Saturday Morning Scandal in the Gulch Links

by | Nov 1, 2025 | Daily Links | 174 comments

Insert troon joke here.

Here in the Gulch, one great difficulty on Halloween is determining whether or not someone’s outfit is actually a costume.

That said, there’s a scandal brewing in our little village involving our mayor and his scumbag brother. As background, that family is probably our largest property owners in the area, the brother is a notorious slumlord for student housing, and the were indeed some, uhhhh, questionable dealings with respect to a business the brother was unsuccessfully trying to sell. An “anonymous” letter was sent to all village officials outlining a series of accusations of favoritism and back-room dealing to benefit that family. The mayor responded with a letter to the officials denying everything. Of course, the Gulch being what it is, everyone involved knows who wrote the letter. And of course, none of this is public yet, but everyone in the village is perfectly aware of it. Small towns are hilarious. Disclaimer: the mayor has always been incredibly helpful and nice to WebDom and me, has supported our little business, and was responsible for me being a village official. Nonetheless, I would dance a Jewish jig if the scumbag brother got his tits in a ringer. So I’m pretending not to know anything and keeping my mouth shut.

I won’t pretend about birthdays, however, because they include the William Henry Harrison of Tibet; the German who originated the idea of the Plate Job; a guy who was the opposite of an ignorant slut; a guy who inspired the most hilariously clumsy and awful movie in modern history with his hilariously clumsy and awful “song”; a guy whose life you couldn’t possibly make up; and what happens when Eraserhead writes country music.

And this is what happens when I write Links.

The Left is, of course, marching in the streets in protest… ahahahahahaha, who am I kidding? No Jews, no news.

“…created a chilling precedent for freedom of expression in the Middle East.” LOLOL. Irony Meter overloaded.

Where’s Victoria Nuland these days?

“Potato farmers hardest hit.”

She seems nice.

“But they seemed like such honest people!”

I await the day when it’s acceptable for a baseball player to have a name like “Spic” or “Nigger.” For the moment, it’s only the Jews who need to tolerate it.

It’s sometimes difficult to distinguish between a kid and a midget.

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn’t stop to think if they should.

Not once. Ever. Despite my two heavy-shedding dog household.

“What did the Romans ever do for us?”

The Old Guy couldn’t decide between crazy bluegrass string music and classical, so made a compromise. Ahhh, Bach.

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Old Man With Candy

Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me. Wait, wrong book, I'll find something else.

174 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    I don’t even successful cake balls.

    • Not Adahn

      But do you successfully ball cakes?

      • invisible finger

        Never with baked goods.

    • (((Jarflax

      Cake balls? Baking for the FtM crowd again?

  2. Common Tater

    ” I would dance a Jewish jig”

    Is that actually a thing?

    • Pat

      Yes

      • Not Adahn

        That’s closer to a reel than a jig.

      • Ted S.

        I would have linked to something like this.

    • Not Adahn

      Now I’m trying to think of any klezmer in 3/4 time.

  3. Common Tater

    No one cares about Nigeria either.

  4. Evan from Evansville

    Howdy all. I assume *you* wrote the letter in question. Tryin’ to be sly. Sigh.

    Big big interview at 320, but lunch in two hours. Gonna pop out of work early. May even get paid for it! Have to figure out the squirrels of PTO.

  5. Common Tater

    “A US Navy veteran whose Irish citizen wife is set to be deported due to two prior convictions for fraud described the recent crackdown as “insane”.

    Jim Brown’s wife Donna Hughes-Brown has lived in the US since she was a child but faces deportation for two convictions, which he said stems from writing bad cheques for $49 and $22 more than a decade ago.”

    That is nuts.

    • Chipping Pioneer

      You’ll never get me pot o’ gold!!!

    • Sean

      “No Irish need apply.”

    • R C Dean

      So is this a simple overdraw thing? Because with those amounts, that’s what it sounds like initially. But they were prosecuted successfully (for values of “plea deal”), so it sounds like something else is going on.

      • slumbrew

        FTA:

        Mr Brown said she does not “deserve” to be detained as the convictions relate to two bad cheques at “a grocery store”, written in 2012 and 2015, for $49 and $22.
        He said the bad cheques were due to Mrs Hughes-Brown being unable to afford to feed her family at the time.

        So, knowingly wrote bad checks.

        Still a waste of time and money by the feds.

      • Threedoor

        Navy wife writing bad checks.

        Yeah. There is more to it.

    • juris imprudent

      As I recall from The Commitments, the Irish are the n###ers of Europe. Doubly so if she was from Dublin working class.

      Really, this can be thrown back in the DEI crowd’s face – you said we were only deporting brown people.

      • Ted S.

        And the working class Irish are still being shafted by immigration, with the governing class rubbing their noses in it.

      • juris imprudent

        Ted – you would deny Irish politicians from fitting in with all of their European brethren?

      • Ted S.

        Can they all fit into a helicopter?

    • Pat

      Relentless waves of Irish immigration eventually culminated in my birth in America. You really want more of that?

      • (((Jarflax

        The Irish fled oppression to come here and become cops, so they could do some oppressing of their own. This provides a quick summary of the history of people battling oppression.

    • rhywun

      “The biggest change is that we are seeing a lot more people without criminal backgrounds, who have been here for years, getting detained,” she said.

      The stupid party should never have ceded the “high ground” to the Dems by claiming they would only deport “bad dudes” instead of, you know, applying the law fairly and consistently.

      • R C Dean

        This one, at least, actually has a criminal background. The only illegals who don’t are the ones who overstayed their visas (a civil offense) and never committed, or at least got caught for, any crimes.

      • Suthenboy

        Be careful of that phrase “without any criminal background”.
        It sounds an awful lot like “Maryland dad”

    • Gustave Lytton

      Yes it is nuts. She’s should have been deported immediately post conviction.

      • Common Tater

        That’s retarded.

  6. Common Tater

    “She allegedly then left his body in a field near a hiking trail in Eastonville, and drove his car back to her apartment, according to police….

    When cops searched her apartment, they found a large knife missing from her butcher block and the driver’s wallet hidden inside a lunch box on top of a kitchen cabinet, according to an arrest report cited by kptv.com”

    Criminal genius.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Well, she gave it her best shot, but the driver wouldn’t stay put.

    • Chafed

      The reason so many crimes are solved is because most criminals are really dumb.

  7. Pat

    a guy who inspired the most hilariously clumsy and awful movie in modern history with his hilariously clumsy and awful “song”

    Happy birthday Will Smith?

    • Pat

      a guy whose life you couldn’t possibly make up

      Happy birthday Andrew Luster?

  8. Common Tater

    “I await the day when it’s acceptable for a baseball player to have a name like “Spic” or “Nigger.””

    Woah that page had 190 blocked items.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      That is how deep the hatred for the Dodgers goes!

      • rhywun

        Still not deep enough.

      • (((Jarflax

        They took over the buying championships mantle from the Yankees, what do you expect?

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Yeah, but at least they aren’t from San Francisco, the City of Hubris!

        Fuck the Giants.

      • Nephilium

        It’s not like they’re the Yankees or the Ravens.

  9. Pat

    The U.S. launching strikes within Venezuela is looking increasingly likely as the Trump administration continues to bolster the buildup of military assets in the region, turning up the pressure against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, whom U.S. officials have characterized as an “illegitimate leader.”

    I guess if one wants to be Regan-esque, intervention in South America is de rigueur.

    • juris imprudent

      He and Maduro should be pals – given Trump’s love for other dictators. Isn’t that the narrative?

    • trshmnstr

      So, um, is there even a coherent narrative for why this is going to happen?

      Drugs? Please.

      Oil? Questionable.

      Support of Hezbollah? What?!?

      Maduro’s a meanie? Huh?

      Muh spheres of influence?
      Great reason to kill a bunch of people 🙄

      • rhywun

        Oil is my guess. Resources are fought over all the time. See: Ukraine.

      • Chafed

        I’m not saying drugs is a good reason but it is the reason. Trump is really touchy about them.

      • trshmnstr

        it is the reason

        And we’re not invading Mexico and Colombia because they don’t contribute to the drug problem?

        It doesn’t make sense to me. There are a half dozen countries ahead of Venezuela on the “contributing to our drug crisis” list.

  10. R C Dean

    “So I’m pretending not to know anything”

    Aha! So you do know something.

    Keeping your leverage on the mayor, eh? *taps nose knowingly*

    • (((Jarflax

      Hey, you try running a business in a prog town without leverage!

    • Old Man With Candy

      We know everything. Pretty much everything in the letter is true but we’re laying low and letting others deal with it. We have a business to run which depends on the goodwill of the village.

      • Suthenboy

        Collecting ‘rent’ from college girls? Dealing dope?

      • Spudalicious

        It’s Alfred, dude. More like a violation of zoning laws.

  11. Common Tater

    “It’s sometimes difficult to distinguish between a kid and a midget.”

    Anyone have the original link?

      • Common Tater

        Sometimes archive sites won’t load.

    • Threedoor

      Been a debate for years.

      • Threedoor

        And it makes sense to people that don’t have degrees but understand that there are many species of deer living on the continent at one time. Why not more than one related species of Rex?

        But I don’t have a fancy degree.

  12. Pat

    It’s sometimes difficult to distinguish between a kid and a midget.

    Midgets piss me off

  13. Pat

    I requested a sample from California Cultured, a Sacramento-based company. Its chocolate, not yet commercially available, is made with techniques that have previously been used to synthesize other bioactive products like certain plant-derived pharmaceuticals for commercial sale.

    Can I just reiterate how much I love seeing the granola head left turning into Big Pharma boosters?

    • juris imprudent

      Not to mention – ULTRA PROCESSED FOOD!!!

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      Well, it has to taste better that chocolate.

      • Gender Traitor

        Hey, now! God gave us chocolate because we’re not allowed to drink wine at work!

      • Pat

        If you put wine in your water bottle at work, you can claim Christ transformed it miraculously and plead religious discrimination if anyone objects.

      • Fourscore

        “we’re not allowed to drink wine at work!”

        Is this some thing new? Martinis are OK though but only two.

      • Gender Traitor

        If you put wine in your water bottle at work, you can claim Christ transformed it miraculously

        I would like to sign up for your newsletter religious cult.

      • Gender Traitor

        Martinis are OK though but only two.

        I like to have a Martini,

        Two at the very most.

        After three I’m under the table,

        After four I’m under my host.

        -probably not Dorothy Parker

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        It was Dorothy Parker.

      • Nephilium

        Gender Traitor:

        Said who?

        WFH broke all the rules!

      • Gender Traitor

        ZWAK, I always thought so, too, but Dorothy Parker Society says there’s no proof, so probably not. 🤷‍♀️

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence. Unless the society provided an alternate, I will still go with it being her. It fits her style and
        “hobbies” to a tee, and seems to arrived at the right time.

      • Gender Traitor

        ::lights a candle for all the anonymous wits whose best bons mots were misattributed to Dorothy Parker or Mark Twain::

        😉

      • Common Tater

        “Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.”

        *invades Iraq*

      • Ted S.

        “If you were twice as smart, you’d be a wit.”

      • Threedoor

        Invades iraq.
        Finds a crap ton of sarin gas shells.

  14. Common Tater

    I’m sick of AI pictures.

  15. Pat

    It all started innocently enough. I had recently bought an iLife A11 smart vacuum—a sleek, affordable, and technologically advanced robot promising effortless cleaning and intelligent navigation. As a curious engineer, I was fascinated by its workings. After leaving it to operate for the entire year, my curiosity got the better of me.
     
    I’m a bit paranoid—the good kind of paranoid. So, I decided to monitor its network traffic, as I would with any so-called smart device.
     
    Within minutes, I noticed a steady stream of packets being sent to servers located halfway across the world. My robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, transmitting logs and telemetry that I had never consented to share.

    Alarms were being raised about this a decade ago. Not only that, but they also use the positional data to create a 3D space map of your home to try to upsell you on their own products, and sell the same data to other companies as well. If they made the terms of service on these piece of shit IoT devices as prominent as cigarette cancer warning labels we’d be living in Ted Kaczynski’s world.

    • (((Jarflax

      If they made the terms of service on these piece of shit IoT devices as prominent as cigarette cancer warning labels we’d be living in Ted Kaczynski’s world.

      Having to deal with the red tape involved in opening a business in a blue city/state will make you anti-government. Reading a EULA will make you anti-corporation.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Porky no the dos?

      • Nephilium

        The court decisions to consider click through EULAs as binding has always been bullshit.

    • Suthenboy

      Makes a 3d map of your home….and possessions? Do these things have cameras? Mics?
      I promise you that whatever info it has it will relay to …..someone else.

      • Nephilium

        Yes, they do have cameras, and some have mics. It’ll also do dead reckoning measuring. Accuracy still seems to be woefully off though. I’ve read some reports of devices building maps using wireless as well, but I’m not sure how wide spread that is yet.

      • Threedoor

        Related to the cops when you are a bad boy.

  16. Ted S.

    Now that we’re a half hour in, let me repost something from the overnight thread:

    Local Stupid Party proposes emergency SNAP funding; Evil Party says, “We’re not giving you any positive publicity”

    KINGSTON – Republicans in the Ulster County Legislature late Thursday night called on Chairman Peter Criswell (D – Kingston) to convene an emergency meeting to consider authorizing $1.2 million in emergency funding to sustain the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

    […]

    Legislature Majority Leader Abe Uchitelle (D-City of Kingston) issued a statement on Friday, rebuffing the GOP plan.
    “The Republican proposal misses the reality that only New York State can add funds to our constituents’ SNAP benefits. These details matter. At the same time that my Republican colleagues were drafting their press release, our County Executive was actively directing $350,000 to local food pantries.

    So you can figure out a way to use money for this; you just don’t want to do it in a way that might make TEAM RED look good. (The same assholes last week passed a resolution decrying Trump’s Big Ugly Bill.)

    • Pat

      Withholding funding from food programs for the poor will show those heartless Republican bastards how much they care about the poor…

      Not for nothing, but I donate to a local food bank where I’m told they can put together something like 5 meals for every buck donated. If every legislator in the state kicked in $100, I wonder if that might be sufficient to keep their constituents from starving without fedbucks.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        It isn’t about helping the voters, it is about helping the “voters.”

  17. Common Tater

    “A mysterious aircraft crash near Nevada’s secretive Area 51 has triggered weeks of speculation, a military probe — and allegations of a government cover-up.

    The incident occurred Sept. 23 on public land just outside the boundaries of the classified base at Groom Lake, about 83 miles north-northwest of Las Vegas, according to the Air Force and KLAS-TV, which reported on the crash Thursday.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/10/31/us-news/area-51-unmanned-aircraft-crash-probed-by-air-force-fbi-as-claims-rumors-swirl/

    I’m not saying it was aliens.

  18. R C Dean

    “Not once. Ever.”

    Very interesting. He still didn’t quite learn his lesson though, since he concludes with “Never use your primary WiFi network for IoT devices”, rather than, “Avoid IoT devices like the plague”.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I have told the wife that if she ever tries one of those things in a house I live in, I will take the Discharging a Firearm in City Limits charge on my record.

      • (((Jarflax

        Shooting your wife is frowned upon

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        “Bitch Set Me Up!”

  19. rhywun

    Spain ‘regrets pain and injustice’ caused by colonisation of Mexico

    Never apologise.

    • Suthenboy

      No shit. Despite what they did they were a vast improvement to the place.

    • KSuellington

      We are very, very sorry that we came over and colonized you. We regret that we interrupted your mass human sacrifice. We now know better than to put an end to your vibrant society that was in the midst of attempting to please the God of the Sun by creating a pile of bodies that would have ended the crop pestilence and brought rain and prosperity to the land.

      • Chafed

        So much this.

      • KSuellington

        Thanks Chafed. I can also do a pretty good land acknowledgment.

  20. Common Tater

    “An unkosher ex-con, with a criminal record dating to the 1980s with over 40 arrests, has been burglarizing kosher groceries and delis on the Sabbath and High Holy Days for years – despite five prison stints.

    Serial schnorrer Angelo Robinson was arrested again on Oct. 16 for allegedly breaking into two Brooklyn stores in 2024….

    Robinson has served prison time for burglary and attempted burglary, and was most recently released from Bare Hill Prison upstate in 2023 after serving four years.

    He also went to prison in 2014, 2008, 2001, 1992 and 1986, for burglary, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/11/01/us-news/bandit-robs-jewish-stores-during-the-sabbath/

    oy vey

    • Chafed

      Time to hire an armed Sabbath goy.

  21. (((Jarflax

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    • Sean

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  22. Fourscore

    Jan, 1966, we sang along with Barry, it was on the Benning School for Boys hit parade.

    I have the CD and though I was never a Green Beret I can reflect back on those days with pride. Even then, at 28, I was about the oldest one in the class.

    • dbleagle

      When we stood up to sing it during our SF graduation (1986) my wife thought it was a joke……Then she saw everybody was serious and got a case of the giggles.

    • creech

      Isn’t it Kommiela’s new gig to drop the f bombs?

      • Common Tater

        The lefy has been doing the profanity thing for a while.

  23. Common Tater

    “Embattled BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors and her wife have dissolved their consulting business and sold their joint LA home, while she’s dropped her spouse’s name, The Post can reveal.

    Details about the personal moves surfaced as the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation that Cullors helped found is reportedly in the crosshairs of the Department of Justice for possibly defrauding its donors out of tens of millions of dollars during the country’s 2020 racial-justice protests….

    Cullors abruptly resigned from the organization in 2021 amid widespread scrutiny over her lavish lifestyle and million-dollar real-estate buying binge.

    Among the properties that raised eyebrows was a sprawling Toronto mansion bought by M4BJ, a Toronto-based non-profit set up by Cullors’ wife Janaya Khan and other Canadian activists, in 2021.”

    https://nypost.com/2025/10/31/us-news/blm-co-founder-patrisse-cullors-and-wife-dissolve-joint-biz-sell-home-as-she-drops-spouses-name/

    CWAC

    • Pat

      Details about the personal moves surfaced as the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation that Cullors helped found is reportedly in the crosshairs of the Department of Justice

      I forget, is this ReTriBuTioN or rAciSM?

    • rhywun

      They could be photographed torturing puppies in the middle of Fifth Avenue and the professional Left would still proudly display the slogans and mouth the incantations.

    • Threedoor

      I saw a large portrait of St George of fent in the window of a Portland business yesterday. Gave me a chuckle.

      Please put up your rainbow flags and black fists so I know not to spend money at your outfit.

  24. Common Tater

    “Julia Fox defended her blood-soaked Jackie Kennedy costume on Friday after she was hit by intense backlash….

    However, Julia’s recreation was branded ‘tasteless’ and ‘disrespectful’ by fans and controversial grandson of JFK, Jack Schlossberg, who lambasted her choice.

    Sharing her reasons in an Instagram post, Julia later wrote: ‘I’m dressed as Jackie Kennedy in the pink suit. Not as a costume, but as a statement.'”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15248347/Julia-Fox-defends-Jackie-Kennedy-costume-halloween-backlash.html

    OFFS! It’s such a popular Halloween costume I’ve seen it for sale.

    • Suthenboy

      Too soon I guess.
      Try Mary Todd next time.

      • (((Jarflax

        Calpurnia to be safe

    • Pat

      The actress, 35, who recreated the look the former First Lady wore on the day of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, said it was a ‘statement to her extraordinary bravery.’

      It was a Halloween costume, not a statement on anything. Just tell people to fuck off if they’re offended. If the Kennedy assassination were a person it’d be old enough to start collecting early social security FFS.

    • creech

      +1 “Animal House”

  25. Suthenboy

    ‘Species’ are highly adapted to their local environment. After collecting 450 leaves from different oaks I could not find two that were identical in pattern. There is large overlap between red and white, cherry bark and English oaks.
    Success in germinating acorns drops precipitously about 20 miles out from the source of the seed, which also happens to be about the maximum distance oak pollen is carried on the wind.

    Keep that in mind when you hear biologists trying to draw bright lines between ‘species’, especially extinct, fossilized ones.

    Now do ‘human’ and our ancestors.

    • Threedoor

      I didn’t know that about the range of germination. Interesting. Lots of local variation and adaptation to microclimates I would have to guess. Neat.

      • Threedoor

        Is there a paper I can read on it?

    • Pat

      Stunning and brave.

    • rhywun

      😨

      And everyone throws a party sponsored by Disney and Hard Rock, right…?

      • Tres Cool

        I’m not sorry I dont know who most of those people are.
        “Internet Star” ?

    • Chafed

      It’s a man, baby!

  26. DEG

    I found the injunction order in the SNAP case.

    Neither side in the case disputes that Congress set up a contingency fund for SNAP in 2024 which lasts until September, 2026. The sides dispute whether or not the contingency fund can be used for SNAP during the shutdown. The Federal government says it cannot, the states suing say it can be.

    The injunction does not order the government to use the fund. It orders the government to respond by Nov. 3rd as to whether or not the government will authorize use of the contingency fund. There has not been a trial yet.

    There is a separate case in the Federal district court for Rhode Island which issued an order from Judge McConnell last night that the government pay SNAP from the contingency fund. This morning, only orders up to and including the 30th are posted so I can’t see what the actual order says. I can find lots of news articles on it, but I’d rather see the actual order.

    • juris imprudent

      …but I’d rather see the actual order.

      Harrumph! You’ll get the ‘information’ we decide you need! /dying-media

    • Threedoor

      Get a job.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    “Judge says Trump must release funds for SNAP”

    Did he happen to mention what he based this on, other than the “big meanie clause”?

    • DEG

      I don’t know whom you’re replying to, but in the court order that I linked, Congress set up a contingency fund for SNAP in 2024 that lasts until September, 2026. So Congress has set up funding. The question is not whether or not Congress has set up funding, but whether or not the funding can be used in the current situation.

      The MA district judge thinks it can and that the plaintiffs will prevail at trial. You can read the order to see her reasoning.

      The RI district judge’s order is not yet available. There are a lot of news articles on it, but none that I found link to an order, so I’ll wait for the order to find out what that judge based his order on.

  28. Common Tater

    “An essay by Josh Hammer, a senior editor-at-large at Newsweek, ignited a sharp debate within conservative circles on Wednesday after he suggested in a Daily Mail column that Tucker Carlson — the onetime Fox News host who has remained an influential voice on the right — must be “neutralized” to preserve the Republican coalition.”

    https://www.americanewsnation.com/2025/10/30/newsweek-editor-under-fire-after-recommending-tucker-carlson-be-neutralized/

    I didn’t read it that way, but apparently it’s causing a bit of a stir with the usual suspects chiming in.

    • juris imprudent

      I’ll wait for David French to give me guidance. /clueless conservatives

    • Pat

      Will no one rid Mr. Hammer of this turbulent priest?

      • slumbrew

        Thank you for your use of ‘turbulent’

    • PutridMeat

      The pearl clutching about ‘neutralize’ is just ridiculous. Oh noes, he said ‘neutralize’ after the death of Charlie Kirk, PBUH. All you conservative bitches are just a much whiny little bitches at the left. Knock it off. It’s clear what the guy meant, stop playing their fucking victim game.

      For the record, I don’t think Carlson needs to be neutralized – if he goes off the rails, I’d like to see it in real time. Just because I agree with him on some stuff doesn’t mean I need to lap up everything leaking out of his pie-hole. And I’d rather see for myself where he goes wrong. Maybe he ‘needs to be neutralized’ if your game is manipulating and lying your way to maintaining power and influence, but that’s your game you Hollywood for ugly people fucks.

      • juris imprudent

        Tucker threatens to become the Joe Rogan of the right. [snore]

      • Suthenboy

        This.
        Tucker Carlson doesnt need to be neutralized. That is akin to the left censoring.
        If Carlson is making a stir that upsets the R’s then maybe they should pull their heads out of their asses. He is making a stir because he is largely right. shutting him up wont fix the bumblefuckery of the Rs.

        BTW R’s where is my goddamned fucking Obamacare repeal?

      • Threedoor

        They claim to like markets.
        Hate the market of ideas.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Pre crime squad

    The alleged plot involved a group of young people, some of whom are minors, who had been engaging online with Islamic extremist content. But the sources said the investigation was in its early stages, with no criminal charges prepared and no clear understanding of what exactly the suspects planned to do and where.

    Devil worshippers, no doubt.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    I don’t know whom you’re replying to

    Just a general comment on a string of headlines on the google nooz. As for reading the order, I don’t speak gibberish.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    Patel’s announcement also came as he has been under fire for his use of the FBI jet for personal trips, including what flight records showed was a flight by an FBI Gulfstream jet last week to State College, Pennsylvania, where his country singer girlfriend was performing, and then to Nashville, where she lives.

    More evidence of Trump’s corruption.

  32. The Late P Brooks

    “Trump shows off remodeled Lincoln bathroom.”

    That doesn’t look ADA-compliant.

    • creech

      How dare Trump destroy 100 years of history! Think of all the luminaries who took a crap in that bathroom.

    • Common Tater

      Mark Lilla

      “The MAGA movement is not fed by conservative ideas but by a nihilistic, apocalyptic determination to stage a counterrevolution against the Sixties, against liberalism, against even democracy itself….

      What is “conservatism”? Just a word. There is no essence to “conservatism,” any more than there is to “liberalism,” or “the right,” or “the left.” These are labels we make for little boxes into which we drop things that seem related, for reasons we can’t always articulate and sometimes can’t even remember….”

      https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/11/06/storm-warnings-when-the-clock-broke-furious-minds/

      It goes on from there and hits a paywall.

    • Common Tater

      But please, Salon, continue your egghead arguments for name-calling.

      “To briefly summarize Lilla’s most recent foray into our current national predicament, he argues emphatically that Trumpism is not conservatism, and is also not fascism. Well, then, what is it? He posits that “the MAGA right is fed not by conservative ideas but by chthonic forces in human nature that at different points in history gather like a hurricane and can level any decent political order…

      To say that fascism as a political system is confined to three European examples from the 1930s is equivalent to saying that we cannot describe Switzerland as a democracy because the term properly applies only to ancient Athens.

      By the same logic, Trump cannot be a dictator (a term Lilla never uses), whatever the enormity of his unchallenged executive orders, because a dictator was elected by the Roman Senate. If that were true, then even Hitler was not a “real” dictator. Lilla boggles at labeling a system as fascist simply because it is a taboo word that one should not mention.”

      • rhywun

        Scientifically proven literally worse than Hitler!

    • juris imprudent

      Trump himself isn’t fascist, but our entire system of government has been trending that way since we “defeated” them in 1945.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Hey that Il Duce and Herr Kanzler guys had some good ideas for getting out of the Great Depression. So good we kept those programs ever since

      • (((Jarflax

        Since before we fought them.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    What kind of racist xenophobic shithole requires citizenship to vote?

    “The court’s ruling confirms what we have long argued: the President may not rewrite election law to impose a burdensome show-your-papers rule that would shut out countless Americans from the ballot box,” reads a joint statement from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) about the ruling.

    “This executive order was an attempted overreach of power, bypassing the Constitution’s clear allocation of authority to Congress and the states to set election rules,” the statement continued. “Our democracy is strongest when every eligible voter can register and vote free from expensive and unnecessary requirements.”

    The lawsuit against the Trump administration was brought forth by the League of Women Voters Education Fund, League of Women Voters of the United States, League of Women Voters of Arizona, Hispanic Federation, NAACP, OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates, and Asian and Pacific Islander Vote.

    It’s a victory for freedom loving people everywhere.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Only one way out of it and it won’t be pretty. We will continue to pay until it all collapses

      • Fourscore

        …but first we have to go through a period of hyperinflation…

    • rhywun

      It’s almost like the plan all along was to keep people dependent on Uncle Sugar forever.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Our Democrat-ocracy is in grave peril

    The former president’s allies say he, more than anyone, understands the stakes in next week’s elections, and that’s why he has been increasingly vocal in recent weeks.

    He is growing worried, allies say, about Trump’s directives and is no longer convinced that the nation can survive another three years of the current administration’s policies.

    “He sees what’s happening and he is distraught, to put it lightly,” one ally to the former president said.

    Poor Obama. His legacy is in tatters.

    • Suthenboy

      “…no longer convinced that the nation can survive another three years of the current administration’s policies.”

      Says the POS that actively tried to destroy the nation and is still at it.

    • Fourscore

      maybe it wasn’t hacked, just biographical

      • Common Tater

        Wonder Woman’s golden lasso?

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Party of hate and fear

    Last week, Democratic strategist James Carville went on a hate-filled rant, to the delight of his podcast audience. He declared that anyone supporting Trump and the Republicans will be treated like collaborators in World War II who were publicly abused and paraded by mobs.

    “You know what we do with collaborators?” he said. “I think these corporations [funding White House renovations] — my fantasy dream is that this nightmare ends in 2029 and I think we ought to have radical things. I think they all ought to have their heads shaven, they should be put in orange pajamas and they should be marched down Pennsylvania Avenue and the public should be invited to spit on them.”

    Carville later repeated the call that “The universities, the corporations, the law firms, all of these collaborators should be shaved, pajamaed and spit on.”

    Embrace your inner hyena.

    • Fourscore

      Don’t boss him, don’t cross him, he’s wild in his sorrow

    • rhywun

      I’ll take the hyperventilating over the new East Wing seriously when president AOC tears it down on Day One.

    • Suthenboy

      He wants purges and death camps so bad he can taste it. Let the hate flow through you Jimmy. Let if flow.

      • juris imprudent

        He wants to get back in the good graces of the Democratic party?

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Do the trick

    President Trump on Thursday evening placed a candy bar on a young trick-or-treater’s head during a Halloween event on the White House’s South Lawn, repeating a viral moment from his first administration.

    In 2019, the president placed chocolate bar on a child’s head who was dressed as a character from the “Minions” movie. This year, he did the same to a child dressed as the DJ Marshmello.

    Did he expect the kid to flick the candy into the air and catch it in his mouth like a dog?

    • Suthenboy

      That’s what I was thinking….but the kid has to hold still until the command is given.

    • Fourscore

      Wrapped/unwrapped?

      /Curious

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Trump should have had a set of devil horns on his hat.

    • The Last American Hero

      Should have dressed as sleepy Joe, or maybe Obama.

  38. Threedoor

    The left is marching.

    I saw a lone nutjob standing on a street corner in Stevenson WA yesterday with a sign that said “release the 10,000 Palestinian Hostages.”

  39. Threedoor

    What did the Roman’s do for us.

    The population estimates for meso America of “15 million to 30” down to two are laughable.

    The entire western hemisphere likely didn’t have 25 million at the time.