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Banjos
Wife of Sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active growing girls. Perpetually exhausted.
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Oh boy
Watcha talking about Willis?
The post election legal circus.
Oh boy!
“Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, talked about subpoenas for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and other Trump administration officials on the first day of a Democrat majority, should his party flip the House in Tuesday’s midterm elections.”
CWAA
do they want Vance in the white house?
‘Cause this is how you put Vance in the white house!
If they can remove Trump, they can remove Vance. Impeaching and removing Trump isn’t getting a bad actor out of the way, its regime change. In the enormously unlikely event that enough Repubs are convinced to throw their careers away to remove Trump, Vance is just mopping up.
Being utter assholes is a non-unique condition among congressxems.
The more vicious the fighting amongst themselves, the less energy they’ll have to fuck me over, and maybe the ATF director can do more good without being noticess.
/whitepill
I like this thought.
I will say that it is so pathetic that rather than having policy to help people, the dems want to push vengeance. I predict that will hurt them in the election.
I predict that will hurt them in the election.
I’ll take that bet. I predict enough idiots are on board with this that they reward the Dems with the House.
Yeah, the impeachment theater they have planned does have an upside.
And I have no doubt Donald is more prepared now. And he and his minions have nothing to lose so why not go scorched earth.
It’s a nice thought and I hope you’re right – but history doesn’t tell of many cases where vicious infighting kept the revolutionaries from the revolution.
It would be a good time for example to finally go after some of the higher-ranking FBI traitors who have escaped any consequences for their treasonous activities – stuff that was promised and not delivered.
Because those incidents were when the attempt was crushed so the infighting wasn’t well documented, just the success of the regime at restoring order.
This isn’t infighting though, it’s the two teams fighting each other. Maybe individual congressxem are about the revolution, but the bulk are for personal power through team power, which is nicely zero-sum.
They keep going on about Elon Musk, but can’t mention any actual crimes.
+ 1 Lavrenty Beria
Wrongthink and Wrongspeech.
It’s not a crime to reduce the size and scope of the government.
It doesn’t feel like violent crime is plunging.
IDK, last time I remember hearing about criminal plunger use was Abner Louima, and that was a while back.
If you take the most restrictive reading of the municipal code, it’s illegal to unclog a drain without a plumbing work permit. So you could be fined for criminal plunging.
But the enforcement difficulty means it can’t raise revenue so they don’t take that reading.
The actual crime rate has no way of appearing to you, all that appears to you is the rate of crime reporting and recounting. Delve into the details of many of those stories online and you discover that they happened years ago, or far away. Even if you are a victim all you directly know about is that one crime, which for you makes the rate 100%. We don’t have minds built for ignoring threat stories, we have minds built for concentrating on them.
Police departments have been caught cooking statistics.
I’ve seen way more petty criminal activity and lawlessness the last few years.
Neither of those are particularly good evidence, which is why I wrote “feel”.
It’s not. The reporting agencies are just lying about the crime rate.
“Trump Says Preemptive Pardons Possible to Protect Staff and Allies Like Elon Musk”
And the media that went out of their way to defend and justify the autopen ones, will suddenly find a reason to complain and call things like this illegal and immoral.
Well yeah, they will just ignore the fact that President Autopen set the precedent.
Why would they not? They have convinced people that racism & slavery party was the republican party, and not the democrat party, too. After that feat, why would they not think they can get away with any lie, no matter how ludicrous it may be?
PBS needs to be dissolved, and its employees prosecuted for every crime they may have committed.
It infuriates me that the most effective propagandism campaigns from the left are all financed with the tax dollars of the very people they target to hurt.
“Evidence Suggests Alaska’s ‘Decoy Dan’ Illegally Colluded With Democrat Dark-Money Group”
All you have to do to understand this was not just a dirty trick but illegal, is how democrats would be reacting when this was done by the other side. They locked some kid up for a prank vote meme for Clinton.
Would it be possible to prosecute the D-party of AK for putting two candidates on the ballot? Assuming they’re only allowed one, that is.
The Dems prosecuted a similar scheme several years ago. The legal theories used to go after Trump after the 2020 election are quite applicable to this as well.
ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!!1!
Banjos, it is only interference when republicans stop the cheat. And the election can only be questioned if the democrats fail to cheat their way into a win.
One person’s “election interference” is another person’s “saving democracy”. If these people would only vote right (meaning left), the left wouldn’t have to resort to such tactics.
The left’s tactic is to keep voting until they get what they want – power – then to rig the system so elections do not matter and they always keep power. See CA, the EU, or anything the UN does.
“The Elon Musk-led rocket maker is looking to build a hybrid satellite-terrestrial mobile network through Starlink Mobile to challenge US wireless giants AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, combining its satellite constellation with ground based infrastructure to compete directly in the telecom market.”
Obviously only something an evil white supremacist would do.
He’s a fascist, so we should nationalize his industries.
He is coming after the government supported monopolies!
As I said in the overnight thread, let the speculation begin. Except that now it’s up to four planes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cxdd865qmj4gt
They misspelled ‘Merica.
I still don’t know what Ds will accomplish. 2018 people took impeachment seriously. All the public wants now is cheaper gas, affordable healthcare, and meal deal combos that are less than $10. They ran their elections on caring about the public’s needs, then are going to spend two years making it the Trump Show again. Which everyone is fucking sick of.
Not everyone. The DSA crazies want Trump in the Elian Gonzalez photo.
Isn’t he already the guy with the gun deporting the illegal in that scenario?
I’m sure Bluesky will be very happy for two years.
They want Trump *as* Elian Gonzalez, with the gun in his face, screaming in fear.
We shall see how big the DSA crowd really is after today.
When is the last time anyone actually attempted to decrease the money supply? Without that, inflation is a one-way ratchet.
Volcker?
I think technically whenever they raise interest rates, that’s supposed to decrease the money supply.
One of Warsh’s stated goals is shrinking the balance sheet – we’ll see.
“It’s the economy stupid”
It really is a coincidence that I’ve got a bunch of 9mm ordered that is being delivered today.
But it does make one think…
I’m surprised NJ lets you buy ammo online.
Not all mail order places will deal with the hassle. I need to upload my driver’s license and FID (Firearm ID) card.
You can’t buy ammo in person in NJ without the FID. Two decades ago you just needed ID.
One of the local Gun Shop owners opened a Gun Shop just over the border in Vermont, and named it “Ammo Nation”. Most of its floor space is dedicated to ammo, in both retail and bulk packaging. No, there’s no reason it’s a hop, skip, and a jump away from the New York border.
That reminds me – I need to see how the shield likes the steelcase I bought off NA.
It’s not the steel that caused the issues, it’s the zinc coating.
I shot multiple thousands of Wolf and Tula (to the extent that they are different) steel cased without issue. It used to be $0.13/round!
I’ve got an assortment coming for the G43X. I want to see how it functions and how I function with different weights and loadings.
Initial plan game plan is 115gr Critical Defense, but I’ll try some hotter and heavier loads. I don’t have lots of options because of NJ’s hollow point restrictions. Basically FMJ or Hornady bullet designs.
Noted.
Hopefully the Shield is okay with the Zinc.
Just be sure that it’s landing in the same place as your preferred defensive ammo. I am assuming that’s the Shield’s role.
It is, but I haven’t chosen a preferred defensive ammo. I have a bunch of 115 grain target ammo, plus the zinc-steelcase stuff.
Not a fan of hollow point for handguns, but can you buy hollow point rifle ammo? If you can’t buy game king in 30-06 that’s just un-American.
New York is fine with Hollowpoint.
New Jersey freaks out.
Vermont just shrugs.
I am assuming that’s the Shield’s role.
I’ve always chuckled at that name. You normally think of a shield as something defensive that blocks an attack. Unless the slide stops a bullet it’s an offensive weap on.
Well, officially it’s the “Smith and Wesson Military and Police Shield X”.
And no, it’s not going to reliably stop incoming rounds except by either deterring or eliminating the source.
In NJ you can buy hollow points, but you can’t carry it. So home defense and range is OK, but nothing else.
In NJ you can only hunt with a shotgun, bow or black powder so hollow point rifle loads have little purpose.
I’ve got an assortment coming for the G43X. I want to see how it functions and how I function with different weights and loadings.
I’ve run thousands of rounds of the cheapest ammo I can find of all varieties through my Glock 43X, and it never had a problem with any of it.
In NJ you can buy hollow points, but you can’t carry it. So home defense and range is OK, but nothing else.
You can however carry Hornady Critical Defense rounds, because the hollow point is filled with a polymer, so the state doesn’t consider it to be ‘hollow point’ ammo. The NJ State Police website actually says so in their firearm FAQ section.
That’s been my experience with my G21. Fires whatever I put into it.
It was part of my selection process for the G43X. I assume it will do the same.
You can however carry Hornady Critical Defense rounds
Yeah, that’s why I said above basically FMJ or Hornady bullets.
I wonder – how bad will your milage be if you put a large generator in the bed of a Slate truck and used that to charge the batteries. I suppose you could tow the generator instead, but I think it’d be funnier to build the generator into the bed.
Depends how you drive. Once you accelerate the mass up to speed there isn’t much penalty. It’s around town that mass is critical.
I was thinking about the loss from turning the fuel into electricit and the electricity into motion, but yes, the added mass is going to drain the battery differently.
How bad your milage is is determined by how many Ds you elect. And Slate is a terrible material for trucks, heavy and brittle.
I really like the concept of the Slate. It just has a terrible range. It would have problems going to Shreveport, I would have to charge twice on the way there and back.
There is another company called REO that is releasing designs for a gas powered truck, same price range, in two days. Look them up on the 5th.
Someone linked REO a few days back but at the time they had basically Zero information on their site. Except the disappointing news that their truck was not the Speedwagon.
Yes, the release is on 5th of November. Supposedly it is not a dupe.
An Azov torture house was discovered in Ukraine sparking riots.
https://me.mashable.com/culture/77871/kyiv-torture-chamber-controversy-40-men-allegedly-held-captives-shocking-video-triggers-investigatio
They should do Lubyanka next.
Exposing these bastards, finally. I heard conflicting reports about the 14-y/o in the photo – many claims he was a prisoner other statements that he was messing with Azov and fell off a fence.
I read some pretty interesting articles about both the Russians and Ukrainians castrating POWs, as well as smashing limbs with sledgehammers repeatedly to the point where the only treatment was amputation.
Humans are such fun creatures.
Repost from the overnight thread:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/ck62yvz046pjo
You can also see the video on Twitter unless you’re one of those people who insist on virtue signaling about having been blocked by Twitter:
https://x.com/WBC24News/status/2117542954919453121
Read that this morning. Really horrible. Given that it’s Europe, I wonder if the guy who hit him is going to be arrested?
He was hit by a Nigerian, so maybe not.
Videos work on Twitter for me again even without an account.
Titty Tuesday erection day!
https://archive.is/ALNwJ
More sports news:
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/50368089/norway-pledges-boycott-hockey-worlds-russia
oh no not norway
Sweden and Finland have joined too.
And the Czechs still won’t issue visas for Russia to participate in the Women’s U18 world championship.
“A West Point cadet fed his pregnant girlfriend a sedative-laced smoothie and “shoved abortion pills” into her vagina, killing the fetus — then enrolled in Columbia University’s public-health masters program, a new lawsuit says.
Disgraced former army cadet Caleb T. Suh — the son of US Department of Veterans Chief of Staff Dr. Ryung Suh — already admitted in federal court that he deliberately tricked his then-girlfriend into chugging what he assured her was a “special pregnancy protein powder” shake in 2022, according to the lawsuit and his guilty plea.
The sick smoothie was actually chockful of the sedatives Xanax and Promethazine.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/02/us-news/west-point-cadet-drugged-pregnant-girlfriend-with-spiked-shake-then-forced-abortion/
CWAA
He does not reflect the moral qualities I’d want in a military leader.
Seems overly complicated. Why not just put the abortifacient in the smoothie?
My guess is because it was about anger and humiliating the girl.
It’s also possible that the NYP is full of shit.
Shouldn’t the left be celebrating this guy? He was only bringing her one of their most sacred rites and saving her from a life of servitude.
My first thoughts too. It’s both scary and sad that is what immediately comes to mind.
If a male does the baby killing then it is bad because RAPE PATRIARCHY CULTURE. It is only pure and noble, fighting the patriarchy, when the woman does it. And especially when she does it against the man’s wishes.
It is unclear whether either Suh or the woman — both of whom would be in their 20s — ever graduated from West Point.
Unclear…. They publish a register of graduates annually, it’s freaking online. Journalism at its finest.
He should be praised like Lindsay Clancy.
You saying his legal defense should be to claim he was motivated by a hormonal imbalance?
“When TikTokker Kristen Mirand was looking for flights from JFK Airport to Buffalo for the holidays and saw her return trip would cost anywhere from $11,400 to $12,203, she couldn’t fathom what she was seeing, telling her followers she was “going to start walking home now.”
“Just a cheap $12,000,” she fumed, noting that the overpriced flight even included a layover in Fort Lauderdale.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/02/lifestyle/sky-high-holiday-airfares-2026-why-even-short-flights-cost-over-10000/
????
“I only fly First Class Platinium Super”
Also, Buffalo is one day’s drive from NYC. Hop on the thruway.
Or take Amtrak.
I was thinking that. Fly a different airline, pick different days. And that one flight from New York to Buffalo seems like a rental drive.
You’ll get there by 2037
Not if you sing by Fort Lauderdale.
What if you just whistle or hum?
The florida leg is because nobody does direct flights between cities in New York.
Flights between New York and Florida are common and relatively cheap.
I don’t know what she’s piling on to get above $2k, which is all the frills I’d look at.
A Gallup poll found 15% of voters believe most members of Congress deserve re-election, a record low in polls dating back to 1994
But my local guy is great! /sarc
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/what-the-midterms-campaign-tells-us-about-where-our-politics-are-headed-f315fa61?st=CnNqyE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I voted against my congressvermin – again – like I do every two years. Same tax-loving bastard has been in the seat since I moved to this area.
Voted straight Republican at the state level. Constitution and Libertarian for my Senate and Congress seats respectively.
Mine is shit.
Horse Asian Update
“In one TikTok video shared to X, she boasts about her medications, including Aripiprazole, an antipsychotic medication commonly prescribed for schizophrenia; Lamotrigine, which treats for bipolar disorder; and Sertraline, an SSRI antidepressant also used for anxiety and OCD.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/02/us-news/michigan-student-ranted-about-being-released-from-mental-hospital-after-attacking-jewish-activist-report/
I’m at work and probably won’t post much for awhile, but I wanted to chime back in on the passing vs. pacing discussion in the dead thread. I pretty much agree with RC Dean. I drive on the highway with the cruise control on 99% of the time, so if I pass someone, I pass them at whatever rate we’re doing. If the other guy decides to start pacing me and someone’s flying up behind I will either accelerate past the dickhead or slow down to let the guy behind pass, depending on my mood. If possible, i want space to either side of my vehicle just in case.
As an aside, I really like adaptive CC.
😱
I absolutely loathed that “feature” when a rental had it on a road trip. It’d kick in when we were trying to pass somebody and there was enough of a gap between their front bumper and the slowpoke pacing them a few car lengths ahead in the left lane, but closer than the machine’s sensor range. (or a similar situation with lanes swapped.) It always cut our speed at the worst possible time. We didn’t get into any accidents because we were paying attention, but it made us both feel less safe whenever it started jerking us around by screwing with what should be a fixed speed.
If (when) the R’s get sodomized today, they really have no one to blame but themselves. There were several 80-20 issues that they could have pushed through that would have been wildly popular. The real problem though, obviously, was the monumentally retarded Iran war. I’ve never seen a worse own goal and once that happened the die was cast.
The worst thing is that I doubt anyone will have learned a lesson about just how sick the country is of foreign adventurism and we’ll continue to stick our dicks in all kinds of hornet’s nests around the world.
Like voter ID, for example? It’s unreal they couldn’t get that passed.
https://x.com/carnelianpagan/status/2117489867601084514
Still don’t know what the R’s argument was for not voting for it.
Still don’t know what the R’s argument was for not voting for it.
In rural Alaska it was broadly unpopular. Otherwise I’m not sure why the country club Team Red pushed against it.
Nobody will learn anything. Democrats will think they won with their great messaging – which is hilarious.
Republicans will be relieved that MAGA is dead. They’ll think their path forward is returning to the Mitt Romney days.
The only thing normies care about regarding the middle east is the price of gas – which is still lower here than previous administration. It’s been going down. The loud activists will yell about the war, but they’re loud, not a majority.
When the dust settles after today’s votes, the Dems will have a 30 seat majority in the House and be 51-49 in Senate.
“Four school buses were found vandalized with swastikas and other antisemitic vitriol outside a Brooklyn yeshiva Monday morning, cops said.
The hateful symbol and phrases “F–k Jews,” “F–k Israel,” “Free Palestine” and “America First” were scrawled in black spray paint on the buses parked outside the United Talmudical Academy of Williamsburg, according to police and photos posted by Williamsburg News.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/02/us-news/4-buses-vandalized-with-swastikas-antisemitic-vitriol-outside-nyc-yeshiva-cops/
America First? These were right-wing vandals?
James Fishback was taking money from a bunch of Islamist groups. I don’t know about Tucker.