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Will there be an actual knife fight?
No, someone will bring a gun.
How are they going to do their revolution if the people are armed? Thema Antifa troons might get shot FAFOing with the wrong people.
You’re making the common mistake of under-rating your enemies and over-rating your friends.
If you think that Black Bloc terrorists (some of whom have combat training from ex-US SOCOM hitters) with a dozen or more direct action events under their belts are going to fold because you wave your AR at them… Well, I hope you live long enough to have another thing coming.
Sheldon, I think you are overcounting the number of people who fit that profile.
I wish I were.
*takes Sheldon’s bottle of Vantablack Pills away*
Give it a few days. Review the data with a clear mind.
I fear, the US fractures into red and blue zones followed by decades of asymmetric warfare in each zone where the “minority” group is taking armed action against the “majority” group.
So, yeah, I have been black pilled to the extreme.
The left felt they had this in the bag. When Obama won they told us “We are all socialists now”, even when we KNEW that was bullshit. They thought the global reset and one world marxist government was a done deal, and the fight was whether the leadership would come from D.C., Brussels, or Beijing. Then this Trump guy basically pours sugar in their tank, and the whole engine freezes up. People get to see the plan and how little the elite think of the masses during the Kung Flue reset attempt, and suddenly a vast majority realize they are being played by an evil minority hell bent on creating a new feudal system where this minority seals the masses fate as serfs, while they benefit form a new hereditary aristocracy.
You think the after all the “sacrifices” they made to land that plane they will just shrug, and admit the people don’t want it so it is over? No, they intend to fight. And like Lucifer did, they would rather rule over a burned out hell, than lose. That should not stop us from fighting them, and we can and will win, but is said to make you understand the evil we are up against.
I fear, the US fractures into red and blue zones followed by decades of asymmetric warfare in each zone where the “minority” group is taking armed action against the “majority” group.
“The Troubles 2: Electric Boogaloo” is gonna be lit.
Just like the majority of gun owners aren’t ex-special forces, the majority of “revolutionaries” aren’t SF trained.
It would be just like the home owners in Missouri, who did just wave an AR at a bunch of opportunists. And that will be the majority of conflicts.
A week or two without electricity will reset most of the country.
“The administration asked a federal judge to require the state to withhold counting those ballots until the voters’ immigration status could be verified.”
Shouldn’t California done that first?
But then they’d have to remove reliable ballot names from the data set.
California Asks Voters to Make Temporary Tax Increase Permanent
Why are rich fleeing a one-time tax that they missed the deadline for exemption …
As far as housing goes, one of he reasons I sold my rental is that it is becoming more and more onerous to be a landlord. Between inspections, what it takes to evict a bad tenant, and so on, it is worth it if that is a full time job, but not as an individual. Knowing the ins and outs of every law, vs a tenants “rights” NGO puts you at a serious disadvantage legally, and can trap you pretty badly if you are not careful.
Also, when we sold it, it went for the asking price(!), but they can back hard on the inspection, asking for all sorts of things to be changed due to extreme readings of the laws. But, as it was a soft market, we went with it so as to not lose the sale.
Years ago I figured I’d rent this place whenever we eventually moved but I’ve since moved to your position – too much hassle and risk.
The girlfriend and I were discussing picking up a nearby property for a rental back in 2019. I’m really glad we didn’t pull the trigger on that.
I’m kicking myself for not buying the $150,000 duplex in our old neighborhood back in 2011.
Today begins my first day in Shipping after two in the Vault and one in Intake. Asking ’round, this department shift is considered a much nicer, less haphazard, side of this gig. Intake wasn’t bad – tedious and repetitive, perhaps, but I’d have been pleased there. My first day in the big office plan, which should be rather interesting. We’ll see if today is mostly shadowing, which almost assuredly it will be, but I expect I’ll have some work of my own to take care of, likely after lunch.
We shall see, but today’s a pretty good ‘present continuous’ example of onward & upward, eh? First full check this Friday, so toward merriment, we march! (We=Evan. And more ‘happily waddle’ than “march” in this … lousy Smarch weather!)
Onward and upward, EV. You have this.
JFC.
That is a lot of boxes to check “No”.
A lot of bad propositions including:
37 – Establish a second mortgage homebuyer program for qualified homebuyers on qualifying homes and issue $25 billion in bonds to fund the program
WTF?
But some good like:
39 – Require voters to present government-issued identification when casting ballots and require election officials to use government data to confirm voter citizenship and report verification rates
I expect all the bad to pass and any good to fail.
Huh. How’d that get in there?
And is there some clause in tiny print at the bottom that completely reverses the intent that nobody will notice?
Don’t worry. There will be plenty of late ballots marked no.
Sure, Jan.
Well, when you tell the polls to stay open two hours once all the law-abiding states have sealed their ballot boxes, you can stuff a lot of ballots.
The fairest and most secure election ever.
The time extension was due to problems with bus service. Commie bro can’t run a working public transit system after multiple terms in office?
Bus service in one city. But the voting extension was nation wide.
If you take the bus you shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
Which kills an engine harder – diesel in a gas motor or gas in a diesel motor?
A diesel engine can run on gasoline, just not for very long.
OTOH, a gas engine can’t run diesel.
Thank you.
Gas engine quits running, no big deal. Diesel engine injector pump gets fucked up, big deal.
Yes.
Gas in diesel engine
🤔
Diesel fuel provides lubrication for injector pump, gasoline does not. Older injector pumps are more tolerant but modern 10,000+ psi pumps are not.
Easy splodey fuel work in hard splodey engine, but very bad for it. Hard splodey fuel no splodey in easy splodey engine, just sit there clogging stuff till cleaned out.
Thank you plinker.
No, I haven’t mixed up the fuel in my car, I just was curious.
Gas in a diesel will detonate, diesel in a gas engine wouldn’t even start.
If you put a bit of diesel in a gas tank, it will dirty the engine. If you put gas in a diesel tank, it would float to the top.
Diesel and gas will mix together.
Petromiscegeny is bad!
Jar you missed a golden pun opportunity.
Petromiscegeny is Crude.
I salute you!
Get cracking on those puns!
Gas in a diesel engine will also cause knocking potentially severe enough to cause damage.
Fuel pumps pull from the bottom.
Anecdotally – We had a retard put gas into an old Isuzu diesel. Stopped a couple miles down the road. We had it towed, drained, and refilled. Damn thing actually ran fine, if not a lil bit better.
This was a 20 ish year old NPR.
over the years I fired a shit ton of drivers over putting gas in diesel engines. after about 4-5 blocks the vans (E350s) would sputter and die, need to be towed to Penske and have the fuel system flushed. Which put all of the work they were scheduled to do behind, cost overtime with other drivers, and so on, down the line.
Our old M35 deuce- and-a-halfs had multifuel engines that would run on anything that was liquid and would burn. I never tried it, so I’m not sure if you had to flip a switch or something.
When Chrysler took there turbine car to France they ran it on Chanel No. 5.
You can run it on lots of things
The multifuel has a metering system that adjusts fuel volume by specific gravity if I remember right. My dad dumped a 55 gal drum of used motor oil in his once but beyond that he didn’t want to mess with putting gas in it. He was fuel and electrical when he was in the army and said running gas in them wasent a good idea still. It’s a good way to fry your valves and burn up the turbo.
ATF will run in a non multifuel diesel just fine.
“President Trump branded Bill Maher a “complete, total loser” and a “sleazebag” in a wild 1,300-word Truth Social tirade – claiming the comic “looked like hell” during their recent dinner.
Trump skewered Maher, 70, after the “Real Time” host claimed Friday that the president “has the lowest approval rating of any midterm candidate ever” and joked that his four-hour dinner with Trump on Oct. 15 was longer than Katie Zacharia’s stint as press secretary.
“Let’s talk about this COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER, Bill Maher. He’s got a Low Rated Show on equally Low Rated HBO, which was once, long ago, a Network of Quality and Excitement — But that’s all gone. It’s not “HOT” anymore!” Trump started his 1,322-word tirade Sunday — his longest on record, according to Factbase.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/26/us-news/trump-blasts-complete-total-loser-bill-maher-in-1300-word-truth-social-post/
OFFS!!
His team of shit-posters probably just has to press a button to generate this stuff. There is certainly a lot of material to train the LLM on.
It’s things like this that make it clear there is not, and never has been, method to the Donald’s madness. If any hint of strategic thinking had ever crossed his mind he’d lay off attacking Maher and other longtime Dems showing signs of dismay at the new Democrat party. It’s all kneejerk responses and ego.
Unless its a bit him and Maher are doing…which then I’d laugh.
You just don’t understand 6D chess
the method to Trumps madness is that he is willing to just do something, never mind the risks. Which is the opposite of how this country has been run for the last century, at least.
Sometimes this works for him, sometimes it doesn’t. But that he is instinct driven, as opposed to
courtierdata driven, is what is driving everyone bonkers.To be clear then Mr. President, are low ratings bad?
real question is: are the ratings being measured the things that should be measured?
Good morning all!
For OMWC: I finally got around to trying Saratoga Winery, and recommend it for when you finally come to visit, if for no other reason than to mock my taste. I found two of them (the Pinot Noir and Cab Franc) completely drinkable and their “Rustic Red” was strange, but it immediately made me think of food to pair it with, so that’s something I guess.
🥳
I guess now we know what it takes to defeat a commie.
Land “reform” fails?
Their reach exceeds their grasp?
“Saturday’s horrific knifepoint rape in Central Park was the fifth sex attack in the iconic green space so far this year, leaving locals terrified.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/25/us-news/latest-central-park-rape-is-fifth-in-green-space-this-year/
“A teenage Wichita State University student sickeningly smiled in his mugshot as he was charged with rape — the second arrest on campus for the sex crime in less than a month.
James Vandenberg, a 19-year-old freshman, was taken into custody Saturday at an on-campus dormitory, WSU student paper The Sunflower reported.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/26/us-news/wichita-state-student-smiles-in-mugshot-as-charged-with-rape/
STEVE SMITH BUSY UNTIL MIDTERMS
TREMBLE!
ZOMG HE SMILED FOR A MUG SHOT!
New York voted for this. They wanted to defund the police, abolish prisons and other commie claptrap. This poor girl is just a necessary sacrifice to build the glorious socialist paradise.
That’s quite a Shocker.
Since there were no matches this weekend and Lily was chill, I indulged my inner millennial and played video games.
Fallout 4 desperately needs a manual. It did get its hooks into me but there were a few times where my play came to a screeching halt because the in-game quest instructions were non-existent or actively wrong. Notable example was the retaking of “The Castle.” The actual retaking was fine, restarting it was not. A quest giver tells me to blast away rubble to clear a tunnel? Ok, so I tried grenades, mines, shooting it with lasers, finally consulted the internet and discovered… I’m supposed to enter workshop mode and reclaim the rubble as building material? How TF is that “blasting?” The “you must connect generators to specific things with wires that can only go so far” also required reaching out to Friend Internet.
My playstyle is finally showing success. After sneak + gun nut + rifleman + sniper, insurmountable obstacles are very much surmountable. An outpost of Super Mutants with missile launchers and mininukes became doable once I figured out a 4-crank laser musket one shots them. A hunting rifle likewise modded as far as I can until I get gun nut 2 one-shots all turrets, humans and ghouls, making strolling through Boston at night a complete slaughter/loot festival. I hope in-game time isn’t a problem because I’m filling up my inventory on my way to the next map icon, fast travelling back to sanctuary to drop off everything, returning to that furthest icon and inching my way to quest objectives.
One thing that irks me is the re-use of the lockpicking animation/interface of Skyrim, but with different game mechanics. It makes sense in Skyrim that the difficulty of picking in the interface represented the difference between the lock difficulty and the character skill. In Fallout, with a go/no go system, why bother with breakable picks (not to mention that the pick is not even doing the tensioning in an actual lockpicking attempt…) I did find the wordle-based “computer hacking” kind of funny though.
Also, those icons on the building stuff options needed an explanation. I thought the ones with the raider helmets meant that if I built those they would attract raiders. I should not need the internet as an external reference source to play a game!
Laser musket is the worst weapon in all videogame history. The only utility for a crank operated ranged weapon is to provide an option which does NOT require ammo, but the damn musket does.
Eh, it hits harder than anything else I’ve got, and has the range to where the victim’s friends can’t see me to return fire. I use it in that circumstance only, and it works great.
Tales of the Commonwealth and other mod packs fix the laser musket issue regarding ammo.
Crank Musket = Glibertarian long arm
I’m into Crusader Kings 3. The latest update has really expanded religion on the game. However, there might be an exploit of your liege and your archbishop are of different religions.
Liege: Be a loyal servant and convert to my religion and my opinion of you will increase.
Duke Grumbles: Okay.
:a short time later:
Archbishop: Convert to my religion and I will pay you some gold.
Duke Grumbles: Okay.
:a short time later:
Liege: Be a loyal servant and convert to my religion and my opinion of you will increase.
Duke Grumbles: Okay.
The Empire of Wessex controls everything from Sweden through Germany and Italy to Nigeria.
Ya i get the ‘figure it out’ mentality but at the same time I don’t want to be stopped every 5 seconds with in game instruction dumps.
The easy fix for the Castle cleaning quest should have been back when you start Sanctuary and are told to clear some rubble.
I played Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Henry is a good thief now. I can pickpocket and open up to hard locks. I need to work on weapon skills.
I downloaded Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but didn’t play them.
I did spend a few minutes getting OpenPrivateer running on my box. Surprisingly bug-free for a fan-made pre-Alpha so far. I do have to crank the resolution down to 800×600 on my #2 monitor to get a playable window – the shell doesn’t handle that automatically.
As for actually playing, it went something like this:
– Troy system, started with janky scout ship.
– Sold everything off janky scout ship that I could do without, bought better guns, torpedo launchers, and tungsten armor.
– Did some patrols and scout mission in local system.
– Pirates and Retros are flying extra-janky light fighters, mostly in ones and twos. Easily shoot down most of them.
– Make enough money to upgrade janky scout ship – weapons, scanners, ECM, engine and shield upgrades, etc.
– Still not enough money to buy better ship.
– Jump over to New Detroit system in search of more money.
– First patrol mission, bounced by three Kilrathi heavy fighters, get blown into atoms.
I love this game.
Shouldn’t have named your Pilot ‘Rathi’
If you decide settlement building is fun, check out Skooled Zone on Youtube. It will change the way you build stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/@SkooledZone
I spent waaaaay too much time picking up the fallen fence bits and trying to make them line up with everything else. Discovering I could clean up the place and get resourced from it was a revelation.
Still, while I do want to make functional settlement, I don’t know how much effort I’m willing to put into it. My WoW house (singular) is way underdeveloped and its build-a-place interface is much better.
My Skyrim houses (from Hearthfire DLC) were a great balance of having something that looks good, works well from the beginning but also lets you put your trophies up.
And on video game houses:
I had to keep upgrading houses in LOTRO since I accumulated too many trophies for the “hooks” available. wound up with a large player, a Guild house I used solo and then a couple premium ones in Rohan and Cape Belfelas. I never used the Rohan one, but was getting close to filling the Gondor one (which was enormous).
Trophies go in the infitite storage box. House has sleeping spot and workbenches.
“Cam Skattebo returned to the starting lineup for the New York Giants on Sunday. However, was flagged for “lowering his helmet” and penalized for unnecessary roughness during the first quarter.”
https://brobible.com/sports/article/cam-skattebo-lowering-helmet-unnecessary-roughness-penalty-yell-at-referees/
Was he supposed to lead with his ass?
Former Chiefs running back Isaiah Pacheco used to get fined all the time for “running too hard” or whatever the fuck. Then the next day you’d see them laud the play he got fined for during the Angry Runs segment on NFL Network’s Good Morning Football.
Hypocritical cunts.
“Antimatter, which explodes when it comes into contact with the ordinary matter, was captured by researchers at Northwestern University and stored in a cold box where they used incredibly cold temps and magnets to suspend the particle in midair, according to findings published in the Physical Review Letters.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/25/us-news/scientists-trap-antimatter-particle-for-months-with-crazy-tech-to-avoid-blowing-up-lab/
Wouldn’t that be mid-vacuum?
It’s not a vacuum, there’s antimatter in it.
I hate when antimatter clogs the filter reducing suction.
Love the helpful stock abstract art.
One look at the picture, and all I could think of was “physical representation of academic code.”
“A crazed Florida woman asked to borrow a lighter and then set a man she had been arguing with on fire Saturday, causing third-degree burns over nearly his entire body, police said.
Alleged firebug Tanisha Shelton, 45, had been in a heated dispute with Nathaniel Devon Mathis, 33, hours before the alleged immolation, according to a police report obtained by CBS….
Officials said medical staff at Jackson Memorial Hospital determined Mathis, who is in critical condition, had second- and third-degree burns over 80% of his body and is not expected to survive.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/25/us-news/florida-woman-set-man-on-fire-burning-over-80-of-his-body-following-argument-cops/
Yikes!
Get well soon, Florida Man!
“Alleged” firebug
Mostly peaceful immolation.
In more local news
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw5yn3xlprpmo
Serbia’s long-standing leader Aleksandar Vučić has admitted defeat to a student-led protest movement in snap parliamentary elections.
Celebrations erupted as crowds descended on the centre of Belgrade, Novi Sad and other cities.
The student movement was formed less than two years ago in response to a railway station disaster blamed on corruption and negligence, but fought the election with candidates from a cross-section of Serbian society.
“It is clear we have lost these elections,” right-wing populist leader Vučić said as he conceded. With 97% of polling stations counted, Serbia’s election commission said the students had won 2.24 million votes and the former ruling party 1.67 million.
The students had secured 52.6% of the vote, while Vučić’s Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) was on 39.2%, according to its preliminary figures late on Monday morning.
also the Bulgarians had their little elections but who cares.
Maybe if you read the overnight comments….
rarely worth reading tbh
*checks overnight posts*
22%: awesome. Now, if only the US could keep moving down in %s.
“The politicians all make speeches while the news men all take note,
And they exaggerate the issues as they shove them down our throats;
Is it really up to them whether this country sinks or floats?
Well I wonder who would lead us if none of us would vote.”
Larry Norman, c. 1972
Uh oh.
No mention of what the “students” actually “want” other than “change!”
less corruption and graft probably. how… who knows. also there is a difference between the movement and whomever convinced them to be allowed to actually run for government.
ask Swiss how things will “get better”
$175MM is pathetic.
Add a zero, you incompetent fucks. DOGE found more than a trillion dollars in three months.
Every time I read a story about this, my auditor brain asks how the fuck were these controls not in place from day 1, and how the fuck are they not in place now?
Because that would make it difficult to pad the accounts of the right people.
Rules are for other people!
Just go ahead and use that government travel card for strippers as a PFC. See what happens…
because it shows they care!
/FDR smiles
Speculated trillion. Doge was shut down before actually looking into details. And nothing else happened.
Stevie Wonder is taking legal measures to try and evict a former girlfriend from a Los Angeles residence he says he’s let her live in rent-free since 1988, according to a new report.
The iconic musical artist, 76, has sued his ex-girlfriend Carmen Efferson in an effort to remove her from the home, per an October 22 legal filing reviewed by The Daily Mail….
In one profane exchange, Efferson said she felt as if she was being spoken to in a tone that reflected ‘racist cold-blooded white male privilege,’ telling the attorney: ‘Do not make any attempt to make any kind of contact with me….’ and signing off ‘In other words F*** the f*** off..!!!’
Per the filing, attorney David Huff corrected Efferson in saying that the lawyer who first contacted Efferson was not white or male.”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16232033/stevie-wonder-evict-ex-girlfriend-la-home.html
LOL
Love is blind.
Maybe Elon gave Stevie some of that magic he has that for the blind, and when Stevie saw this lady for the first time, he realized he was letting fugly live in his place and wanted her gone?
“Attributing recent unrest in France to immigration, Trump said he would welcome immigrants from some countries but not from Norway ‘because I didn’t get the Nobel Prize… So I don’t want anybody from Norway.’
‘I’m not in love with Norway. Frankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a sh*thouse country, actually,’ Trump said, using a term that he has previously applied to Haiti, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16239173/Trump-labels-Norway-sh-thouse-country-overlooked-Nobel-Peace-Prize-again.html
JTFC, can someone please put xanax in his diet coke?
I’m getting the sense he’s going to be in IDGAF mode for another two years. Whee.
If no Nobel does this what will a few more impeachments do?
fail, and get Vance elected?
OBBA, amirite?
This guy is determined to alienate the 2/3 of American voters who wish an eighth grader wasn’t President of the United States.
It’s all trolling.
The effed up part is that he’s still miles better than Harris/Waltz. It speaks to how utterly shitty and hopeless our politics are in this country.
Harris, Biden, Clinton, Obama, Kerry, Gore. It’s a long list of yuck.
To be fair on Norway and the Nobel – they gave it to a person on the ICJ at the Hague presumably based-on arrest warrants for Netanyahu. Calling-out the fact that they are part of the international globalist cabal is a positive.
Declinist realism
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than an upturn in British economic fortunes
https://thecritic.co.uk/declinist-realism/
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of the welfare state. I am, of course, doing quite a bit more than merely paraphrasing Mark Fisher, but there is something about his 2009 book Capitalist Realism that strikes me as correct.
With this in mind, perhaps an accurate diagnosis of political thinking in Britain is something I will call “declinist realism” — that is, our collective inability to imagine what functioning capitalism with moderate economic growth even looks like any more.
We struggle to imagine an economy in which increasing productivity leads to more investment, competition improves services and ordinary work allows people to buy themselves better lives.
To many people, particularly young people who haven’t experienced a single year of economic growth since they were born, prosperity increasingly appears to mean securing a protected claim on somebody else’s income. In this cruel and relentless zero-sum world, economic life boils down to a contest over who pays and who receives.
…
. Yes, of course we need economic growth, but it needs to be good growth or, better still, small, organic amounts of growth carefully distributed around every postcode. Yes, we need to level up, but we’re going to do it through an overly expensive government office building that barely anyone goes to. Yes, there is a chronic shortage of housing, but ultimately what people need is state subsidies for mortgage deposits. Yes, we can’t build infrastructure, but we’re creating a new government body to oversee how much non-construction happens, and we’re monitoring the situation.
Sounds like “managed decline”.
But yeah, spraying more subsidies around will help. 🙄
The truly crazy part is that Argentina has shown how quickly things can turn around if you take you boot off the neck of the economy.
Same goes for certain former Eastern Bloc countries like Poland – not that Poland is Galt’s Gulch, but just back the fuck off and things can rapidly grow.
What do you hear the usual suspects complain about Argentina’s changes constantly? That it is an unfair system because government is no longer picking the winners & loser, and people they want to win, are losing. The socialists would agenda is fot everyone but the people at the top to share misery, because that is the one thing they can deliver.
https://www.cleveland19.com/2026/10/07/cleveland-heights-university-heights-schools-seek-first-levy-6-years-fund-operations/
“We have been really creative. We had cut funding. We are planning to cut 5 million dollars in funding over the next two years, we’re already halfway there. So, we’re really being fiscally responsible to our community, but dollars only stretch so far,” she said.”
I don’t believe a word of that. Heights already pay some of the highest taxes in the state and just like a crack addict, will beg for another hit in a couple of years. Enrollment has decreased and they refuse to right size the budget.
“District administrators are seeking an operating levy that would fund teacher salaries, busing and utilities”
Looks like they only want this for the key functions of the school – shouldn’t be a problem just cut everything else.
It could be worse, it could be the Cleveland Metro schools. Parma schools has tried at least five times to pass a levy to raise taxes in the past couple of years, all of them failing after a news story broke about them having massive accounting issues.
“A murderer who claimed a refusal to allow him Vegemite in prison is a breach of his human rights as an Australian has failed to overturn the ban on the polarising spread….
“Without being able to consume Vegemite, I feel deprived of being able to practise my Australian culture, sad and disconnected from my family and community,” he told the state’s supreme court.
Vegemite was banned in Victorian prisons in 2006, due to concerns it interfered with narcotic detection dogs, according to Corrections Victoria’s list of contraband items.
Its yeast properties also gave it the potential to be used to brew alcohol.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/26/no-human-right-to-vegemite-court-tells-prisoner-australia-ntwnfb
It’s got electrolytes.
Is he 6’4″ and full of muscle?
I ain’t eating no vegemite sammich..
Vegemite is what Men at Work need!
Did he request to chunder after the vegemite?
Now do something about it, Donald.
This article is depressing as hell. I suspect nothing will be done and they’ll continue on with their BS.
DOGE is another example of, “You come at the king, you best not miss.” It was a good idea, but it *NEEDED* to be carried thru to it’s conclusion. Instead, rather than destroying or disabling the permanent bureaucracy, DOGE was shuttered before doing any more than pissing it off.
I really don’t know if there’s a solution at this point. We have the equivalent of a wounded grizzly that needs to be tracked into the heavy brush.
It won’t end until we get to the point that the eunuchs set fire to the palace.
I sort of remember from the Musk-Rogan interview that the Republicans did whatever they could to block DOGE from making the required cuts. That’s why I have no enthusiasm or incentive to even vote for Republicans.
Lesser of two evils.
Stupid Party versus Evil Party
And in local news…
https://nypost.com/2026/10/25/us-news/ex-cop-charged-in-george-washington-bridge-road-rage-killing-free-on-1m-bail/
Naturally this blocked up the GW for like 2.5 hours. Somehow nobody noticed any powder residue in the company Range Rover? Also, assuming he was right handed – he came up in the right lane, shot across his chest and through the rear passenger window. I can’t think of a more contorted move.
If he was white you all would be hearing about this for the next six months. It will just be a local story here…
Note that we don’t get the mug shot either.
I asked AI for the mugshot.
I was not disappointed
I have yet to see a pic of the
murderermanslaughterer.Lurch right to a center left party.
“A specter is haunting Europe, and plenty of other places too. Nobody knows quite what to call it. It isn’t the specter of communism this time around, or at least not under that name — although something approaching class warfare, redefined in 21st-century terms, is on the agenda for the first time in decades.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/10/26/why-are-young-people-so-angry-why-isnt-everyone/
No, it’s communism.
The specter is simple: the elite have embraced communism, because under communism, the elite will still be inanely wealthy, able to keep that in the family, wild power willy-nilly, and don’t have to give a shit what the serfs want. i mention again that capitalism allows some to become insanely wealthy, and they will have undue power in that case. Under socialism only the people in charge will have the wealth and power. and that is what they want the most, because the common people will not just let them fuck them over anymore. Freedom for the masses is a problem for the elite. Especially when you have a system that allows someone like an Elon to make it big, and then undermine the system they have/want because he refuses to sell his soul to them.
The left is openly cheering about Lula winning in Brazil – it’s communism.
This election cycle has definitely brought out the true colors – even in red states the Dem candidates are calling self-made with a million-dollar business or house “rich” and openly stating they are crooked and stole from taxpayers.
They are cheering that Lulu cheated to win. They want more of THAT.
OFFS.
Never change, Salon.
This article is depressing as hell. I suspect nothing will be done and they’ll continue on with their BS.
Those people are true patriots who will be celebrated as heroic saviors of democracy.
The Atlantic goes all in on communism. Possible paywall.
One way to lower food prices, then, would be for the government to provide a public option for food purchasing. The Kitchen Table Project argues that the federal government should launch an “affordable groceries partnership” in which it would agree to purchase a basket of food staples, including eggs, ground beef, milk, produce, rice, and peanut butter. Because the government would be buying in large quantities, it would have leverage to negotiate down the prices for these food items. Then it would sell to participating grocery stores at that lower price point.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/grocery-prices-public-option/689132/
Because apparently grocers, distributors, and large food companies can’t and don’t buy “in large quantities”
Staple food items have almost always been very affordable (other than specific price shocks e.g. avian flu) – the proletariat doesn’t want the basics, they want EVERYTHING to be low-cost or free.
But they practice “greedflation”!
Prices of many staples have doubled since 2020. Printing massive of amounts of money, and restricting fossil fuels will do that.
“peanut butter”
PEOPLE WILL DIE!!
Government mandated CSAs for everyone!
So, my Leatherman saga keeps going.
To catch up – for years I had a Leatherman Wave, of late it lived in my range bag but I misplaced it when I had to clean up.
For my road trip I got a tiny multitool with scissors instead of pliers. That was extremely handy.
I decided to replace the missing Wave. Ordered a Rebar. It turned out to be bulkier than the old Wave. So I figured I’d order a Wave. Turns out the Wave+ is not a Wave, it is as bulk as the Rebar, but somehow heavier.
Ugh.
So at the moment I own four of these. One missing Wave, One Mini, One Rebar, and One Wave+. I want my missing Wave to turn up. It was the right size.
I usually find missing tools by buying a replacement.
That’s why I have about 4 sets of allen keys.
I’m guessing when you went to put the new Leatherman away the old one wasn’t sitting there where you couldn’t find it before.
If that is the case it might actually be lost.
Only four?
While I do have too many sets of Allen/Torx wrenches I’ve stopped accumulating them and been buying single wrenches and keeping them at their point of use. When they don’t move (or move with the item they go with) they don’t get lost.
4 metric and 4 SAE
Although now that I have a nice toolbox, I splurged on a set of Wiha allen and torx bits.
I have a Craftsman set in the truck toolbox but these are much nicer.
They were on sale when I bought them, but not cheap.
https://gerbergear.com/products/multi-plier-600-stainless-carbide-cutters-needlenose-sheath-g07530gn
The Gerber is in my range bag. I have an original Leatherman. The pliers on the Leatherman are far better, but the Gerber is generally more useful and lighter and more compact.
I have a mini gerber somewhere, and this swiss army knife, but I was only recounting the Leatherman saga.
Multitools do not exist entirely in this universe. They occasionally phase into and out of reality, depending on the external stressors.
Because the government would be buying in large quantities, it would have leverage to negotiate down the prices for these food items. Then it would sell to participating grocery stores at that lower price point.
Just nationalize the agriculture industry and make all the farmers state workers. It worked for Stalin and Mao.
Isn’t that what Walmart does? 🤔️
And Walmart is evil for it.
Walmart is evil for filling its shelves with low quality crap that fails too easily.
“The Department of Justice has announced a grant through its National Institute of Justice for research on connections between gender dysphoria and violent crime. The total funding is expected to be $1 million, per a DOJ grant filing….
In August, the Department of Health and Human Services released a study they commissioned that found individuals who believed in radical gender ideology were more likely to believe that political violence is justified.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/doj-offers-1-million-federal-grant-for-study-on-trans-crime
Those are two different groups of people.
This guy is determined to alienate the 2/3 of American voters who wish an eighth grader wasn’t President of the United States.
Save us, George Herbert Walker Bush!
“Cornell University professor Kate Manne accused Generation Z’s young men of becoming the “rapey generation,” arguing that social media and pornography were contributing to worsening sexual violence.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/woke-cornell-prof-refers-to-gen-z-boys-as-the-rapey-generation-while-jeffrey-epstein-pal-katie-couric-nods-along
citation needed
You can find the “worsening sexual violence!” right next to “highest temperatures on record!” and “more tropical storms than ever!” on the list of items that don’t require any proof whatsoever for some reason.
Isn’t that what Walmart does?
And Cargill, and ADM, and Smithfield, and…
But those are private fascist profiteers who steal the honest labor of the yeoman farmer for the benefit of evil capitalist oppressors, not government benefactors from the Ministry of Plenty.
“Diawara, originally from Mali, had lived in the Houston area for more than 25 years and worked as an Uber driver. During his time in America, Diawara also married a U.S. citizen and raised two children.
6o Minutes reported that ICE detained Diawara on July 11 and put him on a charter flight to Ghana at the end of the month. Ghanaian authorities then sent him back to Mali.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/fake-news-busted-cbss-sob-story-deportation-african/
Horrible optics that accomplish nothing.
yeah, he should have been deported 25 years ago.
But they didn’t do that, so no point doing it now, as it just makes it more difficult to deport others.
If we can’t deport them, give them canadian healthcare.
Do that, and you are guaranteed wide open borders.
and a corpse disposal problem. We’ll have to become an exporter of organic fertilizer.
Dunno..lied about sexuality to flee Mali and then was magically transformed back to straight once he defrauded his way into the States.
Optics will always be bad, but doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be cleaning house.
My point is that bad optics results in less housecleaning.
I don’t care about “optics”. If he has a deportation order, out he goes. Pussyfooting around with which illegal aliens “deserve” to stay and which don’t just encourages more fraud.
I was just gonna make a comment that pussyfooting around got us into this mess, it won’t get us out of it.
And pussyfoot as a word needs to back on peoples tongues.
Then the claws come out and suddenly your tongue is bleeding.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/democrats-are-using-soviet-playbook-publicly-call-nationalizing/
Is that Bill Clinton trying to get a blowjob from a midget?
lol I knew Reich was short but I didn’t know he was THAT short.
But yeah, Elon has been on fire the last couple days.
Almost as good as his GFY moment.
The projection from Reich is extremely strong.
Robert Reich, American hero.