Well, the pressure is off, I no longer have to pretend to root for the Bills. And TBH, if I could pick a Super Bowl from the remaining teams, I’d want to see the Bears vs Texans. It likely won’t happen, but a boy can dream. Anyway, Prime loaded me up with pizza, beer, and pastries yesterday, and read the article on Stochastic Martyrdom I posted yesterday. Her reaction: “Smart and provoking.” I may have a keeper here. Anyway, I’ll watch today’s sportsball events, glass in hand, and try to actually get a few things done around the house.
But we do need first to see who was born today. In history, that is, before they changed the water. For example, a guy who I have trouble finding words to describe; a guy who was needed; a guy who was the subject of one of my favorite short stories and movies; a physicist who fits the theme; a brilliant fat man; a climate activist with actual integrity- who paid dearly for that; one of the guys who ruined Major League Baseball; an embarrassment to Lehigh; the very best character on The Wire; and a guy who just needed to be a bit more quiet.
I shall not be quiet when it comes to Links.
Am I allowed to hate everybody?
Hey, “nation-building” has worked so well for us, let’s do it again but with even worse people.
“You want stochastic martyrdom? We’ll give you stochastic martyrdom.”
Team Red: the party of limited government.
It’s sweet when couples find new activities to do together.
The kneel down: football’s most dangerous play.
Any list of the best guitarists in rock that doesn’t include Steve Howe is a worthless piece of shit put together by hacks. Here’s proof. While waiting for Les Paul, he absolutely clones him on one of Paul’s best known pieces. And perfectly. I mean… perfectly. The Old Guy might have voted for Ron Paul, but if Les Paul had been running….
It could be Bears vs. Seahawks.
Next weekend, perhaps.
Next weekend? Sure. In the Super Bowl, I don’t think so.
That’s what I get for wandering off to actually read a link, isn’t it?
Well, obviously.
“Confrontations between residents and federal officers have become increasingly tense in Minneapolis, Minnesota’s most-populous city, after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good, a U.S. citizen and mother of three, on January 7 as she was driving away after being ordered to exit her car.”
Yeah, that’s the complete story.
Mostly peaceful
https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-allegedly-assaulted-flagpole-minneapolis-anti-ice-agitators-violent-parking-garage-attack
Hot time in a cold town. Coldest part of winter, let’s see if that cools things off.
“as she was driving away”
I have no idea what her intentions were when she hit the gas.
I am willing to cut the ICE guy some slack for saying “Fucking bitch” after she hit him with her car, though.
I don’t know what it’s going to take to break this cycle of quasi-insurrection and Third World invasion. Well, I kinda do, but I would prefer to avoid “rivers of blood” scenarios.
Firing Pam Bondi then, for once in his 2 terms, appointing an Attorney General who doesn’t actively work against Trump would be a good first step.
as she was driving away after being ordered to exit her car
Yeah, even that benign statement is called non-compliance with a lawful order. Should it result in a fatality, no, but you play stupid games…
It shouldn’t result in a fatality, but she is the one in charge of the car, which became a deadly weapon as soon as she hit the agent. It was one of those super stupid series of actions that went up the escalator to being super deadly.
What they leave out has always been just as important as what they include. Lies by exclusion are the MSM’s superpower.
Yeah, it’s another powerful tactic in their arsenal. They are deliberately whipping up hysteria right along with the local politicians and the DNC in general and no dirty trick is out of bounds.
Yesterday we were talking about how Iranian protests could tip into revolution. We’re right there too.
I’d have trouble caring if ICE or the military ended up with a Kent State incident in Minneapolis.
Kent state didn’t go far enough.
I didn’t even know he broke his ankle until halftime of the following game.
They don’t make ’em like they used to.
a guy who was needed
Happy birthday Anne Murray!
a guy who was the subject of one of my favorite short stories and movies
Happy birthday Frank Mundus!
It’s sweet when couples find new activities to do together.
When will a family size model be available?
Am I allowed to hate everybody?
They all hate (((you))).
“Hey, “nation-building” has worked so well for us, let’s do it again but with even worse people.”
I suppose Gazans are worse than Afghanis, but it’s a close call.
It’s probably a minor miracle we haven’t tried to do any nation-building in sub-Saharan Africa.
Liberia says Hello. It’s naked and holding a bloody machete so you should probably reply.
That wasn’t so much nation-building as dumping-ground.
Our besties with the same Constitution that nobody wants to talk about.
Experiments in democracy?
The practice of bachi bazi says no they aren’t.
Sex toy or human shield? I can’t hate them both enough.
Now be fair, I am sure the Afghans will hide behind their dancing boys at need, and I am equally sure Hamas has buggered a human shield during goat shortages.
“a new-and-improved euthanasia capsule, now augmented with AI”
SMOD, hear my prayer.
Soylent Green is people! Doesn’t seem so corny now does it?
the very best character on The Wire
Happy birthday Wendell Pierce!
Mel Gibson?
sad-josh-allen.jpg LOL
Yeah, he should be sad. He sucked.
Wasn’t his fault his receiver couldn’t win that wrestling match.
Never mind how one guy is down by contact with the ball, but the other isn’t.
+1 MD Jennings
“Army-Navy game”
HOW is that EO legal? The executive definitely has too much power if he can just make stupid decrees like this that’ll be enforced.
The Emperor has spoken!
That’s definitely the vibe.
Technically, as Commander-in-Chief, can’t he order the service academies to schedule the game at a certain date and time?
What the broadcasters do, however, shouldn’t be subject to any executive order.
I suppose so but it’s petty. At the end of the day it’s just a football game.
His base will eat it up though, and the clapping/barking seals are the most important thing to Trump.
Will they? Plenty in his base seem to be getting tired of him concentrating on and taking decisive action against inconsequential things.
I head midnight is clear.
“Will They?”
Don’t underestimate the stupidity caused by patriotism, nationalism, and jingoism.
YEAH! There needs to be a law, and congress, and votes and shit!
(Sometimes, you just need to let the leader lead, no?)
I’m starting to think this shit is more about driving the left nuts than pleasing his base. Driving them in circles with useless trivialities at least keeps them from too distracted to plot their usual grifts because they are too stupid to perform simultaneous activities.
Nancy Pelosi laughs and laughs.
Someone should create a video urging the Minnesota National Guard to disobey unlawful orders.
“an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good[…]as she was driving away after being ordered to exit her car”
The dishonesty of this statement is staggering.
“Driving away over the body of a Federal Agent..”?
I am going to start punching the air. If you get in the way it’s your fault.
““an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good”
He sure did!
So, she was a femme fatal then?
Even sports aren’t immune to the woo in San Francisco.
He needed tinfoil socks.
Technically that’s in Santa Clara, not San Francisco. :-p
Follow-up on hating everybody in Minneapolis:
https://nypost.com/2026/01/17/us-news/minneapolis-protesters-attack-jake-lang-as-he-shouts-we-deserve-a-future-for-white-americans/
“Leftwing protesters attacked and allegedly stabbed pardoned Jan. 6 rioter and Florida Senate candidate Jake Lang Saturday after his “March Against Fraud” was met with violent pushback in Minneapolis, video showed.
Lang was repeatedly bashed on the back of the head by several protesters who swung fists, flags, and objects as he fled the chaotic scene, video posted to X showed.”
No mention of any arrests.
“Can’t we all just get along” is so last century.
The current hotness is identifying the wrong-thought and attacking it with violent hatred.
There’s vids of bands of leftist douchebags accosting random white guys (they seem to be stupidly filming themselves doing it) and beating their asses if they refuse to make the appropriate “Fuck ICE” proclamation. Can’t we all get along is out the window.
they seem to be stupidly filming themselves doing it
It’s not stupid when you know the authorities are providing cover for you.
It sounds stupid but watch it work, lol.
I have my own ideas on what might work in that miserable place but I don’t think the UN would be pleased.
Nuke everything between the Nile and Indus?
Newsletter etc
Slutty Sunday ladies that know something about the kneel down.
https://archive.is/SAkoV
How about that. An east-coast outpost of stochastic martyrdom.
4K assholes are going to make it miserable for a city of millions. All it’d take would be the NYPD cracking down on riotious activity in the beginning to tamp it down but we know that won’t happen.
Ah, yes. The mid-sixties are going through a rebirth. The SDS and Castro, pretty sure we will see bombing start up again, which will devolve into armed car and bank robbery, with a little nepo baby kidnapping a la Patty Hurst.
Maybe we will get a new punk rock out of it, seeing how much of modern pop music sucks.
Can we get good music out of it?
Modern pop music makes the hair bands of the late ‘80s and groups like Wilson Phillips look like like freaking Beethoven.
You leave
BritneyTay-tay alone!TEds, Yep, the good music will be out of it. Good music will be a historical fact.
The next Hurricane Sandy that hits, NY isn’t getting any disaster relief.
Shut down the entire airspace over NYC and Newark.
“Ski jumping rocked by ‘penis-gate’ claims athletes manipulated genitals for aerodynamic edge”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/17/world-news/ski-jumping-rocked-by-penis-gate-claims-athletes-manipulated-genitals-for-aerodynamic-edge/
STIJLTH
+1 tuck?
Trans ski jumpers?
according to the article kind of the opposite of tuck, apparently big dick energy prolongs the glide…
big dick energy prolongs the glide
So that explains the shortcomings of Eddie the Eagle.
This sorting thing is my bag baby!
“New York City socialists are mustering an army of more than 4,000 anti-ICE activists to form “rapid response” battalions and obstruct the feds in an expected imminent crackdown on illegal migrants in the Big Apple.
Mayor Mamdani’s comrades with the DSA outlined the mission Thursday at a monthly meeting of their Immigrant Justice Working Group in the swanky Midtown digs of the Chinese Communist Party-linked People’s Forum, where photos of communist idols Fidel Castro and Che Guevara decorate the walls.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/18/us-news/nyc-socialists-mustering-army-of-4000-anti-ice-activists-to-bring-minnesota-tactics-to-big-apple/
CWABOA
““The immigrant crisis is part of the US imperialist project, and yet we treat immigrants to the experience of ICE,” complained Landry, a tenant organizer in Crown Heights and DSA member.”
Que?
All their gibberish just boils down to “smash the system”. The revolution was never about logic or common sense.
It’s going to get interesting when the new communist mayor riots right along with them. You know he will not be able to resist.
You see, not letting millions of illegals stream over the border is imperialism.
I can’t imagine that trust fund baby would risk getting his hands dirty.
He seems to be more of the quasi intellectual communist type who whips the mouth breathers into a frenzy and then sits back chuckling to himself over their gullibility from the safety of his own house while they fuck up their lives. I’d imgine Lenin and Trotsky got endless hours of yuk yuks from that type of thing.
Democrats used to be against illegal immigration because it drove down wages and undermined unions. Are those things no longer important?
Are those things no longer important?
Only to Blue Collar White Males and they all voted for Trump so…
No, the White working class is succeptable to the wrong messages from time to time and have been replaced on the list of priorities. In other words, they’ve moved on from class struggle to race struggle.
Oh it is still a class struggle, the college-educated versus them ignorant grunt working types.
Will drugs fall out of their asses too?
““This has been in the past in New York specifically enough to deter ICE detentions,” said Marina, an elusive Queens based musical artist who only goes by “Marina F” in her synth-pop two-person band The Observation Room, and who specializes in “sleazy, neon and queer sounds.”
I can’t wait to listen to it.
Sleazy is covered. Dunno about neon or queer.
What is a “queer sound?”
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
If a limp wrist flaps in the woods and no lumberjack hears it did it make a sound?
GO RAMS!!!
baa ram ewe
Hey, “nation-building” has worked so well for us, let’s do it again but with even worse people.
Kick everyone out and give the area to Disney to make a Holly Land theme park. Disney could use a break anyway
“You want stochastic martyrdom? We’ll give you stochastic martyrdom.”
Trump should ban hockey. Thatll show em
Narrow gaze photo? Can I get a narrow gaze photo here?
Team Red: the party of limited government.
I mean in the grand scheme of things this is nothing.
The precedent is what’s important.
All the damn precedents have been precedented
No.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/we-bonk-days-time-family-36525990
Why does your grown daughter know anything about your vaginal activities?
“Sometimes we go to bed and bonk for 48 hours solid, stopping only to order in food and drink wine.”
Gross. I hope they invested in a quality air freshener.
This is AI asking and AI answering
Shit can’t even pass an Eastern European Turing Test.
Once I worked with a younger guy who on Mondays wanted to brag about his sexual exploits during the weekend. I got great at shutting him down. “Oh that’s great, I had a good weekend too…” *proceeds to change subject*
It sounds like the mom and daughter don’t live together, so why does the mom feel the need to overshare? Just say “We hung out together this weekend” and leave it at that.
“An outbreak of deadly bacteria at a Bay Area homeless encampment has sparked urgent calls for action in Los Angeles, with officials warning the disease may already be circulating in the city.
The bacterial disease leptospirosis was found in rats at encampments in the hippie college town of Berkeley, leading health officials there to issue an urgent warning to the homeless to clear out.
Officials told them to relocate at least a third of a mile from the “red zone” encompassing several square blocks as soon as possible. The warning comes as authorities attempted remove the encampment last year but were blocked by a federal judge.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/17/us-news/deadly-bacteria-at-a-bay-area-homeless-encampment-sparks-urgent-calls-for-action/
California is becoming a third world shithole.
“An outbreak of deadly bacteria at a Bay Area homeless encampment“
Solution, meet problem. Problem, solution.
Spreading disease is a human right.
+1 monkey pox
becoming
Wrong verb tense.
I’d say let the leptospirosis kill the homeless, but it will escape into the general population.
Where’s the white van that says “Free Drugs” ?
The solution involves napalm. It will save the village!
Napalm = literally warm collectivism
John Dory
@johndory1914
Impressions from electoral district Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg 1, where the Greens always perform exceptionally well with around 40 % of the vote
It‘s also one of the very few areas in central Berlin where the architecture remains largely unchanged since ca 1910
https://x.com/johndory1914/status/2012842336506544217
Good old luxury beliefs
No pics of the bombed-out no-man’s lands where the wall used to run?
Ah, Kreuzberg, birthland of international communism.
I’m sure the eighth Airforce changed that scenery.
“California governor hopeful Rep. Eric Swalwell vowed to strip Immigration Customs Enforcement officers of their driver’s licenses in a candidates forum — even though the state grants licenses to illegal immigrants.
“They’re going to lose their immunity, they’re not gonna be able to drive. I will take your driver’s license. Good luck walking to work, a–holes,” Swalwell said at the Empowerment Congress California Governor Forum Saturday.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/17/us-news/eric-swalwell-vows-to-revoke-ice-officers-drivers-licenses-good-luck-walking-to-work-a-holes/
CWAA
“Former California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill into law that allowed illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses in 2013, and the law went into effect two years later.”
WTF??
To make it easier for them to work illegally, duh.
Whatever it takes to keep ’em coming.
Jerry Brown was two times the worst governor of that state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxgwjC3Rxi4
Meanwhile convicted murderers, pimps, and kid diddlers feel free…wouldn’t hold up in court anyway.
Look pimpin aint easy but it is necessary
He is so charming. Does California even deserve him?
Welcome to today’s Democratic Party where being honey-trapped by the Nation’s primary rival, having a room temperature IQ, and threatening to use nuclear weapons against US citizens gets you a Governorship.
In fairness, you’re just going to hand the nomination to Katie Porter?
I’m sure there are some other loons yet to be heard from.
And people wonder why they don’t go after the employers.
Because taking a piece of plastic from a person removes their skills.
It’s nice to see a type of federal employee that Democrats won’t simp for…
Roger Waters says Iranians don’t want regime change.
He also says the police in Iran came out to protect shopkeepers, and were attacked by violent thugs.
https://x.com/NazaninNour/status/2012370808232939751
This is totally unexpected.
There seems to be some sort of connection between hating Jews and supporting the regime in Iran. It’s a mystery.
Nonono there is no hatred just antizionism is all
No Jews no Zionism. It’s the final solution. Ok, not really final, but it will free resources for the Anti-Christendom and Anti-Enlightenment projects.
Gary Stevenson is giving talks on wealth inequality. Tickets are $175
That’s how socialism works
https://x.com/robprogressive/status/2012455933822050354
Kids on the next street are having a pre-dawn pool party. FML.
“Shown above is influencer Aspyn Ovard who received a breast enhancement at the Cleavage Clinic. She is pictured before, left,and after her procedure”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15435713/breast-enhancement-New-York-Cleavage-Clinic.html
“It’s the same picture.”
Went from small and slightly saggy to small and less slightly saggy. Totally worth the money and the risk.
Does he ever miss?
https://x.com/Babygravy9/status/2012592639585972405
Lol
The hapless San Francisco 49ers. That was embarrassing.
Gary Stevenson is giving talks on wealth inequality. Tickets are $175
That’s how socialism works
That cheered me up.
We are awash in pantomime martyrs.
Squeeze with Very Special Guest Billy Bragg tickets: £145, includes the soundcheck VIP experience.
https://songkick.seetickets.com/event/squeeze/ovo-hydro/3552724?pref1=42902429&aff=id1songkick
Champagne socialism is the worst socialism.
lol
I am not aware of Squeeze’s politics but Billy Bragg ugh. His are quite well known.
Who?
Squeeze are a famous early new-wave band. Billy Bragg is a noted communist who sings too.
“As survivors face pressure to sell their land in Altadena, a historic Black community, experts say we’re witnessing ‘climate gentrification’”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/altadena-wildfire-displacement
climate gentrification?
Whites flaunting the wealth they stole from blacks via slavery.
Selling land for a tidy profit is so White.
But, is selling land for a tiddy profit black?
I don’t know man, drought like conditions and powerful winds in SoCal never happened before.
Cry me a river.
I get calls all the time from scammers trying to ‘buy’ my vacant lot too.
I dont get local tap rooms. Dead of winter 25 taps no stouts no porters whyyyyyy
Also what the fuck is a raz weiss and why the fuck does it exist. I hate people
Raz Weizz is probably a derivative of a framboise.
Or worse, the only stouts are the ‘Imperials’ that taste like sugar mixed into used motor oil…
They should set up bleachers and sell tickets
Conservative influencer Jake Lang organized an anti-Islam, anti-Somali and pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demonstration, saying on social media beforehand that he intended to “burn a Quran” on the steps of City Hall. But it was not clear if he carried out that plan.
Only a small number of people showed up for Lang’s demonstration while hundreds of counterprotesters converged at the site, yelling over his attempts to speak and chasing the pro-ICE group away. They forced at least one person to take off a shirt they deemed objectionable.
Lang appeared to be injured as he left the scene, with bruises and scrapes on his head.
The army of the Righteous will prevail.
ICE should hire a bunch of the Jan. 6 stormtroopers that Donald pardoned and post them at strategic positions around town in order to distract the cows so they can get back to work.
Q-Anon Shaman could probably use the work.
Honestly this is a great premise for a sitcom:
In the icy wasteland of Greenland, a ragtag NATO detachment of 13 Germans, 2 Norwegians, 3 Swedes, 15 French and 1 lone Brit must “defend” the Arctic from… well, mostly boredom, polar bears, and each other’s national stereotypes.
Stationed at a remote outpost in Nuuk, their biggest enemies are cabin fever, frozen plumbing, the Danes who keep forgetting they’re there, and each other. They’re constantly prepping to counter the absurd threat of an American takeover with the total force smaller than a pub trivia team.
https://x.com/MsMelChen/status/2011970173373464674
We’re skipping over the tragic phase of history and going direct to farce?
AWFL thinks they have no racial or cultural hatred’s because the are all white.
“Virginia Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger reversed a high-profile immigration enforcement policy established by outgoing Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
Spanberger, sworn in earlier in the day as Virginia’s 75th governor and the first woman to hold the office, signed an executive action rescinding Executive Order 47—a directive issued last year that had authorized Virginia State Police and Department of Corrections personnel to assist federal immigration authorities under a 287(g) agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/spanberger-rescinds-youngkin-executive-order-requiring-cooperation-ice
CWAC
Can’t wait for her to issue Order 66.
Why let Minnesota and New York have all the sanctuary fun. They can be just as welcoming to illegal alien criminals as any other state.
Change the state motto to “Virginia is for Rapists”
And here we go.
I’m getting my condo in shape to sell. I can’t get out of this state fast enough.
Uh. Curt Flood (eventually) going to SCOTUS to kick-start free agency was an immense positive for players, MLB and sports. (Not so much for him, IIRC. But he could play. Respect. ) I’m also free to hate the Yankees back when, and the Dodgers right now, for their insistence on buying the best team, and the problems this causes for the lower-tier teams that can’t afford to ‘properly’ compete. Problems remain the same. Just different garnish.
Some more luxury tax or salary cap shit is being hammered out, to which eventual end.. idk. (Shocked the Blue Gays are in the Top 3 in spending. Forgot the ownership.)
It was a positive for the players definitely, and probably for the league in the longer term. I don’t know that it was great for sports. I guess it depends on whether you look at the business side or the sporting side.
“A new bill that was introduced in the Virginia House of Delegates would set limits on how January 6 can be discussed in the classroom at public schools….
The bill requires that the event be characterized as an “unprecedented, violent attack on United States democratic institutions, infrastructure, and representatives for the purpose of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election,” according to the bill text.
The bill also outlines that those in the classroom can “not state, suggest, or present as credible a statement or suggestion that there was extensive election fraud that could have changed or actually changed the results of the 2020 presidential election.”
Additionally, those giving instruction about the events can “not describe, portray, or present as credible a description or portrayal of the actions precipitating or involved in the events of the January 6, 2021, insurrection as peaceful protest.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/new-virginia-bill-seeks-to-mandate-democrat-j6-propaganda-in-public-schools
WTF??
Revolution: Gold star; Riot: Detention…another thing that won’t hold up in court.
Wow. Straight up Soviet. Fuck the first amendment.
Burn down your local government propaganda center.
Time to remind myself for the 90001st time that everything I love will be destroyed along with the assholes if we give in to rage and start crucifying leftists.
Yeah. But still…
It has been destroyed, we are living in the shadow of a memory of liberty.
We are still a functioning economy, sort of, and we have not yet reached the point where we have to live in fortified compounds because 50 separate armed political movements are conducting nightly raids to terrorize and loot the others and the uncommitted.
Land of the free, home of the brave.
Pantomime martyrs, assemble!
A New Hampshire Episcopal bishop’s stark warning to his clergy is resonating across the nation, drawing fervent praise from some and rebukes from others.
Bishop Rob Hirschfeld was one of several community and faith leaders gathered in Concord, N.H., for a vigil for Renee Macklin Good just days after she was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis.
Hirschfeld called out the “cruelty, the injustice and the horror … unleashed in Minneapolis,” and warned his clergy to prepare for “a new era of martyrdom.”
“I’ve asked them to get their affairs in order to make sure they have their wills written,” he said, “because it may be that now is no longer the time for statements, but for us with our bodies to stand between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable.”
Don’t forget your Harry Potter Magick Spellz Kit.
If that guy thinks gang members and other convicted criminals are the “most vulnerable” he needs to be defrocked.
I am missing Scott Adams this weekend. On Saturdays and Sundays I’d have a nice breakfast and watch his show.
The Reverend Betsy Hess of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Berlin, N.H. added her voice to the chorus of “amens” and immediately emailed the bishop to thank him.
Hess believes clergy “need to quit just being polite Episcopalians, and get out there and do stuff.” But exactly what she would do, and what level of risk she’s willing to take, is something she’s still figuring out.
“It used to be that … you might go to jail, and now you might get shot! So it makes us need to be a lot more brave,” she said. “I hope I would be brave, but I can’t promise that I would be able to. But definitely, it’s time to move beyond ‘I won’t do anything that has any risk whatsoever.'”
Git yer stompin’ boots on, Betsy. Go fuck some shit up.
Join in the cosplay, it’s fun!
Render unto Caesar, Betsy, and shut the hell up.
And mainline churches wonder why attendance is so low.
I remember when every church just stuck a tranny flag above the door to express how much they care. All of, like, a year ago.
That’s a good way to know not to go there.
I feel the same about the many homes around here flying flags for various “causes” – trannies, union “actions”, and Palestine being the most common right now. It is an easy way to identify people to avoid at all costs.
JI’s comments on slave morality have been striking home of late…
I had a conversation with my wife today that makes me think the midterms might not be as bad for Republicans as people are saying. I mentioned that during Biden’s reign, we had to unplug one of our two chest freezers because we couldn’t afford to by as much meat. Now they are both full and we have dozens of eggs in the fridge. She said that personally, financially, and in general, she’s feeling very optimistic about this year. She doesn’t completely stress out when she’s paying the bills anymore. To most people, that’s more important than Greenland or ICE raids.
This. I had to listen to an anti-Trump/Musk rant from my father yesterday. Then he ended with ” I do really like what he is doing economically.”
My reply: “Your personally feelings about them don’t mean shit. The economics is the only thing that counts”
To which he grudgingly shook his head ‘yes’ and scowled.
I really don’t get TDS. Insanity?
TDS: a) his braggadocious, in-your -face style b) a ‘man not ‘Of the Cloth’ is running for Priest c) (Most encompassing: ‘He’s not MY ‘not of the cloth’ GUY!’
We’re eight months or so out, so standard disclaimers about a lot can happen between now and then.
Polymarket has the odds of Democrats taking the House at 78%.
Polymarket has the odds of Republicans holding the Senate at 66%.
On the Senate, the set of seats up for election does not favor any big swing. The Democrats aren’t taking the Senate and the Republicans aren’t getting 60 votes.
The House is the interesting one.
The perception of the average voter of the economy is what will determine the outcome of the House midterm elections.
I’ll say for my part, my grocery bills are still high and for some items still getting higher. On the other hand, gasoline prices are dropping. The housing market in NH has always been tight ever since I moved here in ’98 largely due to regulations on building. The state government loosened a bunch of those regulations in the last legislative session. We’ll see how that shakes out.
The House is going to be a bloodbath and they’ll narrowly retain the Senate is my prediction but, as you say, we’ll see. Trump and those associated with him seem to override rational decision making in many cases.
Here’s what I would suggest for the Republicans to win the mid terms. Of course this requires them to DO something so it won’t happen. Apologies if someone already suggested this.
My plan: Write a series of very small, very simple bills that are LESS THAN one page long. For example: “Only US citizens can vote in elections. Any non-US citizen who votes in a national election, or anyone assisting a person in doing so, is subject to 10 years in prison.” Now put that up for a vote, and if it passes, great, but if not, you have ever Democrat on record voting against this. And no 600 page bills, because it’s all to easy to say “On page 237 paragraph 16 there is this terrible thing.”
I would subscribe to your newsletter.
I do think the increasingly unhinged behavior coming from the left is a sign of their worry about the midterms.
Shutting down the insurrection:
To all who fear ‘rivers of blood’ – This is all theater. I would be shut down in a day if the admin would quit fucking around and go after the money. Going at the useful idiots in the streets is futile. Go after the money. Who is funding this? Sing? Soros? Gates? Someone is funding this and ten bucks says the admin knows who it is. Take them down to the river at midnight and make sure they understand that if it doesn’t stop they will end up in a wheel chair shitting in a bag for the rest of their lives.
It will stop today.
I guess the theater is too valuable politically for the theater and outrage. It is all bullshit. Like most political problems the solution is obvious but no one has the will or desire to fix it.
Scientific de-escalation
If you have watched the videos on social media, you have probably seen large crowds surrounding ICE agents, blowing whistles, honking horns and yelling for the agency to leave the state. They are chaotic scenes, which has led a lot of people to raise the alarm that ICE Watch could spark more retaliatory violence from agents.
As a sociologist who studies violence, I know these concerns are misguided. They betray a fundamental misunderstanding of what ICE Watch is and why it’s an effective tool to protect a community whose rights are being flagrantly violated by the very people who swore an oath to uphold them.
Simply put, ICE Watch does not spur violence; it reduces it. It’s based on de-escalation tactics that have long historical roots in American antiviolence and civil rights movements, as well as a strong theoretical foundation in countless scientific studies about why violence happens and how it can be prevented.
It works great in the college psych classroom. Those ICE goons just haven’t studied the literature. They haven’t properly learned their parts in the morality play.
“As a sociologist who studies violence”
Ah, there we go. And I’m done.
The headline covers the dumbassery nicely.
Yeah and any headline that starts with “I’m a…” is an immediate ignore from me.
You could have stopped as soon as you saw its an M-Snow job.
Meanwhile, on the road to Davos
Outside of geopolitics, the debate over the independence of central banks is set to heat up the frosty peaks of Davos. Central bankers across the globe were outraged by the announcement of the Department of Justice launching a criminal probe into Federal Reserve Bank Chair Jerome Powell.
In a statement, Powell said the probe “is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates… or whether monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation.”
His peers from across the globe issued an astonishing letter of support, including signatures from ECB President Christine Lagarde and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, alongside others. Former ECB boss, Jean-Claude Trichet told Squawk Box Europe that markets were not taking the threat seriously enough, calling the situation “extremely grave.”
Central bank “independence” is under attack.
Maybe that investigation is about gross incompetence and misuse of funds.
Purge
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) on Saturday moved to reshape the boards of three state universities, appointing 27 new members within hours of taking office as the commonwealth’s first female governor.
At the University of Virginia, Spanberger named 10 appointees to the 17-member school board, a day after reportedly pressuring five members appointed by her Republican predecessor, former Gov. Glenn Youngkin, to resign. Those members included the board’s chair, vice chair and a major donor.
The swift changes in leadership follow more than a year of tension concerning the university’s future and its partisan direction.
Female leadership is all about inclusion and compromise.
She’s gonna punish that state hard for voting the wrong way last time, isn’t she.
-pressuring five members appointed by her Republican predecessor, former Gov. Glenn Youngkin, to resign
Pussies.
Viennese coffee houses.