Thursday Morning Links

by | Sep 18, 2025 | Daily Links | 320 comments

The Astros swept the Rangers and jumped back into first, by the slimmest of margins. The Rangers are all but DOA. And the Indians are surging, but did they wait too late to make a run? And the Mets are clinging to that last WC spot in the NL but have a more favorable schedule than the teams chasing them. SO we’ll see how that plays out. Across the pond, Liverpool did what Liverpool seem to be doing all season: let a team tie it up and think they’re gonna get a draw and then just take it from them with a late goal. This time it sent Diego Simeone into a white hot rage on the sideline, leading to a red card. Good stuff. OK, that’s it for sports.

Do these people never get tired of complaining? You’re free to leave and open a competing store if you’re not happy. You’r not free to set the conditions you must work under, so long as they’re reasonable. And this is reasonable.

Adios, dickhead. Have fun with the people you so ardently support.

“Do not attend our openly discriminatory event.” If you do, you’re the bigot. Or something.

Wait, so instead she picked an ever gayer straight dude? What a bizarre decision.

I’m making as prediction now: It’s gonna be a shitshow. But an hilarious one, so there’s that.

This is pretty awesome. Let’s hope it catches on.

This will be pretty interesting. Let’s see if intellectual property law is actually law or merely a guideline that applies to everybody except the mouse.

If you’re agonizing over this, you might want to rethink your humanity. Bunch of retards.

See ya later, alligator. This is all about ratings and Disney seeing a way out of a money loser. Little more to it than that.

Let’s hope he finally does. Find out who’s paying for all the rioters and go from there. RICO all around.

Here we go. That intro is just fantastic. Maybe I should have played this one tomorrow. Too late (or early). Enjoy it now.

And enjoy this lovely Thursday, dear friends.

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320 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    Fuck Disney.

    • SDF-7

      Even if you could get to his cryogenically preserved head in the vault… wouldn’t that just freeze your genitals off?

    • Nephilium

      That’ll get you on a list.

      Ha-Ha!

    • UnCivilServant

      I didn’t think you were into that…

      *backs away and looks for fastest exit*

  2. SDF-7

    The Rangers are all but DOA.

    Yeah.. the kung fu ship defense crap pretty much laughed them out of existence…

    • juris imprudent

      Indians are surging

      Indians?

      • Nephilium

        What a Wahoo.

  3. UnCivilServant

    <blockquote?Do these people never get tired of complaining?No.

    For some of us, complaining is all we have. I’m no Starbucks drone, but …

    • SDF-7
    • Not Adahn

      You complain. They whine, bitch, piss and/or moan. (((They))) kvetch. I offer valuable constructive criticism.

    • rhywun

      she misses the old dress code, which allowed her to express herself with colorful shirts and three facial piercings

      There it is.

      Hon, you’re getting a real-life lesson that you are no more of a special snowflake than anyone else.

      • Ted S.

        Needs more flair.

      • DrOtto

        She should apply to Tchotchkes.

    • Threedoor

      I remember when the Bux had semi strict dress code.

      They are pretty much going back to what they had 15 years ago.

      • The Last American Hero

        I remember when they decided to let homeless drug addicts come in off the street, defile the bathroom, and collapse on a table in their cafe because MAGA is racist or some such nonsense.

  4. Not Adahn

    NPR decided that the “news” about the state visit was a trip down memory lane about the “Baby Trump in diapers blimp.”

    • SDF-7

      “Ah… good times before people realized we were nucking futs! Let’s eat lots of ‘member berries….”

  5. Sensei

    “Their latest attempt, through a kangaroo immigration court, exposes their true colors once again.”

    So suddenly there is is recognition of what exactly these kinds of courts are. Funny how this was never the case when things went their way.

  6. Common Tater

    What the fuck is the point of congressional resolutions anyway?

    • SDF-7

      Grandstanding, I believe.

      • Rat on a train

        That is better than most legislation.

  7. Ted S.

    Let’s see if copyright law is actually law

    According to the article, it’s trademark law here, not copyright law.

    • sloopyinca

      Oops. I meant IP law.

      • Not Adahn

        IP Man > IP Law.

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        TPS Cover sheets > TCP/IP > IP Man

    • R C Dean

      “The proposed ad depicts Mickey Mouse in a boat collision with a car”

      When the whole point is that Steamboat Willie is not Mickey Mouse, which is why Steamboat Willie is in the public domain, you would expect the journalismist to not get this wrong.

      But you would be disappointed.

    • SDF-7

      Well South Korea is pioneering the maritime reactor design for them… you could categorize it as a steam boat even with nuclear boilers, I suppose…

  8. Sensei

    “I always try to be respectful in times of tragedy or horrific events like this, but…they are politicizing his death in ways I’m not comfortable with,” another House Democrat, who has not yet decided how to vote, told Axios.

    Now do George Floyd.

    • sloopyinca

      That’s totally (D)ifferent.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        One was a hateful fascist, the other a poor man who used the wrong dollar bill.

    • SDF-7

      There’s not enough property damage and mostly peaceful riots to make the JackAsses comfy?

    • Nephilium

      The article even points out that the vote for the Minnesota Dem was unanimous.

    • DrOtto

      “…politicizing his death in ways I’m not comfortable with…” ie, not calling for more gun control.

  9. SDF-7

    I’m making as prediction now: It’s gonna be a shitshow.

    I honestly was surprised to hear about this happening yesterday at all — and still don’t really see the point.

    Starmer damned well knows the US / OMB positions on NATO, UK defense spending, immigration, letting your country be overrun, free speech, etc… and he also damned well obviously isn’t going to change course at this point. So what this will accomplish a voicemail of “Fuck you, ya Limey cunte” wouldn’t is beyond me.

    But Trump is (as we all know) a salesman at heart… face to face sales pitches are what he presumably lives for. I just wouldn’t waste the jetfuel, much less the pomp and circumstance.

    • R.J.

      I am hoping for a classic Trump moment where he body slams Starmer in public over how he is running things. And threatens Tariffs and the like if things don’t get better. Popcorn out, It’s maybe a 50% chance of that happening.

    • UnCivilServant

      I think we should invoke Article 5 and declare that our European allies have been overrun by fifth columns aiding islamic invasions. Arm the populist factions in these countries and knock off the anti-western governments.

    • Not Adahn

      The kitchen staff at Windsor Castle makes the best crostini ever. There’s no way a sane individual would turn them down. Plus their Mac Grande en Croute is just unbelievable.

  10. Drake

    Kimmel is like every other assholes getting fired for Charlie Kirk comments. All assholes their employers hate and wanted an excuse to fire – one that doesn’t involve lawsuits.

    • R.J.

      Absolutely. I think a lot of the hiring decisions the past 15 years have been like that. Studio executives have been biding time, looking for a reason to drop these lodestones.

      • R.J.

        I might listen to Adam Carolla this week and see what he has to say.

      • SDF-7

        drop these lodestones

        If they were that magnetic — I think they’d be attracting viewers.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Carrolla might not say a thing. He’s been a loyal friend of Kimmel, who is by all accounts a decent person in person, to a fault.

      • invisible finger

        Yeah right. Ask kimmel’s first wife and child how decent he is.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        I’m not saying he’s not a shitbag, just that he seems to be nice to his friends. As for the ex, what’d he do, bail when he got famous?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Yeah, to Stinkey’s point, Carolla will dodge any questions about Kimmel, as he has done this in the past when asked about him.

        Which, I get. I don’t shit on my friends either.

      • DEG

        Yeah, to Stinkey’s point, Carolla will dodge any questions about Kimmel, as he has done this in the past when asked about him.

        Which, I get. I don’t shit on my friends either.

        I don’t remember if it was at a FreedomFest presentation or somewhere else, but I watched Carolla answer a question about Kimmel. Carolla said he thinks some of what is going on with Kimmel is that Kimmel went into the late night shows, where you live and die by your bookings. So Kimmel has to act a certain way to keep the bookings coming in.

  11. Rat on a train

    solid black shirt with short or long sleeves
    khaki, black or blue denim bottoms without patterns or frayed hems
    black, gray, dark blue, brown, tan or white shoes made from a waterproof material
    Socks and hosiery must be “subdued,”

    How can any employer expect employees to own such specialized clothing?

    • Common Tater

      waterproof shoes?

      • Sensei

        When you are HR and trying to say “not cloth”, but we can’t say that because somebody may figure out something else.

        I assume “waterproofed” leather would count, but that would freak out the vegans so after many emails and hours of meetings “waterproof” it became.

      • Not Adahn

        Yup. Obvious safety issue when handling hot liquids.

      • UnCivilServant

        You do not want to accidentally pour someones triple-hot phoney italiano-named sugary beverage into your crocs.

      • Common Tater

        “Obvious safety issue when handling hot liquids.”

        I don’t know if that’s sarcasm, but no one in restaurants does that. Non-slip is a thing though. Herman Santa Rosas were very popular. I even have an ancient pair somewhere.

      • Not Adahn

        *ties onion to belt*

        In my table-waiting days, we DID have required shoes that were not explicitly waterproof, but were absolutely splash resistant. Having said THAT, PPE requirements are yet another one-way ratchet. We need to wear high-vis vests on the majority of our facility. It would not surprise me if protective shoes are now aas normal at restaurants as it is here.

        Plus the amount of hot liquid-handling at a coffee shop is undoubtedly greater than at restaurants in general.

      • The Last American Hero

        Mario Battalli was famous for wearing crocs in the kitchen.

        And for making good food before he got handsy with the staff.

      • UnCivilServant

        Wasn’t Mario also an owner-operator, thus if he hurt himself, it wouldn’t be a lawsuit against himself?

    • Sensei

      I’m probably the minority here, but you want hourly workers to wear a “uniform” of some kind you pay for it. For example, I hate the required black shirt (last I read). So that goes in the ragbag after my employment.

      Now this “uniform” isn’t much of a stretch throw them (tax deductible) $100 clothing allowance every six months (given turnover you are likely only talking one time payment) and be done with it.

      • SDF-7

        I’m fine with it as a agreed upon choice between employee and employer, and at the retail / food industry level think there’s some logic there.

        But:

        1) Typically the only really standard part is the shirt… maybe the pants. Shoes are pretty rare. And as mentioned in the article — Starbucks did provide 2 shirts. They just had to have non-shitty pants and shoes.

        2) As mentioned below… this just needs to be part of the employment contract / agreement. Don’t like it if they don’t? Work somewhere else. The market will decide.

      • UnCivilServant

        Shoe requirements are not rare – but are most often part of a safety rule – non-slip, closed toe, steel toe, etc.

      • R C Dean

        The employer should pay for it, if the uniform is “this shirt and these pants”. Which will get you an assload of employee complaints and unhappiness.

        If the uniform is “the black shirt and khaki pants of your choice”, then the employer is going to have to set a dollar cap on reimbursement (see, above, re complaints) or give a flat stipend (see, above, re complaints). And you are now buying them clothes they can wear anywhere.

        It’s a no-win deal for employers. And I think requiring some uniformity in what employees wear can be appropriate.

  12. Certified Public Asshat

    1. Brooke Allen, a full-time student who also works at a Starbucks in Davis, California, said she was told by a manager in July that the Crocs she was wearing didn’t meet the new standards and she would have to wear different shoes if she wanted to work the following day.

    2. Allen said she misses the old dress code, which allowed her to express herself with colorful shirts and three facial piercings.

    3. Multiple plaintiffs, like Allen, said they requested reimbursement from Starbucks to conform to the dress code but were denied. Gilbert Cruz, an employee in Aurora, Illinois, requested $10 for the cost of removing a nose piercing.

    How to lose me in 3 easy steps.

    • UnCivilServant

      Dress codes are very common terms of employment. Besides, you should let the holes in your face heal, not stuff metal into them.

      • SDF-7

        Yup… that was my first thought before I even got to Starbucks giving all these hosers 2 shirts to have a chance of meeting code… every other f’ing job in America has dress standards, and no — your employer rarely reimburses you (and if they do, it tends to be in your contract up front… if it isn’t, well tough shit Shirley).

      • R.J.

        At one point I had to have a closet full of suits. Nobody even thought about reimbursing me for the sudden dress code change. People bitching over a black T shirt can f*ck off.

      • Not Adahn

        I used to* own four tuxedos, for three different levels of formality, because I was a classical musician. I was not reimbursed for them.

        *Technically I still own them but I have expanded beyond fitting into them.

      • The Last American Hero

        Ah yes, I remember when I had a closet full of suits, then changed to a firm that was mainly business casual, then 9 years later back a, maybe the, last firm that wore suits. Unfortunately, I’d added a few pounds over the previous decade and had to buy a new wardrobe.

        None of it was reimbursed.

        I also worked at a variety of retail jobs and there was only one that actually gave/paid for your required attire.

    • Nephilium

      requested $10 for the cost of removing a nose piercing.

      Huh? What type of piercing is this that requires money to be removed/hidden? Is that how much she’s paying for small bandages to cover it up?

      [No, I’m not reading the article, where do you think I am?]

      • UnCivilServant

        Maybe it was the antibiotics for the infection the nasty thing had caused.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        You don’t have to read, that’s all the article said about it.

      • Nephilium

        CPA:

        I was assuming, but wanted to be open with my disclosure. 🙂

        I mean, I know they can seal up, but that’s usually over days/weeks, not a double shift at the coffee shop. And if it is healing that fast, you can take your Weapon X ass to the bathroom and reopen it, right?

  13. SDF-7

    This is pretty awesome

    Hmmm…

    The MSR technology uses molten salt, which mixes nuclear fuel and coolant, as a liquid nuclear fuel. This approach offers significant advantages for maritime applications, including high safety margins and excellent energy efficiency.

    Given most of said salts that I remember being discussed back in the day were sodium or potassium based and reactions with good ole dihydrogen monoxide was a big concern…. I’m a little less convinced that molten salt reactors are great for maritime usage. But maybe they’re using a non-reactive salt, and maybe they’ve handled the obvious “salt leak being really hot goes through the f’ing hull” question as well… also have to assume it is a convection design instead of pumps — because surely you’re not going to be constantly cycling the salt through the entire life of the vessel (drydocking, idling, etc. unlike a power plant which is less likely to have as many idle cycles).

    Again — all for it in principle… hope it is economical this time (looking at you, NS Savannah)… just really surprised at their reactor choice here.

    • Not Adahn

      “Molten salt fuel can’t melt steel decking?”

      • UnCivilServant

        I’d be more concerned about the potential of it solidifying and bricking the whole reactor when they can’t re-melt the salt evenly enough to avoid a rupture or three.

      • SDF-7

        Hmm… apparently not. this shows even High Carbon Steel (I assume maritime is more in the medium to low range) at 1353 C… where this says the primary coolant loop temperatures are in the 600-1000 C range.

        Not great for the crew if you’re standing by a primary coolant leak — and I’m still not sure about the water reaction… but okay yeah… the ship structure itself should be generally safe. Checking various fuel-driven fires.. those are closer to 2000, so okay.. this is probably safer than your typical engine fuel leak and fire.

      • SDF-7

        I’d be more concerned about the potential of it solidifying and bricking the whole reactor when they can’t re-melt the salt evenly enough to avoid a rupture or three.

        Again… it has been around 3 decades — but every design I remember being discussed had to deal with the full shutdown / restart problem of getting the salts liquid again, so I have to assume they’ve accounted for that UCS. Also why I assume they’re going convection circulation instead of pumps… salt solidifying in pumps makes it REALLY hard to restart…. if all the salt is designed to cool enough as it circulates out through the system to the solid sections until they melt enough to start the secondary coolant loop, that should work.

      • Not Adahn

        I would assume that the USN is probably allowed to use asbestos, or if not that some sort of ceramic secondary containment layer. I mean, there’s a lot of space for expensive redundant safety measures in the cost of any vessel with an “N” in the designation.

      • SDF-7

        The USN is all Pressurized Water Reactors as far as I know… part of the appeal of the molten salt ones is it is a lot easier to have a much higher primary loop temp than keeping the primary high pressure steam hot (if you can trust <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressurized_water_reactor"wikipedia we’re talking 374 C as that’s the critical point for water… I haven’t thought about it or dredged up such numbers in ages so can’t swear to it). Plus I would think you’d lose some heat immediately on the pressure difference in the case of a primary loop leak, unlike low(er) pressure molten salt.

      • SDF-7

        Well you can certainly trust me to fudge links… I’m only surprised it took this long today. Still, I think y’all get the point.

      • SDF-7

        Also also though — yeah, you’re probably right with classic (probably up through the early Nimitz class) on asbestos.

        I’d bet starting in the ’90s at least even they weren’t allowed to use it but instead only some “replacement” foisted on DoD by the appropriately connected contractor that barely does the same job at ten times the price (with a kickback to the appropriations committee PACs, of course…)

      • Rat on a train

        I believe the military gets an exemption from asbestos bans when no better option is available.

    • Suthenboy

      Yeah….I want one of those in my back yard. Can they make one a bit smaller than my car?
      I have to say the old central generator distributed over a zillion miles of tangly, tree catching wires is overdue for replacement.

      • SDF-7

        That’s the avenue I really want to see come to fruition too… small, entirely closed loop — maintain once every 2 decades, probably buried tens of megawatt scale reactors decentralizing the grid. We’ll see if it ever pans out.

      • Suthenboy

        As it is, at least here in Louisiana, one is required by law to be on the grid. I think we have divided the state into 4? parts and each part has it’s own electric company that has a monopoly. You will use our product, you will pay us. You have no choice.
        I remember at least once pols shutting people’s power off because they would not do as they were told. That was Newsom during the lockdowns. They can do the same with water.

        Are the fuckers who have that power going to give it up and let you have your own power generator and water supply?

        Totalitarian 101: Get a monopoly on resources then create shortages and dependency.

      • UnCivilServant

        Suthen, could you satisfy the letter of the law by using the grid to run a porch light, and have the rest of the property on some other source?

  14. Rat on a train

    Astros in the AL will never be normal.

  15. Common Tater

    “Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man,” Harris wrote.

    “But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man,” she continued. “Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.””

    It’s identity politics all the way down.

    • juris imprudent

      She forgot that she was South Asian as well? How do you forget you are a two-fer?

      • UnCivilServant

        Subcontinentals don’t have as many victim points for the intersectional stack as Subsaharans do.

    • Rat on a train

      an incompetent Black woman married to a Jewish man, a cackling, incompetent Black woman married to a Jewish man, …

    • invisible finger

      Not one word about how most of the nation viewed mayor pete as a total buffoon the way he did not do a goddamned thing during the East Palestine derailment.

      • The Last American Hero

        And the whole milking apparatus.

      • dbleagle

        The East Palestine was a deliberate “Fuck you!” by the biden administration towards the deplorables.

    • rhywun

      “You were not worthy of us.”

  16. Suthenboy

    Deported? I thought he was going to diplomat school.

    The DEI thing…put a sign on the door ‘No Whites Allowed’.

    It didnt matter who she picked. People are tired of the democratic freak show.

    Starmer just finished flapping his gums. I was hoping Trump would head-slap the shit out of him when he finished. From the look on Trump’s face it seemed likely.

    The dems are nervous that they have to take off the mask? Good.
    Just in case there are people who havent figured it out yet they need to see what they are dealing with regarding the democrats.

    • Nephilium
      • SDF-7

        Only if you’re a Freak like me, Neph.

      • Nephilium

        SDF-7:

        I would not mind putting that Freak on a Leash.

      • Gdragon

        Don’t know why I got a double dose there, sorry about that

      • Nephilium

        Gdragon:

        Should we start referring to you as Gddragon, for a double dose?

      • Gdragon

        Maybe I should try that, I mean anything that keeps me from being mistaken for (a reference to) the K-Pop guy seems like it’s probably a good idea.

      • Gdragon

        That K-pop scene, it is a fascinating world though…

  17. rhywun

    Adios, dickhead.

    He has a green card. Therefore he is our guest and we can kick him out for any reason or no reason at all. Imagine if he hated a different sort of people – he would have been kicked out months or years ago because he would not have been able to find a pro-terror judge to defend him.

    • Common Tater

      That makes permanent resident rather meaningless though. SCOTUS has already ruled immigrants have the same First Amendment rights as citizens. If he was convicted of a felony, that would be different.

      • rhywun

        I am not sure that the 1st Amendment applies to the campus activities of harassment and inciting violence that he helped organize. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  18. Common Tater

    “A radical leftist student at Oberlin College casually called for political assassinations to continue in the wake of the targeted killing of political activist Charlie Kirk last week, according to an online post she made.

    “We need to bring back political assassinations,” said Julia Xu in a social media post, where her handle is @bringbacktheguillotine.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/us-news/radical-oberlin-student-called-for-return-of-assassinations/

    She seems nice.

    • UnCivilServant

      @bringbacktheguillotine

      RC?

      • R C Dean

        The utter confidence that political activists like herself would never have an appointment with Monsieur Guillotine under the expanded program she advocates is so cute.

      • UnCivilServant

        Madame Guillotine awaits, Citizen Robespierre.

      • Suthenboy

        “Why did you bring me here? That basket is full of severed heads.”

        That is not parody? She is a comic book, two dimensional useful idiot. Hard to beleive she really exists.
        If we are goihg to start chopping lets start with the professors that destroyed that child’s mind.

    • juris imprudent

      Xu is on the advisory board of campus group the Gender, Sexuality and Attraction Initiatives, an office that supports queer, trans and women’s programming at the school. Xu, who uses they/them pronouns, is also a member of Students for a Free Palestine.

      There is no such thing as cognitive dissonance.

      • UnCivilServant

        I’m sure there will be dissonance when that empy skull hits the pavement after Hamas chucks her off a rooftop.

      • juris imprudent

        Only after all of the Hamas men do their best STEVE SMITH impersonation.

      • The Last American Hero

        Why do they join that organization but never do their semester abroad over there?

    • Threedoor

      These people keep their social media accounts.

  19. Common Tater

    “French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, will present photographic and scientific evidence to a US court to prove the French first lady is, in fact, a woman.

    The two are submitting the documentation as part of a defamation lawsuit against conservative influencer Candace Owens, who claimed that Brigitte Macron was born a male and later secretly transitioned.

    The Macrons’ attorney, Tom Clare, told the BBC’s “Fame Under Fire” podcast that there will be “expert testimony that will come out that will be scientific in nature.”

    The attorney did not elaborate on exactly it would be, beyond that it would include pictures of Brigitte, now 72, when she was pregnant with their kids.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/world-news/brigette-macron-to-present-scientific-and-photographic-evidence-to-us-court-proving-shes-a-woman/

    Sounds like she is hiding something. Why not just have a third party do a cheek swab?

    • Urthona

      This was always a dumb Owens conspiracy theory but their entertaining this at all makes it look much dumber.

  20. rhywun

    [Y]ou’re the bigot. Or something.

    Current year is amazing. This stuff has been going on for years or even decades. Completely ignored when not openly celebrated.

    Well, not anymore. For the first time in my life it is becoming acceptable to say “No, this is wrong.”

  21. Not Adahn

    I have ceased to be 100% natural human. Fortunately the titanium in my maxilla seems to be completely inert wrt RF signals, though getting free SIRIUS XM might have been nice (if not a completely acceptable tradeoff for the whole mind control thing).

    I consider myself fortunate that (AFAICT) IoT hasn’t made it quite so far. I wonder if (assuming I live long enough) that my cataract surgery lens implants will be internet enabled.

    • UnCivilServant

      CYBORG! *points and hisses*

      • Not Adahn

        Don’t I need some sort of IC to be a cyborg?

        Assuming we’re still free long enough for it to happen, I forsee a time when USPSA will need HUD-enabled competition divisions.

      • SDF-7

        Settle down Beast Boy.

      • UnCivilServant

        @NA – I hardly ever get to make the accusation except against a guy with an insulin pump.

        @SDF-7 – You sound green with envy.

      • Ted S.

        HUD-enabled

        Are the Section 8 residents better or worse shots on average?

      • UnCivilServant

        @Ted, donno, they tend to get more safety DQs.

    • Nephilium

      getting free SIRIUS XM

      You say that now, but when you can’t change the channel off of the Stern channel…

    • EvilSheldon

      So did you have them install a fake tooth compartment for a half-carat D-IF diamond?

      • Not Adahn

        This was just the anchor point. The accessible bit will be put in by some surgeon named “Yueh.” He hasn’t shown me an options/price sheet yet.

    • PieInTheSky

      clanker I believe the term is

      • (((Jarflax

        Get your slurs right clanker is full on robot! I’m not sure what term we should use for a clanker-curmudgeon half-breed.

      • UnCivilServant

        Jar, Jar, Jar… those are Toasterfuckers.

      • (((Jarflax

        The Toasterfucker is the human parent, we’re looking for a term for the offspring! Hmm, maybe Toast would work?

      • (((Jarflax

        I am going to concede on this one. Not so much because I agree, but because I’m in shock at having someone link to Deviantart as a source for a claim, and doubly so because the person doing this is one of the most conservative people I know online.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Titanium in your maxilla?

      Talk about a stiff upper lip!

    • Evan from Evansville

      *fist bump*

      Welcome, child. We’ve been awaiting you.

  22. Common Tater

    “The founder of Armed Queers SLC, a pro-gun LGBTQ group being investigated by the FBI for possible ties to accused Charlie Kirk sniper Tyler Robinson, has been identified as a radical transgender political organizer with ties to communist politics.

    Armed Queers SLC quietly scrubbed its online presence after Kirk was assassinated, but a law enforcement source told The Post that all open-source information on the group was downloaded and handed over to the FBI.

    The cache of information includes posts from Ermiya Fanaeian, the child of Iranian immigrants, according to the source familiar with the federal investigation, whose Instagram bio calls for “Revolution + Trans liberation in our lifetime!”

    https://channel2now.com/2025/09/16/article/news/crime/armed-queers-salt-lake-city-aqslc-founded-by-ex-gun-control-activist-ermiya-fanaeian-queer-and-trans-led-marxist-leninist-organization/

    https://nypost.com/2025/09/17/us-news/armed-queers-founder-ermiya-fanaeian-is-radical-trans-leftist/

    Looks like they found a trans person who transitioned.

    • Not Adahn

      I have read, but cannot verify the truth nature of, that persyn got punted from the Pink Pistols for trying to commiefy it.

      • EvilSheldon

        The Post article seemed to imply this, complete with a statement from SLC Pink Pistols.

        The article also implies that she bounces around like a superball on meth. Chick goes from March For Our Lives, to Pink Pistols, to Armed Queers, connections to half-a-dozen other radical groups…quite an activism surface.

      • The Last American Hero

        This is why the feds are going to have a hard time prosecuting Antifa. There aren’t dues paying members and rosters. There are a loose collection of agitators with an incoherent ideology that choose to identify at times with these groups. I can’t remember if it was 5th Column or the Federalist that had a podcast with a reformed antifa person. They tried to describe how it worked and it is very messy by design. This allows members to do the “clown nose on/clown nose off” thing. Him? Why no, he was just at the protest, he wasn’t one of the crazy militant ones.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        In other words, they are organized like terrorist cells?

        Having rosters and membership lists would be contra indicative of them being a terrorist network, and more like a social club. This indicates that they are, indeed, terrorists.

    • juris imprudent

      FLR? Feminist Lesbian Revolutionary

    • rhywun

      quietly scrubbed its online presence

      Seems like a clear admission of guilt to me. Why else would they do that?

      • EvilSheldon

        Guilty of what?

      • UnCivilServant

        We’re waiting for the results of the judicial colonosopy to identify the crime.

        /[REDACTED]

      • rhywun

        Guilty of what?

        Something that hasn’t been identified yet. They could have assisted the assassin in any number of ways.

      • Not Adahn

        Sentence first, trial later.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        It isn’t an admission of guilt, but it is an indication that, in light of the present circumstances, they need to be looked into.

    • R C Dean

      Hmm, from the pix, she’s plausible.

  23. rhywun

    Kamala Harris settled on Tim Walz to be her running mate last year because she felt Americans were too racist, antisemitic and homophobic to accept her preferred option — Pete Buttigieg.

    Self-serving nonsense. I hope she receives all the scorn she deserves for attempting to spin this fable.

    • Raven Nation

      I’m sure there will be progressives everywhere nodding wise heads about how correct Kamala is.

      Although, she does continue her life pattern of blaming everyone else for her failures.

      • Mad Scientist

        That’s not just her pattern. That’s the entire left’s pattern.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Yeesh, he would have been terrible too.

    • DrOtto

      Change “Americans” to “democrats” and she’s not wrong.

    • The Last American Hero

      Exactly what additional voters does he bring? For that matter, what does he bring to the table?

      Gore was socially conservative, Cheney and Biden brought DC experience to non-DC candidates, Pence reassured social conservatives about Trump, Vance brings youth to an elderly ticket. WTF does Mayor Pete bring?

      • rhywun

        Fabulousness!

      • Common Tater

        Tucker Carlson says he’s not even gay.

      • rhywun

        Tucker Carlson says he’s not even gay.

        Tucker Carlson seems to have blown a gasket.

      • Threedoor

        I’d say glitter but he’s not that kind of gay.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Buttjuice showed as much competence as she did during the last admin.

      So, I can see why she thought about him, and I can see why her steerers told her no.

  24. UnCivilServant

    There is a small chip in the right lens of my glasses. I’ve already gotten the exam and ordered new glasses, but that spot keeps distracting me and I’m going crazy waiting for unbroken glasses.

    • R.J.

      Wear an eyepatch

    • Trials and Trippelations

      Where is your monocle?

    • PieInTheSky

      always have backup glasses what is wrong with you people

      • Spudalicious

        When I was still wearing glasses, I had spares secreted everywhere.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Own more than two pair, problem solved

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh, look at mister moneybags here. A spare pair costs half a pistol and lasts only a year. I can’t afford to throw that kind of cash around.

      • (((Jarflax

        you should have a couple brace of pairs!

      • (((Jarflax

        it was spelled pistole, but we speak English here so call it a doubloon like everyone else!

      • The Last American Hero

        You can get dirt cheap ones on Amazon that are sufficient until you can find your real ones.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        My glasses run $500 +.

        No, I keep my old ones around, not get more new ones.

    • Sean

      glassesusa.com

  25. Common Tater

    “Jimmy Kimmel’s canned show will be replaced by a Charlie Kirk tribute – and the star won’t be allowed back on air unless he makes a donation to Turning Point USA.

    Sinclair Inc., whose local stations pay to run ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, said on Wednesday night that it will refrain from broadcasting Kimmel’s show indefinitely following insensitive comments the host made about Kirk’s assassination.

    The broadcaster said in a statement that the Kirk remembrance show will fill Kimmel’s usual showtime on Friday night, which will then air across all Sinclair stations over the weekend.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15110837/Jimmy-Kimmel-Sinclair-Charlie-Kirk-tribute-Friday-donation.html

    • Sensei

      Poorly written article. I’m assuming Sinclair is demanding the donation. ABC itself has not made such a request as far as I’m aware.

    • R C Dean

      “Jimmy Kimmel’s canned show will be replaced by a Charlie Kirk tribute“

      Talk about salt in the wound . . . .

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Indeed, it could power a reactor.

    • Not Adahn

      Dammit! Make the pandering put some pants on at least!

  26. PieInTheSky

    More than 250 demonstrations swept France on Thursday, paralysing transport and closing schools. Union leaders hailed the strike as “already a success” and issued a warning to Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, demanding fiscal, social and environmental justice in his upcoming budget. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.

    Major unions across France have called for a nationwide strike and mass protests against the government’s draft 2026 budget.
    About 800,000 people are expected to take to the streets.

    https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250918-live-france-protests-strikes-budget-cuts-macron-lecornu

    Multiple signs reading “Tax the rich” were visible during the Paris protest.

    Those interviewed say they want the new government to listen to their concerns about rising poverty, inequality, and the struggles of low-paid workers.

    Banks were barricaded ahead of demonstrations in Paris, France.

    MOAR SOCIALISM!!!!

    I wonder in a country where the government already spends 56% of GDP … how much more can you tax the rich?

    • PieInTheSky

      France has the biggest tax revenue to gdp in developed nations, the highest government spending to gdp. The brutal cuts protested against, if done, amount to about 1% of gpd and if enacted, France would still have the highest spending to gdp. The average french pensioner now earns more than the average French active worker. But it is utterly unacceptable to raise he pension age from 62 to 64, even if 64 would still probably be the lowest in the developed world. A pension age that was, originally, 65, but it was lowered to 60 by a president wanting votes. And it can never be altered again.

      • UnCivilServant

        Clearly the answer is to dissolve all social spending, drop tax rates to the bone and criminalize union membership.

      • R.J.

        Fire everyone in government, close up shop and all the issues will resolve themselves within a year.

      • PieInTheSky

        I nominate you the next prime minister of France

    • UnCivilServant

      “We have run out of other people’s money – go fuck yourselves”

      • R.J.

        If this keeps up they will be chopping the heads off of statues again.

      • rhywun

        Or each other.

        France looks at the UK and says, “Hold my beer”. Holy shit what a basket case.

    • (((Jarflax

      If they can muster the troops for it, conquering Monaco might bring in some tax revenue from the rich. Until they all found the next haven.

      • UnCivilServant

        They’d have to go Bonaparte to keep adding enough tax cattle to keep the spending going

      • PieInTheSky

        unless Monaco gets Swiss mercenaries

      • (((Jarflax

        Do the mercenaries come with Mexican snipers? and the Forest Rape Brigade?

      • (((Jarflax

        They had some success being the new Italy in cuisine a few centuries back, maybe it’ll work well in poverty also?

    • Suthenboy

      Riots in France? Say it ain’t so.
      *yawn*

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      So, how long before Europe erupts in an orgy of violence again? Seems to happen every so often.

      • juris imprudent

        Whyever would the founders of this country not want foreign entanglements, particularly in Europe?

      • dbleagle

        What are you even talking about? All Euro wars since 1865 are the fault of the Americans. If Mel Brooks never filmed “The Producers” that punk Hitler would have never gained power.

  27. Common Tater

    “Two Renton High School brothers, ages 15 and 17, were released this week on electronic home monitoring after being accused of viciously assaulting a 39-year-old transgender person near the Renton Transit Center. The decision, made by King County Judge Veronica Galvan, comes despite police describing the attack as a “savage beating” that left the victim with multiple facial fractures and the need for reconstructive surgeries….

    Galvan has openly described her role on the bench as a form of political activism. In a past social media post, she wrote, “What does resistance look like when you wear a black robe? … I shall continue to educate, to learn, and to speak my truth as both a judge AND a woman of color … ensuring our practices conform to our principles.””

    https://thepostmillennial.com/activist-seattle-area-judge-frees-teens-accused-of-brutally-assaulting-woman

    CWAC

    • Ed Wuncler

      That statement alone should have her impeached. You’re there to dispense with justice according to the Constitution and state/local law. That’s it. Anything else is a dereliction of your duties.

      • Common Tater

        It seems a common problem on the West coast.

      • The Last American Hero

        The SDNY is on the West Coast?

    • juris imprudent

      So we can safely assume the two yutes ain’t white.

      • Not Adahn

        One constantly needs to take measurements to determine the precise nature of the Progressive Stack.

        Though that particular judge might be a busted meter that only ever gives one result.

      • (((Jarflax

        The judicial version of the Stack is subtly different, the violent criminal status enhancement counts heavily toward mercy when a judge is deciding whether to release them, easily trumping protected victim.

      • EvilSheldon

        Renton High School is described on Yelp as ‘incredibly ghetto’, so…it’s a reasonable assumption.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        You would think that the trans was higher on the stack, but we might be switching back.

      • juris imprudent

        Being the victim of a beating is not nearly as relevant as being a victim of [govt/social] oppression. In which case the young POC are more oppressed even though they allegedly perpetrated a beating.

  28. PieInTheSky

    An American cancer patient and Trump supporter was confronted by British police and told to apologise for her online posts or face an investigation.

    Deborah Anderson, a mother of two, was visited at her home in June by an officer from Thames Valley Police. He told her someone had lodged a complaint about her social media posts. She told him she was an American citizen and a member of the Free Speech Union and he should be investigating burglaries and rapes, not hurty words on social media.

    Chillingly, he told her he was there to get her to apologise to the person who was offended by her posts. If she refused, she’d be questioned down at the station.

    What was Deborah’s supposed crime? The policeman didn’t tell her. Was it her passionate support of President Trump and the MAGA movement on her Facebook and X pages?

    To make it worse, Deborah is in the midst of cancer treatment, including chemotherapy. She ought to be have been convalescing. Instead, she was harassed for her tweets.

    The FSU took on her case and, as a result, the police have now dropped their investigation. But they still haven’t told Deborah which of her posts got her into trouble, claiming they’ve accidentally deleted the record of the complaint.

    https://x.com/SpeechUnion/status/1968419871269511561

    But Trump is Dictator cause Jimmy K got canned

    • UnCivilServant

      “Leave before I go 1776 on your ass.”

      • Suthenboy

        She was dumb enough to be in their country….

    • UnCivilServant

      “You two can go fuck off and tell whoever got in a twist that they can go fuck themselves.”

  29. The Other Kevin

    I’m not a fan of using the FCC as the arbiter of truth on the airwaves, and Bondi said some really dumb shit this week. But it looks like the Republican base is pushing back so hopefully it won’t get to that level of stupid.

    Meanwhile, it is pretty funny to see Rosanne Barr on X reminding the crying lefties about how they treated her. It won’t be long before we see a nice montage of Jimmy celebrating Tucker Carlos, Roseanne, and how many others getting fired.

    • Sean

      it is pretty funny to see Rosanne Barr on X reminding the crying lefties about how they treated her.

      Yep.

      • rhywun

        They did her a favor. That reboot was garbage.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Sara Gilbert has always been a wrong ‘un. She bullied the first DJ Conner. I would be very polite to people if I were a young girl who looked like Eddie Van Halen.

  30. PieInTheSky

    If Milo Yiannopoulos can stop being gay, then you can do anything. Absolutely anything. Start something impossible today.

    Carlyle College
    @carlylecollege
    Milo’s assertion that through Christ you can unsuck a dick is one of the most radical theological propositions of the century

    https://x.com/carlylecollege/status/1968523788078723223

    I wonder what the Romanian Orthodox Church position is on this. Our priests are all married so generally less gay.

    • EvilSheldon

      Our priests are all married so generally less gay.

      Less gay but more celibate? 😀

      • (((Jarflax

        I just assumed he meant less happy

  31. Sensei

    A day later the Times issued a correction: “An earlier version of this article described incorrectly an antisemitic statement that Charlie Kirk had made on an episode of his podcast. He was quoting a statement from a post on social media and went on to critique it. It was not his own statement.”

    He makes the points we’ve all made for a while. Liberals generally can’t articulate conservative viewpoints. OTH, more conservatives can articulate liberal viewpoints even if they don’t agree with them.

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-lefts-vast-lack-of-knowledge-2fccc475?st=UNT1HJ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    • juris imprudent

      You don’t need to understand anyone else once you are morally superior to them.

  32. PieInTheSky

    1925 Live
    @100YearsAgoLive
    In an effort to combat hyperinflation, the German Government releases its first 10,000,000,000,000 (10 trillion) Mark banknote.

    The current exchange rate is 120 billion Marks to $1 USD.

    https://x.com/100YearsAgoLive/status/1719724452261343630

    • Suthenboy

      I watched that happen in real time in Bolivia. They couldnt afford to print new bills so they just instructed people to add more zeros to the bills with a pen.
      Yes, that really happened.

  33. Common Tater

    “Since Donald Trump returned to office, I have noticed a phenomenon at my high school that I call the “new chill girl”. A group of kids is talking casually about something. Seemingly out of the blue, one of the boys makes an off-handed joke. Maybe it’s racist or sexist or homophobic, but whatever the poison, they inject it and the group dynamic shifts ever so slightly. As a general rule, the boys continue as usual while the girls – who tend to be more politically progressive – face a choice: they can speak up, which usually results in them getting the reputation as annoying and unable to take a joke, or they can let it pass and be regarded as a chill girl who isn’t angry or woke. Since November 2024, the latter reaction has become far more common…..

    Trump has damaged our country in many blatant ways, but what I’m seeing is more subtle. Tectonic shifts don’t always make it to CNN. The cultural effects of this openly racist and sexist government on young people may skew gender relations as we enter the workforce, enabling sexual assault and discrimination and keeping women from positions of power. The divide between young women and young men is growing massively, with no end in sight. Trump is distorting American society, and I fear distorting us.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/18/high-school-chill-girl

    enabling sexual assault?

    • UnCivilServant

      Maybe the girls are realizing that the miserable old cuntes telling them to get offended are miserable and will never be happy.

    • (((Jarflax

      The Grauniad has a sad because girls are realizing that being a wokescold is no longer a ticket to the popular kid table.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      So the chill girl is really a normal girl in the vein of all of civilization up to around 2014 or so. Sounds like a welcome development.

    • juris imprudent

      Reduced to publishing high school girl journalism? Grauniad is in sad, sad shape, isn’t it?

    • rhywun

      openly racist and sexist government

      Sure, Jan. Keep telling yourself that.

      • juris imprudent

        All of those bureaucrats, just instantly transformed by One Bad Man. Are there any bounds to the power of The Donald?

    • The Other Kevin

      Alternate interpretation: People are tired of political bullshit getting inserted into every aspect of our lives. This is a return to normal, and it’s encouraging to see this in younger people. They should be concentrating on dating and sports and all the high school things.

    • Threedoor

      The 90s would have ended these weaklings.

    • R.J.

      Can anyone explain to me why a whole class of students training to be doctors would walk out of class? That is not explained.

      • R.J.

        Thank you. I just could not see the reason for the walkout with my non-socialist eyes.

      • (((Jarflax

        There is something epic about the existing doctors getting a class of prospective doctors to be the frontline in the fight to keep the guild tightly closed.

  34. The Other Kevin

    Walter Kirn
    @walterkirn
    Someone in showbiz told me it was a little scary what’s happened to Kimmel and Colbert and I said actually it’s heartening: It means Hollywood is back in the business of pleasing the audience and making money instead of this weird political virtue op they’ve been running.

    https://x.com/walterkirn/status/1968462167369474486

    • Ted S.

      The same people who virtue signal about the Hollywood Blacklist want to drive out non-leftist wrongthink.

      • juris imprudent

        IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT! WHY CAN’T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT???

  35. PieInTheSky

    BBC Radio 4 Today
    @BBCr4today
    “It’s deeply concerning to suggest the system is being misused.”

    Eleanor Lyons, Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, criticises the Home Office’s appeal against a court ruling which has blocked the return of a migrant to France on the basis of anti-trafficking laws.

    https://x.com/BBCr4today/status/1968580174829731908

    • Ted S.

      Could he turn up the temperature in print?

      • Threedoor

        To about 451?

  36. Not Adahn

    Are any of the “take my number out of databases” services legit? I lost my phone and needed to resort to an online service to ring it. Now the amount of spam calls and texts is so far beyond absurd it’s gone to “wonderful.”

    • (((Jarflax

      That may be a universal complaint. For the past week or two I have been seeing 10 plus calls a day blocked by my phone as spam, with another 5-6 that successfully bypass the blocker. Almost all are trying to sell me scam supplemental Medicare coverage (I’m 57)

    • Nephilium

      None that I would trust.

      If you can, I would recommend blocking anyone not in your address book or shunting them to VM/spam folder.

    • R.J.

      That stiff only works with legit businesses, which is maybe 25% of the calls. The rest of the calls (and texts) are fraud and overseas spam that laughs at our attempts to control it.

    • Threedoor

      I tried to buy a pickup eight years ago, then had a baby.

      Dealerships and hospitals Apparently sell ALL your data.

      The dealerships were interesting as I signed no paperwork but made the error to call them to inquire about the pickups.

  37. Common Tater

    “‘Welcome to Nazi America’: Bluesky Leftists Melt Down After Disney Pulls Jimmy Kimmel’s Show”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/welcome-nazi-america-bluesky-leftists-melt-down-after/

    “Schumer, who is currently America’s most powerful elected Democrat, is urging Kimmel to take the matter to court.

    “America is meant to be a bastion of free speech,” Schumer wrote on the X platform. “Everybody across the political spectrum should be speaking out to stop what’s happening to Jimmy Kimmel.”

    “This is about protecting democracy,” he continued. “This must go to court.””

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/sen-chuck-schumer-says-jimmy-kimmel-must-stay/

    OFFS! It’s not like they cancelled Firefly.

    • R.J.

      I think the more appropriate understanding came from Razorfist. Cancel culture has finally come to eat the remainders of the left. I suppose it is imperiling “their democracy,” since that is just rule by commies.

      • The Other Kevin

        The left in power: Use any means necessary to destroy our enemies, no matter how dirty or illegal.
        The left out of power: We must appeal to a sense of decorum!

        Nobody is buying that shit anymore.

      • rhywun

        Nobody is buying that shit anymore.

        And it’s driving the left insane. You can watch the flop sweat building with each increasingly delusional outburst.

    • Nephilium

      Welcome to Nazi America

      Glad to see that the Gateway Pundit is all in on de-escalation and lowering the temperature of the political climate.

      You [the Gateway Pundit] fucking ignorant, illiterate, innumerate, fuck wits.

      • Ted S.

        Re-read that. They’re quoting one of the lefties.

      • Nephilium

        Ted S.:

        Fine. I’ll go to the box and feel some shame, but not a lot of it after some of the pieces I’ve read over the past week.

    • Threedoor

      Goram right.

    • The Other Kevin

      She was one of the most vile villains of the Biden era. The fact that she has to have a “Legal defense fund” makes me happy.

    • juris imprudent

      “The District Court dismissed Jankowicz’s complaint, finding that the allegedly defamatory statements were not actionable because each was either: (1) not of and concerning Jankowicz; (2) opinion; or (3) substantially true,” the ruling said.

      What a ditz. Also love that her gofundme is a “legal defense fund” when she is the one that is the plaintiff.

      • The Other Kevin

        I didn’t catch that detail. She was one of the people sucking the teat of USAID. Couldn’t happen to a worse person.

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Go audition for a musical, ya gash.

  38. The Late P Brooks

    I got a haircut yesterday, from a pleasant young man wearing black nail polish.

    Last night I watched some dumb murder movie from the ’70s which had a sensationalist subplot featuring badass transvestites. They knew how to defend themselves without government assistance in those days.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Isn’t what’s his name Ellison Jr preparing to make a play to gobble up Disney, now the Paramount deal is done?

    Maybe they’re doing a bit of preparatory (or defensive) housekeeping.

    • R.J.

      Kimmel’s show has been operating at a loss. For how long and how bad seems to be difficult to find, at least this morning. To me that explains the sudden cut. Anything would be cheaper than him, even reruns of “The Love Boat.”

  40. The Late P Brooks

    “This is about protecting democracy,” he continued. “This must go to court.””

    Oh, for pity’s sake.

    This shrieking outrage is especially ludicrous when any jackass with a camera and a youtube account can broadcast his insipid maunderings to more people than Johnny Carson.

    • (((Jarflax

      If we don’t keep our unfunny comedian on the air, someone might hire a funny one who would mock the WRONG PEOPLE!

  41. The Late P Brooks

    Anything would be cheaper than him, even reruns of “The Love Boat.”

    Just as with that other dimwit, the networks seem to have allowed themselves to be trapped in a “talk show” model which no longer makes any sense at all.

    • UnCivilServant

      Talk Shows used to be cheap.

  42. invisible finger

    French Socialists ( but i repeat myself):

    Tax the rich (in natural resources African nations)

    How we learned to start protesting and love colonialism.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Be gentle

    When Robinson arrived at the sheriff’s office, he was taken into a building marked “Authorized Personnel Only,” with personnel from the sheriff’s office notifying the Salt Lake City FBI office and other local law enforcement officials of the suspect’s arrival, Alfred told ABC News.

    Robinson was kept in the back offices of the sheriff’s office and turned over to the FBI and other law enforcement upon their arrival, which was just before 6 a.m. on Friday.

    He was described as “quiet and somber,” officials said on Wednesday. Officials said they attempted to make conditions “gentle” and “inviting” for Robinson before the FBI and other law enforcement arrived.

    Robinson was formally charged with aggravated murder on Tuesday, with prosecutors announcing the intent to seek the death penalty. He was also charged with felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury, obstruction of justice, two counts of witness tampering and commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child, Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray announced.

    Those poor door-kickers, robbed of their big chance for a televised dynamic entry. Nobody even got to put him in a choke hold.

  44. Pope Jimbo

    I left to go hunting last week just as the Charlie Kirk shooting was hitting the news. I just got back to civilization last week and am amazed that it is still in the news.

    Maybe the proggies should have simply condemned murder and anyone who shoots people for their ideas? I bet Kirk’s murder would mostly have been forgotten by now?

    I might be naïve to think that. I had only kinda sorta heard of Kirk before this.

    • Sensei

      Kimmel: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it. In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving on Friday.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’ve been coming at this late, so I am seeing stuff in 20/20 hindsight.

        All the gaslighting and BS from the left is astonishing. I feel like it just kept the fires burning.

        As a counter example, look at the killing/shooting of the DFL pols in Minnesoda. The GOP came out immediately with condemnations of the violence. There was no one saying the pols deserved it. Now for the most part, the story is largely forgotten.

      • Pine_Tree

        Maybe Kimmel saw the writing on the wall and knew his bosses were tired of him, and this way he gets to go out as a “victim” of MAGA. Cred in his little circle, etc.

    • Pope Jimbo

      BTW, this retirement thing really makes hunting a lot more fun.

      Normally, I’d zoom off to Western NoDak right after work and get there just as the sun is coming up. Then I’d have to zoom back late Sunday night (Maybe Monday night if I wanted to burn vacation).

      This year, I leisurely drove out on Friday. I got there early enough to do some scouting. The scouting led me to chatting with a few new ranchers to get permission to hunt on their land. The Altar Boys showed up late Friday night after and had to leave late Sunday. I left around noon on Tuesday and had a nice drive home. No pressure to get back to work.

      The only flaw this year was that there weren’t many birds (sharp tailed grouse and Hungarian partridges) to be found. One of my new rancher buddies said he’d appreciate it if I didn’t hunt his land this year because he wanted to keep the grouse he had, but next year he’d be happy to let me hunt.

      That is OK though. This is a trip that I love because it is in the Teddy Roosevelt National Grasslands (and NoDak badlands), so the scenery is gorgeous. I really don’t care about how many birds I get (don’t worry Fourscore, I will be bringing a care package for you to the HH).

      • Spudalicious

        I just got back from a week of fishing and hunting eastern Idaho and Montana. Schedule was my own to keep.

    • The Other Kevin

      This has sticking power for 3 reasons, IMO:
      1) Kirk was way more popular than I expected. Most people I know have at least heard of him. He was all over the Internet.
      2) Kirk was in Trump’s inner circle, close friends with almost everyone in the admin and a big part of Trump’s election win. This was personal.
      3) The left is being particularly ghoulish and that’s standing out.

      • Common Tater

        4) He wasn’t a politician.

      • Nephilium

        To add to it, he was not a politician, but a pundit and public speaker. That’s crossing a line that we had not yet (to my knowledge) crossed here in the US. Politicians got assassinated rarely, but people weren’t going after the columnists, talking heads, and media personalities.

        There’s a portion of the left cheering this, which is telling the normies that there is a real undercurrent of “they hate you and want you dead” to that group of leftists.

    • KSuellington

      Kirk had a massive reach (and maybe that reach will even grow after his murder) and is the main reason that Trump came almost even to Kammie in the 18-29 year old voting category. He is also a good part of the reason behind the general rightward shift among the youts.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    His parents then asked their son why he committed this crime, to which he said “there is too much evil and the guy [Charlie Kirk] spreads too much hate,” according to the charging documents.

    Exactly what Robinson was allegedly referring to by “hate” was not clear. Investigators noted that Robinson’s mom told them that her son allegedly began having a relationship with his roommate, who is transitioning, and had begun leaning to the left more politically, becoming “more pro-gay and trans-rights oriented,” but the document does not indicate the relevance of those stances nor whether Kirk’s remarks about those issues were a motivating factor.

    That’s some mighty fine dancing, Bojangles.

    Also- you really tamped down the hatred and division, kid. Attaboy.

  46. Common Tater

    “America loves cocaine again,” by The Wall Street Journal. “Cocaine sold in the U.S. is cheaper and as pure as ever for retail buyers. Consumption in the western U.S. has increased 154% since 2019 and is up 19% during the same period in the eastern part of the country, according to the drug-testing company Millennium Health. In contrast, fentanyl use in the U.S. began to drop in mid-2023 and has been declining since, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.””

    Wall Street loves cocaine.

    • Sensei

      She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie

    • The Other Kevin

      If this indicates a return to the 80’s, I’m all for it.

      • Nephilium

        I still hold that the mid-90s were peak American culture.

      • Sean

        Make Oakley Frogskins cool again!

      • UnCivilServant

        I strongly Disagree, Mr Ilium.

      • EvilSheldon

        I still hold that the mid-90s were peak American culture.

        If not the peak, certainly a high spot.

    • Ted S.

      When did America stop loving cocaine?

      • EvilSheldon

        When meth got cheaper?

  47. Sensei

    Disco Elysium has sold more than five million copies, an impressive number for fresh intellectual property by a new studio. But despite the critical and commercial acclaim, a sequel was canceled. A tangle of lawsuits were filed. And now five rival studios are working on games that could be viewed as the spiritual successor to Disco Elysium.

    It is a sprawling, spiteful battle about who should profit from the creation of a lauded game and be able to continue its story.

    Funny things happen when socialists come into money.

    A Group of Socialists Created a Hit Game That Tore Them Apart

    Paywall – https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/17/arts/disco-elysium-zaum-estonia.html

    https://archive.fo/OxpBm

    • Urthona

      That’s actually a good game I’m afraid.

      • EvilSheldon

        It really is.

        I doubt I’d like the dev team, but I doubt I’d like the dev team at Eidos, Pandemic Studios, or Team Cherry either.

      • rhywun

        Never piqued my interested and now it never will.

  48. Sean

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    • SDF-7

      Didn’t I ask you to stop finding all these? 😉

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      • Sean

        🙂

  49. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda.

    Minnesoda DFL standing on the dead bodies of dead kids again.

    Parents of the children shot two weeks ago at Annunciation Catholic School detailed not just learning of a shooting that killed two and injured 21 people, but the traumatic aftermath.
     
    “My children are not the same kids that I dropped off that morning,” testified Carla Maldonado, parent of two Annunciation students. “They have nightmares. They flinch at loud noises. They scream for me with a panic in their voices that makes my heart hurt.”
     
    And lawmakers voiced their discomfort at being back at the Capitol and in the public eye, three months after the fatal shooting of state Rep. Melissa Hortman, DFL-Brooklyn Park, and assassination attempt on Sen. John Hoffman, DFL-Champlin.
     
    Security personnel at the hearing asked for identification from visitors. But the state has not moved forward with larger security precautions, such as metal detectors at the Capitol or Senate Building.
     
    “It gave me pause to actually come in here today,” [DFL Committee Chairman Ron]Latz said.

    • Pope Jimbo

      At least the testimony was totes scientific:

      “Due to the smaller nature of children’s bodies, a single bullet can do an incredible amount of damage,” said Dr. Rachel Maureen Weigert, a pediatric emergency medicine doctor at Children’s Minnesota. “A bullet from an automatic rifle is designed to splinter into dozens of twisted metal shards, which can instantly kill a child due to critical organ and blood vessel damage. That is how Fletcher and Harper were murdered in their church that morning.”

      • juris imprudent

        JFC that is one incompetent doctor. Does she really have a valid medical license?

      • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

        …an automatic rifle…

        And THIS is how I know you are full of shit, good doktor.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The good news is that the Minnesoda GOP seem to have grown a spine and are not going along with any new gun laws.

      The Minnesota Legislature appears light years away from passing stricter gun laws.
       
      On Wednesday, five Republicans on a Senate Gun Violence Prevention Working Group made clear that they do not want to work with DFL lawmakers on gun legislation.
       
      Republicans faulted each of the DFL’s proposals as in violation of the Second Amendment, or raised hypotheticals to demonstrate the bills were impractical.

      It is actually probably because there are a lot of DFLers from outstate who know that they will lose their seat if they vote for new gun laws, so they are safe to stand up.

      Moreover, DFLers have not convinced members of their own caucus to pass an assault weapons ban, or even less consequential measures like a proposal to raise awareness about an existing red flag gun law.
       

      The moderate DFLer said his constituents are 50-50 on whether to pass stricter gun laws.
       
      Republicans say voters in their districts have not changed their minds on guns following the state’s violent summer.
       
      “The majority of emails I’ve gotten — like 100 to one — is not to do this,” Draheim said of the assault weapons ban. “Maybe 200 to one.”

  50. The Late P Brooks

    He doesn’t even have a hammer and sickle tattooed on his ass

    The presumed motive has added fire to a rash of speculation by high-reach conservatives, who have suggested that this motive equated to a political ideology. The same day Kirk was killed, President Trump claimed the shooter was a “radical leftist.” Others have suggested that the suspect may have been “groomed” by a “trans terror cell” and that he was perhaps working with larger groups, including “antifa.” So far, these claims have not been supported by publicly released evidence.

    In fact, little is still known about Robinson’s politics. According to the charging document, his mother told investigators that he had become more “pro-gay and trans-rights oriented” within the last year. It also includes a text message, allegedly written by Robinson, that said “since trump got into office [my dad] has been pretty diehard maga.” But Robinson is not registered with a political party in Utah. There is no evidence of his positions on other issues of importance to the left, such as immigration or labor.

    We may never know.

    I’d be curious, just for fun, to know if the kid ever heard or read Kirk in the original, or only knew about him through the media filter.

    • Common Tater

      “He doesn’t even have a hammer and sickle tattooed on his ass”

      Are you sure?

      • Ted S.

        Brooks has seen dat ass.

  51. The Late P Brooks

    The moderate DFLer said his constituents are 50-50 on whether to pass stricter gun laws.

    But they have proven themselves to be incredibly successful everywhere they have been tried.

  52. KSuellington

    This firing will enable Jimmy Kimmel to fill the void created by Charlie Kirk’s death and set up a college tour to debate students who hold different views than he does.

    • UnCivilServant

      That won’t work, A: He won’t find any, B: he doesn’t want to talk to people who disagree with him.

  53. The Late P Brooks

    That boy in Utah wasn’t any sort of socialist progressive. He was a hard core gamer edgelord, and we all know what they’re like. MAGA to the bone.