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Above, a special photo showing dedication to landscaping by Mr Jimm:
This first picture is the view outside the window of my home office. I sit at my desktop monitor and trade stock options (& read ace.mu.nu, of course) and see this view in front of me. Note the blue and pink hydrangeas in the foreground, the purple coneflowers, the red & yellow daylilies and the lawn in the middle ground, and the 2 pine trees & the crabapple between them in the background.
So I had a tattoo made of it last Thursday on my inner left forearm!
It's still healing a bit and the colors & details are coming through more clearly day by day. I keep it covered with a light coating of A&D cream for now and am doing my best to keep it out of the sun,
I count 15 different colors within this! It took 3 hours and it hurt like a m-f but I got by with a lot of winces and a couple of "oooch"s.
WOW!
Mr Jimm is The Horde's Personal Landscaper of the Year!
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Edible Gardening/Putting Things By
IT'S THE SEASON
I haven't grown them but a local store was roasting hatch green Chili's this morning. We bought a gunny stack of them and they roasted then for us.
AZ deplorable moron.
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Gardens of The Horde
CBD has formatted a little video of a hummer attracted to Salvia in Badgerwx's garden earlier in the season:
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This is Gossypium hirsutum 'Nankeen'. I started the seeds late so I'm not sure I'll get a mature boll but the fibers are brown(ish). The cotton first called nankeen is a Chinese species with yellow/brown fibers while this one is from Peru. With similar calored fibers the term nankeen ended up being applied to it too.
Lirio100
Nice information on cotton. It's illegal to buy cotton seeds like these where I live, because commercial cotton is grown nearby.
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Hope everyone has a nice weekend.
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There were a lot of good comments and recommendations on last week's thread. See also apple notes above.
A comment from the author of the special thread, Lex:
I looked at the post more closely now. I'm sorry my pickleball tourney (a charity fundraiser) coincided with the post being up. I like to respond live, but there were some nice pieces of advice. I definitely need to trim. I will do that more heavily in winter. Next year might be a wash but I'm hoping they can rebound in 2028.
Glad I got to write this out after almost 15 years. I've been at work on these things longer than Odysseus was away from Ithaca.
WeirdDave put an apple chart in the ONT last night, and the Wiki for Empire apple includes pollinizers for Empire apple.
Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.
There is only a little overlap with issues of illegal immigration. There is more overlap with the issue of fraud as Shirley's second shoe is dropping. Others are also dropping a few shoes.
California's High-Speed Rail Authority paid nearly $600,000 in unallowable travel reimbursements to outside consultants while keeping a poor record to justify them, a state investigation found.
This guy is pretty sensible. Does his take align with yours?
Denmark just gave Trump permanent security control over Greenland.
Today the United States signed what Trump is calling an "Infinite Life" Agreement with Denmark and Greenland. Permanent US control over Greenland's security. No adversary base, presence, or sensitive investment allowed there without US approval, ever. A large American military buildup starting immediately. And according to Trump, at no cost to the United States.
Rewind to January. Trump was floating outright annexation and refusing to rule out military force. Denmark's prime minister called the idea "completely absurd" and reminded everyone that Greenland was covered by NATO's collective defense guarantee. Eighty five percent of Greenlanders opposed joining the United States. Thousands marched in Copenhagen and Nuuk in the largest protest in Greenland's history. Every serious voice in Europe said this would never happen, that Trump was embarrassing himself, that Denmark would never fold.
Nine months later, the United States has what it wanted. Not annexation but something arguably more useful: permanent security control, indefinite basing rights, and a guarantee that no rival power ever gets a foothold on the most strategically located island on the planet, all without having to govern eighty thousand Greenlanders or fight a NATO ally over sovereignty.
The White House has not published the actual text yet, so how "permanent" is worked out with a future administration is a fair question. But the shape of what just happened is not in dispute. A goal that was universally mocked as fantasy in January is a signed agreement in September. Imagine that we move fast on rare earths and military presence, the outcry if a subsequent administration tried to help Russia and/or China by leaving would be immense.
This is not an isolated story. It is part of a pattern.
Tomorrow morning I am posting a longer piece walking through everything this administration has actually accomplished in foreign policy over the last two years. Panama. The Strait of Hormuz. The Strait of Malacca. Venezuela. Cuba. Greenland. Different chokepoints and flashpoints around the world, outcomes that critics called impossible when Trump first mentioned them, all wins now sitting on the board.
If you still think none of this matters, you are not making a serious argument. You are just unable to admit something good happened.
“Trump’s new deal with Greenland is exactly the same as the old one!”
Not true at all. Key new details:
Duration: The 1951 deal lasted only as long as NATO existed and Greenland remained part of NATO. Trump’s 2026 deal lasts indefinitely, even if NATO implodes or Greenland…
Patriot Haym Salomon is arrested by the British as a spy.
Salomon, a rich businessman from New York, is a primary financier of the Continental Army.
He died in 1785 with significant personal debt.
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WEEKEND
The Week In Pictures: Sydney Sweeney Goes AI Edition
This was one of those weeks when a lot of the main stories–the meme stories, anyway–are holdovers. The Lindsay Clancy trial continued to reverberate. The 9/11 commemoration, and liberal responses thereto, went on. Canada remained in the news by proposing to become an associate member of the European Union. Which makes sense, given that Canada has heretofore been an associate member of the Western Hemisphere.
But some stories were new: Sydney Sweeney came under attack because she took off her clothes in service of a marketing campaign, something apparently never before seen in the world of advertising. An anti-AI campaign materialized out of nowhere, much like the COVID panic and global warming. Many were suspicious.
Beyond that, is was, for memesters, bombs away on liberalism, as usual. So here goes: The Week In Pictures, Sydney Sweeney goes AI Edition:
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What will you miss as Hollywood goes under?
Hollywood has not been kind to James Woods lately, but he remembers better times:
The greatest detective character created for television, cast with an actor so perfect, so charming, so subtly powerful in the role, it can never be "reimagined."
Thank God.
Peter Falk was born today in 1927. Here's his statue on Falk Miksa Street in Budapest. pic.twitter.com/3VoDbVcgED
The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival there are just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Wrightstown)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate. Saying a prayer or two can't hurt either.
2) Be kind. Be nice.
3) No running with sharp objects, your disappointment has been noted. Duly noted.
4) Have a great weekend!!!
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
7/25 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. She is still doing fine. Her chemo pump seems to be working and everything appears stable for now. She says she is incredibly blessed! She is working on a stocking for an as-yet-not-born grandchild. She would appreciate prayers for a successful IVF procedure and pregnancy for her daughter and hubby. Next week, Teresa and her husband will be going to California to visit their daughter who lives there and her family.
8/4 Update – Teresa was admitted to the hospital while on vacation in California. She has a bad infection – cellulitis - not due to the cancer. She is being treated with antibiotics and hopefully it will be cleared up in a couple of days.
8/28 Update – Teresa’s bloodwork is back, and everything looks steady. She has a CT scan on 9/4.
9/17 Update- Well, there is good news and bad news -
First, the bad news is that I have a 9mm mass in my lung, which means that the cancer has metastasized outside of the liver. The pump is keeping the cancer in my liver at bay for now.
The good news is that they can zap the nodule out of my lung and will keep an eye out to see if more nodules appear. As long as this is the only one, the radiation should do the job for now. However, now that it has moved, we know that at some point we will have to find another protocol to deal with any cancer which shows up outside of the liver. I may end up going back on Lytgobi; I don't know if there are any other options at this point.
Just wanted to keep you apprised of the current situation; I meet with a radiation oncologist next Friday and will be making an appointment for the procedure after that.
7/30 – David sent an update on his wife, Susan, who we have been praying for as she is treated for cancer. Susan is still doing well and her numbers are headed in the right direction, but they are still having issues with the side effects of the chemotherapy. It is manageable, but they have to increase the number of office visits for additional treatments. Some days are really good right now, but others are only bearable with the Lord’s grace. They are so grateful for the prayers on their behalf.
8/26 Update – Susan’s cough has gotten so bad that they did X-rays on her chest. It might be pneumonia. She is in the hospital. Her sodium and blood pressure are low and she is not eating much now. They are trying to turn this around and ask for everyone’s prayers.
9/2 Update – Susan is back in the ICU. She either has an infection or the cancer has spread to her lungs. Either way, thank you all for your thoughts and prayers for Susan and please continue them.
9/3 Update – Thank you to everyone for their thoughts and prayers for Susan. They are expecting her to pass into the hands of the Lord in the next day or so. Please pray for them.
8/8 – Ace-Endorsed Author A. H. Lloyd posted that Mrs. Lloyd will undergo a double mastectomy to remove the breast cancer. She has advanced to Stage 1. Much hinges on the biopsy to determine the specific sub-category of cancer and whether chemo is necessary. Please pray for her in this time of need.
8/22 Update – Mrs. Lloyd is healing ahead of schedule and the surgeon was amazed at her progress. She is still in pain and has limited mobility, but each day she is gaining more freedom of movement. That is the good news; the bad news was the unrealistic expectations set by the medical staff. The surgery was much more significant, and she will also need chemo, contrary to what she was told before.
8/27 – P asks for prayers for the soul of her nephew, C, who committed suicide on 8/17. He was only 32. May he find the peace in the afterlife that he could not find in this life.
8/26 – Teresa in Fort Worth asks for prayers for her BIL, Dick, who was found dead in the alley behind the house in Texas. He had been in declining health and had dementia. They aren’t sure how long he was outside before he passed away. Teresa’s SIL seems to be handling it okay so far. Teresa also asks for prayers for a former neighbor, Melissa, who is hospitalized, recovering from a second stem cell/bone marrow transplant as they attempt to cure her leukemia. She now has blood blisters in her mouth and throat. She had to be intubated before her throat closed completely. This might be her body rejecting the transplant.
8/27 – “…” asked for prayers for healing (and sleep) for Brit Lass. She is having tests, and so far they are good, but she is worried. She has an imaging test coming up and then an appointment with a surgeon.
8/30 – SPinRH_F-16 requested prayers for classmate “D.B.”, who has ALS. Please pray that he remains as comfortable as possible and for support for his family as they see him through this. Thank you in advance for your earnest prayers.
9/2 – Bulg asked for prayers for purpose in his life.
9/4 – bluebell sent an update on grammie winger. Grammie was diagnosed with epilepsy now. And she is back in the hospital. They would love prayers for comfort and peace for her.
9/10 – Annie’s Stew asks for prayers for her husband as he recovers from knee surgery.
9/10 – D asked for prayers for the memory of 9/11. May the Lord comfort people in the grief, and may it bring people closer to God.
9/12 – FenelonSpoke asked for prayers for the W family for comfort and strength as they grieve. The deceased was a sweet 92 year old, despite some big tragedies in her life.
9/15 – Sal asked for prayers as wildfires are out of control in the north of the area and threatening the county seat. They are evacuating part of the town. Sal is not in any danger.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
Of course the people who live in that part of Bolivia knew about it all along - that's why it has a common name, the tilcayo. It's related to the oncilla, which is related to the ocelot, but genetic comparisons showed that it it a distinct species.
The funny part is that while it does have a common name, nobody knows where the name comes from; it's not derived from a Spanish or native word. It's called the tilcayo because that's what it's called.
by Mark Denney
He doesn't say where this is but it looks like Patagonia.
After getting a call about a "weird cat," biologists say they've identified a new species of cat. I've got news for these "biologists," if a weird cat is a news species, there are about 100 million new species of cat.
So if you're on a truck going 80 kph but your are thrown backwards by a launch-rail that accelerates you to 80 kph in the opposite direction, do you just wind up standing in place?
This man trusted his life to physics. He was ejected at 80 km/h from a truck that was traveling at 80 km/h. pic.twitter.com/3Q3gKyIl6P
According to former Democrat Party National Fundraising Committee member Lindy Li, the Party conducted a top-secret poll to gauge the strength of the various pols who could replace Biden. Kamala Harris came in dead last.
But they grimly made her their candidate because of the DEI imperative of placating black female Democrats.
"The polling numbers went directly against the narrative that the party wanted to espouse," Li said.
Party members floated Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom, and Gretchen Whitmer internally as replacements. According to Li, every one of them tested better than Kamala. Asked why the party buried its own numbers anyway, Li said, "They knew that skipping over Kamala Harris would be a slap in the face to the bedrock of the party, which is black women in particular, and they just wouldn't have it."
The details get more embarrassing from there. "Kamala Harris came in dead last," Li said. "It wasn't even close. Pete Buttigieg, who hilariously received 0% support from the black vote, did better than she did. And yet the party is so straitjacketed by DEI that they had no choice but to appoint her."
A man was stabbed in Seattle's Pioneer Square on Sunday. He's in critical condition.
An investigation is underway after a stabbing victim boarded the Link light rail Sunday afternoon in Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood.
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Firefighters then arrived and treated the approximately 30-year-old man, before paramedics transported him to Harborview Medical Center -- where he remains in critical condition as of Sunday night.
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As of the SPD's last update, the suspect remains at large with no description given. Police also did not say that there was a threat to the public.
The reported stabbing took place a few blocks from the nearest active city CCTV camera at 3rd Avenue and Yesler Way, while other city CCTV cameras that are installed throughout Pioneer Square, remain turned off since the end of the FIFA World Cup in early-July, as an ongoing audit determines the security of their data from federal authorities and their efficacy.
Asked directly if the suspect could have been identified if the cameras were on, Wilson's black female police chief (of course) takes so long to answer (because the answer is "Yes, obviously") that Katie Wilson steps in to answer for her. She admits that of course cameras are "helpful," but wants to keep them shut off.
Mahmoud Khalil, the Algerian citizen who has spent the better part of his four years in the United States participating in unlawful demonstrations at Columbia University, is suing everyone he can.
Facing imminent deportation for his role in Columbia University Apartheid Divest -- the group that claims to be working toward the downfall of Western civilization -- Khalil is showing some real nerve.
On Monday, he filed a lawsuit against Columbia and the dean of his master's degree program, claiming they failed to protect him and his fellow window-smashers from discrimination and harassment.
Cry harder, Fruit of Islam
It's not the first time Khalil has sought protection under the laws of the constitutional system he advocates overthrowing.
In March 2025, Khalil sued Columbia and several federal lawmakers to stop the university from turning over students' disciplinary records to Congress.
Had Congress seen that Columbia failed to expel anti-Israel fanatics who destroyed school property, trespassed, and falsely imprisoned custodial staff, the government might have concluded that universities weren't taking discrimination against Israelis and Jews seriously.
Khalil and his comrades may dream of a world without a First Amendment, but they were happy to invoke it to protect themselves.
In July 2026, he sued multiple government officials, think tanks and other nonprofits, arguing they conspired to have him deported.
Apparently he believes that private organizations making political arguments are not protected by the First Amendment, while destroying property and disobeying police are sacred civil rights.
To summarize: Anyone looking to hold Khalil and his fellow professional agitators accountable for documented lawbreaking is violating civil rights law -- and anyone trying to protect the students those agitators wanted to intimidate is violating the First Amendment.
Any questions?
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Living in a free country means putting up with that nonsense -- to an extent.
It does not mean we have to allow our enemies to undermine us on our home turf.
Khalil is not a citizen and would make a very bad one if he became one; he should be sent home before that happens.
He is free to criticize the Great Satan of America and the Little Satan of Israel from Algeria or Syria.
Maybe a sign of progress? University of Alabama at Birmingham offers a degree in "LGBT Health and Wellbeing" -- which consists of just watching all the "Stefon" sketches on SNL -- but at the moment there are zero point zero students enrolled in it.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham's LGBTQ Health and Wellbeing certificate recorded zero students in fall 2024 and fall 2025, the school's self-reported enrollment information reveals.
The data show that the certificate reported one student in fall 2023, when coursework for the program began, before dropping to zero in fall 2024 and remaining at zero in fall 2025.
The report states that students are counted under their primary degree program, so students pursuing the certificate while in another program may be excluded. The certificate is housed under the School of Public Health.
Despite its zero reported enrollment, the university continues to advertise the certificate on its website. Only one other School of Public Health graduate certificate, Disability Health Studies, recorded zero students in fall 2025.
Some good news: A non-profit is being set-up to defend conservatives from the left's unending lawfare:
DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
This is a big announcement. Leftists have had their own free legal representation for decades. Conservatives haven't.
This is because traditionally, conservatives have thought of politics as winning the debate. It's comfortable. It's institutional. They don't have to be "mean" to anyone.
Until, enter Oversight Project ( @ItsYourGov). Think of them as an actiontank instead of thinktank. The first such organization for conservatives to meet leftists on their own terms.
Creating the first-ever home for conservatives affected by lawfare is just the start.
BREAKING: The Lake Worth Beach City Commission moves to DISQUALIFY a candidate for City Manager because he's not Guatemalan enough.
"He did not grow up very Guatemalan... he grew up pretty much Italian... he did not learn Spanish... he has no connection to the indigenous… pic.twitter.com/aoy8EaH0di
Female athlete: Oh My God, the non-athlete that nobody thinks is an athlete because she's obviously an actress is making everyone think that female athletes want to be sexualized:
The same female athlete: Check out my CAKE! It's luscious!
The Department of Health and Human Services has a challenge for American parents and children: "Live real life."
I think that's a challenge for all of us.
For example, garrett spends most of his days online trolling for gay cyberex. That's no way to live. He should be out there in the real world, dressed like a highway pirate from The Road Warrior, giving handjobs under the bridge.
The way it used to be.
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exclaimed, "Today, adolescents -- a 16-year-old spends an average of 8.5 hours a day on screens. Even toddlers spend two, three hours on screens every day. Only one in four high school students has at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day." No wonder kids are unhealthier, lonelier, and more dysfunctional than ever.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Medicare and Medicaid administrator, pointed out, "This is the first generation of young people in America who are not growing up living just with their screens. They're living through their screens."
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Kennedy reflected on his own experience in childhood. "You know, when I was growing up, I spent a lot of time in the woods, and walking in creeks, and outside playing with my brothers and sisters playing sports in the yard, getting scrapes, climbing trees, catching animals, and that connected me to something larger than myself."
Such an experience, Kennedy noted, "was shared by 10,000 generations of human beings that lived before there were laptops, before there were smartphones, and we have responsibility as parents, and as a government health agency. to do everything we can to get our children out into those experiences again, and prepare them for life." This is how we transform the future.
This is the way.
On the other hand: the left-wing fascists are now actively urging their weak, fat followers to be even weaker and fatter than they are now. "Fascists," by which they mean "non-communist mutant normies," may be fit, but it a revolutionary virtue to be weak and unhealthy.
Here, here! I support this agenda with all of my soul.
Our children get one childhood, and we cannot allow screens to replace the real-world experiences they need to grow and thrive.
Through the Office of the Surgeon General’s Live Real Life initiative, we are giving families practical tools to put technology in its proper place… pic.twitter.com/tO3XRPi9aK
🚨 Da'Shaun L. Harrison at Socialism 2026 argues that the policing of "Black fat flesh" is foundational to broader "entire systems of governance."
"Without a population to discipline, there would be no BMI, no obesity epidemic, and no medical or scientific institutions organized around managing fatness," Harrison says.
Harrison argues that diet culture trains "obedience," "self-denial," and "discipline," before expanding the framework into what Harrison calls "body fascism."
That includes state efforts to define which bodies are protected or erased, calls for sovereignty intended to maintain borders, and the treatment of Black flesh itself.
Harrison then turns to Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs, arguing that the broader effort to treat fatness as a public-health problem cannot be separated from Blackness.
At this point, I am genuinely at a loss for words.
🚨 Da’Shaun L. Harrison at Socialism 2026 argues that the policing of “Black fat flesh” is foundational to broader "entire systems of governance."
“Without a population to discipline, there would be no BMI, no obesity epidemic, and no medical or scientific institutions organized… pic.twitter.com/GP4foaTgUJ
🚨 "The More Dysgenic, the Better": Beatrice Adler-Bolton Says the Left Must Give Up the "Fantasy of Being Fitter Than the Fascists"
At Socialism 2026, Adler-Bolton argues that "fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism" and says the goal should not be to become "more useful to the ruling order."
She says the left should not try to beat fascists "at their own game" by becoming "fitter, more eugenic."
"In fact, the more dysgenic, the better, I think."
She closes by arguing that revolution is not "a contest between optimized and properly prepared bodies" and that the very idea is itself fascist.
🚨 “The More Dysgenic, the Better”: Beatrice Adler-Bolton Says the Left Must Give Up the “Fantasy of Being Fitter Than the Fascists”
At Socialism 2026, Adler-Bolton argues that “fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism” and says the goal should not be to… pic.twitter.com/aK13lgiVGH
Anyone have any gains to report? Or any interests, hobbies, or projects to promote/recommend?
I did a quick 48 hour fast. Supposedly, a fast this short (actually, the "Monk Fast" is supposed to go for 36 hours) does not result in any loss of muscle, but gives you a quick bit of weight control.
It also gets you back into ketosis if you've fallen off due to one too many cheat days. I did the 48 hour fast ten days ago and I remained in ketosis since then despite not being super-low carb, just moderately low-carb. I went out of it again this morning (after having some french fries) so I guess I'll try it again on Monday and Tuesday and see if I get the same result.
Stephen Colbert swung by ABC and Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday to celebrate his Emmy win and to reflect back on his days as host of The Late Show. Colbert claimed to be much happier now that he is no longer hosting the show because he doesn't have to "drink a cup of poison" every day by immersing himself in the news, but neither he nor Kimmel appeared to realize that nobody was forcing them to do that in the first place.
Kimmel began by simply wondering, "Do you think about it ever?" and Colbert answered by quipping, "Nope. I have an opportunity to not think about the news every day? And I took it."
Rewinding to Monday's Emmy Awards, Kimmel observed, "Yeah, you know what, when I saw you last night, or what was--yeah, last night, I felt like you--I don't know, you seemed like a different person. You seemed happier. You seemed healthier."
Colbert retorted, "Like I don't drink a cup of poison every day?"
After Kimmel affirmed, "Yeah. Like that," Colbert recalled, "Because part of the job is--the old gig as I remember it, was that to be lowered like carbon rods into a radioactive pool every day and then to be pulled out and put in front of a camera. And to eradiate it back at the audience at a nonlethal rad level."
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Kimmel agreed, "That's right. That's exactly the job description."
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At no point did it become necessary for comedians to become indistinguishable from MS NOW hosts.
Stephen Colbert says that he's feeling better not hosting a late night show because "the old gig as I remember it was that to be lowered like carbon rods into a radioactive pool every day. And then to be pulled out and put in front of a camera and to eradiate it back at the… pic.twitter.com/IhzvSmdgN1
Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski is working to get her next project, "The Hunted," out of late-stage production. But the "Bound" and "Matrix" director says nobody in Hollywood wants to finance the thriller, which is budgeted at around $10 million, because of its trans representation.
"People like it, but they really don't want to make it because it's [got a] wall-to-wall trans cast," Wachowski said on KCRW's "The Business" podcast last Friday. "I have to get creative and figure out different ways that I can get this in front of people."
"This is a script that was extremely important for me to write," she continued. "It was a response to what is happening in the world for trans people, and it gave me a hugely cathartic receptacle to dump all of my anger and rage and frustration into."
Oh great, it propagandizes "trans rage" as trans people keep violently attacking normies.
I think I saw Midnight's Edge point out that if "she" really wants to make the movie, "she" can self-fund it. They pointed out that actor/legend Bruce Campell wanted to make a movie, so he funded it himself.
Now "Lilly" blasts everyone for not supporting and centering the Trans Experience, and for supporting JK Rowling.
Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of 'The Matrix' and How 'Harry Potter' Fans Are 'Supporting Trans Genocide'
The visionary filmmaker behind 'The Matrix' opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.
The "journalist" here talks about the "Trans Tipping Point" when transgenders pressured studios into casting them in TV shows.
But that golden age, which lasted all the way from 2015 to 2023, is faded.
Then came the backlash. Republican politicians and pundits began zeroing in on trans rights, treating it as a wedge issue in order to distract from Trump's economic failings. A moral panic ensued. Just last year, more than 600 anti-trans bills were introduced at the state level in the U.S., and 29 states adopted restrictive laws pertaining to trans people. And Hollywood followed suit, scaling back its trans representation. Cox recently shared she'd lost 90% of her income amid Trump and his minions' war on trans people and DEI.
I think the "backlash" was less about a trans actor being on Orange Is the New Black and more about the state using its power to force parents to trans their children and propagandize more children into cutting off their genitals.
[WACHOWSKI:]
The story is: I was talking to Sarah Marie Flores, who is our third in the triumvirate of the Anarchists -- between me and Lawrence Mattis -- and was coming out of this TV show that I'd worked on that I was really proud of, "Work in Progress"...
A TV show about a middle-aged lesbian dating a trans man. It is, as they say in Hollywood, a "Four-Quadrant Blockbuster," appealing to all four major demographics: Lesbians, AWFULs, trannies, and ten year old drag queens.
...which went for two seasons, got on all these top ten lists and didn't get the viewing numbers that the studio wanted, so we were summarily canceled and a few months later pulled from streaming....
Oh, no one watched your extremely niche show and so they cancelled it? That's so unfair and discriminatory.
He then pulls the card the gay/trans/DEI writers always pull: We didn't get ratings or sales but we got good reviews from the woke reviewers and that's even more important.
So, when Showtime turned around and canceled the show even though it was so critically acclaimed and really made for peanuts, it lit a fire under me.
More whining:
You're right. We were at this "trans tipping point" where you had Laverne Cox on the cover of Time magazine and the NCAA deciding to pull the Men's Basketball Tournament out of North Carolina if they decided to institute these bathroom bans that would harm trans people.
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it's that billionaires started pumping out negative propaganda against trans people. They started creating reports about kids with litter boxes, and the Cass report came out in the U.K. -- that has since been debunked but has been used as this cudgel against trans people. This idea of "trans surgery for minors" -- they're still saying this shit. Jesse Watters was talking to the Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed about cutting kids' tallywackers off. None of this is happening! This is all right-wing propaganda against trans people. That is what has caused the shift.
Notice they always do the same thing: They claim that zero children are undergoing surgical "transitions" but when you say "Okay if that's true, let's make it illegal so we know for sure it won't happen," they say "YOU CAN'T DO THAT! THAT'S VITAL TRANS-AFFIRMING CARE!"
So which is it? Is it something that never happens and that it's "misinformation" to say it happens, or is it vital gender-affirming care that kids need?
Choose one.
While that's happening, our industry is being consolidated into these corporate monoliths that are run by people like Larry Ellison, and Larry Ellison is a radical conservative idealogue.
He's a normie who wants to make money.
Here "Lilly" expresses the real leftwing objection to Paramount/Skydance buying Warner Bros: CNN might not be as reliable an agitprop channel.
It's completely bonkers! They're like these Death Stars. They want CNN because they want to make it into Fox News. I got involved with Anarchists and I had written this script ["The Hunted"] with my partner as this receptacle for all my anger. I was using it as this piece of art that was an incredibly cathartic experience to write, and it was a salve for both of us. It's political, but to be trans in this world that we live in is political. My body is political.
He objects to Elon Musk using the expression "Take the red pill," insisting that "take the red pill" really means "embrace trans lifestyles."
Oh, so "Lilly's" next project is another Four-Quadrant Blockbuster, called "Cassie Workman is Witchy AF."
Witchy. Very 2011 MySpace. And "AF" -- you know, "AF" lost its cache as a meme five years ago, right?
Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling are two people who have inflicted an enormous amount of cultural damage on the trans community. What are your thoughts on them?
I mean... these people are Nazis. They're literal Nazis. There is a one-to-one connection between Elon Musk and the Nazi community. He did a full-blown Sieg Heil on a national stage. I think that the global community needs to firewall the U.S. from their populaces in a way because this country has allowed Nazi propaganda to proliferate at such a degree that it has become dangerous to the global population. As much as another country can, I think they need to be fighting back against hate speech and shutting those platforms down. They've had some success in Brazil and Europe, but it's kind of over for the U.S. and the U.K. at the moment. What Twitter does and what Meta does in the U.K... they're cooked.
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[JK Rowling] is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support "Harry Potter," you're supporting trans genocide. The money that goes into you enjoying these products, a portion of that money goes to J.K. Rowling and that money goes into her funding anti-trans legislation all over the world. In the same way that if you are against Elon Musk, you boycott or don't buy Tesla; and if you're against global warming/climate change, you try not to buy as much gas, you try to mitigate your use of these products. It's simple math. So, your enjoyment of these shows, and continued support of these shows, is supporting my eradication.
Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) speaks to the people of Zion in "The Matrix Reloaded."
It's so weird that other people don't want to work with this endlessly-raging headcase.
He thinks he can leverage people's declining interest in "The Matrix" into embracing his psychotically-angry and deranged worldview.
York PA Police Repeatedly Refuse to Shut Down a Black "Teen Takeover" Near Campus Housing, Even After Four 911 Calls; Eventually the Thugs Drag White Female College Students by the Hair and Beat Them Senseless
—Disinformation Expert Ace
"Decarceration" plus "equity in justice."
You can't send young thugs to jail because that's just the "school to jail" pipeline.
And we must generally empty the prisons, because prisons are racist.
And also, we need Equity in who gets sent to jail, so if black men commit crimes at 6-8 the rates of whites, we're just going to have to immunize 75% of black criminals from the law so that we can get those numbers to look good.
Also, it's Racist Misinformation to report actual crimes involving black people, so the media is going to have to embargo the story and smear anyone pointing it out as a racist.
And here you go. College students repeatedly called the cops to complain of a "teen takeover" right in their street and the cops, not wanting to arrest black thugs -- gotta keep those numbers down, we can't have a "school to jail" pipeline -- simply refused to even do a drive-by to scare the rioters off.
Eventually, the rioters started beating up girls who disrespected them by just being on their own porch.
Pennsylvania college students beaten unconscious, dragged by hair as mob invades off-campus house
By Nicholas McEntyre
Several female Pennsylvania college students were brutally assaulted by a mob of agitators who had invaded their off-campus house during an apparent illegal street takeover.
The unidentified coeds, who attend York College of Pennsylvania, were dragged by the hair, punched, kicked, maced and beaten unconscious in the attack as they were sitting on the front porch of their rental home Saturday morning, according to Fox 43.
Whose porch? OUR PORCH!
"After the first punch was given, all these girls started to rush us, and that's where it kind of gets blurry because I think people were coming at me... I turn and see my friend get dragged by her hair down our porch steps and disappear. My other friend got dragged by her hair," one of the students told the outlet.
Dozens of suspects pummeled one of the students as she lay on the ground while a separate group of assailants unleashed a barrage of punches at another girl outside the home, according to videos obtained by Fox 43 and WGAL.
The violent attack took place just north of campus on the 300 block of W Jackson Street in York, Pa.
Hundreds of people had shown up to the area for an illegal street race when commotion drew the crowd to the students' location.
The students claim the heated confrontation was ignited when one of the suspects verbally accosted the group outside their home just before 1:50 a.m. as they told the mob to leave the property.
"One of the cars street racing smashed into a parked car by the firehouse, which is right next to the house. When this happened, all of the townies migrated over towards the house and on the grass. We all asked them to move off the property, and that's when everything erupted," one of the victims told Fox 43.
"I remember looking at our friend in the knee brace when I got caught off guard and ripped by my hair off the porch," she said. "From then, I was dragged to the stop sign and that's when everyone jumped me. I was getting kicked by probably 12 people at the same time."
The student said she was defenseless because she was trying to hold her tube top up with one of her arms as she was pummeled in the face.
The one victim believes she blacked out at least twice during the assault, once when she was kicked in the ribs and another when she was struck in the head.
Only after the fifth 911 call, when informed the mob was beating girls unconscious, did the police dare to interrupt the Mostly Peaceful Street Takeover.
Actual Justice Warrior -- video linked below -- notes that the media is downplaying this, when they report on it at all. The local media reports it as the girls "claiming" to be beaten, despite the attack being filmed by the thugs themselves, and further suggests this is just a "fight" or "brawl" and that maybe it was the white college girls who picked a fight with the black mob that took over their street.
York PA police have NOT ARRESTED A SINGLE PERSON... after a MASSIVE MOB of Black "teens" dragged a White female college student off her own porch BY HER HAIR, dragged her to a stop sign, and then beat her UNCONSCIOUS... TWICE...
Here's a list of news networks who have NOT covered the brutal beating of a White woman in York PA:
- NYTimes
- CNN
- Washington Post
- MSNBC
- NPR
- USA Today
- Reuters
- Axios
- ABC News
Every single one of them wrote stories on George Floyd...
...do you get it yet?!!!!!!!!
Here's a local report calling it a "brawl" and casting doubt on the victims' claims of being beaten, saying they're "demanding action after saying they were attacked."
They're saying it? It's on video.
Compare the deep skepticism of a videotaped lynching to the media's immediate acceptance and promotion of the Jussie Smollet race hoax.
Rabid Left-Wing Students Waved "Kirkaversary" Celebration Cakes Smeared with Fake Blood in Conservative Students' Faces. The Conservative Students Filmed This Display. The University Moved to Expel the Students -- For Filming the Death-Celebrants!
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Isabel Brown
@theisabelb
Sep 16
This week, the University of Utah is perpetuating perhaps the most grave injustice against conservative students I've ever seen.
Rylie is the Vice President of College Republicans at @UUtah, and is currently being threatened with EXPULSION by the University because she perpetuated "threatening and endangering behavior" by taking a photo of Sara, a student involved with College Democrats, when Sara showed up to their table last week with a "Happy Kirkaversary" cake smeared in fake blood & waved it around in Rylie's face.
Of course, *that* wasn't threatening behavior in any way, but Rylie taking a photo of the exchange completely legally is apparently grounds for EXPULSION.
If you are an alumnus of the University of Utah, call the Alumni Department TODAY and demand the Administration honor Rylie's legal right to take a photo. And if you donate money in any way, shape, or form to U of U, STOP immediately. These people are not your ally.
Praying for you and cheering you on, @Rylieparis05!
BREAKING: UVU threatens conservative students Riley Barnes and Riley Beesley with EXPULSION for supposedly "doxxing" a liberal student who went up to their group, mocking Charlie Kirk's death with a cake that said "Happy Kirkaversary".
🚨 WTF?! The University of Utah student who CELEBRATED Charlie Kirk’s assassination in a viral photo is now trying to get Rylie, the patriotic student who called her out, EXPELLED@UUtah better choose their next steps WISELY unless they want DOJ involved
One of the two students threatened with expulsion says that the University had -- under pressure, I assume -- stopped all of its harassment and told them there is no basis for disciplinary action.
MY CASE IS FULLY DISMISSED.
This wouldn’t have happened without the outpour of support we received online. Thank you!
James Talarico Super PAC Caught Paying $25 Per Vote -- and Admitting Doing It on Hidden Camera Video
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Texas Democrats have come up with a scheme to pay voters to cast ballots for their candidates, a video obtained exclusively by Townhall Media shows.
Sky McAdams, organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, was caught on video dishing on the scheme they hope will propel Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico to victory in November.
"We are paying people $25 to attend a one-hour Zoom class to learn why voting is important and why the Republicans are causing all of these bad things," McAdams says in the undercover video. "So it's like a roundabout way of paying people for their votes, essentially."
It's very much like that, as a matter of fact.
In the video, McAdams says it's called a "paid relational program," which is operated by Relentless that uses software called Rally.
The theory is voters will be persuaded more by friends and family than a stranger showing up at their door.
"You can't pay someone to vote for someone," McAdams says in the video. "You can't be like, 'Here's $25, go vote for me.' You can say, 'Attend a one-hour class and you can receive $25.' And then the class just talks about the importance of... It's a little gray," he continues, apparently referring to the legality of the activity.
"If I was a Republican, I would be pissed. I would be like, that's shady as f**k."
Correct. It is shady as f***, and I am in fact pissed.
EXCLUSIVE: TALARICO SUPER PAC CAUGHT PAYING VOTERS!
"We are paying people $25...a roundabout way of paying people for their votes."
Video obtained by Townhall catches Sky McAdams, organizing manager for Texas Majority PAC, on undercover video explaining the scheme to elect… pic.twitter.com/FKK5nEfb5B
British Medical Journal: The FDA and CDC Used a Faulty Algorithm to Understate Vaccine Injuries. When One Researcher Pointed Out the Flaw, She Was Told to Mind Her Own Business.
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I'm not willing to assume "just an accidental oversight."
In fact, I'm very much assuming enemy action.
Adam Urato, MD
@AdamUrato1
Must-read investigative article in The BMJ.
Clear safety signals of Covid vaccine harms (in red below) were missed by FDA & CDC by using a flawed method where the harms went undetected.
"The agency's PRR analyses--examined by The BMJ--show that hundreds of types of adverse events met the agency's criteria for a signal" (including myocarditis, pericarditis, Bell's palsy, and tinnitus.)
The FDA doctor who alerted them to the flawed safety system was muzzled. "She was told, with diplomatic flourish, to back off."
Above, the images show a correct analysis of vaccine harms, showing lots of red flags.
The images on the right show the FDA's and CDC's "accidental" understatement of vaccine injuries -- all green flags.
US officials knew covid vaccine safety system was flawed--but turned aside the FDA doctor who alerted them
US officials embraced an algorithm for detecting signals of harm from mRNA covid-19 vaccines that they knew was broken and suppressed efforts to fix it.
David Willman reports:
Before covid-19 vaccines were rolled out to Americans in December 2020, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assured healthcare providers that the agency was on the lookout for any harmful reactions. A key part of the CDC's strategy was its Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), which receives such reports after vaccination.
"It is the nation's frontline system for monitoring vaccine safety and the early warning system for detecting possible vaccine safety problems," said Tom Shimabukuro, deputy director of CDC's Immunization Safety Office, on 30 October 2020.
Millions of people were to be vaccinated each week, and the CDC would rely on statistical "data mining" of the VAERS database to quickly identify any safety signals in need of further probing.
Two well recognised, separate algorithms were to be used. The first involved calculating "proportional reporting ratios" (PRRs), which sought to identify types of reactions reported to VAERS disproportionately or more frequently than background rates. The second data mining technique, called "empirical bayesian," was to be provided by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which operated VAERS jointly with the CDC, and the two agencies planned to share and discuss results.
But in a little noticed September 2022 letter, CDC director Rochelle Walensky said that the agency did not perform PRR analyses for signals until 2022. This was more than a year into the vaccine rollout and was intended, she wrote, "to corroborate" the FDA's approach. Instead of using the PRR and empirical bayesian methods jointly during the pandemic, Walensky explained that both the CDC and FDA instead "chose to rely" on empirical bayesian, which she characterised as "a more robust technique."
It doesn't appear to be "more robust." What it appears to be is deliberately crippled to hide vaccine injuries.
The BMJ, however, has found that the FDA's algorithm was mathematically compromised by the deluge of covid vaccine adverse event reports--resulting in a near total loss of signal detection sensitivity for the new mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna. Top FDA officials were warned internally of this problem in early 2021, and the official who headed its pharmacovigilance division for vaccines commented more than two years later to his CDC and FDA colleagues: "We were aware of this [data mining] limitation before and during the pandemic." Government documents also show that CDC officials were informed during rollout of the vaccines--on multiple occasions.
Yet instead of fixing the safety deficiency--or shutting down the unreliable signal detection system--officials continued to rely on the FDA's broken algorithm. The officials also cited the absence of signals when assuring clinicians and the public of the vaccines' safety.
At the FDA, managers went a step further by silencing the career drug safety officer who had repeatedly brought the deficiency to their attention and had offered an updated algorithm intended to fix it. As a result, Americans received unfounded assurances of the safety of the most widely used covid vaccines and were denied prompt warnings of potential harms, The BMJ's investigation found.
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"I'm perplexed that myocarditis isn't alerting"
In late February 2021, CDC and FDA officials received notice of "a large number of reports of myocarditis, particularly in young people," after vaccination. The warnings of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle) and pericarditis (inflammation of the pericardium) came from the Israeli Ministry of Health. In a private meeting five weeks later, the Israelis informed a CDC convened covid vaccine safety committee that two of the 77 vaccinated people with myocarditis or pericarditis had died.
The next week, the same committee heard from the Pentagon's Defense Health Agency, which reported a "cluster of cases" of myocarditis among male US military members.
US public health officials remained sceptical of a link to the new mRNA vaccines. "We have not seen a signal [for myocarditis], and we've actually looked intentionally for the signal in the over 200 million doses we've given," CDC director Walensky told reporters.
By May 2021, VAERS had received hundreds of reports of myocarditis and pericarditis after covid vaccinations, and the CDC began alerting healthcare professionals. While the agency was still unsure of a causal relationship, it decided to alert physicians more broadly through a "clinical considerations" web posting.
But oncologist Peter Marks, who as director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research was the agency's top covid vaccine regulator, objected. He questioned the CDC's imminent website announcement, emailing Walensky directly, highlighting the lack of any safety signal from the government's own surveillance: "We still have concerns here [at the FDA] if myocarditis and pericarditis have not actually signaled . . . Can you help me understand why we are doing this when pediatricians and others in the community already seem to be aware?"
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Still, VAERS reports continued to mount, with myocarditis attracting the greatest attention. In a June 2021 public presentation, the CDC's Shimabukuro showed that, for young males (age 12-24), VAERS had received between 29 and 347 times more myocarditis and pericarditis reports than the agency expected based on background incidence rates. In a public statement that day, the CDC dubbed myocarditis an "extremely rare side effect."
Government records show that, the day before his presentation, Shimabukuro had received the FDA's latest data mining report--and it continued to show no signal. "I'm perplexed that myocarditis isn't alerting for either of the mRNA vaccines," Shimabukuro emailed a colleague.
Early warnings
The BMJ can reveal that the FDA's algorithm failed to signal a potential relationship between mRNA covid vaccination and myocarditis, pericarditis, Bell's palsy, tinnitus, and other reported disorders owing to a flaw in the detection methodology--a flaw that senior officials declined to rectify.
If I understand the next section, I believe they are saying the FDA's and CDC's faulty algorithm compared covid "vaccine" VAERS reports to all VAERS reports, and would only flag the "vaccines" as problematic if they showed many more VAERS reports than all other reports.
But the problem is -- and this should have been obvious -- that 90% of the public was "vaccinated" with the covid "vaccines," so if you compared "vaccine" incident rates to all reported incident rates -- they were practically the same number. The FDA and CDC used an algorithm to detect a covid "vaccine" signal against the sea of all other incidents, but covid "vaccines" were so common, numbering the many tens of millions, that covid "vaccine" incidents were the sea they were checking against.
It's like a Venn diagram where the circles almost completely overlap. If you're comparing "vaccine" incidents to "background" incidents but "vaccine" incidents make up 90% of the background, everytime you check, you'll find that "vaccine" incidents are very similar to "background" incidents, because "background" incidents are made up mostly of vaccine "incidents."
And thus, they kept claiming: We don't see any pronounced spike of "vaccine" incidents compared to all other incidents, without telling you that the background data they were checking against was mostly covid "vaccine" data.
The problem arose because, in the first year of the rollout, almost all the reports coming into VAERS--more than 90% of 1.1 million--were for the mRNA covid shots, dwarfing vaccines for all other diseases. This meant that analysing the safety of one vaccine, for example Pfizer's product, involved comparing it to other vaccines, which were overwhelmingly limited to Moderna's product. But if both mRNA vaccines elevated the risk of an adverse event like myocarditis in roughly equal amounts, the "observed" frequency and "expected" frequency would be similar, resulting in no automated alert. The statistical phenomenon is known as "masking."
And I wonder if this "masking" effect was accidental, or intended.
Imagine if you wanted to see if covid was affecting ethnic Chinese people more than non-ethnic Chinese people. In China. So you compare the rates of ethnic Chinese people in China to all people in China, and find that there is no difference between ethnic Chinese people and all people in China.
But your data for "all" people in China is 95% ethnic Chinese! Of course you found no difference in the rates of infection! You're comparing Data Set A to Data Set A + 5% other data and finding the two are barely different at all!
No more than 5% different, in fact! Not statistically significant!
Szarfman and DuMouchel, who earned his PhD at Yale and by 2010 became chief statistician at Oracle Health Sciences, judged that the unique circumstances of the pandemic meant that the FDA's approach was missing safety signals...
"Regarding the NYT article, I am quite concerned," Szarfman emailed Marks two days later. She wrote that the agency should be "clamoring to fix this problem." < Szarfman concluded, "Let me know if you want Bill DuMouchel and I to discuss our proposal for more effective monitoring, including the need to use an updated algorithm by DuMouchel for data mining spontaneous reports."
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Marks and his staff, however, declined to alter the FDA's existing approach--and agency officials did not publicly warn of the deficiency with finding safety signals. When Szarfman continued to press the matter, she was told, with diplomatic flourish, to back off.
That email, sent on 7 May 2021, by Craig Zinderman, associate director for medical policy in FDA's Office of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, began: "Good Afternoon Ana, Thank you again for talking with us back in March about your work exploring new data mining approaches . . . We are writing to kindly ask you to please hold off on creating and sending data mining reports and analyses using covid-19 vaccine AE [adverse event] data."
I would say "incredible" but we have seen again and again that 90% of the output from government, from NGOs, from academia, from corporations is pure fraud on the public.
THE MORNING RANT: By the Logic of Free Traders, Shouldn't Trump's Tariffs Be Good for Canada and its Consumers
—Buck Throckmorton
There is something puzzling about the U.S. / Canadian trade war and the concern that Trump-hating “free traders”* have on how this will affect Canada. [*Actual free trade involves reciprocity, but those now identifying as “free traders” argue for unilateral surrender to foreign mercantilism, even when it involves hostile nations such as China.]
It is widely accepted that if President Trump doesn’t dial back his tariffs, Canadian industry will be devastated, its economy will be thrown into recession, and there will be widespread job losses and layoffs in Canada. I would agree that all sounds awful for Canadians, but over the past few decades, American “free traders” have argued in favor of inflicting on the U.S. the same economic despair that Trump is imposing on Canada. Free traders consider a dying industrial town in the Midwest to be a success story, while they sneer at the despair of their countrymen who have lost the dignity of employment. Closed American factories and a gross trade imbalance with hostile powers are celebrated by free traders.
Where are all the think pieces from Principled Free Traders arguing that it will benefit Canada to roll over and surrender in its trade war with the U.S., since that is the argument they make for U.S. capitulation to China?
David Harsanyi is representative of America’s “free trade” political class, arguing repeatedly that American economic sovereignty is bad, while dependence on hostile foreign countries is desirable. At least that is the clear message I receive. He has written for many legacy conservative publications, repeatedly arguing for economic surrender to China because it would help American consumers save money, while embracing China’s trade barriers on U.S. products. A few years ago Mr. Harsanyi wrote“Now, admittedly, I support nearly unlimited trade, no matter what other nations do.” He went on to say, “Let's hope trade doesn't get ‘fair’ for us any time soon.” Mr. Harsanyi even expresses his ideal of zero U.S. steel production, dismissing the argument that a domestic steel industry is necessary for national defense.
By these arguments, shouldn’t Canadians also hope that their trade war “doesn’t get fair any time soon”? Shouldn’t Canadians embrace tariffs that destroy their export market? Shouldn’t Canada seek the elimination of every possible job so as to lower consumer prices? And wouldn’t any retaliatory tariffs imposed by Canada be a “tax on Canadian consumers” that should be avoided at all cost?
How devastating are the tariffs going to be for our northern neighbor if an agreement is not reached? A piece in the Globe and Mail titled “What Trump’s new tariffs mean for Canada’s economy” identifies multiple economic catastrophes, including:
• A collapse in exports that would reverse Canada’s GDP growth.
• Elimination up to 20% of jobs in many industries, including apparel and electrical equipment
• Devastation of Canada’s liquor industry.
• Serious harm to agriculture, especially Canada’s dairy industry
• Devastation of British Columbia’s lumber industry
The same free traders who cheered for the shuttering of American industry are suddenly worried about Canada, and defending Canada’s need to impose retaliatory tariffs. Go figure. It’s almost as if the abiding principal of “principled free traders” is that they are anti-American globalists who embrace economic policies that harm America while benefiting other countries.
Free traders swooned in concurrence with PM Carney. “The Editors” at National Review defended Canadian retaliatory tariffs, arguing that it was a necessary escalation by Canada because the U.S. tariffs are a “blow for Canadian exporters.”
This is the same National Review that repeatedly argues for giving China unfettered, tariff-free access to the American market, irrespective of China’s trade barriers against American exports. Why would NR make this argument? Because, tariffs are a tax on American consumers, of course. Strangely, that same logic doesn’t apply to Canadian consumers when Canada is tariffing American products due to a trade war.
It’s almost as if the underlying “principal” among the “free traders” isn’t actually free trade, rather it is a globalist, America-last attitude that seeks to harm the U.S. economically for the benefit of other countries.
Earlier this week, a federal judge made a shocking charge: Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s district attorney for nearly a decade, may be guilty of “perjury, conspiracy, or obstruction of justice.” Judge Paul Diamond referred Krasner and one of his top deputies, Matthew Stiegler, to the U.S. Attorney’s Office to investigate potential federal crimes.
Running as a Democrat, Krasner stated that his top priority as District Attorney “will be ending mass incarceration in Philadelphia.” Said his campaign website: “The cost of imprisoning one person for a year pays the salary of a young public school teacher, social worker, or police officer engaging in appropriate community policing. Resources could instead be invested in job training and addiction treatment. Mass incarceration simply won’t heal our torn social fabric, and does not make us safer.”
...Policy of Non-Prosecution & Non-Incarceration Krasner was sworn in as Philadelphia D.A. on January 1, 2018. Soon thereafter, he issued a non-prosecution policy memo to the attorneys in his office, mandating that criminal prosecutions for various offenses should be either minimized or abolished altogether. As a result of Krasner’s new guidelines, it became commonplace for the Philadelphia D.A. office to drop criminal charges against even the most dangerous defendants. Between January and September of 2020, for example, Krasner’s office dropped charges on more than 60% of all shooting cases in the city, as well as 37% of illegal firearms cases.
THIS TWISTED Bastard and his coven have devoted themselves to the destabilization of society which has the net effect of destroying it, the goal of the Anti-American American Left and Democrat Party for decades.
Again as we all know or should know, besides Krasner, every major and many minor urban areas as well as states have DAs and Attorneys General bought and paid for by George Soros.
Progressive DA network: The Hive’s investment in local prosecutorial elections transforms local law enforcement into a policy instrument—declining to prosecute certain categories of offense (shoplifting below $950 in California, drug possession, trespassing) effectively nullifies legislation.
Arkansas Democrat Senate nominee Hallie Shoffner vowed to "redirect" the "considerable resources of the federal government" away from "punishment" and toward "treatment and compassion" as part of a push to spend taxpayer money "in an equitable fashion," video footage reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon shows.
Meh this filthy slag is representative of every single Democrat running for office at every level. Compassion for the criminals and degenerates but not for the victims, since We the People are the criminals who have to be punished for the original sin of America as founded
Minister at Talarico’s Austin Church Says Woke Senate Hopeful is Shifting Positions to Win Over Moderate Voters “I can guarantee you that once he gets elected, he’ll change his tune back to where he was," said Reverand Babs Miller, 83, a lesbian minister at the parish at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church.
Somebody please for the love of all that is just and good reassure me that this bastard doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of actually winning a senate seat in Texas. ¡Hay Caramba!
The radical ally of Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said in an interview Thursday that the United States has committed more terrorism than the radical Islamic group behind 9/11.
Hasan Piker told Axios that, “pound for pound,” the United States had killed more people than al-Qaeda, the organization that plotted and carried out the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. Piker, a popular leftist streamer who once said America “deserved 9/11,” has campaigned alongside El-Sayed.
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
During a disastrous sit-down with Axios’ Alex Thompson, the journalist reminded the meticulously manicured Twitch streamer that he had once deemed the United States “the top dog in terrorism” before asking: “Do you think America, then, is worse than al Qaeda?” Hasan Piker just told the truth about America-hating Dems
We should celebrate September 17 because we developed and still live by a document that assures the rule of law and the possibilities of freedom to Americans. In Praise of Constitutions (Meh, it's all E-Pleb-Neesta now - jjs)
The findings come as Trump has pursued an aggressive effort to reshape federal spending and redirect government priorities. Some funding decisions have faced legal challenges, and courts have blocked certain grant cancellations. Other lawsuits remain pending. Outside Groups Say Trump Administration Has Disrupted $177 Billion in Federal Grants
The ROAD Act's approach to new construction—especially “build-to-rent” developments—will help reduce overall housing prices and give families the flexibility they need. Promising New Legislation for American Renters
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
America can decide how it develops artificial intelligence. It cannot decide whether artificial intelligence will continue to develop. The Apocalyptic Game: Panic and Opportunity
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
At the FDA, managers went a step further by silencing the career drug safety officer who had repeatedly brought the deficiency to their attention and had offered an updated algorithm intended to fix it. As a result, Americans received unfounded assurances of the safety of the most widely used covid vaccines and were denied prompt warnings of potential harms. [emphasis mine] FDA in 2020 knew its COVID jab monitoring system didn’t work, yet used it anyway
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Listen, I know everyone’s bummed over gas prices, and for good reason. Yesterday, I paid $4.19 per gallon. Ouch. Driving past a gas station sign is like looking at a weather barometer for our national economy. Worse, it’s also a barometer for the likely outcome of the midterm elections. And that’s a shame for any number of reasons. Trump Economy Delivers Record Low Child and Hispanic Poverty Rates
Continuing claims dropped to 1.73 million in the previous week, the lowest since 2024.
The fact that the course is described as “industry standard” by Advance HE suggests that the University of Northampton is not the only educational institution to impose anti-white ideology on students. This echoes warnings about the prevalence of “anti-white culture” in Britain’s institutions from Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage earlier this year. It also raises concerns about the impartiality of higher education in Britain and the ability of students to express dissenting views. Students Harassed to Undergo ‘White Privilege’ Training by University.
ABORTION
Virginia’s extreme abortion and same-sex union proposals are a grim reminder that for the left, there is no ‘moderation.’
Not surprisingly, gun control groups are losing their minds over the ruling, and presumably especially now that the president used his influence to direct the DOJ to leave the ruling alone.
The diplomatic upgrade came six years after Morocco joined the Abraham Accords, President Donald Trump’s initiative to normalize relations between Israel and the Arab world.
While questions remain about what associate membership means in practice, if implemented, Canada would become the first-ever “associate member” of the EU. Trump has suggested he could refrain from imposing “very heavy tariffs on Europe” if convinced that the proposal has “a good intention,” although both Canada and the EU have recently strained their relationship with the U.S., from the former’s ongoing trade war with the United States to the latter’s longstanding failure to pay for its own defense. Trump Warns EU, Canada of ‘Very Serious Tariffs’ Over ‘Hostile’ Alliance.
It provided no other information, but the reference to regulatory approval suggests this change will require the FAA to chime with its okay. The agency had already approved the earlier launch date, so getting a new approval should be routine. SpaceX delays 14th orbital test flight of Starship/Superheavy to September 28th
Out of all of America, Hollywood could only happen in California. And out of all of California, it had to be Los Angeles.Hollywood wasn't just where they made the movies. Hollywood was the movies.Just now I caught myself writing in the past tense. Say Goodbye to Hollywood... If It Even Exists Anymore
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They provide benchmarks on an Nvidia RTX 5090 which (a) would do fine at the usual quarter size and (b) costs eleventy trillion dollars anyway. The squooshed version only runs on Nvidia or Mac hardware at the moment, so if you're not made of money you're out of luck and if you are you don't need it.
Thursday Overnight Open Thread - September 17, 2026
—Doof
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?
Two Spanish-tiled stucco gateposts once stood at the mouth of Tennessee Valley in Marin County, opening onto nothing at all.
Behind them a road climbed into the hills and stopped. It had been bulldozed wide enough to carry commuter traffic, because that was the entire idea. Those gates were the front door of Marincello, a city of 30,000 people planned for the slopes directly across the water from San Francisco. In the mid 1960s it came alarmingly close to existing.
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Modesty was not a design feature. Fifty apartment towers, hundreds of houses and townhouses, 250 acres of light industry, a shopping mall running a full mile with ornamental pools and elephant trains, and a square ringed by churches and named Brotherhood Plaza. A hotel would crown the highest hill on the property. Hart costs the twenty-year build at $285 million in 1964 dollars.
An earlier draft was madder still. The Bay Area history archive FoundSF records a scheme originally drawn up for more than 150,000 residents, which the planning process eventually talked down to 30,000.
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A state appellate court ruled on 2 November 1970 that the 1965 approval could not stand and the plan would have to be lodged again from scratch. A lawyer for Gulf Oil called it silly to kill a multimillion-dollar development on a technicality. Praetzel’s answer, years later, was that the technicality in question was the law.
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Walk south from the Tennessee Valley car park and the track underfoot gets suspiciously wide.
This is the Marincello Trail, which the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy measures at 2.9 miles return with 694 feet of climb. The same data gives a typical tread of 120 inches, or ten feet of graded roadway, waiting on cars that never turned up.
So we missed out another blue shithole in California, right??
Snow-covered mountains ringing a valley of wide, free-flowing roads remind Venezuelan transplants that the growing suburbs south of Salt Lake City offer what Miami can’t.
One million Venezuelans were released into the United States after crossing the Mexican border during a record immigration surge, and many shunned Miami and other longtime immigrant footholds for smaller places with less established communities — a pattern found in an exclusive Associated Press analysis of fedteral data from fall 2018 to summer 2025.
These cities and towns promised better jobs, cheaper homes, less traffic and higher quality of life, outweighing Florida’s allure of tropical weather and ease of getting by on Spanish alone.
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After less than two weeks there, Vera and his mother accepted a cousin’s invitation to Utah. In the southern suburbs, with massive new housing tracts and pristine shopping centers, Vera found factory work but soon quit to turn a hobby baking for co-workers into his own business. Today he employs 15 people — many, like him, asylum seekers — at a warehouse and two bakeries.
That last sentence contains the clue as to the missing word.
Utah — known as a relatively immigrant-friendly state despite deep Republican roots and support for President Donald Trump — became a top destination for Venezuelans crossing the border, along with parts of the Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Dallas and Houston metro areas, AP’s data show. Venezuelans also went to smaller cities including Madison, Wisconsin; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Savannah, Georgia.
It’s a pattern playing out across the U.S.: Some Cubans eschewed Florida and went to Louisville, Kentucky, and Odessa, Texas; Colombians chose the Boston and Denver areas; and Paterson, New Jersey, was the top pick among Peruvians.
These communities have both benefited from the influx of people and struggled to integrate their new arrivals.
"Struggled to integrate their new arrivals"??? How dare they not just make life easy for these "asylum seekers"?!?
Trump’s immigration crackdown instilled fear and made Venezuelans less visible since 2023, when arrivals peaked in Utah and in the United States as a whole. Everyone here seems to know someone who returned to Venezuela voluntarily because they feared being detained and deported or because they lost their work authorization.
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Arrieta’s wife — co-owner Sandy Arrieta — wanted to stay open. But he believes nothing will turn around while Trump’s in office.
“Until the government changes, the problems will not end,” said Fidel, 65, who immigrated in 1994.
That's more than enough for you to get the gist of the intention of this article. Check out the whole thing if you want more bilge.
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Saw some pushback in the comments on Tuesday against my semi-crusade against Flock. We can respectfully disagree. But you might want to skip past this segment.
Flock claims that images are only briefly stored on its cameras before being forwarded to the company’s servers, but a group of hackers determined that this wasn’t the case.
Flock says that its cameras are protected by on-device encryption, and even though a security researcher noted some flaws in its system, the company said that physical access is still required to exploit them and that the images are only briefly retained on the device before they’re forwarded to the cloud. However, 404 Media says that a hacking group called stegan0gram found out that this wasn’t the case after they took down a Flock camera positioned over a roadway and analyzed the data stored inside it.
While the hacking group failed to access the most sensitive data stored on the Flock camera, they were still able to access its Android operating system and found two storage partitions, labeled “vendor” and “media.” The latter was found to contain an encryption key that unlocked another partition containing all the media files from the camera. 404 Media said that that particular Flock camera captured about 1.6 million images across 21 days, detecting around 50,200 vehicles and, more concerningly, 11 people. There were also 27,321 video clips saved on the device — MP4 files with a 1024 x 768 resolution that lasted about a second or two.
Abilities like reading license plates and describing vehicle characteristics like color, make, and model are done on Flock’s servers, but these cameras still retain some edge AI capabilities. This includes detecting people, vehicles, bicycles, and plate-like shapes, which it then crops and sends to the company servers, alongside the original images. Although the software was found to have some facial detection capabilities, the publication said that this was the stock capabilities included in the operating system and wasn’t used by the camera.
A grassroots revolt against automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, has gained momentum across the United States.
ALPRs are AI-powered cameras that capture images of all passing vehicles. The camera systems turn details into datapoints searchable by anyone with access to the information.
Today, there are more than 130,000 ALPRs on U.S. streets. And more than 5,000 law enforcement agencies use cameras produced by a single manufacturer, Flock Safety, which says its cameras have helped law enforcement agencies identify and arrest criminals and reduce crime.
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As a historian of the American Revolution, I see parallels between Americans’ revolt against ALPRs and colonists’ destructive and often violent pushback to late 18th-century British rule.
If this summer’s celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding failed to inspire widespread patriotism, the increasingly bipartisan revolution against ALPRs suggests Americans have not entirely lost their rebellious spirit.
Surgeons at a children's hospital in Missouri earlier this year successfully separated infant twin sisters who had been born conjoined at the head, hospital officials announced Wednesday.
Sisters Hiyab and Wuhbto are now recovering and undergoing rehabilitation and intensive care, more than six months after their cranial separation surgery in February, the hospital said.
The Feb. 24-25 surgery, at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, took more than 24 hours to complete and involved a team of specialists across multiple disciplines.
"It is still too soon to know exactly what their long-term development will look like but what we do know is that they now have opportunities that would not have been possible without this intervention," Dr. Joanna Kemp, head neurological surgeon at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, said in a press conference Wednesday.
Using fossilized teeth, scientists have finally taken the T. rex’s temperature — and it wasn’t too different from our own.
Researchers once thought that dinosaurs were sluggish, cold-blooded creatures. Later findings challenged that, suggesting that older dinosaurs were warm-blooded and could control their body temperature.
Most scientists agree that Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded, but pinning down the exact core temperature of an extinct creature is difficult.
“We can’t just use a thermometer to do that,” said Jasmina Wiemann, a paleobiologist at Johns Hopkins University who had no role in the latest work.
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I guess this guy uses random paint strokes and splatters to push him towards fresh images and not the first ones to pop into his head. At any rate, it does wind up looking like something. Or maybe it's just a gimmick. Either way, it's not just splatter.
Mechanizing weed-pulling. Calm down, Jack Straw, I mean the weeds that you can't smoke. The non-wacky ones.
In 1991, a Nigerian "prophet" attempted to reproduce the miracle of Daniel in the lion's den by entering a zoo enclosure full of lions. It didn't go great.
Automatic Goat Scritcher. We live in an age of marvels.
This 2-brush system for goats by Schurr Gerätebau is designed for unproblematic use of horned animals with no risk of injuries for the animals. It's automatically activated by the animals' presence pic.twitter.com/JWE7KydvTl
In 1916 someone dug a well to find water for irrigation, in the middle of a desert. Scalding water exceeding 200°F, has flowed ever since. Calcium carbonate deposits building up into this cone shape with colourful thermophilic algae.
Hasan Piker re-affirms that he believes America is a bigger terror threat than Al Qaeda.
Left-wing streamer Hasan Piker tells Axios he believes America conducts more terrorism in the world than al-Qaeda, the terror network that carried out the 9/11 attacks.
"Pound for pound as far as the number of deaths, yes," Piker said in an exclusive interview for a new episode of "The Axios Show." Piker added: "We have caused tremendous terror all around the world."
He now says that while what he said was right, people with names like "Hasan" and "Abdul" (the Senate candidate who he's palling around with) aren't allowed to utter such truths.
AWFUL: Lindsay Clancy shouldn't be punished because she's already been punished enough for "losing her children." She didn't lose them, she strangled them to death. This is the apotheosis of the old joke, "Your honor, please have mercy for my murder of my parents. I'm an orphan, your honor."
By the way, when asked to endorse "justice for the children," this degenerate, twisted hag refuses.
Was Martin Udall right? He was definitely right about a large swathe of women, nearly the majority.
The women of Piddington have a possible savior. The UK is planning to cram 1,250 Muslim men into a base just next to the town of a mere 350, giving the "newcomers" a 3-to-1 majority over the actual citizens. Plans have been discovered showing the government actually plans to settle over 3,500 "newcomers" there, but they swearsies that that plan has been abandoned and they would never!
So, while the UK government does not care at all about the fact that the women of Piddington will become free-range rape prey for the almost uniformly military-age male "newcomers," they do care about a species of newt which may be endangered by the sudden influx of rapists.
Basil the Great
@BasilTheGreat
🚨BREAKING: The illegal migrant camp planned for Piddington may be CANCELLED due to a protected species of NEWTS being found on the site
So let me get this straight...
The Government care more about the safety of NEWTS than Women and Girls?
The town recently voted to declare itself independent from the UK, but obviously the UK will not permit that. You are Tax Cattle to be farmed and slaughtered. And raped. You are chattel.
Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales leaders to meet tomorrow to plan breakup of UK: Report
The leaders of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales will meet on Monday to discuss plans for the breakup of the United Kingdom, according to The Telegraph.
First Ministers John Swinney of Scotland, Rhun ap Iowerth of Wales, and Michelle O'Neill of Northern Ireland are expected to sign a joint declaration demanding the right to hold referendums on breaking away from the UK. For the first time, the three constituent nations of the UK are held by pro-separation parties.
The Telegraph reported sources as saying that the summit's purpose is to pile more pressure on Prime Minister Andy Burnham after he said in the parliament on Wednesday that he would back another Scottish independence referendum if public opinion backed one.
A source close to Swinney told the newspaper that Burnham "fucked up" by making the comment and unionists should be very worried.
The source further said: "Burnham has not read his brief and doesn't seem to know the basics of the UK Government's position on the Union. If I was a Unionist, I would be very worried."
Ahead of the summit, Swinney said that Burnham was "facing up to the idea that he will go down in history as the final prime minister of the United Kingdom".
Swinney said that that, for the first time, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are led by pro-independence parties, and "there could be no clearer sign that the status quo is not sustainable and that Westminster must prepare for a post-UK future".
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The separatist movements in the UK have picked up pace lately as US President Donald Trump has ramped up his anti-British campaign. After threatening to back Argentina in the campaign to wrest the Falkland Islands off the UK, he has now supported Northern Ireland's separation from the UK and merger with Ireland.
Meanwhile, EU leader and Bond villain Ursula Von Leyden has offered Canada an "associate membership" in the EU, which means that they get no advantages at all but get to be ruled over by Ursula and her 400 MEP besties, which is the same deal all actual EU members get.
And there is no such thing as an "associate member."
Brussels was hit with a furious backlash today after announcing unprecedented plans for Canada to become an 'associate member' of the bloc -- without asking EU capitals to sign off on the proposal.
EU diplomats told the Mail they were kept in the dark and first learnt of the proposal when Ursula von der Leyen, the EU Commission boss, unveiled it during a keynote speech.
During the top Eurocrat's annual State of the Union speech to the European Parliament, she repeatedly love-bombed Canadian premier Mark Carney -- who was in the chamber -- saying Brussels wanted 'to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible.'
But to the surprise of diplomats from the EU's 27 member nations, who would have to sign off the move, she gushed: 'Dear Mark, I said we must urgently reimagine our partnerships. So, I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to be the first associate member of the EU.
'We share one ocean, one set of values, one way of seeing the world. And we will now build our shared future as well -- thank you for being here.'
But the attempt to flatter the former Governor of the Bank of England backfired, with diplomats saying they were never briefed about the proposal and that, in effect, 'associate membership' doesn't even exist.
EU diplomats accused Brussels of 'over-reach', an accusation often levelled against Eurocrats by UK Brexiteers before Britain left the bloc.
One EU diplomat told the Mail: 'This bombastic announcement is just not right.
'There will be a summit at the end of October, so logically they will talk about deepening the relations.
'But no one has ever seen an associate membership and no idea what it means in practice. Canada is a valuable partner for the EU, one of the few currently in the world where we share the values, so it is nothing against Canada.
'But first and foremost the member states should be the ones to express what kind of relationship the EU wants to have with any third country.'
Another added: 'She kept this bit of associate membership out of the text until the last moment. She also did not mention it up front to EU member states.
'It seems like she is a bit too far out in floating this. Everyone is positive about Canada, and wants to strengthen the relationship.
'But there is a lot of uncertainty about what von der Leyen envisages by coining this label.'
Trump has reasserted the old Monroe Doctrine, stating that the western hemisphere is the US's sphere of influence, and rejected Europe's attempt to colonize the west.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! Donald Trump just said if Canada becomes an associate member of the European Union, he might consider it a "HOSTILE ACT" and could enact tariffs or stop trading OUTRIGHT with Europe
TRUMP: "Canada has been a TERRIBLE partner." 🔥
This DOES sound like a hostile act: why else would Canada do this other than to think joining the EU gives them leverage in a trade war over America?
It's EXACTLY why Trump is right to be slapping Canada with tariffs until they stop treating Americans unfairly
The EU isn't saving Canada from an invasion by Russia or China, yet they treat the US the worst!
The chancellor of Germany says free speech is just a kooky American idea that he doesn't share:
“Please don’t come to me with free speech... That is at most a libertarian political understanding from parts of the USA that I personally do not share. A liberal society must still… https://t.co/xETjMt6RMB
Washington state Democrat Krista Perez, who is running for a state House seat, was seen on police video admitting to drinking wine, declining field sobriety tests and begging to go home before praying and crying in the back of a patrol car after her DUI arrest.
Perez finished first in last month's primary in the 29th Legislative District, Position 1, and will face incumbent state Rep. Melanie Morgan, also a Democrat, in November, as the top two candidates advance to the general election.
Tacoma Police said Perez's 2019 Chevrolet Silverado allegedly struck a parked car on South G Street shortly after midnight on August 11, setting off a chain reaction that damaged five vehicles, according to The Jason Rantz Show on Seattle Red.
Prosecutors charged her with DUI, with a refusal enhancement in connection with the collision and a later encounter with police.
Body camera footage shows police questioning Perez after the crash and her subsequent arrest, while footage from the backseat of the patrol car shows her praying and sobbing, according to video obtained by The Jason Rantz Show on Seattle Red.
After police arrived at the scene, Perez told an officer she did not understand what was going on and claimed she was not involved in an accident, the footage shows.
"Did you get into an accident here?" the officer asks.
"I did not," Perez responded.
The officer then asked what happened.
"I don't know. I've never been in an accident before," she replied.
She also said she switched insurers just weeks before the incident when asked for her documents. She was able to tell the officer the name of the insurance company.
Perez told the officer she was driving from a friend's business on Tacoma Avenue South when the collision happened.
"Did you have anything to drink tonight?" the officer asked.
"I just had some wine while I was there," Perez replied.
Asked how much wine she had, Perez said she had one glass.
When the officer asked how big the glass was, she told him, "I think you might need to contact the business."
The officer then asked her to rate her sobriety on a scale of zero to 10, with zero being completely sober.
She first told the officer that she wanted to go home. But when asked a second time, she rated herself a four.
The officer then asked her to take standardized field sobriety tests but stated multiple times that the tests are optional.
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Perez declined the tests, kept saying she wanted to go home and repeatedly said that she was "confused."
"Not right now. I'd like to go home first," she said.
"You're not going to go home first. I'm going to tell you that right now, okay? So your options between the test, yes or no, that's going to be determined tonight, right now, not when you go home. So would you like to take these tests or no?" the officer asked.
Perez responded by asking if she was allowed to decline the tests.
"You do have a choice. You can either say yes, or you can say no. They're totally voluntary tests," the officer answered.
"Yeah, I would like to go home first," she replied.
The officer asked whether her answer meant she was declining the tests, and she said yes.
She was then told she was under arrest for DUI and to put her hands behind her back.
"Hold on. Hold on. One second. Hold on," she said.
Perez repeatedly told the officer that she did "not know what any of this means." He told her it means she is under arrest for DUI.
Washington state Democratic House candidate Krista Perez was seen crying, praying and sobbing in the back of a patrol car after her DUI arrest.
Police body camera also shows Perez admitting she'd been drinking wine and refusing field sobriety tests after officers say she crashed… pic.twitter.com/gBSGTzOe8z
This week, the Ohio state rep for the Somali neighborhood of Columbus, a Medicaid fraud hotspot, was served a lawsuit alleging he lied about living in his district–and police found him, indeed, at a residence outside his district. https://t.co/5b0VuQd5Ol
Podcast: Did the SCOTUS leftists slow-walk the USPS decision, Newsom's mendacious pledge not to run if Harris does, Canada's return to the trade negotiations, AI fear-mongering, The Goo Goo Dolls are adults, and more!
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click, Guitar Hero Edition Oh here it comes
That funny feeling again winding me up inside
Every time we touch
Hey I don't know
Oh, tell me where to begin cause I never ever
Felt so much
Okay, that was pretty easy. Here's one that's 3% harder. But still easy. Ooh, can you feel the static?
So many contacts being made
We've got up-front fanatics
Tearing down the barricade
To reach the stage
Can you feel the rage?
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.
