Club

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 03, 2026 03:35 PM (O0L8i)

74 Deep State PsyOp to divide & ultimately try to demoralize & defeat "Republicans" -- which MAGA won't fall for.

Kind of the reverse of El Rushbo's 2008 "Operation Chaos" plan that encouraged Republican voters to cross over and vote for Hillary the in Democrat primaries to prolong the nomination contest between Clinton and The DogEater -- weakening the eventual Democrat nominee and creating division within The Party.

Posted by: ShainS at August 03, 2026 03:36 PM (7nfvi)

75 I mean basically dumb rich kids are our biggest problem

their political affiliation is kind of just window dressing and/or grifting

Tuck and Zorro - basically the same

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 03, 2026 03:36 PM (j+aD2)

76 Don't be stupid, be a smarty,
Come and join the Tuq'r Party!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 03, 2026 03:36 PM (bFu5X)

77 71 Grifters gonna grift. Surprised Egg McMullin hasn't thrown in with this lot yet.

Posted by: Delurker at August 03, 2026 03:35 PM (2Drhq)

=======

I remember when his third party bid meant the end of the Republican Party under Trump because no one would vote for a Republican Party under Trump and then Republicans were all partisany and even drew in disaffected Democrats because of immigration issues and then Trump became president.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 03:36 PM (bzPaY)

78 The He-Man Jew Haters Club

WINNER

that one sticks!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 03, 2026 03:36 PM (j+aD2)

79 So, who will be this party's POTUS candidate for '28?

I'll guess Massie.

Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at August 03, 2026 03:36 PM (2CeDH)

80 What I need to know is, what animal mascot (e.g. donkey and elephant) will they adopt?

I'm hoping it's the loon.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 03, 2026 03:37 PM (b7msB)

81 Actually I like how they have perfectly represented the Left and Right.

On the right is the flag. In the center, a spineless jellyfish. And on the left the toilet.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:37 PM (ZWBDi)

82 The photo of Tuck cracks me up. He's smiling like his butt plug suddenly activated. Or Massie's gerbil found a new home.

We know they were not wearing pants under the table.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at August 03, 2026 03:37 PM (hzuYO)

83 Why wasn't *I* invited?

*sulks*

Posted by: Dr. William Kristol at August 03, 2026 03:37 PM (n9eFH)

84 The Taqiyya Sunrise Party...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 03, 2026 03:37 PM (l3cgK)

85
All Americans, right, left and center.
--------
Has "No Labels" been tried?
Posted by: ...

Coffee Party 2026

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 03, 2026 03:37 PM (Cqx++)

86 They want to stuff all that in less than 10% of a typical Walmart sqft.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 03:34 PM (3cUTc)
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Well a typical New Yorker willfully lives in a space that's about 10% of what normal people live in, so fuck 'em.

Posted by: ballistic at August 03, 2026 03:37 PM (3BwY8)

87 80 What I need to know is, what animal mascot (e.g. donkey and elephant) will they adopt?

I'm hoping it's the loon.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 03, 2026 03:37 PM (b7msB)

Hey! That's OURS!

Posted by: Oh Canada! at August 03, 2026 03:38 PM (l3cgK)

88 Someone should tell the oil markets that 20% of the world's oil supply is cut off because Iran says so.

Because oil prices don't reflect that, almost like no one actually believes it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 03:33 PM (bzPaY)

One silver lining is that no matter what happens Iran has guaranteed new alternate routes around Hormuz, there's no stopping it. What leverage they had there will soon be lost.

Which explains why they are pushing the Houthis so hard to attack the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 03:38 PM (6ydKt)

89 hey speaking of massy

he blocked Foundring for sharing that (really cool) Sad Little Man video with him

which was weird?

also it's a great video

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 03, 2026 03:38 PM (j+aD2)

90 Posted by: Black Orchid at August 03, 2026 03:36 PM (j+aD2)

Orchid left you a loong message a few threads ago. Maybe you saw it. If so that's good, hope you're hanging in.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:39 PM (ZWBDi)

91 Surprised they don't have a Palestinian flag in the background.

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 03:39 PM (KC5Lt)

92 79 So, who will be this party's POTUS candidate for '28?

I'll guess Massie.

Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at August 03, 2026 03:36 PM (2CeDH)

=======

The time of third parties was 2016.

Trump took the GOP and revamped it (a process that has taken a decade and isn't done, but is a lot further along than anyone wants to admit). The Democrats absorbed their potential third party challenger by letting Bernie bots call some shots at the DNC for a few years.

The grumbling for a third party to break from the GOP in 2026 is a purely online phenomenon given scale by third-world bot accounts.

2016 was the year that the Libertarian Party got its highest percentage share of the electorate in history (3.5%). It is now getting less than it was before, less than 1%.

Partisanship with the two major parties is simply too baked in until something ends it. And Iran ain't it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 03:39 PM (bzPaY)

93 They are leaving the MAGA party and not joining the Marxists
People without a country

Posted by: Skip at August 03, 2026 03:39 PM (Ia/+0)

94 "the movement has come."
......

The Taco Bell Party

Posted by: wth at August 03, 2026 03:39 PM (UjdFS)

95 The (bowel) Movement has begun?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 03, 2026 03:39 PM (yz/88)

96 The shoplifting will hit the Mamdani stores first. Then the riots when they run out of the basics. Then disease outbreaks from bad cheap produce

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 03, 2026 03:39 PM (BFvh9)

97 I was born in Dusseldorf, and that is why they call me Rolf
Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the Nazi party !

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2026 03:39 PM (g47mK)

98 78 The He-Man Jew Haters Club

WINNER

that one sticks!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 03, 2026 03:36 PM (j+aD2)

I did Notsee that coming...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (l3cgK)

99 Stormfront called. They want their party back.

Posted by: Sam at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (7jMef)

100 Make Millions with this One Neat Trick --

Start a spoiler political party!
Get millions in donations from Democrats and foreign governments!
Make your wife the Media Buyer so she gets to keep 10% of the millions you spend on advertising!

Posted by: 29Victor at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (0MjtC)

101 What breed of dog is that in the pic over Tucker's left shoulder? It looks like a lap dog.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (2ap+5)

102 It wouldn't actually surprise me if they've already made plans to run JD for POTUS '28.

Posted by: Peaches at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (eh7Rr)

103 Notice how they want to form a party--but not run for office?

I grant them the same qualification on political insight that I give the National Review:
Run for office and win on your policy proposals and I'll listen to what you have to say.

Until then, you're a bunch of pud-mashing losers trying to engorge your wallets.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (3cUTc)

104 What I need to know is, what animal mascot (e.g. donkey and elephant) will they adopt?

I'm hoping it's the loon.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 03, 2026 03:37 PM (b7msB)

----------------

Rat-Faced Faucistein FTW!

Posted by: ShainS at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (7nfvi)

105 Hamas takes one more
trib.al/Sa9lE7I

Posted by: fuck hamas at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (88C+u)

106 88 One silver lining is that no matter what happens Iran has guaranteed new alternate routes around Hormuz, there's no stopping it. What leverage they had there will soon be lost.

Which explains why they are pushing the Houthis so hard to attack the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 03:38 PM (6ydKt)

=======

It's something the Gulf States should have done in the 80s.

Better late than never.

That UAE pipeline to bypass the strait will be done in six months or so, and they've announced a new port on the Gulf of Oman to help (2-3 years). Not to mention all the other pipeline expansions (like Iraq's).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (bzPaY)

107 Orchid left you a loong message a few threads ago. Maybe you saw it. If so that's good, hope you're hanging in.

I read it of course!

I'm ok just a bit exhausted it was an emotional week this past week. I feel badly I didn't go to all the services either. I just wasn't up to it all.

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (j+aD2)

108 80 What I need to know is, what animal mascot (e.g. donkey and elephant) will they adopt?

What are those birds that steal other birds' nests?

Oh yeah, cuckoos.

Posted by: Delurker at August 03, 2026 03:41 PM (2Drhq)

109 Asking the important question... what was on the menu?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 03, 2026 03:41 PM (2Cry5)

110 Start a spoiler political party!
Get millions in donations from Democrats and foreign governments!
Make your wife the Media Buyer so she gets to keep 10% of the millions you spend on advertising!
Posted by: 29Victor at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM

Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah!

I'm right here, you know.

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at August 03, 2026 03:41 PM (bFu5X)

111 I'm hoping it's the loon.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 03, 2026 03:37 PM (b7msB)

Hey! That's OURS!
Posted by: Oh Canada! at August 03, 2026 03:38 PM (l3cgK)

Penguin? Bat? River Otter?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 03, 2026 03:41 PM (b7msB)

112 102 It wouldn't actually surprise me if they've already made plans to run JD for POTUS '28.

Peaches that would really not work in the slightest.

I hope they do it.

it would be ... clarifying.

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 03, 2026 03:41 PM (j+aD2)

113 So Tucker stocks his hunting lodge with "The Tucker Carlson Show" coffee mugs?

Lame AF.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 03:42 PM (3cUTc)

114 I grant them the same qualification on political insight that I give the National Review:
Run for office and win on your policy proposals and I'll listen to what you have to say

William Buckley did try to do this, I believe. It happened he didn't win.
But where was Lowry, Ponnuru, or Goldberg? I haven't seen them run for county dogcatcher.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 03, 2026 03:42 PM (88C+u)

115 We'll never know what would've happened with a full term of Trump's domestic agenda instead of it being totally derailed by foreign adventures in Ukraine and Iran. We got what, 8 months? It's over now. The sooner he's replaced the better.

Posted by: Nothing to see here at August 03, 2026 03:42 PM (CQ3Qb)

116 Oligachy!

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at August 03, 2026 03:42 PM (n9eFH)

117 Re: the last thread . . . The View has been around thirty seasons? Since 1996???

I know, it just seems like it premiered in 996. But . . . really???

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 03:42 PM (wzUl9)

118 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 03, 2026 03:42 PM (2YhKe)

119 Forgive me for being late to the party, but.......

I guess she's saying it's my fault, too, but all I know is that I would never fuck something that looks like it lives in the Death Star's garbage system.

Sick. F*cking. Burn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 03, 2026 03:42 PM (2YhKe)

120 Posted by: Black Orchid at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (j+aD2)

Try and take it easy if you can. Promise your old pal Ellipsis

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:42 PM (ZWBDi)

121 108 80 What I need to know is, what animal mascot (e.g. donkey and elephant) will they adopt?

What are those birds that steal other birds' nests?

Oh yeah, cuckoos.

Posted by: Delurker at August 03, 2026 03:41 PM (2Drhq)

hagfish?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 03, 2026 03:42 PM (l3cgK)

122 The left is only one disaster away from starting the war they really want, a shooting war against America.

Posted by: Eromero at August 03, 2026 03:43 PM (LHPAg)

123 114 William Buckley did try to do this, I believe. It happened he didn't win.
But where was Lowry, Ponnuru, or Goldberg? I haven't seen them run for county dogcatcher.

Posted by: 88C+u at August 03, 2026 03:42 PM (88C+u)

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Scott Pressler did run for office. He's got some small elections position in a Pennsylvania county.

Because of his efforts, PA had to remove 30,000 Democrats from the rolls last week. They were all registered illegal immigrants found by cross-referencing jury data.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 03:43 PM (bzPaY)

124 101 What breed of dog is that in the pic over Tucker's left shoulder? It looks like a lap dog.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (2ap+5)

Looks like a Coq'r Spaniel to me. Cute dog, dumber than a bag of hair.

Posted by: Peaches at August 03, 2026 03:43 PM (eh7Rr)

125 The party Graham Platner has been looking for, that oyster fokker.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 03, 2026 03:44 PM (xGnmX)

126 Cute dog, dumber than a bag of hair.

Posted by: Peaches at August 03, 2026 03:43 PM (eh7Rr)

But enough about MTG

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:44 PM (ZWBDi)

127 >>It wouldn't actually surprise me if they've already made plans to run JD for POTUS '28.

Vance right now is Trump's likely pick to inherit the MAGA machine. I don't see him tossing that away to represent a bunch of grifters with absolutely zero shot of winning.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2026 03:44 PM (viF8m)

128 Mamdani wants to protect tax payer funded grocery store from non-NYC residents… they’ll need an ID card to enter.

This is clever, you get both sides arguing for ID.

Posted by: t-bird at August 03, 2026 03:44 PM (DZ6nv)

129 What I need to know is, what animal mascot (e.g. donkey and elephant) will they adopt?

I'm hoping it's the loon.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

The Common Loon is the state bird of Minnesota.

It's also the state human of Minnesota.

Posted by: mikeski at August 03, 2026 03:45 PM (VHUov)

130 43 I don't much like these guys, but Trump walked into an open-ended war with Iran that gave them leverage, and now he's stuck like a tar baby.

Posted by: Harun
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Americans don't give a shit about us bombing a idiotic and evil mullahcracy. They care a bit about higher gas prices, but neither are at the top of the list of US problems which is why these people should be considered grifters rather than serious.

Remember how big Afghanistan was to Obama and how it hurt him, well, that didn't happen, what about Trump not being able to pull all US troops out of Afghanistan and Syria, welp, that did not hurt him, and the awful Afghanistan bugout did not appreciable hurt Joe Biden as much as massive inflation did.

Foreign policy is where the ideologues like the show their knowledge but for the most part, if American's aren't dying in large numbers, then they don't give a shit.

Foreign policy post Cold War simply is a sideshow to the average non ideological voter. It is confusing, far away, and world full of assholes that hate us and yet try to come here to live. So bombs away.

Trump detonated the stalemate for fifty years that was going to lead to Iran having nukes.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 03:45 PM (E4rtv)

131 t wouldn't actually surprise me if they've already made plans to run JD for POTUS '28.
Posted by: Peaches at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (eh7Rr)

they made those plans in 2022

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2026 03:46 PM (g47mK)

132 >>What I need to know is, what animal mascot (e.g. donkey and elephant) will they adopt?

Scorpion.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2026 03:46 PM (viF8m)

133 Dumber than a bag of hair, perfect for Tucker then.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 03, 2026 03:46 PM (xGnmX)

134 130 Trump detonated the stalemate for fifty years that was going to lead to Iran having nukes.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 03:45 PM (E4rtv)

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I think the best comparison is to the Libya bombing campaign.

Lasted for 8 months.

No one gave a shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 03:46 PM (bzPaY)

135 William Buckley did try to do this, I believe. It happened he didn't win.
But where was Lowry, Ponnuru, or Goldberg? I haven't seen them run for county dogcatcher.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 03, 2026 03:42 PM (88C+u)
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Hard to run a legitimate campaign when 90% of your waking hours are spent huffing your own farts.

Posted by: ballistic at August 03, 2026 03:46 PM (3BwY8)

136 Mamdani says you'll have to present, get this, ID when you shop at one of his illegal government-operated markets.
But I was told that black and brown people can't get ID...?

Yes, you were. That is the chef's kiss of "You know that what we say is full of sh*t, and we know that you know, and you know we know you know. Enjoy your humiliation; we sure are."

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at August 03, 2026 03:46 PM (9ZFZd)

137 124 101 What breed of dog is that in the pic over Tucker's left shoulder? It looks like a lap dog.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (2ap+5)

Looks like a Coq'r Spaniel to me. Cute dog, dumber than a bag of hair.
Posted by: Peaches at August 03, 2026 03:43 PM (eh7Rr)

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The painting was obviously done by a family member, and that's great. But for some reason, I figured Tucker as a hunting dog guy.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 03, 2026 03:47 PM (2ap+5)

138 now he's stuck like a tar baby

someone didn't read the source material

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 03, 2026 03:47 PM (j+aD2)

139 "Former Republican Majorie Taylor Greene posted a photo this weekend"

I must once again remind my fellow Americans that middle names are for bigshots, not has-beens. It's just Marjorie Greene now. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: SciVo at August 03, 2026 03:47 PM (Sy6m/)

140 - no on-site deli allowed, but req. to provide full deli products
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That package of Oscar Meyer bologna is gonna get a workout.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 03, 2026 03:47 PM (amcLV)

141 Y'all are just jealous that MTG got married and you no longer have a shot at those mansweat floptits......that is, unless you come along with more money and graft than the current guy.

She seems pretty whorey.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 03, 2026 03:47 PM (2YhKe)

142 Scott Presler was also instrumental in stopping Bob Casey from stealing a Senate seat, which the worthless GOPe was totally going to let him do.

That effeminate fanook has more balls than most of the men in the GOP.

Posted by: Delurker at August 03, 2026 03:47 PM (2Drhq)

143 At The Mirror: "A screening of the latest Spider-Man film was thrown into chaos after one cinema-goer reportedly cleared the entire auditorium with their rancid farts"

Mitigating factor: it occurred in Colombia.

Posted by: gp at August 03, 2026 03:47 PM (Jr5Lq)

144 israel kills people for thinking about crossing them which is why i shout that israel killed charlie kirk without fear

Posted by: Billygoatpuke at August 03, 2026 03:47 PM (Hohgs)

145 Cute dog, dumber than a bag of hair.
Posted by: Peaches

As Al Bundy once said to his neighbor, "You're about as sharp as a bag of wet hair."

Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 03:47 PM (77rzZ)

146 Back in the 80s and 90s, I was a true believer in the Libertarian Party. Then they went off the rails.
People say don't waste your vote. I say, my one vote won't make a difference.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 03, 2026 03:48 PM (qJszG)

147 What I need to know is, what animal mascot (e.g. donkey and elephant) will they adopt?

I'm hoping it's the loon.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Completely useless in the wild, and only really not extinct due to the support of Government?

The Giant Panda.

Posted by: mikeski at August 03, 2026 03:48 PM (VHUov)

148 115 We'll never know what would've happened with a full term of Trump's domestic agenda instead of it being totally derailed by foreign adventures in Ukraine and Iran. We got what, 8 months? It's over now. The sooner he's replaced the better.
Posted by: Nothing to see here

Not even a good attempt to troll. Trump got elected on closing the border, tempering inflation, and protecting US interest abroad. The fact you don't like what he did simply means you are one of the groyper assholes heading for the political darkness muttering about Das Jews. Or you are a moby, so no great loss to us when you inevitably flounce.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 03:48 PM (E4rtv)

149 >>Billygoatpuke

oooh. A Candace truther.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2026 03:48 PM (viF8m)

150 Third party mascot? Pushmepulyou of course.

Posted by: Eromero at August 03, 2026 03:49 PM (LHPAg)

151 Dear lord...

Immigration just stopped because a carrier group moved to the Omani Gulf, huh?

Is that how government works?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 03:49 PM (bzPaY)

152 At The Mirror: "A screening of the latest Spider-Man film was thrown into chaos after one cinema-goer reportedly cleared the entire auditorium with their rancid farts"

Mitigating factor: it occurred in Colombia.
Posted by: gp

Has there ever been a comic-book character (supervillian or superhero) whose main superpower was massive and extremely smelly farts?

Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 03:49 PM (77rzZ)

153 No worries, they are just working on a solution.

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2026 03:49 PM (g47mK)

154 Looks like we are over target, Hohgs is a squealing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 03, 2026 03:49 PM (xGnmX)

155 I want to see the first shoplifter at the NYC commie grocery store arrested, tried by a people's tribunal, found guilty of being a class enemy, and then stood up against a wall and shot.

Do it all in a 12-hour period and then see what happens.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 03, 2026 03:49 PM (b7msB)

156 @142

>>That effeminate fanook has more balls than most of the men in the GOP.

I think he's just from Wisconsin, I don't think he's gay.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 03, 2026 03:50 PM (XV/Pl)

157 141 Y'all are just jealous that MTG got married and you no longer have a shot at those mansweat floptits......that is, unless you come along with more money and graft than the current guy.

She seems pretty whorey.
Posted by: Sponge
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Maybe Glenn, her new husband, is just fine with watching from a cuck chair in the corner.

I don't give this marriage long to survive either as she seems pretty engrossed in a torrid love affair with herself.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 03:50 PM (E4rtv)

158 Posted by: Billygoatpuke at August 03, 2026 03:47 PM (Hohgs)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 03, 2026 03:50 PM (2YhKe)

159 I'm wondering what the party platform will be?

1. No Zionists
2. No Zionism
3. Blame Trump
4. Blame Zionists
5. Muslims are Cool
6. So are Nazis
7. And Maoists
8. We can negotiate on Amnesty
9. Trans Men are Women!

Vote For The MassieTG-Cuq'r Party!
"No More Foreign Wars Over There, but More Foreigners Coming Here"

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 03:50 PM (6ydKt)

160 What I need to know is, what animal mascot (e.g. donkey and elephant) will they adopt?

I'm hoping it's the loon.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Chihuahua. The super small one.

Posted by: Peaches at August 03, 2026 03:50 PM (eh7Rr)

161 Oil and almost all oil and gas-related stocks are down 5%+ today.

That means a lot of investors think the new negotiations with Iran will end the war.

I don't think people are reading the fine print of what Trump said: immediate deal OR WW II scale bombing and "decapitation." He also said TODAY that Iran is "incredibly duplicitous." (duh)

I also don't think investors are paying any attention to what Iran is telling the world: "What negotiation? There ARE no negotiations."

I think we're about tom give war a chance, again.

So, I know which way I'm going with, and it ain't kumbya.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 03:50 PM (RCjYY)

162 "We said no more foreign wars and we meant it ...
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Precisely the same thing that the Brits and most of Europe said after WWI.

So, the politicians and diplomats twiddled their thumbs, reduced their militaries and arms production, and turned a blind eye to Germany re-arming like mad. The result? Millions dead.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 03, 2026 03:51 PM (XeU6L)

163 161 I also don't think investors are paying any attention to what Iran is telling the world: "What negotiation? There ARE no negotiations."

I think we're about tom give war a chance, again.

So, I know which way I'm going with, and it ain't kumbya.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 03:50 PM (RCjYY)

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I think it's more like...Iran can't affect the strait anymore. Trump bombing Iran is becoming as relevant to oil markets as if Trump started bombing Uganda.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 03:51 PM (bzPaY)

164 People say don't waste your vote. I say, my one vote won't make a difference.
Posted by: JM in Illinois

This of it this way, if you vote, it prevents someone else from voting for you.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 03, 2026 03:52 PM (vJrRc)

165 Has there ever been a comic-book character (supervillian or superhero) whose main superpower was massive and extremely smelly farts?
Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 03:49 PM (77rzZ)
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The Spleen, in "Mystery Men."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 03, 2026 03:52 PM (amcLV)

166 Am Großen zwei !

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2026 03:52 PM (g47mK)

167 We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise.
But he�s betrayed us all.
Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center.
The movement has begun. pic.twitter.com/mZXadw0kBr

— Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@FmrRepMTG) August 1, 2026

Eat your own dick, bag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (2YhKe)

168 154 Looks like we are over target, Hohgs is a squealing.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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I find groypers some of the most ignorant and devoid of logic types around because they blame their shitty lives on Jews and women rather than the Democrats.

I know of one of my professor buddies whose kid went Muslim curious because of this stupid mansphere shit from the Tates and others nasty ass grifters on social media.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (E4rtv)

169 The reason there are "food deserts" (i.e. a coupla square blocks with no grocery stores) in NYC is that the pre-existing grocery stores in the ghetto all got shoplifted to death, to the point of no longer being profitable. Hence, store gets shut down as not being financially viable.

So - do you think that ghetto shoplifters will honor the wonderful socialist store and never shoplift there?

OF COURSE NOT!

In fact, they'll be attracted to shoplift there MORE, because the socialists promised "abolish prioson" and "abolish the police," and "reparations for minorites" and "no more disparate minority arrest rates" and "restorative justice" and all the rest. So, if you get "caught" shoplifting from a scoialist store, what're they gonna do? Handcuff a black person in front of everyone? Arrest him? Send him to jail? NEVER. The optics with be catastrophic.

Hence there will be zero punishment for shoplifting the socialist stores, even if you get "caught" red-handed, which you won't because they won't even try to prevent shoplifting, since doing so is racist.

Prediction: The new socialist stores will be shoplifted dow to the bone, with bare shelves, within a month.

Posted by: zombie at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (Av6i5)

170 "Former Republican Majorie Taylor Greene posted a photo this weekend of herself, Tucker Carlson and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., along with the statement that "the movement has come."

If she's referring to a giant bowl movement, then yes, it has certainly come...

Posted by: UncleJefe at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (gAuAm)

171 At The Mirror: "A screening of the latest Spider-Man film was thrown into chaos after one cinema-goer reportedly cleared the entire auditorium with their rancid farts"

Mitigating factor: it occurred in Colombia.
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Follow up question:
How were they able to tell the origin?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (3cUTc)

172 169
Prediction: The new socialist stores will be shoplifted dow to the bone, with bare shelves, within a month.

Posted by: zombie at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (Av6i5)

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At least three murders, all of whom Mamdani will order NYPD to not investigate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (bzPaY)

173 Eat your own dick, bag.
Posted by: Sponge
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With insider trading and help from my foreign friends, I became a multi millionaire. Become a groyper and you too can be like us.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (E4rtv)

174 It wouldn't actually surprise me if they've already made plans to run JD for POTUS '28.
Posted by: Peaches at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (eh7Rr)

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JD Vance will have to now publicly and loudly disown Tucker and his "party" or he will be sidelined himself.

Posted by: Decaf at August 03, 2026 03:54 PM (ZNpJk)

175 If she's referring to a giant bowl movement, then yes, it has certainly come...
Posted by: UncleJefe

She could be of great motility to her new party.

Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 03:55 PM (77rzZ)

176 I'm happy those retards found someone.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 03, 2026 03:55 PM (JvZF+)

177 Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah!

I'm right here, you know.
Posted by: Bernie Sanders at August 03, 2026 03:41 PM (bFu5X)

Yeah. I used to wonder why Bernie kept running until I found out about Old Towne Media LLC and Bernie having his wife being one of the media buyers.
People can't understand why Bernie didn't make a fuss about the DNC "robbing" him of the nomination and giving it to Hillary.
Bernie never, ever wanted to be president. The genius had figured out how to get hundreds of thousands of socialist morons to give money from their minimum wage jobs to make himself millions of dollars -- so he could Fight The Rich for them. Lol! You gotta hand it to the guy. The last thing he wanted was to actually have to work for his money.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 03, 2026 03:55 PM (0MjtC)

178 Dear God. That picture looks like The Pot Bellies United for Carbohydrates Club. Either that or a reunion of the cast of Friday the 13th.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 03, 2026 03:55 PM (cn09p)

179 170 "Former Republican Majorie Taylor Greene posted a photo this weekend of herself, Tucker Carlson and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., along with the statement that "the movement has come."

If she's referring to a giant bowl movement, then yes, it has certainly come...
Posted by: UncleJefe

Ah yes, the trio of losers that closely resemble the attitudes of Hasan Piker.

Like James Garner said to Bruce Dern's character in Support Your Local Gunfighter--they just make me feel tired all over.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 03:55 PM (E4rtv)

180 The idea that the thing America really needs after Trump bashed both parties' brains in is a "third" party is quite funny.

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:55 PM (ZWBDi)

181 How about: Lex Luthor sneaks kryptonite kimchi into Lois Lane's diet in a desperate attempt to assassinate Superman with her flatulence?

Posted by: gp at August 03, 2026 03:55 PM (Jr5Lq)

182 TJM

Well, we'll find out very quickly if you're right, when the bombing starts again.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 03:55 PM (RCjYY)

183 Heh. Why would any grocer agree to that? NYC will just steal it from you anyway once you developed it. Unless of course, it's all a big scam for connected people who get millions from the city.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2026 03:55 PM (n5tGW)

184 How were they able to tell the origin?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (3cUTc)

He who smelt it, dealt it.

Posted by: Every 7th grader in the country at August 03, 2026 03:56 PM (n9eFH)

185 Prediction: The new socialist stores will be shoplifted dow to the bone, with bare shelves, within a month.
Posted by: zombie at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (Av6i5)

You're assuming we don't "allow" (with a wink) folks to shoplift from the privately owned stores to further increase our hold on things.

Posted by: Madmami and the NYC commies at August 03, 2026 03:56 PM (9ZFZd)

186
The Third ~~Reich~~ Party

Posted by: ... at August 03, 2026 03:56 PM (ZWBDi)

187 Follow up question:
How were they able to tell the origin?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (3cUTc)
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The one who didn't flee?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 03, 2026 03:56 PM (amcLV)

188 What I need to know is, what animal mascot (e.g. donkey and elephant) will they adopt?

I'm hoping it's the loon.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Chihuahua. The super small one.
Posted by: Peaches at August 03, 2026

***
The dachshund. Powerful they may be at what they were bred for -- digging out badgers and rats -- but let's face it, those little short legs look sily.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 03:57 PM (wzUl9)

189 What I need to know is, what animal mascot (e.g. donkey and elephant) will they adopt?

I'm hoping it's the loon.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Chihuahua. The super small one.

The tardigrade. Or retardigrade. Either one will do.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 03, 2026 03:57 PM (Riz8t)

190 Prediction: The new socialist stores will be shoplifted dow to the bone, with bare shelves, within a month.
Posted by: zombie at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (Av6i5)

I'm willing to be the security at the government run stores will be thick and prevent anyone from even thinking about robbing the place.

That will be perfectly fine at the corporate run greed stores. They will be provide zero protection whatsoever and the NYPD will be ordered to not respond to calls or investigate anything there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 03, 2026 03:58 PM (2YhKe)

191 Prediction: The new socialist stores will be shoplifted dow to the bone, with bare shelves, within a month.

Posted by: zombie at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (Av6i5)

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"If the shelves are already empty in the new socialist stores, and only shoplifters are around to see it, does it them clowns?"

Posted by: ShainS at August 03, 2026 03:58 PM (ufdUA)

192 No more wars. OK. I'm not happy about this either - nobody really should. BUT....
I can see the steps Trump is taking now has a high probability of huge dividends later on:
--Strait of Hormuz will never be a choke point again
--Further implementation of the Abraham Accords - which Trump/his son-in-law started.
--We are seeing Gaza and Lebanon demilitarized. Slowly, but it is happening.
--We have seen that the Chinese military equipment is on par with everything else they make. It's garbage.
--War has now taken on a new dimension -- drones.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 03, 2026 03:58 PM (N39Ws)

193 182 TJM

Well, we'll find out very quickly if you're right, when the bombing starts again.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 03:55 PM (RCjYY)

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Quick war premium that's gone within a few days.

Seriously, if Iran were really threatening the oil market at all, oil wouldn't be consistently below $100, definitely wouldn't be below $80 half the time.

Bypasses have been in play since about day 3 of the original bombing run to move more than half of all oil that was going out through the straight (most through a Saudi pipeline that went from 500,000 barrels a day to 7 million a day, it's cap, overnight). Smaller tankers keep running the Omani side of the strait. Ship to ship transfers are handling the larger tanker loads, filling up in the Persian and unloading to other tankers in the Omani. All while more infrastructure keeps getting added, mile by mile, in the UAE.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 03:58 PM (bzPaY)

194 That room where they're meeting looks like they borrowed the set from Psycho.

Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026 03:58 PM (RCjYY)

195 That look on their faces. It’s like a kid who got caught masturbating.

Oh- did we say we were Democrats er, “Republicans”, um, Independents, yeah that’s it.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 03, 2026 03:58 PM (cn09p)

196 Can't wait for the slap-fights between this lot and Bill Crystal's posse.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 03, 2026 03:58 PM (SgdqL)

197 Trader Joe's: approx. 40% off many items compared to standard retail -- no ID required to enter.

Aldi: approx. 40% off many items compared to standard retail -- no ID required to enter.

Lidl: approx. 40% off many items compared to standard retail -- no ID required to enter.

Grocery Outlet: approx. 60% off many items compared to standard retail -- no ID required to enter.

Dollar stores: approx. 60% off many items compared to standard retail -- no ID required to enter.

Mamdani Commie Mart: 30% off compared to standard retail -- ACHTUNG! SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS! SUBMIT TO RETINAL SCAN!

Posted by: zombie at August 03, 2026 03:58 PM (Av6i5)

198 The shoplifters are going to be very disappointed in the quality of the merchandise.

Posted by: wth at August 03, 2026 03:58 PM (UjdFS)

199 Do these narcissists have any kind of platform? Just having a coffee klatch is not the same as having a working strategy for moving country forward.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 03, 2026 03:58 PM (ixEhJ)

200 My prediction: shoplifters at the city stores will be promptly executed in the parking lot.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 03, 2026 03:58 PM (JvZF+)

201 Top of the page:...
I wonder if there's any chance J.D. Vance will stop courting Tuq'r Qarlson and his audience now that he's announced he's running against him.
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MANFRED can only PRESUME you people have NOT been paying attention -- this is cTHIEL, ctKARP, ctLUCKEY and cthANDURIL working behind the scenes to manufacture a future worse than ctHILLARY -- where switft death comes upon winged horror.
https://tinyurl.com/ForWARd-OneNation

And why? becaues Greater Evil Destroys its maker -- and that with a profit! Drone patrol's in schools and cities

DEEP STATE/Agency chiefs keep changing the tune an the hoard keeps dancing to it -- making Prez/Rubio the only seemingly/safe/sane pragmantic alternative which keeps the very people who should be indicted and canoe'd in power -- pitting Man against other men until we exist no more: yeah the epstein class doesn't begin to even describe it.

If they're so smart? how come they always get taken by surprise? (or so the media says). And you believe it?
It's what they do; what they're good at.

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-irlTheBRENNANcameo

TRUMP's Dueling Banjo's is an obvious "tell".
The question is, can you keep up?

LET's GO BRANDON!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 03, 2026 03:58 PM (4hyME)

202 I find groypers some of the most ignorant and devoid of logic types around because they blame their shitty lives on Jews and women rather than the Democrats.

I know of one of my professor buddies whose kid went Muslim curious because of this stupid mansphere shit from the Tates and others nasty ass grifters on social media.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (E4rtv)

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They look through the history of the left, socialism, and communism and only see the Jewish names.

Nevermind that there are just as many Anglo, French, German, Irish, Cuban, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and all sorts of Arab and African names on the record.

No, despite all evidence to the contrary it's all those pesky, Communist, European Jews who caused all of this, and still are to this day.

It's a Mind-Virus that will never be penetrated by reality or rational thought, just like Woke and Communism.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 03:58 PM (6ydKt)

203 He who smelt it, dealt it.
Posted by: Every 7th grader in the country at August 03, 2026 03:56 PM (n9eFH)

He who denied it supplied it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 03, 2026 03:59 PM (PSEDc)

204 Don't be dumb, be a smarty!

Come and join the Nutzi party!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 03, 2026 03:59 PM (2YhKe)

205 When the stoopid party fails to gain traction, even on the dumpster fire called X, they will blame it on A__C !

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2026 03:59 PM (g47mK)

206 I think it's more like...Iran can't affect the strait anymore. Trump bombing Iran is becoming as relevant to oil markets as if Trump started bombing Uganda.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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You would be right and oil exports last month hit an all time high from the US. This time, oil is actually reducing our trade deficit along with pushing mfg industry to onshore here rather than Europe, India, or China.

And Venezuela's production is moving right upwards too faster than predicted.

I have come to the conclusion that the financial media 'experts' are just as full of horseshit analysis as you find in sports, regular news, weather, and any other place that you have 'journalists' in their title.

Gell Mann amnesia hypothesis indeed.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 03:59 PM (E4rtv)

207 "What I need to know is, what animal mascot (e.g. donkey and elephant) will they adopt?"

TuCa's new manufactured identity is rugged outdoorsman/dog lover, so it might be a canine.

Posted by: gp at August 03, 2026 03:59 PM (Jr5Lq)

208 @204 ...@97

You are always late to the party, Sponge....

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2026 04:00 PM (g47mK)

209 Need ID to grocery shop, no ID to vote in Marxist ciyy

Posted by: Skip at August 03, 2026 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)

210 >>Well, we'll find out very quickly if you're right, when the bombing starts again.

The big issue is not so much investors and oil speculators as it is the maritime insurance groups that control the shipping. It will be interesting to see if their financial entanglements get exposed.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2026 04:00 PM (viF8m)

211 It's a Mind-Virus that will never be penetrated by reality or rational thought, just like Woke and Communism.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Well said. And that is the way of the Muslim and the Turd World Commies--it is always someone else's fault.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 04:00 PM (E4rtv)

212 I still think Tucker Carlson had a psychotic break and lost his mind. He was not loony for quite some time; in fact, he was a voice of reason on covid 2020-21….. but he’s lost it. Sad

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 03, 2026 04:00 PM (yz/88)

213 Where is Meghan Kelly? On her knees somewhere?

Posted by: Vengeance at August 03, 2026 04:00 PM (cn09p)

214 206 You would be right and oil exports last month hit an all time high from the US. This time, oil is actually reducing our trade deficit along with pushing mfg industry to onshore here rather than Europe, India, or China.

And Venezuela's production is moving right upwards too faster than predicted.

I have come to the conclusion that the financial media 'experts' are just as full of horseshit analysis as you find in sports, regular news, weather, and any other place that you have 'journalists' in their title.

Gell Mann amnesia hypothesis indeed.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 03:59 PM (E4rtv)

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Almost like a $50 billion market prefers moving product to waiting around for a situation to sort itself out.

Weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:00 PM (bzPaY)

215
No more foreign wars? Good thing all foreigners have sworn off anti-US actions forever.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 03, 2026 04:01 PM (mmrXZ)

216 TuCa's new manufactured identity is rugged outdoorsman/dog lover, so it might be a canine.
Posted by: gp

What, even after his pet demon-dogs jumped on the bed when he was sleeping and scratched him all up?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 03, 2026 04:01 PM (vJrRc)

217 You are always late to the party, Sponge....
Posted by: runner at August 03, 2026 04:00 PM (g47mK)

I mean, you don't have to rub it in......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 03, 2026 04:01 PM (2YhKe)

218 That meeting was awesome. We had just broken out our new uniforms for a first look (courtesy of Hugo Boss). We had just started affixing out lightning emblem insignia and Totenkopf emblems when the door slammed open, and rolled in on a box dolly was this figure duct taped to the back support.

I kid you not...the figure jumped off the dolly, affixed his glasses with a sweeping gesture and proceed to do a rousing Irish Stepdance and Céilí formation.

IT WAS MITCH MCCONNELL. There's no holding us back now!!!

Posted by: Orson at August 03, 2026 04:01 PM (dIske)

219 210 >>Well, we'll find out very quickly if you're right, when the bombing starts again.

The big issue is not so much investors and oil speculators as it is the maritime insurance groups that control the shipping. It will be interesting to see if their financial entanglements get exposed.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2026 04:00 PM (viF8m)

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There are transfer ship captains making a million dollars a day running oil across the Omani side of the strait.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:01 PM (bzPaY)

220 More about their photo:
- all but one have coffee cups; no steam from coffee
- all have water glasses, some have water, some don't
- two sad plates of cookies; not big enough for all to have more that one each. No saucers for any to eat their cookie.
- no one has napkins but one.
- all the lights are on around them--but not the one above them.
- no notepads or any electronic devices.
- a sugar bowl on the table--but again, no stir spoon or saucers for the stir spoon
- no place mats or coasters for the water or coffee cups
- bunk beds in the room on the right
- you can see the TV is on in the reflection in the cabinet behind them

Basically, they sat down to pose for the photo and then went back to jerking each other off.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 03, 2026 04:02 PM (3cUTc)

221 Prediction: The new socialist stores will be shoplifted dow to the bone, with bare shelves, within a month.

Posted by: zombie at August 03, 2026 03:53 PM (Av6i5)
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Have some empathy! Some people need to eat for free.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:02 PM (EyiRc)

222 That room where they're meeting looks like they borrowed the set from Psycho.
Posted by: mnw at August 03, 2026

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Except for the antlers, it looks a lot like the small independent hotel where I stayed in Fort Scott, KS, this spring. It's the human contingent that makes it weird.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 04:02 PM (wzUl9)

223 Tucker/MTG Cruise being booked now. Free upgrade to balcony if you call now.

Posted by: Your Ship's Purser at August 03, 2026 04:02 PM (JM9I6)

224 Remember Minority Report with Tom Cruise and the robot-spiders that crawl around scanning everyone's eyes?

THAT WAS A WARNING, NOT AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL.

Posted by: zombie at August 03, 2026 04:02 PM (Av6i5)

225 All while more infrastructure keeps getting added, mile by mile, in the UAE.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And higher prices lead to demand destruction where consumers either decrease the amount consumed or they find substitutes.

Supply and demand laws have never been beaten by 'analysts' yet.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 04:03 PM (E4rtv)

226
I still think Tucker Carlson had a psychotic break and lost his mind.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt

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Having a best friend who suffered a psychotic break, I strongly suspect he has, too. I'd be curious to talk to close acquaintances to find out whether he falls into the classic categories -- persecution, grandiosity, etc., and what his private behavior is like.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 03, 2026 04:03 PM (mmrXZ)

227 no more foreign wars "

So no problem with a domestic war?
Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2026 03:28 PM (KC5Lt)

I think that's a significant observation. They probably won't say they want that, but then why are they always talking about "no more foreign wars?" What would be a non-foreign war?

What they mean is that they're just anti-war. Which means that they're unserious, about much of anything, but specifically about their claim of US citizenship, since the primary point of any nation is mutual defense against everyone else.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at August 03, 2026 04:03 PM (vSvIl)

228 The Yahtzee Party

Posted by: steevy at August 03, 2026 04:03 PM (YwEeS)

229 Take a chance on the Yahtzee Party.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 03, 2026 04:03 PM (2ap+5)

230 198 The shoplifters are going to be very disappointed in the quality of the merchandise.

Can I buy Kat Kot bars, Prongles and Dorneatos with my EBT?

Posted by: Delurker at August 03, 2026 04:03 PM (2Drhq)

231 There are transfer ship captains making a million dollars a day running oil across the Omani side of the strait.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:01 PM (bzPaY)

Where do I apply? I’ll work for a week and retire in luxury. I have no ship captaining experience but I did sleep at a holiday inn once

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 03, 2026 04:03 PM (yz/88)

232 Are we supposed to cut off our friends and family who are incurable infected with TDS?

Posted by: Goatweed at August 03, 2026 04:04 PM (jK3NL)

233 225 All while more infrastructure keeps getting added, mile by mile, in the UAE.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And higher prices lead to demand destruction where consumers either decrease the amount consumed or they find substitutes.

Supply and demand laws have never been beaten by 'analysts' yet.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 04:03 PM (E4rtv)

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China was already facing issues with increased tariffs on its plastics manufacturing.

Imagine what it faced when it couldn't buy $30 per barrel oil from Iran anymore.

And natural demand highs from summer are already cooling. It's just a question of refineries catching up and then processing the glut of oil that's waiting them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:04 PM (bzPaY)

234 "That room where they're meeting looks like they borrowed the set from Psycho."

It's his 'rural Maine cabin' set that he does his podcasts from, isn't it?

Posted by: gp at August 03, 2026 04:04 PM (Jr5Lq)

235 My hometown had an "activist" setup a grocery store. He received numerous grants and tax breaks and golly knows what all. It took about five years to get constructed, and failed within six (6). It was hailed for all the great things, and the usual suspects blaming Whitey for the "food desert" in that area of town.

They claimed it was the first grocery store in the area, with a Hy-Vee right there that had opened a few years earlier. Interestingly soon after the politically correct grocery store opened, the Hy-Vee closed, citing "performance issues". Uh-huh.

Everything these motherfuckers claim about food deserts is bullshit. So very tedious and fatiguing

Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 04:04 PM (DGpsA)

236 So just so we are clear here the Tucker crew doesn't want the US cooperating with Israel.

Does that including ending all aid to Ukraine and leaving NATO as well? Because I want to hear each one of them say that

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:04 PM (sKqQm)

237 >> The movement has begun.

Well, you better start towards the bathroom. It’s all that Metamucil.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 03, 2026 04:04 PM (Q6Bu6)

238
Basically, they sat down to pose for the photo and then went back to jerking each other off.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

And that is the cringe setup photoop shit that too many people think 'works' on social media. The Munsters had a more authentic dinner atmosphere.

Whatever you say about Trump, inauthentic is not one of them. GOP, yes, Democrats, hell yes, DSA, ditto. But not Trump.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 04:05 PM (E4rtv)

239 Six months, that is.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 04:05 PM (DGpsA)

240 You know, I could work with that room.

Posted by: Stephen King, looking for new story ideas at August 03, 2026 04:05 PM (n9eFH)

241
ID for grocery, but free pass on hookers and crack on any street corner? Weird.
Posted by: H

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They also didn't say how they were going to stop the, eh, capitalists who buy up everything in sight and then resell it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 03, 2026 04:06 PM (mmrXZ)

242 62% of China’s energy is produced by coal. Only around 20% is oil and gas.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 03, 2026 04:06 PM (Q6Bu6)

243 The shoplifters are going to be very disappointed in the quality of the merchandise.

Can I buy Kat Kot bars, Prongles and Dorneatos with my EBT?
Posted by: Delurker at August 03, 2026

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So will the "shoppers."

"A Dongle Bar with chocolate and nuts, please!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 04:06 PM (wzUl9)

244 I can't even imagine the hell hole those grocery stores will become. So awesome you need an ID though, lol.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 03, 2026 04:06 PM (n5tGW)

245 I still think Tucker Carlson had a psychotic break and lost his mind.
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Far more likely he has a new paymaster

Posted by: Common Tater at August 03, 2026 04:06 PM (DGpsA)

246 >>There are transfer ship captains making a million dollars a day running oil across the Omani side of the strait.

I'm thinking more about the cabal of insurance and banking centered out of London that have been dicking around in the Middle East for years.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2026 04:06 PM (viF8m)

247 242 62% of China’s energy is produced by coal. Only around 20% is oil and gas.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 03, 2026 04:06 PM (Q6Bu6)

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Oh, a serious blow to 20% of their energy must mean no negative effects at all, then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:06 PM (bzPaY)

248 The Yahtzee Party

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🤣🤣🤣

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2026 04:07 PM (g47mK)

249 >>Basically, they sat down to pose for the photo and then went back to jerking each other off.

Imagine that group naked. In an orgy.

Hope you had lunch already.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 03, 2026 04:07 PM (Q6Bu6)

250 The bookcase booby trap is cool.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 03, 2026 04:07 PM (2ap+5)

251 Remember Killer Joe Scarborough's Coffee Party?

Neither does anyone else. And so it shall be for this group of tards.

Posted by: Delurker at August 03, 2026 04:07 PM (2Drhq)

252 Mamdani's Grocery Stores Expose the Democrats' Biggest Voter ID Lie

Matt Margolis | 12:13 PM on August 03, 2026

And just saw this

Posted by: Skip at August 03, 2026 04:07 PM (Ia/+0)

253 The Munsters had a more authentic dinner atmosphere.
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The Munsters were actually likeable.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 03, 2026 04:07 PM (amcLV)

254 And natural demand highs from summer are already cooling. It's just a question of refineries catching up and then processing the glut of oil that's waiting them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Yep. And Russia is having to import gasoline now because of Ukrainian attacks on refineries. That means Iran doesn't get any.

I am always bemused by people that think that this ONE variable is the answer to the entire universe whether it is 42 or something else. In reality, it is a long chain of variables, most of which are not shocking in the least and thus ignored, that usually dictate outcomes.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 04:07 PM (E4rtv)

255 Buffalo Trace.

Make mine a double.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at August 03, 2026 04:07 PM (nKgb7)

256 The Munsters were actually likeable.
Posted by: Captain Obvious

True--they were fake but true I guess while the groypers are fake and fake.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 04:08 PM (E4rtv)

257 >>>Where is Meghan Kelly? On her knees somewhere?

Posted by: Vengeance

>She's getting some work done by the local cosmetic surgeon. Weight loss, pinch up her nose, she's looking more and more like the host from Tales from the Crypt.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 03, 2026 04:08 PM (ixEhJ)

258 242 62% of China’s energy is produced by coal. Only around 20% is oil and gas.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 03, 2026 04:06 PM (Q6Bu6)
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Probably, the oil portion is a lot lower. They were dependant on Venezuela for the Heavy Crude, and Iran for the refining.

Posted by: Orson at August 03, 2026 04:08 PM (dIske)

259 Their motto is going to be "Let's Play Twister!"

I guess Candace didn't make the cut. She might want to start speculating as to the reason, and watch out for the Twister Party assassins; they're probably out to get her.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:08 PM (EyiRc)

260 246 >>There are transfer ship captains making a million dollars a day running oil across the Omani side of the strait.

I'm thinking more about the cabal of insurance and banking centered out of London that have been dicking around in the Middle East for years.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 03, 2026 04:06 PM (viF8m)

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This is overblown.

Lloyd's has been offering raised rates for ships through the strait for a long time. The US Treasury has been offering insurance as well.

The problem is Indian and Chinese captains who were too afraid of crossing the IRGC, but that's largely done now.

Ships just run on the Omani side with AIS off at night. Iran's ability to actually strike is ridiculously small.

Although, Iran did hit a ship recently. They hit a Chinese state owned LNG ship a few days ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:08 PM (bzPaY)

261 Tucker/MTG Cruise being booked now. Free upgrade to balcony if you call now.

Posted by: Your Ship's Purser at August 03, 2026 04:02 PM (JM9I6)

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Kap'n Kristol (or is it like Cap'n Crystal from Breaking Bad?) will be stationed primarily down in the cargo hold-on-tight and directing the action with his many Cabin Boys.

Posted by: ShainS at August 03, 2026 04:09 PM (ufdUA)

262 242 62% of China’s energy is produced by coal. Only around 20% is oil and gas.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 03, 2026 04:06 PM (Q6Bu6)

And the remaining 18% comes from slave labor.

Posted by: Peaches at August 03, 2026 04:09 PM (eh7Rr)

263 62% of China’s energy is produced by coal. Only around 20% is oil and gas.

When I was in Europe I remember they had a show on the train touting China's green energy program and how unlike the US they were transitioning to 100% renewable.

It was all terrible bullshit

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:09 PM (sKqQm)

264 232 Are we supposed to cut off our friends and family who are incurable infected with TDS?
Posted by: Goatweed at August 03, 2026 04:04 PM (jK3NL)

No. Torment them.
"Trump did this... blah blah blah"
"Yeah. Does it piss you off? Good. We need more of that".

Posted by: Reforger at August 03, 2026 04:09 PM (cRySD)

265 Only relative to that 20% and the amount they can’t replace with other sources. They already know their energy weakness is oil and gas. It’s where they are most vulnerable.

So yes. It hurts. But not as much as people think.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 03, 2026 04:09 PM (Q6Bu6)

266 Geography geekout: "Nauru" has changed its name to "Naoero."

Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 04:09 PM (77rzZ)

267 I guess the "We Hates Joos" party would be a little too...on the nose?

Posted by: Jetto at August 03, 2026 04:09 PM (n/5MQ)

268 Not even a Ship of Fools, a Rowboat of Fools.

Hey, dumbass MTG, Trump didn't "start a foreign war" and didn't betray anybody, and if you can't tell the distinction between what he's doing and starting an actual war, you're a dumbass isolationist and don't have the wits or moral responsibility to run as dog catcher.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 03, 2026 04:09 PM (F8UH0)

269 Tucker/MTG Cruise being booked now. Free upgrade to balcony if you call now.

Is there an option to reserve your own cabin boy?

Posted by: Bill Kristol at August 03, 2026 04:09 PM (sKqQm)

270 The Munsters had a more authentic dinner atmosphere.
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The Munsters were actually likeable.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 03, 2026

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Yes, they *tried* to fit into our outside society. The Addams family didn't care about that. (And yes, Morticia was much hotter than Lily. So there.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 03, 2026 04:09 PM (wzUl9)

271 124 101 What breed of dog is that in the pic over Tucker's left shoulder? It looks like a lap dog.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 03, 2026 03:40 PM (2ap+5)

Looks like a Coq'r Spaniel to me. Cute dog, dumber than a bag of hair.
Posted by: Peaches at August 03, 2026 03:43 PM (eh7Rr)

Spitting image of a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. I looked it up, and one of the four approved coat patterns is 'ruby' (uniform chestnut). I don't know if you could get a fancier sounding dog than a type of gem, type of knight, specific royal, and European nationality.

Posted by: SciVo at August 03, 2026 04:10 PM (Sy6m/)

272 265 Only relative to that 20% and the amount they can’t replace with other sources. They already know their energy weakness is oil and gas. It’s where they are most vulnerable.

So yes. It hurts. But not as much as people think.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 03, 2026 04:09 PM (Q6Bu6)

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I never said that it would destroy their economy or anything.

Just that it would lead to demand destruction because of lessened manufacturing for plastics (which come from oil).

Was that wrong?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:10 PM (bzPaY)

273 Former Republican Majorie Taylor Greene posted a photo this weekend of herself, Tucker Carlson and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., along with the statement that "the movement has come."

It's time to release the Kraken!

Posted by: Bowel at August 03, 2026 04:10 PM (oji8u)

274 242 62% of China’s energy is produced by coal. Only around 20% is oil and gas.

Posted by: Vengeance
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Coal prices are up too along with nat gas. Substitution effect that a price increase in one power source leads to others being substituted--so demand rises along with the price of the substitute until you reach equilibrium.

Much harder to do with oil as a feedstock for mfg though instead of power.

Posted by: whig at August 03, 2026 04:10 PM (E4rtv)

275 I can't even imagine the hell hole those grocery stores will become. So awesome you need an ID though, lol.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
.......

I bet they rub off all the 'Sell By' and expiration dates.

Posted by: wth at August 03, 2026 04:10 PM (UjdFS)

276 So, let me guess you can get a Kamala special from MTG for an additional $20 on the cruise?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 03, 2026 04:10 PM (sKqQm)

277 And natural demand highs from summer are already cooling. It's just a question of refineries catching up and then processing the glut of oil that's waiting them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:04 PM (bzPaY)

I've been checking out China Observer on YouTube lately.
Besides the endless flooding that they reported on for a few weeks, they've also honed in one 12 million graduates from Chinese universities this summer and very few will get jobs.
They're turning to online hosts/influencers & nightclub hosting/dancing for women and app delivery for men.

Now it's the real estate & construction that's falling apart because the market has fallen so far the past few years.

China ain't doing too good if the videos are anything to go by.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 04:11 PM (6ydKt)

278 She's getting some work done by the local cosmetic surgeon. Weight loss, pinch up her nose, she's looking more and more like the host from Tales from the Crypt.

==

*Halloween time
(Knock knock)
💀💀

What an interesting costume Little Girl! And who might you be??

I am Megyn Kelly !

Posted by: runner at August 03, 2026 04:11 PM (g47mK)

279 I bet they rub off all the 'Sell By' and expiration dates.

Remember chunky milk is safe as long as it has been pasturized

Posted by: Experts say at August 03, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)

280 62% of China’s energy is produced by coal. Only around 20% is oil and gas.
Posted by: Vengeance at August 03, 2026 04:06 PM (Q6Bu6)
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Are you referring to electricity production or something else?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 03, 2026 04:11 PM (EyiRc)

281 273 Former Republican Majorie Taylor Greene posted a photo this weekend of herself, Tucker Carlson and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., along with the statement that "the movement has come."

It's time to release the Kraken!
Posted by: Bowel at August 03, 2026 04:10 PM (oji8u)

We're here for you!

Posted by: HelloFresh at August 03, 2026 04:11 PM (n9eFH)

282 Yes, what they tell you on China is they only have 20% of their energy dependent on fossil fuels. The rest is renewables and other sources.

The curious might ask- gee what is there major source of energy? But that’s inconveniently- coal. They are still building more coal plants because it’s abundant and cheap.

Posted by: Vengeance at August 03, 2026 04:11 PM (Q6Bu6)

283 I mean, you don't have to rub it in...
Posted by: Sponge

This is about me, isn't it?
-- Jeffrey Toobin

Posted by: Bulg at August 03, 2026 04:12 PM (77rzZ)

284 205 When the stoopid party fails to gain traction, even on the dumpster fire called X, they will blame it on A__C !
Posted by: runner

With the DareToBeStoopid poster boy reprising the Harry Lime fingers through the grate scene as his empire collapses as all the filth and corruption foam up around his waist while Trump looks down an whispers: "No" -- with Bezo's his new BFF standing beside him chuckling away...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMhwddNQSWQ
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-getThisPartySTARTED
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-atLongLongLAST
Time to get WEIRD: Dare to be St00p1d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4TC1xMyZDI
IT TAKES A VILLAIN: TO TELL US THE TRUTH
We create our own purpose, now go find yours

https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-MorallySuperiorSharks
... Even more obscene is the celebration by the Democrats of the scandal during a presidential campaign.They would gladly sacrifice the country if only they could rule over its ruins. ...

LET's GO BRANDON!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 03, 2026 04:12 PM (4hyME)

285 So, let me guess you can get a Kamala special from MTG for an additional $20 on the cruise?

Would that be a Crappy Ending?

Posted by: Jetto at August 03, 2026 04:12 PM (n/5MQ)

286
That Modmadmi has dead eyes.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq

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Seriously, he does look tired in that clip, and plates are spinning in the background. I think the broken porcelain all over the floor is getting to him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 03, 2026 04:12 PM (mmrXZ)

287 277 China ain't doing too good if the videos are anything to go by.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 03, 2026 04:11 PM (6ydKt)

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Xi should blow the Three Gorges Dam himself to clear him up of his issues.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at August 03, 2026 04:12 PM (bzPaY)

288 Try to explain hypocrisy of ID's for groceries but not voting would be lost on the left. "That's different,racists"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 03, 2026 04:12 PM (BFvh9)

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