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“Trump Expects Iran Talks to Resume This Week”
And nothing else happened?
Talks with the Islamic Republic’s remnants are pointless.
There’s no deal that they will Honor.
There’s no single point of authority to agree to anything.
There’s no gain by giving them room to breathe when they will just revert to “Death to America” mode.
What deal have they broken? What deal did we ever honor?
Who killed the other side’s negotiating team, leader, family, and a school full of girls in a sneak attack?
Nothing will happen because our current leaders are incapable of making deals.
Fortunately the US has the leader (bigliest) that has a coherent? plan? for Iran’s future.
All they have to do is sit in the corner until they are called on.
How many broken deals will need to be listed before you admit you’re full of shit? Or will you just reflexively say “those don’t count?”
One would be a start. The deal with Obama wasn’t broken until Trump tore it up.
I see we have moved on from us being Israel’s deluded puppet to being the villains. I get opposing the war, I get thinking the war was stupid politically, I definitely get thinking we should not have started it unless we had the will to finish it. I even agree with those ideas to some extent. But this idea that Iran was peaceful and not a problem until we launched an unprovoked attack is insanity I expect to see from the America hating, western civilization hating, left.
“One would be a start. The deal with Obama wasn’t broken until Trump tore it up.”
That’s because the Obama deal paid them to fund terrorism and encouraged them to build and use a nuke.
Good guys or bad, we have become deal incapable. (This administration and the last)
Every time a deal seems close, Trump says or does something crazy to ruin it. No deals with Russia despite the Anchorage thing, no deal with Iran, we can’t even do a trade deal with Canada.
Maybe that worked with NY contractors, it isn’t working in a world sliding towards more war.
“Good guys or bad, we have become deal incapable. (This administration and the last)”
Explain to me how you make a deal with someone that wants to kill you again. What? You make a deal to only let them kill you a little? I am always baffled that people really think you can make a deal with people that do not want one. Or that you can avoid war when you just don’t want to fight. The world is a mess today because we have forgotten that some people need killing, cause they refuse to play nice.
Trump’s only fault is to hope he can negotiate with these people. We should have been killing every single one of them until they called uncle. That is how the old western world kept these barbarians in line before oil money allowed that cancerous ideology of theirs to ruin it all.
So Alex we just kill them all? The Trump admin seems to have really believed their own bullshit that the Iranian people were going to overthrow the govt there.
“So Alex we just kill them all?”
No JI, you kill enough of them until the others get the message. It has worked in the past. And worked well. read up on Rome’s problem with Cartage and how that was solved.
“ The Trump admin seems to have really believed their own bullshit that the Iranian people were going to overthrow the govt there.”
The Iranian people tried. And these monsters killed them en masse. What’s the number at now? Something like 100K just this year murdered? The lesson here is to never give up your guns and that either socialism or islam are cancerous and deadly ideologies you will have to bloodily fight your way ut of.
(Not Alex.)
I hate to say it, but that might be where we are at.
That wasn’t the solution fifty years ago. It probably wasn’t the solution ten years ago. But today? We might have painted ourselves into a corner that only real horrorshow will get us out of.
Probably the most dangerous thing a head of state can do is start reading his own press.
Damn Alex you disappoint me. I thought you were going to actually argue for genocide. All Shias must die! [And you sort of do by invoking Carthage.]
Nope, you’ve just got your head up some neo-con ass. Somewhere buried deep in some corner of the country is a freedom-loving people – we just need to put them in charge!!!
JI, we are at a crossroads where our choice is to fight them, no matter how brutal we need to be, or to kiss modern western society goodbye. To pretend there is a compromise, is to feed the crocodile your neighbors hoping you get eaten last. But you WILL be eaten.
Ah, so you are saying kill them all but attempting to be circumspect about it.
“Ah, so you are saying kill them all but attempting to be circumspect about it.”
Not at all. Making it obvious that them pursuing that agenda of conquering humanity in the name of that ideology will result in life ending consequences requires you to do it in the open and vocally. We need to stop pretending they are a religion of peace and that their invasion of the west is something good, but more importantly, that we can live with. You don’t celebrate and compromise with cancer. You end it.
Alex you’re ignoring that their hatred of Sunnis rivals their hatred of us infidels. You think it is all about us. It isn’t.
AND they were not willing to slaughter 100s of thousands of their own people
So, the Soviets just didn’t kill enough people to keep dissent under control?
“Alex you’re ignoring that their hatred of Sunnis rivals their hatred of us infidels. You think it is all about us. It isn’t.”
Are you being dense on purpose? Did you miss my comment that the insanity is about some belief that if they murder the Jews en masse and start warring with the Dar al-Harb, that 12th hidden Mahdi will finally show up and solve the schism between Shia and Sunni? And they believe it will go their way, allowing them to then rule over the Dar al-islam?
BTW, you do realize that this hatred of anyone that doesn’t believe what they do is a direct mirror of what the left’s socialists suffer from, which is why these two ideologies have found common ground until they defeat the west? After that they will settle the score bloodily, like the Iranian Ayatollah did back in the 1980s in Iran. Those poor Iranian commies got it worse than the people supporting the old deposed Shah regime.
“So, the Soviets just didn’t kill enough people to keep dissent under control?”
They did for decades until Gorbachev got a continence. Note that Putin still feels that was a betrayal of the cabal and the movement, which is why he is still after the old Soviet republics.
So, the Soviets just didn’t kill enough people to keep dissent under control?
Stalin was willing, Gorbachev was not.
Apparently I’m not willing to close tags.
Alex – you keep saying the socialists want to defeat the west. Socialism is the west, just as much as liberalism is. Sometimes, you are so strung up in your own shit that you make no sense at all.
Stalin was willing, Gorbachev was not.
Uh huh, we just went straight from Stalin to Gorbie.
If Jaruzelski had just killed of Walesa and more of that ilk, Poland would still be a glorious people’s republic, right?
Uh huh, we just went straight from Stalin to Gorbie.
Why do you insist on arguing against things I never said?
You are the one that made the direct comparison, despite the wildly different eras and circumstances between them.
“If Jaruzelski had just killed of Walesa and more of that ilk, Poland would still be a glorious people’s republic, right?”
Someone else might have come along a couple of decades later, but you might be right.. One of the biggest pressures on the Soviet Union’s economy was the cost of keeping their slave republics compliant and in the fold.
“Alex – you keep saying the socialists want to defeat the west. Socialism is the west, just as much as liberalism is. Sometimes, you are so strung up in your own shit that you make no sense at all.”
Socialism is the west like prostate cancer is good for sex.
Socialism is the west like prostate cancer is good for sex.
Yeah, it is rooted in those famous Eastern thinkers, Plato, Rousseau, Marx, and Shaw.
JI, the wildly different circumstance between them is partly the point. Gorbachev no longer had the economic wherewithal to be able to sustain a campaign of brutality against the entire population and the crumbling Warsaw Pact nations.
But I suspect you already know this and are being deliberately obtuse.
Socialism is the west like prostate cancer is good for sex.
Kamala Harris, is that you?
WTF – now you’re drifting off into ES‘s argument. Also this is post-hoc analysis. No one contemporaneously argued economic collapse in the Eastern Bloc. Poland’s break was different in kind from Hungary and Czechoslovakia; it was the rebellion of the green grocer. Government’s don’t survive when they lose the belief of the people. That’s my point – we have examples of when that happens and we don’t have evidence of THAT happening in Iran.
“Kamala Harris, is that you?”
Yes, it takes that level of drunk/stupid for someone to think socialism is a viable model. Most of the new feudal lord-wannabes know socialism is a stupid system, but they care about power, not success. IMO, Kamala is a true believer.
“Government’s don’t survive when they lose the belief of the people.”
Governments don’t survive when they lose the ability to brutally suppress or oppress the people that have lost confidence in them. But the road to that failure can be short (Pol Pot) or very long (Castros and Kims).
new feudal lord-wannabes know socialism is a stupid system
And yet it is the envy of the average voter that actually puts them in power.
Two weeks to stop the spread!
Nuke it already?
I don’t understand why we haven’t identified any resistance inside Iran and been running weapons to them. It must exist, and I would assume Israel knows who/where they are even if we don’t.
Lessons in the ME about arming one group to fight another? Usually those weapons end up pointed at us.
The Kurds stole the first shipment.
I’m not sure if anyone identified another route to deliver anything.
We mistakenly assumed the Kurds would be a reasonable route. I would guess that Israel probably has better intelligence.
The fact is that current government is popular with the Shia majority. The war and the death of their leader has most of them rallying around the flag.
Let me guess, your source is the IRGC News Wire
Lol. “Rallying” is mandatory and dissent is punishable by death. You totally have your finger on the pulse of the Iranian public.
He’s still mourning Netanyahu’s death in a drone strike.
“It must exist”
Our foreign policy is based on this sort of wishful thinking.
It must exist
There it is, the delusion at the heart of it all.
So you believe there is no internal resistance, at all, to the Iranian regime?
Okay.
Yup. There isn’t any (functional) resistance to the government in Iran, and even if there was, there’s no way to get them anything.
no internal resistance
Well we’ve had internal resistance to our own government – does that make it a legitimate reflection of the will of the people?
Some elaboration – the Iranian government is unpopular. That doesn’t mean that there has to be an effective resistance movement in Iran – simply that the government is brutal and totalitarian enough to identify and squelch any signs of uprising.
Truly totalitarian societies on the order of Nazi Germany or China under Mao, don’t tend to have popular resistances.
What are the Afghani freedom fighters up to these days?
does that make it does that make it a legitimate reflection of the will of the people?
So you think the Iranian regime is a legitimate reflection of the will of the people? What are you basing that on? (Some people, sure, but the majority?) Keep in mind that nearly 100,000 were killed for protesting the regime.
The resistance in our country wants to end the working government we had in the past – not a perfect one, but one that semi-served the people – and to replace it with a new cabal of feudal lords and the practice of plundering from the productive, cause envy. Government to serve the basest of life loser’s fantasies.
More than 2/3rds of Iranian people do not want the current regime and its apocalyptic ideology. They however can’t change it because their vote doesn’t matter and they are disarmed and watched over by armed forces paid by the government they don’t want. I am not one to go save the oppressed of the world, but in this case the mullah’s desire to nuke Israel and start a war to bring about that fantasy of some Mahdi coming to finally solve the schism between Shia and Sunni islam, is something I would like to kill dead.
What are you basing that on?
That the regime endures. It has not upset enough of the 90 odd million people in the country to cause a general uprising.
More than 2/3rds of Iranian people do not want the current regime
Now THAT is how you neo-con!
Afghanistan wasn’t totalitarian, it was primitive. Different pathology. It didn’t have the resources to put together a real totalitarian state.
Were all of you born after 1989?
The fucking Iron Curtain was impregnable, remember? None of our intelligence apparatus predicted the fall of communism in Poland or the DDR, did they?
That’s how failed ideals fall – the people just stop playing along. Don’t fucking tell me that the Polish Communists at the end lacked sufficient brutality to keep the regime in power.
That the regime endures. It has not upset enough of the 90 odd million people in the country to cause a general uprising.
Or maybe, just maybe, because 100,000 were slaughtered when they started and they have no guns.
Maybe we should get them some guns.
“That the regime endures. It has not upset enough of the 90 odd million people in the country to cause a general uprising.”
The fact the regime has all the guns and is willing to kill the any number of the masses to retain their hold on power, is why the regime endures. Numbers of people do not matter in that case. At least not until all the people realize death is better than their current subjugation. BTW, that is the current economic strategy against the Iranian regime, if you don’t understand it.
WTF – the Shah’s regime fell because it lacked popular support within the country. The mullahs will fall for the same reason – assuming they lose that support. As long as they have it, and regardless of your ability to comprehend why they do, they will be in power.
I don’t understand why the typical Iranian believes the shit they do, but I do understand that we aren’t going to change that.
the Shah’s regime fell because it lacked popular support within the country.
AND they were not willing to slaughter 100s of thousands of their own people.
You left that part out.
Numbers of people do not matter in that case.
Says the guy claiming that 2/3rds of Iranians don’t want the government they have. Says the guy that doesn’t want to admit that he wants to kill off 90 odd million people.
AND they were not willing to slaughter 100s of thousands of their own people.
Well, that would’ve solidified the support of the people, no doubt. I mean, that’s the only way to maintain power, right?
Well, that would’ve solidified the support of the people, no doubt. I mean, that’s the only way to maintain power, right?
The only way? No.
But it is effective against a disarmed populace.
“AND they were not willing to slaughter 100s of thousands of their own people.
You left that part out.”
Ouch, that left a mark.
But it is effective against a disarmed populace.
Like the USSR and Poland, right?
Ouch, that left a mark.
Pol Pot laughs at the both of you.
You’re missing an important step here – the economy has to collapse before the people ‘just stop playing along’. The Polish (and Soviet, and Romanian, and East German) Communists at the end, they didn’t lack brutality. They lacked the economic power to enforce their brutality.
I suspect that this is what the Trump administration has shifted to with regards to Iran – crater their economy in order to bring about a popular uprising against the Ayotollahs. Obviously it’s not working very well.
“Pol Pot laughs at the both of you.,/em>”
That guy sure knew what to do with all them intellectuals and people wearing glasses.
That guy sure knew what to do with all them intellectuals and people wearing glasses.
Yes, and it worked so well for him too!
The will of the people.
What western country has a majority who want mass immigration? War with Russia? War with Iran?
“Yes, and it worked so well for him too!”
Ah, I see our disconnect. You assume he felt or should have felt sorry that the shit he did created more problems for him. All he cared about is his reign of terror to keep undisputed power. He was the top feudal lord. That colored all his choices. He cared very little what happened to the serfs. That’s socialism.
the economy has to collapse
Didn’t the post-political-collapse economies of the Iron Curtain countries end up in worse condition in the transition though? Eventually they grew, but not immediately.
Ah, I see our disconnect.
He didn’t enjoy his reign of terror for long. Funny how that works.
That’s the normal process in cases of serious social upheaval.
Also the reason that I have very little patience with the accelerationist subset of the right. Burning it all down and starting over offers a tempting vision, but there will be a lot of misery for a lot of people even if you do end up getting the city on the hill…
“What western country has a majority who want mass immigration? War with Russia? War with Iran?”
I see what you did there. You are correct that often what the people want is not what the elite want, so we do not get what the people want. Our elite tend to be scumbags looking out for themselves first. Especially the one screaming the loudest about the
millionaires andbillionaires and fair share of taxes and such shit. yeah, that is a big problem.But I stress again that not wanting war will not keep war away from you. The war with Russia would not exist if the climate change idiots had not wrecked their power generation and economies, making them reliable of all things on Russian energy. Their money pays/paid for the Russian war to rebuild the old USSR. As for Iran, the mullahs have been at war with us for more than 4 decades. We just are not bright enough to admit it because then things get real ugly.
Again, not wanting war never prevents war. Making sure the other side knows war means their eradication is what does. Vis Pacem, para bellum is very a old truth.
That’s the normal process in cases of serious social upheaval.
Sure, but we’re getting close to a chicken and egg debate.
The entire democrat party wants war with Russia.
“He didn’t enjoy his reign of terror for long. Funny how that works.”
Again, your argument is that he was unrealistic and even stupid. Not according to him and historical communism. The sad fact is that that tactic worked well for the Kims & Castros and still does. It took 75 years for the USSR to finally implode. The CCP is still going strong, and we made them rich so they can now bring us down and subject us to their rule. And the brutality and repression has kept an unpopular Iranian regime in power for over 40 years as well.
Sure, eventually all that brutality will get turned on the brutal masters, but in the interim, it works for the new feudal lords. That’s the point.
But I stress again that not wanting war will not keep war away from you.
1914 Europe sighs in agreement.
Vis Pacem, para bellum is very a old truth.
Ah yes, the first step in getting us into WWI was preparedness. Those sneaky Huns were going to storm ashore and catch us unawares.
Funny too how this old truth comes from an expansionist political state.
A less cowardly individual would admit that “no amount of evidence will move me from my religious faith in the righteousness of America’s enemies.”
The enemy of my enemy is just the enemy of my enemy. Anything beyond that is judged on a case-by-case basis.
Now look at the specific comments being responded to — that the post-revolution Iranian government has never broken a deal or acted in bad faith, or lost the love of its populace.
This irresistible desire to love the US’s enemies does NOT explain where the hate for the US came from. It might be a jilted love syndrome, discovering that OMB was really no better than any other egomaniac that seeks the POUS office. It might be that whole “obstructing the extirpation of Jews from the planet” thing that had Drake incapable of citing a single non-HAMAS news source from back in the 10/7 days.
“There’s light at the end of the tunnel”
Uh-huh. 20 years, 60 KIA Americans, perhaps 3 million Vietnamese.
Yep, we’ve got them right where we want them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgXNVA9ngx8
Bessent: Iran Economy Will Have ‘Nothing’ in 2 Weeks
They’re flattening the Iran curve?
They will have nothing and be happy?
He does have a lot of experience wrecking currencies. Unfortunately, he’s in charge of ours.
Which branch spends the money?
See above.
“
UK terror plot may have been foiled by nosy farmer from tiny village who saw masked men ‘running toward base’”
Lesson number one: no matter how great your plan, the unknown silliest thing will be the disrupter.
““I took an independent oath to support and defend the Constitution,” he continued.”
Then why are you a Democrat?
Cause he didn’t take the oath seriously?
That always cracks me up when Dems pop off about the constitution, which thewy consider nothing more than a potential obstacle to their plans.
My favorite is their pre-midterm pivot to jabbering about “affordability” – which in their diseased brains means “more handouts to government dependents and everyone else can get fucked”.
It’s worked for decades, why stop now.
Gas prices are high. We will reduce how much you spend by banning it.
Sounds funny but that is how the commies think.
Ahh, I miss the days of gas rationing. Sure, 5 gallons a week isn’t much but at least it was cheap.
For those that had jobs anyway.
And somehow the connected people still got gas.
Ted,S understands the black market.
Some animals are more important…
rhywun:
I saw a sign in someone’s yard the other day:
Worried about high prices? Vote Democrat!
a lame-duck House Democrat
Surprised he didn’t get Massie to co-author that.
It’s more impactful if each lame duck submits separate articles.
That is the real reason…they want to be someone other than a no-name representative when history is written.
Repubs should counter the articles with expulsion from the House for dereliction of his “independent” oath for failing the people of Memphis, TN.
“…and that oath means exactly what I want it to mean.”
With such bills introduced as H.R.9364 – FAST Repairs for Wheelchairs Act, who can deny his heavy hitter status.
He is out to make a name for the shitty job he has done since 2007.
He is also trying to make it read like ‘a long train of abuses and usurpations’
At least he is pointing to something I guess.
“Feds launch more efforts against birth tourism, visa fraud”
What is being done against the people that facilitate and facilitated this? Destroy the infrastructure and punish the perps, and this shit ends.
“One year later: Antifa terror designations yields convictions, global crackdown”
Lock them all up.
Line them up and shoot them. They are actual insurrectionists.
I’m with WTF on that. Ditto the Charlie Kirk murder cheerleaders, the Mangione fans, and the people who celebrated October 7 in the streets the next day. IMO people who cheer such events would gladly kill YOU had they the chance.
They have no room in their heart for the hate they pretend you have in yours for disagreeing with them…
I didn’t despise Mangione’s trumpet playing that bad. I also liked that he was recurring character in King of the Hill.
That made me laugh Dr. Otto.
“The Giants likely have now lost their most important offensive player and their best defensive player to season-ending injuries in back-to-back weeks.
Star pass rusher Brian Burns is feared to have suffered a torn ACL during Sunday’s 12-7 win over the Titans, according to ESPN.”
https://nypost.com/2026/09/28/sports/brian-burns-feared-to-have-suffered-torn-acl-in-yet-another-massive-giants-crusher/
Yikes!
Other than some orangeball sport nobody watches and that baseball team everyone hates there isn’t a decent team in NYC these days.
The Devils looked good the other day in pre-season against the Islanders but sheesh.
And NYC doesn’t care about the Devils.
I seriously believe the league wouldn’t have instituted the trapezoid had Brodeur played for an Original Six team.
Well… Tri-State Area. There is at least one Devils fan in NYC too.
https://pagesix.com/2026/09/27/entertainment/vmas-2026-best-and-worst-moments-dolly-parton-tributes-madonnas-bizarre-speeches/
Madonna looks ridiculous.
She has for the last 20 years.
JFC why do you follow that trash.
I do still marvel that “Snoop” is a respectable person in those circles.
He only murdered that one guy. How long you going to hold that against him?
[ Alec Baldw has entered the chat ]
Yeah he’s a former pimp, possibly a murderer, and definitely a degenerate, but you act like that sets him apart from the rest of that crowd.
They respect his game?
Guys like Snoop and Flavor Flav respect women, unlike that monster Arch Manning 🤣
Like Tim Walz asks, should we really be judging people on their worst day(s)?
though he did land a zinger against Madonna after her racy performance…
“…she ain’t no virgin no more!”
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Boy, that is some original material that no one has ever said/heard before. I guess Snoop wasn’t hanging around the right kids during elementary school recess back in the mid ’80s.
Hell I remember that I even heard about a parent saying that, when that song/album came out my sister’s friend asked her mom what a virgin was and mom tried to avoid the question by answering “Not Madonna”.
“Trump finds JFK’s plan for Cuban over throw”
It’s gonna be a cakewalk. A couple days at the most.
Then what?
Was that the plan where JFK gives Havana back to the mob?
Follow the money.
Sure, but it was our mob.
Yes, socialism is islam’s Trojan horse..
And the reality check. Just like Boric in Chile, the wild-eyed leftist might win an election, but can’t actually deliver on the promises.
The left has always delivered on socialism’s reality. Always. People seem to confound the fact that the promises are always bullshit that can never come about. But what they do is what socialism is always about: plundering the successful by the new feudal lords, with crumbs being shared with the rubes that voted the socialists into power. it’s feudalism with a veneer of legitimacy, because they (the new feudal lords) use the masses to get rid of the old feudal lords.
“Wilson must handle a multiyear budget deficit in the hundreds of millions…”
So, what’s the problem? Just raise taxes by hundreds of millions. Wilson just doesn’t understand economics.
socialism’s reality
That isn’t the promise that wins them elections.
Mamdani isn’t delivering any of his promises, either. Imagine that.
Other than shoving his Islamist bona fides in everyone’s face he hasn’t really accomplished much at all.
“That isn’t the promise that wins them elections.”
Correct. It is all lies and appeals to envy, after canceling shame, that does that does that for them. That coupled with the institutions of education, by design, failing to educate people on the real history of socialism in practice. That is why we have people today that think Hitler – an avowed ex-marxist that invented a new brand of national socialism because he saw the inherent flaws in international socialism – being considered as the epitome of evil, while histories biggest butchers, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the Kims, the Castros, and so on, are not only given a pass, but eulogized by people that want more of that.
Hitler – an avowed ex-marxist
I’ve never seen evidence that Hitler was a one-time marxist. Mussolini certainly was, and some of the other Nazi leadership, and certainly the street-fighter crowd.
Anyway, the point now clearly becomes that socialism has a popular appeal, base as it is. Envy is an eternal human condition, isn’t it?
OK, Mamdani did deliver on one promise.
Sure, 5.6% of the regulated stock is empty because it’s unprofitable to fix them and occupied apartments will slowly deteriorate for the same reason but hey, the man has another campaign coming up.
will slowly deteriorate
And then the city will seize them.
“I’ve never seen evidence that Hitler was a one-time marxist.”
That used to be in all the old history books. In fact, the entire cabal of Nazis were a bunch ofex commies with some seriously perverse sexual inclinations. Fascism, as Mussolini pointed out, came when people that were able to see the biggest faults in marxism – that since government ran everything, and the people in government were chosen for their fervor of the marxist cause/agenda, and not capability to run things, government would end up blamed when everything failed – decided to fix that international socialism shit by inventing national socialism, where government could blame a private sector it had full control of through regulation, whenever shit went wrong. The commies whitewashed that fact when they rebranded Hitler as right wing.
Every modern movement is an ancient aspect of human nature dressed up to suit modern tastes. How could it be otherwise? Evolution works too slowly and without direction to change our nature and God is obviously not interested in doing it. We’re going to repeat the same patterns endlessly until we are no longer around. The good news is that the good aspects of our nature that every once in a while let us have a beautiful moment will also continue. The bad news is we are doomed to spend far more of our mental capacity worrying about the next disaster or wallowing in misery than enjoying those moments. On the other hand that is what spurred all of our technological progress.
“A Texas man was arrested after police say he intentionally crashed his vehicle through the front entrance of a Kroger grocery store because he needed to use the bathroom, according to police.”
https://nypost.com/2026/09/28/us-news/texas-man-arrested-after-intentionally-crashing-into-a-closed-kroger-to-use-bathroom-cops/
LOL
When you got to go???
That was not me.
“Businesses should provide public restrooms 24/7.”
From what I’ve seen in pictures, businesses do provide public restrooms,i.e. the sidewalks, sides of buildings. Even a campground with local foot traffic.
Bathrooms are a human right
San Fran here we come!
At 4:30am on a Sunday.
Man, it sucks waking up in the middle of the night having to take a leak.
When the cops showed up did he say “You aren’t gonna believe this shit?”
The “golden ticket” was just an acknowledgement that the holder was in the top 5% of the population, IQ and executive function-wise.
Then colleges started offering admission to anyone who could fog a mirror and designing degrees with zero rigor.
SPLACs are learning now how bad an idea that was, but the big boys aren’t far behind.
The wealthy and connected go to college and then to high paying careers. What if the poor and unconnected went to college …
And Griggs meant that companies needed a proxy for intelligence and a 4 year degree was the best option at the time.
Absent Griggs things would have looked quite a bit different.
(TIL that Duke was using the Wonderlic test that they use with NFL prospects).
Ironic isn’t it that to pursue a career in law enforcement you pretty much have to not have anything more than a HS diploma.
That’s certainly not universally true, JI.
E.g., the one I’m slightly familiar with
https://nypdrecruit.com/pages/police-officer-qualifications
Plenty of cops have college degrees. It’s been this way for decades.
“must be a resident of the City of New York or of Nassau, Westchester, Suffolk, Orange, Rockland, or Putnam counties”
Huh. I wonder why adjacent NJ counties are verboten. I could commute two hours from Riverhead but not ten minutes from Jersey City?
Ah, so a little bit of knowledge… (some credits but not a degree)
“Ah, so a little bit of knowledge… (some credits but not a degree)”
The vast majority of degrees, especially in todays woke world, are worthless shit, representing nothing more than credentialing. Especially from what once were considered the top schools and Ivy leage.
Who in the hell told you this? It’s not true at all, even if your idea of ‘pursuing a career in law enforcement’ is retiring as a patrolman after twenty years.
You need a bachelor’s to make captain in the NYPD; not strictly required, but a master’s or better is preferred for higher ranks.
IOW, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Don’t make the mistake of confusing rural cowtown Sheriff’s Departments (which will sometimes hire an officer on the basis of, “Can you take a whuppin’?”) with the bureaucratic hellscape of mid-to-large city police agencies. Making a career at one of the later is like being any other flavor of government worker – degrees and credentials are critically important.
“Rockaway Beach rescue Itty Bitty City Kitties won’t let anyone who’s MAGA, conservative or even non-political adopt one of its furballs, insists its director, Samantha Knox; the shelter shares such lovegrams as “Every kitten knows it will *always* be Free Palestine” and “This is a kitten account that hates ICE.”
Plus: “Kittens. Don’t. Mourn. Nazis” — posted on the anniversary of the Charlie Kirk assassination.”
https://nypost.com/2026/09/26/opinion/politicizing-pet-adoption-is-proof-woke-2-is-as-insane-as-woke-1/
CWABOA
Crazy cat ladies act like crazy cat ladies?
Truly a dog bites man kind of story.
I do appreciate when these types display their madness for all to see. I would certainly never adopt from that bunch.
Let’s exclude a large part of the population and then bitch about how there aren’t enough people adopting cats.
But hey, politics uber alles.
something something Republicans buy sneakers too
That’s why Michael Jordan is a billionaire, and Samantha Knox has to choose month-to-month between her vegan cat food and her anti-anxiety meds.
I’ve had a stupid joke stuck in my head. Only way to get it out is to share it.
“Why did the comedian perform while sick? He felt funny.”
I said stupid, not funny. You’re welcome.
LOL big time. You really got me there…
Why don’t cannibals eat comedians?
They taste funny
“Last week, Candace Owens devoted three straight episodes of her YouTube show to conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk’s killing, suggesting a ‘decoy’ was used and floating the idea that Kirk wasn’t shot at all.
The three videos have racked up a combined 3.9 million views, underlining the huge audience for Owens’ increasingly outlandish claims about the conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder who hired her in 2017.
In two episodes the week prior, Owens continued her campaign against Kirk’s widow, Erika, who she has baselessly accused of being connected to her husband’s death.
Despite the outlandish nature of her claims, Owens’ audience keeps growing – her YouTube channel passed six million subscribers this summer.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16031915/candace-owens-charlie-kirk-family.html
https://archive.is/IJoWG
So he wasn’t shot, but Erika Kirk is connected to his death?
Candace is making bank feeding idiots the slop they want to hear. A horrible sellout, but making bank.
Contradictions only matter if you 1. actually want to find truth and 2. accept the idea that the universe is rational and real. When you are looking for popularity or celebrity inconsistency lets you be whatever the current situation demands.
A $9.6M Estate on 387 Acres That Will Blow You AWAY | Texas Luxury Ranch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rL4yn8a1Yw
there ought to be a principle in interior design ” too may stuffed animals”.
You a furry or something?
I would say that is just barely enough stuffed animals.
Although, it’s kinda lame to display trophy mounts that you bought with the house. You shouldn’t be mounting and displaying anything that you didn’t kill yourself.
Not to kink shame but I tend to believe you shouldn’t be mounting anything anyone killed…
You will have to pry my grifter head collection from my cold, green hands…
To each their own. I think it’s more admirable to make use of the entire carcass, as opposed to just eating the edible parts and letting the rest rot.
Wait, what are we talking about here?
To each their own. I think it’s more admirable to make use of the entire carcass, as opposed to just eating the edible parts and letting the rest rot.
Wait, what are we talking about here?
Eating ass, I think?
Necrophiliac bestiality? Or bestial necrophilia, I am not sure which is the main thrust and which is the modifier in this pairing.
Agreed that trophies should be *your* trophies, unless it’s a historic residence or something. I kept some of my fathers (non-taxidermy) trophies and put them up on shelves as rememberance.
Now I’m wondering how much selling off of other people’s taxidermy would bring in. There was a taxidermists very near the studio back when I was managing the band in Austin but I don’t remember ever checking out their prices for anything other than leather.
Apologies to our more flamboyant Glibs, but the most disturbing part of this desire to mount the animals you’ve killed is that most hunters only shoot the male of the species. I guess, though, that if you are already into necrophilia and bestiality what is a little homosexuality?
Also, some smaller game birds like morning doves are just going to explode if you mount them. I’d think you’d need to duct tape them first.
Oh I see. That’s pretty normal for a fair sized estate. My brother in law has that number beat in a smaller living space.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That’s awesome. My wife is known for her cupcakes but she never took it to that level. I’ll have to share this with her.
You just want a free trip to Disney Land!
We’re going next month, I don’t think she can bake enough to pay for it in the next three weeks.
TOK.
What sort of loser talk is that? You need to learn from our new vibrant neighbors, the Somalis. They could easily make that money in three weeks with the right govt program.
I did not have the Browns tied for both first and last place in the division after week 3.
Unfortunately I did have the Bengal’s defense giving up yards after contact even with their performance the first couple weeks.
BEHOLD! The Mighty Golden Rodents!
All other college coaches are namby pambies compared to PJ Fleck.
Uffda. He is so tiresome.
Good morning!
Quite the ‘tard fight upthread this morning!
Good morning! I survived my first hockey trip of the season. 5 games in three days plus travel, in Park City Utah. We went 3-2, good enough for third out of six, which is what we did last year. My body feels pretty good, no shoulder issues or concussion symptoms (even after a few hits). I was worried after the first game Friday, because my heart rate was up and I got pretty tired. Then I remembered I hadn’t adjusted to the altitude. Saturday I felt much better. My skills are coming back and I got better every game. It was just a lot in three days, and yesterday Trump was in Chicago for a golf thing so all the flights were delayed, then there was other stupidity at the airport so I got home late. This is why God invented coffee.
This is the place we stayed, more upscale than usual for a hockey trip, but my coach got a few suites that were comfortable for four of us. I think he said they were $159 a night, which is super cheap. I really like the place, the rooms were big and fancy and the staff was all professional. I’m sure during ski season it’s way more expensive, but Utah is beautiful this time of year. https://www.blackrockmountainresort.com/
Hope you all have a great day!
Glad the recovery is going well.
Great to hear you’re back on the ice and doing well!
+1
Relevant to Tres:
Apparently someone wants me to run EPA 26A here in my lab. More work makes me more valuable!
Sweet Jesus, someone needs to tell the EPA that it’s not 1975 anymore.
Care to elaborate on what prompted this?
Speaking of wild game, sandhill cranes have begun showing up in my neighborhood.
I wanted to bring our stupid cat down there and see what he’d think about giant birds. See if he thinks he could take them. (Our old cat would definitely have tried and probably succeeded somehow, he was a killing machine).
You can hunt sandhill cranes in NoDak. The first year the season opened my dad and his buddy were shooting at some and his buddy broke a wing on one. Normally, with a crippled bird, you just wring its neck to finish it off. My dad’s buddy walked over to the crane thinking he was going to do that. Instead the crane speared him with his beak and left a really nasty gash in his forearm. He had back off and shoot it again.
My dad and his other buddies actually had a sandhill crane head mounted and would torment the poor guy who had gotten beaked with it. They’d stick it around the corner of a door or wall and call out the guy’s name. They thought it was a riot. The guy who got stabbed, not so much.
Lunar base, here we come?