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Monday Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 4/20/26, 8:14 am

I have been riding my bicycle along the Ship Canal Trail. It’s relatively flat and connects with some other trails. Anyway, on Friday I go for a ride after work. I get to Fisherman’s Terminal and realized, oh shit, my wallet.

At this point, it’s dusk, so I go back to my apartment hoping to see it on the way. No luck, so I canceled my debit card. The next day, I was able to get a replacement at BECU. I also went to Westlake Station and picked up a new ORCA Card.

I get home and I’m trying to figure out how to transfer my account from the old ORCA Card to the new one, when I get a buzz. I answered it, and the people found my wallet and came to the apartment to give it back.

I mean! Come on. Incredibly grateful that they would do that. I was just back from getting a new card, so I was in a nice button down shirt and a tie on a Saturday. Fancy guy to give his wallet back to.

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  1. Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 8:25 am

    Anybody see 60 Minutes last night?

    History-Actual
    @T00ManyCommies

    Timing is everything. After weeks of slamming Trump over Iran, now the media is going to bat for a mission to secure the materials. Why?

    Quote
    60 Minutes
    @60Minutes
    ·
    22h
    It’s believed Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to make at least 10 nuclear bombs. What would it take for the U.S. to secure it? Sunday, 60 Minutes reports on a past covert mission code-named Project Sapphire that could be a blueprint for a similar operation in Iran.

    5:23 PM · Apr 19, 2026

    60 Minutes interviews an analyst who thinks boots on the ground to secure the uranium is worth the risk.

    It’s almost like CBS News realizes that DJT47 won. Again.

    No wonder libbies hate Bari Weiss the way they do.
    ·

  2. Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 8:31 am

    Leo’s Emily Litella moment.

    Fox News
    @FoxNews
    ·
    Apr 18
    NEW: Pope Leo downplays tensions with President Trump, addressing a “narrative that has not been accurate in all of its aspects.”

    He says it is “not in my interest at all” to debate the president and will keep preaching a message of peace.

    4:04 PM · Apr 18, 2026

  3. Pars Dominae Foetidae spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 8:45 am

    @1

    Trump and others are being blackmailed by the Zionist lobby over videos, photos and recordings of what Trump and the others did at Epstein’s island. The Zionists “have the goods” on a lot of people, and they are using that leverage to force our government to do their bidding.

  4. Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 8:49 am

    Trump and others are being blackmailed by the Zionist lobby over videos, photos and recordings of what Trump and the others did at Epstein’s island.

    Uh huh. The same videos, photos, and recordings possessed for four years by the Biden administration, which chose lawfare over simply releasing your claimed evidence.

  5. Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:02 am

    Never-before seen video of Donald Trump in the act of chickening out:

    U.S. Central Command
    @CENTCOM

    U.S. Marines depart amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA 7) by helicopter and transit over the Arabian Sea to board and seize M/V Touska. The Marines rappelled onto the Iranian-flagged vessel, April 19, after guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) disabled Touska’s propulsion when the commercial ship failed to comply with repeated warnings from U.S. forces over a six-hour period.

    9:36 PM · Apr 19, 2026

  6. Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:07 am

    Despite his recent public shaming, Eric Swalwell remains on the DNC’s short list for 2028 VP nominee.

    True Gretch, in particular, is said to want a manly man on the ticket, and the Democrats have so few of those.

  7. Pars Dominae Foetidae spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:26 am

    @4

    Then why didn’t Trump, Bondi and the rest of the current administration’s team release the files on the first day of their return to power?

    Wise up, VT: you’re indirectly supporting Zionist blackmail.

  8. G spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:28 am

    Make Cuba Great Again.

    Make Venezuela Great Again.

    https://i.gyazo.com/a335722ce23ae5db5d9156a8cf24cb15.png

    But does it matter? He doesn’t plan to leave. And he’ll rig the elections anyways.

    Europe knows it but Americans too stupid.

  9. G spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:30 am

    Wise up, VT: you’re indirectly supporting Zionist blackmail.

    To say the least. He supports corruption. He supports fraud. He supports crime. He doesn’t support woman. And he supports Pedophilia.

    He’s here to play games, like sports. Winning!

  10. FKA Hops spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:30 am

    @1

    No I did not see Bari and Peter’s USPravda show.

  11. Pope Leo spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:33 am

    @2

    “Don’t feed the trolls, My followers are both more numerous and will be here as the afterlife takes him. There is zero chance he will hear the words ‘Good and Faithful Servant’ at the end.”

  12. G spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:34 am

    Like the military didn’t kill Osama Bin Laden.

    You’re beyond a Dumbfuck. You suck from the straw that is a horse’s cock.

    Oh, and Pars, he’s here for the attention. But as of October 5th or 8th, can’t recall what the magical date is, something happened.

  13. G spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:36 am

    Those elusive weapons of mass destruction.

    Isn’t 60 minutes CBS, which is now FAKE NEWS?

    Sign up to do the job Bob, you coward.

  14. I AM THE CAPTAIN NOW spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:37 am

    @5
    Oooooh…manly men blasted and boarded an unarmed vessel.

    Real Somali Pirate energy. They did it with an outboard dinghy and a couple ARs

  15. G spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:37 am

    What did they waste that big bomb on for? And why did they report, at that time, that everything was destroyed and that they saved the world?

  16. FKA Hops spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:44 am

    Snarky Bluesky account

    No More Mr Nice Pope
    @KenWhite.bluesky.social

    Other false media statements identified in the Kash Patel complaint:

    1. Special Agents do not, in fact, refer to him as “J. Edgar Shart”
    2. Patel did, in fact, know that the FBI is part of the Executive Branch and that Wyoming is a state. He just always looks surprised when you tell him things.
    3. Director Patel passed agent pistol qualification and did not kill an instructor on the range. The instructor is doing really quite well considering.
    4. Alexis Wilkins did NOT refer to her FBI jet encounter with Kash Patel as “30 Seconds Over Omaha”
    5. Mr. Patel did not ”squeal and wet himself” when told President Trump was calling. There was turbulence and he spilled his carafe of Scotch.

  17. G spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:47 am

    Poor Isreal, they are misunderstood angels of heaven.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/world/israel/israeli-soldier-jesus-statue-lebanon-damage-netanyahu-condemns-rcna340942

    Shit like this won’t be good for Isreal. The head of the Heterosexual Neanderthals.

  18. Support the Troops spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:57 am

    Army Secretary Dan Driscol and the rest of the most melted snowflakes in the country ordered the deletion of the ‘Soldiers for Life’ Webpage after they posted the story of double amputee and current Senator Tammy Duckworth.

    “GOD DAMNIT ONLY VETERANS WHO’VE TAKEN THE WHISKEY SHOTS, THE PADDLING AND THE OATH OF TRUMP ARE REAL VETERANS. “

  19. lmao spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 10:13 am

    Orange pants shitter the great feminizer of the U.S.:

    President Donald Trump promised when he ran for reelection in 2024 that he would revitalize American jobs, particularly in traditionally masculine industries like manufacturing. Yet according to a recent report by a business journalist, that’s not what’s happening.

    “The White House promised a manufacturing renaissance,” wrote Fortune business editor Nick Lichtenberg on Tuesday. “Instead, the factory floor keeps shrinking.”

    The journalist further elaborated that “the blue-collar job market has been slowing for more than a year, with jobs in manufacturing and construction racking up roughly 150,000 net losses on an annual basis as of March… During Trump’s first year back in the White House, the manufacturing sector alone shed 108,000 jobs—even as the administration touted a coming ‘manufacturing boom.'”…

    His conclusion: “The irony is sharp,” Lichtenberg wrote. “The same working-class men the MAGA economy promised to rescue are sitting out a hiring boom in the fastest-growing sectors of the U.S. economy because those jobs are considered women’s work. Meanwhile, the factories they’re waiting to return to keep shedding workers.”

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/macho-men-implode-in-trump-s-maga-economy/ar-AA20U5Lr?ocid=BingNewsBrowse

    Well we were all told orange pants shitter babbled its pablum like a woman.

    Sorry kreepfuck, you were fooled and now we know you’re cucked. Melania in league with Susie Wiles have to be the power behind the throne. It’s an XX klownspiracy I tell ya! lmao…

  20. BUT I GOT A PARDON SO GIMMIE IT BACK spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 10:23 am

    Apparently the sale has been finalized and after much lawsuiting and negotiation Infowars is officially owned by The Onion.

  21. KKKonservative Party spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 10:42 am

    They’re still using a single source White Supremacist researcher’s made up number from a 2002 book to be racist.

    This time it’s House Rep Brandon Gil R-TX

    The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that’s the threshold for mentally handicapped … they’re a net drain on the society”

    Gil represents one of the districts Abbott pulled Republicans from to try to pick up more seats. So Gil is going with the tried and true way to appeal to North Texas non-college White voters, “Fear the niggers!”

    40ish% of voters in the district is under 50. The district is 10% black. As far as the Census bureau can tell not one of those is Somali. 51% have a bachelor’s degree.

  22. GIRL FIGHT!!!! spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 11:08 am

    KKKlownservatic Profiles In Courage

    Be it known on this date: Monday, 4/20/26 at 9:26 am
    that one kkklownservatic groveling troll for the first time ever in the history of HA rose up off his knees and dared to mildly challenge another kkklownservatic groveling troll.

    https://horsesass.org/2026/04/20/monday-open-thread-186/#comment-1555067

  23. lmao spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 11:09 am

    The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that’s the threshold for mentally handicapped … they’re a net drain on the society”

    So that’s where widbee kreepfuck has gotten its iq cheap shots.

    ha(prod)> Comment.by_commenter_tag(“dumbfuck”).search_plain_content(“single digit iq”).count
    => 2
    ha(prod)> Comment.by_commenter_tag(“dumbfuck”).search_plain_content(“double digit iq”).count
    => 3
    ha(prod)> Comment.by_commenter_tag(“dumbfuck”).search_plain_content(“below average iq “).count
    => 3

    From a white supremacist.. figures..

    Speaking of which, Karen Hao in her book about the AI industry notes there’s really no scientific definition or consensus of intelligence and iq has more often than not been used for a white supremacist agenda if not expressly designed for that purpose.

  24. Strait of Hormuz Live Tracker spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 11:15 am

    8 ships transited in the last 24 hours.
    0 tankers.
    Brent crude at $95 and rising.

  25. You Will Never See $70 Oil Again in Your Lifetimes spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 11:28 am

    Brent crude back up knocking at $100.

    All-caps “Imminent peace talk breakthrough” announcement on Truth social at any moment.

    Get your short order in now before it’s too late!

  26. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 11:48 am

    @1 It’s believed Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to make at least 10 nuclear bombs.

    Where they may have been ambivalent before, Trump and Israel have now given them massive motivation to make them.

    60 Minutes interviews an analyst who thinks boots on the ground to secure the uranium is worth the risk.

    Risk to who? Any volunteers?

    DJT47 won. Again.

    What exactly has he won? Regime change? Nope. Secured the nuclear materials? Nope. Opened the strait? Nope. Protected our regional partners? Nope.

    You’re not just stupid, you’re Monday morning stupid.

  27. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 11:57 am

    @17 It was probably someone trying to get kicked out of IDF.

  28. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 12:00 pm

    @21 Whatever Somali IQ is, next to him they look smart.

  29. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 12:11 pm

    Just days into his elective office career, neophyte congressman Clay Fuller (R-GA) calls for executing an ex-congressman for “misconduct.”

    https://www.rawstory.com/clay-fuller-swalwell-execution/

    Well, that’s one way to call attention to himself. In a body of 435 warm bodies, it’s hard to get attention, you know, especially when you’re someone not worth listening to.

  30. Real Greatness spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 12:15 pm

    The Democrats are doing everything possible to hurt the very strong position we are in with respect to Iran. Despite World War I lasting 4 years, 3 months, and 14 days, World War II lasting 6 years and 1 day, the Korean War lasting 3 years, 1 month, and 2 days, the Vietnam War lasting 19 years, 5 months, and 29 days, and Iraq lasting 8 years, 8 months, and 28 days, they like to say that I promised 6 weeks to defeat Iran, and actually, from the Military standpoint, it was far faster than that, but I’m not going to let them rush the United States into making a Deal that is not as good as it could have been. I read the Fake News saying that I am under “pressure” to make a Deal. THIS IS NOT TRUE! I am under no pressure whatsoever, although, it will all happen, relatively quickly! Time is not my adversary, the only thing that matters is that we finally, after 47 years, straighten out the MESS that other Presidents let happen because they didn’t have the Courage or Foresight to do what had to be done with respect to Iran. We’re in it, and it will be done RIGHT, and we won’t let the Weak and Pathetic Democrats, TRAITORS ALL, who for years have been talking about the Dangers of Iran, and that something has to be done, but now, since I’m the one doing it, belittle the accomplishments of our Military and the Trump Administration. This is being perfectly executed, on the scale of Venezuela, just a bigger, more complex operation. The result will be the same. In my First Term, I built the Greatest Military our Country has ever seen, including adding Space Force. In my Second Term, I am properly and judiciously using our Military to solve problems left to us by others of far less understanding or competence. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
    President DONALD J. TRUMP

    Let’s break it down.
    The Democrats are doing everything possible to hurt the very strong position we are in with respect to Iran

    We were in a stronger position in 2021 But you had to decide everything that Negro did had to be destroyed because he made fun of you at a podium.

    We were in a stronger position the day before you started bombing when Iran agreed to give you everything you were asking for.

    Despite World War I lasting 4 years, 3 months, and 14 days, World War II lasting 6 years and 1 day, the Korean War lasting 3 years, 1 month, and 2 days, the Vietnam War lasting 19 years, 5 months, and 29 days, and Iraq lasting 8 years, 8 months, and 28 days, they like to say that I promised 6 weeks to defeat Iran,

    US involvement in I was 18mos and II was four years. Korean War ended with a split country and an adversary were are still dealing with today, Vietnam is widely considered a self inflicted loss for America , Iraq/Afghanistan he left out the Afghanistan part lasted 18 years cost $5T and ended with Trump personally surrendering to the Taliban and freeing many of their members AND setting a hard out for your predecessor. And you DID say it would be over In six weeks which has passed.

    actually, from the Military standpoint, it was far faster than that, but I’m not going to let them rush the United States into making a Deal that is not as good as it could have been.

    Nothing about that makes sense. If we’ve won it’s over. Iran would not have Naval ships in that decimated Navy firing on tankers, the strait would be open and no deal would be necessary. AND circle back to the deal we had in 2021 and the one Iran offered in 2026.

    I read the Fake News saying that I am under “pressure” to make a Deal. THIS IS NOT TRUE! I am under no pressure whatsoever, although, it will all happen, relatively quickly! Time is not my adversary,

    Show of hands (see what I did there?) who thinks Time is most definitely your
    adversary?

    the only thing that matters is that we finally, after 47 years, straighten out the MESS that other Presidents let happen because they didn’t have the Courage or Foresight to do what had to be done with respect to Iran.

    2021 again.

    We’re in it, and it will be done RIGHT, and we won’t let the Weak and Pathetic Democrats, TRAITORS ALL, who for years have been talking about the Dangers of Iran, and that something has to be done

    It was done. They had inspectors in country. Every single nuclear expert in the world agreed it was working. You fucked it up. It was a Democrat who got it done with no military deaths and no major drain on the taxpayer. End of story.

    The rest is just the usual self delusion of an Alzheimer’s patient who managed not to crap his silk pajamas this morning and calls it a perfect day.

  31. Let’s Go Brandon spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 12:28 pm

    Quinnipiac (4/9-13)

    65% Trump deserves the blame for high gas prices.

    Where are those ‘I Did That’ stickers?

  32. The Midterms spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 12:34 pm

    They better home they get those gas and food prices down by October.

    Poll in Mississippi (Trump +21) has Scott Colom trailing Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by theee points. Add in D/R leaners and he’s up 1.

    Americans who can’t afford beef a year into President Donald Trump’s second term “have so many proteins to choose from,” U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi Republican, said in response to a question about steep food costs.

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

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 1:15 pm

    26,
    The lying troll is lying again.

    The threshold for HEU is 20%

    Under the prior regulatory agreement Iran was limiting enrichment to 3.67% which is enough for large, civilian energy reactors. When that agreement was unilaterally voided by the Insane MAGA Cult Leader in 2018, and when Israel began its series of escalating attacks on Iran, Iran began development to reach higher concentrations, but still short of weapons grade at this time.

    Weapons grade is 90%.

    Iran is several purification steps away from weapons grade with a small stockpile at 60%. And when CBS says “enough to make ten nuclear bombs” they are simply omitting that important fact. None of the fuel currently in Iran’s inventory can produce a self-sustaining, self-contained explosive reaction. The physics are clear.

    It’s indeed a terrible development that Iran has been able to build a stockpile of 60% enriched uranium. At 60%, and with the right purification facilities, Iran could get to weapons grade uranium (90%) in about two to three weeks time. But it’s important to understand that the reason this is so is because of Donald J. Trump and MAGA aligning themselves with Israel’s radically extreme Likud party’s ambitions for an Israeli apartheid empire in control of the region and operating puppet satellite authoritarian states to subjugate and control the Muslim majority population in the region. Netanyahu and Trump would make most of the region into a much larger Gaza.

    Given that realignment and, quite obviously, the unprovoked recent attacks featuring international war crimes targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, Iran can be understandably seen to be seeking a nuclear weapon for defensive purposes. Their need is plain. And it is entirely provoked by U.S. and Israeli aggression and manifest intent.

    And that’s why the troll has to lie about it.

  34. Pars Dominae Foetidae spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 1:21 pm

    @31

    You can actually buy the stickers from Amazon with Trump as the subject of the “I did that” quote. I’ve been putting them on the pump when I gas-up. I think 100 of the stickers cost me about $6 or $7.

  35. lmao spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 1:59 pm

    Israel’s radically extreme Likud party’s ambitions for an Israeli apartheid empire in control of the region and operating puppet satellite authoritarian states to subjugate and control the Muslim majority population in the region. Netanyahu and Trump would make most of the region into a much larger Gaza.

    Dang, I’ve never gone that far. Yes, the settler fanatics and even the Orthodox Jews who are excused from serving in the IDF believe in the Hebrew Bible’s dictum of “from the river to the river” – the Euphrates to the Nile (Genesis 15:18).

    How they do it is another matter. There’s only so much Israeli cannon fodder to risk and they’re already being looked at as a pariah state, i.e. where is a Jew safer – in places like Canada and the U.S. or in a country that rules over its sphere of influence with bombing hospitals, schools and mosques – and assassinations, covert and overt.

    The reaction to that from decent people, Jew and non-Jew alike is abject horror.

    Every extreme step they take, all the Israeli watchers say they’ve really screwed themselves big time. It will catch up to them.

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

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 3:14 pm

    35,
    Unfortunately, I think it’s a fundamental problem arising from one of the foundational ideas for the State of Israel. Establishment of a Jewish ethno-state within a region dominated by non-Jews. Theodor Herzl’s motivations were entirely reasonable and justifiable. The problem as I see it is not specific in any way to Judaism. But rather I think a consequence of establishing any kind of religiously based ethno-state anywhere.

    Nation states come into conflict, almost as a consequence of their very existence. Rational state actors seek compromise through negotiation to settle normal conflicts. Yet it is in the nature of democratic politics that the political leadership of any nation in such a conflict will always portray the source of the conflict as residing with the other nation. “They” are the aggressors/transgressors. “We” are merely standing up for our rights. “They” are the bad guys and “we” are the good guys. However that framing undergoes an other-than-rational distortion in a context informed by religion, mythology, and “faith”. And that distortion I think produces a fertile environment for paranoia that can give rise to expansionism.

    The United States itself has long suffered from this kind of paranoia born out of our own unique mythology. And it has produced most of our violent expansionism too. Whether we were exterminating Native Americans, exterminating Mexicans, or exterminating Asian and Pacific Islanders, it was almost always in service to a mythology that produced a wildly distorted framing about our need to expand in order to “survive”. And much of that mythology was and is helped along by business interests who stand to gain from either the extermination, the expansion, or both. So it’s no surprise that huge business interests are riding side by side into Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Southern Lebanon, and now Iran (and Venezuela, and Cuba, etc). And they are cranking up the mythology as they go.

  37. G spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 3:33 pm

    Carl. When I was a kid I found a wallet and was able to get it back to the rightful owner.

    But unfortunately I also stole a bicycle lock one time from a bike basket parked on a beach in a beach town. Coincidentally, it turned out to be my neighbor’s bike. The young girl who was renting the cottage next to my Dad’s cottage saw me with the lock. It was embarrassing. But it was fun spinning the lock combination numerically. I eventually was able to figure out the combination. It was one of those 4 number combos.

  38. President Dementia J. Trump, First Base, Yankees 1955 to 1962 spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 3:46 pm

    I HAVE FIRED MY SECRETARY OF LABOR!

    DON’T BELIEVE THE ALWAYS FAILING LEFT WING LUNATIC MEDIA. NO CORRUPTION. NO COLLUSION.

    I JUST DECIDED TO “GO IN ANOTHER DIRECTION”.
    NOW SHUT UP.

  39. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 5:35 pm

    @38 When even Trump thinks you’re a political liability, you’re a political liability. That makes three political liabilities in the cabinet he chose.

    The sycophants around him learned nothing from “The Apprentice” or his first term. Eventually they’ll all go under the wheels of the bus, their reputations and careers ruined.

    No one survives Trump. He makes sure they don’t.

  40. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 5:51 pm

    This infamous ex-mayor belongs to Dumbfuck’s party now.

    https://www.rawstory.com/tiffany-henyard/

  41. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 5:51 pm

    This infamous swindler ex-mayor belongs to Dumbfuck’s party now.

    https://www.rawstory.com/tiffany-henyard/

  42. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 5:56 pm

    Tim Cook is leaving his role as Apple’s CEO and will become executive chairman.

  43. Vicious Troll spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 6:06 pm

    Carl. I once killed a Mexican kid driving home drunk from the VIP room.

    It was embarrassing.

    I almost missed.

  44. G spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 6:40 pm

    @40/41

    The swamp creatures know best where to thrive, naturally with the Swamp Party.

  45. G spews:

    Monday, 4/20/26 at 7:24 pm

    Why try to stop a war when you can get rich by it?

    https://www.axios.com/2026/04/20/trump-energy-fuel-cold-war-defense-law

    You really can believe that he is authentically negotiating peace. More troops in the region, preparing for it

  46. President Jimmy Carter spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 8:24 am

    Too soon for the comparisons?

  47. Al Seimers spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 8:30 am

    Cool cool.

    Donnie tells Iran it would be a great start to negotiations if they release the six women they are planning to execute and refaketwats a twat by a rando. No one can confirm there are six women AND the images in the original twat are AI generated hotties.

    It would be embarrassing if you or I passed that along.

  48. Bertrand Russell spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 8:43 am

    Any nation that does not have nuclear weapons is watching what is going on with Iran and realizing that having nukes is a good preventative tool to avoid being bullied by the US (and Israel).

    It Iran can’t have nukes, then Israel shouldn’t have nukes either.

  49. G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 9:28 am

    The government of Isreal is a terrorist nation. They respect no boundaries. They think the world owes them everything and that they are supreme, they and their supreme religion.

    Fuck Off!

    https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/idf-replaces-jesus-statue-smashed-lebanon-os75oz65

  50. G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 9:33 am

    The moral failure didn’t begin with the soldier.

    The moral failure is Bibi.

    Monkey see, Monkey do. Heterosexual Neanderthal sees, Heterosexual Neanderthal do. Violet to even a statue.

    https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1qt4bsp11l

  51. G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 9:34 am

    The best way to have a strong fighting army…. let them all get the flu, at one time.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/hegseth-announces-end-mandatory-flu-141452287.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kZW1vY3JhdGljdW5kZXJncm91bmQuY29tLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKViCG9x5RI_uVytt5Ia_qSrKJ6k4FIH4FN0MYN0Iu5RcQNBYtWjyA_-rEBQMTvkXbyrdMHF87AMMYb3UBd4aTE7wEDjQCj-0PvXVlfF9LOqANayMDT1UARdhJR7Y_s04_wX4t2cYOcFUAca0s4sKsUhU3NqZS95iYcB9spCiMPC

  52. G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 9:38 am

    What a f’in moron.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-obama-iran-deal_n_69e65e81e4b09c81bf19ca51?origin=home-latest-news-unit

    Incompetent. Fake President. Dictator in the making. Building a bunker to hide out in. I wonder if he’ll be able to house his whole administration in it.

  53. G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 9:42 am

    They have no fucking clue on how to be a good religious person.

    Keep reading and then you’ll fuck the Bible after you’ve finished reading your versus.

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-bible-reading-conservative-christians-evangelicals-453a6a5abdfd757a97b6053b6da1dbed

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

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 10:02 am

    It would be embarrassing if you or I passed that along.

    Who’s this “we”, Ke-mo sah-bee?

    The lying troll passes along garbage like that daily.
    He’s no longer capable of discernment or even cautious investigation before he posts. He’s experiencing so much inner conflict and cognitive dissonance with his failing cult that it’s a defensive, self-soothing reflex.

  55. Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 11:10 am

    Alan Dershowitz, Republican.

    Sure. Why not.

  56. Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 11:13 am

    The House GOP majority widens.

    Politics
    Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick resigns, third House member to quit this month

    Next stops:

    • Conviction
    • Prison

  57. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 11:29 am

    @48 Saudi Arabia has made clear if Iran has nukes, they will too.

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

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 11:29 am

    56,
    And the excuse for keeping Cory Mills around raping and beating the shit out of female staffers just went away.

  59. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 11:32 am

    @54 Given what he reads (i.e., his “sources”), it’s gigo all the time.

  60. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 11:34 am

    @56 Spring housecleaning. Next stop: Cory Mills.

  61. Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 11:39 am

    @ 57

    @48 Saudi Arabia has made clear if Iran has nukes, they will too.

    Which supports eliminating any possibility that Iran will obtain nukes.

    Let the bombing recommence.

  62. Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 11:41 am

    Too late for G-clown, but good news for others of his ilk.

    US FDA approves Merck’s pill combo to treat HIV infection

    About 40.8 million people are living with HIV globally, and about 1.3 million new infections occur annually, according to ​National Institutes of Health data.

    And half of the newbies are within six degrees of separation from G-clown.

  63. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 11:43 am

    Dumbfuck doctor (no, not our dumbfuck doctor, another one) sees nothing wrong with a blurry-eyed drunk running the FBI as long as his judgment is clear-eyed.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5840756-rich-mccormick-kash-patel-reported-alcohol-use/

    This is another example of why you don’t put doctors in charge of legal stuff.

  64. Hair Club for Men spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 11:44 am

    Joe Kernen’s toupee is nearly as bad as Biden’s plugs.

    JOE KERNEN: So, to be clear, you’re saying that you need at least the prospect for a signed deal today and tomorrow, or else you would resume bombing Iran?

    TRUMP: Well, I expect to be bombing because I think that’s a better attitude to go in with. But we’re ready to go. I mean, the military is raring to go. They are absolutely incredible. You know, I built the military in my first term. I’m using it now. The military, when I took it over from Barack Hussein Obama, they had just — it was so depleted, so sad. And I built it in my first term. You remember those big numbers? You talked to me about it once. That’s a lot of money for military. I built it. We did a great job with our military, and we’re using it.

  65. Roger Rabbit spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 12:21 pm

    @64 After searching the globe for someone to use “his” military against, Trump settled on Iran. Previously (and perhaps still) under consideration:

    U.S. protesters
    Greenland
    Venezuela
    Panama
    Canada
    Mexico
    Cuba

    The problem is most of those places lacked good photo-op targets for Tomahawks.

  66. G spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 12:26 pm

    He should encourage them to pay their taxes too. I’m fine with them not collecting their tariff refunds. Tax them on top of it.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/trump-encourages-companies-not-to-seek-tariff-refunds/ar-AA21p6hb

  67. Bloviating Pig spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 12:34 pm

    Yeah Tuck, it’s true, I am the biggest bloviating pig.

  68. Fascist Conmen spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 12:36 pm

    Sure. Sure. Susan.

    https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-kevin-warsh-jerome-powell-dd88a3f06eddcada4db555fe11e547eb

  69. Bertrand Russell spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 1:07 pm

    57

    Saudi Arabia already has about 3 to 7 nukes.

  70. Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 1:19 pm

    @ 69,

    Hush now.

    You’ll spoil my latest excuse.

  71. Dementia J. Trump, First Base, Yankees 1955 to 1962 spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 1:22 pm

    Deadline looming.

    Anybody know a good TACO truck?

  72. Vicious Troll spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 1:23 pm

    Question: What Democrat system substitutes for ActBlue?

    WASHINGTON — ActBlue employees invoked their Fifth Amendment right at least 146 times in depositions with congressional committees investigating alleged donor fraud on the fundraising platform, according to an explosive report released Monday.

    Two ActBlue officials, one of whom formerly served as VP of customer service, and three of its former lawyers “declined to answer a single one of the Committees’ substantive questions,” stated the interim staff report from the House Administration, Oversight and Judiciary Committees.

  73. Strait of Hormuz Live Tracker spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 1:28 pm

    Still closed.
    Only 3 transits in 24 hours.
    No tankers.

  74. Bertrand Russell spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 1:32 pm

    70

    Excuse for what? Being absolutely batshit crazy?

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

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 1:44 pm

    ActBlue employees invoked their Fifth Amendment right at least 146 times in depositions with congressional committees

    This is a congressional committee that allows its MAGA Republican members to live stream closed door testimony to tabloid journalists, KKK Klaverns and Proud Boy Terrorist podcasters so that they can target the witnesses families in real time. And this is a DOJ that, having spent a year failing repeatedly to bring criminal charges against innocent Democratic elected officials, is now attempting to bring criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center for their work identifying and tracking violent right wing terrorist and white supremacist cells like the Ku Klux Klan, the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and 3%ers who brought arsenals of weapons to attack the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6th.

    Anybody would be a fool to willingly waive their rights before MAGA Republicans who align themselves with the KKK.

  76. Foxed it for you spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 1:51 pm

    @72

    Act Blue employees refused to participate in an investigation of things put on Twatter by random wannabe James O’Keefe’s.

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

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 1:52 pm

    74,
    Ignore him. Last week he was claiming that the elimination of 20% of global petro-energy supplies was a good thing for U.S. oil exporters.

    Never fucking mind the facts that the ULCC and VLCC ships regularly serving Persian Gulf terminals are unable to transit the Suez or Panama canals, that there is no handy fleet of “extra” Suezmax, or Aframax carriers sitting around waiting to be called into action, or that oil terminals operate on 24/7 schedules booked months and even years in advance.

    The lying troll’s lies are now just naked riffing based on pure nonsense and wishcasting. It works for an audience of MAGA chuds on the Xitter Child Porn platform, who lost the ability to reason and longitudinally track current events some time around their cult leader’s second impeachment. That was when the lying troll began to chud-splain it all in terms of a time machine.

  78. Nina Totenberg spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 2:51 pm

    In another moment of shocking news, a federal court has determined that absent some kind of legitimate reason i.e. environmental review, Donnie has broken the law by telling wind and solar projects that none of them can get permits.

    Because Gramps doesn’t like windmills doesn’t mean windmills and the windmill industry don’t get to exist.

  79. RNC RESEARCH spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 3:50 pm

    Wow. Fired MAGA Republican Labor Sec Lori Chavez-DeRemer was pimping female staff to her husband. Crazy.

    No wonder the GOP wants to hang on to Cory Mills.

  80. RNC RESEARCH spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 3:55 pm

    Here is a great new database for research:

    https://thebastionusa.com/criminal-scandals

  81. EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 4:19 pm

    More concerned about the tying down of just about every engine company plus three ladder companies covering Southeast Seattle (13, 28, 30 plus 6, 10(Pioneer Square), 27(Georgetown), 33, and 36, as well as Ladders 1, 3, and 13), but better to be ready. LINK service has already resumed, and the SFD Real-time log no longer has it an active incident.

    https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/natural-gas-leak-causes-light-rail-disruptions-temporary-evacuations-nearby-building-columbia-city/281-e67b65cd-fbe6-4975-b785-40c4922657ac

  82. Laraine Newman spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 4:50 pm

    Good morning Chevy.

    I’m standing on a quiet street corner in downtown Tehran where the current time is 3:17 am on April 22nd. The deadline imposed on Iran to capitulate to President Trump’s demands or he will resume his massive bombing campaign has now passed over three hours ago. And still the streets of Tehran are peaceful here in the early morning hours.

    Earlier the President threatened that he and his military were “raring to go” to resume bombing of Iran. But as of this time there is absolutely no sign of any attacks. It’s still quite early here, but already street vendors and public transit operators are beginning to go about their business as usual. The first call to prayer is set to begin in about an hour and the faithful are beginning to go about their early morning business to prepare with no sense of danger or urgency.

    Sending it back over to you in the studio Chevy. I’m heading across the street for a delicious breakfast Taco.

  83. This News Report is Treasonous spews:

    Tuesday, 4/21/26 at 5:06 pm


    Gen. Majid Mousavi, the aerospace chief for the Revolutionary Guard, said in comments on Iranian media that it would be a mistake to carry out “aggression” against Iran. He also said the region’s oil facilities would be harmed if neighboring countries allow the U.S. to carry out attacks.

    “If southern neighbors allow the enemy to use their facilities to attack Iran, they should say goodbye to oil production in the Middle East region,”

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