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Oh boy
Watcha talking about Willis?
The post election legal circus.
Oh boy!
“Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, talked about subpoenas for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and other Trump administration officials on the first day of a Democrat majority, should his party flip the House in Tuesday’s midterm elections.”
CWAA
do they want Vance in the white house?
‘Cause this is how you put Vance in the white house!
If they can remove Trump, they can remove Vance. Impeaching and removing Trump isn’t getting a bad actor out of the way, its regime change. In the enormously unlikely event that enough Repubs are convinced to throw their careers away to remove Trump, Vance is just mopping up.
Being utter assholes is a non-unique condition among congressxems.
The more vicious the fighting amongst themselves, the less energy they’ll have to fuck me over, and maybe the ATF director can do more good without being noticess.
/whitepill
I like this thought.
I will say that it is so pathetic that rather than having policy to help people, the dems want to push vengeance. I predict that will hurt them in the election.
I predict that will hurt them in the election.
I’ll take that bet. I predict enough idiots are on board with this that they reward the Dems with the House.
Yeah, the impeachment theater they have planned does have an upside.
And I have no doubt Donald is more prepared now. And he and his minions have nothing to lose so why not go scorched earth.
It’s a nice thought and I hope you’re right – but history doesn’t tell of many cases where vicious infighting kept the revolutionaries from the revolution.
It would be a good time for example to finally go after some of the higher-ranking FBI traitors who have escaped any consequences for their treasonous activities – stuff that was promised and not delivered.
Because those incidents were when the attempt was crushed so the infighting wasn’t well documented, just the success of the regime at restoring order.
This isn’t infighting though, it’s the two teams fighting each other. Maybe individual congressxem are about the revolution, but the bulk are for personal power through team power, which is nicely zero-sum.
Holder refused to appear before Congress. If subpoenaed, I would instruct them to respond that Eric Holder demonstrated that Congressional Subpoenas are a suggestion, not mandatory and that they politely decline the invitation.
When democrats are subpoenaed it is a suggestion. When others are, then it is not. And that is because democrats have no problem abusing the power of government against their political enemies, especially since the old legacy media will give them cover. See Roger Stone and that Bannon fella.
They keep going on about Elon Musk, but can’t mention any actual crimes.
+ 1 Lavrenty Beria
Wrongthink and Wrongspeech.
It’s not a crime to reduce the size and scope of the government.
Public exposure.
Better than pubic exposure.
Depends
Until he parks a rocket on Brussels or a DSA convention there have been none.
And that would be an act of war and not a crime.
It doesn’t feel like violent crime is plunging.
IDK, last time I remember hearing about criminal plunger use was Abner Louima, and that was a while back.
If you take the most restrictive reading of the municipal code, it’s illegal to unclog a drain without a plumbing work permit. So you could be fined for criminal plunging.
But the enforcement difficulty means it can’t raise revenue so they don’t take that reading.
The actual crime rate has no way of appearing to you, all that appears to you is the rate of crime reporting and recounting. Delve into the details of many of those stories online and you discover that they happened years ago, or far away. Even if you are a victim all you directly know about is that one crime, which for you makes the rate 100%. We don’t have minds built for ignoring threat stories, we have minds built for concentrating on them.
Police departments have been caught cooking statistics.
I’ve seen way more petty criminal activity and lawlessness the last few years.
Neither of those are particularly good evidence, which is why I wrote “feel”.
Fire Departments do it too.
We had a fire two years ago in
My county where they said it burned 90 houses.
Turns out it was 25, and mostly mobile homes and shacks surrounded by junk.
They counted every camper and outbuilding as a home to pump up the crisis.
It’s not. The reporting agencies are just lying about the crime rate.
ding ding ding.
“Trump Says Preemptive Pardons Possible to Protect Staff and Allies Like Elon Musk”
And the media that went out of their way to defend and justify the autopen ones, will suddenly find a reason to complain and call things like this illegal and immoral.
Well yeah, they will just ignore the fact that President Autopen set the precedent.
Why would they not? They have convinced people that racism & slavery party was the republican party, and not the democrat party, too. After that feat, why would they not think they can get away with any lie, no matter how ludicrous it may be?
Especially since they do get away with outrageous lies, because they have the collusion of 95% of the media.
“Especially since they do get away with outrageous lies, because they have the collusion of 95% of the media.”
If the media only reported facts, without the usual left leaning activist bias, the democrat party of today would never again win an election. And they would have lost most of them in the past as well.
PBS needs to be dissolved, and its employees prosecuted for every crime they may have committed.
It infuriates me that the most effective propagandism campaigns from the left are all financed with the tax dollars of the very people they target to hurt.
Because both sides are in on it. We are all just underneath.
Where’s my publicly funded right wing propaganda news networks?
“Evidence Suggests Alaska’s ‘Decoy Dan’ Illegally Colluded With Democrat Dark-Money Group”
All you have to do to understand this was not just a dirty trick but illegal, is how democrats would be reacting when this was done by the other side. They locked some kid up for a prank vote meme for Clinton.
Would it be possible to prosecute the D-party of AK for putting two candidates on the ballot? Assuming they’re only allowed one, that is.
The Dems prosecuted a similar scheme several years ago. The legal theories used to go after Trump after the 2020 election are quite applicable to this as well.
ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!!1!
Banjos, it is only interference when republicans stop the cheat. And the election can only be questioned if the democrats fail to cheat their way into a win.
One person’s “election interference” is another person’s “saving democracy”. If these people would only vote right (meaning left), the left wouldn’t have to resort to such tactics.
The left’s tactic is to keep voting until they get what they want – power – then to rig the system so elections do not matter and they always keep power. See CA, the EU, or anything the UN does.
“The Elon Musk-led rocket maker is looking to build a hybrid satellite-terrestrial mobile network through Starlink Mobile to challenge US wireless giants AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, combining its satellite constellation with ground based infrastructure to compete directly in the telecom market.”
Obviously only something an evil white supremacist would do.
He’s a fascist, so we should nationalize his industries.
He is coming after the government supported monopolies!
As I said in the overnight thread, let the speculation begin. Except that now it’s up to four planes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cxdd865qmj4gt
They misspelled ‘Merica.
They really should stay away from Rome. Fly some bomb plane into the Vatican and you might just get another crusade.
I still don’t know what Ds will accomplish. 2018 people took impeachment seriously. All the public wants now is cheaper gas, affordable healthcare, and meal deal combos that are less than $10. They ran their elections on caring about the public’s needs, then are going to spend two years making it the Trump Show again. Which everyone is fucking sick of.
Not everyone. The DSA crazies want Trump in the Elian Gonzalez photo.
Isn’t he already the guy with the gun deporting the illegal in that scenario?
I’m sure Bluesky will be very happy for two years.
They want Trump *as* Elian Gonzalez, with the gun in his face, screaming in fear.
We shall see how big the DSA crowd really is after today.
When is the last time anyone actually attempted to decrease the money supply? Without that, inflation is a one-way ratchet.
Volcker?
I think technically whenever they raise interest rates, that’s supposed to decrease the money supply.
One of Warsh’s stated goals is shrinking the balance sheet – we’ll see.
“It’s the economy stupid”
It really is a coincidence that I’ve got a bunch of 9mm ordered that is being delivered today.
But it does make one think…
I’m surprised NJ lets you buy ammo online.
Not all mail order places will deal with the hassle. I need to upload my driver’s license and FID (Firearm ID) card.
You can’t buy ammo in person in NJ without the FID. Two decades ago you just needed ID.
One of the local Gun Shop owners opened a Gun Shop just over the border in Vermont, and named it “Ammo Nation”. Most of its floor space is dedicated to ammo, in both retail and bulk packaging. No, there’s no reason it’s a hop, skip, and a jump away from the New York border.
That reminds me – I need to see how the shield likes the steelcase I bought off NA.
It’s not the steel that caused the issues, it’s the zinc coating.
I shot multiple thousands of Wolf and Tula (to the extent that they are different) steel cased without issue. It used to be $0.13/round!
I’ve got an assortment coming for the G43X. I want to see how it functions and how I function with different weights and loadings.
Initial plan game plan is 115gr Critical Defense, but I’ll try some hotter and heavier loads. I don’t have lots of options because of NJ’s hollow point restrictions. Basically FMJ or Hornady bullet designs.
Noted.
Hopefully the Shield is okay with the Zinc.
Just be sure that it’s landing in the same place as your preferred defensive ammo. I am assuming that’s the Shield’s role.
It is, but I haven’t chosen a preferred defensive ammo. I have a bunch of 115 grain target ammo, plus the zinc-steelcase stuff.
Not a fan of hollow point for handguns, but can you buy hollow point rifle ammo? If you can’t buy game king in 30-06 that’s just un-American.
New York is fine with Hollowpoint.
New Jersey freaks out.
Vermont just shrugs.
I am assuming that’s the Shield’s role.
I’ve always chuckled at that name. You normally think of a shield as something defensive that blocks an attack. Unless the slide stops a bullet it’s an offensive weap on.
Well, officially it’s the “Smith and Wesson Military and Police Shield X”.
And no, it’s not going to reliably stop incoming rounds except by either deterring or eliminating the source.
In NJ you can buy hollow points, but you can’t carry it. So home defense and range is OK, but nothing else.
In NJ you can only hunt with a shotgun, bow or black powder so hollow point rifle loads have little purpose.
I’ve got an assortment coming for the G43X. I want to see how it functions and how I function with different weights and loadings.
I’ve run thousands of rounds of the cheapest ammo I can find of all varieties through my Glock 43X, and it never had a problem with any of it.
In NJ you can buy hollow points, but you can’t carry it. So home defense and range is OK, but nothing else.
You can however carry Hornady Critical Defense rounds, because the hollow point is filled with a polymer, so the state doesn’t consider it to be ‘hollow point’ ammo. The NJ State Police website actually says so in their firearm FAQ section.
That’s been my experience with my G21. Fires whatever I put into it.
It was part of my selection process for the G43X. I assume it will do the same.
You can however carry Hornady Critical Defense rounds
Yeah, that’s why I said above basically FMJ or Hornady bullets.
I would exercise caution with Critical Defense anything. They’re not the same as Critical Duty, and tend to under-penetrate.
That said, ammo selection is way down on the priority list for a carry gun. Having a reliable system, and gettin’ gud with it is the important thing.
I would exercise caution with Critical Defense anything. They’re not the same as Critical Duty, and tend to under-penetrate.
Yeah I’ve got the whole Hornady line up. Duty and Defense. If I the Duty rounds don’t bark too badly for me I’ll go that route. The FBI – has the 135gr +P. Naturally that’s the load my CZ seemed to like least.
Mind you the 43X barrel is bit over 3 inches compared to 4 inches on the FBI tests. They are all going to be lower velocity. OTH, if I can’t shoot well past the first shot I’ll take something lighter.
I wonder – how bad will your milage be if you put a large generator in the bed of a Slate truck and used that to charge the batteries. I suppose you could tow the generator instead, but I think it’d be funnier to build the generator into the bed.
Depends how you drive. Once you accelerate the mass up to speed there isn’t much penalty. It’s around town that mass is critical.
I was thinking about the loss from turning the fuel into electricit and the electricity into motion, but yes, the added mass is going to drain the battery differently.
How bad your milage is is determined by how many Ds you elect. And Slate is a terrible material for trucks, heavy and brittle.
Slate is great for billiards though.
I really like the concept of the Slate. It just has a terrible range. It would have problems going to Shreveport, I would have to charge twice on the way there and back.
There is another company called REO that is releasing designs for a gas powered truck, same price range, in two days. Look them up on the 5th.
Someone linked REO a few days back but at the time they had basically Zero information on their site. Except the disappointing news that their truck was not the Speedwagon.
Yes, the release is on 5th of November. Supposedly it is not a dupe.
Ford failed to keep the Maverick at the initial stated price, but it still seems like the Fathom is going to be a better option than Slate.
An Azov torture house was discovered in Ukraine sparking riots.
https://me.mashable.com/culture/77871/kyiv-torture-chamber-controversy-40-men-allegedly-held-captives-shocking-video-triggers-investigatio
They should do Lubyanka next.
Exposing these bastards, finally. I heard conflicting reports about the 14-y/o in the photo – many claims he was a prisoner other statements that he was messing with Azov and fell off a fence.
I read some pretty interesting articles about both the Russians and Ukrainians castrating POWs, as well as smashing limbs with sledgehammers repeatedly to the point where the only treatment was amputation.
Humans are such fun creatures.
This sort of thing is why I am increasingly convinced that the “inherent dignity of mankind” is a story we tell ourselves to paint humans as something higher than animals. When the opposite is true; humanity’s greater intellect makes us worse, because while animals mostly act on instinct, humans can use their intelligence to willfully and with forethought do evil. And even when we are just acting according to self-interest, not consciously setting out to do harm for harm’s sake, that is no better than the animals.
The opposite is of course true, humans can “use their powers for good,” but looking at humanity as a whole, that seems to be the exception rather than the rule.
Repost from the overnight thread:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/ck62yvz046pjo
You can also see the video on Twitter unless you’re one of those people who insist on virtue signaling about having been blocked by Twitter:
https://x.com/WBC24News/status/2117542954919453121
Read that this morning. Really horrible. Given that it’s Europe, I wonder if the guy who hit him is going to be arrested?
He was hit by a Nigerian, so maybe not.
Videos work on Twitter for me again even without an account.
Musk blocked it for a while to prevent other AI developers from scraping X for data to train their AIs because X has the best information and substance. He has removed that restriction now cause he completed that already for Grok and the others are now behind the curve and late on this effort.
Titty Tuesday erection day!
https://archive.is/ALNwJ
More sports news:
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/50368089/norway-pledges-boycott-hockey-worlds-russia
oh no not norway
Sweden and Finland have joined too.
And the Czechs still won’t issue visas for Russia to participate in the Women’s U18 world championship.
I don’t get the point of punishing Russian players for what their government does.
They could ban the US too because Trump but they know they’d look ridiculous.
And any best-on-best international tournament they doesn’t include Russia has an asterisk next to it in my book, because they could win it in any given year, just based on their strength in goal alone.
Yeah I was gonna ask if they consulted the players, but WP cock-blocked me.
The whole boycott theater is so tedious anyway. If we’re going by “bad behavior” you might as well boycott three quarters of the world’s nations.
The could go the Olympic route and call them “world athletes” or some such bullshit that allows them to compete but not under the Russian flag.
Yeah, politics has no place in sport…until it does.
“A West Point cadet fed his pregnant girlfriend a sedative-laced smoothie and “shoved abortion pills” into her vagina, killing the fetus — then enrolled in Columbia University’s public-health masters program, a new lawsuit says.
Disgraced former army cadet Caleb T. Suh — the son of US Department of Veterans Chief of Staff Dr. Ryung Suh — already admitted in federal court that he deliberately tricked his then-girlfriend into chugging what he assured her was a “special pregnancy protein powder” shake in 2022, according to the lawsuit and his guilty plea.
The sick smoothie was actually chockful of the sedatives Xanax and Promethazine.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/02/us-news/west-point-cadet-drugged-pregnant-girlfriend-with-spiked-shake-then-forced-abortion/
CWAA
He does not reflect the moral qualities I’d want in a military leader.
Seems overly complicated. Why not just put the abortifacient in the smoothie?
My guess is because it was about anger and humiliating the girl.
It’s also possible that the NYP is full of shit.
Shouldn’t the left be celebrating this guy? He was only bringing her one of their most sacred rites and saving her from a life of servitude.
My first thoughts too. It’s both scary and sad that is what immediately comes to mind.
If a male does the baby killing then it is bad because RAPE PATRIARCHY CULTURE. It is only pure and noble, fighting the patriarchy, when the woman does it. And especially when she does it against the man’s wishes.
It is unclear whether either Suh or the woman — both of whom would be in their 20s — ever graduated from West Point.
Unclear…. They publish a register of graduates annually, it’s freaking online. Journalism at its finest.
He should be praised like Lindsay Clancy.
You saying his legal defense should be to claim he was motivated by a hormonal imbalance?
I wonder if “met” Jane Doe.
And then he moved to Columbia. What a prince.
“When TikTokker Kristen Mirand was looking for flights from JFK Airport to Buffalo for the holidays and saw her return trip would cost anywhere from $11,400 to $12,203, she couldn’t fathom what she was seeing, telling her followers she was “going to start walking home now.”
“Just a cheap $12,000,” she fumed, noting that the overpriced flight even included a layover in Fort Lauderdale.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/02/lifestyle/sky-high-holiday-airfares-2026-why-even-short-flights-cost-over-10000/
????
“I only fly First Class Platinium Super”
Also, Buffalo is one day’s drive from NYC. Hop on the thruway.
Or take Amtrak.
I was thinking that. Fly a different airline, pick different days. And that one flight from New York to Buffalo seems like a rental drive.
You’ll get there by 2037
Not if you sing by Fort Lauderdale.
What if you just whistle or hum?
The florida leg is because nobody does direct flights between cities in New York.
Flights between New York and Florida are common and relatively cheap.
I don’t know what she’s piling on to get above $2k, which is all the frills I’d look at.
“The florida leg is because nobody does direct flights between cities in New York.”
That’s retarded.
Commerce Clause for the win?
Not true. I used to fly from LGA to ROC all the time.
Expedia shows it at around $300 every day through the end of the year except Dec. 3 it is $21,300 for some reason.
There’s not enough demand for short haul flights in-state.
@Rhy – I stand corrected.
I admit I have never been to either of those airports. I’ve used Syracuse, Albany, and JFK.
There is even ITH-LGA but it’s like 500 bucks.
A Gallup poll found 15% of voters believe most members of Congress deserve re-election, a record low in polls dating back to 1994
But my local guy is great! /sarc
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/what-the-midterms-campaign-tells-us-about-where-our-politics-are-headed-f315fa61?st=CnNqyE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I voted against my congressvermin – again – like I do every two years. Same tax-loving bastard has been in the seat since I moved to this area.
Voted straight Republican at the state level. Constitution and Libertarian for my Senate and Congress seats respectively.
I’ll be voting L for house rep and abstaining from the rest (most are unopposed) I’m going to vote on the state constitutional amendments and the like
Mine is shit.
Horse Asian Update
“In one TikTok video shared to X, she boasts about her medications, including Aripiprazole, an antipsychotic medication commonly prescribed for schizophrenia; Lamotrigine, which treats for bipolar disorder; and Sertraline, an SSRI antidepressant also used for anxiety and OCD.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/02/us-news/michigan-student-ranted-about-being-released-from-mental-hospital-after-attacking-jewish-activist-report/
Does anyone make a medication to treat ‘being an asshole?’
I believe the traditional treatment is a lead injection.
Hmm. Curing the disease, by killing the patient. Yeah, I’m down.
I’m at work and probably won’t post much for awhile, but I wanted to chime back in on the passing vs. pacing discussion in the dead thread. I pretty much agree with RC Dean. I drive on the highway with the cruise control on 99% of the time, so if I pass someone, I pass them at whatever rate we’re doing. If the other guy decides to start pacing me and someone’s flying up behind I will either accelerate past the dickhead or slow down to let the guy behind pass, depending on my mood. If possible, i want space to either side of my vehicle just in case.
As an aside, I really like adaptive CC.
😱
I absolutely loathed that “feature” when a rental had it on a road trip. It’d kick in when we were trying to pass somebody and there was enough of a gap between their front bumper and the slowpoke pacing them a few car lengths ahead in the left lane, but closer than the machine’s sensor range. (or a similar situation with lanes swapped.) It always cut our speed at the worst possible time. We didn’t get into any accidents because we were paying attention, but it made us both feel less safe whenever it started jerking us around by screwing with what should be a fixed speed.
I can definitely sympathize. The first time I used it on my new truck my reactions was “I don’t know about this shit” but since I had the exact same reaction the first time I used cruise control at all, I expected it and made myself keep trying. For my vehicle (and I would hope others) I was able to adjust the follow distance to my taste, and then it became a matter of knowing how the truck behaves when someone moves into my lane in front of me.
Once I got used to it and when to use it I loved adaptive cruise control. I have the option of normal or adaptive depending on situation. For long road trips adaptive cruise control is awesome.
I only use cruise control to stop myself from speeding on longer trips.
I tried using the adaptive control in a few rental cars and I found it made me sleepy.
Hmm adaptive makes me less sleepy because of the decreased physical strain.
I like adaptive CC. On an empty road, its just like regular. But I think it really works for me on busy highways, like when you are going through a city and the game is basically to pace the car in front of you. Which is what it does anyway. You have to shorten up the “follow” distance to prevent dickheads from diving in front of you, of course.
If (when) the R’s get sodomized today, they really have no one to blame but themselves. There were several 80-20 issues that they could have pushed through that would have been wildly popular. The real problem though, obviously, was the monumentally retarded Iran war. I’ve never seen a worse own goal and once that happened the die was cast.
The worst thing is that I doubt anyone will have learned a lesson about just how sick the country is of foreign adventurism and we’ll continue to stick our dicks in all kinds of hornet’s nests around the world.
Like voter ID, for example? It’s unreal they couldn’t get that passed.
https://x.com/carnelianpagan/status/2117489867601084514
Still don’t know what the R’s argument was for not voting for it.
Still don’t know what the R’s argument was for not voting for it.
In rural Alaska it was broadly unpopular. Otherwise I’m not sure why the country club Team Red pushed against it.
Voter ID and simple Simon shit like daylight savings time. Nope. Stalled in the Senate. Fire them all.
It all died because of the filibuster, which the Republicans allowed the most recent version to stay unchanged. They could have easily gone back to the OG filibuster – you have to actually hold the floor – the purpose of which was to delay a bill while you worked the votes. The current version is a de facto supermajority requirement that kills, not delays, bills.
Go back to the OG version and all those 80/20 bills pass. But the idiot Repubs either are on the Dem’s side, or believe the Dems won’t modify or axe the filibuster next time they need to get it out of the way.
I agree with RC Dean here.
Well the DST bill was fucked because they were making it permanent instead of ending it and going permanent standard (what happened to maha?).
I drive the freeway every day to work and use cruise control extensively. Then I bought a cheap car two years ago that didn’t have cruise control. I found that I had become completely dependent on CC and struggled to maintain speed when traffic was light.
Two years later, driving without CC has become my norm. When I get back into my cars and trucks that I haven’t, I frequently forget to turn it on for short trips.
This weekend I drove to St. Louis to visit friends. I absolutely used CC on the trip down. But when I got to St Louis during Friday rush hour, I turned it off to drive in heavy traffic. I now find it easier to manually track the cars in front of me rather that fighting with normal cruise control.
I don’t have adaptative CC in any of our vehicles. And since I don’t fly anymore, I don’t rent cars anymore. So, I don’t expect to ever use adaptive in the future.
Nobody will learn anything. Democrats will think they won with their great messaging – which is hilarious.
Republicans will be relieved that MAGA is dead. They’ll think their path forward is returning to the Mitt Romney days.
Democrats will think they won with their great messaging – which is hilarious.
Their messaging in NH on the state level has largely been fantastic. Hitting Republicans on cost of living issues. There are outliers a) like Rep. Ellen Read of Newmarket who is running for reelection on an income tax and b) Cinde Warmington’s gubernatorial campaign which is probably the worst I’ve ever seen.
Why do you hate everything becoming affordable again?
Why do you hate everything becoming affordable again?
Their message is better than that.
A lot of is pointing out that costs have risen in the state, especially property taxes, and that Republicans have controlled the state government for quite a while. Then saying Democrats have a plan to lower those costs.
For the average voter, this is great. For people who know a little more and think a little more deeply about these things, the Democrats’ messaging falls apart pretty quickly. Property taxes have risen mainly because of the local school levy. State aid to schools on a per pupil basis have never been higher and Democrats generally control the school boards. Increasing state aid even more will require higher state taxes. Democrats had an unforced error where one of their number introduced an income tax bill during the pre-election bill filing period for incumbents running for reelection.
The property tax cap is helping with the average voters. But even so, the Democrats are doing a great job of messaging this time around. Do not underestimate them.
Do they say how they’ll fix the cost of living issues?
The only thing normies care about regarding the middle east is the price of gas – which is still lower here than previous administration. It’s been going down. The loud activists will yell about the war, but they’re loud, not a majority.
Trump’s promised to restart the war literally this week.
It was around $2.70 or so in February. Yesterday the same station was $4.15.
Where are you shopping for gas, Ted. Come fedruary I’d like to stop by.
It’s under $4 here. It never got below $3 since before 2020
Various non-Stewarts places in the town of Ulster shopping district.
Mobil and QuickChek [sic] have been around $4.15; Citgo maybe two cents cheaper although I’m not supporting Venezuela. Stewart’s is always more expensive.
which is still lower here than previous administration
Irrelevant. What matters is the price now.
To clarify: What matters is does the average person think the price now is high or not?
When the dust settles after today’s votes, the Dems will have a 30 seat majority in the House and be 51-49 in Senate.
I doubt that. I still predict a wash.
I am with you USCs. And no matter what, the dems will claim the election was rigged if they lose, or is a mandate, and they will work to burn it all down. Then all the people that didn’t vote will whine about how Trump didn’t do anything some more.
I don’t have any predictions – but don’t believe polls or prediction markets. What I find most disturbing about this election are the horrific candidates put-up by the Dems – even in red states. Republicans don’t seem to understand that the Dems have a machine where candidates are selected years in-advance using the Soros model of low-level state offices/government roles or funding for a fake business.
The Dems won’t get 60 votes in the Senate, so the rest won’t matter much. Gridlock and political kabuki theater.
“The Dems won’t get 60 votes in the Senate”
I like your confidence that with even a hair minority they will not immediately vote to end the 60 vote requirement, as they have told us repeatedly they will…
Meh.
A; If they nuke the filibuster they should expect a world of pain the next time the pendulum swings back to Team Red.
B; They can’t nuke a presidential veto with 51 votes.
Nothing would surprise me at this point.
Like some have said, the polls are garbage. And yes, the Dem candidates are the worst I have ever seen but I am quite certain they’re going to cheat like mad to get them in.
“A; If they nuke the filibuster they should expect a world of pain the next time the pendulum swings back to Team Red.”
In the old world, before Trump wrecked the marxist globalist leftist agenda’s final reset play, turning these commies into rabid fucks, that might have worked. But we are no longer there. When they nuke the filibuster they will make sure they never again lose an election. They have made it clear that the first step will be to get rid of the 60 votes hurdle. But it does not end there. The second move will be to add Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. as states, giving them 4 more senators to perpetually hold a larger majority. And after that they will add 5 more hard core leftists – think Ketanji Brown Jackson level of stupid “We can’t define women cause we are not biologists” – to the SCOTUS to make sure the courts can’t stop them. and you ca kiss the electoral vote system and the republic goodbye.
All that talk about nationalizing Musk’s industries? The end goal is to take X away from him. They want control of the information again. And be ready for Woke 2. it will not stop there. the agenda is to crush any populist attempt to stop them. See what is going on in Europe? Expect it to go everywhere else that doesn’t go along with the plans. And that includes here.
Read this: https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2111963741072101456
They think the pendulum will never swing back to team Red, and considering their well-documented plans, they might be right.
I’ll predict that the Democrats win the US House. I’m not sure about the US Senate. When the Democrats win, the usual suspects will claim the Democrats cheated instead of blaming Trump for handing the election to Democrats.
NH specific predictions: Kelly Ayotte will win reelection. NH’s US reps will stay Democrat. John Sununu might pull off a win for the US Senate but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Chris Pappas win. Republicans will continue to control the Executive Council. Republicans will lose seats in both chambers in the legislature but will continue to control the legislature.
The property tax cap will do well. The cap is on the ballot across the state but only takes effect at a school district level if the school district has a supermajority (60%) vote in favor of the cap. I think it will receive between 50% and 60% vote in most districts in the state with only a handful breaking the 60% mark.
“Four school buses were found vandalized with swastikas and other antisemitic vitriol outside a Brooklyn yeshiva Monday morning, cops said.
The hateful symbol and phrases “F–k Jews,” “F–k Israel,” “Free Palestine” and “America First” were scrawled in black spray paint on the buses parked outside the United Talmudical Academy of Williamsburg, according to police and photos posted by Williamsburg News.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/02/us-news/4-buses-vandalized-with-swastikas-antisemitic-vitriol-outside-nyc-yeshiva-cops/
America First? These were right-wing vandals?
James Fishback was taking money from a bunch of Islamist groups. I don’t know about Tucker.
The new rebels are so dumb they can’t even get their graffiti message right.
To Antifa, I think “America First” is only relevant in the context of Israel and our Iran adventures.
Or a false flag operation.
For your neo-Nazis, America First is on brand because they believe the Jooz control the US government (hence, “ZOG” – Zionist Occupation Government). I don’t know that the Hamasniks really go that route, but for this cycle of Joo-hating, the neo-Nazis and the Hamasniks are getting along.
I keep wondering when people, whether commie or neo-nazi, are going to realize that there is no getting along with Islamists in the long run.
I think (hope) Elon is going to produce a viable flying car in the next 5 years. All the pieces are there: autonomy, propulsion, high-density storage, AI, network communication.
In fact, that might have been his end game all along.
https://nypost.com/2026/11/02/tech/florida-police-get-first-ever-148k-flying-patrol-vehicle/
I’m not aware that we are anywhere close to having batteries for a functional flying (electric) car.
Hydrogen. Fuck batteries.
“The paper last month impressed its usual critics by tracking down damning details of how Democratic candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign recruited a strawman candidate sharing the same name as the Republican incumbent, a ploy that, in concert with the state’s ranked-choice-voting rules, could make her the winner even if more people meant to vote for the real Dan Sullivan…
But Times readers on social media and in its comment section howled about this betrayal of their expectation that the paper of record will confirm all their biases, especially “Democrats good, Republicans evil” — offering “All the news that’s fit to think.”…
The capper was the most unusual item, “Inside The Times’s Decisions on the Alaska Senate Race Story,” a long mea culpa about why the paper made such a big deal over “a strategy considered legal that has been used by Democrats and Republicans alike” and explaining how it dropped the bomb so close to Election Day.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/02/opinion/the-new-york-times-apologizes-for-its-outbreak-of-journalism/
The Gay Lady has also been surprisingly honest about the Ilhan “Omar” stuff.
The democrat machine has already decided she is a lost cause and no longer worth protecting. Too many other scandals that are easier to gaslight about, and this one got too tiring.
Bullshit about the ranked choice voting stuff. If you’re voting for Sullivan, your first choice is going to be for one of the Sullivans and your second choice for the other.
This. Unless Peltola gets more than 50% right away then they go to instant runoff voting, and if one Sullivan is eliminated one would thing almost all of those voted would go to the other. If Peltola gets more than 50% of the vote right away, then the number of Dan Sullivans who lose is irrelevant.
You both assume the average voter ranked-choices properly.
Previous elections have proved that they do not. It’s a reason why the cheaters want it.
‘Properly’ seems highly subjective. But you’re right in that people can be unpredictable.
Someone would have to work hard to convince me that a supporter of Mary Peltola would put anyone but her name first on their ballot. “I want Mary to win so I’ll vote for Decoy Dan first and Mary second” doesn’t seem probable.
what you’re going to see if people who place one Dan vote. Because there’s no way they plan to vote for the wrong Dan. Some portion of them do vote for the wrong Dan.
Two heavy boxes of mags for my soon-to-be obsolete Ruger rifles arrived last week. Money well spent, I suppose.
Collector’s items!
I want to know what’s up with the final car driving up on the sidewalk and why they couldn’t stop on the road.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1xke70j/not_having_a_driveway_is_a_real_bummer_oc_drunk/
Maybe they’d already been hit by the first car?
Tailgating or inebriated. Not enough time to react.
Just make those goddam abortion ads go away.
How dare you abort the marketing campaign for murdering children
Gotta admit I never saw it coming that “abortion up to the moment of birth” is now the minimum standard position for every Democrat.
It’s what they got as an initiative in Idaho.
They deserve retroactive abortions.
It’s the Talarico adds here.
We get a fuckton of ads for a State House Race where the 2 candidates are both Dems. Both are campaigning on how they “stood up to Trump” – for a state house, not congressional, race.
I want to know what’s up with the final car driving up on the sidewalk and why they couldn’t stop on the road.
Nobody in it, is my guess.
Damnit.
I’m down 11 k on
My energy stocks.
You’ll be back up in a week.
“According to an Oct. 23 health and safety advisory from the state Marijuana Enforcement Division, a batch of THC vaporizer products made by Colorado Medical Processing LLC, doing business as Colorado’s Best Dabs, had residual traces of methyl ethyl ketone, a banned solvent among licensed marijuana extractors. Research shows that chronic inhalation of methyl ethyl ketone poses neurological, liver and kidney risks as well as respiratory effects, and can harm the nervous system in high concentrations.”
https://www.westword.com/news/colorado-marijuana-recalls-69-dispensaries-four-days-40954455/
Yikes!
“Ana Navarro of ‘The View’ Says You Should Vote Democrat Because Ground Beef is $6.30 a Gallon”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/11/ana-navarro-view-says-you-should-vote-democrat/
That’s less than 80 cents a pound!
Those feral pigs on that show are truly dumb as fuck, and they truly appeal to the mental disorder dumb credentialed DEI crowd. Stupidity like that should make people abandon that show in droves, but I bet their viewership goes up after every one of these fiascos.
ANTISEMITISM!
The United States will stop providing $4 billion in aid each year to Israel in 2027 but will sell arms to its closest ally in the Middle East, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday.
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Trump said Israel doesn’t need the aid and it’s a lot of money for the U.S. to spend. But Trump also said that U.S. aid to Israel has become a Democratic talking point for candidates such as Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
“You can consider it barter. You can consider military aid or cash,” Trump said. “Look, we give them $4 billion of things and money, and they don’t need it. And I was approached by Bibi Netanyahu, and we’ve been talking about it for a couple of years because it’s a lot of money.”
There was no immediate comment from Netanyahu’s office.
Now we’re getting somewhere.
Commie rent control plan plays out as was expected..