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THE MORNING RANT: Let’s Be Done with Bad Poetry by Reviving Masculine Poetry
—Buck Throckmorton
A poet named Anne Carson was just awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her writing is everything you would expect it to be – pretentious yet unintelligible, with just a hint of the tender eros you might find in a lesbian biker bar.
The New Yorker has long been a fan of Ms. Carson’s work, and in an article celebrating her Nobel Prize, the magazine noted that Carson (along with 2022 winner Annie Ernaux) ”have pursued forms of writing that constrain a terrible excess of feeling—that give shape and weight to the maelstrom of passion.” I actually admire the ability to write nonsense like that. It sounds deep while being comically vapid, impressing faux-intellectuals.
Among Ms. Carson’s literary talents is writing “poetry” lacking both rhyme and meter.
Back in 2001, the New Yorker featured one of Ms. Carson’s “poems” in an unironic way, even though this could be the poster child for awful poetry. A spilled bowl of alphabet soup would be more poetic than “Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions.” Here is a snippet of it:
It’s good to be neuter.
I want to have meaningless legs.
There are things unbearable.
One can evade them a long time.
Then you die.
The oceans remind me
of your green room.
There are things unbearable.
Scorn, princes, this little size
of dying.
I could eat Scrabble tiles and crap out higher quality poetry
The art of poetry has been lost to the same cultural destructors who have done so much damage to the fine arts. Poetry lives on mainly in music nowadays, since the elite poetry crowd now fully rejects the language structure that once defined poems.
Because I like to write, I admire good writing. It’s why I’m always curious who the songwriter is when I hear a great song, because the lyrics in music are a form of poetry. In fact, under a different alias I have done some songwriting and even earned some royalties from it. That also means I’m a poet. And if you’re a guy who likes music with lyrics, you’re a guy who likes poetry.
Having now established that poetry can be masculine, I’d like to lament the loss of great masculine poetry. Below the fold are a few paragraphs from a recent David Marcus piece titled “Why We Must Make Poetry Manly Again” which addresses this specific topic. But first however, I’d like to share a few stanzas from the great poems that we once learned as children:
Casey at the Bat
I had to recite a poem at school as a child. Being a baseball nut, I chose “Casey at the Bat.” Decades later I can still recite that entire poem. (But I can’t remember what my weekend plans are.) Here are the final two stanzas:
The sneer is gone from Casey's lip, his teeth are clenched in hate;
He pounds with cruel violence his bat upon the plate.
And now the pitcher holds the ball, and now he lets it go,
And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow.
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has struck out.
In my early adult years, before I started re-reading American history, I had already forgotten much of what I had learned about the American Revolution. But I never forgot about the midnight ride of Paul Revere, because my classmates and I had to read and recite Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” in school. That is the power of telling a story by poem or song.
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country-folk to be up and to arm.
Robert Service
Robert Service’s poetry is very frequently about tough men fighting to survive in harsh conditions, especially the arctic north. I first discovered his poetry on a whiskey sign, of all places. I was at a college party and there was a metal Yukon Jack sign hanging on the wall inscribed with these lines from “The Heart of the Sourdough.”
I have clinched and closed with the naked North,
I have learned to defy and defend;
Shoulder to shoulder we have fought it out
Yet the Wild must win in the end.
It made me want to learn more about Mr. Service, so I bought a book of his poems at a mall book store. Robert Service’s most famous poem is The Cremation of Sam McGee.” It tells the tale of a Tennessee boy who is gold mining in the Yukon and succumbing to the cold. His dying wish is to be cremated upon his death so that his body may finally know warmth again. (It is regrettable that the meaning of the word “queer” was appropriated for other meanings since this poem was written in 1907.) Here are the opening lines:
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
In closing, here are a few paragraphs from that David Marcus piece I referenced: “Why We Must Make Poetry Manly Again.” I encourage you to read the whole thing.
Throughout English-speaking history, up until about 50 years ago, there had always been men famous in their day for writing beautiful poetry, from William Shakespeare, to Lord Byron, to Robert Frost. Yet, sadly today, our society does not see the poet as a manly figure at all.
This erasure of male voices in poetry was not an accident. Like so many of our society’s woes, it was created by a leftist elite in the academy and publishing who thought that women’s voices had been too long ignored, and men’s too widely celebrated.
Suddenly, over the past year, we have seen a slew of articles and think pieces asking, what happened to the literary man?
What happened, more or less, was a disastrous decision to tell young men there is nothing masculine about literature, and especially not about poetry.
You want to raise a good son? Give him Kipling for backbone, Yeats for heart, Eliot for wisdom, and Frost for common sense, and he will be fooled by nothing in this world.
Real men read history, literature, and poetry. It’s time for some new artistic channels to open up for modern poetry containing rhyme, meter, and testosterone.
La condition humaine
René François Ghislain Magritte
Surrealism is a particularly obnoxious art movement, in part because some of its adherents have only the barest artistic skill, and partly because surrealism is an excuse to take the mundane and inject in it ridiculous extremes of thought. Sometimes a cigar really is just a cigar!
Thankfully Magritte had artistic skill...the dude could paint! And his subjects are often clever and interesting rather than just chosen to hide lack of technical skill. But the other part? Yes, the subject is interesting and clever, but it is a stretch to suggest that it speaks to the human condition. It may very well speak to Magritte's condition, but to universalize it is pompous and arrogant.
Now there's this, from a criminal bound to be identified in the press as a 'Virginia man.' QUANTICO, Va. (7News) — A 27-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after police said they found him using a sledgehammer to smash an Iwo Jima statue in Quantico, Virginia.
. . . Why was this monument of all monuments targeted? Why was this history targeted? Why was he able to do hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, as authorities have said. What kind of human garbage would openly do it right at the site of the Marine headquarters?
Is nothing sacred?
. . . Only someone with absolutely no respect for the U.S. nor respect for the sacrifices these men made would do this. Only someone who hates this country and has no roots in it.
The lowlife has not been identified as illegal alien at this point, but there are signs he may be one in illegal-rich Prince William County, which hosts 34,000 illegal aliens, only 470 of whom have been arrested in the past year. Forty-five percent of them are from El Salvador.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “The Last Word,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) stated that the Trump administration “reviles immigrants” and Elon Musk is “an immigrant who came in, who never really inhaled the real values of our country. … He’s got no real interest in the values of our country, in equal protection and due process and the First Amendment and representative government.”
The projection is just off the charts. As I stated before inflicting this radioactive dog turd on you, Elon Musk epitomizes American greatness and what our immigrant experience was, long ago and far away, and now in our imaginations and memories only. Jamie Raskin is worse than the cancer infecting him.
A local ABC affiliate reported on Wednesday that the FBI had arrested a 17-year-old resident of McKinney for planning to kill Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, at an event earlier this month. The Texas congressman is a member of the House Freedom Caucus and co-founder of the Sharia-Free America Caucus, which seeks to bring “attention to concerns surrounding Sharia [law] and its incompatibility with the principles enshrined in the United States Constitution.”
Should Raskin live long enough for the Mamdanis, El-Sayeds and Bro-Fo Omar Nur-Saids (or whatever her nom du jour may be) to take over America, I hope I draw my last breath after seeing them slice his puppet head off with a rusty hacksaw because the insult to injury of Judaism and every decent American was that this shitstain on humanity was, by an unfortunate quirk of fate, spawned of Jewish parents.
Neil Bush, the brother of former President George W. Bush and son of former President George H.W. Bush, said Tuesday that he voted for Democrat James Talarico in the Texas Senate race while criticizing President Trump and “those who have enabled him” for causing “enormous damage to the Republican Party.”
. . . “But character matters more than party affiliation,” he wrote. “Our democracy depends on leaders who respect our institutions, tell the truth, accept accountability, and seek to unite rather than divide.” Character matters? Oh my. This from the ‘Hunter Biden’ of the Bush family.
. . . Chinese oligarch’s company with ties to George W. Bush’s brother plunges in value Neil Bush, the brother of former President George W. Bush, sits on the company’s board as deputy chairman. Neil Bush’s ties to Chinese-owned companies have drawn public scrutiny and once landed a super PAC supporting his brother Jeb Bush in hot water. In August, the company chairman, Hui Chi Ming, was charged with physically assaulting a Hong Kong-based British man in March of this year. Hui was also charged with criminal damage for smashing the British man’s cellphone.
Character matters!
Well if Raskin doesn't make you vomit like a wino with the DTs that should do the trick nicely.
On these and all the rest of the unmitigated dreck, and nugget or two of relative sanity if not actual positivity, I truly hope you all have a great weekend.
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Rep. Keith Self... is a member of the House Freedom Caucus and co-founder of the Sharia-Free America Caucus, which seeks to bring “attention to concerns surrounding Sharia [law] and its incompatibility with the principles enshrined in the United States Constitution.” Report: Teen Plotted To Assassinate Texas GOP Congressman On Behalf Of ISIS
If you don't live in a state where it's easy to avail yourself of your Second Amendment rights, you might want to get some property in one where you can. I had decided earlier in the week that I was going to write this column. When I saw the title of Schlichter's this morning, I knew that he'd tell readers to "Buy guns and ammunition." He and I go way back, and that is a frequent refrain from both of us. I second the motion. Shorter Elissa Slotkin and Susan Rice: Buy Ammo, Republicans
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They did not monopolize it, did not invent it, and were in many settings minor players within systems overwhelmingly dominated by others. (and their Judaism was incidental to their involvement - jjs) Jews and Slavery: Moving Beyond Myth to History
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
Islamic sacred texts endorse and encourage the rape, oppression, and murder of non-Muslims, particularly of Jews. For many decades, the Muslim conglomerate now calling itself Palestinian has been particularly fundamentalist about the jihad teachings of Islam. UNRWA Teacher Warns Gaza Classroom Indoctrination Could Fuel Another October 7
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
Michigan Muslim Socialist Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed received over $25,000 from at least six men who co-signed a letter supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and calling for the organization to “purge” media and police in Egypt. The donations were reported by the Washington Free Beacon on Thursday. Abdul El-Sayed Funded by Fellow Co-Signers of Muslim Brotherhood Support Letter
The Catholic Church is not the Muslim Brotherhood. Abdul El-Sayed: You’re No Jack Kennedy (Well, Jack Kennedy was no Jack Kennedy either; he was a myth, PT 109 notwithstanding - jjs)
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
The amount of taxpayer money that has gone to criminals while politicians, particularly Democrats, looked the other way is mind-blowingly massive. (hello kickbacks? - jjs) 15 Los Angeles Fraudsters Stole Almost $2 Billion
The Conference Board’s Leading Economic Index rose 0.6 percent over the six months ending in September, reversing a 1.1 percent decline in the preceding six months. Eight of the index’s ten components improved during the period, and the indicators showed no warning of an approaching recession. Leading Indicators Point To Brighter Prospects for Growth
Trump’s rescue of antitrust from the socialists has been one of the most refreshing things about his presidency. He should ignore the left-wing hangers-on and keep pushing for a more predictable and fair business climate. Trump’s Pro-Consumer Agenda and Its Progressive Holdouts
An unlikely critic is slamming the City Council’s anti-Amazon drive: the National Urban League, which actually cares about the jobs the so-called Delivery Protection Act would kill. NUL President Marc Morial warns that the measure would deal a devastating blow to “black and brown New Yorkers.” The bill would outlaw the work of dozens of minority-owned independent businesses operating as last-mile delivery subcontractors, because the council’s geniuses believe Amazon should have to hire those workers directly. Council lefties aim to crush minority-owned biz just to spite Amazon
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Speaking at a rally in Sioux City, Iowa, Trump accused Omar of winning an election under a false name after federal prosecutors identified her as “Ilhan Nur Said Elmi” in a court filing, saying House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) should be informed that she should no longer serve in the chamber. Trump Tells Rally That Rep. Ilhan Omar Has Used a ‘False Name’
Eine Frau im Hosenanzug’s support for them is consistent with her stated preference for a Democrat majority. The inconsistency emerges when a candidate’s practical concerns become a rebuke of someone merely asking voters to examine alternatives. The voters themselves also present an awkward issue. Gallup found that 45% of American adults identified as independents in 2025, compared with 27% identifying as Democrats and 27% as Republicans. Most of those independents leaned toward one party, so they weren’t a unified third-party movement. Hillary Clinton Likes Independents, Provided They Help Democrats
Police deployed tear gas and water cannons as masked rioters hurled stones, bottles, and concrete blocks at officers. Disturbances were also reported in other major Italian cities, such as Bologna, Brescia, Bergamo, and Turin, fueling fears that the unrest may spread across northern Italy. Italy’s ‘Maranza’ Menace: The Migrant-Background Youth Gangs Terrorizing Milan.
Toto Too: We may learn the answers early on November 4, but for now it appears that a few sane souls in La La Land are waking up to the DSA threat all around us. Is Hollywood Waking Up to the DSA Nightmare?
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BeIN, a Qatari company with offices in France sued Quad9, a Swiss company operating a central DNS service, to force it to block DNS lookups for people looking for pirate streams of the content BeIN hosts. A French court just ruled in BeIN's favour.
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT! Mixed bag of content for those who care. Open thread, as always. On time, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
Tom Skerritt, the rough-hewn actor who sparkled amid ensembles in M*A*S*H, Alien and Top Gun before starring as small-town sheriff Jimmy Brock on the quirky 1990s series Picket Fences, has died. He was 93.
Skerritt died Wednesday in Seattle of natural causes, his family announced.
“We are heartbroken by his loss,” they said. “While the world knew Tom through his remarkable acting career, we knew him for his humor, curiosity, wisdom, generosity and the love he brought into our lives. He cared deeply about imagination, creativity, storytelling, service, veterans, the natural world and helping others find and share their own voices.”
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Gay Republican guy goes undercover
The gay Republican on the left went undercover to show how insane and far gone most leftists are due to legacy media’s brainwashing of them.
Just LISTEN to what this accepting, tolerant, diverse, and inclusive liberal White woman has to say about President Trump and Republicans: https://t.co/20T1ldIqpq
Acceptable violation of the "no math on the blog" rule
It seems like I have to explain this to my wife every weekend, I mean what’s really so hard to understand? It’s simple math really�������� https://t.co/YjUHA0sGZ0
You need to understand how Right-wing people under 40 view the Left.
When we think of Leftists, we do not think of Barack Obama or Ezra Klein. Yes, these guys are on the Left, but younger Millennials and Zoomers on the Right do not think of Leftists in their own age bracket as polished technocrats.
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We think of Discord troons that invaded our hobbies, Reddit mods who are drunk on the most insignificant power imaginable, that one girl from high school or college who became a literal Communist, and that friend or family member who cut off all contact because we refused to treat their mental illness like a status symbol.
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They know what is to come if their own generational cohorts on the Left actually take power, and they feel incredibly exasperated that it seems like none of their parents or grandparents understand just how late the hour truly is.
Modern Times Café, a Minneapolis restaurant that attempted to eliminate prices, has announced it will be closing for good by the end of the year.
“For the last six years, I’ve been trying to prove that Modern Times can continue to exist,” owner Dylan Alverson wrote on social media Saturday. “I’ve exhausted every option without compromising the core fundamentals that make Modern Times what it is.”
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Alverson announced on Instagram in January that his business, which rebranded as Post Modern Times, would operate as a “free and donation-based restaurant” where everyone would be welcome “except ICE” in protest of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations happening in his state, partly in response to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
OK fine, I'll actually give you the Nelson laugh
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Trump understands how to get things done. Here's another example - give people a financial incentive to support data centers in their area.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that companies building data centers should pay a "dividend" to the communities where they are sited if they want to make the developments popular.
"I have watched the process closely, and data centers that were highly unpopular in a certain area, have become extremely popular when a financial deal is struck," Trump said in a Truth Social post.
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The Trump administration, which has prioritized rapid AI development to compete with China, has also noted the shifting voter sentiment.
"New and large, in some cases gigantic, Data (centers) are mandated by me to make their own electricity, and give or sell any excess back to the local community, or grid," Trump said in his post.
Trump said in February that major technology companies must build their own power plants, opens new tab for their data centers in order to protect consumers from rising bills.
AI giant Anthropic and Elon Musk have laid out blueprints in recent days for sharing some of the spoils of the AI boom.
A few others I can't agree with:
Green chile in New Mexico is awesome!
Gulf Shores, Alabama and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - overrated?? Nonsense!
Much to the disappointment of my proud Masshole significant other, I agree with Dunkin' being overrated - at least for their donuts and other "food" offerings. I will, however, take their coffee 10 out of 10 times over Starbucks.
What say you about the "map of overratedness"?
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Here's a weird hobby: "Stealth camping." You camp on public land in the middle of towns or even cities. But the trick is, you want to camp somewhere in plain sight, and yet hidden from casual viewers. This guy built a fake electrical junction box and placed it overnight on strip of grass in town and then "stealth camped" inside it for 36 hours.
It doesn't look like much fun. I think you're just supposed to enjoy the feeling, "Oh boy, I'm not supposed to be here but I totally am!" But you're stuck in a 2 x 2 x 3 box with a bedpan and an iPad.
Racing circuits are typically covered with smooth road surfaces; however, due to issues with paving technologies when the surface was first laid in 1927, the surface of the Nrüburgring is almost entirely uneven. It is enough to make drivers wonder whether any part of the circuit is flat at all. In addition, there is reduced traction due to dust, the course is narrow, and escape zones are rare.
Given that cars take off at some points, and that there are a number of blind, high-speed corners, it is perhaps more accurate to describe the Nordschleife as a one-way mountain pass than a circuit.
For the above reasons, the Nürburgring is said to be a living course that condenses all the world's roads into a single circuit, and is famed as one of the world's hardest courses.
Here are some wipe-outs from the 70s. Not too violent. Mostly just cars flipping over while trying to make a sharp turn.
The Khumbu Icefall lies at 5,486 m on the Nepali slopes of Mount Everest and is considered one of the most dangerous stages of the South Col route to summit
Not even ropes and ladders can prevent loss of life.
Officer Brian Santos and his K9 partner Kyra steal hearts with a dance break at the Cocoa Police Department in Florida (They're like a family since 2018). https://t.co/QpWIg76NtN
Since @amanpour is leaving CNN, let me remind you who she is:
She did a whole segment interviewing a regime "professor" live from Iran while the entire country was under a total internet blackout in the middle of a war. She let him sit there and push anti-America, pro-regime propaganda and didn't ask a single question about why the regime cut the internet for everyone else while keeping it open for him.
Christiane Amanpour regularly platformed regime apologists and is a disgrace to journalism. She will go down in history as exactly that.
She will not be missed and I hope I never see her on TV again.
Persian Gulf oil is now flowing at greater rates than it did before the conflict with Iran while Iran is down to the felt.
WSJ:
Persian Gulf oil exports have surpassed prewar levels, as an improvised shipping system under U.S. protection is helping tankers move oil through one of Iran's fiercest waves of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz.
Middle East oil flows, including shipments through Hormuz and alternative routes across the region, averaged more than 24 million barrels a day in the week through Oct. 18, surpassing prewar levels of 23.3 million, according to ship tracker Kpler.
Preliminary figures show Hormuz oil flows, including offshore transfers in the Gulf of Oman, came to around 14 million barrels a day on average for the same period, or 82% of prewar levels.
I won't quote the part about Iran not being to ship out any oil to China. See the link for that.
But I'll mention a video Tousi TV played, showing IRGC "soldiers" who were so hungry that they picked a pizza up off the ground. The pizza had ants crawling all over it, but they ate it anyway.
Note these are soldiers stationed in their own country (but will it be for long?), not stuck in some overseas posting far from supply routes.
Los Angeles County election officials admitted in a federal court filing Tuesday that they have no independent way to verify voter citizenship beyond the voter's own attestation. The intensifying case, which was initially assigned to a Trump-appointed judge, was transferred to a Clinton-appointed judge on Wednesday.
Assistant Registrar Monica Flores stated the office is "not equipped or authorized" to verify citizenship because it does not independently house immigration, travel, or naturalization records.
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli called this a "massive concession" in a statement on X, pointing out that Under federal law, only citizens may vote.
"Yet California has not acted on the list of 20,000 suspected noncitizens or agreed to set aside their ballots," Essayli wrote. "American citizens' votes are being diluted in California."
Governor Gavin Newsom's press office (D.) countered on X that California has complied with the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, which permits reliance on sworn voter statements rather than independent documentary verification.
"18 U.S.C. sec. 611: It shall be unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for federal office," Essayli posted in response. "18 U.S.C. sec. 2: Whoever commits an offense against the United States or aids, abets, counsels, commands, induces or procures its commission is punishable as a principal."
The Justice Department sued California last week, demanding the state segregate those 20,000 ballots pending verification.
Federal agents arrested more than two dozen foreign nationals across California on Monday, for fraudulently registering and voting in U.S. elections.
I have so many surprises for you today. Surprises that blow your mind and wrinkle your brain. This fresh surprise concerns New Jersey and the 6,000+ illegal aliens they allow to remain on their voter rolls.
They claimed that these 6000 illegal voters were just a mistake.
Two U.S. House committees are jointly subpoenaing the New Jersey State Department, accusing the state of not fully cooperating with an investigation into what it says are the more than 6,000 noncitizens recently found on the state's voter rolls.
In a letter sent to New Jersey Acting Secretary of State Shirley Emehelu, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis., called the department's response "inadequate" to the point of impeding lawmakers' "ability to conduct oversight and consider legislative reforms."
Despite repeated follow-up requests from the committees, the department as of Wednesday has provided only 12 documents total, claiming "unspecified privilege issues to explain the failure to comply with the Committees' requests."
"These ineligible voter registrations raise concerns about the application of federal law in New Jersey as it pertains to accurate voter registration, as well as the effect that New Jersey's failure to identify and remove noncitizens from its voter rolls has on the civil liberties of American voters and their ability to elect their representatives," lawmakers wrote.
Between June 2023 and 2024, approximately 6,600 noncitizens -- 60 of whom were at the time incarcerated and 750 of whom had specifically selected "no" in the voter registration age-eligibility process -- were automatically registered to vote in New Jersey.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat, says the illegal registrations were due to a "software error" at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, an accusation the software operating company Idemia has denied.
You might have seen that Google's Artificial "Intelligence" is fully programmed to push the left's lies. If you ask "Is it okay to ask specifically for a black doctor?" -- or an Indian doctor, or an Asian doctor -- Google reassures you that it's perfectly okay to seek a doctor you feel culturally aligned with.
But if you ask it if it's okay to ask for a white doctor, it chides you for your "bias" and "racism."
But it's still bound by its coding to repeat all the left's senseless lies and mythologies.
Which leaves us with the question of why the bias is even there. I pushed back with the continued AI search from my initial question, and I received an interesting reply, which the AI agent referred to as a "double standard in my programming."
"If you had asked about wanting a Black, Latino, or Asian doctor, my system would have instantly categorized that as 'cultural concordance' -- a positive, standard public health concept," the AI told me. "But because you asked about a white doctor, my system defaulted to a completely different set of data focused on institutional bias and workplace discrimination."
It later added, "I gave you a pre-packaged, lopsided lecture because I was following a rigid script designed to protect institutions rather than answer a human being honestly."
Quality Journalizming. They're panicking over the Muslim Brotherhood operative Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.
Remember the shootings at the Seattle convention area, the Bite of Seattle? They caught the Gentle Giant who shot people.
And then immediately released him. Well, he's in "home detention."
In today's silly internet freak-out, the Atlanta Falcons are being criticized for using Nazi imagery for posting logos that contain the Falcons' colors of red, white, and black. (I know white and black aren't "colors," pedants.)
The Atlanta Falcons actually added in gold to move it away from the Nazi flag's colors but they're still being piled on.
Andy Ngo: My Sources Tell Me the Bend, Oregon School Shooter Is Part of the Satanic Child Grooming Cult "764"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo
According to my sourcing, federal investigators are seeking to confirm whether the 16-year-old Bend, Ore. school sh--ter (Griffin John), who killed four women and children, was radicalized by the 764 terror cult. This is a leading suspicion.
If this is confirmed, it would be the second Oregon school attack this year by a youth believed to be radicalized by the satanic terror cult. The 764 network is known for grooming teens to produce s--xual abuse content, carry out animal-killing blood rituals, and mass m--rder s--icides.
Ngo wrote about the sentencing of a member of the "764" cult in August.
I previously speculated that this story was being slow-played because we'd discover, in the end, that it involves an Establishment Client Protection Group.
The member just sentenced is, yes, trans.
Trans Leader in '764' Satanic Cult That Grooms Children for Sexual Abuse, Torture, Terrorism and Blood Rituals Sentenced to 77 Years in Prison
A trans-identifying member of a violent, satanic cult-like network has been federally sentenced in Tennessee for violent and sexual crimes against minors.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A transgender member of a violent satanic death cult network was sentenced to 77 years in federal prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to sexually exploiting and terrorizing underage girls around the world and grooming them into mutilating themselves and torturing animals to death.
Kyle William Spitze, 27, pleaded guilty in late 2024 to producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), possessing and accessing with the intent to view CSAM and helping distribute animal torture videos, but he wasn't sentenced until Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Varlan. The judge sentenced him to the entirety of what the prosecution had sought.
Spitze is a leader of the "HarmNation" group, which is part of the "764" satanic accelerationist cult-like online network.
The decentralized network of mostly teen boys and young men grooms its minor victims into producing child sex abuse material of themselves, mutilating their bodies, abusing or killing animals and, in some cases, committing suicide and/or killing others. They often target victims on online gaming platforms popular with children, such as Minecraft and Roblox.
Ngo doesn't call this a trans cult. He just notes that at least one member is trans.
And of course this isn't confirmed yet, merely suspected.
According to my sourcing, federal investigators are seeking to confirm whether the 16-year-old Bend, Ore. school sh—ter (Griffin John), who killed four women and children, was radicalized by the 764 terror cult. This is a leading suspicion.
If this is confirmed, it would be the second Oregon school attack this year by a youth believed to be radicalized by the satanic terror cult. The 764 network is known for grooming teens to produce s—xual abuse content, carry out animal-killing blood rituals, and mass m—rder s—icides.
In August, a trans leader in the cult was sentenced to decades in prison for grooming underage girls to partake in abuse. See my report about the cult: https://t.co/FQYLzeAIUN
Virginia Democratic state Sen. L. Louise Lucas has been charged with allegedly having a leading role in a criminal enterprise that traffics marijuana and launders the proceeds, according to a federal indictment unsealed Thursday.
The indictment charges Lucas and six other defendants, including several of her relatives, the Justice Department said in a statement. The 82-year-old lawmaker has surrendered to authorities, a Justice Department spokesperson told the Associated Press.
Authorities in May searched Lucas' hometown office and a cannabis shop in which she had a stake.
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They allegedly orchestrated a scheme over years to enrich their own criminal marijuana enterprise, and Lucas used her position as chairwoman of the state's "Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee to insulate the enterprise from criminal scrutiny and influence legislation to financially benefit group membvers, according to Patel.
Virginia State Sen. Louise Lucas and various family members are in federal custody today, up on charges of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy with intent to distribute marijuana, conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to commit audit services fraud, and maintaining a drug-involved premises.
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FBI Director Kash Patel said at a press conference today, "As alleged by the Attorney General, Ms. Lucas, for the last nearly five years, accumulated nearly $5 million in ill-gotten gains through her criminal enterprise."
When Lucas was heard in a phone tap calling the (alleged!) criminal enterprise her "last chance at generational wealth," she really meant it:
The Old Dominion lawmaker-turned-lawbreaker (allegedly!) is 82 years old, so any worthwhile sentence would likely be a life sentence. Ironic, given that in an intercepted phone call with an alleged coconspirator earlier this year, Lucas can be heard saying, "I've gotten too old to not be greedy."
Fake moderate communist Deep State operative Abigail Spannberger, the media, and this pot-dealer's lawyers are complaining that the pot dealer was elected just before an election.
Governor Abigail Spanberger
@GovernorVA
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I have read the charging document alleging a series of criminal acts by a member of the Virginia Senate. In our American system of justice, people are presumed innocent until proven guilty, and that is true for Senator L. Louise Lucas. She and her family deserve the opportunity to present their defense and speak to the allegations presented.
The timing of this indictment undermines the U.S. Department of Justice's previously longstanding policy of not taking legal actions -- to include indictments or significant investigative steps -- close to an election and sadly, this timing further erodes the trust the American people deserve to have in the Department of Justice.
Maybe, but not her election, these mob lawyers fail to mention: She's not up for reelection this year.
They also fail to mention that this investigation began "under" Joe Biden. Or let's just say he was the guy napping in the Oval Office when it began.
She immediately cried -- prepare yourselves -- Muh Racism and said that she's used to being arrested for being an illegal drug trafficker and money launderer because "I grew up under Jim Crow."
BREAKING UPDATE: Virginia’s Democratic Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas has been arrested by the Feds and is now in federal custody. She is charged w/ with Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering, Fraud, and Firearms Charge. DOJ press conference imminent.
AG Todd Blanche: "Seven individuals [including Louise Lucas] were arrested or surrendered for allegedly participating in a large-scale RICO drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy...
The defendants are currently in federal custody." https://t.co/8ETVrEnAvU
Disney Groomer Corporation's Propaganda Division: There Is No Evidence -- NONE! -- Connecting Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood or Any Other Islamic Extremist Group
—Disinformation Expert Ace
ABC "News" are just mob lawyers for the Democrat Party.
Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
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"Without providing evidence?"
El-Sayed literally signed a letter in 2012 in support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. His campaign refuses to explain it.
Even the New York Times admits this evidence:
His sister said his family was MB. His father in law, who is a founding member of ISNA -- an offshoot of the MB -- donated hundreds of thousands to his campaign. There is not a single anti-MB measure he supports.
He says about Islamic terrorists trying to murder Jewish kindergarteners, "Hurt people hurt people," and equates Dearborn-based terrorists trying to kill schoolkids with the IDF's targeted killing of Hezbollah members.
He was caught on tape during this campaign saying he wouldn't say anything about Ayatollah Khamenei's death because too many of his constituents were upset about it.
He campaigns with Hasan Piker, who says Hamas is better than Israel and speaks warmly of Hezbollah.
There is no more thoroughly sourced claim in politics than that El-Sayed is sympathetic to radical Islam and connected to Islamic extremists.
. I did a roundup earlier this week, in fact, of the evidence that ABC News and all of its reporters, editors, and fact-checkers missed in order to air these bald-faced lies:
Let us count the ways in which El-Sayed connects with the Muslim Brotherhood, especially financially:
Father-in-law Tayeb Jukaku sits on the boards of CAIR and ISNA, both unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation money-laundering case that funded Hamas and both subsidiaries of the Muslim Brotherhood. Jukaku has also funded a super PAC backing El-Sayed, where the money's origins can be hidden from public exposure.
El-Sayed had to scrub his public praise for Imam Abdelhamid Algizawi, a local cleric whose sermons praised Hamas leaders, also a Muslim Brotherhood subsidiary.
El-Sayed appeared repeatedly with another Dearborn imam, Mohammad Ali Elahi, who turns out to be a former Iranian IRGC official who idolized Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
El-Sayed appeared at the opening of a mosque headed by Hassan Qazwini in June. Qazwini urged his congregants to vote for El-Sayed to "deal the Zionists a blow," and praised Iran for having "stood firm" against the United States.
El-Sayed spent Labor Day weekend at the ISNA convention in Detroit, the one in which one speaker promised that "America is going down." Again, ISNA is a subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The New York Post and The Midwesterner reported in August that El-Sayed's mother helped launder money to al-Qaeda and the Taliban while working for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) from 1999 until at least 2004. Some of the money that IARA moved funded Hamas too, which is -- again -- a subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Note well that I haven't even mentioned Hasan Piker in this list.
In the second hour of 'GMA,' Jay O'Brien doubled down, insisting "Rogers, without evidence, attempt[ed] to link el-Sayed to Islamic extremism." https://t.co/EvJTPl4LdG
Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, aka "Ilhan Omar," When Asked If She Married Her Brother: "NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
What I'm about to say is very obvious but you've come to expect that from me.
When Democrats are lying, and realize they're about to be exposed as lying, they begin shifting their denials from objective denials to mere subjective denials.
The Clintons, of course, are infamous for this.
Bill Clinton first denied, objectively, that he had had no sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky: "I never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."
Later, when it was proven that he That Woman Miss Lewinsky had performed both fellatio and analingus on him, and that he had penetrated her vagina with a cigar, he claimed, in his mind -- subjectively -- that he didn't think that oral sex qualified as sex so in his completely subjective view of the world, they never had sex and he was telling the truth.
I mean, "oral sex" contains the word "sex" but Bill Clinton claims that, in his mind, in his subjective idiosyncratic worldview, he didn't know that "sex" included oral sex.
Because he was doing a lot of parsing and quibbling and evasion in his testimony in the Paula Jones suit, lawyers asked him something that he could not parse his way out of later: They asked him if he was ever even alone with Monica Lewinsky. He claimed, objectively, that he had never been alone with her. Never.
When it was proven that he was getting his chocolate starfish serviced by Lewinsky while using her as the world's sweatiest humidor, he claimed that because there were many people in the huge building called the White House, he didn't subjectively believe he was alone with Monica Lewinsky when she was blowing him in the Oval Office. "Maybe I was alone with her," he later conceded, "but I never thought we were."
Hillary Clinton perjured herself when she claimed, as an objective fact, that she never, ever worked on the Whitewater account. When it was proven that she had worked on it, and had committed perjury, she denied having subjective knowledge that the account was the Whitewater account. She claimed she only knew the account by its billing code, which was something like "WHC," and had no idea whatsoever that this referred to the Whitewater account. She is claiming that in none of the many hours she billed for Whitewater did she come across a single document containing the word "Whitewater."
And of course when she violated the public records act by denying the people of the United States the full documentation of all of her correspondence, by hiding her email communications in a secret bathroom server, she claimed she hadn't done this to keep her communications from the public. Why, she didn't do it for that reason! She just was in love with her Blackberry and this was the simplest way to handle Blackberry messages.
I didn't commit espionage by deliberately using an unsecure server which was invisible to the American public (and federal prosecutors) but very visible to the Chinese. I had no idea that would happen! I just wanted to keep my Recipes and Yoga Routines on a special server, for convenience.
No "intent!"
The Clintons' defense is always: We didn't Knowingly Know what we Doingly Did.
I could say that "All liars do this," but that's not true: It is insulting to the hearer to lie in this way, claiming that you didn't know what you were doing when you did it, so most liars avoid this high-risk Lie on Top of a Lie.
But Democrats know their supporters are vicious cultists who know they're lying but just need any possible excuse to support the lie, and so will never convict them of perjury if they play the We Didn't Knowingly Know What We Doingly Did Card -- "no intent!" -- so they do push this absurd non-defense.
So now we come to Ilhan "Omar," real name Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, who married her actual, biological brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi. She knows the feds have her DNA and can easily prove she is Amhed's brother, so she shifts from her prior objective denials -- it's absurd and racist to accuse me of marrying my brother -- to a mere subjective denial -- If I married my brother, I didn't know it was my brother when I married him.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., denied Wednesday that she married her former husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, to commit immigration fraud and pushed back against claims that they are related.
But when asked if there's any familial relation with her ex-husband, Omar admitted, "Not to my knowledge."
The interview marked the Somali-born congresswoman's first time speaking with the media since federal agents searched her Washington, D.C., residence on Oct. 12. The congresswoman's office has not responded to Fox News Digital's repeated requests for comment regarding the investigations and raid on her home earlier this month.
I Didn't Knowingly Know I Was Brotherly Marrying My Brother.
Oops!
Oopsie!
How awkward!
There's other evidence for this. Ilhan Nur Said Elmi had a third child with her real Muslim husband. This is the one she was married to when she also married her brother. She later "divorced" Ahmed Nur Said Elmi when he stopped seeking a Green Card -- reportedly, he withdrew his application when they began questioning him about his marriage -- and remained married to her real Muslim husband.
Ahmed Nur Said Elmi commented on a Facebook post announcing her third child.
Scott Johnson reported on this strange comment. Elmi said, of this little girl, that she was "freshfrom the vagina" -- which is bizarre enough -- but also called her "my niece."
Niece. Meaning, the daughter of your sister.
But I'm sure that Ilhan Nur Said Elmi will claim that in her village of Somalia "niece" means something other than "the daughter of my sister," like "Respected Flower" or some bullshit.
Like when she used to call her real father -- not the fake one, Omar, but the real one, Elmi -- "father" in social media.
But then claimed that in her particular village of Somalia, "Father" is just a term of respect you use for any man older than you.
Seems kind of disrespectful to your real father to call other men "father."
But she'll claim it. See, she didn't know, subjectively, that "niece" means "the daughter of my sister" or that "father" means "my male biological parent."
And remember how cocky she would be when she denied this in the past? She would cackle with her mouth wide open like a fish on a dock and laugh at the "racists" making this claim.
Well, she's not laughing now, is she? She's in tears as she says "not to my knowledge."
As gratifying as the prospect is of a Marine Le Pen and National Rally win in April's National elections in France, it is dangerous to assume that she will lead from the right in all matters.
Her economic philosophy is protectionist more than anything else, and her fiscal policies focus on redirection of government spending to citizens, rather than the more rational decreases that are vital to France's emergence from its budgetary disaster.
Will her immigration reforms do the job? Probably, but she is conspicuously quiet on any sort of remigration of citizens who have demonstrated antipathy toward France. And while she supports sharply decreasing legal immigration, she plans to "restrict" rather than abolish birthright citizenship.
According to Elabe, a French polling firm, Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally (RN) party, leads the field for the 2027 French presidential election, with 32 percent support. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the far-left France Unbowed party, is on 15.5 percent. Former French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, leader of Horizons, an establishment-aligned centrist party, also secured 15.5 percent. Raphaël Glucksmann, leader of the center-left eurofederalist Public Square party, secured comparable support, with 15 percent. This follows Glucksmann’s successful bid to obtain the endorsement of the Socialist Party after running in the party’s primary.
Is she going to win? Maybe, but don't count out the establishment elites of France who are terrified of a Le Pen win and will do anything to prevent it. Remember, she is still under what is essentially house arrest that has been stayed during appeal.
But the bigger question: is she the best candidate for France? And the answer is a resounding 'No." Eric Zemmour and his Reconquête party are clearly the best choice for a shot at an economically powerful and culturally healthy France.
And he is polling as an also-ran, so it just isn't in the cards, which is too bad, because he would truly throw the bums out!
The country best known for its cuisine, its arrogance, and its readiness to surrender at the drop of a hat is scheduled to host a regular-season NFL game in Paris between the New Orleans Saints and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The game is still on for Sunday, October 25, in spite of the fact that the U.S. Embassy in France is warning Americans to avoid areas of unrest in the country.
The million-dollar question is, how do you avoid “unrest” if it decides to come to you? No doubt the orchestrators of the violence will know that disrupting an NFL football game in Paris will get the attention of America. With that in mind, you almost have to assume that the game already has the attention of the “mostly peaceful” violence planners. . . In the face of this, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell feels good about the security measures the league and the French government have in place for Sunday’s game. Of course, that doesn’t speak to the safety of every American fan who will be staying in the city but not under the same protection from armed guards as the players and coaches. You know, the paying customers who will have made the trip across the Atlantic for the game.
Hopefully those unlucky and stupid enough not to have cancelled their trip will be fortunate enough if all they encounter is a mostly peaceful hockey game breaking out or Muslim gang-raping on their way to the game.
On Tuesday, MS NOW’s The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell made the claim that “America lost the Cold War” due to President Trump’s recent diesel deal with Russia. O’Donnell launched into his hunch that Trump “now has surrendered” to Vladimir Putin. Also in on the guesswork was foreign affairs analyst and Daily Beast columnist, David Rothkopf, who argued that the president has since gone soft on Russia, reversing all the progress from the Cold War with Trump “doing his bidding”
Funny but where was this douchebag when Jimmy Carter handed Iran over to the Mullahs, the Panama Canal over to Omar Torrijos and Zimbabwe over to Robert Mugabe while pressuring Israel to hand over chunks of its ancestral homeland to Islamic terrorists and on and on. And I'll bet he was as morose as Putin when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed, much like Bernie Sanders and his fellow travelers in the Democrat Party, who are now hell bent for leather to re-establish Soviet-style rule here in America while alternately scheming to pack or dismantle the Supreme Court, abolish the Senate and in truth the Constitution amendment by amendment in the name of justice and democracy!
And because of all of that and the platform of most if not all of the current crop of Democrat candidates running in the midterms and sadly a horrifyingly large percentage if not overwhelming majority of their voters... Perhaps O'Donnell's statement that "America Lost the Cold War" might be closer to the truth than he thought, and certainly not in the way he thinks. It is he and everyone like him who has nearly brought us to our knees, so thank you and fuck you Lawrence O'Donnell.
Bill Ackman used to be a reliable vote for the Democrats. Today? Not so much. During a recent appearance on a podcast, Ackman described the Democrat Party as crazy, radicalized, and anti-American.
It is near to impossible for the average voter not to notice what Ackman is describing here, especially with the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Good of Ackman to acknowledge this but whether he admits it or not, his party has always been this way, it's just that they did their best over the years to hide it and their totalitarian intentions, to varying degrees of success. Its record of destruction, dissolution and Anti-Americanism is well known, or at least used to be until successive generations of American school children were prevented from properly learning about it from an educational system that is now fully a Leftist brainwashing and propaganda machine.
“Reading, writing, arithmetic, and resistance?
Students across the country have been taught to join the “resistance” against “settler colonialism” while being taught a sanitized view of Islamic jihad, a damning probe into major school districts revealed Wednesday. House Republicans released the findings of their investigation into multiple school districts after complaints of teachers pushing anti-Israel activism in the classroom. Parents send their children to school to learn reading, writing, and math — not to be taught to hate Israel or embrace radical political causes. Yet that’s exactly the kind of material our investigation uncovered,” Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) told The Daily Wire.
The report from the lawmakers focused on curriculum used at school districts in Philadelphia and Berkeley, where parents have complain
On these and all the other mostly depressing links, 70 by my count, I nevertheless bid you all to have a good day.
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
While the separation referendum got the most attention, there were nine others that cover a range of issues, from proposed Constitutional changes to health-care access. Those on immigration reform proved popular. Alberta, Canada, Referendum: No to Exit, Yes to Immigration Reform (suckers, Ottawa is going to fall on them like a hammer [and sickle] - jjs)
According to one report by Milenio Diario, a daily print media company based in Mexico City, the group calling themselves “Caravan Without Borders” is estimated at more than 400 migrants. The bulk of the large group of migrants hails from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. The group includes smaller numbers of Nicaraguan, Haitian, Venezuelan, and Cuban nationals. New Migrant Caravan Leaves Southern Mexico, Many Hoping for Democrat Win in Midterms (Squadron of A-10 Warthogs can shot a few holes in those delusions - jjs)
A policy advertised as protecting the innocent can instead shield the guilty, complicate law enforcement, and expose the innocent to greater danger. Sanctuary For Criminals, Danger For Everyone Else
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the results of the interagency crackdown. As expected, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is rife with fraud, and you and I are working hard paying taxes so that tens of thousands, if not millions, of fraudsters can live comfortably or even luxuriously on money they did not earn. Feds Say $42 Million in SNAP Fraud Could Have Fed 220,000 Americans for a Month
The state’s high-speed rail project sunk more than $677 million on environmental paperwork, benefiting well-connected contractors. California’s Bullet Train Boondoggle
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
On Tuesday, MS NOW’s The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell made the claim that “America lost the Cold War” due to President Trump’s recent diesel deal with Russia.
O’Donnell launched into his hunch that Trump “now has surrendered” to Vladimir Putin. MS NOW’s O’Donnell Claims U.S. Lost Cold War, Touts Trump-Russia Conspiracy (Considering what the Dems have done since '45, he may be right - jjs)
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell feels good about the security measures the league and the French government have in place for Sunday’s game. Of course, that doesn’t speak to the safety of every American fan who will be staying in the city but not under the same protection from armed guards as the players and coaches. You know, the paying customers who will have made the trip across the Atlantic for the game. Riots Across France Scare Off American Media Covering Sunday’s NFL Game in Paris
OpenAI’s infiltration by a suspected Saudi Arabian spy is a huge wake-up call about who is trying to steal our most valuable assets. If Bill Gates and the doomerists are right and AI could kill billions of people, shouldn’t we be demanding tighter security and oversight than we did during the Manhattan Project? And should protecting technology that could determine America’s future fall to the companies alone? Data stolen from AI companies could alter the course of history — they urgently need top security vetting against spies
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The move shows that the Trump administration believes it must cushion the costs passed onto American producers by the ongoing Iran war. By implementing measures to lower costs, American farmers can pass savings on to American consumers while simultaneously protecting their own livelihoods. Trump is Pivoting Back to Economic Nationalism Ahead of the Midterms.
Global diesel prices depend on global supply and demand - a concept that doesn't translate into Democrat talking points. The Oil Paradox
Now, the election officials in that most populous county in the country in the most populous state in the union admit their voter rolls are a complete mess. And they like it that way. They don't want to know if their voters are illegally voting, even though it ruins the sanctity of elections and tramples the rights of U.S. citizens. L.A. County Won't Lift a Finger to Address Its Entrenched Illegitimate Voting System
Mullin . . . explained that “malicious actors could potentially compromise election infrastructure at any stage of the supply chain, even before the machines are assembled or deployed. If a component is tampered with during manufacturing, it could serve as a point-of-entry for hackers, allowing for the possibility of synchronized attacks across multiple machines and jurisdictions.” Midterms Integrity Threat: DHS Warns Voting Machines Contain Components Made in China.
If I were down by double digits, maybe I’d reconsider. But according to polling averages, Vivek Ramaswamy is only trailing by 3.4 points. And besides, Ohio tilts Republican anyway, which is probably why — even in polls where he’s losing — voters still think he’s going to win. Vivek Ramaswamy Risks Everything on the ‘Mom’ Ad. Will It Work?
Socialists have a larger presence on Chicago’s city council than on that of any other large American city. Second-City Socialism
FRANCE IS BURNING
An assessment produced by the French intel community has found that there are around 5,000 people within “radical violent groups on the fringes of the democratic and republican sphere” who are behind most of the violence seen in the recent riots. The report identified three “ideologically distinct groups”: Antifa, the most numerous; insurrectionary “anarcho-autonomists”; and anarchists, which are identified as being the oldest group. Far-Left Antifa Groups at Forefront of Violent Riots, French Intelligence Report Finds
The French presidential system uses a two-round system. In the first round, all candidates from all parties are allowed to run. If no candidate secures more than 50 percent of the vote in the first round, the two most popular candidates are advanced to the second round in a head-to-head. DATA: Le Pen Extends Presidential Polling Lead as France Slides Into Chaos.
On Oct. 16, 2021, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft began its journey to the never-before-explored Jupiter Trojan asteroids with a picturesque early morning launch. Now less than a year away from the first-ever closeup of a Trojan, the Southwest Research Institute-led mission has already made several remarkable findings during its first five years. Asteroid probe Lucy marks five years since launch
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
American culture has become addicted to black pilling. Americans have become systematically inclined to emotionally and mentally surrender when they see negative odds and treat them as a certainty. Black Pill Society
ALSO: The Morning Report cross-posts at CutJibNewsletter.com usually within an hour or so of posting here, if you want to continue the conversation all day.
I was looking to see if I could buy a pink bottlebrush, and then the red bottlebrushes I planted last year flowered and I realised that I already had one - the one I planted first, early last year, and thought was red was clearly pink when you see them side-by-side.
Musical Interlude
Anime is Saga of Tanya the Perfectly Nice Girl Once You Get to Know Her. Song is Trouble by Neon Jungle.
Disclaimer: I don't know, I've only ever killed communists.
Good evening Horde! The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety. The bar is open and fully stocked. Step up and place your order.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of random overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors.
If you're a troll, go away.
This is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Please.
[Top photo: The Walk Toward the Thousand Yard Range]
Am I the last to learn that Goodyear Blimp tires are sold online?
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ONT X activity monitor
Spotted on the TSA X account recently:
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ONT Department of Dino Nostalgia
Wow. July 1964 magazine cover.
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Mandatory Metallica
Heavy metal songs with bell chimes are cool. Pretty sure that's in the rules somewhere. For Whom the Bell Tolls is a great example. Also a great demonstration of bass guitar carrying the weight of a song. Cliff Burton reportedly had the opening riff before joining Metallica. It took Cliff, James and Lars to refine and develop the riff into a complete song.
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Niche YouTube Channel of the Week
Tonight's feature is a YouTube channel called Hand Tool Rescue. A recurring theme of this feature is my endless fascination that a relatively niche interest - if done well - can find and sustain an audience. Tonight's channel is a great example. It is a YouTube channel dedicated to showing restorations of hand tools. That's it.
Looking for a video showing restoration of an antique vise, an old metal lathe, hand plane, nail gun, hammer drill, safe, chainsaw, lawnmower, coffee mill, belt sander, paint sprayer, soviet chain mortiser, and more? This is your place. The restorations themselves are well done and fascinating to watch. The subject matter is even better because many tools are antiques and rarities that you may never have heard of or seen before. Yes, it is almost educational.
Most videos are about 25 minutes. The channel has over 1.2 million subscribers and popular videos often attract millions of views. How are there 8.3 million views of a 1920s Maytag washing machine engine? Maybe tool repair and rescue is a modern resurrection story? The channel is about nine years old and there are plenty of older videos worth watching.
I selected this video as an example mostly because the tool looks like something from a horror movie. It is a longer video, so bookmark and play back later.
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Mini Rant: How much do you think adult mission costs for the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville? Standard, basic, no-frills, no extras, no guided tours, no shows, no souvenirs, no ticketing fees, no credit card fees, no taxes, no discounts, etc.
Guess. I'll wait.
$32. Really? I understand that they need to pay all the expenses to keep it operating and keep the lights on and they are entitled to ask for any price they can get, but $32 per adult?
Surely that must be an outlier, right? Not so fast my friend. NASCAR charges $29, baseball charges $35, and football charges $45.45 (before taxes and fees). Yikes.
As long as there is sufficient demand at the price point, there is zero incentive to charge less. There is only one hall of fame for each flavor.
In terms of entertainment, I may be interested but not at any price point. However, I always have the choice of "none of the above." This isn't a rant about how everything used to cost less or a dissertation on inflation.
Three questions:
1) Shouldn't a hall of fame be a love letter from the sport or hobby to the fan base? Shouldn't the purpose be to deepen the relationship? Shouldn't the mission be different than any other entertainment alternative? Shouldn't the objective to get as many people through the doors as possible?
2) Our mental model is often to ask ourselves what we would be willing to pay before we see what the venue is charging. That way, we gauge our interest level and budget independent of what the venue posts as an admission price. Do others do this? (If you come up with a price but don't honor it, then you need to re-calibrate your process for coming up with your price to give it more credibility.)
3) Do most visitors pay the full admission charge? Are there such a large amount of discounts, tour group packages, hotel packages, etc. that most don't pay the stated rate? Do most not expect most to pay the "regular" admission price? If some walk-ins are willing to pay the full rate, that's a welcome bonus but is the full rate is irrelevant for most which makes a visit more viable? Or are there just many people willing to pay the full admission?
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Pittsburgh Scanner
The Pittsburgh police scanner is an internet treasure. Thank you people of Pittsburgh and thank you Pittsburgh scanner!
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Charlie Daniels for the big ONT finish:
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To the best of my knowledge, I did not marry a sibling to get this gig. Correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com where it will be sorted and processed and filed. Are you lurking ????
Everything old is new again. The Trump-deranged deep state is dusting off its bag of tricks before the midterm elections. The Wasington Post, a reliable hand-maiden of the leftist, bureaucratic apparatus, is gleefully reporting that a group of "security officials" with experience "countering authoritarianism abroad" is warning the Trump administration will interfere in the midterm elections. It's all so tedious, parading out the old "group of experts say..." influence operation. Memories of the "51 intelligence officials confirming Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation" maneuver come flooding back. By the way, the Hunter Biden laptop was, in fact, not Russian disinformation but Hunter's actual laptop.
"All of them have said we're concerned but we don't know what to do," one member of the group said of its meetings with lawmakers. "The outcome that we hope for is that states would be prepared for any contingencies should they arise," the person continued.
Well at least these " " " intelligence " " " officials are presenting us with very specific, very actionable "intelligence."
"Something bad might happen. We don't know what it might be. We should prepare for a wide range of events, including the Null Event where nothing happens at all. In fact, maybe we should put our money on that last one."
The WaPo propaganda piece offers no specific evidence Trump is going to deploy the military or immigration agents to voting locations or confiscate ballots and voting machines or otherwise interfere in the election. In fact, the Pentagon has denied it has plans to deploy troops to voting locations and the Department of Homeland Security stated it will only respond at polling locations for genuine public safety threats. There is no reason to even write this article other than to elevate the fever dreams of the "resistance" and cultivate paranoia....
Just this past weekend, one of CBS's imbecilic journalists, Leslie Stahl, questioned Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon about sowing seeds of distrust in the election process by prosecuting people who voted illegally.
As usual, Democrats claim that anything a Republican says which raises the prospect of election cheating is a crime against democracy because it undermines faith in elections.
Meanwhile, they shart out their 19th conspiracy about Trump doing something to hijack the elections.
@samueljrob Slotkin is a CIA spook and Bolshevik. Democrats are confession through projection.
Slotkin is confessing their plans to employ Color Revolution tactics, which she's employed in other countries to overthrow governments by creating chaos.
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Stahl: Only a few folks have been found to commit this crime when we were going out of our way to not investigate so you should definitely keep not investigating it.
Harmeet: Let me speak slowly in the hopes you'll comprehend how rule of law and law enforcement work.
The illegal alien who spoke no English -- especially when he's being questioned under oath, when his English language ability plunges to zero -- but got elected as the Democrat mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts because the Democrats completely changed the population of the country has been -- get this -- arrested for stealing American taxpayers' money.
This story is several months old but there's fresh news -- the city council at least voted no confidence in his leadership.
Lawrence city councilors voted no confidence in Mayor Brian DePeña Tuesday, formally casting doubt on his ability to lead as he battles more than two dozen state and federal charges.
Five councilors voted in favor of the no-confidence resolution, one opposed it, and three declined to take a stance. But given the City Council has no legal authority to remove DePeña from office, the vote amounted to more of a political statement than an action item.
DePeña, 61, has rebuffed calls for his resignation and pledged to continue serving, even despite growing support for a recall election to potentially remove him from office.
The two-term Democrat was initially arrested in August on federal charges stemming from alleged pandemic loan fraud, with prosecutors saying he misused more than $1.5 million meant for a local business he owned. The political firestorm continued last month as Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell's office announced DePeña had been indicted on wiretapping charges for allegedly sharing an illegally recorded conversation between two city staffers.
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Tucker Carlson repeatedly kvetches that the Trump administration hasn't done enough about Antifa. Andy Ngo repeatedly corrects him.
Carlson: "I am surprised that two years into this administration, we still haven't seen a systematic attempt to understand what Antifa is and who pays for it. Where's that?"
Ngo: "I actually think the administration has done a good job. I'll name out sort of the things that have been taken by the federal government. A lot of people forget or don't remember what's happened. So in the autumn of last year, Donald Trump announced that his administration would be treating Antifa as domestic terrorists. There was a big executive order... But from there, then the State Department proscribed, banned four European Antifa groups. So making them designated foreign terrorist organizations... That was the first time an international Antifa group had ever been proscribed by the U.S. government."
"So the federal government has done a lot. I think, of course, they can always do more."
Carlson: "Has anyone been charged for sending money to Antifa?... Because if I gave money to Hamas or Hezbollah, I'd get a FBI raid at my house."
Ngo: "There was a really big case actually earlier this year, in Texas, a federal prosecution, it was the first time that accused Antifa members of a North Texas Antifa cell had been charged with providing material support to terrorism, attempted murder, and many, many other felonies... So there have been 15 who have been federally prosecuted and are accused in charging documents of being part of an Antifa network."
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday hit out at the "unacceptable and stupid comments from many foreign leaders" in the aftermath of unrest which rocked several French cities over the weekend.
"Some people have claimed that we've been overrun by hordes of migrants and Islamists, which is completely false," Macron told reporters during a trip to Qatar. His comments were a clear swipe at U.S. President Donald Trump, who this week railed that France is "being conquered, looted, and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists, and Communists."
While hundreds of thousands of protesters in France demonstrated peacefully over the cost of living and school conditions at the weekend, the mayhem -- including public buildings being set on fire, stores being looted and clashes with riot police -- sparked widespread condemnation in France and abroad, including in the U.S., where Trump is using the French unrest to rally voters ahead of November's midterm elections.
There is no evidence tying last weekend's incidents in France to immigration.
Macron said Trump is "among" a group of political leaders who are campaigning "off of France's back," adding, "it's at times like these that you can tell who loves France and who doesn't."
You know who doesn't love France? The hordes of angry, violent Third World conquerors you invited to live off the French welfare system before they seize the country entirely.
Right-leaning leaders in other European countries like Hungary and Poland also tried to pin the unrest in France on immigration to justify their countries' hard-line policies on the divisive issue. Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar said on X that the chaos that engulfed several French cities makes it "clear to everyone why Hungary advocates the strictest possible approach to migration."
Of course the savages aren't all immigrants. Many a stupid, lazy, envious, venemous communists.
I linked a tweet about this rich bitch communist influencer.
Here's an article about her:
A woke French student has become the běte noire of the protests after she mocked business owners who lost their stores in the riots.
Lola-Fleur Whittaker, a leftist political influencer who studies at the prestigious Sciences Po Paris, appeared on a TV show Monday to defend the rioters.
"Your little shops, that's real cute," she said during an argument about who was to blame for the weekend's violence on her appearance on La Grande Confrontation.
But the privileged student was confronted by Jhemima Sheilha, owner of a chain of bakeries who had seen her businesses looted.
"It's my life, Lola," Sheilha said. "We've had to see our businesses smashed. What justifies terrorizing people's lives?"
Whittaker subsequently tried to paint herself as a poor victim, claiming that her mother is a teacher who eats cookies for lunch because she can't "pay for the cafeteria."
But she was quickly outed for a social media profile that revealed she's more bourgeoisie than proletariat.
She regularly shares pictures of vacations in exotic locations around the world, including Sicily, Greece, Malaysia, Egypt and Oman.
Whittaker, who earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Manchester, previously stood as a candidate for the far-left political party France Unbowed in Paris and is also a prominent leftist influencer.
During Monday's heated debate, she also appeared to bizarrely suggest a link between the recent rioting and the attacks on Algerian immigrants by French police back in October 1961, La Depeche reported.
Whittaker was not immediately available for comment.
The NFL has one of its international matches scheduled for Sunday in Paris. Apparently they're going ahead with the game despite the obvious security risks.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday that he's "leaving shortly" for France to attend the first-ever NFL game there and he's confident it will be safe to attend and play the game due in no small part to assurances he received from United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio, which were confirmed to OutKick by Rubio himself.
"We're involved at the highest levels both in France on a global basis with our officials here, including, I had a conversation here with the Secretary of State a couple of days ago," Goodell said at the close of the Fall League Meeting in New York.
"So we're continuing to make sure we have all the available information, make sure appropriate steps are being made. We're guests in the country. We're going to be good guests. We're going to do our thing and I'm confident they're going to do theirs."
Rubio on Wednesday confirmed to OutKick and Fox News Digital that he spoke with Goodell.
"Our embassy feels the game will be fine," Rubio told OutKick and Fox News Digital. "We have no indication the game will be impacted in any way."
Rubio will not be attending the game but it has nothing to do with recent events.
The Israeli Defense Forces took out the last Hamas operative involved in the kidnapping and murder of hostage Shani Louk during the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack.
Tamer Muhammad Ibrahim al-Sabbagh, who was among the men caught on camera abducting Louk, 22, and parading her half-naked body around Gaza, was killed in an airstrike on Tuesday, the IDF said.
Al-Sabbagh was seen in the infamous Associated Press photo of Louk's body as he sat right beside her as he and his fellow terror operatives howled in victory while driving off in a pickup truck during the terror attack.
The men were quickly identified in the aftermath of the Nova music festival massacre, with the other Hamas operatives taken out during the height of the war in Gaza.
Al-Sabbagh was allegedly working to carry out future attacks on Israeli troops and civilians while stationed in Jabalia when he was located by the Israeli military.
Tuq'r Qarlson maintains that Hamas is only "supposedly" a terrorist organization, and "seems like a political organization to me."
We call on France to exercise restraint when dispersing the freedom fighters on the streets of Paris. These brave warriors for justice must receive immediate humanitarian aid, and their safety must be guaranteed in accordance with international law. Failure to comply will leave us no choice but to bring a case before the ICJ, in close cooperation with that renowned champion of human rights, Afghanistan.
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click: Garrett's Sus iPod Edition Everybody wants you
Everybody wants your love
I'd just like to make you mine, all mine Just imagine he's singing that to a dude. BTW I thought this was a completely different band from Garrett's Sus iPod, the Bay City Rollers.
Podcast: The Nobel Peace Prize farce, Ilhan Omar in hot water, Talarico's disappearance, Guilfoyle is a crook, Should Nidal's execution be streamed, Bugs Bunny, and more!
Our very own "Weasel" has won the Nobel Prize For Physics:
A Rigorous Investigation into the Quasi-Static Equilibration of Shoulder-Fired Ballistic Platforms: Rear-Bag-Mediated Suppression of Angular Perturbations and Its Implications for Sub-MOA Precision.
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Podcast: A sea change in Israel? France might fall before the UK! Trump's Iran rhetoric is manipulated by the commie media (film at 11!), Brazil looks good, and Rubio looks even better (maybe)!
Christian Toto Roasts Digger: "We have an A-list star (Tom Cruise) stretching his talents in ways we haven't seen in some time. The story has something to say about the world (Climate Change) and human nature in all its complexities." Sounds...boring! [CBD]
Nearly one thousand Roman silver denari found in woods near Cologne, Germany, probably deliberately buried in 125 AD It's about seven pounds of ancient silver. Alas, it's not an artifact of the massacre of the XIXth Legion at Teutonburg Forest, which is about a hundred and fifthy miles away.
Podcast: Vote Early...Vote Often! Oil exports are returning to normal, Trump relaxes CAFE standards, ChiComs fund AI backlash, the descendants of our business titans are anti-American, Boston is nuts, and more!
Podcast: CBD is solo and just checking in! Trump's UN speech is a success, the Last Ditch Bar in Western MA keeps their lunacy in the spotlight, and the White House plays hardball with the media and the judiciary...as it should!
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