Report: Debanking of Conservatives Was Driven by the KKK-Funding Race Grift Organization the SPLC

A recent report from the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC) in the Treasury Department shows that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was a driving force behind the debanking of conservative groups prior to its indictment.
The SPLC is a left-wing anti-racism advocacy group that has faced scrutiny from conservatives for years over its alleged bias against them and penchant for labeling mainstream political figures on the right as "extremists."
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged the SPLC with allegedly defrauding donors by paying exorbitant sums to members of extremist groups, both to act as informants and to recruit and expand their operations.
The SPLC has denied wrongdoing in the case, and said in a statement that "The charges against the SPLC are provably wrong; they are based on inaccurate facts and a misapplication of law. Our informant program was successful in accomplishing its purposes: Threats and attacks were prevented, criminal activity was stopped, and information was gathered to dismantle the efforts of hate and extremist groups."
The OCC report, released last week, detailed the efforts of financial applications, banks, and other institutions to deny service to conservative organizations, particularly highlighting the SPLC's role. Many of the groups the report documented had been labeled as hate groups by the organization. Driving much of the effort were broad reputational risk policies that the OCC generally swept up many mainstream conservative groups.
"Today's report provides irrefutable evidence that the nation's largest banks have denied, debanked and discriminated against customers and lawful businesses," Comptroller Jonathan Gould said at the time. "Americans should have access to financial services regardless of their beliefs, affiliations, or political views. Fair access to financial services is not a mantra--it is a mandate. The Trump Administration is committed to ending the weaponization of finance against hardworking Americans, once and for all."
Among the top findings of the OCC were that banks largely did not have quantifiable standards for determining the reputational risk of maintaining relationships with specific customers. Those standards, moreover, allegedly came to the detriment of generally right-wing groups. The report also documented damage to specific industries that were affected heavily by debanking.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:22 PM

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1 THE BLADE

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 20, 2026 02:22 PM (iFTx/)

2 First?

Posted by: HowardDevore at October 20, 2026 02:23 PM (H/Jxx)

3 RICO?

Sounds like RICO, for every member of the SPLC.

Posted by: Another Anon at October 20, 2026 02:23 PM (4h45B)

4 ! Ah well now to read the content

Posted by: HowardDevore at October 20, 2026 02:23 PM (H/Jxx)

5 Shocking.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 20, 2026 02:23 PM (8B4gm)

6 /sigh, did it again.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 20, 2026 02:24 PM (Q/FnY)

7 "The SPLC is a left-wing anti-racism advocacy group that has faced scrutiny from conservatives for years ...."

They gave away the game right from the get, with that comically biased phrasing

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 20, 2026 02:24 PM (iFTx/)

8 Ace obviously admired this article.

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at October 20, 2026 02:25 PM (PFC1v)

9 I can only hope big banks like BOA’s legal team is working overtime right now at the request of their leadership team who are currently having a few stomach cramps in advance of problems over the horizon.

Posted by: Piper at October 20, 2026 02:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

10
In before the riff-raff!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 20, 2026 02:26 PM (eRlcH)

11 Can we haz at least a couple 3am no-knock flash-bang raids?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 02:26 PM (jb8Ss)

12 Threats and attacks were prevented, criminal activity was stopped, and information was gathered to dismantle the efforts of hate and extremist groups
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It turns out you can just say things.

Posted by: ... at October 20, 2026 02:26 PM (XvD//)

13 10
In before the riff-raff!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 20, 2026 02

Wrong! I am in at number 9! 😂

Posted by: Piper at October 20, 2026 02:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

14 Surprise surprise surprise...

/Gomer Pyle voice

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:27 PM (pfXMo)

15 Our informant program was successful in accomplishing its purposes: Threats and attacks were prevented, criminal activity was stopped, and information was gathered to dismantle the efforts of hate and extremist groups."

And this is documented somewhere by a law enforcement agency that Mighty Mouse SPLC came and saved the day, right?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 02:27 PM (6ydKt)

16
DARN, I was having fun with Ilhan. Oh well.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 02:27 PM (mmrXZ)

17
Can we haz at least a couple 3am no-knock flash-bang raids?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 02:26 PM (jb8Ss)

__________

Perp walks amid flashing cameras and shouted questions will be fine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 20, 2026 02:28 PM (eRlcH)

18 Threats and attacks were prevented, criminal activity was stopped

By who? Name them.

But then they could sue your commie fag asses for slander.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 02:28 PM (jb8Ss)

19 Are there any organizations besides DOGE that aren't effing us hard?

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 20, 2026 02:28 PM (iOpI2)

20 SPLC

What is Soviet Propaganda and Lies Committee?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 20, 2026 02:28 PM (awxTv)

21 Couldn't have been done without the Gov't putting their thumb on the scales either.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 02:29 PM (l3cgK)

22 In before the riff-raff!"

What am I, chopped Eddie?

/Dr Frank-n-furter

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (pfXMo)

23 “Our informant program was successful in accomplishing its purposes: Threats and attacks were prevented, criminal activity was stopped, and information was gathered to dismantle the efforts of hate and extremist groups."

Has anyone let the SPLC team know they are not a law enforcement agency of any type?

Posted by: Piper at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

24 "banks largely did not have quantifiable standards for determining the reputational risk of maintaining relationships with specific customers"

That's a big load of steaming hot chocolate dogshit. The "reputational risk" was always a made-up excuse for naked partisan discrimination for political views. I don't think "reputational risk" exists as a basis to refuse a customer. Every bank that did this should have been prosecuted.

Sure, a bank can refuse to do business with criminals, cartels, terrorists, drug dealers, methodists, and known money-laundering actors. But that requires some prior conviction of a crime, or designation on a terror list, or some very hard evidence of criminality.

A bank can't debank Charlie Kirk because they don't like his views on abortion. But that's basically exactly what the banks did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

25 Thumb?

More like an elbow.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (awxTv)

26 Who decided whom would be on the list?

Who signed off? The CEOs?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (RIvkX)

27 23 “Our informant program was successful in accomplishing its purposes: Threats and attacks were prevented, criminal activity was stopped, and information was gathered to dismantle the efforts of hate and extremist groups."

Has anyone let the SPLC team know they are not a law enforcement agency of any type?

Posted by: Piper at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

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I think there's an AUSA telling them right about now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (wn0/z)

28 I've seen the SLPC advertise on MSNow asking for money.

Just tuned in. They're in Texas!
Ahhh, sweet, sweet hopium.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (Sco7b)

29 If the Democrats get back in power, the SPLC will become a major department of the federal government, funded by taxpayers.

And no, I am not joking.

Posted by: zombie at October 20, 2026 02:31 PM (HD2n/)

30 A bank can't debank Charlie Kirk because they don't like his views on abortion. But that's basically exactly what the banks did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

And our Gov't led the charge under the Obama and Obiden administrations.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 02:31 PM (l3cgK)

31 24 A bank can't debank Charlie Kirk because they don't like his views on abortion. But that's basically exactly what the banks did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

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It was to prevent fascism that large companies did the bidding of the permanent bureaucracy through NGOs that received government funds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:32 PM (wn0/z)

32 Threats and attacks were prevented, criminal activity was stopped"

Didn't you hear about the Turner Diaries and stuff?

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:32 PM (pfXMo)

33 Someone, somewhere said, "yep, on my authority accept SPLC's documentation and act to terminate the accounts on their lists"

That someone should be sued serially, and wind up living in absolute poverty on the street in San Francisco knowing his grandchildren might graduate from community college with a welding certification should they be able to scrape together the tuition.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 20, 2026 02:32 PM (rbvCR)

34 "Take what you can, give nothing back!" - BoA Pirates, probably.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 20, 2026 02:33 PM (wVcYX)

35 Who decided whom would be on the list?

Who signed off? The CEOs?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (RIvkX)
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I don't know. Let's (meaning you) ask the Lord High Executioner!

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 02:33 PM (rj6Yv)

36 32 Threats and attacks were prevented, criminal activity was stopped"

Didn't you hear about the Turner Diaries and stuff?

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:32 PM (pfXMo)

Did the SPLC pay for that too?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 02:33 PM (l3cgK)

37 Sue like the wind.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 20, 2026 02:33 PM (dK+Kv)

38 Interesting side note. From X
Natalie Winters
@nataliegwinters
🚨 NEW: Inside the Neocons’ Secret Plan to Take the Republican Party Back.

A Republican organizing network backed by liberal foundation money held private meetings where participants discussed how to “retake the local party apparatus.”

A former Soros foundation grantmaker helped advise the effort.

The target was local Republican organizations. Their own report records one participant’s assessment that parties were:

“strong enough to still matter, but weak enough to be taken over.”

Participants in Kansas and Kentucky had already begun developing plans to rebuild local parties.

Johns Hopkins’ SNF Agora Institute and the R Street Institute organized the meetings: private dinners followed by full-day, off-the-record sessions. Rules prevented participants’ statements from being attributed to them individually.

Johns Hopkins named Brad Raffensperger among the project’s architects.

The funding includes:

• $1.85 MILLION from Hewlett for the Civic Right project.
• $500,000 from Carnegie for the Conservative Agenda for Democracy program.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 02:33 PM (E4rtv)

39 The SPLC is the physical embodiment of the argument against "hate speech" and "hate crime" laws: The problem is not the law itself, but instead who gets to define what counts as "hate."

As soon as you give some unelected person or group the supreme power to determine who is disfavored, that you have just created a dictatorship and ended democracy.

Posted by: zombie at October 20, 2026 02:34 PM (HD2n/)

40 Corporate comms is always the go to before legal. Every time.

Posted by: nckate at October 20, 2026 02:34 PM (enNUy)

41 The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged the SPLC with allegedly defrauding donors by paying exorbitant sums to members of extremist groups, both to act as informants and to recruit and expand their operations.
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They lied and stole coming and going.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 20, 2026 02:34 PM (RIvkX)

42 Fines are irrelevant. Show me some prison terms for executives who enforced this.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 20, 2026 02:34 PM (0U5gm)

43 Small bakeries have to bake buggery cakes but giant chartered banks can deny services for wrongthink.

What a country!

Posted by: logprof at October 20, 2026 02:34 PM (Poy1v)

44 That someone should be sued serially, and wind up living in absolute poverty on the street in San Francisco knowing his grandchildren might graduate from community college with a welding certification should they be able to scrape together the tuition.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 20, 2026 02:32 PM (rbvCR)

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I want specific people to be indicted. Someone gave the okay.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 20, 2026 02:35 PM (iOpI2)

45 >>> 29 If the Democrats get back in power, the SPLC will become a major department of the federal government, funded by taxpayers.

And no, I am not joking.
Posted by: zombie at October 20, 2026 02:31 PM (HD2n/)

They weren't already?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 02:35 PM (jb8Ss)

46 The feds have the evidence where their VP AWFL Karen McFatty Fats paid her KKK boyfriend every month and informing her he was taking her out to dinner and then dismantling her hate panties afterwards.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 02:35 PM (6ydKt)

47 Being debunked from the Horse Trailer @ the TxMoMe >>>> debanked by the SPLC

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 20, 2026 02:36 PM (0sNs1)

48
Who decided whom would be on the list?

Who signed off? The CEOs?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (RIvkX)

____________

"It was Todd in Risk Management!" - The CEOs

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 20, 2026 02:36 PM (eRlcH)

49 44 That someone should be sued serially, and wind up living in absolute poverty on the street in San Francisco knowing his grandchildren might graduate from community college with a welding certification should they be able to scrape together the tuition.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 20, 2026 02:32 PM (rbvCR)

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I want specific people to be indicted. Someone gave the okay.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 20, 2026 02:35 PM (iOpI2)

It goes up to the very top of who runs the Demonrats and Soros and others.
At best you'll get the smaller fish.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 02:36 PM (l3cgK)

50
JustTheNews says the SPLC paid "exorbitant sums to members of extremist groups, both to act as informants and to recruit and expand their operations."

Act as informants? We know the SPLC donated to e.g. the KKK, but I'm just trying to clarify the JustTheNews report, who was informing whom what?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 02:36 PM (mmrXZ)

51 As soon as you give some unelected person or group the supreme power to determine who is disfavored, that you have just created a dictatorship and ended democracy.
Posted by: zombie at October 20, 2026 02:34 PM (HD2n/)
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This describes the Administrative State.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 20, 2026 02:36 PM (RIvkX)

52 Thumb?

More like an elbow"

Hey, a trillion here, a trillion there...

"Did the SPLC pay for that too?"
Rumor was that they were involved with publishing and such...

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:36 PM (pfXMo)

53 "It was Todd in Risk Management!" - The CEOs
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 20, 2026 02:36 PM (eRlcH)
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LOL

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 02:36 PM (rj6Yv)

54 In before the riff-raff!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 20, 2026 02:26 PM

Dr. Frank N. Furter sock opportunity missed.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 20, 2026 02:37 PM (0sNs1)

55 50
JustTheNews says the SPLC paid "exorbitant sums to members of extremist groups, both to act as informants and to recruit and expand their operations."

Act as informants? We know the SPLC donated to e.g. the KKK, but I'm just trying to clarify the JustTheNews report, who was informing whom what?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 02:36 PM (mmrXZ)

You didn't get the memo?

Posted by: SPLC Liason to the KKK at October 20, 2026 02:37 PM (l3cgK)

56 49 44 That someone should be sued serially, and wind up living in absolute poverty on the street in San Francisco knowing his grandchildren might graduate from community college with a welding certification should they be able to scrape together the tuition.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 20, 2026 02:32 PM (rbvCR)

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I want specific people to be indicted. Someone gave the okay.

Posted by: Seems Legit at October 20, 2026 02:35 PM (iOpI2)

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Do people just leak news out of their heads?

Heidi Beirich, a former director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama.

Remember the fat ugly exec from the SPLC who had a Neo-Nazi boyfriend? That lady was indicted.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:38 PM (wn0/z)

57 If you do not allow me to scam the government, then how do you expect me to make a decent living ???

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 20, 2026 02:38 PM (qDw3H)

58 with a welding certification should they be able to scrape together the tuition.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 20, 2026 02:32 PM (rbvCR)

Welders are making good money compared to baristas so their kid will probably turn out alright.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 02:38 PM (6ydKt)

59
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October

Totally off topic, but you were asking about side planks earlier, right? And worried about your wrists? Without seeing you do them, it’s hard for me to say anything specifically, but in general: make sure your hand is under your shoulder and you are not collapsing down, 2. You are targeting your obliques most strongly, so that is what you need to be dialed into to hold you up, think rainbow arch into the obliques. 3. You don’t need to hold a side plank with feet stacked or floated for a long time, but to get there, start in your high plank with feet wide, open up to the side plank with feet staggered. If you are still struggling, bend and plant the top foot behind the bottom leg, then move to staggered, then move to stacked, then to floating. Once you are good there, add in the other stuff that make it spicier with strength tubes, weights, spinal twists, etc etc.

If it wasn’t you, well…here is how you do a side plank. lol.

Posted by: Piper at October 20, 2026 02:38 PM (ZdaMQ)

60 Justice would be that banks would be sanctioned for violation of rights but the SPLC needs to be sued to the ground for their slander which predicated the harm the banks caused.

Posted by: Getting it done twerkin' inna coal mine at October 20, 2026 02:38 PM (IDiL6)

61 You know who REALLY feels like fools right about now?

The idiots who joined the KKK for free.

Posted by: zombie at October 20, 2026 02:38 PM (HD2n/)

62 They lied and stole coming and going."

You can get rich off the vig!

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:38 PM (pfXMo)

63 If the right had anything close to the warfare resources the left does, a class-action suit should have been filed against the SPLC 4 years ago, naming the org and the executives as defendents.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 20, 2026 02:38 PM (nEUC6)

64 It goes up to the very top of who runs the Demonrats and Soros and others.
At best you'll get the smaller fish.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 02:36 PM

* side eyes *

Posted by: Big Penguin at October 20, 2026 02:39 PM (0sNs1)

65 37 Sue like the wind.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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I would start anti trust actions at the FTC to break them up. Time for too big to fail to fail as a policy.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 02:39 PM (E4rtv)

66 >>> 27 23 “Our informant program was successful in accomplishing its purposes: Threats and attacks were prevented, criminal activity was stopped, and information was gathered to dismantle the efforts of hate and extremist groups."

Has anyone let the SPLC team know they are not a law enforcement agency of any type?

Posted by: Piper at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

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I think there's an AUSA telling them right about now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (wn0/z)

Was there also a Todd in Risk Management at the Eff.Bee.EYE who approved the "help" from the SPLC?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 02:39 PM (jb8Ss)

67
And no, I am not joking.
Posted by: zombie

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Like in the last thread, I don't think it's one bit pessimistic of SpeakingOf to say that a Dem Congress would pass "Ilhan's Law" to bring her back should she be deported.

Of course SPLC would be folded into a Dem administration.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 02:39 PM (mmrXZ)

68 "The charges against the SPLC are provably wrong; they are based on inaccurate facts. . .#

Inaccurate facts

Can someone help me out here

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 20, 2026 02:39 PM (FxH7T)

69 by any means necessary, including fraud

Posted by: Sid at October 20, 2026 02:39 PM (w9N1h)

70 59 If it wasn’t you, well…here is how you do a side plank. lol.

Posted by: Piper at October 20, 2026 02:38 PM (ZdaMQ)

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It was. I'll have to watch my hand placement most, it seems.

Thanks!

I also nope out of every dumbbell pushup because it hurts my palms so much. I'll sacrifice the slight height for just being able to do the damn things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:39 PM (wn0/z)

71 Dr. Frank N. Furter sock opportunity missed"

Ahem.

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:40 PM (pfXMo)

72 Things that are not a legal issue: Revolutionary rape, arresting the opposition leader on spurious charges, making people take a poison shot you knew didn't work

Real serious constitutional crises: Investigating someone for immigration fraud who committed immigration fraud, deporting someone here illegally, building a ball room.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 02:40 PM (sKqQm)

73 "It was Todd in Risk Management!" - The CEOs
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 20, 2026 02:36 PM (eRlcH)

“Fucking Todd!”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 02:40 PM (6ydKt)

74 Inaccurate facts

Can someone help me out here
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 20, 2026 02:39 PM (FxH7T)
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Inaccurate and inconvenient facts?

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 02:40 PM (rj6Yv)

75 68 "The charges against the SPLC are provably wrong; they are based on inaccurate facts. . .#

Inaccurate facts

Can someone help me out here

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 20, 2026 02:39 PM (FxH7T)

Inaccurate facts = Inconvenient facts

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 02:41 PM (l3cgK)

76 The charges against the SPLC are provably wrong; they are based on inaccurate facts. . .#

Inaccurate facts

Can someone help me out here

Saw a lefty arguing that the truth has become a rightwing issue.

It all clicks pretty obviously I think.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 02:41 PM (sKqQm)

77 The idiots who joined the KKK for free."

Dang it. It's "chick's for free"

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:41 PM (pfXMo)

78 Fines are irrelevant. Show me some prison terms for executives who enforced this.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 20, 2026 02:34 PM

May I propose an alternative?

Posted by: zombie Vlad Tepes at October 20, 2026 02:41 PM (0sNs1)

79 >>> 74 Inaccurate facts

Can someone help me out here
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 20, 2026 02:39 PM (FxH7T)
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Inaccurate and inconvenient facts?
Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 02:40 PM (rj6Yv)

Per Brandon's MiniTru, those would be "malinformation": it's true but it hurts our fee-fees.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 02:41 PM (jb8Ss)

80 73 "It was Todd in Risk Management!" - The CEOs
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 20, 2026 02:36 PM (eRlcH)

“Fucking Todd!”

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 02:40 PM (6ydKt)

Elder son had an Obiwan Kenobi toy that was left in the car which derped the toy. After that, we called him Todd, as a We-Todd-Did Jedi.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 02:42 PM (l3cgK)

81 May I propose an alternative?
Posted by: zombie Vlad Tepes "

Poplar?

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:42 PM (pfXMo)

82 DOJ also froze all of SPLC's assets.

DOJ isn't just putting a small fine on the organization. It's effectively killing it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:42 PM (wn0/z)

83 I've posted this before but the friend of a friend had a nice Jewish great aunt who passed away. She had in her obit "in lieu of flowers donate to the SPLC". She didn't specify that the money shouldn't go to the KKK.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 20, 2026 02:42 PM (vJPf4)

84 I wonder why there is no Northern Poverty Law Center.

Posted by: Double Standard at October 20, 2026 02:43 PM (8EQTH)

85
Act as informants? We know the SPLC donated to e.g. the KKK, but I'm just trying to clarify the JustTheNews report, who was informing whom what?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 02:36 PM (mmrXZ)

You didn't get the memo?
Posted by: SPLC Liason to the KKK

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It's so tangled I can't keep up. SPLC gives exorbitant sum to the KKK leader because let's face it, the demand for racism exceeds the supply. Informants? The KKK is informing the SPLC of what? And why? If I were the KKK, I'd take the money and spend it on recruitment. I wouldn't do squat for the SPLC.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 02:43 PM (mmrXZ)

86 Chris Rock was likely talking about the SPLC when he did that (recent) monologue about Salem.
You gotta respect a comedian who can stay relevant after three decades.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 20, 2026 02:44 PM (88C+u)

87 If it wasn’t you, well…here is how you do a side plank. lol.

Posted by: Piper at October 20, 2026 02:38 PM (ZdaMQ)

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It was. I'll have to watch my hand placement most, it seems.

Thanks!

I also nope out of every dumbbell pushup because it hurts my palms so much. I'll sacrifice the slight height for just being able to do the damn things.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:39 PM (wn0/z)
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The Paolo, he ... how you say .. do da "front plank" with his ... well, you know The Paolo

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 20, 2026 02:44 PM (iFTx/)

88 IIRC the interim president of the SPLC was "grilled" by Congress several months ago. It went about as well for Congress as the Fauci "grilling" went.

But... again, IIRC a lot of the fraud based money that the SPLC was getting to operate dried up.

If there's still, even a shell of what was the SPLC, it needs to be burned to the ground with anyone stupid enough to be inside.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 20, 2026 02:44 PM (RORbl)

89 I also nope out of every dumbbell pushup because it hurts my palms so much. I'll sacrifice the slight height for just being able to do the damn things.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:39 PM (wn0/

I have a feeling you are dumping into your shoulders. Push ups are just moving planks and you should have weight on all four corners, not just shoulders and arms. Shift back a little bit and see what happens.

Posted by: Piper at October 20, 2026 02:44 PM (ZdaMQ)

90
Starts as a crusade, evolves into a business, ends up as a racket.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 20, 2026 02:44 PM (otI7K)

91 LMAO

Abdul El-Sayed to black Americans: I like fried chicken just like you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 20, 2026 02:44 PM (dK+Kv)

92 The right-wing is again playing the victim card

They used to be thought of being made of sterner stuff

Posted by: Paul at October 20, 2026 02:44 PM (71mhK)

93 A Republican organizing network backed by liberal foundation money held private meetings where participants discussed how to “retake the local party apparatus.”

Imagine you are a left leaning Republican, but you have principles. You want some kind of government oversight of healthcare but not socialized healthcare, you want a welfare net but not as generous as the Dems, you want gay marriage but not tranny crap. You want legal immigration but not illegal immigration and so on.

You stop for a moment and notice you want the exact same policies as Donald Trump has implemented.

You stop complaining about OrangemanBad and go vote for the people he has endorsed knowing this is the best way to get the policies you want.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 02:44 PM (sKqQm)

94 The Northern Poverty Law Centre is the CBC.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 20, 2026 02:44 PM (88C+u)

95 I wonder why there is no Northern Poverty Law Center.
Posted by: Double Standard at October 20, 2026 02:43 PM

Yet another example of Yankees keeping People of South down.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 20, 2026 02:44 PM (0sNs1)

96 SPLC was the org where one of its leaders was paying a KKK leader for sex right?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 02:45 PM (sKqQm)

97 93 Imagine you are a left leaning Republican, but you have principles. You want some kind of government oversight of healthcare but not socialized healthcare, you want a welfare net but not as generous as the Dems, you want gay marriage but not tranny crap. You want legal immigration but not illegal immigration and so on.

You stop for a moment and notice you want the exact same policies as Donald Trump has implemented.

You stop complaining about OrangemanBad and go vote for the people he has endorsed knowing this is the best way to get the policies you want.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 02:44 PM (sKqQm)

=======

But then you realize that you are driven by social pressures, not ideology or policy, so you amp up your OrangeManBad-itis even further because it's expected of you in your social circles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:45 PM (wn0/z)

98 Act as informants? We know the SPLC donated to e.g. the KKK, but I'm just trying to clarify the JustTheNews report, who was informing whom what?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 02:36 PM (mmrXZ)

You didn't get the memo?
Posted by: SPLC Liason to the KKK

===============

It's so tangled I can't keep up. SPLC gives exorbitant sum to the KKK leader because let's face it, the demand for racism exceeds the supply. Informants? The KKK is informing the SPLC of what? And why? If I were the KKK, I'd take the money and spend it on recruitment. I wouldn't do squat for the SPLC.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 02:43 PM (mmrXZ)
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You can be sure a nice fat slice of the money that SPLC gave to the KKK was kicked back to bigwigs at SPLC

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 20, 2026 02:45 PM (iFTx/)

99 OT on Movies! now, Twins of Evil, aka Tits of Evil.
Vampire with boobs.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 20, 2026 02:46 PM (G4kNP)

100 Toooooooooooodd!

Posted by: Ghost of George Carlin at October 20, 2026 02:46 PM (Poy1v)

101 One-arm pushups help ease the strain on the other arm.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 20, 2026 02:46 PM (0sNs1)

102 Posted by: zombie at October 20, 2026 02:34 PM (HD2n/)

Not everyone wants a Democracy

Posted by: ... at October 20, 2026 02:46 PM (XvD//)

103 99 OT on Movies! now, Twins of Evil, aka Tits of Evil.
Vampire with boobs.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 20, 2026 02:46 PM (G4kNP)

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I reviewed that movie recently.

It's a Hammer joint.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:46 PM (wn0/z)

104 96 SPLC was the org where one of its leaders was paying a KKK leader for sex right?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 02:45 PM (sKqQm)

"Desperately Seeking Ilsa"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 02:46 PM (l3cgK)

105 Just reminded me of Jennifer Beals in Vampire's Kiss. Yikers

Posted by: ... at October 20, 2026 02:47 PM (XvD//)

106 91 LMAO

Abdul El-Sayed to black Americans: I like fried chicken just like you.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 20, 2026 02:44 PM (dK+Kv)

He didn’t add ‘watermelon, chitlins, and big asses’ to that sentence so he should be OK.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 02:47 PM (6ydKt)

107 i oppose putin refining diesel because i am loyal to ukraine

Posted by: Paul at October 20, 2026 02:48 PM (71mhK)

108 One-arm pushups help ease the strain on the other arm.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

There was a story of a dude who was trying to beat the world record for push-ups. It was like 1400 or something. He beat it but was paralyzed for a few days. Doesn't sound worth it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 20, 2026 02:48 PM (nEUC6)

109 > LMAO

Abdul El-Sayed to black Americans: I like fried chicken just like you.
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Abdul El-Sayed to black voters: I am not like your "gas station Abdul" who hates blacks, catcalls women

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 20, 2026 02:48 PM (RORbl)

110 91 LMAO

Abdul El-Sayed to black Americans: I like fried chicken just like you.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 20, 2026 02:44 PM (dK+Kv)

******
Lol...someone should ask him about chitlins and pickled pig lips cuisine.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 20, 2026 02:48 PM (hzuYO)

111
Jocelyn Benson was on the board of the SPLC, a secret agent posing as a reporter for it, and Morris Dees's lover.

But it would be unseemly to bring this up as she's about to be Governor of Michigan.

Posted by: Auspex at October 20, 2026 02:48 PM (Y8DZL)

112 You stop for a moment and notice you want the exact same policies as Donald Trump has implemented.

You stop complaining about OrangemanBad and go vote for the people he has endorsed knowing this is the best way to get the policies you want.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 02:44 PM (sKqQm)
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lmao all of this presumes that these people are capable of reflection and rational thought rather than being governed by their fee fees.

It is to laugh.

Posted by: ballistic at October 20, 2026 02:49 PM (oqH4h)

113 99 OT on Movies! now, Twins of Evil, aka Tits of Evil.
Vampire with boobs.

Reading through the wiki entry this is a serious of movies about busty lesbian vampires in history?

Do they also put up book shelves? Because I know someone that might be interested.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 02:49 PM (sKqQm)

114 113 99 OT on Movies! now, Twins of Evil, aka Tits of Evil.
Vampire with boobs.

Reading through the wiki entry this is a serious of movies about busty lesbian vampires in history?

Do they also put up book shelves? Because I know someone that might be interested.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 02:49 PM (sKqQm)

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The Vampire Lovers has more nudity.

A lot more nudity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:50 PM (qGAQr)

115 *makes notes*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 02:51 PM (6ydKt)

116 Why do I think they were the dupes not the actual agents?

@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: Two men previously bailed over the RAF Fairford plot have been rearrested on suspicion of assisting Iran’s intelligence service

One is a British-Iranian man aged 25 and the other is a British man aged 24

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 20, 2026 02:52 PM (nEUC6)

117
Fines are irrelevant. Show me some prison terms for executives who enforced this.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada

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I bet Elric has already given us the sad truth about this: what they did was not a crime. To criminalize their acts, you'd have to get Congress to pass laws against their donors and Bros In High Places. So, settle for meaningless fines. Maybe if we take the White House in 2028 and 2032, we could hope for enough swamp drainage to get laws like that starting in 2037.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 02:52 PM (mmrXZ)

118 Paulbot is busted

Posted by: logprof at October 20, 2026 02:53 PM (Poy1v)

119 From X, stealth replacement for social security ongoing.
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Eric Balchunas
@EricBalchunas
·
5h
Trump Accounts may soon be expanded even more to anyone under 40yrs old. That would be another 100 million people, on top of the 70 million kids and 3.5mil babies born each year. This according to Brad Gerstner who is the main guy spearheading efforts on this. He also said Elon

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 02:53 PM (E4rtv)

120 117 I bet Elric has already given us the sad truth about this: what they did was not a crime. To criminalize their acts, you'd have to get Congress to pass laws against their donors and Bros In High Places. So, settle for meaningless fines. Maybe if we take the White House in 2028 and 2032, we could hope for enough swamp drainage to get laws like that starting in 2037.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 02:52 PM (mmrXZ)

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Here's the indictment.

They broke a lot of laws.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1437146/dl

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:53 PM (qGAQr)

121 The Vampire Lovers has more nudity.

A lot more nudity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:50 PM

Like 'ron cinema consumers care about that.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 20, 2026 02:53 PM (0sNs1)

122
Threats and attacks were prevented, criminal activity was stopped, and information was gathered to dismantle the efforts of hate and extremist groups.

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The SPLC could have dismantled those groups pretty quick if they'd suddenly stopped paying them.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at October 20, 2026 02:54 PM (VWtfl)

123 Morris Day > Morris Dees

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:54 PM (pfXMo)

124 I haven't really followed the whole debanking story that closely. I get the feeling I should be way more outraged than I am. Way more

Posted by: 496 at October 20, 2026 02:54 PM (5vw01)

125

I was playing a game called Thea: The Awakening which is based on slavic mythology and learned one way to beat a Polish vampire is to dig up its corpse and if you remove its clothes it will literally die of embarrassment.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 02:54 PM (sKqQm)

126 The Silence of the DNC would be a great title for a movie.

They sure are quiet.

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 02:54 PM (rj6Yv)

127 I bet Elric has already given us the sad truth about this: what they did was not a crime. To criminalize their acts, you'd have to get Congress to pass laws against their donors and Bros In High Places. So, settle for meaningless fines. Maybe if we take the White House in 2028 and 2032, we could hope for enough swamp drainage to get laws like that starting in 2037.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 02:52 PM (mmrXZ)

========

Here's the indictment.

They broke a lot of laws.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1437146/dl
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:53 PM (qGAQr)
_____

I think she was talking about the debanking by banks based on little more than partisan politics.

The SPLC was doing truly criminal shit. Should be an open and shut case, but we'll see.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 20, 2026 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

128 I have a little niece that should get a Trump account and an Elon share of Tesla.

It would’ve been nice if this was done when I was a kid.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 02:55 PM (6ydKt)

129 Morris Day > Morris Dees
Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:54 PM

Morris Dancing > Morris Day > Morris Dees

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 20, 2026 02:55 PM (0sNs1)

130 Morris Day > Morris Dees
Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:54 PM (pfXMo)

--Morris the Cat > Morris Dees

Posted by: logprof at October 20, 2026 02:56 PM (Poy1v)

131 Morris The Cat > Morris Dancing > Morris Day > Morris Dees

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:57 PM (pfXMo)

132 109 > LMAO

Abdul El-Sayed to black Americans: I like fried chicken just like you.
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Abdul El-Sayed to black voters: I am not like your "gas station Abdul" who hates blacks, catcalls women
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 20, 2026 02:48 PM (RORbl)

Good. You all found it.

And I'm liking that Mother story on GatewayPundit too.

WHOA! Ohio Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Amy Acton’s Mother Appears in Attack Ad: “She’s a Liar… She’s Lied Her Entire Life.” – UPDATE: Acton Responds

When even your Mom doesn't want you to win AND IS ACTIVELY campaigning against you....lol.

Talarico may be falling to third or fourth in the Democratic crazy train of lunacy. I'm getting optimistic about the midterms.....

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 20, 2026 02:57 PM (Sco7b)

133 Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 02:49 PM (sKqQm)

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The Vampire Lovers has more nudity.

A lot more nudity.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:50 PM (qGAQr)
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Doesn't Vampire Lovers have a lot more lady vampires who can get naked?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 20, 2026 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

134 So, will anything happen?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 20, 2026 02:57 PM (ebJJx)

135 Dang it. Too slow again. It's this head cold

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:57 PM (pfXMo)

136 129 Morris Day > Morris Dees
Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:54 PM

Morris Dancing > Morris Day > Morris Dees
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 20, 2026 02:55 PM (0sNs1)

Nah, Morris is the best.

Posted by: Jerome at October 20, 2026 02:58 PM (9ZFZd)

137 Jinx, man!

Posted by: logprof at October 20, 2026 02:58 PM (Poy1v)

138 133
Doesn't Vampire Lovers have a lot more lady vampires who can get naked?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 20, 2026 02:57 PM (iFTx/)

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For most of the running time, both films only have one lady vampire.

The Vampire Lovers gains a second very late, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 02:58 PM (qGAQr)

139 Vampire lovers?

Pfftt. What a waste. Note even one scene of two dude vampires making out.

Posted by: Anne Rice at October 20, 2026 02:58 PM (sKqQm)

140 136 129 Morris Day > Morris Dees
Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:54 PM

Morris Dancing > Morris Day > Morris Dees
Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 20, 2026 02:55 PM (0sNs1)

Nah, Morris is the best.
Posted by: Jerome at October 20, 2026 02:58 PM (9ZFZd)

Morris Day that is.

Posted by: Jerome at October 20, 2026 02:59 PM (9ZFZd)

141
You can be sure a nice fat slice of the money that SPLC gave to the KKK was kicked back to bigwigs at SPLC
Posted by: Elric The Blade

===================

Haha, I'm ignorant about the subtleties of accounting. I don't see why the bigwigs didn't just steal it straight from the organization instead of relying on kickbacks from illicit payouts, but I guess there are some Excel spreadsheets that really do have to look legit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 02:59 PM (mmrXZ)

142 The report also documented damage to specific industries that were affected heavily by debanking.

___________________________

I think there's more coming on this as it relates to the energy industries. Any way you slice it, it's discrimination based on political views. A significant number of banks joined these "Net Zero" alliances that resulted in refusing loans (and even accounts) to various (very profitable) energy companies. THIS was a direct violation of their fiduciary duties to their investors. And, arguably, you could say that the discrimination on "climate change" policy was ALSO discrimination based on political views. The Premier of Canada was instrumental in these discriminatory practices. And, he (and those banks) bailed quickly when he was elected.

Posted by: Orson at October 20, 2026 02:59 PM (dIske)

143 have a little niece that should get a Trump account and an Elon share of Tesla.

It would’ve been nice if this was done when I was a kid.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 02:55 PM (6ydKt)
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For my Bar Mitzvah, my late aunt gave me 100 shares of Pan Am.

Oh well.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 20, 2026 02:59 PM (ebJJx)

144 Morris The Cat > Morris Dancing > Morris Day > Morris Dees
Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 02:57 PM

"Some people call me Morris" > Morris The Cat > Morris Dancing > Morris Day > Morris Dees

Posted by: Steve Miller Band at October 20, 2026 02:59 PM (0sNs1)

145 I haven't seen Fearless Vampire Killers since college.

Posted by: logprof at October 20, 2026 02:59 PM (Poy1v)

146 When even your Mom doesn't want you to win AND IS ACTIVELY campaigning against you....lol.

Talarico may be falling to third or fourth in the Democratic crazy train of lunacy. I'm getting optimistic about the midterms.....
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 20, 2026 02:57 PM (Sco7b)

Saw a lefty rebuttal about this ad on a X reply to a post of the video.

Apparently, according to them, Acton hasn’t lived with her mother since she was 12 because her mother married a man who molested her daughter and then did nothing about it so mom is the liar.

I have no clue who’s right or who’s lying so I’ll just get some popcorn.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:00 PM (6ydKt)

147 OT on Movies! now, Twins of Evil, aka Tits of Evil.
Vampire with boobs.

Reading through the wiki entry this is a serious of movies about busty lesbian vampires in history?
Posted by: 18-1

Lesbian vampires were some of the original stories. "Carmilla" predates "Dracula" by 25 years.

Vaguely-NSFW song/video based on Carmilla:

Blackbriar - Moonflower
https://youtu.be/1eOIvQnkhg0

Posted by: mikeski at October 20, 2026 03:00 PM (VHUov)

148 Moar....
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@RapidResponse47
.
@POTUS
: Today, I'm thrilled to announce the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program. Americans will now be able to report cases of corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities via a new website — and they'll be given a commission of one percent.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 20, 2026 03:00 PM (RORbl)

149 145 I haven't seen Fearless Vampire Killers since college.

Posted by: logprof at October 20, 2026 02:59 PM (Poy1v)

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I'll run through Roman Polanski's work when he's dead.

Just to sidestep some of the inevitable conversation. Can't avoid it all, but I can avoid some if he's dead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:00 PM (qGAQr)

150 once again, a right-wing-nutjob-conspiracy-theory (IOW something we all knew was true years ago) is proved to be irrefutably correct!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 20, 2026 03:01 PM (VyBeY)

151 I don't think "reputational risk" exists as a basis to refuse a customer. Every bank that did this should have been prosecuted.

Sure, a bank can refuse to do business with criminals, cartels, terrorists, drug dealers, methodists, and known money-laundering actors. But that requires some prior conviction of a crime, or designation on a terror list, or some very hard evidence of criminality.

A bank can't debank Charlie Kirk because they don't like his views on abortion. But that's basically exactly what the banks did.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 20, 2026 02:30 PM (iFTx/)

I think you are mistaken about what the law is. I believe it is legal for a bank to decide it doesn't want to do business with NAMBLA, for example. Assuming for the moment that NAMBLA isn't actually violating any laws, and only acts as a lobbying group for those that want to make pedo sex legal, a bank can decide that they are just too disgusting to do business with.

They don't get to refuse to do business with people based on race, religion, etc. Maybe the law should be changed to include political views, but that's where we are now.

Posted by: No Name Today at October 20, 2026 03:01 PM (8mulE)

152 When even your Mom doesn't want you to win AND IS ACTIVELY campaigning against you....lol.

Talarico may be falling to third or fourth in the Democratic crazy train of lunacy. I'm getting optimistic about the midterms.....
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 20, 2026 02:57 PM (Sco7b)

If only you had sold them all in like 1980 and banked the cash?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:01 PM (6ydKt)

153 So, will anything happen?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 20, 2026 02:57 PM

So, like my wife, you don't listen to me?

Posted by: That Guy who always intones "Nothing will happen." at October 20, 2026 03:01 PM (0sNs1)

154 Nah, Morris is the best.
Posted by: Jerome at October 20, 2026 02:58 PM (9ZFZd)

Morris Day that is.
Posted by: Jerome at October 20, 2026 02:59 PM (9ZFZd)

Disagree!

Posted by: Appolonia 6 at October 20, 2026 03:01 PM (Poy1v)

155 Apparently, according to them, Acton hasn’t lived with her mother since she was 12 because her mother married a man who molested her daughter and then did nothing about it so mom is the liar.

I have no clue who’s right or who’s lying so I’ll just get some popcorn.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:00 PM (6ydKt)

That's what the follow-up response said.

But as you said, popcorn.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 20, 2026 03:01 PM (Sco7b)

156 WHOA! Ohio Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Amy Acton’s Mother Appears in Attack Ad: “She’s a Liar… She’s Lied Her Entire Life.” – UPDATE: Acton Responds

Pretty rare someone's own mother will say not to vote for her kid because said kid is cray-cray.

I see Acton's response is to call her mother a liar back and insinuate she helped a man rape her.

Crazy stuff

Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 03:02 PM (sKqQm)

157 146 Saw a lefty rebuttal about this ad on a X reply to a post of the video.

Apparently, according to them, Acton hasn’t lived with her mother since she was 12 because her mother married a man who molested her daughter and then did nothing about it so mom is the liar.

I have no clue who’s right or who’s lying so I’ll just get some popcorn.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:00 PM (6ydKt)

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1. Apparently there's no court record of the accusations, so those are suspect.

2. Just having Acton's mom on TV saying not to vote for her is going to be the kind of emotional punch that will affect soft partisans and the small population of swing voters enough that no explanation from the Acton campaign will undo it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:02 PM (qGAQr)

158 I'll run through Roman Polanski's work when he's dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:00 PM

I'm already there, you know.

Posted by: zombie Russ Meyer at October 20, 2026 03:02 PM (0sNs1)

159 So, like my wife, you don't listen to me?

Posted by: That Guy who always intones "Nothing will happen." at October 20, 2026 03:01 PM (0sNs1)
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Of course I listen to you, dear!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 20, 2026 03:02 PM (ebJJx)

160 158 I'll run through Roman Polanski's work when he's dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:00 PM

I'm already there, you know.

Posted by: zombie Russ Meyer at October 20, 2026 03:02 PM (0sNs1)

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When I'm good and ready!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:03 PM (qGAQr)

161
There's been an Oval Office press conference going on this whole time!!

I've had it on tv but I've been so absorbed with you morons that I don't know what Trump did. Announce more gaping holes of fraud, I think.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:03 PM (mmrXZ)

162 146, IMO it's a pretty safe assumption that the leftist (demonrat) side of any question is based on lies.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 20, 2026 03:03 PM (VyBeY)

163 I don’t recall much, if any, nudity in Fearless Vampire Killers but I do vaguely remember some lingerie.

Been several years since I watched it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:03 PM (6ydKt)

164 Maybe the law should be changed to include political views, but that's where we are now.
Posted by: No Name Today

Actual law in California. Guess how often it's enforced?

GUESS.
HOW.
OFTEN?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 20, 2026 03:03 PM (nEUC6)

165 Morris The Cat > Morris Dancing > Morris Day > Morris Dees >Morris Minor

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 03:03 PM (pfXMo)

166 161
There's been an Oval Office press conference going on this whole time!!

I've had it on tv but I've been so absorbed with you morons that I don't know what Trump did. Announce more gaping holes of fraud, I think.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:03 PM (mmrXZ)

========

Criterion flash sale is also on right now.

Got my first order in (first time in 18 months). Waiting for $50 credit to arrive so I can get in the second.

Wish it had happened a week later so I could get Frankenstein, but oh well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:03 PM (qGAQr)

167
I think you are mistaken about what the law is. I believe it is legal for a bank to decide it doesn't want to do business with NAMBLA, for example. Assuming for the moment that NAMBLA isn't actually violating any laws, and only acts as a lobbying group for those that want to make pedo sex legal, a bank can decide that they are just too disgusting to do business with.

One of the things the left has been successful at is taking normal rightleaning beliefs, hell normal 2000s era leftwing beliefs, and argue they are so far right wing as to be the same as NAMBLA while at the same time arguing hating on NAMBLA is homophobia.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 03:04 PM (sKqQm)

168 >>> 164 Maybe the law should be changed to include political views, but that's where we are now.
Posted by: No Name Today

Actual law in California. Guess how often it's enforced?

GUESS.
HOW.
OFTEN?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 20, 2026 03:03 PM (nEUC6)

It's enforced where protectors of Our Precious Democracy, or Newcomers, or other good people are affected.

What do I win?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 03:05 PM (jb8Ss)

169 Saw a lefty rebuttal about this ad on a X reply to a post of the video.

Apparently, according to them, Acton hasn’t lived with her mother since she was 12 because her mother married a man who molested her daughter and then did nothing about it so mom is the liar.

I have no clue who’s right or who’s lying so I’ll just get some popcorn.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

Pedo step-incest? That's a bit tame for today's Democrat party. Is there some blood-related pedo incest somewhere, too?

Posted by: the tabloids at October 20, 2026 03:05 PM (VHUov)

170
They don't get to refuse to do business with people based on race, religion, etc. Maybe the law should be changed to include political views, but that's where we are now.
Posted by: No Name Today

===============

That's my impression. "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone."

Banks aren't utilities.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:05 PM (mmrXZ)

171 129, truth! LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 20, 2026 03:05 PM (VyBeY)

172 One thing I find kind of hilarious - imagine going back in time to Jan 2017 and telling your average leftist in the future the party in power will seek to prosecute and debank anyone that has argued the election wasn't 100% on the up and up.

They'd all decry Trump's "fascism"

Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 03:07 PM (sKqQm)

173 >>> 148 Moar....
------------
@RapidResponse47
.
@POTUS
: Today, I'm thrilled to announce the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program. Americans will now be able to report cases of corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities via a new website - and they'll be given a commission of one percent.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 20, 2026 03:00 PM (RORbl)

1% doesn't sound like much until you consider how much money has been flying all the fck over.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 03:07 PM (jb8Ss)

174 Today, I'm thrilled to announce the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program. Americans will now be able to report cases of corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities via a new website - and they'll be given a commission of one percent.

Can I report the federal government as a whole?

Posted by: 18-1 at October 20, 2026 03:08 PM (sKqQm)

175
Haha Trump is asked about Ilhan.

"She comes from Somalia, which isn't even a country. It's a real shithouse, okay?" Then goes on to note that she never heard of Constitutional rights until she started screaming for hers... on a false basis.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:08 PM (mmrXZ)

176 I wish Sayed would say, "I'm a safe muslim, just like Barack Obama."

Posted by: ... at October 20, 2026 03:08 PM (XvD//)

177 I see Acton's response is to call her mother a liar back and insinuate she helped a man rape her.

You know how to alienate men? Have these loud and public cat fights. It will remind men of their ex-wives and ex-mother-in-laws.

The only time men may want to see women viciously fighting involves mud and skimpy bikinis.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 20, 2026 03:08 PM (pawvM)

178 This is change. From X

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
·
1h
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: SecWar Pete Hegseth CONFIRMS the Pentagon is preparing to 100% PASS with flying colors a full audit, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, in 2028

Long overdue!

"The Department of Defense and now Department of War has never passed an audit. Never."

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:08 PM (E4rtv)

179 Just to sidestep some of the inevitable conversation. Can't avoid it all, but I can avoid some if he's dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

--Yeah, I feel a little icky about, even though he's hilarious in it.

This, though, is one minute of non-icky awesomeness:

https://youtu.be/Yu3KEivauFM?is=F7oDJFkQEJcttv0S

Posted by: Appolonia 6 at October 20, 2026 03:09 PM (Poy1v)

180 I'm already there, you know.

Posted by: zombie Russ Meyer "

You mean T*its Up?

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 03:09 PM (pfXMo)

181 The only time men may want to see women viciously fighting involves mud and skimpy bikinis.
Posted by: Community Notes
======
John Candy living his best life!

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:09 PM (E4rtv)

182 Banks have also debanked marijuana and other legitimate retail recreational drug stores even when their merchandise is 100% legal in their jurisdiction.

They also were trying to debank gun manufacturers at one time.

They can deny it in some areas, for sure.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:09 PM (6ydKt)

183
LOLOL

Trump trying to get discipline from the press: "QUIET! Are you a sick person?"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:09 PM (mmrXZ)

184 Off with the Sex Shooter sock!

Posted by: logprof at October 20, 2026 03:10 PM (Poy1v)

185 1% doesn't sound like much until you consider how much money has been flying all the fck over."

$40 Trillion in debt.. . I'd settle for 1 percent of that...

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 03:10 PM (pfXMo)

186 @POTUS
: Today, I'm thrilled to announce the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program. Americans will now be able to report cases of corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities via a new website — and they'll be given a commission of one percent.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 20, 2026 03:00 PM (RORbl)
______________________________

Nick Shirley reading this. "F*ck!!!....Is it retro-active?"

Posted by: Orson at October 20, 2026 03:11 PM (dIske)

187
IT'S OFFICIAL: SecWar Pete Hegseth CONFIRMS the Pentagon is preparing to 100% PASS with flying colors a full audit, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, in 2028

==============

Okay, but... no one's changing any of the criteria in order to achieve a pass?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:11 PM (mmrXZ)

188 False Claims Act is even more generous.

Successful whistleblowers are entitled to 15% to 30% of the government’s recovery, depending on their involvement and whether the government intervenes. The Act also provides anti-retaliation protections for employees who face discharge, demotion, or harassment for reporting fraud. Common areas of FCA enforcement include healthcare fraud (Medicare/Medicaid), defense contracting, and government procurement.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:11 PM (E4rtv)

189 Why hasn't the AG slapped splc with rico charges yet? I know they had some criminal stuff come back from a couple of grand juries but I have seen no press releases or anything after that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 20, 2026 03:11 PM (I43vL)

190 Big haul from Criterion:

Nightmare Alley
The Man Who Wasn’t There
The Dead
Captain Blood
Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring: Two Films by Claude Berri
Sorcerer
Trainspotting
The Roaring Twenties
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers: Two Films by Richard Lester
The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:11 PM (qGAQr)

191 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 20, 2026 03:12 PM (Ia/+0)

192 184 Off with the Sex Shooter sock!
Posted by: logprof at October 20, 2026 03:10 PM (Poy1v)

Such a teen boy thing to say....

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 20, 2026 03:12 PM (Sco7b)

193
Nick Shirley reading this. "F*ck!!!....Is it retro-active?"
Posted by: Orson

==============

Nick Shirley has been to my city and found fraud. I don't know if he followed up -- there's video of him asking ugly Somali women if they actually run a daycare -- but hmmm....

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:12 PM (mmrXZ)

194 The only time men may want to see women viciously fighting involves mud and skimpy bikinis.
Posted by: Community Notes at October 20, 2026 03:08 PM (pawvM)

One more reason to tune in to the new season of Girls!

Posted by: Lena Dunham at October 20, 2026 03:12 PM (9ZFZd)

195 Nick Shirley reading this. "F*ck!!!....Is it retro-active?"
Posted by: Orson at October 20, 2026 03:11 PM (dIske)
======

He's getting the first check. $10K

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 03:12 PM (rj6Yv)

196 189 Why hasn't the AG slapped splc with rico charges yet? I know they had some criminal stuff come back from a couple of grand juries but I have seen no press releases or anything after that.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 20, 2026 03:11 PM (I43vL)

========

"Sure, the DOJ has frozen all of SPLC's assets and personally indicted actual executives at the company, but they haven't done a legal tactic everyone misunderstands and gets wrong. So, nothing's happening."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:12 PM (qGAQr)

197 139 Vampire lovers?

Pfftt. What a waste. Note even one scene of two dude vampires making out.
Posted by: Anne Rice at October 20, 2026 02:58 PM (sKqQm)

She's a vampire lover
She likes holy water believe it!
She's like no other!
and all she wants to do is make him bleeeeed!

Posted by: Nelly at October 20, 2026 03:13 PM (6+ehB)

198 Okay, but... no one's changing any of the criteria in order to achieve a pass?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
======
Like a dog speaking, it is not whether the dog can speak very well with proper grammar but the fact that it is speaking at all.

If DoW can be audited successfully, not auditing the Fed becomes indefensible. Especially after the disgusting Powell lies to Congress over its overspending on its hq.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:13 PM (E4rtv)

199 I wonder how many drug addicts would turn their aunts and grandmas in for Medicare fraud just for their cut from the feds?

This could prove to be a popular program with the people and criminals.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:13 PM (6ydKt)

200 One of the things the left has been successful at is taking normal rightleaning beliefs, hell normal 2000s era leftwing beliefs, and argue they are so far right wing as to be the same as NAMBLA while at the same time arguing hating on NAMBLA is homophobia.
Posted by: 18-1

Yeah, that's always entertaining, to have the people who campaigning for MAPs to be considered a legit sexual identity while calling everyone in the Trump admin pedos, as if they think that's a bad thing.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 20, 2026 03:13 PM (vJrRc)

201 "Sure, the DOJ has frozen all of SPLC's assets and personally indicted actual executives at the company, but they haven't done a legal tactic everyone misunderstands and gets wrong. So, nothing's happening."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:12 PM (qGAQr)

THE KABUKI IS IMPORTANT, DAMMIT!

Posted by: Kindltot at October 20, 2026 03:13 PM (rbvCR)

202
Here's the indictment.

They broke a lot of laws.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1437146/dl
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

===============

That's against the SPLC, not the banks.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:13 PM (mmrXZ)

203 @FootballCravee
·
2h
Roger Goodell says the NFL has “no plans” to plans to cancel Sundays NFL game in Paris despite protests

“The protests have been mostly peaceful, we don’t feel our players are in any danger.”

Posted by: Don Black at October 20, 2026 03:13 PM (ZxPkt)

204 Debanking? We are giving you financial freedom you ruffians.

Posted by: Big Bank at October 20, 2026 03:14 PM (yPJaS)

205 Russ Meyer movies reviewed: tits, big tits, even bigger tits

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 20, 2026 03:14 PM (vJPf4)

206 men may want to see women in skimpy bikinis.

the only correct answer is yes

Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 20, 2026 03:14 PM (jrgJz)

207 192 184 Off with the Sex Shooter sock!
Posted by: logprof at October 20, 2026 03:10 PM (Poy1v)

Such a teen boy thing to say....
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 20, 2026 03:12 PM (Sco7b)

LOL, and very appropriate given that group (and that video).

Posted by: 80s kid at October 20, 2026 03:14 PM (9ZFZd)

208 Has John Thune done anything to censure Slotkin? I just went on his X account and I don't see anything but ~~Jack and~~ shit.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 20, 2026 03:14 PM (88C+u)

209 201 THE KABUKI IS IMPORTANT, DAMMIT!

Posted by: Kindltot at October 20, 2026 03:13 PM (rbvCR)

========

How else are we to know if things are going right if Jim Jordan's sleeves aren't rolled up and Trey Gowdy's hair isn't quaffed?

The conventions must be followed!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:15 PM (qGAQr)

210 I wonder how many kids will be ratting out their parents on mortgage fraud?

Posted by: Orson at October 20, 2026 03:15 PM (dIske)

211 190 Big haul from Criterion:

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:11 PM (qGAQr)

I have seen several of those.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:15 PM (6ydKt)

212 Sense when has fraud not been a crime?
It's not a crime when people of color do it?
Two American laws, one for white folks, one for people of color? Sounds very racist to me. I mean fraud is fraud no matter who does it. No "special" get away with it free law.
And "reasons" does not cut it. "Reasons" is bullshit double talk. Guilty of violating the law is straight up.

Posted by: Case at October 20, 2026 03:15 PM (Dd7BU)

213 Roger Goodell says
“The protests have been mostly peaceful”
Posted by: Don Black

The revolver is filled with mostly blanks.

Posted by: mikeski at October 20, 2026 03:16 PM (VHUov)

214 189 Why hasn't the AG slapped splc with rico charges yet? I know they had some criminal stuff come back from a couple of grand juries but I have seen no press releases or anything after that.

Posted by: Mister Scott
=======
Rudy is one of the few prosecutors that did that to the Mafia and broke its back. It takes years and you first have to get initial convictions on other crimes to show a pattern of behavior and colluding with others. Helpful to also get insiders to flip on the others in a race to give testimony and government witness status.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv)

215 >>> 186

______________________________

Nick Shirley reading this. "F*ck!!!....Is it retro-active?"
Posted by: Orson at October 20, 2026 03:11 PM (dIske)

I'd think he could still make several claims, if they're within the statute of limitations and have not been formally investigated.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 03:16 PM (jb8Ss)

216
1% doesn't sound like much until you consider how much money has been flying all the fck over.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

==============

Fuck, are you kidding? I'm thinking of moving to Minnesota.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:17 PM (mmrXZ)

217
Nick Shirley reading this. "F*ck!!!....Is it retro-active?"
Posted by: Orson at October 20, 2026 03:11 PM (dIske)

I'd think he could still make several claims, if they're within the statute of limitations and have not been formally investigated.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

==================

Trump just gave him a lump of money in the Oval Office.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:17 PM (mmrXZ)

218 Everything about this scandal is an example of why I have very little confidence in the country or civic culture and contempt for most of the bipeds currently inhabiting it.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 20, 2026 03:17 PM (U/Byj)

219 “The protests have been mostly peaceful, we don’t feel our players are in any danger.”
Posted by: Don Black at October 20, 2026 03:13 PM (ZxPkt)

The NFL is going to be screwed up until they get rid of this asshole, but he manages to hang on like Rose hanging on to a door in the North Atlantic.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:17 PM (6ydKt)

220 214 Rudy is one of the few prosecutors that did that to the Mafia and broke its back. It takes years and you first have to get initial convictions on other crimes to show a pattern of behavior and colluding with others. Helpful to also get insiders to flip on the others in a race to give testimony and government witness status.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:16 PM (E4rtv)

========

False.

The past happened all at once and instantaneously. No one had to wait between things ever.

The pyramids were built at the same time as William the Conqueror sailing from Normandy at the same time that the shogun was overthrown in Japan at the same time an Englishman first saw a kangaroo shit in Australia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:18 PM (qGAQr)

221 @FootballCravee
·
2h
Roger Goodell says the NFL has “no plans” to plans to cancel Sundays NFL game in Paris despite protests

“The protests have been mostly peaceful, we don’t feel our players are in any danger.”
Posted by: Don Black at October 20, 2026 03:13 PM (ZxPkt)
________

My prediction?

The game will go off without a problem. The powers that be will get the word out to the rent-a-mob organizers that the game is off limits. In exchange, the NFL will loudly praise how great Paris and the french are, and say it's just a few students peacefully protesting.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 20, 2026 03:19 PM (iFTx/)

222 men may want to see women in skimpy bikinis.

the only correct answer is yes
Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 20, 2026 03:14 PM (jrgJz)

Oh, some I am happy to see not in their bikinis too.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 20, 2026 03:19 PM (rbvCR)

223 >>> 203 @FootballCravee
·
2h
Roger Goodell says the NFL has “no plans” to plans to cancel Sundays NFL game in Paris despite protests

“The protests have been mostly peaceful, we don’t feel our players are in any danger.”
Posted by: Don Black at October 20, 2026 03:13 PM (ZxPkt)

So you're going to be in Paris to watch the game, Roger?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 03:19 PM (jb8Ss)

224 221 My prediction?

The game will go off without a problem. The powers that be will get the word out to the rent-a-mob organizers that the game is off limits. In exchange, the NFL will loudly praise how great Paris and the french are, and say it's just a few students peacefully protesting.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 20, 2026 03:19 PM (iFTx/)

========

The elite always protect their own.

Don't know about the regular joes attending, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:19 PM (qGAQr)

225 Fuck, are you kidding? I'm thinking of moving to Minnesota.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:17 PM (mmrXZ)

_________________________

Next MoME in Minneapolis. Bring your flex cuffs, a calculator, a $20 bill attached to fishing line, and a plate of Bariis Iskukaris to lure in the fat ones.

Posted by: Orson at October 20, 2026 03:19 PM (dIske)

226
Can I report the federal government as a whole?
Posted by: 18-1

===============

lol. Let's start with Congress, which hasn't fulfilled its Constitutional duty to pass a budget since...?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:20 PM (mmrXZ)

227 Such a teen boy thing to say....
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 20, 2026 03:12 PM (Sco7b)

--I wasn't even a teenager when Purple Rain came out (and at most barely one when I watched it) but when a girl group in lingerie was performing, I took notice.

Posted by: logprof at October 20, 2026 03:20 PM (Poy1v)

228 The pyramids were built at the same time as William the Conqueror sailing from Normandy at the same time that the shogun was overthrown in Japan at the same time an Englishman first saw a kangaroo shit in Australia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:18 PM (qGAQr)

If you get the right history book it’s possible all of that could have happened in two pages.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:20 PM (6ydKt)

229 “The protests have been mostly peaceful, we don’t feel our players are in any danger.”

Posted by: Don Black at October 20, 2026 03:13 PM (ZxPkt)

These are the people who would wave hankies at the drivers of the box cars. They would do it in a heartbeat.

Posted by: ... at October 20, 2026 03:21 PM (XvD//)

230 208 Has John Thune done anything to censure Slotkin? I just went on his X account and I don't see anything but Jack and shit.
Posted by: 88C+u
======
Thune lurks from behind. And like a river otter is prone to giving the GOP base an unpleasant 'surprise' from the rear.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:21 PM (E4rtv)

231 226
lol. Let's start with Congress, which hasn't fulfilled its Constitutional duty to pass a budget since...?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:20 PM (mmrXZ)

=======

Budget for 26/27 was passed a few months ago by both chambers, actually. Still haggling over appropriations, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:21 PM (qGAQr)

232 186 @POTUS
: Today, I'm thrilled to announce the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program. Americans will now be able to report cases of corruption and theft of taxpayer dollars in their communities via a new website — and they'll be given a commission of one percent.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 20, 2026 03:00 PM (RORbl)
______________________________

Nick Shirley reading this. "F*ck!!!....Is it retro-active?"
Posted by: Orson at October 20, 2026 03:11 PM (dIske)
******
Should offer a bounty on each illegal's head reported to ICE.

I would do it for free!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 20, 2026 03:21 PM (hzuYO)

233 I remember the story of Morris the cat. I recall he lived a long time.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 20, 2026 03:21 PM (0U5gm)

234 209 How else are we to know if things are going right if Jim Jordan's sleeves aren't rolled up and Trey Gowdy's hair isn't quaffed?

i'm'a just assume this is a typo for "coiffed", because i don't want to even *think* about the hairball that would be hocked up after quaffing gowdy's hair.

Posted by: anachronda at October 20, 2026 03:21 PM (sGtp+)

235 Next MoME in Minneapolis. Bring your flex cuffs, a calculator, a $20 bill attached to fishing line, and a plate of Bariis Iskukaris to lure in the fat ones.
Posted by: Orson at October 20, 2026 03:19 PM (dIske)
======

California is the place you oughta be. Load up the truck and move to Berkely.

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 03:21 PM (rj6Yv)

236 >>> 216
==============

Fuck, are you kidding? I'm thinking of moving to Minnesota.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:17 PM (mmrXZ)

>>> 217
==================

Trump just gave him a lump of money in the Oval Office.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:17 PM (mmrXZ)

Awesome!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 03:21 PM (jb8Ss)

237 1% commission... on fraud.

But... is it tax free/deferred?

Because the IRS might be licking it's chops.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 20, 2026 03:22 PM (RORbl)

238 the same time an Englishman first saw a kangaroo shit in Australia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Vegemite origin story?

Posted by: Kratwurst at October 20, 2026 03:22 PM (xLChk)

239 Russ Meyer movies reviewed: tits, big tits, even bigger tits
Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 20, 2026 03:14 PM (vJPf4)

You have my undivided attention. Go on . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 20, 2026 03:22 PM (wVcYX)

240 The Texas Democrat Party put out a pro-Talerico flyer that says "The real battle in politics isn't left vs. right. It's top vs. bottom."

Do they have any idea what they're saying?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 20, 2026 03:22 PM (2ocoG)

241 The NFL is going to be screwed up until they get rid of this asshole, but he manages to hang on like Rose hanging on to a door in the North Atlantic.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
========
Asshole rich owners of the NFL pay him well to be spear catcher. Like John Thune being supported in his position by RINOs because he takes the heat they deserve.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)

242 >>> 241 The NFL is going to be screwed up until they get rid of this asshole, but he manages to hang on like Rose hanging on to a door in the North Atlantic.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
========
Asshole rich owners of the NFL pay him well to be spear catcher. Like John Thune being supported in his position by RINOs because he takes the heat they deserve.
Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:22 PM (E4rtv)

Would it be wrong to laugh if he *did* attend the Paris game, and caught something else?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 03:24 PM (jb8Ss)

243 You’ll be waiting a long time for Trey Gowdy.
He’s been out of congress for like six years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:24 PM (6ydKt)

244
240 The Texas Democrat Party put out a pro-Talerico flyer that says "The real battle in politics isn't left vs. right. It's top vs. bottom."

Do they have any idea what they're saying?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 20, 2026 03:22 PM (2ocoG)

=======

I mean...are we doing phrasing anymore?

But that paradigm of trying to shift the model of how people look at American politics recently has always been a stalking horse for getting people to vote Democrat. It's never about telling Democrats to vote Republican because they have a bunch of weird connections to, say, a convicted pedophile who died 7 years ago. It's always just "Republicans need to give up that whole partisanship thing and become Democrats."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:24 PM (qGAQr)

245 The Texas Democrat Party put out a pro-Talerico flyer that says "The real battle in politics isn't left vs. right. It's top vs. bottom."

Do they have any idea what they're saying?
Posted by: Ian S. at October 20, 2026 03:22 PM (2ocoG)

They sound like they are so overwhelmed they are just going through the motions and hoping it all turns out OK.
It could also be that all the competent people bailed out leaving the rest because they didn't feel like going down in flames.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 20, 2026 03:24 PM (rbvCR)

246 243 You’ll be waiting a long time for Trey Gowdy.
He’s been out of congress for like six years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:24 PM (6ydKt)

=======

Joke still works.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:24 PM (qGAQr)

247 SPLC is a Marxist organization

Posted by: Skip at October 20, 2026 03:24 PM (Ia/+0)

248 237 1% commission... on fraud.

But... is it tax free/deferred?

Because the IRS might be licking it's chops.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

So what. Basically free money. I suspect one could do quite well using AI to detect government fraud and report it getting a steady income. If you do it under the False Claims Act which takes a bit more work, you can get 15-30 percent of the validated fraud amount.

Once knew an attorney who did nothing other than sue governments that violated bond issue legal requirements. Would get regular hits because the assholes in local government could not be bothered to follow the rules.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:25 PM (E4rtv)

249 245 They sound like they are so overwhelmed they are just going through the motions and hoping it all turns out OK.
It could also be that all the competent people bailed out leaving the rest because they didn't feel like going down in flames.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 20, 2026 03:24 PM (rbvCR)

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No one, not one single person, in that campaign ever thought he had a chance. Ever.

It was a graft from the beginning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:25 PM (qGAQr)

250 TJM, coiffed, not quaffed

(Damn talk-to-text)

Posted by: logprof at October 20, 2026 03:25 PM (Poy1v)

251 The Texas Democrat Party put out a pro-Talerico flyer that says "The real battle in politics isn't left vs. right. It's top vs. bottom."

Do they have any idea what they're saying?

I don't even want to know about two Sodomites fighting over who bites the pillow.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 20, 2026 03:25 PM (/TiS1)

252
If you get the right history book it’s possible all of that could have happened in two pages.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

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By Africans.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:25 PM (mmrXZ)

253 250 TJM, coiffed, not quaffed

(Damn talk-to-text)

Posted by: logprof at October 20, 2026 03:25 PM (Poy1v)

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Depends on his hair style.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:26 PM (qGAQr)

254 240 The Texas Democrat Party put out a pro-Talerico flyer that says "The real battle in politics isn't left vs. right. It's top vs. bottom."

Do they have any idea what they're saying?

Posted by: Ian S.
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Welp, they tried to make Talarico's "Bottoms Up!" a thing but somehow people took that badly.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:26 PM (E4rtv)

255 Judge Ada Brown suspended because wacko.
Must undergo psychiatric evaluation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 20, 2026 03:27 PM (JS6jE)

256 They sound like they are so overwhelmed they are just going through the motions and hoping it all turns out OK.
It could also be that all the competent people bailed out leaving the rest because they didn't feel like going down in flames.

They know "blue Texas" was always a stupid mirage. I'm just wondering if Ace infiltrated their team or something, because spending campaign donations on a thinly disguised gay joke is hilarious.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 20, 2026 03:27 PM (2ocoG)

257 I remember the story of Morris the cat. I recall he lived a long time.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at October 20, 2026 03:21 PM (0U5gm)

--Then 9 Lives chose their mascot well.

Posted by: logprof at October 20, 2026 03:27 PM (Poy1v)

258 Would it be wrong to laugh if he *did* attend the Paris game, and caught something else?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

The French Disease?

Posted by: go long on azithromycin at October 20, 2026 03:28 PM (88C+u)

259 No one, not one single person, in that campaign ever thought he had a chance. Ever.

It was a graft from the beginning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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"The Producers!" except in politics there are no 'shares' in profits that have to be distributed. So no prison terms after. Just some 'costs' that can have portions sluiced off into pockets of those involved.

Basically, I think every scam artist in the US should look at a US political career as a well to make bank quickly and then parley it into a lucrative post political career in media/social media.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:29 PM (E4rtv)

260 Joke still works.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:24 PM (qGAQr)

Well, he and Jordan did it to themselves for sure.

They uncovered a lot of information and possible crimes, but what are you going to do if the DOJ is filled with Obamabots who only did the bidding of Barack, Hillary, and Scranton Joe?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:30 PM (6ydKt)

261
Why does the NFL have a game in Paris?

Posted by: four seasons at October 20, 2026 03:30 PM (/QHx4)

262
No one, not one single person, in that campaign ever thought he had a chance. Ever.

It was a graft from the beginning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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What a tool. When it's over, they're going to take his lunch money and start a rumor that he's retarded.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:30 PM (mmrXZ)

263 File under what a shame/sarc

Fox News
@FoxNews
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WATCH: A makeshift boat packed with 66 migrants is intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard in the Caribbean, with aerial footage capturing the vessel as crews move in to assist those onboard.

The Coast Guard says the vessel was stopped Friday in the Mona Passage, a stretch of water between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

Of the 66 migrants, 63 were returned to the Dominican Republic, while three are now in custody facing charges for attempting to illegally reenter the United States.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:30 PM (E4rtv)

264 Brave AI summary - Ada Brown is a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed in 2019. She is the first African-American woman and the first Choctaw woman to serve as a federal judge in that district

Hoo boy.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 20, 2026 03:30 PM (88C+u)

265 The Texas Democrat Party put out a pro-Talerico flyer that says "The real battle in politics isn't left vs. right. It's top vs. bottom."
Posted by: Ian S.

I mean...are we doing phrasing anymore?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Even without the phrasing issues, it's a lie.

It's been "a coalition of the top 1% of the 1%, and the bottom 50%, vs the middle 50%," forever.

Posted by: mikeski at October 20, 2026 03:31 PM (VHUov)

266 NOOD

Mostly Peaceful Paris Riots

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 03:32 PM (jb8Ss)

267 260 Joke still works.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:24 PM (qGAQr)

Well, he and Jordan did it to themselves for sure.

They uncovered a lot of information and possible crimes, but what are you going to do if the DOJ is filled with Obamabots who only did the bidding of Barack, Hillary, and Scranton Joe?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:30 PM (6ydKt)

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Grassley does it better.

He uncovers stuff and releases it with less fanfare. He doesn't have the ability to play for the cameras, so he doesn't.

There's use in investigatory tools of Congress into the executive. It has oversight over the presidency, technically.

But yelling at underlings who can't change policy, which was Gowdy's bread and butter, while passing no legislation to enforce change of behaviors, turned the whole show into farce more than anything else.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 03:32 PM (qGAQr)

268 On X people are now asking who the top is, since Talerico is obviously not one.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 20, 2026 03:32 PM (2ocoG)

269 Why does the NFL have a game in Paris?

Posted by: four seasons at October 20, 2026 03:30 PM (/QHx4)

Outwardly to expand their market. In actuality probably a shit ton of money laundering.

Posted by: ... at October 20, 2026 03:34 PM (XvD//)

270 But yelling at underlings who can't change policy, which was Gowdy's bread and butter, while passing no legislation to enforce change of behaviors, turned the whole show into farce more than anything else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I was amused at idiots wanting Ole Rooster Tail to be AG after Gaetz crashed and burned.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:35 PM (E4rtv)

271 By Africans.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 03:25 PM (mmrXZ)

There was a viral X post out recently that showed examples from different grade level’s Social Studies schoolbooks in Palestine.

It’s hilarious it’s so bad.
Israel is never mentioned in the entire history of the Middle East.

It’s one lie after another accompanied by endless factual mistakes.

I thought the leftists here were stupid and liars about history here but the Palis are totally mind-raping their children with Goebbels-sized lies.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 20, 2026 03:35 PM (6ydKt)

272 268 On X people are now asking who the top is, since Talerico is obviously not one.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Confucius say, what comes up, must go down. Talafreako agrees with that.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:36 PM (E4rtv)

273 Outwardly to expand their market. In actuality probably a shit ton of money laundering.
Posted by: ...

Betting. Now you can put a bet on prediction markets whether the game is cancelled, how many Free Pali disruptions will happen, etc.

Posted by: whig at October 20, 2026 03:37 PM (E4rtv)

274 nood Iranian/Chinese money post

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at October 20, 2026 03:37 PM (P9Ea3)

275 54? Not 57?

Have they even watched "The Manchurian Candidate"?

Posted by: tankdemon at October 20, 2026 04:01 PM (ZRu9u)

276 A cleat indication thst USAID is still overfunded.

Posted by: tankdemon at October 20, 2026 04:01 PM (ZRu9u)

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