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The UK Branded Turning Point Members as Dangerous Right Wing Extremists, Claimed Leftists, On the Other Hand, Were "Moderate"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
They actually tracked and surveilled Turning Point UK members because they thought they were dangerous -- after a leftist killed Charlie Kirk. They feared they would agitate for "free speech," which is of course dangerous to a corrupt authoritarian and wildly unpopular regime.
They also complained that the "ERW" -- "extreme right wing" -- blamed Kirk's assassination on "the political left."
If Russia invades, I'll agitate to send Russia additional weapons to finish the job.
Inside Britain's Counter-Terrorism monitoring of Charlie Kirk's 'Extreme Right-Wing' supporters
A leaked counter-terrorism memo reveals officials tracked Kirk's British supporters, warning they would "push pro-free speech narratives" -- while describing the Left-wing response as “moderate”
One year ago, Charlie Kirk was shot dead; the British government immediately got to work.
Following Kirk's murder, the Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU), a government counter-extremism and terrorism unit, began monitoring thousands of social media channels, gauging the reaction of what they describe as "Extreme Right Wing" (ERW) activists.
Published here for the first time, a memo generated by RICU reveals that officials assessed that "Extreme Right-Wing" activists, including Tommy Robinson, would use Kirk's assassination to "push pro-free speech narratives".
Counter-extremism agents assessed that Right-wing extremists would use Kirk's death to "encourage more radical action" and "abandon political moderation in favour of more radical political stances".
Meanwhile, RICU characterised the Left-wing online response to Kirk's assassination as "moderate" and largely "factual reporting", despite thousands of Left-wing activists celebrating the shooting.
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A memo entitled 'RICU Event Response: Charlie Kirk Assassination' was circulated across Whitehall, including to officials in the Home Office, Foreign Office and Cabinet Office, as well as police officers, on 11 September 2025, the day after Kirk was shot.
The memo was classified as "Official Sensitive".
RICU assessed that American and British ERW audiences would present the murder as "a shared attack on the ERW movement and free speech activism more generally", and monitored the response of Turning Point UK, the British arm of Charlie Kirk's American organisation.
"There is nothing 'extreme' about 'pushing pro free speech narratives,'" said Sarah Rogers, the United States Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, who served as Kirk's attorney on First Amendment issues and has led the Trump administration's advocacy against censorship in Europe.
"That's why censorship by governments proves so unpopular."
Rogers added that in her judgment, the RICU report showed "blind spots" which "regrettably were not unique to the UK," pointing out now-discredited intelligence products rescinded by the CIA "show the same biases."
"Most glaringly, the memo describes the 'leftist' response as 'moderate,' despite describing the same leftists as 'celebratory' of Charlie's murder," said Rogers.
RICU is a government unit based in the Home Office that monitors and analyses terrorist and extremist content and supports government counter-terrorism communications.
This is the same unit that pumps out propaganda like "I'll Ride with You" after Muslims commit terrorist murders and also pushed covid hysteria to help the government control the population.
Founded in 2007, RICU has stirred controversy over its role in coordinating 'controlled spontaneity' campaigns in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, including pre-planned messaging, vigils and demonstrations intended to shape the public's response to terrorism.
For example, after an ISIS terrorist attack in 2014, RICU created an image of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab with a British flag, which was subsequently published on the front page of The Sun and other British newspapers.
The image was created because, according to a leaked document from the company RICU commissioned to make the image, "the UK authorities wanted to challenge ultraconservative and misogynistic interpretations of Islam".
Following major terrorist events, RICU analyses tens of thousands of social media channels to monitor the responses of those it classes as extremists.
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The memo reveals that RICU identified 2,000 posts from what it described as global "ERW audiences" discussing Kirk's assassination, with most appearing within an hour of the attack.
Officials described the reaction as "highly emotionally charged".
"The dominant narrative within the ERW attributes responsibility for the assassination to the 'political left' and claims that it is part of a broader campaign of violence against conservatives and White Christians," the memo stated.
As thousands of left-wing accounts literally celebrated Kirk's murder and called for additional murders, including fresh assassination attempts on Trump.
The "Rogue" Juror the Extreme Left-Wing AWFUL Karens Berated and Bullied for a Week? B L A C K
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Old bitter AWFULs communicating in their favored manner,
via birdhands
Thanks to Spencer Pratt for that.
What will the AWFULs do? They were all set on hating and deploring the presumably white (spit) man (spit) who refused to OBEY the Alpha Karens, but now it turns out the white man was actually a black man (or a White Black man, as the New York Times might say).
What's the Oppression Calculus on that? Turns out Tuq'r Qarlson was completely wrong about not needing any algebra after all!
Just kidding, you're allowed to be RACIST if you're an AWFUL! They are God's Perfect Beings and you are required to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND.
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NEW: Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin reveals on 'CBS Mornings' that the lone, male holdout juror who voted to find Clancy guilty of murdering her children was the *only* person of color -- a black man.
The 11 not-guilty jurors -- who hectored him for a week to cave -- were all white.
NEW: Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin reveals on 'CBS Mornings' that the lone, male holdout juror who voted to find Clancy guilty of murdering her children was the *only* person of color -- a black man.
Gayle King is STUNNED to hear that the rogue oppressor juror is black. "I'm going to have to sit with that for a minute" she actually says, her world rocked by cognitive dissonance.
No women on juries, and no cucks, either. And if their are women, the only men who can be on the jury are those we know to be immune to AWFUL scolding, black men and GamerGaters.
By the way: The cuck male jury who claims the black juror was just "scrolling on his phone" when the other jurors were shrieking at him?
Seems to be a liar:
I checked the guidance in MA on use of phones during jury deliberations and, as I assumed, the policy is that phones are not allowed during deliberations.
On Oprah, they're against white women being allowed to murder their children, unless black women are afforded the same "right."
Room full of women on the Oprah show starts cheering after a doctor says that black female child murderers need to be supported too, not just the white child murderers like Lindsay Clancy.
"I want us to have the same passion for [female child murderers] who don't look like… pic.twitter.com/VbaQfq9BYi
Not only is the claim morally insane, it's not even factually true.
The New York Times Magazine ran a story in 2017 about a black woman who beat her child to death and later did some historical scholarship in prison. The premise of the article was that it was a scandal that… https://t.co/2fwzRV7Iz4pic.twitter.com/rWOVSxpEVA
THE MORNING RANT: EV Owners and Lessors Have a Problem - Heavily Depreciated EVs that Dealerships Won’t Take Off Their Hands at Any Price
—Buck Throckmorton
The failed “EV Transition” has led to a widespread suspension of electric vehicle manufacturing in the United States. Ford has discontinued its flagship F150 ConflagrationLightning, and it also mothballed an all-new plant that was intended to manufacture that unwanted electric pickup. Volkswagen suspended production of its only American-built electric offering, and GM is cancelling or postponing most of its electric offerings too.
But the nightmare isn’t over yet. There is still a great financial reckoning to come, due to all the lithium-ion albatrosses pushed on consumers over the past few years. Those who financed the purchase of their new electric vehicle will likely be woefully “upside down” when it comes trade-in time, because they’ll owe much more to the finance company than a dealer will offer for it in trade. There’s a good chance a dealer will not make a trade-in offer on an EV at any price. For those EV customers who were put in leases, the manufacturers’ finance companies are about to take a bath when those vehicles go to auction and don’t bring anywhere near the amount of the contracted lease-end residual value.
Whether the original owner of the EV is an individual or a leasing company, they will likely face a financial bloodletting trying to make the car go away. Horror stories are mounting.
Because Audi dealers are struggling to sell their new “e-tron GT” electric vehicles - despite heavy manufacturer incentives and discounting - those dealers have little interest in purchasing used e-tron GTs that are coming off lease, and certainly not for the original lease-end value. So, Audi is offering to pay the current drivers $10,000 to stay in the leased car they’re currently driving, because sending the car to auction would result in a much larger loss.
A recent Audi BEV Lessee Buyout Option Incentive sent to dealerships on September 1, reveals that current e-tron GT lessees are being offered a $10,000 discount to purchase their vehicle at the end of the lease term.
Dealers would be paid a small stipend for handling the paperwork, but Audi loses out on the sale of a new vehicle. When manufacturers offer leasing specials, the intent is for a customer to surrender the vehicle at lease-end to the originating dealership, at which time he is both car-less and in the perfect place to buy a replacement vehicle from the same manufacturer. Instead, Audi is forgoing a vehicle sale and paying a potential repeat customer not to buy a new car.
Lee Davey bought a new Porsche Taycan EV two years ago, paying more than $160,000. There is such a glut of unwanted used EVs that the dealer he bought it from will not take the electric Taycan back in trade at any price:
Ironically, the Porsche dealership he bought it from valued the Taycan at roughly $54,000 but still refused to buy it back, saying it was already overstocked with older Taycan models. Davey said this in the video: “I’m basically left with a car that’s worthless. Even the dealership does not want this car back.”
The financing arms of auto manufacturers are also sitting on a portfolio of soon-to-mature EV leases with a value not much greater than “worthless.” As I have been documenting, legacy automakers have lost tens of billions of dollars on their failed effort to become mass market EV manufacturers. Their problem is that there never was a mass market for EVs, nor could government regulators compel it into being. So, despite all the EV losses already booked, more massive losses are looming for the industry.
Per Experian, just about half (46%) of EVs sold in the United States in 2024 were leased. The good news for those customers is that as their leases mature, they can simply surrender the EV and go get another new car. The bad news for the manufacturers is that they will have to somehow find buyers for the impending glut of off-lease EVs. The supply and demand math will worsen the situation. There is already little demand from dealers for used EVs, and when this wave hits, the already awful auction price for used EVs will plummet even further:
Leasing played a major role in boosting EV adoption in the United States over the past few years. Incentives, especially federal tax credits that applied more broadly to leased vehicles than purchases, helped to lower monthly outlays and drove car shoppers toward short-term leases. Now, those two- and three-year leases are beginning to expire, sending a wave of used EVs back into the market.
A three-year-old EV retained about 40 percent of its original value at auction by the end of 2025. Compare that to early 2022 when comparable vehicles held roughly 90 percent of their value, says Cox Automotive. Analysts say that difference could translate into losses of around $10,000 per vehicle on average, adding up to as much as $8 billion across the industry by 2028.
Legacy auto manufacturers lost money on the front-end when customers bought and leased their electric vehicle offerings, and now they’re looking at losing another $10,000 or so per unit when the customer’s EV lease matures. The capital of these auto companies is not unlimited. They cannot absorb these losses indefinitely, and there is no path to profitability with EVs. They would be wise to take their final financial hits on these off-lease EVs and then return to doing what they know how to do profitably – manufacture and sell gasoline-powered vehicles.
Unbowed by its EV failure in North America, VW continues to plow its precious capital into other U.S. electric boondoggles. Rivian is an EV startup company that planned to sell hundreds of thousands of units per year — its business plan depended on it. Instead, Rivian is struggling to sell a fraction of that volume, and it has lost more than $24 billion since going public less than 5 years ago. Inexplicably, Volkswagen has given Rivian a $6 billion lifeline, including $1 billion just a few months ago, while at the very same time VW was weighing which of its own models to cut and what plants to close.
Even more preposterous is the fact that Volkswagen is building yet another all-new American plant to build yet another all-new EV, a pickup truck this time.
This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
My latest piece at The American Spectator: "Volkswagen’s Electric Suicide Pact; Caught in an EV-induced doom loop, Volkswagen continues to invest in new EV boondoggles"https://t.co/DOBrreCNf6
It is an iconic photograph, and one that encapsulates the horror of September 11th and the 2,977 people who were murdered that day by Islam. And I use the word "murdered" very carefully. This man did not commit suicide in the conventional sense. He was presented with two awful choices, and I believe that he chose the option that gave him control over his death.
If you would like to read Kris's commentary about this photograph, here it is.
But there are other images that may be becoming more important: those that represent the West's response to the 1,400 year old war against it conducted by Islam.
This is Gaza, soon after the Arab savages rampaged through the Israeli border communities. This was the beginning of the Israeli response to Islamic barbarism, and it is an image that may need to be repeated thousands of times across the world by a united West if we are to defend 21st century Western civilization against the 7th century.
And...this is not to denigrate the man in the photo above; he made an awful choice, and I respect him for it, and pray that he is at peace. But remembering and solemnity and sadness should be only a part of our response, and a cold fury, as seen in the second photo must be included.
Good morning kids. We are absolutely loaded with links and of course today being the 25th anniversary of 9/11 as is all too and painfully obvious the largest category far and away is about the events of that horrendous day. I'm sure we all remember where we were and what we were doing when we first heard the news. At the time, working as I was in both show business and the advertising industry, my time was divided between LA and NYC, and it was just after 6:00AM on the west coast when my father, of blessed memory, phoned me, and my first thought was "well here he is again calling to "use up his minutes before they run out" (remember those days?) until I heard him tell me to turn on the TV and that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Yes, what he had said stunned me but it was the tone of his voice that was the shocker. That is until I did as he said and saw the smoking hole in the first tower. I remember physically taking a step backward trying to process what I was seeing. Clear blue sky and the smoldering hole in the facade. My first reaction was accident and thinking Cessna. That is until watching in abject horror as the second jumbo jet zoomed in and struck the second tower. Then I yelled the word "WAR."
Whether fate, Divine providence or dumb luck, I would've been right in the WTC plaza as the planes struck. I was in NYC exactly a week before, and had a routine I stuck to, which was eating breakfast with my folks and then taking the subway from Forest Hills down to the WTC, where I visited the Century 21 department store, J&R music world and then a cigar store before ambling up Broadway or Church street to grab some breakfast before either heading back to Queens or to my office. There but for the grace of God. I had returned to LA a few days before the attacks despite my parents wanting me to extend my stay so I could be with them for Rosh Hashanah, which was a week later on the 18th that year.
Kathleen Moran was a Brooklyn native. The second-born from a big Irish family, she often hosted the whole family for gatherings at her Bay Ridge apartment. In her backyard she tended a garden patch of tomatoes, zucchini and more, which she jestingly referred to as “her crops.” Kathleen made memories with her nieces and nephews at birthday parties and on trips to Disney World, and maintained a network of close friends who accompanied her on her travels, whether on weekend road trips to the beach or a week’s sojourn to Italy. After 9/11, Kathleen’s family found a jewelry box in her apartment containing a medley of small items precious to her. Her 1977 class ring represented her years at Midwood High School, where she sang and acted in school musicals. A gold broach with emerald stones spoke to her Irish heritage, the home country of her parents. There were also three Christmas ornaments, commemorating her travels around the world. These were only part of Kathleen’s much larger collection of distinctive ornaments, enough to fill multiple trees during the holiday season, according to her sister Bernadette.
May sweet Kathleen's memory and indeed all of the victims' be for a blessing.
9/11 Was The Beginning Of A Religious War That We Lost. . . We thought religion had no real influence on peoples and cultures, so we failed to recognize the religious nature of the conflict... Today, it’s easy to see just how naive and shallow Ambrose’s analysis was. The idea that there would be no more major ideological conflicts, or that Western civilization had nothing to fear from competing cultures and peoples, was positively delusional.. . At the dawn of the 21st century, no one could possibly take religion seriously, or think that medieval religious disputes had any relevance in the post-Cold War world that was taking shape. Then 9/11 happened. But instead of shattering this delusion, great efforts were made to shore it up. This proved difficult (but not impossible) because the leaders of al-Qaida were obviously motivated by religious beliefs, and said so repeatedly.
I was comforted/heartened for perhaps a nanosecond or so when Dubya proclaimed in the bullhorn that the perpetrators would "hear from all of us," but then he declared that we were in a war on "Terror." Right then and there I knew we were screwed.
And as for the estimable John Daniel Davidson, 9/11 was not the beginning of a "religious war," As Islam has been at war with the Civilized world since its inception nearly 1500 years ago. It seeks the death of unbelievers in its quest to conquer the world in order to make it Islamic in its entirety. And the Shiite part of Islam believes that bringing about Armageddon will make that happen, with them at the top of the heap for all time. So, regardless of how you think President Trump is handling the war with Iran, the leading Shiite nation state, that he is actively doing whatever he can to prevent them from obtaining the nuclear weapons to bring about Armageddon is absolutely the right thing to do, higher gasoline prices for a while being an acceptable price to pay.
Switching gears yet again, I draw your attention to the lead photograph which was the view from my former apartment in NYC when my wife lived there before we met. It was taken not long before 9/11. And she was getting ready for work when the Towers were hit and collapsed. So on that day and for several weeks to follow she was breathing in the air. Now 25 years on, during treatment for what we think is an unrelated neurological issue, the doctors discovered scarring on her lung due to potential asbestos exposure. Oh joy oh bliss.
Anyway, that's all I've got the energy for on this terrible anniversary.
Have a good day. And God Bless all the victims and their families, as well as our first responders and the military for all their sacrifices on that day and in the wake of the attacks, from Iraq and Afghanistan all the way to Epic Fury.
Death to Islam and to those who are allied with it who seek our destruction. May we see all of them wiped out in our lifetimes, so that we may actually have a lifetime to live in freedom and in service of the Lord and our fellow human beings. Amen.
Have a great weekend.
9/11/01 25 years on
Abruzzo was quadriplegic and used a power wheelchair. Everyone around him faced the same brutal fact: the only way out was down, and Abruzzo couldn't take the stairs... 10 Port Authority coworkers stayed. They were Michael Ambrosio, Peter Bitwinski, Phillip Caffrey, Richard Capriotti, Michael Curci, Michael Fabiano, Wilson Pacheco, Anthony Pecora, Gerald Simpkins, and Margaret Zoch. They became known as the "Port Authority Ten." On 9/11, They Couldn't Take the Stairs. Others Wouldn't Leave Them.
The years after the attacks proved challenging for conviction about America’s role in the world—and about my own motives. September 11 and the Loss of Certainty
I cannot agree with Kennedy that the Democrat Party used to be honorable and patriotic, because the leadership of the party has always been anti-constitutional, racist, elitist, and pro-violence. But I do applaud Kennedy for being willing to state the truth about Islam, even if he did so in a mistaken context of attributing his own views to previous Democrat politicians. RFK Tells the Brutal Truth About Islam on Eve of 9/11 Anniversary
If Vance and Rubio’s assessment proves accurate, the Iran war could become the defining issue of Trump’s second term, taking away from his policies on immigration, tariff reform, and reviving American manufacturing. Report: Vance, Rubio Have Warned Trump the Iran War Could Run Into 2029.
“We’re squeezing and strangling them, and that pressure, coupled with the military pressure, we hope will get them to act more reasonably in terms of giving up their nuclear weapons program, which they have, up until this point, not been willing to do,” he said. “A lot of that is driven by the blockade, the economic blockade, because their economy is 90 percent dependent on oil.” McCormick said the next step is to sanction other countries who continue to do business with Iran. Exclusive: Sen. Dave McCormick Reveals Trump’s Strategy to Economically ‘Strangle’ Iran
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
Ghalibaf's assessment is actually from three weeks ago, which is why it sounded so familiar. But as it turned out, there was perhaps good reason for last week's news to resurface — renewed protests in various Iranian cities. Iran 'Cannot Survive Like This Much Longer'...AGAIN
The immediate legal fight involves parentage, jurisdiction, and who may make decisions for a critically ill infant. But buried underneath those questions is one that should make almost anybody uncomfortable, regardless of where they stand on abortion. . . How much control over a woman's body can she sign away before becoming pregnant? Can a Contract Punish a Woman for Refusing an Abortion?
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
The incident could create additional scrutiny for Omar because the police search involved a firearm-related investigation at a home shared by her son. It also puts renewed focus on the contrast between Omar’s public support for stricter gun regulations and her decision not to comment when questioned about the firearms raid on her son’s home. BRO-FO Omar Refuses to Comment on Police Raid on Home Shared by Son and Felon Roommate
Every election cycle, Democrats run the same play. As the general election approaches, they start pretending to be reasonable moderates. The problem is they govern like radical leftists the moment they're sworn in. Here’s Proof That James Talarico’s Campaign Is in BIG Trouble
Midterms are always about the incumbent prez, with voters usually expressing doubts and discontent — that’s why the “out” party almost always gains seats. What Republicans can do to counter those tendencies is pretty obvious: Remind voters of how very much the GOP has done right, fixing the messes left behind by [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden and the hyperactive Democrat Congress of 2021-’23 — and of how extremely weird the Democrats remain. The midterms ARE about Trump — and what he offers for America’s future
Ever the consummate showman, President Trump invented the concept of the midterm convention, and he stepped right in to headline it. But there's a perfectly legitimate argument that Republicans should run on what they've actually accomplished rather than turning this election into another referendum on one man. Democrats Asked for It, and Trump and the GOP Delivered
The AfD has dismissed the EU’s potential actions as undemocratic, characterizing the idea as punishing the voters of Saxony-Anhalt. If the EU opts to freeze funds to the region or attempts to override state government decisions through financial pressure, this could increase hostility towards the EU and bolster support for the AfD. It is also possible that the EU goes ahead with defunding the region in order to slight President Donald J. Trump, who congratulated the AfD on their win earlier this week. “Wow! The Populist Party in Germany just had a really big night… THEY ARE ON THE RISE, and not going to take it anymore! MGGA!!!” wrote President Donald J. Trump on Truth Social... European Union Mulls Punishing German Region for Electing Populists.
Perhaps more "allied" countries than we thought are currently led by people who are -- for all intents and purposes -- agents of the People's Republic of China. A Manufactured Trade War with Canada
Republicans have spent years correctly warning that dependence on foreign adversaries for energy and critical minerals is a national security liability. Food is no different. Canada just told the world food is a weapon
The legal filing says 3,500 doctors were sent to Brazil between 2013 and 2018 and claims the Cuban regime earned more than $2.3 billion for their services but paid them “a small fraction” — less than 10 percent — of their earnings. The doctors, now living in the US, claim that when dispatched abroad they were never informed 90 percent of their wages would go to the Cuban government. Cuban doctors claim they were forced into slavery as propaganda for the Communist regime — seek $129M in new lawsuit
The refunds may serve as an incentive to vote Republican in the midterm elections, which are scheduled for November. The policy is likely to be well-received by Americans most impacted by the expiration of ACA premium subsidies. Trump Announces $500 Refunds for Americans ‘Ripped Off’ by Obamacare.
...in only a year or so we shall see the arrival of so many new rockets that the press will start to whine about a glut of launch capacity. In fact, this wave of new rockets has already begun, with successful orbital launches by two startups in just the last seven weeks... The coming tidal wave of new rockets
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
Jimmy Kimmel is lying. The FCC didn’t threaten him or his lowly rated show, or his network ABC or his affiliates or local stations. Kimmel lied when he said the “unusual circumstance” of his Talarico interview airing on YouTube and not on TV is due to the Trump administration’s objection to “traditional editorial decisions, guest bookings […] they don’t like.” Jimmy Kimmel Pulls a Colbert: Lies About ‘FCC Threats’ Forcing Him to Air Talarico Interview on YouTube, Not ABC
Like most of Hollywood, Rock is a long-time liberal who frequently uses his stand-up platform and satire to critique American politics..."fake news." Chris Rock Admits Trump Got One Thing Right
HITHER & YON
“Anders’ question resonates anew today...Our failure to think is the natural consequence of the modern worship of progress...Mass objects, through their identical multiple existences, attain a kind of ersatz immortality...Humanity must debase itself totally in order to escape its debasement...This was not cosmopolitan sentimentalism.” Günther Anders, the Philosopher at the End of the World
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Problem is they need to add three more zeroes to that number to make a dent. It's being billed as the "fastest growing space company in Europe", which is like being the most successful oyster farmer in Eromanga, population 98.
Anthropic says a lot of things. I am a paying customer; their product is a lot better than their PR.
"You are not seeing someone in a comic book kind of way say, 'Hey, I want to build a biological weapon to kill everybody,'" Jacob Klein, the head of threat intelligence at Anthropic, said in an interview. "It's an incredibly nuanced situation. They're saying things like 'But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs.'"
Though if you're able to live within a plan and not burn infinite tokens through the API, Opus 5 can be one 20th the price that comparison assumes.
Speaking of which: Fixed the performance of my runtime. The interpreter is now as fast as Ruby, where before it needed the compiler to match that. The compiler averages around 3x faster. And because it has a rich set of builtins, using those really puts on the afterburners, with minor changes in code lifting it to 15x the performance of the Ruby interpreter.
Of course, Ruby now has a compiler of its own, which I haven't tested against.
Right now, integrating multiprecision maths into the core.
Thursday Overnight Open Thread - September 10, 2026
—Doof
Photo and mystery click courtesy of nurse ratched
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. On time, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
One year ago, our founder, our leader, and our friend, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated while doing what he had devoted his life to: standing before young Americans and challenging them to think, to speak, and to have the courage to stand for what they believe.
There are no words that can adequately describe what this past year has been like.
We have had to learn how to carry on without the person who was at the center of everything we do. We have celebrated milestones that Charlie should have been here to celebrate. We have stood on stages where his voice should have been heard. We have watched his children grow without their father there to see it. And we have felt the weight of his absence in ways that never seem to get easier.
For the people who knew and loved Charlie, September 10 will never simply be an anniversary. It is the day our lives were changed forever.
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We miss him.
We grieve him.
And we will never forget him.
One year later, Turning Point remains committed to carrying forward the work Charlie began.
For Charlie. Always.
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One year ago, we tragically lost a fearless patriot. A champion for freedom and for our country.
Charlie Kirk changed the course of American history. His courage, conviction, and love of country will never be forgotten. ❤️
🚨 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: A statue of Charlie Kirk was unveiled in Times Square today at 2:23 PM, the exact time Kirk was murdered on this day last year.
The $5,000 Trump Dividend talk receives different media coverage than did Biden's talk of $2,000 stimulus checks
CNN
Biden: 🦗🦗🦗
Trump: This is crooked!
NBC
Biden: “populist pitch”
Trump: legal and financial problem!
WaPo
Biden: “Big new opportunity!”
Trump: This is illegal!
I agree with The Bee on this one
Trump Pledges That If Voters Defeat Socialism In November, They Will Each Get An Equal Redistribution Of Wealth From The Government https://t.co/qe16k9ucsf
In a modest wooden home in Sardinal, about a 20-minute drive from Costa Rica's Pacific coast, Jose Flores spends his days napping, eating meals prepared by his granddaughter, and arm-wrestling with her.
His family and official records indicate that he is 119 years old, which would make him the world's oldest man, though international verification of his birth date is still pending as specialists review historical documents.
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As the validation process continues, Flores' family is awaiting an answer that Hellen Flores said would carry meaning beyond their own household.
"It would be a source of pride, both for the family and for the country," she said.
Flores had eight children and now has 23 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter.
The world's oldest living person is Ethel Caterham of Britain. Born on August 21, 1909, in Hampshire, England, she turned 117 in 2026. She was recognized as the world's oldest living person after Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas died in April 2025.
A piece of fossilised dinosaur poo contains one of the best-preserved feathers from the dinosaur age.
A palaeontologist found the feather by chance while looking for fish fossils.
Researchers said the discovery, published today in Current Biology, might provide clues about why today's birds are the only dinosaur group that survived mass extinction.
Lead author Jingmai O'Connor, associate curator of fossil reptiles at the Field Museum in Chicago, said there might be more hidden feathers inside fossilised faeces, known as coprolites.
"This is the first-ever feather in a coprolite … and it probably would not have been found if it wasn't for a lucky break," Dr O'Connor said.
Dino, are you here tonight? We'd love your insights on your ancestor's droppings!
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Not that you hordelings need an excuse for fish puns...
Fishermen in San Diego were stunned to catch a nearly 500-pound bluefin tuna this week — sending the local fishing community into a frenzy.
“We both got a look at it, and we didn’t even say anything,” Markus Medak of Shearwater Fishing, who snagged the prize catch with the help of another, unnamed fisherman, told Fox 5.
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That’s the largest bluefin ever caught on rod and reel, according to Medak.
The record-breaking fish was brought to Tommy Gomes’s Tunaville Market and Grocery in Point Loma, which sells to local restaurants.
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A representative for the restaurant said that every part will be used — even its spinal fluid, considered a delicacy in some cultures.
Old Rip Van Winkle Distillery and Buffalo Trace Distillery today announced that the 2026 Van Winkle Whiskey Collection is on its way, once again delivering one of American whiskey's most sought-after and closely watched annual releases.
Produced in highly limited quantities, the collection represents four generations of Van Winkle whiskey-making tradition and decades of patience, with six aged expressions ranging from ten to twenty-three years. The 2026 collection includes Old Rip Van Winkle Handmade Bourbon 10-Year-Old, Van Winkle Special Reserve Bourbon 12-Year-Old, Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve Bourbon 15-Year-Old, Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve Bourbon 20-Year-Old, Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve Bourbon 23-Year-Old, and Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye 13-Year-Old.
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The Van Winkle family’s legacy in American whiskey dates more than a century, beginning in the late 1800s when Julian P. “Pappy” Van Winkle, Sr. started his career with Louisville’s W.L. Weller & Sons before helping establish the Stitzel-Weller Distillery, which opened in 1935. His commitment to quality and carefully aged whiskey laid the foundation for the Van Winkle Collection, a celebrated family of bourbon and rye whiskeys that carries his name and enduring philosophy. In 2002, the Van Winkle family partnered with Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort, Kentucky, where that legacy continues today through the careful crafting and aging of each expression.
MSRP for these bottles ranges from $170 - $500. If you happen to see one on the shelves, the price tags will likely be quite higher. I've seen these bottles in stores for as much as 5X their MSRP. Ridiculous!
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Oh no, someone stole my bag! This actually sucks. I could see this happening to me.
Stupid people cheer as a nearby volcano blows its top, apparently believing that because the volcano is on a screen and because nothing on a screen can hurt you, they are perfectly safe.
Idiocracy wasn't supposed to be a user's manual.
YouTubers suffer disasters as they make "unboxing" videos. One big problem I see: Instead of laying the product on the desk and shooting from above while they open it, these Influencer-Types are determined to get their own faces into the shot, which results in them having at least one fewer hand than necessary.
There's some of this going on, but a couple of Soyboy Beta Cucks do it too.
Steve Inman:
Entitled Karen attempts a simple grab-and-run robbery at a gun store, and quickly learns why women should not compete with men in track or Greco-Roman wrestling.
Drunk Karen keeps f***ing around until the woman she's laying hands on lets her find out.
Federal Appeals Court Keeps Stay on Trump's Ballot-Checking Order While Supreme Court Dithers; Supreme Court Refuses to Allow Missouri to Use Its Redrawn Maps
Did she once again ignore the Supreme Court and impose her stay despite the Supreme Court just overruling her last stay?
I'm not sure. But she did re-impose her stay, and a three-judge appeals court panel -- made up entirely of Biden appointees -- refused to lift the stay.
What they're doing is delaying this as long as possible so that they can then claim "It will cause chaos to implement this policy at this late date, there's just not enough time to implement it properly."
An appeals court on Thursday upheld a block on President Donald Trump's executive order limiting mail voting, a decision that comes as the Supreme Court considers the same case and states have already started sending out ballots for the high-stakes midterm elections.
The three-judge panel refused to lift a preliminary injunction against the order issued last week by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani. It prohibits the U.S. Postal Service from implementing Trump's directive. The Postal Service has said it would not deliver ballots from states that did not pre-clear their envelope design with the federal government and submit a list of voters to an online portal, which has yet to be activated.
Election officials warn that it's impossible to comply with those terms, especially with the first mail ballots already being sent out in Alabama, North Carolina and Wisconsin.
The panel of three judges nominated by former President Joe Biden agreed with the plaintiffs that the president does not have the power to regulate states' election policy.
"Appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court erred in determining that the Final Rule is likely unlawful," they wrote, a reference to a rule published by the Postal Service to implement Trump's order.
The panel wrote that the Trump administration had done little to dispel arguments by many election officials that the changes would bring "chaos and widespread disenfranchisement."
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The government also hasn't shown evidence of past fraud to justify the restrictions, the judges said.
LOL, sure.
The scumbags of the Supreme Court have once again given Democrats a hand and refused to allow the people of Missouri to change their congressional maps.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined for the second time to intervene in a dispute over redistricting maps in Missouri.
The high court ruling follows a federal judge in Missouri on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state from using its 2022 congressional districts in the midterms. That ruling came just moments after the Supreme Court let stand a decision from the Missouri Supreme Court ordering Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to use the 2022 map.
An anti-gerrymandering group, People Not Politicians, on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court's order from Tuesday night, mandating Missouri use a GOP redistricting map.
The Supreme Court's decision Thursday appears to be the end of the push to use the 2025 redistricting map, according to the Associated Press.
A TREND seeming to be celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk has taken over the internet days before the first anniversary of his assassination on Thursday.
From "twerk for Kirk" to "what are we wearing for the first Kirkversary?" dozens of social media posts have been making jokes about marking the day the Turning Point USA founder was killed in front of hundreds of witnesses.
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People have used the term across several platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, and Reddit, with one post under the page No Stupid Questions reading, "What are you doing for the first Kirkaversary on 9/10?"
"I don't know if this is a thing for people that applaud that guy's killing or mourn it, but I think it sucks either way," one Reddit user wrote in the comments of the now-deleted post.
A self-described Portland, Oregon, tattoo artist shared on social media that they were offering "$50 neck tattoos" with "the exact placement of the kirkhole."
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While many are sharing posts about it, with one even calling Wednesday "Kirkmas eve," others are expressing outrage.
"These demons are gearing up to celebrate Charlie Kirk's assassination, calling it 'Kirkaversary,'" one person wrote on X. "Murder is basically a Leftist policy at this point."
Another X user said they feel it is overshadowing World Suicide Prevention Day, which is observed annually on September 10.
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"If you're celebrating 'Kirkaversary' then you are part of the problem," another chimed in.
"I don't give two sh**s what side you're on, if you celebrate a man's death just because you disagree with him, then you need mental help. Because making fun of someone's death is not ok at all, it's just evil."
"Evan loves worf," a radical left-wing account on X, posted an AI-generated video of Kirk that mocked his assassination. Far-left media pundit Taylor Lorenz, although she did not use the term "Kirkaversary," shared a post from Kirk that he wrote in 2014 which said, "Did I just get shot by an AR-15? Feels like it."
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One woman posted a video to TikTok of her dancing to her "playlist" that she said she made in preparation for her "kirkaversary party."
Another far-left woman posted a TikTok where she made a "Kirkaversary basket" that included "Charlie's blood," an "aborted fetus," as well as "toy guys."
Charlie Kirk statue bound for NY's Times Square as sculptor defies threats ahead of unveiling
'It's a monument definitely to Charlie, but it's even a monument to freedom of speech,' sculptor tells Fox News Digital
Artist Sergio Furnari reveals the inspiration behind his $100,000 Charlie Kirk statue ahead of its unveiling in New York City's Times Square on the anniversary of Kirk's assassination.
An Italian-born sculpture artist is set to unveil a six-figure tribute to Charlie Kirk in the heart of New York City this week -- a move that he hopes will spark dialogue rather than division.
Sergio Furnari was still in bed when his daughter came home with the news that Kirk had been assassinated at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025.
"It took me a couple of seconds to connect," Furnari told Fox News Digital. "And then I kind of was, I would say, saddened by it."
Within weeks, Furnari -- who gained attention for his 40-foot sculpture of athlete Cristiano Ronaldo -- was fielding calls suggesting he create a tribute to Kirk.
"I was like, 'No way, I cannot get involved with politics,'" Furnari said. "But I [saw] how Erika [Kirk] got treated, including the parents of Charlie, and that's what I think became my catalyzer[sic]."
Although the statue was "unveiled" in Times Square, there's no way the communist terrorist Zohran Mamdani will allow it to actually stand in NYC. You can bring anything to a street and unveil it, that doesn't mean the government will let you keep it there.
Mike Crispi
@MikeCrispi
Mayor Zohran Mamdani CANCELS Turning Point USA's permit for Moment of Silence honoring Charlie Kirk.
AND he refuses to show respect to the families of the victims of 9/11.
Will Rogers once observed that "Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else." No one ever personified Rogers' rule as much as University of California, Irvine instructor Matt Goldman, who cracked everyone up this week by joking about celebrating the anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk by alluding to the possible assassination of independent journalist Nick Shirley.
Today is the anniversary of the murder of Kirk. In anticipation, Goldman posted a picture of Shirley with the line "Someone can do the funniest thing just before the Kirkiversary." It was a response to an Instagram post by the Harvard Republican Club promoting a speech by Shirley.
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After the murder of a UnitedHealthcare CEO in 2024, Goldman allegedly posted a photo of the "Super Mario" character Luigi putting a gun to someone's head with the statement "Let's not pretend as if America isn't the greatest country on earth."
In another Instagram post, Goldman allegedly wrote, "Lmao abolish ICE. only good ICE agent is a dead one."
Goldman also teaches at Chapman University and specializes in "social justice rhetoric and community-centered composition."
It has become common in higher education and on campuses to laugh and even celebrate the murder of Kirk. Recently, socialist Hasan Piker led a sing-a-long with hundreds mocking his death.
Hate-spewing influencers like Jennifer Welch have even justified his assassination. Protesters regularly reenact his murder, and this week at Georgetown and the University of South Carolina students are celebrating "Kirkiversary" with "Kirk Look-a-Like" competitions.
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The most unnerving aspect of this latest controversy is not that Goldman is making jokes about assassinating conservatives, but that many in academia find it uproariously funny.
This is one of thr most disturbing collection of videos you can watch
Liberals are planning on throwing celebrations for Charlie Kirk’s murder anniversary
- One is baking a Charlie Kirk murder cake with guns and blood - Charlie Kirk murder celebration BBQs are being planned -… pic.twitter.com/36G0wnyVrm
VILE: Left-wing streamer and content creator with nearly 6 million TikTok followers laughs while telling her audience that anyone who wasn’t “giggling” about Charlie Kirk’s assassination the day it happened doesn’t get to celebrate this year. She’s branding the anniversary of his… pic.twitter.com/YbDs4aJ6qi
From last year, shortly after a gay furry leftist murdered Kirk:
Nick Freitas
@NickJFreitas
I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I'm supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.
But we aren't "one people" are we?
The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.
We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.
I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.
And now the "effect" is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn't bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.
I don't think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.
It's not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It's a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.
Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.
And the other side murdered him.
Not because he was "extreme" or "inciting violence" or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.
I don't want to "stand in solidarity" with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness...and that murdered Charlie Kirk.
Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie's death.
I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.
I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.
I don't know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won't be the same as what has happened in the past.
There will be thoughts and prayers...Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.
But then there will be a reckoning.
My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite.
So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah...I will force myself to watch it...and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.
Home Office minister Anna Turley has said the government is sticking with plans to accommodate asylum-seekers on former military bases despite protests from local residents.
She told the BBC the government's priority was to ensure asylum-seekers were looked after in a "secure" and "appropriate" place.
That included disused Ministry of Defence properties because they had on-site facilities and were "more contained," she added.
But campaigners in areas earmarked for asylum centres have said small communities with limited infrastructure would not be able to cope with large numbers of people.
There have been protests in Piddington, Oxfordshire, over plans to house more than 1,000 asylum seekers at a site near the village.
That's a lie. They intend to settle 3,150 "migrants" there.
Hope you enjoy gang rape, women of Piddington!
Mike Nixon, the vice-chairman of Piddington Parish Council, said there was a "huge amount of concern and worry" among residents and that an asylum centre would have a "dramatic effect" on the way they lived their lives.
The proposal has prompted Piddington to hold a symbolic independence referendum, asking its 400 or so residents if they want to remain part of the UK.
Nixon said: "We're still very frustrated. Andy Burnham did say that he's willing to listen, but we've had no formal contact. No consultation, nothing from the Home Office.
"We felt that the only way of making our views felt was to say 'well if we're not going to be listened to, what's the point of being a part of the country?'"
A representative from Reform says this talk of 1,250 "migrants" is another leftwing lie.
Which would give "migrants" a 10-to-1 advantage over the invaded natives.
Reform UK's Zia Yusuf has blasted "lying Labour" after it emerged the Home Office had carried out assessments for migrants at a former MoD site, which would have outnumbered villagers 10 to one. Publicly available documents show an Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) risk assessment stating that "the proposed scheme" relates to "accommodation for 3,510 service users" at the ex-military Bicester Site A storage facility.
The Home Office denies this, but admits... well, maybe there was a prior plan to settle 3,510 migrants next to this town of 350, but we assure you, that plan is no longer operative and we surely won't make it operative in the future.
The shocking figure discovered by worried villagers of neighbouring Piddington, in Oxfordshire, has been refuted by the Home Office, which said it was based on an "outdated estimate" and there was no plan to increase the official figure of 1,256 male migrants they were seeking to put in the base.
Uh-huh.
But you give me your word you won't c*** in my mouth, right?
How do they plan to satisfy the sexual needs of 1,250 men? (63% of #Piddington is women/ children) (100% of the migrants are men) pic.twitter.com/G2U2GiX6Yr
A former "Conservative" MP says that the government should address the sexual needs of these 1,250+ male migrants by commissioning a brothel for them, but won't.
Brothels for migrants, staffed by British lasses: the progressive solution to the rape epidemic pic.twitter.com/pdqCVWmI7i
The UK government wants to put 1250 single male migrants into a facility that borders a small village with 350 people.
Piddington has a small population with 65% being women or children. So for every woman and kid, 9 single male migrants will be there.
Now everyone ask the question "what will the men do?" And they cynically demand a "brothel" so the villagers will be safe.
Kinda crazy that everyone knows it's a bad idea.
So the suggested safety concept is to give the asylum seekers prostitutes so they don't hurt the villagers? That by itself is a crazy place to be.
Also that means, Brits pay their taxes so refugees can be housed and then British taxes would pay for prostitutes for these men ... work hard folks, the prostitutes need their money.
That's a good point at the end -- these poor migrants won't be able to pay the government-provided prostitutes. The taxpayers will have to pay for the migrants' sexual gratification, to keep a lid on rapes.
Such a Tory solution. I think she means this as an attack on the settlement plans, but I'm not sure, because the Tories opened the floodgates for immigration after promising to reduce it.
Does no one grasp that by letting in tens and tens of thousands of single (military-aged) men -- many of whom are criminals fleeing their home countries due to rape and murder charges -- you're severely straining the social fabric and guaranteeing, and accepting, hundreds of additional rapes per year?
🚨NEWS: Villagers in Piddington are holding a referendum to leave the UK
This comes after they were told over a thousand migrants will be living near them soon outnumbering them by at least 3 to 1
Jimmy Kimmel Runs Stephen Colbert's Partisan Op Playbook, Claiming DRUMPF!!! Is Censoring Him By Not Allowing Him to Broadcast an Ass-Eating Propaganda Interview with James Talarico
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Before getting to that: Trump had some fun with the totally normal moderate straight Christian man James Talarico.
Talarico has campaigned to reduce/end meat consumption. In line with all Democrats who now say "woke 1 was crazyyyy" and disavow their past comments as just some internet "cringe," Talarico now says he loves meat and photographs himself chomping on a turkey drumstick.
An unearthed 2022 clip of Texas Senate candidate James Talarico urging voters to scale back "meat consumption" went viral on Tuesday with many lampooning the rising Democratic star.
Talarico, who has already taken heat for controversial 2020 tweets referring to the "virus of racism" and how White people are guilty of spreading it, was a hot topic on social media again when a GOP communications strategist posted old footage of the masked Senate hopeful criticizing meat consumption in the state famous for its barbecue.
"We have heard, I think heard more and more, issues of animal welfare. I think, not just because it's the right thing to do, and it's the moral thing to do, but also... necessary to fight climate change. It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption, and that we try to respect animals," Talarico said during a fundraiser for laws against animal abuse.
"I am proud to say that our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign," Talarico continued. "We are only buying vegan products from our local vegan businesses."
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"Talarico wants to represent Texas but is anti-meat, anti-gun, anti-oil, thinks white people are inherently racist, that God is 'non-binary,' and that the Bible justifies abortion," Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, responded.
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He was wearing a covid mask while declaring that the need to reduce meat consumption was "existential" to fight "climate change."
Trump says Talarico called his campaign to end meat consumption "Beat Meat." I can't find evidence of that, but I'll allow it for the joke:
Trump: "He wants to beat meat? But it was bad for his image, so he started eating meat. It's getting worse. I‘m getting myself in trouble." pic.twitter.com/V3vjNtBDtY
Which brings us to fat unfunny clown Jimmy Kimmel.
He's playing the same game Stephen Colbert did. Colbert, if you remember, recorded an interview with Talarico just before the Democrat primary. It's federal law that if a network which uses federally-granted airwaves promotes a candidate within 30 days of a primary election or 60 days before a general election, the network must provide equal time to his opponents.
At that time, the opponent was Jasmine Ratchet, and the White Racist Stephen Colbert didn't want to give her equal time -- because he supported his fellow Gay White Man. So they just aired the interview on YouTube, where equal time reules don't apply.
And then Colbert and Talarico ran an op pretending that the FCC forced them to do this because Talarico was so dangerous (to men's buttholes).
Well, the FCC didn't force this. You could have given equal time to Jasmine Ratchet, but you didn't want to do that, because you were acting as a partisan attempting to boost Talarico over Ratchet.
Which brings us now to Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel also recorded an interview with the much-penetrated Talarico, and is running the exact same op of claiming that that DRUMPF!!! is censoring him fascistly.
Equal time rules are pretty basic, even @jimmykimmel can understand them: If you have a candidate on 30 days before a primary and 60 before the general, their opponents can demand equal time on that show on the public airwaves. Jimmy is lying, trying to build up excitement for… https://t.co/cpdj35yfdz
"Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a lock on the door, and there should be a welcome mat for people who want to come here the right way."
Democratic Texas Senate nominee James Talarico lays out his immigration position as Fox News'… pic.twitter.com/2vHpytQXgZ
One of the Male Cuck Jurors Who Was Bullied Into Voting for Not Guilty by the Alpha Karens Speaks and He's as Weak as You Were Guessing
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Catching up with the AWFUL Karens who insisted the "rogue" male juror obey them when they offered their non-expert "expert" opinions as nurses -- the more video I see, the worse it gets.
You probably know that jurors cannot be "experts." Jurors cannot research cases and bring their own "facts" and "evidence," often found on the internet, into the jury room. Jurors have been kicked off of cases for this arrogant step.
Jurors can also not appoint themselves "experts" and demand other jurors obey their fake expert opinions. If you saw My Cousin Vinny, you'll remember that Mona Lisa Vitti had to be declared by the judge to be an expert before she offered her expertise, and opposing counsel was entitled to voir dire her and attempt to impute her expertise.
And even when an expert is accepted by the court as an expert -- no juries are required to actually believe the expert. Experts offer opinion. Typical witnesses offer "fact" testimony, but even the "facts" they claim can be ignored by the jury if the jury thinks they're lying.
At any rate, these "expert nurses" were in contempt of court when they claimed that their expert opinions should not only be included as evidence, but believed without question as evidence.
And they also dismiss the doctors actually certified by the court as experts. Now, they're allowed to not believe an expert witness, but it's breathtaking that they simultaneously dismiss the doctors certified by the court as experts while illegally presenting their own Karen-Certified Nurse Experts and claiming the lone male holdout was a "rogue" juror for not taking this fake expert witness to be dispositive.
Omg. Lindsay Clancy juror spills that female nurses on the jury used their titles & experience, outside of the material evidence presented, to try and coerce the holdout into a not guilty verdict by reason of insanity.
So let's break this down. These insufferable idiots sent a note to the judge complaining that the holdout juror wasn't following instructions (ie he wouldn't agree with them), while they ignored expert witness testimony and instead acted as expert witnesses themselves during deliberations. That is in and of itself enough to declare a mistrial.
More and more this looks like a runaway jury with a lone sane hero they labeled "rogue".
No more women on juries.
One of the female jurors was a vocal online supporter of Karen Read. Other female jurors declared they were hostile to the prosecution from the opening arguments -- for not saying nice things about the child killer -- which proves they were hostile to the prosecution before the opening arguments and lied when they were asked if they had any bias that would prevent them from rendering an impartial judgment in the case. They lied to get on the jury so they could acquit their murderess hero.
And if I'm picking on the women too much -- okay, let me pick on one of the two cucks, who accepted the "expert" testimony of the non-expert Juror Nurses but who claimed that the "rogue" juror was out of line in attempting to demonstrate the horror of what Clancy had done by wrapping the exercise bands around a bottle of water.
A male juror in the mistrial of Lindsay Clancy said the lone holdout on the 12-person panel wrapped one of the exercise bands the mom used to kill her children around a water bottle to mimic their strangulation in the deliberation room.
Juror number 10 Nick Dargie said the holdout had every right to his opinion but that the reenactment using the same exercise bands left the room speechless.
"I was so shocked. We're not here to play detective -- it's not a game of Clue. This is serious," Dargie, 25, the fifth juror to come forward in the macabre case out of Duxbury, Mass., told ABC's "GMA" in an interview that aired Thursday morning.
"I asked him why are you doing that? That's a band that was used to strangle a child. That's disgusting."
He also accused the still-unnamed holdout, who hung the jury in an 11-1 deadlock leading to the mistrial, of seeming disengaged during the deliberations, saying he would frequently be scrolling his phone while people were talking to him.
When pressed to explain his refusal to budge, Dargie said he made no effort to explain his reasoning.
"There wasn't a single piece of evidence or witness testimony that he used to prove why he was thinking the way he was," the juror said.
He tried to show this Soyboy Beta Cuck the viciousness of the murders that the Expert Nurses were so airily dismissing but seeing that made him cry. So he did attempt to show his thinking. But this cuck's pussy got hurt and he ignored it.
Showing the Soyboy Beta Cuck the steps taken to murder a child was "disgusting."
The actual murders of three children -- not disgusting.
The murder didn't hurt his feelings. He didn't see that.
The recreation hurt his feelings. He saw that.
There's nothing more important than an individual's feelings.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films
Here was more from Lindsay Clancy juror Nick Dargie, whining about the single male juror who wanted to find her guilty and calling the juror’s behavior at one point “disgusting”....
“There was times he wouldn’t engage. Like, he’d be scrolling on his phone while people were… pic.twitter.com/lNbaGIrVHa
She is exactly what I imagined... another entitled, angry, white liberal woman who believes she is smarter than everyone else
Liberal white women are the scourge of our society
"Vanity working on a weak mind produces every sort of mischief" -Jane Austen
hipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
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Re what we've seen of the Clancy jurors:
VERY early in my trial career, prosecutors with dozens of trial under their belts gave me some very basic tips on picking a jury. This is very critical in federal court because most federal judges don't give attorneys much time in juror "voir dire." So there were some rules of thumb you tried to live by when evaluating the panel and your options as a prosecutor.
1. No teachers. They spend their days telling children and adolescents what to do, and they after often contrarian in order to show adults how smart they are. They hang up juries more than any other "type."
2. No healthcare workers who are not MDs. Healthcare workers with the most contact with patients are empathetic by nature -- that's why they entered the field -- and are trained to take all info they are given by patients seriously.
Putting it in a very crass fashion, a prosecutor does not want 12 jurors -- you want 3 jurors and 9 sheep. If you convince the 3 jurors they will bring the sheep along in the end.
For a foreperson I was always looking for a blue collar manager -- usually a man. The arch type was someone who could give instruction in a non-condescending manner that didn't seem like overt manipulation.
I didn't like hard science professionals either -- like engineers -- they tend to be too linear in their thinking and resist being convinced by inferential evidence.
The Clancy jurors we have heard from violated my rules. It's hard to be too critical of the prosecutors, however, without knowing who they used their challenges to keep off.
German Chancellor Merz: Sending Aliens Back to Their Home Country Would be "Ethnic Cleansing"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Last year, Merz signed a supposedly hardline bill against further illegal immigration.
He didn't mean a word of it, of course. He is attempting to create a paper trail showing he accepts the popular judgment on unending mass migration from the third world, while not taking any action to actually stop it.
As AfD grows in support, he will attempt further fake demonstrations of his commitment to enforce the border.
Germans must not believe him when he inevitably lies. His true feelings are that deporting any "asylum" seekers or illegal aliens is "ethnic cleansing."
Obviously he is never, ever going to do something he views as being on par with shipping the Jews to Dachau.
But he will claim he's willing to do this, as his party, and all the rest of the corrupt Regime parties, lose further support.
Germany's sovereigntist, anti-mass-migration Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party pulled off a historic result in state elections in Saxony-Anhalt at the weekend, pushing the country's longstanding default party of government the Christian Democrats (CDU) into a distant second and leaving all other parties as also-rans. The result has sent shock waves through German politics and brought the leadership of national Chancellor Friedrich Merz into question, which seems to have sent the otherwise mild-mannered lawyer into a tailspin of despair, in which he has made increasingly outlandish threats and comments against the AfD, painting them as an outright threat to the German nation.
On Wednesday, Merz responded to one of the flagship policies of the AfD -- that migrants who are in Germany illegally should actually be made to leave, rather than endlessly tolerated -- to call it ethnic cleansing. The charge has obvious historic connotations in Germany and caused something of a firestorm. Merz said on Wednesday that the party's "remigration" policy is "nothing other than ethnic cleansing based on skin color and origin".
Well, yes, demanding that foreign illegal aliens return to their actual countries, while actual Germans are allowed to remain in Germany, is a remigration policy based on "origin." To declare this some kind of racist, Nazi-esque measure is to announce that, in the mind of the Regime, there is simply no difference whatsoever, legally, between real citizens and foreign migrants.
He's announcing that the German government can make no distinctions between Germans and foreign interlopers.
Because it is racist for a country to "discriminate" in favor of its own citizens.
Merz further claimed that if deportations took place, German society would simply collapse. Speaking directly to AfD members in the German Parliament, he went on to say: "You are part of the problem we have in Germany -- and we will resist that with everything at our disposal".
And he does mean everything, including simply banning this party that represents popular opinion and which is therefore anathema to the Davos/Soros Regime.
The ethnic cleansing line follows other remarks by Merz on Monday, who addressed the federal executive of the CDU to promise he would use government power to prevent AfD dissidents from taking power. As reported:
Germany has a considerable security state, including political police. These organisations are a legacy of the post-Second World War and Cold War political settlements, when it was thought Germany's constitution needed inbuilt protections against democracy of a magnitude practically unknown elsewhere in the Western world. Convinced that the public voting against endless open borders is an emergency justifying the use of these powers, Merz is reported to have said on Monday he would use "all the instruments" in Germany's "strong constitution" to defend the nation against "a right-wing extremist state government".
Or maybe he won't need to go all the way. Maybe he can just count on the EU to economically strangle Saxony-Anhalt for rejecting the Davos-Soros Regime.
It has already been standard practice in Hungary and Poland: the EU froze funding. Should a potential AfD government in Saxony-Anhalt also violate fundamental EU rights, the state faces a payment freeze -- and thus a financial shortfall.
Saxony-Anhalt will receive [Euros] 2.95 billion from the current EU budget, which covers the years 2021 to 2027. This funding will be used for projects including school renovations, comprehensive refurbishments of gymnasiums and daycare centers, and the purchase of modern medical equipment for hospitals.
Saxony-Anhalt is the German state that receives the most EU regional funding per capita. Now, the AfD could soon be governing in Magdeburg. A party that, according to Green MEP Daniel Freund, acts against the European project and the European Union -- "and then, if necessary, the European Commission would have to withhold funds."
Communism-curious authoritarian Angela Merkel says her "heart is bleeding" over AfD's victory.
Angela Merkel said her "heart is bleeding" after the state election victory by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Saxony-Anhalt.
Sad. But, according to the newspaper, "analysts have accused the former chancellor of paving the way for the AfD."
Analysts are right. The AfD was born as the "professors' party" founded by two free-market economists and others opposed to the eurozone bailouts made possible by Merkel. A preference for a more restrictive immigration policy was a secondary strand in the AfD's platform, but that changed after Merkel's narcissistic and reckless decision to throw open Germany's doors in 2015. The free-market strain can still be found here and there within the AfD, but Merkel's refusal to countenance serious dissent to her policy within the center-right created an opening of which the AfD, transforming itself into a party of the populist right, took full advantage.
And the AfD only benefited further when Merkel, infuriated by popular opposition to her folly, became one of the pioneers of online censorship. As I noted in an essay in National Review in 2018:
The mainstream media had enthusiastically echoed the chancellor's Willkommenskultur narrative of kindly Germans cheerfully greeting the migrants, but establishment unanimity was not enough for the instinctively authoritarian Merkel. Her less "welcoming" compatriots had found an audience on social media. That would not do.
Merkel thus endorsed a new censorship law, with the catchy name Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz. By doing so, she undermined her already tatty democratic credibility and reinforced the ability of the AfD to distinguish itself from the Kartellparteien ("cartel parties").
That is, they mean, what we'd call the Regime, or the corrupt Uniparty.
Kartellpartei media outlet Reuters pushes the "demanding illegal aliens return to their home countries is just Auschwitz 2.0" line:
Republican National Convention: Trump Promises $5000 Rebate If Republicans Keep Congress, John Fetterman Endorses Pennsylvania Republican Senator Dave McCormack, Promises to Work With Trump
"In 55 days, Americans will be going to the polls in one of the most important elections in our country's history. Your vote will decide whether our country stumbles at the starting gate of the next 250 years or surges forward and never ever looks back," he said.
"We hand America's future to the radical left Democrats, and our nation will spend the next decade just getting back on its feet. It will be a tragedy. Vote Republican, and we will leave the world in our dust for generations to come. There'll be nothing like it," he added.
Trump stressed that 35 key races will decide the majorities in the Senate and House come November. Republicans hold the Senate with a 53-47 majority over Democrats and independents in their caucus, and in the House, Republicans hold a 218-214 majority. Republicans look to defend key Senate seats in Texas, North Carolina, Iowa, and Ohio, and can flip Democrat seats in Michigan, Maine, and Georgia. Trump carried all of these states, except for Maine, in 2024. He intends to visit every state where a race is on a knife's edge.
"We have a very short period of time, and we really have 35 races. They all count, but we have 35 races that are, I guess you'd call swings, right? Like we had seven swing states, we won all seven, right? Yeah. So I said, not that I'm looking for the work. You know, I said the other day I got so much of a schedule. I said, 'I thought I won. What do I have to do? I'm campaigning,' But I am. We're campaigning to make it incredible," he said.
"The ones that are very close--they might be winning by a little, or losing by a little, or tied--we can win every one of those races," he said. "But I'm going to go to every one of those states for congressmen and Senators... and we're going to have rallies just like this."
As part of his pitch -- and to combat the Democrats' "affordability" op -- Trump promised that he would rebate $5000 to every adult, to be paid out of tariffs collected from foreign producers.
President Donald Trump pledged that he will send a $5,000 dividend to all American adults if Republicans hold their majorities in Congress in November.
Trump made the promise in what he called maybe "the best part" of his keynote address at the Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday before a packed crowd at the American Airlines Center.
"If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, because of our... tremendous economic success--like in history we've never had anything like what's happening--but because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000," Trump said.
"Very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders, or like last year when I gave our great members of the military $1,776. Remember?" he added.
Trump tethered one condition to the incentive.
"The only caveat I have is that the dividend that we're making must be spent in the United States of America," he said. "We don't want you going to Canada to spend the money. We don't want you going to China, to Germany. You got to spend the money in the United States of America."
He reiterated that the pledge will only kick in if Republicans win, and said that Democrats cannot make such a promise because they do not have a tariff policy.
"The reason the Democrats can't do that is because they don't do tariffs, they don't take in money. All they know is poverty and how to ruin our country. But we're making a fortune. So if the Republicans win, you win with us, and you get $5,000," he said.
I see Democrats complaining -- except, all they do is promise to give some Americans money from other Americans. "Vote for us and we'll cancel your student debt and force other taxpayers to cover the hundreds of thousands of dollars you borrowed." "Vote for us and we'll give you free health care and free child care."
At least this promise, were it carried out, would be a rebate paid to everybody.
And, in theory, this is a rebate of taxes collected from foreign sellers. In other words, it's a rebate of a tariffs, which are tax-like. So it's a rebate for taxes paid.
I also see the Fake Corporate-Paid Cash-Money "Professional Conservative" Grifters showing how Severely Conservative they are by claiming this is Socialism and Illegal.
So I'm not really worked up about it. It's not going to happen -- Trump has made a similar promise before about rebating tariff money before, and that didn't happen.
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Democrats: "How dare Trump offer a $5000 dividend. This is bribery."
Also Democrats: "We'll give you free groceries. Free healthcare. Free daycare. Free buses. Forgive your student loans and $1M in reparations."
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Unpopular opinion: This is a brilliant political strategy, even if it's a dumb idea.
Let's be honest, Trump isn't going to lose any votes from his base because of this. A lot of fiscal conservatives (myself included) will point out giving out 1.2 trillion in stimulus checks when we're already 40 trillion in debt is just digging us deeper into a hole we already don't know if we can get out of, but at the end of the day what's the difference between 40 trillion and 41 trillion when we borrow almost 2 trillion a year anyway. 2.3 billion was given out in stimulus after COVID and we're still here so anyone screaming about hyperinflation is being dramatic.
Now, here's why it might actually be a brilliant move that could save us from economic collapse even though it makes no sense economically.
Trump didn't get this country 40 trillion in debt, Congress did. Yet regardless of that, every single year the left tells their voters they're going to spend more money and give them free shit and they keep, fucking, voting for them because they care about free shit more than they care about the debt.
The problem they're facing now is the only people getting free shit from the democrats are illegals, drug addicts, criminals, and fraudsters. The working class has been completely ignored and hasn't seen a dime from democrat leadership and they're the majority of the party.
Now think about all those forgotten men and women who just saw Trump offer them $5000 just for being an American citizen if they help us win instead of their leaders promising to spend their tax dollars on giving citizenship to illegals, getting criminals out of jail, and putting a vending machine with free heroin needles on every corner.
How many people do you think will take that deal and vote red in November for the first time? It's definitely not zero.
Democrats will destroy this country, and 1.2 trillion added to the debt will be nothing compared to what they'll spend if they regain power and push through their socialist agenda. So while I don't love the idea of Trump digging us a little deeper in the hole we're in, it's a lot better than handing the shovel to the left so they can dig our grave.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) crossed party lines Wednesday to address Republicans at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, saying that he stands with America and rejects socialism.
Fetterman addressed a room full of Republicans at the GOP's midterm convention, describing himself as a "common-sense Democrat" who rejects socialism and anti-American extremism.
In a video message played at the convention, Fetterman acknowledged that he was speaking to a Republican audience despite belonging to the opposing party.
"A big room of Republicans in Dallas. Yes, I'm Senator John Fetterman, Pennsylvania. Yes, I'm a Democrat," Fetterman said.
"Why am I here talking to you today? Because, well, I'm a common-sense Democrat," he continued. "I'm always going to stand with America. I'm always going to reject the extremes in socialism and that anti-American way of life."
Fetterman then praised Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) and introduced the Republican senator to the crowd, putting their bipartisan friendship on display.
"Dave McCormick is the kind of senator that gets the job done, and he's going to fight for Pennsylvania. I'm proud to count him as my friend. Right back over my shoulder, that's the iconic U.S. steel mill, and that's exactly the kind of thing that will work together and will work with President Trump to fight and defend the steel way of life right here in the Steel Valley," Fetterman added.
"I have this opportunity to introduce this great American, a great senator, and yes he's in a different party, but I'm proud to count him as my great friend."
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Despite his frequent clashes with fellow Democrats and his video appearance before Republicans, Fetterman made clear in July that he has no plans to leave the Democratic Party. He said his positions on abortion, LGBTQ issues, and labor would not fit within the Republican Party, even though he breaks with Democrats on issues such as Israel.
"I don't think that Republican Party wants a pro-choice, pro-gay, trans communities, federal union, and you look at my voting record...I disagree with my party on some issues, like Israel, for example," Fetterman said. "But you know, I am a Democrat, and if someone is frustrated in the Democratic Party, I would be frustrated with someone like Bernie Sanders."
Black Conservative Perspective, Government Name Greg Foreman, opined that Fetterman has no plans to become a Republican, but he's essentially threatening Democrats to stop running ops against him -- an account of "former Fetterman staffers" keeps making derogatory claims, WITHOUT EVIDENCE, against him -- or maybe he will caucus with Republicans. That sounds right to me.
SHOCKING MOVE: Democratic Sen. John Fetterman makes a surprise video appearance at the GOP midterm convention, declaring he will reject “the extremes and socialism and that anti-American way of life.”
The appearance is a stunning turn for the first-term senator who skipped his… pic.twitter.com/dnbPPapjh0
This week's Art Thread choices have been focused on the glories of motherhood. Yes...there has been a theme! And that theme has been the importance and, actually, the superiority of women in our culture.
Why superiority? Because the unique ability of women is the bearing and rearing of children, and that is the most important thing that humans do. Is that controversial? I certainly hope not. But among the post-modern, anti-family, anti-civilization progressive movement in the West, the concept of "Woman," and the positive aspects of children have been subsumed in a deluge of feminism (all five waves!), increasingly hedonistic sexual mores, economic pressures that force women into the workforce, and recently the ascientific nonsense about transsexualism and gender.
Aside from the obvious goal of making all of humanity cogs in the infernal socialist machine, and destroying our individuality, these movements have diluted the importance of womanhood by making us interchangeable. Women in the workforce? Great, because they are just like men! Women who choose not to have children because of their careers or their desire to be unencumbered? Fantastic! Just like men! Women who choose sexual "freedom" by rejecting traditional social mores (and probably innate drives) for having children? Super! Men have been like that...forever! And most ridiculous but no less dangerous is the laughable idea that a man can become a woman: a bit of surgery, some hormones, a forgiving tailor, and poof!
But these are society-killing trends because of the decrease in the number of children being born in the West. It is civilizational suicide, and we are being replaced by fecund third-world denizens who have no interest in individuality, or for that matter Western Culture.
That is the demographic crisis, but there is a cultural and emotional crisis that is just as destructive. By degrading the position of "Woman" in our culture from the pinnacle, we have diluted the entire concept of womanhood. The glory of child-bearing and rearing has become a perceived burden...one that interferes with the hedonism of a post-modern world.
That link between mother and child -- that hopefully the art of the past four days has illuminated -- has been minimized and degraded and trivialized. It is the most powerful human imperative and emotion, and one that should be celebrated and honored. Instead, our current culture maligns it and laughs at it and stigmatizes women who embrace it. And even worse, culture now says that anyone can bear and raise children. Men? Sure! Why not? The popular definition of a woman is apparently anyone who wants to be one...can be one!
Except...men can never be mothers. Sure, there are many (maybe most?) men who are wonderful fathers and who partner with their wives to create fine children. But the position of "mother" is one that can only be filled by women, because they are designed, by God or evolution or whatever you wish to think, to nurture and defend children in ways that men simply cannot do, or even fathom.
That is as it should be, because the innocence of children needs a defender from the vagaries of the world, And women are simply better at it than men. And we don't need art to show us this! Our world has innumerable examples of the innate superiority of women as mothers. Just wander down to the nearest park and watch the moms.
Or even better, watch the mothers in your life and how they nurture and defend the innocent. Because that is what children are...innocents. And God (or nature) has endowed mothers with exactly the tools to be their defenders, in ways that the rest of us cannot.
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One person incorrectly insisted the attacks occurred on September 10. Others spouted conspiracy theories, including one person who claimed George W. Bush was “heavily implicated” in orchestrating 9/11. Another said the way the World Trade Center towers collapsed was “too weird” to have been caused by planes. “I think Israel, America behind it all,” another person said, adding an apparent reference to hundreds of years of alleged atrocities. But the interviews went far beyond conspiracy theories.
As you clean up the vomitus from your lap and easy chair... meh, this is akin to descending to the depths of the Marianas Trench and Diver Dan telling you to your face "water is wet," wouldn't you say?! It's not drugs per se, but it is the most poisonous of narcotics, anti-American leftist indoctrination pumped into their brains from parents and schools that have been poisoning our youth for decades and continue to do so, especially in higher ed.
Melina Abdullah, a professor of pan-African studies at California State University, Los Angeles, is under fire for comments she made at an event where she doxed an ICE agent and then urged students in the audience to ‘f**k him up.’
Everything about the assassination was astonishing: The unconscionable security failure from the campus police and Charlie’s detail, the fact he was killed while modeling robust and respectful debate, the utterly depraved nature of the act and the apparent transgender-related motive of the accused killer. He was a thought leader, an institution builder and a grassroots-mobilization visionary. The cranks and kooks overrunning the online right today are a sad testament to the void he left behind: Charlie, the guardian of the floodgates, was the conservative coalition’s indispensable man.
‘He couldn’t get over the fact that Clancy viciously killed her children.”
Those are the words of one of the insufferably condescending female jurors from the Lindsay Clancy mistrial who have gone public with their disdain for the lone male juror who refused to go along with their not guilty verdict.
Brittany Dawn Jeffrey of the Hallie Shoffner-backed Little Rock Freedom Fund hosted a group of rioters at her residence to make Molotov cocktails... Little Rock Freedom Fund founder Brittany Dawn Jeffrey was one of four individuals charged for the attacks in December 2020 and later admitted in a guilty plea that the rioters made the Molotov cocktails at her residence with bottles of liquor, bedsheets, and gasoline. She was sentenced to time served in December 2022 after spending 17 months in pretrial detention. During that time, the Little Rock Freedom Fund sold T-shirts with her photo alongside a quote from convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur, the left-wing Arkansas Worker reported at the time.
In a stunning turn of events, Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman made a high-profile cameo at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas.
Fetterman featured in a pre-recorded video introducing his GOP Senate counterpart from Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick, praising President Trump and McCormick for supporting American steel workers.
The bipartisan overture marks a dramatic escalation in Fetterman’s growing alienation from the Democratic Party.
Aside from President Trump himself, there isn't any politician allegedly on our side that is speaking as loudly and as forcefully against the Left as John Fetterman. Whatever his motivations and political calculus, thank goodness he's doing it.
A Michigan Democrat state lawmaker is warning voters not to support U.S. candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed and said socialist politicians take black voters for granted. “It doesn’t change, it’s just different slave owners,” Democratic Michigan state Rep. Karen Whitsett told Fox News Digital, referring to Democrat Party leaders who treat black voters as a monolith who should only support left-wing candidates. She also accused El-Sayed of not supporting the best interests of black people in Michigan and said the far-left rising socialist wing of the Democrat Party is “more racist than the KKK.”
It's one thing for Fetterman and even others to go after the DSA crazies but rhetoric like this also exposes or has the potential to expose who and what the Democrats themselves are and have been.
In any case as all of the previous examples and many many more that we have witnessed and lived through these last few years and even longer, they will not rest until we're either conquered or dead and they've gained absolute permanent power.
I feel Charlie’s glaring absence every day. And one year later, it’s clear that far too many Americans still haven’t learned the right lessons from his martyrdom. The first of these: the essential importance of free speech. My friend Charlie Kirk, the ‘indispensable man’ — killed for seeking truth
The proposal could have significant consequences for congressional representation, federal funding, and redistricting, particularly in states with large immigrant populations, if it ultimately changes the population figures used for apportionment. It is also likely to trigger a major legal battle over how the 14th Amendment’s requirement to count the “whole number of persons” should be applied to illegal immigrants. Trump Admin Proposes Sweeping Changes to 2030 Census.
Arlington County, which sits just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC, is not new to policies critics say interfere with DHS operations, as it previously caused outrage when the chair of the Arlington County board publicly suggested residents call police to report ICE sightings in January. ‘Alien harboring’ accusations fly as DC-area county spends taxpayer funds to blunt ICE
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
The dispute could further strain British-American relations and create uncertainty for British companies operating in Florida. The confrontation also highlights the widening diplomatic divide among Western allies over Israeli settlements, with Britain, France, Canada, and other countries taking measures against them that Washington has so far declined to adopt. U.S. Ambassador to Israel Accuses UK Govt of ‘Jew Hate’ for Sanctioning Israeli Settlements.
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The report was based on police data from 38 of the 45 territorial police forces in the UK, obtained following a series of Freedom of Information requests sent to all forces. However, the civil liberties group noted that because some forces failed or refused to provide their data, the true number of people arrested for speech crimes was likely much higher. 62,000 People Arrested for Speech Crimes in Britain over Past Five Years: Report (As marauding packs of Muslims rape children to cheers from Westminster - jjs)
Nicholas Attalla, 34, who operates under the online moniker “Niky Sal,” was arrested on charges of third-degree assault, criminal nuisance and endangering the welfare of a child on Sept. 4, WGRZ reported. Attalla runs undercover social media accounts, where he poses as a minor in an effort to identify adults who prey on children. Child predator-catching influencer charged after being stabbed during confrontation at NY Tim Hortons
The erosion of trust in federal government information could have significant consequences for public policy, especially during crises. . . The findings offer justification for the Trump administration’s push for new election integrity measures, such as the SAVE America Act, to improve oversight and prevent voter fraud and boost public confidence. DATA: Most Americans Do Not Trust the Election Certification Process.
In simpler terms, Democrats are using a foreign national to run campaigns currently inside the United States and are reportedly willing to use a foreign national living in a foreign land once her TPS expires — this is after assuring Americans an investigation into Trump in 2016 was necessary because foreign election interference is dangerous and bad. Democrats Warned About Foreign Election Interference Then Hired Foreign Nationals
Far-left Democrat Congressman Gil Cisneros (CA) allegedly violated federal insider trading and transparency laws by repeatedly failing to disclose as much as $900,000 in purchases, according to a U.S. House Transaction Report. Democrat Congressman Gil Cisneros Allegedly Violated STOCK Act Repeatedly
“And above all, and I think it’s so important because there is a crazy little sick cloud over our country — I really believe it’s not going anywhere — but we have to make sure because we will defeat communism in America and vote for American freedom. We will just vote very simply for American freedom.” Trump Lays Out Republican Vision: Strong Borders, Low Taxes, ‘No Crime’
Acknowledging that his name isn't on the ballot this cycle, Trump urged supporters to treat the upcoming midterms with the same urgency as a presidential race: "Please pretend that I'm running and get out and vote on November 3rd, or sooner." Trump Drops $5K Promise For Americans In No-Holds-Barred RNC Speech
If Republicans can figure out how to channel Trump without the bluster and focus on the DSA cluster of craziness, they can carry the MAGA agenda for years to come. The Election 2028 Presidential Prospects as of Now
Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro was in the middle of his remarks to a defense forum in South Korea on Tuesday when China tried to intimidate him by having a note hand-delivered to his seat on the stage. China-Philippine Feud over South China Sea Escalates
Before Rubio even boarded the plane to South America (where he's also visiting Ecuador and Peru), he spoke to the press on the tarmac in Homestead, Fla., called this an "important trip," and pointed out that a stronger presence in the Western Hemisphere —a Western Hemisphere that is largely lining up with U.S. interests in recent years — is a major part of current national security strategy: Mr. Rubio Goes to Colombia, Which Is Exactly Where We Need Him
Santiago Abascal is the leader of the populist Vox party in Spain. During a 2019 visit to Ceuta, he warned of the need for strong borders: “A nation without borders is not a nation, and a nation with porous, poorly defended and poorly protected borders is a nation that sooner or later will cease to exist, because borders exist to protect our freedom, our security, our prosperity and our identity.” WATCH: Spain’s Socialist PM Sánchez Gets a Blunt One-Word Message on Floor of Congress: ‘TRAITOR’
Centered around the nonprofit Nodutdol, a far-left activist network threatens East Asian security and U.S. alliances in ways that align with the interests of Communist China. The Growing Army of North Korea Apologists in America
The crisis stems, in large part, from the fact that big insurers like UnitedHealth, Cigna, and Humana don’t merely process claims anymore. Their parent companies control physicians’ practices and hospitals. They also own pharmacies and operate pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) — the middlemen that determine which drugs patients can access and what they pay for them. Congress Is Targeting The Wrong Driver Of Healthcare Costs
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Using the Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered a new class of unusually low-energy X-ray objects that also emit high ultraviolet radiation but are not linked to any visible objects or star clusters at their locations. Astronomers discover a new class of X-ray objects
...the rover’s entire journey, now exceeding 23 and a half miles. Though it has climbed 1,000 meters, or about 3,280 feet, it still has about 14,720 feet to go before it reaches the top of Mount Sharp, about 29 miles away to the southeast. Curiosity has now climbed more than a kilometer on Mount Sharp
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
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Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open. Don't fret if the bar appears to run out of beer - the beer shed out back is fully stocked. Step up and place your order.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Special sympathies to those who have braces now or ever had braces.
If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
Influencer Igho "Tiny" Ubiribo has died. He was 43.
Ubiribo, who also went by Denisi and Ego on social media, died after experiencing complications from a genital enlargement procedure in Thailand, a U.K. coroner confirmed to TMZ on Saturday, September 5.
According to the medical examiner, Ubiribo suffered a pulmonary embolism during the cosmetic surgery. (A pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot is stuck in an artery in the lung that blocks blood flow, according to the Mayo Clinic.)
The businessman allegedly had 40 milliliters of hyaluronic acid and lidocaine injected into his penis at an unidentified Thai clinic in March, per an Inner West London Coroners' Court inquest obtained by TMZ.
In case there is any question, Tiny's procedure is not ONT approved and Ace of Spades disclaims any adverse consequences from any medical advice given or implied on the blog or in the comments.
Every summer, tens of thousands of New York State Fair visitors willingly stand in one of the fairgrounds' longest lines for something they could make at home: a $1 baked potato.
This year, they'll be getting it from someone new.
Tully's Good Times has been selected to take over the potato booth in the Horticulture Building after longtime operator Wahid Akl decided it was time to move on, ending an era for one of the fair's most recognizable food traditions.
The change comes after the fair sought applications this spring from existing concessionaires interested in operating the booth.
Why did Akl decide it "was time to move on"?
Akl said the decision to give up the booth came down to simple math. Running the potato booth required about 30 employees working two shifts each day of the fair, he said.
While the booth routinely served tens of thousands of customers, the signature baked potato remained locked at $1 as labor and food costs continued to climb.
"We had 30 employees, two shifts," Akl said in an earlier interview with syracuse.com. "You need to serve, clean up the dining room, make sure everything is running. We had a great run out of it. But with everything getting so expensive... I'm not a nonprofit organization."
So how will the new operator make it work if the old operator couldn't?
The New York State Fair will pay a $40,000 management fee to the operator, cover payroll for booth employees and provide the New York-grown potatoes, according to a document concessions manager Jack Davison sent to vendors in April. The operator must continue selling a baked potato or three salt potatoes with butter or sour cream for $1, a longtime fair tradition. In return, the booth's rental fee is waived.
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Mandatory Metallica
Cliff 'Em All - 1985:
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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week
Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Animagraffs. The content is dedicated to illustrating deep detail with animations of your favorite machines, structures and processes. Want illustrated explainers of the Golden Gate Bridge, nuclear power, the Hoover Dam, off-road Baja racing trucks, a steam locomotive, the SR-71 Blackbird, an 18th century warship, etc.?
It takes a lot of research for the content and a lot of work to build the animation. The channel even has content showing how the content is created.
The channel has over 1.93 million subscribers. Many videos have millions of views. Videos on a jetliner and car engine have reached 19 million views each.
The most recent video shows how an F-14 Tomcat works. You're welcome.
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Same but very different...
BTW, a visit to Red Bull Hangar 7 in Salzburg, Austria is highly recommended.
The F-117 CAD/PAD order list also includes what are described as the "Tail Hook Panel Pyrotechnic Assembly" and "Tail Hook Panel Initiator." These small shaped explosive charges and electrically-initiated detonators, respectively, and are completely unrelated to the F-117's ejection system.
To take a step back quickly, most land-based combat jets in U.S. service today, as well as many in service elsewhere globally, have tailhooks. Unlike their carrier-based counterparts, these aircraft have the hooks for emergency use in combination with arresting gear installed on runways on land.
On non-stealthy land-based combat jets, the integration of an emergency tailhook system is relatively straightforward since it can simply be installed externally or semi-externally at the rear end of the aircraft. It is a more complicated proposition for stealth designs where a hook protruding, even partially, from the underside of the fuselage would negatively impact the jet's radar cross section.
Who new the F-117 had a tailhook (I mean other than every Moron except me)?
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Pittsburgh Scanner
The Pittsburgh police scanner is an internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!
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Billy Strings for the big ONT finish:
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I will start considering potentially thinking about concern over re-naming the Gulf of America when people like the NY State legislature stop trying to re-name "mother" to "gestating parent" and "father" to "non-gestating parent." Ugh. The great sorting clarifies and continues. Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be promptly transferred to an undetermined department for processing. Are you lurking ????
Podcast: Is the Iran situation reaching a steady state? The UK sides with the enemies of the West, Vance the Squish? France and Germany and their coming elections, Canada trade war is one-sided, and Clancy is evil incarnate!
Dear RNC; Go f*ck yourselves. I have gotten 56 texts in the last two weeks...all offensive and sneaky and all begging for money. At this point I would rather donate to AOC. [CBD]
"The irresponsible reports that have been published stating that Maria Bartiromo was fired or is no longer an employee of Fox are absolutely and unequivocally false," Freedman said Friday. "Make no mistake, we have the receipts and witnesses and they will come out whether through the courthouse or otherwise."
He added: "Those reporting her firing or the incredulous facts supporting that fiction have exhibited a complete and utter reckless disregard for the truth."
from anon2020 So what, she quit?
Megyn Kelly (accursed be her name) used to say all the time that Fox has a top female PR person who is a nasty pitbull and leaks nasty claims about anyone Fox is at war with, including those who have left the network. So I guess maybe she technically resigned? I don't know.
NEW: @FoxNews has obtained Lindsay Clancy defense attorney Kevin Reddington's appeal filing to the MA Supreme Court, which includes Reddington accusing the lone holdout juror of being "biased" against those with "debilitating mental illness", which he says is a protected category.
Holiday Break: I've had a rough couple of weeks -- the shoulder is healing now and I'm finally getting decent sleep -- and I've decided to take a long weekend.
I'm taking Friday off, and then Monday off, too. I have Open Threads for both days and I will post if big news breaks, but if it doesn't -- and it probably won't, news is slow before a holiday weekend -- I'm going to take a four day weekend.
Sh0eOnHead discusses the Psychotic Cult of Lindsay
Real quotes:
"This case has me feeling like I'm on Law & Order with you guys!"
"We literally binge true crime as a hobby, we've been trained for this moment" Worth the watch. If you haven't seen the genuinely upsetting insanity motivating thousands of women, you should watch this just to see how society is crumbling. Ban TikTok, Trump. I don't care if Barron tells you it's popular with the yutes. It is an evil Communist China op and it is driving women insane.
Dolly Parton tells the story of the supposedly real-life Jolene As Andrew Branca says, can we see this Jolene, finally? Who was this hottie that was a genuine sexual threat to Dolly Parton? I think this is Fake News personally. When a magician claims he learned a trick from a Himalayan wise man, I don't believe him either.
Podcast: Dolly Parton...an American classic, Michigan's El Sayed is part of our future destruction, More Global Warming nonsense, mail-in balloting restrictions, Darline Graham? Get rid of family dynasties...and more!
1977 interview shows that Barbara Walters has always been a seaward and Dolly Parton always had "country class" Walters actually asks Dolly Parton if she knows that people think she's a joke. This because Walters can't get over the fact that a show-woman has 1, big breasts, and 2, dresses a bit outrageously because, get this, she's an entertainer. A stage performer. You know, someone people pay money to see live and expect them to put on a show. She never would attack Liberace for wearing glitter-tuxedos. But she's mad that Dolly Parton makes Barbara Walters look bad through association (by being a woman). Babs, you wish people associated the two of you. Believe me, we can tell the difference.
