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Mexfiles's avatar

In the opening, there is that text scroll about the escape route.. which was not something run by the US, but by the Mexican consulate in Marseilles, directed by Gilberto Bosques Saldivar. The Mexicans (being neutral) also rented a tourist camp and a castle to hold refugees until they could arrange their escape by ships chartered and re-flagged as neutrals.

Lazlo and Elsa may not have been heading for the United States (which had strict immigration quotas) but to some other place in America.

If the US would even give a visa to Victor Lazlo. I get the sense he's a socialist, and might have been denied entry for ideological reasons.

But, yeah.. my favorite movie of all times.

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JENNIFER ROMANS's avatar

My favorite movie of all time. I have seen it more than 100 times, but I get something new out of each viewing. It's pretty much a perfect film.

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Mexfiles's avatar

Do you do like I do, stand up and sing along with La Marseillaise?

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Connor Fitzgerald's avatar

I just noticed the zip pack w/ Casablanca also had Maltese Falcon, Sahara, Across the Pacific, and The Roaring Twenties!

Nice!

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Daniel's avatar

https://bsky.app/profile/craigipedia.bsky.social/post/3lnsi6hapss2g

Marco Rubioed.

When kids come into school in February or March looking like this, it's because they've been on Setimana Bianca- a permitted absence from school to go skiing. You can always tell because of the tan with the goggles.

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Daniel's avatar

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lnshk5l6dp2n

Listen to this fucking ass.

Rubio is sticking to the line that Canada couldn't survive as a nation without "unfair" trade with the US.

Remembering a time when he and Ted "My Eyes Palpate, No, Not The Ones In My Head" Cruz were being hailed by Very Serious People as the future of the Republican Party and smiling.

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Kay Ducky's avatar

I'm pretty sure Canada has more "Rare Earth" (that's an adjective, not a noun, btw, Mr. President) than we do. They might be just fine.

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Only the best ppl.

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Trump's nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, was arrested on fraud charges in 2010 & faced lawsuits in 2 states for writing $2 million in bad checks to casinos, according to government records and court filings.

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CambridgeKnitter's avatar

Go big or go home.

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Always Be Ithacating's avatar

Jackass Jared Isaacman, who has spent 0 days serving in the military or as a NASA astronaut. He founded Draken International, a Florida-based defense aerospace company that operates one of the world’s largest fleets of privately owned fighter jets. Its Black Diamond Jet Team performs at airshows.

Isaacman's own pilot call sign is the highly appropriate "Rook".

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Let me sum up's avatar

Wait - casinos take checks?

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CambridgeKnitter's avatar

As I recall, one of the orange guy's casinos took a check from his dad to keep the doors open because he is the greatest businessman who has ever lived.

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Let me sum up's avatar

Many people are saying...

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CambridgeKnitter's avatar

What I know for sure is that he desperately needed money right that very second, so his dad bought some number of millions of dollars of chips and then didn't use them. That's really illegal, but the law enforcement authorities didn't press the point. The part I don't know for sure is whether his father wrote a check or sent cash; I think it was a check, which his dad was good for, unlike the orange guy.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Well, my opinion of the ultimate goal is to have NASA absorbed into SpaceX.

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Martin Shobe's avatar

All off-Earth communications will be handled by StarLink.

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The Wanderer's avatar

Yeah.

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Raccoon of Vengeance's avatar

Okay. From the job board I have selected 11 jobs to apply for this week. Wheee!

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FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Good luck!!

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The Wanderer's avatar

Best of luck!

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Raccoon of Vengeance's avatar

I hope so. MUST PROTECT HEALTHCARE AND PENSION!

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XxX's avatar

You can/will DOOO EEEET.

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Meccalopolis's avatar

Check out darling Zyxomma's first substack post; it's our playlist from last night's A Jet Age Sound!

https://open.substack.com/pub/zyxomma/p/saturday-night-in-the-catskills?r=5nqg2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Stanta Knows's avatar

Nice set list. Heavy on the St. Vincent (I'm woefully ignorant of her oevre but I'm learning).

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Meccalopolis's avatar

We saw her again recently so we're still fan girling out.

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Ted Cruz's Beard's avatar

I listened until Traffic’s “Rainmaker,” and had to turn in. A great program.

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Let me sum up's avatar

I love all things Jimi Hendrix. It's a great list.

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CambridgeKnitter's avatar

https://www.perspicuity.com/?lightbox=image_eop

I think this was the artist's best seller.

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Let me sum up's avatar

Excellent.

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Daniel's avatar

Pffffffffffft.

-Anthony Eden

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nodak.   988 if you need help.'s avatar

sounds like someone explained that canals are like toll roads. and demented grampa latched onto that.

DumbOld the First strikes again.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

The Fetid Fascist is a divisive, diplomatically incoherent, damned dangerous psychopath.

If that vapid shit disturber is not removed from power with all due haste he WILL instigate some egregious military mash up involving the US that is going push nations into another world war.

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The Wanderer's avatar

(facepalms) Christ on a pegging ladder . . .

What's next? The Erie Canal? The Gowanus Canal? The Kiel Canal? The White Sea Canall?

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CambridgeKnitter's avatar

The ear canal?

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Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

If he indeed has any of his own teeth left, may I suggest a root canal sans novocaine?

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Resource NW's avatar

It is now the NY State Barge Canal. convicted felon cheetolini only remembers the song about getting to Rome, so is confuzed.

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Psyker01's avatar

I want to know how you memorialize canal myself.

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The Wanderer's avatar

The article asks those very same questions.

There is a diplomatic thing called an aide memoire, basically a formal reminder one nation sends to another. I doubt that The Homunculus knows what that is, though.

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motmelere's avatar

Now he is making noises about how obscure judges should not make decisions about pharmaceuticals... wait, what?

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Tasner Hasenpfeffer's avatar

Is he talking about Kacsmaryk? 'Cuz that's the only example that comes into *my* mind.

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Mysterysurf's avatar

Dang, what's with this car ramming attack in Vancouver? Sounds awful.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

That is a staggering UNDERstatement, wise feline.

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

You should hear what Li'l Feller says. It would hose the internet though.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

I suspect that Li'l Feller meowls machinations similar to the purr-fanities of Cat the Ripper.

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

yes

I try not to listen because I get scared.

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oblivias's avatar

I have no problem with LF, except maybe his countdowns into the show. It's almost impossible to see his individual beans.

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Let me sum up's avatar

What. The. Hell.

And of course my mind goes to how many would have died if the attacker had a firearm. Bc 'murica.

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Mysterysurf's avatar

Thanks. I'm reading about it on the BBC site, and it's all about Carney cancelling campaign events.

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The Wanderer's avatar

I saw that, but opted for the CBC, as they're closer.

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Mysterysurf's avatar

Yeah, the Beeb is where I started this a.m. and hadn't gone any further yet.

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motmelere's avatar

Reince Priebus thinks that Trump is doing what stupid people voted for him to do. Again, Wisconsin is so very sorry for the shits we impose on you.

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Gammarae's avatar

who dredged him back up?

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Let me sum up's avatar

These assholes are like the commanders in A Handmaid's Tale..."we let this get a bit out of hand."

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

We made so much fun of Rinse Penis's name back in the day!

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The Wanderer's avatar

Priebus needs to shut the fuck up, grow his beard and hair out, and go raise sheep in Montana.

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

Y U HATE SHEEEPZ SO MUUCH?

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lmurr's avatar

Goin' to Montana soon...

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jamesHatt the Magnificent's avatar

Shoulda made trump show his taxes in 2015, you feckless fuck.

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blueicebank's avatar

"Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/27/donald-trump-us-constitution-president

Good read, for some hope.

Unfortunately, that Greek hubris often takes its sweet candy-ass time to claim its prize.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

Rope.

I am ready for some rope.

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Let me sum up's avatar

Any weapon from Clue would suffice at this point.

Is there a guillotine in Clue?

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Shocktreatment's avatar

Simon Tisdall and John Cleese were separated at birth.

Who could possibly believe in a just god if His Most Loathsome slips off on a cardiovascular event in his sleep?

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The Wanderer's avatar

The fact of the matter would be, by one method or the other, he would depart the stage.

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Shocktreatment's avatar

Fine and good for us, 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵! would be an understatement, but Cosmic Justice's rep would suffer...

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jamesHatt the Magnificent's avatar

“To be fair, to suggest similarities between the aforementioned abominable individuals and Donald Trump would be utterly wrong.”

I call Bullshit. It’s totally fair.

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Tasner Hasenpfeffer's avatar

Next sentence: "In key respects, he’s worse."

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The Wanderer's avatar

My quatloos are still on the Reaper adding his name to her day planner, sooner rather than later.

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Tasner Hasenpfeffer's avatar

John Maynard Keynes: "Yes, but in the long run we're dead."

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The Wanderer's avatar

Bournemouth's playing with ten men, we're in the 90th minute, and Man U are still losing.

EDIT: Man U just tied the match in the 97th minute.

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FederalHillbilly's avatar

Ghost of Fergie Time.

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JanuaryClaire's avatar

Dispatch from India: I am now in Bombay (Mumbai is too weird to say) for a couple of days.

I passed an ad at restaurant while out with my cousin this evening: “Happy hour from 11am to 7pm”

I’m pretty sure that’s a happy *day*.

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XxX's avatar

💪🏽 !!!!

LOL

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blueicebank's avatar

Give my regards to Doctor Bombay, and his gin as well.

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Hamilton & The Crew's avatar

"Calling Doctor Mumbai!"

That's just too weird. Man.

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Shocktreatment's avatar

Try saying "Bombay-Mumbai" ten times fast after that kind of day...

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Saviour of Bread's avatar

Ah, the Beautiful Bay!

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The Wanderer's avatar

(hic)

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Shocktreatment's avatar

USA Today collected 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25915967-doj-march-14-memo-alien-enemies-act/#document/p1

copy of a March 14 memo issued by the office of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, the Trump regime ordering ICE to pursue alleged, accused suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua into homes, with or without warrants, under the Alien Enemies Act...

"...This authority includes entering an alien enemy's residence to make an AEA apprehension where circumstances render it impracticable to first obtain a signed notice and warrant of apprehension and removal."

“other high crimes and misdemeanors"... what does 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 mean?

Get the peaches ready, we need to do some 𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨

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