Iran Explosion

Plus: Gay fallout, Lithuanian badasses, Epstein buddies, Haley chutzpah, and more...

Mystery in Iran: Four years ago, the U.S. military killed Iran's former top military brass, Qassem Soleimani, via drone strike. At a ceremony held yesterday to honor him, 103 people were killed and 211 were wounded by the explosion of at least two bombs.

"While Iran was quick to blame Israel, European and American officials said they doubted that the Israelis conducted the strike," reported The New York Times. "Most of their actions against Iran have been highly targeted, from taking out the chief architect of Iran's nuclear program to blowing up specific nuclear and missile facilities." Experts on these types of attacks say the bombs look like they came from a terrorist group, but their provenance is still unclear.

Iran has, up until this point, not been explicitly involved in the fighting going on in the Middle East, though Iran does back Hezbollah, which has been firing at Israel from Lebanon, and the Yemeni Houthis, which have been attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea. Now, with a mystery attack on Iranian soil, it's possible involvement will become more direct and that the situation in the Middle East will heat up.

"We tell the criminal America and Zionist regime that you will pay a very high price for the crimes you have committed and will regret it," said Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a statement. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei refrained from blaming any country in particular, saying the blast was carried out by "malicious and criminal enemies."

Prisoner swap: In the Ukraine-Russia War, things have been heating up in the last week: Russia has launched some of the largest strikes yet, and Ukraine hit the Russian city of Belgorod just last week. Still, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy somehow agreed to a prisoner swap: "Kyiv said 230 Ukrainian prisoners of war were returned to Ukraine, while Moscow said more than 240 Russian military personnel were released in an exchange that was mediated in part by the United Arab Emirates," reported Axios.

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Scenes from New York:  

Who cares if silly tourists shop while walking the Brooklyn Bridge? (City officials, apparently.)

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QUICK HITS

• The Houthis have attacked another ship in the Red Sea, per Bloomberg.
• Yes:

Guns from the hardware store, dope from vending machines, speaking without bureaucrats trying to muzzle us, travel without showing papers and getting groped by goons … We can dream. https://t.co/b9CQxCX7Jy

— J.D. Tuccille (@JD_Tuccille) January 3, 2024

• New York Times editorial board writer Mara Gay went on MSNBC and called plagiarist Harvard President Claudine Gay's (no relation) resignation an "attack on academic freedom" and "pluralism." I am not sure The New York Times is sending us their best.
• Other reactions to Claudine Gay's resignation have poured in. My favorite?

"But what if we fire every academic who has ever plagiarized?"

Yes what if we fire the laziest cohort of a field that mainly produces p-hacked shovelware that no one reads. What then.

— nic ???? carter (@nic__carter) January 3, 2024

• The former Harvard president also wrote a hilariously out-of-touch New York Times piece that calls her critics racist. I, for one, am very impressed:

Holy shit did she just actually write something herself? pic.twitter.com/Bg3MfdtHHJ

— Liz Wolfe (@LizWolfeReason) January 4, 2024

• "Crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments is in talks with firms, including JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, to potentially play a key role in its proposed Bitcoin exchange-traded fund," reported Bloomberg.
• A preview of former President Donald Trump's busy January schedule.
• "The national governing body for amateur/Olympic-style boxing recently codified a rule permitting male participation in the women's division in its 2024 rulebook," per National Review.
• AI applications: helping us see maritime activity to a greater degree than ever before.
• Putin is going after an elderly, Lithuanian, Soviet-hating badass retired judge named Kornelija Maceviciene.
• Tyler Cowen tackles "the rate of return on exercise" over at Marginal Revolution.
• The just-unsealed Epstein documents contain a fair number of Bill Clinton mentions.
• Now I like her!

Nikki Haley renamed her husband pic.twitter.com/meUNigI54l

— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) January 3, 2024

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Houthis have attacked another ship in the Red Sea…

Davy Jones has all the best virgins.

[Mother's Lament]

In B4 someone claims it actually meant “raisins”.

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[TheReEncogitationer]

Ibn Warraq, author of Why I Am Not A Muslim pointed this out about Arabic translation.

All those Islamic murder-suicide bombers are basically killing and dying for a mini package of Sun-Maid. Either that or they’re killing and dying for The California Raisins, who, to all appearances, look male:
🙂
😉
California Raisins Commercial (1986)
https://youtu.be/pM2OK_JaJ9I?si=o_yux46xCgxjKrY8

[Mother's Lament]

Yeah, like that.

[Stuck in California]

Had to look that up.

I kind of hope it does mean raisins, or white grapes, or something. At least for any fucktard stupid enough to commit suicide and kill others expecting to get his heavenly reward. Which then turns out to be couple little boxes of sun-maid like my mom packed in my lunch once in a while when I was in elementary school.

“And Allah says ‘Kill yourself and you get a handful of stupid, failed grapes.’ ”

Whatever, that’s just me. What’s Arabic for Schadenfreude?

[soldiermedic76]

I’ve been reading that the US Navy has been prioritizing foreign flagged vessels for escort while leaving American flagged vessels stranded. Other countries, our allies, are prioritizing their flagged vessels, but the US Navy obvious has forgotten it’s primary responsibility is insuring the safety of American flagged vessels. It’s literally why the Navy was re-founded post Revolution.

[R Mac]

In case anyone needed any more evidence that our ruling class doesn’t really care about this country outside of plunder.

[Fats of Fury]

Have the American flagged vessels kept up their insurance payments to Hunter?

[Ajsloss]

Nice lookin’ boat you got here. It’d be a real shame if…

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Are there any merchants sailing under the US flag?

[soldiermedic76]

Yes, our merchant fleet is pretty small and this will just make it even smaller.

[soldiermedic76]

Last I had read there was about half a dozen US flagged vessels waiting for escort. That was a week ago, not sure if they’ve cleared it up yet.

[Minadin]

Well, it’s a damned shame that a bunch of people mourning the death of a terrorist got some of their own medicine.

[A Thinking Mind]

I’m waiting to see if Sullum is going to blame it on Trump.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

I mean, he did start WW3, 4, 5 and 6 right?

[Moonrocks]

Does this count as WWVII? Or are we not doing that anymore?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I think only the Super Bowl is allowed to use those funny letter-number things now.

[Chumby]

Will it need to be referred to as The Big Game War to avoid copyright infringement?

[Minadin]

Super Brawl 3

[TheReEncogitationer]

The video game will be called Madden Gogol..
🙂
😉

[Dillinger]

Rocky V … Adrian’s Revenge!

[Ajsloss]

Rocky V + Rocky II was Adrian’s Revenge.

[Spiritus Mundi]

I think you mean Iran’s most revered military leader.

[Minadin]

Tomato, tomahto.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I actually wouldn’t be surprised if it was an ISIS-type group or even a rando Iraqi Sunni group who was pissed about the Iranian militias hanging around in Iraq, really who the fuck knows who did this. It could be anyone from those two options, to a false flag by US or Chinese glowies looking to stir up further unrest.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Honor cultures have no shortage of types and numbers of enemies.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Guns from the hardware store…

As long as they’re not Craftsman.

[Longtobefree]

Blast from the past:
In the sixties, when I was in college, the rifle and pistol club bought 2,000 rounds of .22LR from the Western Auto each Saturday on the way to our range. That Western Auto also sold rifles. In the main aisle with everything else.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Ronald Reagan’s quote about recalling a time when we were free.

It would be interesting to list all of the things we could do or even say at some point in the recent past that we no longer can. And if any of the losses of those freedoms has in any way made our world a safer or better place.

Guns are certainly a front and center issue regarding this, not that most of us cannot still acquire what we want, but that right has been under constant and extreme attack for over two generations now; this has with the exceptions of certain States and localities, done nothing but created opposition and spikes in purchasing. Still, it was a lot more free and uncontroversial in the time that you mentioned.

Freedom of speech remains, but again this is an area that even the ACLU has pivoted on. Actual suppression has been seen mostly on college campuses, but also in the corporate world where statements uncovered from decades prior can have disastrous implications for one’s career.

And government regulations continue to burgeon. We have to take a piss test to get most jobs, you can have a government agency up your ass for just about any reason [Sackett v EPA], and government intrudes into our lives in our cars, our appliances, and asset forfeiture has become an established means of padding the resources of law enforcement.

We largely remain free, but less so; and the trend is clearly disturbing.

[R Mac]

“Freedom of speech remains, but again this is an area that even the ACLU has pivoted on. Actual suppression has been seen mostly on college campuses, but also in the corporate world where statements uncovered from decades prior can have disastrous implications for one’s career.”

Don’t forget the Twitter files and the fact that we now know that almost every media company has a fed with their own desk located there.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Indeed, how could I neglect actual censorship? Thanks for pointing that out.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Protecting Democracy! from free speech. So brave.

[Nardz]

Liz Wolfe is doing her part of lying for the regime

https://twitter.com/LizWolfeReason/status/1742642333802471824?t=jdJOrBhTLdK2GchnOqeUFQ&s=19

I engaged with the substance of the critique––which you ignored. It is not some mystery to me what bothers the (easily & frequently triggered) Mises Caucus types. What standard of evidence do they think journalists & politicians should go for before declaring “inside job”?

[Link]

[R Mac]

Yeah that was disappointing. But the overall ratio from other libertarians was pretty nice.

[Ersatz]

Don’t forget the Twitter files and the fact that we now know that almost every media company has a fed with their own desk located there.

Which is straight out of Atlas Shrugged. Even the political playbook of the progressive left is plagarized.

[goyopik1]

Stay At Home mummy From the large apple Shared Her Secret On but She Was ready to clear 5000 US dollars Weekly From on-line Work merely 3 Weeks once Losing Her recent Job… https://jobstime0909.blogspot.com

[Medulla Oblongata]

They do tend to treat 1984 and Atlas Shrugged as source material.

[Minadin]

The main convenience store in one of the rural towns near where I grew up was:

– A Phillips 66
– a sit down Ice Cream Parlor & soda fountain
– a 7-11
– a ‘Guns & Ammo’ store
– ALL of the above

[R Mac]

No fishing bait?

[Minadin]

Oh of course, and tackle – it was next to the archery supplies – since, you know, bow fishing.

[Stuck in California]

Grew up in an exurb in California. We had a tackle store as part of a liquor store/deli. Bought whatever ammo we wanted to shoot, everything from 22LR to .303 — which was way too damned expensive but we’d splurge once in a while since a buddy got an Enfield after completing the CMP.

I’m genX. I’m middle aged, not a boomer. That wasn’t that long ago. Never imagined how bad the 21st century would be to the simplest, most basic personal freedoms. Not just guns, everything.

[Idaho-Bob]

As long as they’re not Craftsman.

I have an old Sears and Roebuck 12ga bolt action shotgun. MF has a factory adjustable choke.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Sounds like a goose gun. Is the barrel at least 30″ long?

[Idaho-Bob]

No, more like 24″. Not my gun in the link, but the same.

https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/shotguns/shotguns—american/sears–roebuck—-co–model-101-5380-20ga–bolt-action-shotgun-by-springfield.cfm?gun_id=100658681

[Ajsloss]

Not my gun in the link

Did your gun fall off a boat that one time?

[rbike]

My Mongtomery Wards/Stevens 12 ga. was quite the gun. I still regret selling it but a $35 profit is still a profit

[mad.casual]

Broodlings learned to shoot with a J.C. Higgins bolt action .22 lr from Sears Roebuck ([cue Steve Earle] same as their Daddy and his Daddy before) and a semi-auto Squires Bingham .22 lr “K-Mart Special”

[mad.casual]

Stopped in a Wal-Mart travelling somewhere at some point and bought some bait, noted that ammo was on sale, bought some of that. Broodling No. 2 was with me and noted that it was odd that the Wal-Mart had shotguns and rifles in the case. Too young to remember Wal-Mart, Sears, or K-Mart or that they *all* stocked firearms at one point.

[Idaho-Bob]

I bought my first 4473 purchase at a K-Mart. 12 Ga H&R single shot. It was all I could afford @ 18 years old.

[soldiermedic76]

Mine was a Mossberg 500 at KMart. Kicks like a mule but dependable gun.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

Same Mossberg 500, but at a local sporting goods store, in a building that is now a big chain sporting goods store.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Have a (non-functioning) 20g bolt-action shotgun from Montgomery Wards. Was my father’s, so I assume he got it a Montgomery Wards, but the bolt was lost long before it came to me.

[Anomalous]

When I was a kid, the local (independent) hardware store had revolvers for sale. They were in a glass display case by the register.

[Conchfritters]

Used to be able to buy dynamite at the hardware store back in the 60s.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

The bombings by Weather Underground put an end to that practice.

Once again, radical leftists fuck up everyone else’s good time.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I bought some things at the Walker Drug and General Store in Moab, UT a few years ago, and noticed they sell rifles and ammo.

[TheReEncogitationer]

Hey now, Craftsman hand tools were 100 percent guaranteed. When I worked at Sears for a couple of years, people would bring in Craftsman hand tools that had been through a war zone and get even exchanges.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

They wouldn’t take a ratchet if you put a pipe on it. At least that was the policy IIRC.

[soldiermedic76]

We still can buy guns and ammo at our hardware stores.

[Idaho-Bob]

Yep, the Ace in Oldtown sells both.

[soldiermedic76]

Yeah and you can cross the street (okay walk three blocks) and buy liquor in the Safeway in Newport.

In-laws live in Priest River. So, I may have been in that Ace a time or two.

[Idaho-Bob]

The Super 1 in Oldtown sells liquor. No need to cross state lines unless you want some Mickey D’s. 🙂

[soldiermedic76]

Guess we don’t stop at the Super 1, generally because we’re coming in from CDA and going up through Spirit Lake is faster, so Safeway’s right there.

[rbike]

Our local independent hardware store sells guns and ammo. But this is Iowa and we are allowed to have guns.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

If you’re against the ban on ghost guns, you in essence believe there should be no background checks on gun purchases whatsoever. You believe you should be able to pick up a gun at Ace Hardware next to the hammers.

This guy is fuckin’ crazy. I don’t want that!

Why should I have to actually go to the store? I want 2-day Prime delivery on belt-fed machine guns. Ace isn’t going to have anywhere near the selection that Amazon will.

[Chumby]

Biden To Delivery Speech On January 6 Anniversary Warning Against Trump Victory

President Joe Biden will deliver a speech on the third anniversary of January 6, 2021, laying out what his team believes is at stake in the 2024 election.

On a call with reporters announcing Saturday’s event, Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said that if Trump wins in November, he “will use all of his power to systematically dismantle and destroy our democracy.”

Campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez also said, “Our message is clear, and it is simple: We are running a campaign like the fate of our democracy depends on it. Because it does.”

[Ajsloss]

It’s finally here… the most important election of our lives!

[A Thinking Mind]

The 60th consecutive most important election of our lifetimes.

[Ajsloss]

Peter Gibbons: That means that every time that you see me, that’s during the most important election cycle of my lifetime.

Hypnotist: Man, that’s messed up… *ahem* I mean, I think I can help you.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

So uh, did you get the memo?

[Moonrocks]

Is he going to break out the blood-red background and sharply-uniformed soldiers again? Torches would also make a strong impression.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Better yet, a looping image of torches wielded by a rampaging mob of scruffy looking white dudes. Que Nancy Pelosi claiming, for the umpteenth time, that this will mean of end of civilization as we know it.

[R Mac]

I think mannequins wearing red caps hanging from nooses in the background would be a nice touch.

[Idaho-Bob]

I think mannequins wearing red caps hanging from nooses in the background would be a nice touch.

They could use actual J6 participants and the left would cheer.

[Mother's Lament]

The establishment would cheer.

The GOPe hates them just as much as the Democrats.

[JesseAz]

Just more proof you’re part of the conservative cult and never criticize the GOP.

/sarcasmic

[Mother's Lament]

Yeah, the amount of time I criticize the GOPe, neocons and Conservative Inc. here is not unsubstantial, but that doesn’t fit sarc and the fifty-centers narratives.

[JesseAz]

It is extra funny because Sarcasmic has lamented the return of the old guard which was GOPe and neocons. While also demanding they act differently. Two completely orthogonal thoughts.

[sarcasmic]

Um, no. I said that Trump drove conservatives out of the party, and being the dishonest piece of garbage you are, you lie and claim I meant people who aren’t conservatives when I said conservatives.

[R Mac]

Honk honk!

[DesigNate]

He drove them so far out they became progressives and signed up with the Democrats.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I said that Trump drove conservatives out of the party,

Is that honestly the case, though, or is it more that he solidified support among the conservatives and drove the incrementalists out?

Because based on their own words, like that Daily Beast article jeff posted here a few weeks ago, the goal of the center-right isn’t actually to conserve anything, it’s merely to ensure progressivism doesn’t happen as fast. Even the Dispatch guys like Jonah Goldberg have made the same admission.

So what’s the point of the GOP allying with a faction who isn’t actually aligned with their political goals, but just making sure the Democrats don’t implement required child genital mutilation or fully open borders right this second?

[sarcasmic]

The narrative, as you put it, is that conservative principles have no place in Trump’s GOP. And you prove that every day when you show how much you hate anyone who doesn’t worship the man.

[Mother's Lament]

Sarckles, after all these years you still don’t realize that I’m not a conservative.

Also, the GOPe and the neocons are neocons, not conservatives.

[sarcasmic]

No shit. Which is why, despite the lies you guys like to tell, I don’t support those assholes.

[Mother's Lament]

What lies, Sarc. Give me one example of something I said that was proven to be a lie.

[sarcasmic]

The years and years you spent “proving” that I ran ten different sock accounts for starters.

[R Mac]

Remind us of your initial response to the Ukraine war, totally not a neocon?

[Mother's Lament]

Yeah sarcasmic. The sockpuppet campaign you ran early this year when you discovered our nicks weren’t protected, where you made a dozen posts as me, kind of discredits your claim.

[JesseAz]

Reminder: When arguing with sarc words mean only what he thinks they mean, nothing more. A bad behavior he picked up from Jeff.

[Idaho-Bob]

The establishment would cheer.

The GOPe hates them just as much as the Democrats.

The GOPe may hate them, but the left wants them dead. This includes anyone who supports Trump.

[Mother's Lament]

I’m reasonably sure that Cheney and Pierre Delecto want them dead too.

[R Mac]

I definitely would not go hunting with Liz Cheney.

[Super Scary]

“Tyler said that if Trump wins in November, he “will use all of his power to systematically dismantle and destroy our democracy.”

“We’re kind of in the middle of that already,” he continued, “So it’s a little redundant, that’s all.”

[A Thinking Mind]

Can’t have Trump stealing their thunder.

[Mother's Lament]

“Always accuse the enemy of what you’re in the middle of doing”

[mad.casual]

It’s actually kinda quaint how often Jean-Pierre has hidden behind The Hatch Act only to have the administration, from the top down, declare the opposition candidate an enemy of the party*.

*I mean, we’re officially past the whole “Democratic National Committee” thing now, right? Between the trials, the administration’s alignment with the party, the invocation of the will of the people, and the open campaigning against political enemies, the loss of international status/good will, the familial status/protection, the fomenting and shielding of preferred social unrest and the violent repression and selective prosecution of dissidents, the intimidation and manipulation of media… … they’re no longer the DNC and are more like the People’s Democratic National Communist Party in the vein of PDRK, right?

[R Mac]

I still say Democratic National Fascist Party is more accurate, even though they’re using a lot of old Marxist/Maoist tactics for propaganda.

[mad.casual]

Fascist

Except that they haven’t really seized control of production of arms and material goods and given people jobs. Even the energy production initiatives tend to vaporize when it comes time to build a factory and put natives (or immigrants) to work in those factories.

Kinda the point about the PDRK, and not to go too earnestly ‘No-true-Marxism’, but they don’t actually produce anything. No production has been seized or returned to the proletariate. It’s just straight up despotic kleptocracy with the “People’s” and “Democracy” slapped on it.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

The fascist parties were fascist even before they took full power. The Italian National Fascist Party was formed a year prior to taking full power. The National Socialist German Workers’ Party took 13 years from formation to power.

[JesseAz]

Fascism doesn’t require seizing the control of production. In fact it incorporates private industry into government through regulation and working with the state.

The DNC is very much concerned with controlling industry through regulations. Recent examples: Freezers, cars, gas stoves, gas appliances in general, wage markets, etc. ESG is another big example of their pushing of Fascism.

[ElvisIsReal]

Fascists are communists who are smart enough to realize that if they try to actually run industry, they will fail. Thus, they use regulations and behind-the-scenes strong-arming to get what they want.

[mad.casual]

Fascism doesn’t require seizing the control of production.

Right but “At least the trains ran on time.” I’m fully aware that the trains didn’t actually literally run on time but Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Mussolini… all had cults of personality that, despite their policies, turned their countries around and/or propelled them forward economically. WWII Germany wasn’t just the country that had just “lost” the previous war and was still in decline, it actually was a threat.

Under Joe “Fascist” Biden the trains don’t run and we get our asses kicked by the Afghans after a mutually agreed peace.

Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism…

[Longtobefree]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung

[Medulla Oblongata]

They have in California. Witness the Fast Food Council, among others.

From wikipedia:

A number of mixed entities were formed, called instituti or enti nazionali, whose purpose it was to bring together representatives of the government and of the major businesses. These representatives discussed economic policy and manipulated prices and wages so as to satisfy both the wishes of the government and the wishes of business. The government considered this arrangement to be a success and Italian Fascists soon began to pride themselves on this outcome, saying they had survived the Great Depression without infringing on private property. In 1934, the Fascist Minister of Agriculture said: “While nearly everywhere else private property was bearing the major burdens and suffering from the hardest blows of the depression, in Italy, thanks to the actions of this Fascist government, private property not only has been saved, but has also been strengthened”.[83]

This economic model based on a partnership between government and business was soon extended to the political sphere in what came to be known as corporatism.

[sarcasmic]

Pretty funny coming from someone who wants Trump to implement a Final Solution to the Immigrant Problem.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Where’s your link and citation over the supposed “Final Solution to the Immigrant Problem”?

[sarcasmic]

How else are you going to cleanse the lifeblood of the nation of those poisonous illegals?

[InsaneTrollLogic]

It’s called deportation, and it’s been done before, yes, Sarc, in this country.

[JesseAz]

Just cut off all forms of government welfare and many will self deport like in Chicago. Oddly sarc never advocates for this.

[sarcasmic]

And how exactly do you plan to identify and round up tens of millions of poisonous illegals? Laws aren’t magic.

[Minadin]

It was done to my college roommate when he was studying abroad in Spain.

It turns out that if you quit going to class during a 2-week long absinthe bender, you’re in violation of your student visa. Government agents come to your residence, arrest your drunk ass, restrain you, and drop you off at the Portuguese border.

[sarcasmic]

We’re not talking about people with student visas. We’re talking about wetbacks living under the radar. How do you round them up? What freedoms are you going to give up to accomplish this?

[InsaneTrollLogic]

A primer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback

[sarcasmic]

That wouldn’t even put a dent in the current population of illegals in the country.

[DesigNate]

This is Old Mexican levels of straw.

[Medulla Oblongata]

One at a time.

[Super Scary]

“Cleanse”

There’s that word again; the word Trump didn’t use at all.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

He did, in the average TDS mind.

[JesseAz]

Corporate media and msnbc did however.

[R Mac]

Which is why sarc thinks Trump said it.

[soldiermedic76]

It’s like being able to see Russia from your house.

[R Mac]

The amount of nonsensical bullshit you spew has reached shrike levels sarc. You’re not even trying. You’re a complete and utter clown.

[sarcasmic]

You apparently think that laws are magic and that tens of millions of poisonous illegals can be rounded up with good intentions and unicorn farts, and you call me a clown? Sure buddy. Whatever you say.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

OK, smartass, tell us how you would do it.

[R Mac]

You apparently think when you make up random bullshit it’s convincing.

[Chumby]

If it feels truthful at the time, then it can be.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

National Socialist American Worker’s Party?

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

What am I thinking? They don’t care about workers.

[Longtobefree]

Nor do they care about America.

[Minadin]

I hope the whole ‘basket of deplorables’ gambit works out just as well for him as it did for Clinton.

[Conchfritters]

“Now just a note, Newsmax has accepted the election results as legal and final” – Eric Bolling

[Sevo]

“Biden To Delivery Speech On January 6 Anniversary Warning Against Trump Victory”

I hope Ashely Babbit’s family shows up to tell the assholes what they think of murder.

[JesseAz]

Capitol Police already arrested her twice for her telling members of congress what she thinks.

[Nardz]

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1742907178690777097?t=1NRRdrP4RKkjy_YSvnAF-A&s=19

Biden just released his first ad of 2024.

The main threat to this country? You.

[Video]

[Minadin]

“BIDEN CAMPAIGN RELEASED A NEW AD:

…so I fixed it.”

https://twitter.com/CallMeAntwan/status/1742924797045252436

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

Glorious.

[Zeb]

“So we have to dismantle democracy first so he can’t dismantle democracy”

[sarcasmic]

What’s the point in having elections if Trump and Trump’s Deranged Supporters (TDS) will only accept the outcome they like, and march on the Capitol otherwise?

Just skip the election part and make your strongman El Presidente por Vida.

[Idaho-Bob]

Projection. The left is working on exactly this.

[sarcasmic]

I’m serious. Why bother with elections if the only outcome you will accept is Trump winning? Just skip the election and go straight to making him president for life.

[Idaho-Bob]

Why bother with elections if the only outcome you will accept is Trump winning?

If your statement was true, J6 would’ve been for real, and half of congress would be dead, including Pence. The right just isn’t as violent as the left. I know that’s really tough for you lefties to admit.

[sarcasmic]

I don’t think we’re too far away from a violent revolution in this country, and it won’t be the left that leads it.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Cite? As we’ve seen from unarmed J6 protestors versus heavily armed BLM rioters who committed arson when they could, and CHAZ-type zones in various cities. I feel your fear of the right is misplaced, and your lack of fear in the left is foolish.

[sarcasmic]

You think that Trump’s Deranged Supporters are going to all peaceful if he loses another election? I don’t. Not for a second. They don’t accept the results of the last election, or any midterm election where Republicans lost for that matter. After four long years of anger I think things will get violent if he loses again.

[R Mac]

“Trump’s Deranged Supporters”

Oh, how clever. Who coined that?

[JesseAz]

His definition of deranged seems to be won’t accept the full use of the state to go after a political opponent.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Essentially, his definition of “deranged supporters” is defined by his own derangement syndrome.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

“After 4 long years of anger….”

Lol. Yup. 2016-2020 really inspired confidence in “the cleanest election ever”. (Which also, totally coincidentally, had a bunch of new rules that could easily be exploited).

Yeah, I know. You don’t wanna talk about “those” 4 years.

[R Mac]

Or he’s a full of shit lefty that lies.

[JesseAz]

But makes total sense if he consumes and pushes liberal narratives.

[R Mac]

Lefties just took the leading Republican candidate off the ballot retard.

[sarcasmic]

Taking him off the primary ballot in two states where he’s got no chance of winning the general election isn’t going to cost him a thing.

[R Mac]

Your ignorance is amusing.

[DesigNate]

It’s still a horrible precedent. Surely you can see that.

[R Mac]

He doesn’t care. Orange Man Bad.

[sarcasmic]

That also shows just how fucking stupid you are, being that you think removal from the primary ballot in two deep blue states will cost him the national election. Even if he’s not on the primary ballot, the state party can still choose him as their candidate.

[R Mac]

I didn’t say anything about it costing him the national election.

Are you being retarded on purpose?

[sarcasmic]

“Lefties just took the leading Republican candidate off the ballot retard.”

According to that statement he’s not going to be on the ballot, anywhere.

[R Mac]

So stupid on purpose it is.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Hasn’t it been an article of faith by a lot of Americans, especially libertarians, that voting is ultimately useless because the country’s run by a uniparty consisting of elites and controlled opposition who trade time in power but are largely acting in unison to maintain their sinecures?

In that kind of environment, it seems natural to start to prefer a strongman, or at least a chaos agent, who will come in and not only scare the shit out of these people, but actively work to suppress them for their self-justifying and self-indulgent corruption.

[sarcasmic]

But why bother with elections at all if you’re going to declare fraud (and believe it) if Trump loses? Just skip that part.

[R Mac]

Have you taken a blow to the head recently sarc? I’m actually a little worried about you.

[JesseAz]

Like an obese person going off Ozempic and gaining more weight than prior, his alcoholism has doubled.

[Chumby]

Note to self: buy shares in Colt 45

[InsaneTrollLogic]

That would be Pabst Brewing Co. They make it.

[Medulla Oblongata]

“Our election was hijacked,” said Pelosi’s 2017 tweet, which was not censored by Twitter with a warning label as many of President Trump’s tweets questioning the 2020 election were. “There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #FollowTheFacts.”

Trump “knows he’s an illegitimate president,” Clinton said. “I believe he understands that the many varying tactics they used, from voter suppression and voter purging to hacking to the false stories — he knows that — there were just a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out like it did … I know he knows this wasn’t on the level.”

In an October 2020 interview with The Atlantic, Clinton said, “There was a widespread understanding that [the 2016] election was not on the level. We still don’t know what happened … but you don’t win by 3 million votes and have all this other shenanigans and stuff going on and not come away with an idea like, ‘Whoa, something’s not right here.’”

In June 2019, Jimmy Carter, the former Democratic president, said, “There’s no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election, and I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if fully investigated would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf.”

Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., said in January 2017 he would not attend Trump’s inauguration. “I do not see this president-elect as a legitimate president,” he told NBC. “I think there was a conspiracy on the part of the Russians and others that helped him get elected. That’s not right. That’s not fair. That’s not the open democratic process.”

Democrats 2016 insurrection was just smaller “The states were counted, but three protestors started yelling from the visitors’ gallery of the chamber. ”
1:09 P.M. ET: Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts rose to object to the certificate from Alabama.
“The electors were not lawfully certified, especially given the confirmed and illegal activities engaged by the government of Russia,” McGovern said.

Biden denied McGovern on the grounds that he didn’t have a senator’s signature on his written objection.

1:14 P.M.: Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland rose to object to 10 of Florida’s 29 electoral votes.

“They violated Florida’s prohibition against dual office holders,” Raskin said.

Again, despite the fact that Raskin pointed out that he had his objection in writing, he failed to get a senator’s signature.

1:15 P.M.: No sooner had the Florida question been settled than its neighbor to the north was the subject of another objection, when Washington’s Rep. Pramila Jayapal objected to Georgia’s vote certificate.

“It is over,” Biden told the congresswoman.

1:21 P.M.: Rep. Barbara Lee of California brought up voting machines and Russian hacking when she objected following the counting of Michigan’s votes.

“People are horrified by the overwhelming evidence of Russian interference in our election,” Lee said.

Once again, her objection was denied for the lack of a senator’s signature. They also turned off her microphone.

1:23 P.M.: After New York’s tally was read, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas stood up to object.

“I object on the massive voter suppression that included –” Jackson Lee began.

“The debate is not in order,” Biden interrupted. Again, the congresswoman lacked a senator’s signature.

1:28 P.M.: Arizona’s Rep. Raul Grijalva rose to object after North Carolina’s tally. He tried to object on violations of the Voting Rights Act, but Biden shut him down.

As you may have guessed, he didn’t have the signature of a senator.

Once he gave up, Jackson Lee tagged him out and tried to object to the votes herself. They cut off her microphone, too.

“There is no debate. There is no debate. There is no debate,” a visibly agitated Biden said as he gaveled.

1:31 PM: Jackson Lee made another appearance minutes later after South Carolina’s certification.

“There is no debate in the joint session,” Biden said, shutting her down once more.

1:36 PM: Biden must have thought, after five minutes of peace and getting through the state of West Virginia, that the House members might observe the rules. Lee wasn’t even able to make it through her objection before Biden said, “There is no debate.”

They cut off her microphone again.

1:37 PM: Wisconsin’s votes had been read. With just Wyoming to go, the finish line was in reach.

Jackson Lee once again tried to make an objection on the grounds of Russian interference in the election.

“The objection cannot be received,” Biden said.

1:38 PM: The final state’s votes had been read. Then entered California Rep. Maxine Waters.

Taking a play from her own book – she objected to the certification of George W. Bush’s 2000 election – Waters admitted that she didn’t have a senator’s signature on her objection.

“I wish to ask: Is there one United States senator who will join me in this letter of objection?” Waters asked. Through House Speaker Paul Ryan’s chuckle and boos from the rest of the chamber, it was clear that there was not.

1:40 PM: The states were counted, but three protestors started yelling from the visitors’ gallery of the chamber. At least one of them was reciting the Constitution as he was taken away by security.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

This is basically how Caesar and later Augustus managed to gain the support that they did–because the Optimates were so fucking corrupt that they had no credibility hiding behind the trappings of the Republic. Sort of like certain politicians, media pundits, and others who pontificate about Our Democracy while brazenly acting like power-mongers against those who don’t go along with them.

[sarcasmic]

Exactly. So skip the election part and make Trump dictator for life. He can smite all of his political enemies, round up illegals, ramp up trade wars, and do all those wonderful things his supporters long for.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

You do realize the moral of the story is about the Optimates and their blind hatred of one man, and how that helped bring down the Republic and install the Empire, right?

Does it in anyway sound *TDS* familiar to *TDS* you?

[R Mac]

Just you wait, sarc’s coined a new acronym for TDS.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

I’ve seen it. Fuck him on that. He just doesn’t get to go and change the meaning of terms unilaterally.

[sarcasmic]

It is a bit redundant I admit. Calling Trump supporters deranged is like saying ‘ATM machine’ or ‘corrupt politician.’

[InsaneTrollLogic]

And how so, Sarc? Most I’ve seen acknowledge Trump’s faults and don’t really have a fanatic devotion to the man so much as using him as a vehicle for smashing the establishment. On the other hand, I’ve seen many of Trump’s detractors on the left, especially within the Democratic Party, be so consumed with hatred for the man that they will let nothing get in their way of defaming, demonizing, and ruining the man, be that laws, the court system, or the Constitution.

[sarcasmic]

Yeah I’m aware. I’m also aware that Trump’s Deranged Supporters don’t give a shit if they destroy the Republic, as long as they smite their enemies while they’re at it.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

You still manage to miss the point. May I suggest reading up on the late Roman Republic, starting with the Brothers Gracchi, through Gaius Marius and Gaius Julius Caesar, and ending with Gaius Octavius (aka Augustus). Then come back to us.

[R Mac]

We’ve simply gotten too deep for sarc’s simple mind on this topic, I’m afraid.

Orange Man Bad is as thoughtful as he’s going to get.

[DesigNate]

They aren’t the ones destroying the republic. Tha fuck.

[R Mac]

Reminder, yesterday sarc admitted he’d rather be wrong than agree with us.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

We could say the sky is blue, and just to spite us, Sarc would claim it isn’t.

[Chumby]

The SKYY bottle is blue, the elixir is clear.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Perhaps the actual solution is that the Optimates shouldn’t be so fucking corrupt that a dictator looks like a reasonable alternative.

[mamabug]

I think a lot of people believe this either overtly or sub-consciously, however there has been an unspoken deal that the elites didn’t make it too obvious and at least occasionally threw the voters a bone so it felt like they were being listened too.

The last decade has destroyed this which makes the ‘strongman/chaos agent’ approach too appealing for many.

[Azathoth!!]

Did you just miss inauguration day in 2001, 2005, 2016? Where Democrats lost and marched on the capitol?

And, hell, did you miss 2009 and 2013 where Republicans lost and didn’t march on the capitol? In fact, guess who DID march on the capitol in those years? DEMOCRATS. Because you leftists can’t even take a W without bitching.

[sarcasmic]

All of those politicians conceded the elections. Even The Bitch herself. But not Trump. And not his supporters.

So again I ask, why bother with elections if you will only accept one outcome?

[DesigNate]

And yet, she persisted.

[Medulla Oblongata]

And yet there were articles written in multiple outlets that plotted how Clinton could *still* become President.

Sure, it’s been more than 340 days since Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton, but there’s still one very narrow, highly unlikely and entirely unprecedented way that Clinton could become president.

But you never know…

In light of the ongoing probe into Russia collusion, Harvard University professor Lawrence Lessig posted on Medium a series of “if/then” scenarios that would lead to House Speaker Paul Ryan handing the White House keys to Clinton.

To be clear, constitutional law expert Lessig is not calling for a Clinton ascendancy, but was merely playing out a hypothetical chain of events should a conspiracy be proven:

If number 1: If Trump is definitively found to have colluded directly with Russia, he would be forced to resign or be impeached.

If number 2: If Trump is removed, Vice President Mike Pence would become president.

If number 3: If Pence becomes president, he should resign too, given that he benefited from the same help from Mother Russia.

If number 4: If Pence resigns before appointing a vice president, Ryan would become president.

If number 5: If Ryan becomes president, he should do the right thing and choose Clinton for vice president. Then he should resign.

“The answer seems unavoidable: He should nominate the person defeated by the treason of his own party, and then step aside and let her become the president,” Lessig writes.

[Medulla Oblongata]

And P.S., while digging that one up, I found this:

“Hillary Clinton losing to Trump was like Jesus’s crucifixion”

But they talk about “MAGA-worshipers”?

I think Trump is a bloviating, egomaniacal idiot. But he was a better President than Biden, and might be again.

[Super Scary]

It’s never what the dems have done or are currently doing, the actual danger is what Trump COULD do, despite already having a 4 year opportunity to do it.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I saw KJP this morning blaming Trump’s tax cuts for the deficit. As if Democrats didn’t have two whole years of majority in Congress and Joe in the WH to rescind them. No, not at all, because what they spent all their time doing was $1.7T of spending beyond what was planned.

[R Mac]

Trump’s Deranged Supporters (TDS)

And sarc coined it!

[Super Scary]

“Trump’s Deranged Supporters (TDS)”

It’s pretty funny watching you attempt to rebrand TDS. Goes to show, just like the left tied to do with “snowflake,” it must have really gotten under your skin to try and turn it back on others.

[sarcasmic]

My acronym is much better. Rather than dismissing any criticism of Trump as mental illness in order to avoid debate by attacking the critic personally, it describes the mass insanity that surrounds Trump’s cult of personality.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Honestly, your backronym sucks, and is more a symptom of your own Trump Derangement Syndrome than anything else. Did you call the mass insanity that surrounded Obama’s cult of personality, “Obama’s Deranged Supporters”?

[Super Scary]

So instead of people (allegedly) using the TDS label to dismiss any criticism of Trump, you get to use it as a way of dismissing any praise of Trump. Got it. Just wanted to be sure we were on the same page there.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Yawn. Your acronym is boring. It doesn’t even have a vowel.

[DesigNate]

In a way, he’s right.

Of course it’s because if Democrats retain the WH and pick up the House again it won’t be a slow descent into Totalitarian Authoritarianism, it’ll be a free fall.

[Fist of Etiquette]

…called plagiarist Harvard President Claudine Gay’s (no relation) resignation an “attack on academic freedom” and “pluralism.”

Freedom to steal from scholars of color? Seems like the same low expectations mentality that gets the neighborhood CVS shut down.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Although, maybe there is a hint of racism in all of this. I mean, Joe Biden was caught serially plagiarizing and look where he is now.

[Chumby]

Washington-Kiev

The United States no longer has the funds to further support Ukraine, new aid packages will require approval of new funding from Congress, said White House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Holy shit did she just actually write something herself?

Who starts with their swan song?

[Minadin]

I think we should run it through Grammarly before we decide on any next steps.

Since, you know, her resignation letter didn’t even pass.

https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1742261717025927582

[Moonrocks]

Holy shit did she just actually write something herself?

Does it look any different from any other X Is Racist screed out there?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

LoL, no kidding. Dust off the 50-plus year old Das Raycis template, revise with Current Year insertions, and you have the op-ed.

[R Mac]

So she really had no choice but to plagiarize?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Sounds like a business opportunity for some CRT-trained generative AI. BLM*-chat?

*Black Lies Machine

[A Thinking Mind]

The Houthis have attacked another ship in the Red Sea, per Bloomberg.

You know, shit like this is exactly what led to the creation of the Marine Corps. Not recommending any course of action, but it really does seem like the Houthis are tempting fate.

[mad.casual]

Not to slight the founders or the USMC or anything but, the Phalanx CIWS goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! seems a lot more like fate tempted.

[Moonrocks]

It’s been paying off so far.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

…to the shores of Trip-o-li.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

To be fair, Marines have been a part of naval warfare for a very long time. They’ve morphed over the centuries from water-borne infantry on Greek and Roman triremes, to a ship police force for the captain that would take potshots at sailors during naval engagements, to the current amphibious force that developed after the Revolution.

[Chumby]

They will be made to disappear like Houthini.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The national governing body for amateur/Olympic-style boxing recently codified a rule permitting male participation in the women’s division in its 2024 rulebook…

Soon men will have all the records. Declare war on us, will you?

[Mickey Rat]

There is no way that is not going to end badly. And by badly, I mean some number of biological females ending up hospitalized.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

“…biological females”

Check out the biologist over here.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Smarter than a Supreme Court justice.

[Longtobefree]

Well, smarter than a diversity hire supreme court judge.

[Ajsloss]

Hospitalized? Do you take dead people to the hospital?

[JesseAz]

Just George Floyd.

[A Thinking Mind]

I’m not a biologist so how am I supposed to understand what “dead” means?

[mad.casual]

Reposted while “awaiting moderation”:

On the one hand, I feel bad about the women who’ve showed up to a fair competition against their fellow female athletes. On the other hand, good, Claressa Shield’s deserves to have her head caved in by a dude with breast implants.

I mean, FFS, they can and do sex human skulls into antiquity by orbital socket thickness and hormone therapy doesn’t in any way reconstruct the shape or thickness. You’d have to juice up the women and juice down the men circa puberty to achieve anything approaching equality.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

I’ve noticed that if you try to post more than two links, the post instantly goes to “awaiting moderation” and into limbo. I’ve had it happen a few times in the past, and accidentally if one of the quotes contains a few things hot-linked using the raw website address.

[mad.casual]

Yeah, I know/knew there was a limit on the number of links per post, but couldn’t remember if it was 2 vs. 3 or “with 3 links” or “more than 3 links”.

Good thing all the spam with one link to the same site gets through though. Presumably the spambox with messages full of links to three different pages like YouTube, Pediaa.com, and Scientific American massively filled.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I usually can’t post with even one link. The page display bounces around, ends at the top, and ignores my post.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

Same.

Maybe we’re on a list!

[mad.casual]

But, again, Men develop more overall muscle fibers and more fast-twitch, impulse-generating muscle fibers that allows them to generate more force per pound, throw further and hit harder… they burn more glucose to fuel those muscle cells, carry more total fat, consume more oxygen, pump more blood to fuel the whole affair, but women have “more” (relatively, still fewer overall) slow-twitch muscle fibers that help them stand in place and consume less oxygen, glucose, and fat and that makes them better hunters, so fuck it.

[damikesc]

I guess concussions are not a concern any longer…

[Chumby]

A box anyone can check.

[A Thinking Mind]

The just-unsealed Epstein documents contain a fair number of Bill Clinton mentions.

So many outlets dealing with so much cope on this. “Clinton is accused of zero wrong-doing! Maxwell’s lawyers say he wasn’t on the island in 2001!”

They’re ignoring noted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein reportedly saying of Clinton, “he likes them young.” There’s at least an implication there, right?

[Mother's Lament]

But Trump, his wife and son once accepted a plane ride from Epstein so it’s practically the same thing as Bill’s Lolita Island vacations.

[damikesc]

As has been said by others:

If Trump was on the list, it would have leaked a while ago.

[JesseAz]

Shrike was here yesterday trying to direct the release at Trump. Yet in the documents when asked about Trump the answers were no, he wasn’t on the island, he wasn’t involved. Yet for Clinton as you say…

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/bill-clinton-named-ten-new-epstein-court-documents

[InsaneTrollLogic]

I fully expect Shrike to be back here today to push the same narrative even though he got his ass handed to him yesterday over it.

[R Mac]

Shrike defending democrat pedophiles is the most “water is wet” thing ever in these comments.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

I’m surprised I haven’t seen Turdo in the comments yet this morning. Usually he’s here already pushing some sort of fifty-center shit.

[Chumby]

Perhaps the Georgia Bureau of Investigation finally made the arrest.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

We can only hope.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

SPBP’s name was on the list too. 🙂

[rbike]

If he was on the list, he would be a free man, laughing at us. Just sayin’.

[Fist of Etiquette]

AI applications: helping us see maritime activity to a greater degree than ever before.

Skynet’s going to spy on my monkey knife fights, is it?

[Chumby]

Change your name to Ron Mexico.

[A Thinking Mind]

I recognize this reference.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Carlos Danger

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Just avoid the herpes.

[JesseAz]

Can you use that term after we have been told knife fights are cultural a few years back?

[Chumby]

Alan Franklin needs the kid in his profile picture to be wearing a mask and some sort of LBGT flag to complete his virtue signaling.

Kudos to JD for nailing this guy with a screw loose.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Putin is going after an elderly, Lithuanian, Soviet-hating badass retired judge named Kornelija Maceviciene.

You had me at Soviet-hating.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The just-unsealed Epstein documents contain a fair number of Bill Clinton mentions.

If only Epstein could kill himself again, Hillary thought.

[mad.casual]

Holy shit did she just actually write something herself?

Alright, where do I pay Reason to watch a hot blonde tap dance on the “Clean and articulate” landmine?

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

But gay is neighter clean or articulate

[Spiritus Mundi]

Those she plagiarizes from are.

[mad.casual]

Are we talking about Claudine or the ex-Wookie-Schtupper-In-Chief?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Nikki Haley renamed her husband…

“You don’t look like a North Carolina. From now on you’re South Virginia.”

[JesseAz]

Is this better or worse than DeSantis calling Thai food, Thigh food?

[R Mac]

Seriously? Lol, that’s like a Cuban sandwich moment.

[JesseAz]

It was a big attack from the corporate media and ENB even posted it in a roundup.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Hey, who doesn’t love juicy Thais?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

On Sum Yung Guy?

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

I do like hot, spicy thighs.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Who cares if silly tourists shop while walking the Brooklyn Bridge?

“Gritty New Yorkers can handle anything.”

[Ajsloss]

I’m walkin’ here! I mean, I’m not, I’m actually shopping. But, hey! I’m walkin’ here!

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Sounds like this is right up Pluggo’s alley.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/naming-names-infamous-epstein-list-set-wednesday-release

Here’s the list of names mentioned so far in the unsealed Epstein documents (of which there are many more to come). Their inclusion does not necessarily equal wrongdoing.

Bill Clinton – “He said one time that Clinton likes them young, referring to girls.”

Michael Jackson – One accuser was asked: “”Did you ever meet anybody famous when you were with Jeffrey?” to which she replies: “I met Michael Jackson” at “Jeffrey’s house in Palm Beach.” The accuser said she was not forced to perform ‘massage’ on the pop star (perhaps because she wasn’t a 12-year-old boy).

Prince Andrew – According to accuser Johanna Sjoberg, Prince Andrew touched her breast while posing for a picture with a puppet of himself. “And they decided to take a picture with it, in which Virginia and Andrew sat on a couch,” she said, adding “They put the puppet on Virginia’s lap, and I sat on Andrew’s lap, and they put the puppet’s hand on Virginia’s breast, and Andrew put his hand on my breast, and they took a photo.”

Alan Dershowitz – who has vehemently denied all accusations, but allegedly came “pretty often to Epstein’s Florida mansion and got massages while he was there” according to accuser Virginia Giuffre.

Stephen Hawking – In addition to Sjoberg’s evidence, there is an email from Epstein to Maxwell in which he says she should “issue a reward” to any of Giuffre’s associates who can disprove her allegations. “You can issue a reward to any of Virginia’s friends, acquaints, family that come forward and help prove her allegations are false,” writes Epstein. “The strongest is the Clinton dinner, and the new version in the Virgin Islands that Stephen Hawking participated in an underage orgy.” Hawking was photographed on Epstein’s ‘pedo island’ in March 2006 as part of a trip to a nearby science conference.

Al Gore – Giuffre previously claimed that the former VP traveled on Epstein’s carbon-spewing private plane. He has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

Bill Richardson – the former (and now deceased) New Mexico Governor, who Giuffre says was among those whom Maxwell directed her to have sex with.

David Copperfield – Sjoberg said she also met famed magicial David Copperfield, saying that she observed him to be a friend of Epstein’s.

Naomi Campbell – Who flew on Epstein’s private jet, according to previously revealed logs from pilot David Rodgers. In 2019, Campbell admitted that she knew Epstein, saying “I was introduced to him on my 31st birthday by my ex-boyfriend Flavio [Briatore, the Italian businessman who has been convicted of fraud]. He was always front and centre at Victoria’s Secret shows.”

Kevin Spacey – Who Johanna Sjoberg denied meeting, but traveled to Africa with Bill Clinton on Epstein’s plane in 2002.

Also of note, listed, is Tom Pritzker, cousin of Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, and one of the heirs to the Hyatt Hotel fortune.

[Chumby]

Horshack and Barbarino not mentioned?

[Super Scary]

“Hawking was photographed on Epstein’s ‘pedo island’ in March 2006 as part of a trip to a nearby science conference.”

How conscientious of Epstein to have wheelchair ramps installed on his island.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Trying not to envision Hawking banging a 15 tear old girl in a wheelchair.

[Mother's Lament]

I still think that this was some sort of entrapment scheme by a government or international actor..

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Pluggo’s probably going to be along with some sort of crap regarding Trump with Epstein in the 1990s again, even though he got his ass handed to him yesterday over it.

[JesseAz]

The Trump mentions in the new release show he wasn’t involved at all. Shrike is still crying over it.

[Sevo]

That’s never bothered turd in the past; he simply repeats the same damn lie.

[R Mac]

Mossad.

[Dillinger]

^

[mad.casual]

international actor

You mean “international actor” like Ricardo Montalban or “international actor” like “a US ‘tax mitigation consultant’, who wound up suicided in a federal prison, with a history of carrying fake passports and doing business with ‘legit’ people like Spanish heiresses and Saudi and US Arms dealers”?

[Mother's Lament]

I’d love it to have been Ricardo Montalban.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Gives a whole new meaning to the term “Fantasy Island,” doesn’t it?

[DesigNate]

Khhhaaaannnn!

[InsaneTrollLogic]

A little deeper on Tom Pritzker:

https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1742716148897010102

Victim Virginia Giuffre states she slept with billionaire Tom Pritzker (another John Doe) “once”

Pritzker is a member of the prestigious Aspen Institute and Executive Chairman of Hyatt Hotels.

You might recognize the Aspen Institute as being part of the Twitter Files.

[R Mac]

Lending more credence that a lot of the reason for going after Trump was because he wasn’t involved, and the people going after him are.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

It’s not just shit the like Aspen Institute–the entire Pritzker clan is the very definition of modern elites. Their fat fingers are going to be in every fucking social engineering and NGO scheme you can imagine for the purpose of maintaining their status and authority.

Just as Soros focuses on trying to create an international socialist west via funding of migrant caravans and political campaigns for people who will refuse to prosecute crime and destabilize communities, the Pritzkers focus on information manipulation and convincing kids to whack their genitals off.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Sigh. Remember when we thought Jerry Brown and family were the height of leftist corruption?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

And then of course there’s James er I mean Jennifer Pritzker whose made a career of spreading queer theory to school kids nation wide. Another selfless philanthropist.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

I would be surprised if Kevin spacey wasn’t on the list

[A Thinking Mind]

Oddly, everyone who mentioned his name died mysteriously.

[Spiritus Mundi]

I think I saw Keyser Söze mentioned.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

The Greatest Trick Kevin Spacey Ever Pulled Was Convincing The World He Did Not Exist.

[Sevo]

“…(perhaps because she wasn’t a 12-year-old boy)…”

Well, that leaves turd out.

[Michael Ejercito]

Saldy, people like Pluggo are far more common than we would like to admit.

https://ethicsalarms.com/2016/05/02/yecchh-the-daily-caller-and-its-commenters-cheer-on-sexual-predator-teachers/

[R Mac]

The cope from left wingers on Twitter over this is pretty disgusting. As well as some Desantis folks disappointed Trump’s not involved.

[Sevo]

Trump certainly had every opportunity to ‘get involved’; perhaps the man has some ethical grounding…

[mamabug]

More likely it is that he has a type and it isn’t underage virgins.

[R Mac]

I think if you’re differentiating people’s types between children and consenting adults you could say ethics is involved.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

That actually makes me like Tucker more. Is that wrong of me?

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

Bill Richardson – the former (and now deceased) New Mexico Governor, who Giuffre says was among those whom Maxwell directed her to have sex with.

Oh lord, that poor girl.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

The real puppet, according to Vivek and Tucker.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/system-not-going-let-trump-win-dems-real-puppet-isnt-gavin-its-nikki-tucker-and-vivek

With establishment favorite Nikki Haley overtaking long-time runner-up Ron DeSantis in the latest polls, the mainstream media is going wild about the chances of the woman-warmonger toppling Trump somehow.

Tucker starts by pointing out the dilemma Democratic megadonors face with Joe Biden’s declining popularity and Kamala Harris’s unpopularity, suggesting that these donors might be attempting to subvert the Republican Party by backing a candidate like Nikki Haley.

“Strip away all the outward characteristics, and Nikki Haley is identical in her priorities to Joe Biden and the people who back Joe Biden,” Carlson said.

Tech entrepreneur Ramaswamy then weighed in on Tucker’s claims, concurring with the former Fox host that Ms. Haley is a “puppet” for the Democratic Party, and branding her a “Trojan horse.”

“I think the true puppet masters, the thing about them, is they’re fundamentally nonpartisan in nature,” the businessman said.

“There are a few things they care about: Keeping the foreign war machine humming is high on the list. Keeping the administrative state’s control of the United States is also high on the list. They found a much more convenient puppet within the Republican Party itself.”

“They have their core objectives, and Nikki makes for a far better Trojan horse to actually accomplish that objective than anybody else.”

That might explain, in part, why Charles Koch is backing Nikki Haley.

[Mother's Lament]

She’s their great white hope.

Koch Political Machine Vows to Fight to Deny Trump GOP Nomination in 2024

[JesseAz]

How she can move up in polls after her Kamala Harris like response to the cause of the Civil War is amazing.

[Nardz]

Haley sucks, but she wasn’t wrong.
Cons and libs going full woke historical framing.

[R Mac]

There was a lot more to the civil war than slavery, but her answer was still a mess.

[Dillinger]

Apu did better than Nikki

https://www.google.com/search?q=apu+citizenship+test&rlz=1C1GCEU_enUS960US960&oq=Apu%27s+citize&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqCAgBEAAYFhgeMgYIABBFGDkyCAgBEAAYFhgeMggIAhAAGBYYHjIICAMQABgWGB4yCAgEEAAYFhgeMggIBRAAGBYYHjIICAYQABgWGB4yDQgHEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyDQgIEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyDQgJEAAYhgMYgAQYigXSAQgzOTY3ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:1fe024e1,vid:JNYGNqLKWrg,st:0

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

It’s honestly pretty sad that the most nuanced take on the Civil War in the last 35 years came from a cartoon that effectively became a DNC mouthpiece after 2000.

[R Mac]

The first two seasons of Brockmire were hilarious. Plus Amanda Peet still looked good in underwear. Third season was decent, but the fourth season was such a woke mess I couldn’t even finish it.

[Nardz]

Fair

[JesseAz]

She wasn’t wrong because she literally said nothing. Watch her response. Freshmen in HS know more about the Civil War than she apparently does. Her answer was nonsense.

The “she didn’t mention slavery” part of it doesn’t matter, because she literally said nothing in response. Just meandered then asked the town hall participant what he thought.

It was her complete ignorance on the topic in general that was the issue, not the woke answer the Corporate Media wanted.

Hence why I said “Kamala Harris.”

[Chumby]

It was one of the better songs on Use Your Illusion.

[Stuck in California]

That was Use Your Illusion II

[mad.casual]

That might explain, in part, why Charles Koch is backing Nikki Haley.

Maybe I was just slow when I was younger but it really does seem like Trump and Musk (and Assange and Snowden and, e.g., 4chan) have been a real watershed moment.

It seemed like, when I was younger, Clinton was done screwing secretaries for years before anyone found out and it wasn’t until Powell was on the floor of the UN with a vial of anthrax, well after the Towers came down, that we realized Cheney was in bed with Blackrock. Yeah, W was the son of a CIA director, but it’s a bit between shadowy and ethereal how the CIA becomes the family business. It was like boxing in the dark.

Now, it’s like The Flash and you can watch them throw punches with the lights on in slow motion. Run between the various endpoints that the talking points get published to and watch them print out in real time before anyone reads them out loud.

Or maybe I wasn’t slow and the slow(er) strut of naked power is the point.

[R Mac]

Musk buying Twitter was one of the most important developments for free information in my lifetime.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

loved this comment mad.casual. I’m watching the same movie but your review is better than mine would have been.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Well, now this is interesting, and might make fortification a little bit harder.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sea-change-most-hispanics-now-prefer-trump-bidens-black-support-plummets-2020

Confounding leftists in and outside of major media who’ve spent years portraying Donald Trump as a racist, Hispanic support for the former president continues to surge — to the point that Trump is now the first choice among the increasingly significant US demographic.

Meanwhile, black enthusiasm for Biden has plummeted since 2020, leaving many in the Democrat electoral cornerstone eager to vote for a third-party candidate. These are among several findings of a new USA Today/Suffolk University poll that are sure to compound Democrats worries about the 2024 election.

Trump boasts a five-point lead among Hispanics, with Biden trailing 39% to 34%. That is an absolute sea change from 2020, when Biden’s Hispanic share blew Trump out of the water, 65% to 32%.

While Biden received 87% of the black vote in 2020, only 63% intend to vote for him in November. It’s not that they’re surging toward Trump. Indeed, USA Today reports his black support is holding steady at the same 12% he received in 2020. Rather, fed up with Biden, 20% of blacks plan to vote for someone other than Biden or Trump.

The 2024 field features multiple independent and third-party candidates that varyingly appeal to blacks, progressive leftists and independent voters, including Cornel West, Jill Stein and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. In the USA Today/Suffolk poll, the inclusion of seven independent and third-party yielded a small net advantage for Trump, nudging his overall lead over Biden from 2 points in a head-to-head to 3 points in a multi-candidate race. Kennedy came in third, grabbing a 10% share.

“Although Trump hasn’t grown support among Black voters, he has closed the deficit because third-party voters come off of Biden’s support among Blacks,” David Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center, told USA Today. “A young voter or a person of color voting ‘third party’ is a vote away from President Biden, and a vote away from President Biden is a vote for Donald Trump.”

[Mother's Lament]

Looks like the Democrats are going to rediscover racism all over again.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Ha! Like they every forgot it.

[JesseAz]

Biden still has 100% of the vote for people who take their family members absentee votes to vote for them however. Seemingly 20% of the electorate.

[Mother's Lament]

Don’t forget that the population of Heaven votes heavily Democrat too.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell.

[JesseAz]

What does Jersey have to do with this? (Feel free to choose purgatory or hell)

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Sorry, I’ve seen these hot takes for a while now, and they never actually come to fruition. True, Trump himself made some marginal gains in 2020 among those demographics, but until it actually takes place, it’s just wishcasting. Black women in particular are the most kept demographic in American history, and their presence alone is going to drive those numbers down.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

Black women in particular are the most kept demographic in American history, and their presence alone is going to drive those numbers down.

Hey now, I think you may be forgetting about white women.

[Fist of Etiquette]

At a ceremony held yesterday to honor him, 103 people were killed and 211 were wounded by the explosion of at least two bombs.

Might want to hold the ceremony to honor the 103 over Zoom.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Hold another mass cero money so the same thing can happen

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Seize orders for Mayor BJ’s motorcade.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_dac0b0fe-a99d-11ee-ab2a-135e67859bbe.html

Four SUVs dedicated to Johnson’s motorcade have amassed 21 citations and one warning over his first seven months in office. CWB Chicago reports the total cost of the fines and penalties is $2,130, or more than former mayors Rahm Emanuel and Lori Lightfoot received over four-year terms at City Hall.

State Rep. Blaine Wilhour, R-Beecher City, says nothing about the growing scandal strikes him as surprising.

“It’s a typical, liberal, elitist deal. They think they’re above the law,” the downstate Republican told The Center Square. “These people have lacked any sort of accountability for so long they just do whatever they want … If you’re an elite elected official, especially a Democrat elected official in the state of Illinois, you can get away with whatever you want because there’s no one there to hold you accountable.”

[Randy Sax]

Nikki Haley renamed her husband

I can’t tell if this is cutesy or disturbing.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Disturbing

[Anomalous]

If he’s that much of a simp to put up with it, that’s his problem.

[A Thinking Mind]

Imagine being so henpecked that your wife doesn’t allow you to go by your preferred name.

“You don’t look like a Bill.”

Well Nikki doesn’t look like a President.

[(Impeach Robert L. Peters) Weigel's Cock Ring]

Well the dude who had to settle for her clearly didn’t have many great alternatives to choose from, I mean look at her.

I’ve often wondered why it is that in so many other countries (especially in Europe) you see all these hot female politicians in office, but in America it seems like it’s only ugly rock-faced women who ever get elected. It’s a very strange phenomenon.

[JesseAz]

Congress is Hollywood for ugly people. There aren’t many countries with as big an entertainment industry as in the US.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

“Congress is Hollywood for ugly people.”

Damn, that’s good!

[Dillinger]

Limbaugh c.1995

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Eh, Haley’s not bad-looking for a middle-aged woman. She was probably a smoke show in college.

[mad.casual]

AI applications: helping us see maritime activity to a greater degree than ever before.

It’s like looking at a nighttime map of the 2003 Northeast Blackout, except with all the lights still on where The Jones Act is enforced.

[Agammamon]

oof!

Those mean tweets, Wolfe. I mean, I can’t even right now. Our precious democracy!

[damikesc]

“I am not sure The New York Times is sending us their best.”

Sadly…they are.

[JesseAz]

This was one of the first NYT posts on roundup I’ve appreciated. Properly derided.

[Jerry B.]

This assumes, without evidence, that NYT has any best.

[damikesc]

I’ll note that “best” is a subjective term.

In a collection of rotten milk, one will taste “the best” of the bunch.

[Spiritus Mundi]

The just-unsealed Epstein documents contain a fair number of Bill Clinton mentions.

Well she was just seventeen
You know what I mean
And the way she looked
Was way beyond compare

So how could I dance with another?
Oh, when I saw her standing there

[Dillinger]

if Winger is ever an appropriate reference, it is now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlN3oEjMpUQ

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Woo
You come on like a dream
Peaches and cream
Lips like strawberry wine
You’re sixteen, you’re beautiful and you’re mine (ooh, mine all mine)
You’re all ribbons and curls (ooh)
Ooh, what a girl (ooh)
Eyes that sparkle and shine (ooh)
You’re sixteen, you’re beautiful and you’re mine (ooh)
Mine all mine, mine, mine, mine
You’re my baby, you’re my pet (ooh wah, wah)
We fell in love on the night we met (ooh wah, wah, wah)
You touched my hand, my heart went pop (ooh)
Ooh, when we kissed I could not stop (ooh)
You walked out of my dreams, and into my arms (ahh)
Now you’re my angel divine (ahh)
You’re sixteen, you’re beautiful and you’re mine (ooh wah, wah, wah)

[MK Ultra]

The judges would also have accepted:

Sexy and 17 – Stray Cats
Seventeen and Under – Psychephunkapus

[InsaneTrollLogic]

My Sharona – The Knack

[Sevo]

“Divided Ninth Circuit panel refuses rehearing on blocked Berkeley gas ban”
https://www.courthousenews.com/divided-ninth-circuit-panel-refuses-rehearing-on-blocked-berkeley-gas-ban/

Perhaps a court decided that twit in city hall was not coronated.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

New York Times editorial board writer Mara Gay went on MSNBC and called plagiarist Harvard President Claudine Gay’s (no relation) resignation an “attack on academic freedom” and “pluralism.” I am not sure The New York Times is sending us their best. Other reactions to Claudine Gay’s resignation have poured in. My favorite?

I ran across this year old documentary about Claudine Gay, before most Americans had never heard of her. This made me cheer her ouster even more. She isn’t just a plagiarist, she’s a Genuinely Bad Person.

Short documentary: (24 minutes) How Claudine Gay Canceled Harvard’s Best Black Professor. (mini-doc)

Bonus: David Simon gets slagged by Glenn Lourey. Yes, THAT David Simon.

Watch it. Sort of… nowish.

[Mother's Lament]

“She isn’t just a plagiarist, she’s a Genuinely Bad Person.”

That’s just your racist racism talking.

[Zeb]

Was that the guy who dared publish data which contradicted the narrative on police shootings?

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Yes, Roland G. Fryer, Jr.

https://archive.ph/20201108065748/https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/710977

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

Yarp.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

Also, if I understand the chronology, he was already quite hated by the establishment by that time for his heresies in education etc. The David Simon kerfuffle was a good one.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Among other things. His primary interest was all of the ways black kids in particular were being failed by the education system and the black culture. Inconvenient truths.

[JesseAz]

City in Arizona promoted a council member to vice mayor even after she was convicted for illegal ballot harvesting. For Democrats it is about how you help the party.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/03/this-arizona-city-just-appointed-a-democrat-ballot-harvester-as-its-vice-mayor/

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

Her personal election was fortified.

[JesseAz]

Dems in Congress once again blew the S&P in stock returns out of the water.

S&P – 24%
Dems – 31%
GOP – 18%

Some members “disclosed more stock trades than legislative votes.” Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna, who sits on the House Armed Services and House Oversight and Accountability committees, disclosed the most stock market purchases for 2023 at 1,589, and more than $25 million in stock sales.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/03/report-corrupt-congress-beat-the-market-again-in-2023/

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Even then the only Republicans that beat the market are uniparty rinos

[Sevo]

It’s amazing that the ass-clow turd hasn’t linked this provocative article:
“Clinton and Trump are named in Jeffrey Epstein documents, no wrongdoing alleged”
[…]
“Clinton, who sometimes flew aboard Epstein’s private plane, is listed repeatedly in the documents. He was the topic of an argument over the credibility of a witness who said she saw the former president when he was a guest of Epstein.
Trump’s name appears in a document in which Epstein is quoted as saying he would invite the then-real estate mogul to join him at a casino…”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clinton-and-trump-are-named-in-jeffrey-epstein-documents-no-wrongdoing-alleged/ar-AA1mqEIK

[InsaneTrollLogic]

I’m a bit surprised Turd is laying low this morning. I fully expected him to come out with guns a-blazing, trying his damnedest to use a “boaf sidez” on Trump. Maybe Turd’s actual name appears on the Epstein list somewhere? I know he’s just a fifty-center, but maybe he got some “perks” with the job?

[Sevo]

You’ll notice MSN is trying to float equivalence where there is none to any honest reader.
Trump is “mentioned”; Clinton is “featured”, for pete’s sake.

[Minadin]

Trump is repeatedly mentioned by the interviewer, denied involved by the interviewee.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1742707274445943134

[Sevo]

Seek help.
Oh, and fuck off and die.

[Zeb]

Try reading the comment again, dude.

[Sevo]

My mistake.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Exactly. The media is trying their damnedest this morning to link Trump to it, but Turd is nowhere to be found here pushing those MSM stories. Makes one wonder if Turd is mentioned in the documents somewhere. It’s bizarre to see him not here crowing about this (he’s stupid enough to post the links as we’ve seen previously).

[Mother's Lament]

Next up, the guy’s who went to Epstein’s Isle were the good guys and the perverts were the ones who didn’t.

[Ajsloss]

the guy’s who went to Epstein’s Isle were the good guys

Classic “To Catch a Predator” defense. “I was just going to teach the underage girl a lesson about playing on the internet. You know, to scare her straight.”

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

If trump was implicated, it would have been released years ago

[Chumby]

A mostly but not entirely redacted version would have been released years ago had orangeman been implicated.

[Minadin]

I’m kinda surprised they didn’t release a version that redacted everything but the word ‘Trump’.

MSNBC would have had a field day.

[JFree]

That ROI on exercise is a good idea but completely incompetent. Not even worth picking apart because the only way to fix it is to start over from scratch in order to understand what aging actually results in or what exercise is supposed to accomplish.

[Sevo]

Where were you re: the Fed quack admitting the lockdowns were less than worthless, chicken little?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

The fact that Cowen starts at the age of 80 makes his analysis completely pointless. You’ve already passed the life expectancy mark at that age, anyway, and anything after that is just gravy, assuming you don’t have some chronic disease that makes life such a PITA that taking a short vacation to Canada starts to look good.

He really should start from about age 30-50, when people’s bad health habits really begin to manifest themselves.

[JFree]

Yes. That’s the age when ‘ROI on time spent exercising’ makes some sense since the payback isn’t immediate. Later, on the decline side of life, the returns are much more binary – either a significant and quick restoration of function or ‘exercise (in particular fast-twitch) not possible’.

[Mother's Lament]

“Border Patrol, in the month of December, processed more migrants entering the United States illegally than any month in the history of that agency. Why is that happening?”

MAYORKAS: “Climate change”

…and before Criminaljeff Radical Castrationist complains about who posted it on Twitter, it’s a fucking video of him saying it on MSNBC.

[Minadin]

He also claimed yesterday that the border crisis was due to a lack of sufficient funding. It’s not policy or anything like that – we just need to throw more money at the problem. A lot more.

[R Mac]

Maybe stop wasting money suing border states for trying to solve his problem?

[Zeb]

And supporting “asylum seekers”.

[R Mac]

What I’d like to see come from all of this is the Texas AG getting to the bottom of this and criminally charging whoever *cough Soros cough* is funding all this shit. I wonder how Texas’s RICO laws are?

[MWAocdoc]

“Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard is Bigger Than Me”

It’s hard to imagine that xhe actually believes that anything is bigger than xer, but the old adage, “They can dish it out, but they just can’t take it!” comes to mind. Maybe the social justice crowd CAN actually learn after all. It may be soaking into their sponge-like brains that what goes around, comes around. That maybe launching a media war using cancel culture wasn’t such a good idea after all. That people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones? Although I stopped posting them online when I abandoned Facebook, I still design memes for myself. My most recent project is one with Gen-Z social justice warriors posing on the left saying, “In Our Democracy (TM) we can vote for unlimited free stuff that the Rich will pay for” – and on the right side a militiaman holding an automatic rifle saying, “You may be really, REALLY good at fooling yourselves, but it doesn’t mean you’re fooling anyone ELSE!”

[A Thinking Mind]

It’s hard to imagine that xhe actually believes that anything is bigger than xer, but the old adage, “They can dish it out, but they just can’t take it!” comes to mind

No, you’re not understanding how her ego works. She thinks she’s critical to the very functioning of society, and if she can’t have the Presidency at Harvard, it means society is going to fail. So her losing her job because she’s a plagiarist and is shitty on the policy of free speech, she equates to the worst thing that could happen to the entire country.

So she’s telling people, “This is an attack on YOU, all of you. Because I’m so important.”

We live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to guarded by pseudoscientific academics. You WANT me on that wall, you NEED me on that wall.

[Ajsloss]

We live in a world that has walls

And they always seem to be closing in.

[MWAocdoc]

“Existential threat to Our Democracy (TM)”

[Super Scary]

But I was told walls don’t work anyway!

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

Only when they are closing in

[MWAocdoc]

I dunno … is this something like Fauci’s “I am science?”

[ElvisIsReal]

That’s exactly the point Chris Bray made yesterday.

https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/quaker-guns/

Claudine Gay is Anthony Fauci.

[damikesc]

“It’s hard to imagine that xhe actually believes that anything is bigger than xer”

Ann Coulter actually had the best rejoinder to that.

Anybody who says anything is “bigger than them”, it means that it is ONLY about them.

[Dillinger]

>>Iran has, up until this point, not been explicitly involved in the fighting going on in the Middle East

if Nike was late with the Iran jerseys from China because of the Houthis is it Iran’s fault?

[TheReEncogitationer]

Iran has, up until this point, not been explicitly involved in the fighting going on in the Middle East, though Iran does back Hezbollah, which has been firing at Israel from Lebanon, and the Yemeni Houthis, which have been attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea.

Looks pretty explicit to me. Take it easy on the understatement, Liz.

[Dillinger]

>>Holy shit did she just actually write something herself?

cold. and delish.

[TheReEncogitationer]

Get ’em, Liz! Get ’em!
🙂
😉

[Dillinger]

>>“Claudine Gay: What Just Happened at Harvard is Bigger Than Me”

the holes in the dyke will be overwhelming.

[Dillinger]

>>Nikki Haley renamed her husband

Beta Haley sounded best.

[Dillinger]

>>The national governing body for amateur/Olympic-style boxing recently codified a rule permitting male participation in the women’s division in its 2024 rulebook

cannot. fucking. wait to see some boygirl get his ass kicked.

[Jerry B.]

I had thought that perhaps this silliness had reached a crescendo, but apparently it’s even worse than TDS.

[Chumby]

At least she will have the balls to get into the ring.

[Chumby]

Gay Fallout will premiere this spring on Amazon Prime Video.

[Super Scary]

As a fan of the games (well, the more modern ones anyway, not 1 or 2) I was looking forward to checking it out. I have no high hopes for it, but it’ll still be neat to see how they design the set pieces and costumes. I’m expecting a lot of easter eggs from FO3, New Vegas, FO4 and probably FO76.

[Randy Sax]

1 and 2 are so worth trying out. I know iso turn based games may turn people of, but they are so worth it. Fallout 2 is one of the all time best ever rpgs.

[Randy Sax]

FO76 perk: Big hitter, 12.5% more damage will baseball bats.

Fallout 2 perk: Sex appeal, increases your hidden sex proficiency score. You need it high enough to be able to satisfy a mobster’s wife. If you don’t do well enough she won’t tell you the code to her husband’s safe. Also you need it high enough to be able to become a porn star. Otherwise you can just become a fluffer.

[MT-Man]

I personally like 1 and 2 and ISO games much more than the 1st person stuff.

[Randy Sax]

The show is supposedly set in the boneyard. I think pre-NCR.

[damikesc]

I would have little hope it even references the games.

It will also suck even if it does.

[mad.casual]

I have no high hopes for it, but it’ll still be neat to see how they design the set pieces and costumes. I’m expecting a lot of easter eggs from FO3, New Vegas, FO4 and probably FO76.

Preview I saw looked pretty explicitly like this. If you’re there for the Easter Eggs, the show probably isn’t made for you. Faithful costumes and set pieces, lots of Easter Eggs, but will otherwise massively suck balls in a ‘made for modern audiences’ fashion. The comments on the preview on YouTube were along the lines of “F-yeah! BOS Powered armor looked awesome!” but to me, the CGI was clearly shittier than She-Hulk and even some of the actual in-game scenes… from a decade ago.

[Randy Sax]

It’s only gay because it’s Todd Howard’s Fallout. Not Tim Cain, Lenard Boyarsky, or Chris Avellone’s. I still have some hope though. Will we get Halo or Last of us? idk.

[Chumby]

Gay fallout was in the headline.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Just saw that Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the bombing in Iran.

Anybody here shocked? I suppose Iran will continue to blame the US, Israel, or whomever suits them. That makes it true.

[Moonrocks]

I suppose Iran will continue to blame the US, Israel, or whomever suits them. That makes it true.

The rationalization is that Islamic State is a US/Israeli proxy.

[damikesc]

Since this is gonna be memory-holed hella quick — Iowa school shooter had the LGBT flag in his bio. Posted about loving your trans kids.

So, uh, pretty clearly not a white supremacist.

Gonna be forgotten really damned quick.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

It’s been posted all over Twitter so at least it’s not completely gone and forgotten.

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1743025158045200609

NEW: Officials have identified 17-year-old Dylan Butler as the student who carried out the shooting at Perry High School in Iowa.

Butler was reportedly an LGBTQ student who identified with the pronouns ‘he/they’ and ‘gender fluid.’

Butler appeared to interact with transgender accounts on Reddit & other LGBTQ accounts.

Butler ended up killing himself after killing one student and injuring 5 others including the principal.

Images in the Twitter link.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

So… the school shooter was crazy. How shocking.

[Michael Ejercito]

So this was not gang-related?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul. they/them)]

memory holed? No it’s proof that trans kids are put upon by society and this is *checks current rhetoric* blowback.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

This is the second famous troon from Des Moines.

The other is none other than luggage swiper and Anton Lavey look-alike Sam Brinton.

[AT]

“We tell the criminal America and Zionist regime that you will pay a very high price for the crimes you have committed and will regret it,” said Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi

Assassinate him. Seriously – any time Iranian leadership openly threatens anyone, have him killed within 12 hours.

Also, Sunni extremists claimed credit. But don’t expect me to feel sorry for the Soleimani bootlickers, because Shiites attack Sunnis far more often than vice versa.

Iran has, up until this point, not been explicitly involved in the fighting going on in the Middle East

“Not been explicitly.” Yea, no, let’s keep acting like their proxies that we pretend are the sovereign nations of Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and the sections of Israel occupied by terrorists calling themselves “Palestine” don’t answer directly to and don’t act on direct orders from Tehran. Sure. Right.

Why we haven’t carpet bombed that city is beyond me. They want nuclear weapons? Fine, let’s drop a few on them. And once the head is off the snake, Israel then officially borders Turkey and Iraq.

[AT]

Actually, screw it, take Iraq too. Too many Iranian operatives there as well. And drop nukes on Shiraz and Mashhad just to round things out.

Then give Israel everything all the way east to the ‘stans. They might not be able to enjoy their new territory that is the smoldering remains there are of Iran, but whatever.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Islamic State now taking credit for that bombing.

CNN
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ISIS has claimed responsibility for the deadly twin blasts near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani in southern Iran.

At least 84 people were killed and 284 injured in the blasts on Wednesday, state-run news agency IRNA reported, in what was the deadliest attack in Iran since its 1979 revolution.

ISIS media wing Al-Furqan issued a statement on Thursday – more than 24 hours after the explosions – claiming two suicide bombers, who are brothers, had detonated their explosive vests as Shiite mourners gathered for the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Soleimani near his grave in his hometown of Kerman.

The statement, titled “And Kill Them Wherever You Find Them,” named the two bombers and said they targeted a gathering of “polytheists” near the grave of their “dead leader” Soleimani.

ISIS considers the Shia branch of Islam to be heretical and has targeted shrines and religious sites in Iran previously.

The group offered no further proof and their account of the blasts differs from that given by Iranian media. The death toll provided by ISIS was also significantly higher than that reported by Iranian officials.