Rawdogging the Conclave

Plus: Trade deal, Columbia arrests, and more...

Mainstream media is not sure how to report on the Papal conclave: How can I tell? Because CBS said, on the air, that the cardinals choosing the next Pope are "rawdogging" the conclave—as in, they are barred from using their phones or any other electronic devices. ("Rawdogging" is slang for, uh, lots of things, and has recently been used to describe simply enduring something with no preparation, no aids, no devices; i.e. one can "rawdog" a flight by just staring out the window.)

I should hope the cardinals aren't "scrolling Instagram" as the CBS commentator suggests; it's a holy time of discernment. It would be such a dereliction of duty to tune out and turn your mind over to the control of the algorithm.

https://t.co/B7CRn10Ler pic.twitter.com/a7BITgLQFN

— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) May 7, 2025

For a much more informed take on the conclave, consider Bishop Robert Barron's observation that Catholics are yearning for a "quiet papacy" (in contrast to a "heroic" papacy).

Barron cites theologian John Henry Newman, who argued that the Pope is not so much a player, but a referee in the life of the Church. Monks and mystics "live out the liturgical life of the church, the prayerful life of the church"; you have people doing the "corporal works of mercy"—tending to the poor and needy; but the role of the Pope is to be the "adjudicator of disputes." Barron notes that this is contra many people's expectations, but "there's some instinct for the Newmanesque understanding of the papacy." This is the type of observation and forecasting CBS could focus on: taking the church's role seriously, as there are some 60 million adherents in the U.S. alone, and not attempting to dumb it down or put it in TikTok slang terms. People can handle seriousness.

Trump will sign U.K. trade deal: Later today, President Donald Trump will announce a trade agreement with the United Kingdom. "The agreement with the United Kingdom is a full and comprehensive one that will cement the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom for many years to come," the president wrote on Truth Social. "Because of our long time history and allegiance together, it is a great honor to have the United Kingdom as our FIRST announcement. Many other deals, which are in serious stages of negotiation, to follow!"

"Both nations have discussed lowering British tariffs on U.S. cars and farm goods, as well as removing British taxes on U.S. technology companies," reports The New York Times. The current 10 percent tariffs, imposed on all nations around the globe, are in effect on the U.K. (though they have not been targeted with "reciprocal tariffs"—the implementation of which have been delayed—because it imports more from us than it exports to us). The full details aren't yet clear but are expected to be announced this morning around 10 a.m.

If Trump's threatened tariffs simply result in tons and tons of trade deals, where the countries opposite us—in a hurry to negotiate—lower their tariffs on us to zero, great. The gambit will have been worth it, if the final outcome is a world full of free trade. But a) this is a maximally disruptive way to achieve that, and b) that doesn't seem likely.

Still, a trade deal that might remove barriers is a step in the right direction.

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Scenes from New York: "More than 70 people were arrested after masked protesters occupied Columbia University's main library Wednesday, according to a law enforcement official," reports Bloomberg. "Police entered Butler Library hours after protesters, many wearing face coverings and keffiyehs, took over part of the building and draped Palestinian flags along its walls. The number of arrests is likely to increase as police activity continues, said the official, who asked not to be identified speaking publicly about the situation." Organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the group claims it renamed the library the Basel Al-Araj Popular University. The university's acting President Claire Shipman apparently called the police and has alleged there are people not affiliated with the university embedded among the protesters.

This would not be the first time; back in May, city officials reported that about 30 percent of the 112 people arrested at a Columbia protest were not in fact students or affiliated with the university in any way. (The idea that outside agitators play a significant role in these "student" protests has been repeatedly downplayed by student organizers and others who are sympathetic to these protests.)

The Trump administration has revoked $400 million in funding for the university, due to its seeming inability to curb antisemitism on campus. Columbia has cycled through three presidents since last year: Minouche Shafik, who resigned in 2024, was replaced by an interim pick, Katrina Armstrong, who stepped down in March. Claire Shipman now replaces her, and appears to be less reluctant to call the cops than her predecessors.

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QUICK HITS

• "The United States and Israel have discussed the possibility of Washington leading a temporary post-war administration of Gaza, according to five people familiar with the matter," reports Reuters. "The 'high-level' consultations have centered around a transitional government headed by a U.S. official that would oversee Gaza until it had been demilitarized and stabilized, and a viable Palestinian administration had emerged, the sources said."
• "The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday but said the risks of higher inflation and unemployment had risen, further clouding the U.S. economic outlook as its policymakers grapple with the impact of President Donald Trump's tariffs," reports Reuters.
• The government was ordered to return Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Louisiana:

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— Chris "Law Dork" Geidner (@chrisgeidner) May 7, 2025

• I love Casey Means. What a good surgeon general pick!

NEW: The White House is tapping Casey Means, a holistic doctor and prominent MAHA advocates for surgeon general, replacing Janette Nesheiwat's withdrawn nomination.https://t.co/hA0Jpqy78z

— Sarah Owermohle (@owermohle) May 7, 2025

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Rawdogging the Conclave

Not even headphones?

[Social Justice is neither]

No headphones but a steady stream of young boys...allegedly.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

They all hear the choir of angels.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

It's rather telling that Zoomers are equating sex without a condom to going without their stupid digital umbilicus for more than 24 hours. As usual, the white bourgeiosie manages to imitate hip-hop culture in the stupidest ways imaginable.

[NoVaNick]

My 15 year old son told me the other day he rawdogged a math test, I scratched my head for a moment before asking him what that meant but could have just waited for Liz to enlighten me.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Probably because he didn’t use a calculator.

[Chuck P. (The Artist formerly known as CTSP)]

Maybe he just left the protective case at home?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

80085

Giggle

[mad.casual]

IDK, unaccompanied, acoustic, raw, uncooked, underprepared... it fits together to me. Plus, for that sort of thing there's the element that they're not exactly supposed to know what the term means.

The part that blows my mind is the "Greetings fellow humanoids." take from the, seemingly, Boomer and GenX media-types by being simultaneously broadly unaware of Conclave and The Catholic Church *and* (not so) current cultural slang.

If you're 10 and you don't know how The Church works, OK. You've never actually seen a Conclave, maybe never even seen a Mass. If you're 50 and you don't know exactly what slang the kids these days are using, OK. But, FFS, at 50+, this is at least your third Pope and between royal weddings, christenings/baptisms, funerals, etc. you have to have at least watched people sit through one mass...

To not exactly grasp that The Church doesn't operate on WiFi *and* to not know internet jargon? It's like they banished themselves to the Phantom Zone and, because time behaves differently there, don't know if they were gone for 10 yrs. or 1000 yrs.

[VinniUSMC]

I'm not acoustic, you're acoustic! 😉

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

All libertarians are somewhat acoustic.

[Chuck P. (The Artist formerly known as CTSP)]

Plus, for that sort of thing there's the element that they're not exactly supposed to know what the term means.

From the MSM that brought you "Let's Go Brandon!"

[Ajsloss]

Rawdogging is slang for... no aids

Does Liz not know how aids is transmitted?

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Next thing you know maskless people will be out there “rawdogging the air”.

Hopefully taylor Lorenz can prevent this catastrophe.

[Eeyore]

Does it just mean they aren't wearing any condoms? Sounds like the usual.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Because CBS said, on the air, that the cardinals choosing the next Pope are "rawdogging" the conclave...

The White House's social media intern opened the door to this kind of blasphemy.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

There's a good chance that there was rawdogging at a few of the renaissance era conclaves, and Pope Francis was pretty progressive...

[Zeb]

Though he did complain about the amount of "faggotry" going on in the Vatican.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

there is a book titled "In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy" by Frédéric Martel, which claims that 80% of priests working at the Vatican are gay, although not necessarily sexually active.

[mad.casual]

gay, although not necessarily sexually active

Once again, if you go by all the cassocks and vestments, 80% is low balling it.

[SQRLSY]

Unlike slaves to "Team R", I raw-dawg shit by SNOT bothering to seriously cuntsider the vacuous, non-data-driven "FEELZ" of sore-in-the-cunt cuntsorevaturds, and instead, consider FACTS, when forming my opinions!!! Ya'll should try that sometime!

[Idaho-Bob]

I remember the Covidians saying people "were rawdogging the air", AKA breathing like a normal biological creature.

Trying to demonize people sans masks.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

I remember that shit. It was people like Jeff, Tony, and J(ew)free pushing it.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

I was wondering where I had heard the term before, thanks for reminding me of the association with pandemic hysteria and the desire for totalitarian control [with the usual culprits being progs...].

[Anomalous]

I only heard that from Lorenz Taylor.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Sarcjeff (st)rawdogs this forum every day!

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Ha

[VinniUSMC]

Bertram wins the interwebz today.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

+1, LOL!

[Fist of Etiquette]

...Catholics are yearning for a "quiet papacy" (in contrast to a "heroic" papacy).

No, put a chick in it and make her lame and gay.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

OK Kathleen

[Randy Sax]

Was Joan Of Arc catholic? Or some other flavor of Cristian?

Trick question; She was a witch.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Only according to the English she was fighting. Joan of Arc was Catholic and French.

[Randy Sax]

French? Makes the whole "I'll turn you into a frog!" thing seem redundant.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

The English clergy got in pretty hot water with the pope for burning her. At that point most priests and bishops answered to the king rather than the Bishop of Rome.

[mad.casual]

Only according to the English she was fighting.

[tilts hand] Mm... this is a bit of a "Saddam Hussein himself thought he had WMDs." situation.

She claimed divine guidance or providence to victory and lost. As an American Protestant centuries later, I'd say any claim of her religion on any side is going to have a bigger, bolder asterisk beside it than Mark McGuire's home run record.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Honestly, the whole legend of La Pucelle screams of a psyop by Charles VII to humiliate the English for getting the shit kicked out of them by some illiterate peasant girl, while consolidating his control over his French vassals.

[Anomalous]

Wasn't that the plot of Conclave?

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

This is a maximally disruptive way to achieve freer trade- or the Only way to achieve freer trade?
Because there hasn’t been any incentive for other countries to lower their tariffs til now

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Yeah. Most of the boehm economists don't realize that sometimes you have to respond to bad market actions, an economic NAP. They don't realize all they are doing is defending the status quo. Often manipulated by globalists like the wef using entities like the WTO. But people like boehm seem to prefer that system. Even calling it free trade, pushing the lie.

[mad.casual]

bad market actions

And, it should be noted, *ANY* bad market action. The idea that only tariffs apply to international free trade and that eliminating the cap for student visas *and* offering free student loans *and* H1B visas *and* raising energy efficiency requirements *and* wage levels *while* giving green energy subsidies to overseas manufacturers *while* drawing down domestic energy production* doesn't abjectly fuck the underlying precepts of comparative advantages is objectively retarded.

[damikesc]

I am wondering where this "free trade" Reason is convinced existed was.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Somewhere over the rainbow.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Priest Vito Cornelius: I try to serve life. And you seem to want to destroy it.
Zorg: Oh, Father. You're so wrong. Let me explain.
[Puts and empty water glass on his desk]
Zorg: Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Now take this empty glass. Here it is: peaceful, serene, boring. But if it is destroyed
[Pushes the glass off the table. It shatter on the floor, and several small machines come out to clean it up]
Zorg: Look at all these little things! So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. A lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people, who will be able to feed their children tonight, so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain of life. You see, father, by causing a little destruction, I am in fact encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

[He drinks the water with cherry, only to choke when the cherry sticks in his throat. Zorg frantically presses all the buttons on his desk in an attempt to get something to clear his throat]
Cornelius: Where's the robot to pat you in the back? Or the engineer? Or their children, maybe? [Desk brings out Zorg's pet Picasso; Zorg motions it to try and help him] There, you see how all your so-called power counts for absolutely nothing? How your entire empire of destruction comes crashing down. All because of one…little…cherry. [slaps Zorg in the back, causing him to spit the cherry at Picasso]
Zorg: [opens doors, throws Cornelius to guards] You saved my life, and in return, I'll spare yours. For now.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

I’m wondering how the UK lowering their tariffs on us is a good thing? I have been assured it’s just a tax on their citizens with no other effects?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

One of the ironies with this agreement is it includes British steel which China has been systematically destroying by purchasing steel smelters and closing them down in England.

[Jefferson Paul]

"Ironies" and "steel"
Pun intended?

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

I thought I smelt a pun there.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

You smelt it, Trump dealt it.

[Nelson]

“ I have been assured it’s just a tax on their citizens with no other effects?”

No you haven’t, Strawman.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...you have people doing the "corporal works of mercy"—tending to the poor and needy; but the role of the Pope is to be the "adjudicator of disputes."

Step aside, Judge Judy.

[Spiritus Mundi]

...one can "rawdog" a flight by just staring out the window...

Just like the dark days in the 'before' times.

[Randy Sax]

I still prefer books on planes.

[Spiritus Mundi]

But ebooks right? You don't want to murder a tree so you have something to read. Me, all my books are printed on vellum made from my vanquished enemies.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

I kill almost as may trees as environmentalists do to allow a runway landing for their private jets

[Randy Sax]

No, looking at screens while in motion makes me nauseous. Plus having to deal with battery life and chargers and all that nonsense is obnoxious. Also, when I'm done with the book, I can put it on my shelf and seem smarter than I actually am when guests come over.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Kindle battery life is pretty damn long. Probably powered by the souls of slaves in china.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I lost my kindle once traveling, as it apparently fell out of my not-quite-zipped backpack as I left the gate area to use the bathroom. I was lucky enough to have it turned in at the gate and when I was showing my boarding pass I said "Hey! My kindle!". Was lucky!

So now I like to go to a used book store or Goodwill/thrift store. I can buy a nice hardcover book for $1-2.50, so if I lose it, meh. I never worry about the charge running out. And I can leave it behind when I'm finished.

[VinniUSMC]

Littering! The eco-geeks will get you.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Why do you want to increase Carbon emissiins by plugging in your ebook?
True environmentalist use rock and chisel.

[Zeb]

Only if the chisel is made of rock too. Metals take a lot of energy to make.

[Ersatz]

Books on Planes ... yeah, that sounds familiar.
Didnt it star Sam Jackson as a heroic guy who sleeps through the whole flight cause he cant get through the forward?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Likewise. Real books with actual paper.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Same. And at the beach and around a campfire.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...President Donald Trump will announce a trade agreement with the United Kingdom.

In just before the British goods start splashing into Boston Harbor.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Both nations have discussed lowering British tariffs on U.S. cars...

Yes! Make those Limey fucks drive on the correct side of the road.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Roads? Where limeys drive they don't need roads.

[Spiritus Mundi]

The gambit will have been worth it, if the final outcome is a world full of free trade. But a) this is a maximally disruptive way to achieve that, and b) that doesn't seem likely.

I don't want the things I want if orange man gets his way too.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

See deregulation and cutting spending and government.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

But a) this is a maximally disruptive way to achieve

As opposed to your, and reasons plan of said polis is dreamy, and more but sex and food trucks until free trade happens?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

They all learned under the great Michelle Obama and hashtag diplomacy. Those girls got returned damnit.

[Zeb]

Right, those are the only two possible options.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

What was being fixed the last couple of decades? In fact things were getting worse with managed trade.

[Zeb]

OK. Not disagreeing.

[Nelson]

Worse how?

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

We've tried nothing and we're out of ideas

[Fist of Etiquette]

...protesters, many wearing face coverings and keffiyehs, took over part of the building and draped Palestinian flags along its walls.

WE'RE STILL IN A PANDEMIC.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Joking aside, the Taylor Lorenz chick thinks we are.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

I think she still wears her mask while on social media.

[VinniUSMC]

The only thing Taylor Lorenz raw-dogs is dicks. She's probably got a higher body count than # of brain cells.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

What, you think it’s safe for her to rawdog the air in her own home?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Scenes from Memphis:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jury-deliberates-2nd-day-trial-154402225.html

3 former Memphis officers acquitted in fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after he fled a traffic stop

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This was, of course after "white supremacy" and all sorts of other "racism" was touted in the media as the cause of Nichols death...

"Recently an unarmed 29-year-old African American, Tyre Nichols, was brutally beaten to death by five Black Memphis police officers. They were charged with murder. All belonged to a special crime unit known as the Scorpions.

"Both the victimizers and victim were Black. The Memphis police chief is Black. The assistant police chief is Black.

"Nearly 60 percent of the police force is Black. The white population of Memphis is about 25%.

"The now-disbanded Scorpion unit of mostly Black officers was created as a response to grassroots appeals to stop spiraling crime in mostly Black neighborhoods.

"The death of Tyre Nichols could be attributed to many things: a basic lack of humanity on the part of the officers, poor police training, lax administrative supervision, and lowered hiring standards.

"Instead, no sooner was the beating death announced than accusations of "systemic racism" surfaced.

"Van Jones, the former Obama Administration green czar and recent recipient of Jeff Bezos' $100 million "courage and civility award," pronounced on CNN that the Black police oppressors were acting out white racism.

"Some claimed that charging the five Black officers with murder was itself racist.

"Others alleged that creating the unit in the first place to reduce Black-on-black crime was racist.

[Idaho-Bob]

There are grifters still claiming Rittenhouse shot black people.

The media is evil, but people are stupid.

[Randy Sax]

Because race is the most important thing.

[Eeyore]

Not just shot. They claim he killed black people.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

The left is defending the father who killed a different cop because his son was killed after stealing a car and having a weapon that went off.

Truth doesn't matter.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

The 2020 riots were a psyop to get Trump out of office and this is more evidence of that.

[Randy Sax]

The White House is tapping Casey Means, a holistic doctor

Cherokee hair tampons for all?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Gotta love the obligatory South Park reference.

[Jefferson Paul]

Speaking of South Park, when is the next season going to start? Or even the next hour-long streaming special? It seems as though it's been about two years since Trey and Matt released anything.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

I think they “quiet quit”. Pity.

[Jefferson Paul]

I'm pretty sure they are under contract with Paramount or whatever company signed them to their latest contract. Part of the new contract was releasing at least a couple hour-long streaming-only specials per year, in addition to the regular episodes released on Comedy Central. I can't see them giving up hundreds of millions of dollars to break the deal.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Yeah, I don’t think they’ve done anything new for Comedy Central in a while, but I haven’t checked. The last time I saw new stuff on paramount was probably a couple years ago.

[DesigNate]

This summer!

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

When I was young (around 20) I used to inadvertently confuse 'holistic' with 'homeopathy', which led to some odd conversations.

[Randy Sax]

It doesn't help that the homeopaths use the word holistic as well to peddle their snake oil.

[VinniUSMC]

They absolutely rely on those words being confused.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

How will this effect the boys bathroom?

[Eeyore]

And when you're done using them. They make a great toy for jessie.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Are all the resident pedophiles still here? P.S., I agree with a lot of the commenters on that thread re: "Obviously good news but, how can you round up 200 predators in a week yet there hasn't been an arrest of a single Epstein client?"

https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1920130507523739744

JUST NOW: I can join
@AGPamBondi
and
@TheJusticeDept
in announcing the arrest of over 200 alleged child sex predators in the last week.

For the last week, the FBI and DOJ have been quietly surging operations across 55 field offices to take down criminals who target kids.

We called this “Operation Restore Justice.”

Our agents, support teams and partners did excellent work — rescuing 115 children across the country in the process. Their work undoubtedly saved lives and protected vulnerable kids from further horrific crimes.

Operation Restore Justice is a powerful message: If you harm children in America, you will be given no sanctuary. There is nowhere you can hide.

You will be hunted down, and you will be prosecuted.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Bondi says the FBI is sorting through thousands of hours of Epstein videos and will be releasing info soon. We shall see but it sounds like a pretty big task.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Kash Patel and Steve Bannon need to sneak in with an army of mercs and a blessing from the president, grab all the tapes and start uploading them to Rumble and YouTube.

I'm convinced at this point that Epstein was a CIA/MI6/Mossad honeypot op on almost every major political figure in the world and the political opposition behind the scenes must be furious.

[Medulla Oblongata]

That seems to be a likely scenario.

[VinniUSMC]

That's what they're sorting, for sure. Make sure that the only evidence that will surface incriminates nobody important.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

It must be the grossest task in the world though. Having to shuffle through tens of thousands of depraved child abuse and rape videos to pick out the stuff that's fit for release.
I'd also worry about a bullet in the back of the head once the task is done.

[VinniUSMC]

Pedojeff and buttplug's dream job?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Why is the evidence bag so sticky?

[Eeyore]

I predict that if they release anything it will be the creepy sex tapes Epstein made of Stephen Hawking.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Yes, unfortunately chemjeff retarded idiot, Sarah Palin’s Bushpig, and occasionally Tony are still here.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Trump administration has revoked $400 million in funding for the university, due to its seeming inability to curb antisemitism on campus.

The Jews have saved us all some money.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

It's what they do

[Medulla Oblongata]

How depraved can people be? Don't answer that...

https://abc7news.com/post/764-threat-online-predators-targeting-kids-video-games-social-media-bay-area-beyond-fbi-says/16343130/

The mother confirms what investigators tell us -- once 764 members have any sensitive information or photo of a girl, they threaten to expose her -- to her family or school -- if she won't do what they want.

For added pressure, 764 members sometimes call in phony reports of crisis at the victim's home. So, police arrive guns drawn - a process called "swatting."

It happened to that mother and daughter.

"And the swatting happened because she wouldn't kill one of our cats. So that was the same person who had been trying to get her to take her life."

And to live stream it.

She also says they sent her daughter, just 15-years-old at the time, a suicide manual.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

This group is fucked up. Know someone whose daughter was targeted by this group.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

There was another group that is similar. The fbi knew about them, and did nothing until they could claim it was white supremacy.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-satanist-pedophile-gang-is-torturing-kids-the-fbi-didnt-seem-to-care-unless-it-could-blame-white-supremacy

[DesigNate]

You know, I don’t usually condone vigilante justice or capital punishment, but I’d make an exception for these motherfuckers.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The United States and Israel have discussed the possibility of Washington leading a temporary post-war administration of Gaza...

TRUMP TOWER ON THE MED.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

They already have a Trump Tower in Beirut-by-the-Lake aka Chicago.

[VinniUSMC]

It's kinda funny, but can we please not? I don't care what happens to a post-Hamas Gaza, except that it not include US involvement or funding.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday but said the risks of higher inflation and unemployment had risen, further clouding the U.S. economic outlook as its policymakers grapple with the impact of President Donald Trump's tariffs...

Risks? Shouldn't all of that have happened already?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Huh. Remember when they dropped the rate before the 2024 election based on demonstrably bogus reports to goose the economy for Biden? I guess the mandate got changed somehow.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

There is no deep state.

[Chinny Chin Chin]

Why do you suppose the "deep state" dropped the rate twice after Biden lost the election... on 11/7/24 and 12/18/24?

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

I just said there isn’t a deep state.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Second Circuit panel, one day after arguments, unanimously rejects government's arguments and orders that Rumeysa Ozturk be transferred to Vermont no later than May 14.

The administration is going to send them all to Vermont and wall it off.

[Rockstevo]

What they should do is by houses in these judges neighborhoods and turn them into halfway houses for illegals. Then lets see how eager they are to have them stay.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

It's okay for him to sin because he can buy indulgences carbon offsets.

Bernie Sanders: "You think I should wait on line at United? No apologies for my private jets."

[Idaho-Bob]

Just an older Al Gore.

Progs just let this hypocrisy slide every time. Covid, climate change, and helping people (unless they are conservative).

It really is strange.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

It's not strange. As I've pointed out repeatedly, the double standard is the point. They've openly stated this since fucking Lenin, and Marcuse distilled it down to its essence as "anything the left does is okay, anything the right does is evil."

It's why these same people are so flabbergasted that their Alinskyite tactics against Trump aren't gaining as much purchase this time. Everyone knows the game now, and understands there are no "norms" or "principles" or "standards" or "guardrails," there's just what will advance the marxist revolution and what won't.

It's also why the useless conservacucks at places like The Dispatch and their loyal readers have no political influence anymore. You can only tell voters who don't support leftism that "when you fight your political enemies, they win" and "politics is the art of compromise" for so long before people get tired of giving their opponents half of what they want now and the other half later on.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I mean, look at this--these dorks are still running the same rhetorical tropes 30 years later, only instead of saying "librulz r da reel raysists," it's now "populists r da reel soshulists."

The Dispatch
@thedispatch
“The president thinks the U.S. is one big Macy’s—with him in charge. Donald Trump is a Socialist.”
--Kevin Williamson explains how Donald Trump’s vision of the economy is classic socialism
2:32 PM · May 7, 2025

Williamson is, of course, the urbanite malbushim who thinks small-town America needs to die if it doesn't take in tens of thousands of peon Third World labor.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

This is why the Dispatch and the Bulwark are no longer relevant to the vast majority of those of the right. The only people here who push Dispatch and Bulwark stories are Pluggo and his socks. I also think that an argument can be made that Reason is no longer relevant to libertarians for much the same reason.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

"only instead of saying "librulz r da reel raysists," it's now "populists r da reel soshulists."

I was wondering where Buttplug gets it from. That he's reading the Bush neocons at the Bulwark makes sense.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

And he’s at it again, below, oddly with an article from The Atlantic.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

You mean the rag owned by champagne marxist Laurene Powell Jobs, who thought that dizzy bimbo Kamala Harris would make a great President?

[Chuck P. (The Artist formerly known as CTSP)]

Yesterday was weird, with some handle that I have never seen before claiming to represent the "true libertarians of Reason", and calling the regular commenters communists.

https://reason.com/2025/05/07/trumps-they-can-have-5-moment-is-an-attack-on-capitalism/?comments=true#comment-11037668

Bizarre. It is obvious that the talking points have been distributed.

Dissemble. Deflect. Distract.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Yeah, that BSalz3586 is a left-wing moby playing the True and Honest Libertarian role like they did in 2008 with the Concerned Christian Conservatives act. He appears to be some Boomer dickhead (these guys have no clue that you don't use the same screenname on multiple platforms) who lives in Manhattan.

He's popped his rat head up in other threads before.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Gotta wonder if BSalz is one of the writers here.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

He went to Binghampton. Did any of the staff?

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Or maybe Albany.

https://www.basketballforum.com/threads/binghamton%E2%80%99s-quarterfinals-home-court-chances.694786/

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

I'm pretty sure it's DOL/KAR.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

It's not. Google the screenname. Like I said above, it's some Boomer Bernie Sanders type of champagne marxist who lives in Manhattan. He left a review of his high-end dentist with the same screenname.

Like I said, these idiots have no OPSEC whatsoever. I'd be willing to bet he has an old aol or excite email address he's used for 25 years that has the same screename.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Google the screenname.

What are you guys trying to do, dox him the same way you doxxed poor chemjeff?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

KAR doesn’t strike me as being quite so verbose.

[Chuck P. (The Artist formerly known as CTSP)]

KAR, Sarc, the Jeffys and SPB all end up spouting bigotry when they get flustered because they are trolls who post for attention and they are in for the hate.

Illegal immigrants are heroes. You guys are zeroes. Die!

BSalz calls them heroes instead of vermin. He is a true believer like White Mike, but maybe slightly smarter.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Pretty sure it is a sarc sock. Exact same JDS/TDS with thr same arguments.

Guess it is just a leftist with the hallmarks of a sarc sock given above posts.

[Medulla Oblongata]

They really hate it now that Team Red has learned how to use Alinsky's 4th rule:

4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

As Sarc says "It's okay, Democrats did it first".

I'm waiting for more drastic things, esp. on the transgender "rules". E.g., I think California still has some rule about corporate boards being 50% women...every man on the board should declare that they identify as women. I'm waiting for a high-school basketball coach to field a "girls" team comprising all young men willing to identify as women (for the sake of the argument)...any sport really, just to prove the ridiculousness of it all. Eliminate the "pay gap" by having all men identify as women! "Prove" homosexuality is not something one is born with (heterosexual male who chooses to identify as a woman, but who remains attracted to other women is now a lesbian...strictly as a result of his/her chosen and expressed gender identity?).

[Chuck P. (The Artist formerly known as CTSP)]

https://hecheated.org/injury_report.html

Check out the injury report. The situation is already drastic. Girls are being hurt by boys playing on opposing teams. A girl's basketball team had to forfeit after a boy injured 3 of their players in the first half of a game. Shameful.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

What is wrong with these girl’s fathers?

[Zeb]

They don't want to go to prison for hate crimes? Though at this point a sympathetic jury is not out of the question.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Don’t get caught.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

More specifically, that rule is, "Anything my side does is okay."

[sarcasmic]

"Ethics are for losers."

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

What ethical system prescribes secretly serving of equine meat to someone who loves horses?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Does that include burning the meat as well?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

This is coming from the highly principled Strawcasmic.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Yet you have no ethics and are also a loser.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Yeah, that's been the game for the last 50-plus years. Don't get mad at me for pointing it out.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Should just pull a Crockett and use security to cut the lines in front of disabled passengers.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Mental defective is a type of disability...

[VinniUSMC]

Bernie thinks he's too good for a bus?

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

"People lining up for food airplanes is a good thing."

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Molly, jeffsarc and qb won't read this.

https://dannycevallos.substack.com/p/how-much-due-process-is-actually?r=2hcje3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

For example, it seems really unfair that these detainees are removed from the country so quickly. But the time the government is giving them to file “habeas” petitions might be constitutionally adequate (a habeas petition is a legal means for these noncitizens to challenge their detention). Courts have upheld even shorter windows to file legal challenges under immigration statutes without finding a due process violation. For example, 8 U.S.C. § 1225 outlines the procedures for the inspection of aliens and includes provisions for the expedited removal of inadmissible aliens. Specifically, 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(1)(A)(i) permits certain noncitizens to be removed in as little as 24 hours after arrival. Under this law, immigration officers may summarily remove individuals who are inadmissible due to fraud or lack of valid documents, unless, of course, they seek asylum or express a fear of persecution. But the point is: § 1225 removals can occur with minimal process and within a single day, and the courts have upheld this timeline as constitutionally adequate. The government argues that if removal within 24 hours under § 1225 passes due process tests, then removal without a hearing under the AEA must pass the same tests too.
...
There is no express statutory right to counsel under the AEA. There is no statutory right to a hearing under the AEA.
...
According to the government, the Supreme Court in Ludecke v. Watkins, 335 U.S. 160 (1948), upheld this framework, finding that enemy aliens may be removed solely on the basis of executive determination under the AEA.
...
Criminal defense attorneys will tell you that habeas petitions are rarely granted; they are often denied without a hearing. According to statistics, federal habeas petitions have about a 1-2% success rate. If due process required a hearing in every habeas petition, the federal courts would probably come to a grinding halt; one thing prisoners do is file a lot of (pro se) habeas petitions. The point is this: the promise of habeas relief isn’t much of a relief, at least not to criminal defense attorneys and their clients.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I think Jeff knows this, and has adjusted his messaging to complain about due process somewhat differently now, in the sense that he says the due process required is not good enough, as if there should be more due process...more hearings, more lawyers, criminal charges, trials, appeals...E.g. something like (paraphrasing) "Would *you* want to be subject to the level of due process Garcia got?"

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

That's because he has been cornered with the facts most of these people have had multiple trials and final deportation orders.

Now him and sarc are demanding the US control El Salvadorian justice.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Yeah, what he's talking about are endless delays and appeals, the kind that keep serial killers in prison for decades after their capture.

[Idaho-Bob]

endless delays and appeals, kind that keep serial killers in prison

Apt comparison.

[Medulla Oblongata]

...instead of being executed.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Yes, Lying Jeffy transitioned seamlessly from a legal to a moral argument.

[Quicktown Brix]

Molly, jeffsarc and qb won't read this.

I read it. You're still missing the point and I have nothing to add I haven't already said.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Poor sarc, Boehm.

https://thepostmillennial.com/us-manufacturers-see-rise-in-orders-due-to-trumps-tariffs

Almost like China isnt an exclusionary manufacturing location.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Gosh, I was informed the free market was incapable of adapting to new circumstances and doesn't respond to incentives.

[Medulla Oblongata]

CNN panel on ruling on Trump's transgender ban in military:

Jemele Hill: "When you don't protect the most vulnerable, you wind up making it worse for everybody..."

Scott Jennings: "Is it your position that the Commander in Chief should recruit people who you're describing as vulnerable into the military?!"

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Half the fucking point of basic training and the follow-on job schools is to weed out anyone who can't hack it. My flight in basic lost 3 guys who couldn't meet standards or were just mentally jacked up, and a couple of training squadrons were notorious for cutting their own flights down by as much as half during the course of training, either kicking out or recycling the rest.

"Protecting the most vulnerable" is how you build a daycare program, not a fighting force. The high-discipline environment has been that way for millennia.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Except that’s what these twits want, a daycare program for unstable adults who have no business being near a weapon of any sort.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Oh, no doubt--it's part of their whole "oppressed/oppressor" false duality.

[Mike Parsons]

"Half the fucking point of basic training and the follow-on job schools is to weed out anyone who can't hack it. "

This. Most branches historically have some sort of training specifically designed such that even somewhat normal people that have some anxiety/panic tendencies will shit their pants and not be able to hack it. That is the entire point.

No one in their right mind wants someone that has said panic attack over being misgendered

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

When I was in basic, one of the guys in my flight started threatening to cut his wrists after the first week of training. He ended up getting processed out. He wasn't really going to kill himself or he would have just done it (I should have told him, "Do it, faggot"), he just couldn't handle getting yelled at without melting. That was the kind of person I don't want in the military.

Seriously, the military has enough issues with guys who come out with PTSD on the back end that we don't need people enlisting who are already cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, under the guise that doing so is "protecting" them. Hill, you stupid cunt, people like that end up getting their own side killed.

[mad.casual]

Scott Jennings: "Is it your position that the Commander in Chief should recruit people who you're describing as vulnerable into the military?!"

Sorry Scott, I'm pretty sure he said *the* *most* vulnerable. Not just vulnerable. Which hedges away from *just* "The CIC should recruit sub-optimal soldiers.", which is a valid interpretation, and hedges towards "The CIC should recruit them as cannon fodder."

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Poor qb.

Garcias boss admits he paid Garcia to smuggler illegal immigrants.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/05/report-human-smuggler-admitted-he-hired-abrego-garcia-to-traffic-illegal-aliens/

[Quicktown Brix]

Yeah, he said he was a hired driver. I knew this.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Democrat recovers from a brain injury and becomes less progressive. The party apparatus goes on the attack against him.

[Randy Sax]

He gets to wear sweatpants to work, but I have to wear dockers? No fair.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Due Process!!!! Except for evil citizens we don't like.

The June 2021 memo exposed for the first time the law enforcement and intelligence framework that led the FBI to monitor and probe conservative Catholics and parents who protested against some school board policies and justified Homeland Security to engage in censorship or debanking of Americans the administration considered to be potential enemies of the state.
...
Legal experts and lawmakers told Just the News on Tuesday they were deeply concerned the Biden-era memo substantially lowered the standard to "concerning" behavior instead of criminality, potentially jeopardizing civil liberties and giving license to weaponize police powers against Americans who had different views than the governing administration on issues like the Second Amendment and COVID-19.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/declassified-biden-admin-domestic-terror-memo-authorized-agencies

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Too local.

[Medulla Oblongata]

It's not even an 80-20..it's 84-16.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2025/05/07/poll-it-looks-dems-once-again-on-the-wrong-side-of-an-80-20-issue-n2656602

It Looks Like Democrats Are Once Again Choosing the Wrong Side of an 80-20 Issue

Back in 2017, Democrats aggressively and hyperbolically opposed the Trump-GOP tax reform law. They lied about many of its components, framing it as a nightmarish 'Armageddon' that would decimate federal revenues, lining the pockets of billionaires and corporate fat cats while harming virtually everyone else. In reality, the new tax law cut taxes across every single income group, benefiting tens of millions of families and individuals. It helped businesses large and small, resulting in hiring and investments that helped the US economy take off. Unemployment plunged to the lowest levels ever recorded for various demographic groups. Wages finally surged, after years of stagnation. Revenues taken in by the government increased, thanks to a growing economy. Nearly every attack line and prediction by the Democrats was disproven by reality.

Public Opinion Strategies survey exclusively obtained by The Post found 84% of possible US voters would back keeping the current tax rates if they were in Congress — while just 16% would favor a tax increase. By party affiliation, 95% of Republicans, 81% of independents and 74% of Democrats prefer the status quo in terms of taxation. Likely senior voters, moderates and suburbanites — key demographics for next year’s midterms — were all in favor of extending the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act by margins of more than 60% each...At the same time, 80% of potential voters said it was not ideal to increase taxes — up four percentage points from September — and a mere 3% said it was a good time for an increase, with 17% saying they were indifferent...Roughly three-quarters also said that not keeping the Trump tax cuts would hurt middle-class families, small business owners and consumers the most.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

In reality every Democratic Party issue is a 0.1% issue, but their media apparatus always manages to trick another 15-20%.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

The polling out of Canada that shows 50% of boomers voted Carney due to trump and only 8% of them cared about making Canada better was wild.

Also have seen your media struggling to comprehend the Carney Trump meeting and them being almost friendly.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

"50% of boomers voted Carney due to trump"

True story. Listening to seniors who I have known my whole life to be prudent, reasonable and intelligent people parrot the stupidest talking-points that you have ever heard, makes me wonder if they have all been somehow drugged. Like a whole generational cohort was subjected to a giant MKUltra op.

I know if you changed the names of the characters and repeated back the things they believe to them, they'd think they sound ridiculous.

And these were all people who used to enjoy robust debate before, but now if you challenge the Liberal party narrative they get angry and shut down conversation.

[mad.casual]

Like a whole generational cohort was subjected to a giant MKUltra op.

Long COVID.

[Mike Parsons]

" shows 50% of boomers voted Carney due to trump "

Feels like one of those "then you dont actually have a country" markers.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Reason has been against this tax extension while at the same time screaming about tariffs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

The usual suspects of leftist liars STILL claim it was only a tax cut for millionaires.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

The world is getting more ridiculous every day.

While the Democrats are calling for WW3 with Russia, the Taliban are calling on India and Pakistan to exercise restraint and start dialogue.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

The Dems are nuts, but I can see where the Taliban is coming from here. They’re next door to a nation that could be subject to nuking and being turned into glass. I’m not so sure I’d want nuclear war next door to me either.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

They're clearly concerned that such a conflict would spill over into their territory. Pakistan and India have advanced militaries and the Taliban would be right back to having to start sniping foreign armies again.

Plus, they probably have various legitimate and illicit economic arrangements with both countries, and a full-blown conflict would be bad for business on top of that.

[Mike Parsons]

"The Dems are nuts, but I can see where the Taliban is coming from here."

A phrase that would be really fun to show 2005 me with some kind of time machine.

And 1000% accurate

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Believe me, my 2002 self would never believe my 2025 self just typed that.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

"The Dems are nuts, but I can see where the Taliban is coming from here."

Yeah, that was my point.

[mad.casual]

Truly liberated their country from an oppressive regime that tears down statues, forces women to wear masks, and mutilates the genitals of little kids.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

renamed the library the Basel Al-Araj Popular University.

Gulf of America was taken.

And that will certainly, be a winning slogan. Rolls right off the tongue of the English speakers they are looking to influence.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

The influence they seem to be seeking is via intimidation. Let's see how that works.

[Super Scary]

"Rolls right off the tongue of the English speakers"

To be fair, I still hear a lot of people say "libary" instead of "library."

[Jefferson Paul]

As long as you don't axe where the libary is.

[mad.casual]

Rolls right off the tongue of the English speakers they are looking to influence.

Al-araj Al-araj Al-araj

My Hoosier/German heritage just wants to call it "(b)Apu".

[Roberta]

That was my understanding of the papacy: that it inherited from the Roman republic the role of maximum bridge builder — to maintain peace and unity in the church.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Nursing home pronouns law viewed positively at state Supreme Court hearing"
[...]
"The California Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to uphold a state law that makes it a crime for nursing home workers to deliberately and repeatedly refer to a transgender resident with a name or pronoun that differs from the one they prefer.
The 2017 law by Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, was declared unconstitutional in 2021 by a state appeals court, which ruled that it violated freedom of speech. But in a one-hour hearing Tuesday, the high court’s seven justices all seemed to agree, for differing reasons, that the law could be enforced..."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/nursing-home-pronouns-law-viewed-positively-at-state-supreme-court-hearing/ar-AA1EhASl?ocid=BingNewsSerp

1) The CA supremes seem to not be acquainted with A1
2) Wiener is about the worst possible example of CA gov't. AOC looks positively sane by comparison.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

I have to assume Weiner has never actually been to a nursing home. I have and I seriously doubt that gender dysphoria is particularly big issue.

[mad.casual]

So, if a nursing home resident were to have two sons, one of whom is dead and the other of whom is alive, but the resident doesn't remember the one son's death, the State of CA is commanding that the home indulge the resident's delusion seems not just like an overreach but grotesquely evil.

Is the home just supposed to make up oblique lies about why the dead son never comes to visit? If the resident has moments of clarity and realizes that they're forgetting things, is the home supposed to refute them in their moments of clarity?

There really is no end to the fucked up evil they'll perpetrate and force on behalf of their trans ideology.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Wiener makes AOC appear to be sane.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

“….,deliberately and repeatedly…..”

Could probably have some fun sussing that out in court.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...Organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest..."

Like Sarc, Jeffy, Freethinksman, and other such slimy piles of lefty shit, they attach a name to themselves claiming noble intent while being nothing other than dim-watt bulbs spouting lies.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

"Because CBS said, on the air, that the cardinals choosing the next Pope are "rawdogging" the conclave—"

Is there really anyone stupid enough to believe or take seriously anything MSM is pronouncing anymore?

[TrickyVic (old school)]

Will their next choice be mentally as sharp as a 20 year old?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

I thought we were told this isn’t widespread.

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1920478753525727656?s=46&t=qeA47-JjK6vq0pfnxg60dA

6 Texas officials were indicted on VOTER FRAUD charges including a Democrat JUDGE, City Council members, and a school board member:

Rochelle Lozano Camacho- Frio County Judge

Ramiro Trevino- Pearsall City Council member

Adriann Ramirez- Pearsall Independent School District board member

Carlos Segura- Former Frio County Elections Administrator

Racheal Garza- Pearsall City Council member

Rosa Rodriguez- campaign worker

[Gaear Grimsrud]

First it never happened.
Then it was vanishingly rare.
Now it isn't widespread.
I think we all know what comes next.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

"a transitional government headed by a U.S. official that would oversee Gaza until it had been demilitarized and stabilized, and a viable Palestinian administration had emerged"

I think the mere word "no" is inadequate to convey the response Americans should give to any such idea.

How about "no fucking way ever."

[Randy Sax]

Would you prefer gaza lasered from orbit, and turned to glass? It's probably the cheaper option.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Indeed. The War in Iraq was quickly and decisively won (both times). The "peacekeeping" and reconstruction missions (aka nation building) were not worth the US blood or treasure.

[Chuck P. (The Artist formerly known as CTSP)]

Both the Japanese and the Germans surrendered unconditionally and the alternative to US occupation was Soviet occupation. Iraq, Afghanistan and now Gaza cannot have comparable outcomes to the successful rebuilding of the conquered nations after WW2 because radical Islam cannot surrender. Ironic.

[Stuck in California]

Both the Germans and Japanese had ambitions to modernize. The German people were quite a bit like us, and not punishing them like after WWI was the right thing. The Japanese entire East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere or whatever the fuck it was called came about because Japan wanted to be a modern power, like the imperial European powers. They, too, wanted to be like the modern world.

These cultures were also centralized and solid. Relatively ethnically and culturally cohesive. The Marshall plan was the right thing at the right time. Macarthur's understanding of the Japanese was the right thing at the right time. These people wanted it.

Iraq was not cohesive or modern in most ways, was riddled with ancient ethnic conflicts, and surrounded by states and pseudo-states and tribes willing to send their young men to die just to be a thorn in the side of the US. It was held together only because Saddam was brutal. Afghanistan was worse, it has never been a "state" so much as a geographic region with a zillion warlords and warring clans ruled by whoever was the most brutal and forceful in the wake of the Soviets.

Gaza is worse still.

[NealAppeal]

Can we say SPB2 rawdogged a link when they post one that, when actually reading the article, says the exact opposite of what the pedo thinks it says?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

He’s being inadvertently and unintentionally oxymoronic when that happens, with emphasis on the “moronic”.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

The Disturbing Rise of MAGA Maoism
Trump seems to be ceding the future to China while emulating its past.
...
China may well come to dominate the next century—because President Donald Trump is taking a page from the most famous Chinese leader of the previous one.

The United States remains the world’s preeminent soft power. It’s a financial and cultural juggernaut, whose entertainment and celebrities bestride the planet. But as an industrial power, the U.S. is not so much at risk of falling behind as it is objectively behind already. A recent essay in the journal Foreign Affairs by Rush Doshi and Kurt Campbell, both China experts who served in the Biden administration, made the case with alarming specificity. China makes 20 times more cement and 13 times more steel than the U.S. It makes more than two-thirds of the world’s electric vehicles, more than three-quarters of its electric batteries, 80 percent of its consumer drones, and 90 percent of its solar panels. China’s shipbuilding capacity is several orders of magnitude larger than America’s, and its navy will be 50 percent larger than the U.S. Navy by 2030.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/maga-maoism-trump/682732/

#Central Plannin' Donnie

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

So you post an article from The Atlantic, which has an extreme anti-Trump, anti conservative, pro-Democrat, and highly progressive agenda for your smear? You’re even more retarded than I originally thought.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

I post pro-business stuff, you idiot.

According to your type the greatest US capitalist (Buffett) should be ignored because he is not a conservative MAGA type.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

The Atlantic is owned by Laurene Jobs. She is the Democratic Party's second biggest donor and is a superdelegate.

The Atlantic is run by Jeffery Goldberg who created the lie that Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were in cahoots and he invented the lie that Trump had called dead vets "a bunch of losers and suckers".

The magazine is about as Democratic Party as you can get.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

I post pro-business stuff, you idiot.

According to your type the greatest US capitalist (Buffett) should be ignored because he is not a conservative MAGA type.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

There's nothing pro-business about the Democratic Party talking-points you post each morning.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

There was nothing pro business about you choosing the specific article and publication you chose, Turd. You thought you were being cute getting it past everyone. Instead, it just shows off how retarded you are.

[Medulla Oblongata]

It's not any less stupid the second time you post it.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Nobody buys your bullshit, pedo.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the TDS-addled ass-wipe of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

Nobody buys your bullshit pedo.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I post pro-business stuff, you idiot.

LOL, yeah, if you think it makes your Dem buddies look good. Hilariously, you often post shit that doesn't actually confirm what you're spouting.

Sit this one out, you hicklib pederast.

[Super Scary]

You know this site doesn't get enough new users for you to try and rebrand yourself like this. We all know what kinds of posts you make.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the ass-wipe of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

But Trump’s approach to countering China has been so scattershot, so inept, so face-smackingly absurd, that it sometimes seems like covert policy to destroy America’s reputation. Rather than build a global trading and supply-chain alliance to match the scale of China, we’ve threatened to invade Canada and slapped new tariffs on our European and East Asian allies. Rather than invest in scientific discovery, which is the basis of our technological supremacy, the administration threatens to decimate the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation while attacking major research universities, including Harvard and Columbia

TPP was needed - shot down by central planners Bernie and Donnie.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

TPP was corporatist fascism and the article is Democratic Party propaganda. Nothing more.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the TDS-addled ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[DesigNate]

There was nothing free trade about the TPP you retarded Dem shill.

[Medulla Oblongata]

The PLAN may have a lot of ships, but most of them are alongside almost all the time. No one would count the PLAN as a "blue-water navy" despite the numbers.

https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/01/04/chinas-big-but-weak-navy-the-illusion-of-maritime-power/

China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has grown rapidly in recent decades, becoming the world’s largest navy by sheer number of vessels. However, size alone does not equate to capability, and the PLAN’s deficiencies in combat experience, technological reliability, and global trustworthiness underscore its vulnerabilities. Despite its ambitions, China’s naval power projection remains a paper tiger, faltering under scrutiny.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

The Disturbing Rise of MAGA Maoism
Trump seems to be ceding the future to China while emulating its past.

LOL, this coming from the same political team that's been running a neo-Maoist Cultural Revolution for the last decade. Every accusation is a confession when it comes to marxists.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

The media has been running with the MAGA are socialists a lot. Even see the usual leftists here repeating it.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Democrats are like reverse-Midas...

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/05/07/f-is-for-democrat-colorados-collapse-under-on-party-rule-n4939561

Once upon a time, Colorado was a devilishly weird purple state — home to moderate-to-conservative Republicans like Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Tom Tancredo, idiosyncratic Democrats like Gary Hart and Richard Lamm, and (outside the Denver-Boulder Axis) a healthy libertarian streak.

It was such a swirl that one of those famous Republicans, Campbell, was originally a Democrat.

That all began to change around 2008 when my purple state went deep blue for Barack Obama. By 2018, the hope'n'change was locked in. The last Republican to win statewide office was in 2016, when Heidi Ganahl was elected to the University of Colorado Board of Regents. The last Republican to win a Senate seat was Cory Gardner in 2014, and he served but a single term.

Colorado's Democrats are no longer hard to pin down. The party is increasingly dominated by the hard left, and the party has dominated the general assembly going back to 2018. Today, Dems hold both chambers by a two-to-one margin. Whatever they want, they get.

How's that workin' out for us?

Before we went Full Indigo, Colorado was pretty well run. This is my state — or was, using figures from before 2018:

* Third in the nation for personal income growth.
* A regulatory burden in the lower half of all states.
* Tied for second-lowest unemployment in 2017 at 2.7% — and that wasn’t unusual.
* Job growth of 2.4% in 2017 — typical for a state that was regularly in the top ten.
* A top-10 destination for people moving in from other states.

And this is my state on Democrats, all taken from the 2024 report card just published by the Denver Gazette:

* 39th in the nation for personal income growth.
* Sixth worst regulatory burden in the nation.
* In March, we had the second-highest unemployment rate (not an atypical month).
* Job-growth rate of 0.17% (March 2024-March 2025), 43rd in the nation.
* A bottom-10 destination for people moving in from other states.

One last note, directly from the Gazette: "Beginning with Senate Bill-181 (2019), Colorado has obstructed energy production — a major Colorado export — at an expense of the state’s economy and high-wage blue-collar jobs." The paper added, "In all, multiple new regulations since 2018 have Colorado producing less oil and gas in 2025 than in 2019, as the country’s production has increased."

And across nearly every other metric — schools, housing, homelessness, crime, addiction, even abortion rates — the numbers all go the wrong way.

[sarcasmic]

So the whole state became Boulder?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Are you deliberately obtuse?

[Medulla Oblongata]

What did the grey box say now? Never mind, I don't really want to know.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Here,

sarcasmic 1 hour ago
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So the whole state became Boulder?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

No, just the Denver metro and the ski towns. It's just that the Denver metro dramatically increased its number of Democrat voters over the last 25 years, mostly through east coast transplants and Mexican illegals with anchor babies.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

I've heard reliable reports from a certain magazine that Colorado Governor Polis was the best libertarian ever (if you ignore the gun-grabbing and speech suppression).

[Don't get eliminated(How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer penguin meat)]

I actually will give both Liz and Jacket some credit for calling him out and saying he isn’t is good as they thought a few weeks ago.

Better late than never, I guess.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Typical Reason. They always notice shit that everybody else already knew when it doesn't matter anymore.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

I won't.

It is more of the "we can't say the truth until it becomes too obvious" type of thing here. Like how they defended clear censorship until the point even the NYT had to discuss the Twitter Files.

Meanwhile they also pushed every false story sourced by anonymous officials that gets pushed by corporate media.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

One last note, directly from the Gazette: "Beginning with Senate Bill-181 (2019), Colorado has obstructed energy production — a major Colorado export — at an expense of the state’s economy and high-wage blue-collar jobs." The paper added, "In all, multiple new regulations since 2018 have Colorado producing less oil and gas in 2025 than in 2019, as the country’s production has increased."

Gosh, I wonder if the retards in the state legislature saw any connection between this and this:

By Jason Gonzales, Chalkbeat

An estimated $1.2 billion state budget shortfall has put an insurmountable kink in Colorado lawmakers’ plan to increase education funding to “adequate” levels after a decade and a half of shortchanging the state’s public schools.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

U.S. oil production has likely peaked and will start to decline due to price plunge, Diamondback CEO warns
....
U.S. onshore oil production has likely peaked and will start to decline due to the recent plunge in crude prices, jeopardizing the nation’s position as the world’s largest fossil fuel producer and its energy security, the CEO of Diamondback Energy
told shareholders in a letter this week
...
U.S. crude oil prices have tumbled about 17% this year as recession fears due to President Donald Trump’s tariffs weigh on demand expectations. At the same time, OPEC+ producers led by Saudi Arabia are rapidly increasing supply to the market.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/us-oil-production-will-start-to-decline-due-to-price-plunge-diamondback-ceo-warns.html

Fatass Donnie - still poison for US energy prodution.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Is this like your prediction of a terrible economy a few years ago when Sam’s Club closed a few underperforming stores?

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Comeback to us again with a link that isn't a Democratic Party sympathizer making predictions that will never come true.

So far all your prophets have been batting zero.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

How do you know that the CEO of Diamondback is a Dem sympathizer?

Energy CEOs are very pessimistic in general.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

He's certainly repeating their "Peak Oil" narrative everywhere contra every other oil exec.

Peak Shale May Be Here Says Diamondback CEO

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

You should know they hire geologists to measure that.

One basin - likely correct. The CEO would know more than any MAGA idiot.

Whole world? Likely incorrect.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Turd here likes to pick and choose what he links so he can show off what a good little propagandist he is. Turd has an agenda and will lie for it at every turn.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Everyone knows when someone says "peak oil" they're talking about one basin.

[Zeb]

Peak Oil means peak of existing, known and exploitable reserves. But new reserves are constantly being found and technology improves to make more and more practical to extract.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

To be honest, Hubbert predicted, under the term "Peak Oil", it meant the world-wide decline of oil harvesting. He seemingly thought he knew enough about oil reserves and human adaptive talents to make such an imbecilic claim. The press at the time (as they continue to do now with climate lies), printed his bullshit.
Like every Malthusian since Malthus, he proved himself to be a world-class ignoramus. But an ignoramus with a large number of credentials...
Like Ehrlich, he needed to get ass-reamed with a barb-wire-wrapped broomstick.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the ass-wipe of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of slimy lefty shit.

[sarcasmic]

You mean reopening federal land for leases didn't automatically create new production because more supply means lower prices and lower profits? That's not possible. It must be a lie.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

It is a lie, you retard. The guy is making a prediction, not an observation.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

In MAGA world when prices FALL - you produce MORE!

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Yes. Cheap, plentiful, uncontrolled oil is the libertarian goal. Not artificial cartels shoring up the price like OPEC.
That's why prices fall. You're too dumb to pick economics as your beat.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

Donnie is the #1 OPEC supporter, idiot.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Yeah, you're going to have to back up that utterly nonsensical claim, Pluggo.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Expect a major cricket convention here.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the ass-wipe of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a TDSS-addled lying pile of lefty shit.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a TDS-addled lying pile of steaming lefty shit.

[DesigNate]

Narrator: It was a lie.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I remember back in the 1990's when my liberal step-mother was crying about peak oil. And the dozen or so times since then we've been told we've reached peak oil.

Maybe THIS TIME they're right?!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2022/11/30/peak-oil-the-perennial-prophecy-that-went-wrong/

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

It’s a Turd article. You can almost set your watch by his attempts at lies and propaganda.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a TDS-addled lying pile of lefty shit.

[charliehall]

Under Biden the US produced more crude oil and more natural gas than any country in history.

Last time I posted a comment like this the ignorant MAGA trolls accused me of lying.

[Diarrheality]

Last time I posted a comment like this the ignorant MAGA trolls accused me of lying.

That's because you are lying. Any cursory review of Biden's energy policy lays bare his open hostility towards crude oil and natural gas. [T]he US produced more crude oil and more natural gas than any country in history not because of Biden, but in spite of him. You're being disingenuous, and, quite frankly, a bit gross for enjoying the smell of Joe Biden's asshole. Now, fuck off.

[VinniUSMC]

Still, a trade deal that might remove barriers is a step in the right direction.

Woah, I'm surprised Liz got this one through the Reason censors. Maybe Liz is redeemable after all.

[Scarbo]

Not so fast re Casey Means. Dr Andrea Love, of "Immunologic" on Substack, had this to say about her:

"Casey Means: a woman who got her MD at Stanford, started a fellowship in head and neck surgery, then left before she completed residency. She started Levels, a wellness company that sells continuous glucose monitors and pseudoscience about blood sugar. Levels is endorsed by all of the pseudoscience MDs from the fraudulent individuals touting the autoimmune diet, to those waging a war on sugar like Mark Hyman and Robert Lustig, to anti-vaxxer protege and “hack your hormones with supplements” peddlers Sara Gottfried. Casey is not a board-certified medical provider, she is not a scientist, she does not have relevant training in metabolism and nutrition, yet wrote a book called “Good Energy” where she makes unfounded claims about hacking your metabolism."

Link: https://substack.com/home/post/p-149393700
Also: https://substack.com/@immunologic/note/c-115356181

[charliehall]

She fits in well with all the other junk science advocates.

The good news is that she is so stupid that nobody who cares about science will listen to her, and those who don't care and do listen to her will prove Darwin correct.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

New Pope selected, Peanuts.

You can all rejoice.

Pope Donald is my hunch.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Maybe you can apply to him for absolution of your crimes against children?

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

I'm no Denny Hastert conservative.

A MAGA pope would be interesting.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Your posting history says otherwise.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

Pope Donald 1.

The MAGA Pope.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Remember when you were insisting he got hit by teleprompter pieces?

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

Pope Donald "Keep yer filthy migrant peasants in yer own country".

Making the Vatican Great Again.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Your doing great today shrike. Didn't you also predict Vlad Putin to be assassinated before the end of your man Joe's administration?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Remember when you managed to get your original account permabanned due to posting dark web links to children porn here?

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

"I'm no Denny Hastert conservative."

You're a Jeffrey Epstein progressive.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Cite, with an actual link, Turdtard?

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

Cite THIS, asshole.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Finally, a cite you actually read?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

I asked for a link, fucktard. Provide or shut the fuck up.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Don't expect either.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

I’m not exactly holding my breath.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/new-pope-conclave-day-two-05-08-25

New pope selected: White smoke has risen above the Sistine Chapel, the signal that cardinals have chosen a new pope on the second day of the conclave. His identity, and the name he will take as pontiff, will be revealed soon.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Thanks. Not too shabby for only two days of conclave.

[Eeyore]

Rawdogging it helps you finish faster.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://babylonbee.com/news/fox-news-calls-papacy-for-joe-biden

Fox News Calls Papacy For Joe Biden

U.S. — Fox News has announced that it is ready to officially project the winner of the papacy, calling the conclave for Joe Biden.

With zero percent of the vote counted and no one having any idea what's happening inside the Sistine Chapel, Fox News said it had all the data it needed to project Biden as the winner.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Fox News correspondents are skilled at reading smoke signals.

[mad.casual]

I actually liked: "BREAKING: Smoke Has Risen From Buc-ee's Indicating Fresh Brisket Is On The Board" better, but that's just me.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Habemus papam.

Robert Francis Prevost named first American Pope.

Pope Leo XIV

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/religion/2025/05/03/robert-prevost-pope-francis-conclave-catholic-church-dolton-saint-mary-assumption-parish

To people who grew up in the old St. Mary of the Assumption parish on 137th Street, it’s no surprise that one of their own, Cardinal Robert Prevost, will be part of the conclave that will gather starting Wednesday in the Sistine Chapel to choose the next pope.

Prevost, 69, was elevated to cardinal by Pope Francis in 2023 and now leads the influential Vatican office that selects and manages bishops.

“It was pretty apparent back then that was going to be his route,” John Doughney, a fellow St. Mary’s grade school graduate from 1969, says of Prevost’s path to the priesthood. “Some of us had considered it. It was kind of a fantasy for most young men. For him, I think it was true calling. And, even as a young teenager, he knew what he wanted to do and where he wanted to go.”

Prevost’s rise to become an influential figure at the Vatican began in Dolton as it grew, taking in thousands of people moving from apartments in Chicago to new homes in the south suburb during the post-World War II boom.

Catholics moving there typically landed at the St. Mary of the Assumption on the far southern edge of Chicago, straddling the line with Dolton. That’s where the Prevost family — Louis, an educator, Mildred, a librarian, and their sons Louis, John and Robert — were known at bustling St. Mary’s as dedicated and devout musicians, altar boys, lectors and volunteers.

Now, Prevost’s name has been floated among those who might be chosen as the next pope, though American cardinals are considered long shots because of the global power of the United States and its sharply divided politics. There never has been a pope from the United States.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Essentially, we have the first FIB as Pope. This guy is apparently as far left as the Chicago Teachers Union.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Reason will love this pope.

https://x.com/drprevost/status/1886469097560719594

[mad.casual]

Explicit "Vance is wrong" verbiage aside, gotta love completely disregarding the order and primacy of your own 10 Commandments in order to virtue signal and dunk on the deplorables who don't 100.000% share your views.

Pretty sure the parable of The Good Samaritan wasn't about blocking and screening offensive material and that the invocation of the parable is explicitly taking the Lord's name and will in vain *and* violating the 1A *and* co-opting the Christian religion to put the State up as a false idol *and* has and will be influencing men's minds and souls long after J.D. Vance is forgotten... but what's The Catholic Church really for if not self-righteous, post-information age transient dopamine hits?

[Fats of Fury]

They've gone through 13 Leos, maybe 14 will be the charm.

[I, Woodchipper]

there shouldnt BE a surgeon general

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

But then who would wear that snazzy uniform?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

"If Trump's threatened tariffs simply result in tons and tons of trade deals, where the countries opposite us—in a hurry to negotiate—lower their tariffs on us to zero, great. The gambit will have been worth it, if the final outcome is a world full of free trade. But a) this is a maximally disruptive way to achieve that, and b) that doesn't seem likely.
Still, a trade deal that might remove barriers is a step in the right direction."
So yes Trump is negotiating trade deals like every previous administration and the story usually ends up on page 30 below the fold. But because TRUMP it's front page 98% negative coverage. Trump sure came out playing hardball but as a wise man recently said 'yeah he's an asshole but I like the authenticity'. True to form Reason has fully embraced the TDS and has served up a relentless barrage of tedious screeds with a single message; Tariffs Bad. But apparently only US tariffs. Of course no sentient being gives a shit what idiots like Sullum and Boehm think about anything. But Trump comes through with the first of many trade deals and the markets are in a full blown bull run. You can't make an omelet without leaving eggs shells in your wake and you can't abolish anything without, ya know, abolishing shit.

[Incunabulum]

>This is the type of observation and forecasting CBS could focus on: taking the church's role seriously, as there are some 60 million adherents in the U.S. alone,

I'm sorry Liz, but you're *Christians* - most of the people at CBS hate you, at best consider your faith to be a joke, and there's effectively no professional detachment in the MSM anymore. Its all partisanship now.

You're lucky you're only getting rawdogged rather than openly insulted.

[Incunabulum]

The reality though is that none of the reporting - even if it was good - is relevant to anything. Its dudes standing at the scene of an aircraft crash filling airtime because, well, there's nothing to report.

All that matters is when the next Pope is elected. Why, how, the internal politicking going on - well, anyone who is interested in that stuff has been following it for years and already knows and everyone else is just rubbernecking and will forget anything they hear about this conclave within 30 days after its completed.

[Eeyore]

I already forgot.

Wake me up if a pope declares the next crusade against Islam.

[charliehall]

The owner of CBS's parent company is a Jew but she doesn't hate Christians.

[Mickey Rat]

Yes, we understand. CBS News is staffed by immature, unprofessional morons. We have known this for a long time.

[XM]

Admittedly, Trump could have used more restraint in his approach.

But let's get real for a moment. If Trump went with the status quo in how government deals, meaningful trade deals would take years. The war in Ukraine would reach a decade point, and we're already halfway there.

How long and often have we heard the cry to dismantle government apparatus like the dept of education? Trump can't take it down himself, but he gutted it. USAID, gone. Lots of federal employees, gone.

The center right will be naturally attracted to decisive leaders like Trump and Milei. Never mind the economy and immigration. There's no excuse for nonsense like what happened at Columbia university. It is mob action one expects from the Jim Crow era. It is an embarrassment that we've been giving visas to those who hate us, wants to hurt us, and divide us. Kick them out of the country, as we would kick out any actual noncitizen neo nazis or KKK sympathizers.

[jagjr]

"admittedly Hitler could have used more restraint in his approach."

yes. not fair. Hitler ordered straight up genocide and horrific crimes. Trump is "only" destroying a global system that has improved economic outcomes across the world for at least 40 years. but how many will now suffer because he's economically illiterate (despite a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at UPenn).

[charliehall]

"There will never be an American Pope"

That comment didn't age well.

[jagjr]

have you been the guy that has to set up those tables like it's in a swanky hotel ballroom but worse it's in a priceless world heritage site?? I've been kinda close to that guy.