This summer came quite late and, with our temperatures now dropping into the 40s, with highs in the 60s, it has also left quite early. So I’m chillin’. I’m sure that this is part of Global Warming Climate Change. On the bright side, it’s perfect hiking weather except for the intermittent rain. And to the relief of the villagers, I’ve gone from shorts to long pants. I’m going to try to get a hike in with Prime, but if the weather refuses to cooperate, we’ll punt and go get pizza and alcohol.
What’s also chill is the lineup of birthdays, which include a guy whose name sounds like a grinning Negro character from a 1910 novel; a woman who anticipated Mel Brooks; one of my spiritual fathers; another one of my spiritual fathers; Team Blue’s spiritual father; a guy whose best movie role was a sneaky coward bad guy; one of the heads not in SugarFree’s freezer; one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, and a weird guy even by weird guy standards; a lionized writer who at her best was shallow and trite; easily the best-looking woman of the 1960s; and a living example of why you never want to get plastic surgery.
And while I’m dispensing advice, I’d recommend drinking before Linking.
They say “panic and dread” as if it were a bad thing.
I like the word “sell” here. Which is exactly the way it ought to be.
This is your typical “OMG, these weird people don’t want to live in Manhattan!” story, but I was particularly amused by the inadvertent call back to Rico Soave.
I remember that the whole 1988 presidential election was about this idiocy. The idiots in government haven’t gotten any smarter, and the idiots who lap this up haven’t, either.
“We need a new hack in here, this one has aged out.”
Women and minorities hardest hit.
If you like your women large and annoying, I have the spot for you.
This was a particularly fun album not just because of Roland Kirk shooting off woodwind fireworks, but because… Mingus is not on bass. He’s the pianist. When he was a teenager, the Old Guy loved this album. And still does. Here’s an appropriate cut.
From the MSNBC link: “That’s because the wealthiest Americans don’t earn their money from salaried income. Instead, they get it through complex financial instruments, such as stock dividends, interest from bonds, rent from real estate and even gifts or inheritances, which are taxed at much lower rates than salaries.”
That is terrible!!! We should lower everyone else’s tax rates to match.
Study finds shocking conclusion that progressive income is actually progressive!
If dividend stocks, bonds, and interest-bearing accounts constitute “complex financial instruments” to you, there’s probably a reason you’re still earning minimum wage.
What can you expect from someone who no doubt clings to the labor theory of value?
I’m waiting for the Green Stamps to come back and fill up my books so I can get free merchandise.
That and spending $1.10 to every $1.00 earned is why some people, even big earners, stay perpetually broke.
What can you expect from someone who no doubt clings to the labor theory of value?
The thing that amuses me most about the labor theory of value is the fact that most believers in it support the idea of UBI. The reasoning on that one seems a bit odd.
All wealth is produced by labor
Let’s make it unnecessary for people to work!
So in this utopia where humans are liberated from the tyranny of work, where does the wealth come from precisely? And how does whatever answer you give not conclusively refute premise one?
Robot overlords for the win.
/falls out of chair
And how much was the corporation taxed before it paid the dividend to me?
In California, 30%.
a lionized writer who at her best was shallow and trite
Happy birthday Ayn Rand!
Neither lionized nor shallow and trite.
[now to set the hook]
My guess was Agatha Christie.
Wait, wait… I’m assuming the study population was mostly Jewish. There is no way you can apply this to something like the American Midwest.
There is no way you can apply this to anyone not in the tested cohort.
“We” are selling weapons to NATO. Who pays for most of NATO? Finance people in both the UK and France were talking about the need for an IMF bailout. Don’t take any IOUs.
+ 1 bridge to Sicily
The Russkies could invade Sicily any day.
That meat-grinder isn’t going to feed itself.
Most Americans believe the wealthy should pay their fair share.
And cleverly not one of them can actually define “fair share”, but it does translate loosely to more, more, more.
Outside of law any discussion of fairness as an adult makes you sound like a child crying to your mommy.
Outside of law any discussion of fairness as an adult makes you sound like a child crying to your mommy.
Even if it is with a talking mirror?
“Taxes should be raised on anyone who makes more than I do.”
Because they are Marxists at heart.
Uh, most Americans are Marxists at heart?
Who knew!
It’s complicated. When it’s other people’s money, or the 3rd rail of electoral politics, or people on the coasts, they are shockingly socialist. The fact that Mandami hasn’t been laughed off the stage is downright scary. As Covid proved, most Americans will willingly bend over and take it up the backside for the State with minimal resistance, and ostracize friends and relatives who don’t.
On the other hand, when you come for THEIR SHIT ™. They turn into some combination of Ayn Rand and Mel Gibson from The Patriot.
Most seem to believe in “from each according to his ability”.
He immersed himself in the writings of Thomas Aquinas and other philosophers.
Is there any greater heresy for a progressive Democrat?
OK, which of you is this?
My name’s not Mike, Or Jenny, so not it.
Also I don’t believe I stated anything specifically about women’s suffrage.
I don’t think they’re talking about me. Though I do agree with the policy of free helicopter rides for communists.
Hold on, Mike and Jenny, living off the land?
Animal is this your contrivance?
Not me, but some of that sounded like my wife’s trajectory.
“the hills of upstate NY”
I think we know who “Mike” and “Jenny” really are.
I’m perma banned from FB and X.
The wife gave up FB over a decade ago and is likewise banned.
It might get into the 60s for an overnight low here in another month or so…
Im contemplating putting on my cold weather gloves on for this morning’s ride.
The sun is still hot, but at 70mph that won’t help when it’s in the 50’s.
We’re looking at some 50s for highs next week. Fall is upon us.
There was actually frost on the hill behind my house. I’d better hit the farms today to grab the last tomatoes.
My tomatoes have been so slow this year – just a few ripened so far.
While technically correct, I find my neighbors remarking on a “cold front” resulting in a drop in the highs from being 90 to 80 to be amusing
Evacuation of Gaza City would be unsafe and unfeasible, says head of Red Cross
It was a good idea, but if the Red Cross says no, what are you going to do?
Not sure, but I believe international law on this point is more or less to not interfere with evacuating civilians.
So it should make no difference to the Israeli plan to harrow Gaza City. Which I think is probably necessary to break Hamas.
The Red Cross is so impartial they must be right. 🙄
So, because of where I work, I have to pass a “You have no gun rights here” sign every office day, reminding people that the law abiding in my office are sitting ducks. But I recently saw the opposite. Cabelas opened a Bass Pro Shop nearby and it has a “Legal Firearms Welcome” sign by the door.
I haven’t gone carrying in public yet, my two pistols are full-size competition guns, and with the property tax and school tax due September, I don’t have the liquidity to buy another just yet.
One of my first purchases after moving from the great white north to a very free-to-carry gun state was a carry pistol. Took some getting used to but now I don’t leave home without it.
My friends back home minds are blown that anyone you see here could be and likely is carrying… and there isn’t even gun fights in the street regularly.
Does this mean you’ve moved to the US?
It’s been a while since I saw you comment, so I may have missed when that happened.
Made the move with the family a couple years ago. Been busy with the new gig and young kids so haven’t commented much over that time.
Every time I see news from back home I’m more happy I decided to drag the family down here. Although, it’s sad to see the direction they’re taking up there.
It’s always good to hear from you, and I’m glad the hiatus was for good rasons rather than bad news.
According to the links, he may just have cognitive impairment.
Buy quality leather for your main edc.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/IDdk2U2bRcWxLgnsHA6TNg.3tZkwlYut9ZE7mxHjnjpef
Beautiful.
I haven’t had the gumption to open carry yet.
Sean – The main barrier to picking a holster is that I have not yet picked a carry gun.
I can recommend this in 9mm.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_Sauer_P238
Accurate at 1-20 yards and easy to use. Very comfortable to carry.
I have enough difficulty walking, I’d be too slow to get involved in any serious altercations. I’ll just be an innocent victim.
I did a bunch of ergonomic testing on .380s, and they’re not a good fit for my giant mitts. Does the 9mm version have a different grip geometry and return spring tension?
It’s tiny in my hands. The pinky will not cover the grip. Still much more comfortable to shoot than my Ruger .38 featherweight wheel. No stings.
That pic was taken the end of 2019. With 14k+ hours of being carried (give or take) here is how it looks as of this morning.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/Beh-a–ERZm04-WazGQiQg.28YKyk4f8PTcqKcFBpyi9K
Probably hard to see in the photos, but the wing has contoured nicely to my body. That happened early on.
Good morning and welcome back Joe. Good to see you. I was thinking about you the other day wondering if. you had moved down here yet. I am very glad to hear that you have.
I open carry when I am in the woods but when I am around other people I keep is hidden.
See: recent story where a guy was open carrying in a store then had his gun snatched by a lunatic and shot dead with his own gun.
Come by more often, its always good to see you.
The p938 is the 9MM version.
My wife and I both have one for carry.
I really like the pistol. Get the extended mag. I really helps with gripping the pistol.
This is the version my wife and I have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_Sauer_P938#/media/File:SIG_Sauer_P938.jpg
Have you thought about getting a “My gun rights are violated here” sign for your desk?
I do not want to get into arguments with Hoplophobic coworkers.
Aged out? She hasn’t even hit the average.
I’m thinking and don’t know but with her military and congressional time Ol’ Joni may be eligible for some taxpayer dimes.
I think Congressers are eligible for a full pension and benefits after serving one (1) term.
Pretty sweet deal they gave themselves.
We need to slip in a constitutional amengment that congressional remuneration can only be paid after all other debts and obligations and any shortfalls must first be paid for by congress.
I believe the pensions stack years of service. No clue how the VA part works.
The days of full pensions for Congress critters with one term went away in the 80s.
Happy birthday Kevin Spacey?
I’m flattered to be recognized for my achievements, but my birthday is still a few months off.
Happy birthday Jane Austen?
Didn’t she write “Morning Glory Milking Farm”?
He’s got a point about shuffling sensitive PII onto cloud platforms, but that’s closing the barn door about 18 years after the horse escaped. And it’s notable that no similar falling-upon-one’s-sword took place when, say, the IRS selectively leaked private data information for political purposes.
I’m curious, though.
How many massive data leaks happened while Social Security Chief Data Officer Charles Borges was working there?
What? You mean like the 2024 breach at National Public Data?
That doesn’t count because reasons.
From the Bad Bitch Book Club:
“In my hangriest moment, I wondered: Why would anyone travel all this way to meet strangers they met on the internet?”
Things to ponder, I guess
Yes, obviously this fine judge of character is who should be in personnel.
Senior Pentagon official had affair with ‘notorious’ astrologer who stalked him, lawsuit says
That’s one way to stop the stalking.
Hmm, it’s usually the guy stalking the Tatas, nice reversal.
“If you like your women large and annoying, I have the spot for you.”
They don’t seem that much larger than average.
“Large or annoying”
How about neither? At least my first go around wasn’t large but still…
It’s Tres’ world, we’re just living in it.
“Country singer Alexis Wilkins has slapped former FBI agent–turned-podcaster Kyle Seraphin with a $5 million defamation lawsuit, accusing him of maliciously branding her an Israeli spy sent to seduce and compromise her boyfriend, FBI Director Kash Patel, in a “honeypot” operation….
The lawsuit notes that Wilkins is not Jewish, has never traveled to Israel and has never worked for any intelligence agency. The idea that she is an Israeli spy, her attorneys argue, is “vile and ridiculous.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/29/us-news/kash-patels-girlfriend-sues-podcaster-for-claiming-shes-israeli-spy-who-lured-fbi-chief-in-honeypot-operation/
She looks Jewish?
an “American-born, conservative Christian.”
The perfect cover story!
🕵️👀
Not being plugged into the country music scene, I had no idea who that was. If she’s an Israeli asset and Kash is feeding her state secrets, I’d have a hard time blaming him tbh.
That’s a fivehead.
I wouldn’t dispute it. I kind of have a thing for fiveheads, tbh. Christina Ricci, Olivia Wilde, etc.
Climate Change? Get with the times, gramps. It’s Climate Chaos(tm) now.
Hold on, you mean they’re actually creeping toward reality? What madness is this?
They backed away from the “global boiling” they floated out last year.
Our weather has consistently been cooler than average and is the most comfortable summer since I moved to Central Texas. My phone, however, informs me every day that it is “Extremely hot” and advises me to use caution outdoors.
“Creep arrested after he was caught on camera ‘shucking his cob’ at NJ Korn concert…
Footage shared to TikTok shows he only stopped after being punched in the head by an enraged and unidentified male concertgoer.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/30/us-news/concert-creep-caught-masturbating-during-korns-metlife-show/
Hey buddy stop doing that!
A Korn concert?
There’s a kernel of truth in that story.
And he was knocked out before he popped?
Did he go blind?
While I am ambivalent about Americanese tipping culture, if US servers were like the ones in Mallorca they would starve. In Romania where tips are expected, you finish a drink in a few minutes tops a server will offer you another one. In Mallorca you needed 15 minutes to get their attention to order one. If I had a restaurant I would just see lost sales.
8 people ordered, they would forget 2 drinks or a dish.
Ford’s Recall Crisis Expands To Airbags And Electronics In Over 314,000 Vehicles
Hey Gemini how many vehicles has Ford recalled in 2025?
According to public data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), as of mid-July 2025, Ford had issued a record-breaking 88 safety recalls. The total number of vehicles affected is more than 1.5 million.
Here are some of the notable Ford recalls in 2025:
F-150 and other models (up to 355,000+ vehicles): Recalled for an instrument panel display that may fail at startup, preventing drivers from seeing critical information.
F-150 (up to 103,174 vehicles): Recalled due to a potential rollaway risk and loss of drive power caused by a rear axle hub bolt that may fatigue and break.
Mustang, Mustang Mach-E, and Lincoln Nautilus (up to 21,765 vehicles): Recalled for a potential issue with the LED Driver Modules, which could cause a failure of exterior lights.
F-150 Hybrid (up to 56,473 vehicles): Recalled because the audible warning chime for an unbuckled seat belt may not activate as intended.
F-150, Expedition, Bronco, Ranger, and Lincoln Navigator (up to 312,120 vehicles): Recalled for a brake defect that could cause drivers to lose power brake assistance.
Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX (up to 499,129 total): Recalled for an issue with the rear brake-jounce hose that can lead to a brake fluid leak.
how important, i mean bare minimum, one has to be to be assigned a honeypot?
I suspect there’s a sliding scale, depending on honeypot hotness.
Happens to me daily. At least that’s what I tell the cops.
“Westman’s firearms were recently purchased through legal means, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara. Police said Westman had no documented history of mental illness.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/29/us-news/pile-of-evidence-into-minneapolis-church-massacre-revealed-in-search-warrants/
“The gunman who slaughtered two children and injured 18 other people at a Minneapolis Catholic school and church had recently broken up with his romantic partner — and previously had a “medical mental health” call made to his home when he was a teen, according to police records….
The details of the call remain unclear, but it was classified as a “medical mental health” call.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/29/us-news/minneapolis-catholic-school-shooter-robin-westman-had-recently-broken-up-with-partner-had-mental-health-call-made-to-his-home-as-teen/
Which is it?
“Gender and weed fucked up my head,” he claimed. “I wish I never tried experimenting with either. Don’t let your kids smoke weed or change gender until they are like seventeen.”
Solid advice.
“In a disturbing manifesto shared in a YouTube video posted hours before the attack, Westman said his mom warned him against transitioning — and that’s what made him want to kill innocent children.
“Your words, mother, made me stay in my discomfort unable to ask for help to avoid admitting defeat. You were right mama, but the way you handled it led me to wanting to kill so so many people,” he wrote in Cyrillic lettering in the manifesto.”
Besides the name change, there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of transitioning. It also sounds like, at the time of the shooting, he had already given up trying.
It’s everybody’s fault but mine said the kids are killer.
The police have every incentive to claim ignorance. I believe they are lying here.
The pod-person hurling accustions sounds like a jealous bitch.
Accusing people of being spies is so hot right now.
Sounds like a Comey commie throwing shade.
Her own books. I love how the headline screams “book burners!”. Never fucking change, you lying assholes at The Guardian.
It’s such a rag.
No way…
NYC Legionnaires’ disease sources revealed: Officials name city buildings where deadly outbreak began
Part of the Friday afternoon news dump before a holiday. Shocking.
😱
I forgot to buy cheese!
We went to the Granville Farmer’s Marker this morning and loaded up on cheese. And bacon. We’re trying low-carb in September.
I got keto tortillas (a godsend for low-carbing), roast beef, roast turkey, and bacon to amke wraps… Cheese would have gone well in that mix.
Cheese is worth a second shopping trip.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oS5Qw2sz_ko
I’m sorry GT thought 53 was chilly for Tranquility Base.
https://x.com/JustACineast/status/1961785561061916727
More to come if I don’t lose my cell signal and the sun comes out.
It’s up to 63 now, so I shooed the cat off my lap and came outside. I’d probably tolerate cooler temperatures better if I were doing vigorous exercise, but then I’d have to be doing vigorous exercise.
“Mike sat down at the head of a wooden table, his wife at the other end, their four children along the benches between. He recited a prayer in Latin, then led a short grace: “Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts, which we are about to receive …” Everyone crossed themselves, and Jenny began serving homemade pizzas.”
It’s turning people Italian!!!
“a time of extraordinary political assault on women’s rights in the US”
Such as?
women are being called mid all the time on the internet
Trump’s policies reduce their opportunities to be culturally enriched by a gang of Muslims. AWFLs get awfully aroused by that sort of thing.
The right to not have to travel more than five minutes to find someone to kill your offspring.
Truly wicked and evil people.
They were once righteous (progressive and urban), now they are the damned.
“After a 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump said there were “very fine people on both sides”.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/30/trump-administration-cabinet-race
Aren’t they tired of their own bullshit?
They’re addicts, being destroyed by their addiction and can’t help themselves. They need to hit rock bottom which, sadly, is a long way off.
They still count Ben Carson as white, don’t they?
And Thomas Sowell.
OFFS. Why did I click that? I know better.
Related, at the moment she’s actually got a point.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/isa-cook-fed-governor-house-mortgage-5e94e0b7?st=3i1oco&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
She should at least be charged, before you ask for a resignation or begin termination.
Well, I guess having both competent/qualified and incompetent/unqualified people on staff is a kind of diversity.
I will note that she was approved, despite being utterly unqualified, by a bipartisan/UniParty vote.
Disagree, Sensei. She can be fired, like any other employee, even in the absence of a criminal indictment. And in her case, she is manifestly unqualified.
RC, I get your point.
But she’s not an at will private employee. If I allege she fucks horses, that’s all that’s needed to terminate her? Credibility aside as the mortgage bs seems credible.
I’m happy to fire folks in government mind you, but I’m not sure simply she did bad stuff qualifies.
How come the rest of us don’t get that treatment?
We with the exception of UCS don’t work for the state.
If I get filmed calling somebody a racial slur on my day off my employer will fire me within 24 hours.
Could I get away with saying “He’s a racial slur”? Does that count against me?
Life is getting hard to navigate. Or is that demeaning to non-navigators?
I need some sort of compass, moral or magnetic
I as an employer (very small) I would never fire for mean words.
May even get a high five out of me depending what those mean words were and who they were directed at.
“But she’s not an at will private employee.”
True, she can only be fired for “cause” under the law. That’s it, and I don’t believe there is any case law expanding on what constitutes (good enough) cause to fire a Fed governor.
Credible accusations of wrongdoing relevant to her position strike me as cause, even in the absence of an indictment. There are also credible accusations of plagiarism in her previous life as an academic.
Throughout the known (private contractual) universe, credible accusations of wrongdoing are universally accepted as (good enough) cause, especially for highly visible roles where credibility is a major issue.
That’s because the wealthiest Americans don’t earn their money from salaried income. Instead, they get it through complex financial instruments, such as stock dividends, interest from bonds, rent from real estate and even gifts or inheritances, which are taxed at much lower rates than salaries.
My head is spinning.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/08/the-week-in-pictures-societal-suicide-edition.php
I don’t begrudge the wealthy the money they’ve earned.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
I begrudge those who wield it against me.
I begrudge journalismists the oxygen they breathe.
But since they didn’t earn their money …
He just begrudges them for existing.
Even so, she felt her children are doing at least as well, socially and academically, as their formally schooled peers.
That’s a low bar.
But it’s the only bar that even arguably needs clearing.
Greetings From the Bad Bitch Book Club Summer Camp
I think that’s a new record for me tapping out of an article.
inorite
AI is coming for your job
I like this guy. “I let chat gpt une my car. Will it blow up?”
Spoiler alert- it wouldn’t even start or run.
@GT, no I was greeting the morning from the back side. I was fighting with Word and it won that skirmish.
@Not Adahn from dedthred: Celia would smell different because she would be using perfume, whereas on her ship, she wouldn’t. But the biggest (heh) thing that keeps Elliott from recognizing her (which will be pointed out later, but not really a spoiler), is she’s lost A LOT of weight. Most of us titty-havers will tell you that when we do lost a good chunk of weight, the tits go first.
Well, the original equipment ones, anyway.
The pandemic has also been “a departure point”, Mike said, which increased interest in the trad lifestyle. Covid-19, he said, exposed the fragility of economic supply chains, the public school system, and other institutions in a way that made families want to be more self-sufficient and rely on neighbors and churchmates rather than the government.
What ever could that mean?
Revenge of the imperial judiciary
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that most of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs are illegal, striking a massive blow to the core of his aggressive trade policy.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held in a 7-4 ruling that the law Trump invoked when he granted his most expansive tariffs — including his “reciprocal” tariffs — does not actually grant him the power to impose those levies.
“The core Congressional power to impose taxes such as tariffs is vested exclusively in the legislative branch by the Constitution,” the court said. “Tariffs are a core Congressional power.”
The appellate court paused its ruling from taking effect until Oct. 14, in order to give the Trump administration time to ask the Supreme Court to reverse the decision.
Interestinger and interestinger.
I think the main majority gripe was this wasn’t an emergency, and Congress can give away it’s powers when there is one. Right there in Article I… somewhere.
If this means Congress can’t delegate its core Congressional powers to the executive branch, well, that would be good news.
I have a dilemma. The amount of time each takes is roughly equal, I believe.
Bart Kosko is my client. I’m converting his book Noise from hardback to EPUB. Like the last one I did, Heaven in a Chip, it has LOTS of calculus equations, only this time, lots more of them. I always do a rough format in Word before I convert it to HTML.
Option 1: Use Word’s equation builder to do these fuckers
OR
option 2: take screenshots of the equations and insert them as images.
#2 is what I usually do, but this one has so many MORE, and now that I’m doing math in Word, Word is fucking with my head.
So it’s a derivative work?
OMG SWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
Looks like you found Mojeaux’s limit.
Having no experience with formatting for epub, I don’t know if that will translate directly, but…
This isn’t a great idea, as it won’t be scalable. Converting the mathematical formulae to SVG for image embedding or using LaTeX would probably be the best option for scalability.
The appeal was considered by 11 of the 12 judges on the Federal Circuit. The twelfth judge on the court, Pauline Newman, did not participate in the case, as she has been suspended from her duties since 2023. Newman, 98, is in a long-running dispute with the court over a request that she undergo a cognitive evaluation in order to continue hearing cases.
The American judiciary, ladies and gentlemen.
I’m going to do this because yes, you’re right, and because I had to take off compatibility mode to use the equations function, and now I see why I’ve been using compatibility mode for the last 33 years.
option 2: take screenshots of the equations and insert them as images.
This seems much less susceptible to error.
“Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a progressive democrat, was lambasted on social media Wednesday after a photo emerged of her wearing a “Protect Trans Kids” shirt, which included a tactical knife, in the wake of a mass shooting in her home state….
In June, the Oregon newspaper “Eugene Weekly” featured a piece on a trans-identifying male, who was featured on the cover holding an automatic rifle, along with the caption: “As the Trump administration attacks trans people, some queer folks are armed and ready to bash back.” The publication of the piece has garnered additional claims that the liberal media have also been encouraging trans violence.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/amazon-sells-trans-extremist-shirts-calling-for-violence-to-protect-trans-kids
https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-propaganda-merch-encourages-violence-to-protect-trans-kids-kill-fascists
CWABOA
Meh, seems along the same lines as pro 2A / FAFO / Molon Labe shirts.
This is who the citizens elected. As ye reap so shall ye sow.
That’s a tactical knife? Looks like a bog-standard Buck knife to me.
Also, “AR-15 style” != automatic.
Meh, seems along the same lines as pro 2A / FAFO / Molon Labe shirts.
I can see that. It amounts to bluster, for the moment. I’m going to lean on my biases, though, to suggest that the crowd that advocates violence to “protect trans rights” is adjacent to the crowd that stages “mostly peaceful protests.”
Relax for Christ’s sake, the knife was for removing the healthy cocks, balls, and tits from adolescents with arrested puberty from hormone blockers, not for anything nefarious.
Random acts of violence
A day after an assailant killed two children and wounded 18 other children and adults at a Catholic church in Minnesota, the FBI said the attack was motivated by “hate-filled ideology.” But online materials presumed to belong to the shooter paint a more complex picture, say several extremism analysts.
Instead, they say the emerging profile appears to align with a growing trend of school shootings committed by young people who harbor a misanthropic view of the world, who revere perpetrators of mass violence and who seek notoriety within communities that share that obsession.
“There does not seem to be a coherent ideological motive behind this attack,” said Amy Cooter, deputy director at the Institute for Countering Digital Extremism. “It really seems to be much more about the violence for the sake of violence.”
This does not fall into what we recognize as an established category of political terrorism. That kid wasn’t even a registered Republican.
Despite the incoherence of the ideological and political references and the scattershot invocations of cultural memes throughout the videos and writings, Zoschak and Cooter say they reflect an increasingly familiar profile of a school shooter. Westman’s obsession with mass killers echoes other recent school shooters, who have shared an affinity for the “true crime community,” where participants obsess over mass killers in online forums. In this case, the extensive references to past murderers span the globe and even mention perpetrators from as early as 1966.
1966? I wonder who that could be.
It sounds like this kid was in need of some capable FBI/CIA handlers.