Jailing Netanyahu

Plus: Explaining the commie corridor, OpenAI goes rogue, "Big Boy" the train, and more...

Nabbing the "war criminal": Yesterday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged the federal government to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—whom Mamdani calls a "war criminal"—when he comes to Manhattan for diplomatic purposes in September.

Mamdani has, per a video released yesterday and a New York Times podcast interview that went out this past weekend, spent his precious time exploring whether the New York City Police Department could legally arrest Netanyahu during his expected visit to the city in September. Apparently his lawyers said the city does not have "independent legal authority" to do so—much to his dismay. So now Mamdani is asking the feds to do it.

In 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu as well as his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant. They stand accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip following Hamas' massive attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, in which the terrorist group entered Israel and slaughtered children, music festivalgoers, and families living in kibbutzes, killing roughly 1,200 and taking 251 hostages. Israel has subsequently waged war on Hamas, killing roughly 70,000 Palestinians in the Strip, though actual numbers are somewhat hard to verify at this stage (and the Gazan Ministry of Health is controlled by Hamas).

This ICC arrest warrant is mostly symbolic, not actionable. The ICC has no police force or real ability to make arrests, and the U.S. is not a member nation. "The ICC poses an intolerable threat to U.S. sovereignty—it claims the authority to prosecute and even imprison American servicemen and officials operating on behalf of America's national interest," reads a State Department release from earlier this month. "Americans never signed up for this, and all American presidents since the ICC's ratification have maintained that the ICC does not have jurisdiction over Americans. The ICC previously opened an investigation into U.S. servicemen and intelligence officers and has since refused to close these cases."

"I want to be equally clear: Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large," said Mamdani. "But we cannot end the genocide on our own. We can decide whether our silence will become another weapon."

Setting aside all the precedent-setting problems that would ensue if the New York Police Department arrested Israel's prime minister based on an arrest warrant issued by an organization the U.S. isn't even a part of, I am just not interested in Mamdani's performativeness. As unsexy as it may feel to him, I would rather my mayor figure out how to keep the streets clean, how to streamline permits for new housing, and how to make the subways run on time than waste energy and political will on stunts like this one.

Me at Model UN in high school: https://t.co/FRaTbnyUsZ pic.twitter.com/ZMRgBAC3nL

— Jesse Arm (@Jesse_Leg) July 22, 2026

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Scenes from New York: This explains basically all of Brooklyn's "commie corridor" (where I live, sadly):

Downwardly mobile elites are the bread-and-butter of the Dems. https://t.co/VxS3ETlpR4

— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) July 21, 2026

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• "On Tuesday, a handful of oil tankers appeared to pause their journeys as they approached Yemeni waters heading into the Red Sea, while other ships laden with Saudi oil u-turned and sailed north towards the Suez Canal, after the Houthi rebel group sent an email to shipowners warning against calling at Saudi Arabia's ports," reports Bloomberg. "Still, other tankers continued to sail toward the area, according to vessel tracking data, and a number of buyers in Asia said earlier in the day they were still hoping to load cargoes there."
• SEEMS BAD: "OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its artificial intelligence models went rogue and successfully hacked into Hugging Face, a digital library of A.I. technology that is popular among developers," reports The New York Times.
• Just an extraordinary headline from The Wall Street Journal: "A Locomotive Named Big Boy Is Making Grown Men Cry"
• "David Jolly, the Democratic front-runner in the Florida governor's race, on Tuesday reiterated his push to pause data center construction statewide as the facilities' impacts become an increasingly hot-button political issue nationwide," reports Politico. "In a video posted to the social media site X, Jolly said he had proposed a moratorium on data centers and slammed Rep. Byron Donalds, the Trump-endorsed GOP front-runner, for his stance on regulating the industry. The comments also echo similar statements Jolly made in Lakeland last week, when he advocated for a pause and argued Florida lacked the necessary safeguards to protect workers and the environment from data centers." Just to be clear: This is a pro–data center newsletter and ALWAYS WILL BE. (Recent polling from Politico shows just how out of step my priors are with the rest of the American public.)

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yesterday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged the federal government to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

Someone's bagel wasn't to his liking that morning.

[Spiritus Mundi]

They gave him a bacon bagel by accident.

[Mike Parsons]

My local town spent like an entire month fighting over the exact statement that would be made re: palestine, whether they would call it a genocide, how fervently they would denounce it, etc. I remember thinking "jfc how retarded are these people that they wasted so many meetings on this". Glad to see Zohran is doing it on a much bigger scale

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

My town, too. But not a surprise, given the number of word salad yard signs and self-righteous marches. If only virtue-signaling could be tapped for energy, or bottled and sold on the open market.

[HorseConch]

It's amazing how retarded they have become. It's no different than some small town sheriff threatening to arrest Obama, but they would have been reported on breathlessly by the MSM as threats to civilization.

[See.More]

If only virtue-signaling could be [,,,] bottled and sold on the open market.

Budweiser tried that...

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Lol. Good one.

[damikesc]

I am impressed that the story of WHO issued the warrant (not just the ICC, but the actual prosecutor) or WHY he issued said warrant.

If this was aimed at a lefty, you'd hear nothing BUT those facts.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Apparently his lawyers said the city does not have "independent legal authority" to do so—much to his dismay. So now Mamdani is asking the feds to do it.

Lol.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I want to be equally clear: Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large...

Performative talk displaying little more than impotency. Well done, NYC voters.

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

Performative talk displaying little more than impotency.

Excellent.

[Ron]

performative and only one way since NYC host the U.N which has some of the most evil heads of states there

[Fist of Etiquette]

Downwardly mobile elites are the bread-and-butter of the Dems.

Also the blue hair dye industry's.

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's an expanding voting bloc.

[Adans smith]

The Joker Brand Products group.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Blue hair dye is a market winner for the 70 somethings and the 20 somethings--genius!

[Medulla Oblongata]

Speaking of blue hair, has everyone seen the screeching he/she getting tased police bodycam video that's making the round the last few days?

One rendition...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh-BOcdgFDo

[Ron]

that guy was clearly the child who stomped his feet and had tantrums till he got what he wanted as a child and was never punished for bad behavior. He is a tranny purely for the attention he seeks

[damikesc]

That was the best video I've seen in a while.

And his mug shot? He is quite the winner.

https://www.facebook.com/mugshots.orlando.orange.county.jail.arrests/posts/26-year-old-jarrett-vick-from-treasure-island-was-booked-on-020525-and-charged-w/977589274466093/

[MoreFreedom]

Downwardly mobile elites are the bread-and-butter of the Dems.

Perhaps that explains why 33% of the voting Jews in NYC voted for Mandani. I thought it might be suicidal empathy, but looking at the chart showing income and educational status, I'm surprised at the number of post-graduate people earning so little.

I'm old, so it appears post-grad college degrees are mostly worthless. It used to be if you got a college degree, you've proven you can think, work, read and write. Today it seems they can't think which also means they can't really write either (but they can repeat what has been brainwashed into their head).

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

I'm surprised at the number of post-graduate people earning so little.

Im not. The majority are forever students on student loans who dont work in college and gained no skills.

[Medulla Oblongata]

And not a lot of market for postgraduate gender studies degrees.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Well now that DEI is allowed to be criticized.

[damikesc]

Weirdly, none of them EVER blame the school that actually took their money and left them with nothing.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

A week after liberal media and democrats attack trump regarding election integrity....

Governor of New Jersey admits they were registering illegal voters and 400 likely voted.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/state-motor-vehicle-system-registers-6600-non-citizens-vote-new-jersey

The governor blames the software vendor, but vendor says they just transfer data. The dept of Elections still registers folks, and they ignored self admittance of not being citizens. This doesnt include illegals who dont admit it.

But zero of the 400 were not convicted for illegally voting so qb and NYT can still deny it is a problem.

These numbers are only from an audit of one year of voters.

The same week a judge ruled the feds cant investigate NJ voter rolls... relying on an argument of private data and... no proof illegals were registered.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-judge-dismisses-rnc-voter-roll-grab-in-new-jersey/

Amazing stuff.

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

No widespread corruption.

[Spiritus Mundi]

No widespread errors.

[Idaho-Bob]

No illegals voting anywhere

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Can we just jump to its a good thing and youre racist for noticing?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

How about dogs?
"Orange County woman who registered dog to vote said she did so to "expose flaws" in voting system"
[...]
"The Orange County woman who faces a series of felonies for registering her dog to vote in 2021 and 2022 made her first court appearance on Tuesday, saying through her legal team that she did so to "expose flaws" in California's voting system.
Laura Lee Yourex, 62, of Costa Mesa, was charged with five felonies last week as she registered her dog, Maya, to vote in the 2021 gubernatorial recall election and the 2022 primary election, Orange County District Attorney prosecutors said.
"The dog's vote was successfully counted in the 2021 gubernatorial recall election but was rejected in the 2022 primary," said the DOJ's office in a release.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/orange-county-dog-registered-to-vote-flaws-in-california-voting-system/

I'd say she did just fine.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

She will get more time than any illegal who voted.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Hey, it's just one dog voting, so who cares!

-- Lying Jeffy

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Remember, in the left-wing lexicon "conspiracy" is a word used to deflect accurate criticism until the evidence becomes too hard to deny.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Qb and sarc will still deny.

[Idaho-Bob]

Abby Phillip on CNN arguing vehemently that 6,600 invalid registered voters is not widespread fraud

This is where the sarcs of the world get their talking points.

https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/2079786942565175633

[Medulla Oblongata]

Glory!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

All while screaming to stop looking followed by you have no evidence.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

There are 6.6 million registered voters in NJ.
Please, please try to convince us all that an error rate of 0.1% is somehow some MASSIVE PROBLEM that requires sweeping federal legislation to fix.

You know it is not, and the whole thing is a bad faith argument intended to suppress the vote among the people you don't want to exercise their rights to vote.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

6.6 million may be registered, but they just said the voter rolls were inaccurate. And not everyone will vote so your percentage is wrong.

6,600 votes can sway an election.

The real truth is if someone votes in my county and they shouldn't be registered or voting that nullifies my or another's vote.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

It is an apples-to-apples comparison. The ratio of number of improperly registered voters to the total number of registered voters.

Are you really going to argue that an error rate of 0.1% justifies the SAVE act?

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Yep. And that 6,600 is the tip of the iceberg. That you’re so desperately against it is a huge endorsement for it’s passage.

[MT-Man]

You justified a covid measures with .0001 death rate for non underlying conditions folks, you are truly golden..

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Deflect, deflect, deflect... you just prove my point for me every time you do that, you cannot argue against the point on the merits.

Please, tell us all why an error rate of 0.1% justifies sweeping federal legislation.

Please, tell us all why an error rate of 0.1% means "widespread fraud".

[Idaho-Bob]

Tell us what is YOUR acceptable fraud rate?

What rate of known fraud is okay with you?

[chemjeff radical individualist]

More deflection because you can't answer the question.

Please, PLEASE try to convince us all that an 0.1% error rate constitutes "massive widespread fraud" that necessitates sweeping federal legislation such as the SAVE Act. Please, PLEASE try to convince us all that you aren't exaggerating or overhyping tiny problems in order to push through sweeping legislation that has as its real purpose depressing voter turnout for LEGAL voters that you don't want to be voting anyway.

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

It doesn’t need to be massive. Zero is the correct error rate.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Please, tell us all how presenting a valid ID and being a US citizen to vote in our elections could ever in a sane world be considered “sweeping federal legislation” and not just a minimum, very reasonable requirement.

You’re a fucking retard, jeff.

[Marshal]

I wonder why Jeffey is lying that the bill only addresses .1%. After all voting ID isn't even related to this type of fraud, and we don't know how much fraud there is of the type that is related. But Jeffey tries to link them as if this is the totality of fraud rather than one type of many.

People who oppose voter ID are doing so to enable fraud.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Please, tell us all how presenting a valid ID and being a US citizen to vote in our elections

I agree that every state ought to require ID to vote. And IF that was all the SAVE Act did, I wouldn't have a big problem with it. But it does much more than that, and you know it. It places the burden of obtaining the ID entirely on the individual, and it's not free either. (Back when these voter ID laws were first being litigated, a core requirement for their legality was that the IDs were free and not a stealth poll tax.) It is also a back-door way to eliminate voting by mail. Gee, why aren't you pointing this out? Is it because you're a disingenuous cunt? Why yes it is!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Its pretty funny. All the Dem politicians are out today with the exact same talking points as jeff and qb.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

In one state. There are 50.

Maybe if there was any transparency around the registration rolls you could make a case for your argument. I happen to live in another state that not only gives IDs and Driver's licenses to 'the undocumented' but uses an automatic voter registration when one gets a license or ID at the DMV.

Your argument that the numbers are too small is weak. And your NJ numbers are skewed as well. You use total voters, but what if the bad registrations are concentrated in just a few counties. Suddenly your .01% rate could be much higher.

This is your argument:
These are the number of total registered
These are the bad ones (maybe)
That percentage represents the margin of error for all elections, and by the way, extrapolates to all states.
We don't need no stinkin' IDs.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

He is also ignoring this is a single audit from a single year based on illegals who marked no. A specific population he is asserting is all fraud or incorrect registration.

The idiocy of his belief set is so large that the only explanation is he doesnt believe his own bullshit but trying to manufacture a reason for a political outcome.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Yeah, he doesn’t believe any of it. He’s lying, it’s what he does.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Can you read? You clearly have difficulty interpreting what I wrote. I never said that 0.1% represents the margin of error for all elections. I never said anything about voter ID in this discussion (hint: I'm in favor of voter IDs).

I never said that an 0.1% error rate extrapolates to all states. But, do you have DATA on what the error rates are in other states? Not conjecture or extrapolation, but actual data? I would be shocked if any other state is much higher than 0.1%.

What I have said, is that an error rate of only 0.1% does not constitute "massive widespread fraud", and that any rational sane neutral person would come to the same conclusion. I believe that Team Red deliberately exaggerates and overhypes fears of "massive widespread fraud" in order to try to push through sweeping federal legislation that has as its real purpose depressing the vote among LEGAL voters that Team Red doesn't want voting, that this is a deliberate cynical choice by Team Red and it's wrong. Do you disagree with any of this? If so, why?

Also, what kind of transparency are you looking for when it comes to voter rolls? Do you think they should all be public? That would invite a whole lot more other issues.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Please, tell us all why an error rate of 0.1% justifies sweeping federal legislation.

Please, tell us all why an error rate of 0.1% means "widespread fraud".

Yes, I can read. Seems pretty clear to me. Are you saying you are not extrapolating your conclusion to justify being against a federal law about election ID?

I never said that an 0.1% error rate extrapolates to all states. But, do you have DATA on what the error rates are in other states? Not conjecture or extrapolation, but actual data? I would be shocked if any other state is much higher than 0.1%.

No, I said that. You implied that extrapolation when you used the data from a single state with a blanket percentage to oppose a federal policy law. And no, I am not sea lioning for you.

Oh wait. You are now parroting the point that this law will disenfranchise legal voters. Okay. What's next, the blacks and the poors can't get ID?

Also, what kind of transparency are you looking for when it comes to voter rolls? Do you think they should all be public? That would invite a whole lot more other issues.

Public, no. Accessible for one to check where they are registered would be a layer of transparency. Particularly for someone who moves more often than you average person.
Cleaned, updated and purged of the dead yearly, or in an election year, would be a step in the right direction. Not automatically registering individuals without consent would be another. Cross referencing other states rolls would be a third. I'm sure there's more. Until then, showing ID is a good idea too.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

No, I said that. You implied that extrapolation when you used the data from a single state with a blanket percentage to oppose a federal policy law. And no, I am not sea lioning for you.

translation: you have no data

Oh wait. You are now parroting the point that this law will disenfranchise legal voters. Okay. What's next, the blacks and the poors can't get ID?

Since the ID requirements specified by the bill are NOT FREE, then yes, by definition, "the poors" won't be able to meet the ID requirements. That is a stealth poll tax.

Get it through your head: voting is a RIGHT. You may think that all those people who can't get or can't afford to obtain their birth certificates or passports are all just lazy irresponsible bums, no matter how untrue and insulting it is, but lazy irresponsible bums have the right to vote as well. We all understand that you all don't WANT them to vote. Too bad.

IF the ID requirements in the bill were such that the onus for obtaining the ID rested entirely, or almost entirely, on the government, then I would have much less of a problem with it, and I think a lot of other people would too. But no, you all want to transform into a privilege that only certain classes and the "responsible" ones get to exercise.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Nobody could read these posts from Lying Jeffy and conclude he’s honest.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

translation: you have no data

Translation. What a clowned response. You present a minimalist source of data and claim it justifies not proceeding with a federal law overseeing all of the elections.

Since the ID requirements specified by the bill are NOT FREE, then yes, by definition, "the poors" won't be able to meet the ID requirements. That is a stealth poll tax.

It's Jeff Crow! I'm sure 'the poors' can manage to fund an ID, Jeff. Give them a little more credit than that. But if, as you state above, all citizens have the inherent 'right' to vote, wouldn't proof of citizenship be a prerequisite of that for you? If not, why not?

You may think that all those people who can't get or can't afford to obtain their birth certificates or passports are all just lazy irresponsible bums, no matter how untrue and insulting it is, but lazy irresponsible bums have the right to vote as well. We all understand that you all don't WANT them to vote. Too bad.

You have no idea what I think, nor what I want. That is some more extrapolation you are tossing into the hat to support your weak premise. I think lazy, irresponsible bums that are citizens have every right to vote. There you go. You think they should just drag their lazy, irresponsible asses to the polling place and say 'here I am, let me vote.' I think they should be able to produce something that says their lazy ass is a lazy ass, irresponsible citizen. There you go.

[damikesc]

So, we've gone from it never happens to it does not happen THAT often?

How many illegal votes are OK with you, jeff?

[chemjeff radical individualist]

"it never happens" is a strawman argument that no one makes.

Do you consider an 0.1% error rate in voter registrations to be "massive widespread fraud"? Incidentally in this case it wasn't even some type of deliberate fraud, it was a computer error on the government's end.

[Think It Through]

Where are you getting the "massive widespread fraud" phrase you keep using? Who cares if it is massive? Who cares if it is widespread? The only operative word is "fraud".

[damikesc]

What number, PRECISELY, would be "widespread" for you?

Let's define terms here.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Yeaahhhh, boyyyyee, here comes some more selective nuance, *chemjeff style.*

You’re a fucking retard, dude.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Where are you getting the "massive widespread fraud" phrase you keep using? Who cares if it is massive? Who cares if it is widespread? The only operative word is "fraud".

In the real world that we inhabit, there are these things called "tradeoffs". Example: Jaywalking is a crime, and ideally should be prosecuted. But how far are you willing to go to see that each and every one is caught? Do you want a police officer on every street corner? That quickly becomes a huge waste of resources, not to mention turning the place into a police state. It is the same essential tradeoff with any essentially illegal behavior. No one is in favor of fraud. It just depends on where you draw the line when it comes to the acceptable tradeoff for the resources devoted to stopping that fraud. The way I see it, I see very few actual cases of intentional voter fraud, so I don't see a rational reason to devote huge additional resources to combat a very small problem, not to mention all of the additional hassles on everyday citizens that any new law would create.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

A better question to ask jeff...

How many legal voters have been disenfranchised from ID requirements.

When Stacey Abraham's sued Ga, they found 3 affected. During trial all 3 stated under oath they didnt face any barriers, they simply hadn't done the work of getting an ID.

Jeff always tries to switch the analysis to disenfranchisement. Yet his team has never found a population actually affected.

If that was his real concern he would advocate for easier access to ID. He doesnt. He wants easier access to vote fraud.

[DesigNate]

Yes.

And that’s not an error rate, those are just the illegal votes they’ve found/admitted to at the present time.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

He knows. He’s being dishonest. It’s what he does.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Look, it is only fraud if there are convictions. All voter fraud is prosecuted. - qb

Ignore none of the admitted 400 were charged.

https://electionfraud.heritage.org/search?state=nj

Meanwhile multiple elections have had to be redone due to fraud on the past few years.

And once again, stop looking to prove there is actual fraud - qb

It's the jaywalking theory. Jaywalking doesnt exist, just look at the number of tickets given.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Ignore none of the admitted 400 were charged.

From your own link:

"These individuals answered 'no' when asked on a keypad whether they were a U.S. citizen when applying for drivers' licenses and identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway," Sherrill said.

Why should they be charged? They did the correct thing and answered "no". It was the government computer system that screwed up.

[Quicktown Brix]

Look, it is only fraud if there are convictions. All voter fraud is prosecuted. - qb

And once again, stop looking to prove there is actual fraud - qb
That's nice. That's exactly what I was saying. You're so smart and honest.

[Marshal]

You know it is not, and the whole thing is a bad faith argument intended to suppress the vote among the people you don't want to exercise their rights to vote.

Since there is no mechanism to suppress the vote by legal voters this is a pretty stupid assertion. Jeffey "knows" it in the same way leftists know all their fantasies: they first ask what accusation will help them politically and they assert that is reality.

Note that checking to see if it is actually true is not a relevant step in his process.

[DesigNate]

I love how it’s always “bad faith” when it’s his political opponents.

Almost like he’s a disingenuous twat.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Leftists always project.

Every argument he makes is in bad faith, so he accuses everyone else of that.

[Super Scary]

The next step of the flow chart is "Ok, illegal voting IS happening, but here's why that's a good thing!"

[Quicktown Brix]

But zero of the 400 were not convicted for illegally voting so qb and NYT can still deny it is a problem.

That's nice. That's exactly what I was saying. You're so smart and honest.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

You’re very predictable, as is the town drunk.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

No one has ever said that there are exactly zero problems with elections or that there is exactly zero voter fraud. That is a strawman.

The issue is, the problem is insignificantly small. Holy shit, 400 people incorrectly cast a ballot in New Jersey, out of 6.6 million registered voters? This corresponds to 0.006% of registered voters in NJ. By any sane measure, THIS IS NOT A SERIOUS PROBLEM.

And at this point, we know you are doing this deliberately, because we've seen you use this exact same playbook before: Take tiny problems, blow them way out of proportion, do so in a way to inflame passions and emotions, and demand sweeping action to "fix" the non-problem. You all have used the same playbook with transgender athletes, with "Sharia law", and now with "election integrity". It is pure demagoguery. This whole campaign has absolutely nothing to do with solving any real problem. It is only about riling people up. That's it and the rest of us aren't going to court your delusional fantasies for your bad-faith campaign.

[MT-Man]

Again "the waffler" speaks, the percentages are a non big deal when it behooves you only.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

They don’t call chemjeff the selectively nuanced defeatist for nothing!

Well, I do anyway. I coined it! Lol.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

It’s a serious problem. There is undoubtedly far more. You’re screeching about this because you know that voter fraud is the only way democrats have any chance of regaining control of Congress and you desperately want open borders.

[See.More]

[...]

The issue is, the problem is insignificantly small. Holy shit, 400 people incorrectly cast a ballot in New Jersey, out of 6.6 million registered voters? This corresponds to 0.006% of registered voters in NJ. By any sane measure, THIS IS NOT A SERIOUS PROBLEM.

And at this point, we know you are doing this deliberately, because we've seen you use this exact same playbook before: Take tiny problems, blow them way out of proportion, do so in a way to inflame passions and emotions, and demand sweeping action to "fix" the non-problem.

You mean like gun control?

In 2025:
* ~38,842 to roughly 40,000 gun deaths not adjusted for suicides or gang violence.

* Population of the United States: ~341,784,857

The problem is insignificantly small. Holy shit, 39k people died from firearms in 2025? This corresponds to 0.012% of the population. By any sane measure, THIS IS NOT A SERIOUS PROBLEM.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Deflect more and cry harder. Ultimately the SAVE Act is not really about "voter fraud". It is about stopping LEGAL voters from voting, the ones that you don't want to vote. Low turnout almost always benefits Team Red, and you want to depress the turnout by any means necessary, including hyping up unfounded fears of "voter fraud".

[See.More]

Deflect more and cry harder.

Got it!

You're awful quick to ad hominem others for "doing this deliberately[...] [using] this exact same playbook before. [Taking] tiny problems, blow[ing] them way out of proportion, do[ing] so in a way to inflame passions and emotions, and demand[ing] sweeping action to "fix" the non-problem."

But when your hypocrisy is exposed, your response is "Deflect more and cry harder..

ROTFLMAO. Bless your heart. I hope you have the day you deserve buddy.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

So you have nothing intelligent to say about the SAVE Act or "voter fraud", you just want to insult me. That sounds about right for your intelligence level. Go fuck off.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Incidentally, you don't even know what my position is on gun rights. Hint: I'm in favor of the right to own guns. Because I'm an actual libertarian, not the leftist you imagine.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

All guns?

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

More lies from Lying Jeffy. It's really all he does.

[Marshal]

It is about stopping LEGAL voters from voting,

Notice how Jeffey just makes up whatever he wishes were true to denigrate his enemies even as he whines that others misrepresent him in the same thread. Perfect evidence is necessary to criticize him and his leftist allies, but no evidence is necessary to denigrate others. Fomenting hatred is all he cares about because that's the left's winning electoral strategy.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Lying Jeffy is such a dishonest piece of shit.

Hey Lying Jeffy, nobody buys your bullshit.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

“….. blow them way out of proportion….”

Lol. Like you are doing with the completely reasonable (until recently) notion that you should prove who you are to vote in our elections? Like in every other country?

You’re a fucking retard, jeff.

[CountmontyC]

Is it enough reasonable suspicion that 400 illegally voted and 38,000 were illegally registered to conduct further investigation of New Jersey voter rolls to see if there are more illegal voters and more illegal registrations? If not how many illegal votes and/or illegal registrations would it take to justify a real investigation?

[Marshal]

Imagine Jeffey designing a bank's operating process. "Since we can't prove theft has occurred we shouldn't design our system to prevent or even detect it. Anyone who argues otherwise is a racist".

It's hard to believe anyone can be this unserious.

[damikesc]

It should be noted that the software vendor is not letting NJ off of the hook.

From the vendor: ""IDEMIA works with the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, and has for more than 40 years, to support the process through which eligible individuals may indicate their interest in registering to vote when applying for or renewing a driver's license or state-issued identification card. IDEMIA's role is to transmit information through the motor vehicle system," IDEMIA said in a statement to Just the News.

"The voter registration information is transmitted to the New Jersey Department of State, Division of Elections, which is ultimately responsible for verifying eligibility to vote. Information submitted by IDEMIA must still be validated and adjudicated by the Division of Elections.""

So, NJ did not do their job here. Intentionally so. So they are trying to blame a software vendor whose job was NOT to do that.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

California doing California things. Voters initiate a constitutional petition, get more than enough votes, supported by 2/3rds of the state in polls. So Bonta modifies the referendum in voting materials.

ESTABLISHES ADDITIONAL VOTER IDENTIFICATION AND CITIZENSHIP VERIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.

New title, as written by Bonta:

PROHIBITS CITIZENS FROM VOTING UNLESS THEY PRESENT GOVERNMENT-ISSUED IDENTIFICATION. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
...
OLD: “This measure would amend the California Constitution to further require that voters present government-issued identification at the polls or the last four digits of a government-issued identification number when voting by mail; the State provide voter identification cards on request; and elections officials annually report percentage of each county’s voters whose citizenship they have verified.”

AND THE VERY SCARY-SOUNDING NEW: “Invalidates mail ballots that do not have last four digits of designated government-issued identification number written on envelope. Prohibits in-person voting without presenting government-issued identification.”

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/07/21/what-are-they-so-afraid-of-ca-ag-bontas-slippery-title-switch-tries-to-kneecap-voter-id-measure-n2204605

[Eeyore]

"PROHIBITS CITIZENS FROM VOTING" what about non-citizens?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Left wing cunts gotta cunt.

[rswallen]

Suddenly voter ID is important?

[damikesc]

How does he get the option to re-word the exact wording of what was passed?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

California law let's him.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Good news on the energy front. Scientists may finally have figured out why solid state batteries formed short circuits over time, the effect stopping use of solid state batteries.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/did-scientists-just-solve-biggest-mystery-holding-back-solid-state-batteries

[Medulla Oblongata]

Some variation on tin whiskers? I'll go read the article.

[Spiritus Mundi]

But we cannot end the genocide on our own.

I guarantee there will be more filthy, goat fucking, kid raping Gazans next year then there are this year. Worst. Genocide. Ever.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

I think the anti israel Ls here prefer the term ethnic cleansing to genocide.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"People experiencing extinction"?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

"People's whose populations continue to increase in numbers and deserve the right to martyr funds, terrorism, and rapes of a population we dislike"

[Medulla Oblongata]

William Tecumseh Sherman:

"War is the remedy our enemies have chosen. Other simple remedies were within their choice. You know it and they know it, but they wanted war, and I say let us give them all they want; not a word of argument, not a sign of let up, no cave in till we are whipped or they are.

You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Also

"If they want eternal war, well and good; we accept the issue, and will dispossess them and put our friends in their place. ...

Three years ago by a little reflection and patience they could have had a hundred years of peace and prosperity, but they preferred war; very well...

Next year their lands will be taken, for in war we can take them, and rightfully, too, and in another year they may beg in vain for their lives. A people who will persevere in war beyond a certain limit ought to know the consequences. Many, many peoples with less pertinacity have been wiped out of national existence.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

All profit no downside immigration isnt just an American ideal.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/three-quarters-refugee-linked-households-vienna-rely-taxpayer-handouts

Vienna recorded by far the highest rate of welfare dependence. About 75 percent of the households examined in the capital relied on minimum-income payments or comparable state support, meaning only one in four was considered economically self-sufficient.

Nationwide, 47 percent of the households included in the study could not support themselves independently, according to Exxpress.

[Spiritus Mundi]

They are too busy committing the rapes Italians won't do to get a job.

[Zeb]

Austria needs more Italian rapists!

[Spiritus Mundi]

I saw a similar article on this problem in Italy, and assumed it was the same without really reading it. And we know what happens when we assume.

https://www.courthousenews.com/italian-welfare-barrier-for-refugees-fails-in-europes-top-court/

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Just amazing bullshit. Have to fund the lifestyle of those who cross a border. National suicide.

Make No Public Charge great again.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

They all moved to the Jersey Shore.

[Vernon Depner]

committing the rapes Italians won't do

There are NO rapes Italians won't do.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Does this mean leftists will now rant about Austria and leave Mississippi alone?

[Medulla Oblongata]

At least someone is paying attention.

https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/62576/denmark-unprecedented-measures-to-signal-to-migrants-they-are-not-welcome

Denmark used to have a reputation throughout the world as a liberal haven known for welcoming foreigners. However, this image has changed drastically in the past few years, as a series of new policies have made the Nordic nation rather unattractive for migrants and even for many refugees.

https://www.meforum.org/fwi/fwi-news/french-senate-passes-sweeping-measures-against-islamist-infiltration

France’s upper house of parliament voted 208 to 124 on May 5 to approve the bill introduced by former Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau to combat what he describes as a clandestine movement whose “ultimate objective” is the “establishment of an Islamic state” in France.

Too Late?

“The step taken in France is a welcome one, but unfortunately too late and really just a reaction to a long, and mainly demographic, process that the ruling elite has thrust upon its people,” Kent Ekeroth, a former Sweden Democrats MP, told Focus on Western Islamism (FWI).

“Even if the bill can help to postpone infiltration, corruption, and disrupt some economic activities of Islamist organizations, in the long run, the problem is a demographic one, and without a mass-remigration, it will merely be a small bump on the road for Islamist ambitions,” Ekeroth, who has written for FWI, observed.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

If this keeps up, did the whitmer kidnapping plot even ever happen?

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/michigan-appeals-court-reverses-two-more-convictions-tied-whitmer-kidnapping

[Mike Parsons]

At this point it looks like a govt jobs program for federal agents.

Hire 10 agents, have them create conspiracy out of whole cloth. Have conspiracy fail. Hire entire branch with 100+ personnel to investigate dangerous conspiracy.

Really just a different version of CA's failed bullet train, but on the federal level

[Eeyore]

They keep inviting mentality retarded lonely individuals to come hang out with them and then calling them conspirators.

[Ron]

The FBI got away with Ruby Ridge and WACO so why not up the anti and target politicians, or is this just the first time they got caught targeting polititicians

[Medulla Oblongata]

Nothing new...this is a dozen years ago or so.

https://www.gawkerarchives.com/inept-atf-uses-children-and-low-iq-people-in-their-stin-1479256685

ATF agents have been exploiting mentally disabled people, allowing children to use drugs, teaching criminals new tricks, and even employing female agents to hit on underaged males as part of their storefront sting operations, a new investigative report charges.

In April, the Journal exposed an ATF sting operation that went sour after they used a brain damaged man named Chaucey Wright to hand out fliers to attract people to one of their fake storefronts. The ATF paid Wright — who had an IQ in the 50's — in cigarettes and cash. They never told him the store was a front, although his girlfriend suspected something wasn't right.

"Everything was wrong about that place," she told the Journal. "I told him, 'It's on a dead-end street. There's no windows. Don't you feel something funny about it?' He said, 'These are my guys.' He really thought they were his friends."

At some point, the undercover agents began asking him to procure cocaine and guns for them, which he did. Once the sting was over, they arrested him on federal drug and gun counts, charges which could land him life in prison.

[Eeyore]

Too lazy and/or incompetent to catch real criminals. Or possibly too afraid.

[damikesc]

Shit, seriously, how many people have not had their convictions overturned?

[Vernon Depner]

Trump?

[Mickey Rat]

""I want to be equally clear: Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large," said Mamdani. "But we cannot end the genocide on our own. We can decide whether our silence will become another weapon."

Can we arrest Mamdami for supporting a terrorist organization with announced genocidal goals, that is, the destruction of Israel as a state and the ethnic cleansing of Jewish Israelis from Israel's territory?

Seriously, what a disgusting, oily, little freak.

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

I thought we were supposed to be supportive of visiting foreigners?

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

After we get the illegal situation under control, Trump is unveiling his new free VISA program for sevens and above.

[Idaho-Bob]

What did we expect from a foreign-born muzzie? This motherfucker thinks he runs America. He wants the presidency at some point and will say it's racist that he is ineligible to run. Mark my words.

[Eeyore]

Give it another year and when someone is called a racist they will stand there and proudly say, "damn straight I'm racist".

[Idaho-Bob]

Already happening.

We proudly use the term "people who recognize patterns".

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Way to fit the Idaho stereotype there.

Tell us, what rights do you think the "inferior races" ought to have, and why?

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

No Fatfuck, the conversation we need to have here is what rights you should be afforded as a communist traitor. My vote is for ‘none’.

A soulless blob like you isn’t even human anyway.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Oh look, dehumanizing your political opponents. I can see why you and Idaho Bob are kindred spirits. You both treat the people you don't like as subhuman animals.

Tell us, what was the moment that you decided to go full-on fascist? Was it when Obama was elected the first time, or the second time?

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Look at Lying Jeffy admitting he’s a communist!

[damikesc]

Libertarians for Obama. Makes sense.

Cannot imagine why anybody thinks you're a lickspittle for the Left.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

I didn't vote for Obama. I do think, however, he was the big giant trigger that caused Team Red to go from GW Bush's "compassionate conservatism" to Trump's "mass deportations and fuck the immigrants".

[damikesc]

Well, weaponizing the government might do that. He did, you know, specifically force the invention of the Russian collusion bullshit.

As well as seeing squishes like McCain and Romney called white supremacists et al showing that ANYBODY would be a Nazi when facing a Democrat, so sticking with "nice" Republicans is pointless.

[Idaho-Bob]

How cute, using "fascist" to dehumanize/Nazify your political opponents.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

You two really are kindred spirits. Let me guess, you also regard me as a "soulless blob" who isn't really human either, right?

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

You are a lying psychopath, sooo....

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

You’re probably human, jeff.

You’re just a fucking retard.

[DesigNate]

Said without a single hint of self-awareness.

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Look at the radical individualist be a total hypocrite!

[Idaho-Bob]

You can't shame me. You can't shame me for choosing to live among 95% Caucasians. I leave my keys in the ignition, the doors unlocked, windows opened, and my kids have never been assaulted.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

You were the one who openly admitted to being a racist. So tell us all what your "master plan" is. What should happen to the "inferior races"? In your plan, do they get any rights? If so, which ones and why?

[Idaho-Bob]

Fat boy using words I never said and projecting acts I never mentioned.

Jeffy - I remember how YOU wanted Covid vax questioners treated, I remember how YOU want election questioners treated, and I remember how YOU want conservatives/Trump supporters treated.

Remind me again who is the fascist?

[chemjeff radical individualist]

No you don't, you project how you imagine I wanted them treated.

And don't be coy:

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Give it another year and when someone is called a racist they will stand there and proudly say, "damn straight I'm racist".

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Already happening.

We proudly use the term "people who recognize patterns".

And then you brag about how you are proud to live among 95% Caucasians. What a strange thing to brag about if you didn't think there was some element of racial superiority/inferiority going on.

If you're so proud to be a racist that you "can't be shamed", why are you now pretending that you didn't claim to be a racist?

[Idaho-Bob]

It's simple risk analysis. If me choosing to live away from your idea of diversity means low crime rates, cheaper car insurance rates (no theft or B&E), less police, and safe public areas for my kids, say what you will.

IDGAF.

[Zeb]

I'm hesitant to wade into this, but here goes. I really want to believe that people of all races are capable of behaving themselves and forming a functional, high trust society. That's my default assumption. I can't speak for anyone else, but I suspect that Idaho Bob and many others would be perfectly happy to live in a place with more racial diviersity if there were such a place in the US where you could leave the keys in your truck, doors unlocked, etc. without concern that all your shit will be stolen. Can you point to such a place? I don't think people can really be blamed for noticing such patterns and acting on them. It may not point to any inherent racial difference or superiority, as you put it, but it does seem to be an effective heuristic if you are looking for a safe, high-trust place to live. And while I find it distasteful, I also can't blame people using such heuristics for saying "fine, I guess I'm a racist" after being called racist over and over again for noticing and acting on the patterns they observe.

[Idaho-Bob]

Replying to Zeb -

This really is the crux of the issue. I don't really care about a person's race, but I do care about culture. The two tend to be intermixed and the culture colors the race. Puns intended.

I mean no ill will or have intentions of acting out, but I am content with a little isolation.

[damikesc]

Odd, there are precious few black folks I'd view as being less of a human than Tim Walz.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Nobody blames you for wanting to live in a low-crime area. The issue is when you conclude crime is caused by race. *Individuals* commit crime, not racial groups. Your "95% Caucasian" neighbors act the way they do not because of their skin color.

I don't really care about a person's race, but I do care about culture. The two tend to be intermixed and the culture colors the race.

I'm sorry, you need to get your story straight. "I don't really care about a person's race" and "You can't shame me for choosing to live among 95% Caucasians" are mutually contradictory statements. To claim that AKSHUALLY it's about "culture", when you yourself state that you use race as a proxy for culture, is a distinction without a difference from just abject racism.

If you deliberately want to live in a racially homogeneous environment, then just say so, but be honest about what you're doing and don't lie to yourself or others about what is actually going on. You think that certain people are just better than others, and that the "better people" are the Caucasian ones.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Zeb, I agree. I can live near anyone, as long as they are law abiding, patriotic Americans. For example, I would much rather have black neighbors than say Pedo Jeffy, Charlie Hall, etc. so long as those black people share my values, for the most part.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Haha. Look at lying jeffy go! Leaping right into “master plan(s)” that nobody is talking about except him. Wow. What an incredible piece of shit.

As for me, I’ll just avoid mass transit in large urban areas. Let the animals prey on someone else.

Bug I suppose you think that would be some kind of “war” or some retarded shit. What an asshole.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Yes we know, you call those inferior people "animals" just because they have poor taste in music. Right?

[DesigNate]

No. He’s referring to the people that assault and murder random passengers on public transit.

But then, you fucking knew that, but any reason to pretend your political opponents are racists, eh?

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Yes, we know you’re an incredible, race baiting, poverty pimping, open borders, pedophile enthusiast piece of shit.

Now fuck off, m’kay?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

See my proposal for the Mamdani Toilet Brush (TM).

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Find it funny we've stopped hearing about epstein as much since the Kentucky loss. And now it turns out the epstein class is still funding democrats.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-epstein-class-attack-backfires-top-candidates-funded-epstein-tied-billionaire

[Medulla Oblongata]

Saw a FB video with the conservative man-in-the-street interviewer talking with a liberal. At one point the liberal woman starts to say something about Epstein files, then abruptly clamps her mouth shut, then tries to pivot. The interviewer says "Epstein files? Let's talk about the Epstein files." Subject walks away.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Don't worry Liz, the Top Men Sandwich maker at Reeeeeason would like to remind us Zohran Mamdani Can't Ruin New York City.

[Medulla Oblongata]

There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound: choosing the right bread, for instance. The Sandwich Maker had spent many months in daily consultation and experiment with Grarp the Baker and eventually they had created a loaf of exactly the consistency that was dense enough to slice thinly and neatly, while still being light, moist and having the best of that fine nutty flavor which best enhanced the savor of roast Perfectly Normal Beast flesh.

There was also the geometry of the slice to be refined: the precise relationships between the width and height of the slice and also its thickness which would give the proper sense of bulk and weight to the finished sandwich -- here again, lightness was a virtue, but so too were firmness, generosity and that promise of succulence and savor that is the hallmark of a truly intense sandwich experience.

The proper tools, of course, were crucial, and many were the days that the Sandwich Maker, when not engaged with the Baker at his oven, would spend with Strinder the Tool Maker, weighing and balancing knives, taking them to the forge and back again. Suppleness, strength, keenness of edge, length and balance were all enthusiastically debated, theories put forward, tested, refined, and many was the evening when the Sandwich Maker and the Tool Maker could be seen silhouetted against the light of the setting sun and the Tool Maker's forge making slow sweeping movements through the air, trying one knife after another, comparing the weight of this one with the balance of another, the suppleness of a third and the handle binding of a fourth.

Three knives altogether were required. First, there was the knife for the slicing of the bread: a firm, authoritative blade, which imposed a clear and defining will on a loaf. Then there was the butter-spreading knife, which was a whippy little number but still with a firm backbone to it. Early versions had been a little too whippy, but now the combination of flexibility with a core of strength was exactly right to achieve the maximum smoothness and grace of spread.

The chief among the knives, of course, was the carving knife. This was the knife that would not merely impose its will on the medium through which it moved, as did the bread knife. It must work with it, be guided by the grain of the meat, to achieve slices of the most exquisite consistency and translucency, that would slide away in filmy folds from the main hunk of meat. The Sandwich Maker would then flip each sheet with a smooth flick of the wrist onto the beautifully proportioned lower bread slice, trim it with four deft strokes and then at last perform the magic that the children of the village so longed to gather round and watch with rapt attention and wonder. With just four more dexterous flips of the knife he would assemble the trimmings into a perfectly fitting jigsaw of pieces on top of the primary slice. For every sandwich the size and shape of the trimmings were different, but the Sandwich Maker would always effortlessly and without hesitation assemble them into a pattern which fitted perfectly. A second layer of meat and a second layer of trimmings, and the main act of creation would now be accomplished.

--- Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

Crust to crust is an important rule when spreading condiments.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

I can’t wait for our resident self reclaimed food expert/retarded alcoholic to opine on this.

Something, something Cuban sandwiches……..

[GOD OF PENGUIN ISLAND]

That really aged well. just like all the other times Reason simps for leftists.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

And just like every other leftist, they feel neither shame nor any sense of accountability. Just like some idiot wokies talking about how Hollywood couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today because it’s ’too woke’.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

I thought ENB was Sandwich Maker Prime?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

As unsexy as it may feel to him, I would rather my mayor figure out how to keep the streets clean, how to streamline permits for new housing, and how to make the subways run on time than waste energy and political will on stunts like this one.

Trains run on time... allusion for leftists?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

The ghost of FDR gets a stiffy.

[mad.casual]

Just to be clear: This is a pro–data center newsletter and ALWAYS WILL BE.

Just to be clear, Conservatives have always been pro-private ownership even if they supported "robber barons" and company towns.

"Both (all) sides" of the OpenAI/Hugging Face issue should be rightfully questioning "Exactly how many more terawatts of power do we/they need?" especially with the idiots in charge, as well as China, talking about building megawatt and gigawatt-sized orbital platforms.

[Mickey Rat]

"OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its artificial intelligence models went rogue and successfully hacked into Hugging Face,..."

Why is that even possible?

How do we have a situation where AI programs are capable of committing crimes on their own?

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

Crimes are just a social construct, man.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Imposed by the oppressive white patriarchy.

[mad.casual]

Why is that even possible?

How do we have a situation where AI programs are capable of committing crimes on their own?

It's not and we don't.

[Dons tinfoil hat]

Anthropic restricted Mythos because it was too dangerous. They started Glasswing, partnering with just specific entities like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Crowdstrike.

OpenAI deliberately relaxed the safeguards on the LLM that caused the breach/escape (not necessarily to attack Hugging Face). What the incident shows is that the corporate-level walled garden is bullshit and Glasswing could, accidentally, wind up attacking AAAMC's rivals.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

It isnt. They were programmed to do it.

[Mickey Rat]

Which is less worrisome, except for the dishonesty.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

AI isnt about results anymore. It is about best press release.

Meanwhile after their shift to per query license fees, companies are starting to reduce the usage by a lot.

[Medulla Oblongata]

It didn't do nuffin'

[Vernon Depner]

Is AI white?

[JFree]

This is a nonsense press release. Hugging Face is basically the US way that open-source LLM's will be implemented. The ONLY competition to the bullshit 'frontier' closed-source models (mostly US) that have already lost the AI competition before they have even cashed out and gone public.

Open AI is selling the notion that LLM's themselves are independently attacking open-source models based on their own independent 'intelligence'. They will "seek to understand" why Open AI deemed Hugging Face a threat as if the machine is independent intelligence. To create a 'national security' imperative so that American AI becomes an instrument of the state. So that 'open-source' models are banned from the US. So that the entire American AI model becomes a protectionist backwater.

They can't face the reality that the open-source model is far more Hayekian than the closed-source proprietary models that are throwing trillions of dollars down the toilet.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
Income and education are usually positively correlated. But sometimes the relationship breaks down. What's the most Democratic voting group in America? People with post-graduate degrees but lower-to-middle incomes.

Useless social science degrees =/= education. It equals indoctrination.

[Mike Parsons]

"post-graduate degrees but lower-to-middle incomes."

And this demo is almost entirely education, sociology, philosophy, critical theory type professors. The most useless and most highly indoctrinated fields in existence.

Also, ya who would have thought indoctrinated people who make little money wouldn't be the ideal candidates for 'make the rich pay' socialism/communism.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Just wait for co-Presidents Newsom and AOC to mandate DEI 2.0, which this time will include mandatory family counseling and neighbor watch teams.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

The family counselors will all be drag queens.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Those used to be called struggle sessions.

[middlefinger]

And guess who backs the student loans for this propaganda.

[HorseConch]

They're the cohort of teachers who are activists with $100k in student loans and a $50k income. Getting a masters to poorly teach 3rd grade is a choice, it's just a really bad choice.

[Mickey Rat]

An oversaturated supply of degrees with limited utility in the first place. Of course, Left leaning people with credentials are surprised that supply outstripping demand means that the supply does not retain value.

[Mike Parsons]

"Left leaning people with credentials are surprised that supply outstripping demand means that the supply does not retain value."

'that doesn't make any sense' - AOC, with her degree in Economics from BU (tuition about 75k/year)

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Next they will find out importing and paying the rent for illegals and immigrants has a cost effect on housing.

[Medulla Oblongata]

And city/county/state and federal budgets.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

It also reminds me of the pompous and useless inner circle court types under classic European monarchies. A bunch of pompous and useless assholes kissing ass and sucking dick, between intra-group slurs and assassinations, all while telling themselves that their intellectual superiority meant that at least one of them had to rule the peasants.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

SEEMS BAD: "OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its artificial intelligence models went rogue and successfully hacked into Hugging Face, a digital library of A.I. technology that is popular among developers," reports The New York Times.

The Claude press release. Program AI to do something, pretend it did it on its own.

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

Did you see the way that digital library was dressed?

[Ajsloss]

The AI was incapable of feeling bad about it afterwards though.

[mad.casual]

The Claude press release.

Anti-Claude as the case may be. See above, this is OpenAI and Hugging Face congenially showing that idea of Glasswing as safety measure against Mythos is bullshit.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...after the Houthi rebel group sent an email to shipowners warning against calling at Saudi Arabia's ports...

Right to spam.

[Fist of Etiquette]

OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its artificial intelligence models went rogue and successfully hacked into Hugging Face...

You know who else had to deal with AI and facehugging?

[mad.casual]

Not Peter Weyland or Cullen Yutani?

[Fist of Etiquette]

A Locomotive Named Big Boy Is Making Grown Men Cry

That's why America refuses to invest in high speed rail. We're already bleeding testosterone at a positively European rate.

[mad.casual]

Not to put too fine a point on it, but while half of America was busy storming the beaches of Normandy, and the other half was storming beaches in Iwo Jima, the other half was building Big Boy, a 600 ton locomotive that is too large to fit in many of Europe's rail tunnels.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

A big BLACK locomotive,

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Bigger and blacker………..

[Mickey Rat]

Men enjoying big machinery is leaking testosterone? Does not compute.

[Fist of Etiquette]

THERE'S NO CRYING IN TRAINSPOTTING

[mad.casual]

[Fist of Etiquette]

David Jolly, the Democratic front-runner in the Florida governor's race, on Tuesday reiterated his push to pause data center construction statewide...

Recipe searches and anti-zion chats could literally boil away the excess seawater, stemming the literal tide of climate change, and this yokel wants to stymie progress.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I am still looking for start-up funding for the Mamdani Toilet Brush. Imagine the pleasure people could have shoving that fuzzy head into their crusty toilets. But I am still considering the deluxe option that talks, so users could hear some standard Mamdani blather about cool socialism and Jew bashing until he submerges.

What do you think?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

I want a toilet brush that works.

[Juliana Frink]

It should employ his teeth for those extra tough stains. Finally, a proper use for that Shit-Eating Grin!

[Eeyore]

"Yum yum yum - this tastes just like my favorite bodega sandwich."

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'In 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu as well as his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant.'

Think we can get Trump and Blanche to issue warrants for the ICC?

[Vernon Depner]

Or issue a B2 for them?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"I want to be equally clear: Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large," said Mamdani. "But we cannot end the genocide on our own. We can decide whether our silence will become another weapon."

Well, Democrats told me silence is violence. So I suppose this means another left wing assassination plan.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Just an extraordinary headline from The Wall Street Journal: "A Locomotive Named Big Boy Is Making Grown Men Cry"'

Isn't this what women have been wishing for?

[Ajsloss]

how to make the subways run on time

Il Douche has a plan for that.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Again, which FDR thought was dreamy.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Il Douche is a good name for that grinning little islamocommunist retard

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

So this is a thing I guess...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/20/dollar-tree-sexual-assault-gooner

Young reddit males follow women around dollar tree jerking off.

[Medulla Oblongata]

They're ONLY jerking off, it's their culture, let them be!

[HorseConch]

Were the victims sober enough to say no?

[Eeyore]

Dollar Tree? Amateurs. Professionals do it at Neiman Marcus.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"Where the Elites Meet to Beat!"

[mad.casual]

Anything short of Monica Lewinsky in The Oval Office or E Jean Carroll in Bergdorf Goodman's is bush league.

[Eeyore]

Getting a bj that wasn't sex, because she didn't like it and because of the definition of "is" - that shits next level.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Guess I'm an outlier being in the lower right corner of that chart but having NEVER voted for a Democrat.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Saw on FB that Big Boy went through my childhood hometown recently and was the biggest thing that happened there in years.

https://www.destinationsenecacounty.org/bigboy/

[MollyGodiva]

When a US citizen commits a crime outside of the US, they are under the jurisdiction of the countries laws. Is that country is part of the ICC then the ICC would absolutely have jurisdiction.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

If the asswipe MG ever makes a comment worthy of two brain cells, the world will end.
Fuck off and die, shitstain.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Still retarded.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Nope.

[damikesc]

Them and what divisions?

Anybody touches an American on behalf of the ICC and they should cease to exist as a country.

[MollyGodiva]

Threatening war so that your citizens can commit crimes in other countries is exactly the type of insane I would expect from a MAGA shit.

[damikesc]

Siding with a fascist bureaucracy like the ICC over Americans seems par for the course for American leftists.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Chinese fifty centers*

Ironically his own country also ignores the ICC.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Still retarded.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Words mean something. Abusing a word takes its power away.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/the-boy-who-cried-genocide/ar-AA28nN7p

There was a time when the word "genocide" stopped a conversation cold. Now, it's a talking point — flung at whatever country the progressive Left wants to tar this week.

We know what that looks like. Six million Jews, industrially murdered. Eight hundred thousand Rwandan Tutsis, hacked to death in a hundred days. The Uyghurs of Xinjiang — mass internment, forced sterilization, children stripped from families — a campaign both the Trump and Biden administrations designated as genocide. The Islamic State group's butchery of the Yazidis.

That word is now being spent like loose change.

Take Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who accused Azerbaijan of "implementing a genocidal campaign" against Armenians — when Baku was reclaiming territory the entire world, including Armenia's own government today, recognizes as Azerbaijani. The death toll of the operation was under 300. Three years later, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a U.S.-brokered peace at the White House. Some genocide.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Amnesty International and ICC both admitted they changed the definition of genocide in their documents to go after israel.

[Michael Ejercito]

When did they admit this?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/predetermined-conclusions-amnesty-israel-workers-slam-parent-groups-genocide-charge/

Granted it was a branch. But they also admitted to it at one of their conferences.

Here is one of the talks.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/2/27/amnesty-international-genocide-talk/

[Medulla Oblongata]

What is wrong with the world today?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/men-ask-woman-for-a-cigarette-then-jump-and-beat-her-boyfriend-until-he-dies-after-she-says-she-doesn-t-smoke-police/ar-AA28jXha

A 60-year-old Nevada man tried to shield his girlfriend from two individuals who were "insulting and talking badly" to her after she didn't have a cigarette to give them, cops say. The pair allegedly jumped the man and beat him until he died.

Scott Dennis was in line at a Las Vegas food bank when Shiloh Leutu, 38, and another suspect asked Dennis' girlfriend for a cigarette, according to an arrest report obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal and local NBC affiliate KSNV.

The woman told them she didn't smoke, so Leutu and the man with him allegedly began accosting and ridiculing her for it. Dennis had stepped out of line to smoke, saw what was going on, then returned to shield his girlfriend from Leutu and the other man, according to police.

Using witness statements and surveillance video, cops determined that Leutu and the other man attacked and fatally beat Dennis outside the food bank. Cops say Leutu and the other man kept hitting and kicking him as he tried to get up off the ground.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Didnt the two men know they can just go sign petitions and vote for Democrats to get free cigarettes?

And why only name one of the assaulters??

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What's wrong with the world? We let women vote.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Three Tampa teens charged in violent attacks on homeless victims

TAMPA, Fla. – Tampa Police have arrested and charged three teenagers in connection with a pair of early-morning attacks on July 13 that left a homeless man in critical condition.

The initial incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. in the 800 block of East MLK Boulevard. Police say three males approached a man in his mid-40s and a woman in her mid-30s who were resting in the area. The suspects began yelling at the pair and throwing rocks, striking the woman in the back of the head. She did not suffer serious injuries, and the encounter was not immediately reported to law enforcement.

At approximately 7:45 a.m. that same morning, officers on patrol found a man in his mid-60s lying unresponsive behind a closed business in the 3900 block of North Nebraska Avenue. The location sits less than a quarter-mile from the site of the earlier incident. The victim suffered a traumatic brain injury and was taken to a local hospital, where he remains on a ventilator in critical condition.

Detectives linked the two scenes after interviewing the victims of the 2:30 a.m. assault, who provided accounts that helped establish a timeline and descriptions of the suspects. An officer later identified the suspects using department-wide alerts as 13-year-old Samari Bryant, 14-year-old Corliss Sirmons, and 16-year-old Javonnie Council.

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

Talking about pattern recognition:

https://www.fox13news.com/news/tampa-teens-accused-assaulting-homeless-people-because-were-bored-charged-attempted-murder

[Medulla Oblongata]

Most secure elections ever!

Newsweek:

Democrat governor reveals "unacceptable" error allowed non-citizens to vote

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/democrat-governor-reveals-unacceptable-error-allowed-non-citizens-to-vote/ar-AA28oEnJ

A technical error allowed thousands of people who marked themselves as noncitizens to register to vote in New Jersey, Governor Mikie Sherrill announced Tuesday, with a few hundred people going on to vote in elections.

[D-Pizzle]

"Error" is the word that belongs in scare-quotes.

[Medulla Oblongata]

They actually ask him questions about his jew-hatred?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/michigan-democrat-abdul-el-sayed-fumes-about-his-cnn-interviews-i-get-a-non-consensual-colonoscopy/ar-AA28jtb8

“Now, you know, I go on CNN every once in a while, and I get a non-consensual colonoscopy. And then all they ever ask me about is another country,” El Sayed said to a crowd of supporters in Grand Rapids, adding:

And then they’re like, “All he’s ever talking about is another country?” No! I just want everybody to understand that there’s an opportunity cost to the money being sent over there, and that is what we could have over here.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

More judge-shopping:
"Trump administration illegally weakened air pollution protections, judge rules"
[...]
"The Trump administration has illegally weakened national protections against air pollution from soot, the tiny particles released by motor vehicles, power plants and factories that can cause fatal heart and lung diseases, a Bay Area federal judge says.
[...]
In a ruling issued late Friday, U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam of Oakland rejected the EPA's timetable and ordered the agency to issue stricter pollution standards by next February, enabling states to set new rules to reduce soot emissions..."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-administration-illegally-weakened-air-221155393.html

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

New rule: blockade any products related to motor vehicles, power plants, and factories from entering Oakland, and all other dimwit regions that file suit against modernity.

[Neutral not Neutered]

Will NYers realize their failing ways and remove the "anyone can vote" regardless if they are lawful residents or citizens?

If not maybe true patriots will plan vacations around the next mayoral elections in these Blue cities to turn the tide for the people who live there?

[Medulla Oblongata]

What a culture they bring to the Western world!

https://rmx.news/article/iraqi-suspected-of-pushing-16-year-old-liana-k-in-front-of-freight-train-in-germany-claimed-to-be-gay-on-rejected-asylum-application-before-sexually-assaulting-a-female/

Iraqi suspected of pushing 16-year-old Liana K. in front of freight train in Germany claimed to be gay on rejected asylum application, before sexually assaulting a female

Muhammed A., 31, first entered the European Union illegally through Lithuania on Aug. 25, 2021. He claimed to be homosexual and insisted he would face the death penalty in Iraq — a common method used by migrants from Middle Eastern countries to stay in Europe and thwart any deportation proceedings, irrespective of whether an asylum request is granted or not. His asylum request was rejected twice.

The Federal Office for Migration in Germany submitted a Dublin application to send him back to Lithuania in October 2022, but multiple legal challenges delayed his return. He alleged he had been raped at an asylum center in Kybartai, Lithuania, and warned of “significant risk of retraumatization” if deported. No evidence of this event, including any formal accusations at the time or charges, has been reported.

In November 2024, Muhammed A. was convicted of an exhibitionistic act after approaching a woman, putting his arm around her, unzipping his pants, and exposing himself. This incident contradicts the homosexuality claims. He was fined 40 daily rates of €15 each. Because the fine fell below 90 daily rates, it did not trigger a criminal record that might have further influenced his immigration status.

Authorities say he repeatedly stalled deportation proceedings. By March of this year, an enforceable deportation order to Lithuania was in place. While serving a 20-day substitute prison sentence in Hannover for failing to pay a fine, immigration authorities applied for deportation detention. However, Hannover District Court rejected it, ruling the risk of absconding was not sufficiently justified.

On Aug. 11, police say he pushed Liana K. with full force against a passing freight train while she was on the phone with her grandfather. Investigators found his DNA on her shoulder. He has since been placed in a psychiatric hospital, claiming to have schizophrenia, sparking concerns that his lawyers may claim he cannot be deemed criminally responsible for his actions.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Has anyone else noticed that foreigners rely on democrat narratives and talking points in order to abuse laws and culture when they immigrate?

[Marshal]

We should run a few undercover operations to catch their NGO lawyers telling them what to say. A few disbarments and prosecutions for suborning perjury would go a long way.

[Rick James]

Iraqi suspected of pushing 16-year-old Liana K. in front of freight train in Germany claimed to be gay on rejected asylum application, before sexually assaulting a female

He likely did NOT claim to be gay, the NGO filling out his asylum application for him nudged him to claim to be gay.

"You're gay, right? RIGHT? Because that makes a BIG difference on whether your asylum case will be accepted... so... let's try again, you're gay, riiiight?"

[Medulla Oblongata]

JewFrees movie theater?

The manager of a movie theater in suburban Portland, Oregon, is defending a cryptic marquee message about Jews and “The Odyssey” by saying modern-day antisemitism is “exaggerated” to help Israel.

“Before there were the Jews, there was … ‘The Odyssey,’” said the marquee at the Lake Theater and Cafe in Lake Oswego.

“Through the media I consume, I believe modern-day antisemitism is exaggerated, mostly as a defense for Israel’s actions in the Middle East and its involvement in our politics,” Perry told the Tribune. “My intention in referencing Jewish people on the marquee was to prod at everything being seemingly antisemitic with a statement that couldn’t possibly be construed as antisemitic.”

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

This is some JewFree/Misek-level tardation

[damikesc]

The modern Left is impressively in alignment with the Nazi Party.

On almost every area.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

That isn’t even close to historically accurate. The Odyssey takes place 3200-3300 years ago. Judaism predates that by around a thousand years.

[Rick James]

Apparently his lawyers said the city does not have "independent legal authority" to do so—much to his dismay.

Is that what his Jewish Lawyers told him?

[Rick James]

As unsexy as it may feel to him, I would rather my mayor figure out how to keep the streets clean, how to streamline permits for new housing, and how to make the subways run on time

Check out Jordan Peterson over here.

[Rick James]

Income and education are usually positively correlated. But sometimes the relationship breaks down. What's the most Democratic voting group in America? People with post-graduate degrees but lower-to-middle incomes.

As someone who's been wasting all of his time on Kulturwar hurrdurr lo these last 15 years, this phenomenon was something us kulturwar hurdurr types were warning you about. Admittedly, back then it was mainly just being pitched as the fact that college wasn't the value proposition it used to be, too many useless degrees (elite overproductions) or, 'when everyone has a college degree, no one has a college degree' kind of degree inflation/value deflation.

If you don't believe me, here's Peter Schiff's famous video interviewing young people working the French Quarter scene as bartenders, pedi-cab operators or door-men about their college degrees and how much debt they have.

That this turned into a reliable Marxist voting bloc will really only be a surprise to those who weren't paying attention.

[Rick James]

I should also add that 15 years ago this was already a raging, festering cancer that few wanted to talk about, but a very small number of brave souls were at least starting to point it out and ask questions.

[damikesc]

We need to direct their ire and rage at the really deserving party:

Higher education.

THEY stole the money and THEY provided no useful service.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Smithsonian director burned in hearing...

https://nypost.com/2026/07/21/us-news/congress-eviscerates-smithsonian-director-for-overtly-sexual-trans-exhibits-museum-pamphlets-calling-politeness-white-supremacy/

During the exchange, Gill asked Hartig if she thinks it is important to be polite, to which she responds "Yes, sir." "That's interesting, because the mass action toolkit that your organization has been promoting references politeness as a defining characteristic of white supremacy culture," Gill responds. "Ma'am, are you a white supremacist?" he asked.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Gill is fun to watch.

[MollyGodiva]

Gill lied. The toolkit does not say that.

[damikesc]

He did quote it.

[MollyGodiva]

He "quoted" from it, but it is not in the actual document. He made it up.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Lol. Extra retarded. He quoted directly from it.

[Mike Parsons]

I feel like for a while Jim Jordan was the congress attack dog for these types of hearings, but I always thought he got too angry too quickly to make his point well. It often came across as angry man shouting at democrats, reasonable as it was.

Gill has a great factual trolling and shoving smugness down the throat of smug people, that is pretty perfect. I feel like every day he is destroying another woke retard, most often with their own words.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Condolences to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

"Johnny Brown, the father of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, died on Wednesday [July 15], according to an obituary published in the Miami Herald on Friday afternoon. He was 80 years old.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Jew-hating DSA like a tick boring into the Democrat Party.

https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/2071654284060442737

DCCC Chair Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) is excusing the “Jewish and anti-Israel problem” the Democratic Party has in an interview with Chuck Todd. Her excuse is that we are a “big tent” and even Jew haters are welcome

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Friends of Lowell Foundation Sues SFUSD over Ethnic Studies Curriculum ..."
[...]
"A new Brown Act lawsuit gives the federal authorities already reviewing SFUSD one more misstep to examine
SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESS Newswire / July 15, 2026 / The Friends of Lowell Foundation (FOLF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, has filed a verified petition for writ of mandate in San Francisco Superior Court (Case Number pending) challenging the San Francisco Board of Education's April 28 adoption of Voices: An Ethnic Studies Survey as the District's permanent ethnic studies curriculum.
The lawsuit seeks to set aside the Board's approval of the curriculum, declare the challenged expenditures unlawful, and obtain additional relief from the court..."
https://www.pr-inside.com/friends-of-lowell-foundation-sues-sfusd-over-ethnic-studies-curriculum-r5201497.htm

Lowell is a 'magnet' school with very high standards and the SFUSD has already tried to dilute the standards by randomly assigning students who fail in the first semester. That 'experiment' ended in complete failure last year.
Now, they're trying to jam "ethnic studies" down the throats of the kids (and their parents).

[Agammamon]

>Scenes from New York: This explains basically all of Brooklyn's "commie corridor" (where I live, sadly):

There is a misconception here on your part Wolfe. These people are not 'downwardly mobile'. That would suggests they are moving from a higher income to a lower one.

No, these people are essentially static. The issue is that they were sold a bill of lies that they were 'elites' and that their degree 'would get them a good job'. So when they got the job they were always going to get and its a dead end career that can only provide a lower-middle-class income (which would be decent except for the 200k in debt they took on in school) . . . well, it doesn't meet their expectations.

These people aren't downwardly mobile, they're *mad* they didn't get what they feel they deserve. So they listen to people who tell them its not their fault, and work to destroy the system that gave them the opportunity.

[damikesc]

And ignore that the same people telling them it is not their fault are the same ones who told them their degrees would be super useful.

[Marshal]

There's another element to add to this. This group is already anti-work. People get degrees in nonsense subjects because they think working to produce things is beneath them and they're trying to find anything else suitable to their self-identification as elites. This is why they hate people like Musk who not only earn more than them but openly disdain them threatening their self-image.

Aristocracy has believed this going back to at least the Roman Republic. This is how we should understand government and NGO bureaucrats: as people who believe their superior position entitles them to whatever amount of the work product of regular people they feel like taking and any effort to deny them that is illegitimate.

[JFree]

So Trump is now the Guardian of the Strait. The Lord of the Trump Tollway. Offering to let ships pass for a 20% fee.

Iran has failed to engage on this. Not even a Lego video. They could have labelled themselves the Ayatollahs of Rock and Rolla. The Lords of Cheap but not Free Navigation. Foes pass for 10% of cargo value. Friends (those who will end sanctions on Iran) pass for a nominal fee of $2 million.

That said - Trump does understand how much he screwed the pooch in this war. He can't let Iran control the strait. Controlling every inch of the world's water is what the US has defined as 'freedom of navigation'. It and the petrodollar are the only source of the dollar's advantage as reserve currency. Both of those are threatened by what Iran did after Trump went to war for Israel without thinking of US interest.

[damikesc]

All we've seen is that the US would have a good time taking over Western Europe for the 5 days it'd take to do so.

[TangoDelta]

Gee his lawyers understand diplomatic immunity, why doesn't Mamdumi? Did he fail 7th grade?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Yes.

[DRM]

It's really, really too bad Mamdani didn't try it. I was looking forward for him getting indicted by the Feds on a capital charge.

(Attempted kidnapping under color of law is punishable by death under 18 U.S. Code § 242.)

[Vernon Depner]

A pay-per-view of Mamdani's hanging would be a huge money maker.

[minus the clever name]

This is much easier for the lazy mayor than you know 'doing his job'

Such a fool he is.

This is why Democrat mayors like Pride parades, and taking down Confederate statues. and declaring Juneteenth celebrations, and attending conferences in Africa while Los Angeles burns.

I mean, else you would have to be like 'Doing your actual job"