Winstons Mom Does the Links

by | Sep 18, 2026 | Daily Links | 200 comments

Heard John Kyl died. A bit of an off kilter fellow. He would invite me to his Georgetown residence from time to time.

All he would ever do was spoon.

…All fucking day. Seriously he wouldn’t even get enough of a chubby to dry hump. Still, a nice man even if he was one of those obviously gay 90’s Republican House Eunuchs.

Speaking of gay. Fine its not technically gay but its pretty gay in the John Kyl sense.

Even I won’t make gay jokes about this.

How nice of Buc-ee’s to stop being retarded. See? Not just picking on gays, I can pick on retards!

Speaking of retards.

Senator Skeletor makes an astute observation.

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Winston's Mom

Winston's Mom

Biological mother of Winston.

200 Comments

  1. ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

    Kyl or be Kyled, its a doggydog world.

  2. Ted S.

    If you’re not under the flag of a combatant, you can more or less be summarily executed as a spy, can’t you?

    • rhywun

      That guy should have been one of the “retard” links.

      • Winston's Mom

        Hello there. I can accept constructive criticism. He was retarded.

    • EvilSheldon

      Yup. And Tice, by his own admission, was acting as a combatant.

      The Assad regime was and is a bunch of murderous psychopaths, and Tice speedran the FAFO game with them.

    • R C Dean

      Tice, who was a trained Marine, also allegedly shared his military experience with the opposition and would even correct fighters on how to use their weapons, giving the impression to the regime — which had begun surveilling him on the back of the information provided to them by the driver — that the reporter was an American agent helping the uprising, according to documents the BCC reviewed.

      Sounds like he didn’t just give the impression that he was helping the uprising.

      There has never been any evidence that Tice’s activities in Syria ever went beyond covering the civil war.

      You . . . you just said they did.

      • Nephilium

        You expect consistency?

        Hobgoblin

        Small minds

        All that.

      • The Last American Hero

        Foolish consistency.

        There’s nothing wrong with consistency itself.

      • Nephilium

        Last American Hero:

        You know that, I know that, the people using that quote generally do not.

      • (((Jarflax

        I have come to believe that the act of journalism somehow damages the prefrontal cortex, or possibly the short term memory so severely that you get things like this. It’s hard to think of any other way one could have consecutive paragraphs in which one sets out the evidence and then denies the existence of said evidence.

      • Nephilium

        (((Jarflax:

        LLMs don’t care about consistency. I’d bet that there was one heavily engaged in creating that piece.

      • juris imprudent

        act of journalism

        It isn’t the act, it is the college degree that instills this. Oh look, something I must not notice, therefore despite having noticed it, I will deny its existence!

  3. AlexinCT

    Winston’s mom! Hey baby! Wanna go out?

    • Winston's Mom

      You can’t afford me, dear.

      • Ted S.

        We can’t afford the VDs.

      • AlexinCT

        babe!!!!

  4. AlexinCT

    Speaking of retards.

    Oh, how Massie has fallen…

    • Chipping Pioneer

      I don’t get the “Massie has fallen” argument.

      The current administration either pulled a massive bait-and-switch, or Trump was again overwhelmed by the Swamp.

      Many people, including many commenters here, were on board with what was promised, but aren’t with what is happening.

      Massie remained consistent and, for that, got primaried by GOP Swamp money.

      • rhywun

        Same. He has principles- crazy, I know.

      • WTF

        The Hegseth impeachment stunt is pretty retarded, though.

      • AlexinCT

        The Hegseth impeachment stunt is pretty retarded, though.

        HOW DARE YOU?

        /sarc

      • bacon-magic

        I was a big Massie fan but the last 2 years he has not been consistent unless you like retarded theater.

      • RAHeinlein

        In no way has Massie remained consistent. On Epstein (which is frankly absurd at this point), the information showed what amounted to nothing and he used to maximize damage to the administration and GOP agenda.

        Ditto the impeachment articles make no sense from either a timing or actual reality perspective. It’s pure grand-standing to inflict maximum damage. He and his followers behave as though no laws have been written beyond the Constitution.

        Massie allegedly cares about debt and spending, but other than some holdout votes did nothing to legislate solutions. Certainly, he did nothing to support actions that he claimed to support (e.g. elimination of Dept of Education, DOGE cuts, elimination of government jobs, etc.).

        I wish the Iran situation was not happening, but I honestly don’t see a way around it. Beyond the nuclear questions, control of the Strait is a major concern. Did Israel force a hand – likely – but if we were not positioned properly many US bases would have been hit with heavy losses.

        I know there are a lot of vets on this site (myself included) – I was disturbed by these impeachment articles and frankly this is tantamount to some of the left-wing BS that occurred during GOWT.

      • AlexinCT

        Massie is throwing a tantrum. After he lost his primary he has gone scorched earth like a sore loser. He is no better than Tucker Carlson or Candice Owens at this point. A real sad turn of events or a man that once was a paragon and an example for others.

      • The Other Kevin

        Many people, including many commenters here, were on board with what was promised, but aren’t with what is happening.

        I will admit to that. I kept an open mind for a few months. The gamble was that the regime would capitulate, or the citizens would overthrow the regime. If they had inside information and a solid plan, then it could have worked out. It clearly did not. I think it was a combination of Trump being overconfident from other wins, and the swamp whispering in his ear. This completely turned me on Trump. It was one of the worst own goals I’ve ever seen.

        I saw unconfirmed reports that Tulsi was against it, and I believe that. She’ll probably tell about it in a few years, but she’s classy enough to not directly to MSNBC to tell all about the president who hired her.

      • AlexinCT

        I will admit to that. I kept an open mind for a few months.

        ToK, the only fault I see with this is the frame of mind is that ignores the original rationale for why the decision was made. I point out again that just not wanting war will not prevent it.

        Iran was hell bent on destabilizing the ME for their own purposes, and those purposes had very little to do with rational thought. They were at a critical tipping point where their ability to conventionally threaten everyone, while they build their bomb (which they then would use), would make it impossible to prevent that scenario from going catastrophic for everyone. And more importantly. Iran was pivotal to the the CCP strategy for their Taiwan invasion plan. Right before they would go after Taiwan, something planned to happen in a couple of years, they would have Iran start shit in the ME (with the threat of nukes on top of it), and bog down both NATO and especially US forces. And Iran was also selling China – illegally – oil at $5 a barrel because of sanctions to the tune of over 15% of CCP annual energy needs. The loss of this cheap energy has drastically set back CCP on energy and shown them how fragile their energy supply would be in a conflict. For now the CCP can forget moving against Taiwan for the next decade unless they just want massive losses.

        All the stuff I shared is public (and there is quite a bit more that is not that would freak out everyone). Yes, this Iran shit is problematic, but the alternative is far, far worse. And I again stress that morally being opposed to conflict (war) does not stop the enemy from wanting it – or even doing it – to you when it benefits them and their agenda. The rapist doesn’t care that you don’t want to be raped.

      • juris imprudent

        and there is quite a bit more that is not that would freak out everyone

        Ooooo, super secret squirrel! I don’t have much confidence in our intelligence agencies, since they missed badly on the end of the Cold War.

      • The Last American Hero

        If Alex is correct then there should have been very little opposition to going after Iran from our so-called NATO allies.

      • AlexinCT

        If Alex is correct then there should have been very little opposition to going after Iran from our so-called NATO allies.

        Not if your priority is to push along the globalist agenda and to hurt the US which is fighting against that under Trump… Especially when your militaries – with the exception of the old Soviet era curtain nations like Poland – are a joke. I remind you that the UK couldn’t deploy a single naval vessel. And the others all complained about the cost too. NATO for a decade now has been nothing but a paper tiger. And most of these countries felt that the Iran issue was a US and Israel problem and they could rollover and show their belly – like they have been doing to the current islamic invasion supported by their own elite – to the mullahs.

      • juris imprudent

        Alex continues to assume that there is a clever, evil, capable cabal to blame instead of the simpler though less satisfying alternative of abundant human stupidity.

      • AlexinCT

        Heh, NATO!!…..

      • AlexinCT

        Alex continues to assume that there is a clever, evil, capable cabal to blame instead of the simpler though less satisfying alternative of abundant human stupidity.

        I have no problem understanding human stupidity, JI. There is a ton of it to go around. My problem is whit the people that only see the stupidity on our side. And just because there is a ton of stupidity it doesn’t mean there is also a cabal at work. the two are not mutually exclusive, and quite often go hand in hand.

      • (((Jarflax

        Evil cabals can be exposed and potentially defeated. Stupidity can be exposed as much as you want, but the people you’d need to convince are too stupid to do anything different. The usual results of successful revolutions against horrible governments tend to support the stupidity hypothesis.

      • rhywun

        Sure there is a cabal – they meet in Davos et al. every year. And they are happily taking advantage of the abundant stupidity. So… both.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh Alex I don’t understand human stupidity, but I accept that it accounts for more than does malicious intent.

      • juris imprudent

        The usual results of successful revolutions…

        So, one in a hundred? One in a thousand?

      • AlexinCT

        Oh Alex I don’t understand human stupidity, but I accept that it accounts for more than does malicious intent.

        That’s where we differ. Stupidity is vast, I grant you. As Einstein was rumored to once say “The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity”. But evil is a thing. And some of the worse things in human history come from malicious intent. Dismissing that because there are stupid people is why these evil people keep winning. It allows them to claim it was stupidity and get away with their evil shit. I am tired of the slew f evil actors that have gotten off by claiming stupidty.

      • Threedoor

        The only thing I see that has changed with Massie is he got lasik or started wearing contacts

      • R.J.

        I sense a good article brewing

    • Drake

      He didn’t get the memo that the Epstein thing was “fake”? Or that President can now declare war without Congress?

      • AlexinCT

        Call me back when they arrest every president since WW2.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        Right, so, since not every president since WW2 has been arrested for war crimes, it’s retarded to try to hold the current administration to account.

        That’s some solid logic right there.

      • AlexinCT

        That’s some solid logic right there.

        It is if people wanting to do it now had no problem with it before. Especially when their guy was doing a lot more of it.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        How does “Massie has fallen” describe this?

        I don’t think you’re making the point you think you’re making.

      • AlexinCT

        I don’t think you’re making the point you think you’re making.

        I am not making a point at all. Massie’s stupid stunt is.

      • Chipping Pioneer

        I am not making a point at all.

        This is the first correct thing you’ve stated in this thread.

      • Ted S.

        Any politically damaging Epstein material would already have been released.

      • AlexinCT

        Any politically damaging Epstein material would already have been released.

        Accurate, and yet so many people still believe there is a magic list somewhere as if it would not have been used to destroy political enemies and especially Trump…

        Heck, after the plethora of hoaxes to get Trump, I am surprised they didn’t make up shit about Epstein and him.

      • Swiss Servator

        I believe doing the bunny hop on stage with “Ro” Khanna and spending 2 years promising to read all the “Epstein names” out and never delivering counts as retarded.

      • juris imprudent

        Especially when their guy was doing a lot more of it.

        That right there is why this whole fucking country is retarded – it’s only wrong when the other guys do it.

    • WTF

      They don’t imagine those changes will ever be used against them by their opponents, because the changes are intended to insure they never relinquish power.

    • rhywun

      I wonder how many yuan went into funding this shit. It is literally a CCP wet dream.

      • AlexinCT

        They paid for it with dollars. Likely from USAID.

    • juris imprudent

      He also wants institutions combining government and private involvement that would “insulate longer-term policymaking from bad-faith presidents.”

      Bureaucratic Fascism!

  5. rhywun

    the undercover journalist suggested Talarico simply “has to play this game” to win, Miller agreed, saying, “That’s what his campaign has convinced him of.

    Kind of like a lot of Dems are pretending not to be communists and anti-American Hamas supporters.

    Hey, whatever works.

    • Threedoor

      Lesbian minister.

      Yeah no.
      The church or Corinth got smacked down on that BS two thousand years ago.

  6. Rat on a train

    Is Buc-ee’s saying their customers are too retarded to tell the difference between a beaver and a moose?

    • R C Dean

      I think Buc-ees is saying the federal judges who may hear cases about its copyrighted logo are too retarded, etc.

    • Nephilium

      Between that and the Beavertown suit, Buc-ee’s is not making friends with Buckeyes.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        The Venn diagram between the two only has Sloopy in it.

    • Threedoor

      Their beaver logo looks like he has FAS.

    • rhywun

      Same as the AI freakout.

      Everyone frothing at the mouth about this stuff right now is balls-deep in the globalist/CCP machine. It’s brazen, really.

      • AlexinCT

        At this point, I am sure everyone of the people screaming about the evils of Russia are controlled by the CCP. Also that most of our top people have been compromised or sold out to the CCP and the globalist agenda putting Beijing on top. These are the people actively working to destroy America from within. I remain baffled by people that think because they do not want a war, they can avoid one. The CCP and islam are at war with us. An existential war with deadly freedom/country ending consequences. It has just not gone kinetic yet,

      • rhywun

        It seems pretty clear to me when adversaries like China and Russia don’t give two shits about the “green” and “climate” hoaxes, nor about “immigration” or “DEI”… but I’m just a rando shitposter so what do I know.

      • AlexinCT

        I often tell people that the CCP and Putin don’t give a shit about most of the things the left peddles (for them), because they already run massive totalitarian states. For example, they don’t care about climate change cause they, for all intents and purpose, already have the marxist feudal system there. The left in the west however is hard at work trying to bring that evil shit to us. Our credentialled elite hate us.

      • Threedoor

        I’m with Alex.

        Everything that went down with Covid was straight out of China. From the virus to the lockdowns to the forced vaccinations and government spending plans to bankrupt us.

  7. AlexinCT

    I got a question for you all… So while I think it is a dumb idea, the president’s promise to give every adult American a $5K bonus for an event not likely to occur, has caused me some consternation. A whole bunch of blue haired, nose pierced, tattoo covered, fuglies ands soy boy idiots have emphatically stated that they will not be bought off for that $5k. Are these not the same idiots that took multiple Fauci auchies for stupid shit like a few donuts, extra fries, a $5 coupon for fast food, or some other dumb worthless thing? Now they won’t take $5K? Yeah, sure…

    I am no longer going to worry about artificial intelligence with that level of natural stupidity being shown.

    • Rat on a train

      They will only be bought with taxpayer paid food, housing, …

    • The Other Kevin

      You’ve hit on one of the biggest problems. For too many people, team politics is above everything, even their own safety and well being.

      • AlexinCT

        These people are now cheering for a mother that killed her 3 children while screaming about a sexy women making a naked add…

        You can’t parody the stupid in these people.

      • juris imprudent

        You can’t parody the stupid in these people.

        And they vote, in much larger numbers than this little crowd here.

      • dbleagle

        Many vote multiple times each election. (Hawaii resident with 100% mail voting who receives multiple ballots at their address each year. I send all but one back.)

    • Threedoor

      They gladly cashed their Covid checks.

  8. Tonio

    [golf clap] for “obviously gay 90’s Republican House Eunuchs”

    Had my earlier life taken I slightly different turn, I might have tales like WM’s to tell.

    • Winston's Mom

      Oh my. Leave us in suspense will you?

      • Ted S.

        He was in the stall next to the stall Larry Craig occupied.

      • Winston's Mom

        Jesus tap dancing Christ. Really?

      • Threedoor

        Toino knows the gay ‘reporter’ that had a hard on for Craig?

    • Grumbletarian

      If we’re all just big kindergarteners, I wouldn’t want anyone in charge.

      • R C Dean

        Exactly. Who wants to put kindergartners in charge of anything?

      • (((Jarflax

        Who wants to put kindergartners in charge of anything?

        For some odd reason this makes me think of the difference between stated and revealed preferences. Now someone go put Mitch down for naptime, get Nancy her special juice box, and make Hakeem stop showing people his butt.

    • DrOtto

      Who do I get the pass from to take a shit?

    • EvilSheldon

      I just don’t get how, upon hearing these repulsive brainless uluations, normal people aren’t driven to run away covering their ears, or beat the shit out of him with sock full of dead batteries…

      • rhywun

        The MSM is working overtime trying to cover for this guy. But he is such a gigantic freakshow that for once, it isn’t working.

        They will probably get all the anti-American DSA ratfuckers across the line but this guy… no way.

      • AlexinCT

        Some people are screaming “HARDER DADDY!!” when they hear this shit..

      • juris imprudent

        Normal ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.

    • R C Dean

      He has that “compassionate” head tilt that you usually see condescending AWFLs use when talking to us like we’re, yes, kindergartners.

      • juris imprudent

        Go sit in a corner James and be quiet!

      • (((Jarflax

        Recent events indicate that a lot of AWFLs want to do a lot more to kindergartners than condescend to them.

      • juris imprudent

        That BTK guy was ahead of his time (and gender)?

    • Threedoor

      Head shape
      Checks out.

    • AlexinCT

      Damn… I have been doing it wrong

    • Trigger Hippie

      “I’ve got to say that men’s fashion has really gone downhill in recent years. Yes, we all cringe at the poofed up broccoli hair perms that so many young men insist on wearing”

      I kinda blame Mahomes.

      • Gender Traitor

        AKA “Sideshow Bob.”

      • Ted S.

        As opposed to Q, who wants Sideshow Boob.

      • Threedoor

        Ma-who?

    • rhywun

      LOL

      The missing teeth are a nice touch.

      • Threedoor

        Just shows us that he has been a man of action.

  9. Sean

    Is adding “Eagle scout” to your resume a new trend? I swear I’ve seen it multiple times recently.

    • Nephilium

      Eagle Scout used to be a real accomplishment, not sure if that’s been watered down with everything else. If they’re under 30, it probably makes sense as it would be one of their biggest accomplishments.

    • Rat on a train

      They need to compete with people listing prom king on theirs.

  10. AlexinCT

    Hey all…

    What’s the difference between a leftist and a suicide bomber?

    The suicide bomber has a job…

  11. Sensei

    Interesting.

    Red and Blue America Have Found Something to Agree on: Flock Cameras Must Go

    A national backlash against AI-enabled license-plate readers is uniting Trump country and progressive strongholds alike. ‘Nobody wants to be surveilled…doesn’t matter what your political leaning is.’

    https://www.wsj.com/us-news/red-and-blue-america-have-found-something-to-agree-on-flock-cameras-must-go-765cd0b2?st=5aeDfc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • Ted S.

      Only because the left thinks the cameras will be used by ICE. They’d love it if such cameras could have been used during covid.

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^^THIS^^^

      • rhywun

        ^This^

        The left being against surveillance in general is laughable.

      • (((Jarflax

        Cameras are racist. They are fine on the sexism front though.

    • AlexinCT

      Hand over that wallet, homie!

    • rhywun

      I hate ass crabs.

      • AlexinCT

        Say wut?

    • EvilSheldon

      Peace was never an option.

    • juris imprudent

      Show that crab some respect – he wasn’t dragging others of his kind back into the bucket.

      • AlexinCT

        You saying that crab was entrepreneurial?

  12. The Late P Brooks

    Flock cameras

    As in, “Shepherd watching his”?

    • Ted S.

      Make like a shepherd and get the flock out of here!

    • AlexinCT

      When you can blackmail someone with money……

    • Threedoor

      I think she needs more edumacation.

  13. AlexinCT

    Practically every single problem we have right now with our government and our elections boils down to to the abuse of the census to slant the house numbers by congressional district and to cheat in elections. Fix the census process to not allow illegals to be counted, and you will see democrats suddenly end all the welfare programs giving massive tax money to illegals and a 20-30 seat shift in the house to the republican side. Doubt this action is enough to make that happen, but we need to have more emphasis on this issue.

    • rhywun

      The “Founding Fathers” dropped the ball on that one. Even as some of them did foresee the welfare catastrophe. But they didn’t put two and two together.

    • juris imprudent

      I’d rather see suffrage cut back to actual tax payers. No skin in the game, no vote.

      • Threedoor

        Why not do both Juris?

    • Threedoor

      17th amendment + census.

      Illegals adding house seats.
      Popular vote screwing up State power and watering down the Supreme Court.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’ve heard a lot about this. My argument is this… If she had cut herself and was bleeding all over the course, they would have pulled her. Bodily fluids are a danger.

      • EvilSheldon

        “Involuntary bowel movement” is a much kinder turn of phrase than, “Shitting all over yourself and the course equipment.”

        She absolutely should have been DQ’ed.

    • AlexinCT

      Pinching a loaf… pinching a loaf!

    • Threedoor

      Happens plenty from what I understand.

      Is it gross? Yeah.
      Bet the guys in iron man usually do it in the water though.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Ghost of retards past

    As President Donald Trump tries to convince voters that Democrats have let crime run amok, he’s digging into the country’s political past to reference one of the most controversial campaign advertisements that relied heavily on racist tropes.

    During a campaign stop Wednesday in Gastonia, North Carolina, to stump for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley, Trump resurrected a 1988 George H.W. Bush presidential campaign ad featuring Willie Horton, a Black man convicted of rape and assault after his release through a Massachusetts prison furlough program.

    A grainy black-and-white prison photo of Horton was used in the ad targeting then-Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, who was ahead of Bush in the polls. On Wednesday, Trump evoked the Horton ad in an effort to convince voters Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper, Whatley’s opponent in the Senate race, is soft on crime.

    “Willie Horton was a bad guy, really bad guy,” Trump said, before comparing Dukakis’s release of Horton to the pretrial release of a Black man who faces a murder charge for last year’s killing of a white Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte, North Carolina.

    It’s racism, all the way down.

    • AlexinCT

      Can you blame these lying crooks for going there when they have no ground to stand on? Accusations of racism, misogyny, homophobia, and such – sadly – have gone a long way to kill the most rational and logical arguments made in the last 5 decades or so. And while the whole thing now has less credence, these people are still wielding that cudgel with gusto.

    • rhywun

      If only that Black murderer were White we wouldn’t be having this National Conversation.

      • AlexinCT

        Heh rhywun, you just reminded me of the guy that posted some criminal database where the perp is identified as white, but the picture attached was more than 50% of the cases somebody not white… Got to go find that…

    • R C Dean

      I don’t you kill sheep for wool.

    • The Other Kevin

      Pikers. Don’t they know “objective facts” are a white supremacist construct?

      • AlexinCT

        You sir, are an expert it seems.

      • Common Tater

        Checks out

        “I am heartbroken that a field I have given my life to can treat me this way,” Greenidge said. “The attack on Black women academics is real.”

  15. The Late P Brooks

    Republicans are under pressure to win over swayable voters as the November midterms approach with Democrats pushing to gain control of the House, the Senate, or both. Some political strategists say part of the ploy of adding Horton to the North Carolina Senate campaign is to rile up Trump’s base.

    “He’s tapping into the anger to remind Republican voters of what he thinks their first principles are in hopes that will be successful for Republican candidates,” Gillespie said.

    He’s trying to influence the outcome of the election!

  16. Nephilium

    Surprisingly, the first episode of South Park America was decent. The kids get e-bikes, Cartman this pisses off the adult cyclists, both form ‘biker gangs’ and the adults keep searching the internet to see how South Americans to task X (settle arguments between biker gangs, change the laws, etc.). They even brought back Mike Judge to voice Kenny outside the parka.

    • EvilSheldon

      Mike Judge is, objectively, the greatest American cultural critic since Mencken.

      • Nephilium

        I don’t think there’s anything that Judge has done that I haven’t at least liked.

      • EvilSheldon

        I think that his secret is that he genuinely likes and is interested in the classes of people he satirizes. Be they blue-collar redneck families, white-collar zero-ambition office slaves, socially awkward nerd girls, or brainless metalheads.

    • AlexinCT

      No PC Principal? What about Ms. Garrison?

    • (((Jarflax

      If they formed biker gangs does that make them fags?

    • rhywun

      *ahem* Fuck them.

      They can take their “clever” renaming and shove it up their ass. They had literally nothing of substance to say during the Obama and Biden years but whenever you-know-who was around it was non-stop TDS.

      The show was only good when it wasn’t following current politics anyway.

    • (((Jarflax

      I could forgive someone trying to poison me. I can be insufferable. Someone who killed a child of mine not so much.

      • juris imprudent

        Ah, the old “if I were married to you I’d drink [the poisoned soup]?”

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Krugabe chimes in

    But foreign leaders have more or less given up trying to placate Trump.

    When I try to think about the current state of Trumpism, I find myself revisiting Machiavelli’s The Prince, which is, after all, sort of a user’s manual for autocrats. Machiavelli is often cited as having said that it is better to be feared than loved, but what he actually said was somewhat more complex:

    Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with … Nevertheless a prince ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he does not win love, he avoids hatred.

    ——-

    So many people both at home and around the world hate Trump. That has, however, been true since quite early in the Trump II administration. What has really changed is the dissipation of fear.

    America is a toothless tiger, ripe for the picking. Trump is a lame duck. Viva la revolucion!

    • rhywun

      So many people both at home and around the world hate Trump.

      And it’s driving some of the stupidest shit I have seen in my lifetime.

      Canada selling its soul to the EU and by extension China is right up there.

      Thanks for pointing that out, Krugnuts.

    • Threedoor

      Imagine the Fed rate if he were chair midget!

    • Common Tater

      I sent her a portrait of Richard Nixon.

  18. Common Tater

    “A Dothan, Alabama, woman has been sentenced to spend the rest of her life behind bars after pleading guilty to the capital murder of her newborn son….

    She took the deal at the last possible moment, as the judge prepared to qualify a jury, and in doing so ducked the death penalty Houston County District Attorney Russ Goodman had been pushing for since 2023….

    Alabama’s Safe Haven law…. lets a parent leave an unharmed newborn at a hospital, fire station, or other designated place with no questions asked and no criminal charge….

    After hours of questioning, she admitted the truth: she had taken the infant to an apartment complex on Dothan’s west side, a complex she had no connection to, and put him in a compacting dumpster while he was still alive.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/09/alabama-woman-pleads-guilty-capital-murder-after-putting/

    WTF?

    • Threedoor

      Same punishment for her.
      I’ve run recycling bailers that make 4’ cubes.

      I’ll do it.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Globally, then, Trump is in exactly the opposite position of where Machiavelli said a prince should be: hated but not feared.

    ——-

    Now, even a massive blue wave in November won’t end Trump’s ability to do immense damage to the nation and world — damage that he may well do out of sheer spite. He is, after all, exactly the kind of person who will feel, not that he failed America, but that America failed him.

    Just like America failed Kamala?

    • The Other Kevin

      It’s impressive how many Trump critics can read minds.

    • rhywun

      LOL the spite in store after the November election is going to crush anything Donald could possibly think to have in store for us.

      Project harder, Krugs.

  20. Common Tater

    What’s with all these assholes on motorized bikes? Just after sunset, I could barely see these two retards of color, dressed in black, on black bikes with no lights, speeding on the street.

    • AlexinCT

      Even when they smiled?

    • rhywun

      From what I’ve heard it’s because they don’t require a license.

      • Common Tater

        They should, or one of these near invisible idiots is going to get hit by a car.

      • R C Dean

        I don’t think a license is going to prevent idiots from getting hit by cars.

      • rhywun

        They’re all over the sidewalks too, at least around here.

        A bit of a menace, and yes – licenses won’t solve anything but it might cut down on the number of them.

      • Threedoor

        Lisencure is mostly dumb.
        Lights are smart.
        Let evolution proceed unhindered.

    • Nephilium

      It varies by locality. To me, they should be regulated like mopeds (which here require a license that could be acquired at 14). It kills my inner young punk every time I grumble about them zipping by on the streets and sidewalk though.

      • rhywun

        At least young punks – well, young American punks – you could tell them to knock it off on the sidewalks and they might listen.

        Now it’s all vibrant adults who won’t listen and the cops will take their side if you complain.

      • Common Tater

        I think your inner young punk would have had better sense not to ride on the street at night with no lights.

        If it were hotter out, and had my windows up with the A/C on, I wouldn’t have heard them.

      • Nephilium

        Common Tater:

        You give my inner young punk more credit than I deserve. We did all sorts of dumb shit as kids, quite a bit of it dangerous.

    • AlexinCT

      These are the people Ji was talking about above. They have no evil intent. just stupid. Now insert Hillary Clinton in there and give her a gun and these two would die from suicide by capping each other in the back of the head… twice.

    • EvilSheldon

      I truly, deeply, to the bottom of what passes for my soul, believe that the Second Amendment is for everyone.

      This is sometimes not an easy belief to hold.

      I also believe that after about the third time someone points a gun at me ‘as a joke’, I get to shoot them in the face. Not as a joke.

    • Threedoor

      Looks like a violation of the Prime Directive.

  21. Common Tater

    TW:TOS

    “A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent has been convicted of raping and robbing four alleged sex workers.

    During a trial that began September 9 and concluded Thursday with a guilty verdict, federal prosecutors detailed how Luis Uribe—a CBP officer who primarily worked at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago—attacked four Chinese women, forcing oral and vaginal sex on them while, in at least one case, brandishing his government-issued gun…..

    In court this month, his defense tried to impugn the credibility of his accusers. “They are hustlers,” Uribe’s lawyer, Michael Clancy, reportedly told the courtroom last week. “They are prostitutes. They are liars.”

    https://reason.com/2026/09/17/border-officer-convicted-of-raping-and-robbing-chinese-sex-workers/

    What was the evidence?

    • EvilSheldon

      If he was convicted, being as how he (was) a federal cop…there was probably a notarized confession.

      • Threedoor

        You know who else likes trains?

    • R C Dean

      All together now:

      “Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? Because, I gotta tell you . . . .”

    • Drake

      All at the same time?

      • Sean

        Asking the important questions.

    • Drake

      How dare them impugn the characters of foreign hookers!

    • Threedoor

      Rape or theft of services?

    • Threedoor

      STFU ENB.

      “marginalized and mistrusted as immigrant women accused of sex work”

      Why do hoes push this crap?

  22. R.J.

    I definitely sense an article about leviathan vs cabal controlling the planet.

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