I’ve developed a yearly ritual: a trip to Cleveland when the Ravens are in town, hang out with generous ticket-provider Nephilium and his girlfriend, and generally have a great time. This is irrespective of the Ravens winning or losing; the fans at Browns games are exceptionally cool and nice people, second only to the happy drunks at Lambeau. Sixty years of disappointment and frustration will wear down the rough edges and bring the consolation of philosophy, so we always have a good time discussing the game, the state of the NFL, and the current lack of bodies of water on fire. This year, my sister (a lifelong rabid football fan) will be joining the fun. Alcohol will be involved. Anyway, this is a warning that tomorrow’s Links will be hosted by Spud, who seems to prefer watching Little League to actual adult sports.
Today’s birthdays include a skull and a bone; a legal hot dog; a flight risk; a guy who reached behind you and discovered…; an OG flower child; a foxy, foxy fella; a shitlib who was born to play Smoky Bear; chest-bursting pride of the Jews; electrifying our future for our own good; the best husband Kathleen Turner ever had; and a guy who turned a foot fetish into a fortune.
And let’s turn Links into a fortune.
More Trumpian brain lint or are we about to pay some massive bribes?
JFC, isn’t McConnell dead yet?
The horrors, people may have to actually DO something to get free money.
We need more rooftop Koreans. Here’s the archive version.
Watch the religious discrimination lawsuits follow. “I am following the traditions of my namesake.”
The apologetics are risible. Cut it all off. All of it.
Shocking that they would act like a Mafia gang.
“No, no, that’s not the part we wanted released!”
I can 100% guarantee that there’s none of this in Old Guy Music.
The Old Guy and Prime quite enjoyed seeing these delightful entertainers this past week. Yes, I confess to a love for intricate string music and tight vocal harmonies. In any case, for their encore, they shut off the PA, unplugged their instruments, and came off the stage to play this song, which just seems to build and build. It was an absolutely magical moment and Prime was just enraptured. She may have a new favorite band. The Old Guy’s plot to wean her off Springsteen is working…
I thought you loved girl’s Little League?
“United States President Donald Trump shared hopes that Saudi Arabia will join the Abraham Accords “very shortly” during a press conference with reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday.”
I think Trump both wants a Peace Prize and is genuinely interested in peace.
War gets in the way of business.
I thought war was a racket.
Depends on if your side is in control.
I think he just likes making deals, honestly.
This. Trump is a salesman. He lives to make sales.
Reporter: “Mr. President, what does victory in Ukraine look like?”
Trump: “If we can get people to stop killing each other that looks like victory to me.”
That tells us all we need to know.
All of the above (peace, Nobel, deal-making), plus advancing US interests. The Saudi’s greatest antagonist is Iran who is an antagonist to Israel and the US.
Can you put a price on peace?
They should just get rid of all the federal hemp and marijuana laws.
I agree, as long as the legalization prohibits hippies from talking to me about the magical powers of cannabinoids. Or at least lets me punch them when they do
As long as I don’t have to smell that shit, I don’t care what happens with it.
(never understood peoples love of that rotten vegetation.)
Are you talking MJ or cilantro ZWAK?
At least nobody (that I know of) burns soapweed and blows it in your face.
“Are you talking MJ or cilantro”
I am guessing both. I know it is for me. I would smoke a dried cat turd wrapped in bitterweed before I would smoke dope or eat cilantro. I am guessing Zwak and I share some genes.
Cilantro doesn’t bother me. MJ stinks to high heaven.
This.
And driving.
And the smell stays at their house.
If you let me design the application process I guarantee the SNAP rolls shrink, and I can probably get it close to self supporting. I’m going to need an arena of some sort, some cameras, and a few tons of random scrap metal.
Go on…
Running Man meets Hunger Games, possibly with a side of Death Race, and Rollerball (if we can teach enough to skate). I see Snickers as a sponsor.
Or like these guys?
Make the Death Race cars EVs so the progs can get behind it.
Beau, my first wife saw them in person, and said it was one of the most disturbing things she had ever seen.
My version is more organic.
Sounds like Thundetdome
The damn AI crap has taken over history channels on YouTube. At this point if there is a history video from a channel you aren’t familiar with you have to see what other videos are on the channel, how long the channel existed, and what the title images all look like.
Labels, and for that matter artists, charge too much. Far easier to program some AI slop than pay someone to create something interesting when it is just incidental music.
Today’s birthdays include a skull and a bone
Happy birthday Yorick!
The wife would prefer to watch Little League (or even The League) to football.
a foxy, foxy fella
Happy birthday Ben Jonson!
“The decision by Judge Rita Lin is a preliminary injunction and represents a significant victory for University of California scientists, professors, graduate students and other researchers.”
I’m at the point where I just automatically assume the judge is wrong.
Two weeks to
bend the curvereverse the decision.a legal hot dog
Happy birthday Spuds McKenzie!
aka Chris Sabo
“And as we see it, prohibition is going to be a solution to a problem that is going to actually end up exacerbating it. It is a cure worse than the disease”
That’s just crazy talk. It’s not like we have over a century of evidence proving this fact; WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?
a flight risk
Happy birthday Thurman Munson!
OK, that was an excellent one. Equally acceptable would be John Denver.
As would D.B. Cooper.
JFK Jr took the big flight risk
I’ll submit JFK jr
and a guy who turned a foot fetish into a fortune
Happy birthday Rex Ryan!
I was gonna go with Quentin Tarantino.
WT was my guess.
What does “UPMC” stand for?
Their website doesn’t say.
I’m guessing either “Univeristy of Pennsylvania Medical Center” or “United Presbyterian Medical Center”.
Pensacola?
Usually around here UPMC is U of Pennsylvania, but this one might be U of Pittsburgh.
Around here, it is University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
That would appear to be correct:
(I know, I know. Reading that much of the linked article is cheating. 😉)
“The move represents an apparent departure from a July memo issued by the justice department and the FBI that stated officials had found nothing in the Epstein files that warranted the opening of further inquiries. Investigators “did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties”, the memo said.”
That could be true given statute of limitations.
It could also be true because although salacious, creepy and unethical – what happened may not have been illegal.
“The president’s team struck back, saying those documents had been cherrypicked, and Republican representatives followed up by releasing a much bigger trove of more than 20,000 files.”
Couldn’t Bondi have done that before, instead of the binder nonsense?
Are you suggesting Bondi has binders full of women?
That assumes a degree of competence.
Also Old Guy Music
Thoughts?
https://substack.com/@paulstaples/note/c-177351361?r=d0r3d&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Because, I look at that scene, and while it isn’t pretty, I see a place of convenience, choice, safety. It’s beautiful, in a way.
Also, they still have a Perkins.
I like the comments like, “the Japanese do it better!”
Depends on what you really want.
Also, Americans aren’t Japanese; we have different outlooks on life.
Sure they do.
https://spoon-tamago.com/chaotic-photographs-of-electric-cables-suspended-over-japanese-streets/
The Weeb worship gets tiring.
The Weeb worship gets tiring.
It amuses me. People watch a few cute anime and fall in love with Japanese culture. Meanwhile, the anime they watch all have the same underlying theme, namely the pressure to conform in Japanese life is unendurable, and Japanese school kids grow up knowing that one misstep, liking the wrong boy or girl, saying the wrong thing, failing one exam can leave them permanently outcast and isolated. I love slice of life anime, but when you pay attention they are NOT showing a utopian life, they are the fantasy stories people living in a dystopian world use to escape.
https://www.tofugu.com/japan/conformity-in-japan/
Personally I would not want to work in Japan. I’d live there, but working there is very different from the U.S.
I think I could handle it as an adult, but the idea of going through puberty in that environment is a nightmare.
This is an excellent point, especially considering how a lot of the nü-Right neo-reactionary types explicitly base their ideal culture off cute animes.
Here’s a wacky thought… Not every street has to look like every other street. Find one that works for you.
I hate electric lines suspended on poles. They are ugly.
It is amazing how much more pleasing to the eye it is when those lines are buried. As prosperity increases that will become the norm and the suspended lines will disappear….as prosperity increases. We have to go through this stage to get there.
What will the control freaks bitch about then?
Power and telecom lines aren’t buried in a lot of places due to the high costs of infrastructure repair when there is a break, or when there is difficult terrain to deal with. Doing an inline splice in the air is much easier than digging it up to find the break and then repair it. Also, crossing a body of water, or going over mountain ranges is also not compatible with buried lines.
As far as new construction goes, buried lines just add to the costs of an already overpriced product, or make infrastructure improvements even higher cost. Much easier to dig one post hole for a pole and string off of the main line, than to dig a trench back to the nearest step down transformer. Which also need to be above ground, for cooling.
You can find similar street scenes in Japan once you get out of the megacities.
My wife would accuse me of a being a weeb, if she knew what the term was. But then she talks about how much fun it would be to rent an apartment for a couple of months in Japan and I just shake my head (in my head).
Me too, Suthen. I can look out any window and only see trees. No neighbors, no wires and even the DISH equipment is gone, gone, gone
All the whiners sound like James May-style socialists. Rest stops are awesome.
When did May become a socialist? He was my favorite TG/GT presenter.
I’ve stopped at that rest stop many a time. Are the same people complaining about the trail towns that support riders along the GAP?
My grandfather’s generation came of age around the turn of the century on agrarian utopian farms….at one with the land etc. They got the fuck out of there the instant they could and never looked back. They got educations and lived in the cities. Why? “You worked your ass off from the sunrise to the sunset or you didnt eat.”
I want to use the force of government to take the wheel from all of the naysayers.
Forever.
Massie was a widower.
Trump was still married.
Wrong spot
Pic is old, judging by the WMT big rig and the cars.
“Well, we didn’t mean send them over here – I mean JFC.”
Trump seems to have lost his mind. He’s done a pro-wresting heel turn on the people who supported him at his lowest point.
He used to be witty with tweets. Now he’s just an asshole bully.
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1989502080638214273
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1989664239162986716
Funny, funny stuff
I’m not sure either Massie or Greene ever supported Trump personally – they just opposed the shit being done to him. That’s not the right kind of support to Trump.
The CIA is slipping him LSD.
Greene was absolutely devoted to him even at the height of the lawfare. Her big offenses were suggesting we don’t import more tech workers to replace Americans and he keep his promises on the Epstein stuff.
Massie was a widower.
Trump was still married when he went for the next slice.
“Now”? lol
Crazy hysteric perfectly describes Trump’s single paragraph blob. MTG’s response is measured and professional.
“Thoughts and prayers”
Yeah, they want the Palestinians to genocide the Jews.
Exactly right
Popping popcorn here….what are the odds on which one eats the other one first?
Silicone Saturday prefers delta8-THC.
https://archive.is/5iXal
😂🤣
Can someone translate that to Reality?
Too many Chinamen, (((Jews))) and WASPS.
They are refusing to stop with the DEI shit and playing semantic games to hide it. Trump is cutting their water off, as he should.
“Leaders of New York City’s “Forgotten Borough” — and most conservative enclave — are re-introducing stalled legislation for Staten Island to secede from what they fear will become the People’s Republic of Mamdani.
The Democratic Socialist “could not be further out of sync with the values of communities on Staten Island, and I’d argue that this time around Democrats won’t want to stop [the borough’s secession] because it would make it even less likely [NYC] ever elects a Republican mayor again,” said state Sen. Andrew Lanza, who told The Post he plans to “put the foot to the pedal” on the plan in January.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/15/us-news/staten-island-pols-renew-bid-to-pull-out-of-nyc-in-response-to-mamdani-winning-mayoral-race/
“I’d argue that this time around Democrats won’t want to stop”
I’d argue the opposite. Communism requires *everyone* participate whether they like it or not.
Not everyone has to participate – unless being exterminated is a form of participation.
But now they can finally turn right on red!
https://nypost.com/2025/11/13/us-news/staten-island-drivers-would-be-able-to-turn-right-on-red-under-new-bill/
They’ll need the $, it ain’t gonna happen.
Narrator: Elon Musk is not “nearing trillionaire status”. 🙄
Dumb people think that means he has a Trillion dollars in cash, not tied up in investments and business – almost all of which is reinvested if earning a profit.
People are dumb, panicky animals: News at 11.
OBE: Greedy shits. They think there’s a big pile of money and want it for their own purposes.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. allegedly admitted to smoking a powerful psychedelic that can make people feel like they’re having a near-death experience, a new tell-all book claims.
The claim is laid bare in former New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi’s memoir, which dishes details of the pair’s scandalous sexting affair, the New York Times reported on Friday.
Nuzzi, 32, alleges in her “American Canto” memoir that the 71-year-old Kennedy scion, who has been sober for decades and is an anti-vaccine activist, told her during their fling that he still used psychedelics — including dimethyltryptamine, or DMT.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/14/us-news/rfk-jr-allegedly-smokes-powerful-psychedelic-that-gives-people-near-death-experiences-tell-all/
Not that anyone should believe Olivia Nuzzi.
If this turns out to be true, it would make me respect RFKjr. more.
OK?
Smoking is bad for one’s health.
Sexting?
Are they in highschool?
“The “very shy” 16-year-old who tragically leaped to his death at New York City’s famed Regis High School had gotten into hot water after taking a controversial stance in his ethics class, sources told The Post on Friday.
A dean at the prestigious Upper East Side institution — which counts “Saturday Night Live” star Colin Jost and former US COVID top doc Anthony Fauci among its alum — had taken away the young man’s phone, or was just about to, amid the incident when the teen jumped from a fifth-floor window around 9:30 a.m. Thursday, law-enforcement sources said.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/14/us-news/regis-hs-teen-who-leaped-to-death-was-to-be-punished-for-controversial-stance-in-ethics-class-sources/
What was the controversial stance?
Seems to be missing. Poor kid. I imagine he questioned who decides what the greater good is.
“Controversial”: undoubtedly a mainstream opinion in most of the country.
My money is on, “Israel has a right to defend itself from aggression.”
There are just too many opinions you are not allowed to have anymore. Hard to choose just one.
Sounds right.
There are only two sexes.
‘I want to go swinging but husband is demanding I raise his secret love child’
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/i-want-go-swinging-husband-36112733
Submitted without comment.
I figure you feed this historical column into a LLM AI and you’d never run out of content, both the initial letter and the response.
Really no need for human beings here anymore.
Wow.
“Megyn Kelly drew criticism after she mounted a defense of Jeffrey Epstein by claiming to have been told he was into the ‘barely legal type’ and was apparently not a pedophile….
‘I’m definitely not trying to make an excuse for this – I’m just giving you facts – that he wasn’t into, like, eight-year-olds,’ Kelly said. ‘But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby.’
Kelly added: ‘Look, you can say that’s a distinction without a difference. I think there is a difference. There’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a five-year-old.
‘You know, it’s just whatever. It’s sick. Every time we start talking about Epstein, it makes your skin crawl, right? The whole thing is just disgusting.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15293409/megyn-kelly-jeffrey-epstein-comments.html
Secret libertarian?
malum prohibitum vs malum in se
Pointing out that being attracted to post-pubescent teenagers like Epstein and pre-pubescent children like this morning’s link poster are not the same thing is not a defence of Epstein.
No one wants nuance when they are on their moral high horse.
This is the opinion that I believe lead to be being perma banned from X.
Trannies and furries ganged up on me and called me a pedo, couple days later I was banned.
pedophile vs ephebophile. It is not a distinction without a difference but both are, as slumbrew says, malum in se que malum prohibitum.
lay your hand on my 5 yo granddaughter or my 14yo granddaughter and you will be just as dead.
15 and under is a child.
If you’re 30 messing with a 16 year old I want you in stocks in the public square.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/11/the-week-in-pictures-return-to-normalcy-edition.php
“13 tons of cocaine that was bound for the United States was seized from a ferry in the Pacific, according to authorities in Panama. The bust was one of the largest hauls they had seen in Panamanian waters to date.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/13-tons-of-cocaine-headed-for-us-seized-by-panama-authorities
Damn.
Weekend plans ruined?
That’s a hell of a haul of a hell of a drug.
I’ve posted this before, but my thoughts on welfare.
XY is inordinately concerned about getting the Epstein files released. It’s a more valid concern than any other weird thing he’s obsessed over (like school busses), but 🙄 Anyway, he was demanding of me why wouldn’t they release them and why do I not care. I told him whatever’s in those files could cause a lot of economic harm across the globe, the participants are old money, they have WAYS, and they run the world, so there’s no point. Whatever Trump’s motive for not releasing them, it may be for the greater good. But, I also told him that the sooner he realizes he’s a gnat in the cosmos, the happier he’s going to be. I honestly don’t have it in me to care anymore. Last night, I saw r/DataHoarder had an Epstein dump and pointed him there.
Speaking of r/DataHoarder, I thought these were my people. They are not my people. They have ARRAYS containing the whole internet. IN THEIR BASEMENT!!! I have 30 years of scribblings, Geocities wallpaper textures, pretty pictures, and executables that were old in 1996 that don’t quite make 3TB. This one dude bought—JUST FOR HIMSELF—$15,000 in storage (they still charged him $3.98 for shipping), which makes him “Just shy of 1.6PB.” 🤯
1.6 PedoBytes?
It’s like a digital PedoBear.
I’m with XY on this one. Fuck the greater goo.
Kinky.
I knew it was the goobacks all along.
Finding out that the deep state is real can make one obsessive. XY may have always heard the talk but never really thought about it. It’s a wake up call. It’s like being mugged by reality.
It is the job of Youth to go down those rabbit holes. I did my time down there with Rush Limbaugh, fisking people on Usenet, and eventually winding up in a three-year-long perpetual state of doom I call The Great Mojo Prepper Panic of 2008, wherein I spent too much time on ZeroHedge, too much money prepping all the wrong things, and too much wringing of hands.
I woke up one day and saw Doom had not happened. I was tense, angry, anxious, and unhappy every second of every day. I stopped cold and I’ve struggled not to go back.
I also wrote books with a lot of rich people (because I’m poor and I don’t want to read about poor people), and eventually logicked out that some things are way bigger and more powerful than new money and random politicians*.
So when XY pops up with these questions, I’m thinking, “Fuck. Here we go again.”
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*This is my “widow whose late husband had a devastated secret trope” book. Except mine has a twist (of course): The widow was in on it and she’s protecting it [a computer] with her life.
All fantasy. Accept being a serf, XY. Do the best you can with your life. Eighty years isn’t very long.
I posted this last night, but it still remains the best quick takedown of communism I have seen.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zMmjKRettxA
Bring back white labeled GENERIC commodities.
Shame is good.
+1 Repo Man
“State Dept says overweight visa applicants could be rejected”
https://thepostmillennial.com/state-dept-says-overweight-visa-applicants-could-be-rejected
No fat chicks?
Tres hardest hit.
Flight risk? As in risk to the aircraft if they try to fly here?
A+ troll game
Right?
Trump exercises right of prima nocta for the hot Slavic visa applicants.
He needs to spread some of that around.
So what is everyone drinking?
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/e+guigal+croze+hermitage+rhone+france/2013?srsltid=AfmBOoqA440zFmGFK0tCIqchmBPcmnf2aaIDfnqw9tXJ0nu8cwhnDDnW
With some grilled beef tenderloin
https://photos.app.goo.gl/pmHqidcT9M1JtaQv6
Marvelous. I had a steak and egg scramble because it is morning here. And I had leftover steak.
My daughter has to be in Algebra 1 this year (8th grade) to go to STEM academy. She is not. Other than that she met all the requirements. She does not want to take Algebra over summer. I am remaining Stoic, I cannot force my vision of her future onto her. She can try again in a year.
My advice for your daughter and algebra: Get a private tutor who actually knows how to teach.
I only realized a couple of years ago that I was never taught the order of operations and thus, had a much harder time with algebra than I should have had. Took someone who was brilliant at actually teaching it for me to get it finally at 24 and after 3 tries at college algebra.
Prime and I had the 2015 a few weeks ago. Not a bad negociant wine.
She’s in NYC this weekend, so I think I’ll pop something weird for fun tonight. Like an amber Rkatsiteli.
Coffee.
I’ve got salmon thawing and will have that with a Douro white today or tomorrow.
Coffee now.
Leftovers of what the kids didn’t eat for breakfast now and later the wife has promised a scramble.
Life is good.
Strawberry pop.
Tea. I’m off coffee for a little while. That probably explains any recent personality changes.
Are you turning Japanese?
Coffee might be back in rotation if it drops in prices
OBE we stocked up this spring. Have another three months of stock left.
chai latte
Just some iced tea now, but will be going to a distillery for their annual Christmas whiskey release this afternoon, and contemplating going to a cocktail competition on Monday.
Your liver is more of a man than I am.
“Journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote, “As for the ‘it’s just a joke’ crowd defending The Babylon Bee’s pager image aimed at Megyn Kelly, I keep asking them: what was the ‘joke’ here? None will explain the joke. What was it?””
https://thepostmillennial.com/babylon-bee-posts-joke-suggesting-violence-against-megyn-kelly-then-deletes-it-amid-backlash
The joke is that Israel would go after her for defending Tucker.
It was actually a funny joke with bad timing. I am victim of such bad timing cause in my head, the joke is funny.
I enjoyed the joke as well. Save a place for me in the boxcar.
It’s funny.
Timing be damned.
Another one where the comment section didn’t go as planned.
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1989061049643897017
Cant all be bangers and current social media cycle is to turn and burn big dogs in hopes to ride a grievence click bait wave for ‘influencers’ seeking ingagement wars
Its actually an ‘industry’ really. One main stream podcaster, Youtubers, X account will drive 100s of low level accounts to start putting out things just in hopes they become ‘bigger’ in the eyes of the almighty algorithm.
It made me laugh.
“People are just the right amount of horny for Frankenstein’s monster
In the newest take on “Frankenstein,” Jacob Elordi’s gorgeously tragic creature is a gift to monstersexuals”
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/13/people-are-just-the-right-amount-of-horny-for-frankensteins-monster/
No.
Dont be so suburban
You’d hit Elsa Lanchester.
I don’t think so.
What did you ever get from the monster?
Belgium have a football player named Onana, LOL.
Dont be so easily amused.
This is Glibertarians. What did you expect?
Belgian bean flicker?
“That’s the paradox facing most women who support Trump. As vile as it is, for many Republican men, sexual abuse is an extension of their larger project of enforcing a strict gender hierarchy — and a good number are increasingly unapologetic about that. But GOP women still need to at least publicly object to rape, if only to preserve a basic sense of dignity. Instead, the Republican sales pitch to women is an age-old deal: In exchange for submission, they will get protection.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/14/sorry-nancy-mace-donald-trump-hasnt-protected-women/
It’s like Caged Heat.
The Book-Tok universe or whatever its says otherwise that it is a R v D issue.
Marital sex is rape! Random gangbangs are empowerment! The list of people I want disenfranchised is much longer than the list of people I want voting.
Are these the same people who support no cash bail, gun restrictions, and Biden’s immigration policies?
What the fuck is a Billie Ellish?
A synonym for “idiot”, I think.
Absolutely hideous sloe-eyed teen pop star with minimal education and clear evidence of drug use.
I don’t even know anyone, teen or adult, that listens to her. Yet she is celebrated.
She always looks like a street hooker walking home after a rough night.
Meh, I like her, but then, I’ve always liked fluffy bubblegum pop (I never told my classmates that, though). She and her brother write their own stuff, which is relatively complex and kinda clever. It’s not High Art. It’s not even Lady Gaga. But it has its place in my hard drive. Auto-tuned or not, it’s much better than, say Taylor Swift, who is zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Autotuned dope infused.
Okay, look. I cut my teeth on the Drug Scouts of America. I’m not a one-genre pony.
RIP Todd Snider. Had the pleasure of seeing him perform – singing and telling hilarious stories – a couple of years ago at a charming theater in Bellefontaine, Ohio.
I suspect he may have had some “issues,” but for my money he was an Alright Guy.
Preparing for the brown shirted lynch mobs
Charles, who is Black, says he bought the handgun after the Trump administration did things that scared him, including arresting a foreign student who criticized her university’s policy on Israel and handcuffing a U.S. senator who was forcibly removed from a Homeland Security news conference.
“What I’m talking about is protecting myself from a situation where there may be some kind of civil unrest,” says Charles. Like most people who spoke with NPR for this story, he asked that his last name not be used for fear of retribution.
Charles says he worries that some of President Trump’s supporters may feel emboldened someday to target minorities like him and his family.
“He could dispatch citizens or the government,” Charles says. “I’m not saying that’s what’s going to happen. What I’m saying is none of this is out of the question any longer.”
For decades, the image of gun ownership in America was white, rural and Republican, but that’s been changing, according to gun clubs, trainers, Second Amendment advocates and academic researchers.
Look what you made them do.
But the 2A is about keeping the slaves down!!
Because guns in “liberal” utopian cities like Brooklyn are just unheard of. Stay safe from Trump’s brownshirts, Charles.
LOL every time I think we’ve reached peak NPR.
“I live in an oppressive tyranny where I am afraid for my life so I went out in public and on a whim bought a perfectly legal firearm without a hitch to defend myself.”
Sure Jan.
Despite White House claims to the contrary, there is ample anecdotal evidence that more people are buying guns because some of the administration’s policies frighten them.
That settles it.
Now do buying guns to oppose covid lockdowns or the George Floyd Mostly Peaceful Protests™.
Don’t worry Bondi is doing her best to protect gun control.
Like the vast majority of gun owners, those who spoke to NPR said they would use the weapons only for self-protection and would not engage law enforcement.
“All the language that we use is absolutely not about rallying together to arm and go assault anyone,” says MJ, a member of a liberal, self-defense group in the Midwest who asked NPR not to use his full name because he feared retribution. “If anyone even talks like that, I or someone else would probably boot them out of the group.”
Bill Sack, director of legal operations with the Second Amendment Foundation, which challenges gun control legislation, says he’s glad to see more liberals exercising their right to self-defense – but he isn’t happy about why.
“Is it a good thing that people are scared?” he says. “No, of course not.”
This “wishes to remain anonymous for fear of retribution” crap is really pissing me off.
The second amendment applies to everybody. Go buy a gun and learn to use it without shooting your own dick off. Have fun.
Yes, living in a crime-ridden shithole can be worrisome.
Oh – that’s not what they mean?
Every new gun owner who spoke to NPR said they thought it was highly unlikely they would have to defend themselves because of civil unrest. But they also said that if they ever had to, they’d regret not having a gun.
Something something better to have it and not need it…
High drama
Four women who have accused President Donald Trump of inappropriate sexual contact signed onto a letter sent Friday to Congress by survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, demanding the release of all the files on the accused sex trafficker.
They were joined by four relatives of Virginia Giuffre, an outspoken Epstein accuser who died by suicide in April.
“Dear Esteemed Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives,” the letter began. “You have the ability to vote to release the Epstein files, and with it, deliver a promise the American people have awaited far too long. We implore you to do so.”
Writing “there is no middle ground here,” the letter writers said the crimes committed by Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and their co-conspirators, “exposed a double standard of justice, where rich and powerful men and women evade repercussions.”
I hope they had a calliope for accompaniment.
Giiffre was in on it.
Probably killed herself over the guilt and knowing she would eventually have to testify again.
Todd Snider
I like his stuff but I think I heard he was a hard core mask and lockdown hysteric.
Bob and tom show is up there with the band Rush for me. I change the channel as fast as I can.