Those were some damn good playoff games. All except the last one, which was an error-filled bloodbath. But at least the Chargers lost. Now there’s one gamer left tonight, which has all the makings of a swan song for Rodgers. And that’s pretty much all I’ve got for sports.
I’ll believe it when I see it. And I do not expect to see it any time soon.
The Peoples Paradise Of New York is going as expected. It’s fucking amateur hour.
I guess they got tired go the Nazi Germany comparisons. Figured they’d try something new to describe when the government actually enforces laws on the books rather than ignoring them.
Everybody here is an asshole. The people who won’t get out of the street. The idiot who barreled through them. And the police for not doing their fucking job worth a shit. So of course it has to be California.
Adios, muchachos! I expect many more to flee.
Fire up the violins. The really, really tiny ones, as far as I’m concerned.
He’s gone off the reservation. Surprising one of them is choosing the 80 over the 20 on an 80/20 topic.
I fully expect the NHS to propose a simple solution: to start killing more patients. It’s always their go-to when they start running over budget.
Just get rid of the Fed altogether. 1. It’s politicized beyond belief. And 2. They can’t manage their one budget and tell the truth.
Damn, dude. Take it easy. Would have been way easier to run a grease fire insurance scam or something.
Here’s a lovely rock song. Such a great band. We are the Mods. We are the Mods. We are, we are, we are the Mods. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends.
Bills won, and the Eagles lost. Don’t care about the Chargers.
Surprised San Fran that can’t stop anything won.
The Iggles collapsed. AJ Brown looks like a shadow of his former self.
How Sloopy could actually prefer that New (spits) England won should be surprising, but, alas, he is, after all, a fOSU fan.
What was the Charger’s coach’s last job?
I was against them for the (former) Ravens connection.
Totally acceptable, Neph.
I have the same warm feelings for Chargers’ ownership that Neph does for Baltimore and OMWC does of Indy.
Wasted season for both Chiefs and Eagles. Neither team looked like it wanted to defend last year’s laurels.
They lost to some awful teams (Eagles lost to Commanders and Giants, for pity’s sake). There will be some roster and coaching changes, that is for sure.
The Chiefs haven’t had an O line in five years. It was bound to catch up with them. Also, Mahomes tore his ACL three games ago.
Related: Just last night I transcribed five knee surgeries.
“Hamas said Sunday it will dissolve its existing government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over the territory, as mandated under the U.S.-brokered peace plan. But the group gave no specifics on when the change will occur.”
Technocratic?
Hamas was executing rival Muslims, so I doubt it.
This is just stalling in an attempt to distract from the fact they have zero plans to give up power… Even if they lose their second biggest sponsors: the Iranian Mullahs. After all, the EU is their biggest sponsor.
The EU is the biggest sponsor of Hamas?
Yeah, I always assumed it was the UN.
“The EU is the biggest sponsor of Hamas?”
Look up their financial contributions and their immigration policies…
Looks like Qatar is their biggest sponsor, followed by Iran.
Qatar really is the Little Finger of this world.
*cue Tucker Carlson apologia*
Or woodchippers.
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The problem with any kind of immigration that doesn’t force conformity and integration to our system is exactly this. Low trust cultures that see tribal crime as business as usual will give us tons of that. And these low IQ morons seemed to quickly grasp the vulnerability of the marxist cabal’s racial agenda and rode it hard. It helps when the democrats have created a completely new economic sector that basically exists to steal tax payer money to enrich those connected to the party that then pay their danegeld by giving the democrats a piece of that action.
Pure fear-mongering straight from the DNC.
They want more chaos and violence. They haven’t figured out how to deal with the first president who is clearly sick of their shit.
“I guess they got tired go the Nazi Germany comparisons. Figured they’d try something new to describe when the government actually enforces laws on the books rather than ignoring them.”
Man, they are desperate to light off “The summer of love, George Floyd boogaloo 2” so they can rig another election, huh?
A big part of the Summer of Floyd was that everyone had been locked inside their houses for a couple of months and was on edge. Once they saw a picture of a smug cop smirking at the crowd while some lowlife overdosed under his knee, it was as good an excuse as any to get out of the house, especially as the weather was turning nice.
Some dumpass dyke getting smoked by the cops won’t have the same effect — especially in January.
But this isnt a pent up racial issue. This is another socialist push with DSA right in front.
And they now run into the problems that most people know this leftist angst & drama shit isn’t organic, but paid for, and that the fact they control information has allowed their attempt at narrative to fail miserably. Of course the people with mental disorders will show up to do their thing, but I doubt this goes anywhere with real Americans. Including more opportunities to rig elections where they need it. Voting in deep blue states like Minnesoda, CA, and even CT is already hyper rigged, and rigging those more won’t buy them shit.
The real issue for me is people know I grew up in MN and are now talking really slow to me because they’re assuming all Minnesotans are retarded now.
Wait, not every one in Minnesoda is tartdeded?
*tugs beard*
*puts Alex on the naughty list*
not every one in Minnesoda is tartdeded
That’s rich coming from a resident of Commie-netticut.
So the Feds should give the dead idiot justice. Her partner was filmed at the scene saying, “This is my fault. I told her to come here to act.” (Or words to that effect} in the immediate aftermath. She was also caught on the shooter’s device telling the dead woman to “Drive. Drive.” Try woman 2 for accessory to murder and imprison her.
“*tugs beard*
*puts Alex on the naughty list*”
I heard there was an exemption to Duluth, where only 50% is tardeded, Nick…
“That’s rich coming from a resident of Commie-netticut.”
Touche, JI..
Then again, there is Penny-Sylvania, where the men are real men, and the boys run scared…
The boys just get shipped off to State College – they know how to treat them there.
They’ll wait until Summer.
“He continued, “Here at home, tens of thousands are marching after the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good — demanding justice, transparency, and an end to an unchecked federal force that takes lives and tears families apart. Solidarity across borders means opposing authoritarian power everywhere and defending the right to live free from fear and state violence. #StandWithIran #JusticeForReneeGood #EndAuthoritarianism.”
That’s rich.
I am hoping that by summer the money people are under indictment.
Remember the only thing that matters is narrative, and that narrative is a winner because it makes the true believers feel like every freedom fighter in history.
“The largest nurses strike in New York City history has started after negotiators for five major hospitals and the state nurses union failed to agree to a new contract by Monday’s deadline.”
Why do nurses have a union? They’re not laborers. They are college-educated professionals.
HEALTHCARE IS A RIGHT!
commie bints: So in order to give free healthcare to all, healthcare workers are now going to be designated as critical workers (meaning new slaves) and their unions dissolved…
The teamsters unionized the nurses at my local private hospital.
They are nurses. Not truck drivers.
Unions must be hurting.
The moves come as California weighs a ballot initiative that would impose a one-time 5% tax on residents worth more than $1 billion, a proposal backed by a powerful health care union that would apply retroactively to anyone living in the state as of Jan. 1. It would give affected taxpayers five years to pay.
All too expectedly, there’s some chicanery in the fine print.
He claims the law is poorly written but it is written exactly how they want it to be. Poorly needs to be changed to insidiously.
Poorly written means unelected activists get to set policy. That’s by design. But everyone here knew that.
Does anyone still believe that any kind of voting in CA isn’t completely rigged to deliver whatever results democrats want? So why this dumb ass pretense they need a vote?
You really have that much trouble believing there are that many dumbasses in our country?
Do you really think they’d risk the mob swinging against them. The dumbasses are fickle and unreliable. Best to remove them from the process.
“You really have that much trouble believing there are that many dumbasses in our country?”
What does dumbasses – i.e. leftists tools – have to do with rigged elections where the only thing that matters is who counts the votes?
Alex – JI is convinced that there is no fraud – therefore all electoral results must be the results of idiocy.
JI – Alex is convinced that no poitical operative would let something so important as an election be left to the voters.
The truth is in the overlap of the Venn diagram.
JI, considering just how much fraud is being uncovered in MN, and how many votes were “fucked up” in Atlanta, your insistence that this is solely the actions of “dumbasses” voting is looking more and more pathetic each and every day.
The one doesn’t really disprove the other.
And there are a lot of ways to rig an election that we don’t really recognize as rigging.
As long as women trend heavily blue there’s never going to be an electoral blowout for the right. And no, 2024 was not a blowout. Reagan in 84 was a blowout 312-226 is not. I’m sure the Democrats will ballot harvest and sneak dead or illegal votes into the stack as much as possible, but pretending we are not divided pretty much down the middle ideologically is dangerously naive.
“And there are a lot of ways to rig an election that we don’t really recognize as rigging.”
So much this…
1) Voting without having to show ID. Rife with cheating. And those telling you there is no cheating are laughing at you for being stupid enough to believe this shit.
2) Ballot harvesting – LEGALLY, because the fucking marxist codified that shit in the occupied blue states – is a common practice and supports massive fraud. see the Somali community in Minnesoda as proof. And it happens in every blue state that has legalized that shit.
3) Fake ballots discovered in odd places right after a count has been identified as close enough for cheating to count happens constantly.
4) The counters in blue municipalities engage in constant fraud. We keep getting told it never happens but there are cases in courts constantly about just that shit.
5) And the biggest racket is a lying legacy media that tells people with a straight face they are unbiased when all they are is a propaganda machine for the criminal democrat party cabal.
And we absolutely need this to be able to rectify 30 plus years of system rigging to favor the collapse of a free US middleclass.
but pretending we are not divided pretty much down the middle ideologically is dangerously naive
No one could possibly differ from my view – it’s the only one. Everything else is a lie and a cheat!
hurr-durr-hurr
And yes everyone, there is in fact shady shit with elections – but the biggest one is that fools do vote.
Votes like this don’t need to be rigged. Envy works pretty well to get the results they want on this proposition.
Don’t be disingenuous, JI. No one is saying every vote is a lie or a cheat, just that given the present circumstances and conditions (number of illegals/motor voter registrations multiplied by the instances of confirmed cheating) along with the ease of cheating that present voting systems allow (mail in votes, ballot harvesting) that there is a non-zero amount of cheating, and it might be enough (see Atlanta) to push a candidate over the line.
Yes, there are dumbasses, yes there are smart people with politics that don’t match yours/ours, but there is also malfeasance. Denying it isn’t a good look.
This.
I believe, for example, that there was enough fraud in 2020 to turn what should have been a modest win for Donald into a modest win for Joe.
The fact that I believe an election was stolen does not mean there aren’t millions of dumbasses out there.
a non-zero amount of cheating
Has there ever been a time in this country that that wasn’t true? The argument presented was that there are so few that actually support this shit as to require completely manufactured voting. Who’s being disingenuous now?
Motor voter.
I paid my CA sales taxes last night.
The CA sales tax portal upon logging out lead me to a link to resister to vote.
I’m in Idaho.
A fraction of those billions will be wasted challenging that retroactive bullshit in court.
Both of them need new accountants. They had to be out by 12/31/25 to avoid the law if it passes. Unless they wanted to be test cases for the blatant unconstitunality of it.
I want to see them both get bent over by California and get what they have coming.
These shitbags were all on board with the captain ramming the iceberg and now they want to get on the life raft? Fuck them.
Its her prize, if she wants to give away the trinket, who is going to stop her? The secret Nobel police?
Also, its all incredibly idiotic.
BUT TRUMP-PUTIN-HITLER!!!
Legal quibble – After some earlier winners sold their medals, the organization stopped gifting them and retained legal title to the physical objects, loaning them to the winners for display purposes.
Or was that the Olympics?
Dammit, my memory is playing tricks on me now.
UCS:
I believe it was the Olympics. And didn’t they just go to some technocratic medals in the last Olympic games?
Academy Awards, too, after about 1950.
They should just replace medals and awards with NFTs.
They’ve been auctioned off before. One as recently as 2022. I suspect this different because OMB.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/21/nobel-peace-prize-auctioned-by-russian-journalist-dmitry-muratov-fetches-record-1035m
“So of course it has to be California.”
I can think of a few more states.
Anyway, I can’t figure out what position the U-Haul was taking.
On average, U-Hauls help people flee tyranny.
Wait, somehow California still has U-Hauls rental available?
The reason U-hauls cost more in california is that the company has to pay someone to bring them back for more customers to rent.
No mullahs, no shahs. Pretty clear from the sign. Also, its so incredibly idiotic.
Then why did it plow into an anti-Iran regime rally?
To quote ji
Bah…you get the idea
Missionary.
“Listen, I think we went through the longest government shutdown in American history last year. I don’t think we need to repeat it,” Warner said, when asked if he would support a push to freeze funding for ICE ahead of the funding deadline.
“For the first time in recent memory, we couldn’t win the PR battle over a shutdown against the Republicans, and we don’t have to give them another victory so soon.” — Fixed it for him
And point of clarification: when The Hill says “freeze funding,” does that mean “keep it from increasing” or “reducing it to zero?”
I know the Feds got delinquent on some paychecks, but when did we have an actual shutdown?
we went through the longest government shutdown in American history last year.
Oh yeah, I forgot already. Didn’t really notice when it was occurring either.
Warner is doing this in at least part due to the pressures of him losing his (former) rank. I would put money on it.
It’s a mystery. 🙄
Damn, dude. Take it easy.
He thought he could take each bank for less than $1K and not be prosecuted for that.
From the overnight thread
It’d be much easier to actually do – plus they get to bring more supplies along to establish themselves on the new islands.
I don’t have a monkey in this fight, but I would say if someone wanted to get to that island in the distance, swimming is less of an effort and way more direct than trying to build a boat.
One individual, maybe – but a population has cargo and children to move.
Moving cargo and children doesn’t seem necessary.
Moving cargo and children doesn’t seem necessary.
So you just leave your orphans chained up in the mines when you move? Man, that’s harsher than Shri Thanedar and the dogs.
Are we disregarding aliens, and rocs dopping their prey?
Rocs lived on the south coast of Persia, not around Crete.
Aliens generally replace their divot after an abduction.
I don’t care what you’re protesting for or against, I’m not getting Reginald Denny’d.
Regardless, you’re not supposed to have that bar of spinning buzzsaw blades on your bumper. People would think premeditation.
Be careful. If you’re driving a normal passenger vehicle, and not a U-Haul, hitting a person at any significant speed will likely make your car undriveable.
Avoiding organic bollards isn’t for their benefit, it’s for ours.
Get rid of the Fed? How will Uncle Sugar run the plantation?!?!
Keith Moon’s drumming and Entwistles’s “thunder thumbs”…..
“Pathetic: Minneapolis Public Schools last week announced they’ll allow remote attendance for students at least through mid-February — and teachers unions are pushing for similar policies throughout the metro region.
Pathetic: The pretext — ongoing ICE activities — impacts only a few blocks here and there; this is just performative politics serving adults at the expense of learning.
The school system acted at the request of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators; teacher unions are always looking for excuses for their members to slough off work, and this has the added advantage of hyping the supposed ICE menace: Along with every other local lefty institution, the union is “demanding” ICE’s exit from the city.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/11/opinion/minneapolis-schools-betray-kids-to-feed-ice-hysteria/
Ban teacher unions. Federal law enforcement policy has nothing to do with their terms of employment, just like when the LA teachers union demanded “defund the police” to come back during covid.
Is literally everything in Minneapolis a scam/hoax/fraud?
Yes. Even the city. It doesn’t actually exist. It’s a film set in Trenton, NJ.
Shocking twist, it’s actually a film set in Bielefeld which DOES exist, and is where the CIA has their secret plant to build the drones that people think are birds.
I had always thought that the birds were constructed in Pigeon Forge, TN?
The Jucy Lucy is real.
There’s way to much but on that burger.
Last time I was in Minneapolis, I made a point of having a Jucy Lucy at Matt’s bar. It was pretty good.
Uncle Hugo’s is also real, at least before it was burned down in 2020 by the tolerant intellectual left.
This man was a Professor at Bristol University. Here he is demanding that the protests in Iran are liquidated, that no leniency is given to the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of extraordinarily brave people risking their lives to rid themselves of one of the world’s most oppressive regimes.
To describe this as psychopathic is an understatement. But he has followers in the UK and is not alone.
It demonstrates that people with this world view aren’t even remotely interested in human rights or ordinary people. They are interested only in power and governments. If a govt is anti Israel or anti west or anti capitalism, then it doesn’t matter what barbarity they inflict on their own people.
That is why when these types of people get into power, everyone else is plunged into misery.
https://x.com/ZacGoldsmith/status/2009929124366721164
The problem with Ceausescu was he was a softy. If only he was more brutal Romania would be paradise.
A lot of soy-boy technocrats get a real charge out of pretending to be the most ruthless, cold-blooded Kaiser Soze clones imaginable. It’s mostly a pose.
Quite the piece of work.
Rational people are afraid of Islam.
No Context Brits
@NoContextBrits
Tesco vs. Waitrose.
https://x.com/NoContextBrits/status/2009574436329189840
basically says the same thing…
The basket thing is actually pretty clever. I makes anyone who comes up with a cart look out of place, more noticeably wrong, and not fit for purpose.
The limit is 20 at my supermarket and I roll into the self-serve with whatever I can fit into the mini-carts they provide. Sometimes more than 20 but I’m enacting my own labor so IDGAF.
At this point I’m on board with “language is descriptive, not prescriptive” but ‘less’ when it should be ‘fewer’ puts my teeth on edge.
So you object to seeing less uses of fewer, and want to see the frequency of less to be fewer?
You just made the list, pal.
A few sloppy language uses that make my head ache:
– ‘Presently’ and ‘currently’ do not mean the same thing.
– Nor do ‘convince’ and ‘persuade’.
– ‘Enormous’ is not a synonym for ‘large.’
– ‘Contact’ is not a verb.
– To ‘decimate’ something is not the same thing as to ‘annihilate’ it.
EvilSheldon is Nero Wolfe!
Ehh, I don’t care for orchids and am not notably obese. If I could do myself the credit, I’d identify more with Sherlock Holmes or Aurelio Zen…
I couldn’t care less about people who say they could care less when they mean they don’t care at all.
I just witnessed my favorite weekly event:
– city worker enters the playground next door
– opens the combo trash and recycling can
– dumps the recycling bucket into the trash bucket
– dumps that into the garbage truck
The important thing is that people recycle!
here the general line I hear is this will go on for a few years until people get used to recycling and then it will be done for real.
But this isn’t “training the people”, this is the city itself tacitly admitting recycling is bullshit.
But devil’s advocate: those public recycling bins are usually filled with so much actual garbage it’s not worth trying to separate the actual recycling.
(Or recycling is (mostly) bullshit)
Eh, I don’t know if this is the city tacitly admitting recycling is BS, or city workers just not giving AF, and making less work for themselves.
I absolutely believe that.
We have a culture where huge numbers of people just throw their garbage wherever they happen to be standing. They should count their blessings that any of it makes it into a bin at all.
Unless it’s metal or clean fibre, throw it away. The rest costs more to recycle than it does to make new and ship.
Any plastic that you recycle in North America has about a 50% chance of going into a landfill, and about a 50% chance of going into one of the Pacific garbage patches.
Any plastic that you throw in the garbage will almost certainly go into a landfill.
Which one is better?
That’s hilarious.
“A Texas middle school teacher allegedly raped a 14-year-old boy in the front seat of her SUV in a Walmart parking lot — while two other students sat in the back.
Jaden Renee Charles, now 26, drove the three students, including a girl, 15, and a boy, 16, into a Walmart parking lot in Alice, Texas, according to court documents obtained by KRIS 6 NEWS….
Charles claimed she was pregnant with the 14-year-old boy’s baby at the time of the alleged rape, which occurred just after 2 a.m. on Feb. 29, 2024, the documents state.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/11/us-news/teacher-accused-of-raping-boy-14-in-car-in-walmart-parking-lot/
Backpfeifengesicht!
Funny way of saying you’d hit that.
Not even with your dick…
Do not be silly women cannot rape.
looking at the pick eeew but at 14 beggars can’t be choosers you take what pussy you get
Ive seen worse. 5 out of 10 without knowing her personality.
why was the other boy just watching? There were holes available
He was in the back seat with a 16 year old girl?
Sigh. This is not my Walmart parking lot, where I remain parked after lunch. (White Castle. No regrets.)
I’m also not 16, nor a student. Nor does ‘she’ interest me.
So long story short, (too late), it’s not my Walmart. Shucks. Do better, Walmart.
And funnily enough, back in for Oversize til the end of the day and my week. Tres should be very jealous. *Kicks empty cup in parking lot*
And just what were these kids doing out and about at 2 a.m.?
As is generally the case, there’s some bad parenting in the background.
Elon’s newest son in danger of being transed:
Ouch.
We have a contender for 2026’s ‘Most Harsh But True’ statement.
look one needs get offspring by any means necessary
Sterilized offspring are a waste of time and reosurces.
His fortune will eventually need a lot of dissipation.
She wrote Elephants Are Not Birds.
Worked for the bee too.
So, a nonfiction writer?
It’s a fiction children’s book.
Why My 2026 Resolution Is to Start Drinking Again
https://www.gq.com/story/why-my-2026-resolution-is-to-start-drinking-again
I went sober to prioritize my health. But then slowly but surely I realized the best parts of life were passing me by.
Winners never quit!
Well, look who has a GQ subscription.
I’m going to guess he wasn’t drinking a bottle of Jack for breakfast and just quit for the (margin) gains in health that a social drinker might attain.
I know so many people living miserable lives so they can add 5 or so more years of suffering in old age..
I plan to g burning that candle at both ends and living large and in charge…
Without digging up the data, moderate alcohol consumption is correlated with increased lifespan vs. tea-totalers.
To quote Clint Eastwood’s gunnery sergeant Highway: I plan to drink more booze (editorialized cause beer is for chix 😘), piss more blood, and bang more quiff than the average Joe. My urn will say “Got more ass than a toilet seat”.
Related – did we discuss small victory over the neo-prohibitionists?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-scraps-advice-alcohol-consumption-111216371.html
Nobody was following their guidelines anyhow.
From a couple of teetotalers, no less…
Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking (ICCPUD)
Sometimes you just have to love the acronym.
Has Britain given up on actually policing drink-driving offences?
Serious injuries due to drink-driving are flat since 2010, but breathalyser tests are down 60%!
https://x.com/TomHCalver/status/2010348167091634493
Every officer out looking for drunks on the road is one less officer scanning twitter for people hatefully objecting to
rapistsaggressive cultural enrichers of colour.Yep, that asshat is a criminal holding us all hostage out of spite and political malfeasance..
So there was a white lady dead protest in CT. The protestors got a bit smashy with an SUV who’s driver didn’t want to be there. Gove Ned declares this should not be a distraction from the pain in Minnie.
Smashy, buy mostly peaceful.
You be peaceful while we be smashy.
Oh, when the tits come marchin’ in!
https://archive.is/5iXal
Mammary Monday.
One of the oddest things about the islamic revolution is that Ayatollah Khomeini lived in exile in the cushy Parisian suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau for years before flying back to Iran
His leftist allies (whom he will later persecute) knew that French elites would love him
Michel Foucault saw in the future revolution “the most modern form of government” and Khomeini “a saint man”
Sartre believed he would lead an “anti colonialist and anti imperialist regime”
French newspaper liberation called it a “Shiite socialism”
The one french intellectual who somewhat saw through the BS was Simone de Beauvoir who saw that the regime’s will to put every woman behind niqabs was incompatible with her feminist ideals
This is where the concept of “islamo-leftism” comes from
For decades you had intellectuals like Ali Shariati (partially educated in France) who worked to tie Islamism and Leftist ideology together
https://x.com/Valen10Francois/status/2010464616518717502
It ties together well enough once you realize it’s just a different strand of authoritarianism.
“Speaking to Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, the South Carolina senator urged Trump to kill Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whom he called ‘the modern-day Hitler’ and a ‘religious Nazi’ who the Iranian people would love to see gone.
‘If I were you, Mr. President, I would kill the leadership that are killing the people,’ Graham said on Sunday Morning Futures. ‘You gotta end this.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15455097/Lindsay-Graham-Iran-Khamenei-Trump.html
CWAA
You know what is worse than Lindsay Graham – any media giving him a platform to shit from.
He’s a prominent senator.
Lindsay has to be the hawkiest hawk in the room at all times, otherwise people might think he is gay because his name is kind of feminine. Well the name thing and all the gay sex. I’d say NTTAWWT but anything Graham does is wrong so I’ll just apologize to any gay men who don’t live in a closet made of war dead.
He’s a useless gasbag.
The media loves him when it comes to war. Clicks get $, blood gets clicks, and Graham wants blood. IOW, he’s good for business.
The US needs a short and victorious war right about now.
Copenhagen or bust!
Enlist the free citizens of Christiania while we are at it.
Copehnhagen you say?
Not Skoal?
I dip the Grizzly
I shall be voting against him in the primary this year. He is absolutely despicable.
Obligatory.
Paul Dans is probably the strongest primary challenger he’s ever had. We’ll see what kind of shenanigans get pulled by Graham.
Oh noes – SC Republicans manufacturing/manipulating the electoral process?!? Say it ain’t so!!!
As reported by Associated Press, April 1953
https://x.com/SRCHicks/status/2010361250652549407
as predictions go not bad
Cold smoking developed as a practical way to preserve meat in rural households long before refrigeration existed. It allowed families to keep pork, fish, and sausages edible through winter using only salt, wood, air, and time. The system depends on separation. The fire burns away from the food, the smoke cools as it travels, and the temperature inside the smokehouse stays below 30 °C. Nothing cooks. Preservation happens slowly.
The process starts before smoking itself. Meat is first salted and air dried to reduce moisture and stabilize it. Only then does cold smoking begin, usually in short repeated sessions over days or weeks. Smoke settles gently on the surface, drying it further and adding restrained aromas from woods like beech, oak, or juniper. Afterward comes the longest stage, maturing and aging, when texture firms and flavor develops over time.
This method was widely used across Central and Eastern Europe, the Alps, and the Balkans, where winter temperatures made slow smoking possible. Cold smoked foods stay raw in structure but preserved in character. They are firm, sliceable, and quietly aromatic, made to last months rather than days.
https://x.com/TasteAtlas/status/2009947727430402185
That reminds me…need to get going on my plans for my cold smoke house
This is a pretty nice rig:
https://x.com/GatorXcelerator/status/2010055562227265919
In some isolated places in Europe archaic dialects survived to this day.
In Italy, deep in the Alps, a Slavic language called Resian is spoken by around 1,000 people. It is generally considered a dialect of Slovene but with limited mutual intelligibility due to unique phonology.
One such dialect is Prekmurje Slovene/Wendish, which is an unique version of the Slovenian language spoken in the southwestern part of Hungary and the northeastern part of Slovenia
https://x.com/LandsknechtPike/status/2010398577676423470
Speaking a language or dialect that very few people know or speak gives you an advantage when talking crap about others…
Know what I am saying?
Mostly yes, though a European in Europe you never know who hears you.
That’s why you learn something like Zapotec or other new world tongue nobody in your corner of the planet uses. Just don’t go to Mexico and you’ll be fine.
Stewardess, I speak jive!
“I guess they got tired go the Nazi Germany comparisons.”
Oh that’s still happening. A friend of ours posted on FB that everything the Nazis did was “following the law”. These people are brain damaged.
The gestapo probably was following the laws the Nazi-controlled Reichstag passed. Then again, isn’t ICE following the laws passed or left unchanged by Democratic administrations and Congresses? Getting rid of ICE essentially means “open the borders to everyone who can manage to sneak into the U.S. and let them stay here.” GOP should advance a bill that says precisely that, and see which Democrats can be lured into voting for it.
“Getting rid of ICE essentially means “open the borders to everyone who can manage to sneak into the U.S. and let them stay here.””
That is indeed their position.
“And when the woman with Good during the incident was identified as her wife, Rebecca Good, the narrative of the couple as murderous man-haters was picked up by The Daily Mail in a headline that was as homophobic as it was convoluted: “Wife who brought ICE shooting victim Renee Nicole Good to Minneapolis protest is named as handywoman, 40 — as depths of couple’s disdain for Trump is revealed.” The narrative had been set: A lesbian with a butch wife made it impossible for an ICE agent standing in front of her car not to shoot her.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/12/in-renee-goods-killing-ices-misogyny-isnt-a-side-note-its-the-point/
If a lesbian is shot, it must be due to misogyny and homophobia.
I bet even if it was a straight guy he’d have been shot. Probably even if he was White.
Noting that the wife has a butch profession is the homophobia part, I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Are we supposed to say “handyman” instead? I have no ear for these things.
If she were black, it also would have been racist.
Double the outrage! Double the fun.
A 7 year old me to my father: “Dad, what’s a Hippy?” “A poor man’s Beatnik, son.” “Well, then what’s a Beatnik?” “a poor man’s Bohemian.” “What are Bohemians?” “Delightful people, like your mother and me.”
https://x.com/RCCoulombe/status/2010270694307778702
It is an affront to Czechs to appropriate the name of the people of the Kingdom of Bohemia for those dreadful people.
A degenerate leftist who showers less often than other degenerate leftists and says “man” a lot.
Yeah, seems accurate..
And Patchouli.. Don’t forget Patchouli
A Catalog Bohemian?
Anyone accused the nurses of antisemitism yet?
When the nurses in a Philly suburb went on strike, the signs read “Patients Before Profits.” Of course, none of the nurses were willing to even take the small wage increase offered in order to continue serving their patients.
Let me guess – they were striking against non-profit employers?
‘If France dies, Europe dies’
Fractured France by Andrew Hussey
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/if-france-dies-europe-dies?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=a71z8&triedRedirect=true
It’s a quintessential Gallic scene encompassing all aspects of French life: the fine food, the chic street life, the paving slabs flying through the air… it’s what we find so strange about our wonderful neighbours, a land where the people are quick to riot, and the riot police are even quicker to hit them, but where everyone is united by their appreciation of the good life.
You can’t help but love a country like this and Hussey, a Liverpudlian who has lived in France for 40 years, still writes like someone for whom the youthful love affair has not faded. He also notes the darkness of its political culture, and the sense of a country on the edge of something immensely tragic.
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The crises affecting France and Britain are remarkably similar, as are the political cultures and debate – far more so than any comparison with the United States. France and Britain share obvious similarities, of roughly equal population and GDP, both dominated by an overweening capital and navigating the challenges of imperial blowback. But this is a country where political tension is much closer to the surface, and memories of violence much more recent. Yet what comes to Paris comes to London too, in politics as well as fashion.
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The nation was rocked by riots in 2023, triggered by the fatal shooting of a young North African. This mob violence, he noted, was not entirely random, but was specifically targeted against ‘public buildings which carried the imprimatur of the Republic’.
Although France’s conflict with its Arab minority is well known, there also lies a great fracture lies between its wealthy urban elite and impoverished hinterland. This is the specialist subject of Christophe Guilluy, author of the highly acclaimed Twilight of the Elites, who describes to Hussey the ‘new citadels’ in large cities as being ‘like panic rooms’ when riots overcome the suburbs.
Then there are the ch’tis, a term used to apply to people in the post-industrial northern regions by the Belgian border, typically inhabiting corons, villages full of terraced houses. The term stems from how locals pronounce c’est toi, and became popular in the First World War when soldiers from different parts of the country came into contact. The ch’tis is a figure of fun in French folklore, good-hearted but primitive, although it can be used in less endearing ways. In 2008 a group of supporters of Paris St Germain unfurled a banner reading ‘paedophiles, unemployed, inbreds – welcome to the ch’tis’. Five lads were put on trial for ‘incitement to hatred’.
France’s north shares similarities with its English equivalent, with impoverished communities inspiring pity, disgust, even what the French have come to call prolophobie.
On his travels around the country Hussey combines history, memory and anthropology. Visiting Dijon, he talks about the class differences which he learned about in his youth while dating a local girl, Sylvie, a bourge or bourgeoisie as well as a BCBG – bon chic, bon genre – which I suppose best translates as ‘preppy’. Their class enemies were the beauf, abbreviated from beau-frère or brother-in-law, and signifying the ‘bar-room braggart, the football fan, the bingo-going classes.’
TIL what the “BCBG” part of “BCBG Max Azria” means
Sounds like “The Outsiders” to me.
These youth culture divides of the 1980s seem quaint now that the city has seen more violent forms of group conflict in recent years, including a guerrilla war between Chechens and Algerians. In one incident, a car was driven at top speed into a group of armed Chechens before overturning, after which its badly injured driver was dragged out by hooded men screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’. Ah, it’s all part of the rich tapestry of modern life; diversity is our strength; twas ever thus etc etc.
But the food, Pie, the food. I mean, who doesn’t love falafel?
Raises hand.
For some reason, I always expect it to taste like a gyro and I’m always disappointed.
I never really got the appeal of falafel.
Stinky Wizzleteats:
/raises hand as well.
I am not a fan of chickpeas.
Try garbanzos instead.
At the time, Houellebecq was writing Les Particules élémentaires – Atomised in English – the book that would make him globally famous, and the theme was the end of Christianity and death of western civilisation by suicide. After watching both their nations defeated, the two went for a cigarette on the balcony, where opposite was standing a fat woman with a Chicago Bears T-shirt, also smoking and drinking beer. ‘Look at her, look at us,’ the Frenchman said: ‘This is why France is finished.’
The Bears catching strays…
Because she’s wearing a football jersey instead of a soccer jersey? Soccer came from les rosbifs, so not exactly the soul of France.
That sounds familiar. Are we sure this isn’t a study about the United States? Or everywhere?
France is doing plenty enough to kill France on its own.
^^^^THIS^^^^
The EU is suiciding Europe so the current elite can keep hold on power after civilization collapses due to the mismanagement from our betters over the last 30 years…
You would think they’d learn their lesson from their aristocratic forbears. When the collapse comes they will be anything but in charge.
So I finished season 1 of Absentia. Remember how I gave credit to it for trying to portray an absurd scenario as realistic? Well that got dropped. Still, some refreshing “subversions of expectations.” And since it’s an extremely dark, tense show, those subversions were refreshingly NOT dark. Example (short enough scene as to not really count as a spoiler) Stana Katic is making her escape from the cops, hides out in the back of an unlocked truck cab. Truck leaves, then stops, and a shotgun barrel comes through the curtains, held by a redneck-coded white male! Oh No! Rape time! But then the guy was “you’re running from the cops? I fucking the cops” and drops her off close to her destination without deviating from his route. Also, the season ends with the heroine exonerated, the real killer dead, and the heroine completely fucked up from the torture she experienced prior to the show beginning, with these ten episodes somehow not having cured her!
I then watched part of the first episode of season 2. Some things about season 1 that did not ping my woke radar now seem suspicious, though it could be another setup/subversion. Or it could also be that the showrunners went the The Boys route and took getting their contract extended as an excuse to make the kind of show they were inhibited from doing in season 1.
Roger Penske: It was a U-Haul truck? Thank God.
“MAGA is weirdly thirsty for Barron Trump
The right desperately wants the youngest Trump son to be a sex symbol”
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/12/maga-is-weirdly-thirsty-for-barron-trump/
IMAX?
Now do AWFLs getting their panties moist over Mamdani.
And the Boston Marathon Bomber, and Luigi and…
Remember when AWFLs were turned on by just conventional good looks and money? The kind of guys that Elaine Bennis would consider spongeworthy now…
This is sort of a culture-wide expansion of the ‘bad boy’ thing. Feminists dating drug dealers and rock musicians, etc…
I saw suggestions that he should marry that hawt Danish Princess and demand Greenland as his tribute/dowry…
Comments??
That would improve the timeline.
Princess Isabella is mid?
Amanduh’s rocking some heavy drugs again. Poor dear.
I suspect that Amanda’s problem is more ‘not taking the drugs she should be taking…’
Remember – it is projection, always projection with proggies.
But they’re prescribed by her team of psychiatrists?
Oh yeah, she definitely wants some of that action.
Barron Trump is America’s Gregor Clegane.
AKA global warming
Thousands of tourists have been stranded in Finland’s Lapland as a severe cold spell has grounded flights out of one of its airports.
Departures from Lapland’s Kittila airport that would have ferried winter travellers back to places like London, Bristol, Manchester, Paris and Amsterdam were all cancelled on Sunday as temperatures did not go above -35C on Sunday.
The issue is expected to continue on Monday as a low of -39C is forecast by Finland’s meteorological agency. The first flight out of Kittila has already been cancelled.
The extreme cold makes it hard to de-ice planes, while maintenance and refuelling equipment on the ground can freeze.
The planet is burning. Ban energy.
Extreme cold is the new hotness of climate change.
“The anti-LGBTQ+ legal movement shifted its focus to trans athletes after the supreme court legalized marriage equality in 2015. Supporters of bans on trans athletes, including the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the major Christian legal group defending the state laws this week, argue they are promoting fairness and safety in women’s sports.
LGBTQ+ rights advocates counter there is no credible evidence that inclusive sports policies have endangered cis girls and women, and the controversy is manufactured by anti-trans activists; one conservative group, for example, acknowledged in 2019 that its polling suggested people could be swayed to support Republicans with ads raising fears about trans girls in sports.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/12/trans-athletes-supreme-court-lgbtq-rights
These people live in backwards land.
“Trans girls” is not a thing.
Stop trying to make it one.
Every since someone pointed out that you can just replace “trans-” with “fake”, I’ve found it easier to read those sorts of stories.
It’s a thing. Kids should not transition, but there is difference between trans girls and masculine presenting males, and between trans girls and females.
I think that was me, slum.
I still do it. It really clarifies who is, err, what, in my mind.
LGBTQ+ rights advocates counter there is no credible evidence that inclusive sports policies have endangered cis girls and women
Pay no attention to the crumpled remains of girls strewn about the basketball court while “Shaquilla” dunks the ball.
Don’t forget the volleyball teams that sat out rather than facing kill shots.
For the record
The previous photo, taken by Washington Post photojournalist Matt McClain, showed Trump in a red tie with text on a nearby wall that read, in part: “Impeached twice, on charges of abuse of power and incitement of insurrection after supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, he was acquitted by the Senate in both trials.
The new caption should read, “Elected by the people, despised by the bureaucracy.”
Bloomberg headline: Trump’s credit card interest cap would feed the weakest to the sharks.
What? Nonsense.
It would make the credit market fair and equitable.
Why is Trump currying favor with Fauxcahontas and Bernie?
Don’t forget – Trump and Bernie shared quite a bit of “the system is rigged against you” back in the run-up to the ’16 election.
They’re not entirely wrong. Just wrong in the way they mean.
“Caving to progressive activists, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill late last month that will all but guarantee more child abuse goes unreported — in the name of fixing “racial disparities” in the child welfare system.
The new law bars callers to the city Administration for Children’s Services from leaving tips anonymously — on the supposed grounds that false tips help drive “inexcusable racial disparities that disproportionately impact Black and Brown families by leading to unnecessary interactions with child welfare services.””
https://nypost.com/2026/01/11/opinion/hochul-agrees-to-allow-more-child-abuse-in-new-york-city/
Raping kids to fight racism is on brand.
Woe to the white people trying to raise independent children in NY.
Meh. I’d bet a significant amount that the anonymous tip line was abused. Especially in divorce cases.
Regardless, what does that have to do with race?
In fact, divorce would skew it white (and upscale economically).
I’m sure white Karens make their share of anonymous tips against non-whites who annoy them.
Everything Hochul does is nominally about good leftie causes.
Now I’m wondering how/where this snitch line was advertised. That could explain a whoooole lot of discrepancies.
I’m all in favor of ignoring anonymous accusations.
@Threedoor (from dedthred)
I have to redo my password every year for MO sales and use tax filing also.
What could go wrong?
The proposed cap would come into force on Jan. 20, according to a post on Truth Social on Friday, though Trump didn’t provide details on how it would work.
“Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%,” Trump wrote, echoing a pledge he made in the 2024 presidential campaign.
“Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be ‘ripped off’ by Credit Card Companies,” he added.
A cap would require approval from Congress. There has long been interest in curbing fees, and bipartisan bills to cap credit card interest rates at 10% have previously been introduced, highlighting potential appetite for the move.
Everybody hates banks.
“AI-generated image by Grok.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/eu-commissioner-calls-100-thousand-strong-unified-standing/
News outlets should not use AI pictures.
Well the EU is going to have to use AI to conjure up those troops, so…
Go for it, Europe! Anything that gets your hands out of my pocket.
Gateway Pundit isn’t a news outlet.
Love the way the ring of gold stars on the helmets gives a nice aiming point.
Consumers would either spend less or rely on other forms of unsecured debt, they say.
Buy-now-pay-later stocks were higher in early trading on the notion more consumers would be forced to use those lenders if banks pulled back on extending credit, but soon gave back those gains after the market formally opened.
Forced? Forced to use the interest free alternative? What a world, what a world.
“Politics Jun 14, 2023 1:00 PM EST
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit-area community has banned LGBTQ+ flags from publicly owned poles after a tense hourslong meeting that raised questions about discrimination, religion and the city’s reputation for welcoming newcomers….
Hamtramck, population 27,000, is an enclave surrounded by Detroit. More than 40% of residents were born in other countries, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and a significant share are of Yemeni or Bangladeshi descent.
The council voted unanimously to display only five flags, including the American flag, the Michigan flag and one that represents the native countries of immigrant residents.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/detroit-area-city-bans-pride-flags-on-public-property-after-debate-on-lgbtq-discrimination-and-religion
Old news, but I only heard about it recently.
How’s that whole Islamic-Rainbow coalition working for ya?
No POW flag?…
I know absolutely nothing about the buy-now-pay-later services. I assume they have ruinous late payment fees in lieu of interest.
Well, I had no idea we had reached this phase.
It’s just an idea, man.
More like – “sure it is happening, and that’s a good thing”.
What is next? How its actually good for the country?
It only “wins” because it hasn’t become intrusive on the average person. Their ultimate version of winning would be and it’d be a disaster for them and anyone allied with them.
I see a certain parallel with many other things moving from, “This isn’t happening,” to “This is happening, and it’s a good thing.”
A few days ago, I was on Twitter talking about the whole “men don’t read fiction” bullshit. My interlocutor and I were finished with our mildly dismissive conversation.
TODAY, I get this long roidrage rant about what cunts women are. I mean, it COULD be a cause/effect rant (like, are you bitter because a woman was a cunt to you or are you being ignored because you’re an asshole?), but that kind of vitriol is going to come off your skin like garlic or cumin and announce your presence as a potential wifebeater.
And he had “Christ is King” in his bio.
Okay.
That reminds me, I have a pot of lentil stew in the fridge.
My dad went to Holland on his [[[mission]]] and came back with a thing for split pea soup. My mom wouldn’t make it for him, so one day he tried and it turned into sludge. Baby-poop-colored sludge with bits of orange (carrot). AND he made me clean up his mess.
Related: He also would make sassafras tea and I will admit, that sassafras does smell good in a weird way.
No canned SPS for him then?
I’ve long said that progressives embrace progressive politics so that they can be assholes with social cover.
Maybe I should revise that to, ‘People embrace politics…’
NOT a progressive.
As I said…
“Celebrities wear ‘Be Good’ pins at Golden Globes to honor far-left activist shot while ramming ICE agent with her car
The pin campaign was organized by left-wing activist groups, including the ACLU, Maremoto, MoveOn, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Working Families Power.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/elebrities-wear-be-good-pins-at-golden-globes-to-honor-far-left-activist-shot-while-ramming-ice-agent-with-her-car
CWABOA
Who doesn’t want to wear the ribbon?!
This shit impresses shepherds.
Hard to be good while trying to run someone over.
She only hit him with her car because she wasn’t mad at him.
Here comes the future
Walmart and Google said Sunday that shoppers will soon be able to use Google’s artificial intelligence assistant Gemini to more easily discover and buy products from the retail giant and its warehouse club, Sam’s Club.
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“The transition from traditional web or app search to agent-led commerce represents the next great evolution in retail,” Furner said in a news release. “We aren’t just watching the shift, we are driving it.”
In his remarks on stage, Furner, who will step into Walmart’s top role on Feb. 1, said Walmart is “rewriting the retail playbook” and, with AI, it’s “trying to close the gap between I want it and I have it.”
It’ll be like having your own genie. “Your wish is my command.”
Maybe Amazon should give it a whirl, except I’m convinced their “search” feature is so terrible it cannot possibly be by accident.
Yes almighty AI, inject that cheap Chinese shit straight into my veins.
“discover” aka get pushed by sponsored content
Last week we learned that the Trump administration believes its secret police can murder anyone it deems a “domestic terrorist.”
Secret?
SECRET?
Yeah but she crossed state lines.
People aiding and abetting foreign invaders are not protestors. They are traitors.
“NFL Announces Each Quarter Of Playoff Game Will Be Broadcast On Different Streaming Service”
https://babylonbee.com/news/nfl-announces-each-quarter-of-playoff-game-will-be-broadcast-on-a-different-network
Barely parody. I tried to watch the Bears game, but Amazon blocked my VPN.
Sample size of one and all, but I’ve found that VPN services built into one’s edge router, are less likely to be blocked than VPN services as a desktop client.
“Antifa,” a shortening of the word “antifascist,” refers to a decentralized, underground network of radical leftists dedicated to destroying the far right. Its activists are mostly anarchists, communists, and socialists, and, though they might differ in ideology, they all subscribe to a specific militant tradition of antifascism holding that fascists need to be fought “by any means necessary.”
You know, heroic patriots who deserve our admiration and gratitude.
Although antifa groups are very real, and often collaborate, there is not an overarching organization. There are no leaders. No hierarchies. No org chart or headquarters. Decisions are arrived at locally and collectively, with no rich donors to appease. What little money antifa needs is taken from the shallow pockets of its practitioners, mostly working- and middle-class Americans who keep their activism a secret to prevent reprisals from the fascists they fight.
Just like the European Resistance fighters of the ’40s, or Maoist rebels everywhere.
Fresh material for SF:
Stepdaughter of Former Vice President Kamala Harris Raises Issues Regarding Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal