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December 16, 2025

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lonejustice said...: Beautiful pictures. But Trump is still an asshole. Imagine all of the posts when he dies, compared to all of the posts when Rob Reiner was killed. People will gladly piss and shit on Trump's grave. I'm sorry I said this, but this is the truth.; 12/16/25, 6:06 PM
narciso said...: The third pic was best; 12/16/25, 6:09 PM
rehajm said...: The water was stiff this morning but the sun was out later and it warmed up a bit…; 12/16/25, 6:11 PM
Clyde said...: Clyde's Top 15 Favorite "New" Songs of 2025 - Part 2 of 16
#15 - Paul Melancon - "Jeff Lynne" - Camera Obscura (2002)

With the honorable mentions out of the way, we start the Top 15 countdown today. I'm sure that you will be shocked to learn that this one is from Susan's ELOish playlist. Paul Melancon does a great job with this ELO homage. I found it very catchy. I'm not sure how this only has 800 views in 10 years; it deserves more love than that!

https://youtu.be/zL-AU80e9y0?si=7aurH8XoJXGgxsZN; 12/16/25, 6:12 PM
Kakistocracy said...: DESIGNATING FENTANYL AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION ~ WH.gov

Just a week after he releases a convicted drug baron.

Using WMD as a pretext to invade a foreign country. I wonder where Trump got that idea from.

Luckily we all learned from the Iraq fiasco. Right?; 12/16/25, 6:13 PM
Clyde said...: Sorry, lonejustice, but I'll be doing my graveyard pissing in Delaware.; 12/16/25, 6:15 PM
Original Mike said...: You waited all day for that, didn't you lonejustice? Are you lonely? Bored?; 12/16/25, 6:17 PM
Original Mike said...: Looks like there's a new person of interest in the Brown University murders.; 12/16/25, 6:18 PM
Kakistocracy said...: After four years of Democratic chaos that left America looking like a frat house at 3 a.m., we’re finally back under the strong, decisive leadership of President Donald J. Trump.

He reminds me so much of my alcoholic father—unpredictable, loud, occasionally slurring, but somehow always getting the job done while everyone else is still hungover. ~ Susie Wiles; 12/16/25, 6:20 PM
Narr said...: Could that be Luna snagged on a tree in #1? Sure looks like her.; 12/16/25, 6:23 PM
lonejustice said...: Trump celebrates the death of all of his political opponents. All of these people will piss and shit on his grave when he is buried. I do not approve of this. But Trump did this to himself.; 12/16/25, 6:24 PM
narciso said...: So from the crumbs in the last thread the keystone cops seem less cartoony; 12/16/25, 6:27 PM
Original Mike said...: "Could that be Luna snagged on a tree in #1?"

Indeed.; 12/16/25, 6:28 PM
narciso said...: Yeah the murderbots say what now; 12/16/25, 6:29 PM
narciso said...: Good one clyde; 12/16/25, 6:32 PM
Jim at said...: I'm sorry I said this...

No you're not.
Asshole.; 12/16/25, 6:38 PM
Jim at said...: Trump celebrates the death of all of his political opponents.

You're the same stupid fuck who said Trump is going to mass execute his political opponents. So, he's going to kill them all and then celebrate? Is that his game plan?; 12/16/25, 6:40 PM
narciso said...: Townhall.com on X: "Reporter: Why didn't the siren emergency system go off? Brown University President: "That's not a system we would ever use in the case of an active shooter." Reporter: "It does say on the website...that it is for an active shooter." Brown University President: "It depends on https://t.co/SgBHecIplP" / X https://share.google/QuuJ10MfSOupz6jgU; 12/16/25, 6:42 PM
Jamie said...: I'm sorry I said this, but this is the truth.

How old are you? 🙄; 12/16/25, 6:44 PM
Steve Witherspoon said...: Aaaa yes, the sights you can see when you take a stroll out to Picnic Point.; 12/16/25, 6:45 PM
Jamie said...: Trump celebrates the death of all of his political opponents. All of these people will piss and shit on his grave when he is buried.

The dead ones? That would be a good trick.; 12/16/25, 6:46 PM
Curious George said...: "lonejustice said...
Trump celebrates the death of all of his political opponents."

Who?; 12/16/25, 6:47 PM
bagoh20 said...: "People will gladly piss and shit on Trump's grave."
They said the same about Lincoln, and for the same reason. In the voice of Foghorn Leghorn: "I say, the bastard is screwing up the power structure, boy.; 12/16/25, 6:50 PM
Steve Witherspoon said...: President Trump does what he does "best" when talking about Rob Reiner without out a teleprompter, opens his mouth to change socks. Trumps mouth is a loose cannon and has been for years, I'm quite tired of it.

As for Rob Reiner; he was a great actor and director but his political views were so far out in left field that there was no hope of ever bringing him back to reality.; 12/16/25, 6:50 PM
James K said...: Jewish MIT Professor gunned down in his home.

https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2001000656153534845

Not much in the way of details, so maybe his Jewishness is not relevant. Maybe.; 12/16/25, 6:51 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Yes looking to provoke another war,the guy they said was the one to make America first and no new wars. Its all a buildup. Claim its drugs(but pardon major drug dealers,) bomb the boatd and then talk of bombing the land all in ploy of regime change. Its the same NEOCON story, and you can point out all the righties who fell for the bait. Loves bombing the boats, loved bombing Iran got the taste there, gonna love bombing the land force Meduro to defend and then rightously say time to kill them all, all the while begging for Peace prize. WTF how blind can people be. Gotta be brain dead if you cant see theu this ploy.; 12/16/25, 6:57 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/16/25, 6:57 PM
narciso said...: Dinky not knowing what neocon is shocker; 12/16/25, 6:58 PM
wildswan said...: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is arguing for the rule of experts. In sofar as eugenics entered into American law and society it was through the acceptance of expert opinion in anthropology and other social sciences. "Experts" declared that science, anthropology for example, showed the existence of races and the superiority/inferiority of different races (IQ studies). For example, EA Hooton, anthropologist at Harvard served on an "expert" committee which established as the conclusion of experts that the black race was closer to the primates than the white. He argued that "the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal' " [is] "one of the most stupendous falsehoods ever uttered by man." Crime and Man 1939. He did not think that the field of IQ testing was advanced enough in his time to measure IQ accurately* but this left the door open for those in the field to argue that the field had advanced since Hooton wrote and that they were able measure IQ accurately and that the black score of an average IQ of 85 was accurate. This "expert" opinion cursed race relations all through the late 20th century and up to our time. (See the story of the Pioneer Fund, e.g., The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund.Tucker 2007).
Expert advice is now using eugenicists to advance methods of social control based on behavioral genetics. We might hope that Justice Jackson would be wary of "expert" opinion on genetics and behavior, but I think she was chosen for her special quality of arrogant blindness and will damage as many people as Hooton on behalf of the same ideology.

* I used Wikipedia: "EA Hooon" and "The Pioneer Fund" for the quotes. The argument is the one advanced by the Eugenics Watch.; 12/16/25, 7:00 PM
tommyesq said...: AAaannddd, the new suspect in the Brown shooting is... tranny pro-palestinian student for whom Brown is scrubbing social media.; 12/16/25, 7:03 PM
narciso said...: Obviously not those experts more in the vein of the late derrick bell or the former hank rogers ibram kendi; 12/16/25, 7:03 PM
Steve Witherspoon said...: wildswan wrote, "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is arguing for the rule of experts."

Justice Ketanji Jackson has stated some rather moronic things since she was appointed to SCOTUS. Her lack of engaging her intellect on the fly is painfully obvious.; 12/16/25, 7:12 PM
bagoh20 said...: "but his political views were so far out in left field that there was no hope of ever bringing him back to reality."

Trump's "loose cannon" said the same thing.; 12/16/25, 7:15 PM
mccullough said...: This sunrise is about 33 degrees of true east. From the Althouse photo vantage point, will the capitol block the sunrise on the winter solstice?; 12/16/25, 7:15 PM
Beasts of England said...: Just saw the AmEx bill scene from ‘Wolf of Wall Street’. Reiner was a very funny guy. His political opinions were, however, ridiculous. But, if I only enjoyed entertainers with politics similar to my own, I’d be left listening to myself play guitar all day. Not that there’s anything wrong with that… lol; 12/16/25, 7:16 PM
narciso said...: Yesh when switches from brit affectation to working class conman

I loved his stuff up to few good men
Didnt see ghost of mississippi which featured bsldwin and woods; 12/16/25, 7:19 PM
Jupiter said...: "So, he's going to kill them all and then celebrate? Is that his game plan?"
Works for me.; 12/16/25, 7:20 PM
Leland said...: Lonejustice molests civility with his bullshit.; 12/16/25, 7:21 PM
narciso said...: https://share.google/4Rmmm1mZCLYxXc2Ba; 12/16/25, 7:23 PM
mccullough said...: Lonejustice is another mentally challenged ideologue. Just ignore her.; 12/16/25, 7:24 PM
buwaya said...: Practical brutality of blowing up cigarette boats taking drugs north from South America. That is a better deterrent than arresting the crews and less work for the Navy (boarding parties, snall boat handling in rough water, etc,) and the Navy is short of small ships suitable for this duty.
This cuts down on practical routes. The smugglers are left with coastal crawls, by stages, in very small boats up the isthmus of Panama, or smuggling on merchant traffic (sticking drugs in shipping containers), or overland through the wilderness of the Darien gap. All these have been done, but logistically they are less efficient.
Context - the global cocaine market - prodiction and sales- has been exploding, because now it really is a global market. The current hot spot is Europe. Large quantities are showing up in India and SE Asia.; 12/16/25, 7:24 PM
Jim at said...: Remember, this lonejustice guy claims to have been a Republican consultant in Iowa for 20(?) years and a three-time Trump voter.

That's not me saying it. He's said it. Many times.; 12/16/25, 7:26 PM
Iman said...: lonejustus is one of those tossers I’ve read so much about. No redeeming value and the prescription for him is to continue “having congress” with his prize Duroc, with him on the bottom, as is his preference.; 12/16/25, 7:26 PM
narciso said...: Its the sun cartel with all their appendagss that extend as far as switzerland; 12/16/25, 7:28 PM
narciso said...: Ironically wolf of wall street was part of greater scam the mzlaysian saudi imdb matter; 12/16/25, 7:29 PM
narciso said...: Thats some comic timing righr there; 12/16/25, 7:30 PM
narciso said...: Appendages; 12/16/25, 7:31 PM
Original Mike said...: "You're the same stupid fuck who said Trump is going to mass execute his political opponents."

He's just looking for attention.; 12/16/25, 7:34 PM
Original Mike said...: "From the Althouse photo vantage point, will the capitol block the sunrise on the winter solstice?"

Stone Dome.; 12/16/25, 7:35 PM
narciso said...: As legit as upchuck nee cleaver; 12/16/25, 7:35 PM
narciso said...: The most recent port of egress la guaira is very interesting; 12/16/25, 7:38 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump declares 'Venezuelan regime' a foreign terrorist organization, orders oil tanker blockade ~ Fox News

Affordability hoax and phantom inflation. Phony war is next?; 12/16/25, 7:44 PM
Achilles said...: lonejustice said...

Trump celebrates the death of all of his political opponents. All of these people will piss and shit on his grave when he is buried. I do not approve of this. But Trump did this to himself.

It is fun to watch these retards complain about Trump. What you don't understand is Trump is being really nice to you. If he was half as fascist as you paint him out to be you wouldn't be posting here. You know what you are saying is bullshit. Trump is all talk.

Trump is losing support because he is not throwing traitors in jail and he is not deporting enough people and not killing enough drug dealers.

You guys are going to be looking back on Trump as the golden days soon.; 12/16/25, 7:50 PM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...: “People will gladly piss and shit on Trump’s grave”

LOL! So what. He’s a politician. It goes with the territory. There will be a long line to do the same for your heroes Biden, Obama and Clinton.; 12/16/25, 7:52 PM
Achilles said...: buwaya said...

Context - the global cocaine market - prodiction and sales- has been exploding, because now it really is a global market. The current hot spot is Europe. Large quantities are showing up in India and SE Asia.

Most of the drugs Trump is blowing up are actually heading to Islands that can ship to Britain without customs checks.; 12/16/25, 7:53 PM
Achilles said...: Meanwhile we have another trans freak free Palestine pyrson who they identified almost immediately after the shooting.

But they covered it up so they had time to scrub his pro-Biden anti trump open borders hatred of the US social media.

The Democrat political platform is open borders, welfare for illegals, burning the american flag, and attacking ICE/NG soldiers.

The Democrat political platform is the definition of treason.; 12/16/25, 7:57 PM
Eva Marie said...: “Nick Reiner faces two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of his parents. The charging documents include a ‘special circumstance’ allegation of multiple murders, which makes him eligible for a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole and potentially the death penalty if prosecutors pursue it.”
Don’t you think these murders had to be planned in advance, particularly having an appropriate knife? His earlier podcast interview emphasizing his tendency to violence when on drugs may have been deliberate as well. As for not bringing a gun, if he was committed involuntarily at some point he would be ineligible to buy a gun.; 12/16/25, 8:01 PM
Kakistocracy said...: I would be with Trump on this, except that it is China rather than Venezuela that is the source of fentanyl sold in the US.

His polling is bad, maybe start a war? could be one reason. Let's face it, it could just be a way to distract from the affordability crises and the fact that he can't really keep blaming Biden and get those independents who gave them the win.; 12/16/25, 8:01 PM
Eva Marie said...: “California’s Probate Code has a “slayer rule” that generally prevents a person who “feloniously and intentionally” kills someone from inheriting from that victim’s estate”
“ California law becomes more complicated when mental illness is involved, especially if a person is found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI). Some California sources indicate that a person found NGRI of murder cannot automatically be denied an otherwise lawful inheritance solely on that basis, because the criminal verdict recognizes that they were legally insane rather than acting with the kind of culpable, intentional state the slayer rule assumes.”
This could have been a ploy to get his inheritance earlier. His folks seemed to be in pretty good shape.; 12/16/25, 8:06 PM
Eva Marie said...: I’m surprised politically correct California has something called NGRI.; 12/16/25, 8:08 PM
Mason G said...: "I’m surprised politically correct California has something called NGRI."

Just don't say it out loud and you'll be fine. Probably.; 12/16/25, 8:10 PM
mccullough said...: What qualifies as Insane in California?; 12/16/25, 8:14 PM
Eva Marie said...: It would make a difference if he brought the knife or it was already on the scene. But he lived in their guest house, he could have planted or chosen the knife months or more in advance. Then, a staged fight in front of witnesses and inheritance here we come.; 12/16/25, 8:17 PM
Iman said...: I must say the woman doing the sign language for the Providence/Brown University update could do stand up comedy and be a big hit.; 12/16/25, 8:19 PM
Eva Marie said...: “What qualifies as Insane in California?“
The competence of defense council, I presume. With a percentage if the estate as the fee, all systems are go.; 12/16/25, 8:19 PM
Clyde said...: @ mccullough
I chortled at that question. Brought to mind the old Alice Cooper song “Inmates (We’re All Crazy).”; 12/16/25, 8:19 PM
le Douanier said...: Now the very fine people (as DJT calls them) will need to protest Rob Lee going down and Barbara Rose Johns going up in the US Capitol.

FTR, he did say that very fine people support keeping racist statues that were specifically installed to express opposition to equal rights being, finally, allowed for all Americans regardless of skin color. Today was a victory against the folks that oppose removing racist statues.

OTOH, now the Coast Guard is swastika curious. So the racist statue fans can be happy about that.; 12/16/25, 8:21 PM
Iman said...: Speaking of chortling, where’s the hag this fine evening? Out plying her “trade”?; 12/16/25, 8:22 PM
buwaya said...: Chinese fentanyl precusor chemicals are imported into Mexico. The fentanyl is mainly manufactured in Mexico and smuggled overland into the US.
I suspect the fentanyl smuggling traffic is down because of the Trump border crackdown. If my experience in San Francisco is anything to go by, as this October I saw no obvious addicts on the streets. In 2024 I was there twice and I saw lots having their crises right on Market Street.
Somebody probably has stats.; 12/16/25, 8:22 PM
Eva Marie said...: Hasn’t the stage already been set? The movie that portrayed the dad as bully (which Nick wrote), the obsessive tweets. They should try for a MAGA leaning jury. Would that be a risk worth taking?; 12/16/25, 8:23 PM
Iman said...: “What qualifies as Insane in California?“

At this point, unfortunately, it is simply residency.; 12/16/25, 8:24 PM
buwaya said...: What I want is the restoration of the Padre Serra sculpture at Golden Gate Park, and the prosecution of those that destroyed it in 2020.; 12/16/25, 8:25 PM
Eva Marie said...: defense counsel not council. (I hate spellcheck.); 12/16/25, 8:26 PM
Eva Marie said...: Nick is already under suicide watch. The poor boy is so distressed.; 12/16/25, 8:29 PM
Dr Weevil said...: I’m surprised no one’s blamed Trump for the Reiner murders. I’ve read that cocaine prices in the US are up 60-70% since he started blowing up the drug boats. Were the Reiners killed for refusing to raise their son’s allowance so he could afford the new prices?; 12/16/25, 8:35 PM
Lazarus said...: "Jewish MIT Professor gunned down in his home." Nuno F. Loureiro? Reports are that he was Jewish, but that's been disputed. My guess would be no, but he did live in Brookline.; 12/16/25, 8:36 PM
Original Mike said...: "defense counsel not council. (I hate spellcheck.)"

So turn it off.; 12/16/25, 8:40 PM
Eva Marie said...: His siblings may not even put up a fight. Money sooner rather than later is always appreciated. (estate is valued at $200 million); 12/16/25, 8:43 PM
Political Junkie said...: lonejutice at 606am - First post - I agree. DJT is an asshole. But I voted for him in 2024 and 100% am happy I did, because in my eyes, he was/is "our asshole".; 12/16/25, 8:44 PM
Eva Marie said...: Why would I turn off a good excuse?; 12/16/25, 8:44 PM
Original Mike said...: LOL; 12/16/25, 8:47 PM
Eva Marie said...: Plus I like that it completes words for me. Just sometimes it don’t work so good.; 12/16/25, 8:47 PM
Original Mike said...: So you don't hate it.
I do hate it and have turned it off. It embarrassed me one too many times.; 12/16/25, 8:49 PM
James K said...: "Reports are that he was Jewish, but that's been disputed."

Yeah, I haven't seen it in the mainstream news accounts, but it was all over X, including Laura Loomer, who's not exactly reliable.; 12/16/25, 8:57 PM
Eva Marie said...: As the male commenters here would say, “women hate their husbands - but sometimes they find them useful.” So with spellcheck.; 12/16/25, 9:00 PM
Eva Marie said...: Was Nick on drugs when he did the deed or did he run away so he could be found in a drug addled state? I don’t know if he was on drugs but I assume at sometime that day he was.; 12/16/25, 9:07 PM
Eva Marie said...: I blame sometime on spellcheck as well.; 12/16/25, 9:10 PM
Dr Weevil said...: Nuno Loureiro looks like a Portuguese name. Many descendants of the Jews banished from Portugal did great things in other countries: philosopher Benedict Spinoza in the Netherlands, economist David Ricardo in the UK, Supreme Court justice Benjamin Cardozo in the USA. A talented bunch.; 12/16/25, 9:11 PM
Ampersand said...: Iran wants to kill our nuke scientists. They need to be deterred.; 12/16/25, 9:23 PM
Big Mike said...: Eva Marie said...

As the male commenters here would say, “women hate their husbands - but sometimes they find them useful.”

The running joke between me and my wife of fifty years is that women only marry because of stuck lids on jelly jars and the fact that they can’t reach the middle of their backs when those backs need scratching.; 12/16/25, 10:15 PM
buwaya said...: My jelly jar skills are second to none.; 12/16/25, 10:22 PM
Political Junkie said...: Things are about to Get Real in Venezuela. MAGA might not like it, but from my conservative lens, these are pro-America actions. Carry on.; 12/16/25, 10:27 PM
Jupiter said...: OK, here is the thing; the cat (his name is Cecil) has figured out, that the only time he ever sees the laser dots, is when I am standing in my office, in the evening, near the door. So, when I am IMO, ITE, NTD -- he comes and lies on the floor, watching for me to pick up the laser pointer. And when I do, and I point it at the floor, he frantically chases the dot on the floor. He acts as if the red dot is a bug, and he intends to hook it with his claws, and bring it to justice.

I am driven to conclude, that Cecil is simply incapable of developing a model of the Universe in which glowing dots are not physically available for capture. Indeed, he eagerly awaits my arrival, knowing that another opportunity to pursue the dot will ensue. This time, surely, he will sink his claws into the dot.; 12/16/25, 10:42 PM
Mr. T. said...: Democrats now officially are traitors in collusion with foreign and domestic terorrists.

https://x.com/RepMaryMiller/status/2000704372351570314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2000704372351570314%7Ctwgr%5Ecf84f8e2d46e0291f3abf3de7bb1e3b45936dc54%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fbrettt%2F2025%2F12%2F16%2Fhouse-dems-introduce-resolution-to-force-military-to-stand-down-against-designated-terrorist-orgs-n2422933; 12/16/25, 11:13 PM
Achilles said...: If Trump doesn't start throwing these people in jail, then I am voting for whomever promises they will throw them in jail.; 12/16/25, 11:25 PM
Quaestor said...: "DJT is an asshole."

Error, Will Robinson. Error.

DJT is a dick.

It's understandable. In an increasingly categorized world, ya gotta do your homework. 30 years ago, there were fewer categories. Asshole was a big, amorphous category, a wastebasket taxon in evolutionary cladistics nerdspeak, and a dick was just your johnson or somebody else's that's bigger than yours. The problem with wastebasket taxons is they get big -- really big. So big that eventually the taxon has to puke its guts out all over everything, stinking up the place and making everyone else in the joint puke their guts out. So you don't know the difference between a marmot and a rock hyrax. Don't be ashamed. Do you homework.; 12/17/25, 12:16 AM
gadfly said...: Jared Kushner’s firm will no longer back Paramount’s takeover bid of Warner Bros. Also, he backed out of a Trump Tower development in Belgrade after Serbian Culture Minister Nikola Selakovic and three others were accused of corruption.

What this means is that Trump has declared Netflix the winner of the Warner Bros buyout, and the President is retreating from bad press in Eastern Europe.

Next, Kushner will tell us when Trump retreats from the luxury redevelopment of Gaza.; 12/17/25, 12:46 AM
Saint Croix said...: Trump is still an asshole. Imagine all of the posts when he dies, compared to all of the posts when Rob Reiner was killed. People will gladly piss and shit on Trump's grave. I'm sorry I said this, but this is the truth.

You realize, of course, that you are speaking very badly about your own side? Republicans are classy and most of us overlooked all the asshole things Rob Reiner has said or done in the last 20 years. On the other hand, when a Republican is murdered, Democrats cheer and piss on the grave. You have no class, and very little self-awareness.; 12/17/25, 12:49 AM
Saint Croix said...: I actually think Democrats will be quite nice to Trump when he dies. They will point out all the good things he did and the wars he stopped.

I also suspect Democrats will be calling the Republican president of 2032 "Hitler" and asking why he (or she) can't be more like Trump?; 12/17/25, 12:53 AM
Saint Croix said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/17/25, 1:04 AM
Saint Croix said...: Trump celebrates the death of all of his political opponents.

Well, he was a Democrat for most of his life, and that's how they teach the kids how to behave.

We're trying to civilize him. I think he's been a lot classier now that he's a Republican. Take the high road! Don't be low road.

Democrats are super unhappy that we have a Republican president with a Democrat's personality.; 12/17/25, 1:09 AM
rhhardin said...: What Trump's Remarks about Reiner Reveal about Trump Wright & Bloom, the two worst readers of Trump anywhere.; 12/17/25, 1:12 AM
Saint Croix said...: rhhardin, on another thread, tells us a joke about Minnie Mouse fucking Goofy.

It was one of those wordplay jokes that aren't funny, but they make you go "ah, I see what you did."

Anyway, it's a damn wordplay joke. But then I get a mental image in my head of Minnie Mouse fucking Goofy.

She is on top, right? She has to be on top.

And Micky Mouse is peeking in through a window, really angry, and squeaky.; 12/17/25, 1:27 AM
Saint Croix said...: Disney slams mouse orgy at paris park.; 12/17/25, 1:27 AM
Jim at said...: But, if I only enjoyed entertainers with politics similar to my own, I’d be left listening to myself play guitar all day.

I don't play guitar, but yeah.

Les Claypool's politics could not be further from my own, but, well Primus Sucks! :); 12/17/25, 2:04 AM
Saint Croix said...: This is a pretty devastating article on a lost generation of people, kept from working because of their skin (white) and their sex (male). The numbers are bad enough. But people were explicitly discriminating. Ugh, so stupid.; 12/17/25, 2:08 AM
Saint Croix said...: That article is about discrimination in certain industries (academia, media, book publishing) that have been discriminating against Republicans for decades. These professions are heavily Democratic. And they have a very big bias in terms of ideas and what they want to see.

These professions went explicitly racist and sexist with DEI. So what we've been seeing over the last decade is an attack in these industries on young Democrats who are white males. People were shut out of work literally because of their pigment and their genitalia.; 12/17/25, 2:30 AM
buwaya said...: Apparently the Palestinians are now claiming that Israel is making too much rain fall on Gaza. Somehow. This may sound silly but typical of the ME mindset, where any fantastic tale works, at least socially.; 12/17/25, 2:51 AM
buwaya said...: I saw that article on DEI discrimination. It is about a rather limited subset of industries, and its rather much to go from there to mass unemployment of young white men or the alleged general lack of husband material.
In tech, both digital and concrete and steel, through 2019, the discrimination wasn't DEI related that I recall. Some companies would do things like make allowances for women applicants to trade schools. But that goes back to the 1980s. And its never worked very well. See how many female electric linemen you run across.; 12/17/25, 2:59 AM
wendybar said...: I just saw this VILE post on the "Trump accuses Reiner" post. This is disgusting, and worse than anything Trump ever said and this hag should hang her head in shame.
TeaBagHag said...
Hey now, Charlitan Kirk died giving a fully throated endorsement of the 2nd amendment.

12/15/25, 4:11 PM; 12/17/25, 3:04 AM
imTay said...: It’s the elite channels that are limited, but like buwaya says, it doesn’t work very well and the women who had been convinced that they should be engineers, or whatever, move out of the career at a high rate.

In Nordic countries, where education is delivered equally to girls and boys and no prejudgements are made about careers, careers are even more segregated by sex, with girls becoming doctors and boys becoming engineers.

If you don’t get psychic reinforcement from solving math problems, money is not enough to keep you in an engineering job. It’s more the H1B visas and failing education modalities that can’t overcome the drag on minds of smartphones and video games that is the problem, IMHO.; 12/17/25, 3:29 AM
imTay said...: It would not surprise me if some of these writers who feel so robbed by DEI fancied themselves material for an elite education.

One of the articles that I read about engineering had a quote from a male engineer, “I get such a rush when I get the math to match the physical behavior.”; 12/17/25, 3:54 AM
buwaya said...: Re Bondi beach -
Australian immigration policy is stupid. In the "bad old days" they had a "white Australia" policy which sucked in all sorts of Europeans, and the Euro - mestizo post-colonial leftovers. My relatives among them. It worked superbly. There was every sort of diversity you could ever want.
But then they had a bright idea to import just anyone, to suboptimal economic and social results. Australia could get a start on repairing this simply by banning entry, going forward, to the suboptimals, and limiting immigration to favored peoples of proven performance. A lot of these are going to be brown, like Filipinos, in case anyone gets the vapors over a new "white australia".; 12/17/25, 3:58 AM
buwaya said...: Why does anyone, for instance, need Pakistanis?
Is this some sort of excruciating collective penance?
Why not Hindu Indians? They are just as, if not more brown.
Or, heck, Filipinos.; 12/17/25, 4:03 AM
gadfly said...: The head of U.S. Northern Command on Thursday contradicted President Trump’s assertion that an “invasion [from] within” or an “enemy within” justifies the commander in chief’s National Guard deployments to American cities.

“I do not have any indications of an enemy within,” Gen. Gregory Guillot told Senate Armed Services Committee lawmakers when asked about Trump’s comments.; 12/17/25, 4:17 AM
Humperdink said...: News out of Nicaragua, tyrant Daniel Ortega and VP, who happens to be his bride, has now banned Bibles from entering the country. Amazing how Commies line up against receiving the truth.

https://thelibertydaily.com/travelers-now-banned-bringing-bibles-one-conflicted-nation/; 12/17/25, 4:18 AM
john mosby said...: imTay: "girls becoming doctors and boys becoming engineers."

Yes, the more socialized the medical system, the more feminized it seems to become. Scandinavia, Soviet Union and friends. When you remove the monetary incentive, men lose interest in all the memorization and years of hierarchy required in medical education and training. Women on the other hand flock to it. And of course there's the whole caring thing.

Engineering, where you advance relatively quickly from plug-and-crank processes to goal-oriented problem solving and sometimes literally a massive erection, seems to bring the boys in. CC, JSM; 12/17/25, 4:55 AM
Humperdink said...: Re: The Mar-a-Lago raid. The FBI didn’t feel there was enough probable cause to search Trump home. They were overruled by the Biden White House.

And the Commies wonder why Trump reacts the way he does.; 12/17/25, 5:15 AM
rehajm said...: Yah, it was obvious they were all on the same team but the messaging was a challenge. It’s always the bad messaging you know..:; 12/17/25, 5:22 AM
rehajm said...: unfortunately Turley and a few others are making walls are closing in videos, which historically means the walls are not closing in…; 12/17/25, 5:26 AM
Kakistocracy said...: It's sad that Pat Summerall was a terrible drunk father. Because he was by far the best play-by-play an answer in the history of the NFL.; 12/17/25, 5:55 AM
Kakistocracy said...: He understood that less is more. *announcer*; 12/17/25, 5:57 AM
planetgeo said...: Democrats have become openly anti-American. And oddly, they mistakenly believe it's because they are virtuous, when in reality it's because they're not very intelligent. As an example, their persistent defense of DEI and their anti-white-male explicit racism and sexism is a badge of virtue to them. They believe that continuing discrepancies in the distribution of races or sexes in various jobs are evidence of discrimination. In reality, it's almost totally due to personal preferences and developed capabilities.

You're not being virtuous. You're being stupid.; 12/17/25, 6:02 AM
Kakistocracy said...: JD Vance touts Donald Trump’s economy to shift message on cost of living ~ FT

'Vice-president urges patience on affordability after Trump veers off script on affordability crisis'

In a sense Vance isn't wrong. Trump's second term is a continuation of the Biden presidency, if you remove all of the positive aspects and keep the worst aspects of the Biden presidency, and then exponentially increase the corruption, incompetence and self dealing that were features of Trump's first term.

Irony of ironies, the Trump team is even copying the Biden political and media operation in response to high negative approval ratings. Trump is even reprising all of the mental acuity issues that Biden had, but unlike the Biden team which tried to keep these issues out of the public, Trump is broadcasting these issues on his own social media platform on a daily basis. Trump already holds the record for lowest average approval rating, but I am sure he can push his numbers down into the 30 point range for the duration of his second term.; 12/17/25, 6:29 AM
Howard said...: A dick is either wrong or Petty. That's why the appropriate rejoinder to a dick is "go f*** yourself". A prick is right and very insistent. That's why most people can only mutter the pathetic "whatever".; 12/17/25, 6:47 AM
Gospace said...: buwaya, Hinduism is as compatible with the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and American ideals as islam is.; 12/17/25, 6:56 AM
narciso said...: https://open.substack.com/pub/yuribezmenov/p/chris-paxson-brown-open-letter-ella-cook?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2czur; 12/17/25, 7:00 AM
narciso said...: Yeah those hindu terrorists oh boy; 12/17/25, 7:02 AM
buwaya said...: Hinduism is not an expansionist, proselytizing, state-running religion. You can live alongside Hindus as they will not insist on running your life their way.; 12/17/25, 7:05 AM
Disparity of Cult said...: "Why Is The Australian Government HIDING The Truth About Bondi?!"

https://youtu.be/AcFzgpHB7Jg?si=6zGEkCErzYVRnaK9; 12/17/25, 7:11 AM
buwaya said...: One reason Euro physicians are slightly (by @10%) more likely to be female than in the US is that Euro physicians are paid about half as much as in the US, or less.; 12/17/25, 7:11 AM
narciso said...: Buck sexton who worked countet terror for the cia pointed that oit; 12/17/25, 7:21 AM
narciso said...: Because they are dhimmi down under; 12/17/25, 7:25 AM
Iman said...: A morning post would be nice… we already knew Howard knows his way around Johnsons.; 12/17/25, 7:25 AM
Humperdink said...: It has been revealed, but not confirmed, the Muslim terrorist shooters in Australia were scoping real estate for two state solution.; 12/17/25, 7:26 AM
buwaya said...: Or if you don't like Hindus (what is it, the curry?) then you can go with the Catholic Filipinos. Or the no actual religion Chinese. Whatever. The point is you (and all the first world destination countries) have a choice.; 12/17/25, 7:29 AM
Kakistocracy said...: There are no jobs and the country is headed for a recession. But at least now there’s a gold toilet in the White House.; 12/17/25, 7:31 AM
Iman said...: The land of wondah
Dhimmi down undah
Grab a Sheila
Throw some shrimp
On the barbee; 12/17/25, 7:33 AM
narciso said...: Those shrooms are too strong rich; 12/17/25, 7:37 AM
Humperdink said...: Kaka has checked in with his economic advisors, led by James Carville, and reveals the future.; 12/17/25, 7:41 AM
Disparity of Cult said...: Shrimp is generally halal but definitely not kosher.; 12/17/25, 7:42 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Reading the above comments I get it why PolitiFact decided to do away with the “Lie of the Year” and instead go with 2025 as the “Year of the Lies”.

That such a dominant force controls the puppet strings in a manner to have the Basket of Gulibles, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, to abet such blatant mendacity, is an amazing sight to behold.

And so the president says he wants a prime time air spot tonight to gaslight the Gulibles further, possibly that his economy is A++++ but if it does suck, it’s all Biden’s fault.

Whatever garbage he spews out, there’s no doubt the Basket will be wearing it tomorrow.; 12/17/25, 7:44 AM
narciso said...: I think they follow similar dietary rules; 12/17/25, 7:47 AM
tim maguire said...: Shorter Ronald Ward: Everyone I don't like is an ugly stupid-head.; 12/17/25, 7:48 AM
Rusty said...: buwaya said...
"My jelly jar skills are second to none."
A hero of the kitchen. I slam the jar lid down on a solid surface and the lid twists right off. It's a skill no one else in the house seems to have mastered.; 12/17/25, 7:49 AM
Disparity of Cult said...: A tisket, a tasket
Some gin in Chuckie's Basket; 12/17/25, 7:49 AM
Rusty said...: Here's the thing about spitting, dancing and or shitting on someones grave.
They don't care. They're dead. So all that emotional, spiritual and physical energy you've spent is wasted and just makes you look stupid and petty.
They're dead. You won! You're still alive! Celebrate that.; 12/17/25, 7:53 AM
Achilles said...: gadfly said...

The head of U.S. Northern Command on Thursday contradicted President Trump’s assertion that an “invasion [from] within” or an “enemy within” justifies the commander in chief’s National Guard deployments to American cities.

“I do not have any indications of an enemy within,” Gen. Gregory Guillot told Senate Armed Services Committee lawmakers when asked about Trump’s comments.

It is good when the enemies within raise their hands and point themselves out to us.; 12/17/25, 7:57 AM
Iman said...: Ward the Cleaver
Chuck the Deceiver
Tub of Hot Poop 💩; 12/17/25, 8:00 AM
Achilles said...: Ronald J. Ward said...

Reading the above comments I get it why PolitiFact decided to do away with the “Lie of the Year” and instead go with 2025 as the “Year of the Lies”.

You can keep your doctor lie
Russian collusion lie
Ukraine has no corruption lie
J6 protestors killed Brian Sicknick lie
Joe Biden is sharp as a tack lie
Hunter's laptop is Russian disinformation lie

Is there a lie so obvious that not even Chuck is retarded enough to fall for it?; 12/17/25, 8:02 AM
narciso said...: Hes still just phoning it in, bring some stuff from blue scream; 12/17/25, 8:03 AM
Howard said...: Iman you Putz; 12/17/25, 8:04 AM
Achilles said...: Rusty said...

buwaya said...
"My jelly jar skills are second to none."
A hero of the kitchen. I slam the jar lid down on a solid surface and the lid twists right off. It's a skill no one else in the house seems to have mastered.

I have showed them how to tap pretty hard around the ring with a metal knife or any silverware.

I think it is a subconscious need to control men.; 12/17/25, 8:07 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: tim maguire said...
Shorter Ronald Ward: Everyone I don't like is an ugly stupid-head.

No no, but that “I don’t like” is an important ingredient. You see, while the Basket has been groomed to accept alternative facts, they’ve also been groomed to “not like” or hate anyone disputing them-or, those disputing them “don’t like” or hate you.

Peachie and Achilles rarely make it through a comment without expressing that allegiance to the tribe. Others aren’t quite as adamant but the indoctrination leaks through.

That’s the winning ticket of Trump and other historic cult leaders- instill division and conquer and divide. You guys are eating out of his hands.; 12/17/25, 8:07 AM
narciso said...: If their lips are moving...they are lying; 12/17/25, 8:07 AM
narciso said...: Pravda facts is always lying this is for the new people; 12/17/25, 8:08 AM
Achilles said...: Kakistocracy said...

In a sense Vance isn't wrong. Trump's second term is a continuation of the Biden presidency, if you remove all of the positive aspects and keep the worst aspects of the Biden presidency, and then exponentially increase the corruption, incompetence and self dealing that were features of Trump's first term.

What were the positive aspects of the Biden Regime?

Was it the forced vaccinations?
Was it the federal lockdowns?
Was it the double digit inflation?
Was it the Afghan pullout?
Was it all of the pardons at the end?
Was it the open borders?
Was it the complete degeneration of the large cities?

Just curious.; 12/17/25, 8:11 AM
tim maguire said...: Ron, the problem I was making light of is that you and yours are just as guilty. But all your ire is directed at the horseshit spewed by people you don't like while ignoring and/or denying your own.

For example: the left and the right treat science in exactly the same way--they shout about it when it supports the position they were going to adopt anyway and they ignore it when it doesn't. The only difference is that the left shouts "science!" just as loud when they are ignoring it as when they are following it. But you don't care that both sides are hypocritical about it, you only care that the other side is.; 12/17/25, 8:12 AM
James K said...: "I have showed them how to tap pretty hard around the ring with a metal knife or any silverware."

Shh, keep that a secret or they might not need us.

There's also the height advantage for getting items from high up shelves, changing light bulbs, etc. And that primal instinct to know how to fix things around the house, after which I usually remind my wife, "I don't know what you'd do without me."; 12/17/25, 8:14 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Tim, is man made climate change real?; 12/17/25, 8:15 AM
Achilles said...: Ronald J. Ward said...

That’s the winning ticket of Trump and other historic cult leaders- instill division and conquer and divide. You guys are eating out of his hands.

LOL.

Democrats haven't been divided about anything for decades because you are all retards.

Republicans are constantly divided because we think.

Donald J Trump is Republicans answer to the Uniparty. We put our Desantis wing in its place and it will stay there. We will have to slowly weed out the Burr's and McConnells and Cruz's because that is how our system works.

You retards still follow Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi is timing out.; 12/17/25, 8:19 AM
tim maguire said...: Define "real." What's your actual question?; 12/17/25, 8:19 AM
Leland said...: Chuck, is Anthropogenic Catastrophic Global Warming real? Did we really have only 20 years, 20 years ago?; 12/17/25, 8:20 AM
Achilles said...: Ronald J. Ward said...

Tim, is man made climate change real?

This is a perfect example. I will just wait for Chuck to show us all how little he knows fundamentally about the scientific method.; 12/17/25, 8:23 AM
Leland said...: Might as well put the goal post where they started. After all, Ford is announcing a $19 billion loss due to the government EV mandate that came about because Democrats told us we needed a “moon shot” to save the Earth. Well, we spent as much money and we seem to be safe, but it seems we are safe because we never were in danger.; 12/17/25, 8:23 AM
Peachy said...: "Man made Climate Change."

Do humans have the capacity to match the sun's solar flair explosions? to match volcanic emissions? Ice age data suggests massive climate changes throughout the earth's history - changes that swing in such crazy directions - they make modern leftist predictions of mass climate catastrophe, "within ten years - the climate change will likely kill us all!" look like a joke. Because most of it, is a joke. Politicians are not scientists. they are snake oil sales.

Of course the Climate changes. with or without human activity.
Leftists assume the weather and the climate must be perfect Camelot- just for them.; 12/17/25, 8:23 AM
narciso said...: Well they dangerously stupid or evil (i'll take both)

Armond White on X: "Hollywood no longer believes in metaphor--or reaching out to the Great Audience that's worthy of Great Art. That's the unfortunate message of #Hamnet and its literal-minded occult feminism. https://t.co/BhUM0gbwxm https://t.co/2wtDh8pMYs" / X https://share.google/Tmv2vDmg2nAgYf8Cl; 12/17/25, 8:23 AM
Leland said...: Peachy noting inconvenient truths.; 12/17/25, 8:26 AM
narciso said...: I dubbed it the skydragon because its just as real; 12/17/25, 8:28 AM
Leland said...: Did the COVID vaccine prevent people from contracting COVID?

Once the COVID vaccine was available, did millions die because they did not take it, as Joe Biden said would happen?; 12/17/25, 8:30 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Tim @ 8:19, never mind — if a yes-or-no question grounded in mainstream science requires redefining the word “real,” that tells me what I needed to know. No further explanation needed.; 12/17/25, 8:31 AM
narciso said...: I remember armond from the departed new york press; 12/17/25, 8:32 AM
Leland said...: Did Trump cause this division?
Houston Mayor John Whitmire barred from future Harris County Democratic endorsements

Doesn't seem like it...

Grassroots organizers with the Houston Progressive Caucus described the vote as a reflection of growing frustration with traditional leadership and a demand for change.; 12/17/25, 8:41 AM
Achilles said...: Ronald J. Ward said...

Tim @ 8:19, never mind — if a yes-or-no question grounded in mainstream science requires redefining the word “real,” that tells me what I needed to know. No further explanation needed.

This is exactly how cult members asked when their cult is questioned.

Exactly.; 12/17/25, 8:41 AM
Gospace said...: Hindus aren't a majority or even a significant minority here. But in India... Use your favorite search engine to look for Hindus burning Christian churches the ask yourself why it's never in your news coverage.; 12/17/25, 8:42 AM
Peachy said...: Ron Ward,
If we don't proclaim the left's true religious authority as it pertains to "Man Made Climate Change!" - we are Climate Deniers.
LOL.
We must denounce ourselves and repent.

BTW - The idiotic leftwing soviet phrase "The Science is Settled" - is the most un-scientific phrase ever invented by un-scientific propagandists..

Also BTW - wind and solar are limited for their effectiveness., and only account for a tiny percentage of our energy collectivity. oh - my old democratic neighbor's democrat son works in DC and he is an advocate for Nuclear power. cool, huh?; 12/17/25, 8:42 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Leland asked;

“Did the COVID vaccine prevent people from contracting COVID?”

No.

“Once the COVID vaccine was available, did millions die because they did not take it, as Joe Biden said would happen?”

Aside from the misleading timeline of who was in charge when the vaccine first became available, Biden’s statement was clumsy rhetoric — not a literal prediction of a specific death toll.

In fairness, two questions back at you:

True or false: COVID became primarily a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

True or false: Unvaccinated people died at much higher rates.; 12/17/25, 8:52 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Achilles said...
Ronald J. Ward said...

Tim @ 8:19, never mind — if a yes-or-no question grounded in mainstream science requires redefining the word “real,” that tells me what I needed to know. No further explanation needed.

“This is exactly how cult members asked when their cult is questioned.

Exactly.”

Nope, and I can almost see the part in your hair from my point flew over your head.

Man made climate change has overwhelming science evidence which is why I asked Tim the simple question of if it was real. It’s just like when I caught Saint Croix actually confirming that the 2020 election wasn’t rigged. Once I pinned him directly, he had to backtrack.

Why? For the same reason Tim couldn’t admit climate change is real. Because they are not allowed to. It would make them disloyal. It would be donning the blue jersey which would mean, all the other loyal tribesmen would then hate them.; 12/17/25, 9:03 AM
Jersey Fled said...: “You're the same stupid fuck who said Trump is going to mass execute his political opponents.”

I think there were some internment camps in there too. Or did I misunderstand.; 12/17/25, 9:05 AM
Peachy said...: Ron Ward - you make leftists cultist assertions - without evidence.
We all laugh at you.; 12/17/25, 9:07 AM
tim maguire said...: Ronald J. Ward said...Tim @ 8:19, never mind — if a yes-or-no question grounded in mainstream science requires redefining the word “real,” that tells me what I needed to know. No further explanation needed.

If you're trying to set a lower bound as a jumping off point for a discussion, then fine. Yes, it seems more likely than not that human behavior is capable of having some impact on the climate.

But that's not your purpose, is it? "Real" in this context is not a yes or no, on or off, quesiotn and your refusal to be specific about what you mean by "real"--a measurable impact? A dangerous impact? What?--just shows that you are not intellectually prepared for a discussion that is worth my time to have.

I'm regretting wasting so much of that time on you. My time is not that valuable, but it does have a value that's real (and you don't).; 12/17/25, 9:10 AM
Peachy said...: Copernicus and Galileo - the earth is not the center of the universe.
They were considered "Science deniers!" by the political class.

LOL.; 12/17/25, 9:11 AM
Original Mike said...: "I'm regretting wasting so much of that time on you."

Consider it a lesson learned.; 12/17/25, 9:16 AM
Leland said...: Aside from the misleading timeline

You mean the point when Biden tweeted Sept 8, 2021. That's a very delineated point in time. How many died after that point?

In the US, Wikipedia says 670,000 died up to that point, and in total 1,120,000. But also from that article:
As of May 2021, the Centers for Disease Control estimated that there had been approximately 120 million infections in the United States.

The answer to my second question is clearly "No".

As for your contrived question, when does your timeline begin?
Do you have any data to support an answer to your question? For instance, did anyone track number of deaths of people with the vaccine? We know everyone that died prior to the vaccine being available were unvaccinated, so is that part of your question, please provide clear explanation of what you ask. As the fatality rate is shown to have declined over time, what do you mean by "higher rates"? Did the rate increase for those that declined the vaccination?

Do you even know how to be unambiguous in anything you write?; 12/17/25, 9:20 AM
Peachy said...: It's humorous (and scary) to watch dedicated cultist leftists writhe around with their dedicated loyal attitudes. Will not budge! The Science is Settled! You must obey the narrative or be cast out.; 12/17/25, 9:20 AM
Jersey Fled said...: I’m a big professional football fan. I was late this morning for something and explained to my wife that I was listening to a commentator that I like. and that I like the ones that I consistently learn something from.

Following that line of thought I won’t be reading comments from Kak and RJ Ward today.; 12/17/25, 9:21 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Inflation is so bad in Trump's economy that the cost of his ballroom doubled from $200 million to $400 million in just six months. Since Trump's ballroom is merely a ruse for taking bribes and laundering money, I would take its purported "cost" with a grain of salt.; 12/17/25, 9:22 AM
Peachy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/17/25, 9:22 AM
Peachy said...: The forced jab was/is a scam.
Covid vaccine is not a vaccine at all. At best it's a therapy.

sorry leftist cultists. And the information about the harm the forced jab caused - will be revealed.

Buckle up - dedicated Biden-era cultists.; 12/17/25, 9:29 AM
Peachy said...: anecdotal - but everyone I know who continues to get the covid boosters - also continue to get covid.; 12/17/25, 9:36 AM
Iman said...: Howard you gladiolus; 12/17/25, 9:36 AM
Iman said...: Take it with a grain of fentanyl instead, kak.; 12/17/25, 9:41 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Original Mike & Tim, I didn’t think a simple yes or no question would be so time consuming . Is Trump correct in his multiple statements of climate change being a “hoax” and a “con job”?

Leland @9:20, I answered your questions and you tuck tailed and ran from mine;

True or false: COVID became primarily a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

True or false: Unvaccinated people died at much higher rates.

Why?

It’s not about the details of the specific questions. I could ask if the J6 people were innocent and political prisoners or if Trump use of police to push back protesters for a bible photo opt was legal or if he was actually guilty of his 1st impeachment or a disavowing of wanting to suspend the constitution in order to stay in power.

My point is that you cannot. You’re not allowed to. The rules within your village would render you “one of them”, one of the blue shirts.

My point is that you are bound to defend lies and bullshit regardless of the facts. You’ve been groomed to a binary my side-your side and disloyalty would put you on the side you’ve been groomed to hate.; 12/17/25, 9:43 AM
buwaya said...: I was working with Spanish mortality data, which is complete and timely, unlike in the US. I satisfied myself by timing Covid waves that "the jab" was effective.
It reduced the danger of dying from covid.
However, it need only have been given to those vulnerable to covid, the elderly and those mature people in delicate health. The "vaccines" gave no protection from transmission so did no good for anyone not vulnerable to the worst outcomes of the disease. As also the masks, useless.

European countries generally didnt fall into maniacal policies or rage storms as did the US (or Australia or the Philippines to be honest). Shutting down schools for extended periods didnt happen in Spain and France and Sweden, etc. The social and economic cost were less, and people didnt end up hating each other as much.

If you can get relevant data and you have a copy of Excel you can make valid arguments, or at least understand other peoples valid arguments. Otherwise you end up pointlessly raging.; 12/17/25, 10:04 AM
Leland said...: Do you even know how to be unambiguous in anything you write?

It’s not about the details of the specific questions.

So no. You can't be unambiguous.; 12/17/25, 10:06 AM
Peachy said...: The collective left's obsession with "Man-made Climate change" is merely an avenue to force everyone to adhere to their political diktats.
The latest leftist soviet (D) rage is forced heat pumps and banning natural gas.

The left do not want to solve "man made climate change" - they only want to use it to scare and control everyone.
the left do not care if they impoverish us and take us back to the stone age to do it. Their wealthy class of D' elites are all warm enough in safe enclaves.; 12/17/25, 10:07 AM
Peachy said...: (and enrich their cronies); 12/17/25, 10:08 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “I am driven to conclude, that Cecil is simply incapable of developing a model of the Universe in which glowing dots are not physically available for capture. Indeed, he eagerly awaits my arrival, knowing that another opportunity to pursue the dot will ensue. This time, surely, he will sink his claws into the dot.”

Our cat (T3 or Tiki 3) is too smart for this. Or maybe too fat. He’ll go after a laser dot a couple times, then ignores it. We had a cockroach last week, and he ignored it too, as it scuttled by him. Moths and mice are still fair game.

He loves this house, after six months of deprivation. It’s big, and has a lot of places to hide and sleep. When getting back, last month, he took a quick look around, after his case was opened up, jumped out, and promptly disappeared. Also, a large backyard that he can’t get out of. Putting a cat/dog door in, over the next month or two.

He can’t get out of the backyard, but one of the cats Nextdoor can, or at least could. They asked, after the fact, whether putting up chicken wire on the walls was ok. It does work. They are up to maybe 5 cats, 1-2 being rescue cats. They have a cat run, by the pool, to a cat gym. Apparently worried that they may misjudge corners as they chase each other around the yard, and worried they may get fall into the pool. My response was “why?” Not a mistake that they would make a second time.; 12/17/25, 10:09 AM
buwaya said...: Anthropogenic climate change is wildly speculative given the implied costs of addressing it. It is not "proven", it is suspected. The sane guide here is Bjorn Lomborg. This is btw the current consensus in this argument.

In the meantime there has been vast sound and fury and huge sums wasted and enormous economic damage pursuing marginal changes in emissions that never had a hope of denting the problem even if true. The hysteria has hurt a lot of people.; 12/17/25, 10:14 AM
Iman said...: “The collective left's obsession with "Man-made Climate change" is merely an avenue to force everyone to adhere to their political diktats.”

The Left also uses (used?) it to gift their fellow grifters with billions of taxpayer dollars with virtually no oversight or accountability.; 12/17/25, 10:16 AM