Good morning one and all to another thrilling day!
In one of the most boring Super Bowls ever, Seahawks stifle Drake Maye, Patriots to capture Super Bowl LX
Seriously, it was so boring that all the headline news is about the shitty halftime show and the competing halftime show.
America’s 5 largest U.S. cities don’t have enough money to pay bills: report
Trump Approves Millions in Aid to Tennessee, Mississippi After Devastating Winter Storm
After Demanding ICE Adopt Body Cams, Democrats Worry They’ll Become Mass Surveillance Tools
Trump admin uncovers ‘staggering’ $8.6 billion in suspected California small business fraud
California Sues Companies for Supporting Ghost Gun Manufacturing
Texas creates new national record for most students applying to new school choice program
Lindsey Vonn airlifted after heartbreaking crash in women’s downhill at 2026 Olympics
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“In one of the most boring Super Bowls ever”
True.
People still watch that shit? I gave up a LOOOONGGG time ago on the crap…
Believe it or not, people do still watch the most watched telecast.
I watched the Superbowl.. I walked off to do some other crap during the halftime show. And I honestly can say i didn’t miss anything it sounds like.
You missed the Patriots inability to get out of first gear while being swarmed by defenders.
The Patriots couldn’t even protect Maye from a four man rush.
“Second verse, same as the first”
First of course being last SB.
The Patriots couldn’t even protect Maye from a four man rush.
^^^ So very much this. ^^^
As I mentioned last night, Will Campbell has been a concern all season and they just ran over him on every play last night. Maye never had time to do anything.
He does need to throw it away faster if he doesn’t want to cut his career short, but that’s SOP for young QBs. He’ll learn.
I never started. Got you all beat.
I actually liked the Super Bowl, but I enjoy watching two stifling defenses play as well as they did. Sam Darnold kept a lot of plays going by avoiding a significant number of sacks. If he were a little more accurate while moving, it would have been even worse for the Patsies.
Sorry, but why is Lindsey Vonn’s crash heartbreaking?
If you watched the 30 minute background report before the event you would know the struggles Lindsey overcame to compete.
It was definitely leg-breaking.
Because it is a slow news day.
She wasted a slot that could have gone to an up-and-comer?
^This
She ruptured her ACL two weeks ago, and decided she would still compete in the Olympics, knowing full well that she would likely have to exit due to injury.
That is nuts.
Torn ACL is months off for any athlete.
“Seriously, it was so boring that all the headline news is about the shitty halftime show”
I thought the stereotypical hispanic stuff was comically bad, and probably wasn’t intentional.
That made it unwatchable to me but I’m hearing there was some sort of “messaging” too because of course there was.
I thought he was going to be in a dress? I went away disappointed.
Yeah, I thought a major part of the “appeal” is how “transgressive” he supposedly is. 🙄
I suspect somebody at the NFL realized that they were already pissing off plenty of people, and told him to wear pants.
Wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the straight wedding was shoehorned in for the same reason.
Why would transgressiveness be an appealing quality? Usually it’s just a sign of somebody without the skill and talent to succeed without rnadom shock content. Don’t give them attention.
Well the Puerto Rican community interviewed on Philly tv was gushing about how well the show boosted interest in PR culture, food, immigration, tourism, etc. etc. I didn’t hear them being embarrassed or, to use the common word today, “outraged” at the portrayal.
We should punt Puerto Rico out as an independant state.
“Sorry, we can’t keep carrying your shithole.”
How would the PR community activists know if/how much it “boosted interest” in anything?
Really? How would an anti-American cross dresser boost American’s interest in PR culture, food, immigration, tourism, etc. etc.? That just doesn’t make sense on the face of it.
My daughter was asking me if I was going to watch it. I told her it was stupid of the NFL to alienate 2/3 (if not more) of their fans with a half-time show that they don’t care for.
Now I’m a racist.
Aren’t we all?
I’ll tell my grand daughters an innocent joke, they roll their eyes, tell me it racist, sexist, nationalityist, transist, redneckist, etc
I always agree
So your kids failed as parents Forescore?
“The five largest cities in the United States, all led by Democrats”
I’m as surprised as you are.
I am sure any democrat that sees systemic whatever would be surprised as well. after all, it is always the fault of whatevr “Worse than Hitler” republican that is in charge according to their people of authority…
By definition, Body Cams are only where the agents are. There are only so many agents, and they tend to concentrate around where Illegal Invading Savages do.
I read “Democrats Worry They’ll Become Mass Surveillance Tools” as “Democrats worry they’ll show the ICE acting in self-defense”.
“We demand they wear body cams! Oh wait, then they will catch us committing crimes! Never mind. We demand they dont wear body cams!”
Never tell the truth.
Never be consistent on any position…whatever suits the desired ends in the moment.
Have no shame.
Have no morals.
Plan and execute the most blatant hypocrisy possible so the serfs understand there are two sets of rules.
Project, project, project.
I am forgetting some but is that about right?
Even without any further shootings the cameras will capture footage of the various forms of peaceful protest that the Democrats would prefer not be seen. The unenlightened might react poorly to images of peaceful spitting in agents’ faces, peaceful throwing of rocks at agents, peaceful smashing of car windows, and peaceful striking of agents with various peace implements that might appear weaponlike to the uninitiated.
Dont forget the roadblocks where every citizen is stopped and asked to prove they are not ICE and sometimes coerced to swear they side with the protesters.
*seriously, you would get your head shot off for that around here.
“I read “Democrats Worry They’ll Become Mass Surveillance Tools” as “Democrats worry they’ll show the ICE acting in self-defense”.”
So first they demanded bodycams because they were CONVINCED (or wanted us convinced) LEOs were all and always evil fucks doing evil shit, and especially to minorities. They got them. and then they also got that all the people that used to be the big complainers and the ones screaming abuse, were the instigators and the trouble makers. Couple that with ICE now destroying their narratives with those same body cams, and suddenly they want them gone so their able to give their lies more time to marinate and be used for bad PR. The truth is always a problem for the anti-American marxist insurgency.
They are? Hakeem Jeffries was on tv shows yesterday demanding the body cameras and denying there would be any retreat or compromise on the Dems ICE “reform” demands.
All this to say, the Dems’ greatest weapon is “controlling the narrative”. And you can’t do that if there are multiple camera angles, uncut footage, and videos of things they don’t want you to see. This is also why they are so into censorship.
It’s such a goddamn joke that the roadblocks are being tacitly allowed. If the cops there did their jobs, the assclowns would be told ONCE to immediately get this junk out of the road. Any delay or refusal would result in immediate arrests and bulldozers to open up the road that citizens are forced to pay for.
Govt has too much money. Gifters swarm around it like flies on a corpse. Over the last ten years how many billions have been stolen through graft and grift? 100? 500? Add in the money laundering operations in the ME and Eastern Europe over the last 20 years and it probably is more than a couple of trillion.
Reduce the budget by half and get rid of the income tax. Start throwing people in prison.
We have to do the scrimping so they can throw money to the wind. This is bullshit.
You sound like that terrible traitor Thomas Massie.
I also like raw milk.
Let me ask you a question Drake: Have you ever seen us both in the same room at the same time? Huh?
Do you like movies about gladiators?
Wait wut? Gladiator movies are problematic?
The DOJ is supposed to show Massie unredacted Epstein documents starting today. He’s threating to read the names on the floor of the House if they refuse to release them.
Epstein’s next door neighbor Howard Lutnick is all over them, even had a business partnership.
They’re obviously stringing him along as much as they can manage. He should just go ahead and do it.
“Govt has too much money.”
Was it not one of you that kept saying we do not have a “Too little taxation” problem, but a “Government spending” problem whenever we discussed government spending?
My youngest is studying forensic accounting. One of her high school teachers told her there would be tons of government jobs tracking down all the COVID fraud. Sounds like it was good advice.
This surprises me. I would have thought the government didn’t want the fraud discovered.
There are always divorce cases if the government doesn’t allow it.
Depending on who is running government, they might or might not want fraud found…
Half of the federal budget is one welfare program or another.
The military is around 13% now, so much stuff gets stolen, so many fraudulent VA claims, massive overstaffing, contractor fraud…
It’s likely several trillion a year.
I doubt that’s even a fraction of it.
I am going out on a limb and predicting we will find out the fraud, directly or indirectly, will be close to $2 trillion a year…
And how much did they keep printing every year for a bit now?
I found the Superbowl quite engaging and not boring in the least.
Then again, I actually like tactics, and don’t care for showboating.
Was I not supposed to enjoy the Patriots getting smacked down? Because I did.
Although Drake Maye seems like a nice guy. My guess is he’ll be back soon.
It was a defensive throttling of the best offense in the AFC. Of course, given that the AFC was not great this year, that doesn’t mean as much.
I enjoyed the game as well. Plus, the officiating crew kept themselves out of the spotlight.
The scarcity of flags was nice. Although the cheap shot on Diggs out of bounds was flat-out missed, along with the thrown punch.
“Between 2021 and 2025, an average of 11,000 ghost guns and auto sears were recovered per year, according to the complaint. ”
Why are they combining the numbers?
““California has responded with laws that specifically prohibit 3D printing firearms and prohibited firearm accessories without a license to manufacture firearms, and since 2023, has also prohibited the distribution of computer code for printing them to those without a license,” the lawsuit states.”
So how do they sue companies in a different state?
Sounds like a violation of freedom of the press to me.
Sounds like a violation of the second amendment to me, especially under Bruen. Pretty sure they can’t point to any history and tradition of such in the 18th century.
But of course the Roberts court is too politically cowardly to slap it down.
Recovered?
All property is from the State comrade. Not understanding this marks you as a wrecker or counter revolutionary, please report for reeducation.
Sounds like machine guns are in common use.
Fire up the printers.
Neither does America itself and I bet the vast majority of states and localities.
Neither do I but “What, me worry”
If Trump can spend money the US doesn’t have, why can’t I? I still have checks left.
Your kids and grandkids will inherit it!
Has anyone else asked how much federal money each of these cities still in arrears gets from the feds? Because that misspending of all our tax dollars is the real crime. And how much of that deficit/debt comes from insane government and union agreed upon benefits that have no made it that working in government is far more profitable than working in the private sector?
“A top Meta researcher warned the company’s executives that there could be as many as 500,000 cases of online sexual exploitation per day on Facebook and Instagram, according to explosive documents that were unsealed on the eve of a landmark jury trial.
Opening arguments begin Monday in New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez’s case in state court, which accuses Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant of exposing kids to the “twin dangers of sexual exploitation and mental health harm” through creepy messages, “sextortion” schemes and human trafficking.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/09/business/meta-researcher-warned-500k-kids-per-day-targeted-by-creeps-on-instagram-facebook/
Then there is “Tinder for kids” Wizz and “OnlyFans for kids” Brand Army.
“As many as 500,000” could just as easily be 0.
“…could be as many as….”
“….online sexual exploitation…”
Precision and definition is important.
The real question is: Who has Zuckerberg pissed off?
It might not be “pissed off” as much as having a perceived pile of money the State wants.
It’s not zero.
I mean, since the definition is broad enough to include “creepy messages” then it can be any number you want.
I wonder what creepy messages New Mexico’s government schools are exposing kids to.
I wonder what creepy messages government schools are exposing kids to.
Is this different from the “landmark” “addiction” suit that is all over the news today?
I hate social media like the plague it is, but I struggle to understand why this is Facebook’s problem.
I think all these platforms are in for a world of hurt.
They claim not to be “publishers” but they obviously are.
Good News: Trump says US had ‘very good talks’ with Iran in Oman
https://www.trtworld.com/article/79c62c89f855
So they’re sending pallets of cash to Iran?
This has to be to make up for that video showing democrats as animals that pissed of the always looking to be offended crowd that had a colostomy bag explosion over Big Mike and that fairy Barack being shown as monkeys…
Talks with Iran? The air it took them to talk with weighs more than whatever they cooked up.
Not taking sides, but what agreement did they ever sign then break?
Taqiyya is a thing.
Sure and the same thing applies to us.
I am willing to offer “the mullahs leave Iran, have the assets they’ve been sending out of the country confiscated and turned over the the Persian people, and a new government is selected by the people of Persia.” They can keep their lives so long as they’re penniless and in exile in Siberia.
If not, we’ll go to war with a gigantic country on the other side of the world, close the Persian Gulf, and spend how much blood and treasure? Is that really in our national interest? Just because they chose to be ruled by Shia Clerics instead of sadistic pedos?
Start with assassinations and targetting bombing of regime bunkers. Let the common people be the boots on the ground.
*the Iranian common people
We don’t need to conquer and occupy the place, just break all their shit and kill all their leaders. You know, the modern version of a punitive expedition.
Ok, Ayn.
How exactly would that be in our interests? Those sorts of hugely risky acts of war are supposed to have Congressional approval for a reason.
Also what was tried last time when it was an actual surprise, and failed.
Sorry, no bombing Iran without a declaration of war.
And that goes for the last time we bombed them, too.
Although I don’t think Trump should be impeached for it, as Congress has managed to delegate enough of its authority over war to the President to give him legal cover for that.
Killing our enemies who have long openly declared their status as such and their intent to kill as many of us as possible, and carried through with it multiple times, is always in our interests.
Also what was tried last time when it was an actual surprise, and failed.
Are you talking about destroying their nuclear facilities? Because everyone and their mom knew that was coming and the regime still couldn’t do shit to stop it.
Sorry, no bombing Iran without a declaration of war.
While I agree that should be the case, it’s not as constitutionally cut and dried as some like to believe. The constitution gives congress the “power to declare war”. It also gives the commander in chief the authority to conduct the disposition and actions of the armed forces as he sees fit. Jefferson himself did not believe he needed a declaration of war to initiate hostilities against the Barbary Pirates. Ultimately congress can put a stop to any adventurism it disapproves of by cutting off the funding for it. But they have long been far to cowardly to actually do that.
Israel assassinated a bunch of their leaders on the first day of the 12 day war.
Jefferson himself did not believe he needed a declaration of war to initiate hostilities against the Barbary Pirates.
Technically correct.
Jefferson went to Congress for authorization:
In his annual address to Congress at the end of the year, Jefferson reported on the demands of the pasha, concluded that “the style of the demand admitted but one answer,” and described the action taken to date. That action had been taken without any consultation with Congress, but the president now asked for formal and expanded power to deal with Barbary.
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Two months later Congress passed an act authorizing him to instruct naval commanders to seize Tripolitan goods and vessels, and to commission privateers to aid in the effort.
That act did not declare war, but did authorize the use of force.
From Jefferson’s above mentioned address to Congress:
Unauthorized by the Constitution, without the sanction of Congress, to go beyond the line of defense, the vessel, being disabled from committing further hostilities, was liberated with its crew.
The legislature will doubtless consider whether, by authorizing measures of offense also, they will place our force on an equal footing with that of its adversaries. I communicate all material information on this subject, that in the exercise of this important function confided by the Constitution to the legislature exclusively their judgment may form itself on a knowledge and consideration of every circumstances of weight.
It’s only 60° F in my office. A slight improvement – it was 59° when I came in. 🥶🧊
I keep my house at 57 in the winter. FAR too warm for Lily. She will whine at me when her water dish freezes too thick to drink from.
Add 20 and you’ll find the Fourscores happily basking inside. Old folks like to be a little warmer than some, OTOH we don’t have much physical activity. Watching Home Shopping and Cooking Shows doesn’t generate a lot of calorie burning.
Mojeaux: Your magic system (direct energy to matter conversion and heretofore undiscovered infinite supply of energy) is the ultratech used in the Iain Banks “Culture” series. It also uses a multidmensional universe for Harry Potter tent/TARDIS effects and teleportation.
Noted, and now on my TBR. Thank you!
I’m not going to mess with trying to explain teleportation, just loop it in under the magic.
In-book, I’m not claiming that the energy lazing around the universes doing nothing productive is “undiscovered.” I’m claiming (in-story) that all humankind’s “magic has a price” assertions are TRUE but they see energy as immediately finite as opposed to “TECHNICALLY finite, but infinite for our purposes.” Solar events charge the earth like a battery and that’s where it comes from.
Ooooh! Now there can be a huuuge chain oof people debating which Culture books to read and in which order!
Consider Phlebas is the first one written and the first one I read, because I am a Eliot fanboi. It is NOT an easy read.
Player of Games is the most “normal” novel.
Surface Detail was probably my favorite and the most creatively sadistic, plus it describes the real way in which heresies come about.
It actually sounds like the kind of football game I enjoy. I like defensive battles.
I was otherwise occupied and saw maybe 30 seconds of the game. 🤷♂️ it’s not the cultural touch point it was 15 years ago.
I like defensive battles too, but not when one team dominates the entire game.
Two good defensives, one completely incompetent offense.
That’s what happens when “an institution” decides its politics are more important than the people who take part in it.
“Somalia welcomes its first bowling alley as the middle class and diaspora returnees grow
Somalia is showing signs of revival from decades of conflict, welcoming its first bowling alley in the capital, Mogadishu.”
I’m glad the local Somalis are putting their US slush $$ to good use. It’ll take off like a roll-away train!
Somalia is showing signs of revival from decades of conflict
Good, now we can send all the “refugees” back.
They learned to graft from their Minnesota cousins. Tim Walz would be so proud, that they took away some new skills.
Busty babes with bountiful breasts and bodacious boobs on YOUR Mammary Monday.
https://archive.is/IRLAA
The commercials during the Superbowl needed to be more messagey. Also, turns out Hispanics don’t like being confused/conflated with illegals and are actually vocally supportive of ICE when they get drunk and open up a little.
I know several latinos of non Puerto Rican descent, both in the US and abroad, that watched it and felt insulted as fuck by it. Apparently the NFL and the pedo cabal gave a halftime show that the country they would want to have would like, but instead they pissed off the majority of the people, including libs too.
Bad Bunny vs Kid Rock: I hope they both lost. If that’s the best they can do they need to go back to marching bands.
Up With People!
I saw Kid Rock after one of Austin’s early F1 races a bunch of years ago, and even though it was a small crowd, he gave it full effort and was a pretty good show.
I’ve seen him a couple times. Good shows.
He does give it his all, I’ll give him that, and to hear people talk about him he seems like a redneckish but good guy in his personal life. I just hate his music.
I stopped in at his Honky Tonk in Nashville back before the Rona Panic.
Whoever set up the sound system there decided 11 wasn’t loud enough so the amps go to 12.
I hear there are some musical acts that don’t infuse everything with politics.
Maybe go with one or two of those next time.
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The Kid Rock stunt’s purpose was to punish NFL advertisers by drawing eyeballs away from NBC at halftime. I don’t know if it drew enough to succeed.
I watched the Puppy Bowl.
So did we. Well, we had dinner, too, so it was mostly background noise. Hopefully enough people tuned out, and it can be tracked, to send a message.
Seems like the NFL blew an opportunity here. Having Taylor Swift do the halftime show would have meant off-the-charts ratings, and would have been a natural given her engagement to Kelce. But Jay-Z ain’t gonna book no white girl*, so . . . .
*I see only a couple on their long list of musicians – https://www.rocnation.com/artists/
Aparrently the Kid Rock TP USA show got 6 million viewers. I don’t know if that’s enough to matter to NBC and the advertisers and the NFL.
We also switched over to the Puppy Bowl.
You can’t call yourself a conservative if you do not support a wedding during the bad bunny concert.
How long before the couple files for divorce?
One wonders what Kim thinks of Harrison Butker.
“When patients head to the emergency room, they’ll be happy to know that Georgetown University Emergency Medicine Residency Program students took courses like “Microaggressions in Clinical EM Simulation.”
To the clinic for a toothache, that Oregon Health & Science University dentistry students completed courses like “Social Determinants of Health, Social Justice and Equity.”
Or to the internist, that a UCLA grad likely studied “fatphobia” in its “Structural Racism and Health Equity” course, and a Medical College of Wisconsin grad was required to learn “Allegories on Racism.””
https://nypost.com/2026/02/08/opinion/the-death-of-dei-med-schools-racial-preferences-degrade-all-doctors/
That graphic from Georgetown is ridiculous.
This shit is why I don’t (and won’t) have a young doctor.
I have an old doctor who used to run an independent practice, and he was pretty good. He unfortunately joined the Premier network, and now it’s a big fucking rush any time I go in there. I show up and wait 30 minutes past my appointment time while he crams in “telehealth” appointments, then he seems to be in a big hurry to get me in and out. The network can have advantages, but I think they’re pressuring him to blast through as many appointments as possible.
Not sure if I care enough to change doctors since I only go once a year to get an Rx for my spring allergies, but if I ever have something more serious, not sure I want my health to be a rushjob.
Your loved one may die in the ER, but we can guarantee they won’t be misgendered.
That’s Death Justice.
Despite the class, my wife got excellent care from OHSU’s dental dept. Literally saved her life and repaired the damage. Nothing but good things to say about the docs (both teaching staff and residents (double doctors at that point dds and md)).
“Two American pilots have been imprisoned in the Republic of Guinea for six weeks — after authorities said they violated the country’s airspace for a simple fuel stop, The Post has learned.
Fabio Nicolas Espinal Nunez, 33, of Ewing, New Jersey and Bradley Scott Schlenker, 63, of Chicago are now asking the Trump administration to step in to secure their release as they remain locked up since Dec. 29 in a prison in Conakry, Guinea’s capital city….
“There seems to be something between the lines we don’t know about. It’s very unusual. I’m at a loss for words. It’s tough. It’s mentally draining.””
https://nypost.com/2026/02/08/us-news/us-pilots-jailed-in-guinea-during-fuel-stop-now-asking-trump-to-step-in/
Curious.
Know who’s in the Oval office, I wonder why they would want to start an incident.
Could be some government official wants to take the plane under color of law. Doesn’t explain holding the pilots unless they’re looking for some payoff.
I am wondering why two Americans are flying over that shithole in the first place. It is very strange.
According to the article, flying a family on a corporate jet-sized plane from Brazil to Dubai. You kind of have to go over Africa.
Suriname, not Brazil, but the same point applies.
Ah.
But there must be standard places to refuel where they don’t imprison you? It does feel like something is missing from the story.
“Underage “looksmaxxing” influencer Clavicular was arrested and hit with felony charges for allegedly entering an Arizona nightclub with a fake ID and carrying prescription drugs.
Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Peters, was inside Casa Amigos nightclub on Saturday night in Scottsdale when officers discovered he was only 20 years old and not legally allowed to be inside, a spokesperson for the Scottsdale Police Department told The Post….
“Getting a 25 thousand dollar bond and 2 felony charges for being inside of a bar is insane. Straight up political persecution,” Peters whined on X late Sunday.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/08/us-news/looksmaxxing-influencer-clavicular-arrested-for-being-underage-in-arizona-nightclub-prescription-drug-possession/
Looksmaxxing is retarded and gay.
Getting a 25 thousand dollar bond and 2 felony charges for being inside of a bar is insane.
Well, that part is hard to argue with.
Agreed.
All of our laws around alcohol are insanely retarded and counterproductive.
Guy is still an asshole, though.
He’s got a point. Should be simple trespassing, if the bar has a policy against admitting minors. Now, if he was drinking, that’s a different violation. Serving minors puts the bar at risk, too, so I can see a little stiffer charge for that.*
*SLD on drinking age enforcement, of course.
Um, aren’t the felony charges for the pharmacy he brought into the bar?
SLD on the war on drugs, but play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Excellent. Influencers should be persecuted to every possible extent the law allows.
Twenty and not allowed to even be in a bar? Yet that’s old enough for him to decide to cut off his junk.
He’s already rendered himself sterile from taking too much testosterone.
Hell, according to the left 10 is old enough to decide to cut off your junk.
Anything with maxxing in the title is retarded and gay.
I support this message.
Drinking age should be 16.
I think the NFL gave a multi-year contract for halftime shows to Obama buddy Jay-Z’s company. So expect more halftime shows along these lines.
Maybe they can get NWA back together for a performance, Eazy-E can be via hologram. I’d actually tune in for that.
lol Dumbasses.
I remember hearing that now – it does explain things.
“Wild moment ripped Super Bowl streaker is tackled by a Patriots player on the field… before security pile in”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-15541319/Wild-moment-Super-Bowl-streaker-tackled-Patriots.html
He’s wearing pants.
Larry Correia
@monsterhunter45
Why is it you guys who talk about shooting but don’t actually shoot much always write these essays about philosophy and personal choice, when the original topic us horrible Gun Culture Bullies are being mean about is some practical/mechanical thing that’s got a simple/factual answer?
John said revolvers were simpler and more mechanically reliable. This is flat out false. Mathematically, statistically, and according to the laws of physics. This has nothing to do with style, feelings, or personal choice.
I think revolvers are fun. I also understand how stuff works in real life so I don’t mistake vibes for facts. Apparently this is a terrible cruelty and I should just blow smoke up peoples asses instead.
https://x.com/monsterhunter45/status/2020579758732701964
There is a debate for a few days among scifi writers over revolvers. What is the official glibertarian etc…
Dunno about the official Glibs position, but the official reality position is that Larry is right.
Needs more definitions before I can speak about the TRVTH of the claims. But there’s definitely a lot more mechanical complexity to revolvers.
You’re out of your mind.
There has never been a revolver as cheap to produce as a Sten.
Revolvers aren’t as simple as you seem to think. There’s a lot going on to keep everything aligned and moving correctly.
Fine, you guys are right, your trash jamtastics are the simplest things can get.
You win the acktchually wars.
I’m sorry that you’re offended by being wrong.
You take commenting way too seriously.
I’m still sorry, but becoming less so.
Is there a prize for being the youngest FUDD at the range?
Sheldon, the first mistake you made was mistaking my remark for being offended.
The second was trying to be smug about it.
It has quite cheered me up.
I’m glad for that. I hope it takes some of the sting out of your demonstrated ignorance.
😁👍
Got any jamtastics or clockwork pews you want to offload? My collection is anemic.
I actually am trying to sell my Shadow 2s.
I only own one revolver, and I’m keeping it, in spite of the fact that I have to clean it about every 2-300 rounds to keep it running.
I have a Shadow 2. It doesn’t see much use because it’s not really my favorite. I think it’s the pinned magazines. If they had the standard capacity instead, I might like it better. But that’s a felony here…
All the cool kids are smuggling real-capacity magazines from free states *choke choke*. Don’t you want to be cool?
A revolver can’t stovepipe jam, but it might fail to feed by not revolving properly, but that typically requires something getting into well-protected parts of themechanism. A semi-auto might fail to feed from simply having a poorly designed magazine with cartridges in a less than perfect position.
A revolver is mechanically simpler. I’m not sure where he’s getting this claim that they’re not.
Buh? A blowback semiauto is the mechanically simplest repeating firearm there is.
Revolvers are not simpler than semi-automatic pistols in any way, shape, or form.
Have you ever had the sideplate off a revolver? They’re literally fitted like a mechanical watch.
You’d have to ignore a lot of moving parts to make that claim.
Also, those ‘well-protected parts’ on a revolver that can prevent it from indexing properly (revolvers don’t feed, they index) can be knocked out of working order by a moderate impact on the side of the cylinder, or a single grain of dirt or unburnt powder under the ejector star.
The simplest revolver ever made has more moving parts than a Glock 19.
I think I’m just going to get a cup of coffee and watch the festivities.
Sorry, DEG, you commented, get in there and pile on one side or another.
Have you ever had the sideplate off a revolver? They’re literally fitted like a mechanical watch.
^This. A double action revolver involves very precise mechanisms converting the input of a trigger pull into a series of actions that have to happen with very precise timing, very minor dings or dirt can cause a failure.
What are you people doing to these firearms? Or are you buying from Ali Bob’s Tinfoil Emporium?
Sorry, DEG, you commented, get in there and pile on one side or another.
I have my coffee. I didn’t make it Irish. So, I’m just going to smile and watch.
I’ll need to consult my logbook to find my current stoppage rate on my S2.
Then I’ll need to do a bit of modeling to determine exactly how long it would take just in loading times in order to generate that amount of data with a revolver.
Your previous example was the Sten, which was a remarkably shitty gun.
It’s almost as if design and construction quality is a massive factor in reliability, which is ultimately the question.
Eh. That’s why I said I needed more definitions.
“Reliability” is vague. You could make an argument that autoloaders are inherently less reliable in that they require a correctly made magazine and correctly loaded ammo to function properly. But, if you were to look at both MTBF and UDT issues a revolver might not at all win. Definitely wouldn’t win with PDT/maintenance issues factored in.
My metric of reliability is “The probability that, when I need it to, it goes ‘bang’, and doesn’t go ‘bang’ when I’m not trying to.”
This is because I I am not throwing nearly as much lead down the bore as you, and the ‘calendar days till mechanism has worn out’ will be consequently longer
When gun people say ‘reliability’, they usually mean ‘mean rounds fired between stoppages with no cleaning/maintenance’ (whether they realize it or not.)
Sadly, most of the gun people who were doing really well-documented high round count reliability testing are no longer with us. But it’s informative to look up Todd Louis Green’s 50k-round pistol tests, and Pat Rogers’ ‘Filthy 14’ rifle testing.
https://pistol-training.com/hk45-endurance-test-week-thirty-seven-2/
https://www.swatmag.com/article/filthy-14-bravo-company-carbine-goes-31165-rounds/
Under that definition with identical* starting conditions, there would be practically no difference, with a slight edge to the autoloader.
*identical requires loaded chamber.
DA revolver v. DA autoloader – more ways to fuck up the trigger pull with the revolver
SA revolver v SA autoloader – hammers cocked, easier for the revolver to accidentally go bang, hammers down, the revolver has the same issue as the DA variant.
That seems like a strange quantitative metric to use.
How many people even put that many rounds through a single weapon?
@NA – I thought it was established that build quality was a bigger factor than mechanism type or action.
That reminds me – Ever figure out the feed issue on that .22? I’m still curious what was causing that behavior.
I have not.
I would respectfully disagree. Remember, we’re measuring round count without cleaning or maintenance. Revolvers will not handle limited maintenance, as a rule.
Now if you field-strip and clean the guns every 500 rounds or so, then there probably wouldn’t be much difference between the two. I’d still give a slight edge to the auto.
Almost no one, but that’s not the point. It’s a test of reliability under extreme conditions, not under typical use.
If you wanted to test reliability under typical use:
– Take an auto and a revolver.
– Load them.
– Stick them in a typical sock drawer.
– Leave them there for five years.
– After five years, see if either of them fire.
That test is unrealistic – take them to the range and put two or three full loads through them before putting them in the drawer.
You, sir, are an irredeemable optimist.
I don’t want to believe someone would buy a new gun and not want to try it at least once.
I was using UnCiv’s definition. I agree that if you look at total down time and/or MTBF, revolvers lose.
By coincidence I was watching a video by sumdood about wear/abuse indicators on used revolvers yesterday.
It occurs to me that I have yet to test fire the SIG Fuse. However, I won it, I didn’t buy it and I really have use for it other than a potential gun for a new shooter with small hands.
I did test my most recent purchase (P220), but I need to test it again after remounting the optic. Unfortunately, it’s so cold that I don’t know how much that would play into any problems discovered.
*smacks forehead*
I’m a bit disappointed that no one objected to ‘typical sock drawer’…
The official glib position rotates. I’m not sure which opinion is under the hammer at this moment, but I’m sure it’s bang on target.
🙂
I know there were a lot of weird experimental guns but was there ever a matchlock revolver (pepperbox, not pepperbox, doesn’t matter to me). The idea popped into my head and I came up with mental drafts for designs and a lot of them went “that’s a good way to lose a hand”
Elisha Collier and Artemis Wheeler had flintlock revolvers. Some were rotated mechanically, some were rotated manually.
The Royal Armouries has a wheellock revolver with a manually rotated cyliner.
Forgotten Weapons has a video on an Indian matchlock revolver with a manually rotated cylinder.
Revolvers go back a long way.
Manually rotated?
I’m sad now.
On the topic of much older designs, I was now wondering how many moving parts the original gonne had – that is where you had just the tube with a touchold and a burning match you stuck in it. Is that zero, or one moving part?
How about we change the subject to something less controversial, like pineapple on pizza.
No can do, troll.
My first pistol was a Ruger GP100 in 357.
It sometimes catches in double action with the hammer halfway up. It’s weird.
Still kinda fun and I packed it with me forever as it was the only pistol I had for over a decade.
“On Sunday, the 28-year-old actress slipped into a Grecian dress that draped perfectly across her body and highlighted her hourglass figure.
She paired the cream, satin dress with pointed-toe pumps and her long, blonde hair styled in bombshell curls.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15541497/sydney-sweeney-jacob-elordi-santa-barbara-film-festival.html
Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
Good for her and whoever is advising her. She saw a lack of Hollywood sex symbols and she’s all in. It’s working.
She’s not my thing but no tatts, no body mutilations, normal sensibilities, and she’s smoking hot in comparison.
That color rubs me the wrong way. There’s something wrong with it, like, it’s dingy.
It’s the color of old ivory. A slightly yellowed off-white. I can definately see how it can read as dingy
You’re right. She should take it off.
Light switch wall plate covers.
Jimmy Lai sentenced
Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy media tycoon, has been jailed for 20 years for colluding with foreign forces under the city’s controversial national security law.
Rights groups called it a death sentence for the 78-year-old, whose family has raised concerns about his health, but Hong Kong’s leader said it was “deeply gratifying”.
This is the harshest punishment to be handed down under the law, which China imposed after huge protests in 2019 demanding more freedom, and defends as essential for the city’s stability.
Lai, a British citizen, is the most prominent of the hundreds arrested under the law. A fierce critic of China, he often wielded his paper, Apple Daily, as a tool of protest.
Keir Starmer approves.
From last week:
The jails there are lit
“America’s 5 largest U.S. cities don’t have enough money to pay bills: report”
See that has to be fake, because I’ve been told over and over that the blue states produce more tax money and the red states spend it all.
They don’t have enough money because the feds take it all! #statesrights
The long-troubled Future Combat Air System (FCAS) being developed between France, Germany and Spain is on the verge of collapse, four European officials in Paris and Berlin told POLITICO.
“An announcement that [the project] is over is more likely than a relaunch,” an official familiar with French President Emmanuel Macron’s thinking said Friday.
A French lawmaker who works on defense policy concurred separately.
“FCAS is dead, everyone knows it, but no one wants to say it,” the lawmaker said.
The manned fighter has been at the core of the bitter industrial disputes between Dassault and Airbus over leadership, technology and work-sharing, with little sign of a resolution. Dassault is looking for more control over the development of the Next Generation Fighter (NGF), a key component of the FCAS project.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-germany-next-generation-fighter-jet-project-collapse/
The F-35 waves hello!
California Sues Companies for Supporting Ghost Gun Manufacturing
They’re suing Stanley Black & Decker, DeWalt, Milwaukee, etc?
Which one has the deepest pockets?
A South Korean official who suggested the country “import young women” from “Vietnam or Sri Lanka” to boost its birth-rate has been expelled from his party.
Kim Hee-soo, the head of the southern Jindo County, said the woman could be married off to “young men in rural areas” during a town hall last week.
The suggestion comes as South Korea continues to grapple with the lowest birth-rates in the world, which could see the country’s 50 million-strong population drop by half in 60 years.
But Kim’s statement, which was televised, did not go down well – triggering a diplomatic protest from Vietnam, days of public anger and his expulsion from the ruling Democratic Party.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20z4254524o
Make raiding other countries for wimminz great again.
Is the issue a shortage of women? (If so Why?) Or is it that the women they have are not bearing children? (If so, why?)
I mean if you have trash women you need to get better ones.
Korea is the most politically polarized country though. Women are getting more and more left men more and more right.
More than the U.S.?
Kpop.
More than the U.S.? -what? young women it seems so. Young men in the US are not moving particularly right, young men in Korea seem like they are.
“Young men in the US are not moving particularly right”
They seem to be.
They seem to be. – not in any of the data I saw.
https://images.ft.com/v3/image/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd6c748xw2pzm8.cloudfront.net%2Fprod%2F59f6ec10-bbc5-11ee-aade-2506f44be849-standard.png?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1
In the US men are not significantly more right than in the 90s . In Korea they are. In UK they are more left.
Huh, I prefer the Asian women who tend to be more angled in features with higher cheekbones too bud.
Belgian prime minister slams political deadlock ‘mess’ in Brussels
“Try explaining the political situation in Brussels to a foreigner and they’ll look at you like you’re crazy,” Bart De Wever said
Belgian leader Bart De Wever said on Monday it was high time to overhaul the complex political system that has left the capital Brussels without a proper government for more than 600 days.
“Institutional reform is needed, that much is clear.”
The smallest of Belgium’s three regions and home to 1.2 million people, Brussels-Capital has been mired in a political and financial crisis since elections in June 2024.
The vote had no outright winner, and political parties have since proved unable to strike a coalition deal.
Brussels’ complex institutional set-up – which reflects its status as the only bilingual region in a country divided between a Dutch-speaking north and a French-speaking south – proved no help.
To be sworn in, a government needs to hold a majority in both of the local parliament’s two linguistic groups, each of which has different parties.
This is proving tricky.
https://www.euractiv.com/news/belgian-prime-minister-slams-political-deadlock-mess-in-brussels/
Just go full sharia at this point.
I’m not seeing what the problem is.
Government is a luxury.
The Communists
@CPGBML
Chomsky was always a counter-revolutionary. Always a peddler of of idealism in philosophy.
He was always anti-soviet and despite professing “anarchist” beliefs was loved by “academic western marxism” and Trotskyism.
It has been revealing to see the extent to which he was enmeshed in the ruling class elite and was a DIRECT AND CONSCIOUS means of misdirecting young western students and “leftists” into the dead end of anti-communism.
How many times was this paedophile-CIA-networked “anarcho-trotskyite-epstein-anticommunist” invited to speak at their misnamed “Marxism” conference?
Learn the lesson: destroy the bourgeois occupation of the working class movement. Destroy trotskyism. End the CIA-MI5 occupation of your mind.
https://x.com/CPGBML/status/2020812764604702808
PREACH
Glibs exclusive! Must credit Glibs. I was getting bossed around by the youtube algorithm over the weekend, and I came upon a video by a couple who does travel stuff. They decided to visit Caracas, Venezuela to see how things are going post-Maduro…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLw3omzSW8s
If you start at about 2:40, they are riding in a cab and ask the cabbie if crime is increasing. The cabbie explains that crime is on the upswing currently because of all the folks being deported from the U.S.
They just want a chance at a better life.
This is a lot more about THEIR economy being in peril than them wanting to punish the US. after years of lying about growth and a hole bunch of fictitious investment all going sideways, the tariff wars have caused major damage to the now even more centrally controlled Xi economy. After he removed the one general that kept telling him military action was going to wreck the world and put China in a real bad place, I wonder if Xi has decided to go full stupid a la Gualtieri from 1982 Argentina.
This is a completely typical conversation on Bluesky. I am not making this up
https://x.com/uubzu/status/2018948506967289902
misogynoir… good one …
Is there a translation app?
Yes, but installing it requires you to scramble your frontal lobes with an icepick.
Eh, that’s been around for a while. Ever since “intersectionality” was coined, if not earlier.
“Trump-Hating Rapper Cardi B Suffers a Nasty Fall While Trying to Give Robot a Lap Dance at Super Bowl Party”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/trump-hating-rapper-cardi-b-suffers-nasty-fall/
STIJLTH
Sex that is just like that hurts?
Did the robot give affirmative enthusiastic consent?
And if it did…ewwww. Have some taste, buddy.
There is a new genre of trolling cooking videos saying I learned that in Texas…
This is how they make delicious burgers in Texas.
https://x.com/klara_sjo/status/2020738665970798604
Good Lord…
It’s rage bait. Don’t give them attention.
As usual, I immediately changed the channel at halftime. Turned it off on the last play of the game.
I thought it was a pretty good game. I hope the cornerback from New England got defensive player of the game.
Gonzalez is a ridiculously good player.
Pats secondary in general is very good but that’s not enough when your QB has zero time to work.
“Andy Samberg, as “Meal Diamond,” squirted Hellmann’s mayonnaise on the sandwiches of Elle Fanning and other deli customers.”
gross
Yeah, he should have used Best Foods mayonnaise instead.
Mayonnaise in small proportions on the right thing is acceptable but only barely.
You’re trying to use reverse psychology to get your mayo ration increased.
Well played, give this man mayo on everything.
Do you not eat chicken salad or BLTs?
There’s a seeker born every minute
One tool developed by The Modern Elder Academy is a pathfinder quiz that identifies eight types of midlife paths. Think of them as your archetype.
Are you a seeker, craving adventure or reinvention? Or a lone wolf – fiercely independent, but also looking for connection. Perhaps you’re an impact-maker: You want to make a difference in this world or help solve a problem, or perhaps a sage, with a desire to share your wisdom.
Betsy Benoit, who is in her early 60’s and lives in Portland, Oregon, took the MEA quiz during a time of transition.
“What I discovered was, it was spot on,” she says. The results revealed two parts of herself, coming together in midlife.
“It was shockingly accurate,” she says. “It pegged me as following the path of the seeker,” someone who is craving adventure, meaning and reinvention.
Benoit is also a lone wolf type. “I really embraced being alone,” she says, especially amid the pandemic. Yet she also realized she was ready for deeper connections.
Totally not a scam.
*arranges accident to befall competitor*
I mean, I’m sympathetic to those suffering midlife crises. I’m probably enjoying one myself at the moment.
But holy fuck, the cult indoctrination couldn’t be any clearer if you had to blow Chip Conley…
Props to his nontelephone based scam style though, we certainly don’t need another one of those.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect
And shouldn’t middle-aged people know themselves by now?
What about certain crises in mid life?
That will change your viewpoint
I’m thinking – Recent retirees with no hobbies who look around and go “now what?”
It amazes me that there are people like that.
I can’t wait to retire so I can do more stuff I’d rather be doing.
Rhy – A common tale around here are the people whose life is their job. They end up in two ways most of the time – never retiring even when they’re losing money by staying, or retiring, going him, sitting down, and wasting away until they just die from inactivity.
I’m in agreement with you – I’d rather be doing many other things than sitting here watching as the change approves roll in and a minor reply strom trickles through the email system
*going home
wow, I type gud
I took the quiz, but dipped out when it asked for an email to send you the results. That’s just a sales funnel.
Mrs. TOK and I have decided our next adventure will be as consulting detectives, helping the police solve difficult crimes.
Do you drink massive amounts of alcohol and have a disgruntled go that does tricks?
Disgruntled fox terrier who also helps solve crossword puzzles?
TPTB, I have a post ready for tonight if its not to late
250 Year Old “Johnny Cake”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcGZp-udPmo
the pinnacle of american cookery
Da noive
Lawmakers exiting the deposition were incensed she asserted her Fifth Amendment right on every question posed to her, arguing the blanket response was inappropriate given that they had many questions that did not concern her own conduct.
“She was given an opportunity. We would have brought her in months ago, but she’s indicated she was going to plead the fifth, and unfortunately, she had an opportunity today to answer questions that every American has, questions that would be very important in this investigation, and she chose to invoke her Fifth Amendment right,” Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said after exiting the deposition, which was conducted virtually as Maxwell serves out her prison term in Texas.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said her refusal to answer questions also stymied Democrats’ interest in uncovering more details about why Maxwell was transferred from Florida to a lower security prison after her meeting last year with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
“After months of defying our subpoena, Ghislaine Maxwell finally appeared before the Oversight Committee and said nothing. She answered no questions and provided no information about the men who raped and trafficked women and girls,” Garcia said in a statement.
“Who is she protecting? And we need to know why she’s been given special treatment at a low security prison by the Trump Administration. We are going to end this White House cover-up.”
As long as she says nothing they can continue to throw wild accusations around.
Since you can’t thread properly, why should we expect you to link properly either?
1) She’s in prison. Serve the summons to the warden, who can have the guards bring her to a suitable area for the testimony.
2) She may not deserve luxury, but what sort of violent crime is she likely to commit if she were to escape?
Maybe they can send her to jail for “defying their subpoena”.
Next the fucksticks can head to the beach and yell at the waves.
Notably not subpoenaed- Deputy AG Blanche who is in more of a position to explain why she was moved.
What exactly do you do here?
[insert laundry list of corporate layoffs]
I have more examples, but I think you get the point. The companies that had significant layoffs in 2023 went on to make a lot more money in 2024. Not only that, but they grew revenues. Which invites the question: What were these workers doing?
Not much, apparently — or at least, not much of value.
Shocking.
Now do the government.
Go one, do it.
We’re waiting…
I don’t want to know how many VDs I’ll get if I do the government.
I watched Annihilation (2018) yesterday.
Here’s my review: Don’t waste your time.
They should have called it blueballs, cuz the ending was deeply unsatisfying.
The best heist movies are always set in Europe!
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/armed-robbers-hit-cash-truck-in-daring-heist-on-highway-in-southern-italy.html
Finally
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-secures-15-tariff-on-extra-u-in-british-spelling