I guess the NBA season opened yesterday. Don’t care. The World Series is a couple days away from kicking off. I guess I’m cheering for the Canadians. And that’s pretty much it for sports, aside from laughing at Florida as they try to find a new football head coach and even their state governor is mocking them on social media for how swimmingly it’s going. Time to move on.
Don’t show the AP any old news from WW2. When a “major drone attack” kills 6 and it’s a front page stuff, I have to laugh. That’s about 5 seconds of any battle in any major conflict in the world. Or how many Christians were probably killed in Nigeria in the time it took me to write these morning links. A story which is conspicuously absent from their website.
“Time must stand still, while a Republican is in office.” At least that’s how I read this piece. But maybe they were just as vocal when the myriad alterations to the grounds took place under Dem admins and I somehow missed it.
I’m kind of surprised he was acquitted. The UK never would have allowed that to happen. Hell, most of Europe would have thrown him in a cage.
I can’t even come up with something clever about this headline. It’s perfect as it’s written.
A social contagion may be waning. I sure hope so, for the sake of children who would otherwise be gleefully mutilated by activist butchers.
This is stupid. They’re gonna end up facing all sorts of lawsuits should the warnings have turned out to be correct, which is where the evidence seems to point.
This will be an interesting alliance. No wonder most of the media out there are relentlessly attacking her.
“That resembles” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. It is very clearly a nazi totenkopf. And he had it prominently on his chest for 18 years. But we’re let to believe he had no idea what it was from the day he walked into a Serbian Croatian tattoo parlor until now? But don’t worry: The same people who went berserk at a Jeopardy contestant because of an OK signing said a stage layout at a conference was a Nazi dogwhistle are telling us all this is no big deal.
Man, talk about embarrassing. I feel for this woman, even though it was hilarious.
I still don’t know how this is legal. Their state constitution is very clear on when these measures can be on a ballot and they didn’t even come close to meeting those requirements. But they’re doing it anyway without any pushback from the courts. I guess “no kings” doesn’t apply at the state level.
Neat! I wonder how many more are out there.
Such a wonderfully made video. And a pretty damn goos song too. As is this one. Sadly there’s not a video. Oh well, enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Wednesday, dear friends.
“Don’t care. ”
#metoo
The NBA is easily the worst American sport to watch. I don’t even think there’s a close second.
It’s too high scoring. Hooray, you successfully scored one of the 100 or so times this game.
Hot dog eating contests maybe?
The WNBA?
I said “sport.”
The WNBA isn’t a sport, it’s a tax write-off for the NBA.
Hot dog eating contests aren’t?
You aren’t trotting out that old chestnut again, are you Sloopy?
No true sportsman, SDF.
Golf.
A slideshow seems just as real time, and could be done much faster.
but then we’d get PowerPoint Poisoning! They did away with the slide projectors.
Golf is a bit slow and boring, but it’s not cringe inducing like the NBA.
To be fair, the NFL is getting pretty bad with all the showboating after anybody does their freaking job. Congrats, you tackled him for a 2 yard gain….
I’d rather watch NBA games before: golf, NHL, baseball or bowling.
I’ll also add that if there isn’t a Minnesoda team involved, I barely watch any sports. Without a rooting interest, sportzball seems like a waste of time.
Also, baseball should be followed in the sports pages by looking at the box scores. Listening on the radio while fishing is also acceptable. Watching it on TV is only if you are hungover or it is the playoffs.
NHL
I can’t even with you.
I can’t even with you.
I *used* to think he was cool…
Go Warriors!
“Hell, most of Europe would have thrown him in a cage.”
Sad.
Tear down the East and West Wings. Restore the White House to its original configuration.
Slightly charred from a visit by the readcoats?
Rebuild them underground. Let those creatures scurry around in tunnels, which is closer to their natural habitat.
You know how much more that would cost versus doing nothing?
Tearing the buildings down ain’t free either.
Just revoke all climate control and mosquito abatement in DC. “For the planet!” — at least we’d be back to getting summers free of FedGov.
Before you can finish that proposal, you’ll be hit with “SDF wants black people to die of disease” because of the majority demographics outside of the government employees who reside there.
See prior statements that DC should be non-residential. The residential parts can go back to MD / VA… only the President and Veep residences should be there, everything else should be only the offices required. This also addresses the voting issue without giving two Senators to people explicitly beholden to the government they’d be voting on (similar to PubSec union negotiations).
So no third floor either?
The non-moon companion asteroid is kinda sad. I wish it had decided to make a few orbits of earth and be a real moon for a bit before returning to it’s solar orbit.
You want Luna to get angry? Bad enough that Gaia is fooling around with a side piece for a while, but if the side piece moves in who knows what Luna would do. Tidal waves washing up in Kansas!
It’s clearly an alien probe.
I thought that’s what ICE did after a roundup.
SPACE SMITH ONLY ALIEN PROBE AROUND HERE.
Somebody mention alien probing?
So it’s headed for Uranus?
“Democratic Maine Senate hopeful Graham Platner expressed regret over getting a tattoo that appears similar to a Nazi symbol nearly two decades ago and plans to have it removed, his latest mea culpa after a week of damning headlines over resurfaced social media posts.”
Looked at three articles. Can’t find a picture of it.
Here you go:
https://worldisraelnews.com/not-a-secret-nazi-maine-senate-candidate-with-deaths-head-tattoo-says/
I can see how someone drunk and stupid might not notice the origin of the art.
For 18 years?
For 18 years?
Exactly.
He may not have been consistantly drunk, but it’s possible to be consistantly stupid and/or ignorant.
Kind of blurry. Guess it could be German deathhead.
1. He knew
2. People do dumb things and should be allowed to reverse things that can be undone.
3. However, he could have reversed much earlier.
I came here to say mostly the same thing.
He must have been really drunk if he thought Split is in Serbia.
I blame autocorrect.
At least you didn’t walk out on stage thinking you’d won, Sloopy.
Maybe he’s an advocate for Greater Serbia.
I don’t think anyone would confuse Sloopy with a beauty pageant winner.
Hopefully Banjos.
He could just have sufficient duct tape to invoke the Red Green rule.
Maybe he can get it cut off and made into a nice lampshade.
What I’m most confused by is he was with fellow Marines and then is supposedly was Army? WTF?
Yeah, when I first saw the headlines, I thought “probably just a skull and crossbones that partisan idiots are blowing way out of proportion”. Then I saw a pic and that is without question a Nazi emblem. And, sorry, even if you got it by accident/being young and stupid, when you find out what it is, you get rid of it/cover it.
From that pic above it looks more like a prison tat.
Pete Hegseth and his tattoos wave hello.
If this guy really did get it by accident, why hasn’t he gotten a new tattoo to cover it up yet? If I had ended up with some racist/nazi/commit tattoo after a night of drinking, I’d be getting it covered up pronto.
A simple circle with a line through it tattoo over the top would suffice.
Spanish priest acquitted after facing 3 years behind bars for criticizing radical Islam
They can right this injustice by also acquitting radical Islamists who assault him in retaliation.
They likely won’t even charge them. They’ll just shrug and say “he shouldn’t have opened his mouth and incited violence.”
No, they can right this injustice by expunging islam from Iberia. Along with those who abetted it’s return after the reconquista.
The article is not clear on whether he spent three years behind bars or not.
Anyway… get the hell out of Europe if you can, folks.
The problem with running away is that you run out of places to flee to.
I can think of another solution to the invasion.
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster
The bars are temples but their pearls ain’t free
You’ll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you’re lucky, then the god’s a she
I can feel an angel
slidingbeating uptoon me“He said 47% of residents in his district are enrolled in Medi-Cal, a federal health care program that is being slashed under Republican leadership. ”
No mention of illegally giving it to illegals.
If we went one year without the Obamacare subsidies, I think everybody in America would finally realize how fucking awful it was.
Sadly, it would probably lead to more calls for socialized medicine rather than a return to the free market.
The price of medicine is too high. Changing who pays for it is never going to work.
From the dead thread.
The Average Cost of a Family Health Insurance Plan Is Now $27,000
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/the-average-cost-of-a-family-health-insurance-plan-is-now-27-000-9fe92b79?st=xpxx13&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Average American worker – “But that’s not what I pay!”. They never consider the employer share.
“Mission Accomplished!” say the architects of O-care.
If I were God-Emperor of the US for a day — I’d definitely go to:
+ HSAs for everyone that legally must be in the individual’s name (so they transfer automatically on change of employment… the company perk of matching is up to the company, preferably the associated insurance company is up to the individual instead of the company as well)
+ Insurance for catastrophic / emergency care only. Back to out of pocket (or in this case, out of HSA — which should ameliorate the cries of “How can we afford checkups!”) for routine procedures
+ Remove the reporting / categorization / data harvesting crap that came in with O-care that makes doctors have to have full time people just doing the damned paperwork. FedGov doesn’t need and hasn’t done jack with it anyway.
+ ERs still have to provide care (I don’t really see a way around this given quite often folks might come in unconscious… how could you get details?) — but also have to call ICE if illegal immigrants use them and have very nearby sheriff offices to detain said folks before they can run. And deportation includes asset seizure to reclaim any medical costs if possible.
Medicare probably stays as-is, though it shouldn’t… even a God-Emperor probably can’t mess with it at this point though it isn’t FedGov’s business.
I’m sure I’m forgetting a lot… this is just my gut reaction to fixing the screwed up basis of our system — that insurance is needed for everything, tied to employment and the big company HRs force one-size-fits-all provider choices and whatnot. I like HSAs as a model instead since the money stays with the person and should be easy to use, with limited catastrophic care insurance to handle the big bill issues (and hopefully keep the actual risk pools lower so the premiums are manageable again).
They never consider the employer share.
I’ve been unpleasantly exposed to that on the payroll side via my side gig law firm.
Thankfully half my earnings come to me as distributions, taxed at my marginal rate. The other half is paid as salary and is basically cut in half by income and payroll taxes.
I did set up a SEP IRA the other day, so that does help knock the tax liability down.
I thought the marijuana business was legit there now? [Back when it wasn’t, those ‘farmers’ had no reportable income.]
“Slashed” stated without evidence.
The state courts are more than happy to let the supermajority do what it wants. The letter of the law is unsurprisingly for suckers… and that standard will, of course, end well.
Side effect of the Gaza cool-down. Speaking of which, I wonder if they are silent about Hamas assassinating Gazans now too.
A quick scan of the main pages of the large media outlets would lead me to believe Hamas are doing nothing at all right now aside from handing over the dead bodies of Israelis they murdered…to rounds of applause.
“Alan Hamel ‘can’t tell the difference’ between late wife Suzanne Somers and her AI clone”
https://pagesix.com/2025/10/21/celebrity-news/alan-hamel-cant-tell-the-difference-between-late-wife-suzanne-somers-and-her-ai-clone/
Doesn’t even look like her.
Looks more like Cameron Diaz.
So the real point of the article — “Alan Hamel is either stupid or has early dementia… can not even recognize his late wife”.
Where’s the ThighMaster?
Move over Dollywood. It’s Swift Flags!
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/travis-kelce-teams-up-with-investor-for-activist-campaign-at-six-flags-cb1d9369?st=NocA3F&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Travis Kelce Teams Up With Investor for Activist Campaign at Six Flags
Can they start by reversing the merger with Cedar Fair?
“Jude McAtamney paid the price for his two missed PATs in the Giants’ historic loss to the Broncos on Sunday.
McAtamney was cut Tuesday, as first reported by The Post, as the Giants plan to move forward by either elevating Younghoe Koo from the practice squad or activating Graham Gano from injured reserve.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/sports/giants-cut-jude-mcatamney-after-his-kicking-catastrophe/
Don’t think is was historic, but that guy couldn’t kick for shit.
Wasn’t it the largest number of points ever scored in the fourth quarter by a team that was shutout through three? I suppose they counts as historic by media standards.
“Well, our defense fucked the dog in a historic manner on the way to an embarrassing loss. Let’s fire the kicker.”
[ Brayden Narveson has entered the chat ]
Being fired for failing to do what you were paid to do? How unfair!!!
laces out?
Having three placekickers on payroll is indicative of a management problem.
Federal Government Shutdown – Day 22
As soon as the Repubs get their leverage and are on the same page….the sudden calls to end the filibuster start to get louder. Get ready for Repubs to step on rakes.
The idea of pushing pay for expected employees still working and the military was brilliant in terms of politics and forced Senate dems to reject it.
I cannot even begin to write the absurdities coming out of that cesspool.
I still say that they should keep the filibuster, but require that the members actually hold the floor and keep talking, else the vote gets held.
None of this “everything needs sixty votes” nonsense, just wait out the blather, then vote anyway.
I think I’d prefer it if the government needed 60 votes to pass any legislation or budget, and only 40 to repeal.
Agreed.
The Duck Season / Rabbit Season Political system – brilliant!
“Fire!”
66 votes to increase the budget and or raise taxes
60 votes to create laws
40 votes to repeal laws and lower taxes
50 votes to pass balanced budgets
Get ready for Repubs to step on rakes.
There is going to be some kind of additional funding for the “temporary COVID” emergency.
Don’t forget funding for the childhood trans epidemic, and the foreign population control consultants culling americans.
The Repubs super-clever plan has been to push a clean CR that is basically Biden’s last spending spree. In my mind, that’s a rake right there.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/10/22/waste_of_the_day_federal_deficit_is_almost_2_trillion_1141458.html
Only twenty years?
Over twenty years would be ancient history.
Coming from a legal family and with many attorney friends – I’m happy I didn’t choose to go into law.
Sussberg, who studied communications at Syracuse University, says his stories help humanize clients, and he encourages his Kirkland colleagues to share their experiences with the court. The firm’s lawyers, a judge once said, seem unable to “order appetizers without a Power Point.”
The Bankruptcy Court Where People Can’t Stop Talking About Piercing Their Ears
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/claires-bankruptcy-ears-pierced-12a72ef6?st=1KN83f&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Hey look, Kirkland paid for a full page ad in the WSJ!
… attorneys making upwards of $2,600 an hour …
There are some upsides.
“Jesse Mack Butler, 18, escaped jail time last week over the spate of sick attacks on the two 16-year-old girls in Stillwater in early 2024 — including one that left one victim close to death after being choked unconscious, News9 reported….
Under local laws, the youth plea deal meant Butler was sentenced last week to just one year of rehabilitation and community service…
The first victim told investigators that Butler repeatedly raped her and strangled her when she tried to refuse during their three-month relationship.
Her doctor said she had to undergo surgery to repair the damage to her neck after being choked — and that she would have died if the strangulation had lasted another 30 seconds, the court papers charged.
The other victim reported that she, too, had been strangled until she passed out. Police later found a video on Butler’s phone of him choking the girl.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/22/us-news/oklahoma-teen-jesse-butler-walks-free-after-rape-conviction-sparking-outrage-from-parents/
WTF?
America has a serious judge problem.
Yes, our judges are not serious.
There has to be more to the story. No way does a full blown rape and strangulation end up with no significant jail time.
The prosecution agreed to charge him as a juvenile in a plea deal. Maybe some issue with the victims that the prosecution did not want coming up in court?
Even a juvenile should get more time for rape and aggravated assault with intent.
Problem wasn’t with the judge, but the DA.
The judge can reject a plea deal as unconscionable as this.
Yup. It’s the judge’s signature on the sentencing document, so it’s the judge’s responsibility.
If the judge rejects the deal, he totally hangs the DA out to dry. Go back and try a case he thinks he can’t win? Flat out dismiss the charges? He knows the details of the case file and the judge doesn’t.
Coaches kid get off?
This is my shocked face.
“Jamie Dimon was sitting on the 13th floor of his new headquarters on a Monday morning, sipping a Guinness and looking out at the Manhattan skyline. ”
Who doesn’t have a little mother’s milk to start day? Really, WSJ?
Jamie Dimon Wants Everyone in the Office. Is a $3 Billion Building the Answer?
https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/jamie-dimon-270-park-avenue-jp-morgan-chase-return-to-office-72966a51?st=8UkD7X&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
He should have opened the window and stepped out.
https://youtu.be/fX4e81L-J7s
This ain’t Moscow.
Sounds like the WSJ is butthurt that Dimon and the NY Fed stopped using the WSJ for leaks.
I’m sure Chase would be completely understanding about morning drinking in the workplace for plebes. Or even having a beer at lunch these days.
Not in Hollywood.
“a new ground-breaking study shockingly reports that 94% of children born to American celebrities identify as transgender or non-binary”
Never really shook off the mantle of court jesters
Whoah.
Look at me!
“Could this be the reason that a new ground-breaking study shockingly reports that 94% of children born to American celebrities identify as transgender or non-binary?”
links to facebook
I wouldn’t put any stock in an exact number, since there is no way to quantify celebrity.
Oh yeah, it sounds overblown but I wouldn’t doubt that Hollyweird has a lot more of this nonsense than regular America.
“Hollyweird has a lot more of this nonsense”
It definitely does. They send their kids to super-woke private schools.
Let them be evolutionary dead ends.
Ha! Proof that there is election fraud here in Minnesoda. Of course it is for Trump.
This fraud was allegedly caught in a routine audit, but my guess is that it was more a function of small town politics. Someone knew this lady’s mom had died and saw the absentee ballot and also knew they were Trumpers and investigated.
Meanwhile the Dems are 100% behind vote-by-fraud while the GOP leans against it.
Funny, that.
falsely claimed it as one reason he lost the 2020 election
They asserted without evidence.
“Kim Kardashian’s daughter North West has sparked concern after she debuted a shocking new look that included fake face tattoos, a nose piercing and grillz.
The 12-year-old posted a slew of videos showcasing the eyebrow-raising outfit to TikTok over the weekend.
She rocked long, blue braids and fake blue contacts, as well as black grillz over her teeth and a faux nose ring.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/article-15212895/kim-kardashian-north-west-daughter-fake-face-tattoos-piercing.html
top-notch parenting
I mean they started out by naming her North West, everything after that is kind of to be expected.
Some local Minnesoda media begins to notice that there seems to be a fraud problem.
That is a short clip where the local prosecutor says that there are billions being stolen. He’s only been able to prosecute a billion or so.
A much longer in depth story from the same news outlet. 50 minutes of blood-boiling outrage.
I don’t even know where to start raging about this.
The state auditor who admits that she’s been flagging the bad state dept practices for decades, but what can she do?
The horribly obese lady who is crying because she is going to lose her govt bennies because the state is cutting off fraudsters?
King Walz saying that it isn’t his fault?
By the way, 50 minutes of in depth investigation and not a peep about the fact that the fraudsters are almost all Somali.
No mention that Brother Keith met with a bunch of the Somalis associated with the Feeding Our Future scam and promised to help them (and got donations from them).
Found this link to a bunch of smaller videos of the main one. So you can choose your form of destruction.
Mine is the sob story about 200+ people “abruptly losing” critical care because of fraudsters being cut off.
I think it would be a good thing for this woman to be cut off from any food stamps and forced to get off her enormous ass and work a bit. Also, 200? A dept of thousands should be able to process 200 cases if they are legit.
My small town just reported an “accounting error” led to a shortfall of a couple million. They just voted themselves a “city manager” position that was supposed to put a stop to the unbelievable incompetence that has been going on (they had to drop their credit rating, because the reporting is years behind).
All of these idiots are socialists who mostly run unopposed.
A small AZ county had something like $40MM embezzled by their (equivalent of a) CFO. Granted, it was over a number of years, but how does the county board miss something like that? The board, which does have at least quasi-fiduciary responsibilities, should also be looking at some kind of legal trouble.
Just watching that video, I kept wondering how there were absolutely no controls on the money going out.
Every place in the private sector I’ve worked for, had all sorts of red tape around expenses. If you didn’t have some valid code to categorize and track payments, you weren’t getting reimbursed.
The state of Minnesoda? Meh. We cut checks. We never cross referenced with any other dept.
I feel like a complete sap for not defrauding the govt. Like the prosecutor said, if you stole $10M, you only had a 5% chance of being caught. And if you did get caught maybe 10 years in the klink. Yeah, that seems like a better career path than the one I took. But I guess hard work is its own reward, right?
Local fire district miscertified their tax rate to the county assessor that sends out the bills. No one was fired. No one resigned. And the county assessor just sent out a supplemental bill months after property taxes were issued for the year. No bitch, you fucked up, you live with the lower rate.
My home town about six years ago went to a “strong mayor” instead of the unelected city manager. They sold it as getting rid of the city manager and saving money.
New mayor position has no veto power over the city council.
And he kept the city manager on.
It was all to give him a pay bump for his retirement. The loser has never had a private sector job. He went from a city job to a port commissioner job to mayor.
Always falling up.
Gustave the local FD should be auctioned off.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“A dramatic bid to block Donald Trump’s presidential library from being built in Miami is being masterminded by an 85-year-old retired professor who has repeatedly compared the Republican to Adolf Hitler.
Dr. Marvin Dunn, 85, who has claimed Trump’s use of the state to target political enemies is ‘no different’ from the German dictator, launched the legal case that is threatening to upend ambitious plans for the commander in chief’s legacy.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15202157/Trump-presidential-library-compared-Adolf-Hitler.html
CWAA
So fucking tedious.
Are you unaware of the concentration camps in the Midwest incinerating victims by the millions?!
The American enabling act was the ’24 Presidential election?
WTF:
Wait what? We were told all that smoke this summer was from Canadian wild fires. I need to stop listening to the right wing MSM.
You’ll notice neither the Jew or the Irishman consider Sliwa.
A Mamdani Mayoralty Threatens New York’s Jews
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-mamdani-mayoralty-threatens-new-yorks-jews-cbee614d?st=4t2T7d&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The writer is a former Top Man at GS. Naturally.
Have you seen the hit pieces coming out against Sliwa from Dems? The sense of terror that Mamdani is actually going to win is palpable.
Yup. When Mamdani wins the problem will be Sliwa. The problem isn’t the party that created Mamdani, Cuomo or Adams.
“Graham Platner, the Democrat candidate seeking to unseat incumbent Senator Susan Collins in Maine in November’s election, has come under fire for past social media posts, including one in which he said he had an “Antifa supersoldier” label on his “armor.”
….
Another Reddit post from July 2020 showed Platner sharing a link to the left-wing Socialist Rifle Association, writing, “We love new folks, and you’ve likely got an active chapter in your area.” Platner wrote about gun courses for new members and experts his local SRA chapter had in an August 2020 post, suggesting that he participated.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/maine-dem-senate-candidate-said-he-wore-antifa-supersoldier-label-on-his-armor-report
An anti-fascist communist nazi?
Well, many of the actual Nazis of Germany were former communists.
Just like there were many active Jewish fascists in Italy prior to the Pact of Steel. Funny how that works.
Can the Spanish legally talk about the Reconquista or will that put them in a cell with a group of cultural enrichers?
They are allowed to state it was wrong and that Spain is stolen land.
Iberia for the Celt-Iberians! Expunge the Moorish occupiers!
Return all of Western Europe to the Celts!
All of you seem to be forgetting the Moops.
All land once occupied by ummah is forever theirs.
It is written.
Nobody cares what they wrote, none of the land outside the sandy wastes of arabia is theirs.
UCS we could lend them a helping hand and fuse that sand for them.
Good morning Glibs! I had dinner with middle daughter last night (she bought). I hadn’t seen here in maybe 2 years. While she still seems bitter about Mrs. TOK, she wasn’t overtly hostile. And she mentioned some old friends she wanted to contact again. So it seems her possessive boyfriend is easing up a bit. I’m taking that as a good sign.
I also talked to my mom last night. She brought up the president (I swear it wasn’t me!), and it went off the rails. He wants to be a king, he’s taking over other countries so he can be their king too, he’s destroying the White House, we’re going to lose our insurance, he’s getting rid of Medicaid, he’s going to run next election and not leave if he loses. I laughed when she brought up his cabinet (RFK, Patel, etc. are all crazy and unqualified). I told her I liked most of them from before, and they’re doing a good job, and there were even a few I would have voted for for president. That kind of stunned her. Then she said I was brainwashed and I’d see she was right.
Folks, this is what we’re up against. Robert DeNiro is not an outlier. These people believe everything the Dems and the MSM tell them, no matter how outlandish. They are terrified. There is no way to talk them down from the ledge. Now think of someone younger and prone to violence having this mindset. If I wasn’t freaked out before, I am now.
My parents have been less engaged with the media as the years go by.
Ask her if she remembers Trump not leaving after he lost the 2020 election. I don’t recall the military needing to be rolled out to pry Trumpenhitler’s hands off the Oval Office door handles.
He tried to grab the steering wheel of the car taking him away from the White House …
Yep, and there is more of them than there is of us.
Juris, the population demographic pyramid is inverted.
The looters outnumber the providers in both numbers and age.
So many even if they were moderately right in their youth turn hard left when those social security and Medicare payments start dropping.
They were always dirty commies.
TOK, my aunt and I have reached a tacit agreement to not discuss politics. She is one of the few relatives that I really like, but she spends all her time on Facebook talking with other old women. It is amazing what she thinks is true.
The last time we talked politics at all was when the crazy guy shot the pols here. She blurted out (before the guy was caught) that she was sure it was a MAGA guy. I said I was going to wait for more info. I also said that if it was a MAGA guy, it would be an outlier. She started sputtering about how all the violence was right wing. I rattled off a few Steve Scalise, Nashville transgender, Trump assassins, etc. When I asked her for examples, it was Jan 6th.
Sigh.
I didn’t even tweak her when the Minnesoda assassin turned out to be bug shit crazy (said King Walz told him to do it) because I don’t want to lose her as a friend.
I texted my siblings after, and one said “DON’T TALK TO HER ABOUT POLITICS”. But as I said she brought it up. And just like you and hour aunt, we get along with her and Dad just fine if we steer clear of political talk. They are just not capable of having an actual conversation. But apparently Mom was having one of those days.
British blogger David Thompson has a great post about this called “The Blurting”, in which he writes about how it’s almost always lefties who inflict this sort of politicization on people in the expectation that everyone will agree with them, and it’s the people who stand up to it who get branded somehow uncivil.
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2019/09/the-blurting.html
An early Tears For Fears reference?
The left is still convinced that the dude in Minn. was right wing no matter that he was working for both sides, and that J6 was the worst thing ever.
My F-35 does Mach one point five.
I lost my funding now I don’t fly.
War’s been good to me so far
Lockheed Martin Raises Full-Year Profit Outlook on Strong Demand
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/lockheed-martin-earnings-q3-2025-lmt-stock-f81213ba?st=VhY9SB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
My mom was always the same way.
I would avoid politics, but she loved to needle me until I said something.
She was an avid viewer of CNN and MSNBC, and couldn’t watch Fox because: “Those people were crazy”.
That was supposed to be a reply to TOK.
Has hell frozen over? A board is actually getting replaced after completely failing.
Novo Nordisk to Shake Up Board After Obesity-Market Challenges
https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/novo-nordisk-to-replace-chairman-and-other-board-members-75f39a52?st=t3v9Tu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
With Ozempic they basically had a money printer. Not only did they mismanage it spectacularly, but this is the cherry on top:
Novo Nordisk is losing Canadian patent protection on a blockbuster drug after not paying a small fee
https://fortune.com/2025/06/17/novo-nordisk-ozempic-wegovy-semaglutide-canada-patent-protection-fee/
…
“Our flagship product relies on paying a small fee for its astronomical profits. Lets put iff paying it. What could possibly go wrong.”
The fee shouldn’t exist.
Nordisk should raise a private army and topple Canada.
And you may find yourself with a shotgun govt contract
And you may find yourself bombing another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the stick of a large F-35
And you may find yourself in a beautiful district, with a beautiful Congressman
And you may ask yourself
Well…How did I get here?
Uffda, that was supposed to be a reply to Sensei
No worries!
Beautiful congressman or Chinese honeypot?
“US citizens are free once more to buy some of the country’s most deadly firearms and gun accessories, after relentless lobbying by the gun industry and Republican politicians forced a concession from the Trump administration under the federal government shutdown.
As of this week, gun owners will be able to restart purchases of some of the most highly regulated weapons in the US, with the return to work of federal employees responsible for regulating the items now reclassified as “essential”. They include silencers, short-barreled rifles and vintage machine-guns produced before 1986…
The weapons have long been recognized as posing an outsized risk to public safety, ever since the National Firearms Act under which they are regulated was passed in 1934. Commonly known as “gangster weapons”, the firearms have proliferated in recent years and are now among the bestsellers in the gun market.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/sales-weapons-resume-amid-shutdown
GANGSTER WEAPONS!!!
“US citizens are free once more to buy some of the country’s most deadly firearms and gun accessories“
They say that like its a bad thing.
Meanwhile they’re writing from a country that still has a problem with rape gangs.
Maybe mind your own business, The Guardian.
The most regulated firearms!!! They’re worse, and more popular and easier to get, than those less regulated ones!!!!!!
I spend a lot of time around gun people and this is the first time I have heard them called Gangster Weapons.
When I hear gangster weapons, I think of Hi Point.
I think stilettos with pearl grips.
Do they hold them sideways?
The original purpose of the NFA of ’34 was indeed to reduce the number and access of “gangster weapons.”
It was the jazz age version of “assault rifle.”
Al Capone hardest hit.
Office Space – Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta
https://youtu.be/hIoPlLEXM2Y?si=lo6_CNH796eU38Ij
How many murders have been committed with legally owned NFA machine guns since 1934?
Answer. Maybe two.
One was with a post sample gun owned by a police department where one cop killed another over a lovers spat. Or not. They never identified which gun the PD owned that was actually used in the murder.
The FBI/ATF as far as I know has not released the information on the second murder.
I would love to hear the Guardian explain how my silencers pose an outsize risk to public safety.
Aren’t they required / strongly encouraged in (I want to say) Germany?
(and have we given up on “suppressors” vs. “silencers”?)
They are very legal in England, no less.
No, the device is properly termed a silencer, according to the man who invented it. ‘Suppressor’ is a sad attempt to sound tacticool.
Hiram Maxim’s muffler.
https://maximsilencers.com/
Gangster?
I always wanted a Tommy gun,but holy crap they are pricey.
Prices have gone insane in the last 15 years.
I blame YouTube.
“A wild bear in California has broken into a zoo and paid an unexpected visit to the bear enclosure.
In a Facebook post, the Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka in the northern part of the state said its staff were conducting a routine inspection of part of the complex when they spotted a wild American black bear leaning on a gate and looking in at three captive black bears in their enclosure.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/wild-bear-sequoia-park-zoo
It’s like visiting someone in prison.
“Wait a minute, you’re telling me you don’t have to find food, they just bring it to you?”
In Cali, even the bears are socialists.
Prison bears?
Way to light the Tonio signal
Caged Heat?
“The first thing to understand about antifa is that it is not real. Yes, as a journalist, I’m obligated to offer some throat-clearing nuance: There is a thing called antifa that has existed for a long time, in the sense that there have long been leftists who fight fascism with tactics like outing, public shaming and a very occasional fist to the Nazi nose. But antifa, at least as imagined by President Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters, simply does not exist.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/22/how-the-proud-boys-invented-antifa/
And the gaslighting continues. But this wasn’t written to convince anyone, it’s just confirmation for people like my mom and dad (see above).
And they’re not even hiding it. Everyone not completely batshit insane knows they are lying.
It’s interesting that an idea also has a logo.
And websites. And organized chapters. And cross-chapter organizations. etc.
If Orange Man really was the horror show he was made out to be, the FBI would set up a fake antifa meeting, get a bunch in a hotel ballroom, lock the doors, arrest them, toss them in the back of semi trucks and that would be the last we see of Antifa in that locale.
The author does have a sorta point in that many of these black bloc/antifa types aren’t dues paying members but philosophically aligned fellow travelers that walk in the same social circles and show up at the same protest/riot events. There isn’t a “president of antifa” and a membership roster like there is for DSA or the CPUSA.
a hotel ballroom, lock the doors,
arrestgas themFTFY
In other words, they operate in cells exactly like any other terror network.
If Trump was the horror show, and Antifa the peaceful activists, then the FBI would find a compound of them with their children and lay siege to it, eventually burning it down with no survivors.
They would only do that to protect the children.
A regular skull and crossbones would be no big deal for a United States Senator
“It was not until I started hearing from reporters and DC insiders that I realized this tattoo resembled a Nazi symbol,” Platner said in a statement to POLITICO on Tuesday. “I absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest if I knew that — and to insinuate that I did is disgusting. I am already planning to get this removed.”
Maybe he can have it covered up with Che.
Looks like a big blurry blob of ink.
He should add some lighting bolts to accentuate his socialism.
TW:TOS
“Alabama Police Arrest 61-Year-Old Woman in Penis Costume at No Kings Protest”
https://reason.com/2025/10/21/alabama-police-arrest-61-year-old-woman-in-penis-costume-at-no-kings-protest/
STIJLTH
Thin blue line goes down on huge cock.
more just because
A new tax on food packaging is ‘inadvertently’ increasing the price of food (in packaging), The Guardian reports.
https://x.com/Sam_Dumitriu/status/1980945405509546193
Easily foreseeable consequences are not unexpected, unless you are in government and then everything is “surprising” or “unanticipated”.
Easily foreseeable doesn’t quite cover adding a tax on a necessary element in a product then being surprised that the product’s price increases.
Relinking the feel good sports story from Monday. The Swedish version of Leicester City’s 2015-16 season: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/crm4wjdr7xpo
Up yours bigger!
“Sorry about that ‘bigger’ comment, sheriff. Of course, you’ll have the good taste not to mention that I spoke to you.”
It’s always ultra-conservative or far-right.
Are there any ultra-liberal or far-left governments?
The corporate media certainly doesn’t think there are.
Let me guess, she’s center-left.
No she’s actually right leaning. Not like she wants to attack China, but she’s wants to keep Japan for Japanese. They have an illegal immigration problem that’s still much smaller than the US, but real. Also many people are fed up with tourists from one very, very large Asian country.
Being moderately nationalist is now far right. We live in a world where the overwhelming majority of national leaders regard prioritizing the well being of the nation they are supposed to lead as evil. Personally I think failing to prioritize one’s own nation when one is in government is somewhere between dereliction of duty and high treason, and calls for summary execution, but then, I am far right.
Sensei:
The tourists are eating all the rice!
When we were there last summer, there was a lot of fussing from the womenfolx around me about this. However, they never actually ran into an actual empty store.
They didn’t like my suggestion that they drop the tariffs and buy rice from the US. Only Japanese rice is good enough for them.
There is no chance that the tourists are eating enough sushi ti make a dent compared to domestic consumption.
Jimbo I remember the late 80s when the Japanese were buying Timothy hay and paper products for the NW. the stories about their quality control and not paying the bill because they found a weed seed in the hay or a black spot on the milk carton paper were legendary in the mill town I’m from.
No idea if any of it was true though.
Personally, I think it is cool that Japan’s PM is one of the Ultrawomen
Girl talk
“JD Vance is… in some ways good-ish on paper if you like what he believes in. But I don’t know that he can take the whole [MAGA] movement with him. He’s got no rizz, right?,” Psaski added, agreeing with Welch. “And he’s just a little odd… Trump’s odd in a different way. So I’m skeptical of that.”
Psaki also referenced Vance’s wife, Usha, who met her husband while attending Yale Law School.
“I always wonder what’s going on in the mind of his wife,” Psaki said. “Like, are you OK? Please blink four times. Come over here, we’ll save you.”
One of our leading minds, hanging with the girls, dishing sophisticated political analysis.
I always thought gingers not having a soul was a joke, but she’s an example of it in reality.
It’s just … unfathomable how *actually* racist and sexist the left can be with absolutely no self awareness. I shouldn’t really be surprised I guess but I still am every single time.
“Do you even hear yourself” was said for a reason, though reason is something that goes right over their pretty little heads.
Exactly. Usha couldn’t possibly have any agency.
Everyone knows the only reason she married JD was for the green card.
I have to admit that I’m completely stumped by Jennifer Welch. I had never heard a peep about her until 10 minutes ago. Now she is everywhere.
What caused her to leap to the top of the liberal talking pundits? She seems to simply swear like a sailor about everything.
Do the proggies think that promoting a rich, old, white woman who swears is the key to winning back men and blue collar workers?
I’m sure it’s Trump’s fault she curses so much.
The endless swearing is a hallmark of marxist culture. I was certainly guilty of it for a while, I managed to cut it out because I realized the people who use it constantly are almost always commies. They don’t know many words so they just use curse words for everything. There’s your Deep Thought for the day from the movie post guy.
RJ:
Huh? Are you saying the Marines are a bunch of commies?
The best thing about the Marines for me was that for once I wasn’t the biggest Vulgarian. I could cuss as much as I wanted and not be reprimanded.
The Marines even made innocuous stuff dirty. When I first got to Okinawa, I was convinced that the Japanese phrase gomenasai meant “you are truly fucked” because of the way it was used. Imagine my surprise when I discovered it really meant, I’m sorry.
No, Jimbo, it just reflects a limited vocabulary.
Pope Jimbo:
sumimasen
warui
UCS:
Fuck you, you fucking fuck!
Military can be exempt from that rule. You are right, it is rampant there for a different reason. It applies to my observation of American work culture from blue collar to white collar.
I cursed in the Marines, but not at home.
I don’t think as many people control their speech around their kids anymore.
You’re the vulgarian, you fuck!
Ron, my 3year old dropped a “come on bitches let’s go!” Yesterday.
No daycare
Limited TV that’s always monitored.
She had to have overheard me or the wife when we thought she was asleep.
Whoops.
They’ve said the same crap about Trump and Melania. They tried to break up RFK and Larry David’s wife too.
RFK and Larry David share a wife?
Nick, are you shaming America’s favorite thruple?
You know how those Kennedys are.
And back in the 90s, there was a lot of right-wing chatter than Bill & Hillary would divorce as soon as he left the WH.
This thousand mile marriage counseling is just people wanting to be part of the in crowd.
Tainted
Unfortunately, whether Bolton actually mishandled classified information may be beside the point. Despite the stark differences between the Bolton prosecution and those against Comey and James, the political context for this prosecution taints the case. With the painfully obvious retaliations against Comey and James, Trump has blatantly and publicly seized control of the Justice Department for his political and personal agendas. Those high-profile political prosecutions, along with Bolton’s, are entirely in line with the broader activity of this Justice Department, which appears to base its activity on satisfying vengeance, not justice.
Maybe he did it, but only because Trump is an enemy of the people. Let him go.
All this is definitely retaliation, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t guilty. In the past there was a sort of gentlemen’s agreement where you just bitch about it but let it go because they’re all in the ruling class. But the Dems threw all that away, so yes, it’s game on.
J6 prosecutions were as pure as the driven snow and had NO POLITICAL ELEMENT at all!
These people are so delusional you wonder why they don’t try to breath water.
The government hasn’t told them to breathe water yet.
Jarflax:
I would also have accepted: “Trump hadn’t told them not to breath water yet”.
This is why they are so angry. Trump is now the government so everything is now both a mandatory act because the government suggested it, and absolutely forbidden because Trump suggested it.
Trump: Only fascists breathe air.
And just like that millions of people ceased to breathe.
It wouldn’t go like that.
“Like I tell everyone, America has the best air. The cleanest, the best to breathe. Everybody here should breathe the air.”
*sound of suffocating TDS sufferers*
Trump’s politicization of the Justice Department makes it hard to distinguish between fiction and reality — between justifiable prosecutions and political hit jobs. Had Trump not repeatedly conflated political dissent with criminality, urged the prosecution of his foes, or put his finger on the scales of justice in other cases, then we would have more confidence that Bolton — or any other defendant with whom the president has an axe to grind — was not being unfairly targeted or baselessly prosecuted.
the Biden administration DoJ was completely apolitical. There was not the faintest whiff of political bias in any prosecution.
“Those parents at school boards had it coming!”
Do the proggies think that promoting a rich, old, white woman who swears is the key to winning back men and blue collar workers?
she’s authentic, you dumb woman hater.
1 in 5 chemists have deliberately added errors into their papers during peer review, study finds
https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/One-five-chemists-deliberately-added/103/web/2025/10
We are adrift on uncharted waters wisely avoided by previous presidents. The inability to distinguish criminal prosecutions from political persecutions is a death knell for democracy. The latter erode trust in the system and make it harder to convict criminals who threaten public safety and achieve justice for victims. It confers immunity for people with financial, political and familial ties to the president – and those who supported him by storming the Capitol. Conversely, the powerful can target whomever they want, for whatever reason they decide. In such societies, the law becomes a dead letter, deserving nothing but contempt from the public it was meant to serve.
Do you even hear yourself?
How is Hunter doing these days?
Funny you should ask….
I hope Cracky’s OK.
The point of these articles isn’t to convince you. They’re advertising to people who likely vote for them regardless. “We’re still here, fighting for the good kind of corruption.”
I have come to that realization in the past few weeks. It makes a lot more sense now.
The point of these articles isn’t to convince you. They’re advertising to people who likely vote for them regardless. “We’re still here, fighting for the good kind of corruption.”
I hate to pile on, but the target market for this stuff is TOK’s mom, and the vast mob of people similarly gaslit into unquestioning belief. My brother, too.
“This is why you are right to ignore the law and go with your feelings. Feel the power!”
Swearing is like bold tags for the spoken word.