Lisa Murkowski Will Oppose SAVE Act; Grandstanding Flake Thomas Massie Is the Only "Republican" In the House to Vote Against It

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I mentioned yesterday that House staffers were accusing the Luciferian Mitch McConnell of scheming to block the SAVE Act out of simple political malice against Trump

Let it be noted for the record that Lisa Murkowski has always been one of McConnell's closest allies.

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is once again breaking with Republicans -- this time by kneecapping voter ID legislation backed by President Trump and conservatives who argue the country desperately needs stronger election integrity laws.

In a post Tuesday on X, Murkowski announced she will oppose the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the SAVE Act, along with the Make Elections Great Again Act -- two GOP-backed proposals aimed at tightening voter ID requirements and restoring confidence in federal elections.

Her opposition gives Democrats exactly what they need: another Republican willing to block the bill in a Senate where the 60-vote filibuster threshold already makes passage an uphill climb.

Rather than engaging with the substance of voter ID -- a policy supported by a strong majority of Americans -- Murkowski recycled familiar talking points about "federalizing elections," comparing the SAVE Act to Democrat power grabs Republicans fought during the Biden years.

Her excuse is that she doesn't want federal law making rules for federal elections?

Straight-up McConnellism -- they only start talking Muh Princibuhls as they slip the knife between your ribs.

Massie just voted against it, citing "Muh Libbratarianisms."

In the UK, Two Boys Stabbed in a London School by Muslim Infiltrator;
A 12-Year-Old Girl Was Violently Raped by an Afgan Migrant

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Two Boys Stabbed in Kingsbury High School Classroom Last updated

40 seconds ago

On February 10 around 12:40 p.m., a 13-year-old former pupil at Kingsbury High School allegedly entered disguised in uniform, sprayed a non-noxious substance, and stabbed a 13-year-old boy before attacking a 12-year-old as he fled. Both victims remain in stable condition. Counter Terrorism Policing is investigating due to the circumstances, though no motive is confirmed and it's not deemed a terrorist incident; the suspect acted alone and is in custody after police recovered a weapon. Witnesses described children screaming and banging on windows, with the school closed the next day as headteacher Alex Thomas called it a deeply traumatic event for traumatised pupils and families.

This reporter from TalkTV says he shouted the usual terrorist cry.

Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1

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Witnesses claim 13 year old attacker 'shouted "Allahu Akbar" during stabbing rampage at London school' that left boys, aged 12 and 13, seriously injured.

How can anyone seriously still pretend we don't have an Islamist extremism problem?

alk @TalkTV

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🚨 'Far too many of the mosques in Britain are teaching Islamism. It's being normalised and not being called out.'

Julia Hartley-Brewer says a 13-year-old child, allegedly shouting "Allahu Akbar" whilst stabbing two other kids, should serve as a wake-up call.

A 12-year-old girl was raped by another Cultural Enricher:

Afghan Asylum Seeker Convicted of Abducting and Raping 12-Year-Old Girl in Nuneaton

2 hours ago

Ahmad Mulakhil, a 23-year-old Afghan who arrived in the UK by small boat last year, was unanimously convicted at Warwick Crown Court on February 10 of raping the girl under 13, child abduction, sexual assaults, and taking indecent photos after the July 22, 2025 attack. His co-defendant Mohammad Kabir was acquitted of related charges. The case has fueled public anger over immigration vetting and child safety, with Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe calling it emblematic of cultural issues and Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch pledging tougher deportations and leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.

Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10

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Reading how this Afghan illegal migrant approached the 12 year old whilst she was playing on the swings.

Playing on the swings. Think about that.

During the sex attack, she told the Afghan to stop.

The man apparently laughed, and carried on.

"Extremely horrific sexual offences."

A 12 year old.

Politicians need to have the courage to finally say what we all know is true.

Men from these cultures where this evil is accepted should not be welcome in Britain.

We need to not only stop the flow, but also remove the barbarians already within the gates.

I could not give a single shit about whatever lies they tell to remain in Britain.

It doesn't matter. If they hate our way of life so very much?

Deport them all.

Real Axios Headline: "Crime Plunges In Major Cities Despite Trump's Crackdown Rhetoric"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

You mean, despite his rhetoric calling for a crime crackdown followed by a genuine crackdown?

As you probably know, the left-wing treasonous press has a long history of headlines of this kind. Fox Butterfield of the New York Times would routinely write this same headline, again and again, during the fall in crime during the nineties:

Crime Falls Despite Increases in Incarceration

It never occurred to Fox Butterfield, or his many layers of editors at the New York Times, that crime was falling precisely because of increases in the incarceration of criminals.

And the spirit of Fox Butterfield now lives on at Politico for Kidz, Axios.

Axios deleted the headline because conservatives Seized on it (and also, there was reportedly some pouncing), but people did get screencaps:

Unexpectedly, January Job Creation Numbers Double Expectations

—Disinformation Expert Ace

In January, we created 172,000 non-farm jobs while eliminating 42,000 government jobs.

The stats subtract that 42,000 from the 172,000 to say we created 130,000 net jobs, but to me... um, I feel like adding those "lost" jobs into the "created" column because we want to reduce government "employment." It's a waste that drags down the productive sector of the economy.

BTW, "Biden's Miracle Economy" counted on an exploding government sector to make job "growth" look good in the statistics.

Oh, and most of the non-government jobs "created" went to literal foreigners.

January’s jobs report didn’t just beat expectations — it smashed them.

New data released Wednesday and highlighted by the White House shows private-sector hiring roaring past forecasts, wages climbing, and federal payrolls shrinking to levels not seen since the 1960s -- a combination the administration says underscores the defining traits of President Trump’s second-term economy: more workers in productive industries, fewer in government.

The economy added 172,000 private-sector jobs in January while shedding 42,000 government positions, pushing the unemployment rate down to 4.3%. Overall nonfarm job growth came in at 130,000 — more than double the projections from many economists surveyed ahead of the release. The strength was concentrated squarely in the private sector, particularly construction, where employment jumped by 33,000 jobs. Of those, 25,000 were in nonresidential specialty trades -- the largest monthly gain in five years -- as factory projects, energy investments, and data center construction continue accelerating.

Since the start of Trump’s second term, the White House says 615,000 private-sector jobs have been added, while federal employment has fallen to its lowest level since 1966 --and to the smallest share of the total workforce in recorded history. The contrast is deliberate: expansion driven by builders, manufacturers, and tradesmen rather than by bureaucratic growth in Washington.

Paychecks are moving in the right direction as well. Average weekly earnings for private-sector workers rose 0.7% in January alone. Since Trump returned to office, average weekly earnings have increased 4.3%, with hourly earnings up 3.7%. Prime-age labor force participation has climbed to its highest level since 2001, suggesting more Americans in their core working years are reentering the job market.

Now that Biden has been thrown out of office and is despised by the Democrat Party as well as all patriotic Americans, BLS no longer feels the need to pretend he created a lot of jobs. They continue "revising" his job numbers downward.

Perhaps most politically consequential were the revisions to prior data. According to the White House, updated figures show job growth during the final two years of the Biden administration was overstated by 1.9 million jobs from initial releases to current estimates.

Another Trans Terrorist Kills Ten, Wounds 35;
Media Honors Mass Murderer's Wishes; Refer to Him as a "Female in a Dress;" Woke Politicians and Police Call Him a "Gunperson" Rather Than a "Gunman"

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Gays Against Groomers @againstgrmrs

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🚨BREAKING: Another heartbreaking tragedy fueled by the radical gender ideology pushed on our youth.

Trans-identified teen, Jesse Strang, has been named as the shooter in the horrific massacre at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia. 10 dead and 35 injured. This disturbed individual posed with rifles, flaunted trans flags online, and spiraled into unthinkable violence.

We grieve for every victim and their families.

We cannot ignore the pattern: when vulnerable, often autistic or mentally ill youth are rushed into "transition" as the answer to their pain, the results can be catastrophic.

Rest in peace to the victims. Gender ideology must be utterly decimated before it continues to destroy more innocent souls.

Jennifer Sey
@JenniferSey

A psychotic & probably always sadistic young man decides the answer to all of his problems and mental distress is that he's actually a woman.

He's pumped full of prescribed drugs based on a wide range of diagnoses none of which include batshit crazy.

He pumps himself full of street drugs on top of that.

The world sends him the message that he's being genocided because he's "trans."

He takes up arms, because his thinks the world wants him dead. A lie fed to him by the entire culture and media machine.

He kills his family and school children in one of the worst massacres in Canada's history.

The media calls him "woman in a brown dress" then stops talking about him then shifts to "gunperson" because we need to respect his pronouns, in death.

This is the state of things. Now Canadians will blame his actions on all the awful anti-trans-ness in the world. Not the fact that he was a drug addicted psycho unleashed and made worse by the trans/medical/industrial complex.

Indeed. They're already starting to frame this as an understandable response to "bullying."

This writer notes that in Canada -- and in the US, too -- psychiatrists are instructed to only "affirm" a Gender Deluded person of their delusions, and to never investigate other mental illnesses that might be a cause or consequence of the gender delusions.

Trish Wood:

Doctors in Canada must affirm gender identity as the issue for patients who are sometimes gravely mentally ill. This includes teenagers who've been exposed to the digital and viral contagion of the trans movement online and in school and as a result, adopt a trans persona seeking relief from other serious problems. It seems this might be the case with the Tumbler Ridge shooter who became trans two years ago, at age fifteen.

Fully understand -- mental health professionals in this country are prevented from investigating what might really be going on -- including murderous impulses brought about by personality disorders and perhaps even puberty blocker and hormones. Not to mention SSRIs.

Here is Bill C-4. I am obviously against actual conversion therapy for children who are gay -- but C-4 includes a gender clause that prohibits therapeutic investigation once someone has self-diagnosed gender dysphoria.

Jesse Strang, the 17-year-old trans teenager can't tell us why he opened fire -- because he killed himself. (Some reporting now that he was eighteen)

It is being reported by an outfit I trust, that he had serious issues, concurrent with whatever his gender problems were. Key phrase: violent tendencies from a very young age.

Was Strang seeing a therapist? If so -- was he being treated for his other issues or was it -- affirming care, all the time?

Her piece begins by noting that Charlie Kirk was asked how many trans mass-murderers we've seen lately -- his answer, "Too many" -- moments before gay furry tranny-lover put a bullet through his throat and murdered him.

Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

At work last week, I found myself at an awkward intersection of meme and idiom. I used an idiom - not a hugely popular one, but not a particularly unusual one, either (or so I thought) - and got a very weird reaction from my colleagues. It turns out that the idiom is somewhat close to a particular TikTok meme. My colleagues' reaction was basically, "why the heck are you not only referencing that meme, why are you using it so strangely?" I then got to explain that it was quite a lot older than 2025.

The meme in question is referred to, as near as I can tell, the "6-7 meme." It originated on TikTok and has, if Wikipedia is to believed, no meaning in particular. As they put it in the article:

6-7 (pronounced "six seven"; also spelt 67 or 6 7) is an Internet meme and slang term that emerged in 2025 on TikTok and Instagram Reels and later spread to YouTube Shorts. It has no fixed meaning.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Morning Report — 2/11/26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. First up comes news of a mass shooting up in British Columbia. Prayers for the victims and all affected. As the NY Post states: Female in dress suspected in horrific school, home shootings in Canada that left 9 dead, 25 hurt The ludicrousness of the shooter's description leads one to wonder if this is another incident involving transexual psychosis.

Moving on, One more key move by President Trump that will ensure he will go down in history and be remembered by all sane Americans as one of our greatest presidents of all time.

President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency this week will repeal an Obama-era rule called the “Endangerment Finding,” which categorized carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases as a threat to public health. This move would remove the legal framework for the EPA’s climate rules, which allowed the federal government to impose ever-increasing regulations on automobiles, appliances, and power plant emissions.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the new rule would amount “to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States.”

. . . ‘Carbon dioxide, which is required for life on earth and also happens to result from every single bit of human and animal activity on the planet, is not a pollutant and never was.’

Turning to the immigration front and the attempt to nullify federal law and foment insurrection, there's this infuriating link:

He snuck across the border illegally and went undetected. Then, he went on to allegedly rape three young children in Asheville, North Carolina, authorities said. Now, federal immigration authorities are begging sanctuary officials to hand Mexican illegal immigrant Juan Ramon Juarez-Talamantes, 29, over to ICE before he has the opportunity to continue on with his violent rampage,

BEGGING?! How about rolling up in a few Bradley fighting vehicles and deploying a platoon of soldiers, shove a few M-16s in the Asheville flunkies' faces, demand the animal be handed over forthwith and shoot anyone who even raises an eyebrow in opposition.

And then there's vermin like Markwayne Mullin . . .

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said there is a possible conversation about legalization for people brought to the U.S. under the age of 18 by their parents or people who have been in the country for ten years or more, but not for anyone who came under the Biden junta and “it’s not an absolute nonstarter, but it is, if we talk anything about amnesty, at all.”

. . . and Alaskan Snow Blower Lisa Murkowski, well it is the Grifting Oleaginous Party after all.

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced her opposition to two GOP-backed voter ID and election integrity bills, signaling significant challenges for the legislation in the Senate. . . Murkowski’s opposition, combined with the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold, likely dooms the voter ID bills without significant bipartisan support—unless Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) moves to end the legislative filibuster.

This cocaine addicted criminal shit-whore needs to be set off on an ice floe up in Valdez where a polar bear or two can chow down on her rancid carcass.

And really, Downeasters up in Maine. Is there no one up there that can save us from this desiccated coprolite?

Collins was first elected to the Senate in 1996, and again in 2002, 2008, 2014, and 2020, according to her website: Senator Collins has earned a national reputation as an effective legislator who works across party lines to solve problems and deliver results for the people of Maine and America. She has repeatedly been ranked as the most bipartisan member of the U.S. Senate by the Lugar Center and Georgetown University.

Throughout her Senate service, Senator Collins has worked with members of both parties to advance landmark legislation to improve the lives of all Americans. Her record demonstrates significant legislative accomplishments in such critical areas as health care, small business development and job creation, education, transportation, national defense, and issues of particular interest to our nation’s seniors.

Translation: She spent her time stabbing Americans in the back by aiding and abetting the Satanic Democrats in the destruction of the republic. She too needs to go for a swim in the Kilauea lava field or Blofeld's piranha tank.

Have a great day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• ‘Carbon dioxide, which is required for life on earth and also happens to result from every single bit of human and animal activity on the planet, is not a pollutant and never was.’
  Heartland Institute Experts Applaud Trump’s Imminent Repeal of the Endangering Finding for CO2

Daily Tech News 11 February 2026

—Pixy Misa

• The global memory market is set to hit $550 billion this year. (Trendforce)
  
  Thanks a bunch, Sam Altman.
  
  Speaking of which, two of the SSDs I ordered during the brief sale late last year seem to have disappeared into the Twilight Zone. Amazon gave me a refund without a fuss, but now I have to pay twice as much to replace them. Though, given the compression of SSD prices, that does give me much better drives - Crucial T710 vs. P310.
  
  
  
• And while the Big Three memory makers don't plan to do anything to alleviate the shortage - quite the opposite - TSMC is planning to invest $45 billion on new factories this year. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The company is also working on a 1nm process due around 2030.
  
  

Tuesday Overnight Thread - February 10, 2026 [Not Doof]

—Open Blogger

Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety.

I know what you're thinking. Where's Doof? This Tuesday night ONT looks suspiciously like a Wednesday night ONT. If a Wednesday night ONT is posted on Tuesday night, is it still a Wednesday night ONT - just misplaced on the time-space continuum? or has the posting on Tuesday transformed the Wednesday ONT into a Tuesday ONT at a molecular level? So many questions.

TRex is just a dinosaur with a small brain and short arms. All I know is that Doof is detailed elsewhere this evening, so it is you and me. Glad you stopped by and pleased you've chosen to patronize the ONT. Happy to spend a little interweb time with my favorite Morons.

What will happen tomorrow night? Tune in tomorrow and find out!

In the meantime, an ONT means another edition of very random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Pants are optional regardless of the day. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.

[Top photo: Matterhorn, Switzerland]

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Department of Music

This isn't a music thread, but since most posts end up being a music thread at some point, let's just shortcut the process.

All hail the bass player. Do bass players get enough credit? Oh sure, the lead singer screams and yells and winds up the crowd. The lead guitarist unleashes solos in the spotlight. To be fair, it is all about the drums, but the bass player is the unsung hero.

But how many bands are driven by the vision of the bass player?

Les Claypool from Primus -

Bonus trivia nugget - Claypool auditioned for Metallica in 1986 following the death of Cliff Burton, but was rejected because his eclectic, "funky" style did not match the band's metal direction. Despite his high school friendship with Kirk Hammett, he was deemed "too weird" and "too good" to simply fit into their existing sound, leading James Hetfield to suggest he pursue his own band.

Cliff Burton was a force of nature and made some of Metallica's best music, but arguably the band was driven by James and Lars.

Lemmy Kilmister from Motörhead -

Steve Harris from Iron Maiden -

Maiden doesn't sing about sex, drugs and rock n' roll. They sing about for what lurks in the darkness, British military history and Samuel Taylor Coleridge poetry. With a few exceptions along the way, Harris wrote most of the music and lyrics from the very beginning. Impressive body of work.

For what its worth, as with Metallica, TRex prefers the older stuff.

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No idea if this is real or AI, but I'd like to think this is something that a Calvin and Hobbes reader would do.

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Wednesday ONT History Department

No idea if this is a true story, but would be a fun history nugget if true:

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Full disclosure: My grade school science fair projects did not involve nuclear fusion.

Dallas 12-year-old achieves nuclear fusion after four years of effort

A 12-year-old Dallas student's four-year-long science project may have resulted in his becoming the youngest person to ever achieve nuclear fusion.

Aiden McMillan, a Dallas Independent School District seventh-grader, said he started work on his ambitious project when he was just 8 years old, and spent the first two years studying nuclear physics concepts before building his first prototypes.

He said it took some work to ensure his mother was comfortable with his tinkering.

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The Pittsburgh police scanner has the night off. In its place, the Pima County Sheriff's Department has an important message:

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A little upbeat bluegrass banjo music for the big ONT finish:

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Close it up

Playtime Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

"Pebble" the Turtle, aura-farming

Now sand-crabs are out of control. (Bears remain fully out of control.)

I hate fake-out jump scares, especially when it turns out it's just a cat.

Dogs want to make friends with inanimate objects.

Cat would like to play now please and thank you.

Big dog teaches tiny puppy how to play with a ball.

Dark sentinel of the night.

Cats being caught just as they're about to do a great evil.

Email: Epstein Hid Cameras In Kleenex Boxes and All Around His Palm Beach Home

—Disinformation Expert Ace

I know yesterday I said there was no evidence of an Epstein blackmail operation but I'm going to exercise the Democrat Denialist Maneuver of declaring "I never said that nor held that position."

If you contradict me I will call you a Far Right Extremist.

NYT:

Jeffrey Epstein directed one of his aides to obtain hidden video cameras, apparently to be set up in his home in Palm Beach, Fla., according to a recently released 2014 email.

The purpose of the cameras was not clear, but a number of Mr. Epstein's victims have said they suspected they were being recorded. That has fueled speculation that he was collecting compromising information on his powerful acquaintances, though no evidence has emerged to prove those claims.

"Lets get three motion detected hidden cameras, that record," Mr. Epstein wrote to Larry Visoski, his longtime pilot, who has said he at times set up audio and video equipment for Mr. Epstein in his residences.

Mr. Visoski replied that he had already purchased two motion-sensor cameras from a store that sold surveillance equipment in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and was in the process of figuring out how they worked. "Its amazing how small they are," he wrote, adding that they could record for 64 hours. "I'm installing them into Kleenex boxes now. I'll bring them by later today."

Mr. Visoski did not respond to a request for comment.

The February 2014 email, which was previously reported by The Telegraph, is the latest indication that Mr. Epstein installed surveillance cameras inside his homes. Last summer, The New York Times published photos that showed a camera mounted in the corner of the master bedroom in his palatial Upper East Side townhouse. Another was nestled in the moldings of an adjoining room. The Times also reviewed a photo that showed a camera near a suite of bathrooms on the same floor as Mr. Epstein's bedroom.

The presence of those cameras conflicts with what federal law enforcement officials have said in the past.

Last March, for example, federal prosecutors in Manhattan provided top F.B.I. officials with a description of the video evidence that investigators had recovered from Mr. Epstein's properties. The email said that when F.B.I. agents raided his New York and U.S. Virgin Islands homes after he was charged with sex trafficking in July 2019, they searched for surveillance cameras.

"My understanding from the case agent is that there were no cameras found inside any bedrooms or living areas of either residence," read the email, which was recently released by the Justice Department. The email added that the only cameras the F.B.I. found were near the residences' entryways.

Uh, have you considered he might have taken them down?

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In 2005, as the police in Palm Beach were investigating Mr. Epstein for raping and sexually abusing girls, detectives searched his home. A police official later wrote in an incident report that he "located two covert (hidden) cameras." Both were stashed inside clocks, one in Mr. Epstein's garage and the other beside his desk.

Note that the FBI didn't deny that there were videos of people in compromising situations. They said there were no videos of people in compromising situations except for Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

It's possible this pervert was making unconsented-to pornographic videos of people he was having sex with.

It's also possible he was collecting, as Chuck Todd likes to say, kompromat. (At least he likes to say that when he's speculating about Trump involved in seedy sexual scenarios with Russian Pee-Prostitutes.)

Relatedly, Ghislaine Maxwell has pled the fifth in a House Oversight Committee hearing, but she's trying to conjure herself a Get Out of Free Card by saying she will testify about what she knows if and only if Trump commutes her sentence. She says she will clear Trump -- um, the police records have already done that -- and also clear Bill Clinton.

Pass. I know you're lying based on that last claim.

"I invoke my Fifth Amendment right to silence," Maxwell, speaking from prison, repeatedly stated more than a dozen times during Monday's closed-door virtual deposition, refusing to answer any questions on the panel's investigation into Epstein, the late sex offender.

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The video of the deposition shows Maxwell declining to answer if she was a close friend of Epstein.

"I would like to answer your question, but on the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer this question and any related questions. My habeas petition is pending in the Southern District of New York. I therefore invoke my right to silence under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution," Maxwell responded.

Maxwell refused to say if she was involved in trafficking of young women or girls and if she ever coerced any young women or girls to provide sexual favors to Epstein.

She refused to provide the committee names of any additional co-conspirators, or to answer if she was aware that Epstein was sexually abusing minors and adult women, and whether she ever participated in sexual abuse of any minor or adult woman.

Maxwell's lawyer, David Markus, said during the deposition, "If this committee and the American public truly want to hear the unfiltered truth about what happened, there is a straightforward path. Ms. Maxwell is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump."

"For example, both President Trump and President Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing," the lawyer said. "Ms. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to hear that explanation."

RINOs in Retreat: Conservatives Take Lead for Cornyn's, McConnell's Seats

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Ken Paxton has moved ahead of lifetime liberal and backstabber John Cornyn for Senator from Texas.

Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek

New #TXSEN poll from @HobbySchoolUH:

Paxton 38
Cornyn 31
Hunt 17

Crockett 47
Talarico 39

(Jan. 20-31; each primary sample 550 LVs and +/-4.18%)

LOL, Jasmine Ratchet is leading too.

Paxton dominates on favorability inside the Republican electorate. Seventy-two percent of likely GOP primary voters say they view him favorably, compared to 22 percent unfavorable -- a margin that reflects his strong standing with the party's grassroots base.

Hunt also posts solid personal numbers, with 70 percent favorable and just 10 percent unfavorable.

Cornyn, however, lags well behind both challengers.

Only 61 percent of respondents say they hold a favorable view of the incumbent senator, while 30 percent view him unfavorably -- a dangerous position in a primary environment that has grown increasingly hostile to long-tenured Senate leadership.

The poll surveyed 550 likely Republican primary voters and 550 likely Democrat primary voters between January 20 and January 31, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.53 percentage points.

Paxton seized on the results Monday, framing them as a referendum on Cornyn's weakening grip on the base.

With McConnell retiring, we might finally have an actual conservative elected senator from Kentucky. (I don't consider Rand Paul a conservative and he self-defines as a not-conservative as well.)

TPUSA and Elon Musk have both endorsed Nate Morris. He's not exactly winning, but he's in the hunt. Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron is winning in one poll, and a Google AI search for "conservative or not" claims he's also a MAGA, "Trump-aligned," America First conservative.

But I'll just be honest with you guys, if either of these fellows turned out to be a Circus Bear wearing a Human Suit I wouldn't be over-surprised, because I just heard of them five minutes ago.

Andrew Surabian @Surabees

NEW: KY Senate Poll from Tony Fabrizio shows Charlie Kirk & @elonmusk backed @NateMorris surging DOUBLE DIGITS and more than tripling his position on the ballot

3 way ballot:
Cameron 31
Barr 24
Morris 21

With voters who have an opinion of all 3:
Morris 28
Cameron 26
Barr 25

A new survey shows Nate Morris gaining ground rapidly in the Republican Senate primary as voters learn who he is and where he stands, while his two better-known opponents -- both closely tied to McConnell's political network -- show signs of stalling.

Is that true? I don't know. Again, if you told me he was actually a Circus Bear, I'd say "Neat, that will attract moderates. Does he have any military experience?"

The poll, conducted by Fabrizio Lee & Associates, finds former Attorney General Daniel Cameron leading the full three-way ballot with 31 percent, followed by Rep. Andy Barr at 24 percent and Morris at 21 percent.

But the topline numbers don't tell the real story of the race.

Among Republican primary voters who say they have an opinion of all three candidates -- a far more meaningful universe -- Morris moves into first place with 28 percent, edging Cameron at 26 percent and Barr at 25 percent. As voters get past name recognition and begin making an actual choice, support consolidates around Morris.

I just want McConnell out. He is a sinister Satanic figure. He has fought conservatives for 40 years and won most of those battles. He has recruited and funded most of the other Democrat-aligned "Republican" Senators who plague us.

How bad is the Luciferian McConnell? The Federalist reports he's scheming to block the SAVE Act from a vote to get vengeance on Trump.

As Sen. Mitch McConnell prepares to ride off into the congressional sunset, the Kentucky Republican is said to be sticking it to President Donald Trump one more time. And the sticking this time, not surprisingly, involves one of Trump's most urgent concerns: election integrity.

"Oh, yeah, that's what McConnell is doing. Personally speaking, I think it still stems from Jan. 6 (2021 Capitol riots)," a top congressional aide told The Federalist on Thursday afternoon, as the battle over the SAVE Act ground down to trench warfare.

"Of course, Trump hasn't had nice things to say about McConnell, and vice versa, but I think it's personal, no matter what (McConnell) says," the aide added.

The 83-year-old former Majority Leader's latest trip to the hospital this week for "flu-like" symptoms has slowed the pace even more so on whatever version of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act (SAVE Act) the listless GOP majority believes can squeak through. But McConnell's intransigence on a bill that humbly asks for proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in U.S. elections has been felt over the nearly 300 days since the Republican-controlled House passed the measure.

To say House Republicans have had it, doesn't quite say enough.

"I just sent a letter to Mitch McConnell asking his committee to stop stalling the SAVE Act," Texas Rep. Brandon Gill wrote on X earlier this week. "The House did its job. The Senate needs to do theirs."

Meanwhile, the Democrat Party in Virginia is so pro-democracy and so pro-"representation" that they are passing a new gerrymandered congressional map that will make a state that went Democrat by only 53-47 send a single Republican to Congress, along with ten Democrats.

After weeks of buildup and a missed self-imposed Jan. 30 deadline, Virginia Democrats on Thursday evening finally released their long-awaited revised congressional map, proposing an aggressive 10--1 configuration that would tilt 10 of the state's 11 U.S. House districts toward their party.

The proposed congressional map leaves several of Virginia's largest districts visually intact while concentrating most of its changes in Northern and central Virginia.

Look at the proposed, soon-to-be-passed, 7th district.

Why is it shaped so strangely? Because they took a chunk of highly-populated, ultra-left-wing northern DC-suburb Virginia and are using all of those AWFULs to overwhelm the conservative voters in more central, rural parts of the state.

The pink color is appropriate:

House Speaker Don Scott, D-Portsmouth, echoed that message, saying the General Assembly has been working for weeks to prepare the maps for public release. "Virginia to the rescue," he said.

A 10--1 map "levels the playing field, and we're ready to move forward," Scott said. "We'll get those maps released and put them out in the open and allow them to be debated the way they should be in a democracy."

Republican leaders denounced the plan Thursday morning and said their counterparts aren't concentrating on solutions to the financial strain many Virginians are facing.

"Democrats are focused on political gerrymandering instead of focusing on affordability," said Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle, R-Hanover.

"The bills they are moving through the legislature are going to cost Virginians more money. It is taking money out of their pocket. But they're more worried about political gerrymandering games and not Virginians, not the struggles that they are going through."

Trump Renews Call for SAVE Act to Keep Illegal Aliens (and Dead Citizens) from Voting as the Spanish Left Legalizes Illegal Alien Voting

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Yes!

With high-stakes midterms approaching, Trump has urged GOP lawmakers to stop dithering and move legislation he says is essential to securing U.S. elections. The president has called for mandatory voter ID, proof of citizenship, and a rollback of mass mail-in voting, arguing that states have failed to protect the integrity of federal elections.

In recent remarks and social media posts, Trump said elections must be conducted "legally and honestly" -- and warned that if states can't do that, the federal government should step in. He has repeatedly pushed Congress to act, calling for passage of the SAVE America Act while demanding tighter standards for who can vote and how ballots are cast.

The SAVE America Act would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. Acceptable documentation would include a passport, a REAL ID-compliant identification showing citizenship, a military ID with proof of U.S. birth, or a government-issued photo ID paired with a birth certificate or naturalization papers. The bill also directs states to ensure only citizens are registered and requires in-person verification for mail-in applicants.

It does not ban mail-in voting outright, nor does it change who counts ballots -- points Democrats and voting-rights groups have seized on as Trump continues to call for broader reforms.

In Spain, the socialists and communists felt their Phony-Baloney jobs in jeopardy, so they said the Quiet Part Out Loud and actually passed the Quiet Part into law -- the legalized voting for illegal aliens and foreigners in hopes that 500,000 foreign voters would save them.

Apparently the socialist government offered citizenship to illegals... if they just showed up to vote.

Which they did. In hordes, of course.

Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar Chaos in Spain after the government approved the option to obtain citizenship in exchange for a vote in the elections.

Crowds of migrants are heading there after hearing that all they need to do is vote for the far left to receive Spanish citizenship in return.

They still suffered a defeat in the regional elections.

[Brussels Signal EU:]

Spain's ruling Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) suffered a crushing setback in the snap regional elections in Aragón.

In the ballot yesterday, it slumped to one of its worst historical performance, losing ground amid a surge by the right-wing Vox party.

Provisional results from the Government of Aragón and the National Electoral Commission, with more than 98 per cent of votes counted, show the centre-right People's Party (PP) emerging as the largest force with 26 seats in the 67-seat Cortes of Aragón. That is down two from its 2023 tally, despite topping the poll with around 34 per cent of the vote.

The PSOE, led by former minister Pilar Alegría, collapsed to 18 seats, down five, equalling its all-time low from 2015. It secured 24.3 per cent of the vote in what analysts describe as a humiliating defeat for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's party.

Vox delivered the night's clearest winner, more than doubling its representation from seven to 14 seats and claiming nearly 18 per cent of the vote, a sharp rise that cements its role as kingmaker in any right-wing coalition.

Note that a far-left government official admitted -- declared proudly -- that she "hopes for a replacement theory," whereby native Spanish "fascists and racists" are replaced by foreign migrants.

She says this straight up.

And Google's AI still claims "replacement theory" is a "white nationalist conspiracy theory," despite an actual government official in a left-wing government declaring for all to hear that that is precisely the left's master plan:

Spain's former Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, has publicly stated that she hopes for the "great replacement" theory to take place in Spain.

During an event, Montero, a leader of the far-left Podemos party, stated: "Of course I hope for 'replacement theory,' I hope we can sweep this country of fascists and racists with immigrants. Whatever their skin color, whether 'Chinese, Black, or Brown'".

The "great replacement" theory is a white nationalist conspiracy theory that claims white populations are being intentionally replaced by non-white immigrant populations, often through deliberate political action. Montero's statement has sparked significant debate, with critics warning against endorsing a conspiracy theory considered dangerous, while her supporters call for dialogue on the topic of population changes and political dynamics.

Here's the video of this Spanish left-wing government official endorsing the "white nationalist conspiracy theory."

Irish Illegal Alien Who Dodged Deportation for 20 Years Will Finally Be Kicked Out of Country;
Supposedly "anti-Racist" Libertarian Nick Gillespie Says We Shouldn't Deport Him, Because He's White Like Us

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Of course.

Nick Gillespie will claim that he made his racist plea of special privilege only because he assumes that we're the Real Racists Here and will keep this White Criminal in the country because he's white, but I don't know man, this attempt at Judo Reverse Racism just sounds like plain old racism to me.

Libertarians are just nasty 1960s "Hey man" hippies with a strong streak of racism.

Here are the facts, via Twitchy's JustMindy:

The Irish Times @IrishTimes

Seamus Culleton was arrested on September 9th, 2025, and has been in an Ice detention facility in Texas for nearly five months, despite having no criminal record, "not even a parking ticket"

His criminal record is 20 years long. 20 years of illegal visa overstaying plus the crimes we know he must have committed, including identity theft and illegally working under a fraudulent Social Security number.

He was ordered to leave and said "F*** you."

He overstayed a visa, was told to leave, refused to leave even when offered a trip back to his home country and so he was detained, but this apparently is communism or something.

Susan Glasser, an egregious communist propagandist at the New Yorker and wife of nasty liberal Peter Baker of the New York Times, goes immediately into AWFUL Meltdown Mode:

Susan Glasser @sbg1

Kafka meets ICE

Gerard Baker
@gerardtbaker

Oh please. He was admitted on a 90 day visitor's visa 20 years ago and never left. He was offered instant deportation to Ireland last year and declined so he’s awaiting his case in a detention center. His choice. Kafka? You undermine your own argument with such hyperbole.

The only argument in favor of keeping this guy around is that he 1, applied for a Green Card and is here provisionally while his case is considered and 2, he got married to a US citizen.

But here's the thing: He only took those two steps when he was about to be deported.

The left, and Nick Gillespie, are claiming "he has a valid work permit."

But that was only issued on the basis of his sudden application for a green card.

Which he only applied for in 2025, when Trump was about to deport him.

What did he do for the 20 years prior as far as work or money?

Did he work illegally using someone else's social security number? Did he just sit on welfare for 20 years?

Did he, perhaps, engage in an actual criminal trade?

But we have to pretend his entire record began exactly when he took two desperate, last minute steps to confabulate a fraudulent set of facts to avoid deportation.

Remember yesterday, I mentioned the Fifth Circuit approving Trump's new policy of detailing deportable aliens until they exhaust their last legal challenge? But offering to let them out of detention if they agree to finally get on a plane and GTFO?

Well, this poor poor man has the same standing offer.

Supposedly, his ICE detention is an "absolute hell" -- but one he voluntarily agrees to remain in, instead of JUST GOING BACK TO HIS HOME COUNTRY.

Boy Ireland must be like, Hell Squared or something. It's Gaza of the North Atlantic.

HoodlumDoodlum @HoodlumDoodlum

Also he has been in detention that long ONLY because he wants to fight his deportation. We would have been happy to deport him back months ago.

His "valid work permit" was temporary and issued as part of his green card application in April 2025 (after he'd been here illegally for 19 years).
A final removal order obviously supersedes a temporary work permit! He has no legal standing to stay; he will be deported. pic.twitter.com/d4xINmZakj

— HoodlumDoodlum (@HoodlumDoodlum) February 10, 2026

So now comes libertarian racist Nick Gillespie-- Goth Fonzie wears a black leather jacket to show he's not like those other pundits! -- to argue that "heritage Americans" should agree to let this 20-year deportation-dodger stay... because he's white.

This is appalling and I hope cuts through to the 'heritage American' types who otherwise could care less about due process for immigrants:
'Culleton said he was carrying a Massachusetts driving licence and a valid work permit issued by the US government when he was pulled over…

— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) February 9, 2026

Oh, his work permit was a temporary one, issued only after he finally engaged with the immigration system and applied for a green card in 2025 -- when he knew he was about to be deported.

He also, coincidentally, got "married to a US citizen" that year, when he was about to be deported.

According to CNN's Abby Philip, this was in no way a sham marriage quickly arranged to give him cover from Trump's deportation.

No, Abby Phillip tells us, it's a time-honored lawful tradition for an illegal alien to "rectify his immigration status" through a quickie and almost certainly fraudulent marriage:

Phillip: Like this irishman who has been in the country for 20 years with a valid work permit, who was months away from a green card interview

Rantz: This guy from Ireland who overstayed a 90 day Visa since 2009

Phillip: That's an administrative infraction. And under U.S. Law… pic.twitter.com/W5RgIlCHR7

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 10, 2026

"Rectify" is the new "clarify." Be the first Cook Kid on your block to use it.

Michael MacNeil @Mike_OMac

1h

He intentionally overstayed his tourist Visa?

He didn't apply for a Green Card for 17 years?

He didn't marry until he applied for a Green Card?

I have little sympathy.

Oh yes, this is all totally legitimate. As a "Heritage American," I want to keep this white criminal in the country forever because his skin matches my Heritage.

I saw someone sum up the reaction on Twitter in about this way:

Nick Gillespie: Checkmate, racists! Now that a white man of your Heritage is about to be deported, you see the evil of your racist ways!

Twitter MAGA types: No, no race-based inconsistency, we want his "potato-gobbling" ass deported back to Ireland too.

Nick Gillespie: Wait you racists don't even have mercy for Your Own Kind? You're not just racists, you're the worst kind of racists -- race-traitor racists!!!

Philosophy PhD btw https://t.co/tdVVXHesSQ pic.twitter.com/yKMkrZ1hsb

— Pay Roll Manager Here (@UsingLyft) February 10, 2026

Oh, by the way, Goth Fonzie wants you know he's not racist, he totally loved the Bad Bunny Super-Bowl show with all of the twerking anal-sex-simulation for children, and what he really objects to are the F-35s overflying the stadium in a show of "paid patriotism."

But in this, Goth Fonzie was just part of a larger movement of Old White Guys virtue-signalling -- and even more embarrassingly, Youth-Signalling -- that they are Totally Down with This Energetic Minority They Just Heard of Ten Seconds Ago.

Close it up

Newsom's Lawless "Law" Presuming to Strip ICE Agents of Their Masks So That His Anatifa Paramilitaries Can Bomb Their Houses Rejected by Even a Left-Wing Judge

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Even a Clinton judge understands that until the left finds its courage and simply declares, like the Confederacy, that they are separating from the US, states are still bound by federal law in federal matters.

Attorney General Pamela Bondi @AGPamBondi

ANOTHER key court victory thanks to our outstanding @TheJusticeDept attorneys.

Following our arguments, a district court in California BLOCKED the enforcement of a law that would have banned federal agents from wearing masks to protect their identities.

These federal agents are harassed, doxxed, obstructed, and attacked on a regular basis just for doing their jobs. We have no tolerance for it.

We will continue fighting and winning in court for President Trump's law-and-order agenda -- and we will ALWAYS have the backs of our great federal law enforcement officers.

This isn't as clear a victory as Bondi suggests, unfortunately. The judge does rule partly in favor of the Insurrectionist Left and says she might allow the law to be enforced, if it's enforced against all law enforcement officials.

That's nuts. Newsom does not have power over federal agents. He cannot direct them, he cannot hire or fire them, he cannot dictate how they do their jobs.

A federal judge on Monday blocked California from enforcing a new law that would have barred federal immigration agents from covering their faces during enforcement operations, handing the Trump administration a clear courtroom win and halting a Democrat-led attempt to rein in ICE and Border Patrol.

U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder ruled the mask ban cannot take effect because it exempted state and local law enforcement while singling out federal agents -- a distinction she said unlawfully discriminates against the federal government.

This is an error. Newsom also can't dictate how federal agents perform their jobs even if he extends this "law" to state agents.

The law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last fall after a summer of high-profile ICE operations in Los Angeles, had been set to take effect earlier this year before the Trump administration sued.

Federal officials argued the measure would strip agents of basic safety protections amid rising harassment and threats tied to immigration enforcement. Snyder agreed, siding with Washington's position that California lacks the authority to selectively regulate how federal officers perform their duties.

"Selectivity" has noting to do with it. If George Wallace got a law passed that said neither federal nor state agents could integrate schools in the 1960s, the courts would not have said "Yes he can block federal judge-ordered integration, so long as he bars both state and federal agents from doing it."

It's absurd. The left is suddenly very States Rights and very neo-Confederate.

...

The judge blocked the mask ban itself -- which would have prohibited masks, neck gaiters, and other facial coverings -- but allowed a separate requirement to stand forcing officers, including federal agents, to wear clear identification showing their agency and badge number while on duty. Snyder also left Democrats a narrow path to try again, writing that California could pursue a mask ban if it applied equally to all law enforcement agencies.

Can't antifa track agents by badge number? Doesn't that defeat the entire point of protecting agents' identities?

If the left wants to go extra-judicial, well: We can go extra-judicial, too.

Do you like Right-Wing Death Squads? Because this is how you get Right-Wing Death Squads.

Meanwhile:

Remember when the left demanded all cops wear body cameras in the mentally-ill delusion that cops were randomly target Innocent Black Citizens and executing them for no good reason?

Well, that didn't turn out to be true. In fact, the BLM/antifa left has been very frustrated that cops' wearing of body cameras disprove almost all of their attempts to gin up a violent race-revolution with lies about cops just murdering people "for being black or brown."

And they've had a very hard time getting their new Race Hoaxes to go viral.

So you'll never guess what the left has decided:

That's right, cops must stop wearing body cameras, because body cameras invade the privacy of innocent black and brown people (and frustrate their efforts to hatch new race hoaxes).

EPSTEIN FILES BOMBSHELL SHOWS TRUMP'S CONNECTION TO THE CONVICTED PEDOPHILE!
And That Connection Is: Trump Dropped Dime on Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and Urged Police to Investigate Them

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Sorry to scare you with the red font headline, but that's how the " " " Mainstream " " " media is playing this story and I want to prove I'm a Real Journalist Too.

Trump did know Epstein socially. A bit. They were both rich people who lived in Palm Beach. Of course they crossed paths.

And when he found out more about Epstein, he did what we'd hope he'd have done: He called the cops.

Newly unsealed Department of Justice documents reveal that in July 2006, then businessman Donald Trump was one of the first to call police to warn them about sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.

The documents include a previously unreported 2019 FBI interview summary with former Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter. Trump had contacted the department shortly after reports of Epstein's criminal sex investigation became public.

The future president contacted Reiter to express relief that authorities were finally acting, suggesting his associates in New York had described Epstein's behaviors as "disgusting," and advised investigators to focus on Ghislaine Maxwell, whom he described as "evil."

...

"Thank goodness you're stopping him, everyone has known he's been doing this," Trump reportedly told the Palm Beach Police Department.

"TRUMP told him people in New York knew EPSTEIN was disgusting. TRUMP said MAXWELL was EPSTEIN's operative, 'she is evil and to focus on her,' the report continues.

The president also noted that he had witnessed Epstein in the presence of teenagers and was apparently dismayed by what he saw and "got the hell out of there."

The left will claim that the fact Trump knew enough about Epstein to report him to the cops somehow proves that Trump was diddling children with him, without ever explaining why a child-diddler would report a co-conspirator.

And I have to ask:

Did Bill Clinton ever call the cops on Epstein?

Did Hillary Clinton?

Did Charles Schumer?

Did Bill Gates?

I have long had a theory that what embarrasses Trump about Epstein is that he was an informer on Epstein. You might wonder, what's embarrassing about that?, but informers are regarded by some, especially on the criminal left, as like the worst thing possible.

I think it's pretty obvious Trump is a major, major gossip -- how many times have you heard him taunt a political opponent by hinting he knows "very bad things, very bad" about him? -- and likes hearing and spreading dirt about his enemies. He may be sensitive about this tendency.

But whether that's true or not, informing on a pedophile is a good and righteous thing and it proves, conclusively, that Trump was not involved in Epstein's nefarious child sex trafficking. Kiddie-diddlers do not call the cops on the Top Diddler who provided him with kiddies to diddle.

Prepare to hear a lot of claims from vicious, mentally-sick left-wing propagandists claiming "Uhhh, akkkshually, kiddie diddlers spontaneously call the cops on other diddlers all the time, akkkshually."

For example, from Rusty Weiss at Red State:

The media, of course, is framing the latest revelation not as 'Trump tried to warn authorities' but rather, as 'this contradicts the president's previous claims.'

From the Miami Herald:

That stands in sharp contrast to what Trump told reporters in July 2019 when he was asked if he had any knowledge that Epstein had molested girls. “No, I had no idea. I had no idea,” Trump said at the time.

Even with Trump calling the cops on Epstein, they're still trying to insinuate that akkkshually Trump must have been in on it, because he previously said "I had no idea."

That's not a "sharp contrast." It's not even a contrast. Someone can have suspicions without having actual knowledge.

And even though the media is now in the business of public defamation, Trump might have decided, as many people involved in these matters have decided, that it is legally dangerous to name names or accuse people of specific crimes without actual proof to back up those claims. The famous "20 Epstein Victims," for example, continue to say that they'd like to release the names but won't release the names because of fear of legal consequences.

The Morning Rant

—CBD

The petulance of Trump Derangement Syndrome is embarrassing, but in most cases it is childish political entitlement masquerading as "speaking truth to power," or some such nonsense. But when it crosses the line into geopolitical reality, TDS is costly and dangerous.

We can criticize the F-35 program on multiple fronts, but what it does superbly is mesh multiple different forces into an integrated response. It is simply better at its job than any other platform. The recent attack on Iran by Israel's F-35s is an excellent example of its superiority. It is the most modern war plane on earth, and there is no getting around that fact.

For Canada to consider a clearly inferior platform because of its economic battles with the Trump administration is short-sighted in the extreme. We will have to step in and buttress Canada's already pathetic armed forces if they choose the clearly inferior Swedish plane. But TDS is all-encompassing, even if it means jeopardizing the national security of Canada!

Why Experts Say Canada's Plan to Ditch the F-35 Is a Strategic Disaster

In 2022 Ottawa selected the U.S. Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II – a fifth-generation, stealth multirole fighter – committing to 88 aircraft to meet agreed NORAD, NATO, and Arctic security requirements. The F-35’s advanced sensor fusion capabilities and deep strike profile were seen as essential to defending vast northern airspace alongside U.S. forces.

However, that consensus about what it takes to meet these requirements appears to have evaporated. After Prime Minister Mark Carney ordered a review of the F-35 contract in 2025 amid escalating U.S.–Canada trade tensions, Ottawa signalled interest in alternative options – notably Sweden’s Saab JAS-39 Gripen E, a 4.5-generation fighter pitched with the promise of 12,600 Canadian industrial assembly and jobs.

In response to reports that Ottawa is on the verge of siding with Saab, U.S. ambassador Pete Hoekstra warned that a pivot away from the F-35 would strain or “alter” the NORAD framework, likely forcing the U.S. to deploy its own fighters more often into Canadian airspace if interoperability is lost.

Carney’s stance on the situation is undeniably political, reflecting ongoing friction with Washington over tariff disputes and rhetoric seen in Ottawa as unpredictable. Those problems have contributed to the growing unease among Canadian policymakers over a perceived over-reliance on U.S. defense systems.

Canada and Carney remind me of the joke about the mouse that creeps up to an elephant and begins to hump its leg. The elephant looks down, the mouse looks up and says, "Don't worry, I'll be gentle."

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Village Barber
Adriaen van Ostade

The Morning Report — 2/10/26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. To kick things off this morning, this certainly is something . . .

The daughter of Republican Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson was stabbed to death in a botched murder-suicide over the weekend — leading her father to abruptly suspend his 2026 campaign.

Hallie Marie Tobler, 22, was discovered dead with multiple stab wounds inside her locked apartment in St. Cloud after cops responded to a medical emergency on Saturday evening, according to the St. Cloud Police Department. Tobler’s husband, 23-year-old Dylan Michael Tobler, was also critically wounded inside the home with what investigators believed to be self-inflicted stab wounds, police said. . . Dylan, who is now in stable condition, has been taken into police custody and is expected to be hit with homicide charges in connection with Hallie’s death following his release from the hospital, cops added. . .

. . . “Out of respect for his family and the enormity of this loss, Jeff has suspended his campaign for Governor of Minnesota. We ask all Minnesotans to join us in lifting up the Johnson family during this incredibly painful time.”

Johnson ran a campaign that was tough on crime, immigration and fraud in the North Star State, which has become the battleground of ICE operations and clashes between protesters and federal officers in recent months.

Indeed this is something but the question is, "Is this Something something?" Obviously we do not know as of yet the interpersonal dynamics of the relationship between the victim and her husband, nor do we know the politics of either, especially the latter. But, given what is going on in Minnesota as well as who the victim's father is, as well as the established fact that political terrorism and violence in service to ideology and the lust for absolute power are the stock in trade and sine qua non of the Democrat Party and leftists, it is well within the realm of possibility and most likely IMHO what will be the motive behind this attack.

That is not hyperbole my friends, as these next two items will underscore:

First up there's this awful AWFL...

A video by Democrat Suzanna Karatassos, who exemplifies the AWFUL acronym (“Affluent White Female Urban Liberal") better than anyone I’ve seen in the past 20 minutes, is going viral.

Suzanna is running for Georgia’s 120th District in the state legislature. She’s privileged, and she oozes virtue signaling from every pore. Suzanna’s “final solution” to the “MAGA problem” is to ban us all from the Internet for four years:

When this is all over, and Trump is gone, and Democrats are back in charge, and we’re rebuilding everything, the punishment for MAGA for voting Trump three times needs to be that they lose their internet access for four years. That they cannot post videos or comments on social media, for four straight years, so that none of us are subjected to their lies and misinformation. While we are rebuilding the chaos that they caused, the whole world and America gets to be without their BS online for four straight years. Can we all agree to this?

And as if mere muzzling weren't final enough, this next sick bastard sure has a solution that sounds pretty damn final to me:

After decades of American institutions of higher education teaching that whites are the “oppressors” in the intersectional hierarchy, Texas politician Gene Wu is encouraging other racial groups to team up politically based on claims of shared victimhood.

In a recently circulated clip from a December 2024 interview, Wu says:

“I always tell people, the day the Latino, African American, Asian and other communities, realize that … they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning. Because we are the majority in this country now. We … have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.”

Rep. Gene Wu (D) goes mask off:

"Non-whites share the same oppressor and we are the majority now. We can take over this country."

I seem to recall another Socialist named Schickelgruber who after he and his supporters took over their country did what was needed by building high speed railroads so they could send their perceived oppressors and usurpers directly to the gas chambers and crematoria.

While Wu is a Chinese emigré there is no doubt that he still has very deep connections to the CCP. Who by the way are provably funding and fueling much of the mayhem in Minnesota.

Those Minnesota riots, once described by some as “spontaneous,” look more and more like a backdoor attempt by China, allied with extreme groups in the U.S., to foment violence and outright rebellion.

One Slippery Slope — Yup that is what we are on, dear reader . . . Regardless of who's funding the Democrat/Left insurrection, the strategy and tactics are quite revealing and very familiar.

When you think about recent events in the Middle East, it’s easier to understand what’s happening in Minnesota.

There are significant parallels between the tactics of Hamas and pro-illegal immigrant agitators. Start with this. Both have no realistic way to achieve their objective through conventional means. . . Outmatched in bullets and ballots, both groups have sought to use political pressure to achieve their aims. Putting their own people in danger is key to these efforts. Hamas hides its military infrastructure in and around hospitals and schools. Israel either avoids attacking legitimate military targets, or Hamas rushes out pictures of dead women and children.

Something similar is happening in Minnesota. Agitators are actively stalking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and then physically trying to prevent federal agents from arresting illegal immigrants. Crowd control should be a job for local cops. But Minnesota politicians have prevented local police from coordinating with ICE. In December, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara even told residents to call the cops on ICE.

Federal agents are put in a no-win situation. Either they allow agitators to stop them from arresting a criminal illegal immigrant, or they must use physical force to arrest the agitators. At a minimum, that will produce ugly-looking videos. Twice when an agitator has resisted, things have turned deadly. Illegal immigration activists then promote out-of-context videos and lob vile accusations at federal agents.

There is no negotiating with terrorists. What the Democrat/Left have been attempting to do for the past 200 years is coming to a head. Forget slavery and the Civil War. They have never accepted the American founding and have been attempting to overthrow the Republic ever since Aaron Burr murdered Alexander Hamilton. The only things that have changed are the personalities involved and the temporal issues real or concocted.

That said, it's funny how they keep calling us a Democracy which is why I find this comment from the execrable tosser Ossoff rather amusing in a vomitus inducing chutzpocritical way.

It has been evident for a very long time that the Democrat Left is a completely alien political/cultural entity that is antithetical to our own, and that co-existence is impossible. Even if there were to be some sort of national divorce and physical cleaving into two separate nations, like Islamic nations bordering Israel, they could never accept our existence. Beyond a complete collapse of their economy and inability to fend for themselves, feed house or clothe their populace, that we would be thriving as they starved and froze to death (think the iconic picture of the Korean peninsula at night, the north in total darkness and the south lit up like a Christmas tree), their innate desire to dominate and subjugate could never allow for accepting our independent existence.

Sad to say but it's us or them. As we head towards the semiquincentennial this summer, will we reach a tricentennial and all things considered, you have to wonder if we'll actually make it to 250.

Have a great day.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Hallie Marie Tobler, 22, was discovered dead with multiple stab wounds inside her locked apartment in St. Cloud after cops responded to a medical emergency on Saturday evening, according to the St. Cloud Police Department.
  22-year-old daughter of Republican Minnesota gov candidate Jeff Johnson stabbed to death

• From Gaza to Minnesota, the tyrants' playbook is the same.
  ICE and Israel Face the Same Dilemma