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Friday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 2/20/26, 8:10 am

Stay warm everyone.

  • Let’s investigate that, um, someone killed, oh gosh, someone else. Somewhere.
  • ICE needs to get out of Saint Joseph, and Tacoma, and Washington.
  • The kids protesting ICE are alright. The adults harassing them can fuck right off.
  • Call your legislator.

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  1. American ‘Capitalism’ spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 8:21 am

    People have found a way to spend an extra $50 a week on groceries so it is in the best interest of our shareholders to leave prices where they are regardless.

  2. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 8:56 am

    @ 1

    Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

  3. Calm Cool Collected spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 9:00 am

    Well he’s taking it well apparently ranting at the Governors who decided to show up for the breakfast about “These fucking courts” taking his tariff shelf tip jar away.

  4. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 9:03 am

    Consider that $50/week @ 1 compensation for the one-point drop in Q4 GDP attributed to the failed Schumer Shutdown.

    We stayed put while libbies postured.

    We earned that $50/week. Then, now, and going forward.

  5. Nina Tottenberg spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 9:04 am

    In a normal America, Kavanaugh in dissent writing a blueprint with specific statute citations for how the Executive branch could try to re-usurp the legislative powers would be disqualifying for hearing ANY legislative v executive cases in the future but…

    GrandOldPedo rules are now in effect.

  6. I am not in a cult, Fox and Dear Leader are just infallible spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 9:06 am

    @4

    Bwaaawitdabah

    ‘Schumer Shutdown’

    Bwaaaaa

  7. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 9:54 am

    Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

    From the lying troll who once whined like a bitch about the cost of canned Fancy Feast.

  8. The Ghost of Epstein is coning for you spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 10:00 am

    AOC said Uhm a few more times than we think proper!

    Reporter: (Prince Andrew arrest) Do you think that people in this country, associates of Jeffrey Epstein will wind up in handcuffs too?

    Adjudicated Rapist: Well you know I’m the expert in a way (Eds note, where the midterm ads cut the edit) because I’ve been totally exonerated which is nice so I can actually speak about it which is very nice. (Eds Note he LIKES to talk about child rape?) I think it’s a shame. I think is very sad it’s so bad for the royal family it’s a very very sad to me it’s s very sad thing when I see that to see what’s going on with his brother obviously coming to our country very soon he’s a great man a king so I think it’s a very sad thing. It’s really interesting because nobody used to speak of Epstein when he was alive (Eds Note self incrimination) and now they speak but I’m the one who can talk about it because I’ve been totally exonerated I did nothin in fact it was the opposite he was against me he was fighting me in the election which I just found out about from the last three million pages of documents. (Turns to take next question)

    (Eds note: is it sad for the victims? Or just the caught pedos?)

  9. Midterms spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 10:04 am

    Where the fuck is my refund?

  10. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 10:23 am

    @4 And the rest of the story is that the 2.8% GDP growth in the last year of the Biden economy dropped to 2.2% in the first year of the Trump economy, and it wasn’t just fourth quarter shutdown effects which did that. Without the shutdown, fourth quarter growth would have been 2.4%, still well below the 2024 growth rate. But that’s not all:

    The core personal consumption expenditures price index, which excludes food and energy, rose 3% in December, up 0.2 percentage point from November

    https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/pce-inflation-december-2025.html

    Even without his unconstitutional tariffs, Trump’s economy sucks.

  11. Cool Story Bro spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 10:30 am

    The Ramblin’ Wreck is at a podium trying badly to read a statement on Scotus.

    And to show you how bad, how ridiculous the opinion is they say I can’t even charge one dollar not one dollar jot even a dollar I would have used a penny but we don’t make the penny anymore…

  12. Now THAT’s Comedy spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 10:39 am

    Okay, you win. A TikTokker reporting on Trump kids’ Crypto Summit called them “TweedleCoke and TweedleWhyDoesn’tHeLoveMe”….

    And I’m dead.

    Dead.

  13. AOC says Uhm a lot spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 10:47 am

    We wouldn’t have lost…for example Taiwan. They came in they made chips they stole our chips. Chip Chip Chip I SAVED Intel, I came in and SAVED INTEL.

  14. One Prattle after Another spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 11:04 am

    Now he’s telling a story about how the Georgia factory owner he met with yesterday was down to operating one hour a week until the ‘Great Big Beautiful Act’ saved him and with tears in his eyes showed him their new crane that they never could have bought without the tariffs…

    Note the Great Big Billionaire Blowjob had nothing at all to do with Tariffs other than CBO scoring the explosion of the deficit assuming American Consumers would contiur to pay the tariff tax.

  15. Donald J. Trump, Convicted Felon and Obvious Epstein Co-conspirator spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 11:08 am

    “They’re very unpatriotic and disloyal.”

    And yes I’m speaking directly to Gorsuch and ACB.

  16. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 11:11 am

    @214 Yeah, the deficit, already a big problem, is going to be a huge problem now.

  17. AOC Paused Too Long spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 11:14 am

    “He said, ‘Sir, I want to kiss you’ … He said, ‘Sir, I want to kiss you so badly!’ And I said no thank you.”

  18. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 11:25 am

    The two most important pillars of Trumpism, tariffs and deportations, are now in failure mode.

  19. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 11:29 am

    The live from the press room is wild.

    He’s really gone into full meltdown right in front of the assembled press. But for the most part they’ll decline to comment on it.

  20. Oooooh read so goodly spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 11:36 am

    Great moments in Presidential Oratory.

    Four score
    Ask not
    Mr. Gorbachov
    Nothing to fear

    I read the paragraphs. I read very well. Great comprehension. I read everything there was to read and I said, ‘We can’t lose this case.’

    They should make this the animatronic recording at Disney Hall of Presidents.

  21. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇸🐸🇺🇸 🌊 spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 12:12 pm

    Late night writer’s rooms melting down with too much material.

  22. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 12:49 pm

    @ 18

    The two most important pillars of Trumpism …

    There is one sole pillar of Trumpism, relative to the senile joke that was the Biden presidency.

    Spine.

    “He fights.” A lot of people voted for that. He won the presidency from the podium in Butler, within a minute of being nicked by an exploding teleprompter, according to Elijah.

    The thing is, everyone else knew it was a bullet.

  23. We know those trucks are chemical weapons factories spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 1:13 pm

    @22

    Someone’s trying to get mentally prepared for an Iran war.

  24. Make America Gay Again spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 3:00 pm

    All the funny people have left Twatter

    manysidesofmegs 11h

    Any other women out there in their 40s who are really confused with their sexuality right now?

    I thought I was straight but now I’m not convinced.

    missminervois 9h
    * You saw the RFK Kid Rock video too huh ?

  25. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 3:06 pm

    Shorter 22,

    “It’s all vibes”.

    Duh.

    Since the lying troll is obviously ignorant, please allow me to introduce another “notorious” fighter:
    Charlie Zelenoff.
    He’s still going too. After twenty years of the grift.

  26. Three .38 slugs in the gut spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 4:30 pm

    I’m growing inpatient. Are you finished with your dumbfuck troll yet?

  27. lmao spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 4:51 pm

    within a minute of being nicked by an exploding teleprompter

    Sharted so hard its ear bled. Then mugged for the cameras.

    Big whup.. But fools are gonna be fooled. Sucker born every minute.

  28. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 5:21 pm

    One of the advantages of being a Republican — yes there are advantages — is it allows you to be a total piece of shit, if you’re the kind of person who values such a thing. Like this guy.

  29. HA Mod Team spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 5:33 pm

    Imagine being remembered as the “Charlie Zelenoff” of U.S. Presidents.

    Imagine being remembered as the gushing fanboy of the “Charlie Zelenoff” of U.S. Presidents.

    @22, you’re in a cult.
    You should be embarrassed.
    You’re not supposed to admire the culture of the future depicted in Idiocracy.

  30. Chargeable Offense spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 5:55 pm

    The billionaires the GOP is shoveling money at as fast as possible…

    Months before Jesse Van Rootselaar became the suspect in the mass shooting that devastated a rural town in British Columbia, Canada, OpenAI considered alerting law enforcement about her interactions with its ChatGPT chatbot, the company said.

    While using ChatGPT last June, Van Rootselaar described scenarios involving gun violence over the course of several days, according to people familiar with the matter.

    Her posts, flagged by an automated review system, alarmed employees at OpenAI. Internally, about a dozen staffers debated whether to take action on Van Rootselaar’s posts. Some employees interpreted Van Rootselaar’s writings as an indication of potential real-world violence, and urged leaders to alert Canadian law enforcement about her behavior, the people familiar with the matter said.

    OpenAl leaders ultimately decided not to contact authorities.

  31. Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 8:30 pm

    @ 30

    Police seized firearms from Van Rootselaar’s residence a couple of years ago but later returned them when the owner petitioned for them, McDonald said on Wednesday. Police did not specify the owner of the firearms.

    McDonald said police had also visited Van Rootselaar multiple times in recent years regarding mental health issues, and that on some occasions “the suspect was apprehended for assessment and follow up.”

    The most recent visit, last spring, was over “concerns regarding mental health, self-harm,” he said.

    https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/americas/tumbler-ridge-shooting-suspect-online-posts-intl-hnk

    But it’s Open AI, which merely deleted the chick-with-a-dick’s account 8 months ago rather than also making the 19th recorded report that the dude is a sick fuck, that is to blame, according to the clown @ 30.

    Because the first 18 reports might not have been enough. So because libbie Canadian LE didn’t do their jobs, it’s the fault of Republicans in the US.

  32. Chargeable Offense spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 9:26 pm

    @31

    I think we broke him.

    Was refining the plan via ChatGPT.

    Poor excuse for human being defends them NOT alerting law enforcement because law enforcement may have already had suspect in radar but no access to ChatGPD

    Chat GPT encourages people to commit suicide if the prompt questions eacalate.

    Waste of skin, “SOMEONE ELSE HAS PART OF THE BLAME TOO! CHATGPT DIDN’T PULL THE TRIGGER! SHUT THE FUCK UP LIBTARD!”

    You don’t need to have a shit take on everything.

  33. Elijah Dominic McDotcom 🇺🇲🐸🇺🇲🌊 spews:

    Friday, 2/20/26 at 9:53 pm

    You don’t need to have a shit take on everything.

    Then what would be the point of Republicans?

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