Leftwing Lunatics Now Pushing Pregnancy Denialism, Claiming That Trump Must Be Faking the Three Recent Pregnancies In His Administration

—Ace

Second Lady (and "jeet," according to Tucker Carlson's friend Nick Fuentes) Usha Vance announced that she's pregnant.

She'll be the first Second Lady to give birth while in office in 150 years.

Usha Vance, the wife of Vice President J.D. Vance, has already made history in a few ways: she's the first person of color to become Second Lady and the youngest Second Lady since the Truman Administration. She may also soon be the first sitting Second Lady in modern history to bear a child in over 150 years.

"We're very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy," the Vice President shared on social media Tuesday. "Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July."

In the message, the Vice President thanked military doctors for "[taking] excellent care of our family" and staff members "who do so much to ensure that we can serve the country while enjoying a wonderful life with our children."

J.D., 41, and Usha, 40, met at Yale University and married in 2014. They have three kids: Ewan, 8; Vivek, 5; and Mirabel Rose, 4.

Before Usha Vance, the only sitting Second Lady in modern history to give birth was President Ulysses S. Grant's Vice President Schuyler Colfax's wife Ellen, who had a son in 1870; birth records before then are unclear.

The Trump White House extended its congratulatory message to the Vances, and in a post on X, called itself "The most pro-family administration in history!"

Vance, in particular, is an outspoken pro-natalist. He has sounded the alarm on declining birthrates, branded Democrats as "childless cat ladies" and "anti-family and anti-child," and called Americans' lack of desire to have children as a "civilizational crisis."

In May, press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that she was pregnant with her second child. This will be the first child born to a sitting press secretary in history.

All of this was too much for leftwing women and their haunted vaginas filled with the ghosts of aborted babies, who decided this must be some kind of conspiracy.

Why, getting pregnant just isn't something women do! (It's what men do!)

Medicaid Administrator Dr. Oz: We Tried to Investigate Fake Businesses Bilking the Taxpayers and We Were Followed, Harrassed, and Intimadated by a Gang of Somalis

—Ace

He doesn't say "Somalis," but it's implied by circumstances.

From David Strom at Hot Air, digesting this interview at Alpha News.

 It seems systemic in its nature. The building that we visited together, Griggs building was a textile factory, became an office building. It's not a nice part of town. I wouldn't take my kids there to get cared for, frankly, do much else in business, but somehow they had 400. Medicaid, uh, offices doing business with Medicaid, charging almost $400 million to the taxpayer.

I think he means that there are 400 different "businesses" in the one building.

That means basically each of those business made a million dollars. You wouldn't walk in this building in the seedy part of Minneapolis. And so I suspect there might have been others who knew this was happening. Certainly, uh, collaborating with these folks, maybe even, I wonder, you know, folks who in the building, the neighborhood, I mean, someone knew.

Then you start getting into the broader issue. We just talked to whistleblowers, which is chilling. You see the retaliate, the, the re retaliatory tactics, the shuffling around of people who are trying to put their hands up and say, I see a problem. But at its very core, there has been a, a confusion about what it really means to work in healthy human services in Minnesota.

It's not a partnership with vendors. You are the regulator. It is your job to make sure there are limited opportunities that the fraud, the taxpayer, or if you create services, and these are Minnesota nice services and Minnesota nice people, services don't have a lot of guardrails. You know, you don't have to attest to very much.

You have to just say you're trying to do things. You don't have to put your name in any forms. It's hard to regulate that and then the people doing the regulations aren't comfortable doing it. What they found in this document is that the, the majority of folks didn't think they could do the job and in over half the cases there was suspicion.

There was rule, you know, reason for caution. Things didn't seem what, what they're supposed to be. That's half to more than half the cases from the state government's auditor telling us this. So anybody out there in the legislators, a average citizen, we were chased out of buildings by car, honking people, giving us the finger, you know, following us, following us, following us, trying to intimidate us.

State Department Schedules Hamas Agent and Permanent "Student" Mahmoud Khalil's Deportation to His Actual Home Country of Algeria

—Ace

... until a rogue US judge asserts that she has authority over an immigration case and can therefore ignore immigration judges' rulings.

But for the moment, Mahmoud's getting the boot.

The most infamous foreign student activist against Israel and for Hamas at an American university could finally face deportation.

While the Trump administration has tried to deport Columbia University student and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil more than once, woke judges have interfered, and the Trump administration has agreed to follow their ridiculous demands on Khalil's behalf. But a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official indicated Wednesday evening that Khalil's destination after deportation is tentatively settled.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said on NewsNation's Katie Pavlich Tonight on Wednesday, "It looks like he'll go to Algeria. That's what the thought is right now." She followed up with a more widely applicable caution: "It's a reminder for those who are in this country on a visa or on a green card. You are a guest in this country -- act like it."

Importantly, the Trump administration accuses Khalil of committing fraud on his green card application. And, of course, the federal government can revoke a visa or green card from anyone who shows himself a threat to our national security by supporting foreign terrorist entities, or by deliberately riling up social unrest, as Khalil did. Residing and studying in America as a foreign national is a privilege, not a right.

Dutch Progressives Forced 125 Young Students to Share a Hostel with 125 Migrants, Believing They Would "Learn from Each Other."
What Was Taught Was Mostly Stabbings and Rapes.

—Ace

Another beautiful commingling with Cultural Enrichment Shock Troops.

Students were raped after being forced to live in complex alongside 125 refugees to 'aid integration': Terrified Dutch youngsters 'were subjected to years of sex assaults and violence'

By PERKIN AMALARAJ, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER

Terrified Dutch students made to live side-by-side with 125 refugees to aid their 'integration' were subjected to years of sexual assault and violence, an investigation has reported.

Stek Oost, located in the Watergraafsmeer district of Amsterdam, was sold to the Netherlands as the dream solution to the housing and refugee crisis.

A total of 125 students and 125 refugees would live alongside each other, and were even encouraged to 'buddy up' so the migrants would adapt to life in the Netherlands more quickly.

But students living there told Dutch investigative documentary programme Zembla they faced multiple sexual assaults, harassment, violence, stalking and even claimed a gang rape had taken place.

One woman said she would regularly see 'fights in the hallway and then again in the shared living room'.

A man told the programme that a refugee threatened him with an eight-inch kitchen knife.

And they claimed they were ignored despite filing multiple reports to authorities.

In one shocking case, a former resident said that a Syrian raped her after inviting her to his room to watch a film then refusing to let her leave.

The woman, identified only as Amanda, said: 'He wanted to learn Dutch, to get an education. I wanted to help him.'

Amanda described how he asked her several times to come to his room. She eventually relented and agreed to watch a film with him.

However, he soon made her uncomfortable and she asked to leave, only for him to trap her in his room and sexually abuse her.

Despite her filing a police report following the incident in 2019, police dropped the case due to a lack of evidence.

But just six months later, another woman living in Stek Oost raised the alarm over the Syrian, telling the housing association that runs the complex that she was concerned for the safety of herself and other women living there.

But the local authority, which had set up the arrangement, claimed it was impossible for the man to be evicted, the Zembla documentary claims.

It was only when he was formally arrested in March 2022 that he left the student-refugee complex. He was later convicted of raping Amanda and another resident, and was sentenced to just three years in prison in 2024.

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In another horrifying case reported by the programme, Stadgenoot, the firm that runs the complex, suspected a 'gang rape' took place in one of its flats the summer of 2023.

And the police just couldn't find any evidence of any crimes.

I think I've heard this story before.

Police told Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf that while it was not aware of any gang rape taking place on the premises, it did say it had received seven reports of sexual assault.

Since opening in 2018, Stek Oost has faced multiple similar allegations. In 2022, Dutch TV station AT5 reported that a refugee had been accused of six sex attacks between 2018 and 2021.

He was involved in a protracted legal battle with local authorities, who fought to force him to leave Stek Oost.

For its part, Stadgenoot wanted to shut the complex down as early as 2023, but the local authority refused.

Via Steve Turley, who notes the distinct similarities to the Rotherdam Rape Gangs and police and government accomplices.

And speaking of the Netherlands: Trans lunatics fleeing Trump's Genocide have wound up in dirty refugee camps in the Netherlands. Along with Muslim "refugees."

Where I'm sure they're being treated with the level of respect and deference they demand.

Americans who fled to the Netherlands in a bid to escape the Trump administration are now living in filthy refugee camps, it has emerged.

According to Dutch immigration authorities, 76 US citizens claimed asylum in the country last year, a significant increase from the nine that did in 2024.

Many of those who have left are transgender or parents to transgender children and are housed in the 'queer block' of an overcrowded camp in the northern village of Ter Apel, The Guardian reported.

The camp, which resembles a prison, has guards stationed at every gate and offers less than desirable amenities.

Residents have complained that the tiny college-dorm-like rooms they are provided are covered in graffiti, with some alleging that they suspect bodily fluids have been smeared on the walls.

Asylum seekers are permitted to leave the camp, but must be present for daily bed checks. They are also given a small allowance so they can purchase food and cook meals in the communal kitchen.

Many of the American refugees are transgender and are seeking asylum after allegedly being victims of hostility and discrimination in their home states.

But the Dutch ministry of asylum and migration has so far deemed that the alleged mistreatment of the LGBTQ community in the US is not grounds for refugee status, according to The World.

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Elliot Hefty, 37, a transgender man seeking asylum in the Netherlands, claimed he decided to move after being attacked in the middle of a Kentucky street.

He told the World how a man pushed him to the ground during a lunchtime walk and yelled slurs at him, as 'I was left alone bleeding in the middle of the street.'

He also alleged that he was removed from his client-facing role with Medicaid after Trump assumed office, claiming that 'brown and visibly queer folks' are now only allowed to work in administration roles.

The Daily Mail was not able to independently verify Hefty's allegation but has contacted Medicaid for comment.

The 37-year-old further claimed that he was denied service at shops with owners saying that 'my "tranny money" was no good here.'

Actor and visual artist Veronica Clifford Carlos, 28, flew to Amsterdam in June last year to seek asylum after receiving daily death threats in San Francisco.

San Diego resident Jane Michelle Arc, 47, painted a similar picture, alleging that she was 'getting punched or pushed or shoved every single week' while walking the city streets.

Arc moved to the Netherlands in April after having been hospitalized for assault.

Gayle Carter-Stewart, who moved her transgender teen Nox to the country from Montana last April, said their asylum application was 'automatically rejected because America is considered a safe country of origin'

Ashe Wilde, 40, fled Massachusetts, which she admitted is 'one of the most liberal states' and a place where officials are working to 'preserve our identities across the queer spectrum.'

But she was still physically and verbally attacked in her community, telling the Guardian how she was dubbed a 'pedo and a groomer.'

I totally believe all of these things happened.

Jack Smith Defends His Indefensible Political Witch-Hunt; Even CNN's Legal Analyst Admits Smith Is Guilty

—Ace

C3 @C_3C_3

Want your blood to boil?

The Jack Smith Investigation cost taxpayers over $35 million.

$35,000,000

All based on a scam.

Targeting enemies.

With 65% of that $35million paying their salaries.

Jack and his team got rich for sedition.

Brandon Gill grilled Jack Smith on three points:

1, why he had sought the phone records of the incoming Speaker of the House, extending back a year, when he had just become speaker 16 days earlier. This makes it look very much look like a purely political witch-hunt, as Johnson did not have power to run interference for Trump before hand.

2, why he sought these phone records in defiance of a warning from a Biden attorney that doing so would be a violation of the Speech and Debate Clause. (A clause which says that no member of Congress shall be subject to legal process for any statement they make in Congress (later extended to cover any statement they make outside of Congress, so long as it's part of their work as a congressman.)

3, why he claimed that Mike Johnson was a "flight risk" when he told Johnson's phone company to hide the fact that his records had been granted to a third party. Jack Smith claimed that keeping this secret was necessary to make sure that Johnson did not take flight from prosecution.

He now admits that Johnson was no flight risk.

Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

If you watch one moment from Jack Smith's testimony in Congress today, watch him get reduced to a stuttering, stammering mess when confronted with his own LIES:

GILL: "The subpoena covered the time period between November 2020 and January 2021. Is that right?"

SMITH: "Uh, I'm sorry, sir, could you say that again?"

GILL: "We're not gonna delay like this."

Jack Smith is asking to have questions re-asked because each congresman only has five minutes total time, and he wants to waste as much Republican time as possible endlessly repeating and clarifying questions.

GILL: "How many days after Kevin McCarthy was sworn in as Speaker did you subpoena his records?

SMITH: "Uh, I don't recall, but those two things had nothing to do with one another."

GILL: "It was 16 days after becoming the highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, you subpoenaed his toll records. Do you agree that that might reasonably be considered a violation of the Speech or Debate Clause?"

SMITH: "Uh, I do not"

GILL: "At the time you, you secured those non-disclosure orders, was Speaker McCarthy a flight risk?"

SMITH: "He was not."

GILL: "He was not. Then why did your non-disclosure order refer to him as a flight risk? It says right here, 'The court finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in flight from prosecution.' You were using clearly false information to secure a non-disclosure order to hide from Speaker McCarthy and from the American people the fact that you were spying on his toll records."

The NY Times Researches Where American-Born Roofers Went, but Can’t Put the Obvious Puzzle Pieces Together

—Buck Throckmorton

The New York Times ran a piece a few days ago seeking to understand where all the American-born roofers went, struggling to understand how an industry that used to provide well-paying career jobs is now overwhelmingly staffed by poorly-paid “immigrants.”

There are not many pieces to this puzzle, and the Times successfully analyzes each of the pieces, but it somehow cannot put these few puzzle pieces together to provide the obvious conclusion. The reason, of course, is that American-born roofers, many of whom were unionized construction workers, were replaced by poorly paid illegal aliens providing off-the-books labor while also being denied benefits, health insurance, and compliance with labor laws.

Something I keep harping on is the war on labor expense in this country. Businesses obviously need to focus on cost control, including the cost of labor, but somewhere in recent decades, we have seen a dangerous mindset take hold. It has become widely accepted that pretty much any labor expense is too high, and if labor can’t be offshored to places with wages and work conditions below American standards, then illegal forms of chattel labor need to be imported into the U.S.

There were several recurring themes throughout this article, bullet-pointed below, but somehow the Times just couldn’t (or wouldn’t) acknowledge the obvious cause and effect:

• English-speaking American roofers are virtually non-existent nowadays.

• Illegal foreign labor was hired (through subcontractors and labor brokers) at much lower wages.

• Immigrant laborers are hard-working and to be celebrated.

• Immigrant workers are ruthlessly exploited.

• Roofers’ wages have eroded, and are no longer a career wage.

• Builders are suffering a labor shortage, due to Donald Trump’s closed border and deportation policies.

• Construction / roofing is a job that Americans just won’t do any longer.

• Without unions, working conditions have eroded.

Although the link to the Times is behind a paywall, the entire article was republished at the Seattle Times, and it can be read here: “Where Did All the American-Born Roofers Go?”

I cannot quote the whole thing, but here are a few snippets:

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Landscape Near Chicago
Aaron Bohrod

The Morning Report — 1/23/26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. I suppose every so often the weather is something that should be mentioned. The forecasters are warning about a massive winter storm that's primed to hit much of the nation this weekend.

Several emergency declarations have already been issued as a massive winter storm barrels toward more than 35 states, putting more than 200 million people in its path and threatening “considerable disruption” across the US. 

Texas, Georgia and the Carolinas were the first to issue preemptive emergency declarations after the National Weather Service warned that “nearly everyone east of the Rockies” will be affected by snow, ice, or cold from Friday into early next week.

The potentially historic winter storm, dubbed Winter Storm Fern, is expected to span more than 2,000 miles, putting more than 200 million people at risk of crippling snow and travel chaos starting Thursday night.

Please be safe, avoid traveling unless absolutely necessary and take all appropriate precautions, especially if you live in an area that typically does not experience severe/extreme winter conditions and you and your vehicles aren't used to dealing with it.

With that out of the way, the metaphor of cold and ICE could not be more appropriate. VP JD Vance visited the front line of the war being waged to eliminate our national sovereignty and in point of fact to erase America as founded.

Vice President JD Vance doesn’t believe there’s a need to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota for the time being, he told The Daily Wire on Thursday. Vance touched down in Minneapolis, meeting with federal immigration officers to assess the chaos on the ground. For weeks following the fatal shooting of an ICE watch activist, left-wing agitators have followed federal agents arresting illegal immigrants across the Twin Cities trying to thwart their actions.

Given the incitement and the loud proclamations of Democrat leaders from Walz to Frey and Pritzker and others that they will refuse to cooperate with ICE and other Federal Law enforcement officials in enforcing our laws to protect our sovereignty and citizenry, by virtually ordering their own police forces to physically confront and thwart their efforts. If that is not a green light for the Democrat Party's organized or even lone wolf street thugs and brain damaged fools to physically attack ICE officers . . then I now give you this massive dog-whistle cum Fuhrer Befehl declaring open season on ICE agents.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes wildly suggested that residents can open fire on masked ICE agents if they feel their life is in danger under the state’s self-defense laws.

The Democrat, in a sit-down with 12 News anchor Brahm Resnik, warned that Arizona’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which allows citizens to use deadly force if they believe they’re in imminent danger, could become a “recipe for disaster” if protesters clash with immigration officers.

“It’s kind of a recipe for disaster because you have these masked federal officers with very little identification, sometimes no identification, wearing plain clothes and masks,” Mayes said in the Monday interview, calling ICE “very poorly trained.” “And we have a Stand Your Ground law that says that if you reasonably believe that your life is in danger and you’re in your house or your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force.” A flabbergasted Resnik repeatedly challenged Mayes, cautioning that her remarks could be interpreted as a “license” to residents to shoot a federal agent. She shot back that she was merely stating a “fact,” not encouraging violence.

“If you’re being attacked by someone who is not identified as a peace officer — how do you know?” the state’s top prosecutor pressed, adding that “real cops don’t wear masks.”

“I mean if somebody comes at me wearing a mask, by the way, I’m a gun owner, and I can’t tell whether they’re a police officer, what am I supposed to do? No, I’m not suggesting people pull out their guns, but this is a don’t tread on me state.”

The attorney general, who was elected in 2022, unleashed her jaw-dropping comments as immigration officers begin to spread into parts of the Grand Canyon State.

. . . She vowed to prosecute any ICE agent who violates state laws after operations in Minnesota sparked widespread unrest when an federal officer fatally shot protester Renee Nicole Good when she clipped him with her car during a heated confrontation on Jan. 7.

Arizona GOP Rep. David Schweikert blasted the attorney general, calling her rhetoric “reckless.”

No, it's not an insurrection Mr. Vice President. It's merely the latest eruption of violent anti-American revolution from within.

To conservatives, it might appear at first blush that these anti-ICE radicals and DNC Commiecrats are all about the F word. It seems to reflect unimaginable rage and irrational hysteria relating to an issue about which the radicals are so passionate that all reasonable expression is abandoned. Don’t be lulled into believing, though, that the beginning and end of these incoherent, obscene rants is that they’re suffering from some serious lack of creative expression or a mind-wiping anger. It’s more than that.

They have a mission beyond the superficial rage they would have us focus on. . . When the left protests, there’s more than rage or frustration. There’s seething enmity. We saw it with the Pussy March when Trump was first elected, during the impeachments and prosecutions levied against him, during the George Floyd/BLM/DEI protests, and now with the ICE insanity.

Every time a congressional Commiecrat, the governor of a blue state, or the mayor of a blue city speaks, bile drips out all over. Journalists and talk show hosts spew their anti-anything American venom daily and with impunity. Don Lemon did it at the church invasion in Minnesota and then brazenly lied and hid behind his immunity as a “journalist” and the fact that he is a gay, black man. Do I hear Jussie Smollett, anyone?

It’s more than rage about the issues or mental illness, prescription meds, weed, or street drugs driving the behavior. It’s even more than demonic possession. Again, these are the things they want us to perseverate on, while they pursue their mission: a collective determination to destroy.

It’s easy to think of our Commiecrats as zombie-like, reacting in lockstep, converging on something en masse, walking in hordes over cliffs and into raging rivers. The impression they give is that they’re not responsible for their actions. That lets them off too easily. . . They don’t do this merely out of rage about an issue but because it is the only path to revolution and cannot be brought about by polite debate and collegial cooperation. . . They don’t need the facts or stats, logic, or reasoning to accomplish their goals. Just a place to compulsively and convulsively shout “F you” while destroying everything in their way—not just buildings and property, but love of country, American culture, and resilience—courageously remaking this nation as they believe it should be, as Obama once said.

So, when you hear a Karen ranting, “F you,” it’s not anger about the American Dream slipping away, but about the fury needed for their Marxist Utopian Dream. And make no mistake: they relish in that fury. If you doubt me, listen to Minnesota Church Stormer-in-Chief William Kelly rant about death threats against him, inviting people to “Go ahead, kill me...because...you can kill the revolutionary, but you can’t kill the Revolution.”

Beyond merely the droogs and deadhead scum that are the tip of the spear, this nation needs to be absolutely purged from sea to shining sea of everything and everyone of the Left, including the complete dismantling of the Democrat Party and most especially the malign influence of our schools. If we fail, it will be our undoing. This madness ends with us or it ends us.

As tensions rise in Minneapolis and other sanctuary cities and ICE officers confront violent protestors in the line of duty, some teachers are indoctrinating their students to believe the left’s woke narratives—even when they are demonstrably false.

At Manson Northwest Webster High School in Iowa, a language arts teacher, identified by other outlets as Kim Keller, was caught in an audio recording delivering a virulent partisan diatribe to her class in which she accused ICE agents of murdering Renee Nicole Good—and told her students they would likely be next.

The teacher begins by scolding her class for allegedly laughing at TikTok videos about the incident: “Then why are you laughing? Because that is what is happened [sic]. And if you do not process that, you need to process that right now.”

The angry tirade that follows is full of misrepresentations and outright lies.

The school is not on the Upper West Side of Mamdani's Manhattan but in Iowa. Trouble in River City folks.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• “I mean if somebody comes at me wearing a mask, by the way, I’m a gun owner, and I can’t tell whether they’re a police officer, what am I supposed to do?”
  Arizona AG wildly suggests residents can shoot masked ICE agents under state’s self-defense laws
  
• The backlash to the supposed Republican renaissance and sweeping cultural conservative agendas is here. . . Across the country, the jargon of wokeness invented on campuses is spilling back out into the broader culture again, much like it did in 2020. . . The truth is, the right declared victory too early. Wokeness never died. . . It’s the weed that grows back stronger. We ignore it at our own peril.
  Woke never really died, it’s coming back with a vengeance — and we should be terrified

• A powerful follow-up surge of Arctic air tied to the polar vortex will follow closely behind, creating dangerous refreezing conditions that could lead to prolonged power outages and bring travel to a near standstill for several days, according to the FOX Forecast Center. (Bundle up everyone - jjs)
  Over 235 Million Americans In More Than 40 States Now In Path Of Historic Winter Storm Packing Snow, Ice, Arctic Cold

Daily Tech News 23 January 2026

—Pixy Misa

• With the tech world embroiled in AI frenzy and every major chipmaker hitching its wagon to the fashion and recording record sales and record profits while the bubble lasts, it is comforting to see one company bucking the trend and... Recording declining sales and an unprofitable quarter. (Thurrott)
  
  Take a bow, Intel.
  
  Though to be fair Intel showed off new consumer products at CES when AMD and Nvidia couldn't be bothered, and the integrated graphics on Intel's latest Panther Lake chips looks to be faster than AMD's fastest mainstream models (though slower than the Ryzen AI Max if you use it for gaming and not AI.)
  
  
  

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - January 22, 2026 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

Howdy Hordelings! The time for the Thursday ONT has arrived. If you're a Moron's Moron, you are in luck tonight! Lots of right-in-the -wheelhouse content tonight. Won't ya step inside and check it out?

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Big snow storm approaching the east coast. Even Florida was hit with a cold spell recently.

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Perhaps an unknown stipulation in the AOSHQ users' manual - If something qualifies for both the Food Thread AND the Gun Thread, it automatically becomes ONT material. (This may or may not be true, but thus far, I am not aware of Ace having implemented Community Notes).

Man Succesfully Registers Potato as Functional Gun Silencer

Zach Clark isn’t the first person to ever try using a potato as a gun silencer, but he recently became the first to have it legally approved as a silencer by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). He reportedly did it to point out the absurdity of the law that allowed him to do it, a law that now allows anyone to submit their own silencer designs, regardless of how crazy they might be.

“It’s a good way to highlight to normal people that like, ‘Yeah, this is dumb. ‘This whole law is kind of dumb,” Clark told The Reload. “There are other people who have talked about submitted forms for pillows. One is particularly funny because, for the documentation, it’s just a picture of Mike Lindell holding a My Pillow. People have submitted forms for Monster Energy cans. So, there are definitely a lot of people who are going that angle.”

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“Serial number Samwise01 was denied, but Tate001 and Tate002 were approved,” Zach Clark said. “It happened with some of my 3D-printed suppressors, too. I had three that were denied that used the exact same documentation as the other 40 that were approved. So who knows? I’m assuming with what’s going on at the ATF right now, they’re just flying through them. So, there might not even be a thought process. The person could just be clicking, yes, no, because there’s chaos over there.”

OK, fess up - which one of you did this??

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Ginger vs Mary Ann. How old are you? Ongoing AOSHQ themes converge!

Your humble host is 100% in the Mary Ann camp!

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No math on the blog? What about two Morons arguing over a number, then using math to settle their differences? It can happen!

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Food Thread Adjacent

If this isn't Moron level behavior, I don't know what is!

(Click for source on X)

“My girlfriend got on to me the other day because she doesn’t understand why I can’t just pick eggs out of the carton like a “normal” person. She’s standing there watching me and says, “Why can’t you just go row by row like everyone else?”

I said, “Because no egg should ever know when its time is coming.”

She stared at me for a second, shook her head, and said, “You’re a psycho,” then walked off.

Little does she know…I’ve got a whole tournament system going on. I take two eggs, tap them together, and whichever one doesn’t crack moves on to the next round.

Only the strongest survive. 🥚 💪 😂”

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Art Thread Adjacent?

Don't jump ahead to the comments until you either get it or give up!

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DJ Doof - Guess The Theme

Easy one tonight. Difficulty level 1 out of 5

What's the common thread / common meaning / common leitmotif?
(Aside from them all being live recordings from the 90s)

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Close it up

Winter Is Coming Cafe

—Ace

Hong Kong
@Mikuma1998

Animals making unexpected noises. The cheetah meowing like a housecat is nice. So is the shoebill making machine-gun noises.

Dog thinks he's a beaver.

Timelapse volcano.

Using a dam's spillway (which lets water which would overtop the damn out in a controlled way) as a waterslide. This seems incredibly dangerous to me.

Aquaman and Mera hanging out on the beach.

"Art" is fake and gay. The evidence.

Target: acquired.

Kamala Harris's dusty cooter.

Trump Sues JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon for Debanking Him, for $5 Billion in Damages

—Ace

I'm not sure about this one.

Obviously I'm horrified at these woke Socialist Oligarchs using their corporate fiduciary power to push their personal political agendas -- the power of the corporation is meant to be wielded for the benefit of shareholders, not the woke cocksuckers sitting in the corner suites -- but I don't know if someone has a legal right to someone else's business.

Then again, these are banks, one of the most regulated industries in the world. It's very likely the left has cluttered the US code with all sorts of "fairness in banking" regulations.

President Donald Trump on Thursday, Jan. 22, sued JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion, accusing the bank of dropping Trump as a client for political reasons after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The lawsuit, which Trump had threatened for days, was filed in state court in Florida as Trump returns from Davos, Switzerland, where he attended the World Economic Forum.

I find this problematic:

"Plaintiffs are confident that JPMC's unilateral decision came about as a result of political and social motivations, and b>JPMC's unsubstantiated, 'woke' beliefs that it needed to distance itself from President Trump and his conservative political views," the lawsuit reads. "In essence, JPMC debanked Plaintiffs' Accounts because it believed that the political tide at the moment favored doing so."

See, the problem is that JP Morgan will argue that it was good for the corporation to "distance itself" from Trump. Corporations get away with doing a lot of political crap -- which should be ultra vires, against the compact that created and governs the corporation -- by calling it "goodwill."

If a lefty CEO wants to donate to BLM -- obviously not something in the interest of the shareholders -- he can justify it by saying it creates public goodwill for the corporation, and therefore actually does benefit the shareholders, albeit indirectly. And judges rarely second-guess CEOs about their "goodwill" decision making. (They ought to, because CEOs use corporations to vindicate their personal agendas, but judges stay hands-off to allow corporations to donate huge amounts of money to the repulsive left.)

And I'm afraid that Trump, by stating in his own filing that JP Morgan felt it had to "distance itself" from him due to the "political tide at the moment," has made JP Morgan's defense for it.

Quick Hits

—Ace

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_

NEW: Multiple sources tell me & colleague @davidspunt that the federal magistrate in Minnesota who refused to sign off on an arrest warrant for Don Lemon is Douglas L. Micko and that his wife works as an Assistant Attorney General in Minnesota AG Keith Ellison's office.

Stephen Miller @StephenM

Everyone serious understands that the justice system is rigged. Far-left prosecutors, magistrates, judges and juries unhesitatingly shield their violent activists and gleefully imprison their political opponents. Unrigging the system is necessary for the survival of the Republic.

Apparently William Kelly, the asshole "Da Woke Farmer" who yelled profanities at church-goers and dared Pam Bondi "come get me," claims to be some kind of veteran.

This guy says, Nah.

Patriot_Pack @dig_metal

William Kelly, better known as DaWokeFarmer, got booted from the U.S. Army with a bad-conduct discharge.

He was in from about 2007 to 2011, but his stories don't add up--no combat infantry vet, no Afghanistan deployment, no Warrant Officer gig.

Reality check: He was just an HR admin (MOS 42A), zero combat or overseas action.

Back in 2008, court-martialed for stealing, which led to:

- Dropped to Private (E-1).

- That punitive BCD, basically "other than honorable" with major baggage.

Dude fabricates his military record, he's a proven thief, and an alcoholic on top.

Yet this is the fraud the left loves to elevate. Wake up, folks. #StolenValor #Exposed

Tucker Carlson: I condemn America for ending the war with Japan by dropping two nuclear weapons because they are inherently evil, actually they're "demonic" and literally created by demonic forces, and no one should have them.

Also Tucker Carlson: Boy it sure would be swell if Iran got nukes because then they'd have leverage against the Jews, who must be eradicated.

From the unregistered foreign agent's newsletter:

"I can guarantee you that if the Ayatollah gets a nuclear weapon, he will use it," Lindsey Graham said on Fox News last year. "I believe that with all my heart and soul."

Oh, and of course, there's warmonger-in-chief Benjamin Netanyahu, who insists that "there is only one difference between Nazi Germany and the Islamic Republic of Iran... [Iran] is first seeking atomic weapons and, once it has them, will then start a world war."

What are the chances Iran would actually launch a nuclear attack? History suggests they're zero, no matter what Senator Graham says.

Weird, because he's about to tell you Iranian nukes could be used to pressure Israel to leave the poor Palestinian peace-lovers alone. Why would the warmongering Jews leave them alone unless they knew Iran might nuke them?

No country in the so-called 'Axis of Evil' has ever deployed a nuke, because doing so would be an act of suicide.

In fact, the United States is the only nation to unleash its nuclear might as an act of war. It's strange how Washington considers that a point of pride.

There he is, attacking America for dropping the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima again.

Weirdly enough, he thinks that nuclear missiles in the hands of the Ayatollah would bring peace and justice to the region:

Could the Iranians obtaining The Bomb wind up being a good thing? Whether anyone in the foreign policy establishment admits it, North Korea's nuclearization has undeniably stabilized the Korean Peninsula. The region has seen no wars, coups, or interventionist-forced regime changes since 2006.

Oh, it's also good that North Korea has nukes.

Would Iran becoming a nuclear power have the same effect on its region?

Could it finally prompt America to leave the area alone, and incentivize Israel to drop its stated goal of controlling the Gaza Strip and the West Bank? Would it make the Iranian government less oppressive because it wouldn't have to worry about the West's constant decapitation ambitions?

CBS: The Murder Rate Fell 20% In One Year, the Largest One Year Drop In American History

—Ace

Or, the largest drop since they've been keeping numbers. So the largest drop in history, according to the data we have.

Must be something the Democrats did, right?

Murders plummeted more than 20% in U.S. last year, the largest drop on record, study shows

Murders plummeted more than 20% in 2025 from the year before, the single-largest one-year drop on record -- and it might be the lowest murder rate in the U.S. since 1900, a study released Thursday by the Council on Criminal Justice found.

The annual crime trends report analyzed data from 40 large cities across the United States for 13 different crime types, including murder, carjacking, theft and drug offenses.

Note that the numbers were cooked under Biden, with carjacking, theft, and various other crime numbers fraudulently reduced, so the real fall from 2023 and 2024 is actually must greater.

Alongside homicides, which dropped 21% from 2024, carjackings have declined 61% since 2023, while shoplifting is down 10% since 2024.

Probably just due to stores in cities closing to stop the rampant, government-permitted looting.

In general, the overall crime rate declined, with violent crimes at or below levels seen in 2019, the analysis found -- drug offenses were the only category that rose during this period, while sexual assault remained even.

Researchers pointed toward multiple reasons for the large drop in homicides, but cautioned that "identifying decisive factors with certainty is challenging."

LOL, of course, no "researcher" can possibly figure out why the murder rate should drop at the same time we're locking people up and deporting foreign marauders.

Must be an environmental factor. Like maybe people are eating less eggs or something.

Senior research specialist Ernesto Lopez, lead author of the report, said that while the "overall reduction in crime, especially homicide, is welcome news," he noted homicide rates had been steadily dropping since the late 2000s, prior to a notable spike in 2020.

"It is possible that these rates reflect a longer-term downward trend punctuated by periods of elevated homicides," Lopez said.

Insane. I mentioned this on Friday, I think, but "years of steadily dropping" (after the Biden Crime Wave peak) doesn't explain a sudden single-year 20% plummet.

"Steadily declining" means "falling 3-4% per year." This minor trend does not explain the huge fall.

A group of criminal justice experts convened by CCJ had varied answers as to what caused such a precipitous drop in homicides, but they were generally in agreement that the stabilization of routines, an influx of COVID-19 relief funds and program intervention were strong drivers.

Oh of course -- it wasn't enforcement, imprisonment, and deportation which lowered murders by one-fifth, it was, of course, liberal government spending.

This must be due to Liberal Government Spending as well:

Trump's Second Term Sees Record ICE Gang Arrests and Crime Drop

20 hours ago

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement targeted violent offenders from groups like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, with the FBI disrupting 1,800 gangs--a 210% jump from 2024--and making 67,000 total arrests. These efforts aligned with a 20% national drop in murders, the sharpest ever, as preliminary data showed homicides potentially at 1960s lows in major cities. While DHS credited removing dangerous criminals, including nearly 3 million illegal immigrants who left the U.S., analysts noted two-thirds of ICE arrests involved people without U.S. criminal records, and critics pointed to broader post-pandemic trends.

Another Church Disrupting Water Buffalo Arrested
Update: Loud-Mouthed, Foul-Mouthed Bearded Jerkoff Arrested Too, After Telling Pam Bondi "Come Get Me"

—Ace

Insurrectionist mayor Jacob Frey has refused to condemn the church intimidation, now demands that the ringleader be freed to eat all of our food:

Nick Sortor
@nicksortor

2h

🚨 BREAKING -- ANOTHER PERP WALK: Chauntyll Louisa Allen has officially been charged with CONSPIRACY TO DEPRIVE RIGHTS due to her role in the St. Paul Church riots

The ringleader, Nekima Levy Armstrong, was also arrested this morning.

They're in federal custody at the direction of @AGPamBondi
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NEXT UP: Don Lemon?! 😏

Physical ugliness and morbid obesity are contributing factors to radical extremism in women.

That's not a joke. It's an insult, but it's seriously meant: No one whose prom night was a dream winds up in antifa.

Stacked Rapper Nicki Minaj Says She Wants the "C***sucker" "Thug" Don Lemon in Jail, That He Would Never Invade a Mosque

—Ace

I love how Don Lemon keeps attacking the people at this church and saying that he practices "a different kind of Christianity."

Oh? What kind of Christianity is that, rump raider?

By the way, he accuses Minaj of having recorded the disgraceful porn song "W.A.P." Um, no, that was Cardi B. Megan Thee Stallion.

Lemon claims Minaj, who is black, isn't "African American" because she "comes from the islands." I guess Jamaicans and Haitians aren't black?

But Don Lemon, who has a lot of white in him, and I don't just mean when his "husband" doses him with amyl nitrite, says that she isn't black?

While confusing her for two completely different black women?

This Definitely Happened You Racists

—Ace

Somali Jussie Smollett says ICE called her the n-word and screamed This is MAGA country! and then gave her a "scab."

This 68 IQ Cultural Enricher says that the ICE agents "racially indicted" her.

Church Invasion Ringleader A R R E S T E D by DHS and FBI

—Ace

I had just written this forty minutes ago:

The Church Invaders must have been advised by attorneys that they did violate the FACE Act and possibly the KKK Act as well, because they're now rewriting history to craft their legal defenses: They're now claiming they didn't disrupt the church services at all, they just sat down to participate in the services.

Except... we can see them on videotape disrupting the service and announcing beforehand they intend to "disrupt" the church services.

The Morning Rant: A Deal For Cuba?

—CBD

The Cuban people have been suffering under the yoke of a particularly brutal communist dictatorship since 1959. They were propped up by the USSR for 30 years, with oil and industrial machinery and weapons (so many weapons!) in return for being a convenient thorn in the side of America, and a fomenter of revolution across the world. After the Soviet Union fell, they had to scramble for oil, and Venezuela stepped up! Shocking nobody with a brain, China also began to strengthen it ties to the Cuban government.

But with the capture of Maduro, and the Venezuelan government increasingly dancing to America's tune, at least with respect to petroleum, Where will Cuba get its oil?

Mexico! And with the permission of the Trump administration, which makes a certain amount of sense. Penalizing the people of Cuba by denying them what little in basic necessities they have is a cruel and unnecessary step without first beginning the process of ending communism in Cuba.

But how to do that?

WSJ: Trump Seeks Cuban Regime Change by End of 2026

"Cuba's rulers are incompetent Marxists who have destroyed their country, and they have had a major setback with the Maduro regime that they are responsible for propping up," a White House official said, adding that Cuba should "make a deal before it's too late."

President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post earlier in the month: "Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela."

"In return, Cuba provided 'Security Services' for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE," he continued. "THERE WILL BE NO MORE OIL OR MONEY GOING TO CUBA — ZERO! I strongly suggest they make a deal, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE."

What kind of deal can there be that frees the Cuban people? The communist rulers of Cuba will not go willingly, and they have a comprehensive security and surveillance apparatus that would make the Stasi blush with embarrassment.

Will we demand that the Cuban communist party give up power and then force the government to have free elections? Or we will sponsor an invasion, like we did in 1961? That went well. Actually, it did for American communists. JFK and the Democrat Party supported the communists by withholding air support!

We can strengthen the embargo, push back against Chinese influence, eventually begin to decrease oil imports from Mexico, support dissidents within Cuba (if they dare to speak publicly against the pervasive terror), and what else? Of course we could invade and make short shrift of the Cuban army, but it would be bloody, and we would suffer casualties. Or perhaps decapitation strikes that destroy the leadership?

But Cuba is a special case. Their communism is protected by the geography of the Island. There are no land borders that can be used by smugglers, both of goods, and of arms and ideas. Their communication is controlled quite well by the state, and their army is comparatively well fed and well paid. And they have survived for 67 years just a few miles from the coast of their Great Satan!

The conventional wisdom was that with the softening of America's tone, Cuba's communism would wither, and it would become a soft socialist state. That never happened, and with three generations of indoctrination, the odds are long that it will happen now.

The people of Cuba need our help, but what that help will be is the big question!

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD