Good morning one and to another beautiful day! And yes, the government is still shutdown.
Democrats Signal That It’s Time to Wave the White Flag on Schumer Shutdown
Democrat Shutdown Will Effectively Shutter EPA Next Week
Trump Directs Pentagon to Start Testing Nuclear Weapons Again
FBI memo opening Arctic Frost probe into Trump was thin on evidence and justification, experts say
Trump Says US Reached Tariff, Rare Earth Deals With China After Xi Meeting
Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for second time this year
Wall Street Journal: ‘Easing’ Rent Prices Coincide with Less Immigration to U.S. Under Trump
DOJ Announces New Batch Of Arrests In Crackdown On Left-Wing Terror
AI Chipmaker Nvidia Is the First $5 Trillion Company
Study: 91% of Patients in Study Show Cardiovascular Side Effects From Moderna Vaccine
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with day.
LA loses!
*grin*
I hate the fucking Dodgers. That was great to see Snell get rocked.
I don’t want a deal with China, I want a disentanglement. It’s an abusive relationship, and we need to get out.
I think some of the other deals are aimed at disentangling us from China. Rare earth dependency in particular.
They are the only real source of rare earth for the foreseeable future. They held all the cards in this negotiation.
That is what is called a fixable problem.
These are not called rare because they are only found in specific places.
Shoot the Econuts and start digging.
It is fixable long term, not short.
All the more reason to cut off the Chineseum and get started.
Shoot the Econuts and start digging.
That will lead to a lot of lead contamination which will need to be mitigated.
So, behead them?
Cutting off the Chinese means we stop building F35s and similar fancy weapons for years.
… I fail to see the problem.
Long term or not, get fucking started.
It’s beyond obscene that we are dependent on them for anything critical.
I’ve never understood the mental reflex that leads people to say “Oh, that will take a long time. Let’s not even start.” This first came to my attention during one of the arguments about expanding oil drilling. The anti-energy crowd really was saying “It will take five years for new domestic production to come online. So what’s the point?”.
To me, “That will take a long time” generally means “We need to start right now, then, don’t we.”
What’s funny is that Trump gets mad when they won’t sell us stuff we want to use in the war we are planning against China.
The analogy I heard is somebody getting mad at you for not giving him a ride to the gunstore. Where he plans to buy a gun to shoot you with.
Unless a better option comes along.
Australian government just signed some kind of deal about rare earths and it’ll take a number of years before anything is coming out of the ground.
It isn’t the raw material of rare earths (or lithium), it is China has monopolized the processing. Which our Green idiots love because the pollution from that isn’t anyplace they have to see it.
” the war we are planning against China.”
Yeah…
Some people hate Nixon for being a Republican and Watergate.
I hate him for creating the EPA, ending the gold standard, and Detente with China.
DOJ Announces New Batch Of Arrests In Crackdown On Left-Wing Terror
They are going to arrest Democrat senators?
Probably just some street crazies.
I though Banjos did the links.
You lost me.
follow the link
Who does that?
Morning, Banjos.
Disclaimer, of the positive sort: That’s the fastest three hours have ever drifted by.
First break, now. Gotta use the first part of lunch to settle a bank dispute, but that may free up Chic Fila lunch at 1030.
Wait. The truth added a bit of wayward financial activity, but still. Lunch.
Paywall free link to the WSJ article.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/renters-have-the-upper-hand-and-they-are-probably-keeping-it-cc2eb760?st=RF8obz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“Study: 91% of Patients in Study Show Cardiovascular Side Effects From Moderna Vaccine”
I don’t trust anything covid-related from China.
I am not a lawyer, but that sounds to me like a cause of action against any companies that required the vax to keep your job.
Didn’t they get immunity from lawsuits as part of the approval process?
You weren’t forced. You had the option to quit which was implied if you didn’t comply.
Still coercion to take the vax, and I didn’t think that businesses were granted immunity for forcing it on their employees, but I could be wrong.
No shit.
I would say that that immunity is unconstitutional as the first amendment guarantees citizens the right to a redress of grievances and that the govt is not empowered to deny that.
If you take away the courts what is left is the pitchfork, torch and rope. Avoiding that is the reason we have courts.
“Indeed, under former President Joe Biden, the nation’s foreign-born population grew by an unprecedented nearly 7 million in just 4 years. Meanwhile, in the first 6 months of the Trump administration, the foreign-born population has dropped by 2.2 million — about 1.6 million of whom were illegal aliens.”
So less deportations than Clinton and Obama, but no anti-ICE retardation.
Emphasis on the retardation. It’s not like the ratfuckers give a flying fuck about illegal aliens; it is just a convenient cause to riot over. Especially as the momentum on Jew-hate dials down to a low simmer.
Because the whole point is to riot. Doesn’t matter over what.
Yes, because civilized society must be made to suffer for not voting the Democrats into power.
Trump is a bad man, therefore we must violently oppose everything he does.
OMB. It’s right there in his name.
Not that Obama even deported them.
They reclassified border turnarounds as deportations. It was a shell game.
“On Wednesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) stated that when there are survivors of the strikes on what the Trump administration alleges are drug boats, “we don’t try them for drug crimes or we don’t even keep them. We’ve been sending them back.” And “We have no evidence of who they are, other than an accusation that they are drug dealers.””
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/10/30/rand-paul-its-odd-were-not-charging-survivors-from-boat-strikes-for-drug-crimes/
Curious.
Similar to the insurrectionists who weren’t charged with insurrection.
Serious question. Could they even be charged with anything under US law before they reached US territory?
Letters of Marque works be perfect for this. Let someone intercept, capture, and sell those boats.
46 USC 70503(b)
Nice of them to grant themselves extra-territorial jurisdiction.
The law is nothing without the State violence to back it up.
Rat, look at the FAA deciding they have authority over foreign airspace for rocket launches. Same thing.
The Columbian President said that one of the boats blown up was full of Columbian citizens.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89dz920p0do
Kilo bags of coke have been granted citizenship?
ISTR some Columbian nationals that have been involved in the international drug smuggling business, unless Narcos was lying to me.
Not that I endorse state-sanctioned killings on the basis of “lol, trust me bro.”
“lol, trust me bro.”
[Barack Obama has entered the chat]
“Sydney Sweeney just wore a spectacular naked dress on the red carpet”
https://www.hellomagazine.com/hfm/fashion-trends/864613/sydney-sweeney-naked-dress/
STIJLTH
Wow
I don’t know about real, but they are spectacular.
Her body shape is weird. Or she is wearing some weird hip/waist shaper…but still…
The cotrast with Sharon Stone is remarkable.
Sharon’s gotta be thinking, “Just you wait a few years. I was the hot young thing once, too. “
Still Tits I’m Just Licking Them Harder
You sir win the thread for the day.
Have you considered taking steps to untangle yourself from the State, at least to the extent that the leviathan will allow?
Everything within the state…
“Gavin Newsom is part of a disgusting new trend: Privileged people inventing ‘poorigin’ stories ”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/29/opinion/gavin-newsom-is-part-of-a-new-trend-inventing-poorigin-stories/
Stop making up words.
That is not a new trend.
+1 Joe from Scranton
😂🤣
Because being a communist is something to be proud of.
Being a communist is a current requirement to win a democrat primary.
Everything about that guy is a fabrication. Pure fiction.
Supposedly was a Marine then says he enlisted in the Army. Huh? And all that after being a prep-schooler?
And then got 100% disability. And opened an oyster farm. And is the harbormaster. And has a mooring and dive service.
slumbrew:
Then he powerlifted Morgan Fairchild while surfing in Hawaii.
It’s the 100% disability combined with the physically-demanding businesses (oyster farming, mooring service) that get me.
How is that not an obvious indicator of fraud? Does the DOJ not have any sort of standards – once you get on the disability list, the checks just keep coming?
(The answer is, apparently, “yes”).
And then got 100% disability.
Meanwhile, Tammy Duckworth is a 20% disability rating.
Juris, Duckworth is probably around 90%
I think you get 25% a limb then another 15% or so for it being bilateral. 10% for hearing damage (that’s a gimmie), throw in 20% for “ptsd.”
From the article:
Assumes facts with no evidence.
Newsom felt poor growing up as he was just the son of a judge and being the best friend of the Gettys meant when he would hang out with them it just wasn’t the same at home.
He could barely afford his drums of hair gel.
I felt poorish growing up too. Like Newsom I grew up in a pretty wealthy town. Being in my bubble I wasn’t aware of that, but I did notice that most of my friends had more. There were Porsches and Jaguars in the high school parking lot while I drove a car that was older than me. My parents went through the Depression so they were really cheap. It wasn’t until I was applying for financial aid for college that I realized that we were pretty well off, though still a lot less well of than a lot of others in town. So I can imagine that Newsom might have felt poor compared to the others in his bubble especially when his bubble included the Gettys, but that doesn’t mean his parents were hustlin’ just tryin’ get by.
“While Molnar had no criminal record, she did have a similar landlord-tenant dispute in 2021. Records from that case obtained by The Post show that Molnar wound up owing the couple $27,617 plus interest.
A lawyer confirmed that Molnar was a licensee — with permission to live rent-free from a homeowner without a rental agreement — under state law. So their attorney demanded the nanny leave via a 10-day notice — which passed with no sign of Molnar vacating.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/30/us-news/ny-squatting-nanny-jamie-carano-nordenstrommaking-1m-upstate-farmhouse-living-hell/
Sounds like a stupid law.
Yeah, you could not pay me enough money to be a landlord in this state. The laws are all very much against you.
Squatting Nanny – I think I saw that on Pr0nhub.
Also a yoga pose.
Federal Government Shutdown – Day 30: The Long Quiet
As I drove in today and scanned my badge I thought, does this card reader know the kingdom has fallen? Like Hiroo Onoda, it continues to fight a forgotten war, dutifully granting access to a realm that no longer exists. It made me smile.
Weirdly, all the plants have now begun to lean towards the exits; survival instinct, maybe? It betwixt me. A new poster was hung in the hallway to brighten the mood. ‘Hang in There’ cat poster. What a cruel reminder that even optimism can be weaponized. A lone Post-it clings to the corner, scrawled with the words: “He didn’t make it”
I found today, a .AU file on the share drive. It took three programs, a warning note, or perhaps a final gasp from the firewall, and a prayer to hear it.
[ATC Tower Chatter]
Ground Control: Anyone know if our SNAP bennies are gonna be cut? Asking for my kids. Also me. Well, mostly me.
Tech in background: Bro, you make $220K a year, you’ll live.
Ground Control: Did make. Past tense. I’m barely middle class now, it’s terrifying.
*audible taps and beeps*
Local Control: Is Ground Control trying to use Morse code?
Tech in background: Nah, those are his tears hitting the mic.
[end chatter]
Our spider George has since long left his web. We cheered and wept that our friend has moved on; or perhaps ascended to a higher order of nature, where budgets are balanced and the flies volunteer.
In his absence, the glass feels emptier. The hum of idle machines fills the space where purpose once lingered. We still come in, still swipe our badges, still press “Login,” as if repetition itself will summon meaning.
Maybe that’s all any of us really are. Custodians of systems that forgot we were here.
Hanging in There,
OBE October 30, 2025
For the Yamato Emperor!
I misread that as “the Tomato Emperor”
I like that mental image.
An new VeggieTales episode?
Now you’ve ruined it.
😕
Emperor Tomato
That oddly put me in a better mood rhywun
👍
An old favorite. Love them.
You’ve never played Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom?
Ganbatte!
https://tenor.com/view/uwu-gif-24079889
Details for anybody curious
https://cotoacademy.com/use-ganbare-ganbatte-ganbarimasu-japanese-give-best/
Hopefully the lack of funding doesn’t impact the office Halloween party.
You know, we have some really talented writers on this site. That’s one skill I do not possess that I wish I did.
Love these, especially the Hiroo Onoda reference.
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Sounds like you are one of the copper mice in There Will Come Soft Rains.
https://lecturia.org/en/short-stories/ray-bradbury-there-will-come-soft-rains/7775/
“A staffer for Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey was hit with drug trafficking charges after authorities intercepted eight kilograms of cocaine being delivered to a state office building.
LaMar Cook, who has served as deputy director of Healey’s western Massachusetts office since 2023, was charged with trafficking over 200 grams of cocaine, unlawful possession of a firearm, and unlawful possession of ammunition related to the bust, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni announced Wednesday. ”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/29/us-news/mass-gov-maura-healey-aide-busted-after-allegedly-having-8-kilos-of-cocaine-sent-to-office/
unlawful possession of ammunition related to the bust?
Does anyone know what that means? Is it a charge for the gun and a charge for each bullet or something?
It’s probably written such that the prosecutor can tack on one charge per bullet to pressure the defendant, or be needlessly punitive
Just break the 8 kg into multiple “over 200 g” charges. It’s the modern way.
s it a charge for the gun and a charge for each bullet
Sortof.
MA changed its gun laws a few years ago such that ammunition requires a permit. I don’t know if each round possessed can be charged separately.
Holy shit that is a lot of blow.
“Multiple parcels containing about 21 kilograms of cocaine have been seized by Massachusetts State Police throughout the investigation into Cook.”
Is it enough?
Whelp, there goes the Halloween party…
IIRC, MA law outlaws owning ammunition unless you have an FID card. MA is one of those states who overhauled their gun laws to make legal gun ownership almost impossible for the peasants using the pretense that they were revising them to make the laws compatible with the ruling in Bruen as cover.
Massachusetts residents are afraid of light brites under a bridge, so just imagine how much scarier actual bullets must be.
Tarran beat me to it
More anti-ICE retardation:
“A left-wing influencer-turned-Democratic congressional candidate has been charged with impeding federal immigration enforcement in Chicago.
Kat Abughazaleh, formerly employed by the liberal watchdog Media Matters, was indicted along with four others on charges of having “conspired … to prevent by force, intimidation, and threat” a federal law enforcement officer from carrying out official duties in a manner seeking “to injure him in his person or property.”
Abughazaleh, 26, is running to represent Illinois’ Ninth Congressional District, whose seat is currently held by retiring 81-year-old Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/29/us-news/kat-abughazaleh-lefty-influencer-and-congressional-candidate-charged-with-impeding-ice-in-chicago/
street cred
Yup – angry young female rEsIsTiNg and with an unpronounceable last name.
She might as well be measuring for drapes already cuz that race is over.
unless an intersectional superior enters the race
Surprisingly, not hideous.
No pussy pass. Bring the hammer down. HARD.
This shit has to end.
Yeah and if she wasn’t a looker, the news wouldn’t give two fucks.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gm-oGhDWkAAz61n?format=jpg&name=large
I make that sound when I sneeze.
Ugh, probably my new representative
Choose the form of the destructor!
More McKinsey inspired stupidity.
Automaker Production Stoppages Begin Over Semiconductor Shortage
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/automaker-production-stoppages-begin-over-semiconductor-shortage-53e22201?st=TNoPHv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The issue, which stems from an unusual geopolitical dispute involving the Dutch, Chinese and U.S. governments, has left some automakers and suppliers with low chip supplies that could run out in the coming days, people familiar with the matter say.
Bonus:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/how-u-s-pressured-netherlands-to-oust-ceo-of-chinese-owned-chip-maker-da52864d?st=YsB7T1&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Sell cars with less compute?
Not to the “modern consumer” – who can’t drive a manual transmission if their life depended on it.
Automatic transmissions don’t need a computer.
If you have a map you don’t need a navigation system either.
one would think a lesson was learned with the last shortage
Right!?!
Learn a lesson?
Why would the government or corporations do that when past experience has shown there are no real consequences for their stupidity.
A lesson like “the consumer will pay $50k for a base model truck”?
This company was formerly NXP’s discrete division and before that Philips semiconductor division. The parts they make are basically power semiconductors that replace relays, switches, and buttons with semiconductors. These semiconductors are actuated by touch screen, lower power buttons, ECU, or other modules. The modern car rarely has a failure of these semiconductor switches, compared to older relays, fan motor resistors, or mechanical switches. There are multiple suppliers that can replace the parts.
The other area that these parts are used is in EV, BEV, HEV. Here is where it would be difficult to replace, as there are typically les standard.
MOSFETs?
MOSFETs, IGBTs, SiC MOSFETs, GaN, MOSFETs. And the simple gate drivers to support them.
In local news, the US is withdrawing 800 troops from Romania. BOOOOOO
That sounds like routine reshuffling.
Or did we only have 800 dudes over there?
there were some 2000 total.
Son you’re on your own
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P5y6C-v5-j0&pp=ygUWc29uIHlvdSdyZSBvbiB5b3VyIG93bg%3D%3D
Naturally retired AF Generals are unhappy!
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-withdraws-troops-from-romania-signaling-shifting-priorities-8fb33406?st=9QqsXe&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Not sure why we even need troops in Romania.
To conain the Ottomans.
I mean you don’t, we do
Defend against the Greater Moldova movement?
Why were they there in the first place?
“Originally named “Street of the Grasshoppers,” Los Angeles’ Figueroa Street has earned a new nickname: “Kiddie Stroll.” ”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/29/los-angeles-prostitution-sex-trafficking-newsom-bass-scott-wiener-aclu-sb-357-figueroa-kiddie-stroll/
Street of the Grasshoppers?
“Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street?
Inside the effort to pull minors from ‘the Blade,’ one of the most notorious sex-trafficking corridors in the United States.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/magazine/sex-trafficking-girls-la-figueroa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wU8.kctP.pbTt_z3ie4in
long, unlocked article, with artful photography
“Weiner, a gay politician, previously authored a bill that relaxed sex offender registry requirements for sodomy with minors, if the offender is within 10 years of the victim’s age. Weiner introduced a different law in 2019 which allowed male prisoners to be incarcerated in women’s prisons.”
The Feds should search his computer.
i find it very hard to believe the police cannot stop this if they want to… so something very fucked up i happening
The police can only do what politicians allow them to do.
In this case, it seems they are no longer allowed to interfere with street prostitution in any way.
See: Cincinnati – Chief, while terrible, was only doing what the mayor and more powerful city manager were allowing her to do. Same goes for all these big cities.
The part of this that is distressing me is that somehow it has turned into Theetge vs. Pureval, with people, including people on the right, lining up in support of Theetge as somehow representing the pro law and order side. It’s as false a dichotomy as you can have. Yes, Pureval is trying to scapegoat Theetge to save his career, but that doesn’t mean she is not leftist, woke, and incompetent.
It’s two rats fighting over a floating piece of the wreck after gnawing through the hull and sinking the ship. As long as any of these vermin remain in power Cincinnati is screwed.
They need to earn $800 each, which is a half dozen customers? I’m sticking with downtown.
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/addressing-las-child-prostitution
Is there a more loathsome triumvirate? JFC.
So awful he couldn’t even throw in Schiff.
Gross.
Also, every time I hear the “what to expect when expecting a teenager” foster advertisement makes me think of this.
“Tucker Carlson just hit a new low with this heinous betrayal of my friend Charlie Kirk… who is surely now rolling in his grave
On Monday evening, the most dangerous man in America sat to interview a confused millennial.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-15238795/charlie-kirk-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-podcast-josh-hammer.html
https://archive.is/if0h9
I guess that’s better than “gay Mexican kid”
“Carlson personally saved his most seething hatred for his fellow Christians — and those of a Zionist disposition, in particular. Specifically, Carlson said that Christian Zionists are dangerous heretics and that he despises them more than anyone else on earth — certainly more than the sharia law proponents on whose behalf Carlson has taken, curiously, to offering meek apologia.”
“Carlson, Fuentes, Candace Owens, and their entire disreputable ilk are incapable of acknowledging that an American might simply support the Jewish people because he sees in the Jews the origins of monotheism — and thus, all Western morality.
They refuse to concede that an American might support close-knit US-Israel relations not due to moral or financial blackmail, but due to an earnest assessment that the alliance furthers American interests…
They hope to burn down MAGA and build a neo-pagan, anti-Western, anti-biblical movement in its stead.”
BWahahahahaha! Damn, that’s as big a retard as anything AOC might conjur.
incapable of acknowledging that an American might simply support the Jewish people because he sees in the Jews the origins of monotheism — and thus, all Western morality.
Which is it? Are Jews special because they have some special theological role? Is Israel special because it’s an outpost of western democracy? Is Israel an indispensable ally to the US? Is it because anything less than full support is antisemitism?
Nick Fuentes came off as a petulant child during his interview with Tucker. However, the part where I most appreciated him was during him telling his origin story. For some reason Israel has become the third rail of conservative politics, and it’s weird. Normal curious people ask questions, and the response is baboonery from the establishment. This pushes the normal curious people into one of two camps. Either they shut up about it to keep the peace and cling to their misgivings, or they start seeing conspiracy everywhere. If America first is truly America first, then there needs to be an America first rationale for continuing the support of Israel. Instead, what we get is a bunch of neocons claiming the MAGA mantle and arguing for more foreign entanglements, especially in the Middle East.
The more shit people get from the right for simply questioning our alliances, the more likely I am to start seeing the right as compromised by the globalists and particularly by our vassal states. America first means our blood AND OUR TREASURE stay here to help our people.
our vassal states
If only we acted like a real imperial power and not like the Wilsonian crusader state (out to redeem the world by remaking it in OUR image, and oh how the neo-cons love that).
You can’t question what real American interests are served by Israel – that simply isn’t allowed. It is our moral obligation because of the Holocaust. Not that that makes any sense at all.
Nick Fuentes came off as a petulant child during his interview with Tucker.
I’ll admit, I didn’t give the interview my full attention, but I didn’t get this impression.
I chuckled at the “I thought you were a Fed!” “I thought you were a Fed!” bit.
I liked the origin story too.
America first means our blood AND OUR TREASURE stay here to help our people.
I agree.
You can’t question what real American interests are served by Israel – that simply isn’t allowed. It is our moral obligation because of the Holocaust.
This does seem to be the undergirding reality. They seem to be unwilling to say it out loud, and for good reason. When you speak it, it can be rebutted.
People can ask “why are we morally indebted to a people who we didn’t harm and who have had their own nation for 80 years?”
The dispie issue comes into this, too. It’s a weird mix of imputed holocaust guilt and horse blinder theology.
Not that I’m anti-Israel at all. I’m all for having a rational, mostly friendly government in control of the promised land. It’s better for the preservation of history. It’s better for my likelihood of getting to visit. I just don’t want to be joined at the hip to them.
I didn’t get this impression.
It was a combination of the “you’re beefing with half of MAGA”, “no I’m not, they’re beefing with ME!” segment and his broken view of women and Jews that gave me that impression. There seemed to be a lot of “somebody hurt me, so everybody like them is my enemy”.
That’s not to say that I disagreed with most of what Nick said. Much of it was “Yes. Yes. Yes. Noooooooooo.” for me.
Pointing out that the most women have married the state and now hate men is a “broken view of women”?
I dunno, sounds like he knows exactly what kind of women our culture helps create.
Good morning!
Microreview of the 2025 Range Gun Nationals:
The Range: Somehow compact. Less walking that I remember doing even at Sig Academy, though the bays were bigger. Great footing — the bays are covered in crushed pumice, and I only saw two instances of someone sliding on it. Supposedly they drain well, though the only “rain” we received dropped less water in an hour than Talladega does with dew overnight. However, it does skip bullets excessively. We laid conveyor belt down in the impact region on a couple of stages, but SUPS desperately needs to invest in bullet traps. Sometime the place sounded like a B-grade Western.
The Stages: Fast. I was putting up hit factors equal to the more difficult of the local clubs, rather than my typical 2 points lower. A couple of brain breakers, but nothing like previous Nats. The wobble-table got to me, since from prone, I couldn’t get my neck bent enough to see the top of a stacked target except at the apex of the swing, which, since it was best three on paper, resulted in three separate (though aimed, ‘cuz no-shoot) shots that slowedme down.
The competition: Meh. There were big names there, but I have a feeling they were phoning it in a bit after World Shoot. I wound up over 50% for the first time at a Nats ever, but the top was set in my case by Shane Coley, who is on Team Glock and is a grand master, but he’s not the kind of GM that anyone ever expects to win (which was probably why he was slumming it in L10, along with the hobbling Jalise Williams and the click-hungry Hunter Constantine).
The prize table: I picked up an Osight C. I’ll probably mount it on a 10/22. There is a common joke about “I won’t be winning the car this match” but this is the first match I’ve been to in which a car was actually awarded. The car was a ZR01 Corvette, but it was also from 1984. What’s the lifespan on the fiberglass binder used in the mid-1980s?
I may be wrong but I thought the C4 Z06 didn’t come until 1990 model year.
Well, someone might have been lying. The guy awarding it trips my Huckster Alarm.
Actually I don’t think there was a C4 Z06. It was a ZR1 in 1990.
Fiberglass will be fine. And parts are plentiful so that would be a solid win if you got it. Definitely not my fave for looks or interior but it will last a long time.
I’ve heard they drive nice.
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Amazing chart, Venezuela used to be wealthier than Poland. Poland introduced capitalism & free market principles, Venezuela followed socialism
Free market makes people wealthier, socialism always ends in bitter poverty and misery. Why are young people so fascinated by socialism?
https://x.com/MichaelAArouet/status/1983793994912924142
these right wingers going on about Venezuela are so cringe. That was not real socialism.
It never is Pie.
Because they’re ignorant and suggestible.
Because the people shilling for socialism pitch it as showing compassion for the poor, and young people generally lack the life experience to understand that the ‘plenty’ the socialists claim they want to share doesn’t magically spring into existence and get appropriated by the wealthy, it is created by people who as a result become wealthy. It is especially appealing to the children of wealthy parents, because they personally experience wealth as just something that is there for them to enjoy without requiring effort. Add in a bit of resentment that Mommy and Daddy are always working and not available and voila.
I would have gone with “gullible”.
You get free shit. Someone else pays for it.
Gee, where is the appeal?
As a current SocSec recipient I’m not inclined to dispute this.
MMT101.ORG
@MMT101DotORG
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) describes and explains how the monetary system works and how governments can use that understanding to manage the economy.
https://x.com/MMT101DotORG/status/1983125927853949115
Shorter MMT – Pay most of your bills with money you print. Tax the rich to pay for the rest, maybe.
“A maternity hospital massacre in Sudan has left 460 people dead just days after a 48-hour killing spree saw more than 2,000 civilians executed by paramilitary rebels.
The World Health Organisation said the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher, the city’s last remaining hospital, was on Sunday ‘attacked for the fourth time in a month, killing one nurse and injuring three other health workers’.
Two days later, ‘six health workers, four doctors, a nurse and a pharmacist, were abducted’ and ‘more than 460 patients and their companions were reportedly shot and killed in the hospital,’ by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries, the organisation said.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15241379/Maternity-hospital-massacre-leaves-460-dead-Fresh-horror-Sudan-patients-staff-butchered-2-000-civilians-executed-two-days.html
Yikes!
“If we can’t blame Trump, it’s not important.”
~The Left
Why are the militants attacking a hospital? I’d think the rebels have more important targets, like government garrisons or supply warehouses.
Icky non Muslims may have been there.
Che’ lives?
Free market makes people wealthier, socialism always ends in bitter poverty and misery. Why are young people so fascinated by socialism?
It’s not about wealth. It’s about power and control.
actually with the yoots it is about vibes.
You mean we can enforce our views on everyone???
Because young people are used to having someone take care of them. Usually they outgrow it, but more and more they think their whole life should be that way.
NPR – “Will the U.S. be able to meet the needs of Jamaica and other affected island nations?”
Naturally never once questioning why the US needs to meet the needs of Jamaica and the other affected island nations.
How will the dismantling of USAID affect U.S. relief efforts in Jamaica?
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/10/29/g-s1-95551/jamaica-melissa-hurricane-relief-usaid
If by U.S. they mean “will private donations unaffected by typical governmental red-tape make there way to the islands…” then cool. But we know that isn’t what is meant.
I can understand their perspective – they’ve always denied they depended on government funding and were really supported by charitable contributions. Of course that isn’t the reality, but it is what they’ve always spouted.
In what way is Jamaica our problem?
The same way I guess the entire world is somehow the responsibility of American taxpayers.
Why are you so selfish?!
“I wanted everyone to have health care, I just didn’t think I’d have to pay for it.”
Dr. Steve Keen
@ProfSteveKeen
Support my campaign for interest-free loans for making housing affordable.
More details in the comments.
https://x.com/ProfSteveKeen/status/1983538698739233173
Must just subsidize demand and everything will be well
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) describes and explains how the monetary system works and how governments can use that understanding to manage the economy.
“A carpenter can never run out of inches.”
They run rings around us, logically.
*penguin on telly explodes*
Trump got a giant golden crown from South Korea which he should wear when Bill Gates personally apologizes to him for the climate scam. This is the best timeline.
https://x.com/MargoMartin47/status/1983414160617767127
Next week’s Hat And Hair writes itself…
The agony of the Hat! The ebullience of the Hair!
“These are the day’s of our lives…”
If Trump doesn’t wear that at the next SOTU I will be pissed.
He doesn’t have to wear it, but I would love to see it in pride of place in the oval office the next time he gives a speech from the desk. Just off to the side, on a purple pillow, by the window.
Using it as a paper weight for Noble prize applications would be the best timeline.
The French National Assembly has just condemned the 1968 deal whereby France allowed Algerians to come as workers with a path to settlement. The first time it has ever approved a resolution by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally.
https://x.com/DanielJHannan/status/1983846067927183530
Two generations late.
NPR – “Will the U.S. be able to meet the needs of Jamaica and other affected island nations?”
They’ve got the Clinton Foundation looking out for their best interests. What else could they possibly need?
I ordered a Galco shoulder holster for my 1911 last month. It’s been sitting there and I haven’t even tried putting it together or adjusting the fit.
There’s literally no reason not to.
You may need it for the upcoming cubicle hunger games event.
‘Soul-Crushing’: Students Slam Harvard’s Grade Inflation Report
The hard part about Harvard is getting into Harvard. After that it is easy.
More or less. True at most Ivy institutions.
And Todai, if the rumors are true.
Having lived in close proximity for decades and interacting with the undergrads, can confirm.
Head down the road to MIT though…
My wife’s grandfather went to Harvard…
… as an Irish immigrant who worked there as a custodian.
But he was fucking amazing at solving math problems left on the chalkboards at night when nobody was looking. Except for one professor with a heart of gold.
The original source of ‘FYTW’…
Credentialism v education. Credentialism won.
This guy gets it.
So the students are learning that they’re not as smaht as they thought they were based on their grades? The fact that there appears to be a large number of college grads who cannot read meaningfully; grasp idioms, simile, or metaphors; do basic arithmetic (let alone algebra); or understand the basics of finance should be a hell of a tell already.
What once was a fairly strong indicator of at least a level of connection and network that provided some value is now a klaxon indicating a high likelihood of entitlement and inflated ego. You get more for less by hiring some state school kid with a decent gpa.
“Halloween candy prices rising, spooked by Trump’s tariffs and climate change”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/halloween-candy-prices-trump-tariffs-climate-change
LOL
Candy prices have gone up. Two boxes (24) of full sized bars, and one small box of smaller backup candy ran me near $100.
Damn kids better appreciate it.
Surge pricing. It will all be on sale for half that next week 🙂
We keep getting fewer and fewer kids on Halloween. We do appreciate those leftover full size candy bars.
We just got to the new house about 6 months ago so we did not decorate. We will go dark. There is still too much going on and a lot of expenses.
I am taking my daughter out to trick or treat for a few hours.
The answer is always Haribo Sugar Free Gummy Bears.
We are doing a few trunk or treats this year. Church, wife’s gym, etc.
We could drive somewhere to trick or treat, I’m sure, but it would probably be lame. Nobody is gonna bother coming up our driveway to knock on our door.
(((Jarflax:
I splurge and go to the warehouse store up here, so I know it’ll be full price, but a much wider variety to pick from. I did not go with the candy cigarettes or gun cigars though.
Give ramen. It’s the thing this year.
Albanese gummy candy pack +2.0%
That’s a local company, about 15 minutes from my house, and we’re acquaintances of the family . Cool to see they were on the list. And also cool they are able to keep prices down.
I like their gummis. The Haribo ones get hard as a rock for some reason.
We are expecting about 100-150 kids. Weather looks like it will be chilly and dry, so we will have our fire pit out passing out candy to any kids or adults that put in the effort.
You reminded me I need to gather some wood.
I imagine Guardian readers can’t get enough of the performative outrage.
Genocide
Access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth will be dramatically restricted by the Trump administration under new proposals by the Department of Health and Human Services.
NPR has obtained the draft text of a proposed rule that would prohibit federal Medicaid reimbursement for medical care provided to transgender patients younger than age 18. It also prohibits reimbursement through the Children’s Health Insurance Program or CHIP for patients under age 19.
An additional proposed rule would go even further, blocking all Medicaid and Medicare funding for any services at hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care.
Where are our pandemic experts? Why isn’t there a full scale campaign to eradicate this epidemic of gender dysphoria? There must be a way to stop it.
Related:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/evidence-backs-the-transgender-social-contagion-hypothesis-40937876?st=DB2c7M&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
WTF??
Go home NPR, you’re drunk.
There are whole ass pediatric gender clinics. Which should not exist.
It’s NPR.
They are high on weed and Mexican butt sex.
TPTB: Heads’ up, this weeks’ GlibFlick is still pending. The title is “GlibFlick Halloween Double Feature.”
I see Californians are all on ‘Threats to Democracy!’ for their Prop 50 vote. NY and CA will swallow this country whole.
college grads who cannot read meaningfully; grasp idioms, simile, or metaphors; do basic arithmetic (let alone algebra); or understand the basics of finance
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We're talking about the Kennedy School of Government, now?
I want the shutdown to continue.
It’s a good thing.
Especially if it kills SNAP by forcing a bunch of looters to get jobs.
Don’t you understand how much the shutdown is hurting you! You’re suffering so mightily you don’t even know it!
But enough about my sex life…
Oh no!
I may not get my VA check this month which I give away.
This.
And hopefully it will get thinking people to question why we allow the Feds to control so much of the economy.
40 million people on it…
That has to drive crazy amounts of food inflation.
RJ, paying farmers to (not) farm, while paying other people to buy the crap.
It hits us on both ends.
So the VP of Nvidia was my client for a project for his wife for Christmas. “Met” (you know, online) him through Mormon lit community.
AND THEN a few years later he pops up dating my brother. 🙄 That breakup was very ugly. Turns out he’s a raging narcissist and as batshit crazy as the ex-wife.
Wait, no. It wasn’t UGLY at all, just really difficult for my brother. One day, things are hunky dory and the next day, he gets a shirt, cold breakup text and that was that.
Men suck.
At least he got a shirt.
“I broke up with the V.P. of Nvidia and all I got was this T-Shirt.”
No, he got a taste of uberwealth, and wasn’t terribly comfortable with it.
My HUSBAND got a state-of-the-art graphics card Bryan was carting around and trying to unload. That was just post-COVID when graphics cards were getting $2k on the secondary market, and that one hadn’t even hit the market yet. BUUUUTTTTT instead of selling it, Dude gleefully put it in the box he hasn’t used in 4 years.
If I got an unreleased graphics card, you can bet I’d use it rather than sell it. That thing should be good for Yeeeaaarrs.
Oh my.
“Progressive podcaster Jennifer Welch on Monday suggested that the Democrat Party needs to “jump on board” with calling for conservatives to be killed. The comment came after she played a clip of a woman saying she was “glad” that Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is dead.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/left-wing-podcaster-suggests-dems-need-to-jump-on-board-with-wanting-conservatives-to-be-killed
She seems nice.
You can fix her.
I wouldn’t try even with Caitlyn Jenner’s dick.
That is no longer attached to Caitlyn. I appreciate the dedication, I guess.
“Edgy” “strong” women sure do have a lot of violent fantasies. WTF?
We like feeling not helpless.
The righties just get a gu and get good, because a restraining order is just a piece of paper. See: Earl.
HOWEVER, the lefties don’t want to get a gun (or it doesn’t occur to them) (or gUnS aRe ScArY), so all they can do is puff and screech.
“Even rapper Cardi B joined the discussion, posting a seven-minute video where she lamented the suspension of SNAP, claiming that people were “gonna have to hunt raccoons n’ sh*t” for Thanksgiving dinner.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/ebt-of-tiktok-launches-on-x-as-clips-of-snap-benefits-users-threatening-violence-amid-gov-shutdown-goes-viral
LOLOLOLOLOL
See now that is a practical response. Better than threats of shoplifting or similar criminal behavior.
Well, ever since she “accidentally” outed herself as a thief and a prostitute in her younger years, she’s tried not to ruffle as many feathers.
Notably, in Utah, a state-commissioned analysis of the evidence recently came to the opposite conclusion as the Trump administration’s transgender report. University of Utah researchers found that there was ample evidence of benefits and safety for these treatments, and wrote that policy restrictions on this care for youth “cannot be justified based on the quantity or quality of medical science findings or concerns about potential regret in the future.”
Science be damned. We’re talking about FEELZ.
Yup. There is no evidence of that whatsoever. They are just making shit up to arrive at a desired conclusion.
“NBC report paints illegal immigrant guilty of sex crimes, felonies as sympathetic ‘undocumented father’ after ICE arrest…
In its statement, DHS clarified that ICE had arrested Rojas-Leyva, describing him as a criminal illegal immigrant from Mexico who had a rap sheet that included “lewd and lascivious acts with a child, battery of a spouse, domestic battery, and providing compensation for prostitution.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/nbc-report-paints-illegal-immigrant-guilty-of-sex-crimes-felonies-as-sympathetic-undocumented-father-after-ice-arrest
Shouldn’t you provide compensation for prostitution?
The remarkable thing is we have an administration calling out the media on this shit.
Bet they didn’t see that coming.
Shame
“The site is under construction” is a sign that could greet visitors peering through the fence at the southeast corner of the White House, trying to catch a glimpse of where the East Wing once stood.
Instead, those are the words greeting visitors to the websites of several companies working on building the White House ballroom.
Some of these firms appear to be trying to lower their profiles (in some cases, literally, on social media) amid the sometimes vitriolic online reaction to the East Wing demolition and construction of the 90,000-square-foot, privately financed ballroom. None of the firms have been accused of any legal wrongdoing.
EAI Rolloff, a Maryland-based hauling company, has advised visitors to its homepage that the site is “Undergoing Routine Maintenance.” There are no links or contact information listed.
Hiding their faces from the howling mob, apparently.
Don’t worry, the names of the guilty will be broadcast far and wide.
I remember when boycotting Bud Light for hiring Dylan Mulvaney was considered a bad thing.
I don’t blame them one bit. Marxist psychos are going to find them, hunt them, destroy equipment and maybe even kill member of the construction team. We can’t put commies behind bars fast enough.
Egged on by CBS and friends.
Round and round she goes.
We hates them, we do
To be sure, billionaires’ decisions are sometimes important to report because their thoughts can lead to actions that affect us all. That’s because they have consolidated so much power and so many resources—economic, material, and social—that their activities threaten the rest of the globe. By using headlines as a thought-chyron for billionaires, rather than as an opportunity to call attention to the problem of their obscene wealth consolidation, news outlets risk legitimizing billionaires’ hyper-privileged viewpoints through clicks. This can perpetuate flawed understandings of reality, driven by people with the morally questionable motivation to be wealthier than most countries across the globe.
Billionaires’ reflections are often reported with little attention to the deeper social and structural issues that frame the issues affecting the rest of us. Billionaires live above any social or economic constraints, yet their thoughts are reported with the apparent expectation that readers will accept this inanity as actual news, as accurate facts, rather than musings of a person untouched by the material problems of the world. How can Gates’s claim that climate change won’t be humanity’s demise be taken seriously when he has all the resources in the world to live well and protected, regardless of the consequences of climate change? Why do we care what he says about this when it is those who are most vulnerable who will actually bear the effects? Reporting the thoughts of billionaires as news is as grotesque as the amount of wealth they’ve been allowed to accumulate.
If you ever wondered who was at the base of the guillotine, waiting for the heads to fall…
Just a guess, but I would bet this person thought Bill Gates’ opinion on climate and COVID were important before.