Friday is Here

130 responses to “Friday is Here”

  1. Apparently WordPress has a built in AI tool to detect spam, and it automatically puts what it thinks is spam into the spam folder. Apparently AI is upset with Walt because it keeps putting his comments into spam. I am going to see if I can find a way to fix it.

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  2. What the hell is going on in Philly?

    https://x.com/i/status/2057738585382531513

    Chicon

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  3. Maybe they made that pizza for when the Knicks fans came for the playoff games.

    Why do they call lasagna “deep dish pizza” in Chicago?

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  4. You get to keep the spoon. Maybe it costs $50.

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  5. Will today work….

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  6. Cleared browser, erased history (which for a guy as old as me takes a while) rebooted the machine (actually I hit the laptop repeatedly with a shoe instead if a boot).

    Still, WordPress auto pushes me to spam…I think it has something to do with the closing of the Straights and Gays of Hormutz.

    ….sigh…..

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  7. Trump just slammed the rinos in the senate. He really put Dickliss and Buffune in place.

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    Zzzz….make enemies when you need friends?

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    Tucker Carlson LAUGHS at “Islamic jihad” saying “whatever that is?!”

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    Times change..

    Tucker Carlson in 2006: “I’m a bigot. If you’re really into Islam, I don’t care for you. I don’t care what that sounds like – you can call me a racist. I’d vote for you if you said that.”

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  11. LOL Tucker simply has gone off a cliff. Off his rocker.

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    If a guy who says our border should be like our front porch welcome mat, do away with meat, the flag is “problematic” and there are 6 sexes wins in TX we might as well close up shop right now.

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    Anybody else thinks he looks like a cross between Alfred E. Neuman and Howdy Doody?

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  14. Revolver:

    Many insiders believed Trump would fall in line behind Cornyn for strategic and political reasons. The rumor floating around D.C. for months was that Senate leader John Thune desperately needed Cornyn protected. Cornyn is part of the old GOP power structure and a RINO through and through, and he’s a Thune ally. Cornyn is one of the flunkies who keeps the machine stable.

    And while all this back-and-forth is going on, conservatives, and the majority of all Americans, are furious over the SAVE Act sitting in limbo collecting dust. Many believe that Thune was slow-walking the SAVE Act while quietly trying to pressure Trump into saving RINO incumbents down the road.

    Then Trump nuked the game by endorsing Paxton.

    Now, after a night where Trump-backed candidates crushed their primaries, the pressure inside the GOP just changed dramatically.

    Because if Cornyn suddenly looks vulnerable in Texas, then Thune’s entire power structure is also vulnerable.

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  15. Many insiders believed Trump would fall in line behind Cornyn for strategic and political reasons.

    Trump SHOULD have endorsed Cornyn for strategic and political reasons.

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  16. jason, haven’t I been saying for days now that Talarico has a glass jaw? And that the guy is a cheap dollar store holiday fruitcake?

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  17. At least Jasmine Crockett would have gotten the Dem base excited.

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    Thune is not slow walking the SAVE Act.

    He doesn’t believe the filibuster should be ended and the Democrats given a blank check to implement a one party state. I fully agree with him that ending the filibuster is political suicide.

    Trump is making a mistake if he thinks he can bully Thune.

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    I know. But he looks like what would have resulted from a non-binary union between Howdy Doody and Alfred E. Neuman.

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    Because if Cornyn suddenly looks vulnerable in Texas”

    He wasn’t vulnerable, he would have won his seat handily.

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  21. Walt, I am still looking into it. Please keep posting and I will keep approving your posts until I get it figured out.

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  22. “do away with meat”

    Well its a good thing for Dems that Texas isn’t a cattle state…oh wait…

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  23. What will piss me off will be the lack of funds from the R Senatorial Election Campaign that Paxton will NOT get in the Fall Campaign. It’s a given that will be the case. Thune and company would rather the leftist weirdo get the Texas seat. Pretty sad but more evidence of the party hierarchy not giving a damn. They were pissed that their boy Cassidy was taken out, but that’s ruby red Louisiana and so it doesn’t matter whether or not they cut off money to Trump’s pick in the November election.

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  24. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has decided to run in the safe FL-20! This is big news because the expectation was that she would stay the course and run in the now Tossup FL-25 giving Dems the best chance to hold it. Now this will make FL-25 lean R, and DWS might not get through the crowded primary in FL-20.

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  25. The stock market is up by over 400 points as of 10 minutes ago and closing in at 51,000. Do they know something the rest of us don’t?

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  26. Phil, you know Texas, watch that ad jason posted above and tell us if Talarico has any shot at all.

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  27. Trump is busy making enemies of Senators who have nothing to gain by supporting him and nothing left to lose.

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  28. John, they might still be taking in the Atlanta Fed’s 4.3% forecast.

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  29. Thune and company AND TINA AND JAN would rather the leftist weirdo get the Texas seat.

    Fixed it.

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  30. RIP TRUMP

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  31. Yes, DW. I saw that ad. That fruitcake is worse than Crockett. I particularly liked the part about him saying we need to put a welcome sign on the border.

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  32. My wife just came in and informed me that every dead body on Mount Everest was once a highly motivated person and maybe motivation is overrated.

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  33. Walt, I just sent you an invite to become an Author of new HHR posts. Hoping if you accept it, then it will stop putting your posts in spam.

    The problem may be the AOL account you sign in with.

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  34. Broadview Six should apply to get money from Trump’s slush fund.

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  35. Where is my invitation? I resurrected the damn thing and got tossed out.

    Also, I am cancelling the credit card where the only charge is HHR. If I get a request to change cards, I will.

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    jason yupanqui

    I didn’t get any COVID benefits, which makes me believe the DOJ was weaponized against me.

    Ergo, I should qualify for the fund.

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    jason yupanqui

    Free Bitter!

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  38. jason yupanqui Avatar
    jason yupanqui

    I should get an invitation too.

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    jason yupanqui

    Oh wait, will it go to my fake email acct.

    Cancel that.

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  40. bitter, sent you the invite

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  41. Got it. I will only use my powers for good. You can continue your fine work.

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  42. Prayers for Tulsi’s husband battling bone cancer.

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  43. The problem may be the AOL account you sign in with.

    Walt’s 56k dial up modem is not the problem?

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    Paul believes in God?

    I thought he only believed in Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao.

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    jason yupanqui

    I didn’t get an invitation.

    I know the email is fake but it is the thought that counts.

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    jason yupanqui

    Governor Newsom Press Office

    @GovPressOffice

    Californians, if you’re hitting the road this holiday weekend, be sure to AVOID Chevron.”

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  47. I am personally grateful to Trump for making sure the Save America Act is NOT going anywhere.

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  48. Will Devin Nunes be the new DNI?

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    jason yupanqui

    Yeah, the last thing Paul would ever want to do is save America from the commies.

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    jason yupanqui

    Trump nominated two liberal Dems to his cabinet.

    We are down to one.

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  51. Don’t worry, Jason, the Marxists will save the day.

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  52. Who is the other Marxist? RFK?

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  53. It is going to rain all weekend. GFYs.

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  54. Who is the other liberal marxist? RFK jr?

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    Awwww..

    Florida legislative black caucus joins the criticism of Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Her “decision to pursue reelection in this historically Black district, despite explicit requests from the Black community to seek candidacy in a neighboring district, is disheartening.”

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    Who is the other liberal marxist?”

    Trump appointed two liberal Dems to this cabinet.

    Tulsi, who ran for President as a Democrat as 2020.

    RFK Jr, who ran for President as a Democrat as late as Oct 2023.

    GFY.

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    Tulsi ran as a Dem in 2020.

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    Why the Late Show was losing $40 million a year

    Horrendous headcount.

    And btw, seems like a lot of white people.

    https://x.com/brianstelter/status/2057971390154686675

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  59. DW,

    Thanks for working on the posting problem for me.

    Sorry I caused you extra work…

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  60. Now to see if laptop post works. If this posts, we are back in business.

    BTW, we now have gotten three inches. of rain since Thursday but still 7 inches below annual amount we normally get by now…

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  61. Glad it works Walt.

    Some are born to greatness, others have greatness thrust upon them. Still others have WordPress and its problems thrust upon them.

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  62. we now have gotten three inches. of rain since Thursday

    Zzzzzzzz Walt was on Noah’s Ark but now he is annoyed.

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    jason yupanqui

    The guy that invented the carrier pigeon actually borrowed the idea from Walt’s carrier pterodactyl.

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    Raining cats and dogs here, Bitter should get the inflatable raft out just in case.

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    Elon Musk says colleges no longer needed, you can learn anything you want for free with AI.

    Damm, that is going to make a dent in the far left wing academia intelligentsia.

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  66. Goober has got to goober.

    MattWalshBlog

    Lindsey is really stressed about the possibility of the war ending. He might have to go creepily wander around Disney World again to calm himself.

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  67. RedEaglePatriot

    The fact that it’s May and we’ve already primaried out two Senate RINOs (pending Texas) and three House RINOs, coupled with the fact that 20% of Senate Republicans are retiring (most of whom are safe state RINOs)…the progress we are making this year is downright insane.

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  68. Devil’s in the details on the so called “deal”.

    It’s been obvious for weeks now Trump has been looking for an off ramp. Also, pretty obvious to the Iranians that Trump was bluffing with all the threats. They will get everything they want. Looks like they will get sanction relief, lifting of the blockade, a pledge of no military attacks, and get to keep their nuclear materials. All for the price of lifting their control of the strait which is control they didn’t even have before the war.

    Trump got tooled around, and in the end, got rolled.

    Pathetic. No word on billions for reparations but in the end, they will get that for a worthless signed agreement that they won’t build a bomb.

    So much for the theory that Trump was playing three dimensional chess.

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  69. Phil – Trump did no better than Obama and Biden against Iran. I supported the war when I thought it would be a war

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  70. Been watching lots of Facebook videos of court cases involving sovereign citizens whack jobs. Incredible that they claim they do not live under federal and state law, do not have to have drivers licence, insurance, etc., claim the state court system has no. jurisdiction. And even claim they themselves are dead.

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  71. Yesterday i hoimed my wife and some of my wife’s Sister ACTS group to go volunteer at the regional VA hospital/ center to assist getting wheelchair bound veterans out of their rooms and I to viewing areas close to the front of the hospital so they could see the motorcycle riders (used to be called Rolling Thunder) drive by the front of the hospital. Then the riders cane into the VA hospital to talk with the veterans. Great event.

    Most of the 50 riders were veterans themselves. Oldest rider was over 90 years old, youngest driver just turned 18. There also was a 15 year old girl who was riding with her grandfather behind him on his bike.

    They stated out in CA and after Gere were going to Shanksville PA and to the Vietnam Memorial Wall in D.C.

    We sang country roads while waiting for the bikers to arrive. I got teared up with so many thoughts in my mi d of these wheelchair bound guys, their service to the country, the so g, the little flaga each vet was provided to hold.

    My guy was Brad, a farm boy from Allegheny County MD, not far from Cumberland MD. He was a Vietnam vet, two years younger than me. He was army airborne.

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  72. joined my wife..

    there were 13 Sister ACTS members and //or husbands there at the VA.

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  73. A person born a male has won the WV Girls Shot Put event for the class AAA schools.

    His throw of 37 feet 11.75 inches edged out a real female who tossed at 37 feet and 11.0 inches.

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  74. Secret Service shoots and kills suspect that had fired shots at the wh.

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  75. Seriously, what should we do with the sovereign citzen whackjobs?

    All they do is clog up the courts.

    They are insane, IMO. Just as nutty as thise who insanely believe the moon is made of cheese or insist they believe the earth is flat, or that Hitler, JFK, Elvis, Charlei Kirk, etc are all still alive.

    At the very least, I say they should have their rights to vote taken away.

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    Also…Item #2

    What do you think about the hard working Somali imigration in MN who have been indicted for milluons of $$$ of fraud by the Feds?

    You aware that the scam involved monthly payments of as much as $1000+ to each FAMILY who fraudently said their kid was autistic whe. They were not.

    I KNOW the top people who organized the fraud and billed Medicare are indicted and will be on trial. But what about the many, many dozens of pare ta who also co.mitted fraud and got rheonthly kickback fraud payments. Are they also getting indicted?

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  76. Hard to find any news storied about the facts of the WH shooting….

    There were LOTS of shots fired. How many by shooter? Only story I can find said 3 shots were fired at the WH.

    I saw footage of a news woman being filmed regarding another story when a strimg of at least of 9 shots were fired before the woman realized they were shots and took cover. And then another 15 or 16 orore shots followed after she ducked for cover.

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  77. Fox. News TV says shooter is still alive?

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    I think Lupita could be autistic. She doesn’t like sudden loud noises, a sign of autism. She is prone to repetitive movements. She is self absorbed and not particularly empathetic.

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    Shooter is dead.

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    The shooter was Nasire Best, 21, from Maryland.

    He is black and was known to the SS for making threats

    Had mental issues, pretty obvious, hard to kill the president firing a handgun outside the WH.

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    Pan Am Airways is back.

    Nostalgic for me, I first came to America on a Pan Am flight.

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    Walt, did you walk across the Bering Straight or did you come later with Leif Erickson?

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  83. Neither.

    Alien spacecraft dropped me on North America many eons ago.

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  84. FirstSquawk

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    PAKISTAN OFFICIAL: IRAN HAS AGREED TO HAND OVER ENRICHED URANIUM UNDER THE TRUMP-ANNOUNCED DEAL

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  85. We shall see. If true, the freepassers have egg on their face and another foreign policy issue wrong.

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  86. But I time traveled through various portals to Europe and other places many times between 100,000 B.C. and 1947.

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    LOL

    The “anti-semitic and anti-American candidate is a Democrat.

    Hakeem Jeffries

    @hakeemjeffries

    People of goodwill have forcefully rejected the antisemitic and anti-American candidate in the TX-35 run-off. Republicans must immediately stop boosting her candidacy.”

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  88. “20% of Senate Republicans are retiring (most of whom are safe state RINOs)”

    Which ones are this 20%? Tillis is retiring but it is likely Dem. Who else is retiring?

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    When Walt lived in Pangea he could walk anywhere.

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  90. I bet $1 that the Iran’s backtrack and claim they said they would hand over “rich geraniums…”

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  91. Also bet $1 that the left says the WH shooter Best was paid by Trump to go shoot and get his dumb self kil*ed as a false flag to deflect attention from. X, Y, Z.

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  92. BREAKING

    security authorities at Hagerstown MD airport say they seized 200 pounds of drugs from a woman passenger who had it hidden in her bra.

    IT WAS A BIG BUST.

    ■■■■■

    (last joke of the night)

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  93. Why walk when you can easily use the portals?

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    20% of Rs would be 10 senators.

    As far as I know, incumbent Senators retiring are Tillis, McConnell, Daines, Lumis and Ernst. Tuberville is leaving to run for Governor. Armstrong is a fill in.

    Cassidy and Cornyn lost (or will lose) their primaries.

    Not sure if Daines, Tuberville, Ernst, and Lumis are considered RINOS but you never know.

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  95. Why walk when you can ride a triceratops.

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  96. 100 pounds per boob? Wow.

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  97. We shall see. If true, the freepassers have egg on their face and another foreign policy issue wrong.

    Sorry, Phil. Tina added you to freepasser list. Everybody gets there eventually.

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    I still think Trump should have finished Iran off. I understand there was not enough support from the allies and even from the American people for that.

    Both can be true.

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    Don’t feel bad Phil.

    Except for the Mother of All Rinos Trump anyone is just one vote, one comment or one post from being a commie RINO traitor on Tina’s list.

    So everyone is on thin ice.

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  100. The NY Times has had several articles in the last few hours about the possible US-Iran Peace Deal, including a column backed up by two US officials which “apparent commitment by Tehran to give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium”.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/world/middleeast/iran-deal-uranium-nuclear.html

    The stock market closed at a record level Friday (50,579) and Dow futures opens tonight at 6pm Eastern time. Trading will be close tomorrow for Memorial Day.

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  101. % of women in S.S. who married before age 30

    1970s – 91%

    2020s – 28%

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  102. Fart… In U.S. who married…

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  103. Paul,

    Good one about riding a triceratops….

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  104. If Iran actually gives up the uranium and commits to no nukes, Trump has achieved a great victory for the U.S. and the world. If not, what was the plan for the war?

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  105. Fart….

    !960s women married byy age 30 was 91%

    1970s should have been 11960s

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    Iran has always committed to no nukes, the problem is nobody believes them.

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    Byron Nelson is ridiculous. the leader is at 28 under par.

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    Leader is 9 under for the round and has only played 15 holes.

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    No, actually lost because you an an America hating anti-semitic scumbag.

    Rep. Thomas Massie fumes that Republicans “used artificial intelligence” to make it seem like he was cozying up to AOC and Ilhan Omar “They used AI to create a life-like video showing me checking into a hotel room with AOC and Ilhan Omar and holding hands with them!”

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    Disney claims The View is a legitimate bona fide new program.

    You can’t make this sh-t up.

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    The Babylon Bee

    @TheBabylonBee

    Platner Smooths Things Over With Democrats By Covering Nazi Tattoo With Hammer & Sickle

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  112. And now….no Iran deal.

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  113. 1970s should have been 11960s

    Walt is sticking it to us by pointing out he will be here in 9934 years and we won’t.

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  114. 1960, smart ass

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  115. MARYLAND CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES. BY DISTRICT

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    MD CD 1

    Guidice

    Schwart

    Walish

    White

    Shakes

    Bruneau (R)

    Harris (R)

    ________

    MD CD

    Olszewski

    Spillman

    Ese (R)

    Wallace (R)

    ————

    MD CD 3

    Cross

    Dyches

    Elfreth

    Hammond

    Morrison

    Rea

    Bly (R)

    Flowers (R)

    Seler (R)

    White (R)

    ———

    MD CD 4

    Games

    Hedgepeth

    I’ve

    Johnson

    White

    McDermont (R)

    English

    ———

    MD CD 5

    Arness

    Baker

    Bareebe

    Blegay

    Boafo

    Collins

    Colvin

    Dunn

    Ellis

    English

    Jackson

    Jarin

    Kirkland

    Lightfoot

    Lipon

    Markle

    Messick

    Salkowski

    Simmons

    Solis

    Starr

    Sunbury

    Williams

    Jordan

    Eversley (withdrew)

    Cross (withdrew)

    Burress (withdrew)

    Hull

    Talkative (R)

    Chaffer (R)

    Duval (R)

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    MD CD 6

    Gluck

    Goldstein

    Krakowski

    Delaney

    Trone

    Wechtaluk

    White

    Wilks

    Landman

    Kumari

    Hyser

    Burnett(R)

    Ficker(R)

    Roca(R)

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    MD CD 7

    Conway

    Davis

    Gillespie

    Mfume

    Collier

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    MD CD 8

    Kumar

    Leon

    Raskin

    Velasquez

    Wallace

    Landed

    Cox (R)

    Lecho (R)

    Riley (R)

    Yadeta (R)

    Hope beyond hope that these are spelled correctly.

    My damn phone autocorrect is trying to override my typing and spell something was different

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    in MD CD 6 Conservative far western MD including Cumberland, Hagerstown , Frederick, and gerrymandered to include all the way to very liberal Montgomery county

    David Trone (who I detest) is running ads slamming fellow D candidates in his race and accusing them of not being leftwing enough. But gov. Wes Moore, Raskin and Stenny Hoyer have ads up and are all supporting some black woman candidate in that race. Can’t remember her name but she speaks with a foreign accent.

    One of the other D candidates is running anti Trone ads saying he had contributed many tens of thousands of dollars to right wing members if congress!!!!

    MD 6 last 2 cycles have been very close losses for the R candidates.

    I am watching this race….

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    Yeah, I think if Trone loses the primary it is possible Rs could pick up this seat.

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    MD will try to gerrymand for an all Dem delegation for 2028.

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    “NYC bagel shops need to get with the times. The bagels in LA suck, but all the LA bagel shops at least use cashew-based vegan cream cheese. NYC bagel shops almost never have vegan cc or they’re using hyper processed Tofutti

    . I hope Zohran can remedy this”

    Taylor Lorenz has major problems she hopes the communist mayor can resolve.

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  119. The first time I stayed at my future wife’s house when we started dating.
    , her mom had bagels out for breakfast. I asked if there was butter to put on it. She looked at me and said, “Butter? On a bagel?” She made it seem like I asked if I could borrow a match to burn down the house.

    People are very serious about their bagels.

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  120. Remember those who gave all in the service of America. Especially those who died in the war with Iran. This is the first Memorial Day for their family and friends since their sacrifice.

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    You didn’t do your homework.

    You should have said “could I have some lox and a slice of red onion please”.

    Next time your girlfriend went into the kitchen her mother would have whispered to her “not bad for a goy”

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    I assume the cream cheese was already on the table.

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    I dated some Jewish women. I was always more popular with the mothers than the women themselves because I would eat anything the mothers served and lots of it.

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    I watched a show on the Battle of the Bulge yesterday. Something like 19,000 Americans died in just that one battle.

    Somehow there is a perception that life was cheap only in antiquity or maybe even during Napoleonic or Civil War times but the truth is even “advanced” societies like the US and Germany as late as WWII, 80 years ago, found it acceptable to lose tens of thousands of troops over a single objective.

    Much is made of the 13 American dead in this conflict, but in Vietnam we were still “comfortable” with 300 dead a week.

    If the Iranians managed to sink a US warship it would be like the end of the world. In WWII, Britain lost an astonishing 313 major warships including 5 carriers, 3 battleships, 28 cruisers, 132 destroyers and 77 subs.

    Germany lost over 750 submarines during the war. German soldiers dead? 5.4 million.

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