Sunday Morning It Starts Links

by | Sep 7, 2025 | Daily Links | 202 comments

Yes, here’s when my behavior that puzzles Prime begins. She doesn’t actually say it, but she clearly thinks, “How can you waste an entire day watching THREE football games?” One more reminder to me about SP’s perfection- she would just be disappointed that there weren’t four, then spend halftimes and game breaks making incredible junk food. “Some gougeres with the Green Bay game? I made some eggplant parm, if you’d rather.” Then she’d rant about the shortcomings of every ref in the game we were about to watch, and start in on the mental defects of the announcers. Prime has her own virtues, VERY considerable ones, but football Sundays do give me a pang…

Besides football, there are birthdays today, including a chick known for her taste in collars; a guy who could run rings around anyone else; a guy whose name has become synonymous with “taxpayer bailout”; a guy whom the Tin Man should have met; a guy who shows up in just about every NY Times crossword; a guy famous for saying, “Behave, or I’ll get out the belt!”; a guy honored every year on St. Thomas; a guy famous for his glasses and getting killed; a woman known for her blue hair; and the Republican version of Thomas Friedman.

And while I pregame, y’all can chew on some carefully curated Links.

I’m shocked that a McCain demonstrates that the family is 100% pieces of shit.

Whatever will those farms in DC do?

I hope Heroic Mulatto has an alibi.

The fact that this is happening in the Basque region is a delicious irony.

Speaking of irony…

Want to know how low the Catholic church has sunk? One more demonstration.

“I know, how about we do a stupid, performative over-reaction?”

And this is why, as much as I love football, I hate the NFL.

I’m sure it was the Jews, trying to deny the poor Arabs of their porn.

One of the best second basemen I ever saw, the second best manager, and proof that Peter Angelos was a vindictive moron. RIP, Davey.

The Old Guy found the perfect wake and bake cut for today, in case that’s the sort of thing any of you reprobates would do. Deadheads will recognize that (fitting) guitar.

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Old Man With Candy

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202 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    There aren’t that many jews in the NFL?

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Well, the raiders aren’t famous for the Black and 30 Pieces of Silver…

  2. Pat

    a chick known for her taste in collars

    Happy birthday Sasha Grey?

    • Pat

      a guy whose name has become synonymous with “taxpayer bailout”

      Happy birthday Lee Iacocca?

    • Pat

      a guy famous for his glasses and getting killed

      Happy birthday Jeffrey Dahmer?

    • Ted S.

      I was going to guess Barbara Woodhouse.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I thought they were called “necklaces'” back in her era?

  3. Common Tater

    “It soon unraveled when United Nations World Food Programme executive director Cindy McCain, just hours after her meeting Wednesday with Netanyahu, said 500,000 people in Gaza were starving and called for a ceasefire.”

    How about return the hostages?

    • Old Man With Candy

      How about return the hostages?

      “We can talk about that once Israel has disbanded.”

    • rhywun

      “Israel is enabling a steady flow of aid in sufficient quantities.”

      🤦‍♂️

      Which is going straight into the mouths of Hamas and prolonging the war.

      Maybe they need their own “Department of War” so they can remember how to fight one.

      • Threedoor

        If your people are actually starving they won’t have the energy to fight.

  4. Pat

    A Trump administration plan to remove thousands of agriculture employees from Washington, D.C., is raising concerns among economists, who fear that such a move could erode expertise in a workforce reluctant to relocate.

    Where would this country be without the fucking brain trust of the USDA…

    • Ownbestenemy

      A slew of Monsanto reps committing suicide cause they have to travel to middle America to grease the wheels?

    • rhywun

      Probably healthier.

  5. Ted S.

    a guy who shows up in just about every NY Times crossword

    Happy birthday Al Hirt!

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Happy Birthday Asa Barber?

  6. Common Tater

    “Consumers who wish to watch every single NFL game this season will have to pay upwards of $750 to do so, according to estimates by Forbes, which noted the league’s games will air on ten different platforms during the 2025-26 season.”

    CWABOA

    If Trump is going to meddle in absolutely everything, how about getting rid of Thursday night football, and put all the games on broadcast TV, because America.

    • UnCivilServant

      on broadcast TV

      So you want nobody to watch them?

      Good idea.

    • rhywun

      the cost of watching all the games is rising

      So football catches up with every other sport.

      Probably 90% of the soccer I used to watch on cable is now pay-stream. The future is here today. 🙄

    • Brochettaward

      Trump’s administration did meddle here, but by closing one of the top piracy sites in the world. Many more exist, but that was his contribution. Helping out the billionaires who want you to nickel and dime you to watch their increasingly shitty product.

  7. Ted S.

    a woman known for her blue hair

    Happy birthday Mollie Sugden! (And her pussy too.)

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Got an adult content warning for a joke made on broadcast TV in the 19fucking70s. That aside, what a great old show.

  8. juris imprudent

    a woman known for her blue hair

    Happy birthday Rosa de Lauro?

    • Grumbletarian

      Happy Birthday Marge Simpson?

      • Tres Cool

        Kavner does the voice of Marge.

  9. Common Tater

    “Even so, a few thousand Chicagoans filed into the downtown area on Saturday evening to protest Trump’s plans to mobilize the National Guard and increase activity by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.”

    What do we want? More crime!

    • juris imprudent

      When do we want it?

      After we leave!

      • Pat

        The four cities of populations larger than 100,000 with the highest murder rates in 2024 are in Republican states

        A. It’s funny how tHe pArTiES cHAnGeD doesn’t apply here.
        II. Which party runs the municipal governments in those cities?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Has Compton and South Central calmed down since the 80s/90s? Places like LA have an advantage in the number games because LA proper can offshore its murders and other bad things to other ‘cities’ immediately surrounding it.

      • juris imprudent

        Three black men and a white woman, every one a Democrat.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I will bet a tenner that all of those cities have the gov’ners call in the nat. guard soon.

        Just to show what can be done.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Pattern recognition is racist!

      • rhywun

        Trump recently inaccurately described Chicago as “the most dangerous city in the world” and said: “We’re going in.”

        LOL never change, The Guardian.

      • rhywun

        JFC what a steaming pile of garbage that article is. One shameless misdirection and lie after another.

      • rhywun

        advantage in the number games

        Similar in NYC. There is a more varied population there – and in Chicago – than in a lot of those smaller “cities in red states” whose high crime the Guardian is shamelessly attempting to blame on Republicans.

        I wonder if anyone has pointed out to the big brains at the Guardian that you could focus on one or two neighborhoods in any city like NYC, Chicago, and probably LA too and see crime rates that would probably lead the world?

      • Grumbletarian

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate

        If you rank by total crime rate the top ten cities are:

        Memphis, TN
        Oakland, CA
        St. Louis, MO
        Little Rock, AR
        Tacoma, WA
        Minneapolis, MN
        Portland, OR
        Kansas City, MO
        Detroit, MI
        Salt Lake City, UT

        Looks like a 5R / 5D for states. Look a little closer at the mayor

        8 Democrats, 1 Independent (Detroit), one DFL (Minneapolis)

      • DrOtto

        DFL (Democratic Farmer Labor) is MN speak for democrat.

      • Brochettaward

        There’s another demographic aspect to this not being mentioned…

    • rhywun

      a few thousand Chicagoans filed into the downtown area on Saturday evening

      I wonder if they get time and a half for weekend and evening work.

      • R C Dean

        I wonder how many of those “Chicagoans” were bussed in, like the DC protestors.

  10. Pat

    On Sunday, Acutis — who died of leukemia when he was 15 years old in 2006 — was canonized in a ceremony at the Vatican presided over by Pope Leo XIV, and attended by thousands of devotees of this first saint of the “digital age.” Witnessing the rise of the internet, cellphones and social media as a teenager, Acutis harnessed these new powers of communication and coded a website to catalogue and promote eucharistic miracles. (Eucharistic miracles involve the Catholic sacrament of Communion.)

    OK, so it’s not exactly Joan of Arc as devout teens go, but to be fair, there wasn’t a lot of angelic visitation and European national upheaval happening in 2006.

  11. Pat

    Donald Trump’s plan to deploy national guard troops and federal immigration agents to Chicago is already having an impact on the city’s Mexican community.
     
    Organizers have canceled several local events tied to Mexican Independence Day, which occurs on 16 September.

    I wonder if it’s ever occurred them, just purely in terms of public messaging since they’re amoral pieces of shit who have no interest in Mexican immigrants outside of their utility as a political cudgel, that they validate Trump’s rhetoric and his supporters’ ostensible racism and xenophobia by tacitly admitting that they can’t hold a Mexican Independence Day celebration without having to worry about a sufficient number of illegal aliens showing up to attract immigration and custom’s enforcement. I don’t see a lot of wypipo staying home on St. Patrick’s Day because of all the Irish illegal alien heatscores.

    • Grumbletarian

      Outside of all the military bases we have there, how many Fourth of July celebrations happen in Europe?

      • Ted S.

        Embassies hold such celebrations too, but that’s not what you had in mind.

      • Pat

        To be fair, our situation with Mexico is slightly unique by comparison, in that there’s not an appreciable American diaspora in Europe, we’re separated by a huge expanse of ocean instead of sharing a continent, and until our more recent history of international meddling and global military hegemony, we weren’t as intimately involved in European affairs as we historically have been with Mexico. In practice, modern Mexican Independence Day celebrations in the US are certainly political and typically reveal those dastardly dual loyalties that we’ve collectively agreed to only discuss in the context of the j00s, but I wouldn’t necessarily consider it offensive if the context were different.

    • juris imprudent

      Irish illegal alien

      Perhaps because the Irish have enjoyed one of the most liberal quotas under the modern immigration system?

      • Pat

        We did away with the national quota system in ’65, although the tech bros do bring in quite a few Irish H1-Bs. And in all fairness, the Irish hordes mostly arrived prior to the quota system of 1924 (which was instituted in part because of the Irish hordes in the first place).

      • juris imprudent

        The Irish were given preferences even post 65, thanks to Kennedy, Moynihan, etc. types.

    • rhywun

      validate Trump’s rhetoric

      He’s got the Dems doing exactly that on one issue after another. You’d think after the first couple dozen times they’d learn to shut their trap or something but they just can’t help themselves.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Cinco de Drinko is the equivalent of St Paddy’s Day. Both supposed foreign festivals but are really of an American tradition.

      Mexican Independence Day celebrations on this soil are a different story.

    • Ownbestenemy

      No budget, no accountability. JUst give us money and we will continue your NGO grift this way.

    • Chafed

      Just open his garage doors. His presidential papers are already there.

    • rhywun

      Is it made out of gold?

      Perhaps not, but it is exactly the kind of brutal colossus you would expect from that massive ego.

      • Common Tater

        JFC

    • (((Jarflax

      But there is definitely going to be a shortage of cake!

    • Pat

      It’s a good thing this isn’t happening widespread, or it could call the integrity of our elections into question.

    • Threedoor

      Look at the requirements to vote in CA.

      How many millions of illegals vote there?

  12. Common Tater

    “A brunette bombshell has been left bereft after interviewing for 50 jobs and failing to find gainful employment.

    Alê Gaúcha, 21, has been pounding the pavement looking for a role as a nanny after finishing up a childcare course three years ago — but she says she’s realized that her curves have drawn more attention than her qualifications….

    Gaúcha’s good looks may be particularly problematic in the nannying industry, where wary women are reluctant to hire hot help for fear that their husbands might stray.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/09/06/lifestyle/ive-had-50-job-interviews-and-still-cant-get-hired-employers-dont-see-past-my-good-looks/

    Narrator: She wasn’t that good looking.

    • Sean

      “Good looks” ain’t what they used to be, apparently.

      • juris imprudent

        From the neck down – Q worthy.

      • DEG

        From the neck down – Q worthy.

        And that’s all that matters to trigger a woman’s jealousy.

      • Tres Cool

        “Now, she’s making money as a content creator and says it’s a fulfilling endeavor — if not her original plan.”

        Is that code for OnlyFans girl?

      • Fourscore

        Maybe it’s the tatts that are disqualifiers

      • (((Jarflax

        I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that the article, with accompanying instathot photospread, quite possibly reveals directly what the interviewing parents picked up on to reject her.

      • rhywun

        The Post has a quota to fulfill.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I doubt the Pr0n category of ‘babysitter’ is all that truthful

    • Pat

      Gaúcha’s good looks may be particularly problematic in the nannying industry, where wary women are reluctant to hire hot help for fear that their husbands might stray.

      The sort of dudes who can afford a full time nanny are probably pulling way hotter mistresses than that, but on the other hand, Arnold Schwarzenegger had a lovechild with this while married to Maria Shriver, so there’s no accounting for taste.

      • juris imprudent

        He was married to Maria Shriver – no accounting for taste at all.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        ‘The sort of dudes who can afford a full time nanny are probably pulling way hotter mistresses than that,’

        I wish.

        Anyway, it’s almost certainly her social media and lack of experience that are costing her employment opportunities.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I’ve seen a lot worse but I’ve seen a lot better. She needs to get over herself: she ain’t all that.

    • Suthenboy

      I am guessing her looks is not the problem. I also bet a lot of those jobs went to better looking girls.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        Fwiw I did have a better looking nanny, but she was married and didn’t give off home wrecker vibes which probably put my wife’s mind at ease.

    • DrOtto

      A smart wife also knows that eager beats pretty.

    • R C Dean

      Slutting it up on the socials probably isn’t helping.

    • Threedoor

      Better looking than the nanny Gavin rosdale cheated with.

  13. DEG

    The person driving the creatively modified vehicle stopped to help following the “genuine accident,”

    So it is not Maximum Overdrive time.

  14. DEG

    She would call him “little Buddha,” knowing there was “something special” about her son. In infancy, she says Acutis tried to give away new toys, saying he didn’t need so much. As a boy, he asked his parents to bring blankets to the poor people on the streets of Milan where they lived. She says from the age of 7 he “insisted” on attending Mass every day. At 9 years old he read “university-level texts” on computing, and taught himself several coding languages.
    Salzano’s memoir, My Son Carlo, describes the agonizing days after he fell suddenly ill,

    Ahh. It’s the mother looking for attention.

    • Fourscore

      “after he fell suddenly ill”

      Too many vaccines.?.. should have asked for intervention

    • rhywun

      give away new toys, saying he didn’t need so much. … bring blankets to the poor people …

      So his future was either “saint” or “Democrat”.

  15. Common Tater

    “Some critics claimed the ads featuring the blue-eyed blonde was a throwback to eugenics, a discredited scientific theory popular among white supremacists.

    However, an analysis by The New York Times found it was right-wing media that forwarded the controversy for headlines after a ‘smattering of accounts with relatively few followers’ criticized it.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15072555/Sydney-Sweeney-tears-Christy-film-premiere-Scooter-Braun-dating-rumors-American-Eagle-controversy-swirl.html

    “an analysis by The New York Times”

    • juris imprudent

      Did that analysis includes the Times own reporting?

      • (((Jarflax

        What reporting? We never said anything remotely critical of this obvious Nazi Eugenic dogwhistle designed to appeal to bigots! Why are you rightwingnut racist bigots Nazis so sensitive!

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        This from a paper that refused to return whatshisfaces’, you know, the Communist propagandist who covered up for famine in the 1930s, Pulitzer. They, along with the idiots at WaPo and the retards from the Chicago Tribune and the LA Times, are best ignored. I’m sure they’re on the up and up this time though.

      • Suthenboy

        Walter Duranty. That is the name you are looking for.

      • rhywun

        And they all got more Pulitzers for the Russia, Russia, Russia lies they spread. It’s almost like the Pulitzers are really just for rewarding leftist propaganda.

    • (((Jarflax

      Reading the news is like negotiating with a pathological liar.

      • Suthenboy

        You accidentally put an extra unneeded word in that.

      • (((Jarflax

        “like”? yeah I thought about that as I hit submit

    • Pat

      eugenics, a discredited scientific theory popular among white supremacists

      Don’t mention the war Margaret Sanger.

      • WTF

        Well, “popular among progressives like Margaret Sanger” doesn’t promote goodthinkfulness.

  16. juris imprudent

    I’ll say it – I’d rather watch college football than the NFL.

    • Old Man With Candy

      @RetardFinder, got one here for you!

    • (((Jarflax

      It would be funnier if he interrupted the consummation. “Imma let you finish” works better in that context.

    • rhywun

      I would rather shove a hot poker into each eye socket than be forced to watch that garbage. And they moved it to CBS to make it… less interesting?? Wow.

  17. Plinker762

    Fun with crime stats in Wikipedia: (how reliable? who knows)

    Total Crime rates:
    #5 Tacoma, WA
    #7 Portland, OR
    #14 Seattle, WA
    #19 Spokane, WA

    True bastions of Republican control. (These rates are primarily driven by property crime vs violent crime.)

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Defacto decriminalization of property crime and theft was/is a stupid idea. You get what you encourage, eh?

      • Plinker762

        I’m getting to the point of advocating for the summary execution of thieves and placing them in a gibbet as a warning. Not very libertarian but I’m tired of ultimately having my time stolen.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Property theft is sort of a retroactive theft of life and you can’t get it back. I don’t work so I can afford something only to have it nicked by some criminal jerkoff.

      • Suthenboy

        It is not a stupid idea, it serves the left’s end of destroying society. They always use that tactic. It is an evil idea.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Property theft was also a theft either of direct or indirect means (tools, transportation, food, etc) to keep you and your family alive. Death penalty for those taking that away wasn’t harsh.

    • rhywun

      Crime stats are just as easily manipulated as any other stat. Especially when you’re dealing with fluid definitions of things like “city” and “crime”.

    • Threedoor

      How did Yakima not rate, too small?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Forget it Tater, it’s Salontown.

    • juris imprudent

      Attempting to make Marcotte look reasonable?

    • rhywun

      Trump-flavored pseudo-fascism

      lol

      Almost made it one sentence in.

    • R.J.

      Why did I read that?

  18. Pat

    Ran into this link embedded in another article. It claims:

    21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

    If true, it dovetails nicely with this:

    38.3% of American adults aged 25 and older have attained a college degree.

    Relevant

    • juris imprudent

      21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024.

      How much illiteracy have we imported?

      • Pat

        34% of adults lacking literacy proficiency were born outside the US.

        Less than I would have expected, tbh.

      • Suthenboy

        Imported….wife was telling me alarming numbers yesterday about diseases we thought we had defeated but are now making a comeback.
        I wonder how that happened.

        I distinctly remember specifically warning about this back in Obama days when we were having discussions at TOS on open borders.
        That Injun woman was writing about how we should import a hundred billiondy people from everywhere and I snarked something along the lines of ‘welcome back leprosy’.

      • juris imprudent

        Aside from the hippies in Asheville, I’d bet that all other outbreaks of measles are amongst immigrants more than anti-vaxxers.

      • rhywun

        discussions at TOS on open borders

        I think their delusions on that issue more than anything else drove me away.

      • Old Man With Candy

        I’d bet that all other outbreaks of measles are amongst immigrants more than anti-vaxxers

        Mennonites. Seriously.

  19. Common Tater

    “Experts in international law are hard pressed to find any legal justification for the administration’s action. Despite Trump’s omnipotent view of himself, simply designating the Tren de Aragua gang a foreign terrorist organization doesn’t do it just because the administration says so. Invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 wouldn’t work either, especially since the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just blocked its use for deportations, holding there is no “predatory incursion” or “invasion” by members of the gang. If the issue is just about drug dealers, then it’s a criminal matter and the U.S. has decided it has the right to summarily execute them without any due process, something that got former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte arrested by the country’s national police and Interpol in March after the International Criminal Court charged him with crimes against humanity and issued a warrant for his capture.”

    https://www.salon.com/2025/09/07/trumps-deadly-venezuela-boat-attack-takes-us-into-dangerous-waters/

    https://www.salon.com/2025/09/07/expert-us-obliteration-of-caribbean-boat-was-a-clear-violation-of-international-law_partner/

    Is Salon making sense or do I need more covefe?

    • Pat

      If the issue is just about drug dealers, then it’s a criminal matter and the U.S. has decided it has the right to summarily execute them without any due process

      So in answer to your question, no, Salon is not making sense.

      • juris imprudent

        Does the name Barrack Obama ring any bells with you folks at Salon? Ever heard of a “disposition matrix”?

      • Common Tater

        Didn’t the U.S. summarily execute them without any due process?

      • Pat

        Hey now, having secret trials in absentia before drone-striking a US citizen on foreign soil, then doing the same to his US citizen 16 year old son, totally counts as due process, and is nothing at all like blowing up a smuggling vessel piloted by foreign nationals in international waters.

        *as a disclaimer, I don’t think the boat bombing was a “good shoot,” but it’s of an entirely different nature than summary execution of Americans.

      • Pat

        Didn’t the U.S. summarily execute them without any due process?

        Kinda sorta, but its an exercise in question begging what due process rights smugglers on the open sea really have. International law is only as good as who’s going to enforce it.

      • (((Jarflax

        We can discuss what warnings were or weren’t given, and to what extent that matters, and we can certainly discuss whether the drugs should be illegal in the first place, but killing people who are in the process of committing a felony in order to stop that felony was traditionally legal and in my view should be legal today because it is entirely moral.

      • Common Tater

        “but killing people who are in the process of committing a felony in order to stop that felony was traditionally legal”

        I think that would only apply to violent felonies where there is an immediate threat.

        I think letting countries blow up whatever boat they want just because they say so is a bad idea.

      • Q Continuum

        I’m not necessarily disagreeing, however it opens a can of worms that basically every lethal action the government has taken since WWII (last officially declared war by congress) falls into the same category.

        Not that I think it would be a bad thing for that to be the standard, it just can’t only be a bludgeon used to bash OMB and then the next President gets to drone strike US citizens sending transphobic tweets without a second thought.

      • (((Jarflax

        I think that would only apply to violent felonies where there is an immediate threat.

        That is incorrect historically, although it roughly corresponds to the current state of things. I am saying I think the current state of things is idiotic. You cannot preemptively punish criminals, you cannot punish criminals without due process, but when a felony is in progress you should be able to take any action necessary to stop it. That is the point where the question about warnings comes into play btw. If possible you should certainly offer the criminal the opportunity to surrender before killing them, but if they continue or attempt to flee lethal force is morally justified. The violent/non-violent dichotomy is a false one, theft and destruction of property are direct harms to the victim and justify preventative violence if needed. The drug crime changes things a bit to my mind, because any victim is accepting the ‘harm’ voluntarily, but that is an argument against drug laws not against the use of force to stop a crime in progress.

      • Common Tater

        “attempt to flee lethal force is morally justified”

        People running away aren’t an immediate threat.

        “The violent/non-violent dichotomy is a false one, theft and destruction of property are direct harms to the victim and justify preventative violence if needed”

        I disagree. Property can be restored, lives cannot. There are also all sorts of felonies, such as leaving the country with more than $5 in nickels, mislabeling oysters in Texas, etc.

      • Pat

        that is an argument against drug laws not against the use of force to stop a crime in progress

        Kind of where I landed as well, which is why I don’t think it’s a “good shoot.” But it’s still distinct from the hyperbolic claim that the United States summarily executes drug dealers; particularly if we insist on distinguishing “dealing” and “trafficking,” which are not technically the same crime, and even if we allow that the boat in question was engaged in trafficking (or smuggling) rather than turrurism.

      • (((Jarflax

        I disagree. Property can be restored, lives cannot. There are also all sorts of felonies, such as leaving the country with more than $5 in nickels, mislabeling oysters in Texas, etc.

        Again, those are arguments to get rid of tyrannical laws, not for allowing criminals to commit real crimes. I agree we shouldn’t kill someone mislabeling oysters, we shouldn’t be fining or jailing them either, but if you are in the midst of committing a theft you have put yourself outside the protection of the law, and I am fine with you being killed if you refuse to surrender. Once you surrender you get the protections of due process, although those badly need to be sped up, but until you surrender you are still in the process of committing the crime, and the victim deserves protection, you don’t.

        Property can be replaced, but it doesn’t happen magically and the victim is being harmed even if they eventually replace what was lost, because the effort it takes to replace it is forever lost.

      • Threedoor

        Standing outside my place with a Molotov cocktail.

        I’ll shoot you.

        Breaking into my house.

        I’ll shoot you.

        Breaking into my car.

        I’ll shoot you.

        Invading my country by boat.

        The airforce should sink
        you.

        Invading my country over the fence.

        The army should shoot you.

    • Suthenboy

      Experts in International law. Stop reading there.

    • DEG

      This Live Action Role Playing adaptation of Tom Clancy’s “Clear and Present Danger” has taken an interesting turn.

  20. Suthenboy

    OMWC’s opening monologue on dating reminded me of the old joke about the middle aged man placing an ad for a wife and including ‘Must have bass boat’ in the requirements.

    • Tres Cool

      The problem I have with women my age is that they’re, ya know- my age.

      • Chafed

        Just open his garage doors. His presidential papers are already there. Is Jugsy half your age plus 7?

      • Tres Cool

        Close. 1/2 + (7*2)

      • Ted S.

        So Jugsy is 14 years and 6 months?

      • Threedoor

        1/2 my age plus 7.

        Dang that’s six months within the window of my wife and is ages when we got married.

        Still going strong 19 years later. Must be the right formula.

  21. rhywun

    The fact that this is happening in the Basque region is a delicious irony.

    I see a Russian flag in that article, too. Every other serious league has memory-holed that nation.

    Do better, chess.

  22. rhywun

    “I know, how about we do a stupid, performative over-reaction?”

    Stupid, performative over-reaction is apparently the only thing the Democrats have anymore. Maybe they shouldn’t have let themselves be taken over by commie ratfuckers.

    • Chafed

      They also have a ton of performative swearing.

  23. rhywun

    Undersea cables cut in the Red Sea

    “and we will never learn the truth of what happened there anymore than what happened in the North Sea”

    • Pat

      It’s those shifty Russkies again!

  24. Common Tater

    “The Portland mayor has asked the community to donate to homeless shelters in a mass email. The mayor has asked that residents donate their time, money, as well as resources to shelters. This comes as the city spent $700 million last year on homeless shelters. The email also implied that if they do not get help, Portland may face federal investigation…

    However, in 2024, the Portland metro area spent a whopping $724 million on homeless services, per KOIN. The money was supposed to go to safety, supportive housing and housing placement, and much also went to administrative costs to implement the changes.

    43 percent of those funds came from a regional homeless services tax, and 14 percent came from federal tax dollars.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-mayor-begs-residents-to-donate-cash-for-citys-failed-homeless-services-after-spending-724-million-in-2024

    regional homeless services tax?

    • Suthenboy

      ‘The homeless’ are perfect for setting up a scam, better even than a choo-choo. It is like a black hole wherein the more you put into it the deeper it gets.
      So….no.

    • Chafed

      It’s good to see the locals get the government they voted for.

      • Gustave Lytton

        One side effect is new doctors aren’t sticking around after med school. High income, yes, but also high loans so getting fucked from both sides if they stay. What a shock.

    • Pat

      But remember kids, we need government because private charity is wholly incapable of tackling social problems at scale.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The state has done all they can to crowd out public charity or make them quangos hooked on government grant money. The high rate of unchurched (traditional unchurched, they worship at the alter of politics largely) has destroyed charity as it used to be.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Yes. There’s a three county special district and the voters of the district passed an income tax on the “wealthy” to pay for homeless grift. 1% above $125k/$200k couples, in addition to regular state and local taxes.

  25. Common Tater

    “A federal judge ruled to block the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for more than one million Venezuelan and Haitian nationals who are in the country on Friday.

    According to the Associated Press, TPS protections apply to about 600,000 Venezuelans and 500,000 Haitians. The ruling came from Judge Edward Chen of the Northern District of California, who said that ending the program was “unprecedented” and that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s actions violated the law.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/federal-judge-blocks-trump-admin-from-ending-tps-for-1-1-million-venezuelans-haitians

    Which law?

    • Suthenboy

      That was given at the discretion of the executive, right?

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      ‘ending the program was “unprecedented” ‘

      Not the same as illegal though…

      • Pat

        Initiating the program was also “unprecedented,” but some precedents are more equal than others.

      • Pope Jimbo

        He’s telling the truth though. These “temporary” protections never go away.

        All sorts of local squealing when Trump tried to get rid of the “temporary” refugees from an earthquake in Central America in ’92.

        Stupid taxpayers thinking “temporary” means that these refugees will return at some point in time.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The judge is demanding that Noem put a cover sheet on the report?

  26. Common Tater

    “Many of the unaccompanied migrant children who crossed the border and were lost under the Biden administration have been found in horrible conditions, dead, or exploited as labor or sex slaves. This comes after it was revealed that there were 65,000 reports concerning allegations about migrant child sponsors left in a backlog by the Biden administration.

    The Trump administration has been able to recover 22,638 unaccompanied children. However, as police have conducted operations to find the children, 27 of the minors have been found dead by murder, suicide, or drug overdose. Over 400 of the so-called “sponsors” have also been arrested as officers have conducted the search for the unaccompanied migrant children.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-admin-finds-22638-unaccompanied-migrant-children-lost-by-biden-27-are-dead

    The Biden administration facilitated child sex trafficking.

    • Q Continuum

      Just ignore these clowns.

      • Common Tater

        It’s just “rape trees” got scrubbed from Wikipedia.

    • Suthenboy

      “The Biden administration facilitated child sex trafficking”

      No shit. That is a far bigger scandal than that Epstein dude who was a pedophile that committed suicide in a manhattan jail.
      So now the Dems are going to cheer Trump on, right? He is literally saving children from slavery, rape and murder and they care so much for the children, right?

      • Suthenboy

        Is a federal judge going to order Trump to put them back into slavery? That would not surprise me in the least bit.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Nope. Pedophile is the current Trump slur.

    • creech

      Sure to be chronicled in the $750 million Biden Presidential Library being planned in Delaware.

    • Pat

      3, 7 and 17 would all be fun to vacation with.

    • Pat

      If it had been his cock instead of his legs, mind you, the NHS would have covered the operation and put him on relief.

    • Fourscore

      Strangely, my feet lose sensations (cold-hot-numbness-etc) but not once have I ever thought about eliminating them. I’m still using them when I walk.

    • DrOtto

      That guy isn’t Dr. Who. Misleading web link.

    • rhywun

      That’s not the Doctor Who promised in the URL.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Maybe he wants to run for political office? This would guarantee that he couldn’t be caught putting his foot in his mouth.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Did “God’s influencer” enslave a bunch of indians and steal their land?

    • Common Tater

      Cocaine is a helluva drug.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    But first, a word from Trump’s robot army

    There was a single interruption at New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s campaign event with Sen. Bernie Sanders in Brooklyn on Saturday.

    Just as the progressive heavyweights prepared to begin the latest event on Sanders’ national “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, an older man wearing a shirt bearing the Cuban flag heckled the mayoral candidate.

    “You are a communist,” the protester yelled. “This is not Cuba, you fool!”

    The message from the protester, who was promptly removed from the event, echoed rhetoric amplified in recent weeks by President Donald Trump, who has inserted himself as a major player in the high-stakes mayoral race.

    It’s not Cuba. The cars are newer.

    No other President in history has ever weighed in on an election in the United States.

    • Common Tater

      “Fighting Oligarchy”

      Stupid name. Most of his supporters don’t know what oligarchy means.

      • Pat

        Most of his supporters don’t know what oligarchy means.

        An oligarch is a capitalist who spends their money trying to influence one of the members of a 100-person legislative body that makes policy decisions for ~340 million people. The members of said 100-person legislative body, on the other hand, are not oligarchs, except the ones to the right of Trotsky.

    • Gustave Lytton

      But a CT senator campaigning in an NYC mayoral election isn’t interfering.

      • Common Tater

        I have my own senator?

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Sanders took aim at Trump’s involvement in the election, questioning what he and other Mamdani foes “are afraid of.”

    “You’ve got people like Bill Ackman and others saying openly, front page to the newspapers, we will spend as much as it takes to defeat this guy. You have the president of the United States working to make it harder for him to get elected. So what are these people, these oligarchs, afraid of?” Sanders said.

    “What a radical idea to say that we should stabilize rents so the working-class people can live in this city,” he added.

    Free speech is all well and good, until people start saying things we don’t like.

    • Pope Jimbo

      So Trump commenting on Mamdani is bad, bad, bad, but Bernie campaigning for Mamsy is fine?

      What is difference? I’d say Trump has way more ties to NYC than Bernie 3-House Sanders.

    • rhywun

      “What a radical idea to say that we should stabilize rents so the working-class people can live in this city,” he added.

      Fuck off, commie.

      • Pope Jimbo

        If working class people can’t live in the city, who exactly is voting for this guy?

      • rhywun

        AWFULs

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Another attendee asked Mamdani how he would protect the city from a potential National Guard deployment, pointing to troop deployments to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Mamdani said the city must “prepare for the inevitability of that deployment.”

    “We cannot try and convince ourselves that because something is illegal Donald Trump will not do it. We have to be prepared, and we have to be clear-eyed, and we have to understand that we’ll take every single tool at our disposal,” he said.

    According to Michael Bloomberg, the NYPD is the mayor’s private army. Let the house to house fighting commence.

  31. creech

    Re the RFK and vaccine outrage, specifically from the Donks, what ever happened to “My body, my choice?”

    • DEG

      THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!!1111!!!!!1111!111

    • Suthenboy

      Clearly you are unfamiliar with the selective, subjective nature of externalities.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    An illegitimate court doing the bidding of an illegitimate President

    Burroughs is not the only judge who is clapping back at the Supreme Court this week. On Thursday, Lawrence Hurley at NBC published a shocking piece citing 10 federal judges who are absolutely willing to say that the Supreme Court is not OK, and that they’re frustrated with the shadow docket rulings and the justices’ refusal to defend Article 3 judges against a pervasive pattern of threats and harassment—not just from the American public, but from the president and members of Congress.

    It does feel as though we are seeing a really burgeoning number of lower court judges just telling SCOTUS: You know what? You’re not the boss of me. And you may technically be the boss of us, but I’m not going to treat you as a Supreme Court if you don’t have my back here. This is an astonishing piece of reporting, but also an astonishing decision by jurists who are loath to criticize anyone.

    Nation of laws, they said.

    • Gustave Lytton

      justices’ refusal to defend Article 3 judges against a pervasive pattern of threats and harassment—not just from the American public

      Fuckers have been pissing away their paper thin legitimacy and wondering why there’s a wood chipper parked out front. Dumbasses.

      • Suthenboy

        This. Credibility is all the court has. Instead of guarding it jealously and policing their own they are finding out that if they dont police their own someone else will do it for them. I am tempted to add something in about congress doing their job but then that would take spine and principle.

    • Pope Jimbo

      10 federal judges who are absolutely willing to say that the Supreme Court is not OK

      Um, weren’t all those judges quoted anonymously? I don’t think that qualifies as “absolutely willing”.

    • Suthenboy

      Slate.
      I was expecting Salon.

      “You know what? You’re not the boss of me. And you may technically be the boss of us, but I’m not going to treat you as a Supreme Court if you don’t have my back here. ”

      Talk about impotent bluster. I remember when Obama got re-elected and the left took off the mask. They thought they had finally reached that tipping point where they could go all out and usher in their socialist paradise. Then Trump got elected. Ooops. When they got Biden in they went balls to the wall and now….another Oooops. Trump isnt being stymied this time.
      What they are seeing is the beginning of the end of what they have spent 150 years building and they are in a panic. I am glad I lived long enough to see this.

  33. Gustave Lytton

    Kim Thayil turned 65 on Thursday.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      So? This is not old,
      /kids

  34. The Late P Brooks

    I think this response from lower court judges is long overdue. And I also would bet that all of the judges who express this frustration are relatively recent appointees on the younger side. I think there is an emerging generational divide: Older judges grew up with a Supreme Court that was still acting like a real court for most of their time on the bench; younger judges have only ever served under a Supreme Court that is corrupted by partisan politics. I think it has now fallen on these younger judges, like Burroughs, to stand up and defend colleagues who are temperamentally disinclined to stand up for themselves.

    Corrupted by the kind of partisan politics we disagree with, anyway.