Boat Strike Inquiry

Plus: Hep B vaccines, national parks nonsense, Trump involvement in Netflix deal, and more...

What happened on September 2? Over the weekend, top Democrats called for the release of classified materials pertaining to the U.S. military's September 2 boat attack.

"Democrats and Republicans have offered starkly different descriptions of the video, which was seen by some members of Congress but has not been made public," reports The New York Times. "Representative Adam Smith of Washington, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, said it was 'simply not accurate' that the video of the Sept. 2 strike on the boat carrying 11 individuals showed the survivors trying to flip a capsized boat, rescue its cargo and continue trafficking drugs, as Republicans in Congress have maintained." That boat strike in particular was controversial because, when members of the U.S. military detected survivors, they struck again to ensure they killed everyone in sight.

"Military officials have argued that the follow-up strike was lawful because the two survivors could have been trying to communicate with other alleged drug traffickers to rescue them," reports the Times. "But legal experts have said that second strike could be a war crime, citing the laws of armed conflict that forbid targeting enemies who have been shipwrecked and are out of the fight."

"It seems pretty clear they don't want to release this video because they don't want people to see it, because it's very, very difficult to justify," said Smith on one of the weekend news shows.

President Donald Trump said last week he would have "no problem" making the video public. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, on the other hand, said he might object to that, claiming that it could "compromise sources and methods."

Follow up: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) "vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine," reports CBS. "Instead of a first dose within 24 hours of birth—as the CDC has advised for more than 30 years—the panel voted to recommend delaying it until a child is 2 months old for children born to mothers who test negative for the virus."

As I've written previously, this is a welcome change for parents worried about overly broad public health guidance. American mothers who receive prenatal care—so nearly all of them—already get tested in pregnancy for Hepatitis B, which is spread through infected blood or bodily fluids (sex, needles, and the like).

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., spent a fair bit of their December meeting arguing over this issue. Recommendations from ACIP go to the CDC director for approval. Though public health decisions like these are left to the states, ACIP's recommendations matter to insurance companies: Private insurers tend to be forced to cover the recommended vaccines. If birth doses of the Hep B vaccine are no longer recommended, it's possible that insurer coverage could change. (The panel has not recommended that children forego the Hep B shot altogether, just that it is delayed until the two-month appointment versus given within the first few hours of birth.)

I can understand people feeling that universalized public health approaches are the best way to ensure no at-risk child slips through the cracks and contracts a terrible disease. At the same time, it is a bit crazymaking to have your child be given shots that they specifically don't need when they are all of 12 hours old, all for the sake of the greater good. I am personally happy to have this specific recommendation changed.

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Scenes from New York: Get outta here, Chi Ossé.

Ossé, a councilmember (formerly mine) who represents a lot of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, had mounted a primary challenge against Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and hoped to win the Democratic Socialists of America's endorsement and (apparently activated) bloc of voters.

Incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani "took the unusual step of lobbying the Democratic Socialists of America, the small but increasingly influential leftist group that helped power his campaign, not to back Mr. Ossé, an ally," reports The New York Times. Mamdani "argued that a race against Mr. Jeffries would be a messy distraction that could undermine his mayoralty."

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• "The National Park Service will offer free admission to U.S. residents on President Donald Trump's birthday next year—which also happens to be Flag Day—but is eliminating the benefit for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth," reports the Associated Press. Of course, we could pursue park self-sufficiency and have every parksgoer pay more, and pay every time they visit, and stop subsidizing via the federal budget (which would incidentally allow parks to perhaps stay fully operational during government shutdowns), but instead we're apparently gonna do a little freakout about this Trump move.
• Formerly, H1-B visa holder physicians were a huge part of health care provision in rural areas of the United States. Now that the administration upped the fees they must pay—seemingly to make it harder for foreign nationals to come work here, and to give a leg up to American workers—rural areas are struggling with worsened physician shortages.
• "Trump says he will be 'involved' in vetting Netflix-Warner deal," reports The Washington Post. I'm sorry, but isn't this the absolute last thing we want presidents spending time on?

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

What happened on September 2?

Boatsurrection

[Mother's Lament]

The Democrats continue their winning path of picking the 20 in 80/20 issues by bemoaning attacks on cartel narcotraficantes.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Saw a meme: "Oh look, President Trump double tapped a terrorist target at the second strike killed civilian first responders...My mistake, that was President Obama."

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During his presidency, Barack Obama's administration faced criticism for drone strikes that included "double-tap" attacks, which often resulted in civilian casualties, including first responders who arrived to help victims of the initial strike. Reports indicate that these follow-up strikes targeted individuals attempting to assist the wounded, raising significant ethical and legal concerns about the use of such tactics.

Republican lawmakers and right-wing media figures noted on Tuesday that Obama—who bombed more countries than his predecessor, former President George W. Bush and was called the “drone warrior-in-chief”—ordered strikes that resulted in massacres of civilians at events including funerals and at least one wedding.

At least hundreds of civilians were killed in such strikes, including 16-year-old US citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who according to an Obama administration official was in the wrong place at the wrong time when he was slain in Yemen in 2011. This, after al-Awlaki’s father—an accused terrorist who was also American—was assassinated by a drone strike ordered by Obama.

Asked by a reporter about the legality of assassinating US citizens without charge or trial, then-White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs infamously asserted in October 2012 that Abdulrahman al-Awlaki should have had “a far more responsible father.”

Buried deep in a New York Times article published earlier that year was the revelation that Obama’s secret “kill list” authorized the assassination of US citizens, and that his administration was counting all military-age males in a strike zone as “combatants” regardless of their actual status in an effort to artificially lower the reported number of civilian casualties.

“Turns out I’m really good at killing people,” Obama once boasted, according to the 2013 Mark Halperin and John Heilemann book Double Down. “Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/republicans-obama-drone-strikes

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Yeah but who got the Nobel? Than proves it, right?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

So is S2 worse than J6 or 9/11 ? And where does Juneteenth fit in here.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Military officials have argued that the follow-up strike was lawful because the two survivors could have been trying to communicate with other alleged drug traffickers to rescue them...

Was there even a JAG presence at this thing?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Commander Harmon Jag would have set them straight.

[Ajsloss]

What about the chick that looks sexy despite her pageboy haircut... or maybe because of it? (Thanks, Carter Pewterschmidt).

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Sadly yes. During the strike a JAG officer was in the room as reported by ABC. But never a mention of it in any writeup here.

[mad.casual]

I'm pretty sure Congressional Oversight Committee meeting and associated media reporting was a group JAG-off session.

[Fist of Etiquette]

President Donald Trump said last week he would have "no problem" making the video public.

Wait till he finds out the boat was headed to Epstein's island.

[mad.casual]

+1 The Venezuelan drug smugglers didn't kill themselves.

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

I'm sorry, but isn't this the absolute last thing we want presidents spending time on?

Keep them occupied with busy work seems like a good idea actually.

[Zeb]

Except, as we learned with Biden, other people keep doing stuff when the president is otherwise indisposed.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Worse, while the president is "indisposed", will use the autopen to issue "presidential orders" that the President knows nothing about.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Formerly, H1-B visa holder physicians were a huge part of health care provision in rural areas of the United States. Now that the administration upped the fees they must pay—seemingly to make it harder for foreign nationals to come work here, and to give a leg up to American workers—rural areas are struggling with worsened physician shortages.

Look, rural America. Some sacrifices must be made in order to keep the dirty brown foreigners out. And the "sacrifices", of course, is your own health care.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

More bullshit. The reason, and has been covered by many libertarians (except here), is that the AMA artificially keeps the number of medical school students low to prop up their own prices. If we dump those restrictions, we have zero need for H1B doctors.

https://x.com/ludwignvermises/status/1954157715002974573?s=46&t=qeA47-JjK6vq0pfnxg60dA

The American Medical Association intentionally restricts the supply of doctors to boost wages.

The original justification for medical licensing in the 1960s was that we needed to artificially boost wages for the dignity of the profession. Safety wasn’t used as an excuse until later.

In the 60’s young doctors were entering the scene and offering subscription services for patients. This lower cost model was outcompeting established practice. Doctors then lobbied to keep them out of the market through monopoly licensure.

The government responded to this by shutting down the subscription model and banning anyone who wasn’t licensed by the AMA monopoly.

It sounds stupid to say but this intentional shortage of doctors lead to a shortage of doctors. This led to a huge drop in quality as well as doctors had to work long hours and reduce patient time.

The governments response was to limit the number of hours you could legally work in a day. This led to more shortages and shorter patient times…

They also tightly control and standardize practice around medicines with IP. The same way satellite radio only plays songs with studio owned IP they can make money off of. This means that doctors are not recommending what’s good to you. They are reading off a big pharma wish list.

If you want to control what people think, control what a trusted person in their life thinks. Edward Bernaise figured out that if the doctors recommended smoking as healthy people would smoke. By controlling the AMA big pharma can get every trusted doctor across America to tell you exactly what they want you to hear.

Medical care should be cheap, practicing should only require the skill which you can verify this with non monopolized certification. With AI and education reform we could rapidly make up that gap, while providing a meaningful career opportunity for millions of people.

It’s maddening their solution to the intentional doctor shortage is to import foreign physicians trained outside our licensing monopoly while Americans who operate outside the AMA are banned from practicing.

People need to wake up to the mass scale of horror and death created by these medieval licensing and regulatory monopolies.

[Michael Ejercito]

I wonder why this is not more widely known.

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

Jeff thinks rural Americans don’t deserve better than dirty brown foreigners

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Jeffy is a classist and a racist.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Speaking of hoaxes…

Let’s not forget the damage done in our northern neighbour by this hoax.

https://x.com/mrandyngo/status/1997977159218933807?s=46&t=qeA47-JjK6vq0pfnxg60dA

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It was a race hoax and it inspired retributive church burnings across Canada.

https://x.com/dallas_brodie/status/1996079855952331230?s=46&t=qeA47-JjK6vq0pfnxg60dA

Canadians were accused of genocide. Over one hundred churches were desecrated. Private property is being taken as tribal land. Watch our documentary exposing it all: Making a Killing.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

It also changed various Canadian laws allowing tribal councils to claim land owned by others and take it from them. Happening in Vancouver right now over some lake side hunting grounds.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Do the white chicks in Canada have Big Chief rape fantasies?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Instead of a first dose within 24 hours of birth—as the CDC has advised for more than 30 years—the panel voted to recommend delaying it until a child is 2 months old for children born to mothers who test negative for the virus.

THEY'RE TRYING TO KILL THE BABIES!

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

But what if the 1 month old is walking around the side walk and steps on a needle?

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

But what if the 1 month old is walking around the side walk with a bear in his trunk?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

I mean in places like Portland and SF it may make sense to do it before the umbilical is cut.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I was pretty sure that in places like Portland and SF they proudly aborted nearly 100% of all babies, so that's not really an issue?

[Ajsloss]

Nancy Pelosi still has to eat the fetus. You think she wants Hep B from that?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

This went dark quickly. But laughed.

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

Instead of bringing in h1b to be doctors, how about we tell the ama to fuck off and die, allow all who qualify for med school to be admitted, and remove all race quotas for med school. The Dr shortage is purely policy driven

[chemjeff radical individualist]

You won't get more domestic medical school applicants if your team continually shits on college degrees.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

You’re so full of shit.

https://mises.org/mises-daily/myth-free-market-healthcare

While most people believe that our healthcare industry is one comprised of free markets, it is anything but. The industry is completely distorted by government manipulation.[1]
To start with, the American Medical Association (AMA) has had a government-granted monopoly on the healthcare system for over 100 years. It has intentionally restricted the number of doctors allowed to practice medicine so as to raise physician incomes artificially. The primary way it does this is by using the coercive power of the state to restrict the number of approved medical schools in operation. After the AMA created its Council on Medical Education in 1904, state medical boards complied with the AMA’s recommendation to close down medical schools.

Within three years, 25 schools had been shut down, and the number of students at remaining schools was reduced by 50 percent. After three more years, 10 more schools were closed. Since that time, the US population has increased by 284 percent, while the number of medical schools has declined by 26 percent to 123.[2] In 1996, the peak year for applications, only 16,500 candidates were accepted out of 47,000. While high rejection rates can be common in many schools, applicants to medical schools are usually among the brightest and highest-quality students and have put themselves through a very costly admissions process.

The AMA also has monopoly power over the state boards, which issue licenses. A physician can practice only by having a state license (licenses in general exist primarily to prevent competition). Each state has licensing boards consisting of AMA members who decide which applicants, according to them, are competent and morally fit. The boards also have police and enforcement powers to monitor their own kind and keep as many nasty incidents as possible out of the public eye.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Jeff has largely given up on faking substantive responses as he finally realized only sarc is dumb enough to fall for his bullshit.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

If college degrees stop being a joke, maybe people will stop shitting on them.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://bigeconomics.org/college-majors-ranked-by-unemployment-rates/

[NealAppeal]

your team continually shits on useless college degrees.
FTFY
Med degrees are not the degrees that are getting derision.

[Nobartium]

Jeff is an institutionalist.

Any attack on education is too much for him.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Read below. The criticism is more than just so-called "useless" college degrees. Hence the whole push for trade schools and the like.

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

The hep b vax has nothing to do for the greater good, it's another way to scam money

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Newborns don’t need the HepB vaccine as it’s extremely rare for them to encounter hepatitis B. We can easily test the mother for hepatitis B during pregnancy. If negative, as most are, the vaccine is unnecessary.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Indeed. Hepatitis B is a made-up fake virus that was invented by Big Vaccine in order to pad their profits. Right?

I mean, it has to be fake, we can't even see it with our own eyes! Who do they expect us to believe, The Science "Experts" who have been wrong about literally everything, or our own eyes?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

You’re out of your depth, Tardjeff.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

That pile of lying lefty shit is out of his depth reading a comic book.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Kill yourself.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

You first.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, on the other hand, said he might object to that, claiming that it could "compromise sources and methods."

How? It's not like they haven't released other videos showing the "clean" strikes.

[Quicktown Brix]

It's important to not compromise their method of bumbling incompetence.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

"Trump says he will be 'involved' in vetting Netflix-Warner deal," reports The Washington Post.

So how many golden shares will Trump demand from Netflix? I mean, they did produce that Obama documentary, right? Time for a little payback, amirite?

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

Poor sarc

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Poor Lying Jeffy.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

The sullum special. Keep pushing a debunked anonymous sources narrative.

Greg Price
@greg_price11
Sen. Tammy Duckworth accuses Pete Hegseth of “murder” and “war crimes” for striking narco-terrorists.

She then admits she hasn’t seen the videos or read the after action reports but only knows “what’s available in the media.”

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Sen. Tammy Duckworth accuses Pete Hegseth of “murder” and “war crimes” for striking narco-terrorists.

And we know they were terrorists because the president declared them so. Just by presidential proclamation alone, he can create terrorists!

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Tammy Duckworth is not exactly an authority on any of this.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Since she criticized orangepolpot, that makes her an authority on whatever the subject of the criticism was.

-chemsarc "logic"

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

Gotta stop putting chicks in office.

[mad.casual]

So, when it comes to building a case against Hegseth she, legally, doesn't have a leg to stand on because she failed to put one foot in front of the other? Being a disabled veteran grants her a lot of ethical gravitas but that will only carry her so far.

I don't mean to be insurgent, but her helicoptering over the issue is getting to be unnecessarily invasive.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Even SF Chron is starting to notice the policy of releasing violent druggies/mental health issues.

https://archive.is/N2aNt

San Luis Obispo County Superior Court Judge Barry LaBarbera spoke those words in March when he ordered that Hobbs be released from Atascadero State Hospital, where Hobbs was serving parole after being sentenced to 5½ years in jail and prison for grabbing, groping, forcibly kissing and chasing more than a dozen known victims.
Three psychologists testified about Hobbs’ condition. They all agreed that Hobbs had a serious mental health disorder that was not in remission. Two further testified that Hobbs represented “a substantial danger of physical harm to others.”

Yet still released.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Apparently still local news. A fake wapo story still far more important.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/anti-free-speech-war-escalates-eu-unleashes-dsa-musks-x

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

don't need when they are all of 12 hours old, all for the sake of the greater good.

Would someone please think about, the Big Pharma stockholders!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Poor Damon and sullum. Almost like neither actually understand law.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/court-temporarily-lifts-order-blocking-trumps-d-c-national-guard-deployment/

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Qalinle Ibrahm abducted a 12 year old in Minnesota and r*ped her

St. Paul IsIamic Center wrote a letter of community support, saying he has not "assimilated into non-Somali culture"

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1995681097578066404

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

And he never will.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Now the DA has responded.

Alpha News
@AlphaNews
BREAKING: In a stunning statement, Democrat Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty claims the DOJ is attempting "to politicize a sexual assault prosecution to inflict further harm on our entire Somali community."

In the statement, Moriarty defends her office's failure to secure any prison time for serial rapist Abdimahat Mohamed

https://x.com/AlphaNews/status/1997013712322822493

[Moonrocks]

In the statement, Moriarty defends her office's failure to secure any prison time for serial rapist Abdimahat Mohamed

Imagine waking up from a 10 year coma and seeing this line in the news.

[Ajsloss]

"Put me back under."

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

Put me back in the cooler
-stalone

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

That movie just gets more relevant with time.

[mad.casual]

our entire Somali community

Pretty incredulous that they haven't figured out that when the pitchfork-wielding mob shows up for the one rapist, crying out that the entire community is full of rapists who don't know any better doesn't placate anyone and, if anything, should inspire other mobs to put their head on a pike.

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

Now he can assimilate into an electric chair

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

I'm sorry, but isn't this the absolute last thing we want presidents spending time on?

Do you not want shitty reality TV shows? Because if there is one thing Trump is good at, it's shitty reality TV shows.

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

Liz must of forgot Obama campaigning for Netflix to have free internet usage via fcc takeover, of course this is after Netflix gave Obama tens of millions.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Obamas plan was worse. It wanted yo give sqrslys newsletter same bandwidth priority as Netflix despite Netflix spending tens of millions on putting their material near routing centers to better handle traffic flow.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Fuck off and die, asswipe.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Finally a house was rebuilt post pallisades fire. Difficulty, permitting and start was before the fires.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/01/what-is-the-first-house-rebuilt-after-the-wildfires-in-los-angeles-its-complicated-00669167?experience_id=EXYF89KVT5UQ&is_magic_link=true&template_id=OTJIR2CRKUD6&template_variant_id=OTV632IE7RALS

But dont worry, Newsome blames Trump!

https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/gavin-newsom-tries-to-blame-trump-for-lack-of-rebuilding-after-l-a-fires/

[Mother's Lament]

TRUMP!!

The kicker?

The permit for that house was pulled before the fire.

It’s not even a rebuild

Hey Fox11 Digital Team, building permits are public record, and you can just look them up.
You should try it, and not just reprint the developers or Mayor's office press releases.
This project began pre fire with the demo of the existing one story SFD, and is a "Non Eligible" project, so is not a fire rebuild.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Still happening.

https://x.com/TriciaOhio/status/1997421868995768357

Oscar Gerardo Solorzano-Garcia, an illegal alien from Honduras, is being charged with attempted first-degree murder after he stabbed a victim with a large knife on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina. ICE lodged a detainer to ensure this criminal illegal is not released back into North Carolina neighborhoods. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the county will honor the detainer since they have a history of not cooperating with
@ICEGov
.

His criminal history includes prior arrests for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, destroying evidence, resisting arrest, using a false ID, and convictions for robbery and illegally re-entry.

This criminal illegal alien was issued a final order of removal by an immigration judge in 2018 and removed by the Trump Administration on March 9, 2018. He was apprehended illegally crossing the border again in 2021 and was again removed. He entered the country illegally for a THIRD time at an unknown date and location.

[Medulla Oblongata]

This was practically the same subway seat that the Ukranian woman was murdered by a thug who wanted to kill someone a few months ago.

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

Public transportation is awesome.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

This one is great too.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/court-eases-sentence-afghan-who-showed-restraint-after-only-stabbing-teacher-six-times

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

Did he feel bad about it afterwards?

[Mother's Lament]

Paging Professor Chemjeff.

[Medulla Oblongata]

And it was just the tip?

[Ajsloss]

Just for a second, just to see how it felt. Then it was, "ouch, ouch, you're on my hair."

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Chicago's Peacekeeper program has a lot of violent criminals. Maybe the name doesnt mean what they claim it does.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/12/report-chicagos-peacekeeper-program-plagued-by-member-arrests-for-violent-crimes/

[mad.casual]

TBF, between Sameul Colt and the LGM-118, there's a case to be had that "making them equal" and not "making them safe" is the correct interpretation.

That said, even one boiling point IQ should be able to grasp the distinction, or exploit of it.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

"Donald Trump Jr. criticized corruption in Ukraine and suggested Sunday that his father may walk away from the country if it doesn't make peace with Russia," reports Politico.

Would be good for him to investigate which American politicians got money for supporting this corruption.

[Use the Schwartz]

"Know that each positive comment brings a tear of gratitude to my 36-weeks pregnant eyes (and that each negative comment takes me weeks to emotionally recover from in my current state)."

Even the negative commenters care, else they would leave.

[mad.casual]

At the same time, it is a bit crazymaking to have your child be given shots that they specifically don't need when they are all of 12 hours old, all for the sake of the greater good.

Doubleplus for "crazymaking to have your child be given shots... for the sake of the greater good of/with insurers".

[shrike]

What's up, Peanuts? Big Harvard Youth Poll -- The yutes hate both parties:

Negative impressions dominate. When asked for one word to describe each party, 58% used a negative word for Democrats — most commonly “weak” — and 56% used a negative word for Republicans, most often “corrupt.” Only 16% offered a positive word for Democrats (26% neutral), and just 17% offered a positive word for Republicans (27% neutral).

https://iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/51st-edition-fall-2025

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

Nobody gives a shit about polls.

[Mother's Lament]

Oh no, not at Harvard. I can't believe that Saudi scions and the daughters of Chinese billionaires have negative impressions.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

So, uh, Shrike, you care to explain what exactly happened to your original SPB account and why it was permanently banned for posting child porn links and the entire thread cleansed of comments?

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Remember when you told us about the importance of taylor swift's endorsement of Kammy?

That was top flight analysis. How'd it work out again?

[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.

[Mother's Lament]

I love how the Third World caucus of the Democratic Party are Gay Race Communists here in the US, but they’re blood and soil nationalists in their home country.

“Ethiopia and Kenya stole our Land. We Must work together to liberate our occupied territories. Somalia is for Somalis Only” -Ilhan Omar

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Ok, she can say that, but it’s not my problem here in North America. That’s between Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. And if Omar is so concerned about it, she can renounce her US citizenship and go back there to advocate for it.

[Mother's Lament]

"Somalia is for Somalis Only" but America shouldn't stop illegals.

Also Somalian is a race, American isn't. Racial nationalism is a very different thing from civic nationalism.

[mad.casual]

And if Omar is so concerned about it, she can renounce her US citizenship and go back there to advocate for it.

I'm even fairly liberal on the whole issue; if Somalia will take her back, she doesn't even have to rescind her citizenship.

Now, if in the interim, her US citizenship is jeopardized because she fucks things up, or not, in Somalia well... her actions are her choices.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Poor shrike.

https://justthenews.com/nation/crime/family-j6-pipe-bomb-suspect-denies-he-trump-supporter-report?utm_source=mux&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=social-media-autopost

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Turd lies.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

You left out "retarded, assholic" WRT turd.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/12/06/j6-bomber-family-hes-not-maga-hes-a-basement-dwelling-loner-n3809608

J6 Bomber Family: He's Not MAGA. He's a Basement-Dwelling Loner With A Grudge.

But Loretta, his grandmother, said Cole has no party affiliation and never votes.

Rather, he keeps to himself, living in his mother’s basement in Woodbridge, Virginia, where he’s been grieving the loss of his beloved pet chihuahua, while working a data entry job for his family’s bail bonds business.

‘He’s not politically affiliated with anything,’ the grandmother told the Daily Mail during an interview at her home in Gainesville, Virginia. 'He has no social media contacts. He’s never online going back and forth with politics or anything like that. He says he don’t like either party.

'He’s borderline autistic,’ she added. 'He’s slow. He may be 30, but he’s got the mind of a 16-year-old. That’s why we’re thinking - What the hell? What’s going on?’

Loretta doesn't believe that her grandson actually carried out the attempted attacks, which thankfully never came to fruition. However, sources within the Department of Justice told the Associated Press that he confessed. This is where the "MAGA" narrative originated as well:

Brian Cole Jr. spoke to law-enforcement officers for more than four hours after his arrest, a federal prosecutor, Charles Jones, said Friday during Cole’s initial court appearance.

The prosecutor did not elaborate on what Cole said to investigators, but two people familiar with the matter told the AP he confessed to planting the devices Jan. 5, 2021. Cole also indicated that he believed conspiracy theories around the 2020 election that President Trump has insisted was stolen and expressed views supportive of Trump, said the people, who were not authorized to discuss by name an ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

[Ra's al Gore]

Scientific American: the cattle are rejecting Science.

Also SA:

Here’s What the ‘Manosphere’ Gets Wrong about Cuckoldry
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-what-the-manosphere-gets-wrong-about-cuckoldry/

In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser.” But this use distorts its history and meaning, creating a baseless moral panic that harms both women and science

...Anthropology reveals other explanations for cuckoldry that don’t necessitate deception. In some societies women maintain multiple partners as a way of ensuring they have reliable resources in the face of uncertainty. In many of these cases, societal norms and beliefs are constructed (by both men and women) to support this system. The folk notion of “partible paternity,” held in many Indigenous South American cultures, regards any man who has sex with a woman around the time of her pregnancy as a claimant to biological parentage, expected to help provision the woman and her child. Children with more than one “father” are more likely to survive than those with singular paternity. The system benefits women and children, but it is also believed to benefit men because it improves their access to extramarital partners and can strengthen male alliances. In my own work with Himba cattle herders in Namibia, where multiple partners are common for both men and women, men are taught by their fathers that they should suppress jealousy toward their wives’ lovers and that children should be treated equally, regardless of parentage.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Sounds like a total cuck wrote that article.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Probably an incel jealous of cucks.

[Ra's al Gore]

Sex attack horror as young Italian couple are surrounded by three migrants who smash into their car and force boyfriend to watch as they rape his 18-year-old fiancée
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15323813/Sex-attack-horror-young-Italian-couple-surrounded-three-migrants-smash-car-force-boyfriend-watch-rape-18-year-old-fiancee.html

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Speaking of the EUSSR…

https://x.com/ludwignvermises/status/1998037372877869156?s=46&t=qeA47-JjK6vq0pfnxg60dA

Keith Woods is a leftist.

Support for the EU is a great way to tell who is actually right wing and who is a leftist who didn’t like PC and mass migration.

The EU is globalist, progressive, Bismarckian slop, it won’t be taken over by conservatives, it’s not a conservative institution. It’s a no accountability bureaucracy.

The polls for leaving now are only low because of the war.

If the EU is abolished there is no vacuum. It’s up to the individual countries if they want to have socialist bureaucracy or not. No one said England had to vote in Labour after Brexit.

Soon Reform will be the dominant party, largely off the failure of the elite to deliver fast enough on Brexit.

The European Union should be dissolved completely and each country should be free to choose its own path.

[Ra's al Gore]

Islamist Muslim Brotherhood-linked Imams embezzle over $100,000,000 from Swedish taxpayers - report
An investigation by Swedish newspapers Expressen shows that the group looted over one billion sek in school vouchers and welfare funds, according to the report
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/artc-islamist-muslim-brotherhood-linked-imams-embezzle-over-100-000-000-from-swedish-taxpayers-report

[MWAocdoc]

"Private insurers tend to be forced to cover the recommended vaccines."

Here's one of the biggest problems with this entire controversy. Why does the Federal government have anything whatever to say about vaccines? Why is it usually left up to state government? How in the world did government ever get involved with health insurance in the first place? Insurance is a matter of contract law. If an insurance company fails to hold up its end of the contract to cover health expenses, isn't that a matter for tort litigation? And where did the state or federal government aquire the authority to mandate health insurance coverage? Neglect is a tricky crime to prove at best, and at worst it is an excuse for government to abuse its power. Why is refusing to immunize your children a crime of child abuse?

The only possible justification for any health matter to come under the purview of the government might be the power to confine a contagious person to protect the general public from a clear and present danger. Surveillance of potential incoming threats, such as biological weapons as part of a sneak attack, triggering a military defense might be another ... and NOTHING ELSE!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'which is spread through infected blood or bodily fluids (sex, needles, and the like)'

So, the core values of Reason?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Just ask ENB.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/sick-climate-scientist-suggests-culling-human-population-deadly/

Bill McGuire, a Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London (UCL), authored a tweet Sunday that lamented the fact carbon emissions were not falling nearly as fast as needed and suggested solving the “climate crisis” with a deadly pandemic to wipe out swaths of the human population.

“If I am brutally honest, the only realistic way I see emissions falling as fast as they need to, to avoid catastrophic #climate breakdown, is the culling of the human population by a pandemic with a very high fatality rate,” he wrote.

[Ra's al Gore]

I don't remember them being the least bit uncertain at the time.

Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty
Let’s focus on the future, and fix the problems we still need to solve.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/

I have been reflecting on this lack of knowledge thanks to a class I’m co-teaching at Brown University on COVID. We’ve spent several lectures reliving the first year of the pandemic, discussing the many important choices we had to make under conditions of tremendous uncertainty.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Fuck pandemic amnesty. I want Nuremberg type trials of these assholes, including Fauci, Cuomo, Pritzker, Whitmer, Newsom, and others.

[Ra's al Gore]

PLAYING BOTH ENDS OF THE COURT? Leftist Dark Money Group Defends Funding Climate Litigators and NGO That Trains Judges
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/12/06/playing-both-ends-court-leftist-dark-money-group-defends-funding-climate-litigators-ngo-trains-judges

New Venture Fund, a hub of the Left’s dark money network, bankrolls both sides of climate lawfare: the lawyers who file lawsuits against energy companies and a nonprofit training judges to view such cases favorably. The fund, however, claims these projects are “unrelated.”

In its 2024 tax filing, New Venture Fund reported sending $2.3 million to Sher Edling, L.L.P., a law firm that represents Democratic prosecutors when they file climate litigation against tax filings. The fund also gave $1.25 million to the Environmental Law Institute, a nonprofit that trains judges how to approach their work to “make environmental, economic, and social progress.”

[Ra's al Gore]

https://x.com/romanhelmetguy/status/1926308018704023698

Your artificial meritocracy of Excel spreadsheets is propped up by millions of Americans with guns protecting you from the natural meritocracy of extreme violence. And your thanks is to dedicate your life to selling out their country from underneath them.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I have written before about my opinions of the National Park Service. For decades I supported their mission and admired their staff commitment and performance. I enjoyed visiting natural and historic parks around the country, and I still have my personal list.

But then declaring new parks became a political tactic and ideological contest. And park management often skewed towards preservation, especially when staff want to protect "their" parks. The final straw was the political bias now obvious in many parks, both in the information they promote, with strong progressive biases, to the hiring and public image they push. I have even heard park staff reveal that they want to bring woke DEI values (and people) to the primitives in fly-over country.

So fuck them.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nn657qq9vo

A trial over one of America's largest pandemic-fraud schemes has taken a mysterious turn following an alleged attempt to bribe one of the jurors.

The juror was dismissed after she claimed that a woman dressed in black visited her home and offered her a bag filled with $120,000 (£93,770) in cash. In return, she was to vote to acquit the seven defendants.

The juror was part of a trial that centres on the alleged theft of more than $40m from a taxpayer-supported food aid program for children.

All of the defendants were arrested after the juror revealed the alleged bribery scheme to the court.

"This is stuff that happens in mob movies," Assistant US Attorney Joseph Thompson, a government prosecutor, told the court as he requested the arrests.

“Let’s be honest, it wasn’t someone outside of this room."

The bribe occurred as the jurors were set to begin deliberating after one week of jury selection and five weeks of witness testimony.

Bribing a juror is a felony that carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. The seven people currently on trial - six men and one woman - already face a total of 41 charges including wire fraud and money laundering.

Prosecutors have argued the defendants - all of whom are Somali immigrants to Minnesota - operated their charity as a front to receive funds from the federal Child Nutrition Program.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1992634365264945206

Reminder Keith Ellison met with the culprits behind the $240 million Feeding our Future MN fraud scheme before they were charged and then he and his son took donations from them amid promises to deter the investigation.

We have audio of that meeting.

[Eeyore]

If Hep B isn't needed for a particular infant, why move it to 2 months? Profit?

[Ra's al Gore]

https://x.com/ParkerThayer/status/1996304002519015444

They found one Social Security number was being used to get subsidized healthcare for SEVENTY-ONE DIFFERENT PEOPLE and when they asked the people in charge about it they just said they didn’t feel like figuring out which person was the real one.

[Ra's al Gore]

‘We’re All Just Winging It’: What the Gender Doctors Say in Private
https://www.thefp.com/p/were-all-just-winging-it-what-the

In footage obtained exclusively by The Free Press, gender doctors acknowledge they perform life-altering procedures on vulnerable youth with no supportive evidence—and they are proud of it.

[Ra's al Gore]

Revealed: 'Migrant hotel king' who cashed in on asylum seeker crisis rakes in £4.8m a DAY and is on course to become first immigration industry billionaire
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14034971/Migrant-hotel-king-cashed-asylum-seeker-crisis-immigration-industry-billionaire.html