Happy Wednesday boys and girls. Its the mid-week, as far from the weekend as we get. We had the school book fair last night. What an absolute shitshow. They fed us pizza, but somehow it takes longer to feed 1/3 of the school plus families than the kids get for lunch. Maybe they should have put the food service professionals in charge instead of voluteers. Anyhow, enough of my bitchin’, let’s get linking.
Oh no, the US government has shut down. Who will protect our parks?
Apparently, being supportive of a group who rapes and murders people as part of its policy is not grounds for deportation. I wish it was cause to strip citizenship from natural-borns.
I mean, of all of these, I think we can all agree the mail-order bride isn’t so much fraud as a way for lonely and misunderstood men to find a woman. Some of our readers probably have two or three in a freezer.
Interesting article from the counsel to 4Chan in the English free speech suits. “The Law of the Server is the Law of the Site” — which is why we’re coming to you from the Free Conch Republic Piraticality.
Have a crazy ginger throwback for your musical selection.
I can think of a certain bear around Jellystone — but that’s probably a boo-boo.
Morning, Brett. Morning all (who weren’t already in the dedthread… those of y’all who were already got greetings!)
STEVE SMITH NOT JUST ASS-SQUATCH. HIM ALSO OVER THE SHOULDER BOULDER HOLDER!
Oh no, the US government has shut down. Who will protect our parks?
Look you people cannot collapse before the Russians do get your shit together
We’re Americans… we rejoice in doing what other people tell us we can’t do!
We’re Number One! We’re Number One!
But our politicians are number two. Number one on the lot of them.
I think we should no. 2 on them, myself.
But I do have strong German roots…
The only person with the keys to the park is on furlough.
The Russians aren’t the side trying to impose speech restrictions on Americans. Maybe it’s time for us to recognize that the UK and the EU are not our friends.
Yeah.. I can see the judge’s (and I think it was Bro yesterday) point… the First isn’t a grant of rights to citizens after all, but a restriction on government.
That said — for Hamas’s case given they’ve called for the overthrow and destruction of the US, I’m still more than a little inclined to treat them as a foreign nation who’s effectively declared war on us. And guests in this country who are advocating for those who have declared war on us? I don’t really see why we’re obligated to keep them around.
The problem (of course) being… we don’t recognize Hamas as a country / government, so we can’t technically treat us as being at war (or even police action… thanks for not doing your jobs again there Congress) and all… so we end up in this grey area soup where both sides have merits and all.
The judge was still an ass who went way overboard and outside the areas of the case to preach from his little soapbox… but that’s typical these days.
No foreigner has a right to be in this country, and they can be declared persona non grata and removed at the discretion of the secretary of state. It’s not a free speech issue.
This.
Bingo. Whether the optics are good, whether the call is good, or whether we should give them the boot are separate discussions. There is no legal requirement to keep them around. They are guests and we have every legal right to tell them it’s time to leave.
The question is: are they just vocalizing support, or does it move into material actions?
The former, hell yes, they have that right. The latter? Throw them out on their ass’, and don’t let the door hit them on the way out. Now, the hard part is telling when the former becomes the latter, and what does State Dept. get to do, as is their remit? I know, I know, change the law and all that jazz. But in the here and now, and I do think this is hard wired into the constitution, is the powers of the Executive Branch pursuant to a claim of entry.
Yeah — definitely think surveillance and looking into these people is warranted.. and if you catch them, prosecute them probably — throw them out if it isn’t worth locking them up.
I don’t think foreigners who move here to advocate for the overthrow of the United States have an inviolable right to stay here to do so. So, yes, they can be deported even without “material support” (whatever that is). They can advocate for the overthrow of the United States from wherever they came from.
I’ll posit again that the First does not protect incitement to violence.
Kick ’em out.
I saw you posted that yesterday — and I have to say… that’s treading awfully close to the annoying as hell “Fire in a theater” bullshit for me.
I guess like porn — everyone knows their line when they hear it… but I’m not really down with “If I interpret it as incitement, you get kicked out / muzzled” is all. Too many years where “Your intolerant thoughts are violence!” could be used for such arguments, I think.
Yeah there is a wide fuzzy line on that one…
See the British on just how it can be twisted
Sometimes the line is easy to see like when they were whipping up crowds at college campuses who immediately caused violence against Jews. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
incitement to violence should be punished mostly if the violence occurs or has a very high likelihood to…
I hate the idea that there is an “exception” to the 1A. 1A recognizes a number of inherent rights. It does not create a list of techniques which if followed immunize you when committing other crimes. Inciting violence is the crime. Whether you do it by inflaming passions or paying some Pinkertons doesn’t matter.
The exceptions to the 1A are not really that. The courts are trying to draw a line between what is speech and what is action. The incitement exception specifies that the incitement must be immediate – thus, action. A rioting crowd referencing something you said a month prior to the riot does not count. If you shout it to a whipped up crowd and they immediately start setting fires….you are considered to have taken part in that action. Make sense?
That is my understanding of it.
IANAL.
Well, the whole “your speech is violence” thing is either a pretext or mental illness. Heading down the road of “no standards that could be abused as a pretext or by mentally ill people” means no standards at all. You can’t have a functioning society of any kind without shared values, and certainly not without a shared language.
Yelling “fire” in a theatre is constitutional.
You can get trespassed for being an ass if you do that but it’s speech.
Telling someone to leave, that from their own speech doesn’t seem to even like it here, isn’t punishment for speech. Punishment would mean locked up in jail or prison, like what the EU & UK are actually doing for speech they determine as hateful to their own citizens. I would definitely have a problem throwing a non-citizen in prison for their speech, but have no problem sending them back to whatever shithole they came from that they are trying to turn our country into. They don’t have a right to be here, it’s a privilege and privilege usually comes with restrictions.
This is not about the 1st amendment.
Student visas come with terms and conditions. The government has the authority to issue and revoke those visas.
The question here is under what conditions can the government revoke a visa.
This is a straight up contract dispute.
Kinnath gets it.
The Law of the Server is the Law of the Site.
I like it, and want to subscribe to its newsletter.
That’s a good write up of what always seemed obvious and common sense to me… no wonder the lawyers want to obfuscate and argue over it.
I’d rather firewall the EU than have them dictate how we run our country just because some EU serfs happen to use a web service based here. And I doubt I’m alone.
I’d rather firebomb the EU than have them dare to even try to dictate how we run our country in their vile effort to force their subjects to support the destruction of their nations.
Can we limit the firebombing to the occupied “no-go” zones and Eurocrat enclaves? There are still innocent people trapped over there.
THANK YOU
Romania isn’t even on my list. But stay out of Westminster, Brussels and The Hague if I am named Secretary of Making Civilization Great Again.
I’d rather firebomb the EU than have them dare to even try to dictate how we run our country in their vile effort to force their subjects to support the destruction of their nations.
The US shouldn’t have bailed out Europe in the 1910s.
Interesting article from the counsel to 4Chan in the English free speech suits.
I mean if something is not free speech than 4chan is on that list surely.
These days, I’d assume a mail-order bride is from the Mrs. White school of Husbandry… so I think the lonely men should take another path.
I don’t get your reference.
My assumption is she arrives, they get married, she plays nice until naturalization, then divorces him, takes half his stuff and hits him with hefty alimony payments.
Hope this helps. Definitely referencing the 1985 film portrayal.
I see.
Huh… I was expecting Tiffany (I’d link a video.. but youtube is throwing nothing but “This video is not available”… wouldn’t be surprised if it has decided it dislikes Private browser tabs… because F the Googleplex and all).
https://youtu.be/w6Q3mHyzn78
:shrug: That worked when opened in a private window. Whatever, youtube. I have mp3’s on my local storage anyway.
In a playlist with Debbie Gibson?
I’ll never tell, RoaT…
Day One: It was seemingly normal, we still have supplies and everyone is relatively chipper.
A council of 9 was formed to make decisions, hopefully cannibalism is ruled upon today but for now it was who is picking up lunch and bringing in the movies.
I hope this serenity will remain.
Faithfully your public servant, OBE, October 1, 2025
I also am creating an AI genrated log in the style of Ken Burns…
“Nine rings were given to the bureaucrats of Man, who love paperwork above all things…
But they were deceived… for in the shadowy bowels of DC, a secret Red Stapler was forged —
with the power to bind all regulations to it.
One Stapler to rule them all,
One Stapler to find them.
One Stapler to bring them all —
and in the Shutdown bind them.”
Noice
I received notice government space will be restricting hours to 0600-1800. If the shutdown continues into next week it will be 0700-1700. It really is a collapse of civilization.
I will not make the obvious taunt to OBE about cannibalism.
I will not make the obvious taunt to OBE about cannibalism.
I will not make the obvious taunt to OBE about cannibalism.
😁🤏
It’s not cannibalism if you eat commies.
Eating commies gives you mad cow disease, best to burn the infected corpses.
Naw, mad cow disease comes from eating infected nerve tissue. Commies don’t have any brains, so you’re fairly safe.
Related and new!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUtI3xoaHx0
TL;DW:
A human is nutritionally complete food for other humans.
My first thought is thus: Wouldn’t those nutrients be unevenly distributed throughout the body, meaning most people would be disinclined to eat some of the parts containing essential elements?
Yes. And the video has a tangent about rebranding organs as “variety meats.”
UCS:
There was an article I read about a lifeboat survivor. He said that he originally avoided some parts of the fish, but his body eventually was craving the nutrients enough he tried them. From memory, it was vitamin E he was needing, but I remember he described the fish eyes he finally ate as tasting like candy.
That raises a question – how good of a chemical analyser is the tongue/nose combination? Can it really detect the specific compounds that are deficient?
As a survivial adaptation, I can see that being possible.
It was a government shutdown miracle. One person in front of me at the security checkpoint.
On the other hand, the bar in the airport (Quaker Steak) is showing the View.
I have a meeting with Fannie Mae scheduled for this morning. I wonder if they’ll be on?
Is that the name of your mail order bride?
We’ll see if there was truth in the advertising.
Late date last night with Freddie Mac. Good question.
Hopefully you get a box of mint meltaways as a gift.
Looks like Trump is playing FedGov shutdown judo. He is only funding those things he wants to do, and firing the people doing things he doesn’t like.
Didn’t he warn Chuckie and Co. he was going to do exactly that? Play stupid games, Jackass Wing….
uPrEcEdEnTeD!
This. Government shutdown theater is carefully scripted and Trump is off script!
*this is why they hate him so much*
I suspect he will try to deny paying federal workers on furlough as a violation of his article II powers.
He may be the most significant president in history.
I do not understand the democrats here.
If he pulls that off, I’ll consider this one of the top presidencies of my lifetime. I was born in the late 70s, so it’s not exactly a high bar.
What Massie says. *shrugs*
As I understand it, we have to go 2 months before he can make the firings permanent. 60 days to go! Can we get a countdown timer in Times Square?
Wild that the ‘conservatives’ are trying to pass Biden’s last budget. The Democrats are objecting because it doesn’t increase healthcare for illegals.
Way to read the room.
We need to set budgets like it’s 1806.
One of the people targeted/referenced in the mail order article appeared to be a mail order groom, is that a thing?
Ever since the nondiscrimination laws went into effect.
No kink shaming Rico Suave.
It was actually a hetero couple, she had 5 of his kids, he had a death certificate dummied up to try and get out of the marriage. I will say, after 5 kids, it probably didn’t start out as fraud, probably just trying to get out any way he could and never heard of the old “just going out for cigarettes” gag.
The first concert I went to.
Won tickets on a call in radio giveaway in the seventh grade.
First date.
Pie, you all ask, what are the commies chatting about these days?
lemme see…
https://x.com/IamCJ_27/status/1973126897036042534
I hope yall understand im a decolonial Marxist. A phrase coined by Walter Rodney but falls under the Fanonist-Rodneyist tradition and I pull from the wider BRT. I study Marx and expand on his ideas while pulling from my own revolutionary tradition
levi
@l3vi_k11
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Fanon was one of the first people I read outside of Marx. Wretched of the Earth is my favorite book of all time, theory or not. The impact it had on me is immense.
MaddPlaider
@MaddPlaider
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Going through Decolonial Marxism right now. Rodney was amazing
aldo
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Curious as to if you would think theres a tension between Rodney and Nkrumah. If the latter would fall under the tradition your referring to, or even other Black Atlantic revolutionaries
I never asked anything of the sort. Are you sure you’re looking at 2025 and not 1925?
The commies seem to have solved the starvation problem, they now provide endless supplies of word salad for the people to eat.
If you took 2023 and compared all of WAR related deaths in “black” Africa to peace time gun deaths in the US adjusted to population size – you would have 500% more deaths in the US than in Africa.
Let me repeat that – “blacks” in Africa in active war zones still kill each other at a 5x lower rate than americans kill each other during peace time.
https://x.com/yugopnik/status/1973150798717538775
mouthwashandarvix
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It’s even worse, over the period from 2002-2022, all of Africa suffered ~437,538 combat deaths. In the same period, the US suffered 359,977 homicides per the FBI…at ~27% of Africas population on average. If Africa had the US homicide rate of ~5/100k, 6mil would be killed/yr.
Why specifically 2023? and why include countries at peace? Can we lump our black on black violence in with the black african war dead? It certainly seems tribal in nature to be, though the tribes are called gangs. Are they including the Arab countries in the “black africa” values? Why the cherry picking?
Why do I strongly suspect those figures were pulled out of the poster’s Fannie Mae?
Or worse. They came from the dark recesses of someone’s anus.
Because the poster is a commie ratfucker and commie ratfuckers lie about everything?
Oh, and Africa is a continent of notorious stickers for accurate data collection and reporting.
Apple, meet Orange. WTH?
Africa is a vast continent with countless cultures, tribes, languages, etc.
I see that alligator attacks are up following a recent increase in ice cream consumption. Huh. Ban alligators?
You evil fuckers cant have my guns. Nice try though.
Almost all of LatAm and the Caribbean nations have gun laws that are a lefty’s wet dream. Mexico and Brazil for instance, make it almost impossible for a citizen to legally arm themselves, and yet these countries have murder rates and firearm violence rates that dwarf the United States. Maybe it’s not the guns.
Oooh, now take the “black” Americans out of our stats or we not allowed to do that? An uncomfortable truth but truth nonetheless.
I was shocked when I first learned that, our homicide rates are hardly higher than other European countries once you strip out certain demographics’ contributions.
This coffee sucks.
Are those pretzels making you thirsty?
I need to go make more.
My shocked face
However, like when the NSA was outed on spying on Americans, nothing again will happen
Wrong, something will happen. The NSA will increase their surveillance of anyone complaining that nothing happened.
Don’t say nothing, they’ll see how it can be enacted across other agencies as well now.
“Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert guest-star on each other’s shows to vent about late-night cancellations”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-and-stephen-colbert-guest-star-on-each-others-shows-to-vent-about-late-night-cancellations/
No.
Because nobody else wants to be a guest in their shows?
What kind of sad fuck wants to watch late-night struggle sessions?
I dont remember the exact numbers but close….Kimmel has 130K viewers. Musk has 25M members and gets more viewers per tweet than Kimmel in a month or some such thing.
He is not funny at all.
His ratings are shit.
He loses the studio money in the tens of millions per year.
Why is he still on the teevee?
Because Orange Man is Bad
Clearly he’s not, you just said nobody watches him.
Because he is supposedly popular with the youth set who follow him to other efforts like some awards show he hosts? From what I heard.
Big pharma is still willing to pay for commercials.
Because the powers that be realize that taking a loss on WaPo or Kimmel is really just an investment in pounding the desired narrative.
If you were fabulously wealthy, wouldn’t it be worth losing 40 million a year to control the number 2 newspaper in the country, in an era when half the local papers are just referencing or directly reprinting your articles?
If a show is broadcast but nobody watches, is it really on TV?
There’s nothing that Hollywood loves better than sucking each others dicks’ in public…
LOL!
It is a fine line between LOL and rAySiSt!
He is a child…but our government is run by children so…I guess this fits?
I have to admit Trump is pretty damn funny.
It is soooo easy to make the Dems dance to his tune. I don’t think I could resist either.
rhywun – Yes, the Dems are cats and Trump is the guy with the laser pointer.
Did you see him yesterday? At a press conference, RJK sneezed, and Trump said “I hope I didn’t just get COVID. Can I get a Paxlovid?”
RFK. This coffee is not strong enough.
“Ten to 15 years ago it was widely accepted that student loans were a good form of debt,” said James Kvaal, under secretary of education during the Biden administration. “A lot has changed.”
Yes. Financing a degree in “intersectional gender studies” over decades is the same as investing in home with a mortgage over the same period.
Student-Loan Debt Is Strangling Gen X
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/student-loan-debt-gen-x-619cffda?st=bPYvKN&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Lots of hilarity in this article.
I’m sorry… but WHAT. A. FUCKING. MORON.
And this is a f’ing
rip off artistchiropractor? And you couldn’t find enough to at least pay down the principle over that timeline (because obviously you’ve incurred massive interest)? My sympathy is non-existent.As a fellow Gen X’er… pay your damned bills, stupid. The rest of us did.
I almost highlighted that as well. Amazing…
No sh*t! Pay off your debt you slag! I did whatever I could to pay off the debt I accrued. Then I began to spend money. Until then I lived like Scrooge.
When the 55-year-old New Jersey chiropractor looks at his current balance, he is stupefied. He’s made enough payments toward the loan throughout the years to cover the initial amount he borrowed, but it’s been buried in decades of mounting interest.
Because…
When Betancur opened his chiropractic practice in the early 2000s, a loan servicer advised him to put his federal student loans into a payment pause to get his business off the ground, he said. Betancur focused instead on his private loans, which took about 10 years to pay off.
He spent 15 years in and out of forbearance, deferment and repayment on his federal loans. In the years when his business did well, he would make payments toward the debt. When money was tight, he was advised to pause or defer those payments. All the while interest was accruing on his seemingly unchanged balance.
Do they not teach the devastating effects of compound interest in school anymore?
I took out both subsidized and unsubsidized loans to send my middle daughter to a 4 year college. It took a little over over 10 years after she graduated to pay them off, with me paying off the bulk of the debt. There is no way my daughter could have paid off these loans in a timely manner without my help. My other 2 kids lived at home and worked while going to college and both graduated with BS degrees with very little debt. It can be done.
College want even that expensive back then.
Sounds like he fucked up to me, and now it’s everyone else’s fault/problem.
Gen X?! If Gen X still owes student loans they’re in deep shit.
Or you built up a reputation for being responsible, willing and able to learn, and committed to the well-being of your employing company, and you get promoted into positions that only say they require a college education.
sin,
A guy with no college degree, but with a management position and a six figure salary.
Yep, that lie is dangerous
Sin, successful tradesman
I never took more than a few college courses and fell into the trades.
I have one credit card, I have no debt, never have
I had no loans, but Mrs. TOK had maybe 30-40k for four years at IU. The payments were tiny and we had no problem paying it back. A lot has changed.
I took one $10,000 loan, put it in a savings account as I wasent sure what my college/ finances would be the following semester.
Quit school, joined the army, paid it off in one shot.
Should have had the army pay it off and kept the cash but I didn’t think that was ethical.
It took me six years to get a four-year degree because i refused to get a loan and worked since i was 15 to pay for tuition. And i’m just a lowly programmer/analyst (semi retired).
The only loans i ever had were mortgages and i refi’d from a 30 year to a 10 year as soon as i could. Been debt free for ten years and now semi retired with two properties.
I realize not everyone understands how to handle money, but that doesn’t mean the financial system is fucked up, it means the education system is fucked up.
The wife of one of my oldest friends was what we used to call a “gradual student”. Like, permanently. I think she has a PhD by now but it’s in something useless like Art History. I can only imagine the debt.
I’m always reminded of Adam Carolla’s mom with her “Chicano Studies” degree.
Weirdly, that didn’t translate to any sort of employment. Ever.
I thought “Chicano Studies” was something college boys did before figuring out you don’t stick it in crazy.
That’s chicana studies.
Thigh, you do you UCS.
I don’t speak spanglish.
I had about 60K of debt from business school, but paid it off pretty quickly once I got serious about it and stopped floating around Europe. My daughter is in grad school for her PhD and is getting paid to do it, because she’s actually majoring in something useful.
Yup, my professors flat out told us not to go to grad school unless we had a full scholarship at a minimum.
I was also paid to do grad school (technically research fellow, then teaching assistant, but the work load was approximately zero)
“Oktoberfest is closed after man shoots his father dead ‘in inheritance row’, sets off explosion, booby-traps family home with grenades then kills himself leaving bomb threat suicide note”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15151621/Germany-Oktoberfest-bomb-threat.html
It’s important to keep busy.
Um… w0t?
I’m going to guess the father disinherited the guy and the guy proved dad justified?
So the Daily Mail includes completely unrelated information about antifa being bad… why?
That is the new narrative.
Go easy on him. He’s fatherless.
“But in the US, experts warn that confusion over who is eligible for the Covid vaccine could lead to declining vaccination rates and an increase in Covid cases. Officials placed more restrictions on Covid vaccines, with a CDC vaccine panel voting against recommending the shots in favor of ‘individual decision-making.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15152407/Covid-variants-Nimbus-Stratus-unusual-symptoms.html
Experts!
According to this, I had covid leaving Washington state at the end of August. The sore throat was a bitch, felt like I had a major case of strep but then I was fine after 4 days.
Im failing to see how a sore throat is unusual.
That’s not what I said of course. It was a pretty brutal sore throat. Most sore throats of the past could be tamed with a lozenge, but not this one.
Still, no need for a vaccination and I did recover after all.
I thought I had covid once, turns out I was just bored.
Sorry I meant from article…not you
Ah okay, after reading the article my thought was “oh good, I only had covid.”
They are naming Covid variants after clouds now? Does this mean they want old men to yell at them or something?
Will they have an annual list of names like for Hurricanes?
Wait, wait… I thought they admitted the “vaccine” doesn’t do squat to reduce cases only the intensity of the cases. Did they issue a patch for the narrative again?
(And more seriously — like the Spanish flu… covid has mutated more than enough to merge with normal flu by this point… nothing is going to “reduce cases”, idiots).
That is all fine but…how do we protect ourselves from clown attacks?
*for those who remember the clown panic
Whatever happened to the roadside clowns?
Mortal Klownbat, naturally.
I recommend .45 acp, .357, or 10mm, but 9mm, and .40 will probably work.
I put the “clown panic” on the same level as the “UFO sightings” that multiply every so often.
So you’re saying the Killer Clowns came from Outer Space?
I’m wondering if we can get to the end of the week without someone blaming ultraprocessed foods on the Jews.
I discovered that there is a Law & Order: UK. It stars Apollo and that one-season companion. It’s inadvertently hilarious.
Do they investigate racist memes?
I’ve only watched one episode. It was a slumlord who broke the heater to drive tenants out that resulted in a baby dying from CO poisoning. But the (string of adjective) detectives doing their Briscoe and Logan impersonations and then the Crown Prosecutors being So. Intense. and then putting on the powdered wigs had me rolling.
There have been cases of that actually happening. In one, the landlord reversed an exhaust fan on the furnace, poisoned the entire family, and nearly killed the cops who were investigating.
That’s their Special Victims Unit.
L&O does love their “ripped from the headlines” plots.
More to Jarflax’s point, yes the victim was “Afro-Caribbean” and yes the bad guys were white and complained about excessive government red tape making it difficult for small business owners to make an honest living.
Calling bullshit on reversing the fan, he would have to bypass too many safeties, by then it wouldnt start
/urban myth debunked
By reversing the fan, he physically turned it around. And I forget which decade it was.
Hegseth’s message is better this way.
https://x.com/Sorenthek/status/1973321481594765350
That was awesome. Loved the speech and the baby Ai.
Now do visible tatts, Secretary Dipshit.
“The Homeland Security Department announced Tuesday that an internal investigation uncovered “widespread abuses” carried out by the Biden administration’s Transportation Security Administration to make air travel “weaponized” against certain Americans.”
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/dhs-says-biden-tsa-was-weaponized-against-americans-and-refers
I feel safer already.
Least surprising news of the day.
Everything we expected is being proven true, and it’s usually much worse than we thought.
Biden and team were the worst scum and villainy, every single one of them. It was truly impressive how that worked out.
This is why I can’t get worked up over the so-called “abuses” from Trump. For 4 years they were relentlessly breaking the law to go after political enemies. Then one person is suspended for 2 days and it’s “MUH FREE SPEECH!”
I just want to point out that all this chaos and confusion could have easily been avoided if you little people had elected me to be your dictator.
That’s just absurd.
I am a monarchist under the condition that I am the monarch. I would never support anyone else in such a position of authority.
— The God-Emperor of Mankind.
Second, because the Big Tech companies those law firms represented have, historically, been willing to comply with European rules as they have domestic European establishments, and it does not make business sense for them to consider their U.S. constitutional defenses.
Maybe… ditch the European offices?
It will likely come to that. In many respects Western European countries are becoming as authoritarian as any of the past you care to pick.
It is impossible to overstate how different European and US basic premises are.
I would like to point out that the left’s basic premises here are indistinguishable from the European’s.
https://as2.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/05/74/60/85/1000_F_574608588_HEg3HCCmygL2tpnB6RU46ay2eTqg9Coo.jpg
“The prominence of these Christian genres, which are almost exclusively associated with white evangelical culture, worried some progressive commentators who feared their propaganda value. Poet David Gate compared MAGA’s use of worship music to the Nazis attaching themselves to Richard Wagner, worrying it represented the “seduction of fascism.” On the “Know Your Enemy” podcast, which is billed as “a leftist’s guide to the conservative movement,” the hosts complained that the left doesn’t offer artistic transcendence like what was offered from a bunch of musicians playing B-rate adult contemporary tunes in a football stadium….
Popular music may not be satanic, but MAGA is right to see it as mostly liberal. That’s why they fear it. Far from avoiding transcendent artistic experiences, the left can lay claim to most of them. Most everything from Taylor Swift to the grittiest punk music is made by people on the left. That’s why evangelicals want their kids to avoid it. They rightly believe that it’s hard to go back to mediocrity after you’ve tasted excellence.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/01/maga-cant-expand-its-base-and-christian-music-tells-us-why/
Artists operate on emotion, not rational thought. News at 11.
*Lennon’s communist crap ‘Imagine’ plays in the background*
I started to pick out a few points but the whole thing is straight up lies and speculation, and I don’t know where to begin. I guess the premise is that the music at Charlie Kirk’s funeral was indicative of something. This was a funeral for a guy who was a Christian. Nobody listens to that all day.
JFC that is a pile of stupid.
We get it – you hate religion and religious people. How about just let them go about their lives instead of trying to mold everything and everyone into your twisted vision.
LOL.
Delusional.
so the first 6 minutes of the latest Tim Dillon are fantastic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rTC6fzehSw
According to what I saw yesterday, that “ruling” is just a lot of posturing and preening for the peanut gallery. It doesn’t actually change anything.
“Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo, a socialist, is facing backlash after posting a video online that appears to provide instructions for protesters on how to avoid identification while committing crimes during protests….
“So you should get a Faraday cage, which blocks the signal from your phone. You should disable fingerprint and facial recognition technology to unlock your phone. And you should have a pin that’s longer than four numbers.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-city-council-member-tells-antifa-agitators-to-use-burner-phones-hide-identities-to-escape-prosecution-during-militant-protests
CWAC
Antifa is just an idea. It is not an organization. Just an idea….with flyers. And training camps. And leaders. And financiers. It’s just an idea with flyers, training camps, instructors and financiers. That’s all.
I wonder how close to the line of criminality Angelita is, and which side of it she is on.
Good advice.
When even Portland is getting sick of your shit.
So now that fedgov has shut down, are they closing the concentration camps? Just locking the gate and leaving them to fend for themselves? Keeping the camps open but shutting down the crematoriums temporarily?
What about the funding for the high school Trump Youth programs? Will those continue?
Don’t worry, Trump is diverting money from health care and social security to the programs that support his dictatorship.
“The Anti-Defamation League has officially retired its “Glossary of Extremism.” This comes after the ADL has faced heavy criticism for including Turning Point USA in the glossary….
The ADL, aside from putting TPUSA on its “extremism” glossary, has previously said that “100%” is racist along with the “ok” sign.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-adl-retires-its-glossary-of-extremism-effective-immediately
No idea how anyone ever took those assholes seriously.
Tomorrow they will announce a new database. Not even worth making a bet on that.
The blessed martyr Charlie has performed his first miracle!
How anyone took them seriously? Easy. It was part of the “narrative”. And if you truly believe in the narrative, the details don’t matter.
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1973218518893207825
This is getting silly.
Thats fun trolling,
Hes got a great sense of humor
Time for action
On this, at least, the Democrats agree: It’s time to fight.
Whether far-left activists, Washington moderates or rural conservatives, Democratic leaders across the political spectrum are shrugging off the risks and embracing a government shutdown they say is needed to push back against President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress.
For Democrats, the shutdown fight marks a line in the sand born from months of frustration with their inability to stop Trump’s norm-busting leadership. And they will continue to fight, regardless of the practical or political consequences, they say.
They’re going to bang their sippy cups on the high chair and hold their breath ’til they turn blue.
Oh, please don’t throw me in the briar patch!
“in a rare moment of unity against Trump”
Rare? WTF world do these people live in?
One where they’re not the bad guys?
In the world were they “have not yet begun to fight!”
The gloves are off, ZWAK. They were nice and civil up to now. It’s time to start breaking the rules. Anything goes.
*lifts martini glass
“May the government stay shutdown for months on end.”
The dem idiots are so far up their own asses that they did not see this was planned to save money and RIF a shit ton of grifters.
Is this the first government shutdown where the holdout party doesnt have either part of Congress? The Dems are really miscalculating here and it should be fun to see how long they can keep it up. Do they really think El Trumpo is not going to use this to fire a bunch of federal workers he doesn’t want? I also think the American public is much less likely to blame the Repubs as used to always be the case regardless of which side was holding out. We all got to experience a real shutdown and what it does to the economy and lives just a few years ago, not a fake government one.
Who’s going to approve my grant for the feasibility study into using sea snails to tow freight as a means of fighting climate change?
“Co-Founder of Far Left Wikipedia Shares Webpage that Ranks Conservative News Outlets as ‘Unreliable” and Green Lights the Fake News Far Left Outlets”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/co-founder-far-left-wikipedia-shares-webpage-that/
TV Guide?
I watched the interview. TV Guide is mentioned and gets some laughs.
I prefer Alice Cooper
More Trump lackey trolling!
In 2022, the world axed a disease name seen as racist. US just switched back.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/trumps-cdc-brings-back-monkeypox-disease-name-despite-racist-connotation/
What, not yellow fever?
Nobody say Monkeypox as racist.
It’s a Pox caught from Monkeys.
If Monkey Pox is racist, is Small Pox sizist?
Nice way to squeeze just a bit more funding out of the US treasury. Well done Ford and GM!
The program works like this: Each automaker’s financing arm has purchased the EVs in their dealers’ inventory and made the initial down payments on them. “Those down payments will qualify the lending arms for the federal $7,500 tax credit on those vehicles, according to the documents and dealers,” Reuters’ report said. “From there, dealers would offer leases on those cars to retail customers as usual for several more months, with the $7,500 subsidy factored into the lease rate.”
https://insideevs.com/news/774256/gm-ford-ev-tax-credit-december/
So, this isn’t an individual tax credit with a “limit one per customer” sort of clause.
And shifting the unsold vehicles from dealers so they aren’t carrying them on their floor plan. Nice little subsidy and way to make dealers beholden to the manufacturer.
The fight is already ugly as Trump uses his presidential bully pulpit — and taxpayer-funded government resources — to cast blame on the Democrats.
Unprecedented. Shocking.
Nice way to squeeze just a bit more funding out of the US treasury. Well done Ford and GM!
Better (for them) than having those vehicles gathering dust on dealers’ back lots.
The next step – default on their own loans to themselves, repossess the vehicles from themselves, and find some way to write them off on their taxes.
Nice song pick – Noddy Holder has one of the most distinctive voices in rock. I used to play Slade’s Stomp Your Hands, Clap Your Feet album all the time, it’s one of the few vinyl records I still have. I’ve read there is/was a lot of bad blood/feuding between bandmates over the division of royalties.
Warner, the Virginia senator, said the impact on his state’s workforce — or even permanent firings — does not change Democrats’ strategy.
“I’ve been very amazed at the comments I’ve got from federal workers who are saying they’ve been terrorized enough, they want us to push back,” the Democratic senator said.
That’s because they assume this is just the same old political theater, and they’ll be getting a few weeks’ paid vacation.
Hopefully, they are mistaken.
And- I think a lot of people out there in Flyoverstan have a visceral understanding that we are on an unsustainable(!) path, and unlimited spending will break us sooner rather than later.
*Remember when Howard Dean accused Boooosh of running the country on the Argentine model? Them were the days.
That discussion of extra-territorial reach of the law is the same issue you would confront under anarchy within a given territory. Who’s rules rule?
Welp, I’m probably looking for a new job. I don’t take well to being called a liar to my face. Especially since one of my bugaboos is lying to a teammate. I don’t tolerate it at all. I warned him once and he repeated the charge. I called him a son of a bitch and told him to fuck off. In a Teams meeting. With the teammates from Berlin. If he wasn’t 4,600 miles away, I would have punched him right in the mouth.
Waste fraud and abuse
The Trump administration is blaming Democrats for the government shutdown in internal federal agency communications as well as public agency websites, in what experts say could be a violation of federal ethics laws.
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The inclusion of overtly political messages in federal agency communications raised immediate alarm bells for some federal workers and ethics experts. They said it could violate the Hatch Act, which prohibits civil servants in the executive branch from engaging in most political activity inside federal buildings or while on duty.
The talking points have been issued.
Quiet Riots version was a cover?
Mind blown.
The origional is better. As usual.