Thursday Afternoon Links

by | Sep 18, 2025 | Daily Links | 160 comments

THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA STORY WILL BE ABOUT REPUBLICANS POUNCING: IL Governor poses for photo op with man with outstanding warrants in four states, less than one week later man charged in crash and grab burglary in which random motorist was killed. The photo, taken at a peacekeeper event, has since been scrubbed from the politician’s website.

STATE DEPARTMENT FINALLY SHUTS DOWN LAST VESTIGES OF CENSORSHIP SHOP: The State Department confirmed it formally removed the “framework” underlying both the Global Engagement Center […] and GEC’s surreptitious successor Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub.

I WAS ASSURED THAT THE THREAT OF LEFT-WING VIOLENCE WAS OVERSTATED: A 10,000 member-strong group called the Socialist Rifle Association has been conducting weapons training for transgender and Marxist-Leninist extremists, and its members have been linked to at least four major crimes, including the firebombing of Tesla dealerships, a Daily Wire investigation found.

THE DELICIOUS INTERSECTION OF RIGHTS-INFRINGEMENT AND SEXISM: During Wednesday’s Gun Violence Prevention Working Group hearing, Minnesota state Sen. Ron Latz (DFL) argued against women being armed for self-defense unless and until they receive training on using guns.

IT FELT LIKE I WAS BEING CHASED BY A BEAR:” Who is this damsel, and what drove her into this condition of histrionic distress? And what is it with AWFLs and their newfound obsession with my sort? “I inserted myself into a conversation at a bar about Covid and vaccines. Here’s what happened I did my best to stay out of it. But the science burst out of me. CWAC. This whole story reads as just a little too pat, methinks. Come for the smug self-aggrandizement, stay for the personal and group victimhood in the section “The CDC and current changes.” (h/t Sensei 9/8 AM Links)

PRICELESS ARTIFACT PRESUMED STOLEN, MUSEUM TO INVENTORY ALL OTHER ARTIFACTS: Well, it was a shithole country. The article raises the sad prospect that the bracelet may have been melted down for its gold due to the risk and time required to sell such an item on the art and artifact black market. Meanwhile in a quickly-becoming-a-shithole country, a fuckton of museum items have also gone missing; museum told to keep better records.

PERHAPS THIS EXPLAINS GRETA THUNBERG’S UNFORTUNATE PRINCE VALIANT HAIRDO: The next time some climate scold goes off on you, ask them about the carbon and nanoparticles produced by their daily haircare routine. The Science is, after all, settled.

GEE-WHIZ (LITERALLY) LINK OF THE WEEK: Back in May, Venus aerospace launched the first-ever test flight of a rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE). No, the engine itself doesn’t rotate; this ain’t no space wankel, rather the detonation rotates around the detonation chamber because shockwaves and shit. Many other organizations have tested RDREs, but this appears to be the first engine to make it off the test stand. Venus is hyping this technology to the maxq, and has put former astronaut and aerospace bigwig Pam Melroy on their board of directors. I wish them well

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160 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    Used to be that if you dug it up, you got to keep a portion of the artifacts and the Antiquities ministry only stole some. Now they just steal all of them.

    • The Other Kevin

      … until someone else steals them.

      • Nephilium

        Usually with a heist pulled off by a crack team, ruined only by the inevitable betrayal.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Indiana Jones and the Department of Bureaucratic Inertia!

    • SDF-7

      Shut up, Shovel and Shoot?

  2. The Other Kevin

    “STATE DEPARTMENT FINALLY SHUTS DOWN LAST VESTIGES OF CENSORSHIP SHOP”
    Just in time for the FCC to start their own!

    “I WAS ASSURED THAT THE THREAT OF LEFT-WING VIOLENCE WAS OVERSTATED”
    Reminds me of the militia groups right after Oklahoma City.

    • EvilSheldon

      I keep telling people – the left is perfectly capable of learning how to shoot.

      • SDF-7

        There have been no Communist or socialist military, militias or women snipers.

        This is known.

      • Threedoor

        Women snipers, on I’m sure there have been snipers that only shot at women.

  3. Ted S.

    “The Science®” burst out of her just like projectile burst out of Linda Blair.

    • juris imprudent

      Lady, you need to stuff that back in.

    • rhywun

      Jess Steier’s newsletter, “Unbiased Science.”

      Tip the veal.

  4. Pat

    IL Governor poses for photo op with man with outstanding warrants in four states, less than one week later man charged in crash and grab burglary in which random motorist was killed. The photo, taken at a peacekeeper event, has since been scrubbed from the politician’s website.

    Meh, this doesn’t raise my hackles tbh. Prickzker is, well, a prick. But mugging with some rando at a promotional event who later turns out to be a criminal is an innocent mistake.

    • The Other Kevin

      It’s funny, but you’re right, he can’t exactly vet every person that shakes his hand at a photo op.

      • Tonio

        The question is who arranged the photo op? Was JB’s motorcade just opportunely tooling by, and Pritzker just rolled out to glad-hand? Or did the Governor’s office reach out to this peacekeeper org and ask for a photo op?

        Was the peacekeeper org the recipient of state grant money?

    • Translucent Chum

      Isn’t this the dude that was a sanctioned city of Chicago peacekeeper?

    • Tonio

      At the time the photograph was taken McMiller had four outstanding warrants. According to this previous news article:

      Most of the men have significant arrest records, but one of them, according to an individual familiar with the investigation, works as an anti-violence “peacekeeper.”

      It is unclear what “peacekeeper” means in this context, who exactly employed him, what type of pre-employment background check is performed on them, and whether the Governor’s people vetted the org before the glad-handing.

      • UnCivilServant

        My mind goes to blue-helmeted rapists when I hear that term.

      • Translucent Chum

        Millions of dollars to program… It’s always the graft.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      So based on the apparent failure of the taxpayer funded program he was touting, he proceeded to dismantle it, right?

      • slumbrew

        If it was meant as a payout to the gangs, it’s not a failure.

    • rhywun

      To be fair, Pritzker is radically pro-criminal so it checks. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • DrOtto

        She still thinks it was possible the virus came from a bat at the wet market. So science, much brave.

  5. The Late P Brooks

    Come for the smug self-aggrandizement, stay for the personal and group victimhood

    She brought those poor deluded sheep into the light. Her righteousness shielded her from any dangerous heresies penetrating her perfect conviction. Truth conquers ignorance.

    • juris imprudent

      As a Brooklyn Jew who talks with my hands…

      stereotype much dearie?

    • The Other Kevin

      I didn’t bother to read, but most likely she doesn’t realize at the end that being an insufferable know-it-all and interjecting yourself into someone else’s conversation kind of turns people off.

      • Nephilium

        By the end of the article, three of the men had realized the truth in their heart, and now loved Big Brother. The fourth was irredeemable and needed to be liquidated.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Good thing for her none of it actually happened.

  6. Pat

    A 10,000 member-strong group called the Socialist Rifle Association has been conducting weapons training for transgender and Marxist-Leninist extremists, and its members have been linked to at least four major crimes, including the firebombing of Tesla dealerships, a Daily Wire investigation found.

    This also doesn’t really raise my hackles, tbh. Charge them with the firebombings if there’s evidence for it. There’s no “but no bolshies” exception to the 2nd amendment.

    • UnCivilServant

      It does mean we have to raise more brigades of anticommunists and get them trained up even better.

      • SDF-7

        But they can only be fed canned spaghetti and meatballs as these forces will be Franco-American.

      • Gender Traitor

        Uh oh! 😳

      • Bobarian LMD

        Boy oh boy-ar-dee?

    • Not Adahn

      ^this.

      • EvilSheldon

        ↑ That.

      • Ted S.

        —–> The other.

    • Rat on a train

      What makes a rifle socialist?

      • UnCivilServant

        It shares its ammunition according to the need of the other rifles in the commune.

      • Tonio

        “What makes a rifle socialist?”

        Being chambered for 7.62×39mm ammo.

      • Sensei

        Daisy Red Ryder?

      • SDF-7

        It only takes Mao’s Little Red Magazine.

      • DEG

        Being chambered for 7.62×39mm ammo.

        7.62x54r haz a sad.

    • Tonio

      Agreed. Also, “linked to” does some heavy lifting here.

      This does have the potential for much hilarious political theater: forcing the left to defend 2A rights, forcing the right to carve out an exception to 2A rights for trans, etc.

      • EvilSheldon

        The SRA, at least, is quite explicit that they only believe in gun rights for fellow revolutionaries.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Ah, the old freedom for me but not for thee conundrum.

        That’s big standard for any leftist, much less “revolutionaries.”

      • Threedoor

        A former buddy of mine is one of the SRA types.

        His explanation of who gets gun rights boiled down to true believers and those the true believers decided were true believers.

        He would have been against the wall too.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      True, but given their penchant for violence, it’s something to keep an eye on. I don’t necessarily mind transgenders packing heat to protect themselves from violence, but their definition of violence tends to be extremely broad.

      • Bobarian LMD

        He called me Sir!!!!!!!

    • Homple

      “…its members have been linked to at least four major crimes, including the firebombing of Tesla dealerships, a Daily Wire investigation found.”

      Why can the Daily Wire find this, but the FBI can’t?

      • Pat

        Why can the Daily Wire find this, but the FBI can’t?

        To be fair, half the group’s members are probably feebs.

      • The Last American Hero

        The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    the bracelet may have been melted down for its gold

    I blame Richard Nixon.

    • Rat on a train

      It was priceless as a bracelet. Melted down it has a price.

      • UnCivilServant

        At times like this I wish there were mummy’s curses.

  8. Pat

    This whole story reads as just a little too pat, methinks.

    And then everyone on the bus stood up and clapped!

    • Not Adahn

      That activist’s name? Albert Einstein.

      • Nephilium

        And now you know… the rest of the story!

        Good Day!

  9. The Late P Brooks

    “The Science®” burst out of her just like projectile burst out of Linda Blair.

    More like the parasitic embryo of the alien.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Probably more like something on Doctor Pimple Popper.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    I keep telling people – the left is perfectly capable of learning how to shoot.

    Many of them have been trained by the DoW.

    • Pat

      Meh, “voicemails are as bad as bullets” may not be the winning angle. Best to keep whatabouting by spinning Jared Loughner and the nutbar in MN who thought Tim Walz was sending him coded messages to assassinate Amy Klobuchar as right wing extremists.

      I guess OKC and the handful of abortion doctors murdered in the ’90s are too far in the pre-Twitter past for the modern class of journalists and spin doctors to remember – they’d only been using that to excuse Muslim terrorism and left wing mass shootings for 2 decades.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    It was priceless as a bracelet. Melted down it has a price.

    Ten bucks is ten bucks.

    • Tonio

      I see you’ve met Winston’s Mom.

  12. Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

    Sen. Ron Latz (DFL – St. Louis Park)

    So some dumb fuck from a Minneapolis suburb trying to tell everybody else in the state how to live. I’ve heard this song before.

    In a certain sense, he is not wrong, errybody should get more gun training, but it should not be a requirement to purchase a gun.

      • SDF-7

        I thought the Indiana guns were autonomous… the people don’t need any training.

      • The Other Kevin

        Correct SDF. Before we ship them to Illinois, we imbue them with magic. Think The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, but with AR-15’s instead of brooms.

  13. Sensei

    Why am I not surprised?

    Casio Wants to Break Into Wellness Tech. Its Plan? A Fluffy AI Robot
    https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/casio-wants-to-break-into-wellness-tech-its-plan-a-fluffy-ai-robot-f5778299?st=kCbe6y&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    Anybody have $429?

    https://www.casio.com/us/moflin/

    Your language learning – モフリン (Mofurin). The name is a play on the Japanese onomatopoeic word mofu mofu, which describes the fluffy, soft texture of something like animal fur.

    • SDF-7

      Holy crap — I was thinking to myself “What… they’re going to make an AI tribble?”…

      That’s not all that far off. Watch them pay The Shat to pitch it (I swear the man will take any paycheck, so why not?)

      • Nephilium

        Furby 3.0?

    • Pat

      Why yes, I do remember the Furby craze.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Beattie said GEC used an “indirect approach to censorship whereby they would fund third-party organizations that would engage in activity from facilitating the demonetization of conservative sites to generally castigating certain narrative perspectives on COVID, on immigration, on foreign policy, as simply malign as a matter of foreign influence when in fact these were entirely legitimate points of view that often came from Americans.”

    We never directly censored any one, you paranoid crackpots.

    • Pat

      And don’t forget kids, getting fired for publicly reveling in a milquetoast late gen-z center-right figure clinging to his career as a Young Republicans missionary to the campus radicals getting assassinated in front of his wife and children is exactly like this.

  15. creech

    I knew next to nothing about Charlie Kirk. Now I’ve seen and heard some of his speeches and comments. Yes, he’s a very good spokesman for his views – many of which Libertarians would take exception to. But he isn’t an extraordinary spokesman. I can think of a dozen libertarians, back in the day, (for example, Tom Palmer) who could shred Kirk in a debate. Maybe the problem is that the multi-millionaire who backed Turning Point pushed for campus activity while the libertarian millionaires (Koch Bros.) used their money to create a think tank and a magazine?
    .

    • Sensei

      Lots of people of a certain age knew next to nothing about him. My observation is that most libertarians I know came to libertarianism at an older age. OTH, I knew and now know young conservatives.

      • creech

        Don’t know about today, but into the 90s most delegates at the LP conventions were less than 40 y.o.

    • UnCivilServant

      To change minds you actually have to go out and talk to people where they are. Most people aren’t at a think tank, and magazine readership self-selects for publications which don’t challenge their preconceptions.

    • The Other Kevin

      He had a good grasp of the issues and he remained (mostly) calm when confronted by people who screamed at him. I don’t think most people could handle that day after day.

    • Urthona

      Here’s the thing.

      He showed up and talked to college kids, made videos on the kids platforms, etc.

      By this time, almost all other conservatives had just conceded this battleground totally and given up.

      Now look at the numbers of young male conservatives. I’ve never seen anything like it.

      Maybe surrender actually wasn’t the best course of action for young right wingers?

      • UnCivilServant

        Surrender is usually the wrong answer.

        But you do need a particular temprament and skillset to wander in there and deal with the intellectual garbage spuming back.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      So you mean conservatives sought to be effective while libertarians pissed money away?

      • creech

        The most successful campus libertarian organization in U.S. and internationally is Students for Liberty, founded in 2008 by Alex McCobin and a few others. Alex and I had lunch and kicked around a few thoughts about what the organization should look like. He didn’t want an activist organization but rather an academic one. SFL has John Mackey (Whole foods) money on its side but visibility doesn’t seem to be there.

      • Pat

        He didn’t want an activist organization but rather an academic one.

        IOW, a talent pipeline for the next generation of aspie libertarian think tank navel gazers who will produce white papers nobody reads while lamenting how much better society would be if human beings behaved in ways utterly contrary to the way human beings have behaved for the last quarter million years. Which is to say: “conservatives sought to be effective while libertarians pissed money away”

    • Pat

      I hadn’t heard of him until a few months ago, and then when his name popped up as part of South Park’s orangemanbad arc (congrats to Trey and Matt, btw, they finally managed to pull of something the Simpson’s hadn’t done yet: demonizing a milquetoast bog standard beltway conservative as a literal Nazi a couple weeks before their political allies put a bullet through his neck).

      The only footage I’ve seen of him actually debating was wit some Oxford twat who refused to admit that Hamas was evil. It’s easy to win debates when your opponents are sociopathic moral dyslexics, but it’s still important to address them, because they live in a total echo chamber where their views are never questioned, and genuinely believe that they are on the right side of history.

      Also, the Kochs have been sponsoring campus activists for as long as they’ve been propping up NPR and their various think tanks. They just suck at it. Partly because people just aren’t into libertarians, but mostly because their entire focus was on the same corporatist bullshit as their AEI and AFP orgs. They don’t touch “culture war” issues, because they’re on the radical left on those issues and don’t have any complaints.

      • Urthona

        Honestly what he did was kind of brilliant. Just talk to some college kids and calmly debate them. Most are not used to being challenged. You won’t win everyone over. But some people who roll their eyes around left wingers will think you’re cool.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Not only are college kids not used to being challenged, the ideas being beaten into them by their professors are never challenged either. Charlie did that. He helped an entire segment of Gen Z, particularly men, obtain the tools they needed to speak their minds and challenge what they already know is bullshit. He gave young men a voice, and was a model on how to use that voice. That was his crime.

    • Mojeaux

      He distilled things to their essence and relayed them in quick, simple language. Not quite soundbites, but close enough so people didn’t have time to fully tune out.

      He connected dots for people that they didn’t know were even there.

      You can’t change your mind if you’re never given something different.

  16. The Other Kevin

    Poor Nina, first she loses her lawsuit against Fox, now her beloved censorship apparatus has been dismantled. Maybe she can record a new Mary Poppins song.

    Though her words are simple and few
    “Censor, censor”, she’s calling to you
    “Feed the NGO’s, tuppence a bag
    Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag”

    • J. Frank Parnell

      OTOH, a guy just lost his TV show for spreading disinformation, that seems like a win for her.

  17. Sensei

    How will the skids get greased?

    The Trump administration is changing how and where the U.S. government delivers health aid around the world, breaking decades of practice to bypass nongovernmental organizations and prioritize the Western Hemisphere and Asia Pacific regions over Africa, U.S. officials said Thursday.

    Paywall – https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/us/politics/us-aid-health-ngos.html

    • UnCivilServant

      Stop.

      Why are we sending ANY of this outside of our borders? W have our messes that need cleaning up.

      • Pat

        White Man’s Burden colonialism is disgusting and racist and stuff, but also we must provide unlimited health care to sub-Saharan Africa because they’re incapable having functioning governments and societies, but it’s not disgusting and racist and stuff to take on the role of caregiver in this case because they’re only incapable having functioning governments and societies because of bad wypipo.

      • UnCivilServant

        Funding Request Denied!

        *stamps form*

        Next!

  18. The Other Kevin

    Still laughing at this exchange from hockey practice last night.

    Teammate 1: We’re inclusive, we use the word “cripple”. (Points to Teammate 2) He doesn’t like the word “cripple”.
    Teammate 2: You’re right, I don’t.
    Teammate 1: That’s what happens when you’re retarded.

    • Sensei

      Needs to be said with a Boston accent.

      • The Other Kevin

        Close, Teammate 1 is from Pittsburgh.

    • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me
      If I spring a leak, she mends me
      I don’t have to speak, she defends me
      A drunkard’s dream if I ever did see one

    • Nephilium

      /golf clap

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Get your geek on

    Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday unveiled the $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, the social media company’s first consumer-ready smart glasses with a built-in display.

    The glasses, which costs $799, contain a small digital display that can be controlled via hand gestures through a wristband powered by neural technology, confirming a CNBC report in August. A promotional video of the new smart glasses appeared on Meta’s YouTube page on Monday but was later removed.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    • Pat

      They’ve been trying to make this happen since Google Glass. Nobody except SV tech bros wants it. You’d think possessing tends of thousands of pages of data on every consumer in America might give you some insight into market conditions.

      • UnCivilServant

        At best it might be an interesting toy. Provided it is entirely a local device unconnected to the internet and works only as a display for whatever can feed a video signal to it.

        Even then, I can only think of a handful of things I’d use it for, none of which are killer apps.

      • UnCivilServant

        Oh, and none of that motion control crap.

      • Nephilium

        It’s sort of like VR, which sounds great in theory, and keeps not being adopted as hard as they want.

      • Pat

        Provided it is entirely a local device unconnected to the internet and works only as a display for whatever can feed a video signal to it.

        Sadly, the market wants to be in a panopticon with no privacy where everything “just works” and technology is magic. But even under those conditions, they don’t want a HUD for their boring work emails, Google calendar, and text notifications. It’s cool technology if you’re piloting a fighter jet, but like you said, not a lot of practical use for humdrum day to day activities.

      • UnCivilServant

        But it doesn’t just work. The spyware clogs everything else up.

      • Pat

        For you and me, sure. For normies who want the device to operate without the input of a functioning brain? It’s doing that for which it was created.

      • slumbrew

        I mean, shit, if I could have an enhanced reality setup so it could show me where the pipes and electrical wires are in my walls when I’m doing some home improvement, that’d be amazing.

        But it doesn’t have that sort of real-world data. I don’t care how many IMs I got while I’m about to cut into the wall.

        Maybe it could show me the ADS-B info of some plane I’m looking at, which would be cool and all, but on the same level of the SkyView app – super neat, not really all that useful on a day-to-day basis.

      • Mojeaux

        “Just works.” Blurgh. That comes at a cost.

        I may fuck up my Windows box by fondling the registry, but at least I CAN fondle the registry.

    • Threedoor

      You buy them and get kicked off of FB?

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Yes, he’s a very good spokesman for his views – many of which Libertarians would take exception to.

    The term libertarian is pretty much meaningless, at this point. I’m somewhere off in the nihilo-capitalist weeds at this point. I don’t think I would agree with most of what Kirk said, if I bothered to do the homework, but I’d rather have him out there than the collectivists spouting DEI equity trumps merit pap.

    • Pat

      The term libertarian is pretty much meaningless, at this point.

      Mostly. If you find yourself in a discussion with normies stuck in the Chinese or Japanese paradigm of politics, it’s a convenient means of evasion. I began avoiding it as a meaningful political descriptor when I became aware that the vast majority of people who use it as such are just Neiman Marxists who don’t like paying taxes.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      I bet you’d agree with more than you think. He’s a big standard Christian conservative.

      Men are men, keep them out of women’s spaces.

      DEI is cancer, at best.

      Pro-family.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Neiman Marxists who don’t like paying taxes.

    Freedom junkies.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    With the new glasses, people can do tasks like watch videos through the display or see and respond to text messages, Zuckerberg said. The display doesn’t block a person’s view, and it disappears when not being used, he said.

    Perfect for that boring drive to work and back.

  23. Suthenboy

    Am I the only one noticing a ‘Jesus phenomena’ about Charlie Kirk? He was a midldling standout in his field I suppose. I didnt think debating empty headed useful idiots barely old enough to shave on campuses was all that interesting. The arguments were old to me by the time I was in HS. i found it a bit tiresome but every generation has to learn again. Fine, you go Charlie.

    Now that he has been martyred, and that is exactly what happened, he is becoming bigger than he ever was in life. His murder was a kind of awakening for a lot of people. It wasnt what he did in life, it was the peaceful, reasonable guy getting shot in public for being honest and right that woke everyone up to what kind of people we are dealing with on the left. Their subsequent glee at his death really fanned the flames.
    Overnight cancel culture has been turned on its head as a weapon against the people that pioneered it. All of a sudden everyone is a Kirk fan.
    Everyone was his friend. It is all we have talked about for a week. I havent seen any images of him yet with a halo but you know it is coming.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      It’s not terribly interesting to those who grew up knowing communism was evil. His arguments are old hat to us. But to the kids who’ve been indoctrinated in schools while being told they’re evil for simply existing and with no hope for redemption, he was a godsend. For all of us. We need to contextualize him that way, and stop thinking about what we think about the nitty gritty of what he did and focus on the results. No one was as effective at helping young people combat their indoctrination as Charlie. That’s his legacy.

      • SandMan

        Effective, he was. Downplaying his methods or skills misses the point.

      • Nephilium

        My take was he was the Gen Z Goldwater, but with charisma. He had also set himself up at quite a high influence level in the Republican party (I’ve seen it said that he was the one who helped get Vance in as VP).

      • Threedoor

        Neph, Vance said it

    • rhywun

      Am I the only one noticing a ‘Jesus phenomena’ about Charlie Kirk?

      Don’t turn on Fox News, then. It’s a bit much.

      And at the same time, some of the quotes I have heard from him have been rather undiplomatic to say the least, even if more or less accurate. But in the end yes, he was everything the left hates with a passion rolled up in one person.

      • Gustave Lytton

        My wife is convinced he was killed for being a Christian.

      • Threedoor

        100% Gustave

        It’s not political violence.
        It was spiritual.

        Can’t get much more anti evangelical Christian than a college in Utah, Mecca may do it.

    • Mojeaux

      I agree with Muzzled Woodchipper.

      It’s a mistake to pass him off as a mediocre thinker or a Temu Jesus just because he’s young and talking to young people. That’s exactly where things needed to happen and he made a difference in a lot of people’s lives, especially young men his age and younger.

      We’re jaded, tired, and have heard it all. It’s brand new for three entire generations whose brains are held captive an army of proggy women (AWFLs, teachers, single moms).

      He had the exact right tools for the job that needed to be done. That he’s being lionized and martyred is a testament to exactly HOW MANY people whose lives he made better, even if it was only a tidge of hope.

    • Suthenboy

      Temu Jesus. Gen Z Goldwater.

      There is gold here.

  24. Sean

    I hear the ice cream truck cruising through the neighborhood. 🍦🚚

    • slumbrew

      I’m your ice cream man
      stop me when I’m passin’ by
      Oh, my, my, I’m your ice cream man
      stop me when I’m passin’ by
      See, now, all my flavors are guaranteed to satisfy

      • The Hyperbole

        I’ll be clickin’ by your house about two forty-five
        Sidewalk sundae strawberry surprise
        I got a cherry popsicle right on time
        A big stick, mamma, that’ll blow your mind

    • UnCivilServant

      Launch the Anti-Traffic Missiles!

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Nice!

      I live out in the sticks. I haven’t seen an ice cream man on my street in the 18 years I’ve lived here.

    • Nephilium

      Squirreled away on various hard drives and cloud locations, I’ve got the Imperial March and Star Wars theme as ice cream truck jingles.

  25. Tres Cool

    Space Wankel is definitely an album name.

  26. Tres Cool

    I had a colonoscopy scheduled for tomorrow. But evidently I didnt prep properly- they wanted me off solid food yesterday. Didnt happen.
    So now I have it rescheduled.

    • slumbrew

      Doh.

      It’s wild how utterly different the various prep “requirements” are. I was up at 03:00 for “the second half” of my prep, my cousin had to take a few pills.

      • Tres Cool

        Since I spend 80% of my week someplace other than here at the Palatial 2X-Wide™, when I was home and saw the package of Mega Colon Blast I only gave the instructions a a cursory overview. I thought that the “2-Day Prep” was today and tomorrow. Not yesterday and today.

    • R.J.

      *Clears throat
      *Gargles

      STEVE SMITH GIVE GLIBERTARIAN HOOMAN COLONOSCOPY!

    • Beau Knott

      Having just gone through mine, I *highly* recommend extending prep by a day. It makes dealing with the actual laxative solution much easier. Mind you, this was for GoLytely/NuLytely, your prep med may differ in details. Still, for all but the top end stuff (SuPrep), repeat the given ‘first day’ instructions the day before. It really does help reduce the unpleasantness.

    • Threedoor

      I fasted for two days and did prep.

      Mine worked this time.

  27. Shpip

    I can fix her

    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.

    Xu, who grew up in Connecticut, is a second-year student at Oberlin College in Ohio majoring in politics and international affairs, according to an online college blog viewed by The Post, which has since been taken down.

    Edgy sophomore is edgy. Not sure why this is national news. Still, can we get one of the Ohio Glibs to go over and fuck some sense into her?*

    *This is juvenile bluster, Preet. I’m not calling for the dumbass to be assaulted or sexually battered.

    • Sensei

      The coke bottle glasses are perfect.

      • R.J.

        Those will make a nice clacky noise on the pavement when her comrades guillotine her head off in the latter stages of her beloved revolution.

      • Tres Cool

        Supplies !

      • Sensei

        Such an awesome low budget film.

  28. R.J.

    I made cookies for tonight.
    It’s the Bruce double feature.

    • UnCivilServant

      Robert the Bruce and Bruce Banner?

      • R.J.

        Nope. Nobody has guessed yet.

      • DEG

        Nope. Nobody has guessed yet.

        You told me… but I won’t spoil it.

      • Ted S.

        Bruce Davison and…?

      • R.J.

        No guesses for Bruce Jenner?

      • Ted S.

        Oh, yeah, he’s in Can’t Stop the Music.

      • R.J.

        It’s not him either.

      • Ted S.

        But it doesn’t seem to be available on any of the FAST platforms…. 🙁