The Morning Report — 8/ 21 /26

Good morning kids. As we briefly touched upon on the latest episode of the podcast linked here as well as in the sidebar and the popular platforms listed at the bottom of this post, there are many things that I'm grateful for in President Trump's second term and unlike Trump 1.0 the overwhelming majority of his staffing picks in cabinet and other key positions have been outstanding. It does make me feel positive insofar as our bench for future presidential elections in '28 and beyond.

His most stellar pick much to the surprise of many has been Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. The institution of a reverse domino effect in the Caribbean and Latin America in turning formerly what were thought of as permanent Socialist/Communist kleptocratic tyrannies into or at the very least taking their first steps into being free and prosperous societies and American allies has been one of the most significant foreign policy accomplishments in decades. The groundwork for this success was laid when President Ronald Reagan brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union which was the chief financier and sponsor of Latin American communist expansion and so without billions of rubles flowing in it was only a matter of time before these banana republic tyrants would follow suit. Although the political will to bring them down was also necessary and in the case of Venezuela, a little military action and legitimate cassus belli as was the case with the Maduro/Chavez regimes' massive narco-trafficking operations posing a grave threat to our safety and security.

But of course, the last remaining domino and symbol of communist failure, tyranny and misery that has yet to fall is Cuba. And so after 66 years it certainly appears as if Castroite communist Cuba may actually at long last be free or at least have a better than even chance of being free again.

Q: What did Communists use to light the night with before candles?
A: Electricity.
That is the kind of joke that survives because it is simple enough to tell in a bar, and true enough to sting.
In Havana these days, the joke has acquired an uglier second life.Fidel Castro would have turned 100 on August 13. The government marked the occasion with the familiar apparatus of revolutionary remembrance, and, increasingly, candles. Not birthday candles, but the kind a family keeps in the kitchen for when the electricity disappears again.

Without oil from Venezuela and Iran flowing in, Cuba can no longer export violence, terrorism and communism throughout the region and the globe, nor keep its own abused populace fed and fueled. That said, the government is one of the most effective and repressive police states on the planet so overcoming that as it has always been is the big challenge, just as it is in Iran and Red China, all of which have citizenry that are not pleased with their overlords.

Back to Marco Rubio, as a refugee from Castro's Cuba, the irony of him being our Secretary of State and a potential successor to President Trump himself should Cuba be liberated with him at the helm either in Foggy Bottom or perhaps seated at the Resolute Desk itself is too delicious to contemplate.

Considering the rise of the Democrat Socialites here in the US of A these days, their heads exploding as the statues and banners of the Castros are smashed and burned as Lenin's were in Russia when Communism fell is equally too delicious a prospect. No wonder they are/were in Cuba to celebrate Fidel as well as do their best to thwart President Trump and bolster Communism in Latin America.

But ¡Viva Rubio! who continues the fight regardless.

It seems that Marco Rubio has been pretty busy this week, and he's largely focused on eradicating communism, crime, and drug trafficking from the Western Hemisphere, which is exactly where I like him. Today, the Department of State is designating nine entities and three individuals to further the Trump Administration’s comprehensive push to end the Cuban regime’s malign activities, both in Cuba and across our hemisphere. This action targets the leadership of the U.S.-designated Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and designates nine Cuban entities supporting the regime.
These designations build on the Department’s July 20 report Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism, which summarizes the Cuban regime’s decades-long use of brigades, such as the one coordinated by the designated ICAP earlier this month, to advance Cuban interests at the expense of the United States.
.. .ICAP is the organization Fidel Castro began in 1960 to build global "friendship" and "solidarity" and maintain relationships with foreign activist groups. In reality, it's a way to spread communist propaganda. According to the State Department, "it claims to have more than 2,000 solidarity organizations across over 150 countries [and] serves as the main organizing hub of Cuba’s ideological network." Think Code Pink and the like. Additionally, "it coordinates research, educational, and cultural exchanges between American and Cuban institutions, builds relationships between American political movements and Cuban officials, and harnesses its global reach to draw leftwing activists, intellectuals, students, influencers and politicians to Cuba from across the world."

Of course the evil Commie rat bastards are not going to lay down and surrender. UN and Congress Commies stage next fake crisis.

The UN is outraged over events in Cuba. Not at the political repression by the Communist regime, the detention of over 1,200 political prisoners, the arrests of protesters, and the government-backed prostitution of children to foreign tourists, but at the U.S. sanctions which have kept foreign tourists from coming by to molest little kids and spend money.in Cuba.
The Communist regime in Havana is at its weakest in history and may be about to topple so the regime, the UN and Congress Commies have begun trying to fake a ‘Gaza-style’ crisis in Cuba. How is Cuba like Gaza? They’re both loser terrorist states lying furiously to play the victim.
And who better to certify that Cuba is Gaza with fewer mosques and more burritos.
The “silent Gaza” talking point had previously been promoted by four radical leftist members of Congress, Rep. Mark Pocan, Rep. Maxine Dexter, Rep Teresa Leger-Fernndez and Rep. Delia Catalina-Ramrez, who, despite the supposed “collapse of infrastructure” and “fuel shortages” that UN human rights experts were complaining about, were able to fly in and tour Cuba.
“I think Marco Rubio is making this personal and not professional,” Rep. Pocan whined, implying that the son of a Cuban refugee should really not take the dictatorship that destroyed his homeland personally. Rep. Pocan, who had spent much of the last few years defending Hamas-run Gaza from Israeli attacks on the Islamic group, claimed Cuba was a “silent Gaza.”
. . . How is Cuba like Gaza? They’re both loser terrorist states lying furiously to play the victim.. . Rep. Pocan and the rest of the delegation met with Cuban dictator Miguel Daz-Canel, not with the political prisoners imprisoned by the Communist dictatorship they had come to support. If they really cared about the ‘Cuban people’, they would have consented to meet with the families of political prisoners, as actual human rights activists were asking them to do.
Back in America, Rep. Pocan complained that “now they’re calling us Communists. Like, they’ve lost any credibility. They clearly haven’t taken a high school or even a junior high civics class recently, because they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us.”

I'll leave you with the bitterest of all ironies in that we may very well liberate the world from Communism while at the same time America becomes a Communist hellhole itself. God-forbid.

And with that I bid you all to have a great weekend.

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. . . he's largely focused on eradicating communism, crime, and drug trafficking from the Western Hemisphere, which is exactly where I like him.
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THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
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1 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:12 AM (ExV1e)

2 I haz nooded. The blog clock seems to be weirdly off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:13 AM (ExV1e)

3 2 I haz nooded. The blog clock seems to be weirdly off.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:13 AM (ExV1e)

Sorry, clock has been reset to correct time.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2026 07:14 AM (x0n13)

4 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 07:15 AM (2Cry5)

5 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 21, 2026 07:15 AM (cpFbA)

6 G'morning J.J.!

@"I used to have a different nic": Thanks for the nood in the previous thread.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 07:15 AM (O7YUW)

7 So it turns out that Karmelo is a punk with a bad attitude just looking to stick someone with a knife. The media could have done some digging to find the facts about this kid, but that is not who they are.

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 07:16 AM (MWfyi)

8 TGIF Horde!

Posted by: Any better, I'd be twins at August 21, 2026 07:16 AM (2CeDH)

9 Top 10! I feel proud.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 07:16 AM (OPGS/)

10 @2/I used to have a different nic: "The blog clock seems to be weirdly off."

Ace has taken the time machine off the shelves and is screwing with it again. Hang on kids, this might be a bumpy ride.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 07:17 AM (O7YUW)

11 @5/Mister Scott: "It's Flapjack Friday!"

Y'know what? That sounds really good. I think I'm gonna hit the local diner at 8 when it opens and get an order of those.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 07:18 AM (O7YUW)

12 he's largely focused on eradicating communism, crime, and drug trafficking

But I repeat myself.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 07:18 AM (OPGS/)

13 I would pay $80 to watch a MSNBC / CNN cage match.

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 07:19 AM (MWfyi)

14 Good morning, Horde.

Upon deliberation, praying that today God guide me to the correct jobs to apply to, give me persistence and wisdom during the applications to deal with stupid parsers and webform design, and the discernment to tell scammers and hucksters from legitimate recruiters.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 21, 2026 07:19 AM (aJQbY)

15 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:20 AM (u82oZ)

16 "California’s New Tire Mandate Could Drive Up Costs"

I don't want to live in a world that tells me how hard my tires can be.

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

17 RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click)

May you path be made smooth.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

18 NY Gov. Kathy Hochul: Don’t Deport ‘Essential’ Haitians, Salvadorans Who Staff Government

Why don't, you know, citizens staff government?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:25 AM (ExV1e)

19 It appears that the only way to remove Communism from the planet is to literally starve Communist governments to death.

Which is unfortunate, as the people Communist governments oppress will starve to death first.

The leaders will starve last.

*sigh*

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2026 07:25 AM (FZ29D)

20 "UK Gov’t Publishes Pamphlet to Inform Migrants That Rape is Wrong, Sex With Children Is a Crime"

Also, NO BARBECUES!

Posted by: fd at August 21, 2026 07:26 AM (MWfyi)

21 18 NY Gov. Kathy Hochul: Don’t Deport ‘Essential’ Haitians, Salvadorans Who Staff Government

Why don't, you know, citizens staff government?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:25 AM (ExV1e)

Anything that can cripple a blue state government is fantastic!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2026 07:27 AM (x0n13)

22 "Perfessor" Squirrel

Are you OK? I heard you are taking your indentured servants friends the books to the local library for resale on the open market.

And welcome back your students for a new academic year.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

23 The videos of women rallying in support of the lady who murdered her children have really bummed me out this morning. The forces of evil aren't even bothering to mask up any more.

Posted by: StefanH at August 21, 2026 07:30 AM (hKB05)

24 That 35 year old Albany woman who wanted to blow up the New York Assembly had the right idea just poor execution. Hopefully, a democrat judge will let her out soon to try again.

Inshallah!

Posted by: Muhammed El Muhammed Muhammed at August 21, 2026 07:30 AM (cFP1B)

25 StefanH

We pragmatists leave them behind.

Grandchildren are true wealth.

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

26 23 The videos of women rallying in support of the lady who murdered her children have really bummed me out this morning. The forces of evil aren't even bothering to mask up any more.
Posted by: StefanH at August 21, 2026 07:30 AM (hKB05)

What's next, a mass rally to free that woman who strapped her kids into a car and drove it into a lake? Susan something or other?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2026 07:31 AM (x0n13)

27 Karmeli Anthony supporters believe black people should be allowed to kill white people without consequences. That's all.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2026 07:32 AM (Kl4xy)

28 @23/StefanH: Do not focus on what evil accomplishes. Conquer evil by going out and doing something good for someone today.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 07:32 AM (O7YUW)

29 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 07:33 AM (77rzZ)

30 Since Franklin Roosevelt, federal and state governments have slowly but surely claimed that property is a privilege, not a right. The wealth tax is the next step.

The Feds did reimpose slavery under the 16th Amendment—forever reversing the relationship between citizen and government.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:33 AM (rgGn5)

31 J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2026 07:31 AM (x0n13)

It just scares me that leftists have succeeded in moving the conversation this far.

Posted by: StefanH at August 21, 2026 07:33 AM (hKB05)

32 The week before the midterms, US gov should announce the departure of the US from the United Nations and give the UN 90 days to vacate the premises. The end of US funding should do wonders for the nations that are preyed upon by the UN.

Posted by: clarence at August 21, 2026 07:33 AM (pHgC8)

33 The women who support Lindsay Clancy think women should be allowed to murder children without consequences. End.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2026 07:33 AM (Kl4xy)

34 Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Wise words for every day. Excellent advise.

Have a safe and effective school year. You are only as good as your next turn. I want no stories out of you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:34 AM (u82oZ)

35 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 07:35 AM (RIvkX)

36 Excellent Morning Report today. Thank you JJS!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 07:36 AM (pvZnA)

37 What the DSA has done, quite effectively, is dress up Stalinism in as a Scandinavian welfare state. Like a sweaty, unshaven, 300 pound drag queen in a tight sequin dress lip synching the Internationale.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2026 07:36 AM (Kl4xy)

38 Make the soft-on-crime advocates prove their models work — before letting them conduct any more experiments on the rest of us.

In many jurisdictions, judges are forever. So anoint a female judge into position, she will destroy your civilization ruling by ruling.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:36 AM (rgGn5)

39 CrotchetyOldJarhead, if you are still around: I'm sorry about Xena. It's never a "good time" for this as a pet owner.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 07:37 AM (OPGS/)

40 The videos of women rallying in support of the lady who murdered her children have really bummed me out this morning. The forces of evil aren't even bothering to mask up any more.
Posted by: StefanH at August 21, 2026 07:30 AM (hKB05)

I haven't been following the story... too disturbing... but the little I have read makes me think that the woman isn't evil. Supposedly, doctors had her hopped up on a fuck-ton of psychiatric drugs and the family may have been trying to have her temporarily committed. Seems like it may be another case of the system working to ensure the liberty of someone who needed help more and three children paid the price.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

41 The Drag Stalinists of America.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2026 07:37 AM (Kl4xy)

42 These designations build on the Department’s July 20 report Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism, which summarizes the Cuban regime’s decades-long use of brigades, such as the one coordinated by the designated ICAP earlier this month, to advance Cuban interests at the expense of the United States.
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Read this report! It describes the links between Cuba and all of the current, key sources of leftist turbulence in the U.S.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

43 The women who support Lindsay Clancy think women should be allowed to murder children without consequences. End.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2026 07:33 AM (Kl4xy)

Abortion up to HS graduation should be safe, legal, and fuck-it... that's all.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:39 AM (ExV1e)

44 San Franpsycho

Back home after your Wine Country sojourn?

I went to Prestwood Elementary School in Sonoma for four years as a youth. When I came back for a brief visit 40 years later the playground equipment was unchanged.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:40 AM (u82oZ)

45 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at August 21, 2026 07:40 AM (53oGX)

46 >>The media could have done some digging to find the facts about this kid

Even if they did the digging and found out the facts, it's less that 50:50 odds that they'd sit on it and not report it.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 07:40 AM (J4Dwc)

47 Rubio has been outstanding, in all his many jobs. And I wish him well liberating the WNBA and Cuba.

But Scott Bessent has been crazy good as Treasury Secretary, desperately keeping America safe from financial attacks and, now, figuring new ways to bring the Mullahs down.

Bessent and Rubio are total stars.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 07:41 AM (v3ONH)

48 Victor Tango Kilo

A most vivid and disturbing image.

** Shudder **

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:41 AM (u82oZ)

49 Even if they did the digging and found out the facts, it's less that 50:50 odds that they'd sit on it and not report it.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 07:40 AM (J4Dwc)

Even if they did the digging, found out the facts, and accurately reported them, the race baiters would still have been screaming that Anthony was justified cuz he was disrespected.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:42 AM (ExV1e)

50 Last night on the ONT we were asking AIs to tell us about commenters on the blog.

We are being closely watched.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

51 Oops, I guess that would be greater, not less than 50/50 odds.

More coffee...

Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 07:43 AM (J4Dwc)

52 I feel sorry for the kids that any of those pro-Clancy c***s might have. Good grief, can you imagine having one of those things for a mother?

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 07:43 AM (77rzZ)

53 I used to have a different nic

Did you ring the bell?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

54 "Perfessor" Squirrel

Are you OK? I heard you are taking your indentured servants friends the books to the local library for resale on the open market.

And welcome back your students for a new academic year.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:28 AM (u82oZ)
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Huh. I just posted a reply to your comment and it immediately disappeared. I guess Pixy doesn't like me.

I'm doing fine. Just needed to clean house/garage a bit. Only so much available shelf space!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2026 07:43 AM (FZ29D)

55 "Perfessor" Squirrel

Shelf space. So true. I moved to Kindle to keep up.
The many books on my shelves are the survivors of moves and culls.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:45 AM (u82oZ)

56 Abortion up to HS graduation should be safe, legal, and fuck-it... that's all.

I think that it comes as a default as the former US becomes another Sharia caliphate. They just call the process "honor killings", and you just got to trust the family, because it is personal, when they tell you butchering their kids is honorable.

And if killing is on the table, then "lesser" impositions are too, like selling the children into slavery, or using them as practice goats before moving on to actual livestock.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:45 AM (pUU4E)

57 California’s New Tire Mandate Could Drive Up Costs
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It "could" huh?

Fvcking liar.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 07:45 AM (RIvkX)

58 An IRGC apparatchik admits on state tv that Iran is not selling any oil.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2026 07:46 AM (gIjzl)

59 Last night on the ONT we were asking AIs to tell us about commenters on the blog.

We are being closely watched.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:42 AM (u82oZ)

I asked about my old nic and it said that I was a regular user even though I haven't used that nic in over five years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

60 The best meme of SoS MR https://tinyurl.com/4c3tpmbw

Posted by: sidney at August 21, 2026 07:48 AM (Uy/WF)

61 Did you ring the bell?

I did.

First they threw confetti on me when I walked out of the radiation room.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:49 AM (ExV1e)

62 Black market tires will be a thing.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2026 07:49 AM (jjzhV)

63 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

This is good news for us. Are there any reports on how the harvest in Iran has been? Lack of water and fertilizer should make the lack of food imports very important.

Word on the street is Egypt and Indonesia are in trouble without Ukraine wheat to feed them, so this is a part of a bigger problem.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:50 AM (u82oZ)

64 ... but the little I have read makes me think that the woman isn't evil... it may be another case of the system ...

Satan nods in approval as you succumb to the amoral propaganda.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:50 AM (NzX/y)

65 Would You Pay $80 to Watch MSNBC?

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Even though I can't stand it, Jr. Black watches this dumpster fire when he can because he enjoys listening to their constant hair-on-fire TDS. I tell him I find nothing funny listening to liars.

I went to the article. The MSNOW broad said, for the top tier service, you'd get...

...offer perks like members-only content verticals, opportunities for subscribers to interact with the network’s personalities, community features for members to engage with each other, and a 24/7 network feed.

Just what, exactly is a "content vertical?"

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 21, 2026 07:50 AM (qBdHI)

66 Tires on brand new cars have low “rolling resistance,” meaning they generate less heat as they bounce against the road and lose less of the energy that otherwise would keep the car in motion. That boosts a car’s overall miles per gallon.

Doesn't this mean less grip on the road, so poorer handling in rain, snow, and ice?...

Oh, right; Kalifornia doesn't get any of those...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 07:50 AM (l3cgK)

67 52 I feel sorry for the kids that any of those pro-Clancy c***s might have. Good grief, can you imagine having one of those things for a mother?
Posted by: Bulg

I saw a screenshot of a chat on X. A guy broke up with his girlfriend of three years because she was a loud supporter of Clancy. Basically he said "I can't trust you with our future children."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 07:51 AM (OPGS/)

68 A pamphlet? That presupposes these guys are literate.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 21, 2026 07:51 AM (qFwJc)

69 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2026 07:51 AM (zACrK)

70 First they threw confetti on me when I walked out of the radiation room.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Good for you on impressing the nurses!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:52 AM (u82oZ)

71 I had no idea Harriet Hageman was running for Senate. Outstanding!

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 21, 2026 07:52 AM (qBdHI)

72 Satan nods in approval as you succumb to the amoral propaganda.
Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:50 AM (NzX/y)

I didn't say that there was no evil, I said that I wasn't sure it was her. The doctors who had her on so many drugs she didn't know up from down but didn't hospitalize her would certainly qualify. The system which prevented her family from having her committed would also qualify. But if she didn't know what was real and what wasn't, is she actually evil?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:52 AM (ExV1e)

73 Salty

Yes we came back 2 days ago. Boy F. and I walked past Prestwood several times this summer on our morning hikes. We walked by Monday the first day of school and the cuteness was abundant.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

74 Content vertical?

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 07:53 AM (77rzZ)

75 > Last night on the ONT we were asking AIs to tell us about commenters on the blog.

We are being closely watched.
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The NSA in particular hoovers up a lot of content on the Internet for analysis. A method that was used, and may still be, it to "scrape" sites for data... the text on web pages for example. This site can probably be "scraped" from start to end on a daily basis in seconds.

All the plain text. Every day. If someone wanted to. And, I assume they do.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2026 07:53 AM (2Cry5)

76 Perversely ironic to see our focus on Cuba and its morbid communism while a more lively native variant of the evil ideology consumes our own culture and young people.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 21, 2026 07:54 AM (F8UH0)

77 Astronomers map fastest orbit so far of a star circling the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole

Linky no worky...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 07:54 AM (l3cgK)

78 {{{Lady in Black}}}
"content vertical?"

A silo of information, where truth and logical thinking is rigidly excluded.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:54 AM (u82oZ)

79 Good for you on impressing the nurses!
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:52 AM (u82oZ)

While I hate to lessen anyone's opinion of me... it appears that it was a regular thing they did. I'd seen confetti on the floor before.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

80 If those MA mothers for Clancy are representative of the jury, she will get off as lightly as possible. It is Massachusetts, after all. That's what I'm tentatively predicting.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 21, 2026 07:55 AM (qBdHI)

81 NaCly, I haven't seen any of those reports. I do know that inflation on existing food supplies is running at 400%.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 21, 2026 07:55 AM (gIjzl)

82 Basically he said "I can't trust you with our future children."
Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 07:51 AM (OPGS/)
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All of the mothers who are there, their kids need a welfare check.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 07:55 AM (RIvkX)

83 I liked the line in "The Birdcage" where Nathan Lane says "Execute the mother. The captain should go down with the ship." Or other words to that effect.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 21, 2026 07:55 AM (qFwJc)

84 75 > Last night on the ONT we were asking AIs to tell us about commenters on the blog.

A poster here did that to me about a week ago as a subtle threat.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 07:55 AM (OPGS/)

85 The original CO of the carrier Nimitz was on hand recently for the decommissioning at Naval Station Norfolk.

I think he had a uniform faux pas, but he's 94 years old, so...

https://tinyurl.com/4utbtykx

Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 07:56 AM (J4Dwc)

86 But if she didn't know what was real and what wasn't, is she actually evil?

"Forgive them, for they know not what they do" - Jesus Christ

Why would the people who wrongly accused and crucified Christ need forgiveness?

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:56 AM (NzX/y)

87 @34/NaCly Dog: Thank you, and I'll try to have no stories, though there may be a few where I rail about some of the incredibly stupid driving I see other people doing out there.

As I tell my wife every morning as she heads off to work around the time I do: "Watch out for stupid out there, it's legion."

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2026 07:56 AM (O7YUW)

88 "content vertical?"

A silo of information, where truth and logical thinking is rigidly excluded.

==

{{{Salty}}}

Your guess is better than mine! It just sounded so asinine...so MSNOW. I'm sure their potential subscribers will think they're really in the know, what with content verticals n'all...

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 21, 2026 07:57 AM (qBdHI)

89 Martini Farmer

In Utah, the NSA and Google data centers are quite close to each other.

I heard it directly from a worker at NSA that they do not monitor US Citizens. I believe that comment is a lie.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:57 AM (u82oZ)

90 "Forgive them, for they know not what they do" - Jesus Christ

Why would the people who wrongly accused and crucified Christ need forgiveness?
Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 07:56 AM (NzX/y)

I didn't say that she didn't need forgiveness. I said that I wasn't sure that she was evil. In any regard, I'll leave it in God's hands since, unlike me, He knows the truth.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:58 AM (ExV1e)

91 Lady in Black

Information silos have been a thing for centuries. In some way, individuals with America values have been breaking those silos down. Like us.

Even in well run organizations, silos are a problem. With the Left, it leaves them unable to solve problems or advance civilization.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 07:59 AM (u82oZ)

92 I didn't say that there was no evil, I said that I wasn't sure it was her. The doctors who had her on so many drugs she didn't know up from down but didn't hospitalize her would certainly qualify. The system which prevented her family from having her committed would also qualify. But if she didn't know what was real and what wasn't, is she actually evil?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:52 AM (ExV1e)
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Our society has re-paganized. It's all there - idol worship, infanticide, human sacrifice and of course persecuting Christians.

You can try to use the lens of secular materialism to explain everything with Marxism, or drugs, or demographic trends, but it only gets you so far. Take psychology, for example. Has there been a greater failure in human history?

"No, don't bother about religion, just take to this dude and maybe take some pills. No, there is no sin, only a stupid idea of shame, which you must ignore. Do shameful things with pride, it's okay."

Turns out, when you cut God out of your life, you become pagan. Human life becomes worthless. Your own wants become paramount. "Inconvenient" babies die. Suicide is endorsed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:00 AM (ZOv7s)

93 It’s almost comical that some news outlets are thinking it’s a huge shock that Iran will try to do something to disrupt our elections. As another poster here wrote, the most unsurprising October Surprise ever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:02 AM (o3ajz)

94 It’s almost comical that some news outlets are thinking it’s a huge shock that Iran will try to do something to disrupt our elections. As another poster here wrote, the most unsurprising October Surprise ever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:02 AM (o3ajz)

At least since the term was coined, has there ever been a surprising October Surprise?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

95 Well done, Mr. Lee and the EPA -- as far as it goes. Now get rid of that ethanol stuff for our gasoline completely.

I am still paying extra for ethanol-free, E0, gas, when I can find it here. though yesterday the station I often go to had it for $3.99, only about .40 more than the average price of E10 regular here. That's a bit more than 10%, and I get about 10% better mileage on the E0 than on E10; I'm almost breaking even.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2026 08:04 AM (wzUl9)

96 Yesterday was tough. Mrs. Lloyd met with the surgeon and while everything on that front is excellent, it is likely that she will need chemo, and that got her really down.

On the one hand, things are going great - we caught it early, no signs of spread, and chemo is just a precautionary measure, but there has been this steady retreat on the part of the medical staff, from "No problem, Stage 0, don't even need the whole breast, no chemo" to "AKTUALLY, Stage 1, taking both is wise, and we'll do chemo after all."

So please keep praying. Apparently we are not out of the woods yet.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:04 AM (ZOv7s)

97 Hey, A. H. Lloyd. I appreciated your pushing back against the Iran black-pillers yesterday. It gave me encouragement that the situation there is moving in the right direction. Thank you.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 08:04 AM (77rzZ)

98 If those MA mothers for Clancy are representative of the jury, she will get off as lightly as possible. It is Massachusetts, after all. That's what I'm tentatively predicting.

If a black man can butcher a woman on a bus in NC and walk away from it, then surely so can Clancy. If illegal aliens can rape and kill their way across the landscape and be "punished" with misdemeanors or "time-served" waiting trial, then so can Clancy.

Its only the white man who is held accountable—everyone else are apparently savage beasts who are not accountable.

America is fully incapable of slaying its dragons, or for that matter naming sin, or even accepting responsibility for any evil.

No big deal, that is the world since expulsion from The Garden.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 08:04 AM (U4c/V)

99 As I tell my wife every morning as she heads off to work around the time I do: "Watch out for stupid out there, it's legion."

True tale: after a downtown flood (it's Houston, so...)a fellow who had driven his Prius into 12 feet of water and required rescue said "I thought I could go thru it".
Buddy sitting next to me said "and there were people driving just a foot away from him on the highway "

Yikes

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 08:04 AM (XuXeR)

100 Grandiose narcissism has entered the chat

Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (J4Dwc)

101 Your guess is better than mine! It just sounded so asinine...so MSNOW. I'm sure their potential subscribers will think they're really in the know, what with content verticals n'all...
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 21, 2026 07:57 AM (qBdHI)

The article itself noted that CNN tried this plan twice already, and it failed miserably both times.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (o3ajz)

102 "Black market tires will be a thing.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory"

So will Tire Inspectors.

Posted by: California at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (MWfyi)

103 Little gray thuglet Dagny La Siberienne just opened the kitchen cabinet door where I keep the kitty treats and was actually inside the cabinet, rummaging around. She's a smart cat -- too smart by half.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (wzUl9)

104 Dalia Ziada
@daliaziada 21h

My entire world collapsed when I publicly spoke against Hamas' terrorism on October 7. My Egyptian, Arab, and Muslim people, who are so blinded by Jew-hatred and so proud of supporting Hamas terrorism, tried to kill or imprison me for doing so. But my Jewish friends miraculously saved me.

Every single day since then, God shows me that I made the right decision.
7:42 AM · Aug 20, 2026

Within five hours, Dalia Ziada was forced to flee Egypt, leaving her family and homeland behind. The Arab street's response to Oct. 7 exposed a reality she had not wanted to believe, and when she spoke out against it, she became an enemy. In an interview with Israel Hayom, she says: "If I were an Israeli, I don't know how you can sleep at night."
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Savages.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (RIvkX)

105 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Prayers ascending for complete remission.

F**k Cancer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

106 It’s almost comical that some news outlets are thinking it’s a huge shock that Iran will try to do something to disrupt our elections. As another poster here wrote, the most unsurprising October Surprise ever.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:02 AM (o3ajz)
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"BREAKING: Country that has sworn undying hatred to the United States for 50 years vows to do bad things!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (ZOv7s)

107 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (ccf/V)

108 5 It's Flapjack Friday!
Posted by: Mister Scott

Hootersville Hotscakes are world renowned. Can also be sued to shingle a roof.

Posted by: Lisa On The Douglas Farm at August 21, 2026 08:06 AM (JM9I6)

109 Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Prayers ascending for complete remission.

F**k Cancer.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (u82oZ)

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:06 AM (ccf/V)

110 I heard it directly from a worker at NSA"

Worker or wanker?

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 08:07 AM (XuXeR)

111 So will Tire Inspectors.
Posted by: California at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (MWfyi)
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Don't for get me!

Posted by: Bribery at August 21, 2026 08:07 AM (ZOv7s)

112 man

I will never say anything. There is no such agency.

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

113 It's Flapjack Friday!
Posted by: Mister Scott

***
Darn. I was planning to have an omelet this morning. Now I'll be thinking about pancakes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 21, 2026 08:08 AM (wzUl9)

114 While I hate to lessen anyone's opinion of me... it appears that it was a regular thing they did. I'd seen confetti on the floor before.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 07:54 AM (ExV1e)

Uh, that wasn't "confetti". Heh.

Posted by: Hot nurse from Ferris Bueller at August 21, 2026 08:08 AM (hmYU4)

115 So please keep praying. Apparently we are not out of the woods yet"

Done. FWIW, Mrs has another round of surgery in 5 weeks...

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 08:08 AM (XuXeR)

116 Lisa On The Douglas Farm

Wistful Sigh.

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

117 Yesterday was tough. Mrs. Lloyd met with the surgeon and while everything on that front is excellent, it is likely that she will need chemo, and that got her really down.

My wife went through that. Doctors upbeat at every step and then... nope, bad news. Still... wife is now cancer free for 7 years. The process is rough, chemo sucks, boob radiation sucked (maybe its gotten better) but, in the end, it's a blip that you get to put behind you, God willing.

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

118 I will never say anything. There is no such agency"

Golf clap

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 08:09 AM (XuXeR)

119 The Marxists fighting AI will have fun with it if they take over

Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2026 08:09 AM (zACrK)

120 Moscow’s forces have in recent months intensified their ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, exploiting Ukraine’s chronic shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air defense interceptors, the sole weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down the missiles.
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Attacking civilians is a terror tactic, but Ukrainians seem to hold up well against Russian terror. A very tough people indeed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:09 AM (gMI5R)

121
Back in America, Rep. Pocan complained that “now they’re calling us Communists. Like, they’ve lost any credibility. They clearly haven’t taken a high school or even a junior high civics class recently, because they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us.”

You lie with a Communist dog, you take on its Communist fleas, you dumbass.Commie.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 21, 2026 08:10 AM (trSL4)

122
So please keep praying. Apparently we are not out of the woods yet.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:04 AM (ZOv7s)

Depending on the type of chemo, she'll be Ok. It will be rough. She'll be tired. They'll keep her on steroids and anti-allergens to keep her 'normal.' She'll have good days and bad days. First Lady always had the 'steroid day' where she had tons of energy, then the crash where she wanted to sleep for 2 days.

If there's hair loss, there's hair loss. Smile. Everyone knows you're battling. *fistbump* When you're going through Hell, keep going.

The light at the end of the tunnel keeps getting brighter.

Its a tough road, but with all the Horde prayers, self-determination and a loving family, she'll come through with flying colors.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:10 AM (ccf/V)

123 117 Yesterday was tough. Mrs. Lloyd met with the surgeon and while everything on that front is excellent, it is likely that she will need chemo, and that got her really down.

My wife went through that. Doctors upbeat at every step and then... nope, bad news. Still... wife is now cancer free for 7 years. The process is rough, chemo sucks, boob radiation sucked (maybe its gotten better) but, in the end, it's a blip that you get to put behind you, God willing.

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

My wife went through that 18 years ago...mastectomy, radiation, chemo. Tamoxifen was supposed to be for 5 years, but was cut a year short when it came back metastatically. Fortunately treatment are much better now than they were almost 20 years ago.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 08:11 AM (l3cgK)

124 Green Acres was fun.

The comedy I still do not like, although Barbara Eden looked good, was I Dream of Jeannie.

A beautiful woman that calls the Air Force pilot / astronaut Master, with magical powers even, and lonely after 2,000 years ... Her abilities were wasted, wasted, I say.

Do not attempt the same scenario with a Naval Aviator and expect the show to play on prime time TV.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

125 I heard it directly from a worker at NSA"

No you didn't......

Posted by: Bob from NSA at August 21, 2026 08:12 AM (ccf/V)

126 because they don’t understand the definitions of what they’re calling us.”

Ah. Another idiot who babbles about roads being "socialism"

Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 08:13 AM (XuXeR)

127 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:10 AM (ccf/V)

Nice post.

And I will continue to pray for Mrs. Lloyd.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 08:13 AM (RC9EL)

128 All of the mothers who are there, their kids need a welfare check.

It seems to me to be a natural Tick-Tock progression. First just get abortion. Then drug your kids into psychopathy. Then get abortion up to birth. Then sexually mutilate your children rendering them sexually sterile and impotent. Then actually murder your children. Child prostitution is due to become the next Big Thing for parents to boast about.

Hook-up parties so that adult friends and neighbors can have their way with children.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 08:13 AM (+4Cf6)

129 What kind of lunatic compares Cuba to Gaza? Cuba needs to go down. Stop fucking that chicken. Maybe another 47 years or 60 years, what-be-the-haps?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 21, 2026 08:13 AM (tvdD1)

130 Done. FWIW, Mrs has another round of surgery in 5 weeks...
Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 08:08 AM (XuXeR)

Godspeed, sir.

All the prayers for your wife.

Posted by: s at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (ccf/V)

131 Hey, A. H. Lloyd. I appreciated your pushing back against the Iran black-pillers yesterday. It gave me encouragement that the situation there is moving in the right direction. Thank you.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2026 08:04 AM (77rzZ)
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Thanks! I'm just calling it as I see it. I spent an freakishly long portion of my career on a planning staff, and what I've seen is just crazy. Iran was not in our AOR, but we knew their air defenses and spent a lot of time arguing about how hard it would be take them down. When we did it so quickly and with so few losses, I was absolutely stunned, and called a veteran friend up and we both could not get over how amazing that was.

Iran is under siege. The only way to defeat a siege is either to get relief (think Vienna 1683) or the besieger has to quit (Vienna 1529). There's no logistical strain on us. This is basically Operation Northern Watch with some boats involved. Economically it was disruptive, but long-term, having us replace Iran's oil production is a huge win.

Oh, and we have Xi's nuts in a vice. Funny how no one talks about that. His navy runs on oil. Hard to launch an invasion on empty tanks.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (ZOv7s)

132 DAMNIT

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (ccf/V)

133 So when (God Willing) Cuba falls, will flags be at half staff at colleges while professors comfort each other through their tears?

I'm asking because I want to make sure I'm filming a few of the meltdowns.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (OPGS/)

134 For the past several years, leftists have waged an all-out assault on conservative attorneys and their ability to practice law. And now, such egregious “barfare” tactics are being aimed at the Trump Department of Homeland Security’s top legal official.
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Criticizing activist judges should be a crime, says the left, and they are doing their best to deprive Republican lawyers of their right to work. Norm Eisen is an evil human.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (gMI5R)

135 I heard it directly from a worker at NSA"

No you didn't......
Posted by: Bob from NSA at August 21, 2026 08:12 AM (ccf/V)

Yes you did.

Posted by: Bob's older brother, George at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (hmYU4)

136
Darn. I was planning to have an omelet this morning. Now I'll be thinking about pancakes.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Was Babs Striesand either cooking or consuming pancakes in mass quantities at sone point about a decade or so back out of self-induced hysteria about right wingers trashing statists?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (trSL4)

137 So will Tire Inspectors.
Posted by: California at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (MWfyi)

I was living in California in the mid-80s when they started that mandatory smog-detection inspection bullshit. I took my car in for an inspection at some seedy repair shop so I could renew my tag and it was a complete scam. They took my money but never placed the probe thing into the tailpipe.

Posted by: one hour sober at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (J4Dwc)

138 My wife went through that 18 years ago...mastectomy, radiation, chemo. Tamoxifen was supposed to be for 5 years, but was cut a year short when it came back metastatically. Fortunately treatment are much better now than they were almost 20 years ago.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 08:11 AM (l3cgK)

Wife didn't require a mastectomy. Chemo/radiation. Anastrozole for 10 years. But she's alive and that's what matters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

139 Hook-up parties so that adult friends and neighbors can have their way with children.
Posted by: Community Notes

Such an abomination is already going on but it's not out in the open yet.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:15 AM (OPGS/)

140 And I just noticed that after my debacle with Frontier/Verizon yesterday, my IP address has changed......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:15 AM (ccf/V)

141 Done. FWIW, Mrs has another round of surgery in 5 weeks...
Posted by: man at August 21, 2026 08:08 AM (XuXeR)

Prayers for you wife.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 21, 2026 08:15 AM (RC9EL)

142
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"BREAKING: Country that has sworn undying hatred to the United States for 50 years vows to do bad things!"
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:05 AM (ZOv7s)

First: prayers and support for the hard news your wife received yesterday. You and she clearly have the best attitude towards that possible.

The big question with Iran now is, what could they actually do now if they chose to? Do they really have that much left? We don’t know of course, even for the best military analysts that part is all guess work.

But I think it’s self evident that if proxy groups like the Houthi had the ability to do more, they already would have.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:15 AM (o3ajz)

143 First they threw confetti on me when I walked out of the radiation room.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Good for you. The Confetti Industry has been in decline since my passing in 2017.

Posted by: Zombie Rip Taylor at August 21, 2026 08:16 AM (JM9I6)

144 Rev. Wishbone

I hear most of the young people of Cuba are leaving. It is emptying out, unlike Gaza. No one wants Gazans.

We need an assault tam of beachfront developers to take over Cuba, and make it shine again.

Go long on power plant equipment.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 21, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

145 I'm asking because I want to make sure I'm filming a few of the meltdowns.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:14 AM (OPGS/)

They will be epic, and a glory to behold.

I might drive up to Woodstock NY just to watch the misery!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2026 08:16 AM (k5CNB)

146
I might drive up to Woodstock NY just to watch the misery!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2026 08:16 AM (k5CNB)

Just don't do the brown acid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:17 AM (ccf/V)

147 It's hard to know what Cuba will fall to, there really is no internal resistance to the regime, so there really will be no internal group that will take charge.

Probably make Rubio Lord Commander of the Imperium of Cuba for tick or two.

It would be wild if he got elected President in 28 and was running Cuba as well.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2026 08:17 AM (XV/Pl)

148 The big question with Iran now is, what could they actually do now if they chose to?

I would guess they'd try terror attacks. Fortunately, no terrorists came into the country with the 4M+ others that Biden let in.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 08:18 AM (ExV1e)

149
What kind of lunatic compares Cuba to Gaza?

One who would easily transition to speaking of "genocide of our indigenous Cubans, and not those fraudulent Cubans who fled to the U.S."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 21, 2026 08:18 AM (trSL4)

150 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

And should your wife need someone to talk to that's been through it, do not hesitate to reach out. I'm quite sure the First Lady would be happy to lend an ear, as I'm sure many in The Horde would, to hold her hand through this.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:18 AM (ccf/V)

151 money but never placed the probe thing into the tailpipe.
Posted by: one hour sober

What a letdown!

Posted by: The Great Poof at August 21, 2026 08:18 AM (JM9I6)

152 Just don't do the brown acid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:17 AM (ccf/V)

But, hey, it's your trip.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 08:19 AM (ExV1e)

153 Go long on power plant equipment.

Actually not a bad idea. Cuba doesn't have the regulatory burden of the West so frontier technology can be quickly implemented there.

Could you imagine Cuba as the world's AI and data center hub? Wouldn't be too hard a problem to recruit employees to live in what could become an island paradise.

Posted by: Community Notes at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (+4Cf6)

154 I'm rarely active at this time of day, so slightly different audience here. I've got a series of posts up at ahlloyd.com for those who want to nerd out on a potential mainland invasion of Taiwan. There's no particular order, I write stuff as I think of it, and *spoiler alert* I think it's going to be difficult for China to do it.

I will likely do a counterfactual and examine Taiwan's weaknesses but the burden on the attacker is pretty crushing. Taiwan can literally win by doing nothing. See also: "Divine Wind."

Reference: Three typhoons have hit China already this year.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (ZOv7s)

155 Falling energy consumption is a sign of industry slowing down, which will have a knock-on effect on overall wealth and employment.
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English industry is shrinking, as energy production makes their grid unusable for production. This is even more true in Germany where the chemical and heavy industrial activities, both heavy users of electricity, are the mainstays of their economy.

The future of Europe's economies is bleak, thanks entirely to "Net Zero" weirdness.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (tNwfv)

156 138 My wife went through that 18 years ago...mastectomy, radiation, chemo. Tamoxifen was supposed to be for 5 years, but was cut a year short when it came back metastatically. Fortunately treatment are much better now than they were almost 20 years ago.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 08:11 AM (l3cgK)

Wife didn't require a mastectomy. Chemo/radiation. Anastrozole for 10 years. But she's alive and that's what matters.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2026 08:15 AM (ExV1e)

My MIL told me wife she didn't need reconstruction surgery, but I knew better; wife didn't feel whole without her breast, so we did the reconstruction surgery.
Afterwards, I was worried she'd feel phantom pain from the missing real breast so I...experimented. Let's say it was successful when she asked her doctor, "Is it normal to feel phantom pleasure from my missing breast?" Doc gave her a strange look. LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (l3cgK)

157 Thank you JJ. Happy Friday all.

Had a design review all week; exhausting, glad it’s over with everyone reasonably happy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (M+uMR)

158 They will be epic, and a glory to behold.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

You remember that one chick screaming "NOOOOOO!" when Trump was elected the first time? I want that again and some dude with a guitar making it a metal song.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (OPGS/)

159 And should your wife need someone to talk to that's been through it, do not hesitate to reach out. I'm quite sure the First Lady would be happy to lend an ear, as I'm sure many in The Horde would, to hold her hand through this.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:18 AM (ccf/V)
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Thank you. Unfortunately, she seems to be very into chatbots as authority figures at the moment, and my friends and family who have personal experience apparently just don't know as much as the Holy Prophet ChatGPT.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 21, 2026 08:22 AM (ZOv7s)

160 "The future of Europe's economies is bleak, thanks entirely to "Net Zero" weirdness."

Don't discount "The Camp of the Saints."

Massive illegal immigration of the Coprophages has already had a huge impact.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 21, 2026 08:22 AM (36x1j)

161
You remember that one chick screaming "NOOOOOO!" when Trump was elected the first time? I want that again and some dude with a guitar making it a metal song.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2026 08:20 AM (OPGS/)

You mean like this?

https://youtu.be/rAK512Uwbo0

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at August 21, 2026 08:22 AM (ccf/V)

162 Hayden Daniel is a staff editor at The Federalist. He previously worked as an editor at The Daily Wire and as deputy editor/opinion editor at The Daily Caller.
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J.D. Vance is this dude's woobie.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2026 08:23 AM (RIvkX)

163 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2026 08:23 AM (eYRW2)

164 129 What kind of lunatic compares Cuba to Gaza? Cuba needs to go down. Stop fucking that chicken. Maybe another 47 years or 60 years, what-be-the-haps?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 21, 2026 08:13 AM (tvdD1)

As we were talking about yesterday, of course Cuba needs to go down; but there’s no hurry. They’re no longer any threat to anyone, just a handful of power mad bureaucrats lording it over a country of starving and sick peasants living in mud huts. Not only do they have no industry left, they’ve even lost the disgusting sex tourism they had going on with the Euro’s and the Canadians - their planes of pervs can’t fly there anymore, no fuel on the island.

That’s a new rock bottom for any country - they can’t even afford to sell their daughters to strangers anymore.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2026 08:23 AM (o3ajz)

165 Woohoo! Rain! A little, anyway!

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