The Unbearable Lightness Of ONTing

—WeirdDave

Howdy Hordelings! Saw this the other day and found it interesting. Looks like those of us in the central time bone are the future. Yup, we're going to save the country, right here in diddle America.

Fly Me To The Moon

Woman reveals her plans to have sex with Elon Musk and give birth to first 'Martian baby'

She's an OnlyFans model (porn actress) who wants to fly to Mars with Elon and have a kid. The interesting part was this, however:

But according to scientists, the difficulties of having sex on Mars make this highly improbable, if not impossible.

Kelly Weinersmith, a bioscientist and author based in Charlottesville, Virginia, says people who want to populate Mars 'don't understand how reproduction works'.

Weinersmith, who authored the 2023 book 'A City on Mars' with her husband Zach, told the Times: 'These billionaires think it's an engineering problem.

'They think that if they get a rocket that's big enough, biology will take care of itself – but it won't.'

Couples could risk the health of their unborn baby by conceiving in space, whether they're on Mars or orbiting around Earth on the ISS.

They don't say why, however. Now I'm curious why they think you can't get knocked up unless you're on Earth.

Recess Appointments

Brief: On the Article II Recess Appointments Clause

I'm not going to quote anything because it dry and written by a lawyer, but he does give some detail about how and why Trump can make recess appointments for his cabinet. Worth reading if that interests you.

Ball Bow

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AI Problems

Home warranty company refused to pay Utah man $3,000 he says was promised by its 'miscommunicating' AI chatbot

Like many homeowners, Robert Brown purchased a home warranty to protect his finances against problems that might occur on his property. Naturally, when his air conditioner broke, he contacted his warranty company to get it repaired.

A technician was dispatched and able to get the unit up and running again, but told Brown it was only a temporary fix. The Draper, Utah, homeowner realized he would need to get a replacement, so he contacted the warranty company again and pleaded his case.

Brown went online and was connected to the warranty company's chatbot, where he explained what had occurred.

"Can I just get the maximum payout of $3000.00?" he asked, according to KSL News in a story broadcast Sept. 23. "I will order and get it installed myself."

The chatbot agreed, per KSL News, stating: "We will proceed with the payout option of $3,000.00 as per your request.”

Brown says he was assured several times that the money was on its way. But when he called the company after the payment didn't come, he says the business told him the chatbot was "miscommunicating" with customers and they refused to pay.

Ultimately they did pay. I've been quite happy with our home warranty company, but I know that not all of them are easy to work with.

Consiquences

How the Democrats Bud Lighted their brand

Reality remains undefeated and suddenly it reasserted itself. Yet in order to appeal to one of the two genders which now apparently exist again, Democratic organizers ended up falling back on clichéd stereotypes of what men are… because they actually have no idea.

The Democrats realized too late that they had Bud Lighted their brand. You can’t be openly hostile to men for two decades and expect to retain the male vote. And judging by Trump’s gains with both genders, you also can’t be incapable of defining what a woman is and expect women to believe you care about them, either.

Whether the left realizes it or not, the Bud Light moment was the beginning of the end of their long-standing grip on the culture. It lost them 23 percent of their market share and still hasn’t recovered. Trump’s recent win is more evidence. He won decisively, a collective middle finger from an America tired of being lectured.

And it was glorious.

Fiscal Responsibility

Kamala Spent $100 Million a Week

Kamala was blowing through $100 million a week. Where did that money go? The answer in a lot of organizations tends to be ‘consultants’, people put on staff because they’re somebody’s pals or politically connected.
Some media allies of Ms. Harris were also paid. Areva Martin, who hosts a talk show, was paid $200,000 as a media consultant, and she went on a battleground-state tour in October.
Roland Martin, who hosts his own streaming programming and runs a media company called Nu Vision Media, received $350,000 in September for a “media buy” that he said was for advertising.
“It should have been a hell of a lot more,” Mr. Martin said in a brief interview. “More should have been spent on Black-owned media.” Mr. Martin interviewed Ms. Harris in October.
Ms. Harris’s campaign also made two $250,000 donations to National Action Network, the organization led by the Rev. Al Sharpton. Mr. Sharpton interviewed Ms. Harris on MSNBC in October.
That’s chump change when you’re spending $100 million a week, but that is also how you end up spending $100 million a week. A lot of ads. A lot of people making money from buying ads. And from everything else.
The good news is they did manage to get all that money out the door. And now they need more.

Fighting Scammers

Meet the Newest Weapon in the Fight Against Cellphone Scammers

“Created using a range of cutting-edge AI technology and trained with the help of one of YouTube’s best-known scambaiters, Jim Browning, Daisy is a lifelike AI Granny completely indistinguishable from a real person,” O2 explains in a press release. “Able to interact with scammers in real time without any input from her creators, O2 has put Daisy to work around the clock answering dodgy calls.”

Daisy’s job is ingenious. O2 employs her to waste scammers’ time so that they don’t have time to target real victims.
According to O2, Daisy has:
…told frustrated scammers meandering stories of her family, talked at length about her passion for knitting, and provided exasperated callers with false personal information including made-up bank details. By tricking the criminals into thinking they were defrauding a real person and playing on scammers’ biases about older people, Daisy has prevented them from targeting real victims and, most importantly, has exposed the common tactics used so customers can better protect themselves.

Heehee. That's great.

Not A Bad Idea

A Simple Litmus Test for RFK Jr.’s Ideas

After Donald Trump nominated RFK Jr. for the post, Time magazine called him “a vaccine skeptic who spreads medical disinformation and conspiracy theories,” and quoted Lawrence Gostin, director of Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law as saying of his nomination, “I can’t think of a darker day for public health and science.” But I think we need to draw distinctions. 

After looking at the whole range of RFK Jr.’s positions, I’ve come to the view that while some are extreme, others are genuinely worthy of debate—and still others are correct. And there is a way to sift the good from the bad and the debatable. When you hear one of RFK Jr.’s ideas, ask yourself a simple question: Do other nations do what he thinks the U.S. should do? If the answer is yes, then the HHS nominee’s idea is not necessarily apocalyptic, and we should be able to discuss it openly. 

Some of his ideas are whacko, but many are not. That's not a bad suggestion for a starting point to determine which is which.

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Guardian Dogs Cafe

—Ace

Volcano erupting on the Rekjanes Peninsula, Iceland
Via Massimo
photo by Jakob Vegerfors

Pretty sure Marvel's "Valhalla" is based on that church in foreground.

Little baby girl has a bodyguard of seven German shepherds.

Livestock guardian dog is having an interoffice affair and I'm afraid HR will have to be involved.

Golden retriever meets a baby goat.

The same golden retriever looks worried by the arrival of a bucket of puppies.

Golden is excited that grandma's visiting (and she comes bearing a gift).

Big ol' fluffy lifeguard.

It's not just dogs that act as protectors of their masters.

As Reagan said, the only thing better for the inside of a man is the outside of a horse. And he didn't even mean that sexually.

Mama cat and her clone kittens.

Taking a turn babysitting.

It's the end of the quarter, you know these are my crazy-weeks!

Sure, most dogs are brave, but others are shirkers and malingerers.

And sure, some dogs are straight-up Blue Falcons.

Sometimes the real dog guardians are humans.

Trump Nominates Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for AG

—Ace

She does work for the America First Policy Institute, which I guess is good.

She backs the appointment of Laura Trump to Marco Rubio's Senate seat, which I guess means she passes the all-important Loyalty Test.

I don't know. I had problems with Gaetz but I had little doubt that, if appointed, he would tear the place up like mad dog.

With Pam Bondi... this feels more like a chastened pick, a pick made from a position of weakness, a concession to the establishment.

I guess we'll see.

I don't think anyone's expecting the left to call off the attack dogs for Trump's new pick. I'm sure they'll contrive some new sex scandal.

Update: A Floridian correspondent is considerably more excited by this pick:

You wanted Trumpy? She's Trumpy. Gonna be relentlessly loyal. She is also a fucking rock star. This is gonna be awesome.

Well, that's good to hear.

Via Marc Caputo: She represented Trump during his impeachment hearing, so she's on the Trump Train, and he says she's "very confirmable," so that's good.

But like I said, if you think the left and the McConnell Corpservative Cuck Caucus is going to permit Trump to appoint any nominee that will attack the Deep State, you've got another thing coming.

Pretty soon they'll be accusing her of rape.

From gnat local, a blurb from 2020:

Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general and a prominent surrogate for President Donald Trump's campaign, on Tuesday defended Kyle Rittenhouse -- the 17-year-old charged in the shooting deaths of two people in Kenosha, Wisconsin - as "a little boy out there trying to protect his community."

Update: MSNBC reacts.

"Trans Woman" Transferred to Women's Prison Rapes and Impregnates An Actual Woman

—Ace

But spooky-toothed unfunny carpetbagger "comedian"/preacher John Oliver said this just doesn't happen!

This took place in Argentina, though of course this is coming to a "woman's" prison near you.

Gabriel Fernández had been accused of violence by multiple former partners before changing his legal sex to female and renaming himself Gabriela Nahir Fernández in 2018. Last week it was revealed how, while serving a sentence related to a domestic abuse conviction, Fernández raped a female inmate in the women's prison in Córdoba where he is housed, resulting in the victim becoming pregnant.

Following news of the sexual abuse and pregnancy, which initially came to light in July, Fernández, who was being held in the women's ward of the Bouwer detention center, was relocated to an isolated area.

The judge overseeing this case, for one, sounds surprised at this turn of events and continued to refer to Fernandez as "she" even while admitting he was taking advantage of the actual women around him.

"Paradoxically, we find ourselves facing a scenario contrary to what was anticipated. That is, the accused, who perceives herself as a woman and belonging to the LGBTI group, is the one who turns her colleagues into victims or prey of her needs... taking advantage, of course, of the fact that she is housed in an establishment that would not be prepared for these exceptional cases, at least for the moment," said the judges, referring to Fernández with feminine pronouns.

There's more from Sexton, including Argentina's Vice President's promise to fight rapists and pedophiles "until our bodies are out of blood," but you can click on the link for that.

The main story is from Reduxx.

Also from Reduxx: America's Groomer Dad Tim Walz has put five male inmates in women's prison because he's basically Transsexual Joker, an agent of sexual chaos.

A total of five male convicts were transferred to a Minnesota's women-only prison following the adoption of a gender identity policy by the Department of Corrections in January of 2023. Two of the men who are now being held at MCF-Shakopee, a female correctional center, are sexual predators serving sentences related to the abuse of children.

Among them are Elijah Thomas Berryman, 26, who was first arrested in April 2022 and accused of sexually abusing a minor multiple times. He pleaded guilty to four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in March of this year, and according to the Minnesota DOC website, is currently serving his 25-year sentence at the women's prison.

Another, Sean Windingland, 35, sexually assaulted two 6-year-old relatives and posted videos of the abuse and grooming on pornography and pro-pedophile websites.

Windingland admitted to engaging in sexual contact with the young girls when questioned by investigators, but claimed that the children had consented.

The children "consented." Well, there you go.

I'm noticing a very repulsive pattern among these Stunning and Brave Criminal "Transgenders."

See the article for more.

This article was reposted because Tampon Tim said a prayer for the "Trans Day of Remembrance" yesterday.

Corrupt Democrat-Rigged Illinois Supreme Court Overturns Sentence of Protected Race Hoaxer Jussie Smollett

—Ace

Of course. Of course.

Meanwhile, there are hundreds of J6 political prisoners still in jail.

But if you know Kim Foxx and Michele Obama's former chief of staff, you can commit hate crimes and inspire racial hatred and never do a single day in jail.

The Illinois Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Jussie Smollett, who was found guilty in 2021 for lying to police and staging a hate crime, finding the actor was unjustly prosecuted when charges were previously dropped against him.

The state's top court said in its ruling issued Thursday that the state was bound by the agreement it made with Smollett when prosecutors originally dropped the case in 2019. A special prosecutor reopened the case later that year.

The deal was crooked and arranged by a corrupt DA, Kim Foxx, who pretended she recused herself from the case while having her subordinate carry out all of her orders in agreeing that Jussie Smollet is a protected Friend of Obama.

"We are aware that this case has generated significant public interest and that many people were dissatisfied with the resolution of the original case and believed it to be unjust," the Illinois Supreme Court said in its ruling. "Nevertheless, what would be more unjust than the resolution of any one criminal case would be a holding from this court that the State was not bound to honor agreements upon which people have detrimentally relied."

Nenye Uche, a lawyer for Smollett, said his client is pleased with the ruling.

...

Dan Webb, the special prosecutor in the case, said he was disappointed in the state Supreme Court's ruling, saying it "upends long-standing Illinois precedent." Webb had argued to the state Supreme Court that the agreement by local prosecutors to drop the case against Smollett didn't preclude him from pursuing charges.

"Make no mistake--today's ruling has nothing to do with Mr. Smollett's innocence," Webb said. "The Illinois Supreme Court did not find any error with the overwhelming evidence presented at trial that Mr. Smollett orchestrated a fake hate crime and reported it to the Chicago Police Department as a real hate crime."

Denver Mayor Threatens Armed Resistance to ICE Deportations Under Trump

—Ace

This is actual insurrection, and should be violently crushed, if they carry through with the threat.

Visegrad 24
@visegrad24

The Democrat Mayor of Denver, Colorado Mike Johnston has challenged Trump to try to deport any illegal migrants from his city, saying he would deploy the Denver City Police and volunteers from the local community to use force against federal forces trying to deport illegals.

"More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there. It's like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun... You'd have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. You don't want to mess with them."

Denverite:

The vast majority of law enforcement is local. Johnston is doubtful that federal forces would raid Colorado to round up immigrants, even if Trump tried to mount a national crackdown.

"I do not believe that our governor is going to let them use our [Colorado] National Guard at the state level," he said. "Unless they were planning on bringing national guards mobilized from Texas or Alabama to come invade Colorado, I don't know where they would find the forces to begin to do that.

"And that seems to me like a very, very bad idea from start to finish that no reasonable American would support," he said.

The mayor also takes heart that the people of Denver -- not just the administration -- would likely resist a mass deportation effort from federal forces.

"More than us having DPD stationed at the county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there," Johnston said. "It's like the Tiananmen Square moment with the rose and the gun, right?" You'd have every one of those Highland moms who came out for the migrants. And you do not want to mess with them."

I'm not actually sure we should crush the insurrectionist cities. Once all other jurisdictions begin deporting their illegals (the criminals first) and these cities proclaim that they are a haven for illegal alien criminals, they'll all go to these holdout resistance bastions.

We will cut all police funding and all city aid to these insurrectionist cities. They will just become hell-holes of foreign criminals.

This is what they voted for -- let them have it good and hard.

Instapundit quoted this article by a self-described "childless cat lady" who says she realized what the right said was true -- liberals voted for this. They deserve what they get.

I am a woman living alone near Philadelphia with a cat, so I guess you could call me a "childless cat lady." I never wanted children, so I never had any. Since I have dedicated my life to helping other people, for many years I subscribed to all of the social justice causes. That began to change when the neighborhood I live in became a hotbed of crime and leftist intolerance.

Recently, I witnessed a woman throw a large object at a man's car, break the passenger window, and then casually walk across the street. The man got out of his car and ran across the street to attack her. He wrestled her to the ground but eventually let her go, getting back into his car and driving off. She kept walking, talking on her cell phone the entire time.

I was standing on my front stoop on my way to take out the trash. I stood there, stunned with horror. The man saw me. I did not call the police because I recognized him. He lives in this neighborhood, where one can expect retaliation. It didn't look like the woman called the police either. She just kept walking.

Yesterday I stopped by a cafe for a bagel. I began frequenting this this locally owned cafe after walking past it one Sunday morning and seeing that all its storefront windows had been smashed. I went in and asked if everyone was OK. Apparently the vandalism had occurred in the predawn hours of the morning. Nothing was stolen--just windows smashed.

I later discovered that on the neighborhood Facebook group people were extoling the act as a way to fight gentrification! The cafe is not a chain and it employs residents of the neighborhood. But that didn't stop commenters from suggesting that smashing out their windows, gunfire, and loud groups of youth are all good ways to ward off would-be gentrifiers.

In other words, they're praising the civilization-destroyers, because if the civilization-destroyers turn the neighborhood into a high-crime slum, the dreaded "gentrifiers" will not buy property there.

Win-win, I guess?

About a month ago I heard five rapid-fire gunshots across the street from my apartment. The sirens came a bit later, along with police helicopters.

All of these kinds of things make it so that I am afraid to leave my apartment at night. When I have to, I make sure I am on the phone so at least someone can call the police if I am attacked.

She then details the neighborhood becoming a pro-Hamas suburb of Gaza City. I'll skip that because you all know how that goes.

She also details being verbally assaulted on the street by a trans maniac.

Speaking of the slumlords and squatters...

I suppose they want everyone to live in the squalor they enjoy.

Of course I want to move. I do not care if people don't like me, but I fear violence. Violence is so well accepted in this neighborhood, as my experience noted above shows.

...

A few months ago, there was a meme on Facebook that showed a white woman saying, "I don't feel safe in my neighborhood," and a man answered her, "You literally voted for this." I now understand that my situation resembles this cartoon.

I have voted Democrat all my life. I supported soft-on-crime candidates because I didn't want to see people go to prison and lose their chance at a better life. But now I see the ruin that we have to live with as a result of these policies. The white liberals in the suburbs do not live with the consequences of their votes. I do.

...

Like most people, I just want to be safe. I want to live in a place where I can leave my apartment without fear that the man who saw me watch him attack a woman will come back and attack me. I want to live in a place where I'm not risking verbal violence for engaging in private phone conversations while taking a walk.I want there to be police who are here to protect me and other innocent citizens who just want to do our jobs, buy affordable food, and go to the YMCA in peace.

Is that too much to ask? Democrats seem to think it is. Many of my liberal friends expressed horror that "Americans value their pocketbooks more than my human rights." Apparently wanting to pay the rent and afford food and medications is something we should be ashamed of.

My entire life, I saw myself on the left. But now I understand that the left has left me. I am a childless cat lady for law and order. I want a government that will protect me and my cat, that cares about the price of food and doesn't say people should be satisfied with a lot of new minimum wage jobs that will not allow them to support their families. I am tired of being told my safety doesn't matter and that I'm racist for pointing out that there is crime on the streets of my neighborhood.

Nancy Mace Rips AOC's "Tiny Little Brain" and Biased Trans-Crazed Fake Journalist's "Leftwing Talking Points"

—Ace

I wish she were #based about something besides #MuhFeminism -- I also get a little annoyed at Megyn Kelly finding a rightwing cause she can believe it, and that rightwing cause is #MuhFeminism -- but whatever, for the moment, this will do.

"The transgender bathroom debate is making waves on Capitol Hill this week," FNC host Trace Gallagher said. "Let's bring in the lawmaker who introduced the bill to ban biological males from women's spaces, South Carolina Congresswoman Nancy Mace. Congresswoman, it's great to have you on the show. So, in essence, AOC is saying a couple of things there that you are endangering all women, and then you want, 'young girls to drop trou or whatever. What's your response to that?

"I love living rent-free in AOC's tiny little brain," Mace replied. "I mean, I never said anything like that. In fact, the irony here is that she's a radical leftist. clown that, you know, I'm a rape victim. I'm a survivor of sexual abuse. I have PTSD from the abuse I've suffered at the hands of a man. And it's so weird and dangerous and perverted. This idea that it's OK for a naked man to be in a locker room with women, it's insanity to me."

"And this has got to stop," she added. "And so, in a world of this, this kind of insane ideology that AOC embraces, I aim to be a giant, and I plan to stop anybody, male or female, that's going to put women and girls in harm's way. I'm not going to tolerate it."

This leftwing lollipop claims that Mace is obsessed with the trans issue -- but then, asks her about nothing but the trans issue.

Which Mace eventually does point out. Worth the watch.

Rogue "Republican" Seantors Force Matt Gaetz's Withdrawal

—Ace

Matt Gaetz @mattgaetz

I had excellent meetings with Senators yesterday. I appreciate their thoughtful feedback - and the incredible support of so many. While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition. There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I'll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General. Trump's DOJ must be in place and ready on Day 1.

I remain fully committed to see that Donald J. Trump is the most successful President in history. I will forever be honored that President Trump nominated me to lead the Department of Justice and I'm certain he will Save America.

Matt Gaetz wouldn't have been my pick -- as Megyn Kelly said, sometimes I find these constant attention-seekers exhausting -- but I don't like the loss. Once he was named, I was behind him, because of the principle involved-- Trump deserves his picks, and he deserves, yes, "loyalists."

If you didn't want Trump to appoint "loyalists," you shouldn't have attempted to subvert his entire first term and contrive an FBI/CIA investigation into him based on Hillary Clinton's fictional oppo file.

I don't know what Trump can or should do about the Rogue Regime "Republicans." On one hand, he doesn't want to completely set them on fire, because these liberals will just declare themselves independent and caucus with the Democrats.

On the other hand, I don't know if he has any choice but to announce he will make it the goal of his presidency to defeat Cornyn, Lankford, Cassidy, Thune, McConnell, Collins, and Murkowski, even if it means electing actual acknowledged Democrats in their place.

And of course that snake Lindsey Graham.

A Trump advisor makes that threat:

Rob Reiner Quits Twitter Due To Its Hate, Then Curses Blue Sky for Its Hate, Then Checks Himself Into a "Facility"

—Ace

This is fantastic.

Trump has literally driven Rob Reiner insane. I mean, he already was insane, but now it's become obvious even to him.

Filmmaker, producer, and actor Rob Reiner has made Bluesky his X-alternative of choice. He was hoping to rid himself of opposing viewpoints, and -- well, he's finding that Trump supporters aren't making it easy for him to live in a left-wing echo chamber.

"Anyone continuing to post hate towards me here will be blocked," he posted on the platform on Saturday. "I escaped the other place for a more peaceful time."

"I'm finding it very hard to sleep these days. It is 3:15 am," he posted later. "I am laying awake dreading January 20th 2025."

Reiner sees Nazis everywhere. They even infiltrated his Bubble Community at Blue Sky, which is lefties' alternative to X.

Rob Reiner @robreiner.bsky.social November 19, 2024, 3:56 PM

All the abuse and hate from Twitter has now spewed over to here. There seems to be no point anymore.

Rob Reiner @robreiner.bsky.social
November 20, 2024, 10:57 PM

This platform [Blue Sky] is vile, racist and evil. It did not take long for MAGA scum to come spread their lies.

And this lunacy resulted in the lunatic realizing he needed to spend some time in the Wack Shack:

Rob Reiner @robreiner.bsky.social November 21, 2024, 12:23 AM

I have made the decision to take the next few days to check into a facility for peace and relaxation. No phones, social media , no trolls, just calmness to heal my pain.

Amazing. He sounds delusional, paranoid, and even suicidal. I think he's actually having a nervous breakdown -- or an acknowledged nervous breakdown; the entire left has had an untreated nervous breakdown since November 9, 2016 -- and maybe even a psychotic break from reality.

There's more crazy at the link.

As Halperin predicted, America is experiencing its greatest mental health crisis in history, due to obsessives and hysterics finally being hit hard in the face by reality.

If I sound hard-hearted, well, we've been living with the psychic shrapnel from these maniacs' mental disintegration for ten years. We're all sick of it. These lunatics need to get help, and leave us out of their crumbling psychological states.

They've made their mental illness our problem for ten years and I don't care what happens to them.

The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

—CBD

The headlong rush to envelop the world in war continues apace. Ukraine wants its border war to expand so NATO rushes to its rescue, and the Biden/Obama junta wants to create chaos for the incoming Trump administration while simultaneously pleasing the neo-neocons who never saw a war (and rising defense industry profits) and graft they didn't like.

What is really curious is the concurrent maniacal push for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon. Hell, the ICC is charging Israel with crimes against humanity in a war against a terror group. Isn't war against big bad meanies a good thing? Or is it just war that enriches the elites. Maybe Israel should revamp their government and culture so that the grifting graft-seekers in the West will make money?

Russia launched intercontinental ballistic missile during attack on Ukraine, Kyiv says

Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile during an attack on Ukraine on Thursday, Kyiv's air force said, in the first known use in the war of such a powerful, nuclear-capable weapon with a range of thousands of kilometers.

The air force reported the launch after Ukraine fired US and British missiles at targets inside Russia this week, despite warnings by Moscow that it would see such action as a major escalation in the 33-month-old war.

It's clear that we are being used and manipulated by the Ukrainian kleptocracy, but Putin is also yanking us and the rest of NATO around like a carnival ride.

The problem with that is obvious...nobody knows what is next, particularly with the Biden/Obama junta making reckless decisions.

Gavrilo Princip to the NATO courtesy phone?

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

A Reconnaissance
Frederic Remington

The Morning Report — 11/21/24

—J.J. Sefton

Good Morning Kids. Wow, it really is great to be back up and running. Being off a day here and there is a good thing, but to be away for so long, especially as the election loomed and then passed was gnawing at me. Thank you for your patience and understanding, and a big thanks to Mis Hum and CBD for filling in for me, and of course for all of you for discussing and linking to the stories to keep the threads going.

Now, on to the top stories. Apologies in advance for quoting someone perpetually huffing toxoplasmosis whippets, but the raging chutzpocrisy is instructive:

I don't know if you've noticed this trend, but since Election Day, there have been a lot of angry people. Unlike Democrats, I don't love putting people into groups, but in this case, I have to admit that most of those angry people I've seen are white liberal women.. .

. . .In a recent episode of her podcast "Jen Rubin’s Green Room," the Washington Post columnist and MSNBC contributor goes on and on about her favorite topic — Donald Trump — and then she also makes what sounds like a thinly veiled threat: "For those of them who decide to support this, either by voting for these clowns or by running for cover. What are we going to do about them? There has to be a political price."  

Rubin then offers some advice to Democrats on how to reach those people who "don’t get political news, who never pick up a newspaper, who never turn on CNN, who never even bother with Fox News." She says that "those people really have no idea what's going on" and "we have to bend over backwards not to suck up to these people, not to make excuses for them, but at least to communicate the basic facts." Wow. Condescending much? . . .

You have to boil it down to nuts and bolts and you have to be pithy. What do I mean by pithy? How about this? Republicans want to kill your kids. It’s actually true. If you’re going to oppose vaccinations, if you’re going to stop breakthrough medical research, if you’re going to allow minors and all sorts of people to get semi-automatic weapons, which they use to shoot up schools, well then you are responsible for kids' health and death, unfortunately. It has to be that simple and that direct, and it has to be over and over and over again.

And in the 50 years that the bastardization (accidental pun) of the Constitution Roe v. Wade was the law of the land how many thousands of children did that Democrat-Leftist atrocity pave the way to be killed. Of course, an unwanted unborn child is not to reconsidered anything more than a useless lump of flesh and or an inconvenience. To raging Faminazis, children at nearly any age are viewed that way.

Funny how I can't find any rending of cloth by Rubin or any of her ilk over the brutal death of Laken Riley. And scores more like her who've been murdered, raped, brutalized and assaulted, especially during the past four years where our borders were intentionally erased by the outgoing criminal Biden-Harris Junta, praise the Lord for its departure.

If you haven't been able to watch any of the trial, I must warn you: It has been, at times, equal parts heartbreaking and infuriating. Full disclosure: I attended the University of Georgia myself and have spent a lot of time on that campus. I've never once felt unsafe there, which makes this murder all the more disturbing and upsetting. That said, here are the highlights.   Heartbreaking Last Message to Her Mom  The most gut-wrenching part of the trial came today when Riley's final moments before meeting her brutal end were shared with the courtroom. First, prosecutors showed surveillance video of Riley jogging minutes before her death. They also had footage of a man in dark clothing, presumably Ibarra, lingering in the area.  But the part that left many people, especially Riley's family, in tears was when Sargent Sophie Raboud with the UGA police read a text message the young woman sent her mother: "Good morning...about to go for run if you’re free to talk." She sent the message around 8:55 a.m. A few minutes later, she called, but her mom didn't answer. At 9:24 a.m., her mother attempted to call her back, but would she never speak to her daughter again. 

While this criminal fiend was found guilty, the fact that he did not receive the death penalty is an outrage to all normal, right-thinking people. And that excludes of course anyone and everyone like Jen Rubin. Think back to those halcyon days of the 1988 election and one Michael Dukakis, who was grilled over his revolving door justice during his stint as MA governor that let a criminal murderer named Willie Horton go free, and how Dukakis refused to say he'd want him dead had he done his crimes on Dukakis' wife Kitty.

Speaking of Massachusetts, here we are 36 years later:

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents busted three illegal aliens accused of raping children in Massachusetts just days after the state’s Democratic governor said she would not assist federal efforts to deport illegal aliens.

The Boston-based agents arrested three illegal aliens, each of whom have been charged or convicted with raping children. That includes Alexandre Romao De Oliveira, who was previously convicted in his native country of Brazil for raping a child in 2022. He illegally entered the United States in 2022 and was arrested this week in Methuen, Massachusetts.

The arrests come just after Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said state police will “absolutely not” cooperate with federal immigration enforcement agents as they attempt to carry out President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. Healey also said Massachusetts and other blue states might fight Trump’s deportation agenda in the courts.

The Left is always demanding we destroy our society, nation and government to do it for the children when in point of fact everything they enact and put forth will allow them and their pervert criminal constituents to do it TO the children.

Maura, Healy thyself. On a similar note, you can extrapolate this attitude across blue state houses and city halls as well as the entire federal bureaucracy in DC. Insubordination and insurrection.

It certainly will be interesting to see what really happens when Trump through and with Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and his allies in congress (at least in theory) Mike Johnson and John Thune attempt to neuter the 80-plus year cancer on the American government as founded and society that is the bureaucratic leviathan.

Societies change. Though humans have difficulty perceiving this fact during their lifetimes, the tide of change inexorably rolls forward, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. I then documented in detail the space efforts by both Russia and the United States in the decades after the Apollo landing and the politics behind those programs, with both providing a great window into how both societies changed in the second half of the 20th century. As I concluded, “They were like ships passing in the night.” Similarly, the major cultural and political shift away from big government and the regulatory state that I think we are now experiencing in the United States is not going to change our country overnight. These things take time. People who firmly believe it is a good idea to “gender affirm” confused little kids by cutting off their breasts or castrating them are not going to change their minds easily. People who believe in big government — especially those who benefit from it — are not going to meekly allow that big government and those benefits to vanish without a fight.

It's not just Leftists. But sadly the word "Entitlements" have seeped into the mindset of far too many regular normal Americans. Hate or love things like Social security and Medicare, the fact is we have been forced to pay into them as Uncle Sam wets his beak in our weekly paychecks. So in that sense, yes we are entitled to our share when it comes due.

The mindset has been changed in fundamental ways from self-reliance to dependance on the government. Can that change, even over the long haul? Trump's victory won't seal the deal but maybe it was a first step on the long road back from the long march through the institutions.

Have a great day!

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Victor Davis Hanson: The Trump counterrevolution challenges entrenched elites, bureaucracies, and progressive ideologies in favor of restoring traditional values, government accountability, and national identity.
  The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity
  
• Changing people’s minds in this fundamental way will take many years and many battles. To push for change, the right now has to do what the left did for the past century, never give up, never give in, and continue the fight on all fronts and at all times. By doing this and winning small but in time bigger and bigger victories, those who love freedom will slowly convince a now skeptical American public that freedom and tiny government really is a good thing, despite the risks it entails. Freedom also brings glory and success, in ways that can never be imagined in advance. That glory and success will be the proof that brings freedom back to America. (Please do read parts 1 and 2: Part 1

  Part 2

  
  Part 3: Fixing our bloated federal government and the administrative state is going to take decades

Daily Tech News 21 November 2024

—Pixy Misa

• The DOJ is seeking to break up Google, or rather to chip off a very small part of it. (AP News)
  
  They want to break off the Chrome browser, which has multiple competitors, including some like Brave which use the same open-source core and behave virtually identically.
  
  What this is expected to achieve is unclear. It would break Google's direct influence over the browser, but so would people switching to Brave or Vivaldi.
  
  They also want to prevent Google from making Google Search the default search engine in Android, which is something we've been through before with browsers and achieves basically nothing.
  
  Experts are freaking out, because that is what experts do:

  "It is probably going a little beyond," Syracuse University law professor Shubha Ghosh said of the Chrome breakup. "The remedies should match the harm, it should match the transgression. This does seem a little beyond that pale."

  He should see my proposal, which involves Tasmanian devils.
  
  
  
• A Google employee union says, isn't there someone you forgot to ask? (The Verge)
  
  I don't know what you mean. The Tasmanian devils are fully on board.

Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - November 20 2024 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

Good evening Garbage Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. So it is written, so it shall be done.

Pull your belts tight, secure all valuables, and keep your hands and feet inside at all times. This is the Wednesday night ONT.

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Chuck Norris does not read books. He wears them down until get gets the information he wants.

Chuck Norris frequently donates blood. Just never his own.

Chuck Norris does not breathe. He holds air hostage.

When Chuck Norris was born, the only person who cried was the doctor. Never slap Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris destroyed the periodic table because he only recognizes the element of surprise.

Chuck Norris was an only child...eventually.

Chuck Norris has a grizzly bear rug in his bedroom. It is not dead. It is just too scared to move.

Chuck Norris once kicked a donkeys chin. Its descendants are called giraffes.

Chuck Norris did not dial the wrong number. You answered the wrong phone.

There are no Chuck Norris jokes. Only Chuck Norris facts.

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One of the most famous moments of college football took place on this date (November 20) in 1982:

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Poll question informed by personal observations over the past two weeks: How early can Christmas decorations emerge?

1) The minute Halloween ends, full speed ahead. Deck the halls, convert the radio station formats, put up the lights, and dial up the advertising.

2) Give it two weeks to put away Halloween and enjoy fall colors. Then move gently and gradually and start sprinkling glimpses of Christmas. Be careful not to overshadow Thanksgiving.

3) Celebrate Thanksgiving and then release Santa and his elves for Christmas.

4) Never take Christmas decorations down. Problem solved.

5) Bah humbug. Never put up decorations. Problem solved.

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I have not been able to figure out whether this is real or not. For ONT purposes, the answer does not matter.

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The back seat of an Apache helicopter? Seems like a Chinook would be more comfortable but maybe you work with what is available.

As the maintenance personnel approached the chopper, which is armed with a 30mm cannon and Hellfire missiles, realised that the rotors on the helicopter were swaying up and down and strange noises were coming from inside.

The crew, who had been on their way to fit rain covers over the war machine following its service, got closer and realised to their disbelief that two people were crammed into the rear cockpit of the two seater aircraft having sex. Two drunk soldiers caught having sex in Apache helicopter.

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The Horde Might Know Things:

The sign below and accompanying scale models are located in the North Carolina Racing Hall of Fame (near Charlotte). As the sign says, the museum would like help learning more about the two model cars in their collection. Does anyone in the Horde know or know someone who does? Tried on the Hobby Thread without success, so now time for ONT power.

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This is not the Hobby Thread. Any resemblance to the Hobby Thread is strictly coincidental. Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking? Come out and play. The red zone has always been for loading and unloading. There is no stopping in a white zone.

Close it up

Storm Warning Cafe

—Ace

from Maksymilian

Summer storm in Bavaria.

The best weapon in close quarters combat.

The Paolo, he dominates the pussy, yes?

Good heavens, winter is coming again, isn't it? ISN'T IT?!

Confuse-a-Cat. (BTW Monty Python is on Amazon now but only for about another 10 days. Life of Brian, too.)

Remote-controlled ships re-enacting the Battle of Trafalgar.

Is that tree giving me the stinkeye?

A beautiful baby beluga whale was injured by a fisherman's net, but they rescued it and he seems fine now.

Quarry jumping, the sport of the future.

"Expert" Allan Lichtman Melts Down In Argument With Master Debater Cenk Uygur (???), Declares That Anyone Saying He's Wrong Is Commiting "A Blasphemy Against Me"

—Ace

Allen Lichtman, like so many other pretenders in the media sphere, is a literal zero. He is a nobody, a nothing, a nil.

You only know who he is because every four years, the media trots him out as part of their efforts to fill up as many minutes as possible with nonsense.

You've seen him -- he's the guy with the "13 keys" for predicting, or just guessing, the outcome of presidential elections. (He's such an incredible scholar that you haven't heard of him in any other context.)

He claims something like his 13 keys have "predicted" the winner in all but one of the last nine presidential elections.

Some might say that sounds like it's not much of a better record than most people would achieve through simple guessing, especially given that most presidential contests are not close and can easily be predicted by people who do not possess the awesome power of The Keys.

But those people are Blasphemers, as we'll soon find out.

Before Biden dropped out, this Savant claimed his "keys" predicted a Biden win, so Democrats must stick with Biden. The keys guaranteed his re-election!

Mind you, this was at a time when we now know that Biden's internal polling showed him losing 400 electoral votes to Trump.

After Biden dropped out, he guaranteed that Kamala would win. His Keys proclaimed her victory!

But some other people looked at his stupid "keys" and found that, first of all, they were largely about highly subjective things like whether the short-term economy and the long-term economy were positive for the incumbent or not.

Despite that the fact that America is in the grips of high inflation (short term) and on the edge of a recession (long term), Lichtman gave these two "keys" to Kamala Harris.

Nate Silver said, "Wait a minute, that doesn't seem right to me."

Lichtmann blasted him as a know-nothing punk who just didn't know how to properly work the Magic Keys.

During election night, this alleged political "scientist" just kept making up excuses for why his Keys weren't as magical as they usually are, and offering increasingly desperate statistically-unlikely scenarios whereby the Keys would be vindicated and Kamala would win.

Here's some more pathetic cope.

After the election and his complete humiliation, Lichtman announced that he was stepping back from the media and internet to ponder why his Keys had been so wrong.

"My prediction for this presidential election was wrong. I own up to it right now. I am taking time off today."

"My aim is to assess why the keys were wrong and what we can learn from this era and what the election means for the future of our country going forward."

That lasted about 48 hours. Within 48 hours, he'd figured out the problem:

The Keys were right. They'd always been right.

It was the voters who were wrong.

Now back from his intense 48 hour period of reflection and re-analysis, Lichtman has been spamming out excuses about why his incredible, magical, fantastical keys completely got the winner wrong. (Although Nate Silver would say that actually the keys pointed to a Trump win, but Lichtmann is such a hyperpartisan he wrongly assigned keys to get the outcome he wanted.)

His favorite excuse is... wait for it...

"Misinformation." You see, his Keys totally overlooked the possibility that the Democrat's opponent might get to speak during this election cycle, and say things that hyperpartisans like Lichtman don't think is true.

Which is what he means by "misinformation."

His keys work GREAT unless a Republican is allowed to be heard! If that happen, the Keys are of no use whatseover!

Allan Lichtman blames incorrect election prediction on 'disinformation', 'racism' and 'misogyny'... pic.twitter.com/FOSo3xxstv

— UnwokeismX (@UnwokeismX) November 12, 2024

Well, it gets worse for Allan Lichtman.

Piers Morgan had him on to offer more excuses for his Fortune Cookies not correctly forecasting the future, but he was confronted by someone smarter, wiser, saner, and more emotionally intact than he is.

And I can't believe I'm saying this, but that Hero was Cenk Uygur.

Lichtman kept offering a 3M factory's worth of excuses -- misinformation, Musk, and misogyny -- for why his Keys failed, arguing that his Keys were as perfect as they ever were, and Uygur basically kept repeating one simple point that, while very basic, was very insightful: "But you were wrong."

Lichtman began yelling, which he always does when his precious Keys are questioned, and culminated in telling Uygur, who I think is a Muslim, that when he says that Lichtman is wrong and his Keys are dumb, that is committing "blasphemy against me."

Yes, this "scientist" said that.

It's a real hoot.

GIVE ME THREE HOURS OF THIS pic.twitter.com/0FRJsGaXlm

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 20, 2024

Did you catch the part where he lists his Credentials?

Did you catch the part where he invokes the Scientific Evidence of Cenk's own Twitter followers supporting Lichtman and saying that Cenk is wrong?

Dude, your own Twitter followers say I'm right. Q. Fuckin' E.D., bitch!

I don't know what prior "debate" Cenk is referring to, but I would guess that Cenk objected to Lichtman's claim that the Democrats must stick with Biden, because of the Magic Keys.

And now... he's quit Twitter, and moved to the Bubble Community of BlueSky, where all the censorship-demanding leftists are moving to.

To hell with these "experts" who are incapable of acknowledging error or honestly judging the limits of their own claimed "expertise."

By the way, Cenk's getting red-pilled:

Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur

I asked @elonmusk to put me in charge of cutting the Pentagon. And he said - what are your suggestions? I run the largest left-wing network online and a Democratic leader has NEVER asked me that question. The idea that they would take advice from a populist is disdainful to them.

Now, which side seems more open and inclusive? Which side seems more welcoming and which side tries really hard to drive you away if you disagree even a little with orthodoxy? Which side is asking for suggestions and which one is demanding compliance and obedience?

Maybe, like Ana Kasparian, he's also a Secret Right Winger (having Truth Seizures).

Update: From andycanuck, the Fall and Fall of Allan Lichtman.

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Disney-Owned ABC "News:" You Know Who's Really Responsible for Laken Riley's Murder? Donald Trump

—Ace

Oh really?

This dog claims that there's "no clear link between immigration and violent crime," apparently just blowing over the fact that there is a VERY CLEAR LINK between immigration and this violent crime.

He then claims that the Biden "immigration bill," which was long on hiring more judges to hand-wave illegal aliens into the country and short on spending for actual enforcement and deportation, would have "essentially" fixed immigration.

It is important to note that all this vitriol we're hearing from Republicans and President-elect Trump regarding the Biden administration's policies on illegal immigration, it's important to note that President Trump did force Republicans to essentially tank a bipartisan border security bill that both sides of the aisle said would've essentially addressed border security and immigration issues.

NYT "Fact"-Check of RFKJr.s Complaint That the US Version of Froot Loops Contains Chemicals Not Present in Foreign Versions: The Ingredients List Are "Roughly" the Same (Except for All the Artficial Chemicals That RFKJr. Specifically Objects To)

—Ace

Imma coin a new term for these false "fact" checks: Fake checks.

This is a few days old.

But let's cover it now, because now Joe Rogan is talking about it, too.

The New York Times offered a baffling fact-check of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claim that a popular breakfast cereal in the United States contains several artificial ingredients.

The former Democratic-turned-Independent presidential candidate endorsed President-elect Donald Trump after suspending his 2024 campaign in August. On Thursday, Trump announced he had nominated Kennedy to head the Department of Health and Human Services in his incoming administration.

Kennedy has pledged to tackle chronic health issues facing Americans and take on "corruption" within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in order to "Make America Healthy Again."

In an interview on MSNBC after Trump's victory earlier this month, Kennedy suggested the second Trump administration could eliminate entire departments within the FDA: "In some categories, their entire departments, like the nutrition department in the FDA, they have to go. They're not doing their job. They're not protecting our kids. Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients, and you go to Canada, and it's got two or three?"

The New York Times published a report on Friday analyzing Kennedy's views on artificial food ingredients that specifically fact-checked the Trump nominee for his claims about Froot Loops using different ingredients in their U.S. product versus Canadian product.

"Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients, questioning why the Canadian version has fewer than the U.S. version," the Times' report read. "But he was wrong. The ingredient list is roughly the same, although Canada's has natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used 'for freshness,' according to the ingredient label."

Is that all?

According to a statement given to the Washington Post by Kennedy spokesperson, Stefanie Spear, Kennedy was referring to the differences in food dyes in the American and Canadian versions of the cereal.

"We can all unify behind the goal of making American food the healthiest and most nutritious in the world," Spear said in her statement.

The NYT's strange fact-check, which seemed to prove rather than disprove Kennedy's point about artificial ingredients being included in the U.S. version of the cereal, drew critics to mock the paper.

"Spitting out my coffee after reading this NYT 'fact check' of RFK Jr.," X user Brad Cohn wrote in a post that drew over 4 million views on the social media platform.

He added in mockery, "'As you see, the ingredient list is just completely identical, except the US product contains formaldehyde, cyanide, and nearly undetectable levels of saxitoxin.'"

Okay that's a parody list of ingredients but it's True In Spirit.

It's worse than that, akshually.

Because if these Fake Checkers had bothered to check any actual facts, they'd have found, which I found by complete accident, that Yellow Dye Number Five is one of the chemicals that RFKJr. is most passionate about getting out of our foods.

And of course, right there in the ingredients list for the American formula for Froot Loops, is Yellow Dye #5.

Below, Kennedy rips adding tartrazine to foods intended for humans.

Tatrazine is more often known by the anodyne name "Yellow Dye #5" in American foods' ingredients lists.

Speaker Johnson Announces: All Women's Bathrooms and Changing Areas Are Reserved for Biological Women Only

—Ace

Good. Enough of this bullshit already.

House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Wednesday his intention to ban biological males who identify as transgender women from using women's bathrooms and locker rooms on Capitol Hill.

"All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings -- such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms -- are reserved for individuals of that biological sex," Johnson said in a statement.

"It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol. Women deserve women's only spaces."

The move comes as Representative Nancy Mace (R., S.C.) pushes to include in the upcoming House rules package a measure to prevent incoming transgender representative Sarah McBride (D., Del.), formerly known as Tim McBride, from using women's facilities. McBride is the first transgender-identifying lawmaker elected to Congress.

The Speaker has the "general control" over the House's physical facilities.

Comcast Announces It's Dumping MSNBC and Other Dying Cable Channels

—Ace

Comcast is making a major play to displace Groomer Corporation Disney as America's top tourist destination with its Epic Universe theme park in Orlando.

What they don't need is Disney's disgusting baggage in the form of toxic extremist politics.

I'm just guessing about the relationship between these stories. No one is saying this.

Whether my guess is true or not, Comcast is attempting to ditch MSNBC, and sooner rather than later.

John Nolte says the move is just for purposes of separating Comcast's viable properties from its dying ones, so that its stock price isn't weighed down by dying cable channels.

Maybe.

With the inevitable death of cable TV accelerating, communications giant Comcast has decided to cut its losses and separate from MSNBC and other cable networks.

"Comcast Corporation today announced its intent to create a new publicly traded company comprised of a strong portfolio of NBCUniversal's cable television networks, including USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and Golf Channel," read a company statement.

Also spinning off into the new company are the "complementary digital assets including Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and Sports Engine[.]"

For now, Comcast is calling this new company "SpinCo."

Here's what Comcast will hold onto...

"The planned spin-off will also strategically position NBCUniversal with its leading broadcast and streaming media properties, including NBC entertainment, sports, news and Bravo -- which all power Peacock -- along with Telemundo, the theme parks business and film and television studios."

NBCUniversal is, of course, the NBC broadcast network and the film and TV studio, Universal Studios. Bravo, which originally launched in 1980 as an upscale performing arts network, is now a powerhouse of reality TV. It delivers programming that's cheap to produce (Real Housewives franchise, Top Chef, Project Runway, etc.), that attracts millions of viewers, and makes insane profits. Bravo is vital to Comcast's streaming platform, Peacock (which will also remain with the mother ship), not only because its programming is popular but Peacock subscribers love to dig in and binge those shows.

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So why is Comcast dumping the rest? Three reasons... 1) stock price, 2) stock price, 3) stock price.

Cable TV is dying. It is a slow death, one I've been documenting for a decade, and we have now reached the beginning of the end.

I saw a claim, either on X or in the comments, that NBC was attempting to distance itself from MSNBC, even though NBC "News" is just as bad as MSNBC and features many of the same "journalists," and supposedly was cutting off ties with MSNBC. But I can't see that being reported anywhere.

The Flagrantly Adulterous Duo of Joe and Mika joked -- or "joked" -- "We can be fired tomorrow," discussing the move.

From your lips to God's ears, Hitler-Lovers.