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whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin?
Fantastic!
“Putin says Ukraine war might be ‘coming to an end’”
Like Trump with Iran?
It will take two weeks?
No, that’s a vidit to Mars.
Here for The Money Pit reference
I told my wife the other night when she had the Fox News on that it was a rerun. They were saying the same thing from a couple months ago “It’s almost over and we have Iran right where we want them.”
Shades of the walls are closing in on him that makes the other side quiver with glee.
Didn’t Libya have active slave markets? Blockade the coast – the invaders will have three options – fight the Libyans, return home, or be sold.
Force them into a narrow passage forcing them to fight the Spartan army?
No.
/Laconic
Except you handed your sovereignty over to Brussels. They are the ones who are going to be calling the shots here and guess what? They have other ideas.
Makes miniature vegetables punishable by death?
R.J. has a sad
“Bombshell Evidence About the 2020 Election Is Coming”
Let’s say there is massive overwhelming proof that Trump won, then what? Or that covid was planned? Or Epstein worked for Mossad? Nothing happened from the Russia hoax or the Twitter censorship.
“We are going to be making arrests, and it’s coming, and I promise you, it’s coming soon,” Patel said.
Yeah and I remember Bongino’s claims from last year about Comey’s private files – that we never did see. And of course Trump campaigned on dumping the Epstein files on the public – unredacted.
At least they didn’t say they were releasing the kraken.
releasing the kraken
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Anyone remember John Durham slow rolling his report?
What’s the saying? Fool me once, something something, fool me five times, I’m a goddam retard?
fool me five times, I’m a goddam retard?
Well, you *are* a lawyer….
When the headline tells you all you need to know.
There is an explanation for that.
Thankless, all-important work like removing the garbage and keeping the lights on?
Whoops, that should have been a reply to OBE.
Ignoring the baited breath, that is what all men and women should do anyway.
Uh ya? Its called circling the wagons on what matters most and that is our immediate responsibilities of our family you prick.
You’ll refrain above with some gender shit, but then do this. GFY
“who might be better acclimated to the prospect of thankless, all-important work”
If you actually look at who does hard, dirty, dangerous work, the answer is pretty clear. No speculation needed.
“thankless”
If you’re not thanking the woman taking care of your kids, maybe you’re the asshole.
You mean the nanny, rhy?
I would suspect that these people believe kids to be the worst thing a human can do in such a political environment so ya, they don’t thank anyone who has them.
R C Dean:
I saw at least one post that had a picture of an iPad with the caption, “Thanks mom!”
Gotta love the puzzlement over why they can’t get more of those lazy, useless, self-centered men to join their cause.
Its a book club that only drinks wine and wonders why no avid readers want to join.
“7:10 am”
Come on, man.
Maybe look at what the right-wing active clubs are doing. They don’t seem to have any trouble recruiting and retaining men.
*prepares for the unhinged shrieking*
“When we look at the demographics of Resistance 2.0 there is overwhelming consistency,” writes Dana R Fisher, who studies civic engagement at American University. “Participants are predominantly white, highly-educated, female, and middle-aged.”
So credentialed, entitled, and insufferable.
The Voting Rights Act decision will move a lot more seats. Probably even more than the VA gerrymander decision by midterms, although I’m not tracking what states are planning to do something before the midterms now that the shackles of the VRA have been removed.
I am amused that the VRA, passed to address malfeasance by solid Dem states, was being used to protect Dem seats, though.
The parties switched!
But honestly, I think the “affordability” mess is gonna kill any chances the GOP think they might have this year and probably 2028 too.
All the wins in SCOTUS and the pushback to radical insanity from the Dems will be for nothing if the economy gets worse.
This. The neocons lost them the midterms. The high gas prices havent fully rippled through the economy, and even if Iran full on surrenders tomorrow, we’re not back to 2.25 gas overnight.
+1 LBJ
I’m getting the impression that the Dem’s big cycle-winning “affordability” push has already fizzled out. At this point, though, the dynamic that will determine the midterms hasn’t even arrived yet.
I say just nuke Iran and get it over with.
Its gonna be shitty cause Dems have no answer on ‘affordability’ other than hand out free monies to favored groups.
I’m not seeing any Dem policies that will make things more affordable.
I also wonder if we would still be at war with Iran if Harris was President?
That Trump felt the need to appease the Neocons was puzzling, they were always anti-Trumpers at heart and were best left to rot.
I dont know how they talked Trump into this Iran thing. They have had a hardon for Iran since the 1980s. He stood them down rather artfully inbhis first term. But now?
I suspect a bit of hubris from his bully diplomacy successes. Maybe they played on his lack of time to get things done the slow way with trade and tariffs and other pressure tactics?
He has been speed-running a number of foreign policy objectives. Kidnapping a foreign leader to get a deal on Venezuelan oil rights… blowing them up in Iran…
I certainly didnt see that coming, not with the way he stood up to the “if you dont attack Iran it will start WWIII” pressure before.
I also wonder if we would still be at war with Iran if Harris was President?
Nope, we’d be at war with Israel.
It’s worked for them since the 1960’s, why change now?
hand out free monies to favored groups
Newsom’s diaper initiative is full of shit? [Read that the NGO is charging the state 3 times the cost of diapers at Target.]
I’m not seeing any Dem policies that will make things more affordable.
Your average “sign of the times” voter isn’t sophisticated enough to understand that. They just see “things expensive; Trump president” and vote against that.
That Trump felt the need to appease the Neocons was puzzling
Not that hard, they finally figured out how to stroke his ego to get what they wanted.
“Your legacy Donald – the man who humbled the Ayatollahs!”
“I dont know how they talked Trump into this Iran thing.”
The hundreds of millions donated to his campaign?
You actually think this will matter?
No, Mr. Burlison, it’s hardly universal. Some of us want you to do less. Much less.
I would assume one can round it up to universal, close enough.
Are we to the point yet where machine-gunning migrant invaders on the open seas is an appropriate response?
Are we to the point – based on reality or political sentiment ?
Probably not “appropriate” but perhaps “inevitable”.
The boats were loaded with drug runners, something we had to do.
“The Utah legislature had attempted to downgrade and set aside the citizen-approved proposition for an independent commission to draw the state’s congressional maps, KSL.com reported. The legislature attempted to amend the state’s constitution to grant lawmakers power to repeal the proposition, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.”
All this nonsense needs to stop. Why do states draw maps for federal representatives? Congressional districts should follow existing borders (state, county, city) and the minimal number of straight lines. None of these weird shapes. It’s a congressional map, not a modern art painting. Also, non-citizens shouldn’t count since non-citizens can’t vote for congress critters.
The concept of congressional districts was inherited from parlimentary constituencies, which descended from a process older than print. Someone had to draw those maps. Around the time of the revolution, the issue of imbalanced population distibution in represntative districts was obvious from the rotton boroughs still extant in the old country, so the principle of roughly equal population distribution was implemented. Since we were after print but before computers, the process of drawing the maps was handed to the various soveriegn entities which made up the Union of States. They later figured out a number of strategies to use that power for personal gain. Getting the process switched to an algorithmic one is going to be a hard sell since the decision makers who need to change it are the ones who benefit from the current process.
*Rotten
Also bring back Dunny-on-the-wald
And it is still relatively easy to build in an advantage…. particularly if your party appeals strongly to urban voters. Those concentrated votes make reasonable-looking gerrymandered maps much easier.
The “natural boundaries” bit seems perfectly reasonable. But then carving up a city based on where an interstate runs or where a major avenue runs follows this precept as well.
As long as there is power to be gained, people will work out ways to game the system to their advantage. This is one reason a “nonpartisan commission” state like California can end up so heavily gerrymandered.
not a modern art painting
Modern? Gerrymandering is a time honored tradition – starting with the Democratic governor of Massachusetts (at the turn of the 19th century).
One of the things the FF got wrong. Being dead old white men, they weren’t perfect.
Get rid of districts altogether. Switch to proportional representation. Look at statewide vote totals for every presidential election. Award seats to each party proportional to the number of votes they received in each state. For the next two Congressional elections, those are the seats available. Each party can run a statewide election, awarding seats to the top X vote getters.
A state with 25 seats in the House that voted 60 GOP/40 Dem for President would award 15 seats to the GOP and 10 to the Democrats. Then each party runs a separate election to fill those seats, only available to people registered to the respective parties. (no registered Republicans voting for Democrats, or vice versa.) The top 15 GOP votegetters get seated, and the top 10 Democrats do as well. No districts, no gerrymandering possible.
For example, of this had been done in the 2024 election the Congress would look like this:
220 GOP
213 Democrat
1 Green Party (CA)
1 Natural Law Party (CA)
So no more local representation? I don’t think I want that. Of course the current districts are too big to be truly “local” anymore but that’s a separate issue.
Because the Constitution gives that power to the states.
Are the hantavirus cases signs of cruise ship, umm, hook ups? I don’t think it usually spreads just by being in the general vicinity of someone already infected.
I would think cruise people are too drunk to hook up.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080569
Well one would think if you are okay woth frolicking in a dump to find some rare bird that you are probably predisposed to frolick with the birds on the ship too.
I thought it was usually spread by rats/rat feces. I’m guessing this is a food issue and not hooking up.
My recollection is that it is spread by mice feces/urine aerosols, so it would be a ventilation issue.
The monkey pox scare a while back was mostly ‘frolicking’ men. Once they could not hide the transmission vector, the scare fizzled out.
this woman doesn’t need a matchmaker. she needs to accidentally book the wrong airbnb in a mountain town called pine hollow.
it’s december. there’s one coffee shop, one christmas tree farm, & one emotionally unavailable man named jake who owns a struggling bookstore despite somehow having perfect stubble, a golden retriever, & unresolved grief from a fiancee who left him for a private equity guy in denver.
she arrives in a black suv, wearing a cashmere coat, trying to take a “clarity weekend” before interviewing $80k/year matchmakers in nyc.
the town hates her immediately because she asks if they have oat milk.
jake says, “we have milk.”
she says, “from what?”
tension.
then a snowstorm hits. her flight gets canceled. her phone dies. the only place with wifi is jake’s bookstore, which is called “second chances”.
over the next 4 days, she helps him realize the store doesn’t need to close, it just needs a better merchandising strategy, a paid newsletter, & a tasteful espresso machine. he teaches her how to chop firewood, slow down, & pronounce “community” like it isn’t a fund thesis.
by day 5, she has accidentally saved the town’s winter festival.
by day 6, she is wearing flannel.
https://x.com/signulll/status/2053164190484013499
Crossing Delancy was a great movie.
“Lightning Literally Strikes Just Feet From Anti-Erika Kirk Protesters At Hillsdale College Commencement”
https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/10/lightning-strikes-near-anti-erika-kirk-protest-hillsdale-college/
STIJLTH
Thor giving them a warning?
Zeus is the one who throws lightning bolts, I think.
Interesting!
Members of Congress have been coming from somewhat richer backgrounds over time.
You might naïvely expect them to have become more typical of the American people, but it seems not!
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2053660443407749473
It takes money and connections to have the time to devote to non-productive “political organizing” work. With such a large population, these things are a huge advantage in entering politics at any level.
There was a time when being a representative was a part time job, and being a local town hero, or maybe a successful farmer or builder would allow you to go to Washington part time.
That no longer works. Being the kid from a wealthy family with charisma to build a fundraising machine is the way to big power… or being able to work your way into an existing machine.
Politics is now a life-long career, starting right out of school with jobs at campaigns and in fundraising organizations. It is very hard for someone outside to break through. Trump is the exception, and he worked on moving from wealthy businessman to politician for several decades.
Please SMOD, please – you’re our only hope.
“Former President Joe Biden plans to go to court to block the Trump administration from releasing roughly 70 hours of partially redacted audio recordings of his conversations with a ghostwriter, the Justice Department said in new court filings Friday.”
Does anyone want to sit through 70 hours of incoherent mumbling?
What’s another 70 hours after 4 long years of it?
Cause we have spastic, disconnected rambling currently? Need to give the brain a moment to relax Doc.
Coal miner, union activist, and singer Nimrod Workman performs the traditional Appalachian folk song ‘Oh Death’
https://x.com/_HistoryNerd/status/2053475264504778846
doomer
@uncledoomer
I have sympathy for this guy’s troubles but I kind of feel like it was over before it even began when his mom named him “Nimrod workman”
Nimrod is generally understood in the Bible as a symbol of power, rebellion, and the founder of cities that later became enemies of Israel
Was this the deal where Russia would take the Iranian uranium while continuing to assist in their nuclear energy program?
Not sure what’s so unacceptable about it.
Depends on whether or not you believe Russia and Iran will actually hold up their respective ends of the deal.
The intensity of Chihong Ryu’s most muscular pose is insane.
https://x.com/protein901/status/2053716736063537643
Chihong Ryu does not return google results for a sumo wrestler… I wonder if it made up or a strange English version of some name.
“Bonnie Tyler had to be resuscitated after going into cardiac arrest when doctors tried to bring her out of her induced coma, according to a report.”
https://pagesix.com/2026/05/11/celebrity-news/bonnie-tyler-had-to-be-resuscitated-after-going-into-cardiac-arrest-reports/
So it wasn’t a total eclipse of the heart?
No, it was a heartache.
Nothing but a heartache.
She’s holding out for a hero!
“As night follows day, progressives’ response to the Virginia Supreme Court’s tossing of Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s outrageous gerrymander is to demand an instant court-packing move to undo it….
Specifically, progs want to ram through a law instantly dropping the retirement age for the Virginia court to 54, which would allow the legislature to replace enough justices to restore the gerrymander.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/10/opinion/dems-scheme-to-fix-their-virginia-gerrymander-fail-is-a-worse-outrage/
CWABOA
Like I noted yesterday, every Dem pol and voter will support this.
You don’t get the “fundamental change” they are constantly demanding without smashing the system.
Wouldn’t the Virginia Supreme Court just invalidate the law as unconstitutional?
Would this law apply to the reps trying to ram it through?
From TedS’s link: (the sole premise of the story is whether or not to destroy surplus gun or sell them TO COPS.)
Do they ever explain which hands are the “wrong” hands?
“‘Do you believe it’s time for the state of Israel to reexamine and possibly reset its financial relationship to the United States?’ Garrett asked, to which Netanyahu responded, ‘Absolutely.’
‘And I’ve said this to President Trump. I’ve said it in – to our own people. Their jaws drop,’ Netanyahu continued. ‘I want to draw down to zero the American financial support, the financial component of the military cooperation that we have.’
Netanyahu went on the say he wants to begin the drawdown immediately rather than wait for the next Congress, phasing it in over the next decade, a push that comes American support for Israel declines.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15807815/Netanyahus-shock-plot-split-US-Trumps-Iran-peace-proposal-unravels-sending-oil-prices-soaring.html
No idea how that could work.
Great! Cut it now, immediately, 100%.
Okay, let’s say they do prove the 2020 election was rigged. The absolute best outcome we could hope for is that all Biden-appointed judges are removed from the bench, and all his pardons are void. Where it gets real messy is what to do about all the rulings and opinions issued by those illegitimate judges.
I don’t see SCOTUS wanting to upset the apple cart, but who knows. This would be uncharted territory for them and they’d have to pull something out of their collective asses. KBJ should recuse herself from that case, but we know she won’t.
Seems like the statute of limitations would still protect Fauci and others.
We might get the joy of seeing Rachel Levine’s pension pulled.