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The petulance of Trump Derangement Syndrome is embarrassing, but in most cases it is childish political entitlement masquerading as "speaking truth to power," or some such nonsense. But when it crosses the line into geopolitical reality, TDS is costly and dangerous.
We can criticize the F-35 program on multiple fronts, but what it does superbly is mesh multiple different forces into an integrated response. It is simply better at its job than any other platform. The recent attack on Iran by Israel's F-35s is an excellent example of its superiority. It is the most modern war plane on earth, and there is no getting around that fact.
For Canada to consider a clearly inferior platform because of its economic battles with the Trump administration is short-sighted in the extreme. We will have to step in and buttress Canada's already pathetic armed forces if they choose the clearly inferior Swedish plane. But TDS is all-encompassing, even if it means jeopardizing the national security of Canada!
In 2022 Ottawa selected the U.S. Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II – a fifth-generation, stealth multirole fighter – committing to 88 aircraft to meet agreed NORAD, NATO, and Arctic security requirements. The F-35’s advanced sensor fusion capabilities and deep strike profile were seen as essential to defending vast northern airspace alongside U.S. forces.
However, that consensus about what it takes to meet these requirements appears to have evaporated. After Prime Minister Mark Carney ordered a review of the F-35 contract in 2025 amid escalating U.S.–Canada trade tensions, Ottawa signalled interest in alternative options – notably Sweden’s Saab JAS-39 Gripen E, a 4.5-generation fighter pitched with the promise of 12,600 Canadian industrial assembly and jobs.
In response to reports that Ottawa is on the verge of siding with Saab, U.S. ambassador Pete Hoekstra warned that a pivot away from the F-35 would strain or “alter” the NORAD framework, likely forcing the U.S. to deploy its own fighters more often into Canadian airspace if interoperability is lost.
Carney’s stance on the situation is undeniably political, reflecting ongoing friction with Washington over tariff disputes and rhetoric seen in Ottawa as unpredictable. Those problems have contributed to the growing unease among Canadian policymakers over a perceived over-reliance on U.S. defense systems.
I am not sure why relying on American military systems is a bad thing. We share a continent, a border, a language, and even some culture. Canada simply isn't big enough, rich enough, or technologically advanced enough to go it on their own.
Canada and Carney remind me of the joke about the mouse that creeps up to an elephant and begins to hump its leg. The elephant looks down, the mouse looks up and says, "Don't worry, I'll be gentle."
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The daughter of Republican Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson was stabbed to death in a botched murder-suicide over the weekend — leading her father to abruptly suspend his 2026 campaign.
Hallie Marie Tobler, 22, was discovered dead with multiple stab wounds inside her locked apartment in St. Cloud after cops responded to a medical emergency on Saturday evening, according to the St. Cloud Police Department. Tobler’s husband, 23-year-old Dylan Michael Tobler, was also critically wounded inside the home with what investigators believed to be self-inflicted stab wounds, police said. . . Dylan, who is now in stable condition, has been taken into police custody and is expected to be hit with homicide charges in connection with Hallie’s death following his release from the hospital, cops added. . .
. . . “Out of respect for his family and the enormity of this loss, Jeff has suspended his campaign for Governor of Minnesota. We ask all Minnesotans to join us in lifting up the Johnson family during this incredibly painful time.”
Johnson ran a campaign that was tough on crime, immigration and fraud in the North Star State, which has become the battleground of ICE operations and clashes between protesters and federal officers in recent months.
Indeed this is something but the question is, "Is this Something something?" Obviously we do not know as of yet the interpersonal dynamics of the relationship between the victim and her husband, nor do we know the politics of either, especially the latter. But, given what is going on in Minnesota as well as who the victim's father is, as well as the established fact that political terrorism and violence in service to ideology and the lust for absolute power are the stock in trade and sine qua non of the Democrat Party and leftists, it is well within the realm of possibility and most likely IMHO what will be the motive behind this attack.
That is not hyperbole my friends, as these next two items will underscore:
A video by Democrat Suzanna Karatassos, who exemplifies the AWFUL acronym (“Affluent White Female Urban Liberal") better than anyone I’ve seen in the past 20 minutes, is going viral.
Suzanna is running for Georgia’s 120th District in the state legislature. She’s privileged, and she oozes virtue signaling from every pore. Suzanna’s “final solution” to the “MAGA problem” is to ban us all from the Internet for four years:
When this is all over, and Trump is gone, and Democrats are back in charge, and we’re rebuilding everything, the punishment for MAGA for voting Trump three times needs to be that they lose their internet access for four years. That they cannot post videos or comments on social media, for four straight years, so that none of us are subjected to their lies and misinformation. While we are rebuilding the chaos that they caused, the whole world and America gets to be without their BS online for four straight years. Can we all agree to this?
After decades of American institutions of higher education teaching that whites are the “oppressors” in the intersectional hierarchy, Texas politician Gene Wu is encouraging other racial groups to team up politically based on claims of shared victimhood.
In a recently circulated clip from a December 2024 interview, Wu says:
“I always tell people, the day the Latino, African American, Asian and other communities, realize that … they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning. Because we are the majority in this country now. We … have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.”
Rep. Gene Wu (D) goes mask off: "Non-whites share the same oppressor and we are the majority now. We can take over this country."
I seem to recall another Socialist named Schickelgruber who after he and his supporters took over their country did what was needed by building high speed railroads so they could send their perceived oppressors and usurpers directly to the gas chambers and crematoria.
Those Minnesota riots, once described by some as “spontaneous,” look more and more like a backdoor attempt by China, allied with extreme groups in the U.S., to foment violence and outright rebellion.
When you think about recent events in the Middle East, it’s easier to understand what’s happening in Minnesota.
There are significant parallels between the tactics of Hamas and pro-illegal immigrant agitators. Start with this. Both have no realistic way to achieve their objective through conventional means. . . Outmatched in bullets and ballots, both groups have sought to use political pressure to achieve their aims. Putting their own people in danger is key to these efforts. Hamas hides its military infrastructure in and around hospitals and schools. Israel either avoids attacking legitimate military targets, or Hamas rushes out pictures of dead women and children.
Something similar is happening in Minnesota. Agitators are actively stalking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and then physically trying to prevent federal agents from arresting illegal immigrants. Crowd control should be a job for local cops. But Minnesota politicians have prevented local police from coordinating with ICE. In December, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara even told residents to call the cops on ICE.
Federal agents are put in a no-win situation. Either they allow agitators to stop them from arresting a criminal illegal immigrant, or they must use physical force to arrest the agitators. At a minimum, that will produce ugly-looking videos. Twice when an agitator has resisted, things have turned deadly. Illegal immigration activists then promote out-of-context videos and lob vile accusations at federal agents.
There is no negotiating with terrorists. What the Democrat/Left have been attempting to do for the past 200 years is coming to a head. Forget slavery and the Civil War. They have never accepted the American founding and have been attempting to overthrow the Republic ever since Aaron Burr murdered Alexander Hamilton. The only things that have changed are the personalities involved and the temporal issues real or concocted.
It has been evident for a very long time that the Democrat Left is a completely alien political/cultural entity that is antithetical to our own, and that co-existence is impossible. Even if there were to be some sort of national divorce and physical cleaving into two separate nations, like Islamic nations bordering Israel, they could never accept our existence. Beyond a complete collapse of their economy and inability to fend for themselves, feed house or clothe their populace, that we would be thriving as they starved and froze to death (think the iconic picture of the Korean peninsula at night, the north in total darkness and the south lit up like a Christmas tree), their innate desire to dominate and subjugate could never allow for accepting our independent existence.
Sad to say but it's us or them. As we head towards the semiquincentennial this summer, will we reach a tricentennial and all things considered, you have to wonder if we'll actually make it to 250.
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It is especially noteworthy that the anti-government protests are well-organized and funded, which suggests the involvement of groups with substantial networks. Why Minnesota Keeps Erupting in Anti-Government Chaos
“The Trump administration will not comply with a court order requiring due process for hundreds of Venezuelan migrants deported to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador last year, DOJ lawyers said,” reports Fox News Digital. “It sets up a heated clash in court next week in a case that is almost certainly headed back to the Supreme Court.” The Trump Administration FINALLY Tells Boasberg to Pound Sand
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The Guardian issued a correction, undermining the credibility of the newspaper and the related accusations against the Trump administration peddled by lawyer Andrew P. Bakaj, who helped orchestrate the first impeachment effort against President Donald J. Trump in 2019. Top News Outlet FAKES NatSec Bombshell, Aided by Anti-Trump Impeachment Lawyer.
During Monday's Morning Intern-Murderer Joe, so-called ‘conservative’ writer Matt Lewis alleged ICE was “buying” local police forces across the country through the federal 287(g) program in order to serve as a “paramilitary” force for a possible plot by President Donald Trump to steal the midterm elections.MS NSDAP: ‘Paramilitary’ ICE ‘Buying Off’ Police to Help Steal Elections
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
The SAVE America Act, a Republican-backed election integrity measure, would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote — including by mail — mandate photo ID for federal elections, direct states to verify citizenship and remove non-citizens from federal voter rolls. Senate Republicans Have The Power To Force Democrats To Filibuster Voter ID — So Why Don’t They?
Voter ID laws affect Democrats in much the same way that kryptonite affects Superman. These laws diminish the party’s strength, instill fear, and incite outrage. When a Democrat Supporting the SAVE Act is News
Maxwell was to be questioned during a video call to the federal prison camp in Texas where she’s serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking. She’s come under new scrutiny as lawmakers try to investigate how Epstein, a well-connected financier, was able to sexually abuse underage girls for years. Ghislaine Maxwell declined to answer questions from a House committee, citing 5th Amendment rights
Maxwell met with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in late July and answered questions about her ties to Jeffrey Epstein and her alleged role in the trafficking network. . . Honig said Maxwell’s decision to speak openly with Blanche may have weakened her ability to invoke the Fifth Amendment. Elie Honig Explains How Maxwell May Have Inadvertently Waived Her Fifth Amendment Protection
On the favorability question, 72 of likely Republican primary voters said they had a favorable opinion of Paxton and 22 percent had an unfavorable opinion. Hunt came in second with 70 percent of the respondents saying they had a favorable opinion on him, and just 10 percent saying unfavorable. Only 61 percent of respondents had a favorable opinion of Cornyn and 30 percent held an unfavorable opinion. Poll: Attorney General Ken Paxton Beating John Cornyn, Wesley Hunt in Texas GOP Senate Primary
So at the same time, it’s clear, I think, that there is more room, more space for more dialogue. And I’m sure I have the impression that the President is willing to engage — he’s willing to engage with his own approach — which is about reaching an outcome. It’s not about discussing for the sake of discussion or conversation. So my message is, it’s very clear that the EU cannot and should not be seen as an adversary. On the contrary, we see that there is great potential for making the relation grow in terms of trade and in terms of the various things that affect us both from migration, from a number of files, connectivity, and so on. So Cyprus has now this role. Exclusive — Cypriot Foreign Minister: President Trump in ‘Unique Position to Define Global Order and Developments’
Overnight, U.S. military forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding on the Aquila II without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility. The Aquila II was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean. It ran, and we followed. The Department of War tracked and hunted this vessel from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean. WATCH: U.S. Military Hunts Down, Boards Vessel Defying ‘American Power’ in Indian Ocean
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
The law expanding the state’s culture of death will go into effect in six months to allow the Department of Health to put regulations into place, making New York the 13th state, plus Washington, D.C. to legalize physician-assisted suicide. Hochul released a statement equating assisted suicide with “freedoms” and a “right to bodily autonomy” — a similar argument used by pro-abortion and pro-transgender activists who promote mutilation and the killing of unborn babies. New York Becomes 13th State to Legalize Assisted Suicide
Using data collected by the orbiter Cassini while it orbited Saturn more than a decade ago, scientists now think they have mapped out how the moon Enceladus interacts with Saturn’s magnetic field and helps create an aurora in Saturn’s polar regions. How Saturn’s moon Enceladus causes an aurora on Saturn
In other words, the next rehearsal will focus almost entirely on fueling to make sure these issues are resolved. The agency however has not set a date for that countdown rehearsal. To launch in March, as presently planned, it must occur sometime in the next three weeks, and go perfectly. Otherwise that launch will slip again, and begin to bump up against the end of the launch window on April 6th. NASA provides update on Artemis-2 repairs for future dress rehearsal countdown
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
He was making an inherently political claim that the left has been pushing for years, which is that the United States of America — colloquially known as America — isn’t for Americans and that national borders are arbitrary at best but illegitimate at worst. The Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Literally About Erasing ‘America’
When politics upstage talent at the Grammys, it’s not just bad television—it’s proof that America’s cultural gatekeepers have traded art for ideology, and now want a monopoly to spread it. The Grammys Were Bad, but at Least They Were Consistent
Though I read a lot of good, detailed, and well-researched histories, I repeatedly find that if I really want to get a sense of the reality of times past, it is necessary to read something that was written by a person who lived at the time, and was an actual witness to great events.When you do this you instantly cut through the political narratives that color all histories, whether sincere or not. What life was really like in the American wild west
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It may be a harsh mistress, but it's a lot closer to the shops.
SpaceX is refocusing on lunar colonies as a short-term goal, and strip-mining the surface and feeding raw materials into railgun launch systems to provide the resources for the company's planned cloud of orbital datacenters and/or inconveniencing pesky bureaucrats on their holidays.
SpaceX didn't mention any such thing, of course, but Eric Berger has read the classics.
That's 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes from the CPU for slots and 8 for storage, plus up to 12 PCIe 5.0 and 12 PCIe 4.0 lanes from the chipset. Given that even an RTX 5090 is barely slowed down by only having 4 lanes of PCIe 5.0 available, that's a pretty healthy number.
And 8 SATA ports and approximately 40 USB ports.
There are five different chipsets planned, though the W980 offers pretty much everything including support for ECC memory... Which is not a chipset function but a CPU one, but something Intel likes to do.
Canonical hopes to ship it in Ubuntu 26.04 in April, which is cutting it pretty close. But that's a long-term release and perhaps they'd rather have the very latest kernel in a version they will be supporting for a decade.
The company [Rilla> has become something of a poster child for a fast-paced workplace culture known as 996, also sometimes referred to as hustle culture or grindcore.
In simple terms, it puts a premium on long working hours, typically 9am to 9pm, six days a week (hence "996").
For most of us, that would be gruelling. But according to Will Gao, head of growth at Rilla, its 120 employees simply don't see it that way.
When the "head of growth" says employees don't see it that way, you can take it to the bank that they absolutely do.
"We look for people who are like Olympian athletes, with characteristics of, you know, obsession, infinite ambition.
Galley slaves.
He insists that while the hours are generally long, there's no rigid structure.
"If I'm like, 'Holy cow, I have a super idea I'm working on', then I'll just keep working until 2 or 3am, then I'll just roll in the next day at noon or something", he explains.
Nope.
I have to work weird hours sometimes. Comes with the job.
But I have a rule that when I do need to work late, I don't clock in again for twelve hours, minimum.
The burbs are great after a big snow. Especially when the temperature doesn't skyrocket afterward and the snow sticks around for a few weeks. My little town does a good job of clearing the roads, so driving is effortless, and the pleasure of a white wonderland is clear to see without having to slog through a big mess.
NYC is a different animal entirely, and they are welcome to their garbage-strewn streets and slush mountains. I'll take the pristine (for now) suburbs any day over 3:00AM Thai takeout and marijuana delivery.
It's just a drone writ large, and that makes it both reassuring and terrifying. But you can't get one until 2028...they are either backlogged, or it's all smoke and mirrors.
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A fish is swimming out in a lake, when he sees a fly flitting around, 3 feet above the water. The fish thinks to himself, "If that fly comes down about 5 inches, I can eat it!", so he sits and waits.
A bear sees the fish watching the fly and thinks to himself, "When that fly comes down a few inches, that fish is going to jump up and try to eat it. When that happens, I'm going to swipe that fish onto land and eat it."
A hunter eating a sandwich sees the bear watching the fish watching the fly, and thinks to himself, "When that fly lowers, the fish is going to jump up to get it, and that bear is going to try and eat that fish. When that happens, I'm going to shoot the bear and stuff him for my den," so he puts down his sandwich, and readies his gun.
A mouse is sitting there watching the hunter, watching the bear, watching the fish, watching the fly, and thinks to himself, "When that fish goes for the fly and the bear goes for the fish, and the hunter tries too shoot the bear, I'm going to go and eat his sandwich." so he sits and waits, keeping a watchful eye on the hunter and his sandwich.
A cat in the bushes sees the mouse watching the hunter watching the bear watching the fish watching the fly, and thinks "When that fly lowers 5 inches, the fish is going to try and eat it, then the bear is going to eat the fish, then that hunter is going to shoot the bear, then that mouse is going to try and eat the sandwich. When that happens, I'm going to eat that mouse." so he sits and waits. watching the mouse intently.
After a few tense minutes, the fly finally lowers itself.
The fish jumps out of the water, and catches the fly in it's mouth a split second before the bear swipes the fish onto land and begins to devour it, shortly before being shot in the face by the hunter, while the mouse lunges for the sandwich. The cat sees the action springing right in front of him, so he books it out of the bushes making a bee line for the mouse, but misses it completely, and falls face first into the lake.
Moral of the story; when a fly comes down 5 inches, a pussy gets wet.
Pass the pot to Grandma — her brain might thank you.
A new study is challenging long-held assumptions about cannabis, finding that middle-aged and older adults who use the drug may actually see some brain and cognitive benefits.
The twist comes as cannabis use is climbing among older Americans. Research shows that nearly 1 in 5 people ages 50 to 64 reported using marijuana in the past year, along with 5.9% of those 65 and older.
Biochemical research is mostly bullshit: filled with weasel words and ass-covering nonsense. If marijuana was that wonderful, we would have figured it out long ago.
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I became aware of this clickbait style post last year, when I saw questions asking do you see A or B when the answer was obviously C. And that bothers you, the idea that it's so obviously C but this idiot doesn't see it. I know this is just preying on the deep human instinct to correct someone. But I just keep falling for it. That one is especially hard to resist.
Japan's "Ultra-Right-Wing" Extremist PM Wins a Shockingly Large Victory By Running on Promise to Seriously Restrict Immigration to the Island Nation
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Keemochee, I said in a high-pitched Japanese voice. Oooh Sugai!, I added, squealing in delight.
These are just a couple of Japanese words I happen to know. Why do I know them? Shut up, narc. I just know them, okay? We don't need to get any more detailed than that.
PM Sanai Takaichi won a landslide, giving her conservative party its biggest lower-house majority in history.
The upper house often frustrates the will of the people by vetoing the decisions of the lower house, but now she has a veto-proof two thirds super-majority.
NPR is of course very sad and rushes to soothe its meltbrain medicated AWFUL readers about all the way this crushing victory could turn in a huge disaster!
SEOUL -- Japan's first female Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, brought the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) its biggest electoral victory in its 71-year history, fueling her ambitions to pursue to a political agenda which she herself says could "split public opinion."
Oh no! She's going to push her agenda so hard that it might alienate the Japanese equivalent of RINOs so, you see, in a way, her victory is really a Secret Loss.
The snap elections for the lower house of parliament were held despite the shortest campaign period in post-war history, and massive snowstorms across much of Japan.
Oh that's right -- I saw comment that people were so enthused about voting for her they had to climb over ice and snow to get to the polling places.
Benefitting from Takaichi's popularity, the LDP won a two-thirds majority in the lower house, enough to override vetoes by the opposition-controlled upper house.
It would also allow the LDP to initiate amendments to Japan's pacifist constitution, which the party has sought to revise since its founding in 1955, and Takaichi said she would pave the way for an eventual referendum on the issue.
It's the biggest majority any single Japanese party has won in the lower house in the post-war era. An unprecedented 90% of candidates fielded by the LDP won.
Charismatic Japanese leaders, including Takaichi's mentor former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, have helped the LDP stage comebacks before.
It's a feature of Japan's politics, which RAND Corporation Japan expert Jeffrey Hornung says "are always very personalistic. People always look to the leader, not so much the party."
Oh I get it, they're just dummies who are mesmerized by her Dark Charisma. No one actually agrees with her policies.
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Questions and criticisms remain about how Takaichi will pay for these priorities, given that Japan's government debt is more than 200% of GDP.
She's talking about increasing military spending to 2% of GDP and that's when NPR suddenly wonders "Wait how can the government pay for all of these goodies...?!"
But Takaichi apparently feels her mandate will empower her to sweep aside obstacles.
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Takaichi's lopsided victory comes amid a general shift to the political right in Japan.
Following Takaichi's election as LDP president last year, the LDP's coalition partner of 26 years, the centrist Komeito Party, left the bloc. The LDP then joined a new coalition with the right-wing populist Japan Innovation Party.
Komeito joined a new coalition called the Centrist Reform Alliance, which lost most of their seats in the snap election, prompting their leaders to resign.
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Takaichi pledged to continue to use the Japan-U.S. alliance as the cornerstone of foreign policy, and plans to meet with President Trump next month.
Celoteh Dunia
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A historic shift for Japan. With 316 seats, PM Takaichi now holds a supermajority that effectively bypasses Upper House gridlock. This mandate will likely fast-track her hawkish security agenda, including increasing military spending to 2% of GDP and boosting offensive capabilities. The regional security landscape is about to change significantly.
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Japan got literally the tiniest bit of migration and micro intrusion on their culture. They responded with the most right wing electoral result in history and essentially banished the left from any bit of power. Absolutely beautiful to see.
As I've long said, I admire Japan more than any other country. You could lick their streets they're so clean. Tokyo is decades ahead of other cities. They're fiercely protective of their unique culture and people. They're nationalists of the best kind.
They enjoy others from a distance and are happy to befriend you but the moment you disrespect them they want nothing to do with you. Total respect from me. Congrats Japan!
If you told me that there would be a Second Coming of Margaret Thatcher with even more conservative stances on immigration and defense, and that SHE would be LOVED and not despised by the youth in the 2026th Year of Our Lord, I simply would't believe you.
BREAKING: Japan's ultra-conservative prime minister is set to seize more power after an exit poll had her securing a big majority in the country's lower house.
Remember the Little Scottish Girl Who Armed Herself with a Knife and Ax to Defend Herself Against, She Said, Sexual Assault by a Foreigner? Remember How the British Government and Media Savaged Her as a Racist?
She said she armed herself and wielded those weapons to protect herself and her little sister from an attack by a self-identified "gypsy gangster."
The police, of course, immediately arrested her, which is now standard UK police practice when a rough migrant sexually abuses a girl.
See Beege Wellborn's post for the cruelty poured upon this little girl by the British government and media, who attacked her as a despicable racist.
The First Minister of Scotland blamed... Elon Musk, somehow.
Well, more than six months later -- hopefully beyond the public's capacity to remember -- the police have made two more arrests in this matter. (This is not accurate, see the "clarification" at post's end. They just appeared in court yesterday. They were charged two weeks after the incident.)
And UK media is reporting these arrests in such a low-key, BTW, not for nothing kind of way designed to not have anyone pick up on the story.
Especially not that big meaning Elon Musk.
Care to guess who it turns out the actual aggressors were in this case?
There was a terse little article in the BBC yesterday, almost as if they hoped no one would read it. Or if they did, they left out items like 'axe' 'knife' etc., which would have connected the couple who are facing a trial to...guess who?
A man and woman have appeared in court accused of assaulting two girls in Dundee.
Prosecutors allege Ilia Belov, 22, approached and followed four girls, who were aged between 12 and 14, and made sexual remarks to them before seizing one of the girls and pushing her to the ground.
His co-accused Nadjedzha Belova, 20, is accused of repeatedly seizing and pulling another of the girls by the hair, dragging her to the ground, and punching her on the head to her injury.
That's right, it's the Gypsy Gangster Man and his whore girlfriend who turn out to have sexually attacked the little girls.
This is the man accused of harassing children & was threatened by the 14-year-old girl in Scotland.
Fatos Ali Dumana a self-described ‘gypsy gangster man’, who has posted saying he is “waiting for you whores to get in my super car” - is not a model migrant as the media claims. https://t.co/VAEa0kvVndpic.twitter.com/URoYGhLluV
"Clarification," as Cate Brown would call it: Actually, police decided to charge this pair within a couple of weeks of their attack on the girls. The new news stories are about their first appearance in court, not the decision to charge.
FBI: Jeffrey Epstein Was a Child Sex Abuser But He Wasn't Running a Pedophile Sex Ring for the World's Rich and Famous
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I've said previously that the idea that some people have, that Epstein was literally running a child sex brothel and billionaires were paying him for sex, was almost certainly false. I know that people don't like to hear this, but some alleged conspiracies are just too big to believe that no one ever blew the whistle.
He certainly does seem to have made young women available for the use of his pedophile pals. But this seems to have been a matter of ingratiation and favor-banking rather than a quid pro quo with billionaires paying Ghislaine Maxwell at the till before passing the turnstile and entering Pedo Island.
The FBI also says it did not find blackmail photos or videos in the Epstein files.
The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein's bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world's most influential people.
But while investigators collected ample proof that Epstein sexually abused underage girls, they found scant evidence the well-connected financier led a sex trafficking ring serving powerful men, an Associated Press review of internal Justice Department records shows.
I think this might depend on what the definition of "sex ring" is. The strong form of it didn't apparently exist. But a weak form it, with Epstein maintaining his value to wealthy and powerful men by making young women available to them, and subsequently getting very valuable insider information, probably did exist.
Why did Peter Mandelson tell Epstein in advance of the then-nonpublic UK government decision to bail out the banks? What services was Epstein providing to him?
Or was it just a cash transaction in that case, with Epstein paying Mandelson and his husband off? We know Epstein sent $75,000 to Mandelson, even if Mandelson "can't remember" if he received that sum or not, and another ten thousand pounds to his husband.
Prosecution memos, case summaries and other documents made public in the department's latest release of Epstein-related records show that FBI agents and federal prosecutors diligently pursued potential coconspirators. Even seemingly outlandish and incomprehensible claims, called in to tip lines, were examined. ...
Investigators said they confirmed that Giuffre had been sexually abused by Epstein. But other parts of her story were problematic.
Two other Epstein victims who Giuffre had claimed were also "lent out" to powerful men told investigators they had no such experience, prosecutors wrote in a 2019 internal memo.
"No other victim has described being expressly directed by either Maxwell or Epstein to engage in sexual activity with other men," the memo said.
Yeah, I don't know. I do not believe that Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Pam Bondi have any incentive to lie about these things. The conspiracy theorists lose me when they start claiming that everyone who fails to support their conspiracy theories must themselves be in on the conspiracy. But, conspiracy theorists tend to do that. That's their go-to move.
I don't exactly feel satisfied by this report. I still think there's gotta be something more there.
Turnabout is fair play. Massie is forever accusing Trump of a cover up.
Well release dem names, Massie. Or are you covering up for the Epstein Sex Ring yourself?
EPSTEIN: Rep Thomas Massie has been covering up the names of 20 Epstein clients for at least six months. Massie told the House Judiciary Committee about the list last September. Who is he covering for? pic.twitter.com/zyjyIFAomx
Left-Wing "Scoop" That Tulsi Gabbard Was on a Secret, Traitorous Phone Call with a Foreign Person Blows Up Within Hours, Exposed As Another Schiffian Hoax
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The "story" was broken by Cate Brown -- formerly of the Washington Post.
She's a Deep State operator programmed by her masters to take out Tulsi Gabbard.
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
1h
At first, I thought the fake anti-Tulsi Gabbard story ended up in the Guardian because that's where fake leakers go when even the New York Times and Washington Post won't touch their stories. But it's worse than that. The reporter who wrote the piece used to be at the Washington Post, pushing anti-Tulsi stories even then. More damning, she did it alongside Catherine Belton, a close associate of Steele dossier hoaxer Christopher Steele and a notorious Russiagate liar whose false claims about Sergei Millian, an innocent American, destroyed his life and business. It's always the same dirty clique of media operators pushing these hoaxes. Fortunately, unlike before, they're finally being called out.
She got a "tip" -- a tip that came from a Hillary and Schumer operative and CIA lawyer, Andrew Bakaj.
Apparently he previously worked for... the traitorous Ukranian agents, the Vindman brothers, who engineered Trump's first Fake Impeachment.
Svetlana Lokhova
@RealSLokhova
14h
The @guardian are now dissembling because in their attempted hit on @TulsiGabbard, they relied on the word of the CIA operative "lawyer" Andrew Bakaj, who worked for Hillary and Schumer on the Hill and represented the Vindmans in the fake Ukraine impeachment.
So, what was this tip?
That Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, had been on the phone with a foreign person.
Wow! What a scandal!
Our top intelligence official was caught talking to a foreign person! That's unlegal! We can't have our top spooks talking with foreigners!
Cate Brown
@catebrown12
SCOOP: The NSA detected a phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump last spring.
Whistleblower says that @DNIGabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff.
Bakaj, now representing a new Vindman-like "whistleblower," made threats to Tulsi Gabbard that he would, I don't know, file some faggot paperwork against her:
BREAKING: The whistleblower's lawyer tells Tulsi Gabbard that he will go directly to Congress if she doesn't respond. He has Top Secret clearance. pic.twitter.com/aMQ3iWiJhZ
But it's worse that this being a nothingburger -- in fact, it's a lie from top to bottom.
The NSA leaker -- who should be found, fired, and prosecuted -- turns out to have never claimed that Tulsi Gabbard was on the phone with a foreigner. (As absurd as that "story" would be.)
He only claimed that two foreigners were speaking on a call intercepted by the NSA, and one of these foreigners... mentioned Tulsi Gabbard.
The Vindman's lawyer and Schumer/Hillary operative now says he "misspoke" when he repeatedly claimed that Tulsi had spoken with a foreigner.
And the "reporter" who shit this piece of shit out in the pages of the Guardian is now pretending her story is still 100% accurate, it just needs a slight clarification:
Cate Brown
@catebrown12
Whistleblower attorney @AndrewBakaj revised his previous statement to the Guardian, saying that "The NSA picked up a phone call between two members of foreign intelligence involving someone close to the Trump White House."
Updated for clarity -->
"Clarity."
This is a pretty big “clarification.”
The first version of this said that the phone call was between a person associated with foreign intel & a person close to Trump. Now it says that it was a call between two members of foreign intel related to someone close to the White House. https://t.co/FNBQcVN3uHpic.twitter.com/XqGQ2XTNYm
Alexa Henning, chief of staff for Tulsi Gabbard, calls this lying whore a lying whore and says she was told in advance that her sources were lying to her, and if she would just wait a few hours they would get her the accurate information.
She published anyway.
And she still has her lying tweet up, continuing to get clicks and retweets and spread the misinformation further:
Your story is false. This headline is not accurate.
Your leaker lied to you. And you ignored our requests to give us time to get you accurate information and published your story before we could respond.
You are a total loser being used by your sources (likely Congress) to… https://t.co/kWyVWXR2yJ
Well, Schiff has done this before. This reporter thinks it's Mark Warner (Democrat senator from the failed state of Virginia).
Svetlana Lokhova
@RealSLokhova
Interesting that this hit on @TulsiGabbard is coming from the British Guardian.
The actual article is bs, of course.
But it shows you who the leaker is, which appears to be Senator Mark Warner's cutout(s)
Christopher Steele/British intel run the Guardian so that's probably how the leak was organized.
I assume they washed it through UK because it's too sensitive to do in the US where they would run into national security issues. Whereas once published, then the US papers can quote the British ones.
Standard CIA tactic is placing fake stories through foreign newspapers.
So I would say it's the anti-Trump elements in the CIA and the NSA as well as Warner and his crew plus the British.
Just like Russiagate
She thinks it was Warner because this false complaint was probably leaked by one of the "Gang of Eight," the eight congressmen and Senator who receive top secret information like this:
The only 4 people in Congress who were allowed to read the highly-classified “whistleblower complaint” (found not credible by the Inspector General) were these Dem members of the Gang of 8.
Not sure while that sneaky son of a bitch Schumer couldn't have done it, given that he previously employed Bakaj.
The Researcher thinks this latest hoax-hit was arranged to hurt Tulsi and make her stop looking at the Fulton County, GA election rigging:
A little ditty called “The new hoax is the same as the old hoax” with an all-star cast of criminals including Norm Eisen, CIA operative Andrew Bakaj, CIA operative Eric Ciaramella, Democracy Inc. propagandist Allison Gill, and Adam Schiff.
The Guardian got taken by a "whistleblower," published a false story, and had to issue a major correction, and CNN's media reporter Brian Stelter hasn't mentioned it.
This is supposed to be his beat.
Yeah, how 'bout that.
Meanwhile, daft old leftist establishment nostalgia act Peggy Noonan is whining about how bad the cuts are at the Washington Post, because we rely on brave truth-seeking journalists to provide us with crucial, accurate information about our nation and our government.
Lulu NYT
@LuluGNavarro
Every single word of this fantastic column by @Peggynoonannyc
'I fear sometimes that few people really care about journalism, but we are dead without it. Someday something bad will happen, something terrible on a national scale, and the thing we'll need most, literally to survive, is information. Reliable information--a way to get it, and then to get it to the public. That is what journalism is, getting the information. '
Mary Katherine Ham isn't too sure about that.
The press had their moment to report to the public about the lies government officials were telling us -- and instead of debunking those lies, they doubled down on those lies and defamed the actual truth-tellers.
Mary Katharine Ham
@mkhammer
The moment was Covid. It happened. Almost every journalist in the nation failed to relay reliable information, instead succumbing to panic and the widest-spread daily curtailment of civil liberties in my lifetime. The rare figures who didn't were silenced or stifled or removed.
I was a fourth-generation newspaper journalist. My first job was taking local election totals off a chalkboard at the courthouse and relaying them to the local newsroom. I delivered the AJC at 4 am every day of my freshman year of college. I'm sad we don't have local Metro dailies now instead of the Columbia Journalism School-to-NYT pipeline, which gives almost no journo any exposure to normal people. But acting like these institutions haven't EARNED distrust is just missing the story.
Charles C. W. Cooke
@charlescwcooke
Feb 8
Having lived through Covid, BLM, and the coverup of Joe Biden's senility, I'm going to have to disagree with Peggy Noonan about this one.
Update: The DNI is informing the fake "whistleblower" and Bakaj that they might be prosecuted:
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For nearly a week, the complainant's attorney has falsely claimed that @DNIGabbard
"violated the law." This is a slanderous lie.
Today, @ODNIgov's General Counsel lays out the facts:
1) Neither the Biden-era nor Trump-appointed Intelligence Community Inspector General ever found his client's allegations credible.
2) His client was informed within three days that DNI Gabbard had provided required security guidance.
3) His client remains an IC employee and has the right to report the "fact of" existence -- not the contents -- of the complaint to Congress.
4) The whistleblower's rights do not extend to the attorney himself.
5) Due to the highly classified nature of the information involved, which the attorney is not cleared to review, ODNI correctly required the IC IG to hand-deliver the complaint ONLY to the Gang of Eight.
Any allegations to the contrary are baseless, and frankly, theatrical.
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Overrules Lawless Lowly District Court Judges, Rules that Illegal Aliens May Be Held Without Bond While They Fight Their Deportation Orders
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The left prefers that the be released on bond, so they can simply abscond and never show up for any deportation hearings. They stay in the US perpetually just by the left releasing them every time they're caught by immigration agents. They just find a new place to live and slip into "the shadows" again, as our left-wing friends the Bushes like to say.
The Fifth Circuit ruled on Friday that illegal aliens have no right release from detention. They can file their worthless objections using the scripted lies that open borders advocates teach them to say, but they'll do that while cooling their heels in stir.
A federal appeals court on Friday endorsed the Trump administration's policy of holding broad groups of immigration detainees without access to bond hearings, a major legal victory for President Trump and his deportation crackdown.
In a 2-1 decision, a panel of federal judges at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said the Trump administration had properly reinterpreted an immigration law last year to disqualify many unauthorized immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement from being able to ask an immigration judge to be released on bond.
Previously, immigrants who had lived in the U.S. unlawfully for years were generally eligible for bond hearings, and the opportunity to persuade an immigration judge that they were not flight risks and should be allowed to fight their deportation outside of a detention center. Mandatory detention had been historically limited to recent border crossers and those convicted of certain crimes.
But the Trump administration took the position that anyone who entered the U.S. illegally, irrespective of how long ago, is subject to mandatory detention during their deportation proceedings. The only mechanism for release under that policy was if ICE decided to parole them out of custody on humanitarian or public interest grounds.
The seismic policy change has led ICE to indefinitely hold detainees who entered the U.S. illegally years or even decades ago and who previously would've been eligible for bond, including those without criminal records.
The mass detention policy has been challenged in federal courts across the country, straining the resources of government lawyers. Most judges have found the policy to be illegal.
But the 5th Circuit panel disagreed and upheld the Trump administration's legal position, reversing two lower court orders.
The majority opinion -- penned by Reagan-nominated Judge Edith Jones and backed by Trump-nominated Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan -- sided with the Trump administration's view that federal law provides for mandatory detention of large numbers of unauthorized immigrants who were apprehended in the interior of the U.S. and deemed "applicants for admission."
"The text says what it says, regardless of the decisions of prior Administrations," the opinion read. "...In any event, that prior Administrations decided to use less than their full enforcement authority...does not mean they lacked the authority to do more."
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Judge Dana Douglas, a Biden nominee, dissented from the majority opinion. She wrote that the government's claim that the law calls for mandatory detention ignored "historical precedent" and "wave[d] away" the fact that prior administrations hadn't sought to detain people without bond en masse.
"And for what?" writes Douglas, arguing that the majority opinion was "based on little more than an apparent conviction that Congress must have wanted these noncitizens detained -- some of them the spouses, mothers, fathers, and grandparents of American citizens."
This is all the left does. The fact that they are "spouses, mothers, fathers, etc." is not a legal argument. It's not a logical argument of any kind. It is simply a petulant, child-like demand for the reader's sympathy and a claim that they should be allowed to break the law at will because they are "spouses, mothers, fathers, etc."
The left's other argument is that because previous presidents, like Obama, Biden, and of course the Bushes, let illegals remain in the country while they file frivolous objections to deportation, all future presidents are bound by their non-legislative policy choices.
Weird how the right's policy choices never become stealth law and precedent binding all subsequent presidents. Just the left's.
In fact, these illegals seem to be arguing that while they are, in fact, subject to detention awaiting final deportation orders, they should be "eligible for discretionary release" by the Executive. And they're demanding a judge force the executive to grant them discretionary release.
Hm, in that case, it sounds like the judiciary is usurping the elected President's power to grant release under his own discretion.
If affirmed by the Supreme Court, this would become national law and greatly aid Trump in speedily deporting illegal aliens, or giving them the choice of sitting in ICE detentions for months and months or just leaving the country.
A major Fifth Circuit ruling backs Trump’s policy of mandatory detention with no bond, delivering a sweeping blow to activist judges and reshaping immigration enforcement nationwide. pic.twitter.com/fejvx5fxs4
Queer Starmer's "Right-Hand Man," the Man Who Promoted Epstein Bestie Peter Mandelson for Abassador to the US, Resigns
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Drip, drip, drip...
It had been speculated for days that Starmer's Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney would be forced to resign. They intend this to be a firewall against forcing Queer Starmer out -- throw the public one defenestration so that they don't throw Starmer out the window instead.
They're claiming that Morgan McSweeney was singularly responsible for vetting Peter Mandelson so recommending that Epstein Bestie be promoted to Ambassador to the UK was all his fault and totally not the fault of Mandelson's very close associate and protege, Keir Starmer.
Queen Natalie
@TheNorfolkLion
Feb 8
🚨 Breaking: Morgan McSweeney has resigned from the Government, accepting "full responsibility" for advising on the appointment of Lord Mandelson.
Kier Starmer next?
What is interesting is that Morgan McSweeney is not just a noxious communist who thinks that pedophiles can make for fine pals, but he was also a key actor in the UK's enemy action against the US -- he was a ringleader in the UK intelligence service's ops to criminalize American speech so that the UK would be better able to impose censorship and information blackouts on the British populace.
They can't have the Forbidden Truth leaking into the UK from the US via Twitter, after all.
Paul Weston
@PWestoff
5h
Starmer's Chief aide McSweeney was founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) a Sovietesque political censorship outfit. Starmer is now behind the purging of court records. Presumably to hide something from his past. Tyranny in Full View.
Oh -- and McSweeney's father's firm was also paid 6 million pounds by the Irish government to house illegal migrants.
Gee, I wonder why the left never wants to stop illegal immigration.
People have "resurfaced" this clip from 2021. Starmer has supposedly changed his view on transgenderism, and now pretends to hold a more sensible, moderate position.
Most likely because he's simply too unpopular to continue supporting all of the most unpopular positions.
"Is it transphobic to say only women have a cervix?"
Add Keir Starmer's newfound concern for victims of Peter Mandelson's bestie to his backflip on whether women can have penises and his U-turn on the Rotherham grooming gangs enquiry. Starmer is indifferent to harm done to girls and women unless it threatens his career. #StarmerOut
THE MORNING RANT: Trans-Children Advocates Are Back-Tracking to Salvage Their Reputations as Lawsuits and a Preference Cascade Bring the Butchery to an End
—Buck Throckmorton
Words cannot describe just how diabolical the trans-children social contagion has been. Hospital groups and pharmaceutical companies prospered, Munchausen mommies were entranced, and thousands of children were sterilized and mutilated. There is no way to ever undo the damage done to those children, but a recent lawsuit awarding a victim $2 million is a start.
In ensuing days, there has been a cascade of former advocates suddenly reversing their support for transing children, as they face the possibility of massive legal judgments, as well as losing what remaining credibility they still have.
Since that judgment, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons quickly put out a statement opposing gender transition surgeries for minors, stating that “ASPS recommends that surgeons delay gender-related breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.” Almost immediately after the ASPS statement, the American Medical Association also backed off, announcing that “In the absence of clear evidence, the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”
Over the weekend, the Washington Post published an editorial by Megan McArdle titled “The Transgender Orthodoxy is Cracking” which lays out the off-ramp for establishment liberals. She reassures the WaPo’s readers that she is a member of their tribe by stating, “I’m not opposed to pediatric transition. I simply believe we need better evidence before making it standard medical practice.” But she also acknowledges how a minority opinion that seemingly has widespread concurrence can collapse quickly, and that transing children is one of those issues:
Public orthodoxies that diverge from private opinion may be surprisingly stable, but they can also prove remarkably unstable, because they depend on private thoughts to stay private, giving doubters the illusion that they are lone deviants rather than members of a silent majority. Each skeptical voice makes it more likely that further doubts will be raised, triggering a rapid shift to a new equilibrium.
If you’ve wondered how communism collapsed, that’s how. And if you’ve wondered why communist regimes are so oppressive, that’s also your answer. When you are the custodian of a fragile orthodoxy, you cannot afford to allow a hint of dissent.
Perhaps an even greater signal that the establishment left is abandoning the trans-children fad is that David French of all people is trying to publicly walk-back his passion for pushing trans-everything on children. He responded to the detransitioner’s lawsuit victory by tweeting “This is absolutely expected. The facts in many of these cases are truly shocking, and juries were never going to be swayed by extreme and bespoke ideological justifications for drastic and permanently life-altering medical procedures.”
This is absolutely expected. The facts in many of these cases are truly shocking, and juries were never going to be swayed by extreme and bespoke ideological justifications for drastic and permanently life-altering medical procedures. https://t.co/P7bGAHAYeg
Mr. French, of course, worked his way from the National Review to the New York Times by making the “conservative Christian” case for the left’s most pathological agenda items. Most famously, David French called it a “blessing of liberty” for men dressed pruriently in women’s clothing to entertain children in a public library.
As odious as French’s support for “Drag Queen Story Hour” might have been, it still didn’t explicitly support the transing of children. But in a piece David French wrote for The Dispatch in 2021 titled “Hungary is No Model for the American Right,” he made it explicitly clear that he supports the practice of adults pressuring children into adopting a trans-identity. In this piece, French condemned Viktor Orban’s government because ”the regime just passed a law sharply limiting any promotion of homosexuality or gender transition to children.
The fact that David French, who is on the record advocating for the “promotion of…gender transition to children,” is now walking back that support serves as a beacon to the establishment left that the trans-children era is over.
One of David French’s criticisms of Hungary’s Orban is his party’s legislation “sharply limiting any promotion of homosexuality or gender transition to children.” French can’t walk back his open support for the depravity of child gender transition. https://t.co/IY84FpEz69
The trans-children social contagion is soon to be memory-holed, and a day is coming when it will be hard to find any politician or person of authority who will acknowledge having supported this atrocity. There will need to be accountability.
Obviously, those who operated the gender abattoirs should be imprisoned for their grisly mutilation of healthy children, as should those who diagnosed healthy children as needing to be butchered and sterilized. As for those who simply advocated for child gender transitions, they must not be able to whitewash their records. They have rendered themselves unfit for any role in public policy.
Expect there to be a massive scrubbing of social media and professional records by those needing to distance themselves from their advocacy for or involvement in “gender affirming care” for minors.
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There are some acts of evil that were once widely accepted, but once the tides turned against them, the nature of those practices became so incomprehensible that virtually no one would ever claim to having supported them. When I was a child in Texas in the 1970s, it was barely a decade after legal segregation ended, yet I never met a single person who had an opinion of Jim Crow other than that it was a moral abomination and a disgrace. While I genuinely believe that the adults in my childhood were appalled by segregation, there were plenty of folks around who had to have supported segregation, or else it wouldn’t have persisted for so long. But none would admit it, because it would be admitting complicity in evil.
There are other examples of unthinkable practices that were once widely supported, but which are now recalled with abhorrence, such as eugenics and lobotomies. The trans-child social contagion will be remembered similarly.
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So, what do we do for now? Document. Document. Document. In every state and municipality there are up-and-coming politicians and political aspirants who have been very public about their support for “gender affirming care” for minors. Get screenshots and videos of their advocacy before they scrub their records and pretend it never happened.
I practice what I preach. There are a few people with political aspirations whom I am familiar with through my personal and civic circles. They have hard-left politics and live in deep blue bubbles where extremism is not challenged. During the BLM summer of 2020, they publicly advocated on social media in favor of riots, vandalism, criminal violence, property destruction, and defunding the police. With those positions now toxic even for Democrats, the social media of these passionate folks has been scrubbed. But I have screenshots. I don’t seek to cancel anybody, but I will not tolerate people denying the radical agendas they once advocated for. They can own it and say they were wrong, but they cannot deny it. There are abundant employment opportunities for them in fields where their terrible judgment will do no harm, but they have proven their unfitness for policy making.
I fully expect that within a year or two, our elites will be dismissing all talk of child sex changes as just another right-wing conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, the victims who received 15 minutes of adulation for surrendering their bodies to an evil fad when they were children will be discarded and forgotten. The damage done to their bodies can never be reversed, but at a minimum they can sue and seek to financially harm the ghouls who played mad scientist on their bodies.
But most importantly, anyone who once advocated for gender-transitioning children does not have the judgment to ever again be involved in formulating public policy.
Good morning kids. So the big stink this morning, beyond the reportedly revolting (I did not watch a second of any of it) half-time Super Bowl show of some Puerto Rican entertainer, is that there is some fake video being attributed to President Trump that allegedly depicts the Obamas as apes or monkeys. Frankly I find that offensive in the extreme, since Apes and monkeys are among God's most majestic, intelligent and awe-inspiring creatures. Whereas the Obamas are NOT. They are venal, repulsive, noxious, and a pestilence. No they're not Gorillas but they are Guerrillas whose accursed and worthless existences have been spent tearing down and destroying all that is good, just and righteous in service to their own demonic delusions, lusts and desires.
Whoever posted a video on President Trump’s social media containing a racist animation of the Obamas as apes committed an own goal that overshadowed what otherwise would have been a great week for the administration.
It shouldn’t have needed the GOP’s only black senator, Tim Scott, to decry the clip as racist for the post to be deleted and an apology issued by the White House.
The one-minute video reposted late Thursday night on Trump’s Truth Social account was about voter fraud in the 2020 election, one of the president’s favorite subjects. At the end, the video flashed for a split second to a clip of the Obamas from an old “Lion King” meme depicting Democrats as animals, and Trump as a lion.
It was obviously a mistake. Trump says he never watched the video through to the end, and the White House says a “staffer erroneously made the post.”
It certainly doesn’t warrant the breathless media coverage it’s received all weekend. . .
. . . The storm in a teacup helps the resistance media maintain the fiction that Republicans, especially the MAGA variety, are irredeemably racist, while Democrats are paragons of virtue when it comes to defending minorities. . .
The truth is the very opposite.
You can see the inherent racism — or is it classism — on the Democrat side most acutely in their opposition to voter ID in the SAVE America Act, which is up for a vote in the House this week.
The Trump-backed legislation will require proof of citizenship to register to vote and a photo ID to cast a ballot.The real reason Democrats foment racial division is as a divide-and-conquer strategy to seize political power — and keep it forever.
It’s about time we stop falling for their hoaxes.
On Saturday, the Democrat Socialists of America celebrated hitting 100,000 members. Almost on cue, their footprint in organizing anti-ICE so-called “protests” continues to grow.
But these are not protests. They are coordinated obstruction campaigns modeled on the playbook of revolutionary insurgency inspired by violent revolutions.
That much is clear from the latest reporting in The California Post, documenting how militant far-left activists from the Golden State are advising radicals in New York on the latest tactics for sabotaging federal immigration operations.
The objective isn’t dissent. It’s obstruction.
So okay, the DSA hit 100,000. Big deal. How many people are members of the NRA and how many of those do you suppose belong to or sympathize with the DSA? I would say that is a number at or below Zero. Now take Mao's observation and consider the implications if every NRA member simultaneously acted on it. Can you say "Kaboom?" The very thought of it warms the cockles of my heart, irrespective of whether or not it ever comes to pass.
“Anti-ICE protests in Minnesota may appear to be ‘grassroots’ efforts organized by concerned citizens, but they’re really funded with megadonor money — some coming from China,” the New York Post reported.
While the violent protests were organized by a group called “50501,” they’ve been backed by the militant “Party for Socialism and Liberation” and “The People’s Forum,” two groups “largely subsidized by American former tech mogul Neville Roy Singham.”
And who is Singham? He’s a much-investigated current resident of Shanghai who shares an office with a Chinese Communist Party-linked media firm.
Citing a 2023 New York Times investigation of Singham, Fox News notes “that Singham has funneled over a quarter-billion dollars to dark money organizations in the U.S. with little to no footprints, and some of these organizations are vaguely named with office addresses under suspicious locations like general UPS mailboxes.”
. . . By inflaming opposition, and opening their state to a foreign-funded insurrection using American leftist groups as their foot-soldiers, they’ve abetted what appears to be a massive conspiracy to undermine a U.S. president’s clear right to enforce U.S. law.
And China’s involvement is a major issue. It’s been failing in the Western Hemisphere of late, with the election of five conservative new leaders and the loss of the Panama Canal. The arrest of Nicolas Maduro also stung. Imagine how upset China (not to mention, Russia) will be when Cuba’s murderous regime collapses, too.
This is a dangerous time in America. Blue states, and the increasingly lawless cities that define them, have turned into a sort of leftist neo-Confederacy, believing they can nullify American law at will. Minnesota’s Walz even had the temerity to mention Fort Sumter in a recent speech.
But the usual billionaire leftists who fund radical dissent — including George Soros and son — have company: China. And anyone who thinks Walz, an ardent Sinophile who claims to have visited the Middle Kingdom “dozens” of times, wouldn’t welcome Chinese money to counter President Donald Trump and ICE isn’t thinking straight.
China might be losing in Latin America, but it’s apparently winning here by financial subterfuge. The investigation is ongoing.
Earlier this week, Trump spoke with China’s Xi Jinping, who’s busy himself these days arresting potential rivals in the military. We hope that, in addition to talking about other things, Trump had a chance to tell Xi: Stop supporting U.S. leftist riots, or you’ll pay in ways you can’t imagine.
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Thad McCotter: From Civil War nullification to modern sanctuary cities, Democrats revive a doctrine of conditional loyalty that defies federal law and risks renewed national chaos. The Democrats’ Conditional Loyalty
Congressional Democrats made body cameras a top demand after federal agents fatally shot two American citizens in Minneapolis, according to Politico. But privacy groups raised alarms that the recordings could become surveillance tools, pushing the party to call for limits on how ICE handles the footage. After Demanding ICE Adopt Body Cams, Democrats Worry They’ll Become Mass Surveillance Tools
The Western ruling class is unraveling: elites panic, institutions crumble, and the gap between rulers and the ruled has never been clearer. The Ruling Class Panic
EXCLUSIVE: Credible sources tell me that elements of the Intelligence Community (IC), federal law enforcement and Congress have targeted @DNIGabbard' s Director's Initiative Group or DIG because it revealed "uncomfortable facts and findings" on several matters entrenched members of these bureaucracies don't want out there. (Hat tip to commenter MTF) The "Intelligence Community" is still fighting against PDJT
Miranda Devine: Whoever posted a video on President Trump’s social media containing a racist animation of the Obamas as apes committed an own goal that overshadowed what otherwise would have been a great week for the administration. (Apes ae noble creatures. Democrats stir up racial division to seize political power — time we stop falling for their hoaxes (Where has Miranda Devine been for the last 150 years? - jjs)
Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated the decision on social media, calling it “a significant blow against activist judges who have been undermining our efforts to make America safe again at every turn,” according to a post on X. Bondi credited Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney Ben Hayes, who argued the case, along with Brett Shumate and the DOJ Civil Division. “We will continue vindicating President Trump’s law and order agenda in courtrooms across the country,” she wrote. ‘Significant Blow Against Activist Judges’: Federal Court Rules Illegal Immigrants Can Be Detained Without Bond
Bessent said, “The Trump economy is delivering for the American people that we have strong growth and inflation is, in fact, coming down for the past three months. Inflation is 2.1% close to the Federal Reserve’s target and a measure called Truflation, which is daily observations, now is below 1%. So inflation down, stocks strong growth stocks hit a record high and the lowest crime rate in over 100 years.” Bessent: ‘Wall Street Is Telling You that Main Street Is About to Prosper’
KGUN9’s JJ McKinney said his outlet received a ransom note and “in the letter, the potential kidnappers demanded that the Guthries pay them $6 million before this Monday,” the New York Post reported Sunday. VIDEO: Nancy Guthrie Ransom Demand Reaches $6 Million
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
You can see a bunch of obvious themes in this mega-cringe showdown, starting with the feminization thesis advanced by Helen Andrews and the problem of Cluster B politics that Christopher Rufo has described. But the moment couldn’t be any more thoroughly on the nose, because note what the controversy is: A private company took down an anti-ICE sign. The meltdown is about the display of a political slogan. A Viral Video Shows How The Left Coerces Fake Agreement
The modern tendency to treat journalism as a secular oracle did not arise naturally. It was built, reinforced by technology, culture, and myth. To understand why that authority now feels unstable, it helps to look backward, back to when the press was a critical element in the birth of the United States. The Myth of the American Free Press: A History (Part I of II)
“During the pandemic, the Biden junta paused the in-person requirement. . . Kentucky’s abortion limits have been tested by remote abortions.. . Conservative states have responded with their own innovations.. .Abortion was not nearly as motivating in 2024 as many strategists expected.” Why Abortion Rates Are Up
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
Ever since the rigged and tampered-with 2020 election, Donald Trump has made election integrity a key focus of his campaigns and now his presidency. But he wants Congress’s help to thwart Democrat election fraud. Trump Lays Out Why the SAVE Act Is Key for Midterm Elections
(Described in this essay from 2022) was the exact tactic the Democrats used in Georgia, most specifically in Fulton County that covers the heavily Democrat Party dominated city of Atlanta. In some parts of that county Democrats were so dominant that they could work under the radar, and fudge the vote aggressively. . . the essay does provide the basics of what happened in 2020, and could still happen in 2028 and beyond, if a real effort is not made to regain some control of this election tampering. And not surprising, the Democrats are now opposing any such reforms with great enthusiasm, using their slander and demagoguery tactics to rile up their base, helped enthusiastically by the propaganda press that works as their public relations arm. Repost: How the localized nature of Democrat vote tampering will influence the 2022 election
Fresh files have dropped a bombshell that is sure to fan the flames of conspiracy theories regarding Epstein’s death. It appears that federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York had a draft statement ready to roll on August 9, 2019 — the day before Epstein’s body was discovered. The Epstein Cover-Up Just Got So Much Worse
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
Politics flattens genius into cliché, turning artists and writers who once probed the soul into predictable mouthpieces the moment they trade questions for slogans. The Gordian Knot of Modern Politics
Blood is out in the the waters of Westminster after Prime Minister Starmer was deeply politically wounded this week following his stunning admission in the House of Commons that he was aware that Peter ‘Prince of Darkness’ Mandelson — a longtime Labour operative and power behind the throne of Tony Blair — had continued his relationship with Epstein following the infamous financier served prison time for child sex offences. Knives Out: Labour MPs Call on PM Starmer to Step Down After Top Aid Resigns over Epstein Scandal
Three cheers for America's Secretary of War. . . Last month, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth made a seismic announcement: “We’re taking a sledgehammer to the oldest DEI program in the federal government. A program few people outside of Washington have ever heard of. That I haven’t heard of. It’s called the 8(a) program. Why Pete Hegseth Is Right To Take A ‘Sledgehammer’ To The 8(a) Scam
The mere fact that these corporations drew back from their public display of DEI initiatives should not elicit conservatives’ praise. After all, the index is not measuring whether these companies are still participating in DEI, but rather whether they are willing to publicly brag about their efforts. Queer Lobby Reports 65% Drop In Fortune 500s Celebrating Corporate DEI
ALSO: The Morning Report cross-posts at CutJibNewsletter.com usually within an hour or so of posting here, if you want to continue the conversation all day.
My friend's panel raised a point I keep coming back to: if we sprint to deliver something, the expectation becomes to keep sprinting. Always. Tired engineers miss edge cases, skip tests, ship bugs. More incidents, more pressure, more sprinting. It feeds itself.
Recently, a colleague of mine at Modal rewrote an external system that integrated deeply with the Linux kernel. The initial rewrite was a simple translation of a C codebase to a Rust one, in preparation for some custom feature work. The resulting code wasn't bad, nor was it un-idiomatic Rust. What it also wasn't was Good Code. It was hard to read and understand, would have been difficult to extend and maintain, and it wasn't even clear to us why we'd taken the burden of rewriting and maintaining this extra system.
The initial rewrite also relied heavily on coding agents.
Oops. But:
This same colleague then invested time into understanding the kernel subsystem, the exact reasons why the original C program was written how it was, and rewrote the Rust translation himself. The difference was night and day; the code flowed naturally, explained itself and the underlying subsystems, and may genuinely be some of the nicest parts of the entire codebase. Better, I think, than even the original C, despite this type of program being arguably one of the best places to use C over Rust.
It was the first time in weeks, maybe months, that I'd felt something that used to be common in my day-to-day: excitement about the lines of code in front of me.
You're not burned out. You're just tired of this shit.
So Claude Code wrote a C compiler. All by itself. Mostly.
Is it any good?
Well, that's a complex question.
Does it work?
It can compile - though not link - the entire Linux kernel without errors. It can compile and link the SQLite database. So it's technically correct, for the most part, which is a significant achievement.
Is it useful?
Benchmarking SQLite compiled with this tool vs. the standard GCC toolchain, the code produced was on average 720 times slower, and up to 158,000 times slower in extreme cases. A test suite that took ten seconds for unoptimised GCC code took two hours to run with the Claude compiler.
So an interesting trick, but about as practical as that 512-byte compiler from yesterday.
5Gb switch have basically not existed until very recently. 5Gb network cards were easy to find, but you had to use a 10Gb switch with the port running in 5Gb mode.
And you still do. This model has a 10Gb switch chip, but the ports are permanently limited to 5Gb mode, because reasons.
Sunday Overnight Open Thread - February 8, 2026 [Doof "CL"]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. What is the "CL" thing next to my name tonight? Well, as fate would have it, in addition to that football contest being held in NorCal tonight - the one that uses Roman Numerals in it's name - tonight happens to be a bit of a milestone for me. My 150th solo-hosted ONT. So I'll adopt Roman Numerals also! This is "Doof ONT CL"!
Open thread as always. What's on your mind tonight?
Nicki Minaj fans, known as “The Barbz,” are sharing their intentions online to switch to the Republican Party, following Minaj’s public shift to the right and alignment with the Trump administration.
“Today is the day I switch to republican,” one Minaj fan wrote on X in a post viewed over 300,000 times, as Minaj’s pivot encourages her fans to follow suit.
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In November, Minaj appeared at the United Nations in support of the Trump administration to speak on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria. In December, she was interviewed by Erika Kirk, the widow of Charlie Kirk and the chairwoman of Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization.
Then, after sharing increasingly supportive social media posts of conservative politics and the Trump administration, Minaj met with Trump and described herself as “probably the president’s number one fan."
Why are they called "Barbz"? Here's what Grok says
"Barbz" (often stylized as The Barbz) is the official name for the dedicated fanbase of rapper, singer, and cultural icon Nicki Minaj.
Origin of the Name
The term comes from Nicki Minaj's famous alter-ego and persona: The Harajuku Barbie (or simply "Barbie").
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Nicki heavily embraced a hyper-feminine, colorful, doll-like aesthetic inspired by Harajuku fashion and Barbie dolls.
She began calling her fans "Harajuku Barbies" or "Barbies," which eventually got shortened to "Barbz" (with a "z" for flair, fitting her playful style).
What started mainly for her female fans expanded to include her entire fanbase.
There are also sub-terms like:
Ken Barbz (or Harajuku Kenz / HKz) — often referring to her gay male fans.
Not sure if any of The Barbz have found AOSHQ. If so, welcome!
Got Guthrie Fatigue? I do. Sure, I hope she's found unharmed. Same with ALL missing / lost people. I just really don't understand the wall to wall media coverage and amount of government resources being dedicated.
I've heard of "love your enemies" - maybe that's what Trump is doing.
I show these posts only to highlight the reaction from President Trump toward people that are certainly not his friends. I do sincerely hope she is found.
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Two young boys go for a ride with their Dad in his muscle car!💥🔥 The older one is in the front seat… his face says it all until he speaks! 😂😂🤣🤣
Brad Arnold, the lead singer of 3 Doors Down, has died, the band confirmed in a Facebook post on Saturday. He was 47.
The Grammy-nominated rocker announced in May he had been diagnosed with cancer.
"As a founding member, vocalist, and original drummer of 3 Doors Down, Brad helped redefine mainstream rock music, blending post-grunge accessibility with emotionally direct songwriting and lyrical themes that resonated with everyday listeners," the post reads. "Brad's songwriting became a cultural touchstone for a generation, producing some of the most enduring hits of the 2000s, including the band's breakout hit, 'Kryptonite,' which he wrote in his math class when he was just 15 years old."
3 Doors Down was one of my favorite bands growing up. But Brad Arnold wasn't just a rockstar.
He was a warrior for Christ.
And he fought the good fight until the day he died.
It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.
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The moment we’ve all been holding our breath for: my unfiltered thoughts on this year’s Grammy couture. Let’s start with the one that had everybody talking, Chappell Roan in Thierry Mugler. This is not Cher-level iconic, and it sure as heck wasn’t J.Lo’s green Versace moment. The design? Basic dressed up in drag as outrageous. It matched her hair, for the love of Pete. The hemline is doing nothing for her, and frankly, the whole thing only started working when she threw on her cape. Not just because it mercifully hid the nipple-ring-hanging neckline (eye roll), but because it finally gave the dress some texture and depth. Without it? Boring with a side of trying too hard.
Justin Bieber rolled up with Hailey in tow—him in Balenciaga, her in Alaia. If she snagged her dress first, they straight-up fumbled a golden opportunity to channel Gomez and Morticia Addams, shutting down divorce rumors with one killer gothic couple moment. But no, nuance clearly isn’t their love language. They were going for mature adult vibes, I suppose. Justin’s still drowning in clothes three sizes too big, a trend I don’t love. If he’s married to this baggy look, however, at least step up the shoes; his refined little loafers threw the whole balance off. Hailey, though? She served minimalist luxury perfection, the jewelry, sleek hair, flawless fit. It all worked seamlessly.
Lady Gaga brought the drama in black feathers by Matières Fécales. On anybody else, this would’ve been Big Bird’s villain origin story, but Gaga? She somehow made it look almost… restrained. By her standards, she was downright gorgeous. This was elegant chaos in the best way.
Kesha in Atelier Biser—bless her heart. Despite Gaga, this giant feather trend needs to roost somewhere else. The look here is big, shapeless, and gives straight-up Muppet energy.
Billie Eilish showed up in… something by Ellen Hodakova Larsson. It’s a whole lot of no. Made from dead stock that should have stayed dead, the dress has too many sleeves, belts just everywhere, and then socks are thrown into the mayhem. Steampunk Wednesday Addams is an idea that never should have manifested.
Kelsea Ballerini, on the other hand, gave us actual glamour in a stunning gold Etro gown. The fit? Immaculate. The metallic paisley? Unexpectedly elegant. Hair simple and slick so the dress could shine—take notes, Billie. This is how you let one star piece do the talking
We’re all mad at Bad Bunny right now (and this was written before the halftime show, so who even knows). His speech? Dumb as a bag of hammers. He is Puerto Rican, ICE ain’t knocking on his door, calm down. But the look? A surprisingly classic velvet tux from Schiaparelli Couture, the first man to do it. The corseted back had me audibly gasping. I liked early Bad Bunny before the full tilt into crazy town. If this is him circling back to his roots, prayerfully it sticks. Time will tell.
And finally, Heidi Klum in Marina Hoermanseder. The lacquered leather was molded to her like shrink-wrap, giving us the full scenic tour right down to the cheeks. Ma’am. Avant-garde? No, just silly. It looked like she sliced a mannequin in half, slapped some clips on the sides, and called it couture.
Until the next event, never let ‘em catch you in last season’s feathers. Or really in any feathers
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Thanks, Piper!
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DJ Doof - Guess The Theme
Easy on the easy/moderate/difficult scale.
What's the common thread / common meaning / common leitmotif?
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Weekly commenter stats for week of 2-8-2026
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Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
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Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Annual SportsBall Edition? Yep, it's time once again to heap well-deserved derision upon the NFL and their woke bullshit. As you might have surmised, Weasel are not a fan. Having said that, please feel free to discuss the big matchup and/or your deepest and innermost feelings regarding the NFL in the comments tonight.
With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?
Fundamentals of normalcy that is because it occurs to me I have not said enough bad things about the NFL and their planned retarded bullshit halftime show featuring weirdos, freaks and America haters. I wish we had an alternative.
But Weasel, we do! We do have an alternative! TPUSA saves the day. Go America!
Turning Point USA recently announced more details for its "All American Halftime Show," which will be airing Sunday, February 8, around 8 p.m. Eastern time.
The All American Halftime Show will be a unique, patriotic event proudly celebrating American culture, freedom, and faith. The show will feature musical performances from Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett.
This exclusive halftime performance can be streamed on Turning Point USA social media channels, including YouTube, X, and Rumble. In addition to social media, the program will air on partner platforms, including Daily Wire+, Real America’s Voice, TBN, CHARGE!, The National News Desk, NTD.com, and OAN News.
"The All-American Halftime Show is an opportunity for all Americans to enjoy a halftime show with no agenda other than to celebrate faith, family, and freedom" Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet said of the halftime show. "We set out to provide an entertainment option that will be fun, excellent, and exciting for the entire family while millions are gathered together for the big game. These performers will deliver exactly that, and we can't wait to watch the incredible show they're about to put on. We know millions around the country will be watching too."
For updates and more information on The All American Halftime Show, please visit the event's website and select your favorite outlet (e.g. OAN News) to stream the content.
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Some Gun Content to Make Things Legit
If you're like me, you never clean your guns. Eventually, however, it has to be done or so I am told. Here's how to tackle a really dirty AR BCG.
Once you've mastered the cleaning of an AR, you're qualified to move along to more complex jobs such as this.
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Back to NFL Hating
Here are some other sports much more deserving of your time.
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Choosing An Axe
As a professional Organic Tree Farmer, I use Gransfors Bruk Axes. Here's how to choose a model.
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Highway Patrol!
This week's episode: The Truckers!
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Stranger From Venus
With Patricia Neal!
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Cigar of the Week
A good cigar deserves a good cigar room, and in the interest of better utilizing space, can be combined with a gun room. Winning!
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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.
A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid
Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!
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That's it for this week - have you been to the range?
Those are baby-back ribs with a very nice looking sauce that he claims is "Stubbs spicy with added Fresh Ginger, Plum Sauce, fresh Garlic, Sesame oil, topped with Green Onions and toasted Sesame Seeds."
By no stretch of the imagination is the United States food safety Nirvana. We have significant issues...just like most industrialized nations, but I think they are compounded by the influx of illegals into the food industry. And of course we import food from all over the world, in part to satisfy the demand for weird shit among those illegals, and legals from the 3rd world who have settled here.
This is on the menu today at Chez Dildo. Or maybe tomorrow, if my eyes are bigger than my stomach! I have the chicken thighs marinating in buttermilk, so it is only a matter of timing, not motivation.
But the recipe is sort of silly. Lots of ingredients, and it will turn out to be a sloppy mess, so I think I will modify the construction a bit. Hot Fire Chicken also is on the hot side...duh! Probably too hot for the rest of the house, but that's okay; that is what extra hot sauce on the side is for.
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That was my Sunday Roast dinner two weeks ago. Damn, it was mighty tasty. Porchetta, but obviously made with pork belly, because it was amazingly rich and fatty and crunchy, all at once. And that Yorkshire pudding was excellent!
The restaurant was in South Kensington, and it had a marvelous name: The Hereford Arms. I love these sorts of places, and I will be saddened when the government of the UK makes it illegal to sell pork or alcohol.
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Did I also mention that I have chili on the menu for today? And as a backup I can make Pork Milanese....bone-in, because I am not a savage!
Yes, I may have overbought just a bit.
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No, I am not recommending this recipe, because it is the sort of food that doesn't require a recipe, and most of you make something like it already.
But Breakfast Croissant Bake reminded me of something my mom would have on hand when i was a youth and eating everything in sight. She would make it, or sometimes buy it from a place in Connecticut. And I would come home from swimming practice and eat several of them. Or all of them.
Food memories like that are immensely amusing. It probably didn't amuse my mother though...
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A friend graciously gave me some genuine grown-in-the-USA garlic, and I tasted one clove and planted the rest, because my pathetic failure last year is an anomaly...right? I hope so, because it's in the ground (actually, a large pot), and it had better work this time!
Send all of your extra antelope to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.
Rumor has it that the Bourbon Bubble is bursting. I have seen no evidence of decreasing prices, but maybe the bursting started somewhere else! I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.
The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!
Those are just a bit too high for my ladder, and of course my goal is to harvest them for cocktails!
Seriously...I don't think there is a problem with ice damming. The roof above is right next to a steam radiator, and I think there is enough radiant heat to get a bit of melting.
Podcast: J.J. Sefton and CBD discuss the outrageous denial of legitimate, constitutionally-mandated federal activity by the blue states, China's army is purged, the Democrat playbook never changes, the Donroe Doctrine, 20cm artillery shells, and more!
Podcast:Jim Lakely of The Heartland Institute joins us for a wide-ranging discussion of Heartland's recent Anti-Davos initiative: The World Prosperity Forum. We also discuss MN's all-encompassing graft, free markets as an antidote to misery, the truth behind the ICE riots in Minneapolis, and more!
Podcast: CBD and Sefton talk about insurrection in MN coming to NYC? Trump's Greenland rhetoric was over the top, the Gaza Peace Panel is anything but, Minnesota churchgoers need to step up, and is it possible that if the Persian people toss out the Mullahs they will begin a Muslim reformation?
Long-time Coblogger and commenter "Niedermeyer's Dead Horse" is having significant health issues, and would appreciate the thoughts and prayers of The Horde. If you wish to reach out, use @NiedsG on X/Twitter. [CBD]
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