The Morning Report — 11/13 /26

Good morning kids. We'll start off with this item from the Are You freaking Kidding Me Files:

Officials decided an ancient method was the best way to decide the outcome of an election in Robertson County, Kentucky. When Republican Benny Ray Renner and Democrat Kristen Gifford Fryman tied with 91 votes each in the race for magistrate in the 2nd Magisterial District, it was up to officials to decide what to do next, KCRA reported Sunday. “Out of the 182 ballots cast, there was not a single vote that separated the two candidates once all precincts had reported their numbers back,” the outlet said. The Kentucky State Board of Elections recommended officials perform a coin flip to decide the outcome, and Fryman won...The coin used to decide the election was a quarter the sheriff had in his pocket.

Well all politics is indeed "local." But to any sane person, this puerile, irresponsible madness is just indicative of how far we as a nation and society have sunk. Is it really fair to use this idiocy as a barometer for the rest of the country? After all Kentucky is the state that inflicted Tom Massie on us. In any case, given the fact that much of the country is ignorant of the tyrannical bloody history of the Democrat Party, Socialism and Islam and in places where one thought that that ignorance was not the norm nevertheless voted it into power last week.

Or did they? It Was A Coup —This is the 2020 election, exactly like it... repeating identical statistical anomalies designed to engineer an artificial realignment. . .

When an election produces outcomes that run completely counter to historical precedent, polling baselines, and raw mathematical probability, the dispute ceases to be a conventional political debate and transforms into an indictment of the process itself. The case asserting that this midterm was systematically subverted rests upon four primary pillars: statistical impossibility, software and algorithmic manipulation, unauthorized cyber penetration, and administrative chain-of-custody collapse. . . If elections cannot be independently verified and guaranteed as legitimate, this one may well be the last.

Given who and what will be in power come January that could very well be the case. Let's see who wins the coin toss in '28?!

On a separate note the ongoing war with Iran is evidently causing a major rift in the White House.

President Donald Trump on Thursday removed Vice President JD Vance from the Iran strategy, instructing him to focus on domestic issues.

I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S...),” President Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month. Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal activity.”

The president rejected a negotiated deal with the Mullah regime. He asserted that the U.S. has succeeded in opening the Strait of Hormuz, removing Tehran’s sole leverage in the talks. . “We don’t need a deal with Iran,” he said. “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”

I'm wondering if this is purely about Iran or if there are some other tensions between the two that might be indicative that President Trump will be endorsing someone other than Vance to be at the top of the ticket for 2028. Frankly, Vance has not impressed me of late which given his continued refusal to distance himself from openly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic Tuq'r Qatarlson makes him a non-starter for me. YMMV of course.

We'll have to wait and see as the President himself is wont to say. On this and all the other myriad meshugas in the links I nevertheless bid you all to have a very good luck-filled Friday the 13th, triskaidekaphobia notwithstanding, then have yourselves a great weekend!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• The Kentucky State Board of Elections recommended officials perform a coin flip to decide the outcome, and Fryman won. (of course she did, she's the Democrat - jjs)
  Coin Flip Decides Kentucky County’s Tied Election Between Republican and Democrat Candidates

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• ...justices she claimed “legalized” President Donald Trump’s alleged “criminality.”
  WATCH — titty-Caca AOC Suggests Democrats Are Willing to Impeach SCOTUS Justices: ‘All Options Are on the Table’ ("impeach" via the Luigi Mangione option? - jjs)
  
• The city’s public library convened former Weather Underground members and the FBI’s Most Wanted to reminisce about their glory days and inspire a new generation of radicals.
  Cop Killers and Convicted Terrorists Get a Hero’s Welcome in San Francisco
  
• Seven years after his original statement, the new undergraduate survey suggests that his attitude has grown rapidly and is becoming increasingly mainstream on campuses nationwide.
  Generation Piker: One in Five College Students Think America Deserved 9/11.
  
• The Democrats now openly genuflect to the Red-Green, Marxist-Islamist Alliance.
  From the Party of Robert Kennedy to the Party of Sirhan Sirhan
  
• Democracy in America will not die in darkness. It will die in the Democrat death grip as they proceed with a crusade-like fervor that only a sense of destiny could conjure and sustain.
  Democracy Dies In Democrats' Delusion, Deflection, And Dilution
  
• How did the Democrat Party get here, with one of its own elected leaders refusing to acknowledge that a regime responsible for killing Americans is an American enemy? (The Democrat Party itself has been an enemy of America for 200 years - jjs)
  Adam Hamawy’s Iran defense exposes Democrats’ sickening suicide pact
  
• SpaceX will of course immediately challenge any such determination, but the subsequent court fight will certainly delay further launches. And should SpaceX lose in court (now dominated by Democrat Party rule) it would shut Boca Chica down for good.
  Texas Democrats move to block SpaceX Starship/Superheavy launches at Boca Chica
  
• For the moment, I'll just have one of my AI assistants searching for ammo deals. If it gets too hairy, meet me for a sunset beer on a gulf beach in the Sunshine State. Bring ice. 
  My Balkanization Plans Are Much Clearer After Last Week

  CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION, LAWFARE

• . . .voters want Congress to prioritize costs and ending the conflict in Iran over investigating the Trump administration, as Democrats giddily prepare to launch a series of attacks on President Donald Trump and Cabinet officials.
  Polls Show Voters Have Little Interest in Investigating Trump Administration
  
• Republicans in Washington should be working every angle to make sure the left is not empowered to derail the President's agenda while he is still in the White House.
  The Midterms Should Be a Wake-Up Call: Time to Clear Out the Deep State

  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• The secretary is making his move as part of a crackdown on federal social benefits abuses in Minnesota, which includes audits by the Internal Revenue Service on some banks under suspicion of money laundering.
  Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent Bans Migrants on Welfare from Sending Cash Back Home
  
• "The total number of ICE arrests in Fiscal Year 2026 was more than all three full fiscal years under Biden combined."
  Trump’s ICE Just Blew Past Biden On Arrests, And That’s Only Half The Story
  
• Unlike in the previous caravans, where support from Mexico’s government was not openly seen or noticed, this group is now openly being escorted by Mexican police forces throughout their journey. Additionally, the group is being given places to stay in various city auditoriums and large venues in southern Mexico as the 800-1000 people continue their journey.
  Photos: Mexico Gives Police Escorts to Migrant Caravan Headed to U.S. Border
  
• To suggest that Latinos, who voted for Trump and his immigration platform in 2024, turned on the GOP due to ICE alone is a lie.
  No, Latino Voters’ Swing To Democrats Was Not Because Of ‘Deportations’

  THE IRAN CONFLICT, MOU/"PEACE DEAL" (aftermath??)

• Vice President JD Vance is weighing direct talks with a top Iranian security official as President Donald Trump empowers him to lead renewed negotiations aimed at ending the months-long conflict, according to a Wednesday report.
  Report: JD Vance Weighs Direct Talks with Top Iranian Security Chief in Bid to End Conflict
  
• “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money … and we’ve got their Strait”
  ‘We Don’t Need a Deal With Iran’: Trump Breaks With Vance Over Iran Strategy
  
• So the prez will stick with the embargo and other sanctions to keep choking Iran’s economy, leaving it unable to significantly reconstitute its nuclear program, and wait — with the option of other combat operations where appropriate.
  Trump’s right — no more chasing Iran for a deal to end a war they’ve lost
  * * * * *

• Al-Saadi also targeted Ivanka Trump in retaliation for the killing of Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani.
  Three Iran-backed men charged with plot to attack UK military base

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• A civilization serious about its liberty must understand the theocracy that seeks to govern it.
  CAIR Lies. Islam Definitely Insists Its Religion Should Control Politics
  
• The organizations include those linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.
  Egypt lists 35 Europe-based Islamic groups on terror list
  
• But what about the rights of women and others?
  Does the Freedom of Religion Mean We Cannot Oppose Sharia?

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS

• Rabb added that some people were ‘triggered’ by the timing of the event, which was on the eve of the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht
  Chris Rabb Refuses To Condemn Antisemitic Boycott in His District; Attacks ‘Awful Things’ from Counterprotesters

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• The state removes a child from a parent. The parent is told to wait for a hearing, wait for discovery, wait for services, wait for a ruling, wait for an appeal. Weeks become months. The child settles into a foster home. A new school becomes familiar. A routine forms. Then the same government that created the separation walks into court and announces that changing the child’s placement would be disruptive. The child is doing well, it says. We must maintain the status quo.
  The State Takes Your Child. Then It Runs Out the Clock.

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Trump might still take Mark Levin seriously. Hopefully he’ll soon see his real purpose is to be a widely recognized, fondly welcomed joke.
  Like Screech And Urkel, Mark Levin Has Become A Pathetic But Lovable Sitcom Character
  
• Now he wants to discard Reagan’s foreign policy, too
  Why Oren Cass Is the New York Times’s Favorite ‘Conservative’ Intellectual
  * * * * *

• The disruption hit government agencies in Australia, Japan, and the United States, and caused disruptions at trading firms, delays to companies publishing their results and airlines warning customers of delayed communication. (too busy with a Swalwell Eggroll in the hay - jjs)
  Microsoft platforms including Outlook, Teams down as tech giant struggles to fix outage
  
• The Board of Directors appointed Harvey C. Jones as its first-ever Chair of the Board.  Mr. Jones has been an entrepreneur, technology executive, and active venture investor for over 30 years, including serving as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman of Synopsys.
  Nvidia Ousts Jensen Huang from CEO Role, CFO Colette Kress Named Interim Boss
  
• Because while Jensen's affairs were unbecoming and even dangerous, this is when things get truly interesting.
  Jensen Huang Had to Go. The Real Question Is: Cui Bono

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Fred Fleitz: Trump can turn the midterm setback into an opportunity by ending the Iran war, unleashing American energy production, and locking in energy independence for years to come.
  Five Steps for President Trump to Lower Energy Prices and Lock in American Energy Security
  
• Costly labor mandates are hurting the very workers they’re supposed to help.
  The Left’s War on Gig
  
• And other opportunities to move the lobbyist-blocked MAHA agenda without increasing corporate control and private equity consolidation of American farms.
  How U.S. Farmers Can Quickly Cut Glyphosate By 95 Percent

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• The U.N.’s COP31 climate alarmism summit in Antalya, Turkey, is proving to be a fractious affair, as energy-producing nations insist on their right to sell the fossil fuel products that drive their economies. On Thursday, Venezuela became the latest nation to declare that it will not stop pumping oil.
  Venezuela Tells Climate Doomers It Has ‘Sovereign Right’ to Pump Oil, Iran Demands Environmental Reparations
  
• It’s been almost three decades since the worldwide global warming scare was kicked off by a congressional hearing. Despite hundreds, if not thousands, of warnings since then insisting we had only a few years to act...
  Global Warming Buffoonery
  
• Greta Thunberg just gave away what a fraud she’s always been, though her devoted fans may be too drunk on the Kool-Aid to see it.Moment Greta Thunberg laughs at climate protests she started after ditching cause for Gaza
  Funny how, Greta? Greta Thunberg just exposed the fraud of her ‘moral authority’

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• UPDATE: During a 10:30 a.m. presser, FOX 5 DC pointed out the Metropolitan Police Department indicated Thursday’s suspect barricaded himself on the seventh floor of an apartment building after the shootings at and around VIDA Fitness. Negotiators communicated with the suspect and as that process was taking place, they heard a gunshot. Law enforcement made entry after the gunshot and found the suspect suffering from a self-inflicted wound. 
  Report: Multiple People Shot, Suspect at Large in Gun-Controlled D.C

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• The 'resistance' class flies in the face of the longtime support for Israel and Jewish causes from the philanthropic arm of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
  Uproar as George Mason's Lifelong Learning Program Offers Class on 'Palestinians' Resistance' Taught by 'Victim' of Israel's 'Genocide'

  THE 2020 AND OTHER ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• How many of those voters were legal?
  Texas Flipped With Voter Turnout in Illegal Alien Counties
  
• This is the 2020 election, exactly like it, repeating identical statistical anomalies designed to engineer an artificial realignment.
  It Was A Coup

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• Here's the thing: a reelection win doesn't mean much if you aren't legally eligible to keep the job.
  Bro-Fo Omar’s Days in Congress May Be Numbered as DOJ Closes In
  * * * * *

• Jackson made the amazing error of speaking with TMZ just outside of the Capitol ahead of the vote, which he somehow missed and blamed on traffic:
  Report: Dem Rep. Jonathan Jackson Caught Lying About Why He Was Absent from Hegseth Impeachment Vote
  
• The Sunrise Movement protested the presumed future Senate Majority leader and demanded change from all Democratic Senators.
  Dozens Of Left-Wing Activists Arrested At Schumer’s Office Demanding His Ouster

  GRIFTING OLEAGENOUS PARASITES — RINO SCUM SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• Republicans squandered much of the opportunity Trump gave them, but he still has two years to accomplish a great deal. The least Republican legislators can do now is get out of his way.
  Sabotaging Trump Killed GOP Majorities. They Have Two Months To Make It Better

  POLITICS

• In the latest count, Peltola’s lead narrowed against incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan.
  Alaska Judge Denies Peltola’s Request for Rejected Absentee Ballot Information
  * * * * *

• Last (week's) election results were certainly a disaster, but it is important to maintain perspective and not become overcome by gloom. The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard warned that “despair is a sin,” so we must use the mid-term defeat as a lesson for future battles, and not an excuse to give up. 2028 looms (from friend and friend of the blog Mark Pulliam - jjs)
  Midterm Postmortem
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Come next year, Trump will still not have to face a veto-proof Congress — unless renegade Republican senators and representatives join Democrats on key legislation to provide them with the necessary 67-Senate-vote/290-House-vote override... Even though the Democrats cannot hope to override the veto, some, like Elizabeth Warren, have recklessly called for ending the filibuster.
  Don’t count Trump out despite the midterms rout — he’s got plenty of power to flex
  
• What replaced MAGA dynamism was a feed of grievances.
  From Dynamism to Diatribe: How Republicans Lost the Plot
  
• “It’s now on us to meet this moment, and to do that we need new leadership,” Van Hollen said. “This is not about any one person — it’s about answering the call of the American people. That is why I’m running for Senate Majority Leader.” (Pancreatic Cancer vs. Liver Cancer - jjs)
  Lefty Dem Chris Van Hollen challenging Schumer for Senate Majority leader, arguing voters ‘called for change’
  
• “When we’re less democratic than the Republican Party … that raises questions for me.”
  Democrat Leaders to Rep-Elect: Back Jeffries or We’ll Make Your Life ‘a Living Hell’

  FRANCE IS BURNING, And Europe With It

• Going after Michel Houllebecq.
  A Judicial Disgrace in France

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• This comes after the two brokered peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Abu Dhabi earlier in the week.
  Steve Witkoff, Jared Kusher meet with Putin at Kremlin for Ukraine peace talks

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• What role did China play in the 2026 midterms?
  CHINAGATE: House Dems Plot to Shut Down Committee Investigating China’s Subversion
  
• This event underscores Europe’s increasing concern about Russia conducting a hybrid warfare campaign.
  U.S. Army Officer Arrested in Britain on Suspicion of Spying for Russia
  
• God bless those soldiers who protect the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
  Hegseth Awards Soldier Who Reprimanded Him and His Aides at Tomb of Unknown Soldier

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The symptom accounts of the runners are disturbing, and included hallucinations and forgetting long stretches of the run.
  Police Probe ‘Suspicious’ Illness After 27 Runners Fall Sick at California Race.

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Known as 1998 KY26, the roughly 36-foot-wide object is believed to be a near-Earth asteroid, but something other than gravity appears to be affecting its path. New research has now cast doubt on one explanation for what is pushing it through space.
  Scientists question what is pushing strange, speeding object through space as new theory grows
  
• A bunch of cool images!. . . Gravitational lensing, first predicted by Albert Einstein, occurs when the gravity of a massive foreground object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies, bends, warps, and magnifies the light from a more distant background object.
  A gallery of gravitationally-lensed objects taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
  
• NASA cancelled the original Mars Sample Return mission in 2024 because its cost had ballooned over $11 billion (with further overruns expected) and fallen years behind schedule. The design of the project was overall too complex, involving multiple companies and governments doing things they had never done before. At the time the agency asked the private sector for new ideas, and got at least one, a $4 billion proposal from Rocket Lab.
  NASA once again studying how to get Perseverance’s Mars samples back to Earth

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• He willingly put a target on his back, lost friends, and stepped smack dab into the middle of the most dangerous fight in the world.
  The Debauched 80s Icon Who Found His Voice When It Mattered Most
  
• Makeup brand Maybelline wants to do away with the “ambiguity” of its world famous slogan, but has left everyone scratching their heads instead.
  Beauty blunder Maybelline’s new slogan is woke nonsense — there’s no ‘maybe’ about it
  
• Yes, nothing says lower grocery bills like ‘I Am Jazz,’ tampons in boys’ bathrooms, and oral sex education for sixth-graders.
  Forget Affordability. DEI Is Back With Democrats’ Power Trip
  
• Christian Toto: What about the documentaries that get hidden by the usual suspects? That’s assuming they get made in the first place
  Lights! Camera! Inaction!.
  
• Toto too: Mike Baron and veteran friends deliver follow-up to unwoke original
  ‘Private American’ Sequel Needs YOU
  
• What we prefer as customers or citizens is not what our betters have planned for us.
  Bud Light, Tom’s Toothpaste, And The Reinvention Of Maine
  
• Vatican diplomacy, religious relativism, and the abandonment of the persecuted Church.
  Surreptitious Surrender

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Comments

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1 No good crude comments to make just yet

Posted by: Community Notes at November 13, 2026 07:11 AM (pUU4E)

2 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 13, 2026 07:11 AM (NcvvS)

3 There was some heat around the question of vote creation, but has that died off?

Are we to accept the injection of un-verified voters and move along to the next fund-raising email barrage from the GOPe? If left to Thune et al we will, but that cadre of elites does not dictate personal decisions unless you let them. The days of “Oh well, we gave it a good fight!”, and “We’ll get ’em NEXT time” are revealed for what they are.

What happened to the insurmountable bank account advantage the GOP had?

When did the questions of voting machine security get answered?

Someone with some horsepower will have to explain why citizens of foreign nations are allowed if not encouraged to vote in US elections. Let’s hear it.

Have the governors-elect been notified of the superior Federal status over the states regarding immigration, or will the assumed authority by states go un-throttled? Open and notorious disregard for established law will find my butt in the jailhouse, but if Gavin Newsome does it, then...oh well?

Posted by: Dan Patterson at November 13, 2026 07:13 AM (9f4mI)

4 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 07:14 AM (RIvkX)

5 Except for his verbal slapping of Margaret, I haven't really been impressed with Vance at all. Almost a cipher. Marco's been doing things. I think he's in the lead for the next election.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 13, 2026 07:14 AM (1Ff7Z)

6 "Like Screech And Urkel, Mark Levin Has Become A Pathetic But Lovable Sitcom Character"

Levin lovable? He's a fking attorny. Better get Carshilled! Buy gold! YAAAHH!

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:15 AM (MWfyi)

7 I nevertheless bid you all to have a very good luck-filled Friday the 13th, triskaidekaphobia notwithstanding, then have yourselves a great weekend!

Considering I'm not a Templar Knight, I don't see any reason to be scared of Friday the 13ths.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 13, 2026 07:16 AM (1Ff7Z)

8 Just one trouble with a coin toss:
the loser will immediately call "Two out of three?"

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 13, 2026 07:16 AM (zdLoL)

9 Thank you JJS! Today is SpaceX Day! Big flight test this afternoon. Best of luck to all the folks there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 07:16 AM (/kuHq)

10 If you got a tie like that, then the coin toss should only determine who gets to hold office first, because you split the term in half and each gets a go at it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 07:18 AM (aKiSo)

11 :"Maybelline’s new slogan is woke nonsense — there’s no ‘maybe’ about it"

Yeah maybe it's a woman.

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:18 AM (MWfyi)

12 8 Just one trouble with a coin toss:
the loser will immediately call "Two out of three?"
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 13, 2026 07:16 AM (zdLoL)



Imagining Niles Crane on at least two episodes of Frasier flipping the coin into his face.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 13, 2026 07:18 AM (x0n13)

13 CHINAGATE: House Dems Plot to Shut Down Committee Investigating China’s Subversion
===

Ro Fvking Khanna is the ranking member.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 07:19 AM (RIvkX)

14 "If you got a tie like that, then the coin toss should only determine who gets to hold office first, because you split the term in half and each gets a go at it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko"

Cage match. Make politics great again.

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:19 AM (MWfyi)

15 11 :"Maybelline’s new slogan is woke nonsense — there’s no ‘maybe’ about it"

Yeah maybe it's a woman.
Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:18 AM (MWfyi)

Maybe she actually *was* born with ... uh.. "it".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 07:19 AM (aKiSo)

16 The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard warned that “despair is a sin,

What are retard. One third of the Psalms are lamentations.

Psalm 22:1–2: Famous for being quoted by Jesus on the cross, this psalm opens with a raw cry of abandonment. The writer asks, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?"

Yeah, Jesus was "sinning".

Posted by: Community Notes at November 13, 2026 07:19 AM (pUU4E)

17 God bless those soldiers who protect the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Hegseth Awards Soldier Who Reprimanded Him and His Aides at Tomb of Unknown Soldier

Shouldn't they, of all people, know to remain silent?

Of course, I haven't seen a vid, so I don't know what caused the incident.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 13, 2026 07:20 AM (1Ff7Z)

18 Elections have been bullsh*t here for 20 years you want me to start crying about fake elections now?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 07:20 AM (RIvkX)

19 Of course Trump will be too busy trying to rehab his wounded image to step in here with his DOJ/FBI to uncover the voting fraud. Heaven knows our congressional "leaders" are safely re-ensconced in minority status where they always prefer to be.

Posted by: Thats Fantastic at November 13, 2026 07:21 AM (hyQrc)

20
In fact, I was too late down below to join in to the witty repartee, light raillery and good-natured joshing that is part and parcel of AoSHQ commentary. Now I'm just mean and ornery.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 13, 2026 07:21 AM (eRlcH)

21 Dive video reveals that the SS United States did right herself and is setting nicely on the bottom.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2026 07:22 AM (iMotb)

22 What happened to the insurmountable bank account advantage the GOP had?

The "consultants" ate that right up.

Posted by: Community Notes at November 13, 2026 07:23 AM (pUU4E)

23 Heh.

The new slogan has periods.

What absolute troll at Maybelline snuck that in there?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 07:23 AM (aKiSo)

24 "Hegseth Awards Soldier Who Reprimanded Him and His Aides at Tomb of Unknown Soldier
"

It wasn't Hegseth who laughed but the entire media including fox "News" are making it sound like that. I am sure my dad is steaming mad at Hegseth because all my parents watch is PBS and CNN.

btw have I mentioned I hate Micorsoft?

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:23 AM (MWfyi)

25 What is there to negotiate with Iran at this point?

This Iran business is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in politics

And that’s saying something.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 07:23 AM (XV/Pl)

26 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 13, 2026 07:21 AM (eRlcH)
====================
*shoves coffee and extra toast into computer*

feel better?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 07:23 AM (Cp1jM)

27 " Dive video reveals that the SS United States did right herself and is setting nicely on the bottom.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"

Isn't this the story of Barak Obama's legacy?

Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:24 AM (MWfyi)

28 Looks like the Republican got Anton Chigurred.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 07:24 AM (XV/Pl)

29 23 Heh.

The new slogan has periods.

What absolute troll at Maybelline snuck that in there?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 07:23 AM (aKiSo)


Just like the Tranny Model?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 13, 2026 07:24 AM (x0n13)

30 nic update

Posted by: fd btw have I mentioned I hate Microsoft at November 13, 2026 07:24 AM (MWfyi)

31 28 Looks like the Republican got Anton Chigurred.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 07:24 AM (XV/Pl)

Played by a commie piece of shit?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 07:25 AM (aKiSo)

32 btw have I mentioned I hate Micorsoft?
Posted by: fd at November 13, 2026 07:23 AM (MWfyi)

Please tell me Outlook and Teams are not still down.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 13, 2026 07:27 AM (BI5O2)

33 Of course, I haven't seen a vid, so I don't know what caused the incident.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
***

I read someone in the group laughed loudly as they were walking away. Kudos to Hegseth for rewarding the soldier for carrying out his orders properly. If it had been a group of democrats, I've no doubt they would've demanded the soldier be reprimanded and punished.

Posted by: Biergood at November 13, 2026 07:27 AM (PwgSL)

34 >Like Screech And Urkel, Mark Levin Has Become A Pathetic But Lovable Sitcom Character
----
he's a nasty little prick, and a misogynist to boot

Posted by: Don Black at November 13, 2026 07:28 AM (ZxPkt)

35 Again, this election was won by messaging, it was won by democrats taking advantage of our shit ass election systems and registering millions upon millions of addition ballots and getting them in.

The elections were lost before Election Day even occurred.

It’s why pretty much every election was called as soon as the polls closed in most places.

It’s not mystery really how they did it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 07:28 AM (XV/Pl)

36 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 13, 2026 07:29 AM (2Ez/1)

37 $36 Billion is $1500 to 24 M adult Texas
There is $27 B in the rainy day fund

maffs be like hard n shit

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 13, 2026 07:30 AM (/+uur)

38 The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard warned that “despair is a sin,

AoSHQ ought to make the prophet Habakkuk the site's Patron Saint.

Why?

Habakkuk expresses deep distress over the injustice, violence, and corruption he sees in his society, feeling that God is silent. In Habakkuk 1:2–3, he cries out, "How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen?" Later, in Habakkuk 3:16, he describes a visceral physical reaction to impending doom, saying his heart pounded, his lips quivered, and decay crept into his bones.

That fits in well with all of this post Nov 3 lamentations—but he expresses it much more colorfully.

Posted by: Community Notes at November 13, 2026 07:30 AM (rgGn5)

39 A tie vote is a statistical aberration.* Your single vote doesn't matter unless you join with others in a block.

Hence MAGA which the GOPe just killed to let the DSA run rampant.

* My vote once tied a small town mayoral election. What odds!

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 13, 2026 07:31 AM (dtajH)

40
What happened to the SS United States is just sad. I know we couldn't use it and restoring it for tours would be prohibitively expensive - although the USS Texas is undergoing yet another round of work - but it was just heartbreaking to see that magnificent ship going down.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 13, 2026 07:31 AM (eRlcH)

41 Outlook just popped up! Now, to plow through the mountain of junk.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 13, 2026 07:32 AM (qBdHI)

42 Morning, all!

Will have a screening call with a recruiter either before or after work (Geometry today).

Praying that whatever God has planned for me make itself known soon.

I figured the refusal to publicly distance himself from Tu'quar et al was just 'let's not be rude/it didn't do Trump any good to denounce David Duke because he didn't denounce him *constantly*'.

But his unscripted remarks post-midterms have proven to me that he's not the right man for 2028. Just hope he hasn't been going full Pence in the background.

Posted by: RandomDave at November 13, 2026 07:33 AM (aJQbY)

43
Outlook just popped up! Now, to plow through the mountain of junk.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 13, 2026 07:32 AM (qBdHI)

All those "Reply All" e-mails saying, "Great idea, J.B.!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 13, 2026 07:33 AM (eRlcH)

44 "...From now on, anyone who wires money out from one of these money service businesses has to check a box saying whether they are on public assistance,” he said..."

Please tell me thst isn't the only hurdle.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at November 13, 2026 07:33 AM (zYRyv)

45 "This was not a normal midterm election. If you have concluded otherwise, congratulations, you're stupid," Kennedy said in a floor speech. -Sen. John Kennedy
======

You literally belong to the stupid party.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 07:34 AM (RIvkX)

46 I honestly don't remember but i'm pretty sure at some point during the 2024 campaign I was bitching about how I don't trust Vance.

So, you know. If he winds up being a snake after all, and it turns out I told you so, you know... uh... I told you so. Maybe. Possibly. Or not.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 07:35 AM (aKiSo)

47 @31

>>Played by a commie piece of shit?

His fate was decided by a coin flip, then a cattle bolt was put through his political carrer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 07:36 AM (XV/Pl)

48 The GOPe are employing the Rachel Corrie gambit, just standing there as the Dems drive the bull dozer straight at them.

Posted by: davidt at November 13, 2026 07:38 AM (Q+gd/)

49 I'm getting emails again.

Posted by: Don Black at November 13, 2026 07:38 AM (ZxPkt)

50 I read someone in the group laughed loudly as they were walking away. Kudos to Hegseth for rewarding the soldier for carrying out his orders properly. If it had been a group of democrats, I've no doubt they would've demanded the soldier be reprimanded and punished.
Posted by: Biergood at November 13, 2026 07:27 AM (PwgSL)

It's a pretty solemn ceremony.* I wonder what could have been so funny to make someone break out in laughter?

*I've been there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 13, 2026 07:38 AM (1Ff7Z)

51 The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard warned that “despair is a sin,

--

Guess King David is toast then.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 13, 2026 07:39 AM (qBdHI)

52 Stanley Zabar died! Zabar's was our favorite neighborhood stop for years on Saturday morning walks down Broadway. A wonderful place, and thank you Stanley Zabar.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 07:40 AM (qBEXX)

53 Guess King David is toast then.
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 13, 2026 07:39 AM (qBdHI)

Yeah, but one of his great-great-great-etc-etc grandkids took care of that for him, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 07:41 AM (aKiSo)

54 One thing to consider is that the loss creates a vacuum that Trump can exploit going forward. He can build a party that can go to war that is united. Something he has never had.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2026 07:41 AM (Wp1X1)

55
It's a pretty solemn ceremony.* I wonder what could have been so funny to make someone break out in laughter?

*I've been there.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 13, 2026 07:38 AM (1Ff7Z)

Nobody has a sense of occasion nowadays. People just follow their impulses. Why are you so repressive?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 13, 2026 07:41 AM (eRlcH)

56 I honestly don't remember but i'm pretty sure at some point during the 2024 campaign I was bitching about how I don't trust Vance.

-------

I have said since the jump "JD Vance and Marco Rubio are GOP Senators. Fuck 'em."

It's an automatic disqualifier.

People are so desperate to find hope in the GOP, that they ignore this.

"This scorpion in my boot has an American flag thoracic pin. He's probably there to massage my toes."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 13, 2026 07:41 AM (Gx8lO)

57 Thank you JJ. We would’ve had a better election outcome nationwide this year if, for every race, a coin toss was used to decide it! Maybe we should endorse this approach :-)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2026 07:43 AM (M+uMR)

58 @50

>>It's a pretty solemn ceremony.

Life is generally absurd and funny.

Unless they were cackling on and on, it was more than likely an overreaction by the soldier.

And how exactly does something like that get wide exposure?

Because some piece of sh*t reporter was there.

I'm with WTS on what the worth of reporters is.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 07:43 AM (XV/Pl)

59 Good morning Horde thx JJ. Happy Friday and a great weekend to all.
I must admit that watching my senator , Schumer's, dream of being majority leader ooze away gives a massive amount of schadenfreude. In cruddy political news of late , and the Giants self destruction last night, this is a bright light

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2026 07:45 AM (FroOw)

60 >>21 Dive video reveals that the SS United States did right herself and is setting nicely on the bottom.

That was pretty much established within 20 minutes of her reaching the bottom from side-scan sonar images taken from an ROV. But good for the divers yesterday who were first to see it for real.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 13, 2026 07:46 AM (J4Dwc)

61 “Our philosophy is that race or ethnicity should never be a factor in educational opportunities,” Jacobson explained. “We do not accept that the answer for past racism is more racism.”
===========================
Professor Jacobson is working hard to bring some light into the world. He is a blessing!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 07:46 AM (M4amj)

62 Nobody has a sense of occasion nowadays. People just follow their impulses. Why are you so repressive?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 13, 2026 07:41 AM (eRlcH)
======

Wut?

Posted by: Old Chinese lady clipping her nails on the 1 California at November 13, 2026 07:46 AM (RIvkX)

63 Dive video reveals that the SS United States did right herself and is setting nicely on the bottom.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2026 07:22 AM (iMotb)

Howdy VIA!

Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2026 07:47 AM (kuZER)

64 What happened to the SS United States is just sad. I know we couldn't use it and restoring it for tours would be prohibitively expensive... but it was just heartbreaking to see that magnificent ship going down.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I think I've said it here before, but I was associated with someone connected to a man willing to do the work to restore the United States and turn it into another Queen Mary. (I believe he was involved in that project) The amount of money needed at that time (2010) was already 600 million. Imagine the dollars needed now to do that renovation.

He was promised funding many times from Europe, but they always came back with objections every time he was there supposedly to be given the funds to start the project. So, he gave up on it. It cost me the possibility of having a good job working for him through my friend.

The Conservancy was always a bare bones, no money project. There was never any way they'd ever be able to do the job. They had to find backers to keep the ship in Philly. It was always a pipe dream.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 13, 2026 07:48 AM (1Ff7Z)

65 So the latest on X: Jensen Huang's Chinese girlfriend was apparently *not* a CCP asset. He is a horndog, but the Chinese spy story was fabricated by the New York Times to help the Democrats because Jensen's been friendly with Trump. This sounds familiar...

I have to think some lawyers are having their eyes light up with dollar signs now.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2026 07:49 AM (Aqf1y)

66 happy friday the 13th my morons. we made it through the week.

i am sad to report that outlook is back up and working, meaning i'll have to do work as well this week.

ah well, at least the weather has turned cold and i can light a fire tonight with a bourbon to unwind tonight

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 13, 2026 07:52 AM (nXhwP)

67 “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”

John 14:27

Posted by: Marcus T at November 13, 2026 07:54 AM (7S15B)

68 Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently spouted off against Elon Musk; the H1B program which they abused for decades has been discontinued. either of these things has happened--
1. Elon for fun has disabled their signature product office 365 just to prove he can.
2. They are using this interruption to force the indentured tech servitude known as H1B even though there are qualified americans all over the country who would jump at the opportunity to work for microsoft but at wages commensurate with the industry

Posted by: paulnjax at November 13, 2026 07:54 AM (PPnyU)

69 Our philosophy is that race or ethnicity should never be a factor in educational opportunities,”

Explain to me why there are Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU).

Explain why Public School Integration failed so badly when judges ruled that they alone are the sole authority on who is allowed to associate with who.

Explain why there are very clear differences in outcomes when grouped by race and ethnicity.

If you have a high trust culture that is blended in with a low trust culture, and often ethnicity is one of several strong markers as to what culture you have, how does that produce optimum outcomes?

Posted by: Community Notes at November 13, 2026 07:54 AM (NzX/y)

70
This is interesting.

This guy is dressing how the average man did in the 1950s-early 1960s.

Very similar to how my Dad dressed when I was a very small boy. It's a good look.

Today, I suppose dressing this way would be considered cosplay, but maybe an upgrade might be in line as part of your own personal white pilling.

Admittedly, this type of wear is made more difficult by the Texas Summer.

Anyway, enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=aCH0eUXFMk0&t=1580s

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 07:54 AM (YSUhf)

71 If there's no spy honeypot in conquests, Huang needs to sue.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 13, 2026 07:55 AM (bFq8h)

72 A whale was photographed surfacing for some air just off the west side of Manhattan, near the piers on the West Side Highway.

The earf is healing!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 07:55 AM (HU0Jf)

73 - Gravitational lending

Explained, and a photo of shown, in one of the links I've posted in the past. Maybe as long as a year. Maybe longer.
Doubtful if more than a very few watched, if any.
Wouldn't fit the narrative of those who believe we share an ancestor with,,, broccoli.

Posted by: TeeJ at November 13, 2026 07:55 AM (/HR0+)

74 Oh, yes, please don't let's be uncouth near the memorial for all the baby-killers and dead-enders who died murdering for an illegitimate country, right?

Fuck every one of these shitheels suddenly feigning interest in Arlington just so they can cluck and fret in front of their shitheel friends. Never met a soldier they wouldn't spit on, yet News Face says Orange Man Friend Did Thing so blah blah blah whatever they can all go straight past Hell to whatever even shittier place is deeper down for all the people that Hell is too good for.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 07:55 AM (aKiSo)

75 The giants lost because of a horrendously bad call of pass interference. Without that happening the Commanders would not have had a chance to win. The real call should have been holding by the Commander receiver of the Giant D Back. No replay for some reason.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2026 07:56 AM (Wp1X1)

76 59 Good morning Horde thx JJ. Happy Friday and a great weekend to all.
I must admit that watching my senator , Schumer's, dream of being majority leader ooze away gives a massive amount of schadenfreude. In cruddy political news of late , and the Giants self destruction last night, this is a bright light
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2026 07:45 AM (FroOw)



Jints were my team when I followed football years ago. As for Schemer, I was close enough one early weekend morning also years go on the Brooklyn Promenade to punch his lights out. Oh well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 13, 2026 07:57 AM (x0n13)

77 What happened to the SS United States is just sad. I know we couldn't use it and restoring it for tours would be prohibitively expensive... but it was just heartbreaking to see that magnificent ship going down.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

honestly, as a sailor i prefer a sinkex to the breakers. two of my boats ended up as targets in rimpac live fire exercises and that's a much better ending for a ship than to be towed to a yard and cut up for scrap metal and razor blades.

that's what the Enterprise is facing, she just got to Mobile this week and it's a sad fate awaiting.

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 13, 2026 07:58 AM (nXhwP)

78 > The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard warned that “despair is a sin,” so we must use the mid-term defeat as a lesson for future battles, and not an excuse to give up. 2028 looms (from friend and friend of the blog Mark Pulliam - jjs)

While I don't doubt that Kierkegaard said something to that effect, despair has been an official sin according to the Catholic Church since at least the time of Thomas Aquinas and very likely even before that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 07:58 AM (qlLNh)

79 @75 agreed but the Giants punter kicking a 12 yarder and the terrible play calling in the last couple of Giants possessions sealed their fate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2026 07:58 AM (FroOw)

80 I have to think some lawyers are having their eyes light up with dollar signs now.

One would think that it is unwise to attack a man who has FU money and can underwrite expensive lawyers all day, every day to drive his opponents into penury.

If true, that the CCP angle is bogus and she is just an opportunistic gold digger who is also of Chinese ethnicity, the reputational damage can easily be calculated into the multi-billions.

Posted by: Community Notes at November 13, 2026 07:58 AM (pawvM)

81 No one wanted to see one of our proudest shipbuilding accomplishments sunk as a fishing reef. That's why it took so long to make the decision.
And yet, I think it's good that she'll be noted for decades on navigational charts and familiar to sport fishers and divers for decades.
It's better than becoming razor blades in Brownsville.
Glad to hear she righted herself and settled keel down. Will make for great underwater photography.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 13, 2026 07:59 AM (2Ez/1)

82 > either of these things has happened--
1. Elon for fun has disabled their signature product office 365 just to prove he can.
2. They are using this interruption to force the indentured tech servitude known as H1B even though there are qualified americans all over the country who would jump at the opportunity to work for microsoft but at wages commensurate with the industry
Posted by: paulnjax at November 13, 2026 07:54 AM (PPnyU)

Or:

3. Laying off 60,000 employees to replace them with remote workers in India turned out to have been a very bad idea.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:00 AM (qlLNh)

83 A whale was photographed surfacing for some air just off the west side of Manhattan, near the piers on the West Side Highway.

The earf is healing!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 07:55 AM (HU0Jf)

maybe he was returning a mob deposited body?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 13, 2026 08:00 AM (nXhwP)

84 In a touch of irony, the USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the second such named warship, was being towed to Mobile, AL for scrapping at the same time the US United States was being scuttled.

"Ships... passing in the night."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2026 08:01 AM (RORbl)

85 The giants lost because of a horrendously bad call of pass interference. Without that happening the Commanders would not have had a chance to win. The real call should have been holding by the Commander receiver of the Giant D Back. No replay for some reason.
Posted by: Pudinhead

We can even bribe the front office!

Posted by: Bet Rivers Casino at November 13, 2026 08:03 AM (bFq8h)

86 It will be interesting if Huang does wind up working for Musk.

It could be great if Musk (and this is a big if) can just install Huang to run Gigafab and leave him be. If he tries to micromanage him, it's not going to work out well --guys like Musk and Huang usually become founders in the first place because they don't want to work for someone else.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:03 AM (qlLNh)

87 21 Dive video reveals that the SS United States did right herself and is setting nicely on the bottom.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2026 07:22 AM (iMotb)


Fluid mechanics in action!

Posted by: Gref at November 13, 2026 08:04 AM (5rh/l)

88 If you are interested in the NYC harbor whale pictures, here you go:

https://tinyurl.com/3v5dz3tj

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 08:04 AM (HU0Jf)

89 Eh, she set up the Singaporean front company that was (allegedly) transshipping Nvidia chips to China. If she's not a Chinese spy, she's doing her best impression of one.

I expect they're playing word games - "well, she's not technically an employee of the Ministry of State Security, so this is rank slander!!!"

If the facts of this are even close to what we've seen in the press (which, granted, could be a pack of lies) then that won't wash.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 13, 2026 08:04 AM (BI5O2)

90 Skattebo is Looney Tunes' "Tasmanian Devil" come to life.

Posted by: Don Black at November 13, 2026 08:04 AM (ZxPkt)

91 Natasha Bertrand, the "intelligence community"'s infamous unofficial spokesman, now says Jensen's girl was not a CCP asset. This is getting interesting.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2026 08:05 AM (Aqf1y)

92 Hello? Every overseas Chinese is a spy for the CCP.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:07 AM (RIvkX)

93 "I really don't care, Margaret" turned out to be the (sole) highlight of Vance's tenure.

Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 08:07 AM (2Drhq)

94 @79, the entire NFC East is dogshit. My guess is the Umps just wanted to get the game over with and waived off on a replay call.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2026 08:07 AM (Wp1X1)

95
While I don't doubt that Kierkegaard said something to that effect, despair has been an official sin according to the Catholic Church since at least the time of Thomas Aquinas and very likely even before that.

Touching irony that the primary symbol associated with Rome is the Messiah at His greatest time of despair (other than in the Garden just before his capture)

Posted by: Community Notes at November 13, 2026 08:07 AM (a6PrB)

96 > very likely even before that.

Grok says the earliest explicit record of the concept is from John Cassian (c. 360-435).

In the Institutes, Book IX (“Of the Spirit of Dejection”, written around 420–430, Cassian distinguishes a harmful form of dejection that produces “the most destructive despair.” He explicitly names the biblical examples:

There is… another still more objectionable sort of dejection, which produces in the guilty soul no amendment of life or correction of faults, but the most destructive despair: which did not make Cain repent after the murder of his brother, or Judas, after the betrayal, hasten to relieve himself by making amends, but drove him to hang himself in despair.

He contrasts this with “godly sorrow” that leads to repentance (citing 2 Cor 7:10).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:08 AM (qlLNh)

97 If the facts of this are even close to what we've seen in the press (which, granted, could be a pack of lies) then that won't wash.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 13, 2026 08:04 AM (BI5O2)

Where's your fighting spirit, man?

A guy resigned a very lucrative job based on a lie in the news (Is that true? Who cares!). So find every news outlet that ran one of these stories and sue them so hard they are legally bound to grow a new ass where the one that got sued off once was so they can hand over that one, too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 08:08 AM (aKiSo)

98 Natasha and I need to get back to our main mission:
Find moose and squirrel!

Posted by: Boris at November 13, 2026 08:08 AM (2Ez/1)

99 Natasha Bertrand, the "intelligence community"'s infamous unofficial spokesman, now says Jensen's girl was not a CCP asset. This is getting interesting.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2026 08:05 AM (Aqf1y)
=====

Absolutely. The CCP has zero interest in Nvidia. They would never, have never, done anything like this before. Fvcking idiots.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:08 AM (RIvkX)

100 The whales in NY Harbor will be voting Dem in no time

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2026 08:10 AM (FroOw)

101 Just keep those whales out of the East River!

Posted by: Kramer at November 13, 2026 08:10 AM (2Ez/1)

102 Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 07:55 AM (aKiSo)

I find it helpful not to read any of the responses by the left to whatever Orangeman Bad or his cabinet said or do I just read the military news link of Hegseth awarding the medal.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2026 08:10 AM (JrHfD)

103 Absolutely. The CCP has zero interest in Nvidia. They would never, have never, done anything like this before. Fvcking idiots.

There is absolutely CCP interest in this. But there's also domestic "hurt Trump" interest, and which side do you think the enemedia is gonna pick?

Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2026 08:10 AM (Aqf1y)

104 One thing I don't see happening is Musk getting too upset at Huang's recently revealed horndog nature. Musk has at least 14 children by a long succession of extremely hot (if sometimes a little crazy) women.

I LMFAO when some commie on X referred to Musk as an "incel".

I suppose we should be grateful that, at least going by current evidence, both Huang and Musk seem to prefer adult human females (all three of those important here) as partners.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:11 AM (qlLNh)

105 NYC harbor whale pictures"

That could go either way, so...

Posted by: man at November 13, 2026 08:11 AM (pfXMo)

106 Fang Fang did not take up with Eric Swalwell when he was a congressman. She started grooming him when he was on the fcking Dublin City Council many years before.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

107 Natasha Bertrand putting out this nonsense tells me the Deep State is working an op

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2026 08:12 AM (FroOw)

108 There is an AI voice “Deadman switch” recording of Epstein “victim” Virginia Giuffre. Tries to implicate Mar A Lago as Gislane’s feeding grounds for the operation (But Trump never knew about it) and Obama, Hanks and Clooney as little boy lovers on the island with Bill Gates performing genetic experiments on kids.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 13, 2026 08:12 AM (PB58D)

109 105 NYC harbor whale pictures"

That could go either way, so...
Posted by: man at November 13, 2026 08:11 AM (pfXMo)

zombie wouldn't be up this early.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 08:12 AM (aKiSo)

110 Megaspeed purchased more than $7b of Nvidia product... I can guarantee you that many people at Nvidia knew what was up. A customer that big - that yuuuge - can't run a completely fictitious company out of a Singapore broom closet without their key supplier knowing it's a front.

Where are the business operations? Where are the service tickets? Returned bad product? Anything?

The whole thing stinks to high heaven, the word of Natasha Bertrand notwithstanding.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 13, 2026 08:12 AM (BI5O2)

111 > Natasha Bertrand, the "intelligence community"'s infamous unofficial spokesman, now says Jensen's girl was not a CCP asset.
------------
She's running an op against him. Or her. Or both.

And she's yet another person desperately in need of a noose.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2026 08:12 AM (RORbl)

112 This guy is dressing how the average man did in the 1950s-early 1960s.

--

Love it. I have often thought about how great it would be if everyone dressed properly again. Women in gloves, men in cool hats dressing well. No one slovenly walking around town in their pajama-looking clothes with unkempt appearance. I'd do it in a heartbeat.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 13, 2026 08:12 AM (qBdHI)

113 Elections have been bullsh*t here for 20 years"

Tammany Hall waves...

Posted by: man at November 13, 2026 08:12 AM (pfXMo)

114 Odds Dan Quin will coaching next year?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 13, 2026 08:14 AM (Wp1X1)

115 Imma have to presume Natasha Bertrand is in the pay of the CCP.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:14 AM (RIvkX)

116 Despair has a very specific definition in Canon Law and it’s not the casual despair some think of. It’s also different than emotions such as hopelessness. That specific definition goes back to St Augustine, continue in Aquinas’ Summa, the Council of Trent, and eventually manifested itself in Canon Law. It is basically defined as a voluntary abandonment of hope for one’s salvation.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 13, 2026 08:14 AM (7S15B)

117 Natasha Bertrand putting out this nonsense tells me the Deep State is working an op

100%. But the Deep State running an op contrary to the obvious interests of future Democrat mega donors Sam Altman and Dario Amodei is pretty interesting.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2026 08:14 AM (Aqf1y)

118 Maybe our side just needs to start cheating in elections more.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 13, 2026 08:15 AM (PB58D)

119 If you are interested in the NYC harbor whale pictures, here you go:

https://tinyurl.com/3v5dz3tj
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 08:04 AM (HU0Jf)

TBATWHALE

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 08:15 AM (YSUhf)

120 *A customer that big - that yuuuge - can't run a completely fictitious company out of a Singapore broom closet without their key supplier knowing it's a front.*


You sure about that?

Posted by: Mattress stores everywhere at November 13, 2026 08:16 AM (2Ez/1)

121 Maybe they could train the whales in condom retrieval.


There's a story from the Depression that NYC street kids would dive in the East River near the sewage outfalls to retrieve condoms that had been flushed. They'd turn them inside out and put them on a piece of broomstick to dry out. Then they'd roll 'em back up and sell them to sailors on shore leave.

The Times were Hard indeed.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:16 AM (qlLNh)

122 *sigh*

THE BATWHALE RISES!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 08:16 AM (YSUhf)

123 118 Maybe our side just needs to start cheating in elections more.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 13, 2026 08:15 AM (PB58D)

It's called "fortifying democracy".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 08:16 AM (aKiSo)

124 And how exactly does something like that get wide exposure?

Because some piece of sh*t reporter was there.

I'm with WTS on what the worth of reporters is.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 07:43 AM (XV/Pl)

Maybe they sent a couple of people there to talk and knowing that Hegseth would get the blame.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 13, 2026 08:16 AM (/+uur)

125 The NY football Giants did have one of the greatest cadences I've ever heard last night with that "Who Let The Dogs Out!" That was funny.

Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 08:16 AM (2Drhq)

126 >>My guess is the Umps just wanted to get the game over with and waived off on a replay call.

Which play are you talking about that should've been reviewed? If it's the pass interference call, it's not reviewable under NFL rules.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 13, 2026 08:16 AM (J4Dwc)

127 The Times were Hard indeed.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:16 AM (qlLNh)

"You smell like the East River down there..."

"Me!?!? I thought that was YOU!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 08:17 AM (aKiSo)

128 My guess is the Umps just wanted to get the game over with and waived off on a replay call."

DraftFanPolyKalshi agrees.

Posted by: man at November 13, 2026 08:19 AM (pfXMo)

129 @126 yup they were talking about pass interference. The Redskins receiver grabbed the Giants defender and pulled him down. The refs called the penalty on the Giants

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2026 08:19 AM (FroOw)

130
Something will pop the AI bubble soon.

It would raucously funny if it turned out to be Jensen Huang's little yellow pecker.

That's one for the books. It would go down in economic history as the silliest industrial implosion since the tulip mania.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 13, 2026 08:20 AM (BI5O2)

131 Israel's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday it would bar Melenchon and Mathilde Panot, the party’s parliamentary group chair, over "the extreme anti-Israel stance of La France Insoumise party."
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Stay home, bitchez.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:20 AM (RIvkX)

132 "No, son, that's just a dead body."

https://youtu.be/5ihk0IyirIQ

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at November 13, 2026 08:20 AM (2Ez/1)

133 Microsoft platforms including Outlook, Teams down as tech giant struggles to fix outage

Yay! My work email is back up.

Oh. I have a policy meeting this afternoon. Joy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 13, 2026 08:23 AM (LEj5u)

134 Anecdote from the new People’s Republic of Texas:

A retired friend of mine told me that a friend of his, who currently works for an oil company, told him that everyone received an email this week stating something to the effect of “the new administration will be hostile to o&g, so we’re going to have to be more efficient”. Not the exact words but to that effect. In my career in o&g, I worked under two Dem govs, Mark White and Ann Richards. I don’t remember a “hostile environment”.

Posted by: TxAnn at November 13, 2026 08:23 AM (itAg7)

135 Posted by: TxAnn at November 13, 2026 08:23 AM (itAg7)

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There is no new administration until 2029.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)

136 Repost from last night, for those who might've missed it:

La'Quanisha Finds Out why Fucking Around with Jorge is a bad idea:

https://tinyurl.com/mtzjp2pj

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:25 AM (qlLNh)

137 Something will pop the AI bubble soon.
It would raucously funny if it turned out to be Jensen Huang's little yellow pecker.
That's one for the books. It would go down in economic history as the silliest industrial implosion since the tulip mania.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 13, 2026 08:20 AM (BI5O2)

What do we want? No data centers! When do we want it? Now!

Posted by: Dirty Old Hippie Who Loves A Good Chant at November 13, 2026 08:25 AM (Ssbab)

138 Fuck the “O and G” industry. They purposefully held gas and diesel high to screw over republicans. Fuck them in the ass with a rusty drill pipe.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 13, 2026 08:25 AM (PB58D)

139 There is no new administration until 2029.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)
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Ahh, referring to Texas? my bad

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

140 Fang Fang did not take up with Eric Swalwell when he was a congressman. She started grooming him when he was on the fcking Dublin City Council many years before.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

She must feel really dirty.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 13, 2026 08:25 AM (1Ff7Z)

141 Dan Quinn is just simply on the dull, stupid side of the intelligence ledger. Not surprising he went into football…. Obvious stupidity at the end of the first half last night they have 2nd and goal on the 6-inch line and they’re in the shotgun to run a play and they run a… QB sweep with their tiny little wisp of a QB who of course when a collision occurs near the goal line will not be falling forward; he’s 170 lbs soaking wet… then when they actually scored a TD again in the shotgun and got lucky, the QB under heavy pressure throws the ball and one his his guys happened to catch it. Peyton Manning texts Kirk Herbstreit to say: you know I think he was throwing that to someone else. I lifelong coach who’s never heard of a QB sneak…. Sheesh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2026 08:26 AM (M+uMR)

142 84 In a touch of irony, the USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the second such named warship, was being towed to Mobile, AL for scrapping at the same time the US United States was being scuttled.

"Ships... passing in the night."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 13, 2026 08:01 AM (RORbl)

I thought there were more than just two? Didn't the first date back to the Continental Navy?

(I could very well be mistaken about this.)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 13, 2026 08:26 AM (SgdqL)

143 > In my career in o&g, I worked under two Dem govs, Mark White and Ann Richards. I don’t remember a “hostile environment”.
Posted by: TxAnn at November 13, 2026 08:23 AM (itAg7)

The old school "graft" Democrats are mostly gone. You can make deals with "graft" Democrats.

The new Democrats are communist fanatics, and there is no bargaining, reasoning, or pleading with them.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:26 AM (qlLNh)

144 What do we want? No data centers! When do we want it? Now!
Posted by: Dirty Old Hippie Who Loves A Good Chant at November 13, 2026 08:25 AM (Ssbab)
=====

Especially not on the 20-year deserted site of a former mall.

Posted by: Some fat activist with 25,000 signstures sponsored by the CCP at November 13, 2026 08:27 AM (RIvkX)

145 139 Ahh, referring to Texas? my bad
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

No, my mistake. I’m so fixated on my new commie admin, I didn’t clarify. I kept my R state senator who will be in that last line of defense.

Posted by: TxAnn at November 13, 2026 08:28 AM (itAg7)

146 In my career in o&g, I worked under two Dem govs, Mark White and Ann Richards. I don’t remember a “hostile environment”.

Those were not today's Democrats. The country club GOP is still in denial about that, but we don't have to be.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2026 08:28 AM (ciXcx)

147 She must feel really dirty.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 13, 2026 08:25 AM (1Ff7Z)

=====

I did it for the glory of communism.

Also, I'm ded and do not feel much at all.

Posted by: Fang Fang at November 13, 2026 08:29 AM (RIvkX)

148 Fang Fang did not take up with Eric Swalwell when he was a congressman. She started grooming him when he was on the fcking Dublin City Council many years before.

I've said it before: her therapy sessions from having to see Swalwell naked must be astronomical.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2026 08:29 AM (ciXcx)

149 > I thought there were more than just two? Didn't the first date back to the Continental Navy?

It's the second carrier of that name (the third is currently under construction). Seven previous Enterprises in total. The new one will make eight.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:30 AM (qlLNh)

150 They purposefully held gas and diesel high to screw over republicans. "

Supply limited by capacity plus high demand = higher prices.
The big players don't want new refining capacity, nor do they want other sources/players in the field. Just ever increasing demand/markets.

That, plus Darren Woods hates Trump. 10,000 suns type hate...

Posted by: man at November 13, 2026 08:30 AM (pfXMo)

151 >>The new Democrats are communist fanatics, and there is no bargaining, reasoning, or pleading with them.

Probably not a coincidence that both Gore and Kerry have made public statements since the elections saying the election was all about climate change and green energy despite the fact the election was not about climate change and green energy.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 08:31 AM (viF8m)

152 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:25 AM (qlLNh)

This is the societal rot that makes me want to go live in a cabin in the woods.

Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 08:31 AM (2Drhq)

153 San Franpsycho, the dems are already laying the ground work for every regulation on the Texas energy industry they can come up with.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 08:31 AM (8Uo7a)

154 PPI October below expectations

Posted by: Fang Fang at November 13, 2026 08:31 AM (RIvkX)

155 Anecdote from the new People’s Republic of Texas:

A retired friend of mine told me that a friend of his, who currently works for an oil company, told him that everyone received an email this week stating something to the effect of “the new administration will be hostile to o&g, so we’re going to have to be more efficient”. Not the exact words but to that effect. In my career in o&g, I worked under two Dem govs, Mark White and Ann Richards. I don’t remember a “hostile environment”.
Posted by: TxAnn at November 13, 2026 08:23 AM (itAg7)

That's because having a good economy and people having good jobs and making a good living in the middle class wasn't considered The Greatest Evil of All Times!!!! in the Democrat Party.

And oil and gas weren't Turning the Earth Into A Fiery Lifeless Planet Like Venus!!!! and thus must be destroyed...oh, yeah, and no eeeeevil nukes neither.

The Democrats went full bore insane communist, cuz even the Russians and Chinese nd North Koreans recognize they need a decent economy and abundant energy.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 08:32 AM (YSUhf)

156 Oh, carriers, yes.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 13, 2026 08:32 AM (SgdqL)

157 La'Quanisha Finds Out why Fucking Around with Jorge is a bad idea:
https://tinyurl.com/mtzjp2pj
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:25 AM (qlLNh)

Nothing like a beat down of a savage to brighten the day!

Posted by: Ain't That A Kick In The Head at November 13, 2026 08:32 AM (Ssbab)

158 136 Repost from last night, for those who might've missed it:

La'Quanisha Finds Out why Fucking Around with Jorge is a bad idea:

https://tinyurl.com/mtzjp2pj
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:25 AM

Equal rights and equal lefts.

Posted by: As Steve Inman would say at November 13, 2026 08:32 AM (2Ez/1)

159 What do we want? No data centers! When do we want it? Now!
Posted by: Dirty Old Hippie Who Loves A Good Chant at November 13, 2026 08:25 AM (Ssbab)

???

Hippies who hate data centers have little to do with the insane frenzy around AI valuations.

When Musk can IPO SpaceX claiming a $25T TAM for its AI products and have people believe that fantasy, that speaks to completely irrational behavior on the part of investors, from the retail side all the way up to the C-Suites at major institutions.

A bunch of elderly Communists and Party hacks don't have the juice to influence a market like that one way or another. It requires the madness of actual crowds.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 13, 2026 08:32 AM (BI5O2)

160 San Franpsycho, the dems are already laying the ground work for every regulation on the Texas energy industry they can come up with.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 08:31 AM (8Uo7a)
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That may in fact be the overall worst outcome from this entire election debacle.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

161 That, plus Darren Woods hates Trump. 10,000 suns type hate...
Posted by: man at November 13, 2026 08:30 AM (pfXMo)

Why?? He hates the drill baby drill guy?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2026 08:33 AM (M+uMR)

162 154 PPI October below expectations
Posted by: Fang Fang at November 13, 2026 08:31 AM (RIvkX)

Yeah, that's what all the girls say.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at November 13, 2026 08:33 AM (aKiSo)

163 161 That, plus Darren Woods hates Trump. 10,000 suns type hate...
Posted by: man at November 13, 2026 08:30 AM (pfXMo)

Why?? He hates the drill baby drill guy?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2026 08:33 AM (M+uMR)

His income is not as much correlated to how much he drills, but by how much other people can't drill.

Posted by: Eric Swalwell at November 13, 2026 08:34 AM (aKiSo)

164 Mournin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 08:34 AM (77rzZ)

165 Gah, fart sock

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 08:34 AM (aKiSo)

166 Note that La'Quanisha's male companion doesn't lift a finger to defend her. You just know that La'Quanisha is going to make him pay for that later.

Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:34 AM (qlLNh)

167 TGIF, all!!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2026 08:34 AM (rOKnE)

168 TGIFF

This week deserves the extra F.

Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 08:35 AM (2Drhq)

169 154 PPI October below expectations
Posted by: Fang Fang at November 13, 2026 08:31 AM (RIvkX)

From BLS Gov...

"News Release
PPI for final demand increases 0.3% in October; goods advance 0.5%, services rise 0.2%
11/13/2026

The Producer Price Index for final demand rose 0.3 percent in October. Prices for final demand goods increased 0.5 percent, and the index for final demand services moved up 0.2 percent. Prices for final demand advanced 6.5 percent for the 12 months ended in October."

6.5% annual was not great...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 13, 2026 08:36 AM (Gb7+b)

170 This week deserves the extra F.
Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 08:35 AM (2Drhq)

I think we've been "F"'d enough these past few days.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 13, 2026 08:36 AM (1Ff7Z)

171 I hope when Vance's term as VP is over, so will be his political career.

Posted by: Banzaibob at November 13, 2026 08:36 AM (tcz4d)

172 When Musk can IPO SpaceX claiming a $25T TAM for its AI products and have people believe that fantasy, that speaks to completely irrational behavior on the part of investors, from the retail side all the way up to the C-Suites at major institutions.

Musk arguably has the best story in the sector by setting himself up to be AWS for AI.

Also I don't think AI's gonna pop like a conventional bubble, too much revenue is coming in already. There will be consolidation, but it's not gonna be like dot com (which in hindsight was a nothing burger - the sector's worth more today than when it was allegedly a bubble).

Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2026 08:37 AM (ciXcx)

173 >>The disruption hit government agencies in Australia, Japan, and the United States, and caused disruptions at trading firms, delays to companies publishing their results and airlines warning customers of delayed communication.


Huh, whatever happened to superior American tech?
Oh, right, it got offshored, and the remaining US jobs are now performed by H1bs.

How's that going, Nicrosoft?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2026 08:37 AM (rOKnE)

174 She must feel really dirty.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 13, 2026 08:25 AM (1Ff7Z)

i think she be dead

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 13, 2026 08:38 AM (/+uur)

175 How's that going, Nicrosoft?"

Bhalo.

Posted by: man at November 13, 2026 08:38 AM (pfXMo)

176 When Musk can IPO SpaceX claiming a $25T TAM for its AI products and have people believe that fantasy, that speaks to completely irrational behavior on the part of investors, from the retail side all the way up to the C-Suites at major institutions.

Hey Ho! Musk's Got to Go! Hey Ho! Musk's Got to Go!

Posted by: Dirty Old Hippie Who Loves A Good Chant at November 13, 2026 08:38 AM (Ssbab)

177 >>This week deserves the extra F.


YUP.

Attending a memorial for a recently departed friend today. *sigh*

Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2026 08:39 AM (rOKnE)

178 I was very excited by Vance when Trump first picked him. I love his story and he speaks well. But his political instincts are poor:

1. Nonsense MOU and foolish pause in the war
2. Dalliance with Tucker & co.
3. His bullsht and disloyal post-election tweet

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:39 AM (RIvkX)

179 i think she be dead
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 13, 2026 08:38 AM (/+uur)

Could be. Someone might be socking her on social media, or it was an op, or it was a different Christine Fang. Who knows? Besides Peiping, I mean.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 13, 2026 08:39 AM (1Ff7Z)

180 I like all the retards screeching to nationalize SpaceX.

We already have a nationalized SpaceX, dimwits.

It's called NASA, and it charges 20x as much to put a kilogram in orbit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:40 AM (qlLNh)

181
From the "It was a coup" files.

Guy makes persuasive point:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/11

/it-was-a-coup/

Posted by: naturalfake at November 13, 2026 08:41 AM (YSUhf)

182 153 San Franpsycho, the dems are already laying the ground work for every regulation on the Texas energy industry they can come up with.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 08:31 AM (8Uo7a)

Ben Had, I’m sure when the red-green alliance takes full power in Jan 29, another windfall profits tax will be coming. Only it will be worse than the first one.

Posted by: TxAnn at November 13, 2026 08:41 AM (itAg7)

183 177 I’m sorry, Lizzy. That’s never easy.

Posted by: Bulg at November 13, 2026 08:42 AM (77rzZ)

184 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at November 13, 2026 08:42 AM (53oGX)

185 Huh, whatever happened to superior American tech?
Oh, right, it got offshored, and the remaining US jobs are now performed by H1bs.

How's that going, Nicrosoft?

An acquaintance who was a high level engineer on the Windows team (and a straight white male) bailed in 2018, the writing was on the wall.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 13, 2026 08:42 AM (ciXcx)

186 There will be consolidation, but it's not gonna be like dot com (which in hindsight was a nothing burger - the sector's worth more today than when it was allegedly a bubble).

-----

Oracle m, as a goid example, was one of the players to survive that, based largely on the sheer size and strong fundamentals of its business. It took 25 years for them to recover that valuation.

It was definitely a bubble, a big, luxurious bubble. And so is this one.

It will burst, as that one did, and it will produce serious shockwaves over the broader and now much more financialized economy.

Buckle up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 13, 2026 08:42 AM (BI5O2)

187 the dems are already laying the ground work for every regulation on the Texas energy industry they can come up with."

The Cube smiles. Champagne for everyone!

Posted by: man at November 13, 2026 08:43 AM (pfXMo)

188 M? Goid? My new phone has the worst autocorrect I've ever experienced. I hate it so much.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 13, 2026 08:43 AM (BI5O2)

189 It's really retarded to vote for President based on height, but there's no denying Americans prefer tall candidates.

Which makes me wonder how Little Marco would fare against a Newsom, and hope that they do run an AOC if it's Marco.

Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 08:43 AM (2Drhq)

190 171 I hope when Vance's term as VP is over, so will be his political career.


oh it will be.

here's the good news - he was being groomed to be a working-class hero BY THE LEFT. and PDJT managed to flip him (or he snuck in to whatever). other than as a mole, he's useless to the left now, which is sort of a win.

he's all talk no sense.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 13, 2026 08:43 AM (qBivk)

191 Fang Fang was allegedly killed in a plane or car crash as I recall. Or she's had a name change and is enjoying retirement. Most likely the Chinese got rid of her

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 13, 2026 08:44 AM (FroOw)

192 Sabotaging Trump Killed GOP Majorities. They Have Two Months To Make It Better

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I'm not optimistic.

Republicans Announce Plan To Do Exact Same Thing And Expect Different Results

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 13, 2026 08:44 AM (ndZc7)

193 Oracle m, as a goid example, was one of the players to survive that, based largely on the sheer size and strong fundamentals of its business. It took 25 years for them to recover that valuation.

It was definitely a bubble, a big, luxurious bubble. And so is this one.

It will burst, as that one did, and it will produce serious shockwaves over the broader and now much more financialized economy.

Buckle up.

that first bubble never fully popped and tech has been in a giant bubble for AGES

it will be painful when it pops but I for one will smile

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 13, 2026 08:45 AM (qBivk)

194 189 It's really retarded to vote for President based on height, but there's no denying Americans prefer tall candidates.

Which makes me wonder how Little Marco would fare against a Newsom, and hope that they do run an AOC if it's Marco.

Posted by: Delurker at November 13, 2026 08:43 AM (2Drhq)

Counterpoint: There's no nasty bastard like a short nasty bastard. So if the electorate is truly in the mood for a real nasty bastard like we say we are.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 08:45 AM (aKiSo)

195 The State Takes Your Child. Then It Runs Out the Clock.

==

Kentucky...

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2026 08:46 AM (AKptf)

196 Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 13, 2026 07:23 AM (XV/Pl)

I don't get why he doesn't just blast them off the planet and go. You were right about this from jump. I really thought Trump was gonna GIGO. I gave it until June.

Then I assumed after the midterms he would just end it. I can't believe we're still talking "deals". Mother fucker.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026 08:46 AM (rXvAA)

197 Thanks, Bulg. This one hurts.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2026 08:46 AM (rOKnE)

198 The only two politicians who haven’t disappointed me in my lifetime: Reagan and Trump… and you know what? They’ve both disappointed on a few occasions too. With them, on balance the good outweighed the bad

Put not your trust in princes…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2026 08:46 AM (M+uMR)

199 There have only been two (arguably three) U.S. Presidents from California.

All conservative Republicans.

Every lefty candidate from there has cratered, generally at the primary level.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:47 AM (qlLNh)

200 This time it'll work!

Posted by: Thune and very Thune at November 13, 2026 08:47 AM (2Ez/1)

201 At NYT: "Knowing how to construct a box is a useful skill for anyone, even those without cats."

IDNKT! I'll be adding 'box architect' to my resume soon.

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2026 08:47 AM (Jr5Lq)

202 Repeat-For the NJ posters or those that know conservatives from NJ. The legislature is considering a law based on punishing "Islamophobia" based on a UK law. Consider contacting your Reps today . The last name of the Republican against it is Kantira. Can't recall his first name. Here's an article about it:

https://tinyurl.com/4h2whnzr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2026 08:48 AM (JrHfD)

203 Report: Multiple People Shot, Suspect at Large in Gun-Controlled D.C.

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Chicago steps up.

Chicago Hospital Introduces Express Lane For People With 10 Or Fewer Gunshot Wounds

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 13, 2026 08:48 AM (ndZc7)

204 Sorry Lizzy.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026 08:48 AM (rXvAA)

205
Who cares who they run. I could manufacture a perfect Presidential candidate in a tub of amino acids at some shady deep state biolab, make him 12' tall and as handsome as Burt Reynolds, and he'd get the living shit stomped out of him in '28 by Dennis Kucinich, if that's who the Dems decided to run.

The hope of a GOP candidate ever reaching 270 EV again evaporated ten days ago in Texas.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 13, 2026 08:49 AM (BI5O2)

206 Ed Zitron’s latest ties together reports from the New York Times, Bloomberg and activist short seller Culper Research among others that indicate that, contrary to Nvidia’s public statements, it gets at least 20% of its revenue from the PRC and/or PRC controlled entities and that there has been considerable interference with US regulators to ensure that this continues. Most recently it seems that the Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, has been the one putting in the road blocks but reading the various reports it looks like Lutnick was not the only person to be failing to enforce President Trump’s EOs about the supply of GPUs to West Taiwan.

Posted by: SMOD at November 13, 2026 08:49 AM (RHGPo)

207 Thanks, Bulg. This one hurts.
Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2026 08:46 AM (rOKnE)
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Tell us more about your friend z"l

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:49 AM (RIvkX)

208 yes YD

the time of us voting is over. well maybe it's been over. but it's definitely over now.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 13, 2026 08:49 AM (qBivk)

209 Marco may not run....just saying. I don't think he has yet decided.

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2026 08:50 AM (AKptf)

210 PDT is not talking deals. He has rejected the last "offer' from the regime, sent Qatar to tell the IRGC they have 2 weeks to surrender and preemptively bombed several sites in Iran yesterday.

The two weeks is to see where Israel stands as far as their government.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 08:50 AM (8Uo7a)

211 Lutnick is a snake for sure but I'm still not fully buying the ICs little tale with Nvidia here

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at November 13, 2026 08:50 AM (qBivk)

212 Loudon County teaching 2nd graders that Thanksgiving should be a day of mourning.
Teaching kids to hate our country at an early age just makes me sick and sad.

At this rate I fear it won't be long before we give parts of Texas back to Mexico.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 13, 2026 08:51 AM (wzaBj)

213 You know… Florida avoided a midterm debacle but only barely. Byron Donalds and Ashley Moody won but by pretty small margins. And they both were running against complete losers; it should’ve been a wipeout

Something bad in the air this election cycle

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2026 08:51 AM (M+uMR)

214 The hope of a GOP candidate ever reaching 270 EV again evaporated ten days ago in Texas.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 13, 2026 08:49 AM (BI5O2)

I wouldn't go that far. *If* Dems got presidential turnout and R's didn't then when the next election comes they will both get presidential turnout.

I *would* however say that I don't see R's giving us much of a choice in the future. I think we are back to 2014. Please clap.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026 08:51 AM (rXvAA)

215 "Voting." That's cute.

Posted by: Dominion Systems at November 13, 2026 08:51 AM (2Ez/1)

216 198 The only two politicians who haven’t disappointed me in my lifetime: Reagan and Trump… and you know what? They’ve both disappointed on a few occasions too. With them, on balance the good outweighed the bad

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2026 08:46 AM (M+uMR)

^This^ I voted for both 3 times (Reagan in the 1976 TX primary)

Posted by: TxAnn at November 13, 2026 08:51 AM (itAg7)

217 There have only been two (arguably three) U.S. Presidents from California.

All conservative Republicans.

Every lefty candidate from there has cratered, generally at the primary level.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:47 AM (qlLNh)
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Nixon was never a conservative.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:52 AM (RIvkX)

218 There's a rumor that Christine Fang/Fang Fang is dead, but there's no actual evidence of that.

She was alive as recently as 2024, as she was photographed in a group of Chinese media personalities.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:52 AM (qlLNh)

219 >>I like all the retards screeching to nationalize SpaceX.


The Lefties are demonizing and kneecapping the man that is putting most of his time, energy and wealth behind leaving the planet, while at the same time howling that earth only has 10 years left.

You cannot satire these people when they are so on-the-nose idiotic!

You want to know how you get the dystopian "Elysium" movie set-up, where the rich people live in pristine luxury off earth while the poors remain, living in absolute squalor? Follow the Lefty mob.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 13, 2026 08:52 AM (rOKnE)

220 >>From the "It was a coup" files.

I've been saying since the election results came in if you look at the numbers the results are impossible. Not improbable, impossible.

There was no giant blue wave. Democrats were even less popular than Republicans and there was no national outrage against the right any greater than any normal election period.

Iran wasn't Vietnam and gas prices weren't anything like they were under Biden let alone the days of rationing. Which is why Republican turnout was pretty normal.

Democrat states sued the DOJ to prevent turning over voter rolls. We saw it clearly in CA were the DOJ found 20,000 non-citizens on voter rolls just in a partial look of LA. Democrat funded NGOs spent years registering voters in areas that did not require proof of citizenship and we got swamped once again with ridiculous numbers of early and mail in ballots votes.

Pointless to argue over 2028 if we don't fix elections.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 08:53 AM (viF8m)

221 > Nixon was never a conservative.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:52 AM (RIvkX)

Compared to George McGovern?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:53 AM (qlLNh)

222 Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 08:50 AM (8Uo7a)

Well I fucking hope not. At this point any announcement of any deal is going to make us and him look like the biggest losers around.

I appreciate the leadership needed to do hard shit but I also appreciate abject stupidity. We'll see where it all shakes out. The problem is it may be 10 years before we see what really went on and why.

Posted by: ... at November 13, 2026 08:53 AM (rXvAA)

223 210 PDT is not talking deals. He has rejected the last "offer' from the regime, sent Qatar to tell the IRGC they have 2 weeks to surrender and preemptively bombed several sites in Iran yesterday.
+++

I'm so old, I remember when we were gonna have Bridge And Power Plant Day.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 13, 2026 08:53 AM (2Ez/1)

224 At WaPo: "4 reasons to eat dark chocolate every day, according to science"

tl;dr: Tastes good. Good for Big Cacao. Good for Big Dentistry. Flavonoids and stuff.

Posted by: gp at November 13, 2026 08:53 AM (Jr5Lq)

225 Scientists question what is pushing strange, speeding object through space as new theory grows

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Dilithium crystals?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at November 13, 2026 08:54 AM (ndZc7)

226 Nixon was never a conservative.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 08:52 AM (RIvkX)

He was an ardent anti-communist during the Cold War… then again, that’s a good description of JFK

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 13, 2026 08:54 AM (M+uMR)

227 At WaPo: "4 reasons to eat dark chocolate every day, according to science"


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I am so old I remember when "4 reasons to drink 2 glasses of red wine, according to science " was a thing!

Posted by: runner at November 13, 2026 08:55 AM (AKptf)

228 137 Something will pop the AI bubble soon.
It would raucously funny if it turned out to be Jensen Huang's little yellow pecker.
That's one for the books. It would go down in economic history as the silliest industrial implosion since the tulip mania.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

What do we want? No data centers! When do we want it? Now!
Posted by: Dirty Old Hippie Who Loves A Good Chant

Actually. no.

It needs (and will) to return to conus under the stewardship of DS. Nationalized as a Manhattan project it won't need so many redundant data centers, all users will be licensed registered with the central authority who has the power to offer it essentially free (like a utility) while having the byproduct of being able to control the narrative -- which is the objective.

All that surplus power and data centers will certainly be put to good use....

Mission Impossible:Final Reckoning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdf2Uyuhb6Y
Whoever controls the DS controls the truth. The concepts of right and wrong can be clearly defined for everyone for centuries to come.

What has the Machine promised to offer You?

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at November 13, 2026 08:55 AM (M8DlM)

229 At NYT: "Knowing how to construct a box is a useful skill for anyone, even those without cats."

IDNKT! I'll be adding 'box architect' to my resume soon.
Posted by: gp at November 13, 2026 08:47 AM (Jr5Lq)
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If you don't have cats, how will you perform quality assurance checks on your boxes?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 13, 2026 08:56 AM (s2iZv)

230 JFK would be considered a "far-right" "nationalist" nowadays.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 13, 2026 08:56 AM (qlLNh)

231 Pointless to argue over 2028 if we don't fix elections.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 13, 2026 08:53 AM (viF8m)

This - times a jillion bazillion

Posted by: Doof at November 13, 2026 08:56 AM (kuZER)

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