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I don't know if this was ever posted: Interim Report on the Failures of the J6 Committee:
https://cha.house.gov/_cache/files/6/d/6dae7b82-7683-4f56-a177-ba98695e600d/145DD5A70E967DEEC1F511764D3E6FA1.final-interim-report.pdf
Opens post to see it's already sorted by 'new'........
<falls on floor in dead faint>
Can't wait to see what it will be when I come to tomorrow! 😄
Unfortunately this is entirely at the whim of the scored platform. Sometimes it sticks and sometimes it doesn't!
I know, I'm just busting your balls, bubs! 😁
Ukraine situation looks a lot like the Euros have given up everything they have in their armouries to Ukraine, and now, panic. It's like Biden never really did anything, and they were hoping Trump would, not realising the larger game.
For my fellow Archeologyfags here in the pond.
World’s first Bobble Heads found!
https://www.iflscience.com/2400-year-old-clay-puppets-with-moveable-heads-found-atop-ancient-pyramid-78315
Hey, this is weird but the guy who won Sheila Jackson Lee's seat, died last night only 60 days into his term.
Can anyone point me to a list of awful spending that Doge cut? Need a big old red pill for my DIL. TY
doge.gov
Anyone have the stats on the ratings of the Oscar's compared to POTUS' speech to Congress last night?
From Grok 3.0
As of today, March 5, 2025, I can provide some insight based on available data up to this point. The 2025 Oscars took place on March 2, 2025, and President Donald Trump delivered a speech to a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. Both events have generated significant attention, and their viewership numbers offer an interesting comparison. The 2025 Oscars, hosted by Conan O’Brien, averaged 19.69 million viewers across ABC and Hulu, according to finalized Nielsen ratings that include streaming and digital device viewership. This figure marks a slight increase from the 19.49 million viewers for the 2024 Oscars, making it the highest audience for the ceremony in five years. The numbers reflect viewership for the live broadcast on Sunday night, adjusted to account for mobile and PC viewing, which boosted initial estimates from 18.07 million. Trump’s speech to Congress on March 4, 2025, was a nearly 100-minute address that focused heavily on domestic issues. Exact viewership numbers for this event are less comprehensively reported as of 12:08 PM PST on March 5, given the shorter time frame for data collection. However, based on historical trends for presidential addresses to Congress and early indications from sources like CNN’s instant polling, such speeches typically attract a broad audience, often ranging between 20 and 40 million viewers, depending on the context and political climate. For instance, Trump’s 2017 address to Congress drew 47.7 million viewers, though that was during his first term and amid heightened public interest following his initial inauguration. Given that the 2025 speech occurred six weeks into his second term and was described as partisan with a Republican-heavy audience, it’s reasonable to estimate viewership likely fell somewhere in the lower end of that range—potentially around 20–30 million—pending official Nielsen data, which isn’t fully available yet. Comparing the two, the Oscars’ 19.69 million viewers are a confirmed figure, while Trump’s speech likely drew a slightly higher but not dramatically different audience, possibly in the 20–25 million range, based on typical patterns and the polarized reception suggested by early reports (e.g., Democrats walking out, a CNN poll showing 44% of viewers had a “very positive” reaction). The Oscars benefited from being a planned, annual entertainment event with streaming access, while Trump’s speech, as a political event, likely drew a more politically engaged but divided audience. Without final numbers for the speech (which could take a day or two more to be fully reported), a precise comparison isn’t possible yet. However, it’s plausible that Trump’s address edged out the Oscars by a few million viewers, though not by a landslide, given the differing natures of the events—entertainment versus politics—and the current media landscape. If you’d like a more exact comparison once the speech’s ratings are finalized, feel free to check back tomorrow!
Whatever anyone thought of that speech, hands down the most powerful moment was when he made DJ a member of the Secret Service. Shit, I hadn't fell a welling up in my throat for a long time, until that.
For sure.
Just in time for breakfast for faggot lovers everywhere: https://youtu.be/1rR-wqxRjIg
u/#ridetofreedom
Toward Peace. 🙏🕊️
A Song: https://youtu.be/5AH_BMw5axU?feature=shared
Have a blessed day.
Lately I've been thinking of child stars in Hollywood.
I randomly got recommended this clip from All Dogs Go To Heaven, with the last recorded lines for voice actress Judith Barsi.
Reportedly, Burt Reynolds had to do over seventy takes for those lines.
The reason?
Judith Barsi was murdered during production. Reynolds recorded these lines while responding to Barsi's own recordings, and while looking at a photo of Barsi in the recording booth.
The official story is that, on July 25, 1988, Barsi was murdered by her abusive father, who then killed her mother, before killing himself.
Now watch the above video again with that context.
Knowing what I know now, I wonder if that is really what happened, or if she was just another child sacrifice for someone else's fame.
Judith Barsi was only ten years old.
Horrible
I'm kind of disappointed in the speech, at least the substance of it. I was hoping that Trump would remove the US from the UN and NATO. Maybe that was a little bit unrealistic to wish for
not only was I hoping for that, but my biggest wish was that once they were all inside the doors would get locked and the Federal Marshals would arrest all the treasonous scum... going to dream-dream big...
We kinda knew it was going to be for the normies and not much for us before it started...a few COMs and some jabs here and there, but largely pedestrian
I think removal from NATO will gradually pick up pace as Ukraine's shenanigans and criminality inevitably sees light.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon March 4th — Evening Reading
"They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of Thy house." — Psalm 36:8
Sheba's queen was amazed at the sumptuousness of Solomon's table. She lost all heart when she saw the provision of a single day; and she marvelled equally at the company of servants who were feasted at the royal board. But what is this to the hospitalities of the God of grace? Ten thousand thousand of his people are daily fed; hungry and thirsty, they bring large appetites with them to the banquet, but not one of them returns unsatisfied; there is enough for each, enough for all, enough for evermore. Though the host that feed at Jehovah's table is countless as the stars of heaven, yet each one has his portion of meat. Think how much grace one saint requires, so much that nothing but the Infinite could supply him for one day; and yet the Lord spreads His table, not for one, but many saints, not for one day, but for many years; not for many years only, but for generation after generation. Observe the full feasting spoken of in the text, the guests at mercy's banquet are satisfied, nay, more "abundantly satisfied;" and that not with ordinary fare, but with fatness, the peculiar fatness of God's own house; and such feasting is guaranteed by a faithful promise to all those children of men who put their trust under the shadow of Jehovah's wings. I once thought if I might but get the broken meat at God's back door of grace I should be satisfied; like the woman who said, "The dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the master's table;" but no child of God is ever served with scraps and leavings; like Mephibosheth, they all eat from the king's own table. In matters of grace, we all have Benjamin's mess-we all have ten times more than we could have expected, and though our necessities are great, yet are we often amazed at the marvellous plenty of grace which God gives us experimentally to enjoy.
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
May Sarton
Tuesday Poem...YE Hui - The Gaze
https://poems.com/poem/the-gaze/
Anne Carson: Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind
https://youtu.be/g8fPmTtG0qw?si=WC_bMyrgkPuJEHBm
Personal Identity and Willful Ignorance
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/03/personal-identity-and-willful-ignorance.html#more-274654
Worst Of Babylon Bee
Germany Commits To 100% Electric Vehicle Terror Attacks By 2035
https://babylonbee.com/news/germany-commits-to-100-electric-vehicle-terror-attacks-by-2035
Trump Orders Zelenskyy Be Sent To Bed Without His Supper To Think About What He’s Done
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-orders-zelenskyy-be-sent-to-bed-without-his-supper-and-think-about-what-hes-done
Trump's Canadian Tariffs Expected To Have Devastating Impact On The Curling Broom Industry
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-canadian-tariffs-expected-to-have-devastating-impact-on-the-curling-broom-industry
Scientists Report Most Effective Remedy For Male Depression Is An Old Lady At The Store Asking You To Reach Something On A Tall Shelf
https://babylonbee.com/news/scientists-report-most-effective-remedy-for-male-depression-is-an-old-lady-at-the-store-asking-you-to-reach-something-on-a-tall-shelf
The Babylon Bee Guide To The Best Gun For Every Situation
https://babylonbee.com/news/the-babylon-bee-guide-to-the-best-gun-for-every-situation
Belated kek on yesterday's Bee you shared. Ironically, that is exactly what Weezer desired to create.
"Ironically, that is exactly what Weezer desired to create"
...I'm pleased they were successful in achieving their "goal"....
...carry on...
Tonight I am missing my husbad sooo much. He would have been so rowdy and jubilant watching that speech.
My condolences fren. May your heart and soul be at ease knowing he would be so honored as we all are to be here during this time. MAGA NCSWIC 🙏 🇺🇸 🐸
GET IN THE SOTU
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1rmGPydvOEVJN
Love me some RSBN coverage of the Joint Session of Congress! Trump is awesome! The days of being ruled by unelected bureaucrats are over!
Am I the only one who wants to see Trump dance at the podium? LoL
How about a sword dance.
I'd be good with that also.