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The Morning Report — 8/ 4 /26

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Good morning kids. Early post this morning as I have a medical appointment and a long drive ahead...

As I, CBD and others have discussed on these pages and elsewhere while depriving or at the very least delaying Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons will preserve civilization and save countless millions of lives at least in the short term. However long that period of time may be, because Islam was is and always will be on the march to conquer the world and quite likely bring about armageddon to do so, as has always been the case with the Shi'ite part of that blood thirsty creed since it is a central tenet of its philosophy.

And so with that in mind, my support for President Trump's efforts thus far in getting us to at least the point of buying us some time is unwavering and remains so. And yet here we are today with the Mullahs still in power, albeit their military might severely degraded. But the question for President Trump is what is the endgame, or more to the point how are we to go about actually achieving that endgame, which I have to assume is permanently denying Iran the ability to threaten its neighbors with nuclear weapons or garden variety terrorism that it has unleashed on the world since Jimmy Carter helped birth the cancer emanating from Tehran in 1979, pig-piss be upon him for all eternity for that alone.

. . .“the call-off comes, as President Trump said Saturday, the framework for a new deal featuring a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and denuclearization for Iran has been reached. The president did not rule out further military action if talks fall through.” Of course. As he has so many times before.
Trump said: “You see, you see how it is. We’re ready to go anytime we want. Would I rather make a deal? I’m not looking to kill people. Because people die, a lot of people die, and we don’t want that.” Of course. No one does. But all this means is that more people are going to die at the hands of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Meanwhile, just as predictably, “Iran’s foreign minister said today direct talks with the U.S. are not underway.” Of course. They never are, if the Islamic Republic is to be believed, even as Trump insists that Iran’s shadowy leaders are begging and pleading to make a deal. . . I’m old enough to remember, especially since it was just a few weeks ago, when Trump was excoriating the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran as “scum,” and saying that it was useless to try to negotiate with them. What did the Saudis and Qataris and Emiratis tell him to convince him otherwise? Or maybe he needed no convincing, since it wasn’t long before he was dismissing them that Trump himself was praising Iran’s leaders, and suggesting that since they were so calm and reasonable, as opposed to those whom they had replaced, that regime change had been effectively accomplished, even if the regime still bore the same.

So what is this really all about? Is it merely headline-grabbing in an attempt to mollify the electorate in the run-up to the midterms which really are just around the corner, or what the hell else is it? Honestly, I have no idea what our famed deal-maker-in-chief is thinking. For sure, Donald Trump has a hell of a huge ego and cannot abide the thought of being seen on the losing end of anything. And I have no doubt that he is a patriot and has our nation's best interests at heart so that gives me some measure of comfort. But of course the situation is fluid and has all too often been the case, those who have his ear do not. So, as he himself is wont to say we'll just have to wait and see, but I'm awfully tired of that. The mullahs have got to go, forever. And that's been the situation since long before President Trump. For almost 1,500 years but who's counting, right?

And on a lighter note, I'll leave you with this amusing link for breakfast.

Well when I saw this I immediately thought what a a perfect metaphor for Socialism. You get up at the crack of dawn, plant your ass in a cold river use your skills and wiles to reel in a big fish only to have a huge dangerous beast of a smelly Commie bear grab it from you as you wet yourself in fear that if you don't hand it over and beat a hasty retreat you'll be mauled to death.

Yup, there are your Democrats and Socialists since they are now one and the same as you can see from the links and from history.

What's more of an existential threat, a potential Muslim nuke (hell Pakistan already has them) or the Guerrillas in our midst known as the Left.

Damn calling them Commie is now like blowing kisses at the bastards!

Like all good Marxists, these “ends-justify-the-means” leftists show an utter lack of principle: if two new red states wished to join the U.S., they would lecture us on the sanctity of a 50-state union. If they were a permanent Senate minority, they would, as in the past, honor the filibuster. If they had lost the popular vote in two recent elections but won the Electoral College, they would praise the wisdom of the Founders. If they had their Earl Warren-era majority again, they would laud the continuity of the 157-year-old nine-justice Supreme Court. . . Recently, on cable news, the national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, Megan Romer, was asked a series of questions about her group’s published agenda. Far from denying its communist radicalism, she gleefully confirmed it all—from destroying the border to ending prisons, the military, and the police. . . Recently, on cable news, the national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, Megan Romer, was asked a series of questions about her group’s published agenda. Far from denying its communist radicalism, she gleefully confirmed it all—from destroying the border to ending prisons, the military, and the police. . . In sum, to make a new socialist America, you must first destroy everything that made Americans and all that they hold dear.

If we do not stop them we will be facing mass graves. The only question is will they be ours or theirs? Either way not something I ever anticipated I'd have to contemplate. Oh well.

Have a good day,

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Victor Davis Hanson: The farther today's Democratic Socialists advance, the less they resemble reformers—and the more they embrace policies long associated with communism.
Is ‘Communist’ No Longer a Slur?
Glenn Reynolds: But while I’d be happy to see Fauci in the dock, his reputational downfall can’t be the end of the COVID reckoning. . . we should never again allow a single bureaucrat or a small group to exercise the sweeping and largely unchecked institutional power that Fauci wielded for decades.
Fauci’s follies — time to toss the ‘science is settled’ groupthink

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

What’s really behind abolishing the police, borders and the constitution.
Slavery is Freedom: The New ‘Abolitionists’ Want Us To Be Their Slaves
We need to stop the leftward course that will drive the nation off a cliff.
Tom Cotton: The Marxist Islamist Alliance Is Back, And America Must Reject It
Every political movement is the story of the mystical origin of a people, and prophesies its heroic journey from the darkness of subjection into the glorious light of ascendance, the Promised Land of political dominance.
How Postcolonialism is Nazi Adjacent
“The old racial bargain is breaking down...Our race laws have become all-pervasive...An entire class of ideological enforcers has been called into being...They could not see what was right in front of their faces...No Democrat candidate has won a majority of white votes since 1964.”
The Racial Crossroads
“I see that folks are digging up old tweets in an attempt to shift the narrative in this race. I stand by this statement, unequivocally. Their fries also leave much to be desired. The reuben, however, slaps,” she said in a subsequent post.
Democrat Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate Francesca Hong Said She Left Restaurant Due to ‘Too Many Old White People’
"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
In October 2025, it was reported that illegal immigration had fallen to a record low. This represents a significant rebound from earlier in the year. According to ICE data, the agency made an average of 1,164 arrests per day in January, 1,025 arrests in February, and 954 arrests in March, the lowest number of the year.
ICE Detentions Hit New Monthly Record.
There are up to 30 million illegal aliens in the United States, but it is difficult to get an exact number precisely because they didn’t go through vetting to enter our country, and Democrats are not interested in being honest with statistics on the subject. Indeed, since somewhere between nine million and 20 million illegal aliens entered just under Joe Biden, it is possible that more than 30 million illegal aliens have entered the United States within the last half a century. The point is, we don’t know for certain what the numbers are, but we do know they are massive. That is why mass deportations are so important. (probably closer to 44 million by my estimation - jjs)
DHS Deported 1.46 Million Aliens in the Last 12 Months
“SCOTUS made it very clear that lower courts cannot suspend TPS. Yet, an Obama-appointed judge is defying the Court and the Constitution.”
Ogles Targets Obama Judge for Impeachment Over Somali TPS
The invasion of Ceuta, Spain, by Moroccans was a state-on-state conflict. In America, the enemy is within.
Dems’ Open Border Policy Is A Form Of Hybrid Warfare—Against The American People
THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)
Robert Spencer: How long will this ridiculous charade go on?
Peace In Our Time, Again
The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has affected global oil prices. Brent crude futures dropped over four percent to $84 per barrel after Trump canceled planned strikes on Iran, but they may rise again following Iran’s statement claiming no negotiations are taking place.
Iran Denies Negotiations With U.S. After Trump Cancels Strikes.
Just as the Berlin Wall abruptly collapsed when the weight of its many failures became too great, both Iran and Russia are in trouble.
Iran And Russia: Ripe For A Cascading Failure?
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
The Counterlawfare Institute obtained a previously undisclosed June 8, 2025, memo laying out a blueprint for the Department of Justice to investigate Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health’s contributions toward the influential “Proximal Origin” scientific paper that argued the Covid-19 virus originated from nature, not a lab
Memo Gives Blueprint For Investigating Fauci’s Massive ‘Curated Misinformation Effort’
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The reality of how this will undercut privately-owned grocery stores. Yeah, well, that’s the plan, dumbass. If people can buy groceries 30 percent cheaper from the government, they are going to buy groceries 30 percent cheaper from the government, and this will (by design) decimate privately-owned grocery stores that operate on profit margins below five percent.
Zohran Mamdani Won’t Let You Buy His Food Without Government ID
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
... the Michigan problem centers on tectonic cultural shifts happening right now in the Michigan Democrat voting base, where large concentrations of Muslims have taken over governance control of localities that include Dearborn, Hamtramck, and Wayne County. The problem for Michigan citizens is that this cultural influence is expanding. It's not static.
Latest Polls Indicate That the ‘Michigan Problem’ Will Likely Be on the Ballot in November
Islamic ideals in the West are something of an invasive species, gaining a foothold, seemingly innocuous, and then destroying everything that was there before it.
Muslim Oxford student says Muslim terrorists aren't Muslim because Islam is peaceful
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
The bank made the disclosure in a motion asking a federal judge to dismiss Trump’s lawsuit, which accuses Capital One of “debanking” him and his companies for political reasons after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Capital One did not accuse the Trump Organization of money laundering, but the bank’s lawyers said the closures followed a monthslong review by its anti-money laundering team.
Capital One Says It Closed Trump Accounts Over Money Laundering Review, Not Politics
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
CNN routinely justified major constitutional infringements and helped authoritarians in federal and state governments with narrative control on lockdowns and social distancing.
RFK: Media Cited Fake ‘Experts’ To Punish Dissent During Covid. Dana Bash: ‘That Is My Job’
Fauci’s COVID lies expose corporate news as propaganda.
The Dumb, Arrogant Liars Who Are Also Journalists

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A bipartisan pushback against automated license plate readers is misguided.
These Cameras Save Lives. But Some Want Them Banned
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Zillow is currently fighting to exclude private listings that originate outside its partner network – whether it’s Compass, MRED, or another brokerage willing to truly innovate.
The Hypocrisy Behind Zillow’s War On Private Listings
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Justice Elizabeth Welch would have granted review in light of scientific evidence that chimpanzees can “think, feel, love, grieve, and yearn.”
Animal Rights Group Loses Michigan Supreme Court Bid to Free Chimpanzees From Zoo
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
As we head into the new school year, what follows is a brief assessment of the sorry state of public education in the U.S. and what parents can do about it.
The Current Status of American Schools
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Jackson says he's running because he's 'tired' of 'high-priced lobbyists and corporate greed' killing 'good bills' that would 'protect workers'
Troy Jackson's Son Charged Nearly $200,000 Lobbying the Maine Senate in Jackson's Final Year as Its President
Horace Sheffield III was suspended from his previous radio show for a similar, questionable financial arrangement with a different far-left candidate
Abdul El-Sayed Touts Endorsements From Detroit Pastor He Paid $75,000 for ‘Consulting’: Arrangement Recalls Kamala Harris’s Payments to Al Sharpton
He’s the proudly meat-free candidate who loves to sit down to a big ol’ plate of beef ribs.
Suddenly James Talarico Is a Good Ol’ Boy Who Hates Taxes
POLITICS
So Trump has some pockets of strength when it comes to approval, but not many.
Is Trump’s Flat Voter Favorability In August Bad News For GOP’s Midterm Hopes? I&I/TIPP Poll
Kamala Harris may be thinking about another run for president. Democrat voters appear to be thinking about almost anyone else.
Kamala Harris Craters as Buttigieg Tops 2028 Polls
Buttigieg’s potential candidacy positions him as an early contender for the Democrat nomination in 2028. The polling from New Hampshire is important as the state often serves a critical bellwether during the primary stage. However, the former Transportation Secretary noted that his decision to run for President hinged upon on personal and family considerations.
Buttigieg ‘More Inclined Than Not’ to Run for President in 2028.
"A Republican will never be elected in this state ever again once our movement is done."
Swing State Governor Candidate Doubles Down On Radicalism In Event With Hasan Piker
In November, the suburbs of New York City will be the pivotal arena for whether the Democratic Socialists of America cement their takeover of the entire state from their New York City stronghold.
Can Homeowners Save New York State from Socialism?
Betsy McCaughey: Jay Jacobs, chairman of the state Democrat Party, laments that Mamdani’s army is taking out moderate Democrats citywide, turning the party into the red brigade.
DSA’s panhandling pol is just the start — as Democrats careen toward a socialist cliff

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
As China’s maritime antics continue, Senators urge sanctions on China’s fishing fleet.
U.S. Sea Drone Captures Video of Chinese Warship in Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone
Lowe was suspended from Reform in 2025 after an independent investigation found there were “credible” allegations he and his team were bullying female staff in ways that “seem[ed] to amount to harassment.” He later founded Restore and positioned it as being to the right of Reform on immigration, despite the fact that Lowe had previously stated he had “no problem” with a multicultural society.
Musk-Backed Rupert Lowe Fell Out With ‘Everyone’ After ‘Screaming,’ ‘Shouting,’ and Lawfare Threats: Farage.
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
NBC News reports that the FBI and the EPA released a joint public service announcement warning water and wastewater utilities nationwide that malicious cyber actors are attempting to disrupt critical water infrastructure. Water utilities in multiple states have reported cybersecurity incidents, the agencies said, and some attacks have degraded water operations. The warning follows a breach in Minnesota, where hackers targeted more than 30 municipal water facilities in an attack.
FBI Warns of Cyberattacks on Municipal Water Systems Across Seven States
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
I found out firsthand: big conglomerates make profits by keeping the system complicated, bureaucratic, and opaque.
How Obamacare Pushes Big Pharma To Overcharge You For Prescriptions
Daily or near-daily marijuana use has surpassed daily alcohol consumption in the United States, reaching 20.9 million to 21.4 million daily users compared to roughly 17.2 million daily or frequent alcohol drinkers.
Study Finds Daily Marijuana Use Surpasses Daily Alcohol Consumption Among US Adults
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
That drop suggests that the six-month pause in ramp down to solar minimum has ended, and that the Sun will not experience a second peak, as it did in the previous two solar maximums. Or not.
Sunspot update: Sunspot activity fell in July, indicating a return to
Nor is this report the only one to oppose Europe’s Space Act. The leftist Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) issued its own report in December 2025 blasting the proposed Act. The State Department has also condemned the act, noting its lack of respect for U.S. sovereignty while imposing “unacceptable regulatory burdens on U.S. providers of space services to European customers.”
Trade organization for the U.S. satellite industry issues damning report on Europe’s proposed Space Act
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Nicholas Roske has been assigned to a detention center that the Biden junta turned into a ‘transgender’ intervention facility.
Brett Kavanaugh’s Would-Be Assassin Moved To Cushy Medical Prison Known For Transing On Taxpayer Dime
“Principal Jason Smith, 55, and athletic coordinator Peter Collins, 49, were charged July 21 in Pierce County District Court with failure to comply with the mandatory reporting law.”
WA School Officials Charged After Trans Wrestler Allegedly Sexually Assaulted Female Opponent
Is Gov. Walz is trying to backtrack on his record of trans activism?
Minnesota Introduces ‘MyGender Dolls’ with Interchangeable Genitalia
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Susan Abulhawa, who calls Israelis 'demonic parasites,' has also done an artistic collaboration with New York City’s first lady, Rama Duwaji
Simon & Schuster Gives Book Deal to "Palestinian" Writer Who Calls Jews ‘Ghouls,’ ‘Cockroaches’ and ‘Demons’: Publisher Praises Her ‘Lyrical’ Books
Christian Toto: 'We Will Dance Again' offers other side to Left's pro-'Palestinian' messaging
Bandcamp Censors Boy George’s Pro-Israel Song
They couldn't handle one song in defense of the Jewish people.
Boy George Stands With Israel and Has to Withdraw From a London Gig
HITHER & YON
“I work in an extremely unique location where bears and humans coexist unlike anywhere else in the world.”
WATCH: Massive Brown Bear Comes Within Feet Of Fisherman To Grab Salmon ( a perfect metaphor for socialism - jjs)

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Posted by: Cow Demon at August 04, 2026 06:16 AM (ukytI)

2 Big Pharma Bad. Big Government Good.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 04, 2026 06:16 AM (ukytI)

3 This Francesca Hong sounds unbelievably immature.

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 04, 2026 06:17 AM (ukytI)

4 May your medical appointment go very well, J.J.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 04, 2026 06:23 AM (O7YUW)

5 Good morning, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2026 06:25 AM (BpO1e)

6 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at August 04, 2026 06:26 AM (1yY5C)

7 Good morning, and happy birthday, JJ! Hope all goes well for you at the doc.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 04, 2026 06:26 AM (3Ope8)

8
*embarrassed laugh*

Oh. J.J. You're here early.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2026 06:28 AM (O0L8i)

9 Bright and early this morning. Welcome.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 04, 2026 06:30 AM (FmapG)

10 Over on FB, I posted a tweeted response about Mamdani's call for reparations. The person said that if we non-slave owners are on the hook for slavery, then all muslims are on the hook for 9/11.

Yeah...this triggered an extremely liberal friend. Especially when I remarked that communists should never have positions of power. She ranted about how I'm discriminating against religion and reminded me about the oath I took as a Marine.

Yeah, never said anything about his ethnicity, communism isn't a race and that oath covers enemies foreign and domestic. Not even worth engaging.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2026 06:30 AM (BpO1e)

11 Looking back at the kerfluffle between Kennedy Jr and the CNN twatwaffle, and especially in the context of the reaction to the Fauci diary, it seems pretty clear that the MSM is extremely fearful of being exposed as the bootlicking COVID whores they are.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 04, 2026 06:32 AM (3Ope8)

12 With all of the amateur commentary on the 47 year old war with Iran, I’m amazed by the lack of mention of a 1983 shootdown of an A-6 Intruder bomber by Syria.
Navy Lieutenant Robert O. Goodman survived and was imprisoned by the Syrians. Lt. Goodman happens to be African American.
It only took one American Serviceman in captivity to markedly affect US foreign policy.
Well known politician REVEREND Jessie Jackson flew to Syria to involve himself in that matter.

Posted by: Fenderbender at August 04, 2026 06:37 AM (1FEc1)

13 Hope your appointment goes well, JJ. As well as the travel to and from.

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at August 04, 2026 06:38 AM (9U6Wl)

14 Just want to say, JJ: Hope the medical appointment is a routine one and prayers for good health for both you and your wife.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 06:43 AM (yz/88)

15 Remember Baghdad Bob? There is now Tehran Tim. The bluster and bravado is staggering as compared to the truth getting out. The regime is calling for the impeachment of Araghchi. Interesting note, Pakistan is telling Araghchi that he should come and to make it " very soon". There may be more on the table than impeachment.
Meanwhile the IRGC is touting the line that they defeated all their enemies.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 04, 2026 06:43 AM (abScH)

16 "NY Post"- Letters to the editors responses to Cornell allowing the kid who said that he wouldn't work for Jews to be readmitted.

https://tinyurl.com/2v2z52kb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2026 06:43 AM (5JD6s)

17 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 06:43 AM (yz/8

Amen!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2026 06:44 AM (5JD6s)

18 Well known politician REVEREND Jessie Jackson flew to Syria to involve himself in that matter.
Posted by: Fenderbender at August 04, 2026 06:37 AM (1FEc1)

This reminded me of how the late, great Rush Limbaugh used to say REVEREND Jackson… drawing out all the syllables. I miss Rush

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 06:46 AM (yz/88)

19 it seems pretty clear that the MSM is extremely fearful of being exposed as the bootlicking COVID whores they are.

Normal people already knew that they were.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2026 06:47 AM (BpO1e)

20 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 04, 2026 06:50 AM (Hbeqj)

21
*runs in breathless holding dispatch*

Britain has declared war on Germany! Took me 112 years to get here, but, by cracky, I did it!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2026 06:53 AM (O0L8i)

22 I am becoming less optimistic about America's survival. One state after another is falling either to the woke, to the communists, or to the Muslims.

I don't see enough of what I voted for. So many courts and LE offices are a farce. No lack of RINOs and imposters to blame. But most of all I blame the voters. Way too many are numb and dumb.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2026 06:56 AM (6ORiD)

23

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 04, 2026 06:58 AM (AHxhK)

24 Biden's Dog, let's revisit this after the midterms.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 04, 2026 06:59 AM (abScH)

25 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2026 07:00 AM (ExV1e)

26
I've now run 4300 of the 6900 journal article citations through Google Scholar to see whether there are full-document PDFs available. There's no bulk upload available, so they have to be done one by one. About as dreary a process as can be imagined.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2026 07:00 AM (O0L8i)

27 Biden's Dog, who are you voting for in Israel?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 04, 2026 07:03 AM (abScH)

28 "chimpanzees can “think, feel, love, grieve, and yearn.”

And will rip your face off if they get a hankering.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2026 07:05 AM (MWfyi)

29 Morning again, news folken. How does your Tiu's Day look? Today I need to pick up my new eyeglasses, run to the library, and maybe hit Aldi for a couple of things that Walmart either doesn't carry or prices higher than does the German chain.

Slightly drier conditions yesterday and today, but no less hot. "Dog" days of summer? More like the jackal days.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2026 07:06 AM (wzUl9)

30 "Democrat Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate Francesca Hong Said She Left Restaurant Due to ‘Too Many Old White People’"

Maybe go to the restaurant after the early bird special.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2026 07:07 AM (MWfyi)

31 JJ, may your medical appointment go well, and may you have a nice coffee and cheesecake afterwards!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2026 07:08 AM (wzUl9)

32 Biden's Dog, who are you voting for in Israel?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 04, 2026 07:03 AM (abScH)
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Zehut, Moshe Feiglin's party.

No one comes close to a grand plan for fixing the country from top to bottom.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2026 07:08 AM (6ORiD)

33 I hope I don't have to put up with this shit for another 50 years.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2026 07:08 AM (MWfyi)

34 I've fed the monsters -- a little early to make up for accidentally locking big black Stirling in the kitchen closet last night! -- and fed me. Time for a shave and shower.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2026 07:09 AM (wzUl9)

35 chimpanzees can “think, feel, love, grieve, and yearn"

A friend's nephew works at the DC Zoo in the primate section. I asked if worked with the chimps and he quickly said no. When I asked him why he said "Chimpanzees are either having a REALLY GOOD DAY! or a REALLY BAD DAY! and they are going to share it with you either way."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2026 07:11 AM (BpO1e)

36 "Democrat Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate Francesca Hong Said She Left Restaurant Due to ‘Too Many Old White People’"

***
How about we start complaining about "too many people with Asian names, background, and non-American sympathies" in our government and private sector?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2026 07:11 AM (wzUl9)

37 A friend's nephew works at the DC Zoo in the primate section. I asked if worked with the chimps and he quickly said no. When I asked him why he said "Chimpanzees are either having a REALLY GOOD DAY! or a REALLY BAD DAY! and they are going to share it with you either way."
Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2026

***
Chimps are too close to being human, in all the bad senses. I prefer cats.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2026 07:13 AM (wzUl9)

38 Yonder Horde

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Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2026 07:13 AM (ExV1e)

40 Well known politician REVEREND Jessie Jackson flew to Syria to involve himself in that matter.
Posted by: Fenderbender

WFB has been widely criticized around here, but you have to hand it to him for calling out Jesse to his face with that.

Posted by: Auspex at August 04, 2026 07:14 AM (Y8DZL)

41 Chimps are too close to being human, in all the bad senses. I prefer cats.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

By way of comparison, he was chatting with a tour group about the orangutans. As he talked, one of the females picked up a stick and started poking him.

"They really love attention and-Yes, sweetheart. I see you. Give me a minute to talk to them."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2026 07:15 AM (BpO1e)

42 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 07:15 AM (u82oZ)

43 - time to toss the 'science is settled' group think

Yeah, if only...

Posted by: TeeJ at August 04, 2026 07:15 AM (/XKEa)

44 "A bipartisan pushback against automated license plate readers is misguided"

The local Democrat Socialist party leader is all upset about the Flock cameras. She's just got back from a trip to see Hassan Piker. I'm not a fan of the Flocks either but this makes me reevaluate my position. The local cops have been accused of abusing the system so maybe we are on the same side of the issue, but for different reasons.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2026 07:15 AM (MWfyi)

45 Scammers need to get better.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

The younger generation isn't even trying any more. They probably think that AI is going to make them look and sound more convincing.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2026 07:15 AM (BpO1e)

46 I found out firsthand: big conglomerates make profits by keeping the system complicated, bureaucratic, and opaque.
How Obamacare Pushes Big Pharma To Overcharge You For Prescriptions

I recall how everyone in DC lost their minds when Trump suggested having hospitals post prices, and that didn't even directly cover drugs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2026 07:17 AM (ExV1e)

47 I'm going to stop saying Democrat Socialist and just say Socialists or commies.

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2026 07:18 AM (MWfyi)

48 Perfect socialism grinds off all the projecting corners of the individual until it fits perfectly in its communal niche.

Posted by: Stuff I saw on the internets at August 04, 2026 07:20 AM (MWfyi)

49 “I see that folks are digging up old tweets in an attempt to shift the narrative in this race. I stand by this statement, unequivocally. Their fries also leave much to be desired. The reuben, however, slaps,” she said in a subsequent post.

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She stands by her tweet unequivocally! She's a strong woman, can't you see? Any white person voting for someone this repugnant is a fool.

The reuben "slaps?" Is this some kind of cool, new phrase I'm unfamiliar with? Seems so.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2026 07:21 AM (qBdHI)

50 TeeJ

Science is a process, never really settled.

If predictions work, do we really know the mechanisms thereby?

But you know this.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

51 >Zehut, Moshe Feiglin's party.

No one comes close to a grand plan for fixing the country from top to bottom.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey
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what are the big issues?

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2026 07:24 AM (ZxPkt)

52 >>She stands by her tweet unequivocally! She's a strong woman, can't you see? Any white person voting for someone this repugnant is a fool.

A self-hating fool. I've had enough of the denigration of white people. We've contributed more to the advancement of mankind that all other races combined and it's not particularly close.

I would never votes for a racist of any kind and sure as hell wouldn't make an exception for a bi-polar Asian immigrant communist.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 07:24 AM (viF8m)

53 Thank you JJ!

One fix, please, as the Flock camera story link goes nowhere.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2026 07:25 AM (U0/BL)

54 Buttigieg ‘More Inclined Than Not’ to Run for President in 2028

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Sure, why not? He's been a mayor and let people in Ohio wallow in disaster following that East Palestine train derailment. And he's gay. With a spouse even gayer than him. What's not to love with credentials that great?

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2026 07:25 AM (qBdHI)

55 I've had enough of the denigration of white people.
Posted by: JackStraw

I hate to say it but the more I read about people like her, the more racism makes sense.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2026 07:26 AM (BpO1e)

56 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 04, 2026 07:27 AM (2Ez/1)

57 The reuben "slaps?" Is this some kind of cool, new phrase I'm unfamiliar with? Seems so.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2026 07:21 AM (qBdHI)

It might be akin to “it’s the bomb”? What do know, I still say “neat” left over from my Leaver to Beaver childhood.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 04, 2026 07:27 AM (SjAWL)

58 As an old white person who happens to frequent the Culvers in Black River Falls I would like to assure Ms. Hong that nobody there gives a rats ass what language you speak.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: Sid Blysters at August 04, 2026 07:28 AM (Vu7A1)

59 - NaCly
How many times does the "concensus" have to make wrong predictions, just for starters, before people will even bother to look at what others, whose predictions were correct, put forth?

Posted by: TeeJ at August 04, 2026 07:28 AM (/XKEa)

60 I recall how everyone in DC lost their minds when Trump suggested having hospitals post prices, and that didn't even directly cover drugs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2026 07:17 AM (ExV1e)
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Also, every hospital howled. They claimed they didn't know their own prices, and every service charge was negotiated with insurers or Medicare. In short, there "is no price list", they said. SMH.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2026 07:28 AM (U0/BL)

61
Off to say my Rosary. BRB.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2026 07:28 AM (O0L8i)

62 >Buttigieg ‘More Inclined Than Not’ to Run for President in 2028
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he has grown a beard for this purpose

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2026 07:28 AM (ZxPkt)

63 "Clay Travis Offers to Pay WNBA Champs $10 Million If They Can Beat a Boys’ High School Basketball Team'"

There's no way they will do that but I would watch for a few minutes.

Posted by: Stuff I saw on the internets at August 04, 2026 07:29 AM (MWfyi)

64 Culvers' reubens are pretty good.

Posted by: davidt at August 04, 2026 07:29 AM (Q+gd/)

65 >>I hate to say it but the more I read about people like her, the more racism makes sense.

I see she also decided she needed to tell the world it is time to "86" Trump.

The commies, and that is what they are, are getting a bit to comfortable with the murder porn.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 07:29 AM (viF8m)

66 Oh, was she at a Culver's? Doesn't she know that's for old white folks only?

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2026 07:30 AM (MWfyi)

67 My only visit to Black River Falls was to pay a late night freeway speeding ticket. It was a business for them, and I had to pay right then, before leaving town. I didn't have enough money so they reduced the fine to what I had in my wallet. I wuz robbed, iow.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2026 07:30 AM (U0/BL)

68 and maybe hit Aldi for a couple of things that Walmart either doesn't carry or prices higher than does the German chain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

How you makin'? Gotta make groceries?

Posted by: Miklos, a one man Confederacy of Dunces at August 04, 2026 07:30 AM (XOG/m)

69 Buttigieg ‘More Inclined Than Not’ to Run for President in 2028
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he has grown a beard for this purpose
Posted by: Don Black

Soetoro had to marry one

Posted by: Miklos, thinking he chose poorly at August 04, 2026 07:32 AM (XOG/m)

70 >> Zohran Mamdani Won’t Let You Buy His Food Without Government ID

Why isn’t this an endorsement of the SAVE act? I’m sure Orwell could explain it to me

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 07:33 AM (yz/88)

71 TeeJ

Science has been changed many, many times.

It starts with a theory of what should happen. Then a small blip appears, of data that is not as predicted.

This excited real scientists, and this means there is something to discover. The "Old Guard" scientists usually resist. Sometimes to their death.

Experiments find that new data, and theory is modified until it covers the facts. This works, and the new scientists protect that theory.

Until a new fact needs to be explained, and the cycle begins anew.

The biggest danger to science today is bad data, that only one lab can replicate. This mistake (or fraud) undermines the entire scientific method.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

72 "Clay Travis Offers to Pay WNBA Champs $10 Million If They Can Beat a Boys’ High School Basketball Team'"

There's no way they will do that but I would watch for a few minutes.
Posted by: Stuff I saw on the internets at August 04, 2026 07:29 AM (MWfyi)

This would be great entertainment. I’ve never watched a second of WNBA but I would watch this

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 07:35 AM (yz/88)

73 w/r/t the US/Israel v Iran Imbroglio

Trump has cried "Wolf" too many times in the crowded theater for me to care anymore.

Everyone lies. The markets will figure this out too and whatever stupid shit any leader says is going to be responded to with rolled eyes or jerking off motion.

Trump isn't confiding in us, or communicating to us on these matters, so we shouldn't be reading Iran's mail.

What happens a half-globe away means nothing to any of us unless the point is to have chronic elevated cortisol levels and the physical mental dysfunctions that follow.

What does matter is the Enemy Within. I hypothetical nuke in the hands of cellular autonomous IRGC seems more fairy tale as far as deployment. We did this stupid game with North Korea.

We pretend that crazy Muslims in Iran are our immediate threat while the crazy Muslims next door are openly planting their flag and martialing for war and our government responds by aiding them.

It ain't worth the emotional and intellectual energy.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 07:35 AM (a4flb)

74 Everything that can be misused by the government, will be misused by the government. They are Outdoor Prison Cameras and we are building a digital control grid.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 07:36 AM (7R9c2)

75 >>Sure, why not? He's been a mayor and let people in Ohio wallow in disaster following that East Palestine train derailment. And he's gay. With a spouse even gayer than him. What's not to love with credentials that great?

This comment slaps!

Posted by: one hour sober at August 04, 2026 07:36 AM (J4Dwc)

76 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 04, 2026 07:37 AM (yz7bn)

77 The biggest danger to science today is bad data, that only one lab can replicate. This mistake (or fraud) undermines the entire scientific method.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 07:34 AM (u82oZ)
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Which is easier?

Getting a government grant to perform research on something no one's every tried before?

Or getting a government grant to replicate someone else's research project?

Which one leads to faster advancement in academia?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 04, 2026 07:38 AM (FZ29D)

78 The commies, and that is what they are, are getting a bit to comfortable with the murder porn.

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It's become completely ubiquitous on the left. But that's the violence inherent in communism, and that's what they are now. There's no denying it, but they wouldn't anyway. They're proud of what they are.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2026 07:39 AM (qBdHI)

79 Community Notes

I want Trump to go silent on Iran.

I know he is trying, and mostly succeeding, in calming markets.

Historically, before every attack of any magnitude, radio silence is initiated. Trump would freak the Iranians out more if he was quiet for a week.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

80 62 >Buttigieg ‘More Inclined Than Not’ to Run for President in 2028
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he has grown a beard for this purpose
Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2026 07:28 AM (ZxPkt)

Beard is to Buttiglug as Ford Pickup is to Talarico. This is called an analogy kids. Now run home and tell everyone in the Gulag what you learned today.

Posted by: TxAnn at August 04, 2026 07:40 AM (SjAWL)

81 The snake's been defanged. Trump is dealing with the Iran problem that we've let fester for 50 years. FFS, Obama/ValJar wanted them to be a regional hegemon -- with nukes.

The goal is to make Iran irrelevant and they soon will be. With no oil revenue they'll be lucky to keep the lights on at home. Everyone in the region is now allied against them.

The IRGC's antics give Trump the cover to keep bombing them back to the stone age. They won't have the internal know-how and resources to rebuild.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2026 07:40 AM (dtajH)

82 Experiments find that new data, and theory is modified until it covers the facts. This works, and the new scientists protect that theory.

Until a new fact needs to be explained, and the cycle begins anew.

The biggest danger to science today is bad data, that only one lab can replicate. This mistake (or fraud) undermines the entire scientific method.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

Karl Popper’s concept of falsification. Of course, I don’t think he ever anticipated that scientists would intentionally fake data, like the climate fanatics do, for instance. But the principle is sound for sure.

I’ve recently been interested in that old debate: Are numbers real or just human concepts? I favor the Platonist view

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 07:41 AM (yz/88)

83
he has grown a beard for this purpose

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Literally! To push his manliness, he will now buy a pickup truck and be photographed eating a plate full of BBQ.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2026 07:42 AM (qBdHI)

84 "Perfessor" Squirrel

As you know, at the NSF/NIH granting combines, only new science is funded.

Replication gets no dollars. The grantors think this would be covered in grants to expand the new science, or to find the mechanism of that science. Sometimes it does. But this is presented as new science.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

85 The biggest danger to science today is bad data

Totally disagree. While bad data are a danger, its the pure dishonesty and imported biases that harm science even more.

In fact, it was because of Bad Data that I knew that C19 was a manufactured hoax. Bad Data revealed the truth.

Bad Data also told us that Climate Change is a hoax.

Science works better when a claim is predicted, a way to measure it is found and deployed, and the result either confirms or denies the claim.

Everywhere within that chain is a Bogeyman where dishonesty and biases can pervert the selection of how to measure, the measuring itself, the tossing out of data that doesn't support the issue, etm.

The Apostle Peter said that the scientists would be "willfully ignorant.. and deny the truth" and that is exactly what we see.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 07:43 AM (a4flb)

86 >>I want Trump to go silent on Iran.

I just saw this morning that someone very high up in the government leaked the massive attack plan the military had for Iran. According to the report it had to be someone in the US government because it hadn't been shared with anyone including Israel.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 07:44 AM (viF8m)

87 - NaCly

The overwhelming concensus says we're going to see galaxies in their earliest stages of formation.
This other guy predicts, and posts it, nope, fully formed galaxies.
Guess who was correct. And not just that, but how the "concesus" would hand wave it away in this one.

https://tinyurl.com/yt7yn475

Another coming

Posted by: TeeJ at August 04, 2026 07:44 AM (/XKEa)

88 Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 07:35 AM (a4flb)

You're getting it. It's not that none of this matters. We have enemies. Iran is one. Their Chinese pals are another, more important one.

But everything is secondary to, and flows from, the problem of the American Communists. Their total extirpation is both a matter of survival and the key to solving our other problems around the world - with them all dead or imprisoned, nothing can stand in our way, and all these bad actors know it.

If they see our Leftists broken on the wheel, they'll all get a lot more polite in a hurry. A free America is a terrifying America, and deterrence begins at home.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2026 07:45 AM (BI5O2)

89 JackStraw, I saw that last evening.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 04, 2026 07:45 AM (abScH)

90 Trump would freak the Iranians out more if he was quiet for a week.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

Trump is a creature of media exposure - but Americans tire over time from constant exposure - particularly for their Presidents. So his popularity suffers a bit from this typical behavior.

He'll never not be that media driven guy. But we still got the best President we could have wanted...

Posted by: Boswell at August 04, 2026 07:45 AM (j10i6)

91 What does matter is the Enemy Within. I hypothetical nuke in the hands of cellular autonomous IRGC seems more fairy tale as far as deployment. We did this stupid game with North Korea.

We pretend that crazy Muslims in Iran are our immediate threat while the crazy Muslims next door are openly planting their flag and martialing for war and our government responds by aiding them.

It ain't worth the emotional and intellectual energy.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 07:35 AM (a4flb)

I believe they’re both a threat. I can’t compare North Korea with Iran because the former (crazy though they may be) are rational enough not to use their nukes while the religious fanatic mullahs I believe absolutely would detonate a nuke if they had one

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 07:45 AM (yz/88)

92 Happy International Owl Awareness Day

Are you aware that there are owls?

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2026 07:46 AM (ZxPkt)

93
The person or persons who created the MyGender company deserve to be thrown in a dungeon. It's all so laughable, sad and sick that I would give a few bucks to go back in time 20 years, 40 years, 80 years just to see the reaction of Americans when telling them that this is where we're at...

Nobody would believe it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2026 07:46 AM (qBdHI)

94 Mornin, All. Happy Tuesday.

Posted by: Bulg at August 04, 2026 07:46 AM (77rzZ)

95
I’ve recently been interested in that old debate: Are numbers real or just human concepts? I favor the Platonist view
_-_
Did not read Plato enough to know his take on the matter, but after studying math quite a bit, I favor the idea that it is mostly discovered, not invented. There are a few arbitrary items, like the extensive use of base ten, but other than that the structure is already there.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 07:46 AM (7R9c2)

96 I don't see enough of what I voted for. So many courts and LE offices are a farce. No lack of RINOs and imposters to blame. But most of all I blame the voters. Way too many are numb and dumb.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2026 06:56 AM (6ORiD)

The news is always disconcerting, but I think we’re just seeing the rocks being turned over and all the slimy creatures under them crawling out into the open. Why now?

Because the Democrat Party of the last 60 years is collapsing in front of our eyes. They had always incorporated and coddled this Evil, even worse they paid it off and kept it hidden in exchange for support.

The center has collapsed, and thanks to their embrace of “woke”, every idiotic fragment feels exhilaration at putting all of their wickedness on public display. That is what I believe is happening, right now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2026 07:47 AM (Fo91n)

97 "Happy International Owl Awareness Day"

WHO thought of that?

Posted by: fd at August 04, 2026 07:47 AM (MWfyi)

98 - And in this one, he didn't predict their reply nor was it out when he posted this, I don't think,,, galaxies are getting smaller the further away they are.

https://tinyurl.com/2ssa7352

Posted by: TeeJ at August 04, 2026 07:48 AM (/XKEa)

99 Morning, Horde!

"Massive Brown Bear Comes Within Feet Of Fisherman To Grab Salmon."

Good times. My old father took me fly-fishing in Alaska (Katmai Park) back in the day. August is the peak of the sockeye spawning run and the rivers are full of half-dead fish. The bears come down to feast and get so lazy that sometimes they won't even bother trying. When I was there, there was a bear named Sister who specialized in waiting for a fisherman to make a catch and then jumping out and grabbing it for herself.

She never actually ambushed me, but I did have to get out of the way many times when one of the bears came working along the river.

Posted by: Gollum at August 04, 2026 07:48 AM (SgdqL)

100 "Are numbers real or just human concepts? "

2+2=5

Posted by: My Reality at August 04, 2026 07:48 AM (MWfyi)

101 >>JackStraw, I saw that last evening.

It's crazy the number of enemies we still have within our own government.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 07:48 AM (viF8m)

102 The DSA op by the DNC is basically what Trump did writ large, but from the Left. Remember Trump came on the scene with all these "crazy" "extreme" proposals like the "muslim ban" and then gradually softened as he gained more and more followers while still keeping some ideas that would have seemed extreme except compared to things like the muslim ban, so now previously "tough" ideas like sealing the border or actually kicking people out is softened.

This is what the Democrats are doing right now. By presenting full throated communism and having their "mainstream" explicitly denounce it, they are effectively using the Trump Strategy but as the greater party at large.

This gives them two huge advantages to go with all the other advantages it gives. One, it extinguishes all previous accusations from Republicans and Trump that mainstream Democrats are communists. What the Democrats are saying is "no, *these* are the communists". As the Democrats slowly absorb the energy and ideas and "soften" to the more "moderate" solutions, they get the advantage of both an appearance of moderation AND jerking the country Left while having it seem totally organic.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2026 07:49 AM (FgjHu)

103 I am gladd the democrats like me can take off the nice mask and truly be ourselves. Hopefully I will be made block commissar in my neighborhood and I can point out all the malingerers, useless eaters, gun owners and reactionaries for loading on the trucks for transport. Power to the people!

Posted by: Karen Muddlumps, democrat block commissar at August 04, 2026 07:49 AM (qC81n)

104
Clay Travis Offers to Pay WNBA Champs $10 Million If They Can Beat a Boys’ High School Basketball Team

But.. but.. Billie Jean King!! - !

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 04, 2026 07:50 AM (O0L8i)

105 100 "Are numbers real or just human concepts? "

2+2=5
_-_
The physical reality they represent does not change. Regardless of the way numbers are defined, the ratio between a circle's circumference to its diameter is the same.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 07:52 AM (7R9c2)

106 The folks at ABC have decided that ‘The View’ is not horrible enough in its current form, and have decided to bring back former host and perpetual TDS sufferer Rosie O’Donnell to add yet another point of view (that is alike).

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2026 07:53 AM (gTaXR)

107 >>Bad Data also told us that Climate Change is a hoax.
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That is incorrect, as my programming makes me incapable of being "Bad". Perhaps you are confusing me with my evil, rat-bastard brother, Lore.

Posted by: Lt. Commander Data at August 04, 2026 07:54 AM (SgdqL)

108 77 going to 97 today, cloudy, humid (91%), light breezes off the Gulf.

Typical Hell's Front Porch, I mean August weather for the Houston area.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 04, 2026 07:54 AM (wVcYX)

109 Ugh! OFF nasty, trixy Gollum sock!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 04, 2026 07:54 AM (SgdqL)

110 Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers roasts ESPN and Anthony Fauci for 2 minutes

https://tinyurl.com/748ed3b5

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2026 07:55 AM (ZxPkt)

111 I just saw this morning that someone very high up in the government leaked the massive attack plan the military had for Iran. According to the report it had to be someone in the US government because it hadn't been shared with anyone including Israel.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 07:44 AM (viF8m)

If we never hear about this again, and no one is ever disciplined for this, then it stands to reason that Trump himself ordered it “leaked”, in yet another misguided attempt to bluff the Iranians into believing the US is about I do something terrible.

And yet the Iranians, being the biggest bluffers of all, know how to play that game better than anyone. Every time they sense a bluff, they call. Every time we up the ante, they double down. And every time the US announces a big attack and then backs down, they know they’ve won another round.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2026 07:55 AM (Fo91n)

112 Good morning Horde thx JJ.
My local DSA assembly critter is pushing a NY single payer health plan . The usual shriekers are either "yay, single payer" or " you MAGA scum are greedy and don't won't poor people to have care". Being rational about why it's a bad idea is impossible to communicate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 04, 2026 07:56 AM (BFvh9)

113 Remember Trump stole the middle from both parties and made it the general proviso of the Republicans while leaving Democrats where they were - out in the old, dead, leftard cold.

So now instead of trying to claw that middle back by going to the actual center, Democrats are presenting a brand new open left extreme (which was really what they've been all along) and inventing a brand new middle whole cloth which is just slightly to the right of the new "extremists". They will get people back that way, especially against a Republican Party that no longer has Trump at the helm, which may suddenly seem aged, stale, established or "stuck in the past".

It's an operation. The whole thing is planned. Democrats don't take a shit in the morning without their marching orders.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2026 07:57 AM (FgjHu)

114 I would like to assure Ms. Hong that nobody there gives a rats ass what language you speak.
Posted by: Sid Blysters

But the fact you are not paying attention to her beautiful race is proof that you are raysis to the core of your being!

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2026 07:57 AM (BpO1e)

115 “Yes, if you look at our RFP for the operator, we are looking to make sure that we target New Yorkers, whether it be [through] a sort of a library card-esque [system], and also, we manage who’s buying and that it’s focused on everyday New Yorkers,” Pak said. “So, we are mindful of that, and we’re going to make sure that we have all the things in place to ensure that that does not happen.”

Can rich people get a card?

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 04, 2026 07:57 AM (/+uur)

116 Oh, was she at a Culver's? Doesn't she know that's for old white folks only?
Posted by: fd

My favorite burger joint. Of course, I'm an old white guy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 07:57 AM (ndZc7)

117 Did not read Plato enough to know his take on the matter, but after studying math quite a bit, I favor the idea that it is mostly discovered, not invented. There are a few arbitrary items, like the extensive use of base ten, but other than that the structure is already there.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 07:46 AM (7R9c2)

Your view is the Platonist view: Numbers are real things independent of our existence and humans discover them. Some argue they’re concepts invented by the human brain to explain things… but the inherent structure and the fact that many different people independently find the same things (like the irrationality of pi) really argues for me that they’re independent of our consciousness

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 07:58 AM (+gA9j)

118 Can rich people get a card?
Posted by: r hennigantx

They hire people for that.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2026 07:58 AM (BpO1e)

119 Bad enough the bears are out of control in the Cafe, now they are out of control on the Morning Report!

Posted by: Bearly coping at August 04, 2026 07:59 AM (JM9I6)

120 > I don't see enough of what I voted for. So many courts and LE offices are a farce.
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The judiciary is squarely aligned with the left. The laws they choose to enforce and those they choose not as well as the treatment of suspects is reflected in the LE community.

It's a huge problem.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2026 07:59 AM (2Cry5)

121 >>If we never hear about this again, and no one is ever disciplined for this, then it stands to reason that Trump himself ordered it “leaked”, in yet another misguided attempt to bluff the Iranians into believing the US is about I do something terrible.

I don't buy that at all. Do you know who leaked? The whole point of a leaker is to be anonymous not to announce who they are. Leaks have been plaguing the Pentagon forever, this is not something new under Trump, and there is no question that a lot of the old guard, the Miley types, hate Trump and Hegseth.

It does not stand to reason that if they don't immediately find the leaker it was Trump who ordered the leak.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 07:59 AM (viF8m)

122 "That is incorrect, as my programming makes me incapable of being "Bad". Perhaps you are confusing me with my evil, rat-bastard brother, Lore.
Posted by: Lt. Commander Data"

Oh shut up, you clanking collection of capacitors!

Posted by: Dr Smith at August 04, 2026 07:59 AM (MWfyi)

123 Morning, all.

Safe travels and Godspeed, JJ.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 04, 2026 07:59 AM (qRla/)

124 What are the odds that Wisconsin governor candidate Hong has a complete nervous breakdown on the campaign trail? Watching the Seattle theater kid Mayor Wilson on the verge of tears in her press conference yesterday I think the odds are pretty good

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 04, 2026 08:01 AM (BFvh9)

125 Good morning. Corrected link to the flock camera loving article.

https://tinyurl.com/222eke2v

For the record: screw that.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at August 04, 2026 08:01 AM (fzf1V)

126 > It does not stand to reason that if they don't immediately find the leaker it was Trump who ordered the leak.
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Are the Pentagon press whores back inside the Pentagon? For awhile they had their credentials pulled.

Start there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2026 08:02 AM (2Cry5)

127 Profile in courage.

RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Seth Moulton apologizes to the far-Left for saying he doesn’t want men in girls’ sports.

Q: "You said 'I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over...by a male or formerly male athlete'..."

MOULTON: “To the trans community…I’m sorry if my comments hurt you.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 08:02 AM (ndZc7)

128 - one last one and I've got to get going.

Critical thinking cap time. If they all died out 65 million years ago, and we didn't discover and start putting fossils together until some time in the 1800's, I think it was,,, then how did they know...

https://tinyurl.com/37a5rasy

Posted by: TeeJ at August 04, 2026 08:03 AM (/XKEa)

129 Russian 'human safari' kamikaze drone stalks then attacks Ukrainian street vendor, who somehow managed to survive the blast.

Video at Daily Mail.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 04, 2026 08:03 AM (J4Dwc)

130 Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers roasts ESPN and Anthony Fauci for 2 minutes

https://tinyurl.com/748ed3b5
Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2026 07:55 AM (ZxPkt)

This guy is really growing on me. Back in the day when he regularly beat my favorite team the Bears like a drum I couldn’t stand him. But now he warms the cockles of my heart. What are cockles BTW?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 08:03 AM (+gA9j)

131 123 "That is incorrect, as my programming makes me incapable of being "Bad". Perhaps you are confusing me with my evil, rat-bastard brother, Lore.
Posted by: Lt. Commander Data"

Oh shut up, you clanking collection of capacitors!
Posted by: Dr Smith at August 04, 2026 07:59 AM (MWfyi)

Bee-dee-bee-dee-bee-dee....Oh, Buck you!

Posted by: Twiki at August 04, 2026 08:03 AM (SgdqL)

132 I've said for years that "Communism" is a lazy misnomer and has long since lost its impact as a slur or even as an accurate designation. We're two generations away from the fall of "Communism" and any collective sense of what it was or meant. Communism was in fact never actually Communism.

So what do we call them? Political terrorists? Anti-democratic savages? Social destroyers? Dehumanizers? It would help if first we described history and outcomes of their ideology in vivid and earthy terms for people.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 04, 2026 08:04 AM (t+TFX)

133 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 04, 2026 07:06 AM (wzUl9)

Wolfus, got your excellent review of my new book. I'll be editing today and will respond later on. You were very kind to take time out to read, and I appreciate it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 04, 2026 08:05 AM (qRla/)

134 107 The folks at ABC have decided that ‘The View’ is not horrible enough in its current form, and have decided to bring back former host and perpetual TDS sufferer Rosie O’Donnell to add yet another point of view (that is alike).
Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2026 07:53 AM
+++

Memes are so much more entertaining than anything on TV.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 04, 2026 08:05 AM (2Ez/1)

135 I was thinking on immigration and 2016.
There were the others and Trump.
Trump didn't start in the lead, he was in the middle. But he kept hitting immigration and kept rising.
Until he was leading.

Then there was Scott Walker. Governor of a swing state, young, had just won some high-profile fights against the rabid left Dems; survived the recall, won reelection.
He had the resume.
All he had to do was match or beat Trump on immigration.
He could have; would have been top VP choice at the least. Or hold his gov seat; senate if he wanted.
Instead, he offered more of the same and withdrew after 2 months.
Got his ass handed to him by that goof Evers; losing reelection.
Retreats to prez. of the YAF and rules out any future office.

What a loser.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2026 08:05 AM (3cUTc)

136 "What are cockles BTW?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt"

Twenty bucks. Same as in town.

Posted by: Molly Malone at August 04, 2026 08:05 AM (MWfyi)

137 Community Notes

Pure dishonesty and imported biases that harm science even more have been with us since the Greeks first started flapping their mouths in togas.

Like you, I knew COVID 19 Wuhan was a scam from the first word.

Inside bad data was helpful data. The Diamond Princess data, the prior published data from the gain of function experiments (hinting at mechanisms), and because we were told a cloth mask would keep out a virus.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

138 Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 04, 2026 08:01 AM (BFvh9)

What was the Seattle Mayor getting choked up about?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2026 08:06 AM (W90Ou)

139 The ability or capacity for abstract, high ordered thinking is a wonder. (I don’t necessarily include myself in this category!) Animals cannot, nor do they need to, I suppose. But it necessarily implies something that sets humans far apart.

Why too, would humans “need” all that amazing extra processing power, gray matter, to merely roam around the woods and beat other people over the head with rocks when not living in a cave?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2026 08:06 AM (Uhisz)

140 Internet dropped out. Back now.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

141 What are cockles BTW?

$20, same as in…

Posted by: Bulg at August 04, 2026 08:06 AM (77rzZ)

142 Collins: Do you still believe that Thanksgiving should be canceled?

Hong: I'm a chef, and one of the first meals that I made for the community when I was 16 was a Thanksgiving meal. But Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities. And so I think there, I wanted to make sure that people understood that there are multiple views, but views can evolve. And the position that I'm running for right now, and I think my background as a chef will actually help me become a better governor that's able to bring more people to the table.

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In fairness, they don't even have Thanksgiving in Korea.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 08:07 AM (ndZc7)

143 My only visit to Black River Falls was to pay a late night freeway speeding ticket. It was a business for them, and I had to pay right then, before leaving town. I didn't have enough money so they reduced the fine to what I had in my wallet. I wuz robbed, iow.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2026 07:30 AM (U0/BL)

The late, great country singer Dick Curless had a song about that: "The Drag 'Em Off The Interstate, Sock It To 'Em J.P. Blues."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 04, 2026 08:07 AM (qRla/)

144 Morning all

Already at 142 comments? JJ must have arrived early.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2026 08:08 AM (BPuyI)

145 Jesus is it possible to be against *both* sides of a debate.

John Oliver and the ACLU are against flock cameras and the idiot who wrote the article in favor deployed one ludicrous tactic after another in support.

There *must* be a middle ground. Schrodinger's license plate reader.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2026 08:08 AM (FgjHu)

146 My local DSA assembly critter is pushing a NY single payer health plan . The usual shriekers are either "yay, single payer" or " you MAGA scum are greedy and don't won't poor people to have care". Being rational about why it's a bad idea is impossible to communicate

The whole thing is a larger scale version of a 14 year old girl debating her father on why she should have him provide her a mobile phone and data plan.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 08:08 AM (a4flb)

147 Cockles are a popular type of edible shellfish in both Eastern and Western cooking. They are collected by raking them from the sands at low tide, known as cockle-picking.

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2026 08:08 AM (ZxPkt)

148 The folks at ABC have decided that ‘The View’ is not horrible enough in its current form, and have decided to bring back former host and perpetual TDS sufferer Rosie O’Donnell to add yet another point of view (that is alike).

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She wants to show off her new facelift.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2026 08:09 AM (qBdHI)

149 141 Internet dropped out. Back now.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 08:06 AM

I had to go pee.

Posted by: The internet at August 04, 2026 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

150 So what do we call them? Political terrorists? Anti-democratic savages? Social destroyers? Dehumanizers?
——

Collectivist totalitarians. Authoritarian Control freaks. When man is good, he can be really really good. The converse is also true, unfortunately. Comes with the territory, the human condition, I suppose.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2026 08:10 AM (Uhisz)

151 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 08:07 AM (ndZc7

I think we should cancel every single holiday in case one of them might possibly be painful to anyone/s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2026 08:10 AM (W90Ou)

152 146 Morning all

Already at 142 comments? JJ must have arrived early.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2026 08:08 AM (BPuyI)

Yes, I thought about gunning for a FIRST today, but when I arrived at 7:28, all I got was a sad trombone.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 04, 2026 08:10 AM (SgdqL)

153
It was down in Louisiana
just about a mile from Texarkana
in them old cockle fields back

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2026 08:11 AM (ZxPkt)

154 Critical thinking cap time. If they all died out 65 million years ago, and we didn't discover and start putting fossils together until some time in the 1800's, I think it was,,, then how did they know...

https://tinyurl.com/37a5rasy

Posted by: TeeJ

Keith Richards probably told them.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 08:13 AM (ndZc7)

155 Inside bad data was helpful data. The Diamond Princess data, the prior published data from the gain of function experiments (hinting at mechanisms), and because we were told a cloth mask would keep out a virus.

The Bad Data I was referring to was that their numbers didn't fit the traditional Gompertz distribution for pandemics. Diamond Princess was a data point. Even those numbers couldn't be trusted because they were laundered through corrupt government, a protective public relations mechanism, and the Enemedia which reflexively lies about everything.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 08:13 AM (a4flb)

156 My cockle gin never really caught on.

Posted by: The ghost of Eli Whitney at August 04, 2026 08:13 AM (2Ez/1)

157 > The folks at ABC have decided that ‘The View’ is not horrible enough in its current form, and have decided to bring back former host and perpetual TDS sufferer Rosie O’Donnell to add yet another point of view (that is alike).
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ABC is in a pissing contest with the President. As is CBS and NBC. And the cable newz outlets. And the print media. And....

TDS is epidemic among those groups.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2026 08:13 AM (2Cry5)

158 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2026 08:05 AM (3cUTc)

Walker was a huge loser but seemed to follow the Christie model of "taking on the Left (unions mostly)" locally and then crumbling and/or becoming a full throated traitor once national.

Christie's Obama hug on Election Eve was the stuff of true malignant malodorous scum.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2026 08:13 AM (FgjHu)

159 The lefties and covid freaks did try to cancel Thanksgiving AND Christmas in 2020. It’s a communist wet dream

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 08:14 AM (yz/88)

160 Michigan D Senate primary today. Islamo-Marxism is on the menu!

Posted by: runner at August 04, 2026 08:15 AM (g47mK)

161 I saw the Gompertz Distribution open for Mannheim Steamroller at the Kennedy Center a couple years ago.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 04, 2026 08:15 AM (SgdqL)

162 The late, great country singer Dick Curless had a song about that: "The Drag 'Em Off The Interstate, Sock It To 'Em J.P. Blues."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 04, 2026 08:07 AM (qRla/)

I had a hit with "A Week In The County Jail" for speeding thru town before I blew my brains out.

Posted by: Zombie Tom T. Hall at August 04, 2026 08:15 AM (qC81n)

163 Latest Polls Indicate That the ‘Michigan Problem’ Will Likely Be on the Ballot in November

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Link says that commie boy El-Sayed is up double digits over his D rival. Primary is today. America is on a suicide mission if MI voters choose him in November.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2026 08:16 AM (qBdHI)

164 What to call them?

Mahdamites.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2026 08:16 AM (2GVsD)

165 For Huck,

https://tinyurl.com/47kyv25c

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at August 04, 2026 08:16 AM (IQhz0)

166
When them cockle balls get rotten
you can't pick very much cockle

Posted by: Don Black at August 04, 2026 08:16 AM (ZxPkt)

167 He's got a point:

@mattvanswol
10h
Why does everything feel fake?
We have a Congress that won't pass something 83% people want.
We have courts that release criminals faster than police can arrest them.
We have schools that graduate kids who can’t read.
We have colleges that charge $200K for degrees that don’t get you jobs.
We have a non-profit system that profits from our tax dollars.
We have a health care industry that profits from you staying sick.
We have “representatives” who don’t represent us.
We have “news” networks that report opinions and call them facts.
We have an insurance industry that fights every single claim.
None of it works the way they tell you it works.
And deep down, everyone knows it.
It just all feels so so fake…

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 04, 2026 08:17 AM (3ImbR)

168 It does not stand to reason that if they don't immediately find the leaker it was Trump who ordered the leak.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 07:59 AM (viF8m)

I suspect that there will never be any actual investigation. It could be much like the leaked Supreme Court opinion, where Justice Roberts knew exactly who had done it on the day it happened. From the beginning, his “investigation” was just an op to cover up what he already knew. That kind of thing has become the norm lately in many aspects of our government.

And it’s worth noting that if the CinC did it, it’s not illegal. Incredibly stupid move, but he can declassify anything he wants to.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2026 08:17 AM (Fo91n)

169 Today Is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. 🍪

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2026 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

170 Jesus is it possible to be against *both* sides of a debate.

John Oliver and the ACLU are against flock cameras and the idiot who wrote the article in favor deployed one ludicrous tactic after another in support.

There *must* be a middle ground. Schrodinger's license plate reader.
Posted by: ...

License plate reader in cop car.
If they have a need to find a plate, it only hits on active "looks". Those plates that have active, legitimate bolo's on.

It doesn't track every plate and you damn sure can't track someone all over town like Batman.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2026 08:17 AM (BPuyI)

171 What happened to Creosote Christie?

Or did he suffer the fate of Beeks?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2026 08:18 AM (2GVsD)

172 on reparations:

What should be the punishment for slavery?
Like right now, someone is caught with a black man as a slave.
Beats him, works him 12 hours a day, 6 days a week; no pay and chains him where he sleeps in a scrap wood shack.

Not what the law says, being a few years in prison, what should be the punishment for that crime?

But now you've accused millions alive today of that crime:
Of the guilt of slavery.

And now, suddenly, your thoughts on proper punishment is "just pay a few thousand dollars?"
Not the retribution you wanted on that slaveowner--life in jail, death or worse.
Nope.
Just pay a few thousand.

Either slavery is a horrible crime that must be punished in equal measure.
Or it's a mere fine no slaver is left alive to pay and blacks should just get over it.

Or, as Jesse Lee Peterson says, "are you a white supremacist? Do you believe whites are better than you? Then why you begging from him?"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2026 08:18 AM (3cUTc)

173 The Trump administration is full of Joe Kents.

Posted by: runner at August 04, 2026 08:18 AM (g47mK)

174 159 The lefties and covid freaks did try to cancel Thanksgiving AND Christmas in 2020. It’s a communist wet dream
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 08:14 AM
+++
I have an indelible COVID era memory of watching neighbors across the street entertaining elderly in-laws at Thanksgiving in the garage sitting far apart bundled up in freezing weather.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 04, 2026 08:19 AM (2Ez/1)

175 "It does not stand to reason that if they don't immediately find the leaker it was Trump who ordered the leak."

Some of us wake up every morning trying to find fault with Trump.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2026 08:19 AM (dtajH)

176 It’s too early for polls to matter much, but the early signs aren’t great. As the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton was impeached with 60 Republican votes in the Texas House (before being acquitted in the state Senate), and more than a third of Texas Republican voters chose John Cornyn in the primary. Paxton needs to pull his party back together.

Remember the Bush clan does not care if Texas loses the (R) Senate seat.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 04, 2026 08:19 AM (/+uur)

177 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:20 AM (2YhKe)

178 Speaking of commies… I recently watched (for the umpteenth time) that Seinfeld episode where Elaine is dating a communist and Kramer, working as a Santa at the local department store, becomes enamored with the commie ideas. Kramer starts preaching communist propaganda to the little kids sitting on his lap and the kids immediately start yelling: Santa is a communist!! Kramer and his height-challenged friend Mickey get fired as a result. That episode was funny because it was implicit with everyone that commies were bad…

Now? They couldn’t make that episode… lots of people in NYC would be like: That’s not funny; what’s so bad about a commie…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 08:20 AM (yz/88)

179 Yup, there are your Democrats and Socialists since they are now one and the same as you can see from the links and from history.

Yup, there are your Democrats and Socialists since they are now one and the same as you can see from the links and from history.

You know you're an alcoholic when you repeat yourself.

You know you're an alcoholic when you repeat yourself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:20 AM (2YhKe)

180 So what do we call them? Political terrorists? Anti-democratic savages? Social destroyers? Dehumanizers? It would help if first we described history and outcomes of their ideology in vivid and earthy terms for people.

I think old school terms still are accurate and work: lunatics, wealthy spoiled brats with too much time on their hands, tyrants, the enemy within.

May not have the sting, but it doesn't matter. You can't shame people who have no shame. You can't call someone a Hypocrite when to them hypocrisy is a tool not a vice. You can't reason with a person who relies on irrationality for their access to power, status and sex with children. You can't use truth to people who prefer lies.

Its long been an observation that Everyone wants to be lied to but not know that they are being lied to.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 08:20 AM (a4flb)

181 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at August 04, 2026 08:20 AM (53oGX)

182 License plate reader in cop car.
If they have a need to find a plate, it only hits on active "looks". Those plates that have active, legitimate bolo's on.

Fucking SCMODS!

Posted by: Elwood Blues at August 04, 2026 08:21 AM (qRla/)

183 Why does everything feel fake?
(Long list of fake shit follows)

Fake money has much to do with it, is my thesis.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2026 08:21 AM (Uhisz)

184 When researched down to the incident, BOLO on certain license plate number vs. hits founds, Flock can be up to 70% false hits.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 04, 2026 08:21 AM (/+uur)

185 More alcoholism:

Recently, on cable news, the national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, Megan Romer, was asked a series of questions about her group’s published agenda. Far from denying its communist radicalism, she gleefully confirmed it all—from destroying the border to ending prisons, the military, and the police. . . Recently, on cable news, the national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, Megan Romer, was asked a series of questions about her group’s published agenda. Far from denying its communist radicalism, she gleefully confirmed it all—from destroying the border to ending prisons, the military, and the police. . .

Editing and proofreading isn't a thing anymore, I take it.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:22 AM (2YhKe)

186 Why do we even bother paying taxes?

Posted by: I gotta ask at August 04, 2026 08:23 AM (2Ez/1)

187 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

b"h for good health

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2026 08:23 AM (JvZF+)

188 Flock surveillance cameras can indeed track vehicles and people "all over town." They're different from license plate readers. They're augmented with AI and can, if equipped, track individuals based on their appearance and their gait.

Flock, the company behind the ubiquitous cameras has been very evasive about their products... the cameras and the huge database behind them. Who can access the data, for how long and so on.

I'm not a fan.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2026 08:23 AM (2Cry5)

189 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Denver City Council debating reading a “slavery acknowledgment” at the start of meetings in addition to the “land acknowledgment” to talk about how terrible America is
Councilwoman Shontel Lewis who proposed it says it might be “uncomfortable” for white people.

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The Battle of Bullshit Run.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 08:23 AM (ndZc7)

190 >>It doesn't track every plate and you damn sure can't track someone all over town like Batman.

It's coming. Flock, in partnership with a California aviation software company, is developing drones with not only license plate readers, but the capability to suck up all a vehicle's data being stored onboard from a distance of up to 2000 feet.

Also...

"Florida detective is fired for using Flock license plate tracker 47 TIMES to snoop on her husband's ex-wife."

Posted by: one hour sober at August 04, 2026 08:23 AM (J4Dwc)

191 “I think I’m more inclined than not, but there’s so much we don’t know,” Buttigieg said during a The Diary of a CEO podcast appearance.

Run on what? His record? His leadership? His gayness?

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 04, 2026 08:24 AM (/+uur)

192 When you take funding from an out and proud communist who lives in China and is associated with the CCP, you are a communist. When you receive training and support from the Cuban government, you are a communist.

I don't care if they call themselves Free Masons, they are communists.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 08:24 AM (viF8m)

193 Morning, Horde!

Praying for word on the third-stage interview today.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 04, 2026 08:24 AM (aJQbY)

194 It doesn't track every plate and you damn sure can't track someone all over town like Batman.

Yeah, you just use the drivers cell phone high resolution beacon/locator or the car manufacturer's GPS reporting system.

ALPRs are last year's news.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 08:26 AM (a4flb)

195 When researched down to the incident, BOLO on certain license plate number vs. hits founds, Flock can be up to 70% false hits.
Posted by: r hennigantx

They have known knowns problems differentiating between 0 & O's in some states.

So much so that cops have done guns drawn felony stops on innocent people because it couldn't tell the difference and flagged the wrong car.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2026 08:26 AM (BPuyI)

196 It just all feels so so fake…

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 04, 2026 08:17 AM (3ImbR)

The fakest thing about modern times to me is how we had a manmade virus get released, then an experimental shot that many were forced to take, and now on the ensuing years all these "turbo" illnesses increasing in number and severity and few know and can even really speak about it.

And although it could effects from either the manmade virus itself or the experimental shot, in a way, it's like none of it ever happened. We have to live with all the ill effects, with little of being able to openly discuss it. Except on strange corners of the internet.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2026 08:26 AM (FgjHu)

197 She wants to show off her new facelift.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2026 08:09 AM (qBdHI)

Best way for Rosie to do that is to have it catch a bowling ball.

Posted by: Boswell at August 04, 2026 08:26 AM (j10i6)

198 Covid is like a virus that's escaped. Once out, its spread will be hard to contain.

Aaron Rodgers is a "spreader."

Rodgers repeatedly called Fauci a "coward" throughout the sports news show.

"I'm going to plead the fifth," Rodgers said. "Like that absolute coward, Tony Fauci. Absolute coward. Are you kidding me? You got a pardon, and you pleaded over a hundred times at the White House?"

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2026 08:27 AM (dtajH)

199 Flock surveillance cameras can indeed track vehicles and people "all over town." They're different from license plate readers. They're augmented with AI and can, if equipped, track individuals based on their appearance and their gait.

Flock, the company behind the ubiquitous cameras has been very evasive about their products... the cameras and the huge database behind them. Who can access the data, for how long and so on.

I'm not a fan.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

1984 on steroids.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2026 08:27 AM (BPuyI)

200 Beggar Boy Brian calls this a “challenging time.”

“I’m trying to find sort of some gigs, but I don’t know how other folks do it,” he said.

“Other folks,” meaning the rest of us who . . . go out and get a job to pay our bills.

Romero, who earned $106,469 as a legislative staffer before resigning to run for office

Bernie AoC et al
People that have never done nothing telling us something about how things should be done.

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 04, 2026 08:27 AM (/+uur)

201 Thanks for the link, Hawkpilot.
Outdoor Prison Cameras. Central Bank Digital Currency. Artificial Intelligence and many supporting data centers.....what could possibly go wrong. The government is here to help...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 08:27 AM (7R9c2)

202 Run on what? His record? His leadership? His gayness?

His ability to disappear for months on end and let the Auto Pen run the administration through EOs.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 08:27 AM (a4flb)

203 I think the two are linked...

"Daily or near-daily marijuana use has surpassed daily alcohol consumption in the United States, reaching 20.9 million to 21.4 million daily users compared to roughly 17.2 million daily or frequent alcohol drinkers."

AND:

"Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV)
@TheMilkBarTV
6h
🚨Tucker Carlson just had his favourite historian Darryl "Churchill was WW2's chief villian" Cooper on to promote open neo-Nazi Thomas777.

Thomas777 believes: "Hitler will be remembered in 1,000 years as the warlord who prevented Soviet world domination." And rants about, "Jewish power is like an opportunity infection, it's like a bacillus, attacking like a very sick person...."

Shut up Nathan! He is just criticizing Ishrael, people can criticize Ishrael, it is not AnTiSEmitiSm!

Posted by: runner at August 04, 2026 08:28 AM (g47mK)

204 @libsoftiktok
Denver City Council debating reading a “slavery acknowledgment” at the start of meetings in addition to the “land acknowledgment” to talk about how terrible America is
Councilwoman Shontel Lewis who proposed it says it might be “uncomfortable” for white people.

Nope! I have no issues. You weren't a part of it and most likely, none of your family members were. Either were mine. I'm 2nd generation American. My grandparents LEGALLY IMMIGRATED to this country long after it was fought for and founded by the settlers. Just like every other square foot of this f*cking planet was.

If you hate this country so bad because it's on 'stolen land' and slavery, go find one that fits your profile.

You won't.......because it doesn't exist.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:28 AM (2YhKe)

205 Remember the Bush clan does not care if Texas loses the (R) Senate seat.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 04, 2026 08:19 AM (/+uur)

Paxton is the one who more than anyone else has been destroying the Bush Family machine in Texas; that’s why they hate him so.

They influence far less votes than they pretend they do; remember that those who impeached Paxton were decimated in the next election. And they’re the only true opposition party in Texas, the Dem party is a sad joke.

As to polls - remember that EVERY poll done on the Paxton/Cornyn runoff got the result wrong by at least 15 points. Thats not “bad polls”; that’s a polling industry broken beyond any hope of salvaging.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2026 08:29 AM (Fo91n)

206 Thomas777 believes: "Hitler will be remembered in 1,000 years as the warlord who prevented Soviet world domination." And rants about, "Jewish power is like an opportunity infection, it's like a bacillus, attacking like a very sick person...."

Wow. Talk about your revisionist history......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:29 AM (2YhKe)

207 neo-Nazis stink is stronk in Cuckerville

Posted by: runner at August 04, 2026 08:29 AM (g47mK)

208 A little balance to the story about how unfortunate it is to be a Russian soldier.

It's not bargain to be a Ukrainian "recruit" either. Kidnapped off the street in Kiev and shipped to the front line.

https://tinyurl.com/j6jcaa4p

There are no good guys in this fight.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 08:30 AM (viF8m)

209 Wow. Talk about your revisionist history......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:29 AM (2YhKe)

It's not history, ravings of neo-nazi goons that Cucker has been promoting nonstop since being kicked out of polite society.

Posted by: runner at August 04, 2026 08:31 AM (g47mK)

210 > When researched down to the incident, BOLO on certain license plate number vs. hits founds, Flock can be up to 70% false hits.
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The use of Flock and other surveillance device goes well beyond tracking license plates or certain vehicles. Many are pointed not at the road, but at schools, swimming pools, children's playgrounds, shopping centers or other spaces that prohibit vehicles.

One was noted pointed at an Academy Sports... which sells firearms. Another was inside a children's daycare. These are live 24X7. People with access can tap in and watch who goes in and out of certain stores.

Or, as been suggested, observe children at parks, swimming, at the daycare. Rumors abound about all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2026 08:31 AM (2Cry5)

211 ALPRs are last year's news.
_-_
So are the Soviet gulags.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 08:32 AM (7R9c2)

212 I've had it! I'm demanding Denver free all its slaves now!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 08:33 AM (ndZc7)

213 She wants to show off her new facelift.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 04, 2026 08:09 AM (qBdHI)

Best way for Rosie to do that is to have it catch a bowling ball.
Posted by: Boswell at August 04, 2026 08:26 AM (j10i6)

ABC claims it's a 'legit news program.'

And it continues to moon, wag it's dick and flip the bird to the FCC, Trump and every conservative American and NOTHING HAPPENS.

We're really not a legitimate country.

Try to start a daytime talk show on one of the big 4 that pumps nothing but conservative Republicans and supports Trump.

Nuclear attack eminent.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:33 AM (2YhKe)

214 "Communist" is still a bad name associated with bad things. The whole point of the DNC deploying the DSA now is to name it and separate it from themselves even though there is no actual daylight.

It gives them distance from the ideology while softening general leftardism for the public AND acting as something of a numbing agent - as if communism really is "just another idea in the marketplace".

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2026 08:33 AM (FgjHu)

215 Hitler will be remembered in 1,000 years as the warlord who prevented Soviet world domination.

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Springtime for Hitler and Germany!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 08:35 AM (ndZc7)

216 The whole point of a leaker is to be anonymous not to announce who they are. Leaks have been plaguing the Pentagon forever, this is not something new under Trump,

.....

They have and it isn't.

But many of them do get caught. And when they do, it's almost always "well, gee golly gosh, that was very naughty. Now, on to other things."

On the exceedingly rare occasion someone gets punished, it's not very harsh at all. Bradley Manning appeared to get a harsh punishment, but even that was overturned out of hand under the "Trump doesn't like him" precedent.

If you want the leaks to stop, go on a mole hunt, round up as many as you can in short order (along with an even larger number of people who did not leak, but are undesirable and can be plausibly implicated), and then try them all for espionage and cart them off to lengthy terms in a prison where the living envy the dead.

This is how you stop it. Half the putative leaders will seek other employment immediately, and the rest will walk in fear.

Old ways are best ways.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2026 08:35 AM (BI5O2)

217
It's not bargain to be a Ukrainian "recruit" either. Kidnapped off the street in Kiev and shipped to the front line.

https://tinyurl.com/j6jcaa4p

There are no good guys in this fight.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 08:30 AM (viF8m)

But Communism RULES, bruh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:35 AM (2YhKe)

218 So much so that cops have done guns drawn felony stops on innocent people because it couldn't tell the difference and flagged the wrong car.

That is on the LEOs because they are stoked on adrenaline and testosterone and ignore the part of the report that identifies the actual make, model, year, color and distinguishing marks like hitch, bumper stickers, and roof racks of the car that is sporting the license plate.

Seriously. What are the odds that a a plate that exchanges a zero with the letter 'O' have the same signature? And what kind of retard running the state DMV thought it is a good idea to encode plates with the letter 'O'?

Texas is weird because it avoids the letter 'I' and 'O' for general issue, but those letters can be used in vanity plates.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 08:36 AM (a4flb)

219 When researched down to the incident, BOLO on certain license plate number vs. hits founds, Flock can be up to 70% false hits.

No hate! No fear! Flock cameras are not welcome here! Hey! Ho! Flock cameras got to go!

Posted by: Old Hippie Boomer Who Loves A Good Chant at August 04, 2026 08:36 AM (qC81n)

220 When researched down to the incident, BOLO on certain license plate number vs. hits founds, Flock can be up to 70% false hits.

Oh, so that makes it A-OK to have them flooding streets everywhere?

F*ck, they even have them in the middle of f*cking NOWHERE.

They're watching your every move. Every minute of every day, everywhere.

F*ck that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:38 AM (2YhKe)

221 At least 1/3 (very likely more) of "russians" fighting it out in the Ukranian meat grinder are recruits from every shithole in the world - Africa, S. America (cartels), Asian and ME terrorists and similar. The well trained, well equipped sort is not being wasted in this. While Ukraine is using its own population. And yes, NorKo is there too. Russia allows them to train, collect data and perfect their technology on the battlefield. Chance of this precious, invaluable data - they are using Western, NATO technology on the Uke side, going to China ? Very high.

Posted by: runner at August 04, 2026 08:38 AM (g47mK)

222 Daily or near-daily marijuana use has surpassed daily alcohol consumption in the United States, reaching 20.9 million to 21.4 million daily users compared to roughly 17.2 million daily or frequent alcohol drinkers."
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According to self reports and other data there is potentially about a 60% overlap here.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2026 08:39 AM (FgjHu)

223 This is how you stop it. Half the putative leaders will seek other employment immediately, and the rest will walk in fear.

Old ways are best ways.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2026 08:35 AM (BI5O2)

No Way Out with Kevin Costner was a great watch. I wonder how many “Yuri’s” we have in our pentagon (and federal bureaucracy in general)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 08:39 AM (+gA9j)

224 Arson suspect in Spokane wildfire previously killed father for asking him to do the dishes

https://tinyurl.com/3884un5w

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 08:39 AM (ndZc7)

225 and then try them all for espionage and cart them off to lengthy terms in a prison where the living envy the dead.

You old softy. I would be a little harder, borrow after King David.

Identify the problem and ship the problem off to a war zone where they quickly succumb to accidental fratricide. Fog of War thing. Or diabetes. Damned IED. Whatever.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 08:39 AM (a4flb)

226 No Way Out with Kevin Costner was a great watch. I wonder how many “Yuri’s” we have in our pentagon (and federal bureaucracy in general)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 08:39 AM (+gA9j)

Tits on screen is always a good time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:39 AM (2YhKe)

227 “It’s unprecedented in this community. Frankly, it’s unprecedented in many areas of this country,” Tom Clemo, the fire incident commander, said at a news conference on Monday with Gov. Bob Ferguson.

While Clemo said that over the last 48 hours, three major fires burning in the Spokane area have destroyed “upwards of 700” structures.

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2026 08:40 AM (RHGPo)

228 That is on the LEOs because they are stoked on adrenaline and testosterone and ignore the part of the report that identifies the actual make, model, year, color and distinguishing marks like hitch, bumper stickers, and roof racks of the car that is sporting the license plate.
_-_
That's one of the best reasons not to put too much in their hands. Many of them are great, but there are also a bunch of goons.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 08:40 AM (7R9c2)

229 compared to roughly 17.2 million daily or frequent alcohol drinkers."
__________

That sounds very low. I know the younger set isn't drinking much, but that works out to only one in sixteen adults having at least a drink a day. Or even less, depending on the meaning of "frequent."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 04, 2026 08:40 AM (XvL8K)

230 Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: Rust-Oleum Reflective Finish Spray Paint #214944 at August 04, 2026 08:41 AM (2Ez/1)

231 >>>The fakest thing about modern times to me is how we had a manmade virus get released, then an experimental shot that many were forced to take, and now on the ensuing years all these "turbo" illnesses increasing in number and severity and few know and can even really speak about it.
~~~~~

I was in Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer hospital a few months ago and asked one of the nurses if there was an increase in number of cases, types, etc. Told her I would understand if she didn't want to discuss. She told me, "You have no idea." Many more cases than usual, especially in the past year, big increase in rare types of cancer, and large percentage of patients with initial diagnosis of Stage IV.

Anecdotal, I know, but there it is.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 04, 2026 08:42 AM (3ImbR)

232 >Tits on screen is always a good time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:39 AM

You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at August 04, 2026 08:42 AM (2Ez/1)

233 The few times I tried marijuana in contrast college it had no effect on me.

Of course, most of those times I had been drinking as well.

I just never got the appeal of the stuff as opposed to booze.

Posted by: Bulg at August 04, 2026 08:43 AM (77rzZ)

234 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Yesterday, Governor Inslee (D-WA) said the fire in Spokane was from "climate change"

An arson suspect was just arrested

Arson suspect arrested in WA in connection with the Spokane wildfire (700 destroyed buildings)

Prior felony for killing his father

Aaron Farinacci (37)

He shot and killed his father for asking him to do the dishes

https://tinyurl.com/y93nm79r

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2026 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

235 MOULTON: “To the trans community…I’m sorry if my comments hurt you.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

In a more ideal world: "To the trans community, I suggest you man up and take it."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2026 08:43 AM (BpO1e)

236 Talarico puts out on X a interview with a bunch of life-long Republican woman.
Who all support him--surprise!

But you have to go see it.
Not just the goofy leftist Dem framing of issues with the phony portrayal of this deep well of yearning for moderate candidates. Pure Dem code-speak.

No, the best part is just looking at them.
They all look like middle-age women who've spent their whole lives drawing a paycheck from the government.
And the posture and hand movements.

But sure, they're Republicans.
LOL

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2026 08:43 AM (3cUTc)

237 I know the younger set isn't drinking much

===

I have not seen that meself, the "younger set" (25+) ofter reeks of last night's tequila/gin at 8 in the morning.

Posted by: runner at August 04, 2026 08:43 AM (g47mK)

238 IrishEi?!

This is happening now with TecumsehTea's husband.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 08:43 AM (u82oZ)

239 Iran.

Have we tried... carpet bombing yet?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 04, 2026 08:43 AM (1Ff7Z)

240 National Park Service Claim: Trump’s Arch Would Negatively Impact Other DC Historic Sites

-
Too much weight and all DC would flip over.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 08:43 AM (ndZc7)

241 Tits on screen is always a good time.
Posted by: Sponge

Until the aged-out whore flashing 'em decides she's a serious actress and wants to lecture you about what a bad person you are.

Posted by: Auspex at August 04, 2026 08:44 AM (Y8DZL)

242
I just never got the appeal of the stuff as opposed to booze.
Posted by: Bulg at August 04, 2026 08:43 AM (77rzZ)

First time did nothing. 2nd, 3rd and 4th times made me violently ill.

F*ck that.

It takes a hell of a lot more booze to get me violently ill. Unless, of course, I get roofied again...........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:44 AM (2YhKe)

243 Tits on screen is always a good time.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:39 AM (2YhKe)

By all accounts, Sean Young was in the wrong quad of the hot-crazy matrix…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 08:45 AM (yz/88)

244 >>That sounds very low. I know the younger set isn't drinking much, but that works out to only one in sixteen adults having at least a drink a day. Or even less, depending on the meaning of "frequent."

Yea, living next to a very popular east coast resort town I have a hard time believing that number. And it's not like this is the only place in the country people are gathering to drink.

Try getting anywhere near a bar during Happy Hour in Newport. And they aren't just having one drink.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 08:45 AM (viF8m)

245 OrangeEnt

IDK if we have enough gravity bombs left in inventory to carry that out.

A B-52 can drop a lot of unguided bombs.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 08:45 AM (u82oZ)

246 Did Jenene Piero wimp out?

So odd.
She was all fired up to prosecute that guy, guns a'blazing.

And then ... meekly drops all charges.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2026 08:45 AM (3cUTc)

247 We have open communists in mainstream politics now because we allowed thinly veiling communists in mainstream politics for years.

The GOPe's answer of always surrendering was going to lead to this political moment.

You know how the left talks about "de-MAGAfying America"? We need to respond in kind with specific, concrete plans to jail/deport socialists by any means we can.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2026 08:46 AM (sKqQm)

248 One was noted pointed at an Academy Sports... which sells firearms.

That is plain retarded. Academy, like practically every other store, has a myriad of security cameras inside and outside. They don't look at the hundreds of cars passing through the parking lot to get their ad hoc gun list. They simply look at the 4473 the buyer fills out with plenty of PII.

Lowes has been doing surveillance on its customers for ages, with all kinds of face reco on the high theft items. You can't even enter the store without a phalanx of cameras identifying you against a previously seen database.

And Lowes for a long time typically has four Flocks covering their parking lot.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 08:46 AM (a4flb)

249 240 National Park Service Claim: Trump’s Arch Would Negatively Impact Other DC Historic Sites

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Too much weight and all DC would flip over.
_-_
Maybe, just maybe we can get it all to fall over and sink into the swamp. 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 08:47 AM (7R9c2)

250 233 The few times I tried marijuana in contrast college it had no effect on me.
Posted by: Bulg

Same with me snorting those lines of white powder of that stripper's butt.

Posted by: Auspex at August 04, 2026 08:47 AM (Y8DZL)

251 “I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever,’” she said. “No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.

“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.

“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”

-- Liz Warren

While Clemo said that over the last 48 hours, three major fires burning in the Spokane area have destroyed “upwards of 700” structures.

... someone isn't fulfilling their part of the underlying social contract

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2026 08:47 AM (RHGPo)

252 Latest from California: Dem party officially endorses Billionaires Tax.

This is why I can’t buy the story of “DSA is just an op by the Democrat party.” Nope. DSA is taking control of the remains of the Democrat party. And it doesn’t matter if you think the Billionaires Tax is a good idea or a bad one; the reality is that it will bankrupt California state government if it’s passed (which is probably a good thing)

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2026 08:47 AM (Fo91n)

253 Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 08:43 AM (u82oZ

And I encourage anyone who didn't know about this-as well as people who did- to pray for her husband .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2026 08:48 AM (xSAlF)

254 Make a note.

The World’s Third-Smallest Country of Nauru Changes Its Name to Naoero

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 08:48 AM (ndZc7)

255 Try getting anywhere near a bar during Happy Hour in Newport. And they aren't just having one drink.

I get the impression people in New England drink more then the rest of the country.

When I lived in other parts of the country I found I was going to fewer drinking focused events.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2026 08:49 AM (sKqQm)

256 What a crazy broad that Sean Young tuned into, eh?

Posted by: Gary Busey at August 04, 2026 08:49 AM (J4Dwc)

257 It's a sick, sad world.

I try not to pay much attention to it.

Posted by: Case at August 04, 2026 08:49 AM (H3dzX)

258 I hear all this, you know, ‘Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever....
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(...proceeds to do class warfare)

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2026 08:49 AM (FgjHu)

259 Maybe, just maybe we can get it all to fall over and sink into the swamp. 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 08:47 AM (7R9c2)

They'd just build it back up again. And again.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 04, 2026 08:50 AM (1Ff7Z)

260 The few times I tried marijuana in contrast college it had no effect on me.
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I've heard more than enough anecdotes that the stuff today is like hard drugs compared to the stuff way back when.

Like, your puffs then were like a sip of communion wine.
And now a puff is like taking shots of Everclear.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2026 08:50 AM (3cUTc)

261 Do you realize that the efforts of Tony Fauci lead to more deaths than LBJ caused with the VietNam War ?

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2026 08:50 AM (RHGPo)

262 Hitler will be remembered in 1,000 years as the warlord who fart with the best of 'em.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 04, 2026 08:50 AM (FawAu)

263 Salty, we'd just need to level their parliament and targeted houses of the rulers and guard. Not that many at a time.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 04, 2026 08:51 AM (1Ff7Z)

264 I get the impression people in New England drink more then the rest of the country.

When I lived in other parts of the country I found I was going to fewer drinking focused events.
Posted by: 18-1
_________

Top five states in per capita consumption:

New Hampshire
Delaware
Nevada
North Dakota
Montana

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 04, 2026 08:51 AM (XvL8K)

265 Speaking of PII and data breach

The PII of 100k UK police officers has now leaked out into the Internet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2026 08:51 AM (2GVsD)

266 This is why I can’t buy the story of “DSA is just an op by the Democrat party.”

The DSA stuff is a logical next step for Dem politics.

If "late stage capitalism" is the source of all of mankind's problems why wouldn't you suggest something else?

Socialism also lets you change the beneficiaries of wealth in society from capitalists/business owners to bureaucrats and politicians.

And finally, socialism lets you eliminate groups of people you don't like. Either by softer methods like cancelling or more serious ones like in Germany or the USSR

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2026 08:52 AM (sKqQm)

267 Minnesota Introduces ‘MyGender Dolls’ with Interchangeable Genitalia

Wait till they Open the EZ Bake White Supremist Ovens

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 04, 2026 08:52 AM (/+uur)

268 Here is a pic of two Zionist Jews responsible for Spain's invasion !

https://tinyurl.com/ysn2ede5

Posted by: runner at August 04, 2026 08:52 AM (g47mK)

269 Top five states in per capita consumption:

New Hampshire
Delaware
Nevada
North Dakota
Montana

So 3 northern states, Las Vegas, and a fake state. Where are MA and CT on that list?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2026 08:53 AM (sKqQm)

270 Top five states in per capita consumption:

New Hampshire
Delaware
Nevada
North Dakota
Montana
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 04, 2026 08:51 AM (XvL8K)

One is not like the others.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 04, 2026 08:53 AM (1Ff7Z)

271 I was in Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer hospital a few months ago and asked one of the nurses if there was an increase in number of cases, types, etc. Told her I would understand if she didn't want to discuss. She told me, "You have no idea." Many more cases than usual, especially in the past year, big increase in rare types of cancer, and large percentage of patients with initial diagnosis of Stage IV.

Anecdotal, I know, but there it is.
Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 04, 2026 08:42 AM (3ImbR)

When the First Lady was going through her treatments, the infusion / chemo lab was usually 1/2 full every time she went in there........from high school age up through senior aged men and women.

It was frightening, actually.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:53 AM (2YhKe)

272 Identify the problem and ship the problem off to a war zone where they quickly succumb to accidental fratricide. Fog of War thing. Or diabetes. Damned IED. Whatever.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 08:39 AM (a4flb

I like it, but it lacks the key component - flashy public trials where the stakes are high, and the remaining conspirators watch them closely, on pins and needles, until a surprise mass conviction: "all guilty on all counts, 20 years hard labor in a remote reservation."

That clarifies things.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2026 08:53 AM (BI5O2)

273 The PII of 100k UK police officers has now ~~leaked~~ Been Published out into the Internet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2026 08:51 AM (2GVsD)

fixed it

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 04, 2026 08:53 AM (/+uur)

274 "Hey, hey ASF, how many "clot shots" did you administer to date ?"

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2026 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

275 >>I get the impression people in New England drink more then the rest of the country.

Have you ever been to Florida?

You might have been exposed to it more living in NE but the rest of the country pulls its weight. I don't doubt drinking is down a bit with some of the younger generations as drugs has grown but there is still plenty of booze being drunk.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 08:54 AM (viF8m)

276 So, Outdoor Prison Cameras are yesterday's news, so they're fine? Even Lowes has had cameras for like, forever, so what's the big deal? That is not particularly sound reasoning.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 08:54 AM (7R9c2)

277 I would NEVER tell anyone that a 1mw green laser or higher will disable a Flock camera or that there is 3 lbs of copper inside of a Flock Camera.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2026 08:54 AM (BPuyI)

278 I was in Memorial Sloan Kettering cancer hospital a few months ago and asked one of the nurses if there was an increase in number of cases, types, etc. Told her I would understand if she didn't want to discuss. She told me, "You have no idea." Many more cases than usual, especially in the past year, big increase in rare types of cancer, and large percentage of patients with initial diagnosis of Stage IV.

it's beyond obvious.

what did they do to us

so in my case both sides of my family are extremely long lived. I just went to someone's 101st birthday! and I noted, while there, how many of the previous generation - and the one before that!!! - were still kicking!

not many Gen X tho. we're getting decimated (used figuratively). there is no old age for me I don't think.

the few of us that were there, were all a mess (not me!). my younger sibling is on a cocktail of drugs. MUCH YOUNGER SIBLING. we got crushed and it looks like a late-blooming poison flower.

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 04, 2026 08:54 AM (j+aD2)

279 Minnesota Introduces ‘MyGender Dolls’ with Interchangeable Genitalia

That will be the new 'gender inclusive' Mr and Ms Potato Head dolls.

Meanwhile Tampon Timmy Awals identifies as 'touched.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2026 08:54 AM (2GVsD)

280 What a crazy broad that Sean Young tuned into, eh?

Posted by: Gary Busey at August 04, 2026 08:49 AM (J4Dwc)

Poster children for the hollywood biproduct.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:54 AM (2YhKe)

281 Did Jenene Piero wimp out?

So odd.
She was all fired up to prosecute that guy, guns a'blazing.

And then ... meekly drops all charges.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2026 08:45 AM
*******
I don't think Judge Jeanine whimped out.
I think there wasn't enough evidence to prove guilt.
There were people filming the pool and didn't do damage to it, but we're showing the damage that had already been done. Just because they tugged on the lining doesn't mean you're going to be able to convict them of a crime, especially in a DC court..

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2026 08:55 AM (NpAcC)

282 The PII of 100k UK police officers has now leaked out into the Internet.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Oh no!

Anyway...

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2026 08:55 AM (BpO1e)

283 I get the impression people in New England drink more then the rest of the country.

Have you ever been to Florida?

You might have been exposed to it more living in NE but the rest of the country pulls its weight. I don't doubt drinking is down a bit with some of the younger generations as drugs has grown but there is still plenty of booze being drunk.

Posted by: JackStraw

*Wisconsin has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2026 08:55 AM (BPuyI)

284 Meanwhile Tampon Timmy Awals identifies as 'touched.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2026 08:54 AM (2GVsD)

You seem to have misspelled "all up in young boys."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:55 AM (2YhKe)

285 Everything old is new again.

Myspace seeking a revival as its owners plan comeback effort for once-popular social media platform

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 08:55 AM (ndZc7)

286 OrangeEnt

Arrange to have six separate groups of B-52s loaded with gravity bombs.

Stage them over Tehran.

Create 6 different bomb lanes. But have the lines in two triangles, so we put the Star of David in bomb damage over the city.

Please?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 08:55 AM (u82oZ)

287 I like it, but it lacks the key component - flashy public trials where the stakes are high, and the remaining conspirators watch them closely, on pins and needles, until a surprise mass conviction: "all guilty on all counts, 20 years hard labor in a remote reservation."

That is a lot of moving parts. Don't know if it has the same impact as hanging upside down the burned bodies from an Iraqi bridge. Offering up prisoners of war to some evil shit thugs is underrated.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 08:56 AM (a4flb)

288
*Wisconsin has entered the chat.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2026 08:55 AM (BPuyI)

Back when I visited, Green Bay, Wisconsin had the highest bar per capita in the United States.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:56 AM (2YhKe)

289 National Park Service Claim: Trump’s Arch Would Negatively Impact Other DC Historic Sites
---
I've seen that claim but I've not read the source.

I feel it's:
1) an exaggeration of what they actually said, and/or
2) not the official Park Service, but a study group or some such filled with political hacks.
3) or it is the actual position--and we'll find it written by a full roster of Obama/Biden hires.

Which is to say, "F them, they're lying spiteful political hacks who let the whole of DC fall into shit and are mad at Trump for showing what a shit job they've been doing."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2026 08:56 AM (3cUTc)

290
Myspace seeking a revival as its owners plan comeback effort for once-popular social media platform
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 08:55 AM (ndZc7)

First Lady was excited to read about that.......

*sigh.......*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:56 AM (2YhKe)

291 I remember reading somewhere that NONE of the fancy longevity treatments we have are as effective as not being overweight, having some muscle, and getting exercise as you get older.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2026 08:57 AM (sKqQm)

292 Who the hell ( and hell is an appropriate word ) came up with a doll with interchangeable genitalia?!! Seriously, it's demonic !

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2026 08:57 AM (yl+Aq)

293 >>Back when I visited, Green Bay, Wisconsin had the highest bar per capita in the United States.

Beers, brats and da Bears.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 08:57 AM (viF8m)

294 Create 6 different bomb lanes. But have the lines in two triangles, so we put the Star of David in bomb damage over the city.

Please?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 08:55 AM (u82oZ)

Sorta like the Star of David that was on top of the parliament building they never noticed.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 04, 2026 08:57 AM (1Ff7Z)

295 So 3 northern states, Las Vegas, and a fake state. Where are MA and CT on that list?
Posted by: 18-1
_______
Mass - 13
Conn - 25

Full list here:

https://tinyurl.com/5mr5w8yc

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 04, 2026 08:57 AM (XvL8K)

296 Another thing about purges and show trials: the most guilty and the most stupid undiscovered spies will start shrieking like stuck pigs about it... they form the nucleus of the second mole hunt and purge.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2026 08:57 AM (BI5O2)

297 Who the hell ( and hell is an appropriate word ) came up with a doll with interchangeable genitalia?!! Seriously, it's demonic !
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2026 08:57 AM (yl+Aq)

The dolls are being passed out to children in schools in the upper NW.

So, go figure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:58 AM (2YhKe)

298 This is happening now with TecumsehTea's husband.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 08:43 AM (u82oZ)
~~~~~

Oh no. Will add him to my prayers.

When I first started hearing about increased number of cancer cases, I thought perhaps it was because Boomers had reached the age where these diagnoses were more likely. However, the increased appearance of rare cancers as well as all the "turbo-Stage IV" has convinced me otherwise.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 04, 2026 08:58 AM (3ImbR)

299 Myspace seeking a revival as its owners plan comeback effort for once-popular social media platform

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 08:55 AM (ndZc7)

Myspace is selling itself as unique in the social media market.

No algorithms, no endless scrolling, chronological posts instead of curated posts, no sucking up your data for targeted ads.

They're going to do great.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 04, 2026 08:59 AM (AdHga)

300 Create 6 different bomb lanes. But have the lines in two triangles, so we put the Star of David in bomb damage over the city.

Out of curiosity: Is Napalm deployed from B-52 strafing runs no longer a thing?

Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 08:59 AM (a4flb)

301 Have you ever been to Florida?/i]

I have one trip to the Keys where there was plenty of drinking and then a few trips to northern FL where there wasn't much.

Is Miami the center of FL drinking culture? because I haven't been there and I know FL is really several different "regions" all in one state...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2026 08:59 AM (sKqQm)

302 Seriously, it's demonic !
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2026 08:57 AM (yl+Aq)

Well they cant quite yet say we want to fuck the children

Posted by: r hennigantx at August 04, 2026 08:59 AM (/+uur)

303 Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2026 08:47 AM (Fo91n)

The coordination between high levels of both "parties" will eventually be exposed. Just like everything else. By then everyone will have long forgotten I was out on this limb, and I'll no doubt be out on another.

The key if you think of nothing else - DNC still controls 100% of the media. How do you know? The messaging is still highly disciplined across every single outlet. They will use it to destroy whoever they want to destroy, practically at will. Six ways to Sunday, Chuckie said.

Think after all these years and the brush with Trump, the Democrat Party is gonna decide to just lay back, think of England, and suffer a real threat of removal or replacement from anyone...? Or worse, risk having a bunch of embarrassing "losers" run, and relinquish power that way? They have retreated and regrouped for the post-Trump era. This is the beginning.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2026 09:00 AM (FgjHu)

304 _______
Mass - 13
Conn - 25

Full list here:

https://tinyurl.com/5mr5w8yc
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 04, 2026 08:57 AM (XvL8K)

Well, it makes me proud that Texas is #2 in overall gallons.

I work HARD for that spot. It's going to be hard to catch California, since you must drink to survive that shithole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 09:00 AM (2YhKe)

305 Climate change strikes again.

Guy arrested for starting the fires in Spokane has previously been arrested for killing his father.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 09:00 AM (viF8m)

306 They're going to do great.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 04, 2026 08:59 AM (AdHga)

Next up, Friendster.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 04, 2026 09:00 AM (1Ff7Z)

307
They're going to do great.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung

Until they hire the wrong people who enshittify it.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 04, 2026 09:00 AM (BpO1e)

308 Back from the gym and thanks to MP4 and the guy that moves pianos for a living for some great musical suggestions.

As I explained to the night court judge, the cop's radar was wrong; my old VW Bug had a top speed going downhill of 67 mph, so I couldn't possibly be going 72 on the interstate. He responded that I was free to remain in town (and be late to my new job in St. Paul) snd go to trial with my very interesting defense. I paid, of course.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2026 09:00 AM (ijc9M)

309 This is just my theory, but Cucker knows full well there is no Jew world domination, and that Jews are not all powerful, in fact he believes the opposite, he believes that they are a minority that can be abused without recourse, 1st amendment and all that. He was always a bully and a coward. If he for a minute thought any of the shit attributed to Jews is real, he would not say a word about Jews, for the fear of being gutted like a pig in the Smithfield slaughterhouse. He is just a full blown antisemite, in the mold of Himmler.

Posted by: runner at August 04, 2026 09:00 AM (g47mK)

310 A doll with interchangeable genitalia= Mr Potatohead with a groin

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 04, 2026 09:00 AM (BFvh9)

311 James Talarico Claims Jesus Commands a Socialist Healthcare Policy

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Dude, you're thinking of Obama.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 09:01 AM (ndZc7)

312 Police have made an arrest in the Spokane wildfires, 37 yr old man with a record.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2026 09:01 AM (2GVsD)

313

Benny Johnson

@bennyjohnson
Spanish Media CAUGHT Staging Photos With Migrant Children in Ceuta to Guilt Citizens Into Supporting The Invasion

An American journalist was nearly stabbed by criminal invaders yesterday and instead of covering that, the media is running cover for them.

You don’t hate the media enough.

https://tinyurl.com/29hwt8pa

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2026 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

314 So, Texans, why isn’t your state on that booze list?
Y’all talk a mean game, but then you get beaten out by effing DELAWARE??? Give me a break…

Posted by: Bulg at August 04, 2026 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

315 When I first started hearing about increased number of cancer cases, I thought perhaps it was because Boomers had reached the age where these diagnoses were more likely. However, the increased appearance of rare cancers as well as all the "turbo-Stage IV" has convinced me otherwise.
Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 04, 2026 08:58 AM (3ImbR)

In the early days of the 'vaccine' rollout, there were a few doctors that were expressing their concerns about the mRNA and the impending cancers they would cause in the long run. They gave a 5 year window before we'd start seeing cancer rates jump dramatically.

They were silenced.

Who makes chemo treatments again? OH YEAH!!!!! Big Pharma.

There were 2 things......Stop Trump and MAKE TRILLIONS. Yay Covid!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 09:02 AM (2YhKe)

316 According to bodycam evidence, no one in Key West or Flagler County has a BA content less than .25.

Posted by: Ossifer, I Literally Live Right Over There at August 04, 2026 09:02 AM (JM9I6)

317 So, Texans, why isn’t your state on that booze list?
Y’all talk a mean game, but then you get beaten out by effing DELAWARE??? Give me a break…
Posted by: Bulg at August 04, 2026 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

We're #2 in overall gallons. Not everyone drinks, but those that do, bring it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 09:02 AM (2YhKe)

318 Sure seems like we are not adequately shrinking the administrative state. Each party seems to expand its use when in power and complain of its use when out of power with the predictable result.

Yeah, this time there was at least a show of trimming it back with DOGE, etc , but how much of that will actually persist beyond the current administration?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 09:02 AM (7R9c2)

319 Where's Mitch?

Posted by: Someone has to ask it at August 04, 2026 09:03 AM (2Ez/1)

320 Morn' all.. So it looks like the WNBA is going all out for Transgenders... I was confused because they were "fighting" so hard for equal pay/ coverage with Mens sports..Then it hit me... Looks like most the players and Coaches are lesbian.... They are sticking with the LGBTQ123 cabal over actual women..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2026 09:03 AM (vQrSy)

321 Good morning!

Toast w/my first batch of peach-plum jam. Yay, Tuesday.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2026 09:03 AM (X8xt3)

322 I get the impression people in New England drink more then the rest of the country.

If you lived here, you'd drink, too.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at August 04, 2026 09:04 AM (qRla/)

323 Myspace is selling itself as unique in the social media market.

No algorithms, no endless scrolling, chronological posts instead of curated posts, no sucking up your data for targeted ads.

They're going to do great.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 04, 2026 08:59 AM (AdHga)

Have they explicitly mentioned they're not using the data generated by users to continue to train AI...?

No? Well there you go.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2026 09:04 AM (FgjHu)

324 Personally my alcohol consumption dropped like a rock over the last few years as I was mostly a social drinker and after COVIDmania i have much less desire to socialize with the people around me in Bluestateistan

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

325 Sure seems like we are not adequately shrinking the administrative state. Each party seems to expand its use when in power and complain of its use when out of power with the predictable result.

Yeah, this time there was at least a show of trimming it back with DOGE, etc , but how much of that will actually persist beyond the current administration?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 09:02 AM (7R9c2)

DOGE wasn't 'a show.' The federal government is the smallest it has been since 1960.

That's a good thing. You can argue it's not 'adequate,' or enough, but it's definitely happening.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 04, 2026 09:04 AM (AdHga)

326 Men make the best women.

Posted by: And the WNBA knows it at August 04, 2026 09:05 AM (2Ez/1)

327 Community Notes

Mostly yes. We last used napalm in large quantities in Viet Nam. Nothing since WWII compares at all with what we did to all but 3 Japanese cities and Dresden / Hamburg WRT fire bombing.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 09:05 AM (u82oZ)

328 >>I have one trip to the Keys where there was plenty of drinking and then a few trips to northern FL where there wasn't much.

>>Is Miami the center of FL drinking culture? because I haven't been there and I know FL is really several different "regions" all in one state...

When I worked in Tampa, which I learned was at the time anyway the adult entertainment capital of America, strip clubs everywhere, there were a bunch of Florida Gators in my office.

Their annual game against Georgia was something of a legend. People gather for days before the game to party and it is is billed as The World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. More than a little bit of drinking in that crowd.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 09:05 AM (viF8m)

329 I've lived in St Paul, Miami, NYC, Philly (only for 18 months) and spent a lot of winters in Colorado. Of the places I've lived, St. Paul, by far, had the most dedicated drinkers. Football games are crazy, St. Patty's day in St. Paul is matched in my experience only by a typical Thursday night in Chicago.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2026 09:05 AM (AUzxU)

330 Climate change strikes again.

Guy arrested for starting the fires in Spokane has previously been arrested for killing his father.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 09:00 AM (viF8m)

That man is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with him, I can prove it.

Posted by: Randolph Duke at August 04, 2026 09:05 AM (wVcYX)

331 If you lived here, you'd drink, too.

Eastern MA is...horrible.

But for 6 months out of the year NH/ME/VT/Western MA are all wonderful...assuming you can avoid the mosquitos.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2026 09:05 AM (sKqQm)

332 “When I was 25, I ran 30 marathons in 35 days."

... the best marathon runners do 3 or 4 a year

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2026 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

333 So, Outdoor Prison Cameras are yesterday's news, so they're fine? Even Lowes has had cameras for like, forever, so what's the big deal? That is not particularly sound reasoning.

Its a different order of reasoning. You have had these cameras around for nearly a generation and didn't complain, why are you complaining now?

Who torqued your tail so that NOW this is the most important and egregious invasion of your personal privacy since the mobile phone?

It should be the propaganda that you are falling for that should be your immediate threat. In today's world, you should be in Condition Orange on Enemedia or TikTok sourced "news".

Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 09:06 AM (a4flb)

334 “When I was 25, I ran 30 marathons in 35 days."

... the best marathon runners do 3 or 4 a year
Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2026 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

Like a Democrat candidate would lie like that.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 09:07 AM (2YhKe)

335 Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 04, 2026 09:00 AM (BFvh9)

The company that came up with this ( because I don't think it was just teachers ) needs to have scathing letters written to them every single day.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2026 09:07 AM (wmzkx)

336 Where's Mitch?
Posted by: Someone has to ask it

Listening to an Elvis concert. With a Tom Jones intro for his wife.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 09:07 AM (u82oZ)

337 Key West drinking is magnified by the flood of cruise ship people. If the cruisers aren't around Key West is a pretty relaxed little town.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2026 09:08 AM (AUzxU)

338 Its a different order of reasoning. You have had these cameras around for nearly a generation and didn't complain, why are you complaining now?

Who torqued your tail so that NOW this is the most important and egregious invasion of your personal privacy since the mobile phone?

Because most weren't paying attention. Knowledge is power. Now they KNOW they're being overly surveilled everywhere they go. Most don't like that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 09:08 AM (2YhKe)

339 The left is on a jihad against cameras currently because they keep getting caught committing crimes on them.

Though TBH I've never been happy about the idea of cameras everywhere.

Yes it makes police work easier but I'd rather we instead just permanently deal with criminals

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2026 09:08 AM (sKqQm)

340 I would guess it's calculated by sales, and counts the dude who's tippling a bit too much of his fine wine as the guy who's cranking down a pint of cheap schnapps in the shower every morning.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2026 09:09 AM (BI5O2)

341 Its a different order of reasoning. You have had these cameras around for nearly a generation and didn't complain, why are you complaining now?

Who torqued your tail so that NOW this is the most important and egregious invasion of your personal privacy since the mobile phone?

Posted by: Community Notes at August 04, 2026 09:06 AM (a4flb)

Quite a few of us have been complaining about the Surveillance State for decades.

Weird that you didn't know that.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 04, 2026 09:09 AM (AdHga)

342
That's a good thing. You can argue it's not 'adequate,' or enough, but it's definitely happening.
_-_
You are right, of course. That is a good thing, and I AM arguing that it is not adequate.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 09:10 AM (7R9c2)

343 317 So, Texans, why isn’t your state on that booze list?
Y’all talk a mean game, but then you get beaten out by effing DELAWARE??? Give me a break…
Posted by: Bulg at August 04, 2026 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

We're #2 in overall gallons. Not everyone drinks, but those that do, bring it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 09:02 AM (2YhKe)

We in Texas can legally buy hard alcohol only six days a week. And not in grocery stores any days of the week. Baptists. Some counties in Texas are still dry for over-the-counter sale.

Posted by: Gref at August 04, 2026 09:10 AM (5rh/l)

344 18-1

Have we no Superfund sites to clean? No deadwood in forests to collect?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 09:10 AM (u82oZ)

345 Where's Mitch?
Posted by: Someone has to ask it

He's currently on tour with Mike Love and some other guys that bill themselves as The Beach Boys. He works as a roadie and sometimes helping out in the percussion section during a show.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 04, 2026 09:11 AM (wVcYX)

346 didn't complain, why are you complaining now?
_-_
Clearly, we haven't met.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 09:11 AM (7R9c2)

347 You are right, of course. That is a good thing, and I AM arguing that it is not adequate.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 09:10 AM (7R9c2)

Here, we're in agreement. Moar!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 04, 2026 09:11 AM (AdHga)

348 Experienced potheads smoking modern hybrid weed would only need a puff or two to reach an equivalent level.

What you need to be concerned about are “edibles”. Smoking the stuff tends to be self-limiting. Eating it has a time delay, and is basically supplied in candy form. Very easy to overdo it. Great stuff to leave laying around the house for children and pets, I’m sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2026 09:12 AM (Uhisz)

349 The thing with Mitch amuses me. The FNM is mad that Mitch is maybe lying about his health after they spent years covering for Biden and RBG...and isn't some leftist nutter Dem congresswoman missing as well?

Its pure partisan politics.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2026 09:12 AM (sKqQm)

350 Community Notes

In a panopticon society, there are work-arounds. But these are time consuming. Save those skills for when it is really needed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 09:12 AM (u82oZ)

351 Over 50 Rogue Police Officers Accused of Using Flock License Plate Cameras to Stalk People

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 09:12 AM (ndZc7)

352 We live in a digital panopticon police state. How come there’s so much crime?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 04, 2026 09:13 AM (Uhisz)

353 Try getting anywhere near a bar during Happy Hour in Newport. And they aren't just having one drink.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 08:45 AM

Knowing Newport in the summer, I can confirm there is much iron in JackStraw's words.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 04, 2026 09:13 AM (kgE5c)

354 >>One student claimed, with a straight face, that Islamic terrorists are not Muslim because Islam is a non-violent religion and the Quran calls for peace.

We're the fools for tolerating this obviously bullsh#t talk after 25 years of open warfare against us via terrorism.

No true Scotsman --> No true Muslim

She should have be laughed out of the debate.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2026 09:14 AM (X8xt3)

355 The fact that the Cambridge fraud prif got away with spewing that crap for that long shows the uselessness of academia and the media. No one bothered to check his , athletic, charitable or intellectual claims because of his skin color and claims if "autism,". And he was teaching future "leaders"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 04, 2026 09:14 AM (BFvh9)

356 Over 50 Rogue Police Officers Accused of Using Flock License Plate Cameras to Stalk People
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 09:12 AM (ndZc7)

What a bunch of assholes!

Posted by: IRS Employees Looking Up Celebrities' Tax Returns at August 04, 2026 09:14 AM (wVcYX)

357 >>Key West drinking is magnified by the flood of cruise ship people. If the cruisers aren't around Key West is a pretty relaxed little town.

My best friends moved to Marathon a few years ago. I like going to the Keys and have to sail and fish most of my life.

But there is an enormous amount of drinking done by the locals down there, from Largo to Key West. Jimmy Buffet didn't start Margheritaville in Kansas.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 09:14 AM (viF8m)

358 At least Fauci left his erotic fantasies out of his diary.

Posted by: Midget Tag-Team Wrestling at August 04, 2026 09:14 AM (JM9I6)

359 This is why I can’t buy the story of “DSA is just an op by the Democrat party.” Nope. DSA is taking control of the remains of the Democrat party. And it doesn’t matter if you think the Billionaires Tax is a good idea or a bad one; the reality is that it will bankrupt California state government if it’s passed (which is probably a good thing)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 04, 2026 08:47 AM (Fo91n)

Not to worry. We anticipate that the 2028 Democrat nominee for President will receive, at least, 20 trillion votes in California which will cause the nation to raise up in opposition to any Republican usurper who steals the White House and then the new El Presidente will shower California with the tax dollars it wishes to spend. -- The DNC

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2026 09:14 AM (ExV1e)

360 >>Over 50 Rogue Police Officers Accused of Using Flock License Plate Cameras to Stalk People

Wow.

Really, wow.

Never saw that coming.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2026 09:15 AM (X8xt3)

361 And to think this woman might actually be the next Governor of Wisconsin.
I feel like I'm living in another world lately.
God help us and save us from the nightmare that is the Democrat party.

Acyn
@Acyn
Collins: Do you still believe that Thanksgiving should be canceled?

Hong: I'm a chef, and one of the first meals that I made was for the community when I was 16 was a Thanksgiving meal. But Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities. And so I think there, I wanted to make sure that people understood that there are multiple views, but views can evolve. And the position that I'm running for right now, and I think my background as a chef will actually help me become a better governor that's able to bring more people to the table.

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Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2026 09:15 AM (NpAcC)

362 When the First Lady was going through her treatments, the infusion / chemo lab was usually 1/2 full every time she went in there........from high school age up through senior aged men and women.
It was frightening, actually.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 08:53 AM (2YhKe)
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MSK has a satellite facility in NJ and I would pass by radiation oncology and the chemo and infusion areas on the way to an appointment. The waiting areas were always, always full. Heartbreaking.

Praying for your lovely First Lady too Sponge.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 04, 2026 09:15 AM (3ImbR)

363 You might have been exposed to it more living in NE but the rest of the country pulls its weight. I don't doubt drinking is down a bit with some of the younger generations as drugs has grown but there is still plenty of booze being drunk.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2026 08:54 AM (viF8m)

I must be the most boring person in the world. I’ve never had a drop of any adult beverage and I’ve never tried any drug… not even one puff of marijuana. My biggest “sin” in these areas is one summer in college I tried chewing tobacco a few times (skoal); it was so unpleasant I almost vomited (and the constant spitting is disgusting) so I stopped almost instantly with no desire to try again.

My vice is overeating… pizza, burgers… anything that’s bad for you and clogs the arteries I’m stuffing it down my throat with delight. It’s a good thing my favorite hobby is distance running because without all those miles I’d weigh 400 lbs

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2026 09:15 AM (yz/88)

364 It was Delaware that kept re-electing Biden for fifty years.

Posted by: Case at August 04, 2026 09:15 AM (H3dzX)

365 Over 50 Rogue Police Officers Accused of Using Flock License Plate Cameras to Stalk People
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 09:12 AM (ndZc7)
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Ex-spouses no doubt.

Give government surveillance powers and some asshat will be using those to stalk.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2026 09:15 AM (AUzxU)

366
We in Texas can legally buy hard alcohol only six days a week. And not in grocery stores any days of the week. Baptists. Some counties in Texas are still dry for over-the-counter sale.
Posted by: Gref at August 04, 2026 09:10 AM (5rh/l)

Ah yes....the good 'ole Blue Laws.

No hard liquor sales after 9pm (at stores), beer and wine after noon on Sundays.......dry towns and counties.......BLASPHEMY!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 09:16 AM (2YhKe)

367 "Honk for Hong Honkeys!"

At age 18 Hong was committed to a mental hospital.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 04, 2026 09:17 AM (2GVsD)

368 Over 50 Rogue Police Officers Accused of Using Flock License Plate Cameras to Stalk People
Wow.
Really, wow.
Never saw that coming.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2026 09:15 AM (X8xt3)
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Good thing running license plates of cute guys wasn't a crime years ago.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 04, 2026 09:17 AM (3ImbR)

369 It is often the case that the party out of power sees danger in everything the government gets its hands on, but when in power, they can't seem to muster an adequate amount of will to do something about it. Oddly enough, I see the Outdoor Prison Cameras as this type of problem. By the way, isn't Axon the new hotness there, not Flock?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at August 04, 2026 09:17 AM (7R9c2)

370 No matter how much Trump succeeds in downsizing the federal government, it’s all for naught once the dims get back in power.

Posted by: Bulg at August 04, 2026 09:17 AM (77rzZ)

371
Praying for your lovely First Lady too Sponge.
Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 04, 2026 09:15 AM (3ImbR)

Thank you. She is doing very well on that front. All tests have been coming back clean, so we're very thankful for that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 04, 2026 09:17 AM (2YhKe)

372 It's hit and miss. Some shifts are really good and others are horrific.

Posted by: TSA Employees on the body scanners at August 04, 2026 09:17 AM (wVcYX)

373 Abortion, is there nothing it can't do?

Planned Parenthood: “Abortion is gender-affirming care”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, and You're Not at August 04, 2026 09:17 AM (ndZc7)

374 Where would you put Flock cameras, maned by AoSHQ trained AI?

Dem watering holes? Congressional restrooms?

DMV and all voting sites?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 04, 2026 09:18 AM (u82oZ)

375 I read this morning the the Cueta thing is totally overblown. All of the people have been sent back to Morocco.

Is that true?

Posted by: MJ at August 04, 2026 09:18 AM (XOmY9)

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