Trump's Epstein Reversal

Plus: Mamdani copies de Blasio, Swiss delegation buys better tariffs from Trump, Xinjiang nuke testing, and more...

Epstein follow-up: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it's time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party," President Donald Trump posted yesterday on Truth Social. "The House Oversight Committee can have whatever they are legally entitled to, I DON'T CARE!"

"All I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT, which is the Economy, 'Affordability' (where we are winning BIG!)," he added (debatable), "our Victory on reducing Inflation from the highest level in History to practically nothing, bringing down prices for the American People, delivering Historic Tax Cuts, gaining Trillions of Dollars of Investment into America (A RECORD!), the rebuilding of our Military, securing our Border, deporting Criminal Illegal Aliens, ending Men in Women's Sports, stopping Transgender for Everyone, and so much more!"

Then he goes in for the kill: "Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive and, if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our Landslide Election Victory." Not a bad point, and presidents should always be on the side of transparency.

Of course, it's kind of a sudden reversal given what a political problem this had become. "The U-turn came after months of drama inside the House GOP over a bill that would compel the Justice Department to release its entire Epstein file," reports Politico. Both the president and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–La.) had been trying to prevent a floor vote on the matter, with prominent Republicans threatening to break ranks and vote in favor of releasing the files. "The situation worsened over the weekend, as Trump lashed out in deeply personal terms at Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who is leading the effort to force a House vote on Epstein, and publicly spurned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a one-time close ally who has recently broken with Trump on Epstein and other matters."

All the Epstein matters aside, there's something rather insane about the tack Trump is taking with regard to "affordability" not being a problem right now. Inflation has been mostly brought under control, down from peak Joe Biden–era carnage. But tariffs are imposing significant damage on the standard American consumer, and Trump seems to be implicitly recognizing this as he makes more and more carve-outs.

Naturally, his rhetoric must stay rather detached from reality. Trump said earlier this month that the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner this year will be down 25 percent (referring to Walmart's prepackaged holiday offering) but that's just not true. Grocery prices overall are about 2.7 percent higher than they were this time last year. Technically, Walmart's specific prepackaged meal for this year costs about 25 percent less than the one from 2024, but that's because it actually offers fewer items and different products this time around—possibly a direct consequence of tariffs driving up certain prices! Trump continues to have an affordability problem on his hands and at least some political instinct that this is a problem, but continues to flap around, with his team coming up with the least satisfying answers as to why this is the case, instead of leveling with Americans about what's actually going on: tariffs.

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Scenes from New York: "Mamdani's mental-health plan is a well-worn flop," writes Carolyn D. Gorman for City Journal. "The mayor-elect is recycling failed ideas from the de Blasio administration."

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QUICK HITS

• "A theory of dumb," from The Intelligencer: "It's not just screens or COVID or too-strong weed. Maybe the culprit of our cognitive decline is unfettered access to each other."
• "To cut tariffs President Trump imposed on their country, the Swiss sent a delegation of industry tycoons bearing gifts—a special Rolex desktop clock, a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar, and loads of flattery" that Trump accepted on behalf of his presidential library, making them legal, reports Axios. "The Swiss charm offensive worked. On Friday, the U.S. government announced it was cutting its tariff rate on Swiss goods from 39% to 15%. In return, the Swiss agreed to reduce trade barriers Trump had bristled at, and Swiss companies agreed to invest more in the U.S."
• Trump administration tries to deport least deportable person ever.
• Really interesting culture observations on platforms and marriage messaging. "There is such a huge difference between Instagram and X on marital content. My Insta algorithm is chock full of both marriage successes and failures (hey, my demo is in its divorce era), but the vast majority of people are offering practical tips for how to move forward in a positive way from where they are. There's also a ton of marriage-positive man content," writes Mary Katharine Ham. "The self-help style commentary on Instagram seems far more geared for bringing men and women together instead of pushing them further apart, and frankly, so much more rich and nuanced than much of it here. The political arena discussion on marital trends and relationships is so much darker and polarized."
• "In far western Xinjiang, satellite imagery and expert analysis show that China is rapidly expanding a historic nuclear test site, where it conducted its first atomic bomb test in 1964," reports The Washington Post. "The country's military has quietly carved new tunnels, hollowed out explosive chambers and built support facilities that researchers say suggest preparations for nuclear testing."
• Agree:

This porno-as-monocause-for-our-ills stuff is so unbelievably tiresome https://t.co/jxBF00xieI

— Inez Stepman ⚪️????⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) November 16, 2025

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files...

Someone just remembered he's untouchable.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Also knows the files state he was the one who reported epstein.

[Mother's Lament]

Not only that, there are newspaper stories from the time that tell how he banned Epstein from Mar A Lago for hitting on another member's teenage daughter.

All the Democrats have is their usual trick of lying about something and hoping the dupes can't remember.

[Ajsloss]

I heard that the walls are closing in.

[Mother's Lament]

To whit:

House Democrat exchanged texts with Epstein on how to hurt Trump during 2019 congressional hearing: docs

[Mother's Lament]

Which leads to:

I am convinced Donald Trump is the cleanest human being in history.

10 years of investigations by the powerful and corrupt with no method being off the table and they have nothing.

They changed laws and created fake info and they still have nothing.

It’s truly hard to fathom.

[Chumby]

You’re going to cause that creepy KAR thing to shit his pants. But suppose that is a good thing as he wouldn’t be shitting in public spaces which is all too common in Squirtlandia.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"You’re going to cause that creepy KAR thing to shit his pants."

That squirrel asshole can follow him, begging for a serving.

[mad.casual]

To be fair, (once again) less than two decades prior paying a porn star for sex would've been disqualifying, but Democrats and aligned sex-work-positive feminists specifically and intentionally took those rules/norms off the table (and then got mad when people didn't abide or uphold the rules/norms they removed).

[Michael Ejercito]

It was their defense of Bill Clinton engaging in sexual harassment that made Donald Trump-'s candidacy possible.

[HorseConch]

Donald truly is a Clinton Democrat.

[Vernon Depner]

You could say the same about Michael Jackson. No conviction after 20 years of relentless scrutiny.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...No conviction after 20 years of relentless scrutiny."

False equivalence.

[Ersatz]

and not nearly the same amount of scrutiny
-add to that, the press mostly in the tank for michael (at least at first... covering up and what not. think jfk reporting ethics) but actively engaged in attempts to destroy Trump

[Chumby]

MIchael was Bad but the press was protecting a Smooth Criminal?

[Dillinger]

PYT was Jeffrey's anthem

[Chumby]

Which Jeffrey?

[Dillinger]

signed, Epstein's Mom.

[damikesc]

I do not think Michael actually did anything. The case seemed comically weak at the time and time has not been kind.

[Mother's Lament]

I used to think he was pedo, but the evidence that his father had him chemically castrated to keep his voice high seems to be increasing.

[rbike]

The persecution of him does seem to be very weak. I tend to side with him being innocent as the accusers were very scummy. Sad

[Zeb]

My conclusion, such as it is, is that he had a weird but non-sexual obsession with children, probably because of how he was treated as a child. But I can't really know and don't really care.

[Chumby]

A full-blown trial would have been a Thriller. Regarding being prosecuted, not sure he’d be able to Beat It.

[Ajsloss]

You saying it wasn't Black or White?

[Chumby]

At the end of the trial, convicted or found not guilty, he’d have to look at the Man in the Mirror to see if he did anything wrong.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

You just summoned Sarc. Whenever he regains consciousness after his nightly binge drinking.

[Chumby]

Mexico! Mexico!

Heavy clashes in Mexico City between riot police and anti-Sheinbaum crowd after security wall at the National Palace is torn away in multiple places.

One Mexican officer was separated from the formation, dragged into the crowd and beaten.

https://x.com/i/status/1989794635296989682?mx=2

Let me guess Reason, everyone involved should be given asylum with lifestyles paid for by coerced taxes stolen from working Americans.

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

Why is Mexico upset about a wall and people breaching it?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Wait, they dont demand 20 year sentences for these ones?

[Medulla Oblongata]

Is that an insurrection? Did anyone get shot in the face? The worst day ever in Mexican history?

[Fist of Etiquette]

All I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT...

You'll need to get them off social media for that.

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

Perhaps he ment en pointe*

Cue fat jd Vance doing ballet memes

[Chumby]

Foreign Antifa Terrorists

Antifa mob attack police in Bristol (Nov. 15) - Four people have been arrested after police officers were assaulted during protests outside a hotel housing asylum seekers.

https://t.me/leaklive/29728

Did they have membership cards?

[Idaho-Bob]

Did they have membership cards?

Funny how "antifa" isn't an organization, but MAGA members must be hunted down the moment Trump is out of office.

[Chumby]

And the sign said, you have to have a membership card to be a tard. Ugh.

- Five Man Antifa Band

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

Excuse me "just an idea mob" is the correct term

[Mother's Lament]

"Did they have membership cards?"

Irrelevant, unless they are notarized.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Nobody cared about Jeffrey Epstein when he was alive and, if the Democrats had anything, they would have released it before our Landslide Election Victory."

The suddenly interested corporate media is going to be Russiagate-level devastated if nothing happens.

[Chumby]

MSM doesn’t want to publish the list of people who visited Epstein Island.

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

The list
Bill clinton
Will clinton
William clinton
Billy clinton
The big BC
The sax man
...

[Chumby]

Bill Jefferson “BJ” Clinton?

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

Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar, you're gonna go far

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Bubba.

[Chumby]

What a Gas

EU and US sanctions against Russia, as well as ongoing attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russian oil refineries, have led to an increase in fuel prices in the United States, Bloomberg reports.

https://t.me/intelslava/80061

These tariffs need to go.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

You just lit the SGT signal.

[rbike]

Gas was down to $2.38 per gallon versus $2.47 last week.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The mayor-elect is recycling failed ideas from the de Blasio administration.

Did people elect him thinking he would make the city better?

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

That implies their weren't failed deblazio ideas

[HorseConch]

or pipe dreams. Crack pipe, that is.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/dead-people-have-been-paid-hundreds-millions-medicaid-and-snap-report

The audit, titled “Multiple States Made Medicaid Capitation Payments to Managed Care Organizations After Enrollees’ Deaths,” summarizes findings from 14 prior state-level audits from July 1, 2009, through December 31, 2019.

In those earlier reports, the OIG found that states made an estimated $248.6 million in unallowable "capitation payments" to MCOs on behalf of deceased enrollees.

(A capitation payment is a way of paying healthcare providers or organizations in which they receive a "predictable, upfront, set amount of money to cover the predicted cost of all or some of the health care services for a specific patient over a certain period of time," according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.)

The federal share amounted to about $171.8 million. At the time of the report, roughly $41 million of the federal share remained uncollected from the states in question.

[Chumby]

If they are still voting, shouldn’t they get their health insurance and food subsidized?

[Chumby]

Japanimosity?

Two days ago, Japanese ctizens protested in front of the Japanese Diet (Japan's National legislature) building against the building of mosques in Japanese soil

Many people in Japan are really worried about the number of mosques currently under construction across the country and how it could impact demographics and the religious balance in Japanese society, which is majority Shinto.

https://t.me/BellumActaNews/160072

Maybe some Muslims can fly planes into buildings in Tokyo, then a few years later have mosques built nearby. A few decades later, Tokyo could have an anarch tyranny Muslim mayor selected!

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

Muslims are a cancer

[Idaho-Bob]

Islam is the cancer, Muslims are the spreading tumors.

[Mother's Lament]

Islam would be nothing if it wasn't for the rootless globohomo elite who are deliberately trying to crush Western culture because it interferes with their amassing of power.
Behind every Islamic terrorist group and terrorist act sits a CIA or a Soros or a Qatar or a UK Foreign Ministry or a USAID.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Maybe the culprit of our cognitive decline is unfettered access to each other.

I think there are plenty of dumb people who don't grace the twittersphere with their presence on a regular basis.

[Chumby]

JeffsarcSSqrlTonyShrikeKAR instead grace these comments.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Finally some libertarians are waking up to the myth of the rational market actor and efficient market feeding models, and how it has been wrong.

https://mises.org/mises-wire/efficient-market-hypothesis-fatally-flawed

We have course have understood this for decades post game theory. But people are slow to give up on their learned but never investigated "truths."

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

This has been known and debated for quite a while, like many economic theories - after all, plenty still subscribe to the consistently-debunked "Keynesian" model.

But your compulsive, dare I say masturbatory need to constantly put down Libertarians (to prop yourself up!) once again falls flat, since Libertarians subscribe (for the most part) to the Austrian school, which has been critical (for the most part) of EMH.

Also, why do you keep mentioning yourself in your own posts?

But people Jesse et al. are slow to give up on their learned but never investigated "truths."

Some kind of weird, self-referential fetish you got going on here.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

It’s funny to watch an ignorant far left democrat, such as yourself, attempt to lecture people.

[Mickey Rat]

There is a lot of presumptions behind the idea of a "rational market actor". Foremost is the idea that economic interests are the primary driver of most people's decisions. It is easy to call someone "irrational" when you are judging success for them by different criteria then they do themselves.

[Chumby]

Spies Like USSR

Interesting recap of a West German-KGB hacking ring from the 1980s.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0NCqpRiprnQ&pp=

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

On top of underwater mortgages increasing, so are foreclosures.

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/october-foreclosure-filings-jump-20-yoy

[Jerry B.]

A solution to the housing market, perhaps?

[Medulla Oblongata]

A few more million self-deportations and legal deportations will free up a lot of space.

[Chumby]

From Market News Feed:

23 STATES NOW IN RECESSION AND 11 MORE NEAR IT

LAST TIME THIS HAPPENED WAS 2008 WHEN UNEMPLOYMENT HIT 10% AND FORECLOSURES DOUBLED ...

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

Are those the 23 states that lost immigrants or gained immigrants?

[Minadin]

Lost immigrants with ICE or of ICE?

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Underwater mortgages? Does Aquaman need a home loan?

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Swiss charm offensive worked. On Friday, the U.S. government announced it was cutting its tariff rate on Swiss goods from 39% to 15%.

It's amazing how many dumbfucks in DC go to war with Trump when all they need to do is persuade him. It's almost like many politicians don't want what they say they want.

[Chumby]

Instead of orangemanbad, negotiating with Trump has good results like Swiss clockwork.

[Fist of Etiquette]

This isn't even secret information they had to use. Everyone knows this and yet...

[Chumby]

Instead of negotiating with TDS, an guessing the Swiss had a more neutral approach.

[Ajsloss]

Hard to poke holes in that.

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

It’s very accurate.

[Chumby]

Anyone saying otherwise would feel the Bern.

[Zeb]

Indeed. Trump is probably one of the easiest people to negotiate with and persuade. He might change his rhetoric the next day, but getting him on your side enough to get something you want from him seems pretty easy if you can just put aside the TDS. Democrats are trying really hard to be both the evil and the stupid party.

[JFree]

Three Schweizer men bearing gifts for the Maga yeah. Finally it's not just a cult anymore.

[Mother's Lament]

Yeah, not lowering their tariffs for reciprocal tariff lowering by Amerikkka, but for just the MAGA. That's what the Swiss were doing.

retardclown.jpg

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Something I had never heard before. The emails on Anthony weiners laptop were in a folder called insurance policy. And more comey bad ethics.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/i-hate-having-do-it-comey-october-surprise-2016-was-no-surprise-some-fbi

[Mother's Lament]

Everybody knew this (including Reason), and yet most played along (including Reason):

Months before he was fired as FBI director, James Comey expressed discomfort in the final weeks of the 2016 election when he was compelled to tell Congress that agents had found more Hillary Clinton emails on a laptop belonging to disgraced former Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner, according to newly released court records.

“I hate having to do it," Comey wrote a friend in an email recently made public by federal prosecutors that gives Americans new insights into the ex-director's mindset during the contentious 2016 presidential election.

Comey is currently being prosecuted on charges he misled and obstructed Congress when he denied authorizing leaks to the media about the FBI’s Clinton investigation in 2016.

[Chumby]

♫ Comey, Comey, Comey, Comey, Comey chameleon ♫

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Remember jeff and reason getting all up in arms about trump forcing a federal reserve bank governor out? Turns out she was trading stocks during blackout periods for fed workers.

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/former-fed-gov-kugler-violated-stock-trading-rules-ethics-report

[Chumby]

She should run for congress.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

What are you some kinda conspiracy theorist?

[Mother's Lament]

If you're not following the DNCs narrative you're obviously some kind of nut.
Next these freaks will tell us that Covid didn't come from a Chinese farmers market, but rather the Covid research superlab a couple of blocks away.
Insane.

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

We have always been at war with the Covid research superlab .

[Chumby]

Someone claiming it wasn’t from a Wuhan wet market should be considered batshit crazy.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Trump administration tries to deport least deportable person ever.

Pretty sure the least deportable person is Kilmar Ábrego García.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

The link actually says it was a screw up by the sheriff's office. But Liz got her cute headline so it's all good.

[MT-Man]

Why would they be "least deportable" than anyone else that was born here?

[Fist of Etiquette]

In far western Xinjiang, satellite imagery and expert analysis show that China is rapidly expanding a historic nuclear test site...

They're looking to give another go at unleashing Gojira on the Japs.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

The Chinese have started a Kaiju arms race. Similar to when Hitler was mind controlling dinosaurs in the Antarctic to win win WW2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0ZXtDNu9OU

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

"The Swiss charm offensive worked."

Hey we all know :
you catch more flys with honey, but you catch more honeys bein' fly.

[Chumby]

Can’t Ricola time when we negotiated so well with Switzerland.

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

You can bank on it.

[Ska]

Thankfully they caught their typo in time otherwise the Swiss chard offensive would have fizzled out for obvious reasons.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The country's military has quietly carved new tunnels, hollowed out explosive chambers and built support facilities that researchers say suggest preparations for nuclear testing.

Trump's going to have the tariff the hell out of fallout.

[Chumby]

Might not work if they are experiencing tunnel vision.

[Ajsloss]

There's a joke here about eyes that someone else can make.

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

The trouble with Chinese atomic bombs, is an hour after you explode one, you want to explode another one.

[Quicktown Brix]

ROR

[Medulla Oblongata]

Should have employed some Hamas Gazans.

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

Porn is where guys go because chicks today are garbage people. Not a single girl asks "what do I bring to the table?"
Example

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UcP-iPZt1d0

[Chumby]

Gorlock the chunky Disney princess is undateable.

[Zeb]

You need to meet more girls. That has become way too common, but it's not universal. At least among women who aren't woke, feminist retards.

[Ajsloss]

At least among women who aren't woke, feminist retards.

So, like, two dozen people max?

[Chumby]

A guy needs to be tall, well-groomed, fit (looks like a cop?), makes bank, and has game. But with that, there are many cultures that have traditional values that can define what a woman is. Fishing in the pool of socially programmed westerners yields fewer results.

[Zeb]

Or just suck it up and find a nice fat chick.

[Chumby]

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/67367

[Social Justice is neither]

Given the phrasing, one with a dick seems to be on the menu there. No thanks.

[Zeb]

Sometimes a phrase is just a phrase.

[Medulla Oblongata]

40% of young women in the US say that they would like to not live in the US (. Maybe we could start a GoFundMe page to ship as many of them as we can out? The only issue is how can we ensure that it is a one-way ticket?

Note how Gallup bends over backward to make it NOT about Trump, despite it being all about some sort of handmaid's tale fantasy world they AWFLs live in.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-women-leave.aspx

In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups.

[Z Crazy]

So they feel that if they go to Estonia or the Phillipines, hordes of hardened men would flock to them because their Americans?

They will get to experience reality.

[damikesc]

I love that they complain about being oppressed in the USA but do not seem to realize how much they'd HATE anywhere else.

They're convinced lily white countries are better --- but so many of them are becoming a lot more, er, less female friendly over time.

[Z Crazy]

why are they getting less female friendly?

[damikesc]

They have asinine immigration policies.

[Chumby]

They have the opportunity. They understand their skills don’t match their desired/expected lifestyle.

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

The newest generation of girls all think they are 10's and they bring nothing to the table. All of the girls think they are automatically great at everything, and all the boys are told they suck. All of my daughters friends think they are the greatest thing to ever roam the earth.
Their parents are shocked when my kid tells them she needs to practice.
They all come from a chicks can do no wrong mentality, same as the anti porn people

[Z Crazy]

No wonder 40% of them want to go to Estonia or the Phillipines to find "real men".

[Zeb]

I guess I don't know the latest generation too well aside from some friends' kids who seem to be doing pretty well.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Sadly this is under 30% these days.

[5Arete22]

[mad.casual]

Trump administration tries to deport least deportable person ever.

Worst Native American Genocide mass deportation ever.

[Widhalm19]

LOL But Trump's blonde bimbo said there is no Epstein List so what are they going to release. Trump is an utter failure at everything.

[Zeb]

Bondi has not been a bright spot in the Trump admin.

[Neutral not Neutered]

Go ahead and pay your fair share of taxes despite the Trump tax cuts benefitting your lame ass.

Then you can virtue signal how you gave all your wealth to the government to help the lame as fuck Obama, democrat, Schumer failed health care policies.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Trump is an utter failure at everything."

New TDS-addled steaming pile of lying shit, or a sock?

[mad.casual]

Really interesting culture observations on platforms and marriage messaging. "There is such a huge difference between Instagram and X on marital content.

Once again, Twitter has always been the "Men's room wall" of the internet. As much as you may like the "family Xmas card" ethos of Insta, you will never obliterate the "Men's room wall" and it's between stupid and immoral to try.

LOL that Bluesky, apparently continues to be the the two "All gender" washrooms in your local Starbucks that nobody besides woke advocates, social misfits, and the occasional "person unable to access better platforms at the moment" uses.

[Ajsloss]

"person unable to access better platforms at the moment"

"Psst!... Hey, you ever hear of Mastodon?" Whispers the trench-coat wearing man in the alley.

[Chumby]

Telegram

[mad.casual]

I use Telegram for some work-related 'internal' automated communications. I've never delved into the pair-bonding ethos of Telegram. The number of unsolicited texts I get from people I don't know identifying as Isabella Reyes or Anne Castleman doesn't inspire confidence.

[Chumby]

It is a free range platform. Yes, I often get scammers contacting me there. More liberty has that result.

Scammer: Hi. I found your account and we are on the same channels.

Me: Hi.

Scammer: Here’s a photo of me, if you don’t mind. (photo is stolen from some Asian or Euro Russian model). Where are you from?

Me: Pyongyang, North Korea. You?

Scammer: That sounds great. I’m from California (or Florida or Boston). How is your day?

Me: Not good. Just got sentenced to ten years in a work prison camp.

Scammer: Great! Have you heard about (insert crypto/NFT scam)

Change your settings so your phone number is hidden.

Live Leak has decent posts:
https://t.me/leaklive

[Michael Ejercito]

I have BlueSky.

https://bsky.app/profile/mejercit.bsky.social

[Eeyore]

Even the bots have given up on BlueSky.

[Rick James]

Hey, take it down a notch, after months of me asking when we were going to start getting BlueSky tweets after ENB proudly announced she went full BlueSky, we finally got one (from another rando at Reason).

It's on the rise... definitely.

[Neutral not Neutered]

Are the writers here all volunteer vying for a spot that actually pays them?

The fake fantasy wish casting bullshit being propagated this last few months has become absurd to itself.

I enjoyed reading the articles which yes would bring some controversy and open lanes for debate but it has changed and now it is no different than MS Lie Now DNC.

The left and media keep carrying this BS trying to distract as Trump stated from the success of his admin and they are trying to use it for political gain.

Releasing everything removes the lefts ability to do this. Very simple and there's nothing more to "report" on.

[Medulla Oblongata]

What is it about federal court judges who can just ignore long-standing law and make up reasons for ignoring the law.

E.g., a recent DOT order to enforce CFR Title 49 § 391.11 General qualifications of drivers, re: requirement to read and speak English IAW the law has been suspended by DC appeals court (Boasburg again) for specious reasons...

"The court found the federal government did not follow proper procedure when creating the new rule, or explain how the rule would promote safety. Judges also noted Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration data shows about 5% of all commercial driver’s licenses belong to immigrants, though they only account for about 0.2% of fatal crashes.

The later part is wholly immaterial, as is the part about how the rule would promote safety. The law is duly authorized and has been for decades. That an order to stop ignoring laws can be issued by judges seems wrong.

The text of the law in question is unambigious and I can find archival text saying the same thing going back at least as far as 1970 (https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1970/4/22/6452-6468.pdf#page=9) but understand it might date back to 1939.

CFR Title 49 § 391.11 General qualifications of drivers.
(a) A person shall not drive a commercial motor vehicle unless he/she is qualified to drive a commercial motor vehicle. Except as provided in § 391.63, a motor carrier shall not require or permit a person to drive a commercial motor vehicle unless that person is qualified to drive a commercial motor vehicle.
(b) Except as provided in subpart G of this part, a person is qualified to drive a motor vehicle if he/she—
(1) Is at least 21 years old;
(2) Can read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records;

[Medulla Oblongata]

Seems like judges might be in viokation of

§ 390.13 Aiding or abetting violations.

No person shall aid, abet, encourage, or require a motor carrier or its employees to violate the rules of this chapter.

[Minadin]

Boasburg needs to be impeached, tried, drawn and quartered.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Really don't see how Boasberg can apply new rule protocols. This is an existing rule that Biden relaxed I believe without the required public comment etc. I got a CDL about 20 years ago and the English proficiency rule was enforced back then and was uncontroversial. An Illinois governor went to federal prison for selling CDLs to
Polish immigrants. Boasberg should be impeached and Roberts needs to stay in his lane and STFU.

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

Just because you can’t read road signs doesn’t mean you aren’t a safe driver. Just look at the sterling record of the non English speaking truck drivers as of late. Only a few unnecessary casualties. You get used to the death toll.

[Medulla Oblongata]

And the rapes. You get over the rapes.

[Chumby]

If the raper with magic papers says they are sorry, and especially if they were not inside for that long, then the victim should get over the rape quickly.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Correction: as far as I can tell, Boasberg was NOT involved in this decision. His picture and name was used in a separate article that popped up when I was searching and made me think it was connected.

It was

Henderson*, Wilkins, and Pan, Circuit Judge

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.42493/gov.uscourts.cadc.42493.2144602.0.pdf

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/federal-court-hits-pause-fmcsa-151101048.html

Critics argued that FMCSA bypassed the normal rulemaking process, enacting an “interim final rule” without the required notice-and-comment period. The lawsuit alleged that the agency failed to prove an actual emergency and that the policy caused irreparable harm to lawful workers and their families.

This review will test whether FMCSA’s evidence supports its declaration of a “national emergency,” or whether the agency overreached.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Executing a valid law doesnt require an emergency to execute said law. That is specious reasoning by the judge.

[Zeb]

And "causing harm to people" is a silly standard. Plenty of laws and regulations cause harm to someone. That doesn't, by itself, mean they are invalid.

[Dillinger]

>>What is it about federal court judges

for starts, they're all politicians before jurists.

[Minadin]

"A theory of dumb," from The Intelligencer: "It's not just screens or COVID or too-strong weed. Maybe the culprit of our cognitive decline is unfettered access to each other."

So the stupid IS contagious? I knew it!

[Eeyore]

I can feel myself getting dumber after spending time with certain people.

[Chumby]

Why I don’t read the articles here.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Why I've muted certain folks.

So many comments warranted this:

Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

[Chumby]

I mute but sometimes unmute just to kick those retards.
There are some intelligent and knowledgeable folks here and I appreciate their perspectives on topics, even if I don’t agree (Ken and Sandy were two of my favorites). Soros NPC shills are garbage, but sometimes amusing pushing their faces in their own crap.

[damikesc]

I won't mute people who I disagree with who make honest comments.

[Dillinger]

>>or too-strong weed.

it's definitely not this.

[tracerv]

^^^

[Dillinger]

>>Of course, it's kind of a sudden reversal given what a political problem this had become.

never a political problem for T, only for (D)

[Dillinger]

>>"The mayor-elect is recycling failed ideas from the de Blasio administration."

he's recycling failed ideas from the Homer Simpson reign as Garbage Commish

[Ajsloss]

And when they ask Eric Adams to come back, "it is so gratifying to leave you all wallowing in the mess you've created for yourselves. You're screwed. Thank you, bye."

"He's right, he ain't much on speeches," says Moe.

[Dillinger]

Sanford & Son theme song for walkup is delicious touch.

[Zeb]

Little details like that were some of the best parts back when The Simpsons was great.

[Dillinger]

>>the Swiss sent a delegation of industry tycoons bearing gifts

I would have asked for lunch with Martina Hingis

[Dillinger]

>>"The country's military has quietly carved new tunnels, hollowed out explosive chambers and built support facilities that researchers say suggest preparations for nuclear testing."

China isn't post-nuclear yet?

[Dillinger]

>>This porno-as-monocause-for-our-ills stuff is so unbelievably tiresome

lol one day chicks will learn they have the ultimate power to make any man forget porn exists.

[Moonrocks]

What kind of alternate reality are you living in? Every teenage boy I've ever seen is inundated with dozens of attractive young ladies clamoring for just a few moments of his time, but they all just shrug it off and go back to watching more porn.

[Dillinger]

my only guess is one of the variables in your assertion is incorrect

[Dillinger]

>>Really interesting culture observations on platforms and marriage messaging.

jeebus cripes go outside talk to people and observe culture.

[damikesc]

So...info on Thomas Crooks (the first assassin) is coming out.

Anybody shocked to hear that he was a furry with gender dysphoria issues?

[Dillinger]

no and I wish it would have surfaced before that sociopath Tucker could take cred for the daylight

[Rick James]

Louise Perry: Would you rather have a guy who can talk contemporary literature but can't afford to buy you dinner?

[Spiritus Mundi]

Oh Noes!!!

150 Years Of Data Destroy Democrat Dogma On Tariffs: Fed Study Finds They Lower, Not Raise, Inflation

[Dillinger]

>>Trump administration tries to deport least deportable person ever.

clearly you've never been to Polk County, Iowa ... or clicked a link and read the story first

[Uomo Del Ghiaccio]

Enough is enough. MTG is not a traitor to MAGA, but rather if anyone is a traitor, it's President Trump who is the traitor to MAGA.

It's quite simple and the whole affair can be put to rest. If you are innocent in the Epstein crimes, then release the files. If there are other people who are guilt of Epstein crimes, let them be exposed even if they are big donors.

The issue will not disappear and go away, it will grow a life of it's own and become a symbol of government corruption. It does not matter if there is nothing there or not, because of the government for the last two presidents being unwillingness to release the files, there is the appearance that there is something there.

Even is 75% of government officials are implicated, so be it. We should expect more from our elected officials and government workers. Not a period, but an exclamation mark, not less.

[Dillinger]

lol no. The Files!!

>>MTG is not a traitor to MAGA

she's a tool of the cabal trying to hurt T from the right

[Chumby]

The seX Files. The truth is out there!

https://www.zedge.net/ringtone/40b147b3-68e6-4773-aeb3-ce34794b0a40

[damikesc]

I find it amusing how many Lefties have "new found respect" for MTG.

[Use the Schwartz]

Hey the "October 7th was only a day, Jews should get over it" guy is back with his thoughts.

[damikesc]

Well, we have seen Democrats were rather close to him after his conviction while he hated Trump and press reports at the time reported Trump banning him from Mar a Lago.

But, yes, Trump is guilty. Makes total sense.

Weird how deeply he has been investigated and there has not been a damned thing found.