Trump Creates $25 Million Fund to Pay Bounties to Whistleblowers Who Alert the Government of Fraud

If you want to stop foreign pirates, issue letters of marque and reprisal.

This isn't quite that but it's good to incentivize people to report fraud.

President Donald Trump is putting cash behind his crackdown on taxpayer fraud, offering Americans rewards for tips that help bring fraudsters to justice.
Speaking alongside Vice President JD Vance and independent journalist Nick Shirley in the Oval Office, Trump unveiled the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program and said qualifying tipsters would receive a 1% commission, subject to applicable laws and rules.

A 1% commission. That could be huge.

"If you turn somebody in and you, let's say report, and you find $1 billion, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%," Trump said.
Fox News Digital exclusively reported plans for the program ahead of Tuesday's announcement. A White House official initially described a $25 million initiative administered by the Justice Department, with rewards of up to $30,000 for tips leading to a successful fraud conviction or significant federal enforcement action.
Trump's remarks outlined a different payout structure. He said journalists could also participate, subject to applicable rules and approval from their employers.
Americans can report suspected theft of taxpayer dollars through fraud.gov, Trump said.

I'd like to report Ilhan "Omar" and her entire foreign pirate "family," please.

Hooboy, I'm lookin' for a new home on Easy Street!

...
Vance said the initiative grew out of a conversation with Trump about recruiting Americans to help investigators uncover fraud.
"If you want to help us stop it, you get to share in the rewards," Vance said.
Shirley drew national attention in December 2025 after publishing a video questioning whether several Somali-run Minnesota daycare centers were operating as legitimate businesses. His video showed apparently empty facilities and included people who said they had not seen children at the locations.
The White House credited Shirley's reporting with helping spur a surge of FBI and Department of Homeland Security resources into Minnesota, followed by investigations, arrests and new charges.

This is genuinely huge. Trump is offering potentially millions of dollars for a little bit of research and detective work.

Nick Shirley is going to be a rich man. He can't collect a bounty retrospectively, but he knows how to find the fraudsters and will be collecting in the future.

Markwayne Mullin praised Nick Shirely and pointed out that "everyone knew" about the Learing Center but not a single media company reported on it.

He also says the DOJ's fraud task force is moving to seize an entire half-block of Minneapolis which he said was purchased with SNAP fraud.

Gunther Eagleman

@GuntherEagleman

BREAKING: The feds just moved to seize half a city block in Minneapolis, reportedly bought with stolen SNAP money.
Per the White House fraud task force, DOJ's new National Fraud Division filed yesterday to take back property that was fraudulently bought with food stamp dollars meant for hungry Minnesotans.
Then the speaker turned to the press in the room: "None of your outlets reported it. It took one brave kid and a camera."
That learning center was cited hundreds of times, and the legacy media sat on it for years.

🚨 BREAKING: The feds just moved to seize half a city block in Minneapolis, reportedly bought with stolen SNAP money.
Per the White House fraud task force, DOJ's new National Fraud Division filed yesterday to take back property that was fraudulently bought with food stamp dollars meant for hungry Minnesotans.
Then the speaker turned to the press in the room: "None of your outlets reported it. It took one brave kid and a camera."
That learning center was cited hundreds of times, and the legacy media sat on it for years.
Nick Shirley did their job for free. Now Trump is taking the money back, one city block at a time.
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) October 20, 2026

There is a lot of fraud in the SNAP program. Bums sell their EBT cards for cash and drugs and then fake "stores" ring up hundreds of thousands of dollars in "food sales" and charge the government for non-existent food.

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Manjit Singh Bedi of India, a Tacoma grocery store owner who fled home after being indicted for FOOD STAMP fraud, has been DRAGGED back to the US to face charges
He fled to INDIA but the FBI MADE SURE WE GOT HIM 🔥
Bedi pocketed at least $600,000 in SNAP benefits by giving recipients cash for their EBT cards
He'd ring up $200 on a card, hand over $100 in cash, and keep the other $100, all for groceries that were never sold
Kash Patel's FBI put him on the new "Most Wanted Fraudsters" list in September, and Indian police quickly took him into custody
THIS IS LAW AND ORDER.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 16, 2026

We need a full audit of our Food Stamps EBT program
This American says he gets $300 per month on Food Stamps, to qualify he simply lies
“How are you getting money from the government?”
“I lie”
“What are you getting from the government?”
“Food stamps”
“What the f*ck, how much are you getting in food stamps?”
“$300 bucks a month”
Just so you know, there are supposed to be real penalties for committing fraud like this by lying to get food stamps
- 1st time lying, 12-month SNAP ban
- 2nd time lying 24-month ban
- 3rd time lying permanent ban
But you can also get criminal penalties too
- Under $100 is a misdemeanor up to 1 year in prison
- $100 – $4,999 is a felony up to 5 years in prison
- $5,000 or more is a felony up to 20 years in prison
If you’re thinking about committing EBT fraud. Don’t
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 9, 2026

🚨TUESDAY TAKEDOWN: STEAL SNAP. GET BUSTED. 🚨

A Brooklyn retailer operator has been sentenced to 9 MONTHS in prison and ordered to repay $641,952.06 to Ohio’s SNAP program following a scheme involving stolen food benefits.

Investigators traced 2,823 fraudulent EBT transactions to Raed Subhi Abu Mohammad’s store, where stolen card information was used to drain benefits from Ohio families.

Mohammad pleaded guilty to attempted illegal use of food stamps and theft.

Food assistance is for Americans in need. Steal it, and face the consequences.

Report suspected SNAP fraud:
https://t.co/m1gflLmWbe
@OIGUSDA
— Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) October 20, 2026

No longer a conspiracy theory
US Attorney confirms shops are being setup with the sole purpose of exchanging SNAP benefits for cash
Multiple fake stores, one as small as 150 square feet cashing out as much as $480,000 in EBT per month
https://t.co/0c0pBviN3m
— Orange Man Vlad (@orangmanviad) October 15, 2026

And then there's stuff like this -- Minnesota is sending EBT cards to people who say they never even signed up for one.

What's going on there?

The thing is, this is the kind of detective work a very average citizen can do. These scam-stores have to deal with the general public. So anyone coming in with an EBT card bought from a bum can run the scam with the scam store. If it's recorded on your phone's audio note program, you can collect evidence of fraud.

And then collect a bounty.

Now, with a bounty system in place, the scam stores will have to be more careful, but there's a limit to how careful they can be. Like drug dealers, they still have to interact with strangers to make money or else they're out of business.

They could get violent, like drug dealers, when they sense someone is setting them up in a sting, so collecting the bounty is a bit risky.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:30 PM

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1 How many people are reporting Gov. Newsome right now?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 20, 2026 05:31 PM (2GVsD)

2 There has to be some incentive to not send them on a wild goose chase too.

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 05:31 PM (MWfyi)

3 I found one, Mr President! Check out congress. Need an address to send my check?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 20, 2026 05:32 PM (u73oe)

4 He also says the DOJ's fraud task force is moving to seize an entire half-block of Minneapolis which he said was purchased with SNAP fraud.

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This didn't happen on day 1, so it doesn't matter.

Also, Trump hasn't turned California majority Anglo-Saxon in 19 months, so nothing is happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 05:32 PM (qGAQr)

5 Is *this* why Elise Slotkin is squealing again?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 05:32 PM (jb8Ss)

6 NYC fraud shop and OH SNAP?

Oh my goodness! Who crossed state line???

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 20, 2026 05:33 PM (2GVsD)

7 Am I allowed to report every Dem member of Congress (and in my State assembly and Senate and the Governor)?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:33 PM (l3cgK)

8 "The thing is, this is the kind of detective work a very average citizen can do."

Let Claude do it. Claude never sleeps.

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 05:33 PM (Jr5Lq)

9 "Bedi pocketed at least $600,000 in SNAP..."

That's only what they can prove he stole, the real amount of money he stole is likely 10 times that.

Posted by: Champ Kind at October 20, 2026 05:33 PM (I43vL)

10 OrangeMan Bad!, m'kay?

Posted by: DNC Talking Points at October 20, 2026 05:33 PM (0sNs1)

11 And when the whistleblowers rebel, it will be. mutiny on the bounty.

Posted by: zombie at October 20, 2026 05:34 PM (HD2n/)

12 report, and you find $1 billion, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%,"

So? That's only like what, a dollar?

/reddit

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:34 PM (pfXMo)

13 Can AI find their secret illegal offshore accounts?

https://youtu.be/wpjX4q5ZWQc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:35 PM (l3cgK)

14 Let Claude do it. Claude never sleeps.
Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 05:33 PM

Neither does rust, evil, nor Big Penguin.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 20, 2026 05:35 PM (0sNs1)

15 Elena Ceaseceau Slotkin needs to lose her CIA pension and security clearance.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 20, 2026 05:35 PM (2GVsD)

16 EarnBailToday

Posted by: tubal at October 20, 2026 05:35 PM (Gqar8)

17 I might suspect something with a local business, but can offer no evidence. What is that going to get me? I'll take .1 percent on those.

Posted by: Guy with a list at October 20, 2026 05:35 PM (MWfyi)

18 I saw MSNOW being very sad and angry about the initiative, with a headline say "Experts say Trump's new 'anti-fraud' plan is full of holes."

Boy these Democrats really want to protect their ongoing looting of the productive segment of society, huh?

Posted by: ace at October 20, 2026 05:35 PM (1wjle)

19 How are we going to pay for those bounties? Won't it increase the deficit?!

Posted by: CNN at October 20, 2026 05:35 PM (Ovx+P)

20 11 And when the whistleblowers rebel, it will be. mutiny on the bounty.

Posted by: zombie at October 20, 2026 05:34 PM (HD2n/)

Hah.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:36 PM (l3cgK)

21 18 I saw MSNOW being very sad and angry about the initiative, with a headline say "Experts say Trump's new 'anti-fraud' plan is full of holes."

Boy these Democrats really want to protect their ongoing looting of the productive segment of society, huh?

Posted by: ace at October 20, 2026 05:35 PM (1wjle)

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2.5 more years of this, no matter the midterms.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 05:36 PM (qGAQr)

22 mutiny on the bounty."

Regular or select-a-size?

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:36 PM (pfXMo)

23 Claude hate fraude! Claude smash!

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 05:36 PM (Jr5Lq)

24 1% of $1k = $10
1% of $1M = $10k
1% of $1B = $10M

Seems like an opportunity for Morons everywhere.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 05:36 PM (jb8Ss)

25 18 I saw MSNOW being very sad and angry about the initiative, with a headline say "Experts say Trump's new 'anti-fraud' plan is full of holes."

Boy these Democrats really want to protect their ongoing looting of the productive segment of society, huh?

Posted by: ace at October 20, 2026 05:35 PM (1wjle)

For the last almost two years, I've not been a productive member of society, but I haven't sucked on the Gov't teat either.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:37 PM (l3cgK)

26 He also says the DOJ's fraud task force is moving to seize an entire half-block of Minneapolis which he said was purchased with SNAP fraud.
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But when they get it back, it'll still be located in Minneapolis.

Posted by: Crusader at October 20, 2026 05:37 PM (TN0g+)

27 seize an entire half-block of Minneapolis "

That's what...eleven fiddy and change?

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:38 PM (pfXMo)

28 26 He also says the DOJ's fraud task force is moving to seize an entire half-block of Minneapolis which he said was purchased with SNAP fraud.
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But when they get it back, it'll still be located in Minneapolis.

Posted by: Crusader at October 20, 2026 05:37 PM (TN0g+)

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All wins are ultimately just losses because we all die.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 05:38 PM (qGAQr)

29 50% of the economy inn the ghetto is food-stamp based scrip exchange.

Person A gets $3,500/month in food stamps (in reality, just a free debit card) for various "disabled" "family members," sells them at discount to gang-member for (let's just say) $1,750 cash. Gang member then buys cigs, liquor and vapes illegally from crooked store owner, thenj sells them mon the street corner to minors.

This is yoiur ecomony on welfare.

Posted by: zombie at October 20, 2026 05:38 PM (HD2n/)

30 >>> 15 Elena Ceaseceau Slotkin needs to lose her CIA pension and security clearance.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 20, 2026 05:35 PM (2GVsD)

Should be added to the AoS Style Guide.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 05:38 PM (jb8Ss)

31 19 How are we going to pay for those bounties? Won't it increase the deficit?!

Posted by: CNN at October 20, 2026 05:35 PM (Ovx+P)

What happens with reporters find out they can get their crack paid by narking on other reporters...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:38 PM (l3cgK)

32 A half block?

demolish the building and install a basketball court with lights.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 20, 2026 05:38 PM (2GVsD)

33
Trump's remarks outlined a different payout structure. He said journalists could also participate, subject to applicable rules and approval from their employers.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Every commie cocksucker journalist in the country is gonna be conflicted between their greed for power and their greed for money.

I bow to OrangeManBad, Galactic Overlord Troll Master.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 20, 2026 05:38 PM (y9nCu)

34 I saw MSNOW being very sad and angry about the initiative, with a headline say "Experts say Trump's new 'anti-fraud' plan is full of holes."
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Well that settles it! If the plan isn't perfect, we shouldn't do it at all.

Back to the drawing board.

Posted by: GOPe at October 20, 2026 05:39 PM (TN0g+)

35 This all would be a lot easier if state and local authorities cooperated.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 20, 2026 05:39 PM (QerdV)

36 "an entire half-block of Minneapolis"

So, fifty shares then.

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 05:39 PM (Jr5Lq)

37 and you find $1 billion, we are giving a commission to that person of 1%,"

Call JG Wentworth?

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:39 PM (pfXMo)

38 Nick Shirley needs retroactive pay.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 20, 2026 05:39 PM (ua/lL)

39 34 Well that settles it! If the plan isn't perfect, we shouldn't do it at all.

Back to the drawing board.

Posted by: GOPe at October 20, 2026 05:39 PM (TN0g+)

=========

Shades of "why can't Trump do mass deportations without making anyone sad about it?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 05:39 PM (qGAQr)

40 1% of $1k = $10
1% of $1M = $10k
1% of $1B = $10M

Seems like an opportunity for Morons everywhere.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 05:36 PM

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeé! Math on the blog! Math on the blog!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 20, 2026 05:39 PM (0sNs1)

41 >>> 33
Trump's remarks outlined a different payout structure. He said journalists could also participate, subject to applicable rules and approval from their employers.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Every commie cocksucker journalist in the country is gonna be conflicted between their greed for power and their greed for money.

I bow to OrangeManBad, Galactic Overlord Troll Master.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 20, 2026 05:38 PM (y9nCu)

Wait until the rival Somalian gangs in Minnedishu start reporting each other.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 05:40 PM (jb8Ss)

42 Well this might be something for AI to sort thru. Say you get a million little leads but with no evidence. Patterns may emerge that can point to real suspects to concentrate on.

There is no payout though, because any one particular lead would not enough.

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 05:40 PM (MWfyi)

43 35 This all would be a lot easier if state and local authorities cooperated.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 20, 2026 05:39 PM (QerdV)

Many of them are involved in the fraud...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:40 PM (l3cgK)

44 50% of the economy inn the ghetto is food-stamp based scrip exchange"

Only 50?

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:40 PM (pfXMo)

45 I voted for this!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 20, 2026 05:40 PM (zYpTz)

46 How are we going to pay for those bounties? Won't it increase the deficit?!
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Yes, I sense some real "affordability" issues with this idea.

Posted by: GOPe at October 20, 2026 05:41 PM (TN0g+)

47 41 Wait until the rival Somalian gangs in Minnedishu start reporting each other.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 05:40 PM (jb8Ss)

========

The Italian mafia decides that now is the time to strike back against the Puerto Rican gangs.

The Puerto Rican gangs do the same thing to the Russian gangs.

The Russian gangs do it to the Chinese gangs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 05:41 PM (qGAQr)

48 18 I saw MSNOW being very sad and angry about the initiative, with a headline say "Experts say Trump's new 'anti-fraud' plan is full of holes."

this is about stolen government swiss cheese, isn't it?

Posted by: anachronda at October 20, 2026 05:41 PM (sGtp+)

49 > Person A gets $3,500/month in food stamps (in reality, just a free debit card) for various "disabled" "family members," sells them at discount to gang-member for (let's just say) $1,750 cash. Gang member then buys cigs, liquor and vapes illegally from crooked store owner, thenj sells them mon the street corner to minors.

Those "mom and pop" stores on the corner in every ghetto get all of their perishable items via EBT fraud. You see them on the first of the month buying three shopping carts full of milk. They do this to stock up their store.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2026 05:41 PM (mkw2N)

50 Call JG Wentworth?
Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:39 PM

1-877-CASH-NOW

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at October 20, 2026 05:41 PM (0sNs1)

51 You know what else is full of holes?

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 05:41 PM (MWfyi)

52 The most maddening words on earth "everybody knew" . Every fucking govt worker that signed off on that fraud should be in jail yesterday.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 20, 2026 05:41 PM (ua/lL)

53 >>> 38 Nick Shirley needs retroactive pay.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 20, 2026 05:39 PM (ua/lL)

A couple other Morons said OrangeManBad handed him a $10k check.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 05:41 PM (jb8Ss)

54 MSNOW

It seems SNAP if full of holes, let's abolish it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 20, 2026 05:41 PM (2GVsD)

55 44 50% of the economy inn the ghetto is food-stamp based scrip exchange"

Only 50?
Posted by: man

I forget to mention that the kids buy the cigarettes and liquor from the gang member...with food stamps.

Posted by: zombie at October 20, 2026 05:41 PM (HD2n/)

56 Wonder if giving block grants to the states might stop this or slow it down. You tell a state you get this much a year, if it's stolen the people who need it get zip. Incentive to monitor the program better by the states

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 20, 2026 05:41 PM (vJPf4)

57 46 How are we going to pay for those bounties? Won't it increase the deficit?!
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Yes, I sense some real "affordability" issues with this idea.

Posted by: GOPe at October 20, 2026 05:41 PM (TN0g+)

Save $100M, pay $1M. OMG, how does that work?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:42 PM (l3cgK)

58 Many of them are involved in the fraud..."

Mayor of Springfield Ohio waves...

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:42 PM (pfXMo)

59 Also, Trump hasn't turned California majority Anglo-Saxon in 19 months, so nothing is happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

That was funny. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 20, 2026 05:42 PM (JrHfD)

60 56 Wonder if giving block grants to the states might stop this or slow it down. You tell a state you get this much a year, if it's stolen the people who need it get zip. Incentive to monitor the program better by the states

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 20, 2026 05:41 PM (vJPf4)

=======

Medicaid is handled through block grants.

And it's pure as the driven snow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 05:42 PM (qGAQr)

61 Nick Shirley deserves it and he has to pay for the security guards he needs

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 20, 2026 05:42 PM (PKL0q)

62 1% of $1B = $10M

Seems like an opportunity for Morons everywhere.

Seriously. I need to figure out how to get in on this.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2026 05:42 PM (mkw2N)

63 Isn't there another CIA AWFL politician? Spanberger maybe?

I don't know how anybody from either Party could vote for a CIA or FBI employee. Scum of the earth. Might as well pick a random convict out of the pervert wing at the prison.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 20, 2026 05:42 PM (BI5O2)

64 Probably better than 50% of the economy of big blue cities is built on fraud.

Not just defrauding the federal government, the welfare fraud and the Medicare fraud and all that.
But also how much the defraud their own state.

Especially if you add in the indirect beneficiaries of the fraud.
All the employees needed to administer.
The businesses built on those committing the fraud or spending money received directly or indirectly from fraud.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 20, 2026 05:43 PM (3cUTc)

65 The targets at the MoMe!

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 05:43 PM (MWfyi)

66 63 Isn't there another CIA AWFL politician? Spanberger maybe?

I don't know how anybody from either Party could vote for a CIA or FBI employee. Scum of the earth. Might as well pick a random convict out of the pervert wing at the prison.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 20, 2026 05:42 PM (BI5O2)

========

Mike Rogers, the GOP Senate candidate in MI against El-Sayed, is ex-FBI.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 05:43 PM (qGAQr)

67 Gov. Spamburglar.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 20, 2026 05:43 PM (2GVsD)

68 Honestly if our options for public welfare of the poor are the current system, or people dying in the streets of starvation... I would prefer people starving in the streets.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 20, 2026 05:43 PM (QerdV)

69 > You know what else is full of holes?

Biden's brain. Which Biden? All of them.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2026 05:43 PM (mkw2N)

70 Helena Handbasket, that check should have been $500,000.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 20, 2026 05:44 PM (ua/lL)

71 67 Gov. Spamburglar.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 20, 2026 05:43 PM (2GVsD)

Hamburglar > Gov. Spamburglar

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:44 PM (l3cgK)

72 He fled to INDIA but the FBI MADE SURE WE GOT HIM

Yes I voted for this ^^^ too.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 20, 2026 05:44 PM (PKL0q)

73 Those "mom and pop" stores on the corner in every ghetto get all of their perishable items via EBT fraud. You see them on the first of the month buying three shopping carts full of milk"

Hey, what about us?

/bodegas stocking Jarritos...

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:44 PM (pfXMo)

74 71 67 Gov. Spamburglar.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 20, 2026 05:43 PM (2GVsD)

Hamburglar > Gov. Spamburglar

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:44 PM (l3cgK)

I hope that doesn't make anyone Grimace.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:44 PM (l3cgK)

75 >>> 63 Isn't there another CIA AWFL politician? Spanberger maybe?

I don't know how anybody from either Party could vote for a CIA or FBI employee. Scum of the earth. Might as well pick a random convict out of the pervert wing at the prison.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 20, 2026 05:42 PM (BI5O2)

Yeah, that bint is one. There was a meme that she is Data in drag, which I can't unsee.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 05:44 PM (jb8Ss)

76 You know what else is full of holes?

Biden's brain. Which Biden? All of them.

Mad cow disease?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 20, 2026 05:44 PM (2GVsD)

77 Trump Creates $25 Million Fund to Pay Bounties to Whistleblowers Who Alert the Government of Fraud
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I turned in the Democrats and got a plush toy.

Not amused.

I was expecting $25M.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 20, 2026 05:44 PM (RORbl)

78 Person A gets $3,500/month in food stamps (in reality, just a free debit card) for various "disabled" "family members," sells them at discount to gang-member for (let's just say) $1,750 cash. Gang member then buys cigs, liquor and vapes illegally from crooked store owner, thenj sells them mon the street corner to minors.

Those "mom and pop" stores on the corner in every ghetto get all of their perishable items via EBT fraud. You see them on the first of the month buying three shopping carts full of milk. They do this to stock up their store.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2026 05:41 PM

I like the gas stations that accept ebt cards. They have a basket of half rotten bananas and over ripe apples sitting near the cash register and that counts as selling ebt eligible food.

Pretty sure that at least 25% of all snap funding is fraud.

Posted by: Champ Kind at October 20, 2026 05:45 PM (I43vL)

79 73 Those "mom and pop" stores on the corner in every ghetto get all of their perishable items via EBT fraud. You see them on the first of the month buying three shopping carts full of milk"

Hey, what about us?

/bodegas stocking Jarritos...

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:44 PM (pfXMo)

Ese, those Jarritos are good, man.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:45 PM (l3cgK)

80 And it's pure as the driven snow."

Or slush. You know, the big pile in the far corner of the parking lot in late march...

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:46 PM (pfXMo)

81 A few short years ago, there is no fraud in the government.

Today, Democrats are whining about how much fraud is being found.

Looks like we can shift the Overton Window, too.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 20, 2026 05:46 PM (viF8m)

82 I bet like the current tip reward system for reporting criminals you only get paid for arrest and CONVICTION.

Have fun waiting years for your check .

Posted by: anon2020 at October 20, 2026 05:46 PM (RqMDa)

83 > I would prefer people starving in the streets.

Back in the long long ago, it used to be common for the town drunk to get a "job" at the local stores sweeping up and taking out the trash. They'd work a couple hours a day to get just enough money for a lunch and a couple beers. That's how they used to sustain themselves.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2026 05:46 PM (mkw2N)

84 The State-level bureaucrats are the ones turning a blind eye to everything.

I'm sure the fraud is very, very obvious if you work for one of these programs.

That's where I'd start, if I lived in one of these cities. Befriend an employee who can tip you off to make the reports and cover his own ass, and agree to split the take.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 20, 2026 05:47 PM (BI5O2)

85 >>> Posted by: anon2020 at October 20, 2026 05:46 PM (RqMDa)

So?

The process is the punishment.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 05:47 PM (jb8Ss)

86 83 > I would prefer people starving in the streets.

Back in the long long ago, it used to be common for the town drunk to get a "job" at the local stores sweeping up and taking out the trash. They'd work a couple hours a day to get just enough money for a lunch and a couple beers. That's how they used to sustain themselves.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2026 05:46 PM (mkw2N)

Now they're homeless and dancing in the streets...okay, not dancing, tweaking...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:47 PM (l3cgK)

87 You people don't understand --

Every dollar the government spends, and it doesn't even matter how it is spent, generates 7.346 dollars of wealth in the country!

The SNAP beneficiary buys fenty.
The fenty dealer buys a whore.
The whore feeds her kids McDonald's
The McDonald worker buys po
The pot dealer give it to the mosque
The mosque buys ammo and weapons...

On and on it goes. This is how the economy works!

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 20, 2026 05:47 PM (QerdV)

88 87 You people don't understand --

Every dollar the government spends, and it doesn't even matter how it is spent, generates 7.346 dollars of wealth in the country!

The SNAP beneficiary buys fenty.
The fenty dealer buys a whore.
The whore feeds her kids McDonald's
The McDonald worker buys po
The pot dealer give it to the mosque
The mosque buys ammo and weapons...

On and on it goes. This is how the economy works!

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 20, 2026 05:47 PM (QerdV)

========

I'm old enough to remember that being seriously peddled by Democrats. It was early Obama years. I think it might have also been peddled by establishment GOP to justify TARP.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 05:48 PM (qGAQr)

89 Me amo Jarritos fresa

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 20, 2026 05:48 PM (RIvkX)

90 Seriously. I need to figure out how to get in on this."

Here, buy my book on Amazon. It's only five easy payments of...

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:48 PM (pfXMo)

91 There’s this guy called The Blade who seems pretty shady. Can I get my 1% vig?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 20, 2026 05:48 PM (VghP0)

92 Let's just tell it like it is:

Food stamps are reparations.

We sit here dithering and arguing about "reparations" while in reality it has been being paid out for decades, right under our noses.

Posted by: zombie at October 20, 2026 05:48 PM (HD2n/)

93 87 You people don't understand --

Every dollar the government spends, and it doesn't even matter how it is spent, generates 7.346 dollars of wealth in the country!

The SNAP beneficiary buys fenty.
The fenty dealer buys a whore.
The whore feeds her kids McDonald's
The McDonald worker buys po
The pot dealer give it to the mosque
The mosque buys ammo and weapons...

On and on it goes. This is how the economy works!

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 20, 2026 05:47 PM (QerdV)

The multiplier theory of the underground economy, echo-gnomics.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:48 PM (l3cgK)

94 89 Me amo Jarritos fresa

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 20, 2026 05:48 PM (RIvkX)

Naranja

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:49 PM (l3cgK)

95 >>> 87 You people don't understand --

Every dollar the government spends, and it doesn't even matter how it is spent, generates 7.346 dollars of wealth in the country!

The SNAP beneficiary buys fenty.
The fenty dealer buys a whore.
The whore feeds her kids McDonald's
The McDonald worker buys po
The pot dealer give it to the mosque
The mosque buys ammo and weapons...

On and on it goes. This is how the economy works!
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 20, 2026 05:47 PM (QerdV)

Waiting for some MBA or Chamber of Commerce type to explain how this is *so* much better than you know, actually producing stuff.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 05:49 PM (jb8Ss)

96 94 89 Me amo Jarritos fresa

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 20, 2026 05:48 PM (RIvkX)

Naranja

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:49 PM (l3cgK)

y piña

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:50 PM (l3cgK)

97 Every dollar the government spends, and it doesn't even matter how it is spent, generates 7.346 dollars of wealth in the country!

The SNAP beneficiary buys fenty.
The fenty dealer buys a whore.
The whore feeds her kids McDonald's
The McDonald worker buys po
The pot dealer give it to the mosque
The mosque buys ammo and weapons...

On and on it goes. This is how the economy works!
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 20, 2026 05:47 PM

By Jove, I think he's got it!

Posted by: Nancy P. (D-CA), Perky Emeritus at October 20, 2026 05:50 PM (0sNs1)

98 "Me amo Jarritos fresa"

Do they have sugar-free formats?

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 05:50 PM (Jr5Lq)

99 Mike Rogers, the GOP Senate candidate in MI against El-Sayed, is ex-FBI.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 05:43 PM

Just lovely.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 20, 2026 05:50 PM (BI5O2)

100 I turned in the Democrats and got a plush toy."

You were expecting a Toyota?

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:51 PM (pfXMo)

101 The feds just moved to seize half a city block in Minneapolis
........

location, location, location!

Posted by: wth at October 20, 2026 05:51 PM (UjdFS)

102 98 "Me amo Jarritos fresa"

Do they have sugar-free formats?

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 05:50 PM (Jr5Lq)

Dunno, but Costco Wholesale was, at one point, selling Jarritos gummies. They were good.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:51 PM (l3cgK)

103 Mike Rogers, the GOP Senate candidate in MI against El-Sayed, is ex-FBI.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 20, 2026 05:43 PM (qGAQr)
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Yes and he ran against Slotkin for Senate, and she won - oddly at the same time Trump carried the state, so we were expected to believe that people voted for Trump and then CIA Slotkin. Sure.

She knows she will not win re-election, hence all the coup preparations.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 20, 2026 05:51 PM (ZOv7s)

104 Back in the long long ago, it used to be common for the town drunk to get a "job" at the local stores sweeping up and taking out the trash. They'd work a couple hours a day to get just enough money for a lunch and a couple beers. That's how they used to sustain themselves.
Posted by: bonhomme

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Not that long ago. My father always had a soft heart. All the local drunks knew he was good for a few bucks if they pushed a broom around the parking lot a bit.

He would also hire fallen contractors to do small jobs -- masonry work, carpentry,... whatever, knowing they were not reliable but would be good for one day, or maybe a week. Just to help them out. He understood he had to work with them to make sure they didn't fuck up, but he was doing it to help out a lost soul.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 20, 2026 05:51 PM (QerdV)

105 100 I turned in the Democrats and got a plush toy."

You were expecting a Toyota?

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:51 PM (pfXMo)

He got a toy Yoda.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:51 PM (l3cgK)

106
What do these people do with all their loot? They look like bums. Do they own homes in wealthy suburbs where they hang around with their scraggly whiskers and dirty t-shirts?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 05:51 PM (mmrXZ)

107 A few short years ago, there is no fraud in the government.

Today, Democrats are whining about how much fraud is being found.

Looks like we can shift the Overton Window, too.
------------
Too bad it only goes up and down.

The Overton Window manufacturers need to go right and left.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 20, 2026 05:51 PM (RORbl)

108 Me amo Jarritos fresa

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 20, 2026 05:48 PM (RIvkX)

Naranja

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:49 PM (l3cgK)

y piña
Posted by: jim (in

Tamarind

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 20, 2026 05:51 PM (YZ0Fo)

109 Naranja
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:49 PM

Pssst ... Verde Naranja. Pass it on.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 20, 2026 05:52 PM (0sNs1)

110 Dim Dumbo LBJ started Food Stamps in 1964.

Perhaps originally it was meant to be a temporary stop gap for people who would eventually get jobs. They found a way to live without jobs or pride, and voted Dim all these years.

This has been abused for generations, evolving into junk food purchases. President Trump has been the first to try to both control purchases and track it.

An example of the generational dole: NOLA after Hurricane Katrina. Welfare was all they knew in their government teat lives. Waiting for rescue transportation...when there has always been ways to leave (well, Gov. Nagin did not help with his flooded school busses).

The famous photo of a smiling man looting a plastic bin of Heineken after the levee broke comes to mind; as even the NOLA police joined in the looter fun for free plasma TV's.

The faggot above on the video admitting taking food stamps...well, I'd like to slap that smirk off his face.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 20, 2026 05:52 PM (hzuYO)

111 At what point do the accusers become public and then will they have to fear for their lives?

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 05:52 PM (MWfyi)

112 >>> 92 Let's just tell it like it is:

Food stamps are reparations.

We sit here dithering and arguing about "reparations" while in reality it has been being paid out for decades, right under our noses.
Posted by: zombie at October 20, 2026 05:48 PM (HD2n/)

Food stamps, welfare, EIC, that scam involving farm land that the JEF and friends offered...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 05:52 PM (jb8Ss)

113 Me amo Jarritos fresa

Posted by: San Franpsycho
Naranja

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
y piña

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
......

Cuidado piso mojado.

Posted by: wth at October 20, 2026 05:52 PM (UjdFS)

114 Me amo Jarritos fresa"

Damn. I need the Tamarind flavor...

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:53 PM (pfXMo)

115 "He got a toy Yoda.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) "

I snorted.

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 05:53 PM (MWfyi)

116 So?

The process is the punishment.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 05:47 PM (jb8Ss)
==
I am talking about the whistle blower getting the reward. They don't get anything during the process

Posted by: anon2020 at October 20, 2026 05:53 PM (RqMDa)

117 Nick Shirley is just 24 years old, and he's done more to expose corruption and fraud in the last few years than members of Congress who have spent decades in public office.

Posted by: Just reporting at October 20, 2026 05:53 PM (OlgZh)

118 113 Ha!

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 05:53 PM (Jr5Lq)

119
he was doing it to help out a lost soul.
Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus)

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

I see so much goodness to bums in this country. Saw a couple of young guys loading up a bunch of takeout to give to a drunk sitting on a doorstep the other day. In Beverly Hills, where yes, a few slovenly bums hang out on Beverly Drive, rich old retired guys would regularly give healthy bills to them, with a smile on their face. "Here ya go!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 05:54 PM (mmrXZ)

120 Just lovely.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 20, 2026 05:50 PM (BI5O2)
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He's a good dude. He was brought in by Engler to primary a GOP squish, did a good job in the state senate and was in Congress for a bit. He then retired, but was recruited for the Senate because he's bland, centrist and safe. Slotkin cheated, but now he's the perfect foil for El-Sayed.

I got a mailer the other day - get this - attacking Rogers for having a second home in Florida. WOW! That's going to make the Boomers super angry, they'll absolutely vote for El-Sayed now - and his second home in the Emirates.

Can't make this crap up.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 20, 2026 05:54 PM (ZOv7s)

121 > Mad cow disease?

Meth, Heroin, and chronic alcohol abuse all cause brain damage that, while not technically holes, is very real. Gray and white matter damage, cerebellar degeneration, areas of reduced blood flow and metabolic activity, and other serious issues are all on the table.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 20, 2026 05:54 PM (mkw2N)

122 Do they have sugar-free formats?"

Si. Jarritos Free label

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:55 PM (pfXMo)

123 " retrospectively"

How about retroactively?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 20, 2026 05:55 PM (LOvBA)

124 Didn't CA pass some anti-Shirley law? I wonder if they'll try to block this fed reward offer within their state.

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 05:55 PM (Jr5Lq)

125
I bow to OrangeManBad, Galactic Overlord Troll Master.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

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

LOL those "conflicted" reporters will soon be saying the same!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 05:55 PM (mmrXZ)

126 You can literally point to almost any bodega in any poor neighborhood, say “there’s SNAP fraud there,” and you’ll collect your 1%.

Not joking. It’s their entire business model. Well, that and fencing stolen goods, drug dealing, and … you get it.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 20, 2026 05:56 PM (VghP0)

127 At what point do the accusers become public and then will they have to fear for their lives?
Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 05:52 PM (MWfyi)
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All they have to do is give a good tip that holds up. They don't have to do a freelance sting or take photos.

"There's a store at 1550 Main that sells stolen EBT every Wednesday from noon to six" is good enough for a lead, but too vague to know who did it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 20, 2026 05:56 PM (ZOv7s)

128 124 Didn't CA pass some anti-Shirley law? I wonder if they'll try to block this fed reward offer within their state.

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 05:55 PM (Jr5Lq)

AI sez:
Yes, whistleblower rewards are generally considered taxable income in California. This means that any monetary awards received for reporting fraud or non-compliance may be subject to state and federal taxes.

So I'd guess you'd end up on the Kalifornia s/hit list.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 05:57 PM (l3cgK)

129 Dim Dumbo LBJ started Food Stamps in 1964."

"Dumbo"? "We'll have those n***** voting democrat for 200 years"

/sort of attributed

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:57 PM (pfXMo)

130 What do these people do with all their loot? They look like bums. Do they own homes in wealthy suburbs where they hang around with their scraggly whiskers and dirty t-shirts?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 05:51 PM (mmrXZ)
—-

They are just the frontmen. Most of the money gets kicked upstairs, like in the old mafia days, or sent overseas.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 20, 2026 05:57 PM (VghP0)

131 If only Iwas a Government employee, what the tales I could could come out

Posted by: Skip at October 20, 2026 05:58 PM (Ia/+0)

132 Didn't CA pass some anti-Shirley law? I wonder if they'll try to block this fed reward offer within their state.
Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 05:55 PM (Jr5Lq)
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That would be a conspiracy to conceal criminal activity and actively assisting in defrauding the federal government, wouldn't it?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 20, 2026 05:58 PM (ZOv7s)

133 'All they have to do is give a good tip that holds up. They don't have to do a freelance sting or take photos."

I'm sure we can trust the government to keep it secret.

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 05:58 PM (MWfyi)

134 Dim Dumbo LBJ started Food Stamps in 1964.
-----

He may have been as *evil* as Hillary. No, seriously.

Posted by: Crusader at October 20, 2026 05:58 PM (TN0g+)

135 Crazy Ivan!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 20, 2026 05:58 PM (I43vL)

136 Cuidado piso mojado."

Basura pour favor...

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:59 PM (pfXMo)

137 Can I get every receipt for every dollar given to Ukraine?
Canada too?

Just to see exactly where the dollars ended up.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 20, 2026 05:59 PM (Sco7b)

138 Does this mean my dog will no longer receive SNAP and Welfare payments ???

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 20, 2026 05:59 PM (qDw3H)

139 If I went to a restaurant and found out the guy sitting in the chair before me was FBI, I'd ask for a new one. And then go home and burn my pants. Thank G-d I don't live in Michigan.

MB or FBI. What a choice. Is there a third-party candidate? Maybe an MS-13 gangster named Asesino, or somesuch?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 20, 2026 05:59 PM (BI5O2)

140 Dim Dumbo LBJ started Food Stamps in 1964.
-----

He may have been as *evil* as Hillary. No, seriously.
Posted by: Crusader at

He was certainly as racist as her.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 20, 2026 05:59 PM (YZ0Fo)

141 "Cuidado piso mojado.""

Who pissed in my mojito?

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 05:59 PM (MWfyi)

142 129 Dim Dumbo LBJ started Food Stamps in 1964."

"Dumbo"? "We'll have those n***** voting democrat for 200 years"

/sort of attributed

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:57 PM (pfXMo)

Ronald Kessler's 1995 book, "Inside the White House"...

"It's written in a book, so it HAS to be true!"--ex SIL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:00 PM (l3cgK)

143 What do these people do with all their loot?

Vacations, cars, drugs who knows?

Posted by: Skip at October 20, 2026 06:00 PM (Ia/+0)

144 I meant Canadian dollars sent there.

It'd probably be profitable to investigate the Pentagon and military spending too.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 20, 2026 06:00 PM (Sco7b)

145 Qui tam lawsuits already allow the plaintiff to keep a share of successful lawsuits for defrauding the government. Musk could bankroll a law firm and go after this shit privately.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 20, 2026 06:00 PM (JzUSu)

146 I dunno I don't speak Spanish. I have to suss it out.

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 06:01 PM (MWfyi)

147 Some judge will put an injunction on all this fraud stopping. It’s clearly racist or some shit. And Trump’s doing it. That’s all the legal justification they need.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 20, 2026 06:01 PM (P4bJX)

148 Who pissed in my mojito?"

I see you've been to Taco Cabana...

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 06:01 PM (pfXMo)

149 What do these people do with all their loot?

Vacations, cars, drugs who knows?
Posted by: Skip at

First you get the money, then you get the women, then you get the power.

Posted by: BruceWayne at October 20, 2026 06:01 PM (YZ0Fo)

150 146 I dunno I don't speak Spanish. I have to suss it out.

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 06:01 PM (MWfyi)

I find this sus.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:01 PM (l3cgK)

151 fd, I was thinking it, you said it!

Posted by: Ben Had at October 20, 2026 06:01 PM (ua/lL)

152 >>> 133 'All they have to do is give a good tip that holds up. They don't have to do a freelance sting or take photos."

I'm sure we can trust the government to keep it secret.
Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 05:58 PM (MWfyi)

Probably not, and the bureacurats have friends amongst the Brave Firefighting Journalists.

Although, the journalists may not find it as funny when they learn they are recognizable, especially those who have worked at teewee stations.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 06:01 PM (jb8Ss)

153 Minneapolis is Mogadishu on the Mississippi River....

That clown Governor should be sent to Prison ....

Posted by: Jackson K. at October 20, 2026 06:01 PM (qDw3H)

154 134, this is a thing long known.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 20, 2026 06:01 PM (VyBeY)

155 That would be a conspiracy to conceal criminal activity and actively assisting in defrauding the federal government, wouldn't it?"
Is that wrong?

/cali official

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 06:02 PM (pfXMo)

156 If I went to a restaurant and found out the guy sitting in the chair before me was FBI, I'd ask for a new one. And then go home and burn my pants. Thank G-d I don't live in Michigan.

MB or FBI. What a choice. Is there a third-party candidate? Maybe an MS-13 gangster named Asesino, or somesuch?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 20, 2026 05:59 PM (BI5O2)
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Your purity is noted. I had a cousin who worked for Rogers and said he was a decent guy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 20, 2026 06:03 PM (ZOv7s)

157 Dim Dumbo LBJ started Food Stamps in 1964."

"Dumbo"? "We'll have those n***** voting democrat for 200 years"

/sort of attributed

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 05:57 PM

I don't know the year when they started using actual food stamps but when I was a kid you had to go to a warehouse to get government food. You got what they had and did not get a choice. I do not recall my mother ever having actual food stamps, possibly she had a card to get in the place but that was back in the early 60s and my memory from then isn't 100% reliable.

We would get cheese, peanut butter and some times meat. That was usually pork that had so much grease floating on the top of the can you had to scoop it out with a big spoon before you got to the meat. The peanut butter came in big green cans and had to be stirred up before you could eat it as the oil separated to the top of the can.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 20, 2026 06:03 PM (I43vL)

158 Horde mind at work, Ben Had.

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 06:03 PM (MWfyi)

159 >>> 147 Some judge will put an injunction on all this fraud stopping. It’s clearly racist or some shit. And Trump’s doing it. That’s all the legal justification they need.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 20, 2026 06:01 PM (P4bJX)

I wonder what public information is available to say, review Some Judge's spending patterns vs they/them's government income.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 06:03 PM (jb8Ss)

160 We would get cheese, peanut butter and some times meat. That was usually pork that had so much grease floating on the top of the can you had to scoop it out with a big spoon before you got to the meat. The peanut butter came in big green cans and had to be stirred up before you could eat it as the oil separated to the top of the can.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 20, 2026 06:03 PM (I43vL)

Wut's wrong with grease? It's got lots of calories. It makes the crappy canned veggies taste better.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:04 PM (l3cgK)

161 6pm

FoxNews - midterms, obama and bill being wheeled out

CNN - election officials threatened. Christina Applegate doesn't have MS

MSNow - GOP on defense as midterms loom. Lifelong Repubs who have voted for President Trump five times every election for their entire lives lose hope. GOP candidates flee Trump

CBC - commercials. Who the hell advertises on the freaking cbc?

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 20, 2026 06:04 PM (Sco7b)

162 "It's written in a book, so it HAS to be true!"--ex SIL"

Here. Name a star after her...

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 06:04 PM (pfXMo)

163
CBC - commercials. Who the hell advertises on the freaking cbc?

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 20, 2026 06:04 PM (Sco7b)

We need to keep our numbers up.

Posted by: MAID in Canada at October 20, 2026 06:05 PM (l3cgK)

164 Headline (Washington Examiner):

"Federal judge sides with Republicans on North Carolina’s new mail-in ballot restrictions"

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 06:05 PM (rj6Yv)

165 It makes the crappy canned veggies taste better."

And come out... easier

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 06:05 PM (pfXMo)

166 When it comes to Somalians and Muslims, stealing really is their culture. Islam encourages stealing from unbelievers. It not a sin, it’s part of the doctrine.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 20, 2026 06:06 PM (P4bJX)

167 The peanut butter came in big green cans and had to be stirred up before you could eat it as the oil separated to the top of the can.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 20, 2026 06:03 PM (I43vL)
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That's a sign that it was decent quality. I've switched to a low sugar peanut butter and it needs stirring. All of it used to be like that before we added chemicals to stabilize it.

I've also heard that "government cheese" was pretty darn good from kids who lived on it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 20, 2026 06:06 PM (ZOv7s)

168 165 It makes the crappy canned veggies taste better."

And come out... easier

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 06:05 PM (pfXMo)

They have fiber...they already come out easier...

Posted by: MAID in Canada at October 20, 2026 06:06 PM (l3cgK)

169 Incredible.

>>@USAttyEssayli

>>Massive concession: Los Angeles election officials just told a federal court they have no independent way to verify citizenship beyond what voters attest. (They simply take their word for it.) Under federal law, only citizens may vote in federal elections. Yet California has not acted on the list of 20,000 suspected noncitizens or agreed to set aside their ballots. American citizens’ votes are being diluted in California.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 20, 2026 06:07 PM (viF8m)

170 161 CBC - commercials. Who the hell advertises on the freaking cbc?

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: the little pill with a big story to tell at October 20, 2026 06:07 PM (sGtp+)

171 "That's a sign that it was decent quality."

Smucker's Natural Chunky PB FTW.

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 06:08 PM (Jr5Lq)

172 169 Incredible.

>>@USAttyEssayli

>>Massive concession: Los Angeles election officials just told a federal court they have no independent way to verify citizenship beyond what voters attest. (They simply take their word for it.) Under federal law, only citizens may vote in federal elections. Yet California has not acted on the list of 20,000 suspected noncitizens or agreed to set aside their ballots. American citizens’ votes are being diluted in California.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 20, 2026 06:07 PM (viF8m)

I thought there was a Fed website where they could check...
Lazy or Complicit? Power of AND

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:08 PM (l3cgK)

173 I got a mailer the other day - get this - attacking Rogers for having a second home in Florida.

Did they make any attempt at all to differentiate his Florida home with every other Michigander’s Florida/Arizona home? Or was it just boilerplate please don’t think too hard about this?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 20, 2026 06:08 PM (kYmoU)

174 I turned in the Democrats and got a plush toy."
*
You were expecting a Toyota?
Posted by: man at October 20, 2026

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I'd request a date with Toyota Jan!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:08 PM (wzUl9)

175 Neither does rust, evil, nor Big Penguin.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Nor do we forget!

Posted by: Big Penguin Acolyte at October 20, 2026 06:08 PM (EdP2u)

176 I work hard all my life, pay taxes, don't ask for anything and what do I get? Nothing.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 20, 2026 06:08 PM (cJOax)

177 I've also heard that "government cheese" was pretty darn good from kids who lived on it."

It was damn sight better than the powdered skim milk.

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 06:08 PM (pfXMo)

178 The peanut butter came in big green cans and had to be stirred up before you could eat it as the oil separated to the top of the can.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 20, 2026

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Now Smucker's charges $5.00 a bottle for that!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:09 PM (wzUl9)

179 174 I turned in the Democrats and got a plush toy."
*
You were expecting a Toyota?
Posted by: man at October 20, 2026

***
I'd request a date with Toyota Jan!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:08 PM (wzUl9)

https://tinyurl.com/bdw5vm4v

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:09 PM (l3cgK)

180 "I've also heard that "government cheese" was pretty darn good from kids who lived on it."

Back in the day, Navy supply system carried surplus cheese and surplus butter.

I've eaten lots of both, and they were damn good.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 20, 2026 06:09 PM (iMotb)

181 My grandfather and uncles used to run a furniture store in a small town and had credit accounts for most everyone in town. People would come in once a week, 2 weeks, a month, whatever the arrangement, and make their payment. I remember several times in the early 70s they took government cheese and other food as payment from some of the poorer folks in town. Our whole extended family would get a big block or tow of cheese.

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 06:10 PM (MWfyi)

182 two

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 06:10 PM (MWfyi)

183 Someone at Insty suggested a new business....

Incestry.com

I kinda like it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at October 20, 2026 06:11 PM (iMotb)

184 They found a few communities in NY, Ramapo, New Square and O think Brighton Beach largely occupied by ultra Orthodox Jews where approximately 90% of those communities were on food stamps.

This is a free for all that cuts across demographics.

Posted by: Whats Missing at October 20, 2026 06:11 PM (IfQzb)

185 176 I work hard all my life, pay taxes, don't ask for anything and what do I get? Nothing.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at October 20, 2026 06:08 PM (cJOax)

I wasn't working, taking care of my dying wife. California REFUSED to pay me from the fund for such things (that I paid into for decades). They wouldn't even tell me why my form was rejected, and rejected the appeal.
At the same time, they gives tons of money to homeless druggies and tranny prostitutes...and politicians and their friends.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:12 PM (l3cgK)

186 My Grandma used to make me some good grilled cheese sandwiches from the Govt cheese !

That and and Campbell's tomato soup made with milk made me a happy boy.

I spent a lot of time at grandmas when I was a kid, my Mom was a mess. My Grandma was a Godsend.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 20, 2026 06:12 PM (NtVYv)

187 I was on food stamps once, in 1988 or so. They were actual coupons in a book then, looking like foreign money, and you had to rip them out of the book at the grocery store. Everybody knew you were on food stamps, in other words, and if you were a proud type it was hard knowing that they knew. I got off the program as soon as I could get another job. (I do recall the lady at the food stamp office being rather pleasant and understanding.)

Now it's just a plastic card, and nobody knows whether you are using your own credit/debit card or the government's. Thus the shame has been eliminated.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:12 PM (wzUl9)

188 I heard more than a few ppl on our side lament that ‘nothing will happen’ when Shirley first broke this scandal. I’ll admit even I was skeptical.

Then somethings happened.

I think Trump 2.0 makes things happen that were inconceivable before.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 20, 2026 06:12 PM (VghP0)

189 Some of those folks were really poor. I went on a few pickups when they couldn't pay. Shotguns shacks and dirt yards on the other side of the tracks. I seen things, man.

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 06:13 PM (MWfyi)

190 >>I thought there was a Fed website w

The feds sent California a list of 20,000 people they suspected were non-citizens and voting and asked CA officials to check. CA refused.

They could be opening themselves up to felony indictments for not verifying eligibility. Sounds like they are panicking. This is one administration I think will actually go after them.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 20, 2026 06:13 PM (viF8m)

191 We would get cheese, peanut butter and some times meat. That was usually pork that had so much grease floating on the top of the can you had to scoop it out with a big spoon before you got to the meat. The peanut butter came in big green cans and had to be stirred up before you could eat it as the oil separated to the top of the can.
Posted by: Mister Scott

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I remember this from the 70s, (as I said above, my father had a business in the city so we learned some things.) This was part of the supplemental nutrition program, and I think it varied a lot by state. This was only supplemental and not a main source of food, as SNAP and all the other programs are today.

Reagan famously dumped excess stores of cheese into the program in the 80s, and I think at that time they also gave out other foods, but most of it was not as appealing as the cheese, because the cheese, you see, was a form of currency in the ghettos. Restaurants would buy it all up to serve.

That was fraud too. As long ago as I can recall, food stamps were exchanged. Small grocers gave cash which was spent on drugs or booze.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 20, 2026 06:13 PM (QerdV)

192 LOL

MSNow - GOP fears 'End is Near' as midterms near.

I hope this turns into 2016 where every Dem in a bubble had a weeklong cognitive dissonance headache because EVERYONE THEY KNEW was voting dem and hilary.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 20, 2026 06:13 PM (Sco7b)

193 I say we just kill SNAP for the rest of the year. Starting in January, you come in with your birth certificate, ID, SSN, get fingerprinted and give a blood sample to test for drugs. You get a separate Snap ID that you must present with your Snap card and your face and groceries are recorded on video. You pick up your Snap card once a week after completing an obstacle course running around bureaucrats with blow up batons.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 20, 2026 06:14 PM (n5tGW)

194 It was damn sight better than the powdered skim milk.

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 06:08 PM (pfXMo)

That shit was terrible

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 20, 2026 06:14 PM (NtVYv)

195 You can't tell me that won't be abused when the Democrats get the DOJ back.

I predict a joint task force when that happens between the DOJ and the IRS. Warrants, reasonable suspicion , and due process will NOT apply. What you say. To whom you donate. And, where you stand on the issues will be the catalyst to penalizing through the process.

Posted by: Orson at October 20, 2026 06:14 PM (dIske)

196 "You pick up your Snap card once a week after completing an obstacle course running around bureaucrats with blow up batons.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk "

And Merry Christmas!

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 06:15 PM (MWfyi)

197 I'd request a date with Toyota Jan!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026
*
https://tinyurl.com/bdw5vm4v
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026

***
She's pretty, but not very sexy. At least not in the Toyota spots.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:15 PM (wzUl9)

198 193 Ha!

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 06:15 PM (Jr5Lq)

199 192 LOL

MSNow - GOP fears 'End is Near' as midterms near.

I hope this turns into 2016 where every Dem in a bubble had a weeklong cognitive dissonance headache because EVERYONE THEY KNEW was voting dem and hilary.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 20, 2026 06:13 PM (Sco7b)

https://youtu.be/SHG0ezLiVGc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:15 PM (l3cgK)

200 Idk. All these reports of a massive blue wave feel like there’s a coordinated op. Either they’re planning on some type of fraud or disruption or they’re full of shit.

Posted by: That Guy at October 20, 2026 06:16 PM (Qgg5f)

201 I'd request a date with Toyota Jan!"

She gets freaky during toyotathon...

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 06:16 PM (pfXMo)

202 I heard more than a few ppl on our side lament that ‘nothing will happen’ when Shirley first broke this scandal. I’ll admit even I was skeptical.

Then somethings happened.

I think Trump 2.0 makes things happen that were inconceivable before.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 20, 2026 06:12 PM (VghP0)
=======

President Honey Badger

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 06:16 PM (rj6Yv)

203 I'd request a date with Toyota Jan!"

She gets freaky during toyotathon...
Posted by: man at October 20, 2026

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Enthusiasm counts for a lot!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:16 PM (wzUl9)

204 Acton responds
x.com amyactonoh/status/2112639257655279780

Posted by: fuck vivek at October 20, 2026 06:17 PM (88C+u)

205 197 I'd request a date with Toyota Jan!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026
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https://tinyurl.com/bdw5vm4v
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026

***
She's pretty, but not very sexy. At least not in the Toyota spots.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:15 PM (wzUl9)

Is she a Toyota 7 or 8?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:18 PM (l3cgK)

206 (88C+u)

Seems to have an idee fixe. Becoming trollish.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 20, 2026 06:19 PM (wSl27)

207 >> Acton responds

Hiccup

Pinocchio nose grows

Posted by: That Guy at October 20, 2026 06:19 PM (Qgg5f)

208 The feds sent California a list of 20,000 people they suspected were non-citizens and voting and asked CA officials to check. CA refused.

They could be opening themselves up to felony indictments for not verifying eligibility. Sounds like they are panicking. This is one administration I think will actually go after them.
Posted by: JackStraw
........

It's gonna take a while.
First you start with the Aguilars
Then you move on to the Alonsos
Then the Alvarez

In a while you get to the Castillos...
etc., etc.

Posted by: wth at October 20, 2026 06:19 PM (UjdFS)

209 Well, nothing has really happened yet. Some low level sacrificial suckers got caught but the enablers are still governors and such.

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 06:19 PM (MWfyi)

210 Is she a Toyota 7 or 8?"

Waffle House 12...

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 06:20 PM (pfXMo)

211 Is she a Toyota 7 or 8?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:18 PM (l3cgK)
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A Camry 6

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 06:20 PM (rj6Yv)

212 Is she the one with the hips like a Tundra?

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 06:20 PM (MWfyi)

213 A Supra 5

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 20, 2026 06:21 PM (n5tGW)

214 Not saying that's a bad thing, btw.

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 06:21 PM (MWfyi)

215 In the 80s, the commercial street in the city I was familiar with had one or two phone card stores on every block.

I needed to find out why? why such demand for phone cards.

What I learned is that immigrants got SNAP or other forms of support, and they traded that in for long distance phone cards to call home. They also transferred money home at the shops.

The stores would then sell the SNAP to grocers, who would sell food to restaurants. All of it under the table and immune from taxes. What a racket. There were so many because it was very low overhead and high margins, and it relied on local walk-in business so they had a fixed set of people who would show up every month to cash in their government checks.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at October 20, 2026 06:21 PM (QerdV)

216 Is she a Toyota 7 or 8?"
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Waffle House 12...
Posted by: man at October 20, 2026

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That's true. If I saw woman who looked as good as "Jan" in a Waffle House, especially around here, I'd have to check my eyesight or my sanity.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:21 PM (wzUl9)

217 Second day of early voting here in Texas. I did my part to defeat the commie shit-stains subverting our state and country. (Short of armed violence, that is.)

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 20, 2026 06:21 PM (XMwZJ)

218 201 I'd request a date with Toyota Jan!"

She gets freaky during toyotathon...
Posted by: man

Jan was pregnant about 8 years ago. They hid her behind the cars or with beach ball or balloons. The weight gain in her face showed.

Posted by: Sees All, Knows Nuthin' at October 20, 2026 06:22 PM (EdP2u)

219 I concede that there is a fraud problem. But, this process of regular citizens being encouraged by government (with money) to turn in others for potential wrongdoing is nothing short of sekretny sotrudnik. That's the Soviet Union term for "secret coworker" or "secret collaborator."

I don't subscribe to that philosophy.

Posted by: Orson at October 20, 2026 06:22 PM (dIske)

220 Not saying that's a bad thing, btw.
Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 06:21 PM (MWfyi)

If she were a Hilux, she'd be built to burn Diesel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 20, 2026 06:22 PM (wSl27)

221 I'd request a date with Toyota Jan!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026
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https://tinyurl.com/bdw5vm4v
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026

***
She's pretty, but not very sexy. At least not in the Toyota spots.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:15 PM (wzUl9)

Is she a Toyota 7 or 8?
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Olive Garden 6.
There are no 7s on any authoratative 1-10 scales. "7" is a cop out number--you didn't want to pretend someone was really good (

and you didn't want to be mean and give them a 6. Thus, 7s aren't allowed.

Posted by: Crusader at October 20, 2026 06:22 PM (TN0g+)

222 208 The feds sent California a list of 20,000 people they suspected were non-citizens and voting and asked CA officials to check. CA refused.

They could be opening themselves up to felony indictments for not verifying eligibility. Sounds like they are panicking. This is one administration I think will actually go after them.
Posted by: JackStraw
........

It's gonna take a while.
First you start with the Aguilars
Then you move on to the Alonsos
Then the Alvarez

In a while you get to the Castillos...
etc., etc.

Posted by: wth at October 20, 2026 06:19 PM (UjdFS)

Damn, it's gonna take a long time to get to the Zuñigas...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:22 PM (l3cgK)

223 215 IDNKT!

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 06:23 PM (Jr5Lq)

224 5 Is *this* why Elise Slotkin is squealing again?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 05:32 PM (jb8Ss)

Honey, pigs all eventually squeal.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 20, 2026 06:23 PM (fOTAm)

225 Camry 6cdr is a good car

Posted by: Skip at October 20, 2026 06:23 PM (Ia/+0)

226 Toyota Jan = Laurel Coppock

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 20, 2026 06:23 PM (NtVYv)

227 I don't know if it's just me, but all the grocery flyers/ads I get have every single item labeled as SNAP eligible and it's starting to bug me.

Posted by: beckster at October 20, 2026 06:23 PM (kX27y)

228 @180 -- Back in the day (way back), my widowed mother qualified for government cheese. Have to admit, it was pretty damn good.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 20, 2026 06:24 PM (XMwZJ)

229 Ha, yes I'm sure he's been polishing his Top Man merit badge with Ham & Egg Clusters since he was in the Boy Scouts. I bet it gleams like the light of justice itself.

It's an FBI agent, ferpetessakes. The corruption record of that agency is worse than any other police outfit in American history.

And I'll include the 1970s NYPD in that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 20, 2026 06:24 PM (BI5O2)

230 If you can find a girl in the tundra, man, take what you can get.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 20, 2026 06:25 PM (n5tGW)

231 >>> 190
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The feds sent California a list of 20,000 people they suspected were non-citizens and voting and asked CA officials to check. CA refused.

They could be opening themselves up to felony indictments for not verifying eligibility. Sounds like they are panicking. This is one administration I think will actually go after them.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 20, 2026 06:13 PM (viF8m)

We should have a pool on who flees to CHYna first - Walz, Newsome, Carney, who else?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 06:25 PM (jb8Ss)

232
What a f-ucked up mess by design.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
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38m
NEW: Los Angeles County elections officials confirm in court filing that they have no way to verify U.S. citizenship for voters and they rely solely on a voter’s attestation when they check yes or no to being a U.S. citizen under penalty of perjury. This is part of ongoing lawsuit w/ Feds.

Posted by: beckster at October 20, 2026 06:25 PM (kX27y)

233 Camry 6cdr is a good car
Posted by: Skip at October 20, 2026 06:23 PM (Ia/+0)
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Haven't looked at one lately, but they have a good rep.

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 06:25 PM (rj6Yv)

234 There's government cottage cheese-in my pants!

Posted by: Leaky Joe, Wilmington at October 20, 2026 06:25 PM (EdP2u)

235 People are stealing our tax dollars via fraud. Every citizen should be a narc on that issue

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 20, 2026 06:25 PM (vJPf4)

236
Damn, it's gonna take a long time to get to the Zuñigas...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026

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Now I'm thinking of Daphne Zuniga of Melrose Place. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:25 PM (wzUl9)

237 Damn, it's gonna take a long time to get to the Zuñigas...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
......

Hope fully they will have self deported by then.

Posted by: wth at October 20, 2026 06:26 PM (UjdFS)

238 167 The peanut butter came in big green cans and had to be stirred up before you could eat it as the oil separated to the top of the can.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 20, 2026 06:03 PM (I43vL)
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That's a sign that it was decent quality. I've switched to a low sugar peanut butter and it needs stirring. All of it used to be like that before we added chemicals to stabilize it.

I've also heard that "government cheese" was pretty darn good from kids who lived on it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 20, 2026 06:06 PM (ZOv7s)

This is 100% true...any peanut butter made with just peanuts and salt MUST be stirred b/c oil will eventually separate since there are no added emulsifiers and stabilizers to make it not separate...

Aka, good healthier less processed food is normally uglier food...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 20, 2026 06:26 PM (tOcjL)

239 236
Damn, it's gonna take a long time to get to the Zuñigas...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026

***
Now I'm thinking of Daphne Zuniga of Melrose Place. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:25 PM (wzUl9)

Spaceballs.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:26 PM (l3cgK)

240 by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 20, 2026 06:13 PM (Sco7b)

https://youtu.be/SHG0ezLiVGc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at

Thanks jim. That was good.
I watched it even though 5 min and SNL.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 20, 2026 06:26 PM (Sco7b)

241 239 236
Damn, it's gonna take a long time to get to the Zuñigas...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026

***
Now I'm thinking of Daphne Zuniga of Melrose Place. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:25 PM (wzUl9)

Spaceballs.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:26 PM (l3cgK)

She's 63. Wow.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:27 PM (l3cgK)

242

The MPLS of the east coast:

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
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2h
What the fuck is happening

Steve Robinson
@SteveRob
·
8h
Yesterday in Lewiston: @TheMaineWire Reporter @MaineWireJon watched Somali “translators” help several elderly Somalis vote.

Notably, all the “translators” work for taxpayer-funded NGOs and Medicaid agencies.

Posted by: beckster at October 20, 2026 06:27 PM (kX27y)

243 We probably would have qualified for food stamps when I was a kid, be we would never do that. Used to be pride in accomplishment, and one of those was not having to ask the government for "help." One income, five kids, two bedroom house (with one huge sandbox out back, best ever), and everyone else in the neighborhood in the same boat.

Where did pride go? (And I don't mean that false pride that has men dicking each other in dark alleys or in parades in SF).

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 20, 2026 06:27 PM (fOTAm)

244 I guess it's pretty hard to get regular old cheddar cheese wrong. I heard somewhere it was a good way to use up excess milk, which encouraged excess production so there would always be plenty of fresh milk.

They should do the same thing with beef. If there is too much, turn it into jerky and give it away.

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 06:28 PM (MWfyi)

245 What do these people do with all their loot? They look like bums. Do they own homes in wealthy suburbs where they hang around with their scraggly whiskers and dirty t-shirts?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 20, 2026 05:51 PM (mmrXZ)
——

IIRC, you can order certain Amazon products with SNAP. This isn’t just a massive forced transfer of wealth from productive taxpayers to layabout degenerate scumbags. It’s a massive forced transfer of wealth from productive taxpayers to some of the biggest corporations in the world.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at October 20, 2026 06:28 PM (VghP0)

246 the commercial street in the city I was familiar with had one or two phone card stores on every block."

Phone cards, pager "services", row after row, block after block in LA...

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 06:28 PM (pfXMo)

247 "added emulsifiers and stabilizers"

That adulterated PB tastes so awful to me.

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 06:28 PM (Jr5Lq)

248 240 by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 20, 2026 06:13 PM (Sco7b)

https://youtu.be/SHG0ezLiVGc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at

Thanks jim. That was good.
I watched it even though 5 min and SNL.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 20, 2026 06:26 PM (Sco7b)

Note they even believed Trump would have 8 years as President. Prescient. LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:28 PM (l3cgK)

249 This is 100% true...any peanut butter made with just peanuts and salt MUST be stirred b/c oil will eventually separate since there are no added emulsifiers and stabilizers to make it not separate...

Aka, good healthier less processed food is normally uglier food...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 20, 2026 06:26 PM (tOcjL)
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I made some homemade peanut butter once (had some peanuts and didn't know what to do with them). It turned out OK. I don't think it lasted long enough for there to be any separation, but I do recall that it was a lot dryer and grittier than the store-bought peanut butter. Not enough oil, even though I went by the recipe...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 20, 2026 06:29 PM (FZ29D)

250 38m
NEW: Los Angeles County elections officials confirm in court filing that they have no way to verify U.S. citizenship for voters and they rely solely on a voter’s attestation when they check yes or no to being a U.S. citizen under penalty of perjury. This is part of ongoing lawsuit w/ Feds.
Posted by: beckster at October 20, 2026 06:25 PM (kX27y)
======

IOW, "My word as a Newsom"

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 06:29 PM (rj6Yv)

251 I think Trump 2.0 makes things happen that were inconceivable before.
Posted by: Elric the Blade

Yes, true.

Posted by: Vizzini at October 20, 2026 06:29 PM (V8Zwm)

252 And things used to taste better cooked in lard and tallow! Now get off my lawn.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 20, 2026 06:30 PM (n5tGW)

253 "but I do recall that it was a lot dryer and grittier than the store-bought peanut butter."

You gotta shell 'em first.

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 06:30 PM (MWfyi)

254 And I'll include the 1970s NYPD in that"

Serpico nods...

productive taxpayers to some of the biggest corporations in the world."

Like us?
/walmart

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 06:30 PM (pfXMo)

255 IOW, "My word as a Newsom"
Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 06:29 PM (rj6Yv)

Worth just about as much as "My word as a Biden."

/spit

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 20, 2026 06:31 PM (fOTAm)

256 250 38m
NEW: Los Angeles County elections officials confirm in court filing that they have no way to verify U.S. citizenship for voters and they rely solely on a voter’s attestation when they check yes or no to being a U.S. citizen under penalty of perjury. This is part of ongoing lawsuit w/ Feds.
Posted by: beckster at October 20, 2026 06:25 PM (kX27y)
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IOW, "My word as a Newsom"

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 06:29 PM (rj6Yv)

Yup, no way to do it. Businesses can check if potential employees are legal, but the cities and state just Can't Do It.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:31 PM (l3cgK)

257 Duncanthrax makes the best pecan butter in the universe.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 20, 2026 06:31 PM (ua/lL)

258 And things used to taste better cooked in lard and tallow! Now get off my lawn.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 20, 2026 06:30 PM (n5tGW)
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The best, flakiest pie crusts are made using leaf lard.

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 06:31 PM (rj6Yv)

259 That adulterated PB tastes so awful to me."

We'll add more HFCS!

Posted by: man at October 20, 2026 06:31 PM (pfXMo)

260 They should do the same thing with beef. If there is too much, turn it into jerky and give it away.

Posted by: fd at October 20, 2026 06:28 PM (MWfyi)

Frozen ground beef would be simpler and use more of the animal.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 20, 2026 06:32 PM (nVxgE)

261 Yup, no way to do it. Businesses can check if potential employees are legal, but the cities and state just Can't Do It.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:31 PM (l3cgK)

As I recall, Trump asked for voter rolls so he could do it, and they said no. Not quite the same as Just Can't Do It.

Posted by: tcn in AK at October 20, 2026 06:32 PM (fOTAm)

262 204 Acton responds
x.com amyactonoh/status/2112639257655279780
Posted by: fuck vivek at October 20, 2026 06:17 PM (88C+u)

Troll ?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 20, 2026 06:32 PM (+gK6I)

263 This is 100% true...any peanut butter made with just peanuts and salt MUST be stirred b/c oil will eventually separate since there are no added emulsifiers and stabilizers to make it not separate...

Aka, good healthier less processed food is normally uglier food...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 20, 2026

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I need to go back to that pb. Smucker's, and WM used to carry a brand called Crazy Richard's, with "peanuts and salt" as the only listed ingredients.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:32 PM (wzUl9)

264 Citizens or not, don't jail anyone. Just denaturalize and deport anyone committing fraud to an African country with a 100% asset forfeiture as the cherry on top.

Posted by: Cray Cray at October 20, 2026 06:32 PM (nCTkv)

265 "Los Angeles County elections officials confirm in court filing that they have no way to verify U.S. citizenship for voters"

WTAF!?

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 06:32 PM (Jr5Lq)

266
Yeah, been in check out behind a person with a "Bridge Card" getting Prime Rib.

So has everybody I've told the story to.

Posted by: Auspex at October 20, 2026 06:32 PM (Y8DZL)

267 252 And things used to taste better cooked in lard and tallow! Now get off my lawn.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 20, 2026 06:30 PM (n5tGW)

I save my bacon grease for refried beans (which I cook with ham hocks, onions, celery, chili peppers, garlic, epasote)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:33 PM (l3cgK)

268 That's the Soviet Union term for "secret coworker" or "secret collaborator."

I don’t see anything here that says this will be secret. The example of Nick Shirley implies otherwise.

I mean, outside of the legacy media.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 20, 2026 06:33 PM (kYmoU)

269 mrp, without a doubt. Leaf lard is awesome.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 20, 2026 06:34 PM (ua/lL)

270 If CA can't follow the law for elections, I guess they'll just have to be de-certified and have no representatives.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 20, 2026 06:34 PM (n5tGW)

271 Yup, no way to do it. Businesses can check if potential employees are legal, but the cities and state just Can't Do It.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:31 PM (l3cgK)
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The best example of this horseshit is the CA CDL fiasco. Innocent people are being killed by California state policies.

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 06:34 PM (rj6Yv)

272 265 "Los Angeles County elections officials confirm in court filing that they have no way to verify U.S. citizenship for voters"

WTAF!?

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 06:32 PM (Jr5Lq)

this should be taken under oath with penalty for perjury, then arrest all the assholes that signed that document for perjury.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:34 PM (l3cgK)

273 When I make bacon, I pour off most of the grease, but then scramble the eggs right there in the still-hot pan. And they pick up some of the bacon grease and bacon flavor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:34 PM (wzUl9)

274 Fun fact:

Despite other cultures (predominately in the East) eating more peanuts than in the West, they have a fraction of the number of people allergic to peanuts. AND, it's because they mostly boil and fry peanuts in preparation as opposed to the standard roasting in the West...which heightens and changes the structure of the proteins and is more likely to trigger an immunity response.

(we now return to our regularly scheduled programming)

Posted by: Orson at October 20, 2026 06:35 PM (dIske)

275 266
Yeah, been in check out behind a person with a "Bridge Card" getting Prime Rib.

So has everybody I've told the story to.

Posted by: Auspex at October 20, 2026 06:32 PM (Y8DZL)

During COVID, the local schools sent ALL parents food cards. My son had turned 18, so used his to buy Kobe Beef. LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:35 PM (l3cgK)

276 272 My thoughts exactly! Depose the 'officials' each individually under oath!

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 06:35 PM (Jr5Lq)

277 I had a girlfriend from rural Virginia who could trace her ancestry to freed slaves. Her grandfather showed me how to make peanut oil using a press he made himself and then how to make peanut butter that was the best I ever had. Her mom made collard greens and chitlins that were magnificent and a recipe passed down for years. Forget about the cooked pork dishes.

That’s how you eat.

God bless you all.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 20, 2026 06:36 PM (xRxM8)

278 …with "peanuts and salt" as the only listed ingredients.

If you have a blender, you can take salted peanuts and turn them into peanut butter. Depending on how dry they are, you may have to add a little (peanut) oil to get it to turn into a butter. It’s very, very easy. And very easily adapted.

INDIAN PEANUT BUTTER

1 cup roasted peanuts; 1 tsp cumin powder; 2 cloves garlic; peanut oil as needed; 4 tsp chili powder; salt to taste

Grind peanuts, garlic, and spices in food grinder or blender. Stir in peanut oil to attain desired consistency. Add salt to taste.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 20, 2026 06:36 PM (kYmoU)

279 Those snap people eat much better than I do. And it usually shows by looking at their fat asses.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 20, 2026 06:36 PM (n5tGW)

280 273 When I make bacon, I pour off most of the grease, but then scramble the eggs right there in the still-hot pan. And they pick up some of the bacon grease and bacon flavor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:34 PM (wzUl9)

I spoon some out when I cook eggs...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:37 PM (l3cgK)

281 >>> 270 If CA can't follow the law for elections, I guess they'll just have to be de-certified and have no representatives.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 20, 2026 06:34 PM (n5tGW)

Oh no!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 06:37 PM (jb8Ss)

282 I save my bacon grease for refried beans (which I cook with ham hocks, onions, celery, chili peppers, garlic, epasote)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:33 PM (l3cgK)

Yum.

I made some with bacon grease, garlic, onion, and salt and pepper. In an Instapot it is stupid simple. Best refried beans ever.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 20, 2026 06:37 PM (nVxgE)

283 INDIAN PEANUT BUTTER

1 cup roasted peanuts; 1 tsp cumin powder; 2 cloves garlic; peanut oil as needed; 4 tsp chili powder; salt to taste

Grind peanuts, garlic, and spices in food grinder or blender. Stir in peanut oil to attain desired consistency. Add salt to taste.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 20, 2026 06:36 PM (kYmoU)
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I'll bet that has quite a kick to it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 20, 2026 06:37 PM (FZ29D)

284 Peanus rock.

Posted by: Eromero at October 20, 2026 06:37 PM (UYYJi)

285 A food grinder, including the ones for KitchenAid stand mixers, will make true peanut butter if the blended is a bit too grainy for you.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 20, 2026 06:38 PM (kYmoU)

286 My tenants stored all their bacon grease in the kitchen drain trap.

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 06:38 PM (Jr5Lq)

287 CA can't verify any voter is a US citizens?

Fine. Not one f*cking Federal dollar to them until they can.

When I am elected Your King, there are going to be some changes.

Posted by: Vizzini at October 20, 2026 06:38 PM (V8Zwm)

288 I'll bet that has quite a kick to it.

It does.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 20, 2026 06:38 PM (kYmoU)

289 If you guys pass through Texas with those refried beans expect to get mugged. Lol

Posted by: Marcus T at October 20, 2026 06:39 PM (xRxM8)

290 How many reps would CA have left after an accurate census including US citizens only?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 06:39 PM (jb8Ss)

291 284 Peanus rock.

Posted by: Eromero at October 20, 2026 06:37 PM (UYYJi)

You say nuts, I say legume...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:39 PM (l3cgK)

292 The peanuts ameliorate the kick a bit, though.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 20, 2026 06:39 PM (kYmoU)

293 284 Peanus rock.

Posted by: Eromero at October 20, 2026 06:37 PM (UYYJi)

I thought the garbage disposal was for Kale...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:39 PM (l3cgK)

294 California doesn't want to know who is a citizen, they want Leftists votings

Posted by: Skip at October 20, 2026 06:40 PM (Ia/+0)

295 286 My tenants stored all their bacon grease in the kitchen drain trap.

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 06:38 PM (Jr5Lq)

Damn, copy/paste fail.
I thought the garbage disposal was for Kale...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:40 PM (l3cgK)

296 268 That's the Soviet Union term for "secret coworker" or "secret collaborator."

I don’t see anything here that says this will be secret. The example of Nick Shirley implies otherwise.

I mean, outside of the legacy media.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at October 20, 2026 06:33 PM (kYmoU)

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Ok, how about "Donoschik"...which means informer, denouncer or snitch. It's a bad concept that is easy to abuse, especially based on the mentality being displayed by the left these days. Hell, they enjoy "swatting" conservative politicians and podcasts. Do you think they won't abuse this type program ad nauseum?

Posted by: Orson at October 20, 2026 06:40 PM (dIske)

297 Two of the easiest things to make homemade. Mayo and butter.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 20, 2026 06:40 PM (ua/lL)

298 Bacon grease is what you use in the small cast iron skillet before you pour in the cornbread batter.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 06:40 PM (jb8Ss)

299 That’s how you eat.

God bless you all.
Posted by: Marcus T at October 20, 2026 06:36 PM (xRxM

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That reminds me ...

God bless the memory of George Washington Carver.

Posted by: mrp at October 20, 2026 06:40 PM (rj6Yv)

300 294 California doesn't want to know who is a citizen, they want Leftists votings

Posted by: Skip at October 20, 2026 06:40 PM (Ia/+0)

Kalifornia doesn't care; they want to manipulate the vote so Dems never lose.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:41 PM (l3cgK)

301 My tenants stored all their bacon grease in the kitchen drain trap.
Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026

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I avoid that. An empty cat food can makes a great receptacle; a paper towel in it to soak up some of the liquid; and then out it all goes in the garbage.

My mother used to pour it into former pickle jars, but I'm not sure what she used it for. Maybe when she made breaded veal (which used to be cheap, remember? Every American diner and Woolworth's lunch counter had "breaded veal cutlet" on the menu).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 20, 2026 06:41 PM (wzUl9)

302 My tenants stored all their bacon grease in the kitchen drain trap.

My wife and girls store their hair in the shower trap.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 20, 2026 06:41 PM (n5tGW)

303 "Peanuts rock." I eat a couple ounces a day. On special occasions, I go for the mixed nuts, but whoa they are pricey now.

Posted by: gp at October 20, 2026 06:41 PM (Jr5Lq)

304 298 Bacon grease is what you use in the small cast iron skillet before you pour in the cornbread batter.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 06:40 PM (jb8Ss)

Bacon grease is versatile and lasts a long time.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 20, 2026 06:42 PM (l3cgK)

305 Time to put the goats up.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 20, 2026 06:42 PM (jb8Ss)

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