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US Budget Deficit Hits 5-Year High of $1.99 Trillion
Can I have 1 …. eh nevermind.
I am sure a D House can get us over the $2T mark.
And the amount of it going to fraud and the left’s insidious anti America organizations that finance all the criminality and the invasion machine, too.
An R House can do just as well.
Remember when the Big Booty Bill was going to reduce the deficit?
History will record that DJT’s biggest failure was the blowout spending during his administrations. Wait, history will record DJT’s two biggest failures were the blowout spending, and the COVID response. Hold on, hold on, history will record DJT’s three biggest failures were the blowout spending, the COVID response, and the war with Iran. No, wait, history will . . . I’ll just leave now and let myself back in.
Other than that, he’s been great.
The next GOP hack who claims the Dems are going to bankrupt us, Vote Republican! gets a sock in the jaw.
gets a sock in the jaw – fill yourself doing it and put it online!
Fill that sock with nickels, and you’ll be onto something.
I was gonna go with just my fist but your idea is better.
Do it quickly before nickles disappear.
Fill that sock with nickels, and you’ll be onto something.
Then melt them down to get more money than their face value.
The R’s claiming small government while increasing the budget every year has been a thing since forever.
Reagan was President when I was a kid and my dad was a fan, but he didn’t like Regan’s increases.
Reagan or Regan?
I can’t type, they were both supposed to be Reagan.
Although Regan probably helped.
Inside the biggest voter fraud bust in California’s history
ahem the biggest myth in California history.
DANCE BONES, DANCE!
‘I AM A VOTE PRECURER, NOT A MIRACLE WORKER, JIM!”
Did Ilhan Omar’s Husband Sell Empty Barrels of Wine?
selling empty barrels of wine can be legitimate if you sell them to whisky distilleries for finishing whisky.
What if the bill of lading says you paid a ton of money for wine, but all you got is an empty barrel and access to the mechanisms in Minnesodda to commit massive fraud of welfare programs?
massive fraud of welfare programs – as long as whitey pays it alright (because we do not want it to be alt right )
She taught him everything he needs to know about grifting and fraud. It’s a family/tribal tradition.
Media Break Out ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful’ Playbook To Downplay France’s Islamo-Marxist Riots
there was a Romanian influencer saying thAt MAGA organized the riots to destabilize Europe.
I’ve seen people claim Putin is behind it all, so basically the same thing respectable-opinion-wise.
Russia, Russia, Russia still has legs on the left.
Well, their go-to of blaming the Jooz is kinda hard on this one, because Jooz are being specifically targeted.
It’s still the Jooz fault! If they would only stop existing the peace loving Mohammedans wouldn’t be forced to rape, murder, or riot.
Don’t be fooled. Jews are burning their own businesses to the ground to trick people into thinking that the adherents of the Religion of Peace are somehow involved.
maybe it is a conspiracy of muslims jews chiana russia maga the far left the far right and some dude named Kevin, all against Macron
It’s the Ashkenazi Double Bluff!
“…some dude named Kevin”
Never did trust that TOK guy.
Its okay, he is the other Kevin.
I’ve already seen them blame the far right, (((joooss))), Trump and false flag government staged protests. It doesn’t help that everyone wants to put their 2 cents in and will use photos from other protests and countries.
Boys set out around 530am on their way cross-country to Nevada.
Anxious for their first check in with us. All good drivers of course.
Good luck, OBE, we are all counting on you(re’s).
y’all need trains.
We have plenty. They mostly carry freight.
And miss the good ol’ American road trip?
Trains let you fuel yourself along the way. 🍸🍺
And miss the good ol’ American road trip?
I’ve driven to California and back. It’s a good way to see the country.
OBE, I hope your kids have a good trip.
We have them. For cross country you would need to be retired to take a train. They never leave/arrive on time as they share track with freight trains that get priority on the tracks and the commuter trains end up doing a lot of waiting along the way.
I take the train about 12 days a year. It makes sense to use it to get downtown for Browns games.
I might take the train next time I go to see my son in NYC, but only because I have driven a couple times along with flying. might as well try something new.
I trained for many years. It worked when it ran close to where I needed to go. It sucked when I had to make multiple transfers.
We have trains at Cornell.
“Elon Musk Pledges to Give ‘Every Kid in America’ 1 SpaceX Share”
The left will complain he is only giving away one share per child, that he is giving honkey children shares, that he should give minorities 2 shares, and that government should have been given the money so they could have taken half of it to finance the NGOs and other entities working to destroy Musk and America…
And the Anthropic AI CEO announced a plan to someday give some shares to a wholly-owned subsidiary to dole out to the Right People at NGOs, if, you know, Anthropic eve goes public, via an announcement so larded up with weasel words it will probably never happen. Naturally, he is lauded for this.
From what I hear Anthropic might be cooked financially…
Yes. Those kids would get shares and eventually owe money for a margin call.
I’ve already seen a complaint that this is a way to help destabilize social security, and is a backdoor plot to get children dependent on the (gasp) MARKET for retirement.
Inside The ‘Penal Platoon’ Hell Marines Found Themselves In After Refusing COVID Jab
sounds like a movie plot.
Porn movie…
Penile Platoon?
“US Budget Deficit Hits 5-Year High of $1.99 Trillion”
I have it on good authority that the Pachyderms are fiscally responsible!
Nobody will ever be fiscally responsible when to get votes you have to promise people lucre, and the majority of people are voting for who gives them the most. The system is designed to go broke. Until only people with skin in the game get to vote, we are on a doomed trajectory to eventual bankruptcy.
Nobody is complaining about the amount anymore, it’s what we spend it on.
“Instead of all this money to the military, we should have free health care.”
…and sooner rather that later…
Inflation is a symptom of the future.
I understand why 2% is built in but I’ve never understood why that is good or acceptable.
Devaluing the debt allows them to keep borrowing more and more, while hoping some major event causes massive GDP jump and growth. The problem is that, based on history, they will then jump their spending by that X factor plus another 20% completely undermining the logic of this stupid model.
The only correction that can give us a chance is for ONLY the people that pay net taxes to get to vote, so these people care more about avoiding government bloat and their money being stolen and pissed away. And that is why we can’t get that. too many people’s income potential is tied to a massive and wasteful government.
My coworkers believe that the military spending is higher than the social spending. I told them to google it and get back to me. They were convinced their own searches were lying.
You are absolutely correct that the public school system, in order to sell their marxist revolution, has done a great job selling the lie that military spending is the biggest budget problem. The truth is that our biggest spending is the mandatory social services spending (Social Security, Obamacare, Medicare/Medicaid, and other such welfare systems account for over $3 trillion annually). Our second biggest now is the interest on the debt, which has surpassed military spending. And there are other social spending programs that make that $3 trillion plus number go higher. We now know there is massive fraud in all that shit, and I will not at all be surprised the number is in the trillions overall (Hi, national debt!) and is over $1 trillion a year. All going to a machine put together by democrats that has kept them flush with cash to attack the very people producing for the country.
A great argument can be made that military spending might definitely be too high. But in this world where we now face a cabal of humanity haters that have lined us up for an existential change in the balance of power, that potential future fate for Americans that do not want communism, leads to a serious debate. I believe our problem is how and where the money is being spent. Too much of it is going to companies that sell gold plated solutions and do not feel compelled to innovate, cut costs, and deliver quality for less, because for decades they have just made tax payer funded bank.
I remind everyone that any argument about military spending runs into the fact that unlike our social spending, it is a constitutional line item our government is responsible for, too. Unless we restructure our mandatory social spending, especially to cut the fraud that feeds the left, there will be no other recourse to dealing with the debt.
I was feeling good about work and went to sleep thinking *today* would be my Wednesday ‘hump’ day. But it’s only Tuesday. Alas. However, onward and tally ho! I’ve got to figure out this 30min lunch thing. Regardless, I’m gonna have a smoke in my car, so give that 15 min. Really, I only smoke three a day when I’m working (there, lunch and way back), and the privacy it affords, legit Alone Time, is pretty crucial Reset + Reboot time.
Yesterday’s food was a granola bar in the lunch area, chatting a chill dude I worked with in The Vault, before going out to my Kia. Likely similar today, though I may just spend the whole 30 out there and eliminate the wandering ‘commute’ inside. We shall see. Should be a good day.
Give me a $billion SpaceX shares and watch how I prosper.
Ah, to be young and stupid again.
(Some naive WoC thinks there’s room for happiness in intersectionality
https://journalofpositivesexuality.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/10.51681.1.811_HotGirlScience_Hargons-Thorpe.pdf.)
I remember how when I was young so many young people with zero life experiences believed they really knew how the world worked and that they could fix it all with more free shit.
I tapped out at the first sentence.
She’s just so earnest and certain that she has a great idea that will make the world better!
That is dissertation level research?
A pair of articles that make it hard to feel sympathy for authoritarians suffering from vax injuries.
I would have ended up in that Penal Platoon too.
Shots were an annual tradition. If you lost your shot record you had to start over again, it seemed.
It was guarded piece of paper. Going overseas, you needed more shots plus a booster for those you already had.
Got the vax injury from the experimental anthrax shot to prove it.
@Fourscore – in the better late than never column, you had asked which White Castle I ate at the other day – it was the one by the Capital on Rice St two blocks off University.
I know it well, though I never stopped there. University Ave was my go to place.
The Rice St. location was a frequent lunch spot for me while delivering flowers back in the ’90s. They seemed to have cleaned the place up since last time I was there.
Fuck
O Canada, Alberta is staying put.
In a historic referendum Monday, voters marked their ballots in overwhelming numbers to remain in the country that made Alberta a province 121 years ago.
In early returns, about 76 per cent of Albertans said yes to Confederation, while 24 per cent said they wanted the province to hold a second, binding referendum on leaving.
Least surprising news of the day.
Now makes me wonder, if the separatist continue what will be done since it’s settled til the end of time apparently.
Let the protests begin! Mostly peaceful, of course.
It was always a bit of a long shot.
In the same way that me inventing a time machine so that I can travel back to 1992 and have a threesome with Mia Sorvino and Thandie Newton is a long shot.
I don’t honestly know why people were taking this seriously. Things are going to have to get *much* worse before separation is a real possibility.
I can travel back to 1992 and have a threesome with Mia Sorvino and Thandie Newton is a long shot.
It’s a worthwhile endeavor.
ES – Exactly.
OT – finally got the 43X yesterday. Haven’t fired it yet. But the difference on the trigger on that and my 1990s era G21 are like night and day with the G21 being much smoother.
I’m wondering if its the various generations getting “safer” and/or less amenable to “switches” or simply the single stack compact design.
It’s not awful enough for me to mess with it for something that I want dead nuts reliable, but it’s still annoying. Maybe it will break in more or I’ll just polish the trigger bar and connector.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRHQQLMxxgo-1H-jPZJgtezQxcqnCUPfk4MwCco4VNW2Q&s=10
My bet is it needs some break in time.
I would not modify anything on your Glock trigger unless you know exactly what you’re doing. In my experience it’s the easiest way to turn a very reliable gun into something you can’t count on, or worse, a surprise machinegun.
ES – I get it.
Its pretty much in line with Jefferson or Greater Idaho/Oregon.
never was gonna happen
Last night, I was watching a video about the Lockheed Constellation.
If you like airplanes, it is a fantastic show. Also Clarence “Kelly” Johnson gets his first job designing planes in it.
It is a beautiful aircraft and a big leap in design.
They let Orville Wright fly it and it was the last time he flew anything.
I wondered what he was thinking about the huge changes that had been made in the 40 years since he and Wilbur made the first flight.
then I thought about the 40 years after that and more innovations as we went to jet planes.
It occurred to me that we have been rather stagnant since.
Sure, the planes are larger, safer, and more reliable, and those are all great.
A plane from the 1980’s and a plane from today look very similar and the same cannot be said for planes from the ’40’s and the 80’s.
Have we reached the pinnacle of airplane design?
To be fair, there’s that pesky sound barrier….
Have we reached the pinnacle of airplane design?
What part of the design? There have been massive improvements in materials, engines, efficiencies, and automation over the the last 4 decades that I have been working as an engineer.
Shape-wise? Yeah, they all look mostly the same and will continue to look the same until we go to blended wing bodies or something similarly radical.
That’s what I meant.
Now there are improvements, but no game changing designs.
It seems that we have found the shape for the best efficiency while carrying the most people.
Nope. The current shape is driven largely by the total fear of trying to get a new design (like the blended wing) through the certification process. Oh, and the entire infrastructure of airports and gates is designed to support the current shape.
That would be an incentive to keep the same designs for sure.
That was part of the challenges when they were designing the Constellation, fixing the tail so it would fit into TWA’s hangars.
Tail-mounted engines disappeared, ala MD80 or 727. Easier to do engine maintenance while standing on the ground. Probably other reasons as well.
Last year I was at the Aurora, OR airport doing training for my new job, and got to watch the Connie from the museum next door take off on its way to Oshkosh. It’s quite a sight and sounds amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXZ7X9LX9gc
He has one about that also:
The Rise and Fall of the TriJet
That Connie video is cool!
Pretty sure I’ve seen that guy’s trijet video. Might have been the L1011 video.
Ron, if you want to read a cool book about the trials in airplane innovation, check out John McPhees The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-deltoid-pumpkin-seed-john-mcphee/1102947222
Motorsport
@Motorsport
Kimi Antonelli (5 foot 8 inches) met NBA star Victor Wembanyama (7 foot 4 inches) before the USGP.
https://x.com/Motorsport/status/2112337810703130672
In a fight Wemby would be excessively vulnerable to the headbutt-to-the-groin maneuver.
Frank Lloyd Wright architecture is shit, Part ∞
https://nypost.com/2026/10/19/us-news/college-president-killed-in-freak-accident-while-touring-frank-lloyd-wrights-taliesin-west-home/
Brilliant designs constructed in ways that stretched the capabilities of construction and materials to the limit back in the day. Resulting in beautiful houses that have turned into maintenance nightmares.
You forgot not being designed for the way people live.
Having lived in one, ur rong.
Yes, they’re ugly. Even inside, I couldn’t help but think “this is really ugly.” And yet it was so homey and comfortable. I wish I could have transplanted that house here.
Oh no you di’int.
I took a tour of one of his famous Buffalo houses once – it was amazing.
But to be fair, he did design more to please himself than his clients.
“A 9-year-old boy burned more than 70% of his body by joining a dangerous viral social media trend known as the “fire challenge,” according to officials.
The unidentified boy is in “unbearable pain” and “lucky to be alive,” New Orleans Fire Department Chief Roman Nelson said in a video address warning families about the challenge where social-media users set themselves ablaze just to see how quickly they can put out the flames.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/20/us-news/boy-9-burns-70-of-his-body-in-terrifying-online-fire-challenge/
There is no peak retard.
Used to at least just use rubbing alcohol as a neat party trick.
I used to do this, and did it successfully without a burn probably a hundred times. Then there was the one time when I learned 1. that alcohol flames can be invisible but still burning, 2. that once enough of the alcohol vapor had burned away the flame would burn the residue on the skin, and 3. that it can take a full year to stretch your pinky skin back to the point where you can straighten it if you melt it doing this trick.
I refuse to believe this is a true story.
Oh i missed that…ya I did that so it’s not unbelievable.
Though without the chance of clicks and viral fame…it was usually on the forearm, and doused a second or two later as a neat trick
I accidentally did it. Does that count?
I refilled a Zippo and had fluid all over my hand as a teen. I tested the refilled lighter and lit my hand on fire. It’s true that you don’t feel it as the fluid evaporates and burns. I was briefly stunned while it happened. Fortunately I was filling it over the kitchen sink so I had the brilliant idea I could just turn the water on and put it out.
I still laugh about what an idiot I was.
That’s not the same as dousing yourself.
Did OMWC ever answer which wine to serve with Tide Pods?
I still laugh about what an idiot I was.
Was? 😛
NA:
I believe it’s Cold Duck.
“Jay-Z has reportedly picked himself to perform the Super Bowl halftime show when the big game takes place at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Feb. 14, 2027, according to Puck.
The Brooklyn rap icon — who is the decision-maker for Super Bowl halftime talent after his entertainment company Roc Nation reached an agreement with the NFL in 2019 — has long been a more compelling option than Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber, both of whom were in talks for the gig, multiple sources told the outlet.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/20/sports/jay-z-chooses-himself-for-super-bowl-halftime-show/
The Dick Cheney of hip hop?
He shot Tupac in the face?
lol
Compelling me to leap to the remote control to change the channel, yet again.
When do we get the first AI half time show?
well we have a new government. hip hip hurrah.
A Mesoamerican Theocracy already planning the human sacrifices?
Congratulations?
please send bourbon I’ll need it
Good luck with anything changing for the better
It never does.
I read that as “hip hop hurrah” – All hail Preşedinte Jay-Z.
That would be President Treach.
https://youtu.be/VZt7J0iaUD0
“When Bumble was founded in 2014, it positioned itself as a feminist alternative to Tinder, led by a female CEO who put women in control by requiring them to send a message to their matches first.
As of August, the app had turned its back on that fundamental premise, and now anyone can send the first message — making it virtually indistinguishable from competitors.
Even the female founder and CEO herself, Whitney Wolfe Herd, is stepping aside to make room for two incoming male CEOs upon going private. Bumble did not respond to request for comment.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/19/lifestyle/dating-apps-getting-desperate-after-huge-exodus-of-users-deciding-swiping-wont-find-them-true-love/
LOL
Adapt or die, they chose adapt.
Make it a choice on the app then.
But they were disruptors!
Honest Sydney Morning Herald article about the French riots.
@CroweDM
: “Every action is dominated by men in their late teens and early 20s, almost all wearing black uniforms. Young women can also be seen in the crowd, but they are in the minority among those provoking the police.
When the masks are lowered, the faces reflect modern France: this skin tones are white, black and brown. But the white faces are relatively rare. The crowds are overwhelmingly made up of young men who are new to France or born to migrant families, although there is no time to stop and ask whether their French citizenship goes back on, two, three or more generations.
This is a delicate subject because of the argument about whether the riots in France are caused by migration. Donald Trump insists that they are; his critics say they are not. The debate about causation is surely complex. But it is important to be honest about the reality in the streets, rather than waving away what is obvious to every passer-by in Paris.”
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/2112362073745494421
…dishonest leftists cry “racism!” in order to shut down any rational discussion.
Not really.
“Lily Allen is releasing her own line of sex toys after coming up with the idea while on her West End Girl tour where she admitted to testing them out herself….
Lily is even marking the anniversary of her West End Girl album with the return of her polka-dot butt plug, which she used as merchandise to promote the record.”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16220709/Lily-Allen-releases-line-sex-toys-reveals-came-range-time-West-End-Girl-tour.html
Classy
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs
Below the fold results, all but one of the other questions on the referendum are passing
https://results.elections.ab.ca/8400
“We want more freedom, but not too much.”
https://www.wired.com/story/they-fled-trumps-america-now-they-regret-it/
*sad trombone*
2) I remember when wired was a tech publication…
Reading the headlines under this article almost gave me a headache.
The left is beyond parody. JFC.
Back in the ‘86 timeframe, my wife presented me with a swimsuit catalog, querying me which suits I liked. Without thinking I pointed to a few different suits — some one piece, and some two piece styles.
I didn’t see a pattern but she sure did. “There’re all the same model,” she hissed. And once again I had unwittingly entered the proverbial dog house.
Shortly thereafter that same lady was on the cover of Sports illustrated and all the red blooded American men learned Elle Macpherson’s name.
https://x.com/Stuck4ger/status/2112347786179956988
I’m enjoying the twitterdrama of a Biden campaign cybersecurity “expert” and shit stirrer Jackie Singh and her back story.
https://x.com/hardpass4/status/2112492774499258763
😆
lol
“A Halloween display outside a home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is drawing backlash from some residents and the local NAACP, which says the decorations evoke America’s painful history of racial violence.
The display, outside a home in Bristol Borough, features what appear to be bodies wrapped in black bags hanging from a tree.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/halloween-corpses-hanging-outside-pa-home-spark-outrage/
OFFS!
Good. The NAACP bullies can get bent.
Didn’t a dude in Kentucky get charged for bodybags with politician positions (no names) on them…
Why yes..there was. Still being held in jail for ‘terroristic’ threats.
Ya he is in a dispute with the county on another matter, but when the State wants to fuck with you, they will fuck with you.
They run this gambit every year now.
I wonder why anyone covers the NAACP anymore.
They were on the local news for something about their voter outreach this week. 3 minute segment of race-baiting and partisan political electioneering disguised as a piece about the local NAACP actually having some issue worth covering. Can’t even remember what it was. That part of the story lasted about 5 seconds.
Almost as dumb as the black pumpkin kerfuffle of 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2vZFw2PIaM
I love the lady in the beginning of the video.
“They’re pumpkins. Black. Pumpkins. Idiots!”
What he needs are some ghosts around the bodies …
“Former Minnesota congressional candidate AJ Kern says she possesses a Certificate of Non-Existence of Record from the Department of Homeland Security confirming that federal databases contain no naturalization records for Rep. Ilhan Omar’s late father, Nur Omar Mohamed (also referenced with variants such as Nur Said Elmi Mohamed).”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/10/ex-congressional-candidate-aj-kern-claims-she-holds/
What a great family.
What a great agency.
Best case scenario: they simply lost some records.
Worst case: they granted citizenship to a whole family based on entirely fraudulent applications – all issued at different times.
“WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are planning to use DNA evidence to try to prove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) committed immigration fraud, as part of the sprawling investigation into the congresswoman, sources told The Post…..
One source said the DNA evidence was critical to proving an allegation that Omar married her brother when she wed Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 because she was trying to help him get a green card — which never came to fruition.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/19/us-news/feds-have-dna-evidence-that-could-prove-ilhan-omar-committed-immigration-fraud-wed-her-brother-sources/
“or whoever the fuck her father really is”
He was a refugee from the persecution he did.
Trump’s Amerika:
https://x.com/dexerto/status/2112530384684503317
🥱
Surprisingly, Uma Musume is actually an entertaining franchise.
Just about every young voice actress in Japan has done one of the characters. My expectation would be logistical as opposed to real immigration concerns with any of the performers.
This just seems like an easy (and Japanese) way to deflect blame.
No way!
Related:
https://x.com/drinkintokyo/status/2111307369624089086
He was not required to register for membership and follow their LINE account, nor did she ask him for his point card.
Spot on. I don’t think I could live in Japan as I don’t think I could take the supermarket. The point card focus + musical selections would probably drive me nuts.
So, a Canadian journalisimist wanted a story, so he vandalized the bust of some Uke folk hero and “reported” on it — claiming it was the work of some unknown righteous dude. His paper strongly approved of the vandalism.
Apparently the local mounties thought something was hinky and charged said journalisimist with doing the vandalism, and he later confessed to doing it.
This horrible persecution of journalismists provoked outrage!
https://readthecatch.ca/were-not-prepared-to-handle-targeting-of-journalists/
Naturally, this is Trumps fault.
“On October 25, 2022, Edmonton police charged a journalist with vandalizing a monument to the fascist Roman Shukhevych at the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex. This act constituted someone writing “Actual Nazi” on the statue of the man who perpetuated a genocide of 100,000 Polish and Jewish people.”
Why is he a folk hero?
Killed Rooskies.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S2211624916000073
I am just sick to death of anything coming out of that corner of the world anymore.
“A Democrat door knocker in Arizona was recently seen snatching a package off the steps of someone’s porch after putting a flyer in their door. The flyer was a “voter guide” from an organization that has endorsed incumbent Democrat Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs. ”
https://thepostmillennial.com/katie-hobbs-door-knocker-steals-package-leaves-campaign-flyer-at-arizona-home
At their values are consistent.
She considered it a fair trade.
The most surprising thing I have seen about the French riots is the description of the rioters as “left wing”. I had assumed they were all extreme right wing nationalists.
I have literally seen Europeans praise the rioters saying “left wing hooligans break glass, right wing hooligans break bodies.”
We’ve reached the “yes, it’s left-wing and it’s a good thing” stage of the narrative.
Nick Shirley did a man on the street in the riots yesterday.
Some young lady was telling him about antifa and how the country needs a revolution…. she blamed the US and Trump for the conditions and unrest in France.
Since I saw it, they added some context. He was reporting during the 2025 riots….
https://x.com/nickshirleyy/status/2111900445870620939
We had a French goodbye on our deck this morning.
Adieu.
A dew.
That’s OK, my kids didn’t get it either.
Sensei: “I still laugh about what an idiot I was.”
I used to win a lot of bachelor party story contests with my “I still laugh about what an idiot I was.” stories.
Probably the most lethal was the “make a black powder cannon” incident.
See… my friend’s dad shot muzzle loaders. And we were 12-13 years old. And unsupervised.
So we made makeshift bombs from the paper bottoms of coat hangers and rocket fuses. Like a big firecracker.
Pretty dang powerful. We would build dams back in the woods and then blow them up a few days later when they had filled up. Great fun.
So…
One day we get the idea to make a cannon.
See, he found this hunk of galvanized pipe and an end cap in the garbage pile at a construction site.
And being the geniuses we were….
We screwed the cap on real tight. Now, we arent idiots. We knew that cap might not be strong enough.
So we tightly folded some notebook paper and jammed it down tight with a broomstick. Probably 2 inches worth.
Only then did we load the powder.
Luckily, his older brother came by and asked how much we planned to use before we went ahead. “Maybe just an inch or so to start”
“No-no-no-no-no!”
Finally. A sane voice had joined the chat.
“You just use like a quarter teaspoon”
Oh.
So not actually sane … just less stupid.
So in goes the black powder. And then we ram a whole bunch of notebook paper on top.
Really tight.
Now what?
We didnt have a hole for a fuse or anything.
Hmmmm
So I grab some rubbing alcohol and pour a little down the pipe.
Now, I should mention that we are talking about a 4 foot section of pipe here.
So anyway, we lean the pipe against a huge oak out back, held in place by a couple of small branches.
Now what?
We had used cigarette delay fuses before. But this didnt seem like it would work.
So I broke the stick off of a bottle rocket, angled it just on the edge to fire down the pipe….
I lit it…
Turned….
Made one step….
And BOOOOOM!!!!
I could feel the heat on the back of my neck.
We turned back to look ….
A good 2 feet of bark and 2 1 inch thick branches were missing from the tree.
Yeah.
Really close to dead that time.
It’s a conundrum
“The underlying problem is that politicians are not able to offer hope of a better life for many Europeans because the economy is growing only slowly and governments have built up huge debts, leaving them little scope to support higher public spending or to cut taxes,” Capital Economics’ Kenningham said.
Unfortunately, no one knows how this happened, or how to counteract it.