Good morning one and all to another wonderful day! The sun is happy and bright! The birds are singing! And government bureacrats are still crying as the government is still shutdown.
Legacy Media Can’t Be Bothered With Shutdown Coverage
Clinton-Appointed Judge Temporarily Stops Trump From Laying Off Workers During Shutdown
FBI, Other Agencies Ramp Up Antifa Probe
Trump And Kash Patel Give Major Update On Sweeping Crime Crackdown
Democrats’ Odds of Gaining Control of the House Are Sinking Fast, New Numbers Show
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Refers to Black Americans as ‘Disabled’ During Supreme Court Hearing
Conservative SCOTUS justices appear skeptical about race-based redistricting
Trump admits he authorized CIA operations in Venezuela, looking at land attacks in war with cartels
Trump Says $20 Billion Aid for Argentina Depends on a Milei Election Victory
Chinese SIM farms are radicalizing Americans and destabilizing society, intel experts say
Duffy announces he will withhold $40 million from California over trucking rules
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Sure glad the Constitution was framed to allow unelected aristocracy in black robes to tell everyone else how to live. Who needs the rest of the pesky government, especially the Executive Branch (when they don’t like its policies)?
Morning Banjos — thanks as always for putting together the
snark-baitlinks. Morning all.Yep that is a battle that will most likely be lost. RIFs were filled and finalized back in June timeframe. So Unions really had only this shot to make, they know it, but in a sane world, it is valid
Hey, I emailed you yesterday and it bounced. Holler back at me, please.
Inevitable.
Sent…
NPR is doing their level best to show how awful Cheeto Hitler’s shutdown is.
This morning’s episode was about how servicefolx are starving. I mean, sure technically they’re still getting paid, but their dependapotami have been furloughed from their makework federal jobs! One of them was weeping that she might not be able to afford the autism treatment for her 10 month old!
I assume the treatment involves drugs, mutilation, and clothing changes.
We were paid yesterday…so…not sure what they are going on about
They are doing journalisming. AKA lying
Hopefully true — I’m too lazy to look it up, but wasn’t it just last year that all the job growth was either in government or only in jobs non-citizens were hired in?
I know, I know… I’m too nationalistic. “Dang skippy” is my reply given that internationalism / globalism has proven to be crap over the last 60 years or so. Trade is good… making nations irrelevant is as bad as ditching the laboratory of democracy model we had with Federalism, imho.
Watch the labor force participation rate. That will be up if more Americans are working.
:thumbs up:
I know I’m having a hard time finding a job.
Good luck to them, since I think that’s very rich soil for a welcome harvest. Follow the weeds to their roots, please.
Get to the people funding them. And I don’t mean the fleeced taxpayers.
Maybe I’m too cynical — but arrest numbers don’t mean jack to me, Kash. Convictions and incarcerations matter — and when a lot of these arrests are in urban areas with Soros-ish DAs that either refuse to prosecute or give slap-on-the-wrist charges… your arrests won’t go far.
Don’t get me wrong… they need to happen — but we need a lot more fixed in the system to get away from the two-tier policing anarchy we’ve moved towards.
The yoot who carjacked Big Ballz got probation.
They have traumatic backgrounds that must be considered.
Yoots… but yeah. That was one example on my mind when I ranted.
Riiiiiiiiiighht. Someone has a fantasy, some anonymous “expert”.
I have little doubt that if China and other criminal gangs can do this, they will do it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That sounds like bullshit, however. Maybe I’ll suggest to the Help Desk that multifactor authentication is a worthless waste of time and see what they say. 🙄
No, I can see the logic there — if each of these SIMs in a SIM bank presents as a unique cell phone but is also host to a simple script bot — you could have it register a “user” with that cell number, get texts to that “cell” for the MFA and seamlessly read it back into the script such that the bot looks “human”.
Of course — I do pretty much think MFA is an annoying waste of time in most cases. But I’m not a security zealot by any means either…. proper air gapping and access limitation makes more sense to me, but obviously no one believes that in a
put your data on other people’s serversCloud world.“Maybe I’ll suggest to the Help Desk that multifactor authentication is a worthless waste of time and see what they say.”
Your mouth to god’s ear. I hate that shit.
ZWAK:
When I was getting unsolicited MFA messages, I brought it up to our help desk, “That just happens sometimes, ignore it.”
No, you mouthbreathing morons. That’s a sign that someone’s trying to get through your security, and you should look into it.
Every cyberinsurance broker in the United States now requires MFA as a condition of coverage. Welcome to my world.
It’s what FB and X claim as to why they have been banning accounts.
I think they are mostly used to robodial me 20 times a day trying to sell me scam supplemental medicare coverages, despite my being too young for medicare (I was the point of contact for my Dad’s medicare issues so my number is permanently associated)
Chinese SIM farms are radicalizing Americans and destabilizing society, intel experts say
The priper response is to laugh these “experts” off the stage.
“Proper”, lousy smartphone keyboard.
2022.
Red Wave.
‘Nuff said. Keep working like you’re going to lose, Stupid Party — because you still very well might and I don’t want to see what shit a triumphant Jackass Party would bring back / inflict on us. (And yes — a better alternative to either of them would be great… but this is the world we’re living in, not Libertopia).
NYC offers a clue. Bend over.
I’ve Red Wave talk before and seen at most a Red Trickle.
The midterms will come down to the economy. If the economy is good, Republicans keep the House. The economy is not good, Republicans lose the House.
The Senate is not in play. Almost all of the seats up for reelection are in very partisan states. Almost all seats up are currently held by Republicans. I think maybe a one or two seat change at most which isn’t enough to give the Republicans 60 votes or enough to give Democrats control.
Must wait to post until after I have caffeine…
I’ve Red Wave talk before and seen at most a Red Trickle.
I’ve seen Red Wave talk before in past elections and seen at most a Red Trickle.
A Red Tickle?
Elmo
All I really want is to fire 3 PA judges.
A Tickle of Elmo’s?
I think Cornyn’s senate seat in TX is going to be competitive. He went anti-2nd amendment after Uvalde and is likely getting primaried by Ken Paxton, who makes Ted Cruze look warm, cuddly and likeable. If the stupid party runs Paxton and the Dems run Colin Allred again, I could see the r’s just not showing up to the polls to vote for Paxton.
If the stupid party runs Paxton and the Dems run Colin Allred again
Effin colin Allred. That guy is a slime ball if I’ve ever met one.
Seriously, that guy is a scumbag meat head programmed by the Wendy Davis and Beto school of “appeal to AWFLs and Hispanics” to be just plausible enough on the state level.
My personal interaction with him during the 2018 election cycle was skeevy enough that I complained to my law school’s administration about him.
2016*
2014 even… gah I’m old.
gah I’m old.
You’ve earned the onion on your belt.
That newfangled belt onion fad is a waste.
Any election talk is premature while the VRA is in the crosshairs of SCOTUS. If they nix majority-minority disctricting, as they should because it’s racist as fuck, there is no telling how things will go.
Well, it would only give the Donks a blocking position. And given how inert the House Repubs have been, I’m not sure I could tell that much of a difference. Although the current faux shutdown might be an exception, but the “faux” part kind of makes it on-brand.
Those type of articles are always there to scare the blue and pacify the red. Always total bullshit.
One part of me appreciates a bit of honesty. The other part of me says “The fundamental point of covert ops is that they stay covert…” They should be done with plausible deniability for a reason after all.
But now he can go get a formal declaration of war from Congress since he’s taken unilateral military action…. BWAHAHAHA… sorry… couldn’t keep a straight face with that since we haven’t done the right f’ing thing since before Korea.
I’m sure this will also give a little more ammo to “Imperial America” types. Yay.
This whole “use the CIA for regime change” thing by Trump is a huge disappointment.
And let me guess — the “intel expert” solution is a government digital ID, more surveillance online and censorship?
Mine is “recognize that AI bots are out there doing this and don’t trust random crap you read on the internet” — the latter I would have thought has been known since at least 1991 or so. Sheesh.
It is a start. Up the ante.
I hope California’s bizarre obsession with pampering illegal aliens at the expense of everyone else there costs them a lot more than $40M.
Like LA County helping only illegal aliens?
Yup… I’m sure District Judges would find it illegal — but when California explicitly passed the law allowing illegals onto MediCal.. that’s when I would have shut off all federal matching funds for healthcare at a minimum. And pointed to that decision (can’t remember the name) where Arizona (think it was) couldn’t enforce immigration law because “It is the sole province of the Federal Government” or some BS crap. Use that against all the Sanctuary locations.
Pour one out for Proposition 187.
I’m trying to figure out how I can get LA County to pay my daughter’s rent while she’s at college. I have no idea how they verify who is eligible, but my daughter has dual citizenship, so she might qualify.
I’m disabled!
Was hoping it was that and was not displeased
Slightly OT — but my song of the day since I had the fun experience of “that little bit of water we said was from the shower… well, there’s a good bit more of it — and when you look, it is actually the toilet feed line dripping and there’s enough under the bathroom tiles they’re squishy”. Yay… I love water leaks… so got to change out the guts of a toilet tank plus the feedline this morning.
On the plus side — when you’re a software engineer, these little things actually give you an oversized sense of personal competency.
Hope everyone else’s day has started better.
Plumbing gives me the eye twitch.
I never have the right parts, enough of the right parts, and the problem is almost never in an accessible place.
Also, nothing like biting the bullet, calling in a pro, and have him say, “I’ve been doing this over forty years and I’ve never seen anything like that before. Can I have it for my museum of weird plumbing?”
I don’t know who to blame, but I’d like to speak to the manager.
Also also, f*ck antifa.
Mine went sideways last night.
1/4” airline came off the switch for my trucks air compressor while I was welding up a huge crack. I managed to finish the crack but had to airarc off some iron I welded on the backside and found it. Jamed a pencil in it so it would build air and got the job done.
Federal Government Shutdown – Day 16
Anticipation on arriving to work and having to barter my way through the first floor after yesterday’s collapse of order was met with confusion.
The building was normal.
I fear the time anomalies have frayed my sense of being and perception.
So it is, back to pushing papers to nowhere, equipment that refuses to break, the cheese crackers still mocking.
My lot in this machine is that of repetative nothingness. Forgotten bureaucracy is liberating and yet…sullen.
Perhaps the factions were dreams, born of fluorescent fatigue and vending machine mockery. Yet I found footprints leading into a shuttered door that has been unused for decades. Someone walked there recently.
Captively Yours, OBE, October 16, 2025
That’s how I feel about Agile methodology and the eternal perpetual meetings it spawns.
Glad you’re holding up, OBE… stay strong and be our shining example of survival. When you do need to resort to barter — maybe this? (I keep thinking of the prep in Lucifer’s Hammer [that was pointless because the prepper didn’t account for gangs watching the neighborhood to know who to rob] where he made a lot of home made jerky… and I think someone around here mentioned making some in their oven… so it has been on my mind…)
That’s how I feel about Agile methodology and the eternal perpetual meetings it spawns.
That’s why smart people don’t use Agile as-is.
Ive done oven, smoker and dehydrator. If I do oven, I smoke first
Where I’m at you plan to rob the older Mormons.
They almost all have prepped meals stacked up in the crawlspace or basement.
*chef’s kiss*
It is a trap. They want you to relax. Grab boxes of printer paper to reinforce your defensive position while you can.
“fluorescent fatigue”
Fuckin’ poetry, that is.
cheese crackers??
Are they the cream cheese and chive crackers? For some stupid reason, I find those things to be habit forming, and can’t put them down.
There’s a brewery down in Columbus (Antiques on High) that had (as of my last visit) a charcuterie vending machine in the back for some light snacks.
I’m entertained by the new disposable vape vending machines that are popping up in bars that are far too classy to have the old school cigarette vending machines in them (and yes, we still have a handful of bars that have the cigarette vending machines hidden in the back).
I ran across a cigarette vending machine for sale a while back. I don’t have room for it otherwise I would have bought it. Probably should have anyway.
Yeah, ’cause she’s a retard.
https://x.com/IfindRetards/status/1978565476373725693
Confirmed.
I’ve always blamed evil more than stupid in cases like this but in her case I think she really is just stupid.
Why not both?
There’s evil genius and then there’s evil retard. She definitely fits the evil retard bill.
I suspect she’s not fundamentally stupid. From my armchair, I diagnose someone who believes that because she’s a Justice (and before that, a federal judge), and whatever those people say, goes, that everything she says must ipso facto be true and insightful. This is probably fueled by a deeply suppressed case of impostor syndrome (although in her case, it’s not a syndrome, it’s more a recognition of reality).
There’s also a deeply held framework of post-hoc rationalization that probably started before law school and was reinforced through her entire career. Not enough accountability for bad thinking, likely because she had preftige and a vulva and melanin.
She’s smart enough to get the right answer on a 1L law school exam, but all she learned was regurgitating case law in IRAC form. She didn’t learn why or how the system works the way it does. She merely learned how to speak the language and spin a thread of jargon to make it sound “lawyerly”.
I have a thousand classmates and colleagues who are employed in the exact same sophistry. Critical thought optional, legal jargon mandatory.
Trashy gets it.
I work with a more than a few Ivy League JDs that approach the law this way.
I suspect that, if one were to actually read what she said, it would be more like “the concept of disparate impact is not new. We use it all the time, as an example, for ADA.” That’s not saying blacks are disabled.
She’s not terribly bright and a swamp creature/ruling class fan through and through, but lets not descend into the same intentional misrepresentation of what people said as they do.
Or maybe she actually said that and is a drooling moron, not just a over-promoted mid-wit.
Well look at who nominated her to the Nazgul.
The effort will also require action by Congress, he said, to make radicalizing American citizens by foreign actors a crime.
“The U.S. Secret Service subpoenaed Google to get the MFA short codes for the Google voice accounts that the bad guys were using,” he said. “But until we make ‘intentionally radicalizing U.S. citizens to destroy their own country’ something that is illegal and also important to prosecute, the U.S. government will never even look into it.”
Why do I sense American government officials salivating over the chance to control American citizens?
Disagreement with government policies/stupidity=radicalization…straight to the pokie you libertarian shitbirds.
I’m sure the Chinese would love to throw a wrench in the gears but the best way to precent radicalization is for government to not act stupidly and to be effective in the roles it performs, a tall and impossible order when our system tends to attract morons.
Chinese SIM farms….so it turns out the dead internet theory is true and all of you people are really just one
chatbot with a bunch of different personalities.
I knew it! Dammit!
May people in here have no personality. Do better, China!
That’s hurtful. I’m sitting right here.
Whatever, Tulpa
I knew I spelled it wrong.
As usual
It’s Tupalas all the way down.
“Legacy Media Can’t Be Bothered With Shutdown Coverage”
I’m taking it as a sign that they know this issue didn’t generate the outrage/sympathy they expected, and they realized that whining about it wasn’t doing them any favors. IOW, it’s a retreat on one issue. Perhaps a small one but ground gained is ground gained.
There was widespread ridicule of sob stories over the first two weeks. I am surprised the media gave up, normally it takes months (or longer) for media giants to realize they made a miscalculation.
I thought they would have learned their lesson during the USAID shut down and the sob stories about people who could no longer live their dream of queering monkey tribes.
“I thought they would have learned their lesson ”
Why would you think that?
I caught some NPR this morning.
It was pathetic.
Didja get any onya?
They figured out that the shutdown is due to Dems demanding tax money for illegals and for reasons they dont understand that is a hard sell. They wont give up on that and they dont want people noticing it.
This is why I chronicle
All of it, tremendously appreciated. And better yet, fucking *enjoyed!*
Fun style, well-executed. Cheers! Shit, gotta go back inside for Shift Pt II.
Yeah, this is good stuff. You might want to consider doing longer form and posting as content.
Ive gone back and saved them to clean up and probably repost as long form after the shutdown…I dunno
The WSJ has covered fairly extensively, both news and editorial.
To me with the WSJ it feels like if nothing particularly changed from the last report they aren’t going to do some “sob story” how will I pay the bills piece just to run another story.
“The analyst estimated that X is no more than 20%-30% bots. Reddit, however, “is like 80% bots,” the intelligence analyst told Blaze News. “It’s absolutely horrible.”
Yikes!
I’d imagine Reddit is replete with bots but I’d also take the analysis of an intelligence analyst with an agenda with a boulder of salt.
Bots, trolls, and NPCs, is there really any difference? People seldom think, mostly they parrot slogans. The idea of a Turing test is very optimistic about how much thinking you would perceive from the average human online.
Just what a bot would say.
“Bots, trolls, and NPCs, is there really any difference? People seldom think, mostly they parrot slogans. The idea of a Turing test is very optimistic about how much thinking you would perceive from the average human”
FIFY
We have a 5 and a 7 yo in the house now. They operate 100% on impulse with zero self awareness.
I am teaching them now to push their chair back in after using it rather than just jumping up, squirting the chair out from under themselves into the middle of a walkway and dashing off after the next shiny thing. I know a lot of adults just like that.
Bots, trolls and NPCs, oh my!
When I was on Twitter/X the 20-30% feels right.
I went through my ‘followers’ a couple times. Tons of porn bots. A couple I interacted with may have been actual OF girls as the interactions felt legit.
What is An Attractive Man? Ireland 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvGgYcpSi8U
gym bros need not apply
Not attracted to narcissists? Whodathunkit?
Me of course.
How National Service Can De-Polarize America
No. Keep the feds in their lane.
“Young people between the ages of 17 and 25 would experience a new rite of passage, with a “cultural expectation” that everyone serves.”
Fuck. Off.
Trump should do it and call it something snappy like Trump’s Youth or such
This is really not the time to up the subject. We already have ICE being the new Gestapo.
‘Trumpenjugend’ has a certain ring to it.
Sure, why not? What could go wrong?
https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/many-boys-saluting-hitler.jpg
Hope they all died horrible deaths for their beloved fuhrer on the Russian front
They mostly did. I only ever met one that did not. He is gone now but he told me he was the only one of the kids he grew up with that survived the war. Interestingly he served with Ratzinger the pope whom he called ” a queer and a complete nazi”
Best story about him: He went to a free music concert not realizing the catch was. that you had to sit through a Joel Osteen sermon first. When I jokingly asked him what he thought of Osteen he ground his teeth and said “I have heard talk like that before”. I wonder who he was referring to?
ROaT, they are so far out of their lane now they cant even see it in the rearview.
And here I thought what was polarizing people was forcing large numbers of people to swallow government propaganda while jammed into a government program.
You know, the “education” system.
Sure, Jan.
Indeed, slaves really don’t have to worry about ‘polarization’.
Those poor pathetic black people. They should probably just let their benevolent keepers cast their votes. That way justice would be guaranteed.
Did you read what the moron said? Holy shit. She is the personification of the person who uses big words to generate gibberish and hopes no one. notices.
Every single Biden appointee was the worst possible person for the job by design. That admin was truly a freak show to do as much damage as possible to the country through incompetence and neglect. Also a giant double middle finger to us. I have a hard time believing Obama and his handlers were not behind all of that.
I don’t know, that bald tranny who worked at the DOE seemed to do a pretty good job in between hanging out at airports to steal women’s clothes.
It did seem like mostly holdovers from the Obama era who wanted to complete his promise to “fundamentally change America”.
What, you think that’s not exactly how machine elections, vote harvesting, etc. work right now?
A brief history of being homeless in the countryside
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCG3aw_twzg
I was thinking about that earlier. I remember Ben Franklin talking about seeing naked people in the English countryside living in holes they had dug in the ground. As his carriage went by they would pop out of the holes like prairie dogs.
If you want to know how far our rulers will go with stealing from those whom they see as cattle, how much they will try to squeeze out of us think of that and “You will own nothing”
That is how far they will go.
Never give up your guns.
Thoughts on the P220 Legion in context of my intended purpose for it.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/L10-rig-cropped.jpg
It’s not bad, but I don’t think it has the advantages I was hoping for.
Almost everything in the pic was a result of my
cheapness frugality thrifteconomic sensibility. The gun was 42% off from working a SIG sponsored match. The holster was picked up off a prize table, the belt was on closeout from Shooter’s Connection. The optic/mag pouches and magnets are all value brand (but all work really well — a HF tool belt magnet works better than a DAA version for 1/4 the price) I paid full price for the 10 round mags, and I have decided if I’m going to keep the modesty panels on. So far they don’t seem to interfere with reloading but as soon as one does, I’m yoinking them.It’s not a big gun in the width sense (single-stack .45 ACP), but in the depth sense it’s oversized. You can tell in a couple of ways — the barrel length does NOT look like it’s 4.5″ relative to the rest of the gun, the magazine is at maximum extension but the distance from the front of the trigger guard to the heel of the gun is so large it could be 3/4″ longer, and most importantly for dashing my hopes for a left-had-friendly gun there is a full1/4″ gap between the end of my thumb and then nearest edge of the mag release. The tritium sights do cowitness through the optic, and I am indexing to the left on the draw, I’m guessing this is because of the grip shape. Other than the excellent price, this seems to be a worse option than say https://www.usa.bularmory.com/product-page/trophy or a Colt Gold Cup, but it IS a WAS a thousand dollars less expensive.
I can see myself selling this gun, or trading it in on a .40 TS2 but I am absolutely keeping the gun bag that SIG sent once I registered this gun. It’s verrah nice.
Shorter NA –
It doesn’t fit my hands well. Prolly sell it someday.
Yes, BUT — that distance between the front of the trigger guard and the backstrap IS abnormal.
I normally disdain popularity among genpop gun owners, because most genpop gun owners don’t know fuck-all, and don’t know that they don’t know fuck-all. ‘Unconsciously Incompetent’, to borrow a useful phrase from Front Sight and/or the Church of Scientology.
But among competitive shooters, who actually depend on performance in a measurable sense, popularity can be a useful shortcut.
IOW, there’s probably some good reasons that no one competes with Classic SIGs.
But if you’re looking for a .40 gun, I’m still trying to sell my Atlas…
I am going to begin searching for an extended mag release for this one and we’ll see if MagMo’s SiC pads help bring the index back in line with how my CZs present.
L10 just isn’t a popular enough division to warrant the kind of options (like a .40 S2!) that would be helpful for me to consolidate everything.
It will be nice to be able to decock the gun mechanically. And I figured out how to work the CR Speed holster lock. It’s still inferior to both the GR and my Carnivore.
People tend to see the world based on their own perspective. Since Justice Affirmative Action is obviously handicapped…
“The U.S. Army said on Oct. 14 that it is launching a program to deploy small nuclear power reactors at military bases in the United States.
The Army said in a statement that the Janus Program “will deliver resilient, secure, and assured energy” to support national defense installations and critical missions.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/us-army-plans-to-power-bases-with-small-nuclear-reactors-5930416
Then why can’t we have small nuclear power reactors for civilian use?
Incremental rollout.
The military has been running small nuke plants for decades in the Navy. Get ‘em on land, build up a cohort of trained/experienced reactor techs, let the tech bros be first adopters for their server farms, and Bob’s your uncle.
Way back in the 70s and 80s.
Does the navy still do it?
Last time the Army had small nukes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1
I love all the speculation on exactly how the operators vaporized themselves.
“Shirtless priest caught with parishioner’s fiancée underneath bathroom sink in unholy discovery”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/16/world-news/brazilian-priest-father-luciano-braga-simplicio-hid-parishioners-fiancee-underneath-bathroom-sink/
STIJLTH
STIJLTH – you lost me on this one
Saint Thomas is Jewish like Thomas Heinrich.
Stealthy Tanuki In Japan Love Trite Haiku
Saint Thomas is Jewish like Thomas Heinrich.
Doubtful
Shit, this is John loving Trigger Hippie
lol I miss the John-o’s
Some times I just lose total hope?
Only some times?
Optimist. 🙂
Look, I have find it somewhere
“Lord, give me chastity and continence, but not yet!”
– Augustine of Hippo
That’s only a rule from 1983?!
Swarms of sophisticated chatbots enabled by China are embedded in platforms like Reddit and Discord to radicalize America’s youth, foment political division, and encourage violence, according to intelligence experts.
The ability to create millions of online personas to invade chat groups and social media sites to, in essence, destabilize American society is one of the sinister uses of the Chinese-built SIM farms like the ones shut down around New York City in September, Blaze News has learned.
Yeah, okay, Yellow Peril, blah blah blah. Where do I send the check?
I’m a little surprised that people are finding this so unbelievable.
The Chinese government, even more than the old Soviet Union, understands ideological warfare, and is very good at it.
This.
If we weren’t so foolishly devoted to the Russia Russia Russia nonsense we might actually recognize that China is a vastly more dangerous threat.
This.
Bots are everywhere on the major sites, nd some of those are being programmed specifically to rile up the masses. People are arguing with bots in lots and lots and lots of cases.
“Young people between the ages of 17 and 25 would experience a new rite of passage, with a “cultural expectation” that everyone serves.”
But I should be fretting about the wily Chinamen.
“But until we make ‘intentionally radicalizing U.S. citizens to destroy their own country’ something that is illegal and also important to prosecute, the U.S. government will never even look into it.”
They’re finally going after the teachers unions?
Bear porn:
https://nypost.com/2025/10/15/world-news/polar-bears-take-over-abandoned-soviet-era-research-station/#1
“The TV personality, 57, styled her long, brown hair straight around her shoulders and appeared subdued while entering the show’s CBS studio in New York City. Ray finished the look with a pair of black and gold combat style shoes.”
https://pagesix.com/2025/10/15/celebrity-news/rachael-ray-resurfaces-for-rare-outing-following-string-of-bizarre-behavior/
She looks terrible.
She looks like a 57 year old who knows how to cook.
I know she hit the wine hard in the lockdowns while cooking for YT
Cooking for YT? How racist!
Also might be an indication or rampant pill abuse among the FN stars
BAN MILITARY-STYLE ASSAULT SHOES!
The ravages of age and overeating plus ozempic plus plastic surgery plus some psych meds?
Thyroid was also suggested in the comments.
I’ll put up with a lot for free bottles of gin.
It’ll depend on the gin.
For Aristocrat or Bowman’s (now in the shatterproof plastic jug!), I’ll probably be putting up with a crippling hangover…
She’s turning into Rosie O’Donnell.
Ouch.
“Speaking with Fox News Digital in February, he detailed the case of another Haitian illegal alien, Ronald Joseph, who raped and impregnated his own 14-year-old daughter at the Marlborough shelter.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/16/us-news/massachusetts-gov-healey-underfire-after-whistleblower-exposes-sentencing-pattern-of-illegal-child-rapists/
JFC
This didn’t get much traction, but I’ll link it anyway
tl;dw- Dave Sparks is out of jail, made a video about it and the lawsuit. I sure hope he cleared it with his attorney before he put it up. Another guy who needs help formulating and organizing his thoughts.
What I get: “doctors” for “clean air” have been chasing him (and others) for years, based on some sort of EPA bounty hunter provision in the law. Wherever the money goes, it definitely does not make the air any cleaner. Their attorneys are only too happy to assist, as fees get added on (not a contingency cut cut of the actual fine/settlement). Plaintiffs have, according to him, rebuffed all efforts to negotiate or settle. It’s a mess.
Land of the free. Home of the brave.
Private causes of action created by law or regulation are always the Government outsourcing tyranny to privileged groups. Civil Rights Act, ADA, FDCPA, various EPA rules, they all create self funding activist lawsuit mills that target productive people for looting by scum sucking attorneys and their clients. We need more woodchippers.
Got a text synopsis of the story?
https://www.thedrive.com/news/diesel-brothers-influencer-heavy-d-arrested-for-failure-to-pay-850k-in-environmental-lawsuit-fees
Thank you!
Externalities like pollution is a legitimate reason for laws and regulation.
I’m in no way a proponent of our insane vehicle emissions requirements, but creating air pollution only to create social media clicks and pointlessly annoy other people is a different story.
No worse than having a campfire.
Def and DPF are bullshit.
A 15 minute or so video on the history of tea in the American colonies.
I enjoyed the Tea Museum in Shizouka, Japan.
That museum looks cool. I just found a miniature replica tea crate.
https://shop.bostonteapartyship.com/collections/exclusive-colonial-gifts/products/robinson-half-chest-replica-tea-box
I never knew Richard Twining was an early advocate for the Laffer Curve.
Scott Bessent: Slowed Job Growth Is Due to 2 Million Deportations; Americans Are ‘Doing Quite Well’ Getting Jobs
Bullshit.
Anecdotal I know, but Teen #2 went months searching for a second job since last year and has said he now has more offers these past couple months than before. A floodgate opened up somewhere…
My mom said they’re having a hard time getting people to hold down department lead jobs at her grocery store. They’re cycling through people because even the best candidates are flaky and irresponsible. If a teenager wants a quick path to management, they just need to show up for their shift, keep their phone in their pocket on company time, and not hide in the break room while on the clock.
So, the way it’s always been.
My oldest works at a gas station. She is struggling with being an adult and has a terrible work ethic. Yet she’s the most reliable person at her job, mostly because I drive her to work and she’s always on time and never misses. They also cycle through people, and almost every day people show up 30 minutes late or don’t show up at all. This is a trend and it’s a bit alarming.
Retirement job, here I come!
I know I’ve been having a difficult time finding a job, even in entry level jobs like the grocery store.
You can pretty well assume that anything Scott Bessent says, about anything, is bullshit.
Yeah, that’s my take. Not just this one and or just now.
Got a text synopsis of the story?
Sorry, Ted, I don’t.
A note just because it popped in my head over the Bessent link:
I asked my son how many people he employs at his company – he said three.
How many people would you have to employ if you did not have AI – about fifteen. How about associated people like accountants and lawyers? Another five.
Lets see what the job market looks like in ten years.
““We’re not going to stop at just arresting the violent criminals that we see in the streets,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said at an Oct. 8 White House roundtable on the threat posed by anti-fascism. “Just like we did with cartels, we’re going to take this same approach, President Trump, with Antifa,” she said, noting that the group — which is, conveniently, not a group but an ideological tendency — has likewise been designated as a terrorist organization. “Which is exactly what they are,” Bondi said. “Americans will no longer tolerate their unhinged violence.””
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/16/from-venezuela-to-america-trump-wants-to-bring-the-war-home/
Antifa is just an idea.
An idea, with websites and financiers and organizational leadership roles…
This. We should be taking names of the Dem pols pushing that line because….they are a part of it.
As far as I am concerned a single act of violence is part of a conspiracy and everyone involved should be made to pay a price.
What’s wrong with being anti-bad guy?
Well, they’re communists. So it’s just another faction of bad guys who fling false accusation of others being bad guys.
All they have are lies and manipulation.
Our two weapons are lies and manipulation… and ruthless violence!
Our three weapons are lies, and manipulation, and ruthless violence… and an almost fanatical devotion to the narrative…
Our four…
no…
Amongst our weapons…
“White House roundtable on the threat posed by anti-fascism”
See what they did here? Do you know who is threatened by anti-fascism? Fascists, that’s who.
“Just like we did with cartels, we’re going to take this same approach, President Trump, with Antifa,” she said
Extrajudicial murder?
I heard that, as thanks for negotiating the ceasefire, Bibi’s letting Trump borrow the space laser to take out that frog guy.
Not a Daily Ray of Sunshine but it would take a heart of stone not to be a bit happy about this idiot getting his comeuppance.
What was his plan?
Guys like that don’t have plans.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Stupid dust.
“A security guard in Philadelphia has been charged with murder after fatally shooting a man at an IHOP restaurant late Saturday night. Police officers were called to the restaurant around 11 pm, where they found a 43-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head. The victim was transported to a local hospital but later died from his injuries.
Investigators said the man, who was reportedly homeless, had been causing a disturbance inside the restaurant. When security escorted him outside, he allegedly turned and spat on the guard, identified as 39-year-old Yahaira Melendez. Police said Melendez then shot the man in the head.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/philly-security-guard-shoots-homeless-man-to-death-after-he-spat-on-her-at-ihop-report
Can you shoot someone over excessive nose piercings?
That was a man?
Oh, that is the security guard.
I am going to guess there was more than just spitting involved. I also advise everyone not to give a gun and a paycheck to someone with face piercings. If they were never taught not to run with staplers then they have no business with a gun.
I’d be interested to know if this security guard was a licensed and bonded employee of a uniformed private security company, versus some random IHOP waitress with a gun?
Either way, spitting on someone isn’t deadly force.
Don’t tell Branch Covidians that….
When keeping it real goes wrong…
“A group of black-clad individuals believed to be affiliated with Antifa was observed transporting large quantities of riot gear and supplies into a storage unit in Southwest Portland late Monday evening. The supplies are being used for the 24-hour occupation outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, which has been under siege by leftwing extremists for more than four consecutive months.
Video footage posted on social media shows masked individuals dressed in all black transporting supplies and equipment into a storage center roughly one block away from the anti-ICE encampment, which is located just outside the ICE facility in front of an elementary school. The storage unit, used as a secret base, has been revealed to be inside the South Waterfront Heated Storage business located at 680 SW Bancroft Street in Portland, Oregon. Many individuals involved with the 24-hour occupation are affiliated with the terrorist organization, Antifa.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/antifa-hides-riot-supplies-in-storage-unit-near-portland-ice-facility
Who is paying for this shit?
No one is paying for it. It is just an idea.
It’s so ridiculous! I mean, nobody’s even heard of Antifa before!
His hands are clean
Conspiracy theories spread on social media over the last decade have falsely claimed Soros funded protests after Trump’s 2016 election, Black Lives Matter protests in 2016 and in 2020 and pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses, while other theories allege Soros operated antifa. Open Society Foundations do fund organizations that often participate in such protests, but there’s no evidence they fund the protests directly. Meanwhile, antifa, a decentralized and seemingly leaderless political movement, was designated by Trump as a domestic terrorist organization in September. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. And Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., falsely linked Soros and his philanthropy to antifa multiple times over the last decade, claiming he was responsible for funding antifa protests throughout Trump’s first presidency. In 2018, Trump baselessly accused Soros of funding protests throughout Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination hearing, and more recently tied Soros to alleged “left-wing terrorism.” The Open Society Foundations has repeatedly denied claims it has paid protestors or coordinated protests, adding it opposes “all forms of violence, including violent protests.”
Listen. George Soros is a nice guy who just wants to make the world a better, fairer place. Lay off, haters.
“there’s no evidence they fund the protests directly.”
No shit.
Ty Roush, Forbes Magazine. I wonder if Ty has a black hoodie.
Hey now. I have a black hoodie. More than one, in fact.
Terrorist! Arrest that man!
Soros and his ilk absolutely do want to make the world a better place, for themselves and their buddies.
“have falsely claimed Soros funded protests”
I’m sure this statement is the result of an in depth journalistic investigation.
“but there’s no evidence they fund the protests directly”
They never wrote a check to Home Depot for bricks. Case closed.
“Conspiracy theories spread on social media over the last decade have falsely claimed Soros funded protests …..
Open Society Foundations do fund organizations that often participate in such protests”
OFFS!!
No matter how much you hate journalists, it is not enough.
Can’t lay off federal workers?
Good.
They shouldn’t qualify for unemployment.
Fire them outright.