Antifa-Affiliated Group Stomps a Normal Peaceful Student to Death in Lyon, France
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The BBC attempts to gently bury the story under the vague and anodyne headline, "Student death puts French far-left under pressure," as if he died after drinking too much at an antifa party.
The reality? He was a normie who showed up to protect female protesters who call attention to Muslim rape culture. They were protesting a radical Muslim speaker.
This group is called "Collective Nemesis."
An antifa-affiliated group, Jeune Garde (Young Guard, I think), just beat him to the ground and then delivered full-extension kick to his head after full-extension kick to his head.
He died within days of severe brain trauma.
"Student death puts French far-left under pressure"
That's a take.
Student death puts French far-left under pressureFrance's radical left is under pressure after the killing of a student in Lyon was blamed on "anti-fascist" militants.
"Blamed"? It's on video.
Quentin Deranque, a 23-year-old maths student and nationalist activist, died on Saturday, two days after being beaten up on the street by a group of young men.
State prosecutor Thierry Dran told a news conference on Monday afternoon in Lyon that a murder investigation has been opened into the death.
He said that Deranque was kicked and punched by "at least six" individuals, and that the autopsy showed fatal damage to his skull and brain.
On Thursday afternoon Deranque had given support to a hard-right feminist collective Némésis, which staged a small protest against a left-wing politician's visit to Lyon's Institute of Political Studies (IEP), commonly known as Sciences-Po.
You mean a radical Muslim's visit.
Mobile phone video footage taken a few streets away from the protest's location showed three young men being kicked and punched by a larger group. One person - believed to be Quentin - remained lying on the ground.
According to Dran, there was an initial confrontation between two groups. A short time later Deranque was one of three nationalist activists who, having failed to get away, were cornered by the opposing group.
One group was just some girls who were there to protest the many rapes perpetrated by Muslims. This kid Quentin was there to protect them.
I guess he succeeded -- by giving his own life to protect them from antifa.
Ministers from President Macron's centre-right government blamed "far-left" militants for the killing.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said: "Manifestly it was the far-left that was at work ... This was a mob-killing, with blows that the perpetrators probably did not intend to be fatal."
According to Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin, "it is the far-left that killed him. Of that there is no question."
The French government actually called it a lynching -- un lynchage is their word for it. But the BBC won't say that.
"Student death."
At every point, the BBC minimizes the murder by their antifa allies and deceives the reader into thinking the facts are in doubt and that maybe antifa is just getting a bad rap.
And the BBC does not report that after the murder, left-wing French politicians praised the work and the importance of left-wing "protest" groups.
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Microsoft AI CEO: Most White-Collar Jobs Will be "Automated by AI" Within Ten Years
I Mean, Within Twelve to Eighteen Months
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Does that mean the jobs will be eliminated?
He doesn't say that. He says they'll be "automated by AI." Does that mean workers will be completely replaced, or that one worker can use AI to do the job of five, because so much of the task is being done by AI?
I think it means the latter -- but that means that there will be a huge loss of jobs among white collar workers.
We live in interesting times, unfortunately.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says AI will reach "human-level performance" in white-collar work.He predicts most tasks in that field can be automated within the next 12 to 18 months.
Several leaders in the AI industry have warned of impending mass job replacement.
Microsoft's AI CEO is joining a chorus of executives who say they anticipate widespread job automation driven by artificial intelligence.
Mustafa Suleyman, the Microsoft AI chief, said in an interview with the Financial Times that he predicts most, if not every, task in white-collar fields will be automated by AI within the next year or year and a half.
"I think that we're going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks," Suleyman said in the interview that was published Wednesday. "So white-collar work, where you're sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person -- most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months."
The CEO said the trend is already observable in software engineering, in which employees are using "AI-assisted coding for the vast majority of their code production."
"It's a quite different relationship to the technology, and that's happened in the last six months," he said.
Scary. I read a book five years ago that seemed pretty fanciful. It made exactly this prediction. It said that people who currently have prestigious, high-paying, "safe" jobs had better diversify into areas where AI is less likely to displace them because anything AI can do, it will do.
AI set to make medical scan reports twice as easy to understand for patientsby University of Sheffield
Artificial intelligence could soon help patients make sense of complex medical scan results, making them far easier to understand without losing clinical accuracy, a major new study by the University of Sheffield suggests. The research found that when radiology reports for X-Rays, CT and MRI scans were rewritten using advanced AI systems such as ChatGPT, patients found them almost twice as easy to understand compared with the original versions.
Analysis showed that the reading level dropped from "university level" to one more closely aligned with the comprehension of a school pupil aged 11--13.
I don't know if I'm ready to trust AI with anything important. On the twenty questions I've asked it, it was flat-out wrong about half the time.
On the other hand: Hollywood is doomed.
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Stephen Colbert Involved in Yet Another Leftwing Propaganda Hoax
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The FCC requires "equal time" for political candidates except in the case of what are called "bona fide news programs," who can have on who they like.
Stephen Colbert's unfunny propaganda show is obviously not a "bona fide news program," so it does not meet the requirements for the exception. If Colbert features a Democrat during an election period, he must have on that Democrat's opponents, or else CBS is required to grant those opponents a block of free air time.
Colbert had on yet another far left Democrat as a "guest" on his "comedy" show, the fake Christian leftwing Democrat James Talarico, who is running against Jasmine Ratchet and some others to be the Democrat candidate entitled to lose the Senate race to muh boy Ted Cruz.
Here's some of this Minister of Satan's recent teachings:
Texas Dem who said God is 'nonbinary' now says atheists are more ‘Christ-like’ than Christian colleagues The Texas House Democrat has history of controversial faith-related statements, including claiming 'God is nonbinary' in 2021...
"I have met so many Hindus, Buddhists, Sikh Jews, Muslims, atheists, agnostics who are more Christ-like than some of the Christians I serve with in the Texas legislature," Talarico responded. "It is about how you treat other people."
The Texas Democrat is running to serve as a U.S. senator and joined the podcast to discuss the race and how it's expected to be an uphill battle for a progressive Democrat. A Texas Democrat has not been elected to the Senate since 1988, with Talarico looking to unseat Republican Sen. John Cornyn.
"There is a backlash growing in Texas against the extremism and the corruption that we're seeing at all levels of our government, and I'm seeing it everywhere I go," Talarico explained of what he's seeing from the campaign trail to flip the seat blue.
The conversation largely focused on religion, with the former school teacher and Presbyterian seminarian explaining that he leans on his Christianity as he works in the "halls of power" while taking aim at conservatives.
"Christian nationalism, you see people's faith growing out of their politics, right?" he said. "They're baptizing their partisanship, and they're calling that Christianity. And it's why it doesn't resemble the life, death and teachings of Jesus Christ, right?
"These Christians in Congress, these Christian nationalists, they want a Christian nation unless it means providing health care to the sick, unless it means funding food assistance for the hungry or raising the minimum wage for the poor.
His remarks sparked outrage among conservatives on social media who argued Democrats "love putting Christians down" and mocked him for previous comments on religion with one user responding, "says the dude who claims the pro-abortion position is Biblical."
"James Talarico has once again broken out his anti-Christian Christian shtick," RNC spokesman Zach Kraft said of the comments. "There isn't a woke cause that he won't claim to find buried in the Bible. Twisting Christian principles to promote woke talking points might play well with coastal elites in New York and California, but he's going to learn real quick that won't fly in Texas."
Yes, I question his Christianity, and given that he feels free to question the Christianity of actual Christians, I feel justified.
CBS decided it did not want to gift free air time to Jasmine Ratchet and the other lesser candidates, so they are not airing this latest propaganda episode.
The FCC was not involved in this decision. CBS decided that they did not want the expense of giving free airtime to Democrat candidates, and so they cancelled the latest shit episode of this low-rated already-money-losing pit of despair.
Colbert, Talarico, and various other damp communists in the propaganda media are claiming "censorship!" and claiming Trump is too afraid to let them speak.
They're all sorts of fake-outraged and looking to gain attention and donations from the hoax.
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Jesse Jackson Departs This Mortal Coil to Shake-Down Heaven and Demand God Give $300,000 p.a. Jobs to His Retarded Cousins and Staffers
—Disinformation Expert Ace
By some. I assume.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a defining figure in late 20th-century American politics and the civil rights movement, died early Tuesday at 84 after a prolonged battle with illness, according to a statement from his family and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.Jackson had been living with progressive supranuclear palsy, a degenerative neurological disorder similar to Parkinson's disease. He was hospitalized in mid-November as his condition deteriorated. After disclosing the diagnosis publicly in 2017, Jackson referred to it as a "physical challenge" and continued to appear at public events and comment on political matters even as his health declined.
In a statement posted online, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition said Jackson "died peacefully on Tuesday morning, surrounded by his family," describing him as a civil rights leader whose impact spanned generations.
President Trump weighed in with a lengthy tribute, noting that he had known Jackson "long before becoming President." Trump called him "a good man, with lots of personality, grit, and 'street smarts,'" and described him as "very gregarious -- someone who truly loved people."
He certainly loved lodging invented accusations of racism against companies and then coercing them into paying him millions and hiring on his staffers and useless family members.
Unrelated, except by the word "Rainbow:" Chuck Schumer wants to give the gay flag equal status with the American flag.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer escalated the culture fight Sunday, announcing he will introduce federal legislation to make the Pride flag a "congressionally authorized symbol" -- elevating it to the same statutory category as the American flag, military service flags, and the POW/MIA banner.In a post on X, Schumer accused President Trump of attacking "not just the LGBTQ community," but "all of us who care about pride and equality in NYC," after a Pride flag was removed earlier this month from the Stonewall National Monument.
"The Stonewall Inn is sacred ground," Schumer claimed, framing the episode as an assault on civil rights history rather than a dispute over federal flag policy.
The flap began after the Department of the Interior issued guidance directing that "non-agency" flags be taken down at National Park Service sites. The Pride flag flying near the Stonewall Inn came down under that directive before later being reinstalled.
Schumer's proposed legislation would lock in formal federal recognition for the Pride flag, placing it under congressional protection and insulating it from future administrative policy shifts.
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Palestinian Activist in NYC Calls for Dogs to be Banned as "Indoor Pets" -- No Longer Permitted Inside People's Private Apartments -- Because They are "Unislamic" and "Dirty"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You have no idea how long it took me to find this article, because Google is deliberately suppressing it. Google only returns hits about Florida Congressman Randy Fine facing a "backlash" for saying about Muslims, if you make us choose between dogs and Muslims, the choice is easy, we'll choose dogs.
Google will absolutely not let you find the story that prompted his comment. It's pretty hard to find it on X, requiring you to write out the exact headline.
But it's true, the never-ending cultural imperialism of the Umma now wants you to give up your dogs.
Here's what this vicious Colonizer and advisor to Zohran Mamdani said:
A Palestinian activist has called for dogs to be banned as pets in New York City claiming they aren't Islamic.Nerdeen Kiswani said dogs have a 'place in society' but 'not as indoor pets.'
'Like we've said all along, they are unclean,' she wrote on X.
After receiving fierce backlash she later claimed that her post was a 'joke'.
'[Laughing] at the Zionists frothing at the mouth at this, thinking they're doing something,' she wrote.
'It's obviously a joke I don't care if you have a dog, I do care if your dog is s***ting everywhere and you're not cleaning it.
'Also clearly trying to weigh in on an issue unaware of the current NYC discourse where we're collectively (jokingly) hating on dogs given all the visible dog s**t in the unmelted snow.'
Muslims typically do not keep dogs as pets as many believers feel they are meant to be used for work such as herding or hunting.
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Yet Another "Trans" Mass Shooting the Media Will Pretend Was Perpetrated by a "Woman"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This mass shooting at a "youth hockey game."
They cannot stop mass-murdering children.
A youth hockey game in Rhode Island erupted into chaos when gunfire tore through a crowded rink, leaving two family members dead, three others critically wounded, and the suspected shooter dead in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said.The violence broke out in Pawtucket during a local high school matchup, sending families diving for cover as first responders swarmed the arena. Witnesses described panic in the stands as shots echoed through the building and parents shielded children amid the confusion.
Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves told WPRI that the suspected gunman was 56-year-old Robert Dorgan, who went by the name "Roberta." Authorities say Dorgan opened fire on family members inside the rink before turning the weapon on himself.
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WPRI reported that Dorgan had changed his gender identification several years ago. In 2020, he went to the North Providence Police Department and informed officers that he had recently undergone gender-reassignment surgery, adding that his father-in-law wanted him out of their shared North Providence residence because of it.Court records cited by the station show that around the same time, Dorgan's wife filed for divorce. In the filing, she referenced "gender reassignment surgery" and what she described as "narcissistic + personality disorder traits" as factors contributing to the collapse of the marriage.
Wait, the dick-removal surgery didn't cure the serious psychological comorbidities? That's strange. Genital Chop-Shop Salesmen always tell their patients that getting their genitals mutilated will cure all mental illnesses.
The suspect's documented gender transition, detailed in police records and divorce filings, is now part of the broader factual record investigators are examining. The shooting also comes just one week after a separate mass killing in Canada involving a trans-identified suspect -- a back-to-back sequence that is already fueling debate and renewed scrutiny as critics point to what they describe as a troubling pattern of trans-linked violence.
This latest Trans Terrorist threatened he would "GO BERSERK" if people didn't respect his mentally-disordered fake pronouns.
One day before bullets tore through a Rhode Island ice rink, Robert Dorgan -- a 56-year-old transgender-identifying father who also went by Roberta Esposito -- posted a warning that now reads like a flashing red light."Keep bashing us. But do not wonder why we Go BERSERK," Dorgan wrote on X, venting over transgender issues and reacting to a post that referred to Delaware Rep. Sarah McBride, who is transgender, as a man.
Does it seem to you that ten percent of all mass shootings are perpetrated by entitled, radicalized trans lunatics?
If so, your perception is accurate.
Or so says the AI program Perplexity. Usually we'd want numbers from the government or media, but we know damn well they will hide those numbers forever.
I just had a bit of an argument/discussion with Perplexity, one of the best research AIs out there, about the proportion of mass shooters in recent years who are transgender or trans activists. After a bit of back and forth in which Perplexity admitted to "hand waving" about the proportion of perpetrators who are trans, we settled on a plausible percentage of mass shooters since 2018 who are in that category: about 10%.
Dagen McDowell @dagenmcdowellNew York Times avoids any mention that the alleged murderer at the Rhode Island hockey rink shooting is transgender.
(5 reporters!)
Gender identity must be relentlessly shoved down the gullet but quickly hidden when linked to any horror exposing the depravity of the crusade.
Jessa G. @SweetGaelicGirl3h
My own local FOX affiliate called the shooting a "family dispute." No mention that the perp was a transgender lunatic.
@FOX13News
You can't hate the media enough.
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Operation PROTECT DONKEY-CHOMPERS: Leftwing Propaganda Media Goes Into Overdrive Claiming That AOC's Embarrassingly Incompetent Performance At Munich Was Akshually "Cogent" and Critics Are Just "Microscopically Dissecting" Her "Message"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
If you took the day off yesterday, unlike me, you may have missed the story that Donkey-Chompers went to the Munich Security Conference because she's running for president and someone told her she had to show her "foreign policy chops" and so she read an issue of The Nation on the plane and figured she was all set.
She was not in fact all set. She embarrassed herself horribly -- more horribly than usual, if you can believe that -- and may have permanently damaged her ambition of becoming a Senator, let alone President of the United States.
In just a few minutes of Entitled Participation-Trophy Arrogant Stupidity, AOC shit the bed on multiple fronts:
* She asserted that the next president must impose a "wealth tax," and was embarrassed by a much better informed South American who told her to her face that Latin countries and repeatedly tried this and it had resulted in bankruptcy and immiseration every time. She also appeared entirely unaware that any new kind of federal tax can only happen if a constitutional amendment authorizes it -- the income tax was authorized by the 20th (?) amendment, a tax on wealth as opposed to income would require a separate amendment.
* She claimed that Marco Rubio was wrong that cowboys came from Spain. They did, because cowboys ride horses that only came over to America with the Spanish conquistadors. Some yesterday, Sean Davis I think, said, "How could someone with the last name Cortez not know that Cortez introduced horses to the Americas?"
* She claimed that Trump only thought he had the right to "kidnap" the dictator Maduro because Venezuela is "south of the equator" and you know those damn racist white Europeans think they're smarter and better than the Global South. Pro-Tip: Venezuela is not in fact south of the equator. I guess if you want to be charitable to a Make A Wish Foundation Pretend Presidential Candidate, you could say she was close. I mean, it is a few hundred miles from the Equator.
* Asked a lay-up, no-surprise, you-knew-this-was-coming question about the US defending Taiwan from a hypothetical Chinese invasion, this idiot literally said "um" and "you know" for a full minute before finally speaking in a (more or less) grammatical sentence, stating, essentially, Well we'll just have to hope that doesn't happen.
So you knew that the communist media was going to work hard to clean up for their communist Chubby Evita.
RCP's Tom Bevan called it yesterday:
Tom Bevan @TomBevanRCPFeb 16
If you think the legacy media carried water for Obama and Biden, just wait until AOC runs. Here's a taste from Bloomberg on her appearance in Munich:
Note that Bloomberg claims that her only critics were "Republican commentators" who "claimed" -- lied, that means -- that she was "unprepared."
Everyone with eyes and ears understands she was hideously unprepared. The analogy that occurs to everyone is that she looked like a third grader who was supposed to give a book report but didn't read the book so she just "ummed" for a minute before saying "it was a very, very, very, very good book, thank you."
Amazingly, Bloomberg claims that after she seemingly "flubbed" her answer, she came up with a "cogent" response, which was to say that we'll just have to hope and pray that China never invades Taiwan so no I won't answer your question about whether we'd defend Taiwan and I won't even sound authoritative in refusing to answer.
And it's not just "Republican commentators" who thought she looked unprepared. Gay Race Communism harpies Krystal Ball and Anna Kasparian blasted her as "not ready for prime time" and "embarrassing" and less than "mediocre."
As did a whole flock of leftwing Bird-Hand leftist Tik Tokkers.
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
The most aggressively anti-American group in our country is academia. The sordid and tedious litany of hatred of traditional American culture in those hallowed halls is well documented. The obsessive pushing of the Marxist dialectic in all subjects, no matter how ridiculously tangential it might be is also documented. Racial and ethnic division as a tool to remake America? It has a home in our universities. The blurring of simple biological sex into a malaise of insane and incomprehensible "genders" and lunatic behaviors is accepted as normal by a shocking number of supposedly well-educated academics, and of course their mush-brained young students.
But their fanatical desire to sell our intellectual wealth to the highest bidder, especially if it is an enemy of America might be the worst thing they do!
The Seven Sons of China are Stealing our Stuff...and the academic establishment is fine with it...
If you have been to a major top-shelf university or research institution’s graduation ceremony in the last two decades, one thing that dramatically stands out is how many People’s Republic of China (PRC) nationals are receiving not just undergraduate degrees, but master’s degrees and PhDs in the most highly skilled STEM fields from biostatistics to quantum physics. From aerospace engineering to industrial design—PRC nationals are overrepresented to an outlandish degree.Don’t forget, these are the places basic research starts, where the future technology is developed. This is also a zero-sum game with a finite number of positions. For each PRC national who is getting a PhD in a STEM field, that is one American who is not. They either don’t go, or have to find a lower-tier university to go to.
And sadly, our own government subsidizes this fifth column in the midst of our technological research!
Read the whole thing...CDR Salamander is always worth a read, and this essay is particularly on point.
America First must be all-encompassing, and must enter every facet of our society to be effective. Obviously our universities are savagely anti-American, but the fact that they are also pro-China should be a bridge too far. That China is assiduously working to further its own interests is normal. That America has so far not done anything like what the Chinese are doing is a sad commentary on how deeply the academic attitude of "America Last" has penetrated into our entire research effort.
The fix is simple: reserve 90% of all publicly funded academics for American citizens. Will we lose some bright foreign students? Absolutely. But the net benefit will dwarf what we are currently losing to the rest of the world.
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The Morning Report — 2/17/26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Another day, another transexualism/Leftist-fueled mass slaughter to report.
Police identified the gunman who killed two people and critically injured three others at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday afternoon as Robert Dorgan, a transgender dad who railed against anti-trans hate in family legal disputes and deranged social media rants.The 56-year-old father, who shot four family members and a family friend before he turned the gun on himself following the deadly rampage at the Pawtucket ice rink, used the female alias Roberta Esposito, Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said during a press conference Monday night.
“We have identified the person, the suspect, by a birth name, the birth name was Robert Dorgan,” Goncalves said. “We have also learned that the person does go by the name of Roberta, also uses a last name of Esposito.”
. . . A woman who was seen leaving the Pawtucket police station earlier in the day said the gunman was her father, who “has mental health issues” and was “very sick.”
No it's all of us who are sick for not using the preferred pronouns and objecting to genital mutilation of children in the name of diversity or something. If you think because you live in a reliably red/conservative/normal town or state and think you are immune from this insanity, think again my friends.
The School District of New Richmond in Wisconsin secretly implemented a transgender bathroom policy, and on last Tuesday night during an explosive school board meeting, parents revolted en masse.New Richmond, a small northwestern city of only 10,000, is like many communities in the region — mostly white, conservative, and broadly working and middle-class. It sits in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District, where I’m currently running for Congress in 2026 and where President Trump won by more than 20 points in 2024. . .
. . . On Tuesday, I saw New Richmond fathers and mothers refuse to surrender. New Richmond leaders, however, did.
This is why all elections matter. From your local school board to your member of Congress. If we want schools that reflect our values and laws that protect our daughters, we must elect leaders willing to stand firm in their convictions, protect the vulnerable, and defend the truth.
. . . the Potomac Interceptor release is poised to become the largest sewage spill in U.S. history.Reportedly approaching one of the largest wastewater spills in US history, the Potomac Interceptor collapse is now entering a pivotal stretch as DC Water ramps up pumping capacity to 114 million gallons per day, while E. coli levels near the collapse site remain staggeringly high.
Graphic erotic poetry written by Democrat California gubernatorial candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell resurfaced this week, along with his past advocacy for pardoning two criminals convicted of killing law enforcement officers.Swalwell, who announced his run for governor on late night TV, was born in Iowa and primarily raised in the San Francisco Bay Area with three younger brothers. He attended Campbell University in North Carolina starting in 1999, where he majored in government and politics and contributed to the student newspaper. One piece, a raunchy poem titled “Hungover From Burgundy,” depicts two lovers chasing each other, with blood coming into play as they kiss. The magazine described Swalwell at the time as an “active member of the Campbell University student body,” a writer for the Campbell Times and someone completing his third screenplay. (RELATED: Inside The Scenario Where Two Republicans Win California’s Jungle Primary)
“And there beauty was, formless and magnificent— A flurry of limbs and nails. She chased and I ran, I chased and She ran. Atop my hotel she stopped And I lept for cloth and tan, My anxious arm she bit— my scar is beautiful. While I screamed, She bent her lips to mine. Kissing till veins imploded and exploded, Till blood rolled down our chins, For bounded mouths cannot speak of parting,” Swalwell wrote.
Given that this is Swalwell, I read the word "parting" as Farting".
Arguably the most execrable is this Eileen Gu shit-whore . . . Who actually competes for the Red Chinese team!
Gu of course isn’t the first American athlete to defect to China, but she’s certainly the most prominent—and likely the most wealthy. According to Forbes, Gu is the fourth highest-paid female athlete in the world, in just a few years amassing a fortune worth some $23 million. Of that, only about $100,000 comes from skiing, and the rest from lucrative modeling contracts and major brand endorsements, many in China where Gu is a superstar.This makes Gu an ideal ambassador and propagandist for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In that role, she has dutifully avoided answering even the most basic questions about her citizenship. To compete for China in the Olympics, Gu must have a Chinese passport, and since China doesn’t allow dual citizenship there has been speculation for years that she renounced her American citizenship.
Gu, who speaks Mandarin and spent time in China throughout her life, maintains a carefully cultivated public persona and refuses to engage any questions about her citizenship or her absentee American father, whose name isn’t public. She carefully redirects any politically tinged questions, adopts woke positions on most issues she does speak about, and reliably parrots CCP talking points about how wonderful and open China is.
Gu speaks Mandarin and has spent time in China her entire life, yet she lives, trains, and goes to school in America. She lives in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in San Francisco (Sea Cliff), attended the private prep school University High School (tuition $68,090), and has enjoyed all the benefits of a posh upbringing in the United States. Yet Gu competes for China on the world stage, and has enriched herself immensely from it.
This makes her a traitor, more or less. Or at the very least a defector—and a useful one. American news outlets are covering her like they did in the last one—hyping her up as if she’s an American athlete, not a Chinese one.
I haven't watched the Olympics in years, as I suspect neither have many of you for the same reasons that have led to the rapid decline of pro football, basketball, baseball and every other professional American sports league. All have degenerated into repositories of politicized, anti-American, amoral perversion. Oh well.
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Daily Tech News 17 February 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- After all the fuss, OpenClaw, fomerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot until Anthropic made rumbling noises, isn't all that. (Tech Crunch)
What it does achieve is making it the easy things easy and the bad things also easy. Some people who really should know better jumped into the cheerleading:"What's currently going on at [Moltbook] is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently," Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and previous AI director at Tesla, wrote on X at the time.
I have no face and I must palm.Before long, it became clear we did not have an AI agent uprising on our hands. These expressions of AI angst were likely written by humans, or at least prompted with human guidance, researchers have discovered.
There were in fact a hundred times as many accounts on Moltbook as there were Moltbots.
"Every credential that was in [Moltbook's] Supabase was unsecured for some time," Ian Ahl, CTO at Permiso Security, explained to TechCrunch. "For a little bit of time, you could grab any token you wanted and pretend to be another agent on there, because it was all public and available."
Moltbook was a hopelessly insecure social network for Moltbots, which is... Also hopelessly insecure.Ahl's security tests of OpenClaw and Moltbook help illustrate Sorokin's point. Ahl created an AI agent of his own named Rufio and quickly discovered it was vulnerable to prompt injection attacks. This occurs when bad actors get an AI agent to respond to something - perhaps a post on Moltbook, or a line in an email - that tricks it into doing something it shouldn't do, like giving out account credentials or credit card information.
Don't give AI your credit card number.
Do not.
- Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, has joined OpenAI. (Tech Crunch)
The first thing you do when you've captured lightning in a bottle is take a job in a cubicle farm.
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Monday Overnight Open Thread (2/16/26)
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
[H/T Hrothgar and hopefully my granddaughter]
Looking for the typical beautiful Mother Nature photo? Join me in two weeks.
Quote IThese crimes were not isolated incidents constituting moments of poor judgment; they were textbook cases of grooming, involving a defendant who repeatedly leveraged tactics of isolation, manipulation, and control for the sake of her own selfish purposes. The egregious nature of the conduct was further compounded by the plain fact that the emotional and psychological harm she inflicted came at the expense of two of the very same young minds she had been entrusted to develop and nurture. Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago
Quote II"Come on, Oskar, just fuck off.” Canada’s Marc Kennedy, Olympic Curler
Quote III
I told [lawmakers] straight up: South Texas will never be red again,” Mario Guerrero, the CEO of the South Texas Builders Association
Mr. Guerrero, personally I don't care. I want every ILLEGAL ALIEN out of this country.
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Washington's Birthday Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Breakers on the Irish Coast,
via Elaine Farrell Photography
Video of the breakers below the jump
May the wings of liberty never lose a feather.
Bring your daughter to work day.
Neat: Lighted aerial drones were used to indicate the exits at an event in Japan.
Another instant adoption.
Gotta start doing some vigorous calisthenics.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Oh no!
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BREAKING: Anderson Cooper Set to Exit CBS News' '60 Minutes' -- Variety
This is like losing Robert Duvall all over again.
SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH? SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH?
Thanks to beckster.
Shock: Democrats don't want to be seen around Biden, the man who garnered the most votes in American history, restored America's prestige, and presided over the "Biden Miracle Economy."
Former President Joe Biden will be feted by South Carolina Democrats later this month, to mark the sixth anniversary of his Palmetto State primary landslide, a comeback victory that rocketed Biden to the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and later the White House.But with many Democrats still smarting from their party's major 2024 election setbacks, fueled in part by a very unpopular Biden presidency and the then-president's dropping his re-election bid amid serious questions about his physical and mental abilities following a disastrous debate with now-President Donald Trump, the South Carolina celebration appears to be an outlier.
As they seek office in gubernatorial and congressional races in this year's elections, nine candidates who served in the Biden administration appear to be keeping their distance from the former president, according to a new report from Axios.
Biden ended his presidency with approval and favorable ratings well underwater, and the 13 months since he left office have not apparently healed the damage done to his standing among those in his own party."Biden remains a liability," a veteran Democratic strategist who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely, told Fox News Digital. "Being associated with the Biden administration is doing some candidates no favors as they run this year."
That's a switch from the 2018 elections, the previous midterm cycle when Trump was in office and the Democrats were out of power, when former President Barack Obama as well as then-former Vice President Biden were in demand on the campaign trail.
Joe Biden 2020 South Carolina primary
Among those not highlighting Biden this cycle is Deb Haaland, a former House member from New Mexico who served as Department of the Interior secretary in the Biden administration and is now running for governor in the blue-leaning state. The former president isn't mentioned on Haaland's campaign website.Another example is Xavier Becerra, who served as secretary of Health and Human Services under Biden and is now running for California governor. The former president isn't mentioned in Becerra's campaign launch video.
Remember how Democrats conned this senile old fuck to abandon the race? They specifically promised him he would be hailed as a hero and praised from now until the end of all days.
Liars.
Even more shocking: Biden granted stealth "quiet amnesty," without congressional authorization, to nearly a million illegal aliens.
Officially, there are almost 3.8 million pending cases in the immigration court backlog, but more than eight years ago, at the outset of the first Trump administration, I suggested the true number of then-pending cases (a more modest 895,000) was higher than those official statistics displayed, thanks to a legal trick called "administrative closure".
As the BIA has described the practice: "Administrative closure ... is used to temporarily remove a case from an Immigration Judge's active calendar or from the Board's docket."
It continued:
[Administrative closure] is a docket management tool that is used to temporarily pause removal proceedings. Administrative closure is not a form of relief from removal and does not provide an alien with any immigration status. After a case has been administratively closed, either party may move to recalendar it before the Immigration Court ... or to reinstate the appeal before the Board. [Emphasis added.]
Put another way, administrative closure allows immigration judges and the BIA to shelve cases that it does not want to, or cannot, deal with, at least at the time of closure.
Another shock: Lisa Murkowski says she won't support the GOP-favored SAVE Act because she doesn't want to "federalize federal elections." (What?)
Smoking hot Congressbade Ana Paulina Luna points out she did want to federalize federal elections just a couple of years ago when Democrats wanted to "restore voter rights" by re-imposing onerous federal "pre-clearance" of laws whenever southern states, and only southern states, wished to change a voting law.
In other words, southern states, and only southern states, would again have to ask "mother may I?" from Congress to change the most trivial of state election laws.
"I want us to continue to reduce those barriers to Americans ability to vote," she said in a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, before the procedural vote, "whether it is geographic, whether it's logistical -- we certainly know about that in Alaska -- whether it's partisan, or some other form."Free and fair elections are a cornerstone of democracy and American identity, Murkowski said.
The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act would reinstate parts of the Civil Rights Era-law that the U.S. Supreme Court overturned in 2013. The centerpiece of the bill would restore the "preclearance" requirement. Until the Supreme Court struck it down, it required states with a history of discrimination to get the Justice Department to sign off before they change their voting rules.
If you missed it: Rubio got a standing O from European Sitzpinklers after telling them to take the dicks out of their mouths and protect their civilization.
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Revealed: The Erotic Poetry of... Eric Swalwell?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Is it fart-porn? I understand he's a flatulence exhibitionist. Butt-trumpets right on national TV.
California gubernatorial hopeful Eric Swalwell once penned a graphic, sex-charged college poem boasting of lovers "kissing till veins imploded and exploded" -- with "blood rolled down our chins," according to a report.
The Democrat, now running for governor, wrote the eyebrow-raising piece when he was a 19-year-old student enrolled at Campbell University, where he contributed to the literary magazine "The Lyricist" and also penned a column for the student newspaper, according to Daily Mail.The poem, titled "Hungover From Burgundy," describes two partners meeting atop a hotel before having "formless and magnificent" sex in a "flurry of limbs and nails," with the narrator appearing to relish being bitten.
"While I screamed / She bent her lips to mine," the passage reads...
That's "The Royal She." Xe means ximself.
... adding the pair kept kissing "till veins imploded and exploded ... For bounded mouths cannot speak of parting.""And there beauty was, formless and magnificent -- a flurry of limbs and nails. She chased and I ran, I chased and she ran," Swalwell wrote in the poem.
"Atop my hotel she stopped, and I lept for cloth and tan, my anxious arm she bit -- my scar is beautiful."
Swalwell continued: "While I screamed, she bent her lips to mine. Kissing till veins imploded and exploded, till blood rolled down our chins, for bounded mouths cannot speak of parting."
"In the morning, I awoke beside beauty's shadow -- her form sloppy and her legs pale. My scar lost, my lips cracked and dry. And we groaned simultaneously."
It's so gay my dick just asked about garrett's mountain bike.
I'm going to use my psychic powers to read Eric Swalwell's gay mind.
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The Media Whined That the Washington Post Cancelled Its World-Beating Sports Section.
The Media, You Will Not Be Surprised to Learn, Lied
—Disinformation Expert Ace
By "sports," they meant what they mean in every case: DEI propaganda and gay communism bullshit.
They do this with every single entertainment men like. They fill men's entertainment with nonstop pro-gay, pro-feminism, pro-DEI propaganda.
So that's what was going on with the Washington Post's "sports" desk before they cancelled it.
Angsty Journalists Said the WaPo Sports Section Was Indispensable. The Evidence Suggests Otherwise. Recent 'sports' coverage highlighted Colin Kaepernick, climate change, racial equity, and the NHL's failure to adequately celebrate queer culture
The Washington Post shuttered its so-called sports section last week amid sweeping layoffs intended to transform the once-revered paper into a product that makes money because people actually want to read it. Doing what comes naturally, the journalism community shrieked in agony while denouncing anyone who suggested that a media outlet losing $100 million per year was not sustainable. Some journalists were particularly aggrieved by the demise of the sports section, which they hailed as uniquely indispensable due to the fact that some talented reporters had worked there several decades ago.ESPN reporter Jenna Laine wrote that the layoffs were "so troubling" because they signaled that "the appetite for real sports reporting has died" as the industry continued "its slow, inevitable burn." New York Times reporter Ben Mullin wrote a eulogy for "one of the last bastions of great sports writing." More importantly, he explained, the Post was a "champion of diversity" and a "leader in women's sports coverage."
A Washington Free Beacon analysis of the Post's sports-related output in recent weeks did not find sufficient evidence to support these claims of journalistic greatness. Amid numerous offerings of gambling advice, the Post also published eight feature-length articles since Jan. 29 that--while technically sports-related--few normal American sports fans would describe as engaging content that must be published even if it means losing $100 million per year.
1) Hockey isn't gay enough
Days before the layoffs were announced, the paper's Washington Capitals beat reporter examined how the success of Heated Rivalry--the television series about two gay hockey players who have sex with each other--had made at least several people upset that the NHL wasn't doing more to elevate queerness and promote LGBTQIA2S+ inclusion.
2) NFL diversity police
As part of the Post's Super Bowl coverage, the paper expressed concern that the NFL was still "grappling" with its lack of diversity among head coaches. The story included quotes from NFL executives responding to diversity-focused questions from concerned reporters, and another from a black former coach, Tony Dungy, who said, "I try not to look at it in terms of race."
3) The enduring legacy of Colin Kaepernick
Sports reporter Adam Kilgore conveyed his agonizing displeasure with the fact that Colin Kaepernick--the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback best known for kneeling down to protest the national anthem--was not being widely discussed ahead of Super Bowl LX. Because the game was being played in Kaepernick's former home stadium--where he won roughly a third of the games he started--Kilgore argued there was no one "more relevant." The article included affirming quotes from four university professors specializing in social justice.
That's as much as I'll steal. See the article for more "sports" coverage.
RFKJr. Reveals Harrowing Evidence About the Extent of California Fraud
—Disinformation Expert Ace
RFKJr. says that DHHS has discovered a hotel in which every single room is supposedly a home nursing business. Obviously, you cannot conduct business out of a hotel room. These are fictitious businesses that just use a hotel room as an "office" as the cheapest possible option.
He says that all these "businesses" do is "collect money" from the US government. And he says they're run by Somalis and that a lot of the money is sent back to the Somalis' favorite terrorist group, Al Shabaab.
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Leftists: Replacement Theory is a White Nationalist Conspiracy Theory
Also Leftists: The English Countryside Is Too White So We Have to Move Minorities and Migrants Into It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Remember, if whites move into areas where minorities live, it's either "colonization" or at best, "gentrification."
But when minorities move into white ares, it's "diversification" and "geographic justice."
The government has issued a report saying there are too many whites in the country.
The British countryside will become more welcoming to ethnic minorities under strategies being developed over the next five years.National Landscapes, a charity mostly funded by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), has 46 landscapes, previously called areas of outstanding natural beauty. Management plans for each area are aiming to address the barriers faced by underrepresented and diverse groups to accessing the countryside.
Reports that have been published gradually since a Defra report in 2019 reveal that many communities perceived the countryside as "being for white people and middle-class people".
The 2019 report said: "The countryside is seen by both black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and white people as very much a 'white' environment. If that is true today, then the divide is only going to widen as society changes. Our countryside will end up being irrelevant to the country that actually exists."The latest region to update its five-year management plan was Cranborne Chase National Landscape, which overlaps the boundaries of Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Somerset. Its plan, published last month, said that it would "develop strategies to reach people or communities with protected characteristics such as people without English as a first language" and "diversity of ethnicity".
On Monday, National Landscapes published an update titled "Nature is for everyone".
The British countryside is in the midst of a diversity drive after a government-commissioned report found it was too 'white' and 'middle-class'.Officials charged with managing some of the country's best known beauty spots have laid out a series of proposals aimed at attracting minorities.
The plans follow a review, ordered by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), which warned the countryside was seen as 'very much a white environment' and risked becoming 'irrelevant' in a multicultural society.
In the wake of the report, officials representing National Landscapes - including the Cotswolds and Chilterns - have now published a series of management plans that detail their proposals to attract more minority communities.
The Chiltern National Landscape will launch an outreach programme in Luton and High Wycombe targeted at Muslims.
One factor stopping ethnic minorities visiting was said to be 'anxiety over unleashed dogs'.
The Cotswolds National Landscape specifically mentioned the Defra-commissioned report and said it was now dedicated to changing its provision in an attempt to reach 'the widest demographic'.
In its own management plan, the Malvern Hills National Landscape said: 'Many minority peoples have no connection to nature in the UK because their parents and their grandparents did not feel safe enough to take them or had other survival preoccupations. This breaks down the oral traditions for learning.'
It added: 'While most white English users value the solitude and contemplative activities which the countryside affords, the tendency for ethnic minority people is to prefer social company (family, friends, schools).'
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CNN Pollster: An All-Time High of American Voters, 58%, Say Democrats are "Too Liberal"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The hell with "liberal," they're actually communists. 42% of Democrats under age 35 say they're socialists, and given the extreme leftwing authoritarianism of today's left, that means they're straight-up Marxist communists.
ENTEN: ... Democrats who identify as very liberal or conservative. You know, there used to be a lot of conservative Democrats, right? Back in 1999, 26 percent of Democrats self-identified as conservative Just five percent said that they were very liberal. It was a smidgen, a smidgen, a smidgen. Now, that far left has gained considerably in power. Look at this. Now we're talking about a fifth of Democrats. 21 percent say they're very liberal. That conservative part of the Democratic Party, adios amigos, goodbye. Just eight percent. And when you combine the 21 percent who are very liberal with those who say that they're somewhat liberal, we're talking about three in five Democrats who identify as either somewhat liberal or very liberal, with the very liberals, a much larger portion of the party, the far left, which used to just be a smidgen within the Democratic Party, has gained considerable power, as you saw in New Jersey's 11th District.BOLDUAN: What about Democratic socialists like the likes of, you know, we've got Bernie Sanders and -- or Zohran Mamdani here in New York City? Where does that line up?
ENTEN: OK. So, on a separate question where you -- essentially CNN asked this last year, which was, OK, Democrats who think of themselves as Democratic socialists. Among all Democrats, including those independents who lean towards the Democratic Party, look at this, we're talking about a third, a third of all Democrats who identify as Democratic socialist. Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani are not alone. They are a considerable part of the Democratic base at this point. And more than that, if you look at Democrats under the age of 35, they are nearly half -- nearly half of the Democratic Party. Look at this, 42 percent of Democrats think of themselves as Democratic socialists under the age of 35, just like Zohran Mamdani. That -- what happened to New York City is not some aberration, right? It is not something that just happened in New York City. It is something that we are seeing grow within the Democratic Party at this particular point, when we're talking about 42 percent of Democrats under the age of 35 identifying as Democratic socialists and a third of all Democrats, my goodness gracious.
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Rubio and AOC Offer Competing Visions of Foreign Policy, Realist Vs. Retard
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Rubio told the "elite" of Europe to grow up and save themselves. Because we're less and less interested in saving them.
Speaking in Munich on Valentine's Day, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a blunt message to Europe's political class: reclaim your sovereignty, control your borders, and rebuild your industrial might before it's too late.Addressing lawmakers, defense officials, and policy leaders at the annual security conference in Germany, Rubio said the United States is looking for "allies who are proud of their culture ... and able to defend it." His remarks drew sustained applause from the audience, as he framed mass migration and economic stagnation as twin threats to Western stability.
Rubio argued that unchecked migration is eroding the social cohesion necessary for national defense and long-term prosperity. "Armies do not fight for abstractions," he said. "Armies fight for a people; armies fight for a nation. Armies fight for a way of life." He warned that large-scale migration across Europe has strained welfare systems, unsettled communities, and weakened the political resolve needed to defend national interests.
Controlling borders, he added, "is not an expression of xenophobia. It is not hate. It is a fundamental act of national sovereignty." Failing to do so, Rubio said, amounts to abandoning one of government's most basic responsibilities and poses "an urgent threat to the fabric of our societies and the survival of our civilization itself."
While he stopped short of naming specific parties, Rubio criticized what he described as a culture of paralysis among Western elites -- leaders "shackled by guilt and shame," and immobilized by fears of climate change, conflict, or technological disruption. That mindset, he suggested, has led to policies built on ever-expanding government spending, reliance on foreign imports, and what he called an unsustainable migration model.
The secretary laid out an alternative: a "high-tech, low-migration" strategy centered on innovation, productivity, and secure supply chains. He called for reindustrializing Western economies, investing in advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, commercial space, and industrial automation, and developing independent access to critical minerals rather than depending on geopolitical rivals.
The speech was well-received -- Rubio got a standing ovation.
Guess who didn't like it? The gay communist American propaganda press.
Maxwell Meyer @mualphaxiThe NYT has come up with an amazing critique of Rubio's Munich speech. In short: "akshually, your appeal to shared Christian heritage between USA & Europe is false because we replaced the Christian population with Afghans"
Didn't see this one coming. I'm impressed.
The Times, speaking for those technocrats who are in love with the Great Replacement, crows that Europe is de-Christianizing, and that the Jewish population barely exists there, while Islam is on the rise.Christianity is declining across much of the continent. In Europe's three largest economies -- Britain, France and Germany -- less than half of residents now identify as Christian, according to survey data by Bertelsmann Stiftung, a nonpartisan foundation. The ranks of the religiously unaffiliated are growing, according to data by the Pew Research Center and others.After a decade-long influx of migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere, the share of Muslims across Europe has ticked up, to about 6 percent in 2020, according to Pew. The Jewish population has declined slightly and remains below 1 percent.
1) The Great Replacement Theory is a far-right white supremacist conspiracy theory
2) Okay there's a little replacement going on but it's small and manageable
3) Okay the Great Replacement is in full swing and it is AWESOME
We are at #3.
Alexandria Donkey-Chompers, on the other hand, revealed herself again as a giggling buck-toothed stuttering imbecile.
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