The Steelers started strong but got drilled by the Packers. The Bungles lost to the lowly Jets. The Browns also lost. Not much exciting happened on the NFL Sunday, if I’m being honest. LSU fired Brian Kelly. The F1 race was actually pretty entertaining, although I still don’t understand the late VSC that kept us from seeing two really interesting attempts at gaining position by guys chasing for the championship. It did result in a pair of officials cosplaying as Matadors in front of an F1 car on track with a couple of laps to go. Also, Liverpool are in freefall. And that’s it for sports.
Let’s start with some good news. In fact, it’s awesome news.
How did we end up with 40m people on food stamps? That’s the craziest part of this whole thing.
This is pretty neat. I wonder what all they’ll find there.
This should surprise nobody. You get more of what you tolerate.
Sometimes you just gotta accept your fate. Especially when you’ve been breaking the law for four years.
Look at these dumb bastards. What’s the German word for “luddite?”
The noose is tightening. Why not just drive to another country and fly from there? Europe is so tiny.
Why is this country in NATO again? It’s a complete shitshow.
We’re under no obligation to let these people in. Sorry, but he’s got to leave. He can spew his Islamist claptrap back in the British Caliphate.
Maybe try electing somebody younger, for a change. They can even be as stupid as the last two, which will undoubtedly be the case in that district.
Back to the classics. At least for Gen Xers. This one gets less play than it should. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
“I wonder what all they’ll find there.”
Don’t open it.
“Moses was here.”
“Eat our dust, Pharaoh!”
For a good time, call Jezebel
It’s a trap! It is just a pyramid scheme!!!
I know the place. Nothing interesting.
You slept there overday once, didn’t you?
“Dear Mother and Father — as your Firstborn Son… I am proud to defend the frontier for Pharoah…. I can not believe the rumors I am hearing about the Hebrew slaves wishing to depart from His beneficence. Thank you for the toad and locust recipe, they came quite in handy. No, I don’t know why the Hebrews are rumored to be painting blood on their lintels…”
Don’t worry, I’m sure Josh Gates will show up and repeat every thing the local expert says. “This is the tomb of a great warrior.” “Wait, so you’re saying we’re standing here at the entrance to the warrior’s tomb?”
Definitely don’t understand the VSC either — Sainz was well out of the way, and with 2 laps to go — there was really no need to even retrieve the car technically.
Will say that I was 100 percent with Russel on the opening Turn 1 incident… “Oh, I’ll just go way off the track, cut the corner… come back on in the same position I was barely in front of folks with… and it is all good!” That may be the rules… but it still feels like a stupid rule that encourages reckless corner cutting. C’est la vie.
Happy Monday all… Good morning, Sloopy… this feels like the start to one of those work weeks where you wish you had the money to retire… just not feeling the work. (Yeah yeah… they don’t call it “play”… I know…)
On to the links…
“He sentenced to just 18 months in juvenile detention in June of 2020 due to the Raise the Age law, which raised the age of criminal responsibility to 18 in most cases to keep kids out of jail.”
Sounds like a bad law.
Especially if it doesn’t allow for judicial discretion. Granted, we’ve seen a lot of stupid, stupid judges… but I think there should be allowance for a judge to realize some little monster should be tried as an adult even if they’re a bit younger.
“This child is old enough to decide if he wants his genitals mutilated because he thinks he’s a girl, but definitely not old enough to be held responsible for the murder he helped commit.”
-progressives
Well, there’s a logic to that given they’re crazy enough to think one year olds can make the genital decision.
There’s someone who always be a danger to civilized society. He needs to be put down.
I’m sure all our little socialists are now butt hurt and want election supervision there instead of in California.
Election supervision for socialists means kicking out the poll watchers and closing the blinds.
Putting pizza boxes on the windows.
There is still a scandal as once again media poll projections were waayyy off. Not a little off, not got it wrong, but way off.
First thought — various ad programs / pushes I can recall over the last decade plus. Dept. of Ag looking to expand programs, FedGov looking to expand dependency (how much of this also spins out of “free school lunches” just continued? How much out of “Are you sure you don’t qualify? It is free money!” type pushes [when we had our son, it was annoying how much we had to assure people we were not in the income bracket for assistance, we didn’t need assistance and we didn’t want to fill out the forms ‘just in case’… California Central Valley must be prime ground for such things… and that was 16 years ago… I can only imagine it got worse)
Second thought was “What’s the breakdown on that for citizens versus “asylum refugees”?” Lots and lots of folks brought in and given housing, food, etc… wouldn’t be surprised if that’s part of it.
Third thought — what happened to mooching off the taxpayer via Disability? I thought that was the going thing not long back….
– “How did we end up with 40m people on food stamps?”
COVID-19
I recall the screeching about people losing benefits when the COVID eligibility verification waiver expired.
More importantly, open or concealed carry while grocery shopping after a few weeks without free shit?
Always concealed.
With the weather turning cold, it’s easier to carry big.
What do I qualify for? How many times the median income can you earn before you’re disqualified?
By design.
/that is all
Dept. of Ag looking to expand programs
Say no more!
“First, we subsidize the farmers, then…”
“what happened to mooching off the taxpayer via Disability?”
Por que no los dos?
Not counting perdiem, BAH, illegal alien cash income ect as income. Advertising food stamps in Mexico City, thanks Obama.
There was a massive expansion in 2007 that never rolled back.
Miley’s win is important psychologically, because people are repeating the falsehood that libertarianism is naive and unworkable.
Meanwhile, Milei’s policies have reduced inflation from over 12% to just over 2%.
That is a pretty good cut in hidden taxes.
yes but there is a long way to go and the global headwinds may not be great in the next few years… But it is a good start. Maybe he can do even better with more congress support.
As I understand it, the Argentinian congress won’t be a blue to override his vetoes now.
*able, not “a blue”
I think Argentinians are pretty well acquainted with government that doesn’t actually work, and thus are still willing to give Milei the chance.
One would think Germans are also well acquainted – but perhaps they miss the good old days of death camps.
You are not wrong. Diehard leftist SIL from Argentina said it couldnt get any worse. So he has provided hope to even some of his opponents.
I see the legacy media are still trying to convince ATC to call out sick.
He also fixed the housing shortage by getting rid of rent control.
Now go after the landscaping company providing his “gardening job”. But yes — one would think deportation would be better than “Re-enact Frogger”.
That’s a bingo!
Going after the people who employ the illegals is the only way this gets closer to being solved.
[Republicans in Chambers of Commerce across the country all shudder]
One can hope, JI. One can hope.
Hell SDF it is exactly why Republicans can’t tackle immigration with any more honesty or ability than Democrats. It isn’t in the interest of those who love them some cheap labor.
Deport his brother too.
Yep
“Additionally, quantities of volcanic stones — likely transported by sea from the volcanoes of the Greek islands — were discovered, along with a large bread oven and nearby remnants of fossilized dough,” the release added.
It wasn’t by sea, it was by ALIENZ
“This is MAGMA country!”
Ok
Legit big laugh alone in my car eating a donut. Damn. Propa’.
Dumkopf seems appropriate. At least the caliphate is unlikely to care about such things when they take over there.
I wonder if these little shits still think it’s funny?
https://youtu.be/eKEycjREgPE
More accurate and applies to many more issues than “climate” foolishness.
Britain doesn’t want to try to do the Bosporus again?
More seriously — I assume it was so we had a good siting location for intermediate range missiles against Iran and Southern USSR target sites. Can’t see why else we’d have them in — I’d say “kick them out already”… but you know my preference is to just scrap the whole organization that’s lived way past its shelf life anyway.
Yeah, it was the missiles and airbases and bottling up the USSR warmwater port ambitions.
incirlik ab turkey
Got nukes?
Because they are the only country in NATO besides the U.S. with an actual army.
The likelihood that they would actually use that army to defend Western Europe is, of course, untested, but is (substantially?) less than 100%. Whatever the merits of the invasion of Iraq, they blocked the northern route mostly out of Muslim solidarity, setting up a years-long quagmire in that country, after all.
But the idiots running the EU are convinced that the way to solve all their problems is to start a war with Russia that will feed Americans and Turks into a meat grinder.
The world would be a better place if NATO was just ended.
Poland says hi.
They came in with Greece – it was a package deal.
I vaguely recall they were flirting with the Soviets, and this was basically a blocking maneuver. Not uncontroversial at the time, either.
Because they make remarkably high-quality, inexpensive guns?
NATO should have been disbanded around 1992.
The losses to the bureaucracy (on both sides of the Atlantic) would be staggering!
ji:
I have half memories of a SMAC (Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri) tech upgrade that would fit that sentiment quite well.
My impression from the photo and from that they’re pitching George Foreman IV as a viable candidate is that the SCOTUS decision may make this a moot point if they do the obvious thing…
Some funny scare pranks:
https://youtube.com/shorts/iFZyi11Jg-s?si=d6Tdb_0XYUcH2jeU
Does not compute. Pranks are not funny.
Given all the pepper talk here over the years — this seems appropriate to link.
The Geeky Glibs will get a chuckle from this one. H/T to Twitchy’s Mondy Meme thread obviously.
“Son, there is something called change control, you need approval for this.”
I submitted a merge request, approved it, and merged.
“His upset mother posted a video on Instagram telling her followers that her son was “kidnapped by Border Patrol in front of my eyes.”
“For those of you who don’t know, I was in Chicago visiting my son, and he was kidnapped by Border Patrol in front of my eyes,” Plybon said.
“When I think about going out the door in the morning, I don’t want to… Because I do not want to encounter the SUV, the screams, the crying and the horrific things that I saw before I was pulled into the fray when somebody tried to kidnap my son.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/27/us-news/laugh-factory-manager-arrested-in-front-of-mother-outside-chicago-comedy-club-by-federal-agents/
Stop using retard language. He was arrested, not kidnapped.
““My brother in law Nathan was detained by border patrol officers today in Chicago, despite the fact that he is a natural-born American citizen,” Tom Pinney wrote.
“After being arrested and hidden throughout the system, he finally resurfaced about 4 hours after his detainment in FBI custody awaiting a hearing for a federal assault charge which could carry 8 years in prison if convicted.””
Because citizens are allowed to attack the feds?
From time to time I watch bodycam videos. It’s amazing how someone can rack up felony assault charges just by being stupid and unreasonable.
just by being stupid and unreasonable
But enough about the cops.
“Well… YEAH!” — Portlandia Antifa.
“Cop City” idiots outside Atlanta.
Columbia students.
The list goes on and on — but pretty clearly, to the radical left — all cops are bastards, but also can’t do anything to you no matter how much you do to them first. There’s a bit of logic that would do a full James T. Kirk on a computer if you tried to get it to process it…
Well, if anyone lays hands on a BP officer, I wouldn’t be surprised if the BP arrests them regardless of their immigration status.
Well RC the FBI went from the noblest of LE organizations to the personal thug-guard of Trump – overnight no less.
Resisting capture is natural.
It should be a notation, not a charge.
“Stop using retard language”
Nah. It lets me know who is who and keeps my bullshit meter in good shape.
the left can’t meme.
https://x.com/mcsquared34/status/1982479222410031298
If there was anybody I could go back in time and strangle in the cradle…..
The reason they cant meme is the same reason bullshit stories like the one above are so easy to spot. They cant even make a convincing false flag.
I dunno, if the purpose of the meme was to communicate the idea that Noam Chomsky is an idiot…mission accomplished, I guess.
He has a very narrow specialty at which he attained some noteriety, and people mistook that for “expert at all things”
I’ve always considered it a shame that Noam didn’t stick to what he was actually good at – linguistics. And UCS – he brought that on himself by buying into the worst of Marxist theology.
‘People’ including Chomsky himself.
‘Experts’ have this tendency to think that expertise in one field translates to expertise in everything – this tendency generally needs to be beaten out of them.
*Neil deGrasse Tyson has entered the chat*
People like Chomsky dont ‘buy into’ Marxism, they adopt it because of the avenues to power it offers them. They are the worst kinds of people.
[the chat boots NdT out as it requires expertise in something (besides self-promotion)]
Well Suthen I’ll disagree about that. Marxism offers a vision of transcendence – pure religion – that doesn’t require death for the great reward. Humans love them a holy cause – greater than the individual. Give up on God, revolution is ready to replace Him.
Aberrant personalities are power seekers. Chomsky never really did that – he just preached.
Is Chompski dead yet?
The UN at 80: An Unhappy Anniversary
Too late. Kick ’em out.
“The father of a 12-year-old girl “died of grief” after his daughter was kidnapped, raped, tortured and then beheaded in France by a sadistic Algerian migrant, the girl’s mother told a court.
Lola Daviet’s body was found horrifically mutilated and partially decapitated in a suitcase after she was murdered in 2022 — in a case that shocked the nation and sparked protests over lax immigration enforcement.
Dhabia Benkired, 27, a prostitute who overstayed her visa in France, was convicted of the killing.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/26/world-news/lola-daviets-father-died-of-grief-after-she-was-raped-beheaded-by-migrant-in-france/
damn
I noticed the lack of names of the thieves in the Louvre caper. I wonder why that is?
Mo, Mo, Mo, Ali, and Mo.
Headed to Algeria.
“In Maine, they are running a Senate candidate who had a skull-and-crossbones Nazi death symbol tattooed onto his chest, described himself as an “Antifa supersoldier” and reportedly recruited and trained members of a far-left paramilitary group, The Socialist Rifle Association, which has links to Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin.
While Democrats and their media handmaidens try to portray Graham “I’m not a secret Nazi” Platner as a plainspoken MAGA-coded “Maine Oyster Farmer,” he’s just the usual sham impersonator. In fact, he is a child of privilege who attended The Hotchkiss School, a boarding prep school in Connecticut where tuition costs more than $75,000 a year….
Sure enough, Platner remains the front-runner in the Democratic primary. The latest polls have him 34 points ahead of Maine governor Janet Mills.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/26/opinion/miranda-devine-trump-derangement-syndrome-has-morphed-into-something-far-more-lethal-trump-projection-disorder/
Vote blue no matter who?
Give him a break. It’s not like he got a Christianity related tattoo.
It’s true. There is nothing secret about it.
I will never understand how this kind of fakery isn’t instantly repellent to normal people. Fetterman, Mandami, AoC, I’m looking in your direction…
Don’t forget Jasmine!
I’m still confused how this guy can be on 100% military disability and yet still run an oyster farm, be harbormaster and run a mooring and dive service.
Wait – WUT?
His wife and business partner take checks for their labor, but his contribution to the household comes in the form of checks from the Veterans Administration based on his 100 percent disabled status.
Am I wrong to think a 100% disabled rating should be restricted to quadruple amputees with brain damage?
At the very least, any sort of steady work would seem to indicate that he is not, in fact, 100% disabled.
It’s an open secret that there is a lot a fraud and abuse in military disability ratings.
I do have to admit, I’d love to see him explain his 100% disability to her in the Senate cloakroom.
Not to take anything away from combat vets, but the ease of obtaining disability from the VA from 5-30% is absolutely ridiculously easy
10 %er
Lie about PTSD
Get 20% disability minimum.
Stay on the FOB never get hurt, get 80% easy.
It’s hilarious. The more of his past that is revealed, the more the Party has his back.
True colors.
When you’ve lost the Mamdani voters…
https://x.com/L0m3z/status/1982158908123705830
He’s so dreamy he even woos “Republicans.”
It’s another Camelot.
Maybe just camel, ’cause their ain’t gonna be a lot after he gets done.
Again, the left can’t meme.
Kick him out and take the rest of that pro-terror outfit CAIR and all the other alphabet soup Islamist orgs with him.
Sorry assholes, you’re not fooling us anymore.
“Gmail users have been urged to check their accounts, after it was revealed that more than 183 million passwords were stolen in a data breach.
Australian cyber expert Troy Hunt has disclosed the incident, which has compromised email addresses and their passwords.
He called it a ‘vast corpus’ of breached data, which totals 3.5 terrabytes.
To put that into perspective, that’s the equivalent to 875 full-length HD movies.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15230351/Gmail-183-MILLION-passwords-data-breach.html
How many 8-track tapes?
And, if you placed all of those 8-track tapes end to end, how many giraffes long would it be?
Five Olympic swinging pools!
Giraffes are for height. This should be football fields, swimming pools, alligators, or such.
He was asking for linear Giraffes, not fluid giraffes.
“If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end…I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.”/Dorothy Parker
I need someone to enact my labor and figure out the 8 track to armadillo measurement conversion.
They measure two different things, you can’t directly convert.
non aesthetic things
@PicturesFoIder
In the Russian dance Berezka, the women move with very small steps, creating the illusion that they are floating.
https://x.com/PicturesFoIder/status/1981412156009533898
Berezka is the name of a chain of slavic stores in Romania selling slavic shit. kvass is crap.
That is kinda cool.
The one in front is a master. The one in pants is not.
Mutual sent me this post with his commentary: “This reminded me that every McKinsey associate I’ve interacted with was Indian. They recommended my prior employer do the same thing [as JPM]. Now there are only senior associates stateside and 60% of my prior staff is now overseas. The LCCs [low cost countries] do all the low level work that previously trained those senior associates. If McKinsey keeps recommending this, as they are wont to do, then all companies will go the way of JP Morgan.
The McKinsey strategy was to send all low complexity work overseas and have managers take responsibility for 20 direct reports, all SMEs. Sending work to LCCs was no problem because all associates with the same degree are completely interchangeable on their spreadsheets. No accounting for cultural differences. What those fancy MBAs with no real experience fail to understand is that the low complexity work is what cultivated young associates into the senior associates who are able to solve the Big Problems. It’s yet another example of ladder pulling. The folks still there have larger teams than I had when I was a director, but they are all managers and have not received any changes to comp.”
https://x.com/WokeCapital/status/1982619295591891066
does libertarianism have a solution for massive outsourcing?
No.
Libertarianism doesn’t have a solution for mosquitos or male pattern baldness, either.
I think the market will eventually cull some to many of the companies that outsource too much for too long. Does that count?
Although DDT would be legal.
DDT did nothing wrong.
Rachel Carlson was a lier.
“managers take responsibility for 20 direct reports”
It’s been well known for centuries that the maximum number of direct reports that someone can manage is around 10. McKinsey should have been fired for that recommendation alone.
If you’re bringing in McKinsey you’ve already lost.
Outlaw slavery?
Who am I kidding….
“Charlottesville Stonewall Jackson statue dismembered, transformed into ‘monstrous mutant’ to combat ‘white supremacy'”
https://thepostmillennial.com/stonewall-jackson-statue-dismembered-transformed-into-monstrous-mutant-to-combat-white-supremacy
WTF??
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-10-22/monuments-moca-the-brick-white-supremacy
A crashed General Lee?
They went full-retard.
Absolutely. That’s all they can do anymore. We are nearing the end of progressive relevance. What did that take, close to 100 years?
R.J.:
They’ve fallen before, and even turned away from the name progressive for a while, the fact it came back once doesn’t bode well for it staying down this time.
It will come back. It always comes back as the conservatives will move too far the other direction.
Society always oscillates between to progressive, and to conservative.
But renovating the East Wing is an affront to . . . Something.
I read the actual even space is something like 25,000 square feet*, and the rest is offices, and support space.
*about 160 feet or 50 odd yards on a side
*about 160 feet or 50 odd yards on a side
What is that, about 20-25 alligators per side?
“A Seattle activist who publicly celebrated the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk has filed a petition for an anti-harassment protection order against journalist Jonathan Choe, despite Choe never having met him. According to documents obtained by The Post Millennial, Andrew Ashiofu, a member of the City of Seattle LGBTQ Commission and a key endorser of socialist mayoral candidate Katie Wilson, accused Choe of “stalking” and “harassment” after the reporter highlighted his social media posts mocking Kirk’s death.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-lgbtq-commissioner-files-harassment-order-against-journalist-who-exposed-his-comments-celebrating-charlie-kirks-assassination
CWAA
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExZGlsYXV2OW52cjRzOTZzbHBtNzFvYW1ibm52cjR2dzd6OW5oN3J5MCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/2fs2I4ujlBf20/giphy.gif
Reading and repeating your public writings is stalking? Also, what the hell is an LGBTQ commission? Do they issue scissoring licenses and BJ permits?
That bio is laff-tastic.
Dude, can you cram in a few more right-thinking buzz-words?
“No 1st Amendment for you!”
“How did we end up with 40m people on food stamps?”
Having my oldest in my house opened my eyes to a lot of things. At the gas station, 31 hours was considered “full time”. She was always trying to work less hours so she could qualify for food stamps. We told her no, in this house you pay your own way, and she was making plenty of money to pay for her own food. If she wanted more money, ask for more hours. But that’s the mindset a lot of people have.
“I can’t work, I’ll lose my food stamps!”
Adam Carolla talks abuot hearing that from his mom (who never had a job in her life).
It’s amazing he made something of himself given that background; to his credit he said he was confused by that attitude when he was a kid and later repulsed when he started supporting himself and seeing the taxes coming out of his paychecks.
The entire nation of Britain has that mindset.
I wondered a while back why much of central London looks like a run-down dump and then I learned that few living there pay a market rent.
You get more of what you reward, or something.
Obamacare killed 40 hour full time.
I am reminded when the owner of a company I worked for was hesitant to expand. He was currently under the 50 person threshold for many regulations.
Good morning everyone, hope you are having a good fall and/or autumn.
I didn’t fall today. So it’s a good day.
You’re too young to be using that line.
Just because I still have my balance doesn’t make it less true.
‘Morning, TOK – how are you feeling? Any lingering post-crash issues?
Fall just kinda started here in Texas. It’s 70 degrees at last! I need to go check it out.
I also worry about the most handsome of Glibs. How are you post accident?
I’m feeling ok today. I had more symptoms over the weekend, some dizziness, headaches, and tiredness. I’m attempting to work today (against the advice of Mrs. TOK). I still have phone calls to make, which is annoying. And I’m resigned to the idea that I won’t be given enough money to cover another car.
We had to drive out to the tow yard to authorize my insurance company to get the car. In the daylight it looks a lot worse. Thoughts of “I’m damn lucky to be alive and not seriously injured” have started. I’m taking it as a sign that I still have more Glibbing to do.
Indeed you do have more Glibbing to do. I didn’t get enough money to replace my car either when i had a crash. It was a huge pain to get a check. I had to get a car immediately or I would have gotten a lawyer. Lawyers can usually drag enough money out of insurance companies, but it takes six months or more. Most people can’t wait that long. I got enough money to pay off the wreck +$1,000. So I was back to square one on paying off a car.
If you aren’t talking to a lawyer now, stop everything else and get on the phone to one. Do not wait, as this can make a huge difference in how a insurance company talks to you, what you receive in damages, and so on. You might not think you need one, but let them tell you that.
Sorry TOK. Best wishes on you recovering quickly despite having more symptoms.
Yes, you have more Glibbing to do.
ZWAK, I know the regional hot-shot lawyer from way back, and I have a call in to him. My insurance agent suggested I call a lawyer.
“Portland police have cleared an Antifa encampment near the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility following viral footage showing militants blocking roads and directing traffic…
“After 140 days of controlling and camping on this street in Portland, ANTIFA has officially been cleared out as the police FINALLY stepped in and cleared the encampment,” Shirley posted on X. “Inside the encampment they had loads full of medicine, medical gear, party supplies, a fridge, bbq, etc… ANTIFAs 140 days of control has officially come to an end.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-police-clear-antifa-encampment-after-viral-video-shows-militants-taking-over-streets-directing-traffic
Fake news. Everyone knows antifa doesn’t exist.
The encampment is just an idea.
A dream of a better world.
A dream of a better world.
Can the squirrels kill the campers?
Encampment= those pop up shelters 50ft away.
Continuing hyping by PI, hoping to resurrect the glory days of 2020.
Enforcing jaywalking (and maybe noise ordinances) now. But only on this one block.
🤡 all around.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/wth-aoc-goes-unhinged-screaming-rant-mamdani-rally/
LOL
And the stupid party should be cutting the snippets for future campaign ads, but alas stupid party is stupid.
The voters in her district love that, love her and will never stop returning her to Congress. Ponder that on the tree of woe.
Oh Hell, Mikie Sherrill is leading the governor’s race in New Jersey. There are far too many people in blue states who vote for a living. They make up a good portion of the 40 million on food stamps.
How did we end up with 40 million in food stamps?
Lower the bar to buy votes.
When I got out of the army we lived for a month at a buddies rental house he was renovating, it had no stove.
That alone would have qualified us for food stamps.
Had I been married as an E3, having a third of my income in Housing allowance would have made my taxable wages be low enough that I would have qualified.
It’s too easy to get on welfare.
And can be complicated to get off of the programs once signed up.
By design.
Throw in the twenty million or so kids (granted citizenship wrongly) who have at least one parent that is an illegal alone working under the table or using someone else’s social security number and it’s ripe for fraud.
Good morning G
Dammit
“This week, Virginia voters saw something new in politics: a one-sided “debate” that told them everything they needed to know about the candidates for lieutenant governor.
Republican John Reid stood at a podium, ready to take on Democrat Ghazala Hashmi.
But Hashmi refused to show up. Instead, Reid brought her words to life through artificial intelligence—holding the debate she was too afraid to attend.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/watch-gop-candidate-holds-ai-debate-after-democrat/
Serious people in charge.
+1 Empty Chair talk with Clint Eastwood
That was intentional comedy though.
Juan Williams dutifully pushes out Republicans are racist oped piece after Dems have a Nazi moment.
I really wonder what it is like to be a propagandists from time to time.
A constant cycle of humiliating yourself by pushing obvious lies to prop up despicable people, and then drowning that humiliation in the free cocktails at the best parties. It’s the Jacket’s dream.
I used to think they felt bad in some way, but they are convinced they are the good guys and the ends always justify the means with the left.
Nobody is the villain in their own story.
If I’m not the villain of my story, then whose story am I the villain in?
I pity them for getting such a pathetic villain.
I’m not the villain, but I am the anti-hero.
That page in Alinski’s book is just about worn through, isn’t it?
Dammit phone!
Good morning Glibernam!
To answer RC Dean from yesterday:
USPSA made the unfortunate decision to give certification levels and job functions thr same names. So the past three days I have been RMing, in an effort to get my RM certificate. They do this at Nats since there is a hyperabundance of RMs and RMIs (RM instructors) to act as training wheels.
The final result is “deferred.” My range work and board were excellent enough to overcome my experience deficiency, but my course work was unacceptable. HOWEVER, my mentor had been telling me (and our communications were documented) that it was fine. This is apparently not the first time he’s done this and is being yoinked as a mentor. So I have to redo that and before the next Nats do some more RMing.
Why is it every time I hear you talk about the process, the goalposts have moved again?
This is the way of bureaucracy.
It is not.
Lame.
In the election widely seen as a referendum on Milei’s past two years in office, his upstart La Libertad Avanza party scored over 40% of votes compared with 31% for the left-leaning populist opposition movement, known as Peronism, exceeding analysts’ projections.
But everybody says the people hate him.
So many voters with false consciousness.
Now, off to Zion and Bit & Spur.
Awesome, enjoy! Watchman was a nice early morning hike, since it’s right next to the entrance – don’t even need to get on the shuttle.
And now I want chili verde…
How’s the weather in Zion? I need to start thinking about what I’m gonna pack…
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And then this happened over the weekend. A helicopter and a Hornet from the Nimitz both crashed within 30 minutes of each other. Everyone got out ok. It sounds like my son in law will be out until after Christmas, which is making my daughter very unhappy, but that’s Navy life. Hopefully we’ll get her home during the holidays.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-navy-sea-hawk-helicopter-f-a-18f-super-hornet-fighter-jet-go-down-separate-south-china-sea-incidents
“On Tuesday, the president started demolishing the White House East Wing to make room for his stupid $200 million ballroom (the price tag of which has ballooned to $350 million). In July, when the Trump administration first announced the ballroom, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt promised that “Nothing will be torn down.” Well, promise not kept, because in addition to interfering with the structure of the historical building, Trump bulldozed away a century’s worth of women-led achievements….
Katherine Jellison, a women’s studies scholar at Ohio University, told Jezebel her heart sank when she saw the demolitions on television. “The norm-breaking nature of the current administration makes it so that I’m not really shocked by anything it does anymore, but I was saddened and worried about the integrity—historical integrity—of the White House.” She continued, “It’s sort of like, my worst fears realized, to be frank.””
https://www.jezebel.com/trump-bulldozes-away-a-centurys-worth-of-womens-contributions-to-the-white-house
Just toss in a lesbian book store.
You are a genius.
Katherine Jellison, a women’s studies scholar at Ohio University, told Jezebel her heart sank when she saw the demolitions on television. “
I had to read that sentence twice to make sure I’m not reading a parody.
I hate him so much I get depressed when he does anything.
It’s surprising how attached these people were to a WW II office building.
I’m still amazed at how Trump breaks people.
Going on ten years and I still can’t get enough.
Don’t forget the entire third floor added to the building.
“Except for that bitch Melania.”
“Such language isn’t metaphorical for Gaines or her audience; she means it quite literally. The trans panic currently gripping the Christian right is an extension of the Satanic panic that took hold in the 1980s — a worldview that owes little to reality or to the teachings of Jesus. Instead, it’s rooted in the visual and emotional language of horror films, especially the more reactionary tales of demonic possession, such as “The Exorcist” and “The Conjuring.” These followers unabashedly argue that “transgenderism” is a tool of Satan and that acceptance of gender non-conforming people is a form of demonic possession.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/27/how-trans-panic-steals-from-horror-films/
Sure, that sounds perfectly reasonable.
If there’s one place I’d go to have the teachings of Jesus explained, it’d be Salon.
Jesus commanded us to love the sinner and hate the Christians.
“Simply put, she looks the part. Every demon possession story requires a cherubic — and ideally blonde — little girl to be the face of the “innocence” threatened by Satanic forces. Think Linda Blair in “The Exorcist,” Heather O’Rourke in “Poltergeist” or the family of all daughters in “The Conjuring.” Although Gaines, at 25, is a grown woman, she has a round face and a girlish demeanor, making her able to evoke the trope of the demon-terrorized child that has captured the Christian right’s imagination for decades….
But once you realize that the trans panic is an outgrowth of decades of Satanic panic, the role Riley Gaines plays comes into sharper focus. Nearly every story of demonic menace requires a young, helpless woman — or better yet, a girl — as the idealized victim the devil wants to possess. In “Rosemary’s Baby,” Satan literally rapes Mia Farrow’s character. But most of the time, the symbolism of demonic possession violating the “purity” of the small, usually blonde girl is slightly less blunt. Even when the whole family is menaced, as in “Poltergeist,” the evil entities have a special yearning to possess little blonde girls.”
That’s just like something a tool of the Devil would say!
*Lights torch, grabs pitchfork
Does Salon not have any other idiots writing? Is it just all Amanda all the time?
There are others. She is our favorite.
Why settle for ordinary stupidity when you can have Amanderp?
Um, the great Satan panic of the 80’s didn’t involve actual Satan-worshippers.
Unlike the current day, where licensed medical and educational professionals are butchering children, inflicting psychological harm, and chemically castrating kids.
“trans panic”
LOL keep at it, the left.
The unhinged desperation comes right through the screen.
And now I want chili verde…
I’ll have the carnitas, por favor.
We bought tamales on Saturday, in southern Appalachia, outside a Tractor Supply. We knew they’d be good because everyone was speaking Spanish.
Now I’m hungry.
Every demon possession story requires a cherubic — and ideally blonde — little girl to be the face of the “innocence” threatened by Satanic forces.
This person is wasting her talents. She should be writing pornography.
Three hours til the weekend. Let the picking recommence.
The Grim Reaper is coming to Minnesoda too. We will all long for the days of simple food deserts.
I wonder why we can’t backfill a measly $73M? After all we had a $17B surplus just a few years ago. Oh, yeah. The DFL spent every single cent of that money. To the point where we now have a deficit (or according to the DFL a structural imbalance).
I’d pay cash money to have a single journalo ask these govt flacks about the missing $17B. How maybe this is exactly why you don’t spend all your reserves.
How maybe this is exactly why you don’t spend all your reserves.
They are the same people who expanded programs with temporary funds.
allowing them to eat
The Stalinist mentality shines right through.
household costs have increased 25% from pre-pandemic levels.
When exactly did this inflation happen? And why?
“We deliberately made people more dependent on government but gosh we never expected Orange Hitler to take away our toys.”
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That’s awesome!
Where the heck are people being attacked by jaguars all the time?
Not sure, but you can see why those jaguars had to hire that PR firm to come up with a new brand for them.
The Amazon, although trying to attack people all the time would be more accurate.
You’ve never been attacked by Trevor Lawrence?
Attacked by Jaguars? Probably the crap electrical systems, that’s why!
Zwak:
I think you mean MG’s. (former Midget owner here).
She said food stamp recipients receive an average of $6 a day
For the cost of a single cup of coffee per day, you can save these people from destitution and starvation. Won’t you give generously?
some truth bombs in here:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/curious/202506/the-participation-trophy-culture-of-adulthood
Well said.
Winning
Experts say a rapidly aging and gradually shrinking population in the world’s wealthiest countries could force sweeping changes in people’s lives, causing many to work longer before retirement, making it harder for business owners to find employees and destabilizing eldercare and health insurance programs.
Already, women in the 15 countries that account for 75% of global gross domestic product, including the U.S., are having too few children to maintain a stable population. Many of those nations have fallen into the “very low” category of “total fertility rate” identified by the U.N. as a serious concern.
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“We seem to be kind of watching a science fiction novel,” said Nicholas Eberstadt, an economist at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C.
According to Eberstadt, worker shortages, shrinking numbers of young consumers and a growing wave of elderly retirees relying on pension and health care systems could challenge basic assumptions about global capitalism. This trend is being heightened by the fact that people in the U.S. and many other countries are living longer. The global population of people age 80 or older will triple between 2020 and 2050, according to the World Health Organization.
“Turning the population pyramid upside down basically upsets the business model, the background music, that we’ve had in modern life for as long as we can remember,” he said.
Needs more reproductive health justice. And Maoism.
You mean killing a few billion babies turns out to be a bad thing for society? Who knew?
I’m still not 100% sure why depopulation is a bad thing.
I understand that there is going to be a lot of pain due to more older people than younger people. I don’t understand why we need to have 8 billion people. Why can’t it be 6 billion?
I think kids and family are great. I love the Altar Kids to death and am so happy I have them in my life. I can’t imagine life without them, but I don’t begrudge anyone that doesn’t want them.
because government promised tons of shit they cant deliver on
muh SS
I don’t think anything else for the types that complain about this.
But at least women aren’t chained to the stove any more. That is the most important thing.
Mrs. Holiness stayed at home for most of her “career”. There were times I looked at other families that had two working parents and was a bit envious at the amount of money they were pulling in.
On the other hand, I had to listen to them bitch and moan at work about who had to cook that night or run errands. Lots of friction. Also their kids were being raised by day care workers.
So maybe stay at home parenting is a good thing?
* Mrs. Holiness actually does a great job of growing the money I bring home through smart investing. The kids are all impressed by how much she makes, but they are sworn to secrecy and won’t tell me how much it is. Which is a good thing. I am like the Fed Govt when it comes to spending. If I knew how much we had, I’d make plans to spend it all.
Still working at 68. Gonna be working for a long time. Doing my part to save the world.
I guess the only thing left to do is to spawn some out-of-wedlock children. But I don’t think the wife would buy into that idea.
Tell her it was good enough for Abraham.
Get begatting!
“The global population of people age 80 or older will triple between 2020 and 2050, according to the World Health Organization”
In the past 10 years that population increased 200 %, just in my household
a growing wave of elderly retirees relying on pension and health care systems could challenge basic assumptions about global capitalism
Neither government pensions nor government health care (which is what they’re talking about) are features of capitalism.
“The commercial features an “expert” interrupting a white Danish couple as they flirt with each other. He explains to them that the history of war in Denmark introduced foreign DNA into their gene pool which “protected them from disease”. He then compares their relationship to inbreeding and suggests they find new partners with more “exotic” genetics. ”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/danish-commercial-warns-white-citizens-about-breeding-other-whites
Their Danish is getting stale?
I once worked with a guy from Iceland. I joked with him that with a population of 200K there must be a lot of inbreeding. He said, “Well, at least we aren’t the Faroe Islands.” Everybody has somebody to look down on.
Some Suthen pr0n. Minnesoda Somali bemoans the existence of “assault rifles”. Horrible lies about the effectiveness of the old assault weapon ban galore!
Even setting aside the impossibility of making the most popular rifle in the United States disappear, anyone who thinks that performative spree killers won’t just switch to what they can get their hands on is simply deranged.
Most of the really deadly spree killings in the US were done with pistols. Even among mass shooters, rifles are an outlier.
It’d be much better if they just started running people down in the streets and stabbing everyone, like Europe.
Or using bombs.
“I think it raises questions about do we want to be a more dynamic, forward-looking economy where people are optimistic about the future and about their ability to have kids?” said Kearney at Notre Dame.
If only we could understand how people have become less optimistic and forward looking over time.
We’ll probably never know.
Of the 158 mass shootings between 1982 and today, nearly every attack included a semiautomatic weapon, according to a database maintained by the investigative journalism magazine Mother Jones.
It’s hard to get newsworthy numbers with a muzzle loader.
I say: ban semiauto and only allow bolt action and full auto.
Nostalgic for the Great War?
That didn’t stop including bayonet lugs in scary weapon bans.
Do now all semi-autos are assault weapons, but, rest assured, no one is coming for your guns.
I was at my sister’s this weekend. Her husband put on CBS because it’s “neutral”. There was an interview with Newsom saying Trump is going to try for another term. I couldn’t help but blurt “That’s stupid. Nobody believes that.” My sister said she believes it. Trump will start a war, Venezuela for example, and will declare that we can’t have elections, like Zelensky did in Ukraine. I’ll give her credit for citing Zelensky, but I said we had elections during the Civil War, which was actually fought on US soil, WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and we’d cancel it for a war in Venezuela? “Well he’d try.”
“I would do it if I were in his place.”
Is your sister retarded?
Survey Says?
Yes. Yes, she’s retarded.