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So, Israel first eh?
That’s not going to play well in the midterms. The Democrats are just as bought by AIPAC, but that won’t matter.
This morning NPR played a (D) explicitly going with the Trump is Bibi’s puppet line. Too many (D) groups are straight-up antisemites for the modern party to do otherwise.
Dunno. I think it’s too early to say. If this really is a 4 – 6 week air campaign, probably not much effect. If the Iranians really do kick out the mullahs, possibly a small benefit for Republicans.
If it converts from “punitive expedition” to “nation-building”, then it will likely benefit the Dems.
Trump has our left explicitly defending an apocalyptic cult that has been bent on “Death to America” (and friends) for decades.
It is remarkable.
I hate that those now opposing the imperial presidency are only doing so because of who it currently is. As soon as their side has control again, they’ll be all fucking in for it.
I’m with R C, I think it’s too early. People were saying the same thing about Maduro, and people moved on pretty quickly from that. If things settle down in Iran it might actually help.
Rhywun: The left is an apocalyptic cult that has been bent on “Death to America” (and friends) for decades.
Birds of a feather indeed.
possibly a small benefit for Republicans
I think you underestimate how virulently anti-Israel (and in some cases anti-semitic) the gen Z right is.
Most guys under the age of 35 see this as an abandonment of America First and their futures to embrace our country’s true master, Israel ( or “the Jews”, for the groypers).
Maybe there’s enough Trump hero worship to overcome this, but warring at the behest of Bibi is about the worst thing you can do for base turnout under 35.
Interesting: DEAD HEAT: Stunning New Poll Shows GOP Drawing Even With Dems Ahead of Midterms
JOOOOOOOSSSSS!!!!!
That is the problem, there is just a simple binary: God’s chosen people or anti-semitism.
Or, stop blaming other people for your own (government) actions.
I’m not blaming them – Rubio is saying we had to follow Israel’s lead.
So, blaming others for your actions.
My actions? Are you a little short on coffee this morning?
Not to get in the middle here, but when you use “we” it’s not inappropriate for someone else to respond with “you.”
Funny, I never feel particularly included by some govt head saying “we”.
The Joooos, actually the Israelis, are cutting their own throats with their actions in the mod to long term and it’s incredibly short sighted. Conflate the two and see how that works out.
You know my back rises when someone tries to involuntarily collectivize me.
But in this particular case, it was you using we.
contrast:
with
Trump built a coalition that included GWOT Vets who saw firsthand how stupid our forever wars were. He explicitly promised no more new wars.
That coalition is irretrievably broken.
That coalition is irretrievably broken.
It brings a lot of the nonsense over the past 6 months into focus. The Tucker v. Shapiro thing was rooted in this split. MAGA v. America First. Buckley v. Buchanan 2: Middle East War Boogaloo.
1. Mid Terms are local. Are those same veterans going to stay home or not vote when team blue puts someone who wants to trans the kids on the ballot?
2. Trump isn’t running again and 3 years is a lifetime in politics. Vance will likely have a different coalition.
3. It’s the economy.
The Hand of Kek is not up for re-election. Nor does he care about the Party of the Elephant.
The Hand of Kek is not up for re-election.
True, but the adoration or rejection of the symbol is.
True, but the adoration or rejection of the symbol is.
This. Anybody who thinks that the average voter is able to distinguish their local congresscritter from what’s happening in the national news cycle has more faith in democracy than I do.
The royal WE.
The average voter is well known for thinking Washington is populated by crooks and liars, but their own Congresser is a great guy who should definitely stay in office. So, yeah, the average voter reflexively distances their representative from the national news cycle.
This would be a good argument for why Trump’s handlers, if they existed, should have made Trump do something different.
But for a guy who’s going to go live in a gold-plated suite with his name on the building it seems less relevant that whether or not his favorite caterer agrees with his actions.
Only sane answer.
The right answer would be jailing the school officials for child abuse.
Jailing seems kind of tame for convincing children entrusted to your care to mutilate and sterilize themselves behind the parents’ backs.
The problem is my Just answer falls afoul of the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments.
The VIIIth Amendment was poorly phrased. It should have referenced proportionality rather than cruelty or unusualness.
That would be even more vague and prone to distortion.
“Hegseth Insists Iran War Won’t Be ‘Endless,’ Lays Out ‘Laser-Focused’ Plan to Destroy Regime”
There is no plan to do nation building so several trillions of dollars can be pilfered by connected people in D.C and surrounding areas?
If they succeed on bombing the Iranian government and military command out of existence, it won’t be regime change. It’ll be complete chaos, civil war, and 20 million angry refugees passing through Turkey into western Europe.
Yep, the kind of people that could build a stable society and government aren’t the kind of people that will exhibit the raw violence to gain control.
As long as it ends the mullahcracy’s nuclear ambitions I am able to live with.
Seems like a problem for Turkey and Western Europe, then.
Whatever your opinion on the Iran attacks, I see no reason why Europe’s refusal to secure their borders should even come into consideration at all.
„Wir schaffen das!“
I think everyone is speculating without enough information. Everyone freaked out about the Venezuela thing, and it was a massive success. Lets wait for the Iran effort to end. Trump is not one of the usual D.C. swamp rats tat are more interested in making bank and his ego will demand success. I bet a couple of months from now nobody wil be talking a bit about this because it was a YUGE success.
I don’t know Alex, Trump has never been someone with a deep, well thought out plan. Multiple bankruptcies and all.
I’m not sure “It was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the U.S. or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond against the United States,” Rubio said. But later he added this: “We knew there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher numbers of those killed. And then we would all be answering questions about why we knew that and didn’t act.”
qualifies as forcing us to do anything, but I am sure I’ll hear many lengthy arguments insisting on it today.
No, that doesn’t fit the particular argument.
NPR on Hezbollah yesterday first complained that the Israelis were attacking them, but then used an even weepier tone and phrasing when describing the Lebanese government bringing them to heel – talking about the awful possibility of Lebanese fighting Lebanese in a country wracked with civil war, etc.
It’s impossible for me to take anything from that news story other than NPR thinks Hezzie is a legitimate and righteous organization that just needs to tone things down a bit.
Remind me – what does NPR provide that is worth subjecting yourself to the rest of it?
Most people are stupid. Back when I lived in a place where there were people on the radio who agreed with me at the object level, I found it distressing when they displayed their stupidity in other ways, because the implication was that I was agreeing with stupid people.
Here though, I only get to listen to stupid people mostly disagreeing with me, which is good for my ego. Plus I get to know the Respectable Opinions that Respectable People are going to be demonstrating around me.
Second amendment case seems to be coming along nicely. Need to overturn that wretched rule denying guns based on what substance you imbibe.
The Guns and Dope Party has never really gotten traction.
Because they left out Messicans and Azzsechs!
And that is how you waddle up to being one whole percent of the political population!
The Founding Fathers could not have possibly conceived of modern
weapons of warintoxicants!“fentanyl 1959”
Took a long time before people started using it.
Laudanum, on the other hand, was in every well stocked medicine chest. This is a stupid argument. It is stupid when lefties make it about modern firearms and just as stupid when right leaning puritans use it about modern intoxicants. Fundamental rights are fundamental, they do not change or go away because we monkeys tinker with things.
From what I understand, Fent makes you feel nothing rather than euphoria. I was confused for a bit, then I thought about it. Now I pity the users if things are so bad that feeling nothing is an improvement.
Doesn’t matter what they use. Punish people for actual crimes, not simple possession of a thing the government disfavors.
Another point, illegal drug users will just get illegal firearms. We are only punishing law-abiding citizens.
Feeling nothing sounds better than extreme pain.
not simple possession of a thing the government disfavors
Not sure it was even possession in this case, since the hinge seems to have been he told FBI agents he used.
Tell me something else new.
I can think of one recreational drug, that was illegal for a dozen years, but the possession or use of which had no impact whatsoever on whether anyone could buy or own a gun.
Funny how these two learned jurists left alcohol out of their list of illegal drugs. But if you are looking to justify the current rules under the Bruen test, you need to explain how the OG illegal drug*, alcohol, had no impact on gun ownership at all.
*it is my recollection that alcohol was outlawed before most of the other drugs on their list.
No, cocaine wasn’t “invented” in 1855, it was there all along in the coca leaves which indigenous ppl had been chewing like forever; they just figured out a way to extract and concentrate it. A weaker version of the same argument applies to heroin which is derived from opium.
And what Jarflax said below about the flintlock / machine gun argument.
“Trump: ‘Large-Scale Combat Operations in Iran’ Will Continue, Gives 4-5 Week Timeline”
I’d like it much faster than that. Maybe he is being like Amazon or Scottie on Stat Trek.
“Stat Trek”
I never got past “Damn Lies” in that series.
“To boldly go where no correlation has gone before…”
Dude, that really explains the trekkie venn overlap with the IFLS crowd.
Supposedly Israel is claiming 2 weeks.
Can we get it down to 10 days?
Best we can do is 6-8 weeks.
The goys always paying retail…
The wacky part would be if both timelines are true: Israel declares victory and goes home in 2 weeks, and the US keeps blowing shit up for another month afterwards.
I imagine that zero people would change their lines of complaint should that happen.
Blessed be the Hand of Kek.
Accursed be the Hand of Kek.
Ok, I am not saying this to oppose the war. I have climbed on the bandwagon, but predictions about short easy wars have a long history of being bullshit.
To flatten the curve?
Doc wins. Shut it all down.
Agreed. Close it up for today, folks. Doc has won.
Two week special military operation?
I hope to live to see those two in leg-irons. Maybe they can share a cell with Obama and his crew of traitorous thugs.
This is the mindset I just don’t grasp. Hell, we let LBJ and Nixon have peaceful retirements, and the hatred for them was no less intense.
The part that I dislike is the posturing and grandstanding, on either side, although at least when the Democrats do it they aren’t doing something worse. Of course the flip side of that is that the Republicans use the same mechanism to avoid doing anything actually productive about the dozens of dumpster fires that make up our Federal Government.
“We” (meaning the people in power in 1965-1975) were more deferential to power than today. TAlso, the “America sucks and it’s leaders are all immoral racist sexist homophobic Islamophobic slavers” lessons have had an effect.
I object to being called an immoral racist sexist homophobic Islamophobic slaver.
I have never owned a slave. Mostly because I can’t afford one, but still. . . .
Islamophobic slaver.
Oxymoron! Virtually all the slavers are Islamic.
Islam only showed up in AD 600ish. Slavers predated that by millennia.
Just because my grandfather didn’t rape the environment and exploit the workers doesn’t make me a peasant. And it’s not that he didn’t want to rape the environment and exploit the workers; I’m sure he did. It’s just that as a barber, he didn’t have that much opportunity.
Islam only showed up in AD 600ish. Slavers predated that by millennia.
True, but absolutely irrelevant to my point in 2025 when the global slave trade is an almost entirely Islamic phenomenon.
But his kids always had plenty of meat pies to eat!
an almost entirely Islamic phenomenon
Pay no attention to the building of World Cup stadia in Qatar and Saudi!
You ok, JI?
It reads like you’re trying to refute a claim of something being primarily islamic by pointing to examples of it happening in islamic countries.
Do you need to reboot?
Not sure how you read that as an attempt to refute. Maybe you need a reboot?
“It’s just that as a barber, he didn’t have that much opportunity”
Just lather, that’s all? 😉
You don’t understand the desire to see political criminals held to account for their crimes? Respectfully, I doubt that. You might not agree with that desire, but there’s no way that you don’t understand it.
“And it’s not that he didn’t want to rape the environment and exploit the workers; I’m sure he did. It’s just that as a barber, he didn’t have that much opportunity.”
*Gramp’s barbershop*
“A little more off the sides, and trim up everything else? Toxic waste dump next to the grade school – oh, and some Pinkertons to come by and break a strike?”
Nope, it’s definately your phrasing.
Politics? Crimes? You got some kind of Marquess of Queensbury rules or something? This is a glorified knife fight.
I would have tried to get a job with the Pinkertons back in the day.
Not going to happen unless you try them outside a D stronghold.
The clip I saw was Bill chuckling over his reminiscences while looking at Epstein file photos.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
VDH has an optimistic read on Trump. I’m not convinced yet, least of all because of Rubio’s disclosure.
“It ain’t over ’til it’s over”
/Some wise man
VDH is good at eloquently tying himself into rhetorical knots to justify the unjustifiable but he’s just another political hired gun at the end of the day.
Police action in Korea 75 years ago and we’re still there.
There’s always another war to prepare for. If it ain’t godless commies it’s radical religionists.
This being America, we have naturally put a radical religionist commie into office in NYC.
““I am done with this if you guys are doing this, I’m done,” a shocked and furious-looking Hillary raged after one of her attorneys raised concerns about a photo of her that appeared online….Boebert copped to taking a photo of Hillary, but claimed to have done so before the hearing kicked off. Hillary vented that “it doesn’t matter, we all are abiding by the same rules.”
LOLOL
“The former president could not identify the woman in the hot tub with him and was adamant he did not have sex with her. ”
Totally believable.
In isolation, ignoring who the speaker is, the set of facts can be true “I don’t know who she is, but I know we didn’t have relations”.
Knowing who the speaker is, I don’t believe him.
Does it depend on what your definition of ‘is’ is?
I mean have you tried doing it in a hot tub? It’s not as good as it sounds.
I have been in plenty of hot tubs with women I could not named at this point in time that I did not have any sort of relationship with, sexual or otherwise.
Im not sure many of those times came after 50…
They should have just pulled the fire alarm, see how fast she scurries out on her cock-a-roach legs.
Fairfax county public schools, on the path to some day be equivalent to Baltimore public education?
System features both declining enrollment and achievement!
Obviously, they need more money.
“In 2025, Virginia Department of Education’s data show that roughly a quarter of students in Fairfax Schools failed their reading, math, and science Standards of Learning exams, compared with about 20% of students in the neighboring district of Loudoun.”
Using the ambiguity of the “roughly” and “about” actually could show an overlap. The problem is the failure rate in both districts.
An indicator may be in the decline of number of enrolled students but even that doesn’t tell much of a story.
The thing is 20% is probably “successful” compared to the American average.
Isn’t Loudon a wealthy area? Imaging some less, uh, “privileged” districts.
Loudoun has the highest median household income of any county in the US. Fairfax is around fifth. Both are home to a lot of federal employees.
Both Fairfax and Loudoun counties are quite wealthy and quite liberal, in the ‘entitled federal worker’ sense.
Are the exams there crazy hard or something? We dont have that around here, even with a lot of poor and majority/minority schools. The state would take over such a school system.
According to the radio, Albany Public Schools only has a 50% graduation rate.
50%? I’m shcoked. I thought they’d pass you if you demonstrated having a pulse.
the people checking the pulses are graduates of Albany Public Schools
Okay, Pie, that makes sense now.
NA, Graduation rates of 50% may be only 1/2 the story.
The other half learned that there wasn’t much learning going on and decided to make a career move.
What’s the literacy rate for graduates?
Literacy? I mean I’m not sure the teachers can read.
UCS has it – written language is patriarchal, white supremacy.
Is that anywhere near Loudoun?
neighbors
Probably the entire state once DEI is imposed on all districts.
“Ghoulish streamers are turning Nancy Guthrie’s Tucson home into a grim spectacle as they feud with each other a month after the 84-year-old grandmother went missing.
One streamer, who goes by Kiki, showed up at the crime scene over the weekend wearing a tiny pair of booty shorts and a crop top — accompanied by a leather-clad cameraman.
But she got into a fight online with other streamers who were onsite – including the true crime gadfly JLR Investigates, and another person known online as Criminal Network.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/02/us-news/ghoulish-nancy-guthrie-streamers-are-feuding-with-each-other-outside-her-house-as-crime-scene-becomes-grim-spectacle/
Meh. She’s like a hot Laura Loomer.
The internet is theoretically an enormous place, with room for every possible niche. I will never encounter these people, would not even have known of their existence were it not for your posts.
And yet, I run into so many of the same people online. It troubles me that I am somehow so effective at creating a bubble for myself.
Keep reading NPR.
No, seriously, it keeps the bubble effect down.
Internet celebrity death match sounds good to me.
Influencer boxing was a brief thing, a few years ago. It’s where Jake Paul got his start.
If you actually enjoy the sweet science, it was a disgusting display. But if you enjoy watching asshole social media personalities getting (even more?) permanent brain damage, it was absolutely delightful. Myself, I remain somewhat conflicted…
Unless Nancy Grace shows up I’ll assume the home owner is on an extended vacation.
Gracie Jane on Boston Legal was the best parody performance ever.
juris imprudent:
Have you seen the Leverage episode based on her?
Nope. But from the link it sounds like it may have been more accurate but less amusing.
ji:
Leverage was nothing if not entertaining. If you like heists and cons, and can suspend a lot of disbelief when it comes to how the grifts work out each time.
She’s like a hot Laura Loomer.
So spiking the crazy axis?
The boots make the outfit.
Condi’s boots were better.
We’ve been watching the TV series “The Mentalist”. This whole thing seems like it could be an episode. Right down to the streamers outside the house. Life imitates art I guess.
Life imitates art I guess.
There was an apparent homicide last year at Burning Man. The murder mystery book set at Burning Man was published in 2005.
Only one?
No offense, but just assuming a (base level murder rate * number of attendees * duration) with a fudge factor thrown in for stressors and drugs, I’m surprised it’s been that low.
I’ve chatted with LE counterparts about that – for the population, Burning Man is marked by exceptionally low crime (obviously not counting drug offenses). It is also only one week; give that population more time and I think it would regress to the mean.
Regressing to the mean would require a lot more low-rent people show up. Rich people doing drugs generally do not commit crimes, hence the low crime rate. Price of entry prevents a lot of that.
That sounds kind of lame. Burning Man should have cannibalism and human sacrifice.
R.J. thinks there aren’t a lot of low-rent people show up.
Au contraire. There is a strong carny-like element, particularly in a couple of volunteer departments. They just have a greater proclivity to suicide than homicide.
“A Wisconsin nurse has been thrown behind bars after she repeatedly had sex with a drug-court patient — and then falsely claimed he sexually assaulted her.
Melissa Knutson was found guilty of misconduct in public office and obstructing an officer after she engaged in the tryst with the patient while she was working for the Monroe County Drug Court in 2022….
But text messages from the patient later revealed Knutson had initiated the relationship — and that she vowed to deny everything if they were eventually busted, according to prosecutors.
She later admitted to lying about the assault in a bid to avoid the consequences….
Knutson was sentenced to 18 months in prison and two years of extended supervision.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/03/us-news/creep-nurse-had-sex-with-patient-then-falsely-accused-him-of-sexually-assaulting-her/
CWAC
She’s probably knuts.
*golf clap*
DrOtto is on fire this morning…
Firing on all cylinders?
My first thought was that 18 months is far too little compared to what she was trying to get the dude sentenced to. Then I thought, “well this is NY, sexual assault might not warrant that long of a sentence depending on the identity classes or judge involved.”
My first thought was the new mayor was going to have her stoned in Times Square.
I heard that you were feeling ill. Headache, fever, and a chill. I came to help restore your pluck because I’m the nurse who likes to …
Hey hey!
Save Ferris
Stinky Wizzleteats:
Here you go.
I think nurse was the profession most likely to cheat, though don’t quote me on that
Has to be right up there with cop and fire guy.
“A married high school physical education teacher has been charged with sexually assaulting a student whom she admits sexting and kissing — but denies ever getting fully “physical” with.
Alisha Crins, 39, started sending flirty messages to the boy when he was in her sophomore class at Ponaganset High School in Glocester, Rhode Island, after she found his number online, according to charging documents obtained by WPRI.”
https://nypost.com/2026/03/02/us-news/married-hs-gym-teacher-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-student/
What is wrong with all these teachers?
Is it just that we’re hearing more about it? Because it does seem like a lot of young female teachers doing this sort of thing.
They sure weren’t teaching in my era. We had those trying to hang on until SS kicked in.
Teachers choose to be around kids. PE teachers choose to get physical with kids. I imagine that other paraphiliacs get into the mortuary and veterinary biz.
The thing that’s bizarre to me about it is a number of these teachers are decent looking. They could arrange a hookup every night if they liked, with any number of guys who aren’t their students. So I have to assume something about the teacher/student power dynamic is what turns them on.
To find a way to smile when I read these kinds of stories I remember that I never heard my mother laugh as loud as she did when Julie Bowen guest-starred on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” with this kind of story.
She blew him in caaaaarrrrrr!!!!!
I wonder if that Asian actor hears that line everywhere that he goes?
I should have timestamped that, skip ahead to 2:30 for the meaty part
Porn.
SCOTUS rules against CA’s ‘secret gender transition’ law allowing schools to keep it from parents
And if California ignores SCOTUS does anything happen? I am a bit fuzzy on this when it comes to American issues.
Sternly worded rebukes are not unheard of.
No. Nothing happens when California ignores SCOTUS rulings. Blue states routinely ignore their rulings in order to continue all manner of policies such as racism and anti-self defense. Pro transing is another one.
Chloe Johansson
@compliance_babe
Europe just put out a new plan for Iran
Check it out here:
https://x.com/compliance_babe/status/2028565719160373314
“Bruce Campbell revealed he’s battling cancer that’s not “curable” and pausing work commitments to focus on his treatment.
The “Evil Dead” star, 67, shared the news Monday on X.
“Hi folks, these days, when someone is having a health issue, it’s referred to as an ‘opportunity,’ so let’s go with that – I’m having one of those,” he wrote. “It’s also called a type of cancer that’s ‘treatable’ not ‘curable.’”
https://pagesix.com/2026/03/02/celebrity-news/evil-dead-star-bruce-campbell-has-treatable-but-not-curable-cancer/
Thoughts and prayers.
God. Fucking. Dammit.
^^ What ES said.
Oof.
That is exactly what my oncologist said.
Dude came in and shook my hand, sat down and flipped papers for a good 2 minutes. Finally looked up…
“This is not a good report…”
Looked down and flipped for another minute…
“This cannot be cured…..
…. but we can treat it.”
Sometimes you just gotta laugh, because… what else are you gonna do?
Not… chin cancer surely!
It’s a trick. Get an ax.
Have they considered sourcing some explosives from the IRA and using that on the cancer?
Bummer.
I have a one degree of separation story about him but I won’t share it cause this sucks and the story is funny.
I am not that familiar with military personal, I assume most of them wish they never need to get involved in a conflict, but I kind of wonder if a small number of them actually want to see some action and look forward to a bit of war.
“Out of every 100 men, 10 shouldn’t even be there, 80 are just targets, 9 are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.” — Heraclitus
Non-zero.
I remember a High School acquaintance of mine (Eagle Scout, National Merit finalist, undoubtedly other accolades which I have since forgotten) going to enlist and the recruiter offering him… well anything he wanted whereupon my friend requested infantry, so he could get a chance to kill someone.
I had similar acquaintances. The warrior genome is apparently a thing
Sort of the macho thing to do, 17, fresh out of dropping out of school, older relative with a lot of made up war stories.
We seeing a lot of news commentary from ex Rangers, Seals, etc. OTOH there seems to be a high rejection rate for physical/mental limitations
I can’t speak for the vets here, but I would suspect the ones who are Rangers or SEALS are looking for action. And I suspect the pilots, etc. aren’t looking for danger, but given the chance to use their training, they’re taking pride in completing the mission. Then there are the majority who are like my son-in-law, who spend their time below decks keeping the plumbing running. They’re doing their job whether it’s in the Pacific or Persian Gulf.
So, I’ve never been in the military, but most of my friends and acquaintances have, and their takes are pretty consistent – it’s not a small number. The vast majority of combat arms personnel (versus the support staff) genuinely enjoy war and fighting.
There’s a reason some of us ended up in the tech support part of the military. My brothers were combat arms guys.
I screwed up and didn’t go combat arms. It would have fit me far better than support did.
I never wanted to go to combat, but knew it could happen and was OK with that.
Although my main job was artillery, in 2004 we went to Iraq as convoy security.
It was good to find out that I was able to remain calm under fire, but I now tell people that being shot at is overrated.
I hope to never experience that again.
You should move near one of those gun-free zones.
I joined in a time of war so I could go to war.
A standing army is stupid and should be tiny. It’s just another welfare program that steals from the productive.
Love elections in France 🇫🇷
🟫 Far right candidate:
Mourad Amellal
North African
Member of the Kabyle separatist “Gov’t in exile”
🟥 Far left one:
Sophie De La Rochefoucauld
Actress, Member of the nobility
(“Dukes of La Roche-Guyon” branch of the “House of La Rochefoucauld”)
https://x.com/Arnold_Platon/status/2028548163485737003
Send both for a date with Madame Guillotin.
Iranian missile technology seems to have gotten much better. They were able to hit the US embassy in Kuwait. That is relatively short range, but still…. they had been more of a “hit urban area” sort of threat, at least from longer range.
They have been working on it. Still, I wonder how much of the improvement was imported.
I wonder how much of it was just overwhelming the system. If you launch 1000 missiles at least a few will get through.
Saturation tactics wouldn’t improve the aim. The remarkable part was actually hitting the Embassy.
Speaking of cuntes, women on the right are getting too cuntey.
“Jillian Michaels Owes Ana Kasparian an Apology”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfxV4AwQwjM
Amy Dangerfield attacking Jillian Michaels, Candace Owens attacking Erika Kirk… Most of it over Israel. “I hate Israel but I’m not anti-semitic” makes about as much sense as “I hate Italy, but love Italians”.
Way back in the 80’s there was a lot of sympathy for the Russian people with hatred for their oppressive Soviet government.
The USSR was not a democracy. Fwiw, the Israelis keep electing Nethanyahu.
Anyway, Amy calling Jillian “a washed-up fitness trainer” or whatever is retarded.
The market is following the futures prediction. Sigh, I wish I was sitting on more cash.
Gas is $3.05 in Podunkville, up about .50 from a week ago.
Buy on the dip, markets go up/down and sometimes stay there for quite a while.
Our gas jumped .60 in a day. We normally have about a 2 week cycle where it varies by .30.
3 dollars a liter is a lot we are at around 1,8 – 1.9
$3.05/gal ~$.80/liter.
How do you afford to drive anywhere in Romania?
Why drive when you can turn into a bat and fly?
His arms get tired?
Oh I rarely drive myself. Some people simply spend a lot of their income on driving.
I bought heavily in oil in early 2020.
It’s been good to me.
Hegseth lists objectives for military action – “Destroy the missile threat, destroy the navy, no nukes.”
Absent regime change to a more western oriented government, I’m not sure what this could accomplish.
Surely they could rebuild the missile threat and the navy within a year or two. Absent a large and continuous military presence, I’m not sure we can protect shipping. They seem to have a pretty robust drone capability.
I dunno…
This in-and-out idea sounds pretty optimistic
Can they though? What’s the Iranian shipbuilding capacity? Who is going to lend to them to be able to buy the steel?
And punitive expeditions usually come with the warning, either explicit or implied, “if you do this shit again we’ll be back to wreck it all and kill all your leaders again”.
Those are the military objectives. There are obviously political objectives, as well, otherwise there wouldn’t have been a decapitation strike to start with.
If the new thing isn’t “nation building”, but is “we’ll kill off a bunch of assholes to give the supposedly freedom-loving populace a chance to kick out the current government”, well, that’s an improvement, I guess. Looks like the Venezuelans couldn’t be bothered. We’ll see about the Iranians.
What is going on in Venezuela? Doesn’t seem like a civil war. Who’s in charge?
“freedom-loving populace”
The ones that allowed the now-displaced regime to rule in the first place. I’m not sure I buy this premise.
Venezuela’s VP under Maduro is nominally in charge, but he’s been extremely compliant with American desires and wishes.
I would imagine the end game in Iran is similar, not neccesarily a friendly regime or puppet regime, but a compliant one.
JI: Why did you allow Joe Biden to become president?
They’ve started the amnesty process, which is a good sign.
Why did you allow Joe Biden to become president?
Because it was a temporary arrangement. I didn’t let him stay did I?
Of course at some point they’ll need to leave somebody alive capable of taking the reins: Trey Yingst reports that Israel “just struck” the “gathering where the Iranians were meeting to choose a new supreme leader.”
See that sends the message “no supreme leader”. Ya’ll need to have some good anarchy for a while.
According to anonymous guy on the internet, Israel has pwned the Tehran traffic cameras and are using them to track targets.
Yet another reason they should be eliminated in the US.
Traffic cameras, or Israelis?
ooooh I’m Charles Leclerc. I make 40 million dollars a year to be Ferrari’s golden boy. I get to celebrate marrying my model wife by driving universally beloved, vintage Ferrari cars around my gorgeous, scenic hometown where I am a local hero. Fuck you
https://x.com/sharl_leclerc16/status/2028517849052930448
The car is nice. The wife is mid.
From the replies
“going to war without Canada is like going hunting without an accordion.“
https://x.com/i/status/2028574939352064152
Going to war with Canada is like a hike in the snow.
The King’s Own Polkateers are ready to deploy.
Oom Pa Pa
Wonnerful, wonnerful
/Grandma loved the Lawrence Welk show.
Who?
Also, I’ll do that for $600,000 a year.
F1 driver for Scuderia Ferrari. Teenage boy dream job.
Yeah.
No way I could do that part of the gig.
I’ve managed to squeeze myself into an old F1 car once. Not something I physically am capable of doing. Much less have the skill for.
I have a tax question. If you make periodic investments into a mutual fund – say the Glib favorite S&P Index fund, and after a few years of buying fractional shares at different price points, decide to take some but not all of the money back out. From what cost does the Capital Gains get calculated?
That is largely up to you as the taxpayer. You can either do first in first out, which is the default option, or sell identified lots (you decide this when filing not when selling).
Thanks.
I haven’t sold anything yet, but the question came to mind after puting more in recently.
Ok, theoretically you decide to use specific lots when selling, I misstated that part, also once you chose specific lots for a security you have to keep using it for that security in that account.
That sounds more restrictive than it is though, because you can always identify the first lots in as the specific lots being sold
Somehow the fund figures out some sort of average.
There will be a share cost on your 1099 statement form at IRS time. Not to worry ’cause you are only interested in the totals.
Not “I made 9 % on this share, 6% on this one”. You made or lost X on the total.
“Retired Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, who previously commanded the Phillips Research Site at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, has been reported missing after being last seen on Friday at 11 a.m.
The Phillips Research Site at Kirtland Air Force Base is notable for its research into advanced space and directed-energy weapons technology.
The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office, which is leading the search for McCasland, has issued a Silver Alert for his disappearance.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/retired-air-force-general-who-led-u-s/
He ran off with Nancy Guthrie?
Aliens?
Obviously vaporized for hitting on the wife of someone who works there.
A Grugell with an itchy finger?
Do you want Dr. Manhattan?!
(((Them)))
Alan MacLeod
@AlanRMacLeod
I’m not sure how they did it, but somehow the Iranian diaspora is worse than even Miami Cubans and Venezuelans.
https://x.com/AlanRMacLeod/status/2028745954552426739
Nazis all of them
It’s not surprising to see Shah supporters being thrilled. That’s the underlying reason most of them are here.
Yeah, there was some commentary about how Iran has to hire criminals in the US for its terrorisms, whereas other countries rely on their expat/diaspora communities.
Aashis Joshi
@aashisjo
Democracies are easily hijacked by wealthy and powerful people and imperialist nations. That is why Russia, China, Iran, Cuba and North Korea are not democracies. Ensuring a nation’s survival is the paramount consideration when the US-Western empire is more vicious than ever.
https://x.com/aashisjo/status/2028744693576790020
Iran should make a gay black trans woman with ADHD as ayatollah and then the west will be powerless.
Sorry, they are all dead.
“Between 2021 and 2025, Black nonbinary artist Sage Ni’Ja Whitson visited 91 locations across 15 states – in all of these sites a trans, gender nonconforming, or intersex individual had died, either by murder or suicide. At each site they conducted a ceremony of their own to bear witness to what had happened there.”
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/mar/03/exhibition-memorial-black-trans-deaths-us
either by murder or suicide
There is just so little difference between those. [rolls eyes right out of head]
“trans, gender nonconforming, or intersex” are hardly the same either.
Mentally ill people commit suicide at an elevated rate.
Who could’ve guessed that?
And murdered by whom? Usually it’s domestic or drug related.
They is trying to pull the wool over our eyes.
““There’s no such thing as illegal immigrants,” one said, as another screamed, “We are families who have families detained in an inhumane system, oppressing them, violating the basic human rights.” Another said, “No one is illegal on stolen land.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/watch-live-kristi-noem-testifies-senate/
“No one is illegal on stolen land” has to be the most retarded bumper-sticker thought ever.
LOL try that line almost anywhere but the sort of “western democracy” that has largely given up on the idea of “sovereignty” and see how far that gets you. 🙄
It’s not stolen land. It’s conquered land. Kind of a big difference there.
So no one is illegal in the US Capitol?
That was our sacred democracy at work, being thwarted by fascists!!!
I saw a worse one on an older Nissan:
“I’m Not Gay, But My Asshole Is”
Why would anyone put that on their car?
It also had a bunch of rainbows and a “Proud to get Pegged” sticker.
They’re into getting fucked in the ass?
I see cars plastered with dozens of stickers like that – always leftist crap – and wonder what kind of broken mind does that.
Mr. Garrison?
I certainly can’t object to people enjoying the butt sex, but bumper stickers are always in poor taste.
Except for the ‘Trogdor the Burninator’ sticker I had on my first car. That one was fine.
ES.
Don’t make me kick the Cheat.
I’ll do it.
I’ve done it before.
https://ibb.co/h1R04XxR
I do love me a self-refuting slogan.
I don’t know what tweaks they’ve made in the algorithm, but I approve.
https://x.com/bellbobagg/status/2028602594508370328
There is some restaurant that has all “goth” waitresses.
I don’t think I’d be able to stop myself from ordering a French Vanilla Latte and a couple pink frosted donuts with rainbow sprinkles, just to enjoy the dirty looks I’d get…
https://x.com/pinkchyu/status/2028634358886662305
“Oregon lawmakers have approved a bill that would allow tenants to collect up to twice their monthly rent in court if landlords disclose their immigration status, the latest move by the state to expand protections for illegal aliens….
The legislation builds on a 2025 Oregon law that already prohibits landlords from discriminating against tenants based on immigration status.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/oregon-moves-to-penalize-landlords-who-reveal-tenants-immigration-status
OFFS!!
How does that work?
What is the (stated, not real) justification for this stuff, I wonder.
Protecting marginalized peoples from bigotry! Xe who is more marginalized is more deserving! Tranny illegal immigrant disabled plague bearing sex offenders of color with chronic body odor, halitosis and lice are the most marginalized!
Indeed – even those who would embrace them, politically, would never actually embrace them.
The degree to which they’ll go to the mat for illegals while fucking over their own citizens is truly a sight to behold.
Greater Idaho.
Music for the end of the world
Don’t they know? 🎶
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsY_kocbWaM
It’s snowing here.
At least it’s supposed to warm up tomorrow.
I heard the plow trucks go by early this morning — but there is no sign that it snowed.
Lucky you, it is freezing rain here – until this afternoon when it warms up.
“A University of California, San Francisco administrative director has been identified as the transgender activist who threatened to kill a woman at the California Democratic Party state convention.
“I’m gonna hunt you down and f*cking kill you!” Madeline Mann (née Cudworth Stiness), an administrative director of clinical and translational science training at UCSF, said to Beth Bourne before shoving her and fleeing the scene in a video that has since been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social media….
Ms. Bourne reported the incident to the San Francisco Police Department. The responding officer, Kathryn Winters, is a trans activist who identifies as female. Afterward, Democrat organizers asked Ms. Bourne to leave the center. She complied….
Ms. Mann manages and oversees administrative functions at a UCSF clinic that receives National Institutes of Health funding to research ways to improve patient and community health. She is married to woke tech writer and podcaster Merlin Mann.
The couple have an 18-year-old daughter, Eleanor Flannery Mann, whom they helped transition at approximately age 15. They previously referred to her as “Ellie.” Eleanor first used “they/them” pronouns before later adopting “he/him.” Her parents now refer to her as their “son.””
In addition to transgender activism, Ms. Mann has participated in an anti-government protest targeting immigration officials. In January, she joined a group at Ocean Beach calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to be abolished.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-ucsf-clinic-director-threatens-to-kill-female-protester-at-ca-dem-convention
Peak AWFL?
I’m not even going to try to make heads or tails of any of that.
All I gathered from that is a nagging feeling that maybe I’m not as opposed to the high suicide rates as I thought.
“Madeline Mann (née Cudworth Stiness)”
Now they’re making up names.
Because of course.
This seems like a really good area to discriminate. Mentally ill cops are a bad idea.
Mental disorder patient threatens and acts violent…
In other news… Dog bites man!
Cudworth Stiness
Maybe it would’ve been better to name him Sue?
Apropos of mostly nothing…
A couple of things have popped up recently on my youtube feed featuring the Jaguar Heritage Works (or whatever they officially call themselves). If you bring your vintage or not-so-vintage Jaguar or Land Rover to them, they will recreate it essentially better than new. Aston Martin has a similar operation.
I can’t help but wonder if promoting the Heritage operation is a precursor to a return to sanity at the Corporate level. Maybe it’s a mutiny.
This one, for instance.
I’m not really a Larry Chen fan, but it’s pretty detailed.
I think Ferrari does, too.
You not a custom JDM fan?
I wondered the same when I saw the piece. I think it’s one side of JLR not talking to the other. But probably more LR wanting to keep its market than J.
“Chinese state-run media promotes anti-Iran War protests organized by CCP-linked Singham Network”
https://justthenews.com/government/security/chinese-state-run-media-promote-anti-iran-war-protests-organized-ccp-linked
This is my surprised face.
Yeah, least surprising news of the day.
The Button Pusher
I think it’s one side of JLR not talking to the other. But probably more LR wanting to keep its market than J.
Entirely possible. Or Heritage trying to justify their continued existence and keep those three hundred or so people working.
I believe at some point in the “reimagining JLR” hoopla somebody high up said explicitly they saw no residual value in the Jaguar brand. I don’t know if that was the guy pushed overboard a while ago. It’s an interesting business case study.
“After being briefed on all available security and evacuation measures, Mamdani reportedly notified his Islamic regime to prepare for conflict with the United States. “It’s inevitable,” he said. “The Trump administration has made it clear that the days of Islamic dictatorships that take aggressive stances against the U.S. are numbered. That means us. If Trump keeps eliminating America-hating Muslim leaders, I know it’ll eventually be my turn.”
According to insiders, Mamdani then ordered all members of his staff to their battle stations to await further orders while he took refuge in a subterranean bunker in his mayoral headquarters underneath a major children’s hospital.”
https://babylonbee.com/news/mamandi-getting-nervous-as-trump-keeps-assassinating-muslim-dictators
LOL
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/03/03/heres-more-on-the-israeli-strikes-on-the-meeting-of-the-iranian-supreme-council-n2672212
Heh. That’s one way to do it.
We’ll be done soon.
PROOFREAD MORANS!
Rogue Mossad agents confirmed to be in control of Iran!
Assassinating experts? No wonder Cheeto Hitler loves them!
On a mission
Under the banner of “social justice unionism,” teachers’ unions are increasingly treating classrooms, teachers, and even students as instruments in a wider ideological project — one organized, replicated, and funded across the nation.
This shift helps explain why contemporary political controversies are now being filtered into elementary, middle and high schools. As one activist leader put it during the NEA Educators for Palestine webinar, the anti-ICE movement is “the spark that could ignite the fire under Labor.” As the saying goes, “The issue is never the issue — the issue is the revolution.”
No union better illustrates this transformation than the highly radicalized Chicago Teachers Union. A kingmaker in city politics, the union is now better known for its political activism than it is for representing teachers. More importantly, it has served as a national template for how unions can be converted into engines of progressive political organizing.
And of course all the teachers who “just want to teach” keep voting for them.
They are teaching me to be fascist. Because every time I read about them, I want to round them into death camps.
I’d love to be able to signal my virtue by denouncing this comment but unfortunately I understand how you feel all too well.
So… I hear the TX primaries are today?
So I’ve heard.