Tuesday Morning Links

by | Feb 24, 2026 | Daily Links | 257 comments

I can’t really find any sports stuff to report on that’s not soccer-related. So I’m just gonna break straight into the links.

The pettiness can sometimes seem hypocritical. I guess we should make sure no government official ever takes a side trip after going to meet with international colleagues or underlings that are working a major event. I almost wish we’d have a Trump presidency that lasted a generation just to see this kind of coverage become so normalized that all the normies are shocked when it disappears the minute a Dem gets back in office.

Does diplomacy mean denying reality? I guess it does to the frogs.

Get a load of this fucking guy. And I bet his solution is for Uncle Sugar to pump a bunch of money into one side of the conflict without any oversight or control.

I don’t know who to boo and who to support here. Maybe I’ll stick with my default and not really give a shit about either group.

Cocksucker. Dickhead. Intolerant. ignorant FUCK!!! No, I don’t have Tourette’s. I don’t need it to use those words to describe the ignorance of people on display here.

The chocolate ration will be decreased next month. I know there’s a better joke in there somewhere, but I can’t really think of it this morning.

I’m not usually one to kink shame, but….dude. Again, I shouldn’t be surprised because it’s France.

Unmarked cars and cops wearing masks is …? If you guessed “a Fourth Amendment violation,” you’d be agreeing with this judge.

I guess one Orwellian story from the UK wasn’t enough today. Britain, what the fuck are you doing?

There goes another one. At some point, California won’t have any companies left that have their HQ there.

Going with something mellow today. I’m too wound up, and this helps. No wait, that didn’t take. What an amazing video. Enjoy them both.

And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.

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257 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    “Chocolate bars are being locked in plastic boxes in some UK shops as retailers and police forces warn thieves are stealing them to order.”

    to order?

    • sloopyinca

      I guess it’s like the organized shoplifting going on in San Fran that was covered a while back, although it’s for candy bars instead of luxury clothing.

    • WTF

      Hmmm….I wonder if the thievery is being done by the third-worlders the UK imported by the millions? Strangely, the article doesn’t say.

      • rhywun

        Nah, these things happen. Nothing to do about it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not important, its just a cultural difference

      • Suthenboy

        No doubt that is a large part of it but native eurotards in certain classes have similar problems. A surprising, at least to me, big one.
        It is almost as if collectivist cultures have less respect for individual rights…like property rights.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Ugh, not even good chocolate. I had assumed it was that pistachio stuff or summat.

  2. juris imprudent

    The NY cops being pelted with snow – what kind of fucking mob was that? Everyone either had a cell phone or a snowball in their hand – what a bunch of retarded, overgrown juveniles. What a sad excuse for Americans, hell just for humans in general.

    • Ownbestenemy

      With some of those photos showing the cops smiling…me thinks they were engaging in good hearted fun that doubled as a pressure relief between the two groups.

      • juris imprudent

        Initially yeah, but the crowd went from a little fun to we’ve-had-enough.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ah well…morons then

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      How dare people act according to the times and their generations fashion!

      They outta put onions on their belts, and dress up like zombies!

      • juris imprudent

        “Kids these days!” — Socrates

      • Gustave Lytton

        “Give me the hemlock!”

  3. Ownbestenemy

    If the GOP were smart, they’d start hitting Ole Bernie with exactly how he obtained his diplomatic passport (I’m assuming its one) when he publically admitted he has no idea where his birth certificate is.

    Then turn around and support the reporter with huge nuts who dared to ask White Lightbringer about his dyslexia diagnosis.

  4. rhywun

    And I bet his solution is for Uncle Sugar to pump a bunch of money into one side of the conflict without any oversight or control.

    I wonder what the average Englishman thinks of Starmer flushing what’s left of his dying nation’s riches down that fucking toilet.

    LOL I made a funny. Nobody listens to them.

    • Suthenboy

      “Give me money!” turns out to be the solution for every problem, everywhere, all of the time.
      Huh.

  5. Common Tater

    “After their humiliation, Mr Nègre’s victims are now frustrated by judicial delays. Opened in 2019, the investigation is in its sixth year. No trial date has been set, and Mr Nègre remains free pending the outcome.

    And now, prosecutors have suddenly given his alleged victims only one month to hand in fresh testimonies before they officially close the inquiry.”

    That doesn’t make sense.

    • Pope Jimbo

      So any chance of catching the Piss Monster depends on his victims?

  6. PieInTheSky

    The pettiness can sometimes seem hypocritical.

    🚨 BRAKING 🚨

    FBI director Cash Patel must be fired and arrested for his behavior today. He was caught on video using taxpayer funds to consume alcohol and party with the U.S. hockey team after their dominating victory over Canada

    It is illegal for an FBI director to use government funds to travel abroad

    https://x.com/3YearLetterman/status/2025736704095633868

    • juris imprudent

      after their dominating victory over Canada

      Speaking of being drunk and stupid (and maybe fat too?).

      • PieInTheSky

        you sound like you have a time share in Pigeon Forge.

      • Threedoor

        He made some taxpayer funded side trip to visit his girlfriend at one of her concerts.

        That one I’m not OK with.
        Humiliating Canada, I’m less concerned with.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Almost got me…then remembered 3YearLetterman…

      • rhywun

        LOL the pic

      • Threedoor

        Is his name Bragg g about playing sports in high school?

    • EvilSheldon

      Whenever someone uses the words, “consume alcohol,” I reflexively brace myself for a wave of dimwitted political cant. Anyone else notice this?

    • The Last American Hero

      Of course the media was silent on Heil Vitmer using her state funded trip to the bogus defense summit with a side quest to the Olympics. And based on the video, she probably imbibed as well.

  7. PieInTheSky

    Get a load of this fucking guy. And I bet his solution is for Uncle Sugar to pump a bunch of money into one side of the conflict without any oversight or control.

    Uncle Sugar ought not forget to send some moneys to at risk countries such as for a random example Romania

    • Tres Cool

      The corrupt politicians would spend it all before it got to your hands.

      • PieInTheSky

        but it may trickle down my way.

      • Suthenboy

        He wasn’t talking about your corrupt pols, he meant ours. ‘Foreign Aid’ trickle down is for the foreign leaders. Everyday citizens neither here nor there ever see a penny.

      • WTF

        Spoiler: it won’t.

      • PieInTheSky

        hey a man can dream

      • Pope Jimbo

        but it may trickle down my way

        What are you? Some sort of crypto-Frenchie?

      • PieInTheSky

        well a lot of or shitty legal system is french inspired.

  8. PieInTheSky

    Cocksucker. Dickhead. Intolerant. ignorant FUCK!!!

    whatever happened to the family friendly rating from a few years back?

    • Not Adahn

      We still have it — the company that could yank it from us went bankrupt.

    • Rat on a train

      dysfunctional family?

      • Pope Jimbo

        Just standard Democrat voting family now.

        Seems like every D pol swears like a sailor now. I don’t mind the vulgarity, I mind that it is so performative.

        True vulgarians can weave a real masterpiece. The Dems just swear because they want to shock the squares.

  9. rhywun

    Maybe I’ll stick with my default and not really give a shit about either group.

    A safe bet.

    Though not exactly a surprise to see gangs of vicious thugs taking advantage of the weather to “play” in ways that are familiar to gangs of vicious thugs.

  10. Common Tater

    “Streaming services with more than 500,000 UK users will have to adhere to the new standards, which include ensuring news is reported accurately and impartially and audiences are protected against harmful or offensive material.”

    So censorship.

    • Grumbletarian

      Netflix should promptly reduce UK customers to 499,999.

      • Rat on a train

        “Thank you for your interest in subscribing. We will add you to the waitlist.”

      • Pope Jimbo

        First kick off all the trannies and Muslims. See how many subscriptions that leaves you.

        Anyone named Mohamed will find that there were clerical errors and their name didn’t actually get on the wait list.

        Likewise, anyone not clicking “woman” or “man” on the wait list application will run into issues.

      • Threedoor

        This is the appropriate response.

        And add a vpn to the service.

    • Ted S.

      And no BBC since they’re neither accurate nor impartial.

    • rhywun

      ensuring news is reported accurately

      LOL I didn’t catch that part.

      Yup straight up censorship. “For the children.” 😂🤣

    • (((Jarflax

      Give Starmer a few more months and there won’t be 500,000 Brits who can afford it.

  11. rhywun

    failing to safeguard dignity of black guests

    Heaven’s to Betsy! Fetch the fainting couch, Felicity!

    • PieInTheSky

      Just loosen the corset that is why most faint.

    • Grumbletarian

      You just don’t understand the trauma that can result from hearing two particular syllables in a particular order. I bet most of them would rather be shot through the head than suffer the agony those two syllables cause.

      • DrOtto

        It’s the hard “R” sound what does it.

      • (((Jarflax

        Yet only white people have the magical ability to make the incantation work.

      • Pope Jimbo

        You just don’t understand the trauma

        Oh, I understand. That is why I have to avoid rap music from black rappers. Their work is littered with the evil word.

  12. Common Tater

    “Horror author Stephen King is facing backlash online Monday for a post tearing into President Donald Trump’s personal life, including a line claiming that Trump has no children.

    “Trump: has never had a child. Has been married 3 times. Ran several businesses into the ground. Never ran a home, couldn’t make a bed to save his a–. Calls people he works with dumb, losers, ect. Has never done sweat labor. Has never served on a local committee,” King said in a post to X.

    “[He] has no life experience,” King added.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/02/24/us-news/social-media-erupts-after-stephen-king-makes-false-claim-about-trumps-family-what-is-this-sh/

    CWAA

    • Ownbestenemy

      Well when you copy-pasta you gotta make sure to edit details pertinent to the new subject.

      He lifted it from one about AOC and him or his social media lackey are just dummies.

    • Suthenboy

      I am sure this is news to his children, mothers of those children and his bankers. I never would have guessed it.

      I knew half of the country had both feet in crazy land when Mike Godwin said an exception to his law for Trump was completely fair.
      anything they say can be safely ignored.

    • rhywun

      Aw, leave the poor guy alone. He fried his brain on drugs decades ago.

      • EvilSheldon

        King actually could write entertaining stories back when he was a coke-addled drunkard. Now that he’s sober, he’s just a marginally coherent public whiner.

        Remember kids, quitters never win!

      • DrOtto

        And winners never quit! That’s one to grow on!

      • bacon-magic

        Rehab is for quitters.

  13. rhywun

    Britain, what the fuck are you doing?

    Mostly the same as the US is doing, only five minutes earlier.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Their rules…as I just read them, are insane for any creative wanting to make a show or have it broadcast in the UK.

      Just cut ties and say service is not available

      • rhywun

        I wonder if they have explicitly built-in racism like we do for Oscar-bait.

    • Threedoor

      That’s how I view neighboring states.

      Idaho is ten years behind MT in progginess as they are Ten years behind WA.

      Same route. Different speeds but it only takes one election to catch up and there is no reverse.

  14. PieInTheSky

    Beatrice Adler-Bolton
    @realLandsEnd
    Posts like this are a painful but useful case study in what we disability scholars call “carceral sanism” which is a kind of maximalist fusion of “mental health stigma” with punitive social logics. It frames visible crisis as a breach of public order, not evidence of abandonment

    Sanism names a deep, pervasive belief that ppl who appear out of control, incoherent, or in psychiatric crisis are not trustworthy, less human & fundamentally disruptive to social life. It’s a hierarchy of credibility and belonging, where visible distress = danger/contamination

    Carceral sanism is what happens when that hierarchy is organized around removal as the ultimate solution for “how to deal” with people dehumanized by sanism.

    The underlying assumption is that people in crisis do not belong in public space and restoring normalcy requires containment, whether through policing, forced hospitalization, or displacement.

    Basically carceral sanism persists because it is convenient, not because it is coherent. It protects the psychic innocence of spectators to structural violence and preserves the “legitimacy” of systems producing abandonment in the first place, while positing the PIC as solution

    https://x.com/realLandsEnd/status/2025752279932870892

    makes you think don’t it

    • PieInTheSky

      counterpoint i guess

      Jill Filipovic
      @JillFilipovic
      ·
      Feb 23
      I am begging leftists and liberals to not do this again. It is normal and smart to be nervous and on high alert when someone behaves in a profoundly anti-social way (peeing on the subway) and/or a threatening way (screaming on the subway). The more cities tolerate this, the fewer people ride public transport, the worse that transport gets, and eventually it gets to a breaking point and people wind up voting for right-wing politicians who come in and crack skulls and way over-police. It is possible to nip these problems in the bud early and using more human measures. “Toughen up” is a bad and strategically stupid answer.

      and counter counter point

      Minister of the Earth and Sky 🇵🇸
      @ajdickerson13
      What’s your solution then Jill? Prison for people who act anti social? This is the attitude that gets people killed. Jordan Neeley was killed less than 3 years ago by a man with a similar attitude to this!!

      • Suthenboy

        Wow Jill. Did you hear that loud whooshing noise? No?

        Her reasoning is a wonder to behold.

      • EvilSheldon

        What’s your solution then Jill? Prison for people who act anti social?

        Um, yes?* Punishing people for acting anti-social is literally a foundational purpose of civilization.

        * – I’m not a fan of prison, solely for practical reasons. Fines, public caning, and execution all have a much better track record.

      • PieInTheSky

        just send them all to Australia.

      • rhywun

        Punishing people for acting anti-social is literally a foundational purpose of civilization

        This.

        The author obviously rejects civilization, like many of her loathsome kind.

      • PieInTheSky

        I assume anyone with a Palestinian flag in the name has only the highest regard for civilization.

      • Threedoor

        ES do you have a news letter kind sir?

    • PieInTheSky

      I think I am less tolerant of craziness in public as I get older…

    • Common Tater

      tworetardsfighting.jpg

    • Not Adahn

      Inventing a compound word is fine. Inventing a new word so you can make a compound word with it is not.

    • EvilSheldon

      “Sanism names a deep, pervasive belief that ppl who appear out of control, incoherent, or in psychiatric crisis are not trustworthy, less human & fundamentally disruptive to social life. It’s a hierarchy of credibility and belonging, where visible distress = danger/contamination”

      Whenever someone makes up a sociological term for what amounts to, ‘being aware of reality’, you should probably assume that they’re seeking political or cultural power over you.

      • Nephilium

        People who are not thinking rationally do not act in predictable or rational ways. This is not a condemnation of them, but a statement of fact.

      • EvilSheldon

        The right-ring race realists on TwiX (and elsewhere) call this ‘noticing.’

        It’s yet another example of the new right never getting the right answers, but being pretty good at identifying the questions.

    • PieInTheSky

      “less human ” – as an aside I don’t know what people think human means cause to be human can encompass behaviors from the best to the most vile imaginable.

      • rhywun

        Accusing someone of holding that belief is meaningless piffle signaling nothing more than “disapproval”.

        Similar to “racist” or “Nazi”.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        “less human” is the motte, “not trustworthy” and “fundamentally disruptive to social life” are the bailey.

  15. PieInTheSky

    Speaking of crazies and carceral sanism

    Valdo Calocane was not sectioned following a violent psychotic attack because mental health workers had considered the “over representation of young black men in custody.”

    He went on to kill three people

    Decisions should NEVER be made on this basis

    https://x.com/CPhilpOfficial/status/2025909993015308594

    • dbleagle

      The mental health workers should be drawn and quartered and their remains buried in at the four corners of a crossroad intersection. (It is the UK after all.)

      • Threedoor

        That applies for a not insignificant number of social workers.

  16. Common Tater

    “The 50-year-old, who is based in Florida, appeared at Southwark Crown Court this morning to deny the offences, which relate to alleged incidents in 2009.

    He is alleged to have raped a woman between February 7 and March 1 and to have sexually assaulted another between August 31 and December 1, both that year.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15587325/russell-brand-appears-court-charged-rape-assault.html

    So it’s bullshit.

    • R.J.

      That would be my guess.

      • WTF

        Well, if they can’t even come up with an actual date, and this supposedly happened 17 years ago, yeah, it’s bullshit.

    • Threedoor

      Same BS charges they put an Idaho state rep in prison for.

      They’ll drag Brand for it because his name is not Muhammad.

  17. Not Adahn

    NPR was tut-tutting the Beeb for not understanding how harmful the hexagrammaton is and then got REALLY outraged by someone using the verboten phrasing “I’m sorry if you were offended” which as everyone knows is white supremacy.

    • PieInTheSky

      The Hexagrammaton, or “Six Wings,” was a specialized organizational structure used by the Dark Angels Legion (I Legion) during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy in Warhammer 40,000.

    • Common Tater

      “hexagrammaton”

      ???

      • Not Adahn

        You know about the Tetragrammaton, yes? YHVH? The Most Sacred Holy Word that will strike dead anyone except the most special who utter it?

      • Common Tater

        No.

      • Not Adahn

        Well now you do!

        By at least the 3rd century BCE, the name was not pronounced in normal speech,[132] but only in certain ritual contexts. The Talmud relays this change occurred after the death of Simeon the Just (either Simon I or his great-great-grandson Simon II).[133] Philo calls the name ineffable, and says that it is lawful only for those “whose ears and tongues are purified by wisdom to hear and utter it in a holy place”, that is, the priests in the Temple. In another passage, commenting on Lev. 24:15, Philo writes, “If any one… should even dare to utter his name unseasonably, let him expect the penalty of death.”[55] Some time after the destruction of the Second Temple, the spoken use of God’s name as it was written ceased altogether, though knowledge of the pronunciation was perpetuated in rabbinic schools.[55]

        This is the basis for the stoning scene in The Life of Brian.

      • PieInTheSky

        That piece of halibut was mid.

      • Not Adahn

        Is halibut even a Mediterranean thing?

        *googles*

        Nope.

        I wonder if that was an intentional joke, or if the word “halibut” is just a funnier word than whatever fish (((they))) ate.

      • R C Dean

        The Talmud relays this change occurred after the death of Simeon the Just (either Simon I or his great-great-grandson Simon II)

        Now that’s some top-notch historicizing, that is.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        So basically the tetragrammaton was grammatonmaxxing but got grammatonmogged by the hexagrammaton?

    • juris imprudent

      Good to know – I won’t even consider apologizing for someone taking offense to something I said. Wouldn’t want to be white supremacist after all.

      • Threedoor

        She wouldn’t get in you for always being on the phone when you spent time with her.

    • R.J.

      That is not a bad idea. I am still rather ill but I would join a Zoom

      • Common Tater

        Get well soon!

        I just got over that stupid shot on Sunday.

        I think it is being streamed on c-span and youtube.

      • Ted S.

        Ooh, RJ has projectile vomiting on Zoom!

        Sounds entertaining, although you could probably make money with it on OnlyFans.

      • R.J.

        Some kind of disease where I felt off, then suddenly vomited and had a fever and sinus issues…
        Wait a minute… Did I get sick from reading Ron’s Friday post?

      • WTF

        I could see getting sick from reading SugarFree….

      • Common Tater

        Sounds like the flu?

      • R C Dean

        I had what was probably a norovirus a few days ago. Queasy, projectile vomited a couple times, mild fever, achy and just way off for a day or so.

        Then, fine.

      • Threedoor

        I’ll be on Friday.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I heard a lot of leftists are stamping their feet in petulance.

        I assume that idiot Jeffries has to attend and surely has some performative theater in mind.

      • EvilSheldon

        Things I could be doing instead of watching the State of the Union address:

        – Dry firing
        – Loading ammo
        – Working out
        – Practicing on the guitar
        – Cleaning my apartment
        – Baking cookies
        – Making homemade infused spirits
        – Masturbating

        I would hope that everyone else also has better things to do than watch politicians run on at the mouth.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Well we need to see if Netanyahu parades him on a leash….or something like that.

      • Nephilium

        rhywun:

        I’m seeing three story arcs from the left in regards to the state of the union tonight:

        1) Democrats will be boycotting it, leaving empty space to show how they don’t support Trump (with requests for people to not watch it at home to tank the ratings)
        2) Democrats will be protesting and showing their defiance to Trump, with protests scheduled outside and inside.
        3) Democrats are going to be statesmanlike and rise above Trump and be classy and calm.

        I have a feeling we’re going to get 2, with them claiming to be doing 3. I can at least respect 1, which means it’s the one I expect to happen the least.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Yelling Fuck You, or You Lie, whatever, should be a point of pride in using the 1st amendment.

      • Not Adahn

        If one of them doesn’t take a dump on the dais I’ll be disappointed in the quality of today’s protestors.

      • J. Frank Parnell

        I thought Dems were putting on some sort of anti-SOTU event?

      • rhywun

        I thought Dems were putting on some sort of anti-SOTU event?

        With puppies?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Cant do that rhywun…might offend their Muslim masters

    • juris imprudent

      We having a watch party here tonight?

      Only if we have a dead pool on who dies from alcohol poisoning.

      • Ownbestenemy

        100 internet bucks down that Trump claims we would have beaten Canada by ‘a lot’ if he were the coach.

    • Common Tater

      Why the fuck did I learn English?

      • PieInTheSky

        In order to graduate high school and get that pay premium

    • PieInTheSky

      For thoseLusotropicalism (Portuguese: Lusotropicalismo) is a term and “quasi-theory”[1] developed by Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre to describe the distinctive character of Portuguese imperialism overseas, proposing that the Portuguese were better colonizers than other European nations.[2][3]

      Freyre theorized that because of Portugal’s warmer climate, and having been inhabited by Celts, Romans, Visigoths, Moors and several other peoples in pre-modern times, the Portuguese were more humane, friendly, and adaptable to other climates and cultures. He saw “Portuguese-based cultures as cultures of ecumenical expansion” and suggested that “Lusotropical culture was a form of resistance against both the ‘barbaric’ Soviet communist influence, and the also ‘barbarian’ process of Americanization and capitalist expansion. unaware

      • WTF

        the Portuguese were more humane, friendly, and adaptable to other climates and cultures

        Wait, wut?

      • juris imprudent

        Brazil outlawed slavery in… 1888, after being the biggest destination of the African slave trade. Yep, very progressive colonialism!

      • PieInTheSky

        A kinder slavery! They were all family!

  18. Common Tater

    “A self-proclaimed ‘scholar of the far right’ was blasted on social media after she ‘fled’ the United States to Canada.

    Nope Brigade is an academic researcher who studies conservative and right-wing ideologies, and recently ‘fled’ from the current Trump administration to Vancouver – one of the world’s priciest cities.

    Brigade posted a social media video begging for help after she and her family moved from Los Angeles, only to be hit with an even worse affordability crisis….

    Brigade explained that she, her partner, and their pets moved to Vancouver on a visitor visa, which prevents them from working.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15584703/far-right-scholar-fled-Vancouver-canada-affordability-crisis.html

    LOLOLOL

    • PieInTheSky

      do these people actually work?

      • EvilSheldon

        She’s a ‘scholar’, you bigot!

      • juris imprudent

        There’s not much market for academic masturbation on OnlyFans.

      • rhywun

        Not if they can help it.

      • Not Adahn

        Woody Allen already wrote “The Whore of MENSA.”

      • juris imprudent

        Are you stealing a bit from our rarely seen Canadian muppet?

      • Not Adahn

        It’s not stealing, it’s carrying on the tradition!

    • Ownbestenemy

      ‘Especially when you are shut out of the healthcare system and can’t access any of the resources that Canadians have access to.

      ‘And that’s understandable, I’m not a citizen of the country, but it is making the financial situation dire.’

      Maybe reflect on that Nope

      • rhywun

        It’s like rain on your wedding day.

    • Threedoor

      “Partner”
      Sounds gay.
      Stay in BC.

    • Threedoor

      Wait till she goes to the grocery store. Canadian prices are nuts. Especially meat.

  19. PieInTheSky

    Yes, all your favorite shows were WOKE. You probably know this already. I don’t just mean the blindingly obvious ones like Star Trek or Doctor Who. Even shows like Sopranos and Stargate only shroud their intentions in exaggerated masculinity and patriotism – but at the end of the day they’re still propaganda for psychopharma pseudoreligion and feminism.

    The difference isn’t just that leftists used to be cleverer than they are now. Again, that’s pretty obvious. Today’s leftists are nowhere near as intelligent as their predecessors. But the big difference is in their outlook, not their competence. There are some leftist productions today that are competently made, but end up failing because of too much “woke.” I insist that the Woke was there every bit as blatantly twenty years ago as today. You had entire episodes of most sci-fi shows dedicated to lecturing the audience on the stupidity of religion, the importance of gay rights, abortion, feminism, etc. It was all very much in your face. What changed?

    Cynicism.

    Even if they weren’t card-carrying Marxists, they believed in the inevitability of their ideas. They believed capitalism had to progress into socialism, just as the world had to progress into capitalism beforehand. Each step was part of a process that was predetermined by logic and human nature, and each step was an improvement on the last.

    It’s been decades, and leftists are getting impatient. Why haven’t the conservatives converted yet? Worse, progress keeps getting undone.

    But it can’t be that leftist ideas don’t work, can it? It must be that they’re being sabotaged. It must be those conservatives. They were supposed to have converted by now. Why haven’t they? Perhaps the progressives made a mistake. Maybe people don’t start out as conservatives and advance into leftists. Maybe they’re conservative because they’re evil.

    https://x.com/Elvish_Harper/status/2026111257770946983

    we are getting longer and longer tweets these days. Even a small summary is too long for a comment.

    • Ownbestenemy

      People need to lay off the weed and X

    • Common Tater

      Longer tweets that say less.

    • Not Adahn

      Nah. Woke is about flipping or re-establishing hierarchies. The pre-woke were abut equality and the abolishment of inborn hierarchies.

    • Nephilium

      we are getting longer and longer tweets these days. Even a small summary is too long for a comment.

      Part of the Substack/X ‘war’.

    • Q Continuum

      TL;DR – Modern script writing is garbage because it’s blatant political propaganda with “art” as a figleaf. And thus, when art is actually “art”, it sucks.

      Obvious facts are obvious.

    • Ownbestenemy

      People in position of power and influence abuse position of power and influence. News at 10.

    • Common Tater

      They seem to be more frequent over the last 15 years or so.

      I feel bad for the husbands.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ill take an honest stab. Feminization of men or rather, the insane notion that masculinity is bad has made women seek elsewhere and where better to look than the testosterone factories of 16-18 year old boys with outsized egos about their prowess?

      • Not Adahn

        Could be. Or it could be that it’s just getting reported more because in ye olden tymes the only victim here was the husband, who probably didn’t go running off to the local newspaper, and definitely not the national news networks.

        I have no idea which is more likely.

      • EvilSheldon

        I’d also add in the increasing number of men who are declining to put up with progressive womens’ various behavioral problems, and the increasing number of progressive women who have been taught to view men as a resource to be exploited.

        It’s honestly a little surprising that more female teachers aren’t trying to get dick from a captive population of men that they can easily control.

      • Threedoor

        Throw in media and teachers pushing the kids to be gay/trans.

    • PieInTheSky

      The punishment for fucking a student as a female teacher should be you should fuck all the students classmates as well otherwise it is not fair.

      • Not Adahn

        “Did you bring enough poontang for everyone?”

    • Pope Jimbo

      I have no idea about the frequency of these events.

      My guess is the same. The only difference is that we see these stories more often. They seem to be the ultimate clickbait. Every women clicks to hate on the accused woman. Every man clicks to see how attractive the accused woman is. So the “news” loves to run them.

      The only way they could be improved as clickbait is if they ran pics of the victim too. Blur out his face to maintain “privacy”, but get a pic of him in his swim trunks. That would really spike interest from the women.

    • (((Jarflax

      Bring back the poop deck.

    • Not Adahn

      As of 15 years ago, Panasonic still made (some of) its own chips, but were already incapable of making the high-end stuff.

    • PieInTheSky

      buy one while you can.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Panasonic had already handed manufacturing to a Chinese manufacturer, TCL I think, a few years ago so I don’t know what they’re going on about.

  20. Pope Jimbo

    Let’s get cracking Minnesoda! We have a lot of work to do if we want to earn the trust of the Somalis back!

    These days, the Granite City is home to thousands of people from the Horn of Africa country and could make a strong case for being ICE’s biggest focus in Greater Minnesota. Somalis here have been detained, ICE activity has been frequently reported and an incident between federal agents and residents at a mall housing Somali-owned businesses garnered widespread attention.
     
    If the Trump administration follows through on its announcement to wind down ICE operations in Minnesota, Somali leaders say the city and state will have work to do to overcome lasting damage caused by the federal government’s tactics.

    Yes, that is what it takes. The US needs to live up to the expectations of our new vibrant neighbors. We have let them down.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Remember, Minnesota would be nothing without them.

      The natives, the frontiersmen, the generations prior added nothing of value according to the pandering nitwits.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Uffda. All we added was lutefisk, Walter Mondale and the Vikings.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Whenever ICE leaves, Abdi said he has long-term concerns about what happens next. Trump and his allies have linked Somalis to fraud in the wake of the massive pandemic-era Feeding Our Future scandal and other cases in the Twin Cities that involved many Somali- Americans.
       
      “There are a lot of false narratives about us, and that’s the biggest issue that we will have,” he said. “It will affect our employment chances, because in this country, everything is (about) trust, right?”
       
      Trump’s rhetoric didn’t distinguish between the wider Somali community and those individual Somalis who have been convicted or are accused of being involved in fraudulent schemes. His broad brush painted Somalis as a whole as, in his words, “garbage.” He said he doesn’t want them in the United States.

      Hey buddy, your beef is with the scammers in your community. Not with Trump.

      Maybe if you had spoken up and turned in the grifters you might have a leg to stand on. But that grift money was spread through the various clans and most of the Somalis were in on it. They might not have been the actual perpetrators, but they were all getting money from it.

      • rhywun

        everything is (about) trust, right?

        lol That’s rich, as your new friends do everything they can to turn the US into a low-trust country.

    • UnCivilServant

      We can earn the trust of the somalis by returning them all to somalia. When there are none on our shores, those still here will trust us implicitly.

      • UnCivilServant

        Damn you Jimbo. I didn’t want any of that.

      • Pope Jimbo

        UCS:

        You are just jelly of my custom made gen-u-wine Somali fraud gloves.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m not very good at tanning leather and if I took genuine somali hide to the tannery, they’d report me to the authorities.

      • Common Tater

        You would get away with it if you didn’t order that moth from Suriname.

    • Suthenboy

      Classic grifter strategy….once they are ousted they try like hell to turn the table.
      Their culture is one of stealing, lying and grifting. In fact I would go so far as to say that is the very foundation of it. Worth keeping in mind they are not the only culture like that.

  21. UnCivilServant

    I don’t want to argue, I don’t want to debate, I don’t want to be political, I don’t want to get angry.

    I think I’m sick.

    • Not Adahn

      If you were exposed to the same local disease as I was, it should pass quickly.

      Though I’m still having trouble sleeping.

      • UnCivilServant

        I have no idea what I’ve got.

        I do have an elevated white blood count.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Its a lack of diversity in your blood that is making you sick

  22. Common Tater

    “According to a federal criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, Sarah Elizabeth George has been charged with malicious destruction of government property by fire and malicious destruction of property used in interstate commerce….

    Surveillance footage from Walmart shows a woman matching George’s description purchasing gas cans and lighter fluid hours before the attack.

    Additional footage from a nearby Fred Meyer gas station reportedly shows the suspect filling gas cans and fueling a Dodge Dakota pickup truck, using a loyalty card in the name “Sarah Elizabeth George.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/feds-nab-suspect-terror-plot-authorities-arrest-individual/

    criminal genius

    • Not Adahn

      No pussy hat pics to copy from her facebook?

    • rhywun

      anti-ICE agitator

      I never would have guessed.

    • Threedoor

      Such is the politics of that area.

    • Ownbestenemy

      What does it mean!!!! I hate humans

      • rhywun

        #7 will blow your mind!

        Guessing he’s too white or some shit.

      • Nephilium

        Oi! Watch it there mate!

    • Not Adahn

      *Lando O’ Lakes squaw immediately checks Tindr*

      • Common Tater

        Mr. Clean seems more grindr

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Associating a white guy with cleanliness is no bueno.

      • Mad Scientist

        Here’s hoping they replace him with Senor Clean.

    • Threedoor

      First they can for Uncle Ben but I said nothing

  23. Ownbestenemy

    I couldn’t help but laugh and be a bit pissed off at my sister last night when she informed us of our step-dad.

    Her text started with “FYI…”

    I mean, I am awkward around death but that was the most robotic thing I read.

      • Ownbestenemy

        True. We all do weird stuff.

  24. Common Tater

    “A Kentucky man has been charged with sex crimes against animals after police said he had sex with a dead deer. A witness spotted the suspect, later identified as Allen Osbourne, on the side of the road with the deceased animal….

    When officers arrived on the scene, they saw the man covered in blood as well as deer fur, and identified him as Osbourne. At the time, he still had his pants down. He was taken into custody and then charged with sexual crimes against animals, according to ABC 13. When they brought him to the local jail for booking, officers observed that he also had blood and deer hair around his genitals.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/kentucky-man-arrested-for-having-sex-with-dead-deer-on-side-of-the-road

    WTF??

    • Ownbestenemy

      That will be a fun topic in cell block 2F for him.

    • Pope Jimbo

      This isn’t that unusual.

      Back in the ’00s I hunted with a guy who was a probation officer who handled only sex crime cases. He had a story that was similar to this. In his story, the guy was trying to get out of a halfway house and admitted that he molested road kill deer.

      Loved the story and told it to lots of people. Then people started to forward me similar stories, but with different guys. Since then, I’ve come to the conclusion that if you are a deer and are hit by a car you should hope be killed instantly before some perv drives by and molests you.

      * My buddy said he knew he needed to change careers when his first reaction to the story of road kill fucking was “well at least it is a victimless crime”

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Can you get any lower than necrophiliac beastiality? Yeesh…

      • Pope Jimbo

        Stinky:

        If it wasn’t so homophobic, I’d respond to your challenge with “Hold my queer…”

        But I’m better than that, so I will offer up a necropheliac gang bang.

        Radke allegedly confessed and said that the incident was an elaborate plan to have sex with the corpse. He told authorities that Nicholas Grunke asked him to help dig up Tennessen’s grave and take the corpse back to a pre-selected location behind his house with the intent to have sex with her, WISC-TV reported.
         
        Authorities said that Radke said that the three stopped at the Wal-Mart in Dodgeville on their way to the cemetery and bought condoms.

        On the bright side, those high school sex ed classes are paying off. Nice to see the lectures about safe sex and condoms are being listened to.

      • Nephilium

        Stinky:

        I assume you’ve never read the Preacher comics?

    • rhywun

      *sigh*

      In a more genteel age, we all knew this shit happened but nobody talked about it or wrote stories about it. JFC.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Don’t sugar coat the past rhywun.

        Everyone has heard of Deer John letters. Plenty of documentation about past perversions.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      No deer. Butt too high. Run too fast.

    • Threedoor

      Just KY things.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    NYT headline:

    “Mexico is caught between Trump and the cartels.”

    It’s crime lords all the way down.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Unverifiable allegations from an unidentified “victim” prove Trump was neck deep in Epstein pedophile rape cult!

  27. Pope Jimbo

    Teargas: Won’t anyone think of the children?

    As the Trump administration expands militarized operations ensnaring U.S. citizens, legal immigrants and undocumented immigrants with no criminal record, agents’ use of tear gas and other chemical irritants as crowd control measures is worrying medical professionals and public health experts, who say such exposure could disproportionately impact children and other vulnerable populations.
     
    “People have to realize these chemicals are not safe,” said Dr. Afif El-Hasan, a pediatrician and member of the American Lung Association’s board of directors. “We don’t know the long-term effects. We don’t understand their effects on children. Assume that children should have zero exposure to these chemicals.”
     
    “Children’s bodies are different than adult bodies,” he said. “They’re growing. They take more breaths per minute than adults.”
     
    Dr. Sarita Chung, a pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital, noted how children’s height can add potency to exposure.
     
    “Children are usually closer to the ground, where there is greater gas vapors,” she said. “Or it’s more dense, and so they’re going to breathe in more.”

    If there was only some way parents could avoid having their kids tear gassed. And don’t suggest unreasonable things like “don’t take your kids to a protest”.

    • EvilSheldon

      This is, of course, bullshit. We know exactly what the short and long-term exposure effects are for oleoresin capsicum, and I don’t think that anyone in the US uses tear gas anymore.

      Note that tear gas and pepper spray are very different things, both in formulation and in effect.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    They’re so efficient you can’t afford to run them?

    Call it California’s heat pump conundrum.

    On the one hand, California has hyperambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to curb the worst effects of a changing climate. Most experts see the electrification of buildings — swapping furnaces, water heaters, stoves and ovens that run on burning fossil fuel with appliances plugged into California’s increasingly green electrical grid — as a necessary step toward meeting those goals.

    California has built one of the most aggressive heat pump strategies in the country. The state aims to install six million heat pumps in homes by 2030. Lawmakers are also moving this year to boost heat pump adoption – proposing to streamline permitting, and make it easier to electrify homes.

    On the other hand, California’s residential electricity prices are among the highest in the country — expensive even compared to its also pricey natural gas. That makes heat pumps a tough sell to many Californians.

    Sounds like a real breakthrough.

    • rhywun

      herpity derpity doo

      Why can’t the stupid plebes do what we tell them, bugger the cost? It’s for their own good, goddammit!

  29. The Late P Brooks

    By looking at residential energy costs, usage and winter temperatures in every county in the United States, Shafiee and Harvard environmental science professor Daniel Schrag found in a recent paper that typical households living across the American South and the Pacific Northwest would likely see lower utility bills by making the switch to a heat pump.

    Average homes in northern midwestern states, in contrast, would see their bills increase. That’s partly because heat pumps work by extracting heat from outdoor air, compressing it, and piping it indoors, a thermal magic trick that’s harder to perform in places with subzero winters. It’s also thanks to the region’s relatively cheap gas.

    Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.

    • Threedoor

      BS.
      I just did a 12 year analysis of my power bills two weeks ago.

      Hook up fee is nearly doubled, price per KWh up 10% and they added a peak power fee that charges 21x the base rate.

      In the PNW.

      It’s all due to Washington and OR going all in on wind turbines and forcing the dams to pay subsidies to the wind companies.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Even in PG&E territory, where electricity rates may be some of the highest in the U.S., Gee said that efficiency can allow heat pumps to compete with — and in some cases beat — gas on operating costs, depending on local rates and home characteristics.

    In lower-cost municipal utility regions such as Sacramento’s SMUD, he said heat pumps can be a clear financial win.

    Not mentioned: up front cost.

  31. Grummun

    Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes to protect consumers from buying really shitty chocolate that they shouldn’t eat anyway.

    ::performs flying dismount from hobbyhorse, sticks landing::

  32. PieInTheSky

    On the post medal US hockey party, for some reason I was under the impression hockey players do not drink alcohol. It seems I was wrong.

    • Common Tater

      What gave you that impression?

      • PieInTheSky

        they seemed like such nice quiet boys

    • Ownbestenemy

      Beer League is just a codeword like Book Club

    • PieInTheSky

      at least it was not auto-erotic asphyxiation.

      • R.J.

        Heh. That we know of. He was 71, that is unlikely.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Crazy

    In October 2025, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a joint proposal to similarly prohibit the use of reputation risk in supervision.

    The OCC has described that effort as preventing criticism or adverse action based on political or religious views, as well as constitutionally protected speech.

    It also aims to shield “politically disfavored but lawful” activities from supervisory pushback.

    The OCC has described that effort as preventing criticism or adverse action based on political or religious views, constitutionally protected speech, or “politically disfavored but lawful” activities.

    The FDIC said it is also stripping references to reputation risk from guidance and examiner manuals.

    But how will we punish the right wing extremists?

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Re-shoring is a myth

    Starting later this year, Apple will start manufacturing Mac minis meant for sale in the US within the country. The company took The Wall Street Journal on a tour of its Houston facility, where Foxconn is also building servers for Apple Intelligence, and was shown an empty warehouse. Apple says it will turn the space into a 220,000 square feet plant where it will produce the compact desktop computers. The decision to produce Mac minis for local sales within the US is part of the company’s efforts to make good on its pledge last year that it will spend $500 billion in the US over the next four years.

    I had no idea the Mac Mini still existed. How much are they? $5k?

    • PieInTheSky

      Mac Mini PC Apple cu procesor Apple M4 Pro, 14 nuclee CPU and 20 nuclee GPU, 24GB, 512GB SSD 9.499,99 Lei

      • R.J.

        $600+ US dollars, going up past $1,200. I am meh. I left the ecosystem except for the phone. And I may leave that too someday.

      • Threedoor

        I looked into getting a new one a couple months ago.

        I was shocked at the price.

    • rhywun

      I have one, nowhere near that. But it is pretty tricked out.

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