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Well, since $250 Million in fraud for school lunches got one year, they should expect maybe three months.
I am seriously feeling like a fool these days for working hard and doing things the right way. A year or a few months in prison for stealing millions…. and I can claim to be trans and land in a female jail where I can work hard on my record of getting more ass than a toilet seat…
The sex you want, you ain’t gettin’, the sex you gettin’ you don’t want – Eddie Griffin
Unfortunately you’d be bunkmates with a serial rapist built like an NFL linebacker that had the same idea.
I’m a bit encouraged at this. Seems like Vance is actually doing something, and if Bondi’s successor actually does something, we might actually have some accountability.
Say Cheeese!
🌕🧀
My preference for what will be found during orbit around the moon.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFrvr-VY-q4&pp=0gcJCdkKAYcqIYzv&ra=m
Purple haired maidens in silver suits?
Why would you shutdown a hospice with a 97% survival rate?
They are performing miracles.
I’m going to call it now – not only will there be no prosecutions of ActBlue perople, they won’t even get fined or shut down.
“perople” 🤦♂️
Are these perogi-people hybrids?
Hybrids, you say?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/matt-gaetz-says-he-was-briefed-on-secret-alien-breeding-program/ar-AA1ZTY5C
Damn intergalactic anchor babies.
🤔
I think I head “Intergalactic Anchor Babies” play somewhere.
🎸
If they anal probe you on American soil they get citizenship.
I find it hilarious that the claim is that they’re breeding space aliens with literal illegal aliens.
Just fantastic trolling there.
Obviously only the same species can interbreed, which is why dot Indians and feather Indians can have kids together.
Pervert people=perople I think it is appropriate.
*Stares at human family
*Stays quiet
Intergalactic Anchor Babies
Rip Adam Yauch.
They opened for Smashmouth.
This shit goes all the way to the top… Nobody is going to believe the entire ActBlue crew committed suicide. Many of them by firing a couple of bullets to the back of their heads…
I will promise to pretend to believe that if it will make it happen.
“The idea that Bondi lacked aggression and skill in pursuing justice for those who targeted Republicans is pure fiction spread by people who stand to generously benefit from her removal. Real legal results take time — and her detractors know that,” the source told the Caller.
TRUST THE PLAN!
Like with John Durham who did his job of running the clock out…
I want perp walks and prosecutions.
Well said. She was Durham II, Electric Boogaloo.
Bullshit Durham?
Sometimes these prosecutions can take 4 or 5 years you know.
Long enough to roll again for a new administration and hope it’s de-prioritized.
You’re picking up what I’m laying down. ::fist bumps::
I’m not going to wait to go OT because I have to drop off.
I heard from Festus. He is keeping to himself for now. He says, “It’s a me thing”. He sometimes pops in to lurk.
You can let him know that he’s missed and we worry about him. Even if he’s flappy-headed, like Rufus.
+1
+2
Agreed!
+4
Passed on to Festus
Thanks DEG
Thanks for reaching out DEG.
On “subject to the jurisdiction”.
Commentary at the time made it pretty clear that what the drafters had in mind wasn’t legal jurisdiction – that is, subject to the laws and courts of the US. It was political jurisdiction – do you owe loyalty to the US, not can you be prosecuted for crimes by the US. Which makes a lot more sense when you are talking about citizenship.
The sentence reads:
That’s two separate requirements that must both be met (“and”). Being born here isn’t enough – you also have to be subject to the jurisdiction of the US. Every single baby born here is subject to US laws and courts when they are born, so the jurisdiction clause would be completely redundant if that’s what it meant. Courts don’t like completely redundant language in statutes (and Constitutions), so it doesn’t mean “subject to the laws and courts”.
What about Indians? I’m sure when they were off the reservation (heh) they were subject to US laws and courts, but as far as I know any babies that they had when off the reservation weren’t US citizens until Congress said so. That would be an interesting historical tidbit to confirm/falsify.
What about noncitizens here legally? Well, there’s legal permanent residents, and there’s people here on tourist visas. Neither status makes any difference to being subject to US laws and courts. Neither status makes any difference on owing loyalty to a foreign power. And neither does being here illegally, for that matter. It looks like we are stuck with either “only children of citizens can be citizens” or “ every baby born on the magic dirt is a citizen”. I don’t see any way a court can make a distinction among noncitizens on US soil one way or the other. If not, then there is no way a court is going to go with the narrower (although technically stronger) interpretation that jurisdiction means political jurisdiction, and so only children of citizens can qualify.
Could Congress pass a law saying children of legal permanent residents qualify, but not tourists or illegals? Maybe, but don’t make me laugh.
Doesn’t matter, the gutless SCOTUS will avoid rocking the boat by maintaining the current fiction.
That is my expectation. Coming to the “obvious” conclusion would be earth-shattering.
Most people in the US are subject to the jurisdiction, but not all of them. And those people you can find explicit carveouts that they are not generally subject to laws. Like diplomats. Supposedly invading soldiers aren’t either and again nobody prosecutes soldiers for murder or vandalism. “War crimes” as a new category are required to prosecute them for their behavior.
Because I do not want to be ruled by priests, I am very much about the original definitions of words. The 1789 definition of well regulated can be found in contemporary documentation. I find it implausible that “subject to the jurisdiction” cannot. The fact that the anti-birthright crowd does not provide same but instead goes the emanations and penumbras route strikes me as deeply suspicious.
Subject to the jurisdiction was discussed (briefly) by the people involved in drafting the Amendment, and they said nothing about “subject to the laws” as far as I know. They spoke instead about loyalty to foreign powers, which is at least relevant to being a citizen.
Invading soldiers is one of those hypotheticals that I’m not sure really illustrates the problem at all. I mean, I guess you could have one that gave birth here during the invasion, so, OK. I’m not sure why an invading soldier would be immune from US laws and prosecution for crimes committed here. If we captured one who had committed a rape, would we just say “Can’t do anything about that”, pop him in a POW camp, and send him on his way when hostilities ended? I doubt it. Since the US hasn’t been invaded since 1812, I doubt we will find any real world examples either way, though.
As for diplomats, you will note they are not mentioned in the 14A’s citizenship clause. And we aren’t talking about whether the diplomats themselves are subject to US law. We are talking about their children, who are not diplomats. As far as I know the children of diplomats are subject to US law when they are born. Not sure why any children of diplomats wouldn’t be citizens under the legal jurisdiction interpretation. Be interesting, again, to confirm.
Regardless, I have no doubt that Congress won’t touch this, and that SCOTUS lacks the balls to change the status quo.
Surely the “what happens to a rapist soldier” is not a theoretical thing we have to imagine.
This references a common misconception in the 2A community that I think really needs to be snuffed out.
‘Well-regulated’ in the 2nd means exactly what it does today – both ‘well-trained’ and ‘subject to superior authority or chain of command.’ The drafters were not referring to ‘regulated’ in the clockmaker or gunsmith sense, and their own correspondence bears this out.
Does this mean then, that the 2A isn’t an individual right? Of course not.
Leaving aside the fact that every other amendment in the BoR is an explicit restriction on government power, the ‘right of the people’ clause in the 2A does not depend on the ‘well-regulated’ clause. This is 2nd grade logic.
A semantically equal sentence would be something like, “NotAdhan being a true friend of mine, the right of the Glibertariat to make unlimited withdrawls from my bank account shall not be called into question.” If, at some point, I decide that NotAdhan is kind of a douche, this clearly does not invalidate the right of the Glibs to my money, what little of it there is.
Something else I’ve always found interesting – the 2A is the only amendment in the BoR that is absolute – there is no allowance for a ‘reasonable’ or ‘not excessive’ infringement.
Where’s my check?
Sorry, Ted, the amendment was never ratified.
No checks! All currency is (((gold))).
Those shitty chocolate coins wraped in gold-colored foil?
Cuts down on the thievery by you spendthrifts!
“NotAdhan being a true friend of mine”
Wait, wait, he’s a good friend of mine as well. I didn’t get that email…
Political jurisdiction? Jurisdiction means the authority to enforce laws. It has nothing to do with loyalty. There are categories of people who can be here who are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, such as diplomats. Again, I want birthright citizenship ended, but jurisdiction is not a nebulous concept.
That’s legal jurisdiction. It’s not necessarily the only kind. And not the kind referenced by the people who drafted the 14A. This is a very brief overview.
And again, if all we mean is “subject to the laws”, then the reference to jurisdiction is redundant to “born on US soil”. It’s not clear that the traditional exceptions (hostile occupation, children of diplomats) can be reconciled to the “subject to the laws” interpretation, either. The fact that Congress has by statute ruled them out goes more to the scope of Congressional authority to interpret/“enforce” the 14A. The ability of Congress to do so means that its unlikely that the 14A references mere “subject to the laws” legal jurisdiction, as if it did, Congress couldn’t limit it by statute.
If that were the case, why would a separate law have been needed pursuant to Native Americans?
Indian Law is and always has been a complete inhomogeneous clusterfuck.
Having said that, for a long time people pretended that they literally were separate nations. But not all of these separate nations had their own land so you couldn’t draw a geographical boundary where the US and tribal laws applied. So any Indian cooch was foreign territory and kids from same were foreigners. Until 1920-something.
“Could Congress pass a law saying children of legal permanent residents qualify, but not tourists or illegals? Maybe, but don’t make me laugh.”
They could, and it would get challenged in court, and SCOTUS could side with them. But they can’t even get a budget together.
Regardless, it’s not absolutely by soil now, as it does not apply to children of diplomats born here:
“A person born in the United States to a foreign diplomatic officer accredited to the United States, as a matter of international law, is not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. That person is not a United States citizen under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Such a person may be considered a lawful permanent resident at birth.”
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-101/section-101.3
That explicity ties “being subject to” with being prosecutable.
So Congress can deem, by legislation, who is subject to the jurisdiction of the US.
What’s interesting is that the statute makes the leap from the Constitutional test of a child being born in the US and subject to the jurisdiction, to whether the parents (not the child) are prosecutable by the US. I don’t think children are foreign diplomatic officers who have diplomatic immunity, but they are nonetheless excluded from citizenship. Its hard to see how this statute supports the idea that “subject to the jurisdiction of” means “subject to the laws of” and nothing more, because if that’s what the 14A means, then Congress can’t exclude the children of diplomats.
Which means Congress can deny citizenship to some children who are born here and subject to our laws, and pure/broad birthright citizenship isn’t Constitutionally guaranteed. Whether that means the President can is a different question.
Immigration is foreign policy, so the President can rule “no pregnant Chinese broads can enter the country”.
In practice, the families of diplomats are extended the same immunity as the diplomats themselves. I don’t know if this is law, or just courtesy practice from State.
Embassies are an outdated concept. We have telecommunications now, close all the embassies, delete any laws giving immunity to diplomats, and prosecute the bastards.
Turn the Capitol building into a museum, use secure and (recorded!) coms for official business, eliminate the federal salary for congresscritters. Let states/districts pay their representatives what they think they’re worth.
No one is subject to the jurisdiction on stolen land.
“Few have grappled with life like Long Beach’s national champion wrestler, Dunia Sibomana-Rodriguez.
The 18-year-old, University of North Carolina-bound prodigy almost died as a little 6-year-old boy when a swarm of chimpanzees viciously attacked him in his native Democratic Republic of Congo….
The beasts killed both his brother and cousin, and Sibomana-Rodriguez was left extremely disfigured.
The primates mauled his face, bit off his left middle finger, part of his right ear, destroyed a chunk of his left forearm and left other scars across the poor child’s body.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/sports/long-island-wrestling-star-overcomes-near-death-experience/
So there is an upside to living in Baltimore?
At least chimpanzees aren’t going to rip your face off in Baltimore.
Of course not. There it’s more likely to be a Mid-Atlantic Crackhead than a Chimpanzee.
Wrestling is a sport that does not require one have a ‘whole’ body to compete and be successful. Innumerable participants have had major ‘defects’ that did not prevent them from being quite successful. Anthony Robles the one-legged NCAA champion is just one. I recall a guy in the mid-west who got to the state tournament while lacking the extremities of all four limbs (bad bad bacterial infection).
I got a bit ranty about paleoanthropology and academic orthodoxy, and hit submit on the resultant article this morning.
“Set in the heart of Micronesia is a remote island nation that welcomes less than 200 tourists a year – making it the least visited country in the world….
“Set in the heart of Micronesia is a remote island nation that welcomes less than 200 tourists a year – making it the least visited country in the world….
With an area of just 21 square kilometres, Nauru is the third-smallest country in the world, surpassing Vatican City and Monaco by a small fraction.
Home to 12,000 people, this tiny island can be fully circled by car in just 30 minutes…
Today, 94.5 per cent of Nauru’s inhabitants are classed as overweight or obese, and the island has the highest rates of type 2 diabetes in the world, affecting over 40 per cent of the population.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-15700933/country-highest-obesity-rates-diabetes-costly-food.html
If ever an island were in danger of tipping over…
Didn’t Nauru at one time have the highest per capita GDP in the world? I seem to remember that random piece of trivia from an old CIA World Factbook or something?
“Before decades of aggressive phosphate mining devastated its landscape, Nauru’s vast mineral reserves briefly made it the world’s richest nation per capita during the 1960s.
Today, with its reserves largely exhausted, the island has become reliant on Australian financial aid, its centre standing as a barren ‘lunar landscape’, marked by deep pits and jagged limestone rocks, with no natural rivers or harbour.”
Nauru’s vast mineral reserves
Apparently not that vast, as they are exhausted.
become reliant on Australian financial aid
Is Australia providing food aid? Maybe everyone is fat because they’re getting a solid diet of “healthy grains” and seed oils.
They’re sending surplus Tim Tams.
They don’t have enough room to exercise? 🏋️♀️🚴♀️🚶♀️
They have a whole ocean to swim in!
The fatter you are, the easier it is to not drown in the ocean. This is simple evolution!
The government has a plan: https://climateadaptationplatform.com/nauru-sells-citizenship-to-fund-climate-adaptation/
“Home to 12,000 people, this tiny island can be fully circled by car in just 30 minutes…”
————
It sounds like none of its residents can tell us how long it takes on foot. Or bike. Or rollerblades. Or anything requiring exertion.
Nauru at one time was a gigantic phosphate mine. They became ludicrously wealthy from the royalties earned from said mine. Now that the deposit has been exhausted, the main industry seems to be rehabilitating the mined-out areas.
What a weird fuckin’ story this is.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/us-news/mercenaries-abraham-golan-issac-gilmore-and-dale-comstock-sued-by-victim-anssaf-ali-mayo/
🤣😂
I don’t think a court order is going to help.
Bring back the Cannon Group!
Does his job let him close tags properly?
The imperfections let you know it’s artistically created.
Is .25ACP too big?
😆
I know that it’s a journalist mis-transcribing “small arms” and not understnaing the term.
But I’m thinking .17 mag
Well, “small arms” might be ableist against Thalidomide babies.
However, maybe they didn’t mean the caliber, and the dude just has a bandolier of derringers like in Trigun?
Friday Funbags cure cancer.
https://archive.is/ZVL0d
“As predicted, the disregard for LGBTQ+ minors’ well-being produced by ADF’s litigation strategy yielded unfortunate statements that simultaneously minimize the power of uttered words in therapy and inflate the risk of government censorship. Both Justice Neil Gorsuch’s majority opinion and Kagan’s concurrence (joined by Sotomayor) repeatedly follow this pattern. Together, they create a kingdom where speech is royal and nothing else matters.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/04/supreme-court-analysis-lgbtq-kagan-gorsuch-disaster.html
what?
Dammit, I have been looking for a very specific version of “Nothing Else Matters” for Sunday’s post, but it might not actually exist.
More deliberate conflation of homosexuality with gender confusion.
Pissing off the likes of Slate means the court is doing something right.
speech is royal and nothing else matters
They say that like it’s a bad thing.
Well, they are the ones wo want to punish wrongthink, and silence all dissent.
RFI reports Ukrainian forces in western Libya struck two Russian “shadow fleet” vessels, killing a senior intelligence official reportedly traveling disguised as a sailor. Sources say General Andrei Averianov was among the dead, with at least two killed and seven wounded.
x.com/mintelworld/status/2039975644679881196
https://x.com/mintelworld/status/2039975644679881196
stupid link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/visual-guide-gulf-fertiliser-blockade
I just like the picture of the tractor.
Yes, I *do* sleep, but oddly. Last shift at gas stn tomorrow, the 130-10pm variety, so I’m kinda in sync w that (and not the boy group).
Trazadone does help sleep and it ensure it’s the long sort. I rarely dream, but had a good one last night set in Deajeon, S Korea. Hit my old spots and some old friends popped in, too.
Nephews are coming this evening and lamb cakes and dying eggs are on their schedule for Mom’s tradition.
It’s tax day for me. Happy I found my W2 right where I left it, upset I frantically searched my whole room before I opened my folder file, kept in said room, where I specifically keep imp documents like W2s.
“The wrong ppl are in control of the levers of power!” doesn’t prompt folk to think that those (many many) levers shouldn’t exist at all so they can’t be ‘wrongly’ controlled by anyone.
Some ‘higher,’ ‘person I trust’ needs to operate them, they feel. We’re a very religious species.
I might actually support the No Kings protests if I didn’t know deep down that every one of those protesters would have no problem with a Dem doing exactly what Trump is doing.
Most of them are commie agitators only using Donald as an excuse to rabble. They deserve no support whatsoever.
The same people that celebrated COVID tyranny?
Surely you jest.
These were the same people swooning over President Pen and Phone.
Of course your W-2 was where you left it. Did you expect it to grow legs and walk off?
I have (minor, real but I think resolved) memory issues. They say the “chunk” of my brain they took out was memory-related. (Meh.)
Most biggestly, my 10’12” space isn’t organized like it should be, but my worry of not being able to find it led me to (increasingly ‘frantic’) rummaging, rather than remembering to look in the obvious, in plain-sight, black folder-box under my desk, right where it shoulda been and was.
Good news! I only have on W-2 for ’25, as opposed to the five I had in ’24. I’ll likely(?) not get the bigly refund I got last year.
A big refund, of course, means you had too much withheld and gave the government an interest-free loan.
Also, the Big Ugly Bill increased ed the standard deduction, so you had too much withheld for much of the year.
Michelle
@D162Michele
America can send humans to the moon but the same people can’t be trusted not to eat pizza boxes?
https://x.com/D162Michele/status/2039921723160592765
I don’t think there is much overlap between those 2 groups.
AROUND the moon. AROUND.
It remains to be seen if NASA can scrounge together enough working ancient technology and find the correct magical incantations in the Holy User Manual or Sacred Document of Requirements to re-enact the original landings.
AND it is around the moon and not orbiting the moon. Apollo 8 at least slowed down and entered lunar orbit.
The mission commander, Frank Borman, was insistent that they orbit for only the time required to execute the engineering and recon tasks. Apollo 8 completed 10 orbits of the moon before firing the Service Module burn for the return to Earth.
“David Daleiden, a pro-life hero who exposed Planned Parenthood’s baby parts harvesting and sales operations, announced on Wednesday that the final charge against him for exposing this barbarism was dropped this week.
Nine years ago, as reported by The Gateway Pundit, Kamala Harris and the State of California launched an investigation into Daleiden to cover up the baby parts harvesting scandal by Planned Parenthood. This week the final charges against Daleiden were dropped and the case was expunged from his record.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/finally-after-11-years-charges-dropped-against-pro/
What were the charges?
Knightsmaid Sonya
@SonyaTheMaid
TFW vibing on campus and someone calls me a national socialist again, so I have to explain for the 33rd time that East Germany was a thing.
https://x.com/SonyaTheMaid/status/2038908193020006838
parody?
I’m not cosplaying as a member of that murderous socialist German totalitarian regime. I’m cosplaying as a member of this other murderous socialist German totalitarian regime.
Good Friday is probably not the day to call for the mass slaughter of these vicious idiots but…
As long as it’s a crucifiction.
Suthen hasn’t been around much lately has he?
No.
I had two night I could not sleep this week in the middle of my 3 day corporate training… that was horrible. But i learned to communicate better with stakeholder and be more leadership or something.
I thought you would avoid people holding stakes?
Then, at the close of March 2026, Orbán dropped a political bombshell. He publicly charged that Ukraine under President Zelenskyy had funneled billions of dollars – laundered through Hungary – into efforts to support Kamala Harris during the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
Hungarian officials, including Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, detailed transfers of Ukrainian aid money routed westward to boost Democrats…..
Last week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified U.S. intelligence intercepts showing that, as far back as 2022, Ukrainian government officials discussed funneling hundreds of millions of U.S.-donated taxpayer dollars (originally earmarked for clean-energy projects via USAID) into accounts tied to Joe Biden’s political operation and the Democratic National Committee.
The Biden Administration, of course, buried the intercepts; such an international scandal would have been politically catastrophic as Democrats would lose voter support over their reckless Ukraine policy. Gabbard has now ordered a full USAID review and potential criminal referral to the FBI.
Nor can we ignore the most brazen public example: in September 2024, President Zelenskyy himself flew to a military ammunition plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania – Joe Biden’s hometown and a critical swing-state battleground – to deliver what Republicans rightly called a campaign-style appearance on behalf of Kamala Harris.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/wolf-sheeps-clothing-how-ukraine-meddled-u-s/
Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine??
I mean, it explains why he is such a darling of the left. *shrug*
So does that go in the fraud column or the waste column?
Democrats would lose voter support over their reckless Ukraine policy
Yeah right.
https://afru.com/price-worth-paying-to-end-racism/
Parody right?
““Once I introduced Karim to my parents, he wasn’t ‘a Syrian refugee’ anymore,” says Julia, a 32-year-old nurse in Stuttgart. “He was just someone who slapped my butt while I was out shopping groceries. He simply didn’t know how else to get my attention at the time. And now he’s their son-in-law.” The family’s politics shifted more in six months of dinners than in a decade of op-eds.”
STEVE SMITH GET ATTENTION
Encourage everyone who complains about racism to go live in Liberia?
I’d rather pay the rise in racism price and get rid of the sexual assaults.
I wonder what her views are on “corrective rape”?
Idiots in cars dutch edition.
I have to be honest i neder drove in dutchland but i would have a real difficult time with all the cyclists
https://youtu.be/3bdJJbiwoYo?si=e2kWBlPTHHmBGOKZ
More roundabouts and higher fuel taxes will make them drive better.
TW:TOS
“Instead of moderating their policies or engaging in normal soul searching, Republicans are doubling down—and trying to nationalize elections by promoting something called the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) America Act. It would impose draconian voter-identification requirements. The bill would require voters to provide a birth certificate or passport for registration, with the potential for disenfranchising vast numbers of voters, as many Americans don’t have a passport or can no longer find their birth certificate.”
https://reason.com/2026/04/03/the-republican-plan-to-nationalize-elections-is-performative-nonsense/
Then how do all the other countries manage?
“Again, there’s no evidence that vote-by-mail is any less secure than traditional in-person voting systems.”
Bullshit.
It should be axiomatic that the longer the ballots are out of the chain of custody, the more chance there is for something to go wrong. Note that that something doesn’t even have to be fraud.
All this mental energy and political capital is just downstream of the bizarre transition of voting from civic activity to Holy Sacrament. “VOTE OR DIE!!!”. As if. Which is largely downstream of the drive to put every aspect of human activity and behavior into the realm of the political and state management. Not a surprise that the holiness of the act is so focused in the left where every human activity and thought being subject to the control of the state is so prevalent. If you don’t control the levers of the state, your might not get what you want.
There is no reason for ‘voting’ to be so trivially easy so as to make any barrier to engaging in it an existential assault on our Republic, oops, I mean our Democracy, PBUI. Yes, qualifications to vote can be, and have been, used to truly disenfranchise groups. But the solution – there are no solutions, just trade-offs – is not to therefore create a system where it’s impossible to verify the integrity of elections – that’s actually more open to abuse and destruction of the Republic.
Amen. Also by intention to the last point.
Bring your property tax bill down to the voting booth. Then and o my then do you get a ballot.
For every jurisdiction you own property in.
“Instead of just enacting the Democrats agenda, Republicans…”
TOS complete embrace of vibrant enrichers is the main reason I GTFO. This quote could come from today’s Dems.
Duck duck go updated itself last night. My bookmarks (all 5 or 6 of them) disappeared.
I wonder what else has changed.
Duck duck gone?
They didn’t disappear; they just threaded themselves properly.
A federal voter registry, managed by the post office- what could possibly go wrong?
The pathologies of outdated ideologies
Our managerial elite will go the way of the Mamluks, the Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth and the Moriori
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-pathologies-of-outdated-ideologies/
One of the most bizarre characteristics of those who struggle to maintain what’s left of the liberal international order is their refusal to accept reforms that might head off its destruction. It’s not hyperbole to say that the entire rise of what is termed “right-wing populism” by its opponents stems from the unwillingness of mainstream political parties to control immigration. Considering that the continued growth of right-wing populism makes the position of the old liberal consensus ever more precarious, you’d think the latter’s defenders would have decided to compromise. Mostly, they have not.
The reason for this unwillingness is, of course, ideology. It’s obvious that the asylum system functions primarily as a way for young men, to bypass formal immigration routes and achieve settlement in Britain. It’s also obvious that a disproportionate amount of the problems of immigration in general come from a few parts of the world. Yet maintaining the universalist, human-rights based legal infrastructure constructed after the Second World War takes priority over addressing these issues. The fact that this infrastructure was created for an entirely different world, where there was much less international migration, and where “asylum seeker” meant a political dissident from the Eastern Bloc, does not matter.
I think that this failure to reform is an example of one of the most important and interesting tendencies that you can observe in history: when a system collapses because its ruling elite obstinately clings to an ideology that is no longer fit for purpose.
In the early 16th century the Mamluk rulers of Egypt came under attack from the expansionist Ottoman empire. While the Ottoman armies, particularly the elite janissary corps, were enthusiastic adopters of firearms, the Mamluks disdained firearms, viewing them as dishonourable.
In the lead-up to the American Civil War, the doctrine of states’ rights was frequently employed by the South. The constitution of the Confederacy, in its very first line, replaced “in order to form a more perfect union” with “each state acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government”. During the war, this doctrine seriously impeded the war effort. A famous example was Georgia’s governor Joseph E. Brown’s attempts to stop Georgia’s troops being used out of state.
When the Māori invaded, a council was held among the Moriori:
The younger men spoke first. They argued that the prohibitions on killing devised by Rongomaiwhenua, Pakehau and Nunuku were intended to prevent a small population of related people destroying themselves in a chain of blood feuds. Such principles did not envisage, nor were they appropriate for, an outright invasion by people who were prepared to kill on a large scale […] The Owenga chiefs Tapata and Torea put the contrary case: the law of Nunuku was not a strategy for survival, to be varied as conditions changed; it was a moral imperative.”
Tldr
summarizing is not always easy
I read it.
Smoke Free Sweden
@SmokeFreeSweden
1/4 🚨 France’s ban on nicotine pouches came into force this week. Penalties: up to 5 years in prison and fines of €375,000. For possession!!!
🇸🇪 Sweden is on course to become Europe’s first smoke-free country, with adult smoking below 5%. Dr @DelonHuman7
Human, leader of Smoke Free Sweden: “The ban leaves Swedish pouch users with two options: risk a spell in prison or smoke deadly cigarettes.”
https://x.com/SmokeFreeSweden/status/2039637618644644149
Europe is retarded and gay.
Thus spoke the potato.
So say we all.
“A Scottish woke trans activist tied to left-wing politics has pleaded guilty to creating sexualized A.I.-generated indecent images of children.
Amelia Connolly, 23, a sex worker and former DEI officer for the youth wing of the Scottish Green Party, admitted guilt to the crime in Falkirk Sheriff Court on Wednesday. This journalist can exclusively report that Connolly’s real name is Thomas Connolly….
During court proceedings, Connolly, who sometimes uses a wheelchair…
Connolly has a disturbing social media profile that mixes adult and children’s content. On the same Linktree page that promotes his Roblox game group, he also shares a link to his OnlyFans….
On his blog, he wrote about previously being accused of being in a romantic relationship with a 15-year-old. He denied the claim and said they were “just close friends” who worked on a Roblox supermarket together.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-scottish-trans-activist-former-green-party-dei-officer-convicted-of-child-sex-crime
Roblox BDSM?
“A Washington state children’s book author and co-founder of the Bellingham Naked Bike Ride has been arrested on child sex crime charges.
Zachary Elisha Robertson, 42, of Bellingham, was taken into custody on March 10 on two felony counts of possession of child pornography. Investigators located approximately 25 nude images of prepubescent and pubescent girls on his laptop upon the execution of a search warrant. He later allegedly confessed to downloading nude images of girls between the ages of 5 and 7 years old, according to court documents.
Robertson, a nudist and homesteader, was reported to authorities by his wife, who allegedly walked in on Robertson pleasuring himself to the images on his laptop on March 6. Police obtained a search warrant and arrested Robertson at his home days later. He was quickly released from jail on $2,500 bail, records show.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/naked-bike-ride-organizer-slapped-with-child-sex-crime-charges-in-wa
He seemed like such a nice man.
Now we’re getting somewhere
President Trump has proposed boosting defense spending to $1.5 trillion in his 2027 budget released Friday, the largest such request in decades, reflecting his emphasis on U.S. military investments over domestic programs.
We have plenty of checks.
Half it.
Fire 70% of the officers and sr NCOs.
Not one bit of readiness will be diminished.
I don’t care if Artemis II is being billed as DEI in Space. Fuckers are closer to the moon than have been in my lifetime. USA! USA! USA!
Canuck is there to upend the metric countries and space joke. Asshoe.
The U.S. still sent him.
A F-15 is down in Iran. The press is reporting CSAR is under way.
It had to happen, good luck to the crew and to the rescue team(s).
Wonderful.
Concealed carry on base.
Bill clinton ended it but it was a mess.
Only the special people got to do it.
Not one lower enlisted guy will ever get approved for it. They aren’t ‘responsible’.