324 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    “After national guidelines reversed course in 2017, food allergy rates in children under 3 dropped 36 percent between 2017 and 2020 compared to 2012-2015 levels. Peanut allergies specifically fell 43 percent.”

    Wow

    • WTF

      Young children need to be exposed to things for their immature immune systems to properly calibrate. I have no idea how this suddenly became a mystery.

      • Sensei

        I’m sure there was some “study” and after that the “science was followed”. Similar to our mask mandates and the magic 6 foot separation distance.

      • SDF-7

        Exactly this. Then they grow up to mask in their cars and bewail that not all of the country is walking on eggshells around their fragile health.

      • AlexinCT

        Young children need to be exposed to things for their immature immune systems to properly calibrate.

        An immune system that remains unchallenged will not provide any kind of serious immunity..

      • rhywun

        Also, don’t wrap them in infected blankets.

      • AlexinCT

        Also, don’t wrap them in infected blankets.

        I was 11 or 12 when we were taken to a measles party where ever it was my dad was stationed back when.. Does that count as such??

      • Rat on a train

        My parents don’t know how I got chicken pox and measles. My sister knows how she got chicken pox and still reminds me.

    • The Other Kevin

      That story is blowing my mind. I never imagined the numbers would be that high.

    • The Last American Hero

      It’s as if millions of mommy-bloggers screamed in horror, and were silent.

      • AlexinCT

        Do they blame the king emperor?

    • Threedoor

      Shocked.
      Not.

  2. Rat on a train

    a ballroom fit for a king?

    • SDF-7

      When he wants to build a Hall of Mirrors… that’s when we’ll know, maaan…. that’s when we’ll know.

      • WTF

        Trump sending out AI videos trolling as the Sun King in 3…2…

      • SDF-7

        Poor JD would get stuck as the Dauphin…

      • (((Jarflax

        Les Etats Unis cest moi?

  3. Common Tater

    “With SNAP funding set to expire, Texas is complying with federal directives to halt payments, leaving vulnerable families at risk as the Schumer-led standoff drags on.”

    Wouldn’t that apply to all 50 states?

    • SDF-7

      Maybe — I wouldn’t put it past some of them not to comply with federal directives and just pay expecting the courts to force the Feds to reimburse them. (I’m thinking California… but likely Hawaii, NY, NJ, IL, etc…)

  4. SDF-7

    House GOP announces $24M cash haul as government shutdown drags on

    Weird headline… I was trying to figure out how the House had incoming money different from the rest of the government… (targeted tariffs? Pure kickbacks?).

    Just campaign funding inside baseball stuff. PASS A BUDGET ALREADY, ASSHOLES!

    • Rat on a train

      They charge for tours now?

    • Threedoor

      An actual budget.
      Government should stay shut down until there is a budget with 12 appropriations bills and balanced.

    • SDF-7

      He wants it to be a surprise! Did y’all try to find and peek into all of your Christmas presents?

      Did you peek to the last page of a mystery novel?

      Did you want to know who the killer was and why he did it when watching Columbo…. oh… wait….

    • R.J.

      I imagine that is for security reasons.

      • WTF

        Well, the East Wing was expanded during WWII to cover the construction of the president’s underground bunker.

      • Rat on a train

        Trump is preparing for WWIII?

  5. AlexinCT

    White House economic advisor Hassett says shutdown could end this week,/e>”

    Schmuck Choomer got his freak out and now he hopes this will prevent Abuelita from primarying him, so he doesn’t need to screw the entire country anymore?

    • WTF

      They were probably waiting until after the “no kings” idiocy to finally cave, figuring it would be safe to do so then.

      • UnCivilServant

        But I don’t want the CR they’re pushing. I want CUTS! Absolute dollar value reduction in spending to the point where we are not borrowing money!

      • AlexinCT

        Shmuck needed something -anything – to show the donors he was fighting Trump robbing the team blue cabal’s lucrative tax payer sponsored rackets….

        Somehow that q-tip boomer fest reliving their glory years protesting for the marxists in the 60s and being violent in the 70s and 80s, has proved he was fighting hard or something….

        Ask any team blue moron to explain the team blue party platform without mentioning Trump, fascism, nazis, or muh democracy, and you get nothing other than bullshit. That is because they can’t tell you what they really stand for. It is all degenerate shit and stealing trillions from government sponsored rackets.

      • WTF

        At this point I’ll settle for the Republicans not caving and agreeing to extend the expiring “temporary” Obamacare subsidies.

      • AlexinCT

        But I don’t want the CR they’re pushing. I want CUTS! Absolute dollar value reduction in spending to the point where we are not borrowing money!

        That would require the shutdown and end of every single social program….

      • R.J.

        Lord yes. For once those wretched compromisers need to hold the line.
        Then allow competition with Obamacare. No need to repeal it, just allow competition without all the mandates and rules.

      • AlexinCT

        Then allow competition with Obamacare. No need to repeal it, just allow competition without all the mandates and rules.

        Obamacare’s single and true purpose, from the get go, was to cripple any and all private efforts – by massively increasing the costs for those paying – so government would have to step in ad take control of healthcare (which then could be used as a weapon to control its recipients by denying those that misbehaved access). That is why they. and especially that Obama tool, told us all so many lies about this shit. There is no fixing this thig, and the fact Paul Ryan and his crew let McCain pretend he was the one blocking them from doing it, should leave no doubt about that.

        The quickest way to end this shit, is to allow healthcare services across states, to strike down all requirements blocking telehealth, and to crush the government paperwork mill required to do healthcare. But that doesn’t provide either a weapon against the unwashed masses or graft opportunities for those feeding at this through.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Repubs are alreadt floating they will extend the subsidies and even talks about dropping the filibuster. Lucy is holding the football afterall

      • (((Jarflax

        You can’t fix health care in this country unless you figure out a way to eliminate all health insurance beyond catastrophic care coverage, especially Medicare and Medicaid. Nothing short of that will create a true market.

      • juris imprudent

        I want CUTS!

        A constituency of one doesn’t get what it wants.

  6. UnCivilServant

    Trump EPA To Slash Workforce By 25% As Administration Targets Bureaucratic Waste

    MOAR! Cut MORE!

    • R.J.

      Agreed. how about he keeps 25% of the workforce for a year, then drops to 0% kept on after that.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Hey!

    • Tonio

      While I agree with MOAR! let’s not lose sight of the big picture and the embarrassment of riches we have gotten out of this administration. This time last year even a 5% cut for this year would have seemed like a masturbatory fantasy, and we’d have been amazed and grateful evan at the promise of 5% spread over three years. But instead of mere tinkering around the edges, we are seeing things unimaginable. USAID gone, for starters.

      • juris imprudent

        Is USAID actually gone? Or does all that funding slosh around still?

      • R C Dean

        USAID isn’t gone. I believe the spending bills have largely maintained its funding. It is simply under new management. Which is an improvement, true.

        DOGE was quickly broomed out of the way during the first spending bill. The fedgov is so large, and the spending so gigantic, that what we have seen so far barely qualifies as tinkering around the edges.

        We will see nothing meaningful on spending so long as the vast majority of current Reps and Sens are in office. It’s as simple as that.

      • DEG

        In the Treasury’s September 2025 monthly statement, they included FY 2026 projections.

        They are projecting an increase in spending in FY 2026. The deficit reduction of tiny amount in FY 2026 comes from an increase in projected revenue.

        My expectation is spending will be higher than projected and revenues lower than projected. But we’ll see how FY 2026 goes.

      • juris imprudent

        And FY27 will follow the form of FY26 because no one is going to rock the boat in the face of the mid-terms.

    • Threedoor

      Flip the 2 and 5 on that.
      Every state has a Department of Natural resources or the like. The EPA is redundant and unconstitutional.

  7. Sensei

    I just saw an ad for this college on CNBC. I’m assuming it was timed to be running during today’s WSJ article. This appears to be the school for kids of the affluent who don’t have the chops to get into a university and/or where the parent’s don’t have enough cash to put up an endowment or a building.

    How a Small North Carolina College Became a Magnet for Wealthy Students

    https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/north-carolina-college-high-point-amenities-30b0fc14?st=96N4ib&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    I think I’d heard the name and nothing more.

    Then there is room and board. High Point offers seven tiers. Most kids live in the two cheapest levels, where a dorm and meal plan cost under $25,000 per academic year, but students can also choose a private, 500-square-foot “Tiny Home” that is almost $40,000.

    • AlexinCT

      What is the curriculum? Teaching trust fund morons and lazy bums to be violent protesters?

      • Sensei

        Actually the reverse. How to make connections and schmooze.

      • AlexinCT

        And lost of degenerate dungeon and gimp sex?

      • juris imprudent

        Can’t decide, is Alex kink-shaming or jealous?

      • AlexinCT

        Can’t decide, is Alex kink-shaming or jealous?

        Yes?

      • Sensei

        It is for dumdums.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        It’s for those people Lorcin for a good time.

    • rhywun

      two cheapest levels, where a dorm and meal plan cost under $25,000 per academic year

      That’s still outrageous.

      • The Other Kevin

        If you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it.

  8. Common Tater

    “President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to allow hunting on the nearly 600 National Wildlife Refuges across the country amid the shutdown that has left many of the agency’s employees furloughed, The Washington Post (WaPo) reported Sunday.

    According to the plan, refuge law enforcement officers will be exempt from the furlough in addition to at least one employee who will remain on site for safety purposes. The visitor centers will stay closed for the time being, but the hunts will go on as planned.”

    https://dailycaller.com/2025/10/20/trump-administration-fish-wildlife-service-hunting-refuges-shutdown/

    Good.

    • AlexinCT

      Progtards: HOW DARE HE LET PEOPLE DO THINGS WE DON”T WANT!!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Without the King’s permission? I am so confused

  9. Common Tater

    “The phrase — which can mean nothing, something or whatever you want it to mean — has exploded on TikTok and Instagram, often paired with videos of teens chanting it, dancing or using it as an inside joke no adult seems to understand.

    Some say it’s a nod to NBA star LaMelo Ball’s towering 6-foot-7 frame. Others claim it’s shorthand for saying something is “mid” — something that’s average or medicore.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/lifestyle/teachers-ban-6-7-slang-as-tiktok-trend-takes-over-schools/

    Anyone know?

    • AlexinCT

      Isn’t 67 code for you tried to do 69, but it was mediocre and included farts?

    • Rat on a train

      Every generation needs something to differentiate it from others.

    • rhywun

      Studiously avoiding that nonsense.

    • DrOtto

      Sksksksksks and I oop

    • (((Jarflax

      The fact that there are people writing articles about it and discussing it is probably the point. Kids make up silly things as in jokes and get a huge kick out of adults getting worked up over them.

  10. Common Tater

    “Prosecutors allege Chambers had been bar-hopping with friends that night, was four times over the legal alcohol limit, and had small baggies of cocaine in her car and purse, according to the Houston Chronicle.

    But her attorney, Mark Thiessen, argued her designer shoes caused the fatal crash.

    Thiessen claims his client’s expensive Christian Louboutin heels had gotten stuck on the gas pedal of her Porsche as she drove down “one of Houston’s most dangerous curves.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/10/21/us-news/texas-housewife-kristina-chambers-accused-of-plowing-porsche-into-man-on-first-date-argue-her-designer-heels-caused-deadly-crash/

    Many such cases.

    • AlexinCT

      Sure she was high o cocaine, lit on booze, jonesing for donkey dong, but them shoes!!!

    • R C Dean

      If you have your heel on the gas pedal, yer doin’ it wrong.

      I’m still not entirely clear how wearing high heels gets you out from under driving while blasted out of your mind on booze and coke.

      • Sensei

        Hey only “small baggies”.

    • juris imprudent

      a blood alcohol level of .301

      Batting 300 is very impressive. Reminds me of a story from my childhood about a local drunk who’s charges were dismissed because his BA registered a toxic level.

    • The Other Kevin

      Mythbusters tested this. The guys wore heels to see how it affected their driving. For a person not used to wearing them, it affected driving in a small, not very significant way.

      • juris imprudent

        Dude – these were not just heels, they were Loubies! [Yes, I know women with that shoe fetish.]

      • The Other Kevin

        I see a marketing opportunity. “Heels so hot they’re dangerous.”

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        “When you want to dress to kill.”

    • Threedoor

      Voodoo Donut has a shop on Huston?

      They over rated.

      Also, wouldn’t the booze and the cocaine negate eachother?

      • DrOtto

        Yes and no. Your mug shot will look like you are not .301, but the gibberish coming out of your mouth will betray your claims of sobriety.

  11. Ownbestenemy

    No shutdown news today. Making sure my “backup” is doing the job correctly and he wasnt. Wrong procedures, skipping stuff, making stuff up.

    This is why all of Air Traffic let out a collective sigh when I was hired and why they now send me death threats for taking this detail position.

    Good news though, I brought in my own coffee so the vending machine will no longer be the bane of my nickles…which it refuses to take

    • AlexinCT

      No shutdown news today. Making sure my “backup” is doing the job correctly and he wasnt. Wrong procedures, skipping stuff, making stuff up.

      Is the backup in India? Sounds like that…

      Good news though, I brought in my own coffee so the vending machine will no longer be the bane of my nickles…which it refuses to take

      may the lord turn that vending machine into a pillar of salt!

    • UnCivilServant

      Making sure my “backup” is doing the job correctly and he wasnt. Wrong procedures, skipping stuff, making stuff up.

      Your backup is an AI?

      • Ownbestenemy

        An AI would be an improvement

      • AlexinCT

        Heh, if it is AI assume they are doing it wrong…

    • Rat on a train

      backing up to AWS?

    • Ownbestenemy

      The longing glances of the AT manager while I shadowed this dimwit was hilarious. As if he is saying I am being held against my will and will probably die if you dont intervene

  12. Common Tater

    “A Chicago-based elementary school teacher mocked Charlie Kirk’s assassination by using a sickening gun gesture at a No Kings protest over the weekend.

    Lucy Martinez, a teacher at Nathan Hale Elementary School, put a finger to her neck and pretended to pull a trigger when a man driving by in a pickup truck waved a flag calling the late podcaster a “hero,” video shows.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/us-news/chicago-elementary-teacher-mocks-charlie-kirks-assassination-at-no-kings-protest/

    that German word for punchable face

    • Ownbestenemy

      I dunno…this worship is getting out of hand. So what if she did that?

      On the otherhand, kids are held to school standards outside of school grounds so I am okay with the school handling it how they see fit.

      • (((Jarflax

        On the one hand I am incredible tired of people being punished for trivial actions that in no possible way harm others. On the other hand I am in favor of firing just about every teacher out there and completely revamping the hiring requirements going forward to prevent any marxist, socialist, or progressive from entering the profession.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Kids shouldn’t be held to school standards outside of school ground, and neither should a teacher be.

        In other words, if it ain’t on the grounds, it ain’t the problem.

      • kinnath

        Any company can fire your ass if you embarrass the company even if your behavior is on your own time.

        Should be the same for public employees.

      • The Last American Hero

        Please. If she were standing on the side of the road in 2008 with a sign showing an assassin killing the Lightworker, she might still be in jail, but at a minimum her career would be over.

        Protest all you want, but I don’t want this violent crazy fucker teaching my kids.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        I don’t want them teaching my kids either. But I don’t want someone fired for showing pics of them going to the shooting range, or any other conservative coded hobby. And there are people who would absolutely do that, as we have seen it done before.

        Also, who does the firing? The school board, ultimately. Which is on us to take control of if we don’t want this shit.

      • Fourscore

        Oh, not to worry. She isn’t ‘teaching’ your kids. Maybe indoctrinating but that’s different.

    • AlexinCT

      I consistently point out to these people the similarities between them & their movement and that of Satan. Like Satan they believe they are the good guys in a wholly made up story. And like Satan, they believe what they are doing, no matter how vile and evil, is find cause in their story they are the good guys…

      It is never well received…

    • rhywun

      The beatification is getting ridiculous (mostly thanks to Fox News) but dayum, the left is a death cult in so many ways.

      It’s unclear if Martinez was fired or faced any disciplinary action. The school’s website was taken down after the incident surfaced online.

      Sounds like no punishment beyond the court of public opinion. Fine by me.

      • UnCivilServant

        I had no idea who he was before the shooting, and the excessive memorialization is making me dislike him retroactively.

      • dbleagle

        I agree with you UCS.

    • Threedoor

      Homeschool.

    • AlexinCT

      Cause we have a YUGE historical record showing marxist bullshit like this not just working fine, but producing more quality and commodities?

    • Rat on a train

      California is not a good model, people.

    • AlexinCT

      They told us in clear words a while back they were coming for our kids…

      And too many people just couldn’t believe that they were being honest…

    • Q Continuum

      I’m sure Jeffrey Dahmer helped an old lady across the street at some point too; I guess we shoulda just let him out.

      • Fourscore

        ” I guess we shoulda just let him out.”

        Dig him up first though

    • R C Dean

      Juxtaposing “ran a sex dungeon” and “dressed like Disney character for kids” may not send quite the message they were hoping.

      • WTF

        Yeah, John Wayne Gacy dressed like a clown.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      When you are retired you need a hobby.

    • Threedoor

      He looks like the love child of Woody Allen and Fred Armisin

  13. Common Tater

    “Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales allegedly had an affair with a senior aide who later died after dousing herself with gasoline and setting herself on fire, multiple sources have told the Daily Mail.

    Regina Aviles, 35, poured gasoline over herself before becoming engulfed in flames at her home on September 13 in Uvalde, Texas – about two hours west of San Antonio.”

    https://archive.is/uw6Iy

    yikes!

    • SDF-7

      She had just been on a flight home sitting beside Ted Stryker.

      • Translucent Chum

        Over Macho Grande?

      • DrOtto

        I’ll never get over Macho Grande

    • Grummun

      before becoming engulfed in flames

      That’s odd phrasing, like catching fire was somehow independent of any action on Aviles’ part. Hit by a bus conflagration?

      • R C Dean

        Sometimes people just catch fire. Natural causes.

        I gotta watch that movie again.

    • PieInTheSky

      one the one part he stuck it into crazy. On the other, he was not the wan set on fire.

  14. Sensei

    The new Japanese PM headlines don’t disappoint. You can basically tell which outlet wrote it by headline they chose.

    NPR
    Japan’s parliament elects Sanae Takaichi as nation’s first female prime minister
    5 hours ago

    The New York Times
    Sanae Takaichi is Japan’s New Prime Minister, and She’s a Heavy Metal Drummer
    4 hours ago
    By Javier C. Hernandez

    Bloomberg.com
    What Japan’s New Leadership Means for Markets
    16 minutes ago
    By John Stepek

    NBC News
    Japan has its first female prime minister, but not all women are celebrating
    2 hours ago

    Never change NBC!

    • AlexinCT

      If a woman isn’t a dumb ass bitch steeped in marxist dogma, doesn’t suffer from some kind of mental disorder, and isn’t rabid, she is no real woman!

    • Rat on a train

      Woman elected prime minister. Women hardest hit.

      • SDF-7

        If she has a close friend named Sylia Stingray, Japan had better watch the AI developments… Ok, Boomer!

      • EvilSheldon

        And scuba dives, and holds a black belt in something. And was that a RWD Celica GT she was driving?

        It’s not a hard-and-fast rule, but people with hobbies do tend to be better people than people without.

      • The Last American Hero

        She should do commercials for Dos Equis.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Yes, but does she have a photo book? Asking for a friend.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        How do you say President Dude Bro in Japanese?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Cabinet meetings finally have someone to serve the tea!

      Office Lady Today, probably

  15. PieInTheSky

    WARSAW, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Poland and Romania detained eight people suspected of planning sabotage on behalf of Russia, authorities in Warsaw said on Tuesday, with three arrests concerning an alleged new plan to send exploding parcels, this time to Ukraine.
    European officials have previously blamed Russia for detonations of parcels carried by DHL and DPD in Europe in 2024, in what security services said was part of a test run for a Russian plot to trigger explosions on cargo flights to the United States. Russia has denied having any such plans.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/polish-services-detained-eight-people-suspected-preparing-acts-sabotage-says-pm-2025-10-21/

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Not buying it. Why would they decide to do this at this point?

      • UnCivilServant

        WWIII won’t kick off without a few false flags.

      • rhywun

        I pretty much categorically disbelieve anything coming out of that region, from all sides. It’s all propaganda.

    • R C Dean

      Why would you do a test run?

      • PieInTheSky

        your manager requires a QA report?

      • EvilSheldon

        If you’re trying to take down a cargo plane with an explosive package, the test run would not explode. The test run would contain the timing/detonating mechanism, possibly a small sample of explosive, and telltales to see if everything worked properly.

      • dbleagle

        ES gets it.

    • Q Continuum

      I mean, I guess he’s not wrong in his little voiceover in the right-hand frame, but why would that be a point of “pride”? Dood, just be requisitely ashamed and keep your proclivities locked away in the privacy of your own loony bin.

      • SDF-7

        Or what Q said much more succinctly then.

    • SDF-7

      What I don’t get about this guy is — why make a political movement about it? Ok, I buy that you have yearnings. I applaud you if you keep them to yourself and don’t act on them. I buy the comparison of “Hetero men don’t want to assault every woman they meet” and all.

      But if you’re a “non-contact” and keep this all in your head… how exactly would anyone know what your yearnings are and why would you need any political cover? Don’t tell folks that you secretly lust after (some) kids, don’t act on it… and I can’t see how or why anyone would care… so there’s no animus or problem in society.

      Which only says to me on some level these turkeys *do* want “acceptance” of society and more likely want celebration of their urges… and I can’t see why they’d want that if they aren’t planning contact… so that rather sinks the whole narrative and all.

      • rhywun

        Yup, nose under the tent.

        Shame these freaks mercilessly.

      • (((Jarflax

        ^This. It is entirely possible to have a desire you know there is no ethical, moral or legal way you can fulfill, and just accept that and move on without screaming it to the world.

    • trshmnstr

      I’ll add that just because you have an urge now doesn’t mean that urge is an integral part of who you are. You can control your desires. You can alter your urges. However, you have to stop worshipping your own emotions first.

    • PieInTheSky

      eewww

    • SDF-7

      Do Libertarians really think it likely given history that a society clawing its way back would be big-L Libertarian?

      I’ll grant more likely to be lower regulation due to the destruction of the previous state… but the overwhelming history of such collapses is a totalitarian dictatorship forcing the creation of a new state…hardly Libertarian.

      Stupid meme anyway.

      • PieInTheSky

        I never said it was not stupid it was just the first time I saw it. Whenever I see a new one I post it.

  16. AlexinCT
    • SDF-7

      I suppose it beats WalMart Greeter to supplement retirement. Plus they get to cosplay Woodstock or something.

      • R.J.

        Now I just need to find some libertarian protest org that wants my fat ass to show up and protest for smaller government…

      • R C Dean

        The thing that gets me is that the Boomers actually missed out on the civil rights movement. It was over and done before most of them got out of junior high. They want to pretend that was them, and so much of their performative political moralizing is basically envy(?).

        Heck, half or more of them weren’t even at risk of being drafted and sent to Vietnam. We stopped doing that in 1973, so any Boomer born after 1955 was too young.

      • AlexinCT

        The thing that gets me is that the Boomers actually missed out on the civil rights movement. It was over and done before most of them got out of junior high.

        And that is why they went bonkers in the lat 60s and 70s, and got violent in their extreme marxist pursuits.

        They want to pretend that was them, and so much of their performative political moralizing is basically envy(?).

        It’s all cosplay and LARPing with these idiots.

    • Ted S.

      Nope on the kinetic captioning.

    • The Other Kevin

      They are nostalgic for the days when they followed the Grateful Dead around the country.

    • SDF-7

      He just lost his zest for life.

    • PieInTheSky

      maybe it was the tequila cartel

  17. PieInTheSky

    হুরমতি
    @leninshallah
    if you want women’s liberation you have to either be a communist or form alliances with actual revolutionary communists

    https://x.com/leninshallah/status/1980285479208763411

    looks like I don’t want women’s liberation

    • juris imprudent

      A username that is a double heresy – impressive.

    • R C Dean

      Well, the Soviet concept of equality of the sexes was to make them equally eligible for labor battalions and cannon fodder.

    • EvilSheldon

      Become ungovernable!

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Hmm… You can’t have wine, per the signage, but it doesn’t say anything about beer.

      It is Ireland, after all.

  18. Common Tater

    “ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel featured a drag performer reading Eric Trump’s new memoir to a group of children in a segment that aired last week on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

    The bit included “RuPaul’s Drag Race” contestant Trixie Mattel, whose real name is Brian Firkus, reading from Trump’s “Under Siege: My Family’s Fight to Save Our Nation.” The appearance marked the return of Kimmel’s “Drag Queen Storytime” segment, which first aired in 2023 when Mattel read Senator Ted Cruz’s “Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America to children.””

    https://thepostmillennial.com/jimmy-kimmel-features-drag-queen-trixie-mattel-reading-eric-trumps-book-to-children

    OFFS!

    • ron73440

      So stunning.

      So brave.

      I’m sure all 200,000 or so viewers thought it was extremely clever.

    • Q Continuum

      Drain. Circled.

    • rhywun

      Jimmy Kimmel is a groomer? I am shocked.

    • EvilSheldon

      I prefer my freakshows with actual freaks.

    • ron73440

      Heaven also has no desires or needs.

      Without scarcity, there would be no need for money.

    • juris imprudent

      Not as wrong as you think. Marxism is built on Judeo-Christian values.

      • Ed Wuncler

        I’m currently listening to this podcast about communism and one of the main points is that Marxism was an offshoot of Judeo-Christian values.

      • PieInTheSky

        although not directly… enlightenment / humanism were Christian heresy and part of it evolved into commiedom

      • juris imprudent

        Absolutely directly, and that is what makes the animus to religion doubly ironic.

      • PieInTheSky

        Christianity to communism with no intermediate steps? maybe but I am not sure thats how Marx got there

      • trshmnstr

        Marxism is built on Judeo-Christian values

        1) what even are Judeo-Christian values? I’ve never understood that term, as it’s about as useful as “Sino-Nicaraguan culture”. Seems like one of those post-WWII ideas used to falsely distance our eugenic history from Hitler.

        2) As far as Christian values go, it’s pretty dang hard to pervert them into Marxism. Marxism is a direct reaction to Christian Europe using Enlightenment philosophy as a springboard. The Bible has a lot to say about oppression and injustice, and Marxism is a textbook example of both. It’s only through the perversion of those terms and through the dumbing down of society that Marxism and Christianity could be seen as compatible.

      • Common Tater

        “1) what even are Judeo-Christian values?”

        European. In 1850 almost everyone in Europe was a Jew or Christian.

      • juris imprudent

        Seems like one of those post-WWII ideas

        Sure, if Nietzsche lived a century after he actually did and the Genealogy of Morality was written post WWII. [don’t make my eyes roll that hard, please]

      • juris imprudent

        European.

        Exactly. One of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard a communist say is that the problem is with the Western world. Your entire philosophy and worldview are Western you dumbass.

      • PutridMeat

        trshmnstr – to say nothing of what I think is one of the fundamental values of Judeo-Christian values, the recognition of the divinity of man. A core essence of the individual human that is outside the prerogatives of the state or society. To me, that is the strength and value of the western religious traditions and one of the root causes for why those traditions developed and succeeded. I think it’s a big part of why one so often finds Christians and communists in opposition, a fundamental difference in ‘axioms’ about what an individual is and the religious recognition that you cannot force individuals into conforming to your vision of social organization without a lot of bloodshed and trauma. Rather, the Judeo-Christian (and yes, other traditions as well) have the insight to place some of that outside of the purview of state and society and into the hands of God. Incidentally, ‘cheating’ that axiom is where a lot of the abuse and corruption of religious doctrines starts.

        Communism and Judeo-Christian traditions sharing some values? Of course. Marxists ‘inspired’ by Judeo-Christian values? Sure. But missing one of the essential ideas of Judeo-Christian values, one that makes it fundamentally different. “Built on” is doing a lot of heavy lifting and creating a false equivalence.

      • juris imprudent

        Christians and communists in opposition

        Catholic liberation theology waves hello.

        The Reformation is a late-comer to the values (and theology) party when it comes to Christianity. It did provide a lot of secular benefits though. The real concept of toleration of diverse viewpoints about Christianity is entirely Protestant – even if that isn’t where they all started (each sect being sure that only THEIR interpretation was the true one).

      • (((Jarflax

        Every philosophy in the West, and the middle and near Easts as well, is at minimum colored by, and mostly derived from Christianity at this point. That includes Marxism, Jacobinism, and even Islam. Now whether that is the Devil corrupting Truth for his own ends as a Christian might say, or simply a result of two millennia of absolute domination of the cultural and intellectual pursuits of the West as historical trend I do not know. Some of this predates Christianity, which itself includes ideas derived from the Greeks, Mesopotamians, Jews, and Egyptians.

    • SDF-7

      So… you’re saying that if people were angels no government would be required? Thanks for stating the obvious, commie doofus.

    • Q Continuum

      Umm… the whole point is that that kind of world is only possible in the Kingdom of G-d because humans are fallen and can’t achieve it.

      I love it when people with 10th grade knowledge try to sound edgy and smart.

      • EvilSheldon

        I was just thinking, at what point in the existence of the USSR was it money-less, stateless, or classless?

      • (((Jarflax

        The Kingdom of God is an absolute monarchy. The monarch is God. I suppose it isn’t exactly a State, and money is irrelevant when the ruler is capable of infinite creation, but it has at minimum 2 classes, God and not God.

      • Rat on a train

        The USSR needed more time, perhaps centuries, to create the New Soviet Man.

  19. juris imprudent

    (((jarflax sez prevent any marxist, socialist, or progressive from entering the profession

    Yeah, you and Alex keep misdiagnosing the problem.

    The political left has very successfully captured a bunch of cultural institutions — that began to shrivel and lose their authority once they were captured. They’re doing for media and academia what the Great Leap Forward did for agriculture.

    But the real money shot is the link to this.

    • (((Jarflax

      I must be missing something, or you are just reacting to my including marxist in my list, how is what I said at odds with this? The only way to reverse the long march is to gut the institution (fire them all as I said) and restart it without the left being included. You can’t do a reverse long march, because the tactic only works if the institution is such that it allows free debate and is inclusive, and the left uses those traits, it does not have them.

      • juris imprudent

        There is no salvaging the existing institutions, leave them to rot and start new ones.

      • AlexinCT

        Start new ones where?

      • juris imprudent

        And the point is that Gramsci was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG and actually not effective. The bigger problem isn’t Marxism but feminization, and the primary education world has been that before the left ever captured anything.

      • juris imprudent

        Private schools Alex, leave the public to rot since those are the only ones they can control.

      • (((Jarflax

        There is no salvaging the existing institutions, leave them to rot and start new ones.

        What’s the advantage of leaving them in place? I was suggesting firing all the people that currently make them up and replacing them with people who don’t share the ideas of the current staff, which in every meaningful sense is the same as starting new ones, unless the buildings are somehow infected? I strongly agree that the feminization of our society is an enormous portion of the problem, but it is kind of a chicken and the egg question as to whether ‘leftism’ or feminization is the root cause. Leftism is to a large extent just the feminine impulse in politics, and feminism is to a large extent simply leftism applied to sex.

      • juris imprudent

        Marxism was no feminist concept, at least under Marx. I don’t think Gramsci or the Frankfurt School were all that feminist. Hell, even feminization isn’t feminist, because most feminists have their heads too far up their Enlightened asses to consider the deep biological/sociological roots of feminine behavior.

      • (((Jarflax

        I didn’t say feminist I said the feminine impulse. Leftism is predicated on feminine character traits. Feminism is a denial of the the existence of of feminine character traits.

      • (((Jarflax

        Egalitarianism seen as fairness, compassion divorced from the merits of the subject, over concern with safety, the whole underpinnings of the nanny state and government as substitute husband/father/god.

      • juris imprudent

        Leftism is predicated on feminine character traits.

        Whoa. Revolution ain’t feminine, and the left lives for revolution and the destruction of the past/present so that the glorious future may immanentize.

      • PieInTheSky

        I think there are flavors of leftism, the current day one is more feminine than the one 100 years ago. And the flavors hate each other with a passion. old school commies loathe new school commies. I blame misogyny.

    • AlexinCT

      JI, your absolutely insane reflex to come after people pointing out marxism is evil and needs to be cock blocked, worries me…

      And the democrat party and their cadres in academia, government bureaucracies, and amongst the people that vote for a living, are completely captured by the globalist marxist cabal and it shows in their praxis…

      • juris imprudent

        Marxism is a dead horse. Material Marxism, doesn’t even have a rotting corpse to beat.

      • AlexinCT

        Dead or not, the tactics are the same as those used by the old marxist for every one of their revolutions….

        And the end goal is always the same: overthrow the current feudal lords and put themselves in there.. Only thing is themselves tend to come with even more brutal culling of those that actually end in charge…

        In short, it is the same evil shit…

      • juris imprudent

        The Bolsheviks modeled themselves upon the Jacobins, so your insistence that the world’s troubles are all because of Marx/Marxism is right up there with the church-lady’s obsession with Satan.

    • rhywun

      It’s all the same in the end. I think here “Marxist” is just a shorthand.

      It’s no coincidence, for example, that the academics who got the ball rolling on Big Trans a few decades ago were all actual, avowed Marxists.

      • juris imprudent

        I don’t think it is all the same and that is why I harp on it. It reminds me of the church-lady and Satan.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Getting rid of public schooling is so far outside the realm of Things That Could Happen that talking about it is no different than saying that heaven on earth is attainable. Voters like public ed, and want it to be available just like abortion, healthcare, and guns. Heck, you would have better luck mandating assault rifles in every home than getting rid of pubK12.

        Better to work on choice in schooling, and strip away requirements for higher eds need. That, and going hard at school boards, is the way that will change things.

    • rhywun

      But if his point is that the Long March doesn’t matter because it’s killing all the Institutions… well, I can see that but the damage has been enormous and the fixes, if any are to come, are decades away.

      • juris imprudent

        The utopian world can’t come into existence until the existing world has been destroyed – that’s the fantasy at the heart of everything these morons do.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        And at the heart of everything you post about this, JI.

  20. Grummun

    So last night I installed ClassicPress on a local VM for my wife. God help me, I am now her web-bitch.

    • PieInTheSky

      are you some sort of nerd or something? I am on to you.

      • Ted S.

        No, he’s a bitch. He even admitted it.

  21. PieInTheSky

    Poland rations in the 80s. Unfortunately in the glorious future commie rations there will be no meat, alcohol or cigs.

  22. Sensei

    Perhaps some recalculation of your damage estimates is in order.

    “The quick answer is our constellation of Global Sounding Balloons (GSBs), which we call WindBorne Atlas, doesn’t pose a threat to airplanes or other objects in the sky. It’s not only highly improbable that a WindBorne balloon could even collide with an aircraft in the first place; but our balloons are so lightweight that they would not cause significant damage.

    It wasn’t space debris that struck a United Airlines plane—it was a weather balloon

    https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/the-mystery-object-that-struck-a-plane-in-flight-it-was-probably-a-weather-balloon/

    • PieInTheSky

      and we all know weather balloon is code for extraterrestrials.

      • EvilSheldon

        Is it so hard to believe that the extraterrestrials really want to know what our weather is like?

      • Rat on a train

        They are searching for a good vacation spot.

  23. Common Tater

    “”Today, we are announcing that Lawrence Cotton Powell, who is 19 years of age, along with Anthony Taylor, who is 18 years of age, are now charged with assaulting [Ethan] Levine,” Pirro said, adding that the two suspects attacked a victim named Ethan Levine, who she said was robbed as well as assaulted.

    “Then, after the robbery and assault of Ethan Levine, they walked in the direction of where another crime occurred. Within minutes, you have heard of this crime. Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old DOGE person who was working in the administration…”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-feds-announce-charges-for-2-adult-suspects-in-attack-on-edward-big-balls-coristine

    • The Last American Hero

      Judge will let them skate.

    • juris imprudent

      A black woman named her son “Cotton”?

      • Sean

        Are you saying she picked poorly?

      • juris imprudent

        It was a bold strategy, we’ll have to see how it plays out.

      • slumbrew

        I’m still getting over “Simeon Rice”.

        “Simeon”? Really?

  24. Common Tater

    “O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) is out with a new bombshell undercover investigation, this time exposing a sprawling billion dollar scam that peels back multiple levels of Washington DC corruption. James O’Keefe, while wearing a disguise, caught executives at a Native American-owned federal contractor admitting to flouting federal law by using their minority status as a ruse to rake in over $100 million in no-bid government contracts – all while farming out 80% of the actual work to non-minority subcontractors.

    In the exposé, members of ATI Government Solutions, a Virginia-based firm that’s on paper 51% owned by the Susanville Indian Rancheria, repeatedly admit breaking the law. Hidden camera footage reveals ATI was cooked up by two white Washington, DC insiders who run the show and exploit the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) diversity program to line their pockets with taxpayer cash.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/okeefe-media-group-exposes-massive-federal-contracting-scam-run-by-native-american-company-abusing-minority-status

    Is that Rerun?

    • AlexinCT

      Isn’t this the purpose of them raking the productive over the coals, taxing them to death?

      Color me surprised…

    • EvilSheldon

      This kind of thing is common and well-known in the federal contracting racket. As usual, O’Keefe is a few years late and a whole bunch of dollars short.

      • Rat on a train

        A small minority-owned prime pairing with a large non-minority subcontractor to do the actual work is SOP. The skimming is the price of doing business.

      • ron73440

        Most seem to do it by having a female owned business where the wife is the “owner”, but the husband does all the work.

    • The Other Kevin

      Watch it D’Wayne!

    • rhywun

      Is that Rerun?

      LOL!

      Yeah, is there anyone out there who didn’t know this is what is going on?

    • Tonio

      …a Native American-owned federal contractor admitting to flouting federal law by using their minority status as a ruse to rake in over $100 million in no-bid government contracts – all while farming out 80% of the actual work to non-minority subcontractors.

      That happens all the time in DC. Although it’s actually more like the big contractors do all the work of getting the contract behind the scenes and then cut the SMWOB (small, minority, and women owned business) in for a piece of the action… a very small piece. [/Spock voice] The SMWOB principals are basically actors who show up and make speeches and give the right answers to questions. The work the SMWOBs actually do on the contract is of a generally nonessential character.

      • (((Jarflax

        This is true everywhere. I know of at least one heavy machinery operator who went out on his own, could not get any contracts, then reorganized his business in his wife’s name and got a large city contract. It’s all a religious ritual cloaking massive graft. Signal your faith by hiring minority contractors with no employees or equipment, collect kick backs from them in various forms, then close your eyes and ignore the subcontract they sign with the actual contractor to do all the work. Who cares if this all doubles the cost of the work? It’s just tax cattle money anyway.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Funny how his old outfit is pretty much gone. Almost as if the ouster was about getting rid of the org, not his “misbehavior”.

  25. Common Tater

    “”He will not, he, we see it, we see it, we see it every, we see it all the time: he will not want to leave. He set it up with his, I guess he’s the Goebbels of the Cabinet, Stephen Miller, he’s a Nazi, yes he is, and he’s Jewish and he should be ashamed of himself,” De Niro said. De Niro offered no evidence that Miller is part of a national socialist party intent on exterminating Jews, Catholics, and others.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/actor-robert-de-niro-calls-stephen-miller-a-nazi-claims-trump-will-not-leave-white-house-at-end-of-term

    Well, he is a retard.

    • AlexinCT

      They want someone to shoot Steven Miller cause he is killing them…

      • Ted S.

        I thought Steven Miller was a joker.

      • AlexinCT

        All those Stephens and Stevens look the same to me…

    • The Other Kevin

      De Niro sure is getting a lot of air time these days.

      • AlexinCT

        That’s why he is throwing that tantrum…

    • juris imprudent

      Retard with early-stage dementia?

    • R.J.

      I’d like to see that compared to a solid state drive. I0 years is great for a hard drive. Do SDDs come close?

      • Sensei

        SSDs durability depends on how many writes they incur.

        Also, they suffer from bit rot if left unpowered for extended periods of time.

        Still I’d have no issues running properly qualified SSDs in my NAS. What stops me is that HDD is still cheaper per terabyte and I don’t need speed.

  26. Common Tater

    “Over 1,000 South Koreans were scammed, brutally tortured, drugged and enslaved by Chinese-linked crime syndicates in southeast Asia….

    A massive human trafficking and torture network has been uncovered in Cambodia, involving more than one thousand South Koreans who were deceived, confined, and forced into criminal labor under Chinese-run compounds.

    Many of these victims were subjected to forced drug injections to keep them awake or submissive while carrying out online fraud and money-laundering operations for their captors.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/1000-south-koreans-brutally-tortured-drugged-enslaved-chinese/

    damn

    • R.J.

      Fake news. Only America practices slavery.

      • juris imprudent

        Japanese have been determined to be ‘white’ due to their racial views, so why not white Chinese?

      • PieInTheSky

        why not white Chinese? – I mean the women avoid the sun to be as white as possible

  27. Common Tater

    “Last month, the State Department revoked Petro’s visa during the U.N. General Assembly after he spoke at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City and called on U.S. troops to disobey orders by Trump.

    Speaking with Univision President Daniel Coronell at the end of the interview at Casa de Nariño in Bogota, Petro said if Trump won’t change, the solution is to “take out Trump,” loudly snapping his fingers.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/take-trump-colombian-president-petro-makes-shocking-threat/

    CWAA

    • WTF

      He may as well have just said “drone me”.

  28. PieInTheSky

    The EU is weighing a ban on the usage of ethanol as an active ingredient in biocidal products, including hand sanitizers, over increasing risks of cancer, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
    An internal recommendation on October 10 by one of the working groups within the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) flagged ethanol as a toxic substance, which increased the risk of cancer and pregnancy complications and needed to be replaced in cleaning and other products, the FT said.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/eu-weighs-ban-ethanol-used-hand-sanitisers-over-cancer-fears-ft-reports-2025-10-21/

    • Common Tater

      If alcohol caused cancer we would all be dead.

    • UnCivilServant

      Don’t be silly. Switch to pure ethanol with at most a 5% hydrogen hydroxide contamination limit.

    • PieInTheSky

      ugly thing innit

    • R.J.

      I kind of like it. It would need a bigger engine over in the states, preferably a non-turbo version.

    • Sean

      Ick.

      It’s like a Renegade, but uglier.

      • Sensei

        Yes, but it will actually last past the lease terms.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Unavailable like the Aussie Ranger Superduty I posted the other day. ☹️

    • Common Tater

      Let me guess “It was the Jews!”

      • trshmnstr

        Nope, try again.

      • Common Tater

        So that’s in part 6?

      • trshmnstr

        “ANTISEMITE! ANTISEMITE! ANTIIIIIISEEEEEEMIIIIIIIIITEEEEEEEE!”

        *yawn*

        This shit ends up in the same mental bucket as “microaggressions” and “white fragility”. The boy who cried “nazi” has wore out his voice, and nobody’s paying attention when the real goosesteppers come to town.

      • DEG

        So that’s in part 6?

        Sorry to disappoint you. No part 6.

        Interestingly, since it was you mentioned Jews, Tucker has in some recent interviews dropped hints that it was really MI6 behind Epstein.

      • juris imprudent

        MI6 behind Epstein

        Just so they could get Prince Andrew?

      • Common Tater

        The people saying “nazi” and the people saying “antisemite” are opposing groups.

      • trshmnstr

        Opposing groups using the same tactics for the same purpose. Just because they dont agree on tax rates and transing kids doesn’t mean they aren’t in lockstep on identity politics, albeit with a different ordering to the oppression hierarchy.

      • Common Tater

        “Tucker has in some recent interviews dropped hints that it was really MI6 behind Epstein.”

        MI6, Mossad, CIA etc. are all part of the same blob of spooks. Oil, Israel, and MIC weren’t competing interests.

      • Common Tater

        “Opposing groups using the same tactics for the same purpose. Just because they dont agree on tax rates and transing kids doesn’t mean they aren’t in lockstep on identity politics, albeit with a different ordering to the oppression hierarchy.”

        Actually, their tactics are quite different. I don’t buy the “woke right” thing and I disagree with Fuentes identitarian view of the world. Race is a social construct that should be disposed. Regardless, Israel is a nation, like any other nation, is going to try to act in their own self-interest.

      • EvilSheldon

        MI6, Mossad, CIA etc. are all part of the same blob of spooks. Oil, Israel, and MIC weren’t competing interests.

        Sort of. The IC is heavily inducted into trans-nationalism (recommended reading – The Craft of Intelligence by Allen Dulles), but they often don’t talk to each other, whether it be inside or outside a particular agency.

      • Common Tater

        True, sometimes our own agencies don’t talk to each other.

      • DEG

        Sort of. The IC is heavily inducted into trans-nationalism (recommended reading – The Craft of Intelligence by Allen Dulles), but they often don’t talk to each other, whether it be inside or outside a particular agency.

        I’ll take a look at Dulles’ book.

        Them not talking to each other is not at all surprising.

    • trshmnstr

      I’d call the series interesting, but not all that earth shattering.

      The big takeaways were 1) that the terrorists were well known and the 3 letter agencies tripped over their own dicks, perhaps intentionally in some cases; 2) building 7 collapsing was weird; 3) the neocons lied and manipulated their way into Iraq starting from day one; 4) the 9/11 commission was hopelessly compromised; 5) foreign intel services (Israel, Germany) seemed to have a deeper awareness of the imminent attack and didn’t bother to let us know; 6) the CIA tortured people at gitmo; and 7) none of the negligent parties were punished for the lapse.

      • DEG

        This is a good summary.

      • juris imprudent

        none of the negligent parties were punished for the lapse

        Accountability? What kind of crazy talk is that?

      • Gustave Lytton

        5a) Israelis were celebrating 9/11

      • Ted S.

        I recall Palestinians celebrating 9/11, but not Israelis.

  29. PieInTheSky

    Grand Island, Nebraska: 2BR, 1BA and 1000sqft for $200,000. Get a job as the Safety Manager at the frozen foods company or Delivery Manager at the local building center and live a life where your kids are walking distance to school, the dentist, the ENT and pediatrician!

    https://x.com/AndreaAmati9/status/1980292447432564931

    doomer
    @uncledoomer
    i know its the market and inflation and everything but if a realtor showed me a house that looked like this in nebraska and then told me it was listed for $200k i would blow my own head smooth off right there in the living room

    • kinnath

      New cars are going for 50,000. That house is just 4 new cars.

      • Common Tater

        MAKE AUTOMOBILES DANGEROUS AGAIN!!

    • UnCivilServant

      I’ve been to Grand Island – There’s a lot of empty space around that town. There’s no reason a house smaller than mine should be more than twice as much out there.

    • UnCivilServant

      It’s got a 1 Cylinder Engine. Needs a new starter though.

    • Common Tater

      Well, probably oldest.

      Stupid music ruins the video.

      • R.J.

        I saw it on mute and it was much better.

    • Sensei

      I believe that’s the CA Mercedes Classic Center. I also believe that’s a reproduction. There a few repros scattered across museums.

      • R.J.

        I would believe a restored reproduction. With probably all the wood and some of the easy metal parts fabricated by the owner.

  30. PieInTheSky

    In conversation with Nick Land, the ‘father of accelerationism’

    ‘We don’t control the current’ ‘The whole construction of secular history is, at some level, an illusion.’

    https://thespectator.com/technology/conversation-nick-land-father-accelerationism/

    I ask him about “Lemurs,” a CCRU theory about entities that haunt the minds of the living. Surely these things must be allegorical? “They’re not metaphors,” he says. “I’m closer to Tucker’s description – ‘time-traveling AIs from the future.’ It sounds dramatic, but that’s roughly the idea. The old distinction between psychology and the supernatural collapses once you drop the myth of the sealed self. Jung’s collective unconscious and the spirit world are really two ways of describing the same thing.

    Land retains some of his Marxist training in peculiar ways. He sees universality – a core concept of liberalism – as inherently Anglo-Protestant. That universality is the result of a history of conquest and domination. “The English didn’t set out to spread humanitarianism. They built trading networks and settlements. Once that’s in place, you have to develop a universalist story to manage it, to hold together all these disparate populations. Universalism is a by-product of empire. And then, over time, it becomes corrosive. The moral framework that once stabilized the system ends up dissolving the cultural foundation that produced it.”

    Those who worry about immigration often talk in terms of the effect it will have on culture. Can the Anglo model of liberalism survive large-scale demographic change? “That’s the big question. Some people think liberalism is universal and can operate anywhere. Others think mass immigration should destroy it. I’m in a smaller, less popular camp. I’m a demographic-reconstruction alarmist because I like liberalism. Historically, liberal societies could absorb diversity, but within limits. The earlier immigrants tended to be self-selected for compatibility – they wanted to live under English norms.

    • PieInTheSky

      “I don’t really think in those terms. Optimism and pessimism are emotional categories that don’t apply here. The interesting questions are about providence and retrocausality. A lot of what I’ve written feels like it came from the future. Sometimes I realize later that there were patterns encoded in the writing I didn’t consciously put there. We don’t control the current. The only agency that remains is alignment – listening to what’s happening and cooperating with it rather than resisting it. You can’t command the process, but you can move with it.”

    • Common Tater

      Everyone knows it’s transdimensional demons.

  31. Pope Jimbo

    From the Dept. of People Who Just Won’t Shut Up.

    Dude, when the black woman reporter shows up, just go into the fetal position and shut the fuck up. Especially when you might be one of the whitest people on the face of the Earth.

    • UnCivilServant

      So, did he steal your bike too?

    • The Other Kevin

      I was never around other disabled people until I joined my hockey team. One thing I’ve learned is the difference between people injured in the military vs. those of us with private insurance. The military does take care of injured vets, which it should. But then there are situations like this…

      One of our goalies lost his leg in a motorcycle accident. His insurance covers one prosthetic every so many years. I am not able to afford a custom-made hockey sled, and insurance won’t cover that. But we had one guy on our team who was a wounded vet, lost both legs. He tried all kinds of sports, and the VA paid for separate prosthetics for walking, running, and climbing. He had a custom hockey sled made and played with us less than a year. A lot of us were really pissed at him.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Is any of that equipment at all re-usable?

        I might also add that you and your teammates should calm down and not be so judgmental. Don’t criticize him until you’ve walked a mile in his moccasins.

      • The Other Kevin

        No, all those prosthetics are all custom made and cost thousands of dollars. For hockey he could have used one of our team’s sleds, but he had a custom bucket molded that will only fit him, from the same guy that makes buckets for Team USA.

        I don’t have a problem being judgmental in this case. There are plenty of ways to try different sports without wasting so much money.

      • Pope Jimbo

        TOK:

        I only teased you about being judgmental because I wanted some cheap Glib points for mocking the handicapped with a tasteless joke.

    • Fourscore

      I could really use that guy to make a lift for my right shoe. He could do a better job than my explanations to a foot guy.

  32. PieInTheSky

    Bronze Age Pervert
    @bronzeagemantis
    New England is a desolate place …nationalist discourse on some supposed idyllic white holdout is wrong not only because it’s an extended rust belt biome with opiate overdose etc but …even at its best it’s bleak, woods of desolation, please consult Lovecraft if interested

    Pinewalker V
    @Spruce_Strider
    I hate to countersignal but these are words of someone who has visited only “Connecticut” (a deeply unserious place); the Old Gods still live in the north and you would be right to fear them if you do not know the correct words and rituals and mayb have a gun and good tobac…

    https://x.com/Spruce_Strider/status/1980317992287367471

    the online “right” is weird.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Coming soon: Worst Mile High Club story ever printed in Penthouse.

      • DEG

        Hate fucks happen.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Unfortunately not everyone in the photo was singing from the same song sheet and three of those present were wearing Native American (often referred to as Red Indian) costumes.

      Nice. Throw more gas on the fire. I’m sure our enlightened betters in Europe didn’t know that Red Indian is also going to offend a lot of folx. Probably more than were originally offended by the costumes.

    • EvilSheldon

      What about the culture of people offended by supposedly grown women playing dress-up in public?

    • Pope Jimbo

      I wouldn’t care a bit until I tried to make a withdrawal and they gave it to me in glass beads and wampum.

      Also, finally a bank Liz Warren is qualified to oversee.

      • Fourscore

        You got the premise wrong. If you’re making the withdrawal then you’re the one shelling out the wampum (EBT cards accepted)

    • AlexinCT

      Fat sqauw looks fugly..

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Trump thug

    A Jan. 6 defendant who was among the hundreds President Donald Trump pardoned in January was arrested for making a “credible death threat” against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., the congressman said in a statement.

    Christopher Moynihan, a 34-year-old from Clinton, New York, was charged with a felony count of making a terroristic threat, according to the New York State Police.

    Long piece detailing his crimes of Jan 6, zero detail or context on the alleged threat.

    Professional journalisming at its finest.

    • AlexinCT

      He prolly said showing people pics of the fugly hairy bitches being paid to be at the No Kings march worked the same as chemical castration…

  34. The Late P Brooks

    No, YOU’RE a goon

    Top Trump goon Tulsi Gabbard has quietly assembled a secretive network of officials tasked with enforcing the president’s demand for MAGA retribution.

    The team, formally called the Interagency Weaponization Working Group, has been meeting at the director of national intelligence’s behest since at least April and now includes dozens of officials from across the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement community, according to records reviewed by Reuters.

    Participants have come from the White House, the CIA, FBI, Justice Department, Defense Department, Homeland Security, the IRS, and the Federal Communications Commission. According to Reuters, their task is to help “steer President Donald Trump’s drive for retribution against his perceived enemies.”

    He will hunt them to the ends of the earth.

    • AlexinCT

      Anyone that has not yet read or heard the Tulsi Gabbard book needs to do so…

  35. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda.

    I’m hanging out at the local library today and one of the meeting rooms is currently occupied by what I think are two Somali families who are homeschooling their kids. It is urinating me off watching them.

    1) Both mothers and all the girls (who don’t seem to be old enough to even be in Jr. High) are classic Laundry Piles (covered in hijabs, robes, etc).

    2) The lessons are all in what I’m guessing is Somali. For fuck’s sake, learn the local language. The only thing public schools have to offer is a hard push towards more assimilation.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Headline:

    Trump Targets Federal Employees Working on Conservation and Environmental Protection

    The Trump administration issued a new round of furlough notices to EPA employees on Monday while the Interior Department disclosed plans to cut 2,050 positions affecting national parks, endangered species and toxic contamination research.

    Right. And everybody who works at Lawrence Livermore is a “rocket scientist”.