Wednesday Morning Rant

Contemptuous Lies

"Journalists" are the lowest form of life. They are people who are the "salt of the earth" in the sense that they're the salt tilled into farmland to destroy it as a barbarian horde withdraws. The most insulting thing that the trolls of the Press complex do is vomit out limitless column-inches telling their readers that red is green, that up is down and that your lying eyes and passing familiarity with the obvious is the real disinformation.

There was a splendid example of this a couple of years ago, when Trump was on the campaign trail. In the wake of the stories coming out Springfield, OH and Trump mentioning it in the debate that ultimately led to Biden's withdrawal, the Press response was as consistent as it was obviously absurd. The BBC provides this example, but it could have come from any of them:

During ABC's presidential debate, Trump said: "In Springfield, they are eating the dogs. The people that came in, they are eating the cats. They're eating – they are eating the pets of the people that live there."
But city officials have told BBC Verify there have been "no credible reports" that this has actually happened.

The officials said it isn't happening, you say? Well, that's good enough for me!

They did no reporting. They asked no real people in Springfield. They didn't send a "journalist" to go to migrant areas of Springfield and talk to the natives. They picked up the phone, got the official Party line from the local officials, printed it uncritically and asserted that anyone claiming otherwise was spreading disinformation from Trump and his villainous allies. This trip down memory lane is just to set the stage, because this is such a common Press tactic that it has become almost invisible. The progression is always the same:
1. There is a newsworthy event, or an event that becomes newsworthy due to wider circumstances
2. Somebody makes a believable assertion that throws the Party's policies into question, or there is something so obviously wrong that the normals can easily infer that something's up
3. The Press interviews Party officials or other apparatchiks who say that the thing isn't what it looks like
4. The Press breathlessly reports that it's not what you think, and you're subscribing to disinformative conspiracy theories if you disagree

It's happening again, in a big way, courtesy of the debacle in Ceuta. The events there are so obviously coordinated and so rapid that precisely nobody who has looked at the situation said, "well, that sure looks spontaneous and organic." Whatever is going on Cueta, it clearly isn't happening in a vacuum - so the press does what it does. The Party line is that no Spanish policy could be involved, that no EU policy could be involved, that no NGOs can be involved, that this whole thing is normal and natural and you're some kind of lunatic who got rooked by baseless conspiracy theories if you question it. The AP has a lovely fact check:

CLAIM: Spain’s move to legalize the status of immigrants caused the rush.
THE FACTS: Spain’s government is carrying out an amnesty for immigrants without residency permits who could prove they had been living in the country for at least five months and arrived before Jan. 1, 2026. Over 1 million people applied before the window closed at the end of last month.

So they did grant amnesty - but that doesn't apply to these guys because they came too recently. Nobody said that these guys would get amnesty because of the law change - but the AP certainly can't discuss how amnesty inevitably leads to more migration or sets the stage for additional violations of the border. Ignore the problem. Just say it's not a thing.

CLAIM: A misconstrued Spanish court ruling is to blame.
THE FACTS: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has pushed the argument that a recent ruling by Spain’s Supreme Court had been intentionally misconstrued by migrant smugglers to convince thousands of people to cross the border by swimming around the border fence.
That court ruling said migrants arriving by sea could not be summarily deported without due process, unlike those who cross by land or climb the border fence because they had not crossed a physical barrier.
...
"The departures were promoted in a certain way. At first, people were hearing that the border was open, and then everyone started referring to the Spanish court decision. That contributed to the crossings," said Achraf Maimouni, a human-rights activist.

So the ruling was construed as saying it said exactly what it said, but the problem is that people noticed that the ruling said what it said. Amazing! AP "debunked" this one by verifying it. Top-notch work.

CLAIM: Those who crossed will end up in mainland Europe.
THE FACTS: The Ceuta crossings have led to political leaders in Italy, France and other EU nations to take measures that appear aimed at stopping people from entering their countries. Premier Giorgia Meloni threatened to suspend Italy’s open-border Schengen agreement with Spain even though Italy doesn’t share a border with Spain and receives many more migrants crossing the Mediterranean than Spain. French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said France would also strengthen border checks with Spain.

This one is amazing. "This claim is absolutely true - but because it's true, some other European countries are on the brink of destroying the treaty basis for the entire European Union, so it now isn't true." That's one hell of a take. I'd love it if this spells the beginning of the end of the EU, but claiming that countries abrogating Schengen because of the risks associated with Schengen means that Schengen presents no risks is such a baffling conclusion that only a genuine retard - a Press-grade retard - could come up with it.

This tactic has long since become absurd. People see what's happening and know that something's rotten and talk about it, so the Press comes marching in to interview some officials or NGO types and then claim that none of this is what it so obviously is. A group of prominent liars asks another group of prominent liars a question and then uncritically publishes the deceitful response while liberally filling in the blanks however they please - and then have the temerity to lament the loss of institutional trust. It s not difficult to explain the latter, as this level of contemptuous and deceitful stupidity is so common and so normal that it has become transparent to the point of tedium.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2026 11:00 AM (2YhKe)

2 MANNIX!!!!

Not a cop.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2026 11:00 AM (2YhKe)

3 Off to lum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2026 11:00 AM (2YhKe)

4 even though Italy doesn't share a border with Spain

They share a maritime border.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2026 11:03 AM (77rzZ)

5 The media exists to spread hate and fear while promoting homosexuality and racism.

Posted by: Zombie Walter Cronkite at August 05, 2026 11:03 AM (qC81n)

6 It was a great song!

https://youtu.be/3BrCvZmSnKA

Posted by: Thanks Kiffness! at August 05, 2026 11:04 AM (2Ez/1)

7 There should be strict guidelines as to appearance for radiation technicians who work with prostate cancer patients.

One of my techs today was a pleasant looking woman, probably in her early 50s. The other, however, was smoking hot. I'm unused to being half naked around smoking hot women to whom I'm not married. Fortunately, I didn't embarrass myself.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2026 11:04 AM (ExV1e)

8 People see what's happening and know that something's rotten and talk about it, so the Press comes marching in to interview some officials or NGO types and then claim that none of this is what it so obviously is. A group of prominent liars asks another group of prominent liars a question and then uncritically publishes the deceitful response while liberally filling in the blanks however they please - and then have the temerity to lament the loss of institutional trust.

The Press: Elon, the world's richest man, is doing all kinds of evil things because he wants more money.

Also The Press: NGOs, which rely entirely on taxpayer money granted them without the approval of the taxpayers, are all honest and aboveboard, and if you doubt that, you're a moron and a liar.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2026 11:04 AM (Riz8t)

9 It's not happening and it's good that it's happening.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider: Gotterdammerung at August 05, 2026 11:04 AM (AdHga)

10 There should be strict guidelines as to appearance for radiation technicians who work with prostate cancer patients.

One of my techs today was a pleasant looking woman, probably in her early 50s. The other, however, was smoking hot. I'm unused to being half naked around smoking hot women to whom I'm not married. Fortunately, I didn't embarrass myself.

Make lemonade out of lemons. It sounds like you have a readymade Penthouse Letter.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

11 This tactic has long since become absurd. People see what's happening and know that something's rotten and talk about it, so the Press comes marching in to interview some officials or NGO types and then claim that none of this is what it so obviously is.
=========================
Propaganda Press and Experts, a flea-ridden corpse of unvirtuous self-reinforcement.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 05, 2026 11:06 AM (/6v0V)

12 Because of Schengen, 28 European countries effectively "share a border" with Spain.

Posted by: Euroweaniepalooza at August 05, 2026 11:06 AM (qUkBO)

13 It's not happening and it's great that it is.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2026 11:06 AM (X8xt3)

14 I'm still trying to figure out what got in to Meloni vis a vis helping with Iran. She's usually rock solid.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

15
"That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse."

Posted by: Samuel L. Clemens at August 05, 2026 11:07 AM (2Ez/1)

16 There was a splendid example of this a couple of years ago

This is our actual job. The 'splendid examples' serve to keep you from noticing that everything you see and hear is twisted in some degree or another to serve our masters.

Posted by: The Press at August 05, 2026 11:07 AM (7kply)

17 It sounds like you have a readymade Penthouse Letter.

Do they still have those? Most folks nowadays would just upload the video.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2026 11:08 AM (ExV1e)

18 The media is not your friend. They hate you. If they had a chance they would kill your dog.

Posted by: Case at August 05, 2026 11:08 AM (H3dzX)

19 Claim: Trump woke up at 7:00am today.

AP Factcheck: Trump actually woke up at 6:59, making his claim a dangerous fascist lie.

Posted by: How it works at August 05, 2026 11:08 AM (3cXW4)

20 Re: Ceuta, I read that the town has ~87,000 residents and then 60,000 Moroccans crashed in.
That is unfathomable.

And yes, no way that wasn't organized and facilitated.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2026 11:08 AM (X8xt3)

21 Right behind the subhuman journalists is big tech.

There WERE very large demonstations during Covid that were effectively erased.

Perhaps if those demonstrations more mostly peaceful that coverup wouldn't have been so easy.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 05, 2026 11:08 AM (Sco7b)

22 It sounds like you have a readymade Penthouse Letter.

Do they still have those? Most folks nowadays would just upload the video.

TBH, I don't know. I stopped "reading" PH about 50 years ago.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2026 11:09 AM (Riz8t)

23 but claiming that countries abrogating Schengen because of the risks associated with Schengen means that Schengen presents no risks is such a baffling conclusion that only a genuine retard - a Press-grade retard - could come up with it.

I continually read that as 'shenanigan.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2026 11:09 AM (2YhKe)

24 I watch CNN. I'm informed!

Posted by: Tom Tuppence, Middleborough, MA at August 05, 2026 11:09 AM (qUkBO)

25 Propaganda Press and Experts, a flea-ridden corpse of unvirtuous self-reinforcement.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 05, 2026 11:06 AM (/6v0V)
-----------
Libel! We only inhabit live bodies.

Posted by: United Vermin Brotherhood, Local 453 at August 05, 2026 11:09 AM (amcLV)

26 Sadly I suspect that many younger journalists are not even aware that they are tools of the communists. The J-schools were so well taken over that their graduates just think they are standing up for the little guys, and they immediately dismiss inconvenient facts as disinformation or 'ops' by the vast right wing conspiracy.

I think the only tactic that might work against them is endless mockery of the stupid lies they spew.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 05, 2026 11:10 AM (PV+Zw)

27 I feel the same way about Ceuta as I do about New York. And California. And Washington. And... I know I should care because the downstream effects will reach me eventually but I don't because in all those cases, they're getting what they asked for.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 05, 2026 11:10 AM (vTZFs)

28 The media exists to spread hate and fear while promoting homosexuality and racism.

but mostly...! Oh, no. It's really hard to choose...

Posted by: The Media at August 05, 2026 11:10 AM (7kply)

29 Thomas Sowell strikes again, like clockwork.

We are currently in STAGE 4 "It's complicated."

"STAGE 1. THE “CRISIS”: Some situation exists, whose negative aspects the anointed propose to eliminate.
STAGE 2. THE “SOLUTION”: Policies to end the “crisis” are advocated by the anointed, who say that these policies will lead to beneficial result A. Critics say that these policies will lead to detrimental result Z. The anointed dismiss these latter claims as absurd and “simplistic,” if not dishonest.
STAGE 3. THE RESULTS: The policies are instituted and lead to detrimental result Z.
STAGE 4. THE RESPONSE: Those who attribute detrimental result Z to the policies instituted are dismissed as “simplistic” for ignoring the “complexities” involved, as “many factors” went int determining the outcome."

Posted by: 29Victor at August 05, 2026 11:10 AM (0MjtC)

30 Saying Spain and Italy don’t share a border is like saying California and Texas don’t share a border. Uhm ok. But I can get from Cali to Texas via NM and AZ. All 50 states share a border with each other when it comes to the ability to get from one state to the other without going through a border.

Posted by: How it works at August 05, 2026 11:10 AM (3cXW4)

31 The Moroccan immigrants are just popping up, like some other things.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 05, 2026 11:10 AM (umw9l)

32 One of my techs today was a pleasant looking woman, probably in her early 50s. The other, however, was smoking hot. I'm unused to being half naked around smoking hot women to whom I'm not married. Fortunately, I didn't embarrass myself.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2026 11:04 AM (ExV1e)

"It was the best of days, it was the worst of days."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2026 11:11 AM (2YhKe)

33 Ask your podiatrist if Schengen is right for you.

Posted by: Big Farma at August 05, 2026 11:11 AM (2Ez/1)

34 To the surprise of absolutely nobody, Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi will be visiting Journalists in Residence at the Columbia School of Journalism for the 26-27 academic year.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2026 11:12 AM (Riz8t)

35 A lefty guy I know just published a book on the future of the EU, the central tenant of which is that the EU has turned into a dictatorship of sorts, benevolent generally, and run technocratically. For now.

Because it was never an organic, "consent of the governed" organization, it was always an imposition from above. Now it is threatening to turn ugly.

Unfettered immigration, IMO, is the issue that will break the Union. First off, the countries cannot afford it. Second, their prisons aren't big enough (See UK "Early Release" plans). Third, there is cultural backlash turning overwhelmingly political (Germany).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 05, 2026 11:13 AM (zG53D)

36 Do not take Schengen if you’re allergic to Schengen.

Side effects may include a muslimification of your country and general retardation.

Posted by: How it works at August 05, 2026 11:13 AM (3cXW4)

37 It sounds like you have a readymade Penthouse Letter.

Do they still have those? Most folks nowadays would just upload the video.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2026 11:08 AM (ExV1e)

I mean, besides the fact that largely everything listed in Penthouse Letters likely never happened.........makes it hard to film.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2026 11:13 AM (2YhKe)

38 Pimps are better people, less evil and less bad for society compared to Journalists.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 05, 2026 11:13 AM (xcxpd)

39 "Saying Spain and Italy don’t share a border is like saying California and Texas don’t share a border. Uhm ok. But I can get from Cali to Texas via NM and AZ. All 50 states share a border with each other when it comes to the ability to get from one state to the other without going through a border."
++++

But you do have to cross the Mediterranean Sea to get from Morocco to Spain.

Posted by: Google Maps at August 05, 2026 11:13 AM (2Ez/1)

40 At this point, what difference does it make.

Posted by: Kafiroon at August 05, 2026 11:13 AM (VyFya)

41 I mean, besides the fact that largely everything listed in Penthouse Letters likely never happened.........makes it hard to film.

I'm right here ya know.

Posted by: AI at August 05, 2026 11:14 AM (vTZFs)

42 >>This tactic has long since become absurd. People see what's happening and know that something's rotten and talk about it, so the Press comes marching in to interview some officials or NGO types and then claim that none of this is what it so obviously is.

The problem is that they are writing history's first draft.
Today we see the obvious lie. But they keep repeating in, and 10 years later you hear it and you think, "hey, I seem to recall that wasn't the case," but you do an internet search and all you pull up are links that confirm the lie. Then 15-20 years later, they've worked the lie into textbooks, scholarship, heck, there's even a new HBO "based on true events" movie that all reinforce the lie. Now the people who didn't live through it, or who didn't really follow it at the time, are completely brainwashed.

They do this because it works.
They do this because they are in it for the long game. Sure, we'll point and laugh at how "stupid" these journalists are, but they are creating the foundation for the lie to live on, long past our memory of the truth.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2026 11:14 AM (X8xt3)

43 If Schengen causes injury or death to you or a family member, call your doctor immediately.

Posted by: Euroweaniepalooza at August 05, 2026 11:14 AM (qUkBO)

44 I mean, besides the fact that largely everything listed in Penthouse Letters likely never happened.........makes it hard to film.

Yup. If there's one thing porn is known for, it's verisimilitude.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

45 But you do have to cross the Mediterranean Sea to get from Morocco to Spain.
Posted by: Google Maps

You just have to walk around a fence.

Posted by: t-bird at August 05, 2026 11:15 AM (zfkPG)

46 But you do have to cross the Mediterranean Sea to get from Morocco to Spain.
___

No, you don't.

Posted by: Euroweaniepalooza at August 05, 2026 11:15 AM (qUkBO)

47 Yup. If there's one thing porn is known for, it's verisimilitude.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

Vera Similitude? What was she in? AFAF

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2026 11:16 AM (sRo0+)

48 >>Thomas Sowell strikes again, like clockwork.

That man is a gem, and it's insane that he has not be celebrated more. But we all know why he's been overlooked by academia.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2026 11:17 AM (X8xt3)

49 "Side effects may include a muslimification of your country and general retardation."

And cannibalism.

Posted by: Important footnote at August 05, 2026 11:18 AM (tH4dc)

50 Dear AoS Forum...

I clicked on an ad for toe fungus featuring an elderly woman with tremendous sweater puppies. You won't believe what happened next...

Posted by: ... at August 05, 2026 11:18 AM (sRo0+)

51 But you do have to cross the Mediterranean Sea to get from Morocco to Spain.

Posted by: Google Maps

Um, no. That's the whole point of Ceuta. It's literally a gate crash or a 20 yard swim from Morroco to Spain. From there, it's just a matter of obtaining transportation. Unless Spain is going to block travel from Spain to Spain, which I guess they theoretically could.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 05, 2026 11:19 AM (vTZFs)

52 Is this about me?

Posted by: Elderly woman with tremendous sweater puppies at August 05, 2026 11:20 AM (2Ez/1)

53 You're in me
I'm in you

Posted by: Morocco Framptom at August 05, 2026 11:20 AM (qUkBO)

54 "Journalists in Residence." Like they're some Indian guru, all beatific faces while shaking down the gullible Western rubes.

What a load of horseshit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2026 11:20 AM (u/oMr)

55 >>Vera Similitude? What was she in? AFAF

If that isn't a drag queen's name already, it soon will be.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2026 11:20 AM (X8xt3)

56 I would like to say that journalists are lazy nowadays but they have always been that way. The only difference is that they have the internet and easy communication.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 05, 2026 11:21 AM (+4yJ5)

57 "'Journalists'" are the lowest form of life"

They are the modern-day equivalent of actors, court jesters, and performers of old. Basically, cheap whores.

Today's "journalists" are much better paid, but do not reside much higher in the minds of the public. Poll after poll puts journalists at a lower approval rating than "rats crawling up your ass and laying eggs."

Journalists are routinely despised by normal people. But -- like the performers of old -- they function as performers and cosplayers in what has become not informative but almost pure theater.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 05, 2026 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

58 I mean, besides the fact that largely everything listed in Penthouse Letters likely never happened.........makes it hard to film.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2026 11:13 AM (2YhKe)

Are you suggesting that I was never kidnapped by a college cheerleading squad and forced to give them sweet, sweet, lovin' for 72 hours to earn my freedom?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2026 11:21 AM (ExV1e)

59 That man is a gem, and it's insane that he has not be celebrated more. But we all know why he's been overlooked by academia.

--------

He knows how to get a government ID?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2026 11:21 AM (u/oMr)

60 Vera Similitude? What was she in?

Presumably, something by Tolkien.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2026 11:23 AM (ExV1e)

61 Italy and Spain DO share a border. A maritime border between Sardinia and the Balearic Islands.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2026 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

62 A progressive solution to Mamdani’s free grocery stores.

Government-Run Stores To Allow Anyone To Buy Groceries As Long As They Have Special Mark On Hand Or Forehead

-
From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 05, 2026 11:23 AM (ndZc7)

63 And yes, no way that wasn't organized and facilitated.
Posted by: Lizzy

The King of Morocco let a whole bunch of guys out of prison.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2026 11:24 AM (77rzZ)

64 "It's literally a gate crash or a 20 yard swim from Morroco to Spain. From there, it's just a matter of obtaining transportation."
****
So 50,000 fine upstanding young Mohammedan males are going to orderly board lots and lots of ferries to make the trip?

Gonna need a shit-load of dimes.

Posted by: Taggart at August 05, 2026 11:25 AM (2Ez/1)

65 >>I would like to say that journalists are lazy nowadays but they have always been that way. The only difference is that they have the internet and easy communication.

I recall listening to Hugh Hewitt's show years ago, when he had a standard set of questions* he asked journalist guests. There was one arrogant dude who crashed so hard it made him famous (briefly).

*IIRC: Who was Alger Hiss? Name the last 3 books you've read about what's going on in the Middle East.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2026 11:25 AM (X8xt3)

66 Giant throbbing Versilimitude was a movie from the porn golden sge

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 05, 2026 11:25 AM (BFvh9)

67 >>The King of Morocco let a whole bunch of guys out of prison.

Oh, d@mn, hadn't seen that.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2026 11:26 AM (X8xt3)

68 Colorado and Mars share a border. Don't believe me? Just look at our governor.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 05, 2026 11:26 AM (ndZc7)

69 They do this because it works.
They do this because they are in it for the long game. Sure, we'll point and laugh at how "stupid" these journalists are, but they are creating the foundation for the lie to live on, long past our memory of the truth.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 05, 2026 11:14 AM

Yep, that's why the left has been using the term "weapons of war" so much lately. They are trying to get that term into common use so it will drift over to the legal world when they file all of these stupid lawsuits over AR-15's and eventually they will label all of them as "weapons of war" and get them banned for civilian use.

They are indeed playing the long game as you noted.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 05, 2026 11:28 AM (cpFbA)

70 Where'd everybody go?

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2026 11:30 AM (77rzZ)

71 And yes, no way that wasn't organized and facilitated.
Posted by: Lizzy

The King of Morocco let a whole bunch of guys out of prison.
Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2026 11:24 AM (77rzZ)
_______

Yea, and there were reports -- and even videos, IIRC -- of huge transportation trucks (probably military) dropping off these cockroaches in front of the gates to Ceuta.

This was essentially a Moroccan government operation to get rid of thousands of criminals, vagrants, and undesirables. "Dump these roaches in Spain, ain't our problem any more." Castro did the same to the USA back in the day.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 05, 2026 11:31 AM (iFTx/)

72 *Taps mic*

Is this thing on?

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2026 11:31 AM (77rzZ)

73 The FBI Knew the Russia Hoax Was Dead … Then Opened a Secret Probe to Brand Trump a Kremlin Asset

Posted by: SMOD at August 05, 2026 11:32 AM (Jw93N)

74 70 Where'd everybody go?
Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2026 11:30 AM

Sitting right here.

Posted by: Elderly woman with tremendous sweater puppies at August 05, 2026 11:32 AM (2Ez/1)

75 This was essentially a Moroccan government operation to get rid of thousands of criminals, vagrants, and undesirables. "Dump these roaches in Spain, ain't our problem any more." Castro did the same to the USA back in the day.

With the additional potential benefit that Spain just says "screw it", and walks away from their African holdings.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)

76 So 50,000 fine upstanding young Mohammedan males are going to orderly board lots and lots of ferries to make the trip?

Gonna need a shit-load of dimes.
__

We're here to help!

Posted by: Red Cross at August 05, 2026 11:33 AM (qUkBO)

77 Righteous rant.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 05, 2026 11:33 AM (dK+Kv)

78 The NRSC is playing dirty.

Sam Stein
@samstein
Subtle stuff from the NRSC.

Having referred to him up to this point as "Abdul El-Sayed" in its press releases, the committee this morning goes with "Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed"

-
Using his real name is Islamophic!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 05, 2026 11:33 AM (ndZc7)

79 Journalists are the lowest form of life
=============================
Oh, I don't know. They're useful.

Posted by: Vladdy Lenin at August 05, 2026 11:34 AM (CCSnP)

80 The pan-European populous has, within it's DNA, centuries of rule by hereditary elites, mostly for worse than better.
But it's this hard-wired impulse to accept serfdom, or at least acquiesce to the control exercised by the elites, that has allowed Brussels to exercise it's imperious rule over 450M souls.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at August 05, 2026 11:35 AM (MNCvZ)

81 Who names their kid Abdulrahman?

Posted by: A question that needs to be asked at August 05, 2026 11:35 AM (2Ez/1)

82 The other annoying part is that the media adores using "far right," "alt-right" and "right wing" to discredit news sources that aren't on their plantation.

You only think you hate the media enough. I promise you that you do not.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 05, 2026 11:36 AM (+4yJ5)

83 60,000 invaders and none of them had sweater puppies.

Posted by: What Are The Odds? at August 05, 2026 11:36 AM (JM9I6)

84 In addition, if someone searches for the topic to find out the truth, the first thing they see in the search results are the ai lies. Like, "Well, it's not an invasion... just normal migration... because it's not a uniformed army"

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 05, 2026 11:36 AM (aJQbY)

85 He knows how to get a government ID?
Posted by: Cicero

And he isn't a changing consumer habit.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 05, 2026 11:37 AM (+4yJ5)

86 This was essentially a Moroccan government operation to get rid of thousands of criminals, vagrants, and undesirables. "Dump these roaches in Spain, ain't our problem any more." Castro did the same to the USA back in the day.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 05, 2026 11:31 AM

I was stationed at GITMO when castor opened the prisons and let all of the criminals out. Most of the were rounded up at sea by the Coast Guard and the Navy and brought to GITMO. We put up a huge tent city for them. One day the broke through the wire and stormed the mcdonalds. I got caught up in that mess and thought I was a goner. Eventually they were all flown to the states.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 05, 2026 11:37 AM (cpFbA)

87 Eugyppius' analysis -- https://tinyurl.com/ywcvdhzp

The migrants aren’t really a great labour force; they remain overwhelmingly on the dole and unemployed. The humanitarian thesis feels increasingly post hoc to me – a story we started telling ourselves when the migration was already happening and we needed somehow to feel good about it. And some parties on the left may once have hoped that the migrants would form a favourable client class to cement their political dominance, but on the electoral front migration has served only to fuel the rise of the populist right.

Mostly these insane things happen because we’re weak, and our leaders have lost interest in basic state functions like border security. They’ve moved on to more interesting and exotic projects – weird social engineering projects to stamp out whatever they imagine “the right” to be, weird energy projects to phase out fossil fuel combustion, weird governance projects to relocate responsibility over many aspects of the economy and daily life to unelected managers and technocrats. Mass migration is in nobody’s interest but it keeps happening because the flabby and distracted states of Europe can’t be arsed to stop it.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2026 11:38 AM (rbvCR)

88 Are you now, or have you ever been, MAGA adjacent?

Forbes
@Forbes
[Canadian singer] Tate McRae Distances Herself From MAGA Association—But Doesn’t Outright Deny

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 05, 2026 11:38 AM (ndZc7)

89 I have an extended family member who is a "journalist." I can confirm they are lowest form of life.

Posted by: And they want us dead at August 05, 2026 11:38 AM (qUkBO)

90 Eugyppius is German, and has a first hand seat for viewing what is going on there.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2026 11:38 AM (rbvCR)

91 BREAKING: The Spanish royals gathered for their annual glitzy Marivent Palace reception in Majorca on Tuesday, exuding effortless elegance.

Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofia stepped out with their parents, King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia, and grandmother Queen Sofia. The gathering was attended by local authorities and dignitaries from across the Balearic Islands.

Queen Sofia, embraced a bold and bright colour scheme, opting for a silk floral Alejandro de Miguel caftan over a burgundy dress, which she paired with a geometric necklace and Isabel Gurach brooch to accessorise.

Her granddaughters arrived in style. Leonor, who is heir to the throne, embracing her natural brunette waves, while she wore a two-piece orange and red ensemble by Spanish brand Thinking Mu.

Leonor wore the top to a Bad Bunny concert in Madrid earlier this summer. This time, she accessorised the look with gold sandals and a gold arm cuff.

Her sister, meanwhile, stepped out in a pink, blue and white floral Libelula maxi dress by Italian brand Momoni, which she finished with a gold belt.

Queen Letizia was regal in a cream midi dress with stylish coordinated sandals.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at August 05, 2026 11:39 AM (0sNs1)

92 If you want to read something that will make you say "What the fuck?!" then read this thread. No wonder Fauci felt safe shipping bio weapon technology and money to China.

>>@nataliegwinters

>>REVEALED: Top American generals formed a secret backchannel with a CCP military intelligence front that instructed them:

>>“We wish you would advocate positions” favorable to China.

>>Some ended up on China’s payroll.

https://tinyurl.com/ybp9pmch

Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2026 11:39 AM (viF8m)

93 Who names their kid Abdulrahman?
Posted by: A question that needs to be asked

About a 1/3 of the ME

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 05, 2026 11:39 AM (xJpaU)

94 Will they sell cigarettes at the NYC People's Grocery Stores?

Posted by: Zombie Eric Garner, Fat Loosie Sellsman at August 05, 2026 11:39 AM (qC81n)

95 Who names their kid Abdulrahman?

Wasn't that the name of the Blind Sheik who planned the '93 WTC bombing? But I think that was his first and last name so I wonder if this guy is intentionally named after him.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 05, 2026 11:40 AM (vTZFs)

96 The fact that the commie media is desperate to spin this Moroccan invasion into something other than what it clearly is a very welcome and positive development.

Why?

1. The story is too big and explosive to bury. The commie media initially tried to ignore or downplay it. That failed.

2. The desperate spin shows the commie media is very worried about the optics of the invasion. Thousands of half-naked mongrel men pouring into a city like a scene out of World War Z is much scarier and more provocative than the pics of short fat women dragging haggardly babies in caravan lines in Mexico.

3. In fact, the optics are so abominably rat-smellingly bad that half of normally immigrant-loving Europe closed or threatened to close their borders to Spain.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 05, 2026 11:40 AM (iFTx/)

97 Who names their kid Abdulrahman?
Posted by: A question that needs to be asked at August 05, 2026 11:35 AM

* raises hand *

Posted by: Abdully al-McAbdulface at August 05, 2026 11:41 AM (0sNs1)

98 >>REVEALED: Top American generals formed a secret backchannel with a CCP military intelligence front that instructed them:

>>“We wish you would advocate positions” favorable to China.

>>Some ended up on China’s payroll.

https://tinyurl.com/ybp9pmch
Posted by: JackStraw

Wood chipper.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 05, 2026 11:41 AM (xJpaU)

99 Here is the GOP's latest ad against El-Sayed. It's a bit heavy-handed, but should be effective.

https://tinyurl.com/536p5cfy

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t)

100 Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at August 05, 2026 11:39 AM (0sNs1)

If it's not from Piper, then it's fake fashion news.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2026 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

101 Who names their kid Abdulrahman?

-
It's short for Abdulrahman Noodles.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 05, 2026 11:42 AM (ndZc7)

102 Nope. I'm wrong. His name was Omar Abdel-Rahman. And El-Sayed was born in '84 so not likely to be a tribute name.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 05, 2026 11:43 AM (vTZFs)

103 >>Wood chipper.

If you read through the thread you will see Hillary very prominently mentioned.

And don't forget, Joey shit pants was given China and Ukraine to oversee as part of his VP assignment.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2026 11:43 AM (viF8m)

104 I'm still trying to figure out what got in to Meloni vis a vis helping with Iran. She's usually rock solid.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2026 11:07 AM (Riz8t)

Italian politics and retaliation from Brussels, most likely.
She is not a strongman, she is head of the Italian state, which is like being the navigator of a clown car filled with clowns who dislike each other slightly more than they dislike her.
She is likely the best European politician of our time, but that is competing with Macron and Merz, and whoever the current Brit fairy is running the UK, and they and the EU have a more influence than they should.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2026 11:44 AM (rbvCR)

105 Hasn't the invasion been completed? They're raping your women and children and beating down you law enforcement with impunity. What will it take, more arson?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 05, 2026 11:44 AM (iySPJ)

106 Is Eugyppius female? With a callipygian buttocks?

Posted by: Easily distracted at August 05, 2026 11:45 AM (2Ez/1)

107 If it's not from Piper, then it's fake fashion news.
Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2026 11:41 AM

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, uh, your opinion, man.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at August 05, 2026 11:45 AM (0sNs1)

108 I continually read that as 'shenanigan.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2026 11:09 AM (2YhKe)

Yeah that works too. Schengen is shenanigans that the Euros all do together

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2026 11:45 AM (rbvCR)

109 Italy has been Irans closet diplomatic partner in Europe forever. Even through the mullah years, they retained diplomatic, and likely trade, relations.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2026 11:46 AM (viF8m)

110 >>>Some ended up on China’s payroll.
~~~~~

Was very surprised to see Gen. Jack Keane listed there. He's a regular on Fox News to this day.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at August 05, 2026 11:46 AM (3ImbR)

111 I saw Haggardly Babies open for Poison at Gazzari's in '85.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2026 11:46 AM (u/oMr)

112 This was essentially a Moroccan government operation to get rid of thousands of criminals, vagrants, and undesirables. "Dump these roaches in Spain, ain't our problem any more." Castro did the same to the USA back in the day.

With the additional potential benefit that Spain just says "screw it", and walks away from their African holdings.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)
_____

Yea. The mostly-ignored element to this is bigger-picture geopolitics and long-standing territorial disputes. Not just Spanish holdings "in" Morocco, but also Moroccan claims to Western Sahara, and even the larger Iran mess.

There's all kinds of cross-border disputes in that region. The Moroccan invasion of what amounts to a Spanish border town is one play in the game.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 05, 2026 11:47 AM (iFTx/)

113 We can now be quite certain that, yes, in fact, the DSA move within the Democratic Party is a power consolidation move modeled after the Bolshevik takeover of the Social Democrat Party and expulsion of the Mensheviks. Not the revolution itself but its immediate political precursor.

Yup.

New York Magazine
The GOP’s big red scare is really stupid. Democrats aren’t communist, and the relatively small progressive surge in this year’s primaries isn’t a Bolshevik Revolution, writes Ed Kilgore

https://tinyurl.com/bde3n6n5

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

114 >>>the EU has turned into a dictatorship of sorts, benevolent generally, and run technocratically. For now.

It is referred to in some circles as the "EUSSR" for a reason

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2026 11:48 AM (rbvCR)

115 Another victory for Putin!

https://tinyurl.com/ttbtru98

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 05, 2026 11:48 AM (ndZc7)

116 The FBI opened a criminal probe specifically targeting Donald Trump in May 2017, alleging the newly elected president may have been acting as a Russian asset when he fired then-Director James Comey even though the bureau’s own evidence overwhelmingly showed at the time there was no collusion with the Kremlin.

Internal memos newly declassified by the White House show the investigation – codenamed “Oxferd Comma” – was launched in the immediate aftermath of Comey’s May 9, 2017, firing and was predicated on an allegation that previously released memos show the bureau’s own agents had mostly dismissed.

Posted by: SMOD at August 05, 2026 11:49 AM (Jw93N)

117 Unless Spain is going to block travel from Spain to Spain, which I guess they theoretically could.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 05, 2026 11:19 AM (vTZFs)

Last time they tried that Franco "found" some JU-88s

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2026 11:49 AM (rbvCR)

118 Italy has been Irans closet diplomatic partner in Europe forever. Even through the mullah years, they retained diplomatic, and likely trade, relations.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2026 11:46 AM (viF8m)
________

I believe that's what pissed Trump off about Meloni. They had a good relationship before the Iran war. But Italy was clearly shilling for Iran -- against Italy's NATO partner the USA -- and Trump had enough of her bullshit.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 05, 2026 11:50 AM (iFTx/)

119 BREAKING: The Spanish royals gathered for their annual glitzy Marivent Palace reception in Majorca on Tuesday, exuding effortless elegance.

The migrants should have been dropped off there. The sight would have been wonderful.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 05, 2026 11:50 AM (+4yJ5)

120 I just went on my PC. In my Brave browser, there was no avalanche of ads.

AdBlock is working on my tablet too.

The more you know....

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 05, 2026 11:51 AM (Sco7b)

121 "Oxferd Comma?"

Gads, these people are beyond ridiculous.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2026 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

122 New York Magazine
The GOP’s big red scare is really stupid. Democrats aren’t communist, and the relatively small progressive surge in this year’s primaries isn’t a Bolshevik Revolution, writes Ed Kilgore

https://tinyurl.com/bde3n6n5

Posted by: Archimedes at August 05, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

When Kilgore Trout makes an appearance.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2026 11:52 AM (2YhKe)

123 If you're going to exude elegance, make sure to exude it effortlessly.

Posted by: Hints from Heloise at August 05, 2026 11:52 AM (2Ez/1)

124 ... and then have the temerity to lament the loss of institutional trust. It s not difficult to explain the latter, as this level of contemptuous and deceitful stupidity is so common and so normal that it has become transparent to the point of tedium.

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

OUT: The Banality of Evil.
IN: The Tediousness of Evil.

Posted by: ShainS at August 05, 2026 11:53 AM (Rx03K)

125
The more you know....
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 05, 2026 11:51 AM (Sco7b)

Dey ain't tryin' ta hear dat shit, brah.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2026 11:53 AM (2YhKe)

126 Who names their kid Abdulrahman?
-------

Not seeing the problem.

Posted by: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow at August 05, 2026 11:53 AM (XeU6L)

127 I hope the fact they are starting to declassify and drop these documents about the conspiracy against Trump means they are getting close to dropping some charges.

Right before the midterms would be awesome.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2026 11:53 AM (viF8m)

128 32 One of my techs today was a pleasant looking woman, probably in her early 50s. The other, however, was smoking hot. I'm unused to being half naked around smoking hot women to whom I'm not married. Fortunately, I didn't embarrass myself.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 05, 2026 11:04 AM (ExV1e)

You know, that comment could be taken in multiple ways.

Posted by: George Costanza at August 05, 2026 11:53 AM (n9eFH)

129 One of my patients today made such a fool of himself. He was embarrassing.

Posted by: Smoking hot tech at August 05, 2026 11:55 AM (viF8m)

130 Willowed: Mallory MacMorrow took 4% in the Michigan Dem primary. A Karen gave Michigan a communist jihadist as its candidate. More Dem civil war

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 05, 2026 11:57 AM (BFvh9)

131 One of my patients today made such a fool of himself. He was embarrassing.

And immediately afterwards, I saw him in the waiting room, frantically typing out a Word document. I think it was a letter of some sort. He was breathing hard the entire time.

Odd.

Posted by: Smoking hot tec at August 05, 2026 11:58 AM (Riz8t)

132
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre

If it's not from Piper, then it's fake fashion news.
Posted by: Bulg

We need a photo spread for the Sunday ONT.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2026 11:58 AM (Cqx++)

133 One of my patients today made such a fool of himself. He was embarrassing.
Posted by: Smoking hot tech

But the other one- goddayum! He probably posted about it.

Posted by: Also Smoking Hot at August 05, 2026 11:58 AM (zfkPG)

134 The sock-fu is strong today.

Posted by: Kratwurst at August 05, 2026 11:59 AM (36bTp)

135 "It's not happening and it's good that it's happening."

The commies have added another step

It's good thing it is happening, and we will imprison you if you say otherwise.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 05, 2026 12:01 PM (vbXSk)

136 Noon news.

US - all Abdul
CBC - BC wildfires.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at August 05, 2026 12:01 PM (Sco7b)

137 Vance was interviewed by a media bimbo about the Springfield thing.

The interviewer asked, since it has been debunked why do you keep making the claim?

He pointed out there were sworn statement of it happening and the bimbo again said it was debunked because some local government official said so.

Then Vance took a moment and a deep breathe and explained that as a reporter her job was to GO to the place a story happened, talk with the people impacted by it, and as well as you could fairly present all the evidence you found on location.

And the media bimbo again asked why are you reporting the story because it has been debunked?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 05, 2026 12:03 PM (sKqQm)

138 This post could have used some Hunter S. Thompson: "Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch-all for fuckoffs and misfits—a false doorway to the backside of life, a filthy piss-ridden little hole nailed off by the building inspector, but just deep enough for a wino to curl up from the sidewalk and masturbate like a chimp in a zoo-cage."

Posted by: And he'd know about fuck-offs and misfits at August 05, 2026 12:04 PM (lfYMI)

139 And the media bimbo again asked why are you reporting the story because it has been debunked?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 05, 2026 12:03 PM (sKqQm)

Enemy
Of
The
People

It really can't be overstated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 05, 2026 12:08 PM (2YhKe)

140 Oh, hay.

There is a report that the Kurds have started an invasion of Iran.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2026 12:08 PM (rbvCR)

141 I'm 30 minutes from Sprinfield, OH. The media lied about everything. There's still a problem, mostly because of our progressive leftist governor with an R by his name, Mike Dewine.

I avoid Springfield. The Haitian immigrants can't drive and cause tons of accidents. Most of them are uninsured.

When I was growing up, Springfield was ranked one of the top 10 small towns to live in.

It's a shithole now.

Posted by: Biergood at August 05, 2026 12:09 PM (PwgSL)

142 There is a report that the Kurds have started an invasion of Iran.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2026 12:08 PM (rbvCR)

For once it’s not us they’re fighting. Sweet!!

Posted by: Iraq at August 05, 2026 12:09 PM (3cXW4)

143 There is an actual photograph of a Haitian walking down the street carrying a dead goose by the neck that he acquired from one of the Municipality ponds outside a government building in Springfield.

Posted by: Orson at August 05, 2026 12:10 PM (dIske)

144 There is a report that the Kurds have started an invasion of Iran.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2026 12:08 PM

Why? There is nothing they can reach that would be worthwhile for them to attack iran.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 05, 2026 12:10 PM (cpFbA)

145 And the media bimbo again asked why are you reporting the story because it has been debunked?
Posted by: 18-1

That's when you drop all pretense.

"Sugartits, it HASN'T been debunked. Some low level functionary from the Cincinnati field office has made an unsubstantiated claim. It's YOUR job to investigate".

Posted by: rickb223 at August 05, 2026 12:12 PM (pNtnm)

146

MyPillow creator Mike Lindell announced Tuesday afternoon that he is stepping down as the company's CEO in order to devote his full attention to his gubernatorial campaign in Minnesota.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2026 12:12 PM (Cqx++)

147 An hour and 15 mins and not even 150 comments.
Pop ups are driving people away.

Posted by: Before You Go at August 05, 2026 12:12 PM (TSRtE)

148 "Sugartits, it HASN'T been debunked. Some low level functionary from the Cincinnati field office has made an unsubstantiated claim. It's YOUR job to investigate".

But the media will call him sexist! Then again, they'll do that and worse no matter what he says.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 05, 2026 12:13 PM (+4yJ5)

149 Grrrrrrr!!!! I am livid right now. The Republicans just did their thing: "Siezing defeat from the jaws of victory." I hope Ace does a post on what the Senate Appropriations Committee just did. I want to mash heads.

Posted by: Orson at August 05, 2026 12:14 PM (dIske)

150

China’s using AI videos to send a message to ‘dirty foreigners’ who enter their country…

https://t.ly/g3zTj

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2026 12:14 PM (Cqx++)

151 147 An hour and 15 mins and not even 150 comments.
Pop ups are driving people away.

Posted by: Before You Go at August 05, 2026 12:12 PM (TSRtE)

I don' get no steenking popups!

As I posted yesterday, I use Firefox with NoScript and AdBlockPlus extensions installed.

Those extensions are available for Chrome browser, too.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Gref at August 05, 2026 12:15 PM (5rh/l)

152 The pop-ups are especially bad today.
Hope Ace is getting big bucks from the advertisers.
Perhaps a subscription based Ace of Spades free version in the offing?

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at August 05, 2026 12:15 PM (MNCvZ)

153 MyPillow creator Mike Lindell announced Tuesday afternoon that he is stepping down as the company's CEO in order to devote his full attention to his gubernatorial campaign in Minnesota.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I guess it's ok now to say his pillows are crap. They're like trying to sleep on a bounce house.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 05, 2026 12:17 PM (diia5)

154 Posted by: Gref at August 05, 2026 12:15 PM (5rh/l)

I, for one, am not tech savvy enough to know how to do that.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2026 12:17 PM (77rzZ)

155 The pop-ups are especially bad today.
Hope Ace is getting big bucks from the advertisers.
Perhaps a subscription based Ace of Spades free version in the offing?
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy

Brave browser is free. No pop ups. Don't even see any.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 05, 2026 12:17 PM (pNtnm)

156 Just download Adblock Plus and you should be fine.

Posted by: dantesed at August 05, 2026 12:18 PM (Oy/m2)

157 There is a report that the Kurds have started an invasion of Iran.
Posted by: Kindltot

The Whey could launch a second front.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 05, 2026 12:18 PM (ndZc7)

158 I don' get no steenking popups!

As I posted yesterday, I use Firefox with NoScript and AdBlockPlus extensions installed.

Those extensions are available for Chrome browser, too.

You're welcome.
Posted by: Gref at August 05, 2026 12:15 PM (5rh/l)

As I stated yesterday, I use an old version of Chrome 109.0.5414.168. With AdBlock Plus. No ads. No popups. On a laptop running Windows 8.1.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 05, 2026 12:19 PM (hmYU4)

159 Take a wild guess:

@libsoftikto 31m
Mount Vernon, NY Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard ARRESTED for allegedly being the GETAWAY DRIVER for her gang member son after a shooting

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 05, 2026 12:19 PM (diia5)

160 It’s great there are ad blockers. But the typical reader won’t start installing software for a website. They’ll just leave.

Eh, it’s Ace’s joint, he’s calculating the pop up revenue will be worth the lost readers. He may be right he may be wrong. His decision.

Posted by: Before You Go at August 05, 2026 12:19 PM (TSRtE)

161 I don't think Ace gets a penny from the pop ups. I brought up the information on the "Before You Go" pop ups. It's an outside company who hires a third party hacker to put hidden script into the source code. That guy gets paid, as does the advertiser depot that hired the hacker. It's a growing problem. It's also a felony violation of the current cyber laws. So, the more views the criminal gets, the more money he gets...which is why it pops up so frequently, and switches content each time.

Posted by: Orson at August 05, 2026 12:19 PM (dIske)

162 I guess it's ok now to say his pillows are crap. They're like trying to sleep on a bounce house.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 05, 2026 12:17 PM (diia5)

No they aren't. I have two, king sized as the smaller ones don't have enough stuffing. You can shape them any way you want. They're awesome.

Posted by: Reforger at August 05, 2026 12:19 PM (S1fh+)

163 Also most people use their phones to surf the web.

Posted by: Before You Go at August 05, 2026 12:20 PM (TSRtE)

164

A group of over 1,000 left-wing lawyers in Germany have demanded the government ban the anti-mass migration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as it has surged to become the most popular in the country.

Chairwoman Angela Furmaniak said that banning the leading opposition party would be necessary for the sake of “the human dignity of all people.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2026 12:20 PM (Cqx++)

165 155 The pop-ups are especially bad today.
Hope Ace is getting big bucks from the advertisers.
Perhaps a subscription based Ace of Spades free version in the offing?
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy

Brave browser is free. No pop ups. Don't even see any.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 05, 2026 12:17 PM (pNtnm)

Where I’m at right now. Are we robbing Ace of his livelihood? JK.

Posted by: tubal at August 05, 2026 12:21 PM (Gqar8)

166 And the media bimbo again asked why are you reporting the story because it has been debunked?

The use the word 'debunked' to mean "nuh-uh!" or "someone on our side has denied it".

Posted by: t-bird at August 05, 2026 12:21 PM (iFEms)

167 If you're going to exude elegance, make sure to exude it effortlessly.
Posted by: Hints from Heloise at August 05, 2026 11:52 AM

This.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at August 05, 2026 12:21 PM (0sNs1)

168 Mount Vernon, NY Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard ARRESTED for allegedly being the GETAWAY DRIVER for her gang member son after a shooting
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Real life Baby Driver.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 05, 2026 12:21 PM (ndZc7)

169 Kurds just get in the whey.

Posted by: stupid kurds at August 05, 2026 12:21 PM (jwLk3)

170 The Pillow Wars, begun, have they?

Posted by: tubal at August 05, 2026 12:21 PM (Gqar8)

171 “the human dignity of all people.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

The sandmaggots don't have any dignity to begin with.

Posted by: Bulg at August 05, 2026 12:22 PM (77rzZ)

172 It's 100% scriptjacking.

No one who isn't Hot Air levels of retarded would intentionally festoon their entire site behind layers of popups that are onerous to navigate around and activate on every page load.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2026 12:22 PM (Vq1pX)

173 It’s great there are ad blockers. But the typical reader won’t start installing software for a website. They’ll just leave.

Eh, it’s Ace’s joint, he’s calculating the pop up revenue will be worth the lost readers. He may be right he may be wrong. His decision.
Posted by: Before You Go at August 05, 2026 12:19 PM (TSRtE)

But AOS isn't the only site that has ads or Popups. So installing AdBlock is a no brainer. Or Brave. I have three browsers on my laptop, but usually use Chrome or Brave. Both older versions due to running Win 8.1 on this Qosmio laptop.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at August 05, 2026 12:22 PM (hmYU4)

174 147 An hour and 15 mins and not even 150 comments.
Pop ups are driving people away.

Posted by: Before You Go at August 05, 2026 12:12 PM (TSRtE)

Hey, maybe there are phone app versions of those extensions! Or other phone apps that do the same thing. For free.

Posted by: Gref at August 05, 2026 12:22 PM (5rh/l)

175 A group of over 1,000 left-wing lawyers in Germany have demanded the government ban the anti-mass migration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as it has surged to become the most popular in the country.

-
They might try burning the Reichstag.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fear Me! at August 05, 2026 12:23 PM (ndZc7)

176 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at August 05, 2026 12:23 PM (NcvvS)

177 I hope the fact they are starting to declassify and drop these documents about the conspiracy against Trump means they are getting close to dropping some charges.

Right before the midterms would be awesome.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 05, 2026 11:53 AM

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: That Guy who intones, sonorously, "Nothing will happen." at August 05, 2026 12:23 PM (0sNs1)

178 * Digs bunker.

I'm ready.

Posted by: Reforger at August 05, 2026 12:24 PM (S1fh+)

179 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2026 12:20 PM (Cqx++)
____________________

Stay tuned on this one. AfD has moved their support needle up over 40% in a significant part of Germany. Eventually, they are going to be so popular that they will be able to circumvent the opposition parties banning together to curb AfD's influence. With each stabbing, rape, murder, fire...the support needle leans closer to AfD. Trying this late in the game to ban them is desperation.

Posted by: Orson at August 05, 2026 12:24 PM (dIske)

180 174 147 An hour and 15 mins and not even 150 comments.
Pop ups are driving people away.

Posted by: Before You Go at August 05, 2026 12:12 PM (TSRtE)

Hey, maybe there are phone app versions of those extensions! Or other phone apps that do the same thing. For free.

Posted by: Gref at August 05, 2026 12:22 PM (5rh/l)

PS: Those browser extensions work to block pop-ups on all web site, not only AoSHQ. For free.

Posted by: Gref at August 05, 2026 12:24 PM (5rh/l)

181 Losses as GAINZZ news this morning:
I'm down 32lbs since 21 April.

I was worried my weightlifting would suffer, but yesterday my squats were good.
1 set 300 x 5 reps.
3 sets 280 x 5 reps.

Full depth, good form. It felt good.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 05, 2026 12:24 PM (mkw2N)

182 There is a report that the Kurds have started an invasion of Iran.

Probably using the materiel from us that they were supposed to convey to the pro-shah (or at least anti-ayatollah) Iranians.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 05, 2026 12:24 PM (vTZFs)

183 Mount Vernon, NY Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard ARRESTED for allegedly being the GETAWAY DRIVER for her gang member son after a shooting

Did she turn on the lights and siren as she sped away? That would be so confusing to the residents.

Posted by: t-bird at August 05, 2026 12:24 PM (iFEms)

184 Mount Vernon, NY Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard ARRESTED for allegedly being the GETAWAY DRIVER for her gang member son after a shooting

I've been saying for a while its not that the left is soft on crime, it is they are part of the cartels.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 05, 2026 12:32 PM (sKqQm)

185
"Mornin' Angle..."

In Hot Fuzz, the joke is that the Sanford Citizen's lead reporter is an illiterate incompetent, but in real life I'm convinced that the J-schools teach their journalism majors to include "mistakes" and misspellings in every story, no matter how inconsequential. I've read multiple anecdotes or heard stories about how you can watch a local reporter write down the exact information, like a date or a name, check their notes to be sure that they wrote it down correctly, and it'll be horribly wrong by the time it gets published.

If the facts, spelling and date for a local car show or art walk are presented accurately, you can be sure that they just cut/pasted the press release with no changes.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 05, 2026 12:48 PM (y9nCu)

186 In the News: Women cyclists with big chest warlocks have an aerodynamic advantage.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 05, 2026 12:50 PM (bX16E)

Processing 0.04, elapsed 0.0369 seconds.
15 queries taking 0.0106 seconds, 195 records returned.
Page size 112 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.