Great selection, OGC!!!

The Cleese quote - great stuff...
And the Swedish word for speed...still laughing!

And the remainder, either still laughing or shaking my head at how true it all is....

Agreed, dino, but that pause while channel surfing reminds us mature guys we ain't dead yet, LOL.

Wow, OUC, #2 could be a pic of me and my mom around 1960, LOL, and #1 describes the situation rather well - WTH happened? FartKontrol, LMAO. Mom taking the kids to Massachusetts is chilling. John Cleese has it. Agreed with why can't I just plug it in and turn it on - good one as I hate dealing with having to enter my life history to do a simple task - like having to enter my phone number at Lowes to pay cash for a box of screws. Thanks, OUC, for a nice start to my day!

Part of this thread is a dispute between an academic and an enthusiastic MAGAist. It so happens that in this case I am MAGA. Elaboration can wait.

I do share at least one idea with WDonway- a profound admiration for the civilization and culture of Persia (now named Iran), one of our planet's oldest. It was rich and powerful at the time of Athens and Sparta, and a major barrier to the expansion of Rome. Soon after Western Rome collapsed, Persia crumbled before militant Islam, somehow the culture survived, unfortunately absorbing the fatalism decay and sloth of its neighbors. Perhaps there was a glimmer of revival under the Shah, but then came the regime of the Mullahs.

This regime has characterized itself with barbarity. Tens of thousands of Iranians slaughtered in the streets, widespread secret police and torture, and worldwide support for terror. On top of all that, the determined effort to develop nuclear weapons.
But now there is Trump, the only serious opposition, not just with condemnation and insult but actual military action.
Go Trump!

I liked the beach volleyball one also. It may be redundant but the liberals with guns could have mentioned that most of the mass shooters are trannies which is part of the liberal constituency.

100%

His UN Speech: "There is no room for a One World Order"... (Oh, did I say that Out Loud... In the ROOM designed to herald in a One World Order?)

Oopsies...

"Oh, I see the Cubans left... Don't worry, they are just going to the hotel. They DO NOT WANT to go back to Cuba... I think they both applied for Asylum..."

LOL

drago, welcome aboard. I concur.
So far, every time I give Trump room to be Trump.
And I accept he likely has "more and/or better" information/details than I have...

I keep realizing he makes ROUGHLY the same decisions I would make.

He's still the BEST President of my lifetime by a LONG distance. (Reagan, My #2, gave CA to the dems with Amnesty, and did not break the public unions, and gave us the vaccine act that has our kids getting like 80 doses of medicines without any liability while we are more allergic to everything).

While I am NOT thrilled about Iran War. Consider ONE Thought.
This was PLANNED out when we started bombing the cartels drug boats.
Renaming the Gulf of America. Cutting off Cuba, cutting off China from getting ultra cheap oil.
Proving that China's Military defense systems (which were supposed to be on-par with the USA) were not even close. Meanwhile, EVERYONE in energy was screaming that if this was not over by July/August, we would be facing a complete shutdown, planes would stop flying.

I refuse to be so arrogant that I Can know what someone else is thinking.

That said. His meme coin was STUPID and scarred many people.
The optics over BiBi are terrible.

But he did NOT lose hundreds or thousands of military, which I commend.

Finally, SI has the opportunity, like Musk Suggested, to quadruple our GDP.
(And Using it often, it augments humans, I don't think it replaces them any time soon).
So, when I hear all of this FUD about AI will kill us all... It's BS.
AI can handle TASKS. Not "jobs". It still needs direction... Lots of it.

Me old dino strongly relates to the "Not to sound geriatric meme."
Yet despite me dino's age, bottom row meme #2 is why I'll pause during a channel surf to view skimpy costumes only worn during a certain gender's professional wrestling match.

Thank you for that article ... "America has repeatedly demonstrated that it can rescue itself. Now we should ask if a nation accustomed to rescue can imagine—or more, believe in—the point at which rescue ceases to work. The fire trucks arrive but the hydrant croaks only air."

A potentially parallel take -- so long as the Taylor Swift Economy keeps chugging along ... the act of croaking on air will be a widely accepted performative gesture indicating that everything is functioning as designed. When the sound of a barking dog is replaced by the scent of cooking meat, I will be encouraged in knowing that Taylor has left the building. I am actually looking forward that day as I am in my 60s and making preparations for the long, cold, hard, winter.

I identify with the last one,
PEE Already, Will ya!

Ya got me beat, brother. I only have 18 Bitching memes this week, as if we haven't already listened to enough Bitching . . . posting now

Wonder who made THAT ONE up, Stahl is not smart enough to think of that one by her self.

+1 Thumbs up Brother

Glad you found a bit of truth and a smile.

Yup a Constitutional Republic ensures the smallest minority is protected from the mob , demonocracy is mob rule . the mob is 51% the rest are shit out of luck.

Welcome to The Gulch, drago. Thought your moniker looked new.
Also thought to be a smarty and write, "Beam me up, drago" and thought better of http://it.it. Oops, I DID write that. That was before I took a second look at the two workers walking along with that huge beam of rusty old looking metal on their shoulders.
After me the dino considered that sight for a brief moment, all me the dino could say was "Damn!"
Not all that sure if I was seeing any truth there or not.

"Democracy" is and always has been a failure.
You should be hoping for a "Republican form" of government as the founders of America intended
(and as Ben Franklin said when he replied "A republic if you can keep it" to the question "Well,
Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?".)

All my grown kids and my grandkids have all heard me dino age 80 this next March say Donald Trump (who I voted for 3 times) is way, way the very best above all else POTUS of my entire lifetime.
Proud to tell others that and have. Two days ago I said as much to my primary physician during a quarterly appointment. He agreed. Knew he would due to many talks we've had while watching each other grow old for about 25 years.
Born in Massachusetts before a business had my family move to Alabama when I was age 4, I do have far away relatives who'd disagree.
Me the the dino says they can all stay where the hell they are.

Entertainment and Truth in the same post! Love it. I am a Viet Vet ( nearly 80!) and I am hoping my kids will be living under a democracy after our generation is gone!

TPTB will have to seize all gold and silver before the rug is pulled out.

WOW. Must be the new construction worker robots carrying those massive beams. Or is that really the strongest men in the world? You see what you want too, the truth is something else. I trust that DJT is well aware of more than you can possibly know. The picture you see is a work in progress with focus only on the brush strokes. He, like I, don't cater our speech in the description to the elitist intellectuals, but rather keep it simple to understand. This is my explanation in plan language of the truth. "There are three super powers in the world, CHINA, RUSSIA and THE USA. Two are communist, and they want it to be three." Everything, in every way since circa 1900 has been to this end, if not before if you look deeper. If and when this is accomplished, there will be the 'Great War of all Time,' as the three communist superpowers battle for total global control, or total destruction, they won't care. They tell you this all the time. "There is only the fight." " We must win at any cost," etc. A.I. may eventually be able to provide the truth and chronology of this progression to our present day for everyone to see. But it is still your eyes that are required to see the truth.

Trump should ban CBS from all administration activities, sue 60 minutes and Leslie Stahl, and appoint a grand jury to indict Stahl for interfering in the 2026 election.
Gut the Witch, seize all assets of CBS, and Stahl. It's long past time for insiders to understand that their connections will not save them but will drag them to ruin and death.

Wonderful collection! The last one is the exclamation point at the end of the sentence! Thank you, Dobrien, for posting these!

The whole article is an enjoyable read. I particularly like the authors take on throwing the main culprits of the fake media out of the WH - had me smiling - and, no, I don't hate them enough and they get NO sympathy from me for what they've done.

When the music stops will anyone get a chair? Not us peons, I'm sure.