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Banjos

Wife of sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active young girls. Perpetually exhausted.

216 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    Still no excuse to preempt Gutfeld.

    • Common Tater

      At least Trump broke the record though. It was the biggest shutdown. Huge.

      • Sean

        The best!

      • robodruid

        Everyone is saying it was a beautiful shutdown.

  2. (((Jarflax

    A nickel for your thoughts, and just my five cents worth are going to sound weird

    • Not Adahn

      If you haven’t got a penny a ha’penny will do!

    • Rat on a train

      Pennies are now collectables.

      • Suthenboy

        all coins are going to be collectibles as will all bills. Get a stash and put it in a time capsule for your grandchildren.

      • (((Jarflax

        They are going to be collectibles the same way Confederate bills are collectibles. Value in collectibles is a function of rarity and the average US coin or bill is not even remotely rare. A tiny handful of specific ones may end up valuable. If you doubt this go look at the prices for common, non-precious metal, Roman coins.

      • Nephilium

        (((Jarflax:

        One difference with pennies, they’re already worth more than face value in metal. Even now, they’re worth more melted down than used as currency, so if the price of copper continues to rise, it’s possible they’ll be worth more in the future.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Modern pennies are like 97% zinc, so doubt the price of copper will effect my jars and jars of pennies.

      • (((Jarflax

        pre 82 maybe, I suspect the post 82 ones would cost more than the copper value to separate it from the zinc

      • (((Jarflax

        As a long term investment commodities other than the precious metals tend to lose value over time. This is the lesson of the Ehrlich/Simon bet. Now, they lose value slower than the dollar does, so they might be a hedge, but there are better hedges than copper you have to re-refine to make usable.

      • DrOtto

        Coins have an intrinsic metals value that paper money never will. I still look for 1964 and older coins (1969 for half and dollar coins, but never see those outside of Vegas) since dimes and up were still silver then.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Dumbest decision of this gov’t.

      • juris imprudent

        Throwing down the gauntlet?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Sure, why not.

        Along with the video that NA post just down from this, it is the path of destroying physical currency, thus creating a necessary digital currency, with is the strongest, and most sure, path to totalitarianism.

        We all bitched and moaned about debanking, and this is one more step toward our society being susceptible to such outside forces destroying the money supply, creating a social credit system, and disallowing our personal purchases if they become unacceptable to certain social classes.

        Yes, they cost more to make than they are worth. So what? That is not the value of money with fiat currency. Should they be pegged to a gold or some such standard? Yes, and here we are, further devaluing the money supply in that wake.

      • Not Adahn

        Mandatory cashlessness might be avoidable, but even with physical currency, it’s now possible for a government to freeze badthinkful people out of the economy.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Dumbest decision of this gov’t.

        Now that’s a take.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Yes, they can NA. But why give them even more incentives and methods?

        And, CPA, the only thing dumber in my eyes would to be the removal of parking lots.

      • juris imprudent

        You will walk in your 15 minute neighborhood and have no reason to drive anywhere citizen!

      • (((Jarflax

        Well you will walk in your fifteen minute neighborhood until the cultural enrichers decide to have a gang enrichment session with you in the weeds.

      • Fourscore

        So all those pennies, nickels and dimes I tried to collect as a kid are now worthless in buying power. I remember well penny candy, nickle candy bars (which I rarely got ’cause I rarely had a nickle). Nut Goodies were a dime, forget that.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3sxWrtOz1I

        Those days are long gone but the memories linger on…

      • DrOtto

        I had some silver nickles (and steel pennies) in my coin collection as a kid till Meth Nephew found them. So glad I bought him some meth at face value with them. He didn’t even share.

      • Threedoor

        Make nickels nickel again.

    • Threedoor

      The penny should be solid copper so our currency has at least some basis in a commodity.

      • kinnath

        there was a time . . . .

        I still have a silver certificate tucked away in a drawer.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I save Cu pennies. Don’t know if I should bother.

        3D, re your Soviet prints, have you looked into custom matting? I haven’t tried this but I hear it can be much cheaper.

  3. Common Tater

    “William also allegedly “conspired with a business associate to create false, backdated contracts after receiving a civil subpoena in January 2024” regarding Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, according to the press release.”

    I wonder how many billions of covid fraud happened?

    • Rat on a train

      It’s not fraud if it worked as intended.

    • Drake

      Was any of it not fraud?

      • Suthenboy

        *Ding Ding*

  4. Not Adahn

    I do not believe it is even vaguely possible that there is anything in “The Epstein Files” that would embarrass OMB, let alone damage him in his second term.

    I know that politicians can be surprisingly retarded. But even with that, I don’t understand why actual politicos are making a big deal about it (as opposed to the media(tm) which says whatever they’re told to. Seriously, NPRs coverage of “the emails” has been the most disgraceful thing I’ve witnessed form them.)

    The only thing that makes sense is that there’s a new forgery going to be slipped into the document dump?

    • Ted S.

      That’s a pretty high (or low) bar for NPR.

      • Not Adahn

        Srsly. They are all in on pretending this is brand-new, just-released scandalous information. They even brought on a (D) critter to get all weepy about bringing justice to the victims.

      • juris imprudent

        When propaganda drifts into the theatrical.

    • Drake

      If Trump was in there diddling kids, it would have been released years ago.

      There probably was all kinds of dirt on other powerful people and Intel assets.

    • Sean

      The stupid shit Trump said the other day is far more damaging than anything in those files.

      • Drake

        ^

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      They are making big noise because they see a chance to grandstand.

      Low risk, high reward.

    • (((Jarflax

      What? You don’t believe there is a trove of evidence that Trump did the one thing that would immediately turn his supporters against him in the collection of documents that has been in the control of his political enemies for years, without such evidence being leaked? Unpossible! Surely there is a giant red folder marked Trump Rape Photos in there!

      • Ownbestenemy

        I was surprised that the unmasked person that the Dems re-redacted wasnt labeled TRUMP RAPE VICTIM in those emails…

      • juris imprudent

        re-redacted

        I’m sensing a cartoon moment between redactions and unmaskings.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        “I’m sensing a cartoon moment between redactions and unmaskings.”

        So, what, we all run around with bags over our heads and assless chaps on?

      • juris imprudent

        No, it was more like Daffy and Bugs going back and forth on redacting something.

      • juris imprudent

        Are there another kind of chaps that aren’t assless? Aren’t those just leather pants at that point?

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        Zack knows how to partay!

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        “Are there another kind of chaps that aren’t assless? Aren’t those just leather pants at that point?”

        Look who is an assless chaps expert!

    • Not Adahn

      I do think there is at least a small possibility of inserting a forgery because that’s something that aready happened. I don’t know if any of you were following it at the time, but there’s this AGW huckster named Peter Gleick, and he got a hold of some documents from… the Heritage Foundation? (IIRC). He leaked them to a friendly media outlet and somehow there was this red-hot damning document in that trove that just happened to be fraudulent.

    • DEG

      Massie gave some interviews on the discharge petition.

      He said in the interviews that he thinks there is nothing in there to implicate Trump in criminal activity. If there was, it would have been used already.

      Massie said in those interviews that some very powerful people are names in the files and Trump, for reasons unknown, feels the need to protect them.

      O’Keefe got, with O’Keefe’s usual honeyport/hidden camera trick, a DoJ guy saying that Trump isn’t implicated in crimes in the files. The DoJ denied the guy had worked for the DoJ at any point when he would have had access to the Epstein files. Usual disclaimers about O’Keefe.

      • R.J.

        I agree with previous thoughts that the shadow powers have threatened Trump, they allow him to do a few things but nothing that will seriously destabilize their grip on us. If congress releases it he is off the hook. Who knows? History may prove me wrong.

  5. Common Tater

    “Those who then refuse to return from Germany, we can, of course, deport them in the near future.”

    Sounds a bit wishy washy from the Chancellor of Germany.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      You know who wouldn’t have been so wishy washy?

      • (((Jarflax

        Charles Martel?

      • Tres Cool

        Mr Lee the calgon guy?

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        The Maytag repair man?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Arminius?

    • rhywun

      According to recent data, Syrian nationals have been suspected in criminal cases at a rate more than five times higher than German citizens

      Way to bury the lede.

  6. Ownbestenemy

    Federal Government Shutdown – The End

    Well the time has come when the halting of governmental services in which no services were halted has come to an end.

    While I missed out on an eight week vacation and took an approved leave, I was deemed unpatriotic and will most likely be flogged for daring to engage in normal life.

    As the furloughed trickle back to work, telling stories as if they were Captain Nemo exploring the seas I wonder just what is it I do here.

    So that is that. I cannot parody or provide any satirical comment to what the past 40 days or so.

    Federal Government Worker 8394245 signing off.

    • Tres Cool

      I just called 839-4245 and Winston’s mom answered.

      • R.J.

        Eight week vacation???? F*ck that guy.

  7. Common Tater

    “Pennies cost about $56 million per year to make, according to the Treasury Department.”

    Peanuts.

  8. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    Hey Banjos. How YOU doin?

  9. rhywun

    From the illegal truckers story…

    [Greasy] signed a deal Tuesday with Nigeria to “fight pollution.”

    OFFS!! What a useless cunte. I almost feel sorry for California.

  10. Common Tater

    “Georgia mom Nyla Simmons accused of leaving her 7-month-old son to die in hot car while she worked”

    https://nypost.com/2025/11/13/us-news/georgia-mom-nyla-simmons-accused-of-leaving-her-7-month-old-son-to-die-in-hot-car-while-she-worked/

    “Chilling way deadbeat Arizona dad who left daughter, 2, to die in scorching car killed himself”

    https://nypost.com/2025/11/12/us-news/deadbeat-dad-who-left-daughter-to-die-in-hot-car-killed-himself-in-haunting-echo-of-his-crime/

    WTF is wrong with these people?

    • Suthenboy

      Insanity is a lot more common than you think. Evil usually goes hand in hand with it.

    • R C Dean

      “The deadbeat dad had been inside the house watching porn, drinking beer and playing video games at the time of her death.”

      For three hours, mind you. I was surprised to see that his wife hadn’t kicked his out after that.

      • Ownbestenemy

        She is also complicit in this act IMO.

        “I told you to stop leaving them in the car,” his wife texted him while their daughter was rushed to the hospital.

    • Threedoor

      They dont raise their kids.
      They take them to other people to raise.
      They don’t understand what it is to have a baby in their care 24/7.

    • rhywun

      🙄🙄

      Keeping the dream alive.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Remember though, MSM is objective and doesnt take sides

      • juris imprudent

        I wouldn’t call The Nation “MSM” – I mean they’re just a little left of that.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ah…forgot MSN does that

  11. Not Adahn

    I was able to watch Ian McCollum’s video on the Rideout Arsenal Dragon posted here (by Pie?) yesterday:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ7RdSgGeMA

    The thing about this that make me happy starts at 13:39 — the granularity to which it can be broken down. The thing that made the AR platform so successful is that it’s a set of specs that lets designers play to their heart’s content and as long as the part’s interface is within tolerances, you’ll have a functioning firearm. This seems like that, only even moreso.

  12. Suthenboy

    The Epstein files are a dud. There is nothing there that implicates Trump but not doubt a lot of powerful people are.
    I only half paid attention: Is congress going to hold some kind of vote to release/not release the whole file?
    I bet the dems kill it…if it all comes out they cant use it anymore.

    • R C Dean

      Alright, so the House votes to the release the files. Then what happens? Anything at all? Or is this just more Congress evading its actual responsibilities?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yes

      • Suthenboy

        I didnt know congress could do that. I have no idea what bullshit is going on but I do know that if there was anything in there it would have been released already by the Biden puppet.

        My guess? There is a lot of damning info in there but so much that if it all came out so many people would be damned that the govt would stop functioning. We will never see the full files or videos.

      • DEG

        The House vote is, I think, scheduled for after Thanksgiving.

        It goes over to the Senate.

        It is a resolution. It allows for limited redactions. Being a resolution, it does not require the president’s signature. Poking around, I see no enforcement in the resolution.

        My guess is, it dies in the Senate.

      • DEG

        I didnt know congress could do that.

        Congress has oversight over the Executive. Congress writes the rules.

        Congress is going to have to be willing to impeach and remove people from office. But I think that won’t matter as I think it will die in the Senate.

      • Suthenboy

        ‘limited’

        ‘no enforcement in the resolution’

        ‘willing to impeach and remove’. *looks at federal bench*

        ‘dies in the sentate’

        My wildass guess is that a good many people involved in this ‘resolution’ are in those file and it is more dems than R’s but mostly people who donate to the people voting on the resolution.
        We are never going to see it.
        Remember the double armloads of boxes taken from Epstein island by the FBI? Where are those videos?
        This stinks worse than the warehouse with several million frozen chickens a month after Katrina.

      • juris imprudent

        limited redactions

        Narrator: The pages will be half blacked out.

      • WTF

        Congress has oversight over the Executive.

        That is not included in Article 1. The three branches are in fact co-equal.

      • Ownbestenemy

        It has oversight in impeachment and advice and consent….

        So yes, it does.

      • (((Jarflax

        The power of impeachment is oversight, Congress is the initiating branch in terms of legislation and funding. The Executive is supposed to be the practical day to day government, but it is intended to govern by implementing the laws Congress passes, using funds Congress appropriates. The Courts are the most limited, their primary power of being the final arbiter of Constitutionality is self awarded not contained in the Constitution, they were primarily intended to mediate disputes among the States. The Founders were not primarily concerned with making the branches co-equal but with preventing overreach by any of them, hence the most powerful branch Congress, had deliberate internal checks not present in the other branches.

      • DEG

        I see OBE and Jarflax beat me to it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Im with Jarflax on this. One failure of civics education was teaching everyone that the branches were equal in power. They arent.

      • WTF

        Impeachment and advise and consent for cabinet positions does not equal being able to order the executive to do things, or conduct day to day management or control of executive functions. Unless they think they can impeach and convict based on refusal of the president to follow orders, which is not a case of “high crimes and misdemeanors”.

      • WTF

        I thought maybe I missed something, so I went back and re-read Article 1. Nope, nothing in there about oversight of the executive.

      • Ownbestenemy

        What is your definition of oversight then?

        Congress exercises oversight all the time over Executive level agencies when they go before Congress to report on their business.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Oversite is not, in this context, power over as in the control, but, rather, the power to check overreaching impulses. Thus Congress gets a check on who is deemed appropriate for the judiciary (advise and consent), and whether or not a presidents actions are an over-stepping of is powers (impeachment). The president gets to make the final decision on whether a law is passed (veto power) but cannot create a law. And the judiciary cannot choose its own members, but they must be put forward by the president, and approved by congress. And in turn they can declare eithers actions illegal.

        And as for the judiciary only being to arbitrate between states, it also has always been able to arbitrate the federal gov’t. The current set of powers, as far as federal judges go, may not be explicit in black letter, but are implicit in the reach provided by the constitution.

        I am not a lawyer.

      • (((Jarflax

        Oversight does not require the ability to dictate each action someone takes, we are not talking about a slaver’s overseer here. The ability to punish malfeasance, and the ability to advise and consent to appointments is absolutely within the definition of the word oversight. If any member of the other branches misbehaves Congress has the authority to remove them, that is oversight. The president has to have the Senate’s approval to appoint his chief officers, and judges, that is oversight.

        You are playing a motte and bailey game here by switching to a very restrictive definition of oversight when the actual oversight mechanisms are listed for you.

      • DEG

        Motte and bailey isn’t just for Progressives.

    • Raven Nation

      Powerful names? If I had to bet who is near the top of the list that Trump feels a need to protect, I’d be betting on the Andrew formerly known as Prince.

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        …formerly known as Prince.

        Ƭ̵̬̊

    • Common Tater

      The whole thing is bullshit. All the people calling for “justice for the victims” want what exactly? You can’t punish the dead.

      They are never going to release what they want, which is evidence that shows Epstein worked for Mossad.

      • Ted S.

        So Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself, but he did kill Charlie Kirk.

      • Common Tater

        There is a huge overlap there. The podcasters most concerned about Epstein are the same ones suggesting Israel was behind Kirk’s assassination.

        The whole websearch thing sounds like bullshit. They wouldn’t use a VPN? I don’t even know if those graphs are real.

    • (((Jarflax

      The Founding Fathers established a series of checks and balances to impede Government overreach. The same mechanisms provide easy ways for individuals in the Government to posture while avoiding the responsibility of taking action, which would be fine except that Congress has unconstitutionally delegated its power to the Executive branch, the Courts have approved that delegation, and gone further by denying the President the power to override the rules his own subordinates make under the delegated powers. This leaves us governed by bureaucrats, while the system of checks and balances the Constitution created performs theater to distract us.

  13. The Other Kevin

    “New York and New Jersey lose hundreds of billions in resident income as Americans flee to low-tax states”
    I expect that to reverse once the new mayor ushers in his communist paradise.

    “Judge Orders Trump Officials to Free Chicago ICE Detainees”
    No.

    “US Mint in Philadelphia set to press the last-ever penny as coin gets canceled”
    I guess the penny said something racist.

    • juris imprudent

      The Kennedy clan has intelligence as a recessive gene.

    • Ted S.

      The Kennedys are Boomershit.

    • Suthenboy

      As the commies arise a pattern emerges.

  14. Common Tater

    TW:TOS

    “Second-wave feminism of the worst sort is alive and well in Britain, apparently. The United Kingdom is on its way to criminalizing depictions of choking during sex, in a move it describes as boosting “protection for women and girls.”

    The ban wouldn’t just apply to disturbing or publishing such porn, but also possessing it. It also wouldn’t matter if the images were AI-generated.”

    https://reason.com/2025/11/12/moral-panic-about-rough-sex-gives-way-to-censorship-in-the-uk/

    OFFS!

    • Ownbestenemy

      *unless its a depiction of an unnamed/unifentified certain group engaging in gangrape activities

      • (((Jarflax

        Good news! That certain group regards artistic depictions of living things like humans or slaves the humans rape as idolatry so they will approve of such bans.

    • Rat on a train

      The Archer catalog will need some trimming.

    • EvilSheldon

      Being England, at least they don’t have to worry about a ban on dressing up in women’s underthings and having your ass paddled…

      • Not Adahn

        They don’t have to “worry” as the proper sort need never fear prosecution.

    • rhywun

      boosting “protection for women and girls.”

      How are they on preventing men cos-playing as women in women’s sports and locker rooms…?

    • juris imprudent

      No sex please, we’re English.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Missionary position with the man keeping a stiff upper lip while the woman stares quietly at the ceiling is probably acceptable.

      • DEG

        These kinks are getting weird.

      • Ownbestenemy

        So they are Mormons?

    • Threedoor

      ENB hardest hit.

    • Fourscore

      Obviously not my kids.

      Hey, wait a minute, a reflection of their parents?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Yeah, I’m not sure the Altar Kids would have passed that test either.

        My father’s favorite saying when he was lecturing my sister and I about our behavior was “You are a reflection on me, and I will not look bad”.

  15. Common Tater

    “US Border Patrol Special Operations Group (SOG) arrested an illegal immigrant who brazenly protested outside the ICE facility in Portland, Ore. He had shared a video on social media ridiculing ICE personnel and stating that immigration authorities would never catch him.

    Jesus Calletano, of Mexico, is now in ICE custody pending removal from the United States, authorities said. Calletano’s apprehension occurred just days after he arrived on horseback outside the ICE office on November 7, where he waved a Mexican flag in a bold act of defiance against the Trump administration’s enhanced immigration enforcement operations.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/fafo-border-patrol-arrests-illegal-immigrant-who-protested-ice-on-horseback-in-portland-mocked-agents-declared-hed-never-be-caught

    They are going to keep trotting out these stories.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m fine with the left’s heroes being criminals who break the laws that 80% of people favor.

      • Common Tater

        Is that according to a gallop poll?

    • Fourscore

      No, they’ll keep stalling the horse stories

      • The Gunslinger

        Nay, they’ll trot them out post haste if they think they can damage Trump.

    • Pope Jimbo

      They are going to keep trotting out these stories.

      Neigh, they seem more focused on fake Epstein emails right now.

      • mindyourbusiness

        Perhaps Calletano should have bridled his mouth?….

      • Suthenboy

        I dont get it. Is this story supposed to make me sympathetic to the illegals?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Suthen:

        I hate to rein on your parade, but yes stories like this do work on the sappy.

    • juris imprudent

      Something is pretty lame in that story.

      • The Gunslinger

        I think they just glued it together real quick.

    • Ownbestenemy

      2k to the least productive class yet again…

      We sure do like stepping on our dicks and smashing tits in car doors don’t we?

      • EvilSheldon

        What you mean ‘we’, paleface?

    • Common Tater

      I find Trump’s gimmicky shit annoying.

      • juris imprudent

        Worse than annoying are the idiots that lap this up.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        But he’s always been that way.

      • rhywun

        All I got from Kathy’s gimmicky shit was a measly $150.

    • KSuellington

      Lame, it should be going directly to paying down the national debt.

  16. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda.

    Trump is causing Minnesoda to throw way more money down a rathole sooner than later.

    In a Halloween filing, Xcel asked the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for permission to double its planned battery capacity at Sherco while adding a 200-megawatt fourth phase of solar there and deploying about 136 MW of batteries at a separate site southwest of Minneapolis.
     
    The push to build even more clean energy was spurred by rising electricity demand and the looming phaseout of federal clean-energy tax credits under the Trump administration, which has worked to hamstring renewables while attempting to boost coal and gas generation.
     
    President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will sunset those incentives several years early, forcing most wind and solar projects to begin construction before July 4, 2026, to qualify for the full value. Energy storage projects qualify for the full credit value through 2033, but Xcel said uncertainty around new foreign-sourcing restrictions taking effect next year increases the urgency to deploy storage soon too.
     
    To incentivize faster clean-energy deployment ahead of the cliff created by Trump’s megalaw, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission in August said it would allow projects that meet the deadline for federal tax incentives to also access extended eligibility for state renewable energy credits.

    • Pope Jimbo

      They are trying to add 900MW of battery backup.

      I saw that the average house uses 13.5 kWh for about 8 – 12 hours of power. Back of the napkin says that the new batteries would power 67K houses for 8-12 hours

      Minneapolis alone has 215K houses.

      I’m thinking that this battery farm might not be the “fix” that they are pretending it is.

      • Suthenboy

        It doesnt have anything to do with power or green anything. It’s about the money just like everything else in the green scam.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Suthen:

        What if they spent all the govt loot on a program to train mechanics to fix EV’s?

        The college, Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Moorhead, Minnesota, will embed electric vehicle courses into its curriculum starting this coming spring, a reflection of what an evolving automotive industry demands from its workforce.
         
        M State Moorhead, as the college is known, developed the course after securing a grant from the National Science Foundation in 2022.

        Given the collapse of the EV market as the subsidies disappeared, I wonder how many cars these students will ever fix?

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        WHAT DO WE WANT?

        MOOR HEAD!

      • (((Jarflax

        That’s racist!

      • Pope Jimbo

        Nick:

        Depends on how FAR GO she is willing

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        “They used to farm chickens, now they farm batteries. It is fowl either way!”

    • Suthenboy

      Look what Trump made us do.

    • rhywun

      It’s almost like reality is starting to reassert itself.

      Grifting crybullies hardest hit.

  17. Common Tater

    “Now the Memphis-based nonprofit risks a confrontation with the Make America Healthy Again movement and its Trump administration allies, following allegations that St. Jude’s Charlotte affiliate kicked out an 8-year-old and reported his family to Child Protective Services for supposed noncompliance with his treatment plan, ignoring their documentation.

    The Boyce family complemented 21 months of oral chemotherapy with “safe, doctor-disclosed integrative therapies” that made Judah so well that it raised red flags with St. Jude Affiliate Clinic at Novant Health Hemby Children’s Hospital on whether he was getting chemo, according to a GiveSendGo fundraiser titled “The Boy Who Was Too Healthy.”

    https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/wealthy-st-jude-childrens-affiliate-calls-cps-family-because-son

    I used to give money to those assholes.

    • Threedoor

      They are advertising heavily now on talk radio.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m disappointed too. When I lived in Memphis, St. Jude was one of the city’s bright spots.

  18. Pope Jimbo

    I’m feeling a bit like a sissy today.

    We had just a bit of heavy cream left over this morning, so I am adding it to the morning coffee. I like it, but I feel that my Man Card is in jeopardy for not drinking coffee black.

    As a kid, we bought milk directly from our neighbors. After a night in our fridge, the cream had risen to the top and we would scoop it out and into another container. I miss having cream around all the time.

    I also remember being so embarrassed when a city kid would visit and ask about the small leftover clots of cream in the milk.

    • EvilSheldon

      Heavy cream in coffee is wonderful. As for your man card, Winston Wolf took his coffee with lots of cream and sugar…

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Sugar in coffee should be reserved for children and women only. If bitterness is a problem salt’s the way to go.

      • Threedoor

        Salt in coffee?!

      • Pope Jimbo

        The gunner who ran our section in the Marines always added a pinch of salt to the coffee.

        I never noticed any difference, but as a Lance Coolie, I wasn’t about to argue.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Salt in coffee was a Navy thing, wasn’t it?

      • Nephilium

        Salt will cut the bitterness of cheap or poorly roasted coffee.

        Heavy cream should be floated on top of coffee that’s already had some sugar and Irish whiskey added to it.

      • DEG

        Heavy cream is good in coffee with or without booze.

      • The Other Kevin

        We started using heavy cream in our coffee when we were eating Keto, and we’ve stuck to it. Way better than milk or half and half.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Coffee is black. Just like my lungs used to be, and my heart still is.

      • Threedoor

        I like it black to match my soul.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I feel that my Man Card is in jeopardy

      This bit needs to end. Enjoy the cream in your coffee.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    We had just a bit of heavy cream left over this morning, so I am adding it to the morning coffee. I like it, but I feel that my Man Card is in jeopardy for not drinking coffee black.

    Just as long as you don’t put pumpkin flavoring in it.

    On the farm, the cream was reserved for my grandfather’s bowl of Rice Crispies.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Yeah, we always ate cereal using the cream. That is real good.

    • The Other Kevin

      HIs man card is safe as long as it doesn’t have whipped cream and a drizzle of chocolate or caramel sauce on the top.

      • (((Jarflax

        I agree about the chocolate or caramel, but whipped cream is acceptable if the rim is sugared and the coffee is mixed 50/50 with Jameson’s

  20. Pope Jimbo

    Won’t anyone think of the locked up criminals in the sticks?

    Nearly 783,200 of the total 1.3 million people who are incarcerated in this country are locked up in rural counties, areas that are more likely to face hospital closures, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and advocacy organization working to expose the harm of mass incarceration.
     
    The Trump administration’s changes to Medicaid in the 2025 budget reconciliation bill will make it harder for rural hospitals to stay financially afloat. For those in rural jails and prisons, the closure of rural hospitals is likely to worsen mortality rates.
     
    Incarcerated people already face higher mortality rates than the general population, due in part to lack of access to basic medical care. Since 2010, there have been three civil rights cases about insufficient healthcare in prisons and jails in Virginia alone.

    You are really jonesing for your Trump hate if you start screaming about stuff like this.

    • Translucent Chum

      Who wants to bet against those cases being gender related?

    • rhywun

      “nonpartisan”

      lol

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Incarcerated people already face higher mortality rates than the general population, due in part to lack of access to basic medical care.

    No other possible explanation.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Lingering damage

    The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is officially over after President Trump signed a bill passed by Congress on Wednesday night.

    The federal government is reopening. But after 43 days on pause, things may not return to business as usual right away. For instance, federal workers are still awaiting backpay and air travel disruptions are expected to linger.

    Where is our magic reset button?

    • Threedoor

      It dosent work unless you actually turn it all off.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m curious why federal workers would be getting back pay for a period in which no work was being done…

      • Threedoor

        Most heavially unionized sector.

      • Pope Jimbo

        My pet peeve too.

        At the very least, they should lose 43 days of vacation time.

      • Nephilium

        Why do you want our glorious better to suffer?

      • EvilSheldon

        You kinda answered your own question there, Neph.

  23. Threedoor

    Deport the illegals.
    All of them and their anchor babies.

    When CA WA OR ect started giving them drivers licenses I knew they would be voting and competing with citizen commercial drivers next.

    The CDL needs to be abolished along with the federal department of transportation. Neither has saved lives and has only raised prices and lowered supply.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Roughly 1.4 million federal workers have gone without pay for six weeks. Roughly half of them were required to keep working without paychecks, while hundreds of thousands of others were furloughed.

    Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, told agency heads to direct furloughed employees to return to work Thursday.

    “Agencies should take all necessary steps to ensure that offices reopen in a prompt and orderly manner” on Thursday, Vought wrote in a Wednesday memo.

    The timing of backpay is a different question.

    They are the real victims. We must honor their noble sacrifice.

    • Threedoor

      Six weeks is more than enough time to ding another job.

      • Threedoor

        Find.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    The Smithsonian, which encompasses 21 museums and the National Zoo, says its reopening will be gradual.

    Its website says the National Museum of American History, as well as the National Air and Space Museum and its Virginia annex, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, will open their doors on Friday.

    The Smithsonian needs time to update their exhibits on the criminal reign of Trump the Terrible.

    • rhywun

      OFFS.

      Unlock doors. Done.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    I’m curious why federal workers would be getting back pay for a period in which no work was being done…

    Partial compensation for the emotional trauma.

    • kinnath

      since no one has said it yet

      fuck you, that’s why

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Shocking revelations

    Epstein repeatedly ripped Trump’s business practices in the emails and called him “dirty.”

    After attorney and former Obama White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler sent Epstein a link to a New York Times op-ed that referenced former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, Epstein responded, “you see, I know how dirty donald is. My guess is that non lawyers ny biz people have no idea. What it means to have your fixer flip.”

    In another email, Epstein accused Trump of using financial shenanigans to outbid him on a property.

    “He has no money when he buys the house,” he wrote in a February 2019 email to Wolff.

    “His biz model is putting his name on a real estate development and gets a fee for using his name. The hotel biz is just that,” Epstein wrote.

    ——-

    In a February 2017 exchange with Epstein, Ruemmler called Trump “so gross.”

    “Worse in real life and upclose,” Epstein responded.

    In a separate 2017 exchange with an unidentified person, Epstein said of Trump, “your world does not understand how dumb he really is. he will blame everyone around him. for bad results.”

    The same old shit people have been saying about him since the seventies. They’ve got him now.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    In a Dec. 2018 text exchange with Epstein, someone whose name was redacted in the documents wrote, “It will all blow over! They’re really just trying to take down Trump and doing whatever they can to do that…!”

    “yes thx. its wild. because i am the one able to take him down,” Epstein responded.

    While the exchange provides no context, it occurred during Trump’s first term as president and roughly six months or so before FBI agents arrested Epstein in New Jersey on the federal sex trafficking charges.

    We can all fill in the blanks.

    • juris imprudent

      Epstein had the tapes of the Russian hookers pissing?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Doesn’t necessarily pertain to pedo stuff though. Old Jeffrey was involved in all kinds of shady shit from arms dealing to money laundering and god only knows what else.

    • Ownbestenemy

      All starting to sound like a scorned lover

  29. DEG

    Two types of men:

    1. Those who fear having to fight a home intruder naked
    2. Those who intend to

    • juris imprudent

      I think the .357 in my hand is more concern than my junk to a home invader.

      • DEG

        One night I got woken up by a loud bang downstairs. I got up, got my pistol (a 9mm), and went downstairs. I was sleeping naked and didn’t put on any clothes.

        The loud bang? Some stained glass decorations I had hanging on the glass of my back deck door came loose and fell onto the wood floor. I was a bit sad.

    • EvilSheldon

      I’m technically not naked if I have my plate carrier on…

  30. The Late P Brooks

    In 2011, Epstein forwarded an email to “the Duke” that had been sent on to him about a story the Mail on Sunday had been working on, with Giuffre coming forward with her claims about the prince.

    “What? I don’t know any of this. How are you responding?” Epstein said he’d just gotten the request for comment and asked “g lawyers to send a letter.” “Im not sure how to respond, the only person she didn’t have sex with was Elvis,” Epstein said of Giuffre.

    I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.

    • KSuellington

      Damn, that brings back memories. One of my brothers had that exact car with the same gold paint. Wish he had kept it and restored it properly. He bought it back in the 90’s when such vehicles were cheap.

    • Threedoor

      Guy tried to trade me one for my 59 Chevy panel years ago.

      I thought the caddie was boring and said no.

    • Mad Scientist

      My girlfriend has a ’67 deVille convertible. The thing is a beast and classy as hell.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    I’d rather have the Jaguar.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Crazypants

    Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) went after Democrats “celebrating” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who has been at odds with her party in recent weeks, calling her “crazypants.”

    ——-

    Greene recently put most of the blame for rising health premiums on her party, claiming Republicans should have earlier reformed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and expiring tax credits.

    Outrageous.