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[Dr. Ed 2]

The police chief was succinct —. His name was Robert, although sometimes he used the name Roberta.

Another day, another trans shooter. Five days ago, it was a trans shooter in Northwestern Canada. Yesterday, it was one in Rhode Island. How many more do we have to have before we start looking at the trans as being the cause of the shooter?

Prior to the DSM-V, trannies were considered mentally ill, the diagnosis was “Gender Identity Disorder” and the Voodoo Scientists sought to help these mentally ill people understand the sex was biological and determined by the Lord.

Could it be possible that they were actually right? Could it be possible that my affirming their mental illness were creating these monsters they go out and

[Sebastian Cremmington]

Crooks and Tyler Robinson were bitter clinger MAGA Republicans! True DEPLORABLES! Good riddance!

[Commenter_XY]

Mentally ill, emotionally disturbed, psychologically unstable people + guns = A bad mix

[Sebastian Cremmington]

The guy that killed my friend with a gun was mentally stable…his family moved away in the middle of the night and I’m sure they changed his name. I came across some guy I was researching with a fairly unusual name that killed one of his friends with a gun that didn’t change his name!?! Anyone that Googles his name will discover he killed one of his friends accidentally.

[hobie]

"Another day, another t̶r̶a̶n̶s̶ white male shooter... How many more do we have to have before we start looking at the t̶r̶a̶n̶s̶ white male as being the cause of the shooter?"

FTFY

[LexAquilia]

The RH mass murderer was another demented tranny.

Stop covering for them, Gaijin.

[Dr. Ed 2]

Do as we say, not as we do. And why didn’t they have to have smoke detectors?

https://www.themainewire.com/2026/02/maine-fire-station-blaze-blamed-on-spontaneous-combustion-of-firefighter-kitchen-rags/

[Sebastian Cremmington]

You need carbon monoxide detectors too…whenever you hear about a family all dying in their sleep it’s carbon monoxide. Oh, if you stay at crappy motels on road trips make sure you have a portable detector because the business model is the same Trump used at his casinos—just take money out and don’t fix anything until it’s worthless.

[Dr. Ed 2]

The Trump administration is finally starting to go after Somali fraud.
https://www.themainewire.com/2026/02/bessent-announces-new-fraud-reporting-webage-and-potential-whistleblower-rewards-to-combat-somali-fraud/

[Sebastian Cremmington]

The PPP fraud was upwards $250 billion in 2020 due to lack of oversight by Trump…he just wanted to splooge dollars into the economy to win the 2020 election. The 100k fentanyl ODs a year and violent crime wave were both products of Trump’s recklessness.

[LexAquilia]

Hey, will you write a letter to the White House to remind him of that fraud and how that means he should stop looking at fraud everywhere?

Maybe he will listen to your chastising.

[Commenter_XY]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/15/epstein-files-fallout-goldman-ruemmler-harvard-yale.html

The reckoning begins; public exposure.

These Friends of Jeffrey cretins should be shunned from civil society.

[Sebastian Cremmington]

Time to exorcise some demons!

[Sarcastr0]

Nice blind outrage act. But evidence of contact in like 2003 doesn’t mean much.

And once again no Trump. Or members of his cabinet. Never those guys. Nor the dude what got hired by Bari Weiss.

It’s not going to look like real outrage till you yell about people on your side as well.

[Michael P]

I note they don't mention Bill Gates, though.

[hobie]

Close associations with Jeffrey Epstein = shunned by society. Got it.

[LexAquilia]

Have an in-house dental office to remove the teeth from goy babies before you rape them, then eat them = shunned by society. Got it.

[Martinned]

Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84

[Commenter_XY]

Give me hope, instead of dope!
Keep hope alive!
-- Jesse Jackson

[Frank Drackman]

In January 2001, it was revealed that Jackson had had an affair with a staffer, Karin Stanford, which resulted in the birth of a daughter, Ashley, in May 1999. According to CNN, in August 1999 the Rainbow Push Coalition paid Stanford $15,000 (equivalent to $28,310 in 2024) in moving expenses and $21,000 (equivalent to $39,640 in 2024) for contracting work. A promised advance of an additional $40,000 against future contracting work was rescinded once the affair became public.[380] This incident prompted Jackson to withdraw from activism for a short period.[381] He was paying $4,000 a month in child support as of 2001.[382] CNN suspended, and later canceled, Both Sides with Jesse Jackson

[Frank Drackman]

Hymie-Town erupts in cheers.

[Mr. Bumble]

Because we are admonished to not speak ill of the dead, only good, we are left with nothing to say.

[hobie]

Why not? I'll say it: You hayseeds have finally found a genuine antisemite on the left. But, alas, he's dead now.

[Brett Bellmore]

It's not as though it's challenging to find genuine antisemites on the left. Getting the left to admit they're antisemitic while they're still alive is the challenge.

[hobie]

Well, you run along and try and find another, Brett. I'll truthfully confirm if they really are.

[LexAquilia]

Tell us about Palestine and the Palestinians, Pro-Jew hobie.

[Sarcastr0]

Good job Trump
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-canada-visa-travel-9.7091435

[Frank Drackman]

Jackson was criticized for calling Jews "Hymies" and New York City "Hymietown" in 1984 remarks to a black Washington Post reporter;[7][426] "Hymie" is a pejorative term for Jews. He had mistakenly assumed the references would not be printed. Louis Farrakhan made the situation worse by issuing, in Jackson's presence, a public warning to Jews that "If you harm this brother [Jackson], it will be the last one you harm."[7][426] During a speech before national Jewish leaders in a Manchester, New Hampshire synagogue, Jackson publicly apologized to Jews for his remarks but did not denounce Farrakhan's warning. A rift between Jackson and many in the Jewish community endured until at least the 1990s.[426]

[Frank Drackman]

Louis Farra-Chaka-Khan, Chaka-Khan still alive at age 92, Jeremiah Wright at 84, they say these things always come in 3's

Frank

[Michael P]

My general hope is for people I don't like to live long but see the public soundly reject their ideas.

[Malika la Maize]

Nearly all of the jobs added to the U.S. economy in recent months have come from one industry: health care.

Health care and social assistance accounted for 95 percent of the 130,000 jobs added in January. That builds on similar trends throughout 2025, when the industry buoyed an otherwise slow labor market, as the nation’s hospitals, clinics and nursing homes kept hiring even as many employers pulled back.

Without health care and related jobs, the United States would have nearly 400,000 fewer jobs than it did a year ago, according to Labor Department figures through January.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/14/health-care-industry-fuels-employment/

[Brett Bellmore]

Aging population, and health care is a luxury good, technically, it's the sort of thing where demand rises without limit as incomes increase. People really dislike the idea of dying after all.

The key thing is where almost all of the job loss was located: Government! That's a big development, until recently government only grew.

[Frank Drackman]

Rush Limbo once commented that every Composite Drawing of African-Amurican Criminals looked like Jesse Jackson.
Jesse Jackson was also the origin of my "Hillary Rodman" Reference, (HT R. Limbo) Forget why he said her name, but the "Reverend" Jackson pronounced it "Hillary Rod-man Clinton" so Rush pronounced it that way,
He also pronounced "Reverend" in a Sarcastic way that doesn't come across in Print.

Frank

[Frank Drackman]

This Nancy Guthrie case is getting worrisome. Have they checked under Mullah Ill-hand Omar's Turban???

Frank

[Frank Drackman]

Trivia comment of the day, a little late,
Robert Todd Lincoln, son of President Lincoln was coincidentally either present or nearby when three presidential assassinations occurred.

Lincoln was not present at Ford's Theatre when his father was assassinated but he was at the White House nearby, and rushed to be with his parents. The president was moved to the Petersen House after the shooting, where Robert attended his father's deathbed.
Lincoln was an eyewitness when Charles J. Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield at the Sixth Street Train Station in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 1881. Lincoln was Garfield's Secretary of War at the time.
Lincoln was at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, when President William McKinley was shot by Leon Czolgosz. Though not an eyewitness, he was just outside the Temple of Music when the shooting occurred.
Lincoln himself recognized these coincidences. He is said to have refused a later presidential invitation with the comment, "No, I'm not going, and they'd better not ask me, because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present."

[hobie]

So MAGA Barri Weiss at CBS censored 60 minutes from showing a story on CECOT prison.

Now MAGA Barri Weiss has censored Colbert from airing an interview with surging Texas senate candidate James Talarico. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/arts/television/colbert-fcc-trump-talarico-cbs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.M1A.3jad.Gg7AndFQ09ey&smid=url-share

Quid: Paramount gets to merge with Skydance
Quo: Censor political speech for Regime
MAGA: EU censorship of rightwing political speech bad!!!

[Malika la Maize]

Yup.

[Malika la Maize]

A federal judge on Monday ruled the Trump administration must restore the slavery exhibits at the President’s House Site on Independence Mall while the case over the National Park Service’s actions continues. In January, employees from the National Park Service removed the display that detailed the lives of nine people George Washington enslaved at the home while he was president.

U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe compared the administration’s rationale for removing the signs detailing slavery to the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s “1984” — a dystopian novel about authoritarianism.

“As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s ‘1984’ now existed, with its motto ‘Ignorance is Strength,’ this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts,” Rufe wrote in her decision. “It does not.”

https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-presidents-house-slavery-exhibit-removal-trump-order/