Greasy Gavin: Cutting Off Children's Body Parts is "Affirming Care" and Pot and Psychadelics Should be Legal and Heroin a Misdemeanor In Small Amounts, But We Have to Keep Weightlifting Teens from Buying Protein Powder and Creatine
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Unrelated but urgent: Via gp, the FAA has ordered an emergency stop to all takeoffs.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
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🚨 BREAKING: A NATIONWIDE GROUND STOP has just OFFICIALLY been issued by the FAA, citing "EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES and REASONS OF SAFETY" 🤯This means effectively ALL flights are blocked from taking off
There's no word yet on how long it will last or what specifically caused it.
Insane.
gp says it extends until 10pm.
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As Amy Curtis says, the Greasy Grifter Governor finally found a reason to demand ID:
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@PolymarketBREAKING: Gavin Newsom bans sales of certain "muscle-building supplements" to Californians under 18, potentially including whey protein & creatine.
Note that whey protein is just protein from, well, milk whey, and creatine is a naturally-occurring substance found in meat.
These supplements -- protein and a substance made up of three amino acids -- may cause dangerous "side effects," says the guy whose made narcotics legal (or just a misdemeanor offense) throughout the state.
New California law will restrict sales of some muscle-building supplements to minors Legislation covers over-the-counter diet pills and weight-loss dietary supplements, taking effect Jan 1Energy drinks, pre-workout supplements linked to heart attacks, study finds
Gavin Newsom has signed legislation banning the sale of some "muscle-building supplements" to Californians under 18 years of age.The legislation (AB 2030), which was signed on Sept. 28, covers over-the-counter diet pills and dietary supplements for weight loss or muscle building. It will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2027.
"Nonprescribed, medically unapproved products may cause dangerous side effects," the governor's office said in its announcement. "Products can be mislabeled or contaminated with substances such as steroids."
Any chance that heroin, which is not a misdemeanor offense, might have some impurities in it, too?
By the way, I really doubt that "steroids" are being mixed into these very common, very safe supplements.
California's law restricts minors' access to supplements marketed for muscle building -- specifically, those that are "labeled, marketed or otherwise represented for the purpose of achieving weight loss or building muscle."
Ah, there's the problem.
Courts may consider whether a product contains "creatine, green tea extract, raspberry ketone, garcinia cambogia or green coffee bean extract," the legislation states.
Possessing cocaine in small quantities is a misdemeanor, but we have to worry about green tea extract, aka "caffeine."
The release cites research indicating that nearly one in 10 adolescents have used such products.
Wow, that many? One in ten?
What a crisis.
The American Herbal Products Association, based in Maryland, released a statement opposing the law.
"Lacking any scientific justification, AB 2030 casts a shadow over safe, beneficial products," said Robert Marriott, the association's vice president of regulatory and government affairs, in the statement.
Kristen Mag @kristenmagCalifornia: "WHEY PROTEIN IS TOO RISKY FOR KIDS!!"
Also California: "Yes actually 14 year old girls are old enough to consent to elective mastectomies."
Dr. Sigrid Wolf, a pediatric sports medicine physician at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, recently addressed the use of creatine products among teenagers, stating that evidence of benefits is limited.
Creatine is the most studied and most-used fitness supplement in the world. There is no question remaining about its efficacy.
"In some cases, they might even be dangerous," wrote Wolf, who is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' sports medicine committee, in an article published on HealthyChildren.org, the American Academy of Pediatrics' parenting website.
"Creatine can come with negative side effects such as weight gain, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea."
By "weight gain," they mean muscle gain, which must be stopped.
As for diarrhea: Creatine can definitely cause that, and I've been suffering from it for a year. But I just fixed it: And the fix is as dumb and obvious as you'd guess: Fiber. I was getting almost zero fiber on a low-carb diet, and that combined with creatine was giving me GI issues. Fiber fixed it immediately.
The left is convinced that physical strength and fitness are right-wing -- they are, but just because the left is physically and mentally unhealthy and actually cultivates physical and mental infirmity as virtuous -- and they want to men weak because they believe, correctly, that weak men join the leftist herd.
Research articlePhysical strength as a heuristic cue of political conservatism
Mitch Brown, Donald F. Sacco, Aaron W. Lukaszewski, Ryan E. Tracy
Physically formidable men are motivated to pursue strategies to acquire resources and status through direct competition and the promotion of hierarchical social organization. In service of these priorities, these men support social policies favoring the use of aggressive bargaining and hierarchy-maintenance strategies. Given these associations, we hypothesized physical strength may function as a heuristic cue of political conservatism. Participants in four unique U.S. samples assessed the political orientation of men who varied in physical strength and musculature, considering various facets of what constitutes conservatism. Physically strong men appeared more conservative to perceivers. Neither type of conservatism (social versus fiscal) nor presence of wealth cues moderated effects. Perceivers further regarded liberty as most central to strong men's morality.
Note that study is about how people perceive strong men. It doesn't say anything about whether strength is correlated with conservatism. (But it is, of course.)
The point is, the left hates strong men. Too difficult to dominate.
Pansies at reddit think a lot about strong men:
What are your theories on why gym culture is so rightwing Upvote2y ago
someone asked a similar question about gun ownership in r/MARXISTRA but the answer is the same right-wing culture is self-actualization. that applies to everything, it's essentially ingrained that nobody is gonna do anything for you so you need to make your own money, pave your own way, and defend yourself by any means necessary. as a result, they're probably more likely to have the income and the desire to follow through with a gym routine/proper nourishment/supplemental aid/training. Does this mean you can't do it? Not at all, contrary to what some may tell you, going to the gym is one of the cheapest (and best) hobbies to have. Paying $20-30 for a membership for what means essentially unlimited access to equipment and sometimes training as well, along with the chemical pick up me of endorphins released during a good work out. This is all to say, you can theorize why gym culture is so right wing all day but if you want to change it in a meaningful way, the best way is to step in the gym first
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That same philosophy lead me down a dark path when I was a young teen first getting started in the gym. I'm happy I made it out.
Ze "made it out" of the gym.
...I'm surprised no one else said it because it seems highly obvious to me, but I think it is because of the associations between traditional masculinity and physical power. The right wing is obsessed with masculinity and masculinity is traditionally associated with strength and violence. I think that this intertwines with the individualism aspect that everyone has mentioned to produce an unfortunately right wing, and largely misogynist fitness culture.
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Paul Sperry: Security Experts Warn That Islamists Pilots Present an "Insider Threat" to Air Safety
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is one of those "duh no shit really" reports, but bear in mind that the entire Islamocommunist-captured establishment denies this obvious fact, so it's critical that the obvious be reported and documented.
When the Federal Aviation Administration reinforced cockpit doors after the 9/11 hijackings, it turned flight decks into fortresses to lock out terrorists. But what if a terrorist is already inside?That question has new urgency following the harrowing Sept. 30 attack aboard a FlyDubai flight in which a Muslim extremist (Islamist) pilot was forcefully stopped by a heroic pilot and brave passengers from crashing a plane bound for Israel.
Former aviation security officials say the FAA needs to reassess threats inside cockpits and the measures intended to counter them. They say this review is especially urgent because the agency has made insider threats to the cockpit more likely by recently forcing airlines to add a secondary barrier to the cockpit in the form of a metal gate on new planes.
Experts say the added security, while well-intentioned, could backfire following al-Qaeda's call last month for Islamist pilots to carry out more suicide attacks inside cockpits and for followers to infiltrate the ranks of pilots. Al-Qaeda has reestablished terror training camps in Afghanistan, along with recruiting and propaganda organs, echoing its pre-9/11 potency.
Don't worry, everyone! The Isamocommunist-captured establishment has decided that 9/11 never happened. It was all just a right-wing hallucination, so stop worrying about a dark "far right" fantasy and conspiracy theory, Racists.
Enhanced security measures designed to lock out threats could merely lock in an attacker....
Yeah, when the terrorist is in the cockpit already, beefing up the door just stops passengers from wresting him from the controls.
But we can't talk about the danger of Islamist pilots.
9/11 never happened, remember? Never forget means "Never mention again."
Also, the attempt to hijack a FlyDubai plane by an Islamist co-pilot didn't happen.
Aviation security experts also say airlines must do more to identify pilots who may hold extremist views or show signs of mental illness. At least two U.S.-based Islamist pilots have been suspended in the wake of the FlyDubai incident."Pilots who have openly espoused and supported terrorists should be grounded as unstable," said former airline executive Michael Boyd, president of Boyd Group International, an aviation consulting firm, in an interview with RealClearInvestigations. "Anybody who supports clear terrorism should be grounded; but of course, that gets muddy in the realm of free speech."
Meaning: They haven't been grounded already.
Weak vetting systemsSuicide by aircraft has long been a rare but concerning issue. Most documented cases have involved private planes, not commercial carriers. Mentally ill people -- including the German copilot who killed himself and 149 others on board when he locked the captain, who had gone to the bathroom, out of the cockpit and crashed a flight into the Alps in 2015 -- have long accounted for most cases. But experts say a disproportionate number of such tragedies involving major airliners have involved Muslim pilots, most of whom have expressed extremist views.
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While non-Muslims historically have been responsible for some cases of suicide pilots intentionally downing major airliners, three of the four cases directly linked to terror have involved Islamist pilots (9/11 is not included because it was a hijacking).
And also: It simply never happened, Bigots.
Read the whole thing and weep.
It's not just that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
They want to repeat it. This is not "forgetting," this is just replaying the old playbook with the Islamocommunist-dominated government acting as co-conspirators to the coming slaughters.
MAHA Consultant Calley Means: Susie Wiles Was Running a Buckraking Operation Out of the White House and Letting Big Pharma and Big Ag Write Policy If They Just Hired Her Lobbyist Daughter
—Disinformation Expert Ace
There may be reasons Susie Wiles was fired.
Ballard Partners' more than $88 million in lobbying revenue last year was, at the time, the most any firm had reported since the Lobbying Disclosure Act took effect in 1996, even after adjusting for inflation, a CBS News analysis of Senate lobbying disclosures found. Through the first three quarters of 2026, the firm has already surpassed that, reporting more than $98 million.The fortunes of Washington lobbying firms tend to rise and fall with changes in administrations, as companies hire them to try to influence policy. But after an election that saw government corruption polling as a top issue for voters, questions about who has profited from political connections are intensifying. Ballard Partners is now among those ensnared in the MAGA feud.
Over the weekend, I listened to the Joe Rogan interview with former MAHA advisor Calley Means. Means alleges that Susie Wiles and her "Talahassee lobbyist staffers" were running a very corrupt cash-for-policy operation out of the White House.
Note that Means stresses that he does not believe Trump knew about most of this. I mostly believe that -- Trump is a delegator and doesn't seem to get involved in anything except his three biggest issues.
For example, Means claims that it is an open secret that if you want her to push a policy, you hire her daughter, who works for one of the biggest lobbying firms, for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and then you get what you paid for.
He also claims that Means hid from Trump the truth about polling so Trump didn't know he was in political trouble. He claims she and her corrupt allies just pushed minor issues that moved few votes, like No Tax on Tips, as the clocked ticked down to midterms doomday.
I recommend listening to the first half. The second half is just repetitive and listless.
Google AI:
* The Allegations: Means accused Wiles and a close-knit group of White House officials of bowing to corporate lobbyists, prioritizing midterm campaign donations over public health, and blocking components of the "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) agenda championed by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.* Specific Claims: Means alleged that Wiles resisted initiatives to improve children's diets due to sugar-industry pressures, pushed for approvals of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes tied to tobacco donations, caved to kratom industry lobbying, and protected corporate interests regarding glyphosate/Roundup litigation.
Another claim: That she blocked what Means calls a "no-brainer," a reform to school lunch programs which would limit donuts and sugar soda and establish a minimum level of protein for meals.
He says she did this because of Big Sugar and Pepsi paid her to do it.
Calley Means, who resigned as a top federal health official two weeks ago after clashing with the White House, on Friday accused President Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, of bowing to "unrelenting" pressure from industry lobbyists while prioritizing political fund-raising over Americans' health.In a two-hour interview with the podcaster Joe Rogan, Mr. Means said that Ms. Wiles withheld support from his efforts to make children's diets healthier, citing the need for sugar industry money. He said her team demanded more approvals of flavored e-cigarettes, a top priority for major tobacco companies that donated at least $20 million to the G.O.P. in 2026. And he said they gave in to heavy lobbying from the kratom industry to relax proposed restrictions on products often referred to as "gas station heroin."
"Susie said to me many times: 'We need money for the midterms, Calley. We need money for the midterms,'" Mr. Means said.
Ms. Wiles and the White House were not immediately available to comment. The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services have responded to past allegations of lobbying influence on the administration's health care policies by saying the administration consistently acted in the best interest of the American people.
Mr. Means, a close ally of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who helped build the Make America Healthy Again movement, avoided criticizing Mr. Kennedy or Mr. Trump. He directed his ire almost entirely at Ms. Wiles, a former lobbyist and political consultant, who he asserted had "spent her career taking money," including from the pharmaceutical and pesticide industries and from the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a former client.
As the blame game escalates after Republicans' stunning losses in the elections this week, Ms. Wiles is becoming a target of finger-pointing, with some former officials and MAGA supporters calling for her resignation.
Mr. Means framed Ms. Wiles and her top deputies as welcoming lobbyists into the White House while sidelining Mr. Kennedy and infantilizing Mr. Trump. Mr. Means made a larger argument about the corrosive role of corporate money in politics, but also suggested that the president should "exorcise" Ms. Wiles and her aides "from the White House."
Some of what Means claimed struck me as false or just stupid but the overall charge that Wiles was running a buckraking operation, with her daughter as a bagwoman, sounded plausible. Means is either telling the truth or he just made the case for a huge defamation case against him. We'll see if Wiles lodges such a lawsuit.
He claims that Wiles was behind pushing for liability immunity for Bayer for its glycosphate herbicide. She pushed this as a "national security issue," with the implausible claim that we had to grant Bayer immunity to keep the production of phosphorous (an ingredient in the herbicide) reliable for... making explosives.
That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. How do you make phosphorous available for bombs by making sure it's being used by the ton for herbicide?
Then again, Means' argument was itself stupid -- despite the fact that the government does not consider glycosphate cancer-causing, he wants everyone to be able to sue Bayer for producing glycosphate. He claims this is a "free market issue."
But any jury will reward a plaintiff with an injury millions and millions just to be nice, whether they find any connection between the deep-pocketed corporation or not. Surely Means is not so stupid as to not know this -- but he sure pretends he doesn't.
He's also one of those cranks who is determined to end vaping for adults -- but For The Children, you understand.
He does point out that the farm states of Kentucky and Iowa have the highest cancer rates in the world, particularly for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, and glycosphate is linked to Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. But the industry, and the government, blocks a scientific review of the claimed connection.
There must be some reason that two states in the developed west have such aberrantly high levels of cancer, and we should know why.
I don't know where I am on the policy-- I would like a review as well, and would grant immunity if the review found no cancer link to glycosphate -- but I sure don't like how the sausage being made here, with Big Pharam and Big Ag just delivering millions of dollars to Wiles and her friends and family in exchange for policy outcomes. (Allegedly -- we'll see.)
Give it a listen, make up your own minds.
I find this interesting: Stephen Miller, the man replacing Wiles, says he's going to start denying "big business" carte blanche as to its claimed needs.
That sure sounds like Miller thinks Wiles was delivering policy outcomes to deep-pocketed industries and corporations.
Though this makes it sound like Miller is chiefly interested in rejecting industries' claims that they need illegal workers:
The replacement of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles with her hardline deputy Stephen Miller shuts the door through which many CEOs softened Trump administration policies or sought favors, and sets the stage for more direct confrontation with business in the second half of Trump's term.Even CEOs skeptical of Trump's chaotic style and his hostility to trade and immigration found that they could, with the help of Wiles and now-former tech czar David Sacks, talk Trump out of his aides' most aggressive immigration moves, from worksite raids to canceling TSA PreCheck.
Means also disclosed what we on the right have known for years, that the leftwing bureaucrats circulate How to Subvert the President manuals in order to defy the orders of the duly-elected president.
"He's [Kennedy] got a 90,000-person agency. He's surrounded by demons who want him out and want him destroyed," former Kennedy adviser Calley Means told Joe Rogan. "And Trump's sitting at 2 million people.""So, his staff is all completely compromised?" Rogan asked.
"Yeah, for the most ... especially the whole infrastructure," Means, who resigned from the White House on Oct. 22, claimed.
He mentioned a manual titled something like "How to Subvert the President" being circulated among leftwing bureaucrats.
Why this was allowed, I don't know.
BTW: If you missed Buck Throckmorton's story about Ron DeSantis attacking the GOP's age-old and apparently incurable Terminal Corporatism, do give it a read.
"Young people have a very positive view of socialism compared to capitalism. The question is, why is that?""Some of it is the education in our universities. But I think a big part of that is, what they're comparing is not free enterprise versus socialism. What they're comparing is how government gets involved in business, and you have crony capitalism."
"The best kind of indirect supporters of socialism are some of these corporatist Republicans who propagate these crony policies."
"If it's cronyism versus socialism, there's going to be enough people who are going to choose socialism."
You may have heard that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick kept blocking attempts to limit the sale of Nvidia chips to China.
In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent President Donald Trump and top Cabinet members a classified memorandum detailing the relationship between the Huangs and the intelligence indicating that Alice Huang was a Chinese spy. The White House directed the Commerce Department to put Alice Huang's Megaspeed on the entity list of companies that pose national security concerns.Lutnick refused this request in May; he refused a second attempted crackdown order from Trump in August; and on Nov. 5, Lutnick reportedly stonewalled Trump again. And evidently, this wasn’t because Lutnick knew too little. Rather, the Commerce Department spent months last year conducting an investigation into Megaspeed and specifically whether it was illicitly smuggling Nvidia chips into China, only for Lutnick’s direct underling, Jeff Kessler, to invite Nvidia to reach out to Commerce about the case, bringing the department;s inquiry to an effective end.
I am sure it is just a coincidence that Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services firm that Lutnick led for 35 years before passing it off to his 20-something-year-old sons Brandon and Kyle, has a $362.3 million stake in Nvidia, which makes up 7% of Cantor's entire portfolio.
On a scale of "Not Surprised At All" to "Totally Surprised, Dumfounded Actually, Just Totally Blown Away," how surprised are you to learn this?
The practice of securing political power and then putting out your otherwise-unemployable children into positions where they can act as your bag-men is not limited to the Biden Crime Family.
There's some more good news: Now Stephen Miller is locking the lobbyists out. No White House staffer can even speak to a lobbyist without his express permission.
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Scott Bessent: I Had to Move to a Military Base Because the IRGC Is Sending Assassins to Kill Me At My Home Because Treasonous "Journalists" at the Wall Street Journal Showed Them Exactly Where I Live
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It's time to start publishing "journalists'" home addresses, and the bars they get drunk at, and the homes of the men and women they cheat on their wives with.
Oh wait we can't do that -- "journalists'" lives are too precious to risk, unlike normal Americans' lives.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh3h
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just said "F THE IRANIAN LEADERSHIP" and that he had to move to a military base because the WSJ published his HOUSE ONLINE
"One of the reasons I had to move is because the WSJ printed a PHOTO OF MY HOUSE the DAY I bought it that has GEO-LOCATE on it! In a highly irresponsible way, the editor, we PLEADED with her NOT to print the location of my house, she DID ANYWAY." 😡
"We're NOT gonna be cowered...the IRGC are like a dangerous, cornered animal."
"I followed Secret Service instructions and moved from my home to a military base."
Pray for Secretary Bessent! 🙏🏻
The Journal ran an AERIAL VIEW of his $12.5 million home back in 2025
Bessent has led Operation Economic Outcast since August, the sanctions campaign CRUSHING Iran's economy, which made him a top Iranian target
This week the DOJ indicted three Iranian nationals tied to nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the U.S.
Rubio and Miller had to move too.
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New Democrat Plan to Solve the "Housing Crisis:" Let's Inflate the Housing Market By Pouring Government Cash Into It and Letting People Who Can't Afford a Mortgage Buy Homes Until They Default
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Say.... wait a minute...
Isn't this how they created the 2008 housing market collapse the crashed the world economy?
And then blamed on Republicans?
Well, since they got away with it once, I guess it's time to crash the world economy again. For Great Justice.
And... "Affordability."
One of President Biden's economic officials wants to create a system where people can pay just $1,000 to buy a home.What could possibly go wrong?
$1,000 for an entire house.
The housing crisis of 2008 was caused by "Ninja" loans -- No Income, No Job.
Now we're adding to "no down payment, no money at all."
Just a free house. For a very nominal payment of $1,000, which I'm sure will be waived for Democrat Constituents.
A top Biden administration economic official is pitching Democrats on a low-down-payment proposal to bring millions of new homebuyers into the market, as incoming congressional leaders take stock of affordability measures that might help them notch early legislative wins.A new policy group chaired by former National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard is pushing for the creation of a Federal Housing Administration program to facilitate home purchases with as little as $1,000 down for first-time buyers who meet "strong underwriting criteria," according to a copy of the proposal reviewed by Bloomberg News.
Uh-huh. If they have only managed to save $1,000, they do not have "strong underwriting criteria." This fiction is added so they can say "But it's not like the 2008 housing collapse, we're only giving free houses to people with no money but who have 'strong underwriting criteria.'"
Housing is a key factor in the widespread frustration over the high cost of living that helped fuel Democrats' historic rout of Republicans in last week's midterm elections. Some 77% of Americans support zero-down payment loans for qualifying first-time buyers, according to a survey by the Kitchen Table Project, the Brainard group that debuted in June and calls itself a "policy pop-up."
What about all the other Democrat spending priorities?
Don't worry, Jerry. They write it off.
They write it off.
Proposals to provide down payment assistance generally take the form of "grants, and grants are a direct cost to the government, and we know that we already have additional fiscal priorities," Brainard added, pointing to Democratic agenda items like restoring Affordable Care Act and Medicaid subsidies along with food assistance. "We really looked for proposals that could be done with a minimal amount of taxpayer funding."
This is absurd. Down payments for homes are usually 20% of the value of the home. The average cost of a home in the US is $472,000. So a down payment would be something like $95,000.
The Democrats are proposing only a $1,000 down payment, and then pretending the $94,000 usually expected is just Free Money that will cost the taxpayers "a minimal amount."
They're really doing it all again.
Just like with their eternal bleat the Real Communism Has Never Been Tried.
Real Housing Bubble Collapse That Crashes the Global Economy has never been tried.
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Evicting them for non-payment in a year is the comeback.Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 12:14 PM (RIvkX)
No one will be evicted for non-payment.
Posted by: Heavy Meta
Correct. That's the move: Let them take a house for $1,000, then make all attempts to evict and repossess illegal.
"Minimal taxpayer cost," you know.
THE MORNING RANT: Ron DeSantis Separates Himself from Legacy GOP with Attack on “Corporatism”
—Buck Throckmorton
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has come out swinging since the Republican wipeout in the midterm elections. I hope this is because he’s laying the groundwork for a 2028 presidential bid, since he is one of the few national Republicans in tune with heartland Americans. Among the topics he is discussing is the problem of “corporatism,” and how the back-scratching, crony capitalism that exists between government and many corporations repels conservative voters, while also fueling the popularity of socialism among non-conservatives.
Here are some quotes from Gov. DeSantis, as documented in a NY Post article titled “DeSantis says ‘corporatist Republicans’ drive young voters toward socialism after GOP’s midterm disaster”:
“Young people have a very positive view of socialism compared to capitalism. The question is, why is that?”
“Some of it is the education in our universities. But I think a big part of that is, what they’re comparing is not free enterprise versus socialism. What they’re comparing is how government gets involved in business, and you have crony capitalism.”
“The best kind of indirect supporters of socialism are some of these corporatist Republicans who propagate these crony policies.”
“If it’s cronyism versus socialism, there’s going to be enough people who are going to choose socialism.”
Gov. DeSantis’ attack on corporatism is welcome and politically necessary.
I have been pounding on the issue of crony capitalism and corporate misbehavior for years, not because I’m anti-business, but because I’m anti-socialism. Like the great Malcolm Forbes (who embraced the nickname “The Capitalist Tool”), I am trying to shame companies that give capitalism a bad name, because they actually empower the enemies of economic freedom.
Some of the topics I’ve covered include:
Beverage/snack companies are dependent on SNAP benefits (food stamps) for more than 20% of their revenue. Along with grocery stores, they lobbied furiously against changes to eligible SNAP products, since they are so reliant on taxpayer money being redistributed to them through the SNAP program. (“PepsiCo [Frito Lay] Snack Sales Decline as SNAP Restrictions Kick In” - 8/07/2026)
The “EV Transition” was largely an effort by various levels of government to redistribute wealth to EV manufacturers. I have written many articles documenting the incentives, mandates, federal rebates, regulatory credits, etc. that favored Rivian, Tesla, and other EV manufacturers at the expense of taxpayers not even purchasing those products.
“Pro-business” governors like Brian Kemp of Georgia flushed billions of taxpayer dollars into failed or failing EV-related ventures. These included $2 billion to Hyundai to build an EV assembly plant, $1.5 billion to Rivian for a plant that was never built, and $300 million to SK for a battery manufacturing plant that could not support the jobs it promised. The government redistribution of wealth from working people to favored corporations is neither capitalism nor free market economics. I prefer to call it venture communism.
Regarding data centers, one reason I believe there is such public opposition is that the public doesn’t trust elected officials not to provide data centers with taxpayer-subsidized utilities and tax abatements. I absolutely support data center construction so long as there is no crony capitalism involved, but it is understandable that voters with empty wallets are skeptical, especially since so many early data center proposals demanded taxpayer subsidization.
The problem with corporate behavior today isn’t just the crony capitalism, it’s also the morally bankrupt ethos that has become mainstream in corporations.
Prominently, this includes the embrace of what is effectively chattel labor. It can be in the form of foreign, low-paid, H-1B labor who can’t otherwise compete in the U.S. job market, or it may be subcontractors using off-the-books, illegal aliens as a source of untaxed and unregulated labor. I have documented multiple examples where subcontracted illegal laborers are living in slave-like conditions in the United States. Corporate America just winks at these abuses, then pawns off the cost of healthcare and other social services to taxpayers.
Even if not illegal, there are too many examples of executives looting their companies by taking short-term actions that enrich themselves but harm the company’s employees and shareholders. As an example, in an October 2025 piece titled “Unhelpful in the Battle Against Socialism’s Growing Appeal: Sherwin Williams Eliminates Employees’ 401(k) Match Amidst Stock Buybacks and Increased CEO Compensation,” I documented how Sherwin Williams:
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The Morning Report — 11/13 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. We'll start off with this item from the Are You freaking Kidding Me Files:
Officials decided an ancient method was the best way to decide the outcome of an election in Robertson County, Kentucky. When Republican Benny Ray Renner and Democrat Kristen Gifford Fryman tied with 91 votes each in the race for magistrate in the 2nd Magisterial District, it was up to officials to decide what to do next, KCRA reported Sunday. “Out of the 182 ballots cast, there was not a single vote that separated the two candidates once all precincts had reported their numbers back,” the outlet said. The Kentucky State Board of Elections recommended officials perform a coin flip to decide the outcome, and Fryman won...The coin used to decide the election was a quarter the sheriff had in his pocket.
Well all politics is indeed "local." But to any sane person, this puerile, irresponsible madness is just indicative of how far we as a nation and society have sunk. Is it really fair to use this idiocy as a barometer for the rest of the country? After all Kentucky is the state that inflicted Tom Massie on us. In any case, given the fact that much of the country is ignorant of the tyrannical bloody history of the Democrat Party, Socialism and Islam and in places where one thought that that ignorance was not the norm nevertheless voted it into power last week.
When an election produces outcomes that run completely counter to historical precedent, polling baselines, and raw mathematical probability, the dispute ceases to be a conventional political debate and transforms into an indictment of the process itself. The case asserting that this midterm was systematically subverted rests upon four primary pillars: statistical impossibility, software and algorithmic manipulation, unauthorized cyber penetration, and administrative chain-of-custody collapse. . . If elections cannot be independently verified and guaranteed as legitimate, this one may well be the last.
Given who and what will be in power come January that could very well be the case. Let's see who wins the coin toss in '28?!
On a separate note the ongoing war with Iran is evidently causing a major rift in the White House.
President Donald Trump on Thursday removed Vice President JD Vance from the Iran strategy, instructing him to focus on domestic issues.I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S...),” President Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month. Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal activity.”
The president rejected a negotiated deal with the Mullah regime. He asserted that the U.S. has succeeded in opening the Strait of Hormuz, removing Tehran’s sole leverage in the talks. . “We don’t need a deal with Iran,” he said. “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”
I'm wondering if this is purely about Iran or if there are some other tensions between the two that might be indicative that President Trump will be endorsing someone other than Vance to be at the top of the ticket for 2028. Frankly, Vance has not impressed me of late which given his continued refusal to distance himself from openly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic Tuq'r Qatarlson makes him a non-starter for me. YMMV of course.
We'll have to wait and see as the President himself is wont to say. On this and all the other myriad meshugas in the links I nevertheless bid you all to have a very good luck-filled Friday the 13th, triskaidekaphobia notwithstanding, then have yourselves a great weekend!
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The Kentucky State Board of Elections recommended officials perform a coin flip to decide the outcome, and Fryman won. (of course she did, she's the Democrat - jjs)
Coin Flip Decides Kentucky County’s Tied Election Between Republican and Democrat Candidates
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Daily Tech News 13 November 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Jensen Huang, CEO and chairman of the worlds largest company (by market capitalisation), is now neither. (Tom's Hardware)
He had an affair - confirmed - with a Chinese spy - alleged - and also affairs - alleged - with two employees at Nvidia - confirmed.
He has been CEO since the company was founded - by him - in 1993, so there isn't exactly a carefully thought-out succession plan in place.
- Will he move on to run Terafab? (Tom's Hardware)
Maybe.
- Will Tim Apple take Jensen Nvidia's place? (Tom's Hardware)
Less likely.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - November 12, 2026
—Doof
Howdy Hordelings, and welcome to the Thursday ONT! Open thread, as always. On time, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Guardian Donkeys Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Bighorn ram near The Garden of the Gods
Kristin_Mae Photography
Scorpions glow under UV light.
Inside a giant glacier.
Gross giant beetle larva. Don't click.
Dutch town built to resemble a Lego village.
Out: Fungi are weird and gross
In: Fungi are weird and horrifying
Toucans, the Odd Pet of the Future.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A man committed a truly demonic act -- he buried his infant son alive, inside a dog crate.
But people, possibly with some subtle direction from God, found the baby before he died.
Authorities in South Carolina managed to locate 11-month-old Koah Sharpe alive after he was allegedly buried in a dog crate by his father, Michael Comer. According to Global News, Comer had Sharpe on Monday when the infant was reported missing following Comer's arrest by the Lexington County Sheriff's Department. Comer was taken into custody on a burglary charge and for resisting arrest Monday night; Koah Sharpe was not with Comer when police apprehended him.
Early Tuesday afternoon, a search party located Koah Sharpe in the woods near Comer's father's home, where they noticed freshly disturbed earth. Sharpe was reportedly crying when authorities dug up the dog crate he was buried in. It had been covered with a towel, which created an air pocket that allowed the infant to survive about 24 hours underground.
I wonder if the father will plead postpartum psychosis and gather an army of cult supporters behind him.
Kurt Schlichter: The state GOP parties in Red States got fat and complacent about winning without even trying, and that laziness destroyed them this election cycle.
There's no one fatter and lazier than a deep red state's Republican organization, with few exceptions, and this bit us badly on the butt last week. Now, California is not a red state -- not anymore, though it was when I grew up there -- but this little story kind of sums up the problem with Republican organizations. They aren't about winning; they are social clubs. I was at some GOP event and sat down for rubber chicken next to somebody who proudly announced he was the Republican chair of, say, the 69th District and had been for 20 years. I asked him when the last time a Republican won in the 69th District was, and he looked at me like I was insane, like it never occurred to him that electing people might be a remotely relevant consideration for a district chair. The answer, of course, was "Never." The Republicans had never won it. But he had his gig, a nice seat on the dais, and that was what mattered. Not victory. Just his place in the social club that is the California Republican Party.In the red states, we got too used to winning easily. Far too used to it. We got so used to winning that it never occurred to us that we might not win, and it never occurred to us that we might have to work to win.
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurleyApparently, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's call to round up the "criminals" in Washington includes the conservative justices: "I mean, of course, this Supreme Court as well has also kind of legalized a lot of his criminality." The Democrats are fast becoming a party of berserkers...
...Of course, the impeachment standard is actually not
"kind of legalizing" stuff, but it is no worse than the understanding of her other colleagues of the standard...
...This pack and the pen approach would expand the Court with an instant liberal majority while potentially removing conservatives through criminal charges.
Rep. Tom Emmer says he doubts Ilhan Nur Said Elmi will be in Congress much longer.
I do not believe this at all, but I like the optimism.
"She lied because you get naturalized as a citizen with your natural parent when they are naturalized, if you are under the age of 18. Well, she was not under the age of 18," Emmer said.Emmer argued that the citizenship question offers a cleaner route than any criminal case. "She would have to reapply to be a citizen -- it's an administrative procedure. She shouldn't be in Congress," he told Finnerty.
Any indictment, according to Emmer, is a separate matter that "will go through in court."
"Once it's established that she was over the age of 18 when she claimed to be a minor, she's no longer a citizen of the United States. And when she's no longer a citizen, she's not entitled to serve in Congress," he added.
Pressed on who would confirm her actual birth date, Emmer said, "I think the Department of Justice is finalizing that." He noted that "there are four different things that are being looked at, and that is one of them."
Via Ed Morrissey: it sure looks like the ugliest man in US history to think he has a realistic chance to be president got tipped by investigators that Nvidia might face an intelligence probe, then he and his wife (who he married for her heiress-money) dumped their Nvidia stock.
Trade With Congress @tradewithcong
Well, well, wellRep. Ro Khanna sold $NVDA right before Nvidia's CEO admitted to having a Chinese spy side piece
He's a member of the following:
- Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party Committee
- Taiwan Caucus
- High Tech CaucusApparently, federal agents informed some lawmakers last year that Jensen Huang might be the target of a foreign intelligence operation
He avoided a ~26% dip
The ugliest man in American history to mistakenly believe he could be president crusades against "corruption" and also claims he is against congressmen trading in individual stocks.
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In France, It's Officially Now a Crime to Criticize Islam, Even for a Major Author Who Was Permitted to Blaspheme Just Ten Years Ago
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Michel Houllebecq, author of Submission -- about France under Islamic rule -- was just charged with the crime of offending violent Muslim colonizers.
Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra
FRENCH AUTHOR CHARGED FOR CRITICISM OF ISLAMMichel Houellebecq is a French novelist, filmmaker and singer.
He is known for his 'controversial' views on Islam and demographic replacement.
He has said that Islam is "the dumbest of religions" and has warned "when entire territories come under Islamist control ... [violent] acts of resistance will take place"
He has also said:
"the wish of the population with French roots" was "for the violence to decrease, for [Muslim immigrants] to respect the law and people. Or, another good solution, for them to leave."
The Union of Mosques of France filed a legal complaint alleging Houellebecq of "encouraging violence" through his remarks.
In 2015, he published a novel titled 'Submission', imagining France under a Muslim president whose election leads to sweeping political and social changes.
He did this just a day after the the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. One of the victims of that murderous terrorist attack on freedom of speech just so happened to be a friend of his.
A judge has now charged him with "complicity in incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence"
Houellebecq's attorneys told Le Monde that the "[incriminating] remarks have no dimension of incitement, not even implicitly" and said their client
"[regrets] the increasing judicialization of intellectual debate."When far left groups and Muslim organisations take people to court to get a politically motivated judge to charge them for speaking freely, that signs the death knell for feedom of speech.
Resist them while you can with every ounce of determination and with every resource you have, or risk losing those freedoms forever.
Houllebecq is a major author and public intellectual. So this isn't a case of the censors going after a minor-league rabble-rouser they decide people won't fight for.
This is the censors coming straight at the heart of free speech. Political speech and art are now officially crimes.
David Strom points out he's even chickened out and backtracked as the Muslims ginned up the state to punish him. It wasn't enough.
They want the coercion. They want the blasphemy laws enforced.
And the guy is hardly Tommy Robinson, who is more confrontational. He used to be, but has become far more circumspect. When he got pushback on his comments, he chickened out and said the problem wasn't Islam, but juvenile delinquents who just happen to be, by some strange coincidence, Muslims.He learned his lesson from the previous trial: couch your words in vagueness if you might offend a Muslim.
Worst of all, he said he worried not so much about Muslims becoming violent, but about the French reaction to Muslims [after the French became] tired of the crime.
In other words, Strom notes, he did the Norm MacDonald joke, but for real, hoping that if he couched his words in terms of his fear of backlash against peaceful Muslims after they blow up a dirty bomb, his speech would be deemed legal.
It wasn't.
Oh, one more point from Strom:
It's amazing how far down the prestige ladder the French intellectuals have fallen; a couple of decades ago, it would have been inconceivable for intellectuals to be held to account for almost any crime.
Including pedophilia, of course, if you're on the left.
When I was studying French and watching their TV, I was surprised that they actually respected free speech on news discussion shows. Yes, speakers on the right were "controversial," but they were actually allowed on the major debate shows and treated with respect. The French were, in that regard, much more open than the very closed American media, which completely excludes conservatives from the public debate.
Except, of course, for "conservatives" like David French, Bill Krisol, and Jonah Goldberg.
And it also wasn't the six-on-one token conservative gang-up, either. People were permitted to speak and disputes were had between one person and one other, or maybe two others.
But I see that is no longer the case. Now they're charging critics of Islam with blasphemy.
KS-MVultra
@kevinskilesNov 10
I'm so relieved the west won the Cold War. If the Soviets had of prevailed we'd be living under constant photo survelience, all our phones would be tapped, going to a political protest could get you financially sanctioned, writing a critical book could get you jailed and there would only be one political party to vote for. What a relief none of that happened.
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Hollywood: Trash or Garbage?
James Gunn Edition
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Matt McGloin has scoops about the upcoming James Gunn Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow, being canceled, Batgirl-style, with all money spent so far being taken as a tax write off.
Or, he suggests, Man of Tomorrow might be given a cheap post-production budget and just dumped on HBO Max.
I don't think this is true.
But if it is true, I have a theory about it. Grace Randolf, an idiot SJW biased critic who was nevertheless right that James Gunn was a very poor fit for DC, has been predicting that the new regime at Skydance wants to give Gunn "notes" about the movie -- demands about what must be cut (for example, Supergirl's presence) and what new scenes need to be shot in reshoots.
But James Gunn's contract states that he gets final cut over the movie.
So: Is it possible that Skydance is putting out word they will straight-up cancel the movie (which has already been almost completely shot) if James Gunn does not give up on his final cut power and accept studio notes?
That's a scenario that seems plausible to me.
That said, I still don't know if we can credit any of these "scoops" as true. This seems like a really, really big decision to make. This is an expensive movie. Canceling it saves the money for post-production (editing, music, and of course special effects and marketing), but cancelling it locks in the substantial money already spent as a loss.
I know, I know:
They write it off, Jerry. They write it off.Posted by: Kramer
If Gunn calls their bluff and says "Fine, cancel it," do they go forward with the threat?
I don't know.
Like I said, I don't know how much of these claims, from a fairly obscure geek-culture news site, are true.
The first article from Matt McGloin:
Man of Tomorrow's release is an open question inside Skydance."All options are on the table," per what our Skydance Paramount insider was told Tuesday night from inside the company.
That covers the Superman sequel's July 9, 2027 theatrical date, and everything short of it.
It comes a day after the same insiders told us Skydance expects the movie to lose up to $100 million, with David Corenswet out as Superman.
The math is the problem.
"Now Ellison and Latcham have a $250M pile of ass sitting there waiting for post production, VFX, reshoots, and at least $125M in marketing. Total easily over $400M if they release it."
"BIG HUGE IF," said the insider's friend inside the company.
The movie wrapped filming in August, and James Gunn finished the assembly cut in early October.
Post-production, effects, and any reshoots now happen under the regime that fired Gunn to take over the final cut.
And what is on the screen is its own problem. Our insiders trashed the plot itself, down to what Wonder Woman is doing in it.
The same read is now circulating outside the company.
Columnist Dan Marcus, host of The Film Frontier, posted Tuesday night: "My friend predicted to me earlier today that MAN OF TOMORROW might just get dumped on the new HBO MAX/Paramount Plus streaming platform, and I hate to say it, but I think he could be right."
Shown the post, our insider replied: "I was told tonight all options are on the table."
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Then there is Enty, the lawyer behind the Crazy Days and Nights blind item site, who ran this as Blind Item #5 dated November 10: "The comic studio heads were fired. They didn't quit. Their boss wants to sell off the entire comic book universe to help get rid of some of that $100B debt."
So that kind of makes sense -- except for the fact that due to the collapse of DC on Film, the entire DC pile of intellectual property is currently at a low value. You'd want to bring in a Fluffer to get its value up a bit before selling.
Still, some talk about DC being "cursed" and maybe the thinking is that its value will never increase.
Oh, and it should be pointed out that due to copyright protections finally being allowed to expire, Superman and Batman (at least in their earlier forms) will become public domain in the 2030s. And then a whole bunch of characters start dropping into public domain: Wonder Woman, Joker, Captain America, Flash, etc. All the characters created in the initial burst of of the golden age of comics.
(Most of the characters created by Marvel, except for the early ones like Cap, Human Torch, and Namor the Sub-Mariner, will be protected for a while longer, as they were mostly created in the early sixties.)
McGloin also claims that James Gunn is "setting fire" to DC on his way out the door.
Some of these claims seem dubious, but McGloin tells him that his Warner Bros/Discovery sources previously tipped him, accurately, that Hal Jordan would be killed in "Lanterns" and that Gunn was slated to be fired.
UPDATE: Variety confirms our report on Man of Tomorrow. Two sources now describe Gunn "setting fire" to DC on his way out, screaming matches over the cut included. The plot details leaked: a simp Superman and a lesbian Wonder Woman. Insiders reports are stating Man of Tomorrow may not get a theatrical release. We're told David Corenswet is done. Variety says Lanterns is canceled. THR reports David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz fired Gunn and Safran in person on the Warner Bros. lot; plus, Puck reports Skydance is already dismantling the Gunn DCU slate. TheWrap also says the goofy DCU is over and Ellison is mandating a return to Justice League....
They're the same insiders who first told us back in October 2025 that Gunn would be out, who told us that Hal Jordan would die in Lanterns, and even that Daredevil: Born Again would be retooled.
His report from yesterday about "screaming matches" over the direction took Man of Tomorrow.
"MOT is dog s--, confirmed, bunch of random nobodies cameo without rhyme or reason. Plot is stupid, Superman is a simp again, and Wonder Woman is a lesbian. You heard that right. She and Hawkgirl 'meet cute' and bond while punching white straight 'evil' dudes."That is our Skydance Paramount insiders, relaying word from inside the studio as the new regime decides what to do with the movie.
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Per this leak, that is the pairing: a meet cute, a bond, and "evil" dudes to punch.
We have also been told Arjona's Wonder Woman is a one-and-done, so whatever happens in this movie, the character starts over under the new bosses.
The "random nobodies" complaint has a paper trail.Our insiders said Man of Tomorrow is Gunn's last hurrah and Gunn was "kitchen sinking cameos and fan service, a lot of which may not even make it to the screen".
Script leaks described an event movie stuffed with two teams and characters DC has never put on screen.
A word about these rumored "kitchen sink cameos:" 1, they would make Superman a mere co-star in his own movie again, and 2, it would further goofify the DC universe by featuring Gunn's favorite type of character, misfit joke-characters, and 3, it would also reduce excitement for what Skydance hopes would re-invigorate the brand, a Justice League team-up. If you have Superman teaming up with half of the DC universe in every movie, it's not really a big deal when he teams up with other characters.
Variety confirms that Skydance wants to remove many of the cameos and "easter egg ephemera" from the film.
You might say, "But Gunn would use marginal/minor characters for his cameos and reserve the 'big guns' for a future Justice League movie."
But here's the thing: To a normie, any characters besides Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman are marginal/minor characters. The Flash is one of DC's top heroes but to a normie, he's just another weird side-character. Especially after Ezra Miller played him.
And on Monday, the insiders behind the Gunn firing exclusive said the new bosses call the movie "too bloated" and are not excited about it.
Although I almost can't believe they'd make Wonder Woman -- the most iconic female superhero in the world -- a lesbian, it should be remembered that leftists, feminists, and gay activists have been demanding she be made a lesbian (or at least bisexual) for a long, long time, and leftwing "creatives" have been bowing to that pressure to make many B- or C-list characters gay for a decade now.
Even if the "meet cute" were just a Star-Wars-like hint/suggestion that they might be gay, that would still establish Wonder Woman as canonically lesbian. The straight-to-gay sexuality-bending pipeline only goes in one direction. It never goes in the other direction.
Feh. Maybe Skydance should take Alfred's advice about how to deal with mad chaos agents: "Burn the whole forest down."
Update: It's also reported that Skydance asked Gunn and his partner Safran about their plans for the future and their progress on their alleged "ten year plan" of movies but the pair were secretive and evasive, which made up Skydance's minds for them.
Meanwhile, Jim Caviziel's action movie Ghost Soldier opened Tuesday for Veterans Day.
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DC Shooter Identified as a Doctor Who Was Angry About Black Mold in His Apartment, So He Shot Four People Instead of Hiring a Fucking Cleaner
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Libs don't do maintenance or self-sustenance.
His apartment is worth $1.1 million. I think he could have hired someone to clear out the mold.
He shot up the gym because he thought its ventilation might be giving him mold.
The gunman in the early morning Washington, DC, gym shooting has been identified as a well-heeled doctor who was battling his homeowners' association over black mold in his $1.1 million penthouse and railed about it on X.Dr. Matt Lambert, an emergency room doctor, had sued Metropole Condominium Association in March 2025, alleging that repairs to the building, which involved it being surrounded by scaffolding and drapes, led to mold festering in his home.
"Two years of living in luxury (and the start of 6 months with no shower, dryer, HVAC, and cooking)," an X account linked to Lambert posted Wednesday, along with pictures showing renovations in the Logan Circle unit.
Lambert, who lived on the seventh floor of 1515 15th St. NW, opened fire Thursday morning inside the ground-floor gym, killing at least one person. He then ran back up to his apartment and barricaded himself for nearly an hour before he killed himself.
Emergency personnel are pictured working at the site of a shooting in Washington, DC, with police cruisers, fire trucks, and ambulances surrounding the area, with an overlay of an emergency response team standing on the roof deck of a building in Logan Circle.
DC police said they were investigating a conflict with the homeowner's association as the reason behind the shooting, which left one dead and four others injured.
Lambert filed his suit in March 2025, alleging that his home experienced "no significant water intrusion, mold, moldy smells, moisture accumulation, or related damage," prior to the remediation efforts overseen by the association.But, after the building was enveloped, his unit "experienced suspected water intrusion, mold, significant moisture accumulation, and/or related damage," the suit said.
Lambert described himself as "a board-certified emergency physician with over two decades of clinical experience" and a medical tech executive on his personal website.
"He has a deep understanding of health care regulations and their impact on technology adoption," the site says.
He also said he split his time between the "mountains of West Virginia and the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC."
I mean, it sucks-- but murder? He is wealthy enough to move.
You might wonder where I'm getting the idea that he's a shitlib from.
Well, from his picture:
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Update: The Twice-Deported Honduran Terrorist Who Panicked a Plane by Claiming He Had a Bomb and Rushing the Cockpit... Was Allowed to Stay In the US by a Judge Because He Claimed He Was "Transgender"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_BREAKING: DHS confirms to @FoxNews that the reason this 2x previously deported illegal alien was released into the country after his third illegal crossing in 2019 is because he claimed to be transgender and claimed fear of being killed in his home country on his asylum application, which was approved in early 2020. DHS has provided that section from his application 👇🏻
DHS alleges that this was a blatant case of asylum fraud and the "gaming of a weak asylum system."
This detail first scooped by @JennieSTaer
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Nvidia's CEO Resigns After His Affair with a Chinese Spy Is Revealed
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Nvidia makes the crucial chips that power almost all AI machines.
China is obviously interested in keeping those chips flowing to China, and perhaps picking up some details about how they're made and how they can be exploited.
And Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, was just caught bang-banging a Fang Fang.
AF Post @AFpostNvidia CEO Jensen Huang has admitted to having an affair with a suspected Chinese spy in a message to his company amid media reports.
The company has announced an independent investigation into the matter, with the intent of determining whether Huang was the target of a foreign intelligence operation. Huang has apologized to his wife and children and says he takes "full responsibility" for his actions.
OSINTdefender @sentdefenderNvidia announced in a statement Sunday that it is opening an independent investigation of CEO Jensen Huang, following reports that he had been targeted by a long-term foreign intelligence effort led by the Chinese Communist Party aimed at weakening the chip manufacturer's relationship with the United States and strengthening it with China.
Nvidia's Board of Directors said as part of the statement: "A committee of independent directors, assisted by outside independent counsel, will oversee the investigation. The Board prioritizes U.S. national and economic security, which is paramount to the interests of NVIDIA and its shareholders. While the Board has no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised, the Board's inquiry will examine all available information."
I don't know if the suspected honeytrap used her affair with Huang to move chips to China. But she sure did move a lot of Nvidia chips to China:
Kalshi @KalshiBREAKING: Jensen Huang's lover helped move $7,500,000,000 in restricted Nvidia AI chips into China during affair
43% chance Jensen leaves as CEO before 2028
Seven and a half billion dollars' worth of AI chips. That's a lot.
She ran a front company whose mission was to evade restrictions on sales of AI chips to China.
The abrupt departure follows days of melodrama over Huang's admitted affairs -- two have been acknowledged by Huang, so you know there are more out there -- and the fact that his most recent paramour has all the appearances of being a ChiCom intelligence officer in addition to running a front company designed to bust U.S. restrictions on China's access to Nvidia chips. This has cost Nvidia about 30% of its stock value, or about $1 trillion- yes, that was with a "t"- since the affair broke on October 29....
Ms. Huang was an executive at Singapore-based Megaspeed, a major Nvidia customer that U.S. authorities have investigated for suspected diversion of advanced chips toward China. A recent New York Times investigation found that Megaspeed had no offices, facilities, or apparent employees despite accounting for between 10 and 15 percent of Nvidia's revenue. It ran from leased space inside an accounting firm that specialized in managing shell corporations.
And now Huang has resigned, so that Huang can spend more time with his Fang Fang Bang Bang.
Ed Ludlow @EdLudlowBREAKING: Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia CEO. CFO Colette Kress will act as Interim CEO and earnings go ahead next week. The board will consider external candidates for CEO longterm.
Nvidia stock prices fell 13% on news of the resignation, but had already fallen a bunch since the disclosure of the scandal at the end of October.
Update: It's now reported he had two extramarital affairs, but I assume it's only the suspected Chinese spy they really care about. The second acknowledged affair was with Kimberly Powell, a Nvidia executive handling health care.
Ed Ludlow @EdLudlowBREAKING: Jensen Huang has resigned as Nvidia CEO. CFO Colette Kress will act as Interim CEO and earnings go ahead next week. The board will consider external candidates for CEO longterm.
Below: China's own chip industry is rapidly catching up to our own.
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At Least Five Shot In DC Near the White House;
Shooter Takes Own Life?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He should have led with that.
An active shooting situation Thursday morning near Logan Circle in Washington, D.C. has left at least five people injured, D.C. Metro Police tell Fox News Digital.Police say they no longer consider the shooter to be at large, telling Fox News Digital the shooter has been "contained" and is currently barricaded by law enforcement officers.
"MPD is on the scene of an ACTIVE SHOOTING in the area of 15th and P Street, Northwest. MPD's Emergency Response Team is on scene," D.C. police wrote on X.
"AVOID THE AREA," police added.
In a post on X, D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto said the shooting occurred outside of Vida Fitness, adding that multiple people were injured.
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
Shifting cultural norms have consequences that take years to appear, and while the conceit of the left is that behavior can be guided, that is laughably incorrect. Man's social behavior is far too complex to assume that changing X will lead to Y and Z. The real goal of the left is simply to change behavior for the worse...moving it away from traditional roles and toward the chaos that they seek.
The destruction of the perceived differences between men and women, while simultaneously crediting women with all of the physical and martial skills of men may be their greatest triumph. Shifting the default of women away from their natural behavior -- child-bearing and rearing -- and toward some simulacrum of clownish masculinity has produced a culture that is hilariously ignorant of reality. That five-foot tall, 110 pound woman who kicks the crap out of multiple attackers is amusing to watch in a movie, but has no link to the real world. It simply doesn't work that way!
But even more ridiculous is the expectation among the woke ignoramuses that women have the capacity and right to confront men physically, but men will be handcuffed by the traditional mores of a bygone era, and will not respond in kind. Of course those traditional rules apply only to women who behave traditionally.
So we have women behaving like men, and men expected to behave like women.
Except when it doesn't work out quite as planned.
Liberals are mad because ICE removed this woman that was blocking law enforcement https://t.co/f6Y22lqkAG
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) October 31, 2026
I watched that clip about 17 times, because it makes me chuckle. This middle-aged AWFL was confident that the social construct of the empowered woman was sufficient to protect her from the real-world consequences of her actions which, when examined, were nothing more than a physical confrontation with law enforcement.
And she lost.
Which is to be expected in about 99% of these cases. The time and place for confrontation with law enforcement is when one is before a judge, not on the street. Oh, she thought that because her cause was just and good and approved by the bien-pensants that she would be safe from the physical consequences of her physical act. She was wrong, but her expectation was reasonable because that is what our culture has taught her!
And those lessons can be seen across the country in thousands of these sorts of interactions. The earnest but deluded leftist who knocks over a pro-life organization's table at a demonstration is shocked...SHOCKED...to be handcuffed and taken to jail. The septuagenarian lunatic in NH who slaps a Turning Point Action volunteer is stunned by the perfectly reasonable result...arrest!
In the old America, most people understood that physical confrontation often led to a punch on the nose or a trip to jail, and that is why girls and women shied away from that sort of behavior. But the rules have changed, and not for the better. Perhaps America needs to return to a time when violence was allowed to develop according to those ancient and rather clever rules.
Does that mean that traditional roles are better than the chaos we have today? Absolutely, and those roles were a big part of keeping our society reasonably civil, at least in comparison to the current insanity.
Now get off my lawn!
[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. And if you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow me it would be much appreciated!
