The Gaza Split

Plus: Venezuelan perspectives on unseating Maduro, Zohran's free-lunch promising, stand-your-ground laws, and more...

Ceasefire or not? Yesterday, Israeli strikes killed 100 people in Gaza, claiming that the ceasefire had been violated, since Hamas has not yet returned the bodies of all the dead hostages taken on October 7, 2023, and attacked Israeli soldiers in the southern part of the territory, near Rafah.

News broke last week that two IDF soldiers were killed in Jenina, which is located on the eastern side of the Yellow Line that indicates the military pullback. Though Jenina is under IDF control, there are apparently Hamas cells that still operate in some capacity there. "As troops have worked to clear the neighborhood of Hamas infrastructure—including a tunnel network—operatives have emerged from underground and attempted attacks," reports The Times of Israel. 

"There is and will be no immunity for anyone in the leadership of the Hamas terror organization, neither for those wearing suits nor for those hiding in tunnels. Anyone who raises a hand against IDF soldiers, his hand will be severed," said Defense Minister Israel Katz.

"The Israeli military is digging in along the cease-fire line inside Gaza, strengthening fortifications and establishing infrastructure that further divides the territory into two," reports The Wall Street Journal. For the first time, journalists were allowed access to that zone, which "divides Gaza roughly in half" with the IDF "manning existing outposts and erecting new ones." Yellow concrete blocks are being laid, and it sure looks like the idea is for an Israeli military presence to continue there for a long time.

Per the truce brokered by President Donald Trump, "Israel is supposed to pull back farther toward Gaza's borders once an international security force is on the ground and Hamas has been disarmed," reports the Journal. "Hamas, however, has refused to give up its weapons and is cementing its control over Gaza." It's a truce that doesn't look all that much like a truce; instead, Israel controls about 53 percent of the Strip, with Hamas forces still operating in some capacity in the remaining 47 percent. It's very possible that rebuilding will look rather bifurcated, with the Israel-controlled zones subjecting Palestinians to some amount of surveillance but being free of terrorist control, while the remaining chunks of the Strip remain fairly leveled, with no foreign investment and very little rebuilding. Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff are widely seen as the architects behind the split-rebuilding plan, which is controversial among the other stakeholders trying to broker peace.

"Arab mediators are alarmed by the plan which, they said, the U.S. and Israel have brought up in peace talks," reports the Journal. "Arab governments strongly oppose the idea of dividing Gaza, arguing it could lead to a zone of permanent Israeli control inside the enclave. They are unlikely to commit troops to police the enclave on those terms." But what exactly is the solution if Hamas won't surrender arms?

Venezuela update: When The Wall Street Journal asked prominent Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado earlier this week what she thinks about Donald Trump's increasingly aggressive provocations toward the Maduro regime, she responded: "President Trump pledged to dismantle the drug cartels poisoning American families, and he is fulfilling that promise."

Trafficking is "a national security crisis for the United States, and for Venezuela as well. The money generated from those criminal activities does not build schools or hospitals. It finances repression, torture, and the machinery of terror that keeps a criminal regime in power." Trump made an "accurate diagnosis of Venezuela's reality, and acted accordingly." And the Venezuelan people had long "asked the world to understand that Maduro is not a conventional dictator but the head of a transnational criminal organization. The Trump Administration recognized that fact and treated it as such."

When asked explicitly about foreign military intervention to end the Maduro regime, Machado responded that Venezuela has been "under foreign intervention for decades, by Cuba, Russia, China, Iran, drug cartels, and terrorist organizations" and that "democratic allies" can help the Venezuelan people "recover the sovereignty that belongs to them."

It's hard to tell how authentic she's being. She has a vested interest in maintaining and strengthening an alliance with Trump. If Trump really is interested in regime change—and if he can do so in a way that doesn't simply lead to another Maduro operative gaining power—Machado stands to gain; she won the opposition primary back in 2023 and was the rightful challenger to Maduro in 2024, before being barred from running by the government. From her perspective, this must look like a huge opportunity to secure the liberation of the Venezuelan people—liberation she's been fighting for. She has real reasons to back Trump, who is possibly preparing to take military action to try to unseat Nicolas Maduro. (It's worth noting that Trump has not sought congressional approval for this, and has been conducting extralegal boat strikes on suspected narcotraffickers, supplying no evidence to the American people or to legislators that the people he's killing are legitimate criminals. Also: We don't tend to blow people into smithereens when they've committed crimes, so even if evidence were provided, Trump is not comporting with U.S. law.)

But it's also possible that Machado's being way too hopeful here; U.S.-led regime change in Latin America has not historically panned out so well.

She also made an even more explicit pitch to Trump sympathizers, noting that Maduro-unseating could lead to fewer migrants flooding across U.S. borders: "The vast majority of Venezuelans are desperate to return home. They didn't leave by choice. The longing for family and national reunification is immense. The moment Maduro leaves power, hundreds of thousands will begin to return. And soon after, it will be millions coming back to rebuild the nation they were forced to abandon."

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Scenes from New York: 

Nice to see Zohran has matured since his high school era of making impossible promises to win a student council election. Evidence of real growth. pic.twitter.com/m9AX4lPYiy

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) October 27, 2025

If you want to hear all about the threat posed by Mamdani, I highly recommend this Weissmueller joint.

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QUICK HITS

• "The White House on Tuesday fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that had expected to review some of President Donald Trump's construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch and White House ballroom," reports The Washington Post. "The commission, which was established by Congress more than a century ago and traditionally includes a mix of architects and urban planners, is charged with providing advice to the president, Congress and local government officials on design matters related to construction projects in the capital region. Its focus includes government buildings, monuments and memorials. White House officials have traditionally sought the agency's approval." (Interestingly, though Trump gets all the credit for being a norms-disrespecter, Joe Biden did it first: "Biden in 2021 fired Trump appointees from the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission, with Biden administration officials at the time defending the moves as an effort to diversify the panels." But that "was the first time in the commissions' history that a president had forced out sitting members, drawing some criticism from art and architecture experts that Biden was politicizing its work.")
• "The number of legally sanctioned homicides by civilians in the 30 stand-your-ground states has risen substantially in recent years," reports The Wall Street Journal, having analyzed FBI data. "Justifiable homicides by civilians increased 59% from 2019 through 2024 in a large sample of cities and counties in those states, the Journal found, compared with a 16% rise in total homicides for the same locales."
• Tariffs make prices rise, whowouldathought?

Latest findings from Cavallo show about a 20 percent pass-through of tariffs to the retail price, adding 0.7 percentage points to the CPI in Septemberhttps://t.co/vnoCFFWkaN pic.twitter.com/cxQLmTUiBw

— Alex Durante (@alex_durante_) October 28, 2025

• Yep:

It is a small thing, but it's amazing to me that the DNC cannot stop itself from opening meetings with land acknowledgements. The politics of insiders feeling that's important (who??) are apparently more important than showing that the party focuses on what voters care about. https://t.co/W66spLxI9u

— Josh Barro (@jbarro) October 27, 2025

Comments

[Chumby]

Rapefoodies

59% of ALL illegal aliens are collecting food stamps, meaning that most of the people getting food stamps from the U.S. Government & the U.S. Taxpayer are not even Americans.

we can confirm tonight that millions of illegal aliens…are now collecting food stamps

https://x.com/DerrickEvans4WV/status/1983169577199788062

Thought we were told the illegal alien rapefugees weren’t getting public assistance. It is happening, but no it is not a good thing.

[Zeb]

59% of ALL illegal aliens are collecting food stamps, meaning that most of the people getting food stamps from the U.S. Government & the U.S. Taxpayer are not even Americans.

Umm. No, that's not what that means. Of course illegal immigrants shouldn't be getting public subsidies at all. But there's no info there on what percentage of people getting food stamps are illegal aliens.

[Chumby]

Correct, the OP applied the percentage incorrectly.

It wouldn’t be difficult to figure out the percentage of total recipients that get it who are illegals (if the 59% is correct).

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

One should ask why 3/5ths of illegal aliens are getting food stamps at all. Agreed that they have no business getting them in the first place.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

It’s ok, it gets turned off on Saturday.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

All profit no downsides?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

100% safe and effective?

[HorseConch]

The Trump admin claims to have deported 600k and say another 2M have self deported. That's more than the individual populations of 13 states. You would think GDP would be shrinking rapidly if we're really losing all of the best and brightest.

[Mother's Lament]

The impact on the food truck industry is going to be horrific, and so many young women won't get to experience cultural enrichment.

[Chumby]

Including Mexican ass sex while being served a taco.

[Incunabulum]

You are going to regret saying that when you get cancer and the illegal immigrant who would have gone on to cure it was deported!1!1!1!1

[BYODB]

You're correct Zeb, and the reason we can't say that is because they themselves do not know the answer.

That said, merely the fact that almost half of people from those select nations are on food assistance is itself quite telling and absurd. More importantly, it neatly cuts off the balls of 'immigrants use less domestic services!'.

[Mother's Lament]

The nice thing about being a modern progressive is that your ideology doesn't have to be coherent. They can be both at the same time. A quantum superposition of beliefs. The truth is whatever you wish to observe at that time.

Exempli gratia: Jeffsarcshrike posts.

[Chumby]

Schrödinger’s jeffsarcshrike

The rapist was both sorry and not sorry afterwards. And either/both can be s correct answer.

[Medulla Oblongata]

That can't be right. I'm told that, excepting their coming here illegally, illegal aliens are fine upstanding people who contribute to this country and are always an economic positive, commit almost no crimes, and certainly would never commit fraud like this.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

It’s just until their food truck starts to turn a profit, honest!

[Incunabulum]

30 years from now you'll have a couple of fine restaurants - so consider it an investment?

[Quicktown Brix]

Where does that stat come from?

Since illegal immigrants are not eligible for food stamps by law, and the author showed carelessness in his summary, this stat is highly suspect.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

No grasshopper, it is not.

[Quicktown Brix]

OK then...

My guess is it comes from here:

The 2022 SIPP indicates...

... 59 percent [used one or more major welfare program] for non-citizen households (e.g. green card holders and illegal immigrants).
Compared to households headed by the U.S.-born, immigrant-headed households have especially high use of food programs (36 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born), Medicaid (37 percent vs. 25 percent for the U.S.-born), and the Earned Income Tax Credit (16 percent vs. 12 percent for the U.S.-born).
Our best estimate is that 59 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants, also called the undocumented, use at least one major program.

https://cis.org/Report/Welfare-Use-Immigrants-and-USBorn

If correct the stat is for all non-citizen immigrants (not just illegals) and all forms of welfare including the earned income tax credit.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Ah. Well, since you put it that way…..,

Lol.

[KARl hungus]

What a doosh!

Everything is so terrible and unfair!

Viva la Raza!!!

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Awwww, ya got me there KAR. Sick burn, brah. Kinda like Gavin ending his tweets with “thank you for your attention to this matter”.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Thank you so much.

You’re still a doosh, tho. Haha.

[mad.casual]

"The number of legally sanctioned homicides by civilians in the 30 stand-your-ground states has risen substantially in recent years," reports The Wall Street Journal, having analyzed FBI data. "Justifiable homicides by civilians increased 59% from 2019 through 2024 in a large sample of cities and counties in those states, the Journal found, compared with a 16% rise in total homicides for the same locales."

Come in central, this is the Wall Street Journal! FBI needs assistance! Crime is down. I repeat... crime is down!

[Medulla Oblongata]

Fox Butterfield, is that you?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

The "new" WSJ: Guns are bad! Wealth is bad! Free markets are unfair!

Really. (Outside of their editorial group.)

[Anomalous]

The WSJ reporters are at least as leftist as their comrades at the NYT.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

The Long March continues.

Supported by rich kids with daddy issues.

[Ron]

the choice of using the word sanctioned is questionable. people are allowed to defend themselves under certain conditions. Sanction has a more targeted maybe even evil or coerced implication here almost as if we were living in a Purge scenario which we are not. It is more a form of fear mongering in this case to those who disapprove of guns

[Fist of Etiquette]

Per the truce brokered by President Donald Trump, "Israel is supposed to pull back farther toward Gaza's borders once an international security force is on the ground and Hamas has been disarmed..."

I assume we're all agreed that only Israel should be held to the terms of the truce.

[mad.casual]

What part of "from the river to the sea" do you not understand?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Sounds like you failed your intersectional politics module in the grievance studies course.

[A Thinking Mind]

The real truth is that, when the truce was declared, I expected neither side to hold to those terms. Because if if it was as easy as setting terms both sides could agree to, we'd have had peace in the region for the past 50 years.

[DesigNate]

I mean, if Hamas hasn’t disarmed and the international security force isn’t on the ground, Israel hasn’t technically broken the ageement…

[Chumby]

SNAPfu

Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is restricting food assistance to U.S. citizens and 5 year Green Card holders only, so many refugees, aliens and asylees no longer qualify. Migrants and noncitizens will lose Med benefits next fall. Some cities are already reporting a purge.

- An Appeal to Pragmatism

Thought they weren’t getting med benefits.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

I too remember when not being a public charge was required for legal immigrants.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But government health benefits for migrants are a core part of the economy!

(This is what leftists actually say.)

[HorseConch]

Return on investment is probably hundreds of percent.

[Fist of Etiquette]

President Trump pledged to dismantle the drug cartels poisoning American families, and he is fulfilling that promise.

That broad knows which side her bread is buttered on.

[Chumby]

Trump didn’t want to loaf around on this. They’ll be toast.

[Randy Sax]

I'm more interested in her hams.

[Chumby]

Pig!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Melons are tasty, too.

[Chumby]

EBT for Me, Work for Thee

Piece of shit demands his EBT money gets reinstated.

https://x.com/BIPOCracism/status/1980661640434765883

Even if that piece of shit tried getting work, who the fuck would hire him?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Your property is my human right!

Every leftist ever.

[Anomalous]

Turns out this is satire. @theloopybloggr

[Chumby]

It certainly looked like it could be. At least he didn’t threaten a nation-wide shoplifting flash mob at Walmart like yesterday’s princess.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Poe’s Law is a real pain in the ass right now.

[Chumby]

When a trantifa person assassinates a guy that debated and numerous team D members openly celebrate that (and even more actively gaslight what occurred), a video of someone on EBT demanding he remains on EBT is like a 2 out of 10.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...U.S.-led regime change in Latin America has not historically panned out so well.

So you're saying we're due.

[Chumby]

Someone needs to Dole out punishment in these banana republics.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

They need to Chiquita in on them.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

I don’t see the a peel.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I laughed at the FAFO of it all at the time...

https://thecoconutmama.com/chiquita-gives-up-shuts-down-panama-operations-and-lays-off-everyone/

Chiquita has officially shut down all of its operations in Panama, including the Bocas Fruit Company, and laid off every single employee.

The company, which once dominated banana exports from the region, has packed up and left.

No scaled-back plan. No partial closure. Just… gone.

According to Chiquita, the company racked up over $75 million in losses in just a few weeks.

Why? A massive nationwide protest movement, tied to controversial social security reforms, paralyzed operations.

With roads blocked, work halted, and exports frozen, the company says continuing operations became financially impossible.

[Medulla Oblongata]

But all is not lost for Panama banana fans. Will this truce hold?

https://www.freshfruitportal.com/news/2025/10/20/chiquita-resumes-operations/

The Panamanian government, on the other hand, stated it will support the initiative by streamlining permits, enacting the rule of law to provide safety for investors, and launching social and job retraining programs.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Does this mean chiquita is nationalized now? Based on reason logic.

[Chumby]

Reason would be ok with that as long as it had an advantaged trade position against the US.

[Chumby]

Going Apeshit

Monkeys for hepatitis C, herpes and COVID animal testing were shot and killed after a truck carrying them overturned in Mississippi. The monkeys were said to be 40 pounds and "aggressive" to humans.

Read more: https://www.disclose.tv/id/5nltok1v56/

Tony, don’t try to fuck the monkeys.

[mad.casual]

Disease-riddled and "aggressive" to the natives?

"Opposable thumbs are just, like, a social construct, man. There are no illegal primates!" - Reason

[Ron]

this sounds just like the start of a few apocalyptic movies I've seen and just in time for halloween. should we be worried, conspiracy theorist are up in arms

[Fist of Etiquette]

The White House on Tuesday fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that had expected to review some of President Donald Trump's construction projects...

Review it from afar, losers.

[Randy Sax]

Till the local judges step in and say he can't, for some reason.

[Longtobefree]

One thing congress (republicans) could do while waiting for the democrats to approve the CR is define in law that federal courts are not essential, and are subject to the shutdown.
That would force the democrats to reopen the government in order to file their next anti-Trump lawsuit.

[Chumby]

More Rapefugee Cultural Sharing

Uxbridge, UK, October 27. Home CCTV shows the suspected Afghan who stabbed multiple people in Midhurst Gardens.

A 49-year-old man killed, a 45-year-old man and 14-year-old boy injured, but stable after hospital treatment.

- Live Leak

[mad.casual]

A 49-year-old man killed, a 45-year-old man and 14-year-old boy injured, but stable after hospital treatment.

Even as an American I'm pretty sure this is a crime against the English language.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But if written by an Afghani "refugee" then totes OK.

[Chumby]

The original author took a stab at it.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/29/a-stabbing-in-suburbia/

"The suspect entered the country illegally, in a lorry, in 2020. Two years later, he was granted asylum and leave to remain. The horror in Uxbridge comes after a long line of murders, terror attacks and rapes committed by those who in any sane nation would never have been here.

There’s Lawangeen Abdulrahimzai, who plunged a knife into the heart of aspiring Royal Marine Thomas Roberts, outside a Subway in Bournemouth on 12 March 2022. Abdulrahimzai also came here illegally, also from Afghanistan, fleeing murder charges in Serbia. There’s Ahmed Alid, the Moroccan asylum seeker in Hartlepool, who was so inspired by Hamas’s exploits on 7 October 2023 that he stabbed his Iranian housemate before murdering a 70-year-old British man on the street. There’s Abdul Ezedi, another Afghan, who was granted asylum on his third request, despite racking up two sexual offences here. He threw alkali on a refugee woman and her children on 31 January 2024, before going on the run and killing himself.

Ethiopian national Hadush Kebatu had been in the country just eight days when he sexually assaulted a woman and a 14-year-old girl in the Essex town of Epping in the summer. Kebatu’s crimes sparked protests outside the Bell Hotel, where he and hundreds more migrants resided. It also inspired months of unrest outside the nation’s migrant hotels. Following his conviction – and farcical, accidental release last weekend – Kebatu was finally deported this morning – proving that the authorities can deport people after all, when they really apply themselves. If only they had got to Abdulrahimzai, or Ezedi, or Alid, a little more promptly – all of whom similarly arrived in this country illegally, festooned in red flags.

You may have noticed… it is never the elites who pay the price for their own feckless virtue-signalling. Poor and working-class communities have borne the brunt of the small-boats crisis, simply because the hotels and rental properties are cheaper there. One analysis found that a quarter of all asylum seekers housed by the Home Office had been placed in just 10 local authorities, nine of which are among the most impoverished in the country. Illegal migration is a class issue. The bin man slain on a once-safe street is perhaps the grimmest symbol of this.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Biden in 2021 fired Trump appointees from the Commission of Fine Arts and the National Capital Planning Commission...

Doesn't sound all that independent.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

It’s obviously (D)ifferent.

[HorseConch]

Only one si(D)e is allowed to hire and fire all of these fine public servants.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

The goo(D) side.

[Chumby]

(D)idn’t need congressional approval for that.

[Spiritus Mundi]

..Israeli strikes killed 100 people in Gaza...

All women and children. And they all could have been saved if the hospital had more than a halfs day fuel left.

[Roberta]

It's actually good that Democrats have been focused on relatively trivial issues rather than economic ones, because their economic focus would probably be malign.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Most peaceful cartels who just want a legal market for their goods lock down Rio.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rio-de-janeiros-outskirts-erupt-chaos-major-narcoterrorism-crackdown-turns-area

[Zeb]

Maybe I missed it, but is anyone, anywhere arguing that the cartels would prefer legal markets for their drugs? Pretty sure the usual argument is that prohibition is a gift to the cartels.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

They will utilize whatever profitable means they can. Including crimes. Including growing avocados after taking over farms.

Legalizing drugs will not stop criminals. It needs to be stopped being used as an argument for legalization. Legalize or not. Cartels will still exist.

[Zeb]

No, it won't stop organized crime from being a thing. It will cut into their profits in an area where they have no legal competition. But that's another argument we've all had before. I was just wondering where you got that particular strawman from or (if not a strawman) if I'd actually missed someone making the silly argument you were mocking.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Drugs aren't even the top profit item any more.

What needs to be done is actions against the cartels instead if making fictitious claims for whatever hobby horse you have.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

I think this is where I point out how flacid the arguments are from the Damon Roots of the world and the dem sycophants here.

As I've been saying regarding the scotus tariff case, congress has always retained the power to end an emergency declaration from potus with a simple majority vote. This is why all the nashing of teeth was laughable to me.

And congress went and proved why scotus will uphold the tariff declarations by Trump due to congress voting to remove a declaration against Brazil yesterday.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-republicans-defy-vances-warning-vote-block-trumps-brazil-tariffs-amid-shutdown

This was always the process. But posters here and Damon refuse to read the actual laws before spouting ignorant arguments.

[Mickey Rat]

They do not really object to the laws giving the President such authority if the President aligns with their ideological goals. They object to a President with different goals from using that authority.

[Quicktown Brix]

Only the Senate voted to remove it. It will stall in the house, but even if it didn't it would be vetoed by Trump. It's only theater.

[Incunabulum]

So give the power to an unelected judge rather than the democratic process?

Why do you hate democracy?

Or is it just that you hate it when the voters - the House - don't vote the way you want?

Manufactured consensus. Managed democracy.

[Quicktown Brix]

So give the power to an unelected judge rather than the democratic process?

Yes, as long as congress lies supine like a submissive dog for Trump. Courts protect the constitution. The other 2 branches abuse it.

Why do you hate democracy?

Because it doesn't protect rights and freedom. A constitutional democracy however, is probably the best form of government so far, but it requires a system to maintain the constitution, like the judiciary.

Or is it just that you hate it when the voters - the House - don't vote the way you want?

Well, yeah, I hate congress when Congress doesn't vote the way I want, especially if it violates the constitution or is complicit in letting the president do so.

Manufactured consensus. Managed democracy.
Wut?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Judicial supremacy!!

But scotus keeps ruling in favor of trump...

Inferior court supremacy!!!

[DesigNate]

You get used to it.

[Quicktown Brix]

Hey!!!!!

LOL

[DesigNate]

Hey!

Seriously though, even if it is theater, at least they’re paying the process lip service, instead of pretending a pudding cup is a functional president.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

NYT find out about a California law celebrated at ENB to "protect" sex workers as there has been a flood of underage girls prostituting themselves in California since the law was passed. Often theiugh trafficking of cartels and gangs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/magazine/sex-trafficking-girls-la-figueroa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wU8.kctP.pbTt_z3ie4in

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But are they immigrants? Sex and open borders is 2/3 of a Reason trifecta.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

But do they operate food trucks? We need to complete the trifecta.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Many of them trafficked over the border.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Can Isreal just kill all the animal ragheads and the we can move on from this crap?

[Vernon Depner]

They don't have the manpower to do that quickly.

[Ajsloss]

They were already genociding, where do you go from there?

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Super genocide.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Double-secret genocide?

"Dead, cold, and blasted into multiple pieces is no way to go through life, son."

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

They weren't

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Hilarious Wiki entry on grokopedia that proves why a different wiki is needed, as wiki proves their open bias.

https://x.com/iam_smx/status/1983075726476574733

[Randy Sax]

Wikipedia is useful for things like old sport stats or looking up specific dates. Hard facts. Anything "open to interpretation" from them is garbage.

[Zeb]

Also pretty good for math, some science, and, somewhat surprisingly, info on firearm cartridges.

[Mother's Lament]

Wikipedia is useful for:
Chemistry, excluding pharmaceuticals
Biology, excluding human biology and sex,
Zoology, except topics surrounding extinction
Physics
Engineering
Astronomy
Geology
Meteorology

Wikipedia is unreliable when the topic is:
Anthropology
Archaeology (some aspects are reliable)

Wikipedia is hot garbage when the topic is:
Sexuality
Politics
Religion, especially Christianity and Islam
History
Psychology
Sociology
Biology on the topics of human biology and sex

[Mother's Lament]

Sorry, hot garbage should have also included climatology.

[Chumby]

Think we understood that, at least those of us without clouded judgement.

[MK Ultra]

Which is anyone who pays cirrus attention to the subject.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Calpers lost 70% of their equity through ESG investments for their pension fund.

https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_55faf935-81b3-457e-9cb3-006fd895dbdf.html?a

[Medulla Oblongata]

Ah, the Find Out stage...

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Followed by the demand for government-funded redress?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Corporations rush to reward those on food stamps with new discount programs, further rewarding those refusing to work.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/retail-giants-expand-perks-snap-shoppers-working-families-left-behind

America keeps rewarding failure.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Guess they didn’t hear about the plans for a 100% discount on Nov. 3rd.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Or they have delusions that the Jacobin mobs might spare them.

[Idaho-Bob]

This is nothing more than a buffer against shoplifting and looting.

I can't say I blame Walmart for offering a perk to the EBT community.

[Vernon Depner]

If the dole stops, expect the looting to start on Monday.

[Idaho-Bob]

I don't expect any looting in my neck of the woods. We have our share of fat, tattooed EBTs, but they know their place. FA and take a beating. Then be on the front page of the local paper.

[Ajsloss]

The dole doesn't stop, it just morphs into a different kind of theft.

[Vernon Depner]

But with the dole we have peaceful, orderly theft.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Run by EXPERTS!

[Chumby]

Those of us paying for the EBTs should ask for the discount too.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Reposting re: Gaza "genocide"

..."Given that Israel has the firepower to wipe out everybody in Gaza in an afternoon, the evidence, again, speaks for itself"...

The Telegraph: Expect no apologies for the propaganda spread about Gaza

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/expect-no-apologies-for-the-propaganda-spread-about-gaza/ar-AA1PaNQQ

For the sake of brevity, let us consider the twin motherlodes of the popular narrative: “famine” and “genocide”.

A spokesman for the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) first stated that Gaza was at risk of starvation on Oct 18 2023. Five days later, the WFP’s executive director, Cindy McCain, claimed that people were “literally starving to death as we speak”. This was four days before the war began.

Gaza is the most-photographed conflict zone in the world. Where were the pictures of starvation? The Times, The Guardian, The New York Times and others later published an image of a skeletal child suffering from cerebral palsy and hypoxemia. Easy mistake to make.

The UN formally declared a “famine” in August. As the researcher Salo Aizenberg has pointed out, by their own measures, that would have meant a starvation death toll of 10,143 by the time the ceasefire was announced. How many lost their lives in this way? According to Hamas, 192. That’s a shortfall of 9,808.

OK. What about the “genocide”, which was officially confirmed by the UN in September (and made by the Syrians at the UN back in 1948)?

Aizenberg crunched the numbers. Taking the Hamas data at face value, setting aside natural deaths and those hit by their own side, about 33,000 civilians tragically died. According to mainstream estimates, about 25,000 combatants were killed.

This means that for every dead jihadi, fewer than 1.5 civilians lost their lives. According to the UN, the global average for warfare in populated areas – where there are no terror tunnels under hospitals, where the enemy does not generally deploy a strategy of human sacrifice – is nine civilians per combatant. Given that Israel has the firepower to wipe out everybody in Gaza in an afternoon, the evidence, again, speaks for itself.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Worst genocide ever.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Worst propaganda program, too; only imbecilic shits like MG bought it.

[Mother's Lament]

And Sarckles of course.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Cindy McCain? Isn't that the same drug addict cunt who whored for the Keating Five, invented the national sex trafficking scam, and shat on little people whenever she had the chance?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

That would be the one and the same.

[Marshal]

The day of the ceasefire grocery stores opened fully stocked. Where did the food come from?

It was in the Hamas tunnels the whole time.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"We don't tend to blow people into smithereens"

Obama's drone strikes on US citizens would offer a counter to that statement.

[mad.casual]

Even this is ceding to speculation and some (I wanna say it's not necessarily Liz's, but the longer it goes on...) dishonesty.

We absolutely blow "non-uniform combatants" and "austere Islamic religious scholars" to smithereens outside our borders all the time and it's not at all unheard of within our borders either.

None of which is to say it's moral or that it should be done but we're nominally talking, on at least one side of the debate, about foreign assassins and narcoterrorists in international waters... not exactly striking labor workers or student protesting at Kent State. The idea of crime as it applies within our borders isn't and shouldn't be applied out of hand without cheapening or diluting the meaning of 'due process' and the actual freedoms it's meant to protect.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Media falls for a other hoax as they celebrate Hamas recovering a body to hand over.

Turns out Hamas took a random body, sug a hike, threw it in, then dug it up to media applause. It was the wrong body. All caught by IDF drones.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/idf-drone-footage-shows-hamas-faking-recovery-of-hostage-body/

[mad.casual]

But the excavator they were using only had 12 hours of fuel left!

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

All those bodies look alike.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Well, they’ll never get their stars now on the Pallywood Walk of Fame.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I saw that one yesterday, too. First the decided that the hole they buried the body in was too obvious or something, so they dug it up again and moved it to a different nearby pile of dirt that seemed more plausible. They ran to summon the Red Cross rep so that they could get media credit for the "find"...fail, but will still be used as propaganda, nevertheless.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What? Our honest, dedicated media would never fall for that!

[Marshal]

You might think after the first hundred or so times our media got caught repeating Hamas propaganda without even pretending to check it they would have wised up and changed their practice, but only if you're so foolish you believe our media functions as an independent information source rather than as a full participant in the political machine. As such it's more important to the media to signal their support for Hamas than it is to maintain an image of professionalism.

[mad.casual]

Hold on to your artificial social constructs:

China wants to rid itself of Western tech by 2027 -- outlines domestic alternatives in 'Document 79'

China mandates domestic firms source 50% of chips from Chinese producers — Beijing continues to squeeze companies over reliance on foreign semiconductors

China plans to outpace Neuralink with a state-backed brain chip blitz — seven ministries, a 17-point roadmap, and clinical trials where patients play chess

Not that Reason "TARIFFPOCALYPSE!" Magazine would portray both sides evenly and objectively or even just passively "China's doing some stuff" factually.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Every chink professor and student need to be put in solitary confinement for 20 years.

It's amazing what you can do when you spend no money on r and d and then steal ip

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The boehms of the world dont think the theft has any effect on costs. 600B a year is the estimate for IP theft. Then add on the costs for security to try to stop the theft. It never crosses Boehms mind thst these costs are part of domestic production.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But theft of proprietary knowledge is so libertarian, right?

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

We should set up a competing zine site, and copy and paste all the useful articles form here (yeah, I know), and supplement them with naked women gifs.
Call it Reasonable, or something like that, and keep all the ad revenue.
And then see what they think about IP

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I predict a progressitarian response: their IP theft is speech; our speech is IP theft.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...It never crosses Boehms mind thst these costs are part of domestic production..."

And the final costs of goods.
I get the feeling that Boehm has never had a job in a business, other than perhaps flipping burgers.

[mad.casual]

And their take on 'bilateral' of virtually anything is like the eggcorn-retarded people who insist it's "one-way mirror" with zero understanding that all mirrors are one-way, glass or windows are normally two-way, the original patent was for a 'transparent mirror', and/or how light, glass, and reflective surfaces work in general.

China tried to make their own operating system. Despite all the flavors of Linux and android around the world, it was pretty much the Obamacare Website of state-sponsored OSes. It would be one thing if they simply adopted an already-functional and/or commercially successful OS or platform, but they're specifically enlarging their walled garden by communist dictate and at cost to its own people.

After Wuhan, the idea of a Chinese state-sponsored (or Russian or Iranian or German/EU or Israeli...), chips-to-software AI-neuralink initiative should inspire at least a little bit of existential dread, regardless of the lab leak or wet market (conspiracy) vector, in everyone. Like China openly declaring their own Manhattan Project, except way more potentially totalitarian. Forget Skynet. You can shoot T-800s, destroy the chip, shut down the core before Skynet comes on line, and save humanity's future. This is First Encounter with The Borg.

[Vernon Depner]

Libertarians don't believe in "intellectual property".

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I hope you don't write books or code or make movies or art or do anything else that is easily duplicated for a living.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Retards dont believe in IP I agree. You just want to take the effort of others work with no cost. A thief.

IRAD estimates for domestic investment is nearly 940B a year. And you think you have a right to something you didnt invest in. Fuck off.

[DesigNate]

The IP regime we have right now, especially in regards to copyright, is ridiculous and needs massive reform, I think we should all be able to agree on that.

Edit: I think there’s a big difference between IRAD and trade secrets that are not made available to the public and things we put out into the world.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

Is "to rid itself" code for steal more?

[Medulla Oblongata]

"drawing some criticism from art and architecture experts that Biden was politicizing its work"

It's ok, Democrats did it first!

[Marshal]

which is controversial among the other stakeholders trying to broker peace.

There are no other stakeholders trying to broker peace.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"Justifiable homicides by civilians increased 59% from 2019 through 2024 "

Good. Criminals DRT saves society a lot of pain and money.

My favorite feature in American Rifleman every month is the DRT column. Sometimes I read it out loud to the Mrs over breakfast.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

"Justifiable homicides by civilians increased 59% from 2019 through 2024 in a large sample of cities and counties in those states"

Fuck around and find out has increesed... Fixed that for you

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Was wondering when they would post the pricing lab report on tariffs as it has already been highly criticized. It makes two huge assumptions to get the results, which are in opposition. It assumes prices rise immediately from foreign import goods, but then assumes prices fall slowly for competing domestic goods. The analysis is done to ignore actual CPI by weighting the analysis to not count lower prices domestically from consumer choice switch to domestic goods.

This has been highly criticized among many economists for their choice to beg the question through manipulation of the data.

It is the same type of manipulation we see with temp reconstruction to prove climate models. Weights to force the evidence thst the models are accurate.

Hilarious though.

Hint. It is extremely hard to find signals in data that is contained within the noise. When signals to not leave standard noise levels, it takes manipulated data to prove a thesis.

[Longtobefree]

All those unemployed global climate warming change model makers had to get new jobs somewhere.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

It is maddening seeing where these reports come from. Generally universities with zero real world experience. They dont understand how supply chains work at all.

This is akin to the p value hunting that has scandalized university research.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"Tariffs make prices rise, whowouldathought?"

If the short term pain of paying the tariffs is that we ultimately reach a more open and level system of trade, it will be worth it. OTOH, if 80% of the costs are being paid by foreigners, do we come out ahead?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Yesterday, Israeli strikes killed 100 people in Gaza'

And millions of children?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Not 99 and not 101. A made-up number? Naaaaaaaaaaaah.

[Dillinger]

oh shit I didn't even read that far we're posting dead Gazans again?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'It's very possible that rebuilding will look rather bifurcated, with the Israel-controlled zones subjecting Palestinians to some amount of surveillance but being free of terrorist control, while the remaining chunks of the Strip remain fairly leveled, with no foreign investment and very little rebuilding.'

So, like, consequences for decisions? That sounds totally, like, unfair!

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/this-is-the-real-genocide-the-west-doesn-t-care-about/ar-AA1Pm6ij

This is what a genocide looks like.

This bloodbath dwarfs Gaza in scale and contrasts with it starkly in terms of intent. No humanitarian corridors. No leaflets to warn innocents to flee. No provision of aid. Not even the pretence of drawing a distinction between civilians and combatants. Moreover, as I have explored before in these pages, the most cursory of glances at the UN’s flawed workings reveals that the Gaza conflict was a war, not a genocide. Yet where is the outrage?

The death toll from the fighting has risen to at least 150,000 by conservative estimates, and according to some reports hundreds of thousands of children are thought to have succumbed to malnutrition. In January, the United States officially declared the conflict a genocide.

Nobody would be gullible enough to expect the Free Palestine mob to suddenly take to the streets with placards demanding an end to the genocide in el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, Sudan. Nobody imagined that there would be chants of “death, death to the RSF”. We know by now that the selective empathy of the Gaza crowd is the servant of a cynical agenda.

A society that had not been saturated with Israelophobic propaganda would surely show far more concern. After all, Darfur has suffered a true genocide before, in the early Noughties, which claimed up to 300,000 lives. It is officially commemorated on Holocaust Memorial Day. So much for Never Again.

In a recent, searing satirical sketch by the Israeli comedy team Eretz Nehederet, an actor plays Greta Thunberg aboard her flotilla, receiving news of the ceasefire in Gaza. “How dare they?” she pouts. “What am I supposed to do with the boat? Start fishing?”

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Amazing how this story has been ignored for so long.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"No humanitarian corridors. No leaflets to warn innocents to flee. No provision of aid."

But no Jooooz.

[Jefferson Paul]

Is the US funding this genocide?

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

Vote for Zohran, and your wildest dreams will come true

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Yeah, just like the boat ride from Willy Wonka.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Zohran lives in a world of pure imagination.

[Dillinger]

dude looks gummy-high most of the time he's on camera ... sometimes not, but most times yes

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

That his head will explode like a 10 kiloton warhead and clear out NYC?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Gives new meaning to Zohran blowing people away.

[Chumby]

Do chickens have large talons?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'She has a vested interest in maintaining and strengthening an alliance with Trump. If Trump really is interested in regime change—and if he can do so in a way that doesn't simply lead to another Maduro operative gaining power—Machado stands to gain; she won the opposition primary back in 2023 and was the rightful challenger to Maduro in 2024, before being barred from running by the government. From her perspective, this must look like a huge opportunity to secure the liberation of the Venezuelan people—liberation she's been fighting for.'

So, continuing on this path that could lead to freedom for the people of Venezuela is bad, because Trump?

[mad.casual]

Trump aside, as during the Biden admin.; everyone in the US *and* Venezuela should maintain the failed state, narcoterrorist status quo lest a single "Maryland Dad" or "Columbian Fisherman" gets blown up in international waters.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"The White House on Tuesday fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that had expected to review some of President Donald Trump's construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch and White House ballroom"

Six fewer useless, obstructive D.C. bureaucrats. Only a few million to go.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

This

[Ajsloss]

"They're people, just like you and me. Of course, we don't take their money to give you a salary. But they're no different from architects in the private sector." -Tony

[Medulla Oblongata]

Socialists: people who want everything you have, except your job.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Tariffs make prices rise, whowouldathought?'

Cuz lowest prices are the Most Important Thing?

[mad.casual]

+1 Paying slaves makes prices rise, whowouldathought?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Of course. Just ask the Reason editors.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Whats funny here is that even if you assume the report is true, it isnt (20% was the max signal they could even find, already in opposition to initial predictions) they continue to ignore the domestic investments which will have long term benefits to the market. Ironically in the Milei threads Reason actually defend the short term pain for long term gains.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

That’s what happens when the editors have a terminal case of TDS. They can’t see past the Orange Man Bad.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Another one...and I keep seeing "woe is us" postings on FB about how poor illegal alien non-English speaking CDL drivers are losing their jobs after driving for years. STFU.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/highway-crash-fuels-outcry-over-undocumented-truckers/ar-AA1Po44L

“Stankovic, a 41-year-old illegal alien from Serbia and Montenegro, was driving a semi-truck and caused a multi-vehicle accident in Portage, Indiana, that tragically claimed the life of Jeffrey Eberly.” McLaughlin added, “This criminal illegal alien didn’t even have a valid commercial [driver’s] license (CDL). DHS is working with our state and local partners to get illegal alien truck drivers who often don’t know basic traffic laws off our highways.”

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'It is a small thing, but it's amazing to me that the DNC cannot stop itself from opening meetings with land acknowledgements. The politics of insiders feeling that's important (who??) are apparently more important than showing that the party focuses on what voters care about.'

The left has always been run by self-proclaimed superior types who want to tell others what to do. The 21st century Democrats continue this tradition, now run by self-serving WEENIs.

White Excessively Educated Nervous Individuals.

[Ajsloss]

Did you coin that?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Yup.

[Medulla Oblongata]

And I thought AWFLs was a good one.

[Mother's Lament]

Don't forget CALCALLS or whatever it was, that that wonderful font of wisdom White Mike coined.

[Chumby]

Phat Ass White Girls don’t like small WEENIs.

[mad.casual]

Huh. I always assumed it was Poor Ass White Girls. Given that they're just as bright and just as talented as regular white girls, I don't know how I made the mistake.

[Chumby]

PAWGs have plump rumps.

[Super Scary]

"Interestingly, though Trump gets all the credit for being a norms-disrespecter, Joe Biden did it first"

To a certain extremely active poster here, that shouldn't matter. Trump doing it is what makes it bad, precedent be damned.

[Longtobefree]

"Israel is supposed to pull back farther toward Gaza's borders once an international security force is on the ground and Hamas has been disarmed,"

And they know how long it will take for those two predicates to happen, so they are digging in.

(It is kind of hard to pretend Hamas has been disarmed while they shoot people in the streets every day)

[Marshal]

Nice to see Zohran has matured since his high school era of making impossible promises to win a student council election.

I'm going to start referring to leftists as the Leprechaun Movement since their leaders earn their allegiance by promising pots of gold. I guess it would be polite not to mention that most people don't believe in Leprechauns even when they first hear the stories in first or second grade while leftists still believe even when they're Bernie Sanders.

[Ajsloss]

I'm going to start referring to leftists as the Leprechaun Movement

For your sake, I hope you're Irish, lest you be labelled a culture-appropriating bigot.

p.s. You better gold-coin that!

[The Average Dude (Who's Smarter Than You)]

Not pots of gold, just fountains of fresh-squeezed juice (sourced locally of course).

[BioBehavioral_View]

Trump & Xi Tomorrow

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time . . .
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.” -William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Tomorrow marks the day for another meeting between American President Donald Trump (b. 1946) and Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping (b. 1953). Like the meeting between British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) and Chancellor Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) in 1938, will the meeting tomorrow reveal only a tale told by an idiot, full of harsh sound and raging fury, signifying another step towards nuclear war? Alternatively, will it reveal a tale told by a wise man, full of gentle sound and pleasing harmony, signifying a new era of peace and prosperity? As to the latter, a risky bet.

Chairman Xi finds himself in a vice. Externally, there are Mr. Trump and his tariffs. Internally, there are his enemies at the ready to depose him and possibly more.

The Chinese economy is in a tailspin. Debt is killing China. Over-production heralds deflation. How to repay enormous debt with appreciating currency? What’s a dictator to do?

The answer? Punt!

Agree to a framework for further yak. In the meantime, give as little as possible and take as much as possible. Then? Like before, renege! Unlike before, this gambit might not succeed. Then?

Invade Taiwan? Do Mr. Xi’s Chinese enemies believe such an invasion a wise idea? Reports tell us no. Besides, Mr. Xi just purged his top generals whom he appointed, including the ones who headed military operations against Taiwan.

Mr. Xi’s goal is to have China become the preëminent power. Mr. Trump’s goal is to have these United States remain the preëminent power. On Mr. Xi’s side is an America in a state of decline. On Mr. Trump’s side is remaining American power that still can break the back of China.

Tomorrow the kabuki begins. Stay tuned.

https://www.nationonfire.com/china-involution/ .
More than 100 Chinese have visited the posting.

[Super Scary]

"Tomorrow the kabuki begins. Stay tuned."

Kabuki is Japanese, not Chinese.

[Dillinger]

tomorrow, General Tsao tangoes!

[Chumby]

Asian boy: Dad, why do all Asians look alike?

Asian man: I’m your neighbor.

[Dillinger]

I am Chin Ho

https://x.com/simpsons_DG/status/1920878028470546909

[shrike]

Yesterday, Israeli strikes killed 100 people in Gaza, claiming that the ceasefire had been violated

Just give Fatass the Nobel Peace Prize already! He has ended 163 wars, parted the Red Sea, and brought peace to the Middle East!

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Would you care to explain for the sake of the commentariat just how you managed to get your original SPB handle permanently banned and nuke the comments of an entire thread?

[Chumby]

https://psychcentral.com/disorders/treating-pedophilia#ssr-is

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...an independent federal agency..."

Is this the 5th or 6th branch of the federal government that the lying shits at Wa Po claim to have found? And that Reason parrots absent any sort of journalistic integrity?
No, it is not "independent"; those people work for the executive, legislative or judicial branch of the government, PERIOD.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Oh come on...East Wing renovations being compared to 9/11...

https://x.com/TaraSetmayer/status/1981593020370670075/photo/1

It’s feels almost the same as when I saw the Pentagon damage on 9/11.

P.S. She double down later...

"Wow. MAGA is REALLY REALLY triggered by my feelings about the unnecessary & jarring White House desecration for Trump’s gilded vanity project. I wonder why?

Excuse me if I don’t give a damn what the people who think Jan 6th was a day of love, support a felon & are ok with

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Since I am off the wagon again, Tara sounds like the usual leftist cunt.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

The best response, by Retard Finder (@IFindRetards):

Tara, can I use your profile pic for something?

[Mother's Lament]

This YouTube video is from a history channel is about the complete gutting and refurbishment of the Whitehouse between 1948-1952.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOG0SlEg0Gs

They tore the whole interior out. This is why the suppression of history is so vitally important for Democrats.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

We've always been at war with Eurasia.

[Super Scary]

Hearing the lefties cry about the White House renovations reminds me of when atheists cite scripture.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Biden says the nation is facing ‘dark days’ under Trump"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/27/biden-trump-speech-2025-00623555

Slobbering Joe's rear view mirror is broken.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Schumer Shutdown notes:

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Another Democrat Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud About the Schumer Shutdown

Last week, Democratic Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) said her party planned to use the suffering inflicted on Americans by the Schumer Shutdown as "leverage" against Republicans in negotiations on re-opening the government. It was a refreshing, albeit appalling, moment of honesty.

Clark knew what she said was terrible because she later tried to walk it back, claiming what she said wasn't what she meant.

-------------

https://x.com/SenateGOP/status/1983170005320773642

Chris Coons believes that denying Americans their SNAP benefits may be “unpleasant,” but it’s worth doing because it gives Democrats political “leverage.”

"Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. Frankly, this is our only moment of leverage, and although a very unpleasant tool to use," Coons said on C-SPAN.

-------------

Chuck Schumer has found himself ALONE AND ABANDONED after Democrats and the largest federal employee union start DEMANDING that Democrats reopen the government

-------------

Uh Oh, Even CNN Is Admitting the Schumer Shutdown Isn't Going Well for Democrats

The Schumer shutdown isn’t going so well for Democrats. In fact, the optics are so bad for them that even CNN is admitting it.

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten, during a recent broadcast, was shocked by polling numbers showing how Republicans are faring under the shutdown, which has entered its fourth week. When asked about the polling, Enten responded, “You might think, given that the Republicans are in charge of both the House and the Senate, that a government shutdown might actually hurt the Republican brand.”

“f anything, it’s been helped a little bit! Take a look here, the shift in net popularity versus pre-shutdown. When we’re looking at the Republican Party overall, that brand, actually up two points. That’s within the margin of error, but clearly it hasn’t dropped,” he continued.

He noted that the GOP’s net approval has risen by five points since before the shutdown. He explained that the increase in approval comes from the Republican base — but that it also comes from “folks in the middle.”
----------------

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

I believe the proper term here for what the Democrats have done is “shooting themselves in the foot”.

[mad.casual]

Clark knew what she said was terrible because she later tried to walk it back, claiming what she said wasn't what she meant.

She meant that the party would shoot your kids to get you to vote the right way if that's what it takes.

[Medulla Oblongata]

NAACP endorses white woman in race against black woman who has left the plantation.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/10/28/they-wont-admit-it-but-the-naacp-pretty-much-endorsed-spanberger-n2665582

You cannot make this up. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People endorsed a white candidate over a qualified black woman in Virginia.

Is it shocking that Democrat Abigail Spanberger got it over Republican Winsome Sears? No, but are the optics atrocious? It’s downright comical. We shouldn’t get too worked up over this because the NAACP pretty much endorsed Democrats no matter what, but lordy, talk about being as subtle as a sledgehammer here.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Sears isn’t on their plantation. Spanberger is a planter.

[Dillinger]

white is a color.

[Chumby]

Color me surprised.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Is it "White is the new Black" or "Black is the new White"?

[Dillinger]

>>"Justifiable homicides by civilians increased 59% from 2019 through 2024 in a large sample of cities and counties in those states, the Journal found, compared with a 16% rise in total homicides for the same locales."

homes were properly defended amongst a rise in crime! 2A forever.

[Dillinger]

>>Ceasefire or not?

the proper beginning today would be Have the bodies been returned or not?

[mad.casual]

[Raises rifle] Let's agree to disagree.

[Dillinger]

lol. maybe I was gone the day Liz was counting dead Gazans killed by resurgent hamas?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Now, when you say "Gazans killed by resurgent hamas" do you mean those people executed by a bullet in the back of the head in the street, or the family/clan militias that got overrun because they were no on team Hamas? There is some overlap in there.

[Dillinger]

indeed there is. or was.

[Use the Schwartz]

"The number of legally sanctioned homicides by civilians in the 30 stand-your-ground states has risen substantially in recent years,"

Good.

Now maybe we can work on that phrasing: "legally sanctioned homicide" is obviously politically charged. I'd change it to "justified self-defense," or more bluntly, "pest control."

Socialists are big on what is good for "the collective," elimination of actual criminals in the act, turns a negative into a positive.

[Dillinger]

>>It is a small thing, but it's amazing to me that the DNC cannot stop itself from opening meetings with land acknowledgements.

Freudian slip of the century.

[Dillinger]

>>Nice to see Zohran has matured since his high school era of making impossible promises to win a student council election.

the kid who ran against me for 5th grade president jumped on Reagan's 1980 campaign & promised military equipment on campus of our small town public school

[Zeb]

He was also apparently a terrible bully in high school, according to the son of someone I know who went to HS with him.

[Dillinger]

maybe. I moved after 5th grade never saw any of them again.

[Zeb]

I mean Mamdani

[Dillinger]

lol. you forgot the /s/erious tab

[tracerv]

Joke fly by. Zooooom.

[Zeb]

More that I just picked an awkward place to post that little tidbit that I wanted to share.

[Dillinger]

no it was the perfect place I just always read you as 4% not serious & thought you were giving me shit

[Quicktown Brix]

Maybe if he funded that with arms sales to Iran...

[Dillinger]

did you see Fawn Hall & Ollie got married?

[Quicktown Brix]

I missed that. 40 years too late, but he's still batting way out of his league.

[Dillinger]

dang Donna Rice is married too. teen dreams shattered.

[Chumby]

Strange. Would have guessed that relationship would have gone south. It tires me to even think how long ago that incident was.

[rbike]

Taps?

[Dillinger]

fucking great movie. shame they don't show it anymore. Johnny Dangerously too

[Dillinger]

>>Interestingly, though Trump gets all the credit for being a norms-disrespecter, Joe Biden did it first

hush! you'll wake up sarc

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Liz doesn't get that norms mean dems do whatever they want, gop cant respond.

[Dillinger]

[assuming of course it was not a desired effect] is anyone close enough to Tucker to let him know the sounds of him sucking Nick Fuentes' dick were audible during the podcast?

[Dillinger]

>>We don't tend to blow people into smithereens when they've committed crimes, so even if evidence were provided, Trump is not comporting with U.S. law.

lol look who had lunch with Sullum yesterday.

[Use the Schwartz]

To be fair, that is a Rand Paul quote.

[Dillinger]

that's entirely worse.

[Mother's Lament]

What is a reasonable and viable alternative to not shooting the cartel gunboats?

Also, if armed cartel militias enter American waters would that be an invasion?

[Dillinger]

protests about that would explode too. won't someone please think of the marina children?!?!?

[mad.casual]

What is a reasonable and viable alternative to not shooting the cartel gunboats?

Again, the military has clear delineation of rules of engagement and what constitutes a 'shooting solution' in international combat.

I've got no problem discussing "Can't shoot white flags." and calling foul on any boat with a white flag blown up. "Apprehend them all. Drag them through the US justice system." is neither practical nor reasonable, both prima facie and because as soon as you say "Can't shoot white flags." out loud every Columbian fishermen and Maryland Dad is going to fly a white flag from Columbia all the way across the Gulf of America.

[Mother's Lament]

Iranian leftist girls celebrating Khomeini's arrival in 1979.

(he later had 30,000 leftists executed)

Girl in the front was executed.
Girl in the back fled to Sweden where she lives in exile to this day.
They both actively worked towards and celebrated their own demise.

The knowledge that they are planting the seeds of their own destruction is the only thing that assuages me when dealing with JeffSarcKarShrike.

[Mother's Lament]

From the comments: "It's almost like being a girlboss leftist doesn't mix with 7th century barbarianism"

[Chumby]

Those girl boss positions had nice vacation benefits: the first girl boss received an extended holiday and the other a permanent one.

[Dillinger]

crane your necks, everyone.

[mad.casual]

"Do you know how long it f[ucking] would take me to put a tablecloth on my wife?"

[Mother's Lament]

Okay, I laughed way too hard at both of those.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Sounds like typical 21st century American progressive idiot twenty-something women.

I guess some things never change.

[KARl hungus]

“It is a small thing, but it's amazing to me that the DNC cannot stop itself from opening meetings with land acknowledgements. The politics of insiders feeling that's important (who??) are apparently more important than showing that the party focuses on what voters care about.”

But Republicans opening meetings with prayers is better?

Acknowledging the people there before you isn’t as stupid as asking a guy who died 2000 years ago(and magically came back to life) for help.

Viva la Raza!!!

[Mother's Lament]

Maybe you should shoot at them again, or run them over. Phone threats in to their wife at her work, or have them swatted for the 900th time that month, scream insults at their toddlers and tell them that dad is a racist.
And when your done you can celebrate publicly celebrate their deaths and smear them before your late-night television audience, because dead men don't fight back, right?

[KARl hungus]

Refusing to mourn a deplorable, bigoted grifter is not the same as celebrating his death.

[Chumby]

No. But you did also celebrate his death, right?

[KARl hungus]

No. The only time I even mentioned it was when I asked some of my friends in Utah how they were doing.

[Chumby]

I recall that LEO that died. And then you talked shit about him. Didn’t you dox his widow?

[KARl hungus]

I don’t believe I used his wife’s name. Just his name.

Chumby will now present the libertarian argument for concealing public employees identities.

[Chumby]

I recall even some fifty-centers in that thread calling you out.

I don’t recall making an argument about legality of it. Though I do recall you issuing a direct threat against me. Suppose I could have the DA here issue a subpoena to Reason for your account info and IP address. Recall they willingly did that in the “woodchipper” incident.

[KARl hungus]

“ I recall even some fifty-centers in that thread calling you out.”

Good! If I’m pissing off a bunch of anti-American bigots it means I’m doing something right.

What threat did I make to you? I’ve never said I would personally do anything to you. I said that in 2029 there will be a legal process for dealing with the maga traitors. I’m not going to do anything.

Ps: if I’m being honest, nothing will happen. Everyone will move on for the sake of “bringing the country together” and 15 years from now the MAGA traitors will be saying “der, we didn’t support Trump. Dat was da demicrats!” Just like y’all pretend the war in Iraq, the massive resistance to the civil rights movement, and the confederacy wasn’t your fault either.

[Chumby]

Who is going to carry that out? The losers like you that are crying about their socialist EBT cards being cutoff? The pajamas tweaker brigade?

When there is a knock at your door with the warrant, it wouldn’t hurt my feelings if you resist. I’ll FOIA request the bodycam footage and send it to Donut Operator for his channel. The money he pays will be donated to a Mormon charity in your name; I don’t need it.

[KARl hungus]

“ When there is a knock at your door with the warrant, it wouldn’t hurt my feelings if you resist. I’ll FOIA request the bodycam footage and send it to Donut Operator for his channel. The money he pays will be donated to a Mormon charity in your name; I don’t need it.”

What are you blathering about Chumby? You aren’t making sense.

This is my ultimate problem with Trump. He has pandered to you rural morons and convinced y’all you are “victims.”

You are inferior to us. You can either accept it and shut the fuck up. Or face the consequences.

YOURE THE AGGRESSORS. We are perfectly content to let you be retards in your rural shitholes. But you are trying to force your superstition on us!

We have you outnumbered and outgunned. You can accept you’re inferior or fuck around and find out.

PS: what does Putin’s cum taste like you fucking traitor?

[KARl hungus]

Also your reply had nothing to do with my original comment. You just listed a bunch of fake persecution bs to distract, because you’re a disingenuous bigot.