Good morning one and all to another wondrous day!
Rubio on Fire! We Won’t Be ‘Polite and Orderly Caretakers of the West’s Managed Decline’
Justice Department provides Congress list of names who appear in Epstein files in 6-page letter
Trump Plans Executive Order On Voter ID
ICE ‘Detention Reengineering’ Plan Will Expand Capacity, Speed Deportation of Criminal Aliens
RFK Jr. Says He’ll Act on Ultra-Processed Foods Petition
Sen. Rand Paul unveils bill to end nationwide liability protections for vaccine manufacturers
This Interview Answer Might Wreck Michigan Gov. Whitmer’s 2028 Presidential Run
Behind the Burnout and High Turnover Rates in the AI Industry
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
heya Banjos
how YOU doin’ ?
Not bad. Kids got the day off today.
Have to have time for the commemorative chopping down of a cherry tree or bringing a raft down the Mississippi after all.
I’ll be having Skyline for lunch. Pass that along.
Dogs or the spaghetti thing?
I’m a purist- I only get the coneys.
Coneys are only acceptable items to order at Skyline.
“Rubio on Fire! We Won’t Be ‘Polite and Orderly Caretakers of the West’s Managed Decline’”
And it is a drastic decline. Planned or otherwise, fuck the people behind that.
“You are going to have to lower your expectations” – Obama
They have been open enemies of western enlightened culture for how long now? People still don’t get it?
People still hate Trump because…..reasons?
Hate the west? Carry your sorry ass to…anywhere else, I dont give a shit.
Notice and emphasize that he said “WE” are going to have to lower our expectations…
They made bank fucking us over..
Trump is showing people they did it on purpose, which is why they feel he is an existential threat to them..
ICE ‘Detention Reengineering’ Plan Will Expand Capacity, Speed Deportation of Criminal Aliens
No it won’t.
What am I doing?
Getting by day by day like the rest of us?
I doubt that.
obligatory
Why did I click? Stupid song.
I thought I knew you.
For Tres
I knew that was coming, Tedses
Remember, I’ve got the best taste in music around here.
Wasting your youth?
“Rep Ocasio-Cortez Undercuts Global Stage Debut With Word-Salad Answer To Basic Foreign Policy Question”
This is what happens when you elect people who are good looking but stupid.
For some value of “good looking”. Her giant teeth have always been off-putting to me.
The Elizabeth Bathory level crazy in her eyes is more off putting to me.
Oh I don’t doubt she’d be lots of fun for about and hour or two.
Huh, I would have thought it’s because she’s not 100 pounds heavier.
I can mix it up from time to time.
She’s a butterface.
Feature, not an option with Democratic presidential candidates. Look at Whitmer.
Good looking, stupid, and never had a serious challenge. If their elections were close every year they’d have to at least be able to function in a debate.
Except that your last attempt was struck down last year, Donald. And it isn’t really any more constitutional now. Maybe this is just salesman bluster you think will push the Senate to not filibuster the SAVE act… but I would expect it would have the opposite effect… you’re kind of powerless on this front and maybe you shouldn’t highlight that.
Of course — that we’re at the point where states are resisting the obvious “people should only vote if they’re registered citizens and can prove identity and their address” is a whole other depressing sign of the times.
Morning all. Thanks as ever for the linkitude Banjos.
The people who make a living fellating him virtually on X will pump their fists when he does it and will either suppress it or just miss it entirely when the courts shoot it down.
It’s a stage managed presidency at this point, all his achievements via EO will be struck down five minutes after he’s gone, and for whatever reason he’s unwilling to actually apply meaningful pressure to get legislation passed. He fancies himself a dealmaker, go out there and make some fucking deals then.
That’s like saying we should make a free trade deal with China. One can’t accomplish deals with those who aren’t willing to deal.
He can’t get a deal done. Democrats have positioned themselves such that they can never agree with him on any topic. It’s not possible to deal with those who believe they’re saving the world by not dealing with you.
Voter ID has 80%+ approval rating. Exactly 1 Democrat in the house voted for it. This isn’t a Trump problem. You can’t deal with those unwilling to even sit down.
The intent is to keep the issue front and center with enough of the electorate to keep the House in 2026. And add political pressure on the cowards in Congress.
Agree.
It also has the benefit that if the Republican lose the House in 2026, it will feed the “Democrats cheated” narrative.
““It is, I, the, two, the two that I am on the panel with are much more steeped in foreign policy, than is, than a governor is. But, you know, I do think that Ukraine’s independence, keeping their land mass, and having the support of all allies, I think, is the goal, from my vantage point. Go ahead, ambassador, do a better job.”
If they can ignore the things she said during covid, that’s not going to make any difference.
^^^THIS^^^
And I am sure the “fact checkers” will tell everyone that she was one of the most articulate and thoughtful people evah to speak about whatever…
The press will cover for her. There will be no hammering on “What’s Aleppo?” like they did with Johnson.
Good luck with that… I can’t help but expect that those billions in those major pharma companies pockets bought back enough political favors to sink such a bill. There’s no way they’d ever want a chance of liability here.
Over and under that these pharma companies would also threaten to name the names of those they bought to shame them into making sure it never happens?
That was the first clue….in 100 ft high flashing neon letters. DONT TAKE THE VACCINE!
Yet people lined up…..dummies.
Pressured by your employer? Hint: You can get a new job, you cant get a new life.
If telling people they can’t plant gardens without the pleasure and permit of the Dictator didn’t do it, I don’t see what anything she actually says would matter all that much.
The Dems could run a literal slime mold at this point and they’d have their “Blue no matter who!” block locked up tight at 43 percent of the electorate (at a rough guess).
OFFS she was cosplaying diplomat in Munich with Greasy and AOC too??
Ridiculous.
Gotta nail down those bona-fides. Leftist probably cream over her shutting down garden sections in Walmart.
If you wonder why they have to make up fake shit and present everything said by those they see as their enemy as bad shit, it is this reality. Their people are not just dumb, but truly evil shitshows. So the psyops is about making the other side look worse. And to do so they have to fabricate the difference.
Don’t let wrongthinkers gaslight you into believing she forced stores to close non-essential product aisles.
Catnip for suburban women voters. Ignore her at your own peril, Mr. Vance.
Hot thing in tech currently, lots of money sloshing around, startup mentality… that’s really all you need to know historically — I have to assume lots of 80 hour weeks hoping for cuts of options / future profits / whatnot… you’re going to get burnout in these scenarios, always have.
Yup, we’ve seen it all before. No pity for that crowd at all – they know what they’re getting into. I could probably have taken a path like that but then when would I find time to Glib.
“Trump announced the move Friday on Truth Social, vowing to implement nationwide voter ID requirements regardless of legislative outcomes. “If we can’t get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted. I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order,” Trump wrote. He added in a separate post: “There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!””
Judges will be falling over each other to block it.
It’ll last five minutes but his fans will say he tried, all sleight of hand BS.
The attention to this matter comes about 40 or 50 years too late. The left half of the country has been so thoroughly corrupted by the freaks who have taken over the party that claims to represent them that few among them will admit to obvious facts like non-citizens should not be voting.
But they pay taxes!
Good morning!
NPR had a SCIENCE! story this morning about how you can tell if your food is ultra-processed. Put in in a glass of water for three hours and if it gets really mushy, it’s ultra-processed.
🤦♂️
The strangest part is the NPR reporterette claimed that her “homemade” bread passed the test whereas the storebought baguette failed.
I wouldn’t want to eat anything she cooked if her bread is concrete.
oatmeal?
OMG processed food! Like they do PROCESSES on it before you eat it! Like…peeling it, washing it, cooking it or seasoning it
We use only all-natural ingredients like arsenic, lead, and mercury.
That’s processed, not ultra-processed. The ultra-processed thing sounds like bullshit, but they did bother to make that distinction.
The term isnt the greatest.
Pickling is ultra-processed.
Salt curing is too
However pumping preservatives not found in nature into your bread to make it not mold for months gives me the creeps.
This is an area where unless you are discussing it on a very fine grained, case by case, chemical by chemical basis, you are spouting nonsense. It’s not the degree of processing that makes things healthy or unhealthy. Blow fish unprocessed is as poisonous as anything you can think of. Cheese is made by rotting milk and adding digestive enzymes from animal guts. The short cut of talking about processed or ultra-processed is more stupid and more misleading than “organic.”
I am quite sure many dyes, flavoring agents, and preservatives found in a bag of brightly colored snack foods are unhealthy, and that human beings are healthier eating a diet high in protein, animal fats, and vegetables than one high in starches and sugars. But the processed food scare is just another example of deliberately phrasing things in a way that makes them scary, while removing all nuance and information.
That’s the point Jarflax. (Not that you didn’t know.)
RoaT – Don’t forget the snake venom!
Ultra-processed is to foods what Polar Vortex is to weather
Squeezing a quantity of seeds that no human ever would have eaten in their entire lifetime and then using a solvent to make them less hazardous to consume and to remove a smell that is a natural warning signal for danger to humans sounds ultra processed to me.
OFFS
Conclusion: Eat rocks and bones!
Dentists and orthodontists cheer in ectasy.
Did somebody say “processed” food?
RE: UnCiv’swestern review: I though olde-tymey revolvers did not have detachable firing pins, they were part of the hammer. Hence, carrying them with the hammer over an empty chamber.
I was so done with the movie by that point I didn’t bother to research what model they were supposedly using and whether the firing pin was machined into the hammer.
Rebounding hammers were the old-timey way of dealing with the safety problem of having the hammer over a loaded chamber.
“Republican Rep. Thomas Massie labeled the Trump presidency the ‘Epstein administration’ while accusing Attorney General Pam Bondi of failing to release all of the records tied to the deceased pedophile….
‘Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these people in New York City and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent, but he’s not,’ Massie said.
‘He’s still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15563291/Republican-Thomas-Massie-Trump-Epstein-administration-Pam-Bondi.html
Is there any point to this?
Also is Epstein a pedophile? He was convicted of having sex with one girl being paid for massages the day before her 18th birthday.
Pedo is pre-pubescent attracted, not “barely illegal”
I wish I could remember the intermediate term.
I think the term is “legal back in the seventies, but we want a pound of flesh now, so, bad. Mmm, ‘kay?”
Ephebophile?
If you’re using the old enough to bleed old enough to breed argument you’ve already lost that one. There aren’t many people who get or care about the nuance.
Because of the redactions “to protect the victims”, we don’t know if he was procuring/screwing 10, 12, 14 year olds or not.
Plus, all of that was in the hands of people in the psyop business for years and years. If there was a clear narrative to be extracted from it, I would be skeptical.
The good stuff is in the grand jury files, which I don’t think have been released (could be wrong on that).
Our strict legal boundary for sexual consent, while morally necessary, is historically recent…probably no older than the first airplane.
There is also allegedly CIA files.
Uncivil: ephebophile
It’s a bit more than a nuance. A seventeen year old often looks sexually mature, being attracted to one does not indicate something wrong in the brain of the person attracted. It may be illegal to act on that attraction, and punishing such action may be socially desirable, but it’s an ordinary crime. Actual pedophilia is something much darker and this urge to conflate the two things is what enables the evil bastards trying to normalize pedophilia.
I agree that it’s more than nuance but most people don’t care and that argument won’t convince anyone that’s not already convinced.
A seventeen year old often looks sexually mature
I would leave of the ‘looks’ – seventeen year olds, baring weird development, *are* sexually mature. As you say, discouraging/punishing interaction between older (for some value of the word ‘older’) individuals with other younger, sexually mature individuals may indeed be socially desirable (and enforceable by fathers!). However, to cast it as some sort of abhorrent, unthinkable depravity as some are wont to do is to ignore hundreds of thousands of years of biological evolution of the homo line as well as thousands of years of recorded homo sapiens history. I’m not willing to class my entire lineage as abhorrent depraved monsters.
Will any of that ‘move the needle’ for the average person? No, almost certainly not, we also like to be outraged. But “let the lie enter the world, but not through me.” I think the Epstein stuff should focus on the different and asymmetric application of the rules and the subversion of biological evolution and social structures to allow a class of people to behave as reprehensible assholes with impunity.
The good stuff is in the grand jury files, which I don’t think have been released (could be wrong on that).
I don’t know if they have been released. Section 2(a)(1) I think will cover them.
And as Common Tater says, there are supposedly intelligence agency documents. Given the work Epstein did for the Intel agencies (see Mike Benz’s coverage of Epstein), those document exist.
(((Jarflex:
malum in se vs malum prohibitum
If it were me, I’d try to cover that up.
“I’m not willing to class my entire lineage as abhorrent depraved monsters.”
Denial?
I’m pretty sure this distinction is what lead me to being kicked off of X.
They don’t want to think about biology, history, or human sexuality.
They want to crush people for wrong think and cast you as a pedo while extending adolescence into the 20s, all the while normalizing homosexuality to younger and younger people. They must make moral what is immoral and tear down normality.
It does matter because it matters to the public and it speaks to the connected getting away with murder while the nonconnected get completely fucked. Trump couldn’t have handled it worse and he’s getting what he deserves. Unfortunately we’re going to pay the price too.
That whole binder part one thing was retarded.
“Pedo” is the new “Hitler”
“”Virtually everyone he dated was a teenager. Eva Braun was 17 years old. Geli Raubal was also around 17. Maria Reiter was around 16 as well.
“All known sexual relationships Hitler had started with teenagers whilst he was in his 30s & even 40s. It shows a particular type of masculinity expressing itself. Everyone has met a Hitler. That weird dude who is 35 yet hits on 17 year olds.””
https://www.newsweek.com/was-adolf-hitler-pedophile-breaking-down-nazi-leaders-perversions-1776135
Double word score!
How many 30 year old virgins who were sexually/wifely desirable existed then? Or now?
Is there any point to this?
Also is Epstein a pedophile?
Lol
Self congratulatory purity signaling is at the core of libertarianism. I like Massie, and I respect his commitment to principle, but I think he had an opportunity to actually move the needle toward liberty and let purity get in the way. Now, to be clear there’s plenty of blame for Trump in this feud as well, but it’s not a battle of equals and it would behoove the weaker party to be more diplomatic.
Massie did what Congress should do…oversight on the Executive, but I fear it will come at great cost with nothing to show for it.
The rush for the win will just muddy the waters and is a field day for lawyers as mis-associations get tossed out by everyside of this clusterfuck.
If the Trump admin had followed through on their implied word vis a vis Epstein they’d be absolute heroes right now. They’ve really screwed the pooch on this one and, yeah, Massie’s just doing his job.
Massie is starting to scream “pedo” enough that I’m starting to wonder if he’s like those preachers who go on and on about the gays a little too much.
The February 13 memo, marked “For Official Use Only” and published on the New Hampshire governor’s website, states that the initiative is needed to address the agency’s orders from President Donald Trump to increase mass deportations. The program calls for eight “mega-centers” with a capacity of up to 10,000 detainees each.
So… best case scenario with my math: the added capacity gets us to, say, ten total big facilities hosting 8-10k people each, with a total of about 10k being brought in on one end and sent home on the other every week.
That’s a half-million people remigrated annually, which sounds like a lot — except at that rate it’ll take three years just to clear the ones who already have final deportation orders, and three or four decades to get rid of the ones who don’t yet. That’s assuming that there’s no more illegal immigration and that the ones currently here don’t squirt out anchor babies.
Basically, ICE at present is trying to drain the ocean with a teaspoon.
What is the alternative? How do we realistically remigrate 30M people?
There isn’t enough manpower to get everyone out, if we’re being honest. That goal was always unattainable (however desirable it may be).
You need to rely on the pain of the process to deter new entrants and do the best you can to address those here.
Cut off all tax dollar support and they should remigrate themselves.
I think that would be part of any plan, and is something Republicans have floated, only to be met with “iT’s AlReAdY aGaInSt FeDeRaL lAw” while completely ignoring that the Fed replenishes state funds paid towards exactly that, all while refusing to send in the paperwork for verification.
I’m assuming congress gets off its ass and makes it happen. Probably a dumb assumption.
A major workaround is funding NGOs which use the money to support illegals. A transparent dodge, but it’s worked because the Repubs don’t want to stop it for whatever reason.
“Cut off all tax dollar support and they should remigrate themselves.”
THIS THIS THIS…
The people here for free shit should basically stop getting free shit. They will leave.
“Disgusted designer of famed Nicki Minaj fried chicken necklace ditches it to protest her MAGA turn”
https://pagesix.com/2026/02/15/entertainment/disgusted-designer-of-famed-nicki-minaj-fried-chicken-necklace-ditches-it-to-protest-her-maga-turn/
STIJLTH
I don’t get it.
This fraud really shouldn’t be angling for attention given the work product.
Watcha talking about, Willis?
ONCH?
Oh no, chicken hooks?
“DEAR ABBY: I work in a place where being friendly to customers is part of my job requirement, but I feel like many guys interpret this the wrong way. It seems I am a “jerk attractor,” and I don’t know how to make it stop. The worst of these jerks can’t take a hint that I’m not interested. One of them is a co-worker who sexually harasses me all day. Please help me so I stop attracting these losers. — FRIENDLY IN MASSACHUSETTS”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/16/lifestyle/dear-abby-how-do-i-stop-attracting-guys-at-work/
Somehow I’m thinking this is her fault.
I am gonna bet that pic in the article is not her at all. I am also gonna bet that she defines “jerks” as guys she is not attracted to. And yes, I am gonna agree she is the problem herself, because her standards are insanely kewed..
That’s absolutely a stock photo.
And I gotta wonder, how much of what she claims is “hitting on me” is nothing more than “chatting with the friendly girl”.
He smiles at me….eye rape!
He said hello…he thinks he’s gonna take me to bed!
He held the door…so he can look at my ass!
Sure, like she’s the last woman in America who doesn’t know she can report coworkers who engage in sexual harassment.
This.
If this letter is even real, she’s full of shit.
Probably real…Probably was turned away from HR cause she’s nuts.
So next thing is to ask Dear Abby
“Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina has introduced legislation that would make illegal immigrants who engage in animal cruelty inadmissible to the United States and subject to deportation.
The measure is called the “Illegal Alien Animal Abuser Removal Act of 2026.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nancy-mace-bill-deport-illegal-immigrants-animal-cruelty
Isn’t bring a dog to congress animal cruelty?
How about legislation that says any illegal that took welfare of any kind can never be given amnesty or residency? Start with that. Also get it codified that you do not count illegals in the census. All the other illegal shit going on stops immediately. Team blue doesn’t care about other people: this shit is all about power.
I dunno, Congress is full of bitches so the dog might feel right at home.
Kicking a dog is a federal felony now.
These people are insane.
“Scientist gives himself brain damage by testing secret audio weapon on himself in attempt to disprove ‘Havana Syndrome'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15563533/Scientist-Havana-Syndrome-BRAIN-damage.html
SCIENCE!!
What’s his next test? Hammering his testicles with a maul to see if they go squat?
He gave himself the symptoms of mass hysteria because that’s what it was/is. That being said, if you’re blasting yourself with microwave radiation you probably will develop some symptomology but that doesn’t prove anything.
“Using data from more than 34,000 adults from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, researchers found that individuals who consumed the most red meat had significantly higher diabetes prevalence compared to those who consumed the least, even after adjusting for age, BMI, lifestyle, and other dietary factors.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15563665/Eat-lot-red-meat-Youre-greater-risk-developing-diabetes-finds-new-study.html
No.
Yeah, sure. I’d like to see those adjustment criteria.
Waaaaaay down in the article where they know no one will read that far…
But Daily Fail got their headline, that is all that matters in today’s day and age.
BS.
“The Colorado Parent Advocacy Network obtained a recording Jan. 28 of a school-issued invitation to students to join the LGBTQ club Spectrum in “Dr. Phelan’s room” to discuss “LGBTQ-plus books and movies” and watch “some short films together.” Spectrum members and those “interested in being an ally” are welcome, the announcer says.
Allegedly made during “morning announcements” at suburban Denver’s Campus Middle School, the invitation asked 11-13 year-olds to “attend a lunchtime meeting in a male teacher’s classroom,” media teacher Derek Phelan, CPAN told interim Superintendent Jennifer Perry and Board of Education members in a warning letter Wednesday.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/school-district-circumvents-parents-inviting-kids-lgbtq-discussion
Eleven-year-olds, Dude.
“watch “some short films together.”
Might as well just say “get groomed for butt secks with weirdos”.
Have you ever been to a Turkish prison, Timmy?
movies about gladiators?
Too nuanced. Im sure its more like “Its natually to have sex!”
Make normal immoral.
Push immorality as a good.
A tale as old as time.
SubStack has a social media-esque feed. Occasionally I’ll go into the lefty rabbit hole. Even the most reasonable observation that doesn’t align with Current Thing quickly devolves into name-calling. For example, I pointed out that whatever Pretti (and, for that matter, Good) was doing before he got shot, it wasn’t civil disobedience. Within a few replies, I was called a bootlicking fascist. TBF, there was one person who actually engaged with my point and asked what would I call it. I don’t really know.
Good, for whatever her and partner’s intention were, both were cosplaying for Internet/Tik-Toc fame.
One thing in common was that both appeared to forget actions have consequences in the meat-space.
Not attributing right/wrong, just feels a whole swath of this country was forgotten how to be when out in public.
He was agitating.
The goal of the left is to keep kinetic action right at the edge of violence, all in an attempt to get ICE to overreact.
I think that’s probably the word for it.
Taking a gun when you are trying to keep kinetic action at the edge of violence seems particularly ill-advised.
“I’m not touching you!!!”
I wouldn’t agree that “having” a gun in itself is an act of violence, however stupid that dude was. And he succeeded in keeping kinetic action at the edge of violence, while also getting ICE to overreact. I think he got pretty much exactly what he wanted except for the getting dead part.
They’re playing the system. They know they need max suffering in order to move the needle, and they’re eager to create suffering artificially to gather support. These dumbfucks are part of a long game. They’re cannon fodder.
And ICE isn’t helping by acting like a bunch of untrained clowns
“And ICE isn’t helping by acting like a bunch of untrained clowns”
Really? Cause these people wouldn’t lie to us to create that image?
You know, like their original story that Renee Good was just a mom driving her kid to school, which eventually landed on the reality that she was a paid agitator that had been consistently interfering with lawful activity and gunned her SUV at an agent trying to arrest her for that? Or that Pretty asshat that had been looking for suicide by cop for a while now since his life was a mess being presented as a lawful gun owner that was just shot because he had a gun instead of because he decided to fight CBP agents while armed.
The left tells A STORY. Never THE STORY. And their story will ALWAY make those they want to limit or destroy look bad. Even if none of it happened. See the plethora of hoaxes on Trump.
The left isn’t dressing ICE in the morning or choosing their tactics. That’s solely on ICE. And yes they are acting like clowns (or worse).
During the 60s and 70s, civil disobedience involved breaking the law to expose the “unfairness” of the law. They did it with the expectation they would get arrested. They took pride in getting arrested.
The new assholes believe they can break the law and remain untouchable.
“There is a 1A exemption to laws.”
And for the most part they’re right.
I’m giving a talk tomorrow on “Bayard Rustin, the Angelic Troublemaker. ” That was the Civil Rights era tactic that worked: break the law but don’t resist, get arrested, maybe get beaten by cracker cops and attacked by dogs, touch the conscience of the nation.
I haven’t really tried it with the rah-rah Trumpists or the really loony conspiracy theorists (as in, secret networks of tunnels used by demon worshipping pedophiles for child sacrifices, say). I suspect the Trumpists would act about the same. The loonies, who knows.
I thought about this recently too. I can’t really have an honest conversation with someone that far left. But if I could, I’d tell them as an experiment, go on social media and say they agree with Trump on just one thing. Say “I hate Trump but I think he has a point on tariffs”. And then see how fast the crown turns on you. There is zero room for dissent on the left. Which is even more crazy, since the “official” position on things is often changing from day to day.
The chocolate ration has always been 1.5 ounces.
“Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Sunday afternoon that he plans to introduce legislation “to designate the Pride flag as a congressionally authorized flag.” Schumer made the announcement after the National Park Service removed a Pride flag from a flagpole inside the Stonewall National Monument near Christopher Park in New York City’s Greenwich Village. The agency said the change was required under federal guidance that limits what can fly on NPS-managed flagpoles to “only the US flag and other congressionally or departmentally authorized flags,” with limited exceptions.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/chuck-schumer-plans-to-designate-the-pride-flag-as-a-congressionally-authorized-flag-after-trump-admin-removed-it-from-stonewall-national-park
Enough already.
Top priority…have at it dude.
This shit needs to be voted down handily, but I think we all know it will be exactly along party lines.
Yeah if congress approves it sure wtf do I care. Still virtue signaling waste of time but I expect nothing less.
Which pride flag, though?
Oh I might actually watch those idiots argue over the details of that. It could get hilarious.
The new one, with every color in the rainbow plus black, brown and white and pink and light blue, is murder on the eyes. It looks like a 2 year old had a tantrum and threw the entire mega set of finger paints on the floor.
That’s not how they made it?
The one “Trump” took down was the old school rainbow flag, minus all the latest fashionable additions for trannies and such.
That “National Monument” was called Christopher Park or Sheridan Square and is a triangle roughly 50 yards long by 20 yards wide in the middle of three roads and a subway entrance. Until the Lightbringer intervened in 2016 it was a NYC park. It sits across the street from the bar (The Stonewall) that in 1969 the police raided to kick of the Stonewall Riots and gay liberation movement. The area is fenced and has a statue of MG Phil Sheridan at one end and since 1992 a well-known statue of a gay couple and a lesbian couple. The bar is still an open business. Most of the rest of the NM consists of streets around Sheridan Square. That three pointed intersection was the ending point for the annual Gay Pride parade for decades. (I don’t know where it ends now.) This NM is not like Walnut Canyon, Tuzigoot, Gettysburg or Antietam.
As much as I approve of the gay rights protests and subsequent societal changes to treat all citizens as equal citizens- this NM was just another Obama poke in the eye at anybody not in his camp. Since then it is a money grab by the neighborhood. There are now an official National Park Service Visitor’s Center and interpretive signs etc. Since it is a NM established by an EO then OMB should disestablish it by another EO. (It would not be the first time a NM or NP was disestablished, 26 units have gone this path.)
Are we adding the Playboy Rabbit flag for the straights? Molan Labe for the 2nd Amendment supporters? Don’t Tread on Me for the insurrectionists?
Molon Labia for the lesbians.
Careful there, Tres. Those of us that identify as lesbians trapped in a mans body feel it might hit too close to home…
Eliminate the National park service.
Auction off every acre.
It’s the only correct thing to do here.
“A federal grand jury has handed down a superseding indictment against an Oregon mom and daughter accused of trafficking Haitian nationals into the US to work at their adult care center and then forcing them into labor with little to no pay. Marie Gertrude Jean Valmont, 67, and Yolandita Marie Andre, 31, have each been charged with 12 counts of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and forced labor.
Valmont and Andre allegedly coerced the three Haitian victims, including a minor aged 16, to work at their adult foster home, Velida’s Home Care in Tigard, Oregon, under the promise of providing them with a steady income and a place to live. However, upon their September 2023 arrival, Valmont immediately stole their immigration paperwork, forced them to work extensive hours for no pay or just $2.00 per hour, made them sleep on the floor, and prohibited them from communicating with the outside world, according to the indictment.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/federal-grand-jury-indicts-oregon-mom-and-daughter-accused-of-trafficking-haitians-forcing-them-into-labor-on-new-healthcare-fraud-charges
If a white person did this it would be all over the news.
SLAVERY!!!
Which, tbf, is exactly what that is.
Though most don’t go this level, this is EXACTLY why the left wants the permanent immigrant underclass.
Skinfolk not kinfolk and pretty light skinned to boot. If they wanna blame white folks I’ll allow it.
Right on the edge of passing the paper bag test.
But I have no doubt they would qualify for reparations, so there’s that.
And why do I get the feeling that there are thousands of cases of exactly this across the country.
Rehash, but no doubt
Marie Gertrude Jean Valmont
Involvement with her was a dangerous liaison.
“…including a minor aged 16, to work at their adult foster home, Velida’s Home Care in Tigard, Oregon, …”
tigard, please
So, BBC is running analysis after Man Utd.’s co-owner claimed that the UK had been “colonized by immigrants,” while stressing he used incorrect data (as if that substantially changes his point – whether or not you agree with him). There is much weeping and gnashing of teeth with lots of anecdotal statements about how this has “horrified” many people.
Then, further down the Football page, BBC runs this story: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c20jpvd300do
OFFS! Pure theatre.
Whats the point of the Ramadan break? Just eat at halftime or end of match, no need to stop the game.
Hydration break. They’re not supposed to drink during the day during Ramadan.
The real reason is rubbing the Anglo-Saxons’ noses in it.
Because a passive allowance isn’t sufficient. An active acknowledgment is required and if you have an issue with that then you’re the issue.
Ted S gets it. Colonizers imposing their religious tenants on the icky natives.
Ted S.: the BBC story also mentions snacks.
Though to be fair, the teams are probably even more heavily into that religion than the residents of Manchester, London, and the like have become.
“California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Wednesday giving $90 million in tax dollars to Planned Parenthood, marking just the latest infusion of cash from the Golden State to the abortion behemoth.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/newsom-gives-90-million-emergency-funds-planned-parenthood/
Then PP donates to his campaign.
The point the Right should make on this is, if PP was so popular and beloved and necessary, they should have had money pouring in from private donors….
Appears they just want back on some form of government tits.
“government tits”
No.
Now we know the source of the government cheese….
Abort the illegals!
When Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was asked a question about foreign policy while attending a national security conference, she waffled.
If she runs for president in 2028, this clip will probably haunt her.
I predict if she runs, it won’t haunt her.
It will haunt her, but not in the way some think. I will haunt her by showing that she has a history of idiocy, that unless she has a tame media and controlled opposition that she is not a great politician or leader.
It will be used to build a case against her, much the same way that Kamalamdingdong couldn’t put together a complete sentence and that there was plenty of video to show it.
Whitmer will have the AWFL vote locked down, no matter what. Unless one of the other AWFL governors makes a strong play, at least. But as long as one of them is a contender, Newsom will have a problem getting the nom.
You’re going to need a lot more than this to build a case that she’s like Kamala.
Likewise as folks said up above, if her Rona Panic measures won’t sick her, nothing will. If the Rona Panic stuff mattered, Ron DeSantis would be president.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/bombshell-pam-bondi-announces-all-epstein-related-materials/
“Milano, Alyssa”
LOL
I know it is Gateway Pundit, but:
Trump has been VINDICATED as the whistleblower.
That is delusional given Trump’s actions.
I don’t see what he did besides fucking up the release of the files.
Not delusion, spin. Desperate desperate spin.
Considering he was the only one to turn a dime on Epstein back in the day, when nobody else important would, kinda sorta says that he is.
Dunno about “whistleblower”, but he was certainly cooperating and supportive of investigating and prosecuting Epstein.
And, of course, kicked him out of Mar a Lago.
Let’s see. Promising to release the files, the stupid binder incident, “Democrat Hoax”, and his actions with respect to Massie’s bill. Any good will Trump might have had over kicking Epstein out of Mar a Largo or talking to law enforcement back in those days Trump destroyed.
David Copperfield is just an illusion.
* Scans list for “Kevin, The Other” *
I know, right! We dodged a bullet there.
Well, we now know that the Obamas were kiddy diddlers.
I mean, if you are even mentioned in the files, that is what it means.
Somebody should let the DOJ know that “Horowitz, Andreesen” is not a person.
“A bill introduced into the Colorado State Senate last week would make Colorado the first state in the U.S. to fully decriminalize prostitution if it became law….
“Criminalizing prostitution endangers adults who engage in consensual sexual activity,” Colorado’s proposed bill reads. “Fear of criminal punishment among consenting adults engaged in commercial sexual activity encourages physical, emotional, and structural violence against sex workers, subjects them to economic crimes, and increases resistance to harm-reduction practices. Sex workers are less likely to report these crimes or seek medical help following an assault.”
The bill specifically repeals previous law prohibiting soliciting prostitution, keeping a place of prostitution and patronizing a prostitute.”
https://kdvr.com/news/politics/colorado-politics-news/colorado-bill-would-fully-legalize-prostitution/
WCPGW?
“Prostitution involves sex and money. Which one are you opposed to?”
*checks bank balance*
Apparently, money.
Well, what do you see as going wrong?
I personally think bikini coffee trailers should be able to expand the menu to latte-and-a-handjob specials, but I seem to be on the more libertarianish side of the commentariat.
Wanna go to Starbucks?
Workers Could Prostitute Good Work?
Whipped Cream Prevents Global Warming.
😣
I went and scraped up my leg on a box. No serious injury, but it’s just deep enough over enough area to be an infection risk. Got it all cleaned and bandaged up, but my day is just peachy.
“I went and scraped up my leg on a box.”
Well, don’t do that!
Gravity was quite insistant.
Gravity’s just a habit which I’m pretty sure you can break.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGJA9i18
I swear I’m tyring, but I keep falling off the wagon.
Obligatory.
Antibiotic gloves ?
Trump to Iran: “We want to regime change you.”
Also “why won’t you negotiate that with us?”
My problem isn’t what you would like others to conclude. I want them removed and consider negotiations with these fuckwads a waste of time.
Poison pill the negotiation process and use the other side balking as a pretext. It’s what we do and we need that good old war rah rah rah to salvage the midterms.
Surely there are some very ambitious generals in Iran who are seeking a “promotion?”
The imminent passage of the Congressional authorization to attack Iran should get their attention.
Right?
Elections have consequences?
Staffan I. Lindberg, the founding director of Sweden’s V-Dem Institute, which monitors democracy across the globe, says the U.S. has already crossed the threshold and become an “electoral autocracy.”
Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard University and co-author of How Democracies Die, agrees.
“I would argue that the United States in 2025-26 has slid into a mild form of competitive authoritarianism,” Levitsky said. “I think it’s reversible, but this is authoritarianism.”
Under competitive authoritarianism, countries still hold elections, but the ruling party uses various tactics — attacking the press, disenfranchising voters, weaponizing the justice system and threatening critics — to tilt the electoral playing field in its favor.
The winners get to be in charge of the government? That’s not true democracy.
But threatening social media outfits and running coordinating propaganda campaigns and finding boxes of ballots after the polls close is just Democracy™️ in action. 🙄
“ but the ruling party uses various tactics — attacking the press, disenfranchising voters, weaponizing the justice system and threatening critics”
But enough about the Biden Administration, amirite? It’s like they don’t remember the Dark Brandon meme and the creepy speech it was birthed from.
If he had said that the US had slid into competitive authoritarianism in 2020, or even 2016, I might think he’s not just another TDS sufferer.
Something I thought about this weekend: The promise of the Internet was that we have all the information in the world right in our pockets. We were all going to be so much smarter and more productive! But 99% of people are just looking at cat videos.
r/cats
It’s been posited that porn has been a driving force behind a lot of Internet advancements.
The naked form certainly motivated a lot of early photographers.
Who knew it was actually going to make people dumber than ever.
Some of are looking at boobs too.
A smaller number of scholars reject the portrayal of Trump as a would-be autocrat. They say he is expanding executive power to address the excesses of his predecessor, former President Joe Biden.
These so called scholars are obviously grovelling sycophants and courtiers.
President Pen and Phone, however, was totes OK.
Weyland said that for the first months of his second term, Trump was like a “steamroller” and faced little containment or opposition. But Weyland, who wrote Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat: Countering Global Alarmism, says that has changed.
Saving democracy from populism. How precious.
I continue to be baffled by how populism, which is to say, policies that are popular with a good chunk of the population, is anathema to democracy.
I agree, but pure democracy is one of the things that is checked and balanced in the Constitution. It certainly is anathema to Our Democracy as the Dems like to call it.
I was going to post something mildly amusing, but I think I’ll go with science instead.
Gotta admit, Mrs. Dean has to repeat herself a lot. But, I’m partially deaf, so I’ve got that going for me.
Oh, and there is no way I have ever spoken 20,000 words in one day.
Bravo, Shpip.
I’m using Proton calendar with the built-in Holidays in the United States. It seems to be a bit skewed. Washington’s Birthday is not listed (not even as the incorrect “President’s Day”), but Juneteenth is right there.
Eurotopia is at hand
Kallas alluded to criticism in the U.S. national security strategy released in December, which asserted that economic stagnation in Europe “is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.” It suggested that Europe is being enfeebled by its immigration policies, declining birth rates, “censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition” and a “loss of national identities and self-confidence.”
“Contrary to what some may say, woke, decadent Europe is not facing civilizational erasure,” Kallas told the conference. “In fact, people still want to join our club and not just fellow Europeans,” she added, saying she was told when visiting Canada last year that many people there have an interest in joining the EU.
Kallas rejected what she called “European-bashing.”
“We are, you know, pushing humanity forward, trying to defend human rights and all this, which is actually bringing also prosperity for people. So that’s why it’s very hard for me to believe these accusations.”
You dumb Americans are just jealous.
They can keep telling themselves that shit… But if you just dig a little, man the envy is massive.
Describing colonizers who want to leech off the welfare state as “wanting to join our club” is an interesting take.
Bringing prosperity?
Well, to the colonizers leeching off the welfare state, I suppose. For actual Europeans, though? Not so much.
If this happened to me, I bet it will be some fat, blue haired freak with a cow nose ring, and she will then accuse me of being the one doing the deed cause I bitch slapped her back to her factory setting for messing with me..
[Rubio] made clear that the Trump administration is sticking to its guns on issues such as migration, trade and climate. And European officials who addressed the gathering made clear that they in turn will stand by their values, including their approach to free speech, climate change and free trade.
Yes, by all means stick to your uniquely Eurotarded understanding of “free” speech, climate change and “free” trade.
It looks like Animal’s mid-day post got fouled up.
🙁
Grugell sabotage!
“Three times is enemy action.”
“Cheese it! They’re onto us!”
Rip Robert Duvall
From Wikipedia:
Reading on:
Wikipedia has a different definition of “libertarian” than I do.
Apparently our green alien is the only one who can comment on the midday thread.
It’s a bigger mess than Gretchen Whitmer’s understanding of foreign policy.
So, Gustave, I’m curious. You said above that ICE was acting like clowns (or worse). How so?
Maybe the decision to go hard at a sanctuary city/state was the wrong one. But once that is taken, and ICE agents are facing highly organized, well-funded harassment and obstruction with zero local LEO support, what should they do differently?
Shoot more agitators.
This is what they get for deviating from the norm.
There is only ONE flavor of Frosty.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/wendys-close-hundreds-restaurants-company-looks-focus-value-boost-sales
I love business nooz headlines.
“Beloved [business X] closes its doors after [time period Y]”
If it’s so “beloved” why did it go tits up?
Well, in at least one case, because the government closed them down ’cause coof.
Owner retired and couldn’t find a buyer?
Afternoon links are still broken
I want to know how two Glibs managed to post comments. I can see the comment box but not type in it. (LibreWolf browser on Linux Mint.)
Does work in edge or chrome for me.
Doesn’t work . . .
It’s completely tarded on Safari.
I couldn’t on Firefox.
Doesn’t work for me in Brave.
Doesn’t work for me.
Brave on Linux on desktop for me.
I was just able to post a comment on PM Lynx on my phone. (Using “Mull” browser – mobile version of LibreWolf.) Maybe mobile works?
Jacked up here too.
If the browser window is narrow enough, it works for me.
that works !
Error! error! Analyze! Analyyyyyyyyze!
Afternoon links are fucked.
What are the squirrels doing around this joint?
Smoking dope, fucking shit up.
I want to know how two Glibs managed to post comments.
Snuck in through the back door?
Disclaimer: I am barely competent to send an email or post comments when things are working properly.