Nasty White Karen Running to Take a Nashville House Seat from Republicans Admits On Tape That She Hates All of Nashville, Especially Its People

—Ace

Black Phone for Karen...
Black Phone for Karen...

The special election will be held on December 5th 2nd. [It's the first Tuesday in December.] You'd think this would sink her, but, as David Strom notes, Virginia liberals just voted for a top prosecutor who openly lusts to murder his opponents and see their children die in the arms of their mother, so this is no gimme.

Do not underestimate the AWFL vote. It is huge and angry and hypermedicated and healthy at any size and determined to teach its ex-husbands a lessons. Many lessons.

Fox News:

Democratic congressional hopeful Aftyn Behn did not hold back when describing how she really feels about Nashville -- the city she's now running to represent -- in a 2020 podcast that's resurfaced just days before the Dec. 2 special election.

"I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville apparently an 'it' city to the rest of the country. But I hate it," she said in the podcast.

Behn, a Democratic state representative and former healthcare community organizer, is running against Republican nominee Matt Van Epps to represent Tennessee's 7th Congressional District. The winner will succeed former GOP Rep. Mark Green, who resigned from office in June to take a private sector job.

The district, which is located in central and western Tennessee and stretches from Kentucky to Alabama, is solidly red. President Donald Trump carried the district by 22 points in his 2024 White House victory.

But the district includes parts of the Democratic stronghold of Nashville, Tennessee's capital and its most populous city, and a major national center for the country music industry. The district encompasses parts of north and west Nashville, including the downtown area which has long been a very popular tourist destination.

"The Democrat running in a special election for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, Aftyn Behn, is running on the message: 'I hate this place, elect me!' Tennessee deserves better," the Republican National Committee (RNC) argued in a social media post on Thursday.

NYC Will Imprison Senior Citizen for Defending Himself Against a Mugger

—Ace

Another Daniel Penny.

A Queens senior citizen who shot dead a man who tried to rob him will spend four years in prison after admitting to toting an unlicensed revolver -- as his lawyer ripped the city's "draconian" gun laws.

Charles Foehner, 67, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal weapons possession Thursday in a deal to end his case more than two years after he fatally shot would-be thief Cody Gonzalez, who charged at him near his Kew Gardens home.

The Queens District Attorney's Office chose not to prosecute Foehner, a retired doorman, for Gonzalez's killing after he told cops that he'd defended himself from a mugger who lunged at him late at night holding what looked like a knife -- but which turned out to be a pen.

But prosecutors slapped Foehner with a slew of weapons raps for the unlicensed handgun and for an arsenal of illicit handguns, revolvers and rifles inside his home in the quiet neighborhood.

Foehner took the plea deal to avoid a trial, where he faced 25 years in prison on gun charges that are not hard to prove, said his attorney Thomas Kenniff after Thursday's hearing in Queens Supreme Court.

Kenniff called Foehner a "hero" who was put in an "impossible position" by what he called "draconian" Big Apple gun laws that make it difficult for "law abiding citizens" to obtain permits to carry firearms.

"If this was a state and a city that had its affairs in order, Mr Foehner would be getting a plaque, not a prison sentence," Kenniff told reporters on the courthouse steps.

A term that's enjoying new popularity -- because it describes the hell that the left is imposing on us -- is "anarchotyranny."

The idea is that we live in a tyranny filled with lawlessness (anarchy). Those seem to be opposites, which would make anarchotyranny a contradiction in terms, but you have to remember that only some get tyranny while others get anarchy.

If you're a rapist, a mugger, a killer, a drug-dealer, an illegal alien, you get anarchy, with the government staying out of your business and letting you harm your fellow citizens and ply your criminal trade with little government interference.

But if you're among the working population with a family and a mortgage and commitments you just can't walk away from, you get the tyranny, the endless laws, the endless demands for you to get a permit to do every single thing that free men used to do freely, and strict and brutal punishment from the state when you ignore a law here and there. Don't you know that only the hardcore criminals get to ignore the laws with impunity?

Adam Carolla has been ranting about this for years, although I don't think he used the word "anarchotyranny." (If you know where these clips are, let me know.)

He points out that you will be permitted to death if you dare try to add an extension to your house, and it will cost you $50,000 just to get that permit.

Meanwhile, illegal aliens can set up shantytown food carts on the street with no inspections and no authorization to block the sidewalks, and the cops will just walk on by.

If you want to expand your business, the state wants to stop you.

But if homeless people want to block traffic selling flowers car to car, that's fine. No problem.

The left wants to control people, and so they focus on the group of people who actually will obey all (or most) of the laws they pass: the naturally, inherently law-abiding. The people who can't afford to spend six months or a year in jail.

Meanwhile, for the criminal class: complete freedom to do whatever they want to do.

In the UK, they outlawed guns ages ago, and then outlawed swords and machetes and common knives.

For the law-abiding people, at least.

For the privileged classes: Anarchy.

Economy Adds 119,000 Jobs Even When Deliberately Sabotaged by Democrats, Doubling Expectations

—Ace

This report is from September. The Democrats hadn't yet shut the government down -- that started October 1 -- but everyone understood they were going to shut it down. The Democrats created uncertainty and fear, which is always bad for economic growth. People don't like to take out loans and take chances on new businesses or new construction when the future looks dicey.

The U.S. economy added 119,000 jobs in September, according to a Labor Department report released Thursday.

The release of the report was delayed by the roughly 40-day government shutdown that shuttered federal agencies.

The number of jobs exceeded Wall Street expectations, according to CNBC.

In fact, the eXpErTs had predicted less than half that.

Employers across the U.S. added 119,000 jobs in September, marking a pickup after previous employment data had shown a slowdown in hiring. The report marks the first official job tally since the government shutdown ended last week, ending a six-week blackout on labor data.

Economists had forecast payroll gains of 50,000 jobs in September, according to a poll by FactSet.

The unemployment rate rose 4.4% in September, up from 4.3% in August and the highest level since Oct. 2021. With robust job growth in September, that suggests more people are re-entering the workforce to search for a job, economists said.

119,000 jobs in a month still isn't good, but given the strains the Democrats are putting on the economy, it's okay.

And also, I should admit, Trump is putting strains on the economy, too, with an uncertain trade environment due to frequent tariff saber-rattling and an uncertain labor environment with millions of illegals -- who took jobs from Americans -- being deported. Both of these moves will have long-term payoffs but in the short term they're weighing the economy down, and I'm starting to get worried about how much time we have left before the midterms to have a good economy the public actually acknowledges as good.

Some good news:

Townhall.com @townhallcom

ECONOMIC GAINS:

--119,000 NEW JOBS jobs added in Sept. (Double expectations)
--19,000 Construction jobs added in Sept.
--Nearly ALL Jobs going to AMERICANS not Foreign Born Workers.
--Wages UP 3.8%

"This is a REVERSAL of the failed Biden Era."

More of this

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

BREAKING: In a jaw-dropping win, 2.57 MILLION native-born Americans gained jobs since President Trump assumed office...

...and over 1 million migrants LOST employment.

In total, 1.23 million foreigners left the labor force.

Nature is healing, folks. Big time.

There are some numbers that hint that the economy may experience its second Trump Boom:

Behind the Restaurant Meal Delivery Industry, there is a Black Market Exploiting Illegal Foreign Labor

—Buck Throckmorton

If you are having restaurant food “dashed” to your residence, there is a very good chance that the person delivering your meal is part of a black market of non-citizen labor, illegally subcontracted by the actual “independent contractor” of Door Dash, Uber Eats, and the like.

Two years ago, the New York Times published a highly sympathetic article about this industry, focusing on the awful plight of illegal immigrants dumped in Ney York City but not eligible to work, and how sub-contracted food delivery provides a source of income. All the same, the Times did acknowledge the exploitation of this illegal workforce, documenting the financial arrangement under which Venezuelan “migrant” Mayco Milano operated. Specifically, the business model under which Mr. Milano delivers food is:

• An unlicensed moped is rented for $400 per week from a black-market moped broker.

• Login access to an Uber Eats account is rented for $150 per week from “Jessica.”

• Mr. Milano works long hours, 7 days a week, delivering food throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The commission before tip is about $4 per delivery.

• At $550 per week for the combined rent of the moped and Uber Eats login, divided by the $4 commission per delivery, it takes about 135 food deliveries per week before Mr. Milano breaks even.

• “Jessica” is the one getting paid by Uber Eats. She then pays Mr. Milano and her other subs in cash, after taking her administrative fee for subcontracting her Uber Eats login to them. Not every “Jessica” reliably pays their subs, however, and the subs obviously have no recourse when Jessica pockets their earnings.

A few weeks ago, Pirate Wires published a sobering article by Sagnik Basu that details the extent of the exploitation of people such as Mayco Milano, while also shaming the smug consumers who believe they are the good guys for providing a living to off-the-books food dashers. This article was subsequently re-published by The Free Press, but the Pirate Wires version is not behind a paywall:

“Abolish ICE! (So You Can Get Your $10 Burrito at Midnight); Migrants keep yuppies fed while liberals romanticize the hustle of their tired African burrito messengers, ignoring the exploitation going on behind the scenes” [Pirate Wires – Sagnik Basu – 10/20/2025]

This is one of those “read every word” articles, which I encourage you to do, but here are a few pull quotes:

Walk through Midtown at night and the story writes itself. Gas-powered mopeds idle in clusters outside the Roosevelt Hotel, their headlights cutting through steam from the street vents. Riders sit slumped over paper cups of coffee, helmets at their feet. Upstairs, people in $4,000/month apartments track their Uber Eats orders on their phones: “Your Thai curry is six minutes away.” Everyone in this city knows what’s going on. We just don’t say it out loud.

Outside the Roosevelt Hotel or shelters in Queens, you can buy a complete starter kit: moped, helmet, insulated bag, and Uber Eats login — “todo junto,” all together. Ads circulate through WhatsApp groups and Facebook Marketplace targeting Venezuelan and Guinean migrants. It’s an informal franchise system that works because everyone involved is desperate enough to honor it.

Most riders are paid in cash. There are no 1099s, no payroll records, no worker’s comp when they crash on wet pavement. The city forfeits tax revenue; the companies forfeit liability; the riders forfeit everything.

What we call the “gig economy” is, in practice, a debt-and-fear economy — one that goes unchallenged in hyper-progressive places like NYC precisely because liberals have redefined “compassion” as ignoring the law.

The young professional who tweets “abolish ICE” orders pad thai at 11 p.m. from a rider whose entire existence depends on ICE looking the other way. They think guilt-tipping 35 percent makes them virtuous. But it’s just exploitation offset by sentiment.

If Uber Eats or DoorDash can build billion-dollar machine-learning models to predict delivery times, they can build one to verify who’s actually delivering.

This will come with costs. When you close the pipeline of illegal labor, prices will rise. Fewer $10 burritos at 11 p.m. More delivery fees. More friction. Good. Because that’s the real price of legality. If we want a humane system, it has to be lawful first. You have to enforce the border, punish exploitation, and end the moral outsourcing that lets you feel good while someone else breaks the law for you.

If compassion means preserving a shadow economy of fear, debt, and exhaustion, then it’s not compassion at all. It’s exploitation wrapped in virtue.

Coincidentally, just a few days after publication of the Pirate Wire piece, Culper Research issued a devastating research opinion to investors about Door Dash’s business model, while also advising that Culper was taking a short position in Door Dash stock (meaning they expect the stock price to drop). Per Culper Research’s website, Culper is a watchdog that seeks “to expose companies which have misrepresented their operations, failed to disclose significant risks, misused capital, possess accounting irregularities, or otherwise deceived investors.”

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Flop House
Edward Millman

The Morning Report — 11/21/25

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Here we are barely two weeks after New Yorkers went to the polls and elected a Muslim/Socialist mayor of the world's most Jewish city by population though certainly not in spirit or character. To add the most horrific insult to injury, that abomination came just a few days shy of the 87th anniversary of Kristalnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass where Synagogues and Jewish owned businesses were burned to the ground and ransacked with the full knowledge and approval of the Hitlerite Nazi German regime in reaction to the shooting death of a German diplomat in France by a distraught young Polish Jew. And by the next day thousands of Jews were rounded up and sent off and imprisoned. It marked what is recognized as the start of what became known as the Holocaust, a genocide which by the end of the Second World war claimed the lives of at least 6 million of Europe's Jews.

As kind of an aside, The Leftists are shrieking about ICE separating families and deporting illegal aliens and likening it to Nazis rounding up Jews, then using that as a justification to assault ICE and other law enforcement agents while amplifying the trope of President Trump as literally Hitler and all of us who support him as Nazis, fascists and white supremacists who must be resisted by any means necessary!

So, despite my clunky introduction, here we are a few weeks and 87 years after the aforementioned and this happened in New York City:

Columbia University student groups promoted a protest at which an anti-Semitic mob threw bottles and sticks at a Jewish group, which included at least two Holocaust survivors, outside a historic Manhattan synagogue.

Roughly 200 keffiyeh-clad agitators gathered outside the Park East Synagogue on Wednesday to protest an event hosted by Nefesh B’Nefesh, a nonprofit group that facilitates Jewish immigration to Israel, the synagogue’s cantor, Benny Rogosnitzky, told the Washington Free Beacon. The sticks and bottles they threw at a group of Jewish counter-protesters of about the same size injured at least one member of the synagogue, he said. . . The protest was organized by PAL-Awda NY/NJ, which has honored Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar as a "hero" and a "legend." Columbia University Apartheid Divest and the Columbia chapter of Students for a Democratic Society promoted the event on social media, sharing a flyer that read "NO SETTLERS ON STOLEN LAND." It also accused Nefesh B’Nefesh of holding a "settler recruiting fair" and listed the address of Park East Synagogue, which is led by Rabbi Arthur Schneier, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor. . . In response to Wednesday night’s protest, Mamdani, through a spokeswoman, suggested that Nefesh B’Nefesh’s mission of bringing Jews to Israel violates international law.

Wait! Students For A Democratic Society I thought that that group disintegrated decades ago. Its members have got to be well into their 80s by now, if not rotting in hell. Meh, the friggin' Berlin Wall came down in 1990 and evidently it landed right on top of us. . .

But that last sentence in the pull quote is quite telling considering this item from the last day or so

This week, he reiterated his intention to honor the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest, should the Israeli leader ever visit New York City under his leadership. This is a position that he has maintained since his campaign, which was quite popular among the anti-Israel leftists in New York.

The salient point though is this is not about Netanyahu or Israel per se. This is about Islam and its unending crusade (pun absolutely intended) to conquer the world. In doing so its goals are first and foremost the death of every Jew and the subjugation, forced conversion or death of every other infidel or anyone who resists. It is self-evident in that staging a violent assault on a synagogue and those inside be they Jew or Gentile, that is thousands of miles from Israel (or the mythical land of "Palestine") has nothing to do with anything other than an act of terrorism.

And Zohran Mamdani hasn't even been sworn in. Maybe Jeremiah Wright can brush up on his Arabic and declare his famous words of G-damn America with Mamdani's reptilian claw on that accursed Koran.

And speaking of my hometown, there's this item that has ramifications for everyone who is forced to remain in that besieged city:

A Queens senior citizen who shot dead a man who tried to rob him will spend four years in prison after admitting to toting an unlicensed revolver — as his lawyer ripped the city’s “draconian” gun laws.

Charles Foehner, 67, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal weapons possession Thursday in a deal to end his case more than two years after he fatally shot would-be thief Cody Gonzalez, who charged at him near his Kew Gardens home.

The Queens District Attorney’s Office chose not to prosecute Foehner, a retired doorman, for Gonzalez’s killing after he told cops that he’d defended himself from a mugger who lunged at him late at night holding what looked like a knife — but which turned out to be a pen.

And while Daniel Penny, might have been miraculously acquitted in a New York court in the accidental death of a psycho assailant who was threatening him and his fellow subway riders, after Penny got him in a stranglehold.

You better believe that no one will be safe from mere criminals to organized terrorists hunting Jews and infidels. In the wake of the Al Sharpton fomented Crown Heights pogrom of 1981, a number of Jewish safety patrols were formed in the orthodox and Hassidic neighborhoods, supported by the NYPD as an official arm of the Auxiliary police. it's a fair bet that Mamdani will have them disbanded as soon as he gets the chance.

And if anyone dares to effectively engage in self defense, every juror unlucky enough to pull jury duty will never vote to acquit lest they endanger themselves and their families.

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest jungle . . .

Consider Dearborn, Michigan, population just north of 100,000. If you were ranking American cities by population, Dearborn wouldn’t even crack the top 300. But the population that Dearborn does have is highly significant. Dearborn currently has a larger proportion of Muslims than any other city in the United States, and it recently became the first Arab-majority city in the country. Fully 55% of Dearborn’s residents say they have Middle Eastern or North African ancestry — which explains why Dearborn boasts the largest mosque in the entire continent of North America. Dearborn, as I’ve said before, is an Islamic capital at this point. It’s not an American city in any way. Dearborn has been conquered. And the few remaining Americans in Dearborn are now finding themselves surrounded by mobs of Muslims chanting Allahu Akbar, and telling them to leave the city.

This is footage that was taken by Nick Shirley, one of the few journalists who’s willing to travel to Dearborn. The footage shows Shirley attempting to interview an activist named Jake Lang — who was one of the pardoned January 6 defendants. But the interview doesn’t go anywhere, because at this point, Dearborn resembles Fallujah. . .

. . . To be clear about what we just saw: If you’re an American citizen, and the mob of Muslims that controls Dearborn believes that you’re a “racist,” then you’re not welcome in the city any longer. Your constitutional rights to freedom of expression are suspended. You will be surrounded and hounded. And indeed, that’s the official position of the government of Dearborn. It was just a few weeks ago, you may remember, that the mayor of Dearborn, Abdullah Hammoud, publicly berated a Christian pastor, telling him that he’s not “welcome” in the city because of his views. (This is the same mayor who, as we discussed yesterday, said he “disavows” the concept of assimilation.) So this tactic of driving out Americans who disagree with the Islamization of the city extends not just to the mob but to government officials in the city as well. That’s what makes this, among other things, a constitutional crisis.

For those who think that this madness will remain in NYC or Dearborn, or wherever else, and ultimately burn itself out, think again because you're whistling past a gate to hell — with the words "Arbeit Macht Frei" on them.

The Democrat Party, even in your neck of the woods is fully on board with this, if not publicly than for sure behind closed doors. And it matters not that you might be in a very dark and deep Red city or state. This cancer is still there. And most dangerously, it's in our schools.

And a mere molotov cocktail's throw from Dearbornistan, we have Mogadishu on the Mississippi:

Report: MN Somali Medicaid Fraud Investigation Reveals Terrorist Link — ‘Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota Taxpayer’ . . .But the fraud is far more widespread with far more money involved than was previously reported — all of which has been presided over by former Democrat Party vice-presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz. The money paid out by Minnesota’s scandal-plagued welfare schemes is monumental. The state’s failed Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program, for instance, was kicked off in 2021 with expenses expected to ring in at $2.6 million. But instead, the program paid out $21 million its first year. In each subsequent year the program ballooned to $42 million, then $74, and then $104 million, respectively. During the first half of 2025, costs had already reached $61 million, according to City Journal. Fraud is also endemic in many of Minnesota’s other welfare programs. City Journal noted that a Somali woman named Asha Farhan Hassan has been charged with defrauding the state’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program of $14 million over fake diagnoses of autism in children of Somali migrants. Prosecutors now say that Hassan and her cohorts approached Somali families and promised them kickbacks of between $300 to $1500 a month per child if they enrolled in the state’s autism treatment programs.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• Rejecting the role of “Uncle Sucker”. The Genius of Trump’s Tariffs

• Hundreds of pro-'Palestinian' activists Terrorists besieged Manhattan’s prestigious Park East Synagogue on Wednesday night, chanting, “Globalize the intifada,” “Death to the IDF,” and “take another settler out,” in what critics warned is “just the beginning” of a radicalized climate under socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. (Uh, it's the Islam not the socialism at work here, though you'll never hear a peep of outrage about this from the socialists - jjs)
  Pro-'Palestinian' Activists Besiege NYC Synagogue: ‘Mamdani Era Has Already Begun’

Daily Tech News 21 November 2025

—Pixy Misa

• High King Mustafa, Lord of Microsoft's AI division, is angered by your insufficient displays of appreciation for his bountiful distribution of AI slop. (PC Magazine)
  
  "Remember the days," he asked, "when all you had to eat was bread and cheese, and meat, and vegetables, and fruit in season, and pasta, and rice, and beans, and fish, and eggs, and chocolate cake? Why aren't you properly grateful for the disgusting slop we are forcing down your miserable gullets? Don't you know how lucky you are to live in an age where slop like this is available?"
  
  He then reportedly threw a chair at an intern.

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - November 20, 2025 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

Howdy Hordelings! Hope your Thursday has been good. The ONT is here to help you close out your day. Come on in!

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Sleepy Joe's Birthday

El Rushbo used to call him "Plugs" Biden. I can think of a whole bunch of things to call him, but I won't. Anyway, today is his 83rd birthday. I have no wishes for him, good or bad. How about we just enjoy some of his "greatest" moments?

Here's a longer video from the same folks

And who can forget this brilliance?

Which inspired this greatness

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Let's also revisit this highlight of his career

The Presidential dream was one Biden kept alive for years, and as early as 1984 he was tipped to be a Democratic candidate. Following his announcement for candidacy in 1987, Biden was outlined as one of the stronger hopefuls. However this hope wasn’t reflected in the primaries and his performance in the first in Houston, Texas in July received a mixed bag of responses.

Richard Gephardt and Michael Dukakis were Biden’s main rivals for the Democratic ticket in the election, and by August 1987 both were ahead of his. The following month, on September 12, stories were ran in the New York Times and other large publications about a controversy that would bring Joe Biden’s campaign to a grinding halt.

The reports were damning and suggested that Biden had used extracts of a speech made by the Labour Party leader at the Welsh Labour Party Conference in 1985 in his own.

81 million votes in 2020. Don't ever forget it, and don't you DARE question it!

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Speaking of Curmudgeons

Yeah, ol' Scranton Joe could certainly be a grump. Coincidentally, on today's Morning Report thread, commenters were talking about curmudgeons. That inspired me feature some rather grouchy folks here tonight. Just a few of the ones I thought of.

Archie Bunker

Mr. Roper (master of breaking the 4th wall)

Grandpa Simpson

Walter!

Hit up the comments to let us know who else fits the bill.

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On This Date in History

Avid readers of Compute! magazine may remember this historic event that occurred 40 years ago today.

Windows 1.0 released 40 years ago today - and started Microsoft's road to success

Windows 1.0 officially released to the public 40 years ago today (November 20), and despite its age, still has some common similarities with what users can expect from the operating system today.

Underpinned by the iconic MS-DOS command line, Windows 1.0 is notable in that it specifically required a computer mouse to navigate the graphical user interface (GUI). When the operating system first launched in the US it cost $99, equivalent to just over $296 in today’s dollars.

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More on Windows 1.0

Microsoft Windows hits 40 years old: A visual walk down memory lane

from redhotcyber.com

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Also on this date. A rock legend was born.

American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter Joe Walsh, born on November 20, 1947

Others born on this date

1965: Mike D (Diamond), American rapper, musician, and music producer. He is a founding member of the hip hop group Beastie Boys

1975: American country singer and songwriter Dierks Bentley

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Close it up

Baby Rhino Hero Cafe

—Ace

Bavarian Alps in autumn
Kilian Schonberger/@Schoenberger_K

Mama chimp whoops her rambunctious son.

Wild dog-- or wolf? -- plays the I'm-touching-you-game with his brother, who spergs out about it.

Compilation of ducks being awesome.

Birds being helpful and/or copycats.

You don't want no trouble from this feisty kitten.

And you don't want no smoke with this one, either.

Beaver carrying a baby. No, I mean the rodent.

The bird is in. Now they're invincible.

Mother horse runs with her baby.

Oldie but a goodie: Polite penguin waits for the road to clear.

Come along little doggie!

Good shanks on this filly.

A wolf problem, you say? Nay, a wolf opportunity.

Perpetual motion meow-chine. That was terrible. Kill me now.

The World's Most Ostentatious "True Conservative" Republican -- George Conway -- Might Run for Jerry Nadler's NYC House Seat... as a Democrat

—Ace

As a Democrat? That makes no sense! George Conway is always boasting that he is the truest of all true conservatives!

Wait a sec -- could it be... and I'm just spitballing here... could it be that the liberal grifters grifting as "The True Conservatives for the Leftwing Antifa Democrat Agenda" are actually all limousine liberal Democrats and in fact have been all along?

Nah, that's crazy. They couldn't all just be lying to us.

Or... could they?

While I figure this puzzle out, peruse Just the News.

George Conway, a conservative lawyer but vocal critic of President Donald Trump, is considering jumping into the race to replace New York Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler next year, according to the New York Times.

Conway, who divorced his wife and former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway in 2023, told donors at a private virtual event for paid members of the liberal media outlet Democracy Docket on Tuesday that he was inspired to consider a campaign after eight Senate Democrats voted to reopen the government without a deal to extend expiring health care subsidies.

I call him a "literal cuck" but I don't know that for a fact. I can say that there is a widely-known rumor that when George Conway went crazy with Trump Derangement making a public spectacle of himself while his wife continued to work for Trump, the couple enjoyed a "Catholic divorce," which means they remained "married" for the sake of their daughter and appearances while living entirely separate lives, including dating.

And I do hear that Kellyanne was more successful in dating-while-married than Georgy Porgy.

Do I know that's true? No.

Do I guess that's true? Oh yeah, you betcha. I've got a bonus tweet after the jump that I think... let's say, it "paints a picture."

The former conservative said he would run as a Democrat if he jumped into the race, but admitted that the party swap could confuse some voters and "put some people off."

It will confuse literally zero voters. Everyone knows you're a butthurt liberal cuck.

"This is the time for a lawyer who has never been in politics to go into politics," Conway said.

This pussy has lived and breathed nothing but politics his whole life. His "legal" work is mostly political crap.

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Conway also noted that he would serve as a "wingman" to other attorneys in politics, like Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin and New York Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman.

Perfect phrasing. No notes.

The attorney supported Trump when he won in 2016, but he broke with the president in his first term when he fired former FBI Director James Comey. He has since claimed Trump is a narcissist who is unfit for office.

He threw away his marriage and betrayed his wife over the firing of James Comey?

Oh I get it now -- he's insane.

Or... maybe I don't believe this tale. Maybe I believe something more along the lines of, one of the grifters of the NeverTrump movement made a cash-money offer to this lifelong political opportunist.

The below tweet was shared around political types last week. A friend showed it to me in a Chinese restaurant.

In the tweet, George Conway whines that his wife didn't "stick up for" him when he was betraying her by attacking her employer, Donald Trump.

She had a steady job. He didn't. And instead of just shutting up, he attempted to suddenly become a NeverTrump Political Celebrity, despite mostly being a behind-the-scenes operator his whole life. On account of him being uglier than James Carville's less-attractive testicle.

Kellyanne was the one who appeared on TV. Conway was the one who leaked to allies who then spoke on TV.

But suddenly, just in time for a mid-life crisis, Conway is beating down the doors at MSNBC to get a live-shot on TV.

And making everyone wonder: What is going on with their marriage, that this guy is savaging his wife's boss, and by extension, her, every other night on TV?

And he could not stop making his wife's life difficult for her... but then he demanded she "stick up for him" in making life difficult for her.

The Deposed Regime Gathers to Pretend to Honor Dick Cheney While Actually Making Petty Attacks to Advance Their Dying Political Careers

—Ace

GRIM SPECTERS OF DEATH:
Rachel Maddow sits beside Anthony Fuckin' Fauci at the Cheney Funeral Show

Neither Trump nor Vance were invited.

The Obamas didn't come, because they are beyond pretending they're interested in anything that doesn't pay them seven figures for a quickie appearance.

The Clintons were too busy dodging subpoeans to make an appearance.

But George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Kamala Harris, her Punchy Cuck of a husband, Anthony Fauci and Rachel Maddow all made the scene.

Pretending to eulogize her father and speak of the legacy he leaves for posterity, Liz Cheney hijacks the funeral to turn into another McCain funeral, focused on petty attacks against transitory political figures.

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Addressing mourners who had gathered in Washington, DC, Liz Cheney said her father, the former US Vice President Dick Cheney, always prioritized defending the Constitution over party loyalty

That has nothing to do with Dick Cheney. He is not known for "defending the Constitution over party loyalty." He is known -- to put it in a positive way -- for defending America no matter what the costs or which applecarts were overturned.

But "defending the Constitution over party loyalty" was empahtically not Dick Cheney's fight. McCain could claim that for fighting "torture," but Cheney was all about torture.

"Putting the Constitution over party loyalty" was Liz Cheney's fight (or, at least, that's how she would tell the tale).

So she's not eulogizing her father, she's just elevating herself. She's standing on her father's corpse to give some height to her toad-like frame.

Typical, and what we've come to expect from Regime funeral shows.

Her big praise of her father was about him backing her quixotic cause.

In recent years, Dick Cheney, who also served as secretary of Defense and represented Wyoming in Congress, publicly backed his daughter as she fought to push back on false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, eventually losing her seat in Congress after turning against President Trump.

"Though he was inspired to service by President Kennedy, Dick Cheney became a Republican," Liz Cheney said. "But he knew that bonds of party must always yield to the single bond we share as Americans."

"For him, a choice between defense of the Constitution and defense of your political party was no choice at all," she added.

So let's ignore all the things Dick Cheney actually did when he was in office to focus on what really matters, him saying "You go girl" to his daughter as a retired and weary old man, sitting on the sidelines, weakly shaking the pom-poms.

I thought at least she would try to hide that she was talking entirely about herself by talking about Cheney, I don't know, standing up to Nixon during impeachment (if he did that, I dunno). Then she could say "he stood up for the Constitution over party loyalty" and while you would suspect she was talking about herself again, you couldn't be sure. She would have plausible deniability.

But no, she doesn't bother dressing it up, she goes just goes straight for the naked self-praise: "What made my father great was him recognizing how righteous and brave I was in my prune-faced heterosexual lesbian act."

I don't know, is this how the Regime does funerals? When I've spoken at funerals I've tended to focus on the actual deceased person. I didn't say, "You know what grandma loved? My 'Johnny Coldcuts' character. That and the Money for Anal Wonkette Skankathon. She quilted me a blanket with 'pooter' written on it."

Somalis in Minnesota are Defrauding the Government By Claming Autism, and Then Sending American Tax Dollars to the Somali Terror Group Al-Shabaab

—Ace

The biggest funder of the Al-Shabbab terror organization is the American taxpayer.

Are we still pretending that these are Americans, transformed into tricorn-wearing patriots simply by touching magical American soil?

These are foreign terrorist invaders, and criminals, and conquerors.

It is time to send them back.

And of course the Somalis' partner in funding terrorism with US taxpayer dollars is Tim Walz.

"The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer"

How some of the state's welfare funds ended up in the hands of a terror group

Minnesota is drowning in fraud. Billions in taxpayer dollars have been stolen during the administration of Governor Tim Walz alone. Democratic state officials, overseeing one of the most generous welfare regimes in the country, are asleep at the switch.

And the media, duty-bound by progressive pieties, refuse to connect the dots.

In many cases, the fraud has allegedly been perpetrated by members of Minnesota's sizeable Somali community. Federal counterterrorism sources confirm that millions of dollars in stolen funds have been sent back to Somalia, where they ultimately landed in the hands of the terror group Al-Shabaab. As one confidential source put it: "The largest funder of Al-Shabaab is the Minnesota taxpayer."

Our investigation shows what happens when a tribal mindset meets a bleeding-heart bureaucracy, when imported clan loyalties collide with a political class too timid to offend, and when accusations of racism are cynically deployed to shield criminal behavior. The predictable result is graft, with taxpayers left to foot the bill.
If you were to design a welfare program to facilitate fraud, it would probably look a lot like Minnesota's Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services program. The HSS program, the first of its kind in the country, was launched with a noble goal: to help seniors, addicts, the disabled, and the mentally ill secure housing. It was designed with "low barriers to entry" and "minimal requirements for reimbursement."

Nonetheless, before the program went live in 2020, officials pegged its annual estimated price tag at $2.6 million.

Costs quickly spiraled out of control. In 2021, the program paid out more than $21 million in claims. In the following years, annual costs shot up to $42 million, then $74 million, then $104 million. During the first six months of 2025, payouts totaled $61 million.

On August 1, Minnesota's Department of Human Services moved to scrap the HSS program, noting that payment to 77 housing-stabilization providers had been terminated this year due to "credible allegations of fraud." Joe Thompson, then the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota, went even further, stating that the "vast majority" of the HSS program was fraudulent.

On September 18, Thompson announced criminal indictments for HSS fraud against Moktar Hassan Aden, Mustafa Dayib Ali, Khalid Ahmed Dayib, Abdifitah Mohamud Mohamed, Christopher Adesoji Falade, Emmanuel Oluwademilade Falade, Asad Ahmed Adow, and Anwar Ahmed Adow--six of whom, according a U.S. Attorney's Office spokesperson, are members of Minnesota's Somali community. Thompson made clear that this is just the first round of charges for HSS fraud that his office will be prosecuting.

"Most of these cases, unlike a lot of Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud cases nationally, aren't just overbilling," Thompson said at a press conference announcing the indictments. "These are often just purely fictitious companies solely created to defraud the system, and that's unique in the extent to which we have that here in Minnesota."

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"What we see are schemes stacked upon schemes, draining resources meant for those in need. It feels never ending," Thompson said. "I have spent my career as a fraud prosecutor and the depth of the fraud in Minnesota takes my breath away."
On September 18, the same day that the HSS fraud charges were announced, the U.S. Attorney's Office reported that a man named Abdullahe Nur Jesow had become the 56th defendant to plead guilty in the $250 million Feeding Our Future fraud scheme.

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In 2019, Feeding Our Future received $3.4 million in federal funding disbursed by the state. In the months after the Covid-19 pandemic began, however, the nonprofit rapidly increased its number of sponsored sites. Using fake meal counts, doctored attendance records, and fabricated invoices, the perpetrators of the fraud ring claimed to be serving thousands of meals a day, seven days a week, to underprivileged children. In 2021, Feeding Our Future received nearly $200 million in funding.

In reality, the money was being used to fund lavish lifestyles, purchase luxury vehicles, and buy real estate in the United States, Turkey, and Kenya. In 2020, Minnesota officials raised concerns about the nonprofit's rapid expansion. In response, the group filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination related to outstanding site applications, noting that Feeding Our Future "caters to . . . foreign nationals."

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The fraudsters have leveraged their growing political influence to cultivate close ties with Minnesota's elected officials. Several individuals involved in the Feeding Our Future scheme donated to, or appeared publicly with, Ilhan Omar, the Somali-born congresswoman from Minneapolis. Omar's deputy district director, Ali Isse, advocated on behalf of Feeding Our Future. Omar Fateh, a former state senator who recently ran for Minneapolis mayor, lobbied Governor Tim Walz in support of the program. And one of the accused, Abdi Nur Salah, served as a senior aide to Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey.

Just days later, on September 24, U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson announced his office's first indictment in yet another fraud case. This time, the scheme involved federally funded autism services for children.

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Hassan and her co-conspirators "approached parents in the Somali community" and recruited their children into autism therapy services. It didn't matter, prosecutors suggested, if a child did not have an autism diagnosis: Hassan would facilitate a fraudulent one.

When gnarled raiders clamber over America's gunwhales, the idiots of the communist left cry "They're here to help us row the ship!"

No. They are pirates. They are here to kill, despoil, and plunder.

Clinton's Secretary of the Treasury and Democrat Party Wise-Man Larry Summers Is Booted from Harvard's Classrooms as the Leftwing School Examines His Relationsip with Pedophile Financier and "Wing Man" Jeffrey Epstein

—Ace

And when I say he was a wing man of Jeffrey Epstein, I do in fact mean the Jeffrey Epstein, not a Jeffrey Epstein.

Larry Summers, the former Harvard University president who served as treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, is stepping back from teaching and resigning from the board of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, as Harvard looks into his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Harvard is reviewing information of people associated with the university -- including Summers, its president from 2001 to 2006 -- that were featured in the Epstein documents to "evaluate what actions may be warranted," spokesperson Jason Newton said on Wednesday. Congress released documents last week showing the men remained in close contact after Epstein pleaded guilty to solicitation of prostitution in 2008.

Summers's spokesperson also said on Wednesday that his co-teachers will complete the remaining three class sessions of the courses he has been teaching this semester. "Summers is not scheduled to teach next semester," the spokesperson added. He will keep his tenure.

Summers said in a statement on the same day that he has resigned from the board of OpenAI -- one day after he announced that he would step back from his public commitments.

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On Nov. 12, the House Oversight Committee released a trove of documents that included emails illuminating Epstein's ties to a network of world leaders, business tycoons and American politicians from both parties -- connections that continued long after Epstein pleaded guilty to charges of solicitation of prostitution and solicitation of prostitution with a minor in 2008.
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After the files were released, a series of boards and think tanks severed their relationships with Summers, including the Yale Budget Lab, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution, the Center for Global Development and the Center for American Progress.

CAP, a left-leaning think tank, said in a statement that it had paused the launch of a working group focused on economic proposals, which Summers was supposed to help lead. For decades, Summers has been a key player on economic policy in Washington.

The Democrat Party protects its own:

Tosca Austen
@ToscaAusten

💀EPSTEIN'S Ghost Claws Out
Of A Long-Sealed Vault.

LARRY SUMMERS --former U.S. Treasury Secretary For Bill Clinton falls first, steps down from the Board of Open AI.

Let's talk about privilege.

Imagine being so powerful that even after texting Jeffrey Epstein--the day before his arrest, bragging about canoodling with the daughter of a top CCP banker--and getting caught red-handed in the Epstein Estate files...

And after all that, you STILL get to keep your Harvard office.

You STILL get to shape the next Democratic administration.

You STILL get to walk FREE. That's Larry Summers in 2025. Insulated from the inside.

And Nobody is canceling him Yet.

For 30 years Summer WAS the Democratic Party's brain:

-->Clinton's Treasury Secretary who deregulated Wall Street and opened the door for China's WTO entry.
-->Obama's economic czar who ran the recovery
-->Biden's inflation prophet and quiet advisor
-->The guy Socialists love to hate but centrists can't live without

Life was good for Larry Summers.

Until the House dropped the Epstein emails this week and the mask slipped off completely.

Hundreds of messages:

-->Summers whining to Epstein that his 20-something "mentee" Keyu Jin (daughter of Jin Liqun, the godfather of China's Belt & Road) won't sleep with him unless he keeps mentoring her

-->She can't have it without sex" -- direct quote to Epstein, a convicted sex trafficker

-->Epstein replying "she's doomed to be with you" like it's locker-room banter

-->Summers texting Epstein literally 24 hours BEFORE the 2019 raid
-->Summers wife Elisa hitting Epstein up for poetry-project cash and inviting him to dinner

All while Summers, as HARVARD president, took Epstein's millions and let him roam campus like a VIP.👀

And the CCP angle? Keyu Jin's dad isn't just some banker -- he's the founding head of the AIIB, Xi's answer to the World Bank.

Beneath our noses, Summers was chasing the princess while selling America on "strategic interdependence" with Beijing.

He's been radioactive for days and the silence from the big Dem accounts is deafening.

Why is that?

Because Larry Summers is the living bridge between Wall Street, the CCP, and the Jeffrey Epstein blackmail network -- and for decades that made him untouchable instead of unemployable.

This guy literally heaped praise on a Red Chinese official charged with expanding the Red China Empire's tentacles across the world in order to induce his daughter to fuck him.

Even without him asking his "wing man" Jeffrey Epstein for advice on how to seduce a much-younger woman, this is a firing offense. And I mean "firing from all positions of public and especially governmental trust."

Jasmine Ratchet Demonstrates Again Why Her Nickname Isn't "Jasmine Sentient"

—Ace

Defending her fellow Strong Black Woman Who Takes Orders from White Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein -- Stacey Plaskett, I mean -- Jasmine Ratchet took the difficult action of standing on the floor of the House (difficult for the floor of the House, I mean) and declared that many Republicans had taken money from "a Jeffrey Epstein," including Mitt Romney, George Bush, and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.

Democrats Urge the Military to Stage a Coup, Trump Gently Cautions Them That the Punishment for Sedition is "DEATH!"

—Ace

A group of Democrats did another coordinated propaganda session, this time all repeating the seditious demand that the military resist "illegal orders" -- by which they mean policy decisions the duly-elected Commander in Chief makes, like using the National Guard to quell insurrections -- and promises that the Democrats will make sure they're all pardoned and taken care after the coup.

Democrat House Member Charged With Stealing $5 Million in FEMA Funds for Her Own Benefit

—Ace

She used the stolen money partly to fund her congressional campaign, so that she was in a position to steal more money.

Nick Sortor @nicksortor

🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ has just charged Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL) with stealing $5 MILLION in FEMA funds meant for disaster relief

If convicted, she faces 53 YEARS in federal prison.

FINALLY! Time to EXPEL her as well, @SpeakerJohnson.

Sheila also is alleged to have used a lot of that stolen FEMA money to fund her Congressional campaign.

What a piece of trash. Lock her up.

More from Bill Melugin:

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_

BREAKING: DOJ charges Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL) with stealing $5 million in FEMA funds, laundering the proceeds, and then using the money to support her 2021 Congressional campaign. She faces up to 53 years in prison if convicted.

According to the indictment, DOJ says:

"Cherfilus-McCormick, 46, and her brother Edwin Cherfilus, 51, both of Miramar, worked through their family health-care company on a FEMA-funded COVID-19 vaccination staffing contract in 2021. In July 2021, the company received an overpayment of $5 million in FEMA funds.

Of course covid was part of this, as well as the Biden Money Spigot for his left-wing frenz.

The indictment alleges that the defendants conspired to steal that $5 million and routed it through multiple accounts to disguise its source. Prosecutors allege that a substantial portion of the misappropriated funds was used as candidate contributions to Cherfilus-McCormick's 2021 congressional campaign and for the personal benefit of the defendants.

The indictment further alleges that Cherfilus-McCormick and Nadege Leblanc, 46, of Miramar, arranged additional contributions using straw donors, funneling other monies from the FEMA-funded Covid-19 contract to friends and relatives who then donated to the campaign as if using their own money.

The indictment also charges Cherfilus-McCormick and her 2021 tax preparer David K. Spencer, 41, of Davie, with conspiring to file a false federal tax return. According to the indictment, they falsely claimed political spending and other personal expenses as business deductions and inflated charitable contributions in order to reduce her tax obligations."

The Morning Rant: AI...Is It A Bubble?

—CBD

So...is AI a financial bubble, or is it an evolution in computing, customer service, data management, and research of all kinds?

Yes.

40% of the S&P500 market cap is directly or indirectly involved with AI, which is a disturbing concentration. But whatever one thinks of AI, and to be honest, I don't think much of it, it has penetrated American and world business very quickly as tangible products and tools. And unlike the typical bubble, we do not (yet) have overcapacity. In fact, RAM prices are skyrocketing because of undercapacity. Is there cheap and abundant credit available to build overcapacity? Not as much as before the Global Financial Crisis, or the oil boom and bust. Will that change? Absolutely. Are the financial markets going to create complex instruments to increase credit availability? You betcha! It is already issuing debt collateralized by GPUs!

The real question is: What will happen to demand for AI products for the foreseeable future? As it becomes more sophisticated, it will gradually replace rote tasks and, increasingly, low-level customer interaction. That is already occurring, and it is occasionally useful, but often extremely irritating. It is also cheaper, or at least has the promise of saving labor costs, so regardless of its quality, it will be implemented by many companies.

But one limitation is power. Everyone knows that AI requires oceans of power, and not the fake, sometimes-on-sometimes-off green crap. It requires nice reliable natural gas, or oil, or coal, or nuclear power to run the vast server farms that it needs. And that is a very good thing. It will provide a stable demand for domestic energy production, and drive the new generation of nuclear. There is nothing like the promise of profit to end American corporation's fixation on green energy.

And if AI is a bubble, and it bursts? What happens to all of that now-excess power generation? Some will get mothballed, but some will be repurposed for the mundane but vital powering of the rest of the economy.

I doubt that AI is revolutionary. For the casual user, it is a bit more than a toy, but not yet an integral part of life. For the dedicated user it is a very useful tool to speed up tasks that are easily doable, but take time. Can it innovate? No. Can it invent? Well, yes, but those are appropriately called "hallucinations," and is the AI industry's dirty little secret!

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Street In Joliet
Aaron Bohrod

The Morning Report — 11/20/25

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids.

Per the lyrics to a classic from The Who: I hope I die before I get old Well I'm at the point of wishing that upon if not the entirety of today's younger generation(s) then certainly an alarmingly large number of that cohort. And to be fair, retroactively they can take quite a few of the Baby Boomers to whom Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey were referring, with them straight to Hell. Because it was they who begat this insanity, and if only they had indeed died before they got old and became, teachers, thought leaders and politicians perhaps we could have avoided the cultural rot and madness that now threatens to drag whatever vestiges of civilization that are represented by America as founded that yet remain and have not been set alight like a sleeping passenger on a NYC and now a Chicago subway train.

It is to weep. But here we are, and we cannot know the future. Perhaps Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk weren't one-offs. Only time will tell.

Yet, on the heels of our latest episode of the podcast, where CBD and our good friend Jim Lakely, VP and Dir. of Communications at the Heartland Institute discussed the latter's latest nightmare polls about the rise in popularity of Socialism (linked here and in the sidebar as well as available on the outlets listed at the bottom of this post) . . .

Heartland has released this poll which is just twisting the rusty knife in the open wound.

41% of likely voters aged 18-39 voiced support for a proposal to give an advanced AI system authority to control public policymaking decisions 36% of likely voters aged 18-39 said they would support a proposal that would give AI the “authority to determine the rights that belong to individuals and families, including rights related to speech, religious practices, government authority, and property” 35% said they would support a proposal to give AI authority to control all the world’s largest militaries

And speaking of the world's largest militaries, what of our own?

“Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection.” . . .There must have been a time in American history when six sitting lawmakers urging members of the military to defy the commander-in-chief would have been viewed as outright sedition — and those lawmakers would have quickly faced justice. In the age of Trump, however, those days are long gone.

Touting their prior military and intelligence service, Democrat Sens. Elissa Slotkin (MI), who organized the video, Mark Kelly (AZ), and Reps. Chris Deluzio (PA), Maggie Goodlander (NH), Chrissy Houlahan (PA), and Jason Crow CO), launched a surreal video on Tuesday in which they called on troops to refuse to carry out what they consider to be President Donald Trump’s “illegal” orders.

Unlike others of "my generation" I was raised with a respect for and a trust of our military. Considering what an alarming number of our top intelligence and law enforcement officers had done in engineering the Russia Collusion hoax, as well as the attitudes of individuals like Mark Milley, Mad Dog Mattis and other high-ranking brass, as well as the destruction of morale and preparedness in the ranks that swept through them, from Buck Private all the way to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff brought about under Barack Hussein Obama, (this on top of the malign influence of the military industrial complex and the warmongers of the neocon and other varieties that still exists) — and considering all we have seen over the past decade or more given the rot and corruption in and out of government, I no longer have confidence that there exists a shocking number of service members who will hear and obey this siren song of sedition.

GIven the insane rise in popularity of socialism which didn't appear out of thin air but has been inculcated for decades, my fear about our military is not necessarily irrational in this light, or is it?

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• “This is not America. This is an insurgency,” Lang yells over the shouting. “They are taking over our country. They want us all dead.”
  Muslims Surround Conservative Protesters Shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ In Dearborn, Michigan
  
• “Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection.”
  Sedition? Six Congressional Democrats Urge US Troops to Defy Orders From Trump
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Rigid ideologies like DEI, climate dogma, and anti-Trump obsession keep collapsing under their own contradictions, leaving their loudest champions looking increasingly absurd.
  The Embarrassments of Ideology

Daily Tech News 20 November 2025

—Pixy Misa

• The EU is considering scaling back the GDPR rules after learning that every website on the planet uses cookies. (The Verge)
  
  Finally.

  "We have all the ingredients in the EU to succeed. But our companies, especially our start-ups and small businesses, are often held back by layers of rigid rules," said Henna Virkkunen, executive vice-president for implementing layers of rigid rules at the European Commission.

  You don't say.