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November 10, 2024

Gun Thread: More November Edition!

—Weasel

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Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be more November? I have noticed all y'all seem to be in a great mood lately, must be the Fall weather and return to Standard Time!!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: Oink Oink! Trim Trim! Eat Eat!

—CBD

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Pork ribs! Great stuff, and easy to make. Sure, there are great BBQ joints where people stand on line for hours to get a rack of ribs, but as long as you don't dry them out, the home version is pretty damned good.

But inflation has struck even the lowly pig! Trimmed pork slabs (called St. Louis ribs) used to be less than $2/lb. And now? I saw them for $4/lb at my local supermarket. Even Costco is pushing $3/lb.

But there is a way to get what you want -- a delicious whole slab of porcine goodness -- while still having a bit of cash leftover for beer or bourbon. Buy whole, untrimmed pork ribs! It takes just a few minutes to trim them down to St. Louis perfection, and the upside is that you get the bones and trimmings, which is perfectly delectable meat that is cooked the same way you make the pork slab! Plus, the stuff on the convex side is delicious, and equally easy to cook.

Sure, it takes about five minutes to do with the appropriate knife, but for $2/lb. it is absolutely worth it, and you will get to brag about doing your own butchering (sort of) and lord it over your pompous 2nd cousin who always tries to one-up you in the kitchen.

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First-World Problems...

—CBD

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Obviously my house is infested with candy fairies, because all of a sudden the many pounds of Halloween candy has dwindled to a few sad specimens. I have no idea how that happened, but I need some advice on how to trap these sneaky little beasts that take my candy bars!

By the way, that bowl is from Lasser Ceramics, in Londonderry VT. We saw the shop while driving the back roads many years ago, and stopped to take a look. Fun stuff, and not too touristy.

And...HAPPY 249th BIRTHDAY UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS!

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Anti-immigrant Laws? No...We Have Anti-criminal Laws

—CBD

An "illegal immigrant" is not an immigrant. He is a criminal, and should be treated as a lawbreaker and dealt with by the criminal justice system. The conflation of immigration into America, which used to be of tremendous benefit to us as a nation, with criminals crashing the open border as part of the deeply evil "Great Replacement," is part and parcel of the progressive destruction of our language.

We don't call bank robbers "undocumented withdrawers." We don't call rape "pre-permission intercourse." So calling these wetback criminals anything other than lawbreakers is a manipulation of the truth and an obvious attempt to create acceptance and sympathy for people who broke into our country for only a few reasons, none of which are legal, and all of which are tremendously damaging to our future as a republic.

Illegal immigrants in NYC protest Trump victory, proposed mass deportation plans

Among the marchers were illegal migrants from Ecuador and Peru, who held a sign declaring, “No to the anti-immigrant laws, no to deportations,” video from TPUSA’s Frontlines showed. This comes as Trump has repeatedly said that if elected he would carry out a mass deportation program to remove individuals who are in the US illegally.

Of course these criminals are the useful idiots of the hard left, as the signs held by many in that protest signal. "End Fossil Fuels?" "Socialism Beats Fascism?" Oh, that IMA sign? That's the International Migrants Alliance. Here's a quotation from their website:
Migrants refuse to shoulder the economic crisis brought on by imperialism and its neoliberal schemes so we call on migrants to take action, Migrants, PUEDE!

It is nothing more than world socialism's subterfuge to destroy America. Does that sound histrionic? Tough.

If Donald Trump is serious about deportation of these criminals, the process must be multi-faceted...criminalizing the employers who turn a blind eye (meat packing anyone?), and the cities and states that actively interfere with federal law enforcement. If New York state doesn't want to participate in upholding immigration law, that's fine. The federal government can cut funding for all policing in NY. I wonder how much money the various state and city law enforcement agencies get from the federal government?

And a simple law passed by Congress will go a long way toward self-deportation: A $1,000/day/worker fine levied against any business that employs illegals. There are systems in place to verify employment status. If they don't work well, then improve them! I'll bet Elon Musk might be able to help!

Driver's licenses for criminal trespassers in America? I don't think so. Take away highway funds from every state that gives licenses to illegals. Remember how the federal government strong-armed the states over the 55mph speed limit and the drinking age? What goes around comes around!

The point is that forced deportation is not the only way to accomplish the goal. In fact, I'll bet that deportation will be a small part of the effort, and these criminals will rapidly get the message that their free lunch is no longer available.

But all of this is predicated on Donald Trump and his administration forcing the issue. Half measures, like the window dressing of the Obama/Biden junta, is easily avoided, and in fact there are government-funded NGOs that assist in evading the current lax enforcement. If his commitment to border security and the rule of law is not backed up by constant surveillance and political push, then it will fail.

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 11-10-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

—Open Blogger


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Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading. Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

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Daily Tech News 10 November 2024

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

  • Beata Halassy had breast cancer - for the third time, despite chemotherapy and a mastectomy.

    She had cancer.

    She gave it measles and it died. (Nature)

    Beata is a virologist so she prepared her own virus culture - a mild strain intended for vaccine production - and had a colleague administer it. She has now been cancer-free for four years.

    Naturally she wanted to publish the results of her research - on herself. That's where the real problems started, because scientific journals didn't want to touch it.

    On the upside - apart from the whole thing about being alive - she now has funding to repeat this research to try to cure cancer in pets.


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Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 11/8/2024

—TheJamesMadison

Wreck-It-Ralph: Folie a Deux


A while back, I looked at a case study in modern Hollywood accidentally coming up with a new success and then instantly undermining it in a sequel with The LEGO Movie. Well, companion to that, happening right about the same time at a rival studio, is another case study in such a movement, this time from Disney with its pair of Wreck-It Ralph films.

A brief synopsis: Essentially Toy Story but with video games, the first film tells about the titular Ralph, the bad guy in a classic video game called Fix-It Felix Jr. who, tired of being the bad guy all the time, sets out into other video games to try and be the good guy. He ends up in a candy-themed racing game where he helps the waifish and wayward Venelope Von Schweets to win her rightful place as a real racer and embrace his nature to do good. It's pretty bog-standard anti-hero makes good storytelling, and it's got wit and charm and a solidly good ending. It's about a good-natured guy who learns to use his innate skills to help people and contribute and receive recognition from his peers. It's not great cinema, but it's an entertaining trifle.

The sequel...is not that. The focus turns to Venelope who, now queen of her game, has grown bored with constantly being amazing. She and Ralph go into the Internet to try and win a new wheel for her game that needs replacing, and she decides to abandon everyone for a new place in another racing game that's more dangerous. Also, Ralph is essentially the bad guy because he's clinging to her and wants her to stay.

So, the good guy and main character of the first gets pushed aside for the supporting girl character, she's too awesome and needs to be allowed to grow even more, and he's a baby who's just trying to hold her back because he can't let her go. Do you see how the second film completely and totally undermines the first? Well, with 6 years since the release of the second, there's no official word on a third film, even though the second actually made a bit more money than the first. It's weird.

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Hobby Thread - November 9, 2024 [TRex]

—Open Blogger

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Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread.

We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin and it landed on a theme of collecting money for this week. Apparently the Wheel is interested in history, how people store value, and how they build systems of economic exchange with teach other. For purposes of the Hobby Thread, we are not talking about investing, managing personal finances, or economics. We are talking about collecting tangible items of historical or artistic interest. If your collecting happens to involve money related assets that appreciate in value, you are on topic. If you want to talk about collecting hyperinflated German Wiemar currency, you are on topic.

Numismatics is the study or collection of currency, including coins, tokens, paper money, medals and related objects. People who are involved are known as numismatists. They are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but also are often interested in the broader study of money and other means of payment used to resolve debts and exchange goods.

Notaphily is the study and collection of paper currency, and banknotes. A notaphilist is a collector of banknotes or paper money, particularly as a hobby.

Are you a numismatist or a notaphilist? Do you collect coins or paper? Do you have an area of focus? Where do you find your treasures? Any favorite stories of finds or gifts received? Do you ever sell pieces in your collection? Do you collect money from across the globe? Do you collect old coins or currency? Do you remember gathering coins or currency as a child?

This hobby is a good illustration of the difference between rare and valuable. Not everything that is rare is also valuable, but most things that are valuable are also rare. There is irony in the fact that many of the most valuable pieces are rare because of defects in their creation.

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Content below to get the conversation started, but looking for participation from our gray box friends. If meaningful to you, it will be meaningful to the Horde.

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, November 9

—K.T.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, Nov. 9

—K.T.

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Happy Saturday! Thought about some flower arrangements for Thanksgiving?

Garden Brocante (in the UK):

These have to be up there, in my estimation, with the most beautiful flowers I've ever grown!

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The Perils of Revolution

—K.T.

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Remember that the French Revolution ended with an emperor

A comfort to those on the left currently in despair over the election of Donald Trump, and a warning to "our side": Things could have been much worse for the Ruling Class. A REAL Hitler could have emerged to lead the people. Especially if Donald Trump had been defeated.

The conclusion to Angelo Codevilla's great 2010 essay, America's Ruling Class
And the perils of revolution.

How the country class and ruling class might clash on each item of their contrasting agendas is beyond my scope. Suffice it to say that the ruling class’s greatest difficulty — aside from being outnumbered — will be to argue, against the grain of reality, that the revolution it continues to press upon America is sustainable. For its part, the country class’s greatest difficulty will be to enable a revolution to take place without imposing it. America has been imposed on enough.

So, how did the revolution begin?

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

—Misanthropic Humanitarian

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(H/T Sharon, Willow's Apprentice)

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Good Saturday morning Horde. Wasn't Tuesday a wonderful day?!?! The hard work will continue for President Elect Trump and Vice President Elect JD Vance. Please include these men and their families in your prayers. May God's will be done here on earth.

As many of you know I had the incredible task of hosting the ONT for a number of years. I'll be incorporating some of The ONT features into Saturday's Classical Coffee Break & Prayer Revival. I hope you enjoy. If not, please let me know with gift certificates to the St. Croix Rod Store.

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Daily Tech News 9 November 2024

—Pixy Misa

Top Story


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Suddenly, An ONT Appeared

—WeirdDave

Welcome to Friday night meme madness. Let's start with a quick peek at Democrats right now:

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Thank God It's Friday Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

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Autumn in the Alps
Ryan Resatka

Hooray! I love a victory parade.

You feel like food!

Filling a cat hole with a dog peg.

Finally it's napping time.

The weekend is here.


Some Instagram stuff:

Antarctica weather report. (IG)


Big ol' bluefin tuna breaching. (IG)

Base jumping from a mountain. (IG)

Another ground-skimming base jump. (IG)

Autumn scenery.

Dude is happier to have killer whales looking to "play" with him that I would be. (IG)

Picking up a friendly stray dog from the side of the highway. (IG)

A tour of the oldest historical buildings... in Antarctica. (IG)

This is a new thing, I think: A wingsuit spoiler (IG). More about the winsuit spoiler (IG).


Steve Inman:

Animals vs. Humans. Caution: Interspecies teabagging.

Porch bandits.

Customer service to the dome.

Ju-jitsu pandas.

Thieves attempt to cut the locking chain of a motorcycle but the owner swoops in.

Bandits attempt to steal a bike... but they should have stolen the owner's gun, first.

Little kids want to live free and wild, as Gen Xers once did.


Personal Space Invader.

MMA "fight."

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FEMA OFFICIAL ORDERED EMERGENCY WORKERS TO AVOID HURRICANE-DAMAGED HOMES WITH TRUMP SIGNS
UPDATE: DeSANTIS NOW INVESTIGATING

—Disinformation Expert Ace

FEMA admits this happened.

They claim they took "extreme actions" in response.

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Any guesses on what the "extreme actions" were? You have until the end of this post to put in your answers.

A federal disaster relief official ordered workers to bypass the homes of Donald Trump's supporters as they surveyed damage caused by Hurricane Milton in Florida, according to internal correspondence obtained by The Daily Wire and confirmed by multiple federal employees.

A FEMA supervisor told workers in a message to "avoid homes advertising Trump" as they canvassed Lake Placid, Florida to identify residents who could qualify for federal aid, internal messages viewed by The Daily Wire reveal. The supervisor, Marn'i Washington, relayed this message both verbally and in a group chat used by the relief team, multiple government employees told The Daily Wire.

The government employees told The Daily Wire that at least 20 homes with Trump signs or flags were skipped from the end of October and into November due to the guidance, meaning they were not given the opportunity to qualify for FEMA assistance. Images shared with The Daily Wire show that houses were skipped over by the workers, who wrote in the government system messages such as: "Trump sign no entry per leadership."

It is unclear whether the same guidance was issued elsewhere in the country. The employees were part of a Department of Homeland Security surge capacity force team, meaning they volunteered from other DHS agencies to help an understaffed FEMA as it dealt with a second major hurricane in a span of just a few weeks.


"I know they're short-staffed, I thought we could go help and make a difference," one of the employees said. "When we got there we were told to discriminate against people. It's almost unbelievable to think that somebody in the federal government would think that's okay."

The employee said it felt wrong to discriminate against Trump supporters when they were at their "most vulnerable."

"I volunteered to help disaster victims, not discriminate against them," the employee said. "It didn't matter if people were black, white, Hispanic, for Trump, for Harris. Everyone deserves the same amount of help."

The guidance came as the Biden administration was criticized over its sluggish response to Hurricane Helene in rural areas across the country. In Roan Mountain, Tennessee, for example, locals told The Daily Wire it took nearly two weeks for FEMA to show up. The town is located in Carter County, which voted 81% for Trump on Tuesday.

The FEMA agents ordered not to help houses with Trump signs were operating in Highlands County, a deep-red area located in south central Florida that backed Trump by 70% on Tuesday. It was hit with tornadoes, torrential wind and rain, and flooding when Milton hit in October.

In the chat, Washington said that it would be "best practice" to "avoid homes advertising Trump," according to photos of the messages viewed by The Daily Wire. No explanation was given for this guidance, which included other recommendations like telling the workers to "practice de-escalation and preventative measures," and to "avoid high salt diets and coffee."

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Photos from the system used by federal relief workers to track what homes they visit showed that relief workers followed Washington's guidance. Several addresses were marked "not able to access property" with listed explanations such as: "Trump sign no entry per leadership," "Per leadership no stop Trump flag," "Trump sign," and "Trump sign, no contact per leadership."

Here's the "extreme actions" FEMA took to discipline this degenerate bitch:

The employees say that Washington has not been punished for the guidance, but has been shifted to another county in Florida.


If there is any evidence that anyone died due to this racist's actions, charge this bitch with Murder.

Update: I know Trump will investigate this after he's sworn in, but let's start the investigation now.

on DeSantis @GovRonDeSantis

The blatant weaponization of government by partisan activists in the federal bureaucracy is yet another reason why the Biden-Harris administration is in its final days.

At my direction, the Division of Emergency Management is launching an investigation into the federal government's targeted discrimination of Floridians who support Donald Trump.

New leadership is on the way in DC, and I'm optimistic that these partisan bureaucrats will be fired.

Something for Congress: Examine the hiring process that led to this hire. We can guess that this person's social media must be loaded with extremist messaging -- the kind of messaging that would get any right-leaning person not only barred from federal appointment, but put on DHS's watch list.

How did this pyrsyn get a federal job? Who hired her? Who recommended her? Who interviewed her?

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The Trump Effect Is Real, And It's Spectacular!

—CBD

Occam's Razor says that the Qataris could read the tea leaves of the upcoming American presidential election and realized that Donald Trump might not tolerate their cozying up to every terrorist group on earth. And unlike the current administration's mealy-mouthed equivocation about support for terrorism, the incoming administration will be less inclined to look the other way.

Report: Qatar set to kick Hamas leadership out

Qatar has told the political leaders of the Hamas terror group that they were no longer welcome in the Gulf state, Israeli media reported on Friday.

According to the Hebrew-language Kan outlet, the decision was communicated to the Palestinian jihadists "in recent days."

Qatar, a "major non-NATO ally" of the U.S. "has repeatedly stressed its position as a regional player able to mediate between conflicting players, one of the few parties with a direct line to Hamas leadership. It is also home to a number of the leaders of the U.S. and EU-sanctioned terrorist movement Hamas," analyst Benjamin Weinthal wrote of the Gulf state's role in financing of jihadist terrorism and antisemitic propaganda.


I wonder whether the 7th century goatherds in Yemen will get the message and tone down their attacks on shipping? And will Hezbollah see the light and quietly move north of the Litani River?

And of course the father of all of these terror groups...Iran? I doubt they can be moderated, but an administration that supports internal resistance might be the final push that the Persians need to get rid of their theocratic lunatic rulers!

We live in interesting times, but it seems to be getting better for the good guys!

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Will The Penny Manslaughter Trial Be The Last Gasp Of The Left's Stoking Racial Hatred?

—CBD

The media and the prosecutors are busily trying to portray the death of a psychotic, violent bum accosting passengers in the NYC subway as just one more example of America's original sin of slavery coupled with the insane power dynamics of post-modernism, Critical Race Theory, and good old White RacismTM.

The reality is far from that, and the testimony in Daniel Penny's trial suggests that it was just another American who stepped in to protect his fellow passengers. No racial subtext, no class struggle...just a brave man who felt compelled to help those in need.

Jordan Neely was 'trying to attack everybody' before Daniel Penny intervened: witnesses

In the audio, 18-year-old Moriela Sanchez could be heard asking the 911 operator to send police and an ambulance because someone was attacking passengers on the uptown F train subway car. The audio was played during her testimony in the Manhattan Supreme Court.

During the 1 minute recording, Sanchez said about Neely, “He’s trying to attack everybody.” She described the attacker as black and that “There’s one white man holding him down, holding the homeless guy down.” Sanchez added, “Penny put his hands around [Neely’s] neck and then dropped him down so he wouldn’t attack anybody.”

Of course Fox News has already convicted Mr. Penny, as this line from their biased article suggests:

Moments before New York Marine veteran Daniel Penny placed the erratic Jordan Neely in a chokehold that proved fatal, the emotionally disturbed homeless man raised his fists in the middle of a subway car while shouting at passengers, a witness testified Thursday. [bolding mine]

Actually, the trial will determine whether Mr. Penny's chokehold caused the bum's death, but in their usual sleazy and backhanded manner, they are kowtowing to the leftist cant. Of course the mean white man killed the noble black man! How else can it go down in a post-modern society?

But the typical protests haven't occurred, and the gathering on the first day of the trial outside the courthouse by the usual suspects was lightly attended. Is it possible that even NYC is getting tired of rampant crime and chaos, and has a tiny amount of sympathy for the terrified subway riders and the brave young Marine who protected them?

Of course this is a New York City jury, and for all we know they will ask the judge to change the charge to 1st Degree Murder with the option for the death penalty. The racial divisions that the left demands are sadly ingrained in our society, and the reflexive assumption that if a white man is involved he is the criminal is all too common.

But Tuesday's election of a (relatively) tough on crime DA in Los Angeles and the recall of the lunatic Alameda DA suggest that the tide may be turning. If California can recognize the evil of allowing criminals free rein, then perhaps there is hope for the rest of America...even NYC!

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Mandate
[Dave in Fla]

—Open Blogger

A presidential candidate in the United States has not won a mandate since Ronald Reagan in 1984. There have been significant wins by candidates, notably Obama in 2008. But those wins all came with deep divisions within the electorate, and no national consensus on the direction of the country.

While we are enjoying watching TikTok videos of liberals having mental breakdowns, we may lose sight of the fact that Trump didn't just win. He won with a resounding mandate from the electorate. The people have spoken and have given the green light for Republicans to implement HIS agenda, and they expect them to keep that promise.

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No Big Deal, Just Large Packs of Young Arab Men Hunting Jews on the Streets of Amsterdam

—Disinformation Expert Ace

So much cultural enrichment, of a distinctly Warsaw 1940 flavor.

Europe's so progressive they've brought back anti-jewish pogroms.

Want to see what a "dark night of fascism" really looks like? Don't look to Washington DC -- look to Amsterdam instead. After a soccer match between Israeli and Dutch teams, a mob swooped down on fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv, waving Palestinian flags and reviving some very, very bad memories in Holland.


This is what a dark night of fascism actually looks like...

Sky News' reporter in Israel notes that this took place on the eve of the anniversary of Krystallnacht in 1938...

ohn Podhoretz @jpodhoretz

No more easy Hitler analogies, people. Stop amusing yourself with factitous* comparisons. Enough. Hitler is in Amsterdam tonight. That's what it looks like, you fools.

* No, it's not a typo for "fatuous" or "fictitious," as I thought. It's a real word meaning, I see, "artificially created or developed." (Certainly from the Latin verb facere, to make or to do, which survives in English in "factory," "facility," "factotum," etc.)

They must be Sons of Odin gang White Nationalists!

Yeaaaaah, that's it!

Posted by: Lizzy

Reminiscent of the early 20th century progressives.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy


Ace:

Mass-posts on Muslim social media accounts officially titled it "'Jodenjacht," which means "Jew hunt" in Dutch. It was an attempt to exterminate the Jews of Amsterdam, a 21st century Krystallnacht. Only their incompetence and inability to get weapons prevented mass deaths.

Posted by: zombie

Comment from eyewitness in Amsterdam:

"Don't let anyone fool you that this was in any way shape or form 'anti-Israeli' or 'antizionist' or in any way 'called for'. It was antisemitic. Screenshots of Telegram channels on the Dutch blog Geenstijl.nl clearly show they were calling it 'Jew hunt', jodenjacht in Dutch. It was a premeditated city-wide pogrom.

It appears not just Moroccan youths on scooters were doing this, but also Uber and Bolt taxi drivers coordinating with others who of the people on the street were Jews/Israelis and then violently ramming into them GTA style."

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Martha Raddatz wants you to know it was "just a handful" of Jews being hunted in the streets.

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Top Headlines
Weaponized government targeting Trump supporters cleaning up from Hurricane Milton. This is from The Daily Wire: “FEMA Official Ordered Relief Workers To Skip Houses With Trump Signs” [Buck]
Bounding Into Comics
@BoundingComics

'Action Comics' Writer Mark Waid Considers Retirement Due To Re-Election Donald Trump: "I Don't Believe In The Basic Goodness Of My Fellow Americans Anymore, And Without This, I Cannot Write Superheroes"

Article here
This sissy has always been a tantrum-throwing manbaby. He's spiraling downwards. Good.
Riley Gaines
@Riley_Gaines_
[TRUMP:] "Within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an EO banning any federal dept or agency from colluding with any organization, business, or person to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens."

video here
Alex Thompson
@AlexThomp
Fetterman to @daveweigel on forcing Biden aside: "For those that decided and moved to break Biden, and then you got the election that you wanted, it’s appropriate to own the outcome and fallout....When you take a reasonable, calculated risk to fuck around, embrace your culpability for what you found out."

Today's Democrats in Disarray Drama is all about Nancy Pelosi attempting to lay the blame on others -- Joe waited too long to drop out, and Kamala was a bad candidate who Joe shouldn't have anointed -- and a lot of Democrats aren't having it, and insisting she's to blame.
I don't care who's right, I'm just rooting for brutality
I'm in a real fucking Thermidorian Reaction kind of mood, guys
Darren Grimes
@darrengrimes_ 4h

Our ancestors defeated Nazi tyranny only to see our politicians import theological Islamic fascism to Europe.

Jewish girl Anne Frank spent much of her life hiding in the Netherlands from Nazis that eventually found her and killed her.

Today Jews attending football matches are targeted and attacked by Muslim mobs hunting in packs, waving Palestinian flags, burning Israeli ones and kicking the shit out of anyone that dares to fly it in that same country at a football game.

What on earth have we done? Who gave their consent to this?

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC)
If the "elites" aren't worried right now, they're even more stupid than I thought they were
So, I don't believe this, but Rogan claims that Elon Musk has some app that told him that Trump won "four hours before the results." I mean, he did have a GOTV campaign, and of course he would then be getting data about how many voters turned out in different areas, so I think that's probably it. I don't think he has some kind of Artificial Super-Intelligence Precognition app.
Or... does he?!?!
Justine Basedman update: "I am decompressing after four years of walking on eggshells" and feeling forced to lie about my agreement with "permitted opinions"
Justine Bateman
@JustineBateman

Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.

I have found the last four years to be an almost intolerable period. A very un-American period in that any questioning, any opinions, any likes or dislikes were held up to a very limited list of "permitted positions" in order to assess acceptability. 2/

I've never in my life known that to be an American environment. It's an environment I have encountered in smaller groupings (a church, a private club,a clique), but never before as a national blanket. It has been suffocating. Common sense was discarded, intellectual discussion was demonized. Only "permitted position" behavior and speech was "allowed." Complete intolerance became almost a religion and one's professional and social life was threatened almost constantly. Those that spoke otherwise were ruined as a warning to others.

Their destruction was displayed in the "town square" of social media for all to see. This was the #MeMeMeMeToo moment, where every effort was made to divert attention to oneself, instead of recognizing how one contributes to the whole.This was the era of trying to exercise control over those who did not want to follow the crowd and has their own ideas about what they needed to do. This dampened our culture and innovation, bringing people to even think that generative #AI, a regurgitation of the past, was actually our cultural future.

When you starve a society of those called to be independent thinkers and cultural and intellectual innovators, you rob that society of any forward movement. Those that tried to impose that control maintained a kind of "hall monitor" position by threatening others with damning labels like "Sexist," "racist," "homophobic," etc, when the free-thinking and questioning was nothing of the sort. However, the mob mentality that followed caused these social convictions when there was often no evidence to support them.

She links "Extraordinary Public Delusions and the Madness of Crowds."

I am neither one extreme or the other, but am one of the millions of people who believe in common sense, and that everyone should be free to live their lives however they want, unless that freedom interferes with someone else's freedom to live their own life. That's it. 10/fin

I hope she's ready for what's coming -- but no one ever is. They are so hateful and so coordinated and calculated in their hatred that it is overwhelming even to strong people. Ethan Van Sciver confesses to having a lot of thoughts about suicide when the cancel mob destroyed his career. He says that his cancellation actually killed him, or killed the man who lived before, and he came back from the dead as an immortal vampire without any heart or feelings left. That's how searing a cancellation can be.
Hopefully, this the the beginning of a mass movement to cancel the cancelers and excise them from public life.
Pretty straightforward from here:
Protect Kamala Harris
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Want to blow Republicans' minds?
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor retires.
President Biden appoints Kamala Harris to Sotomayor's vacancy with a lame duck Democratic senate majority.
Supreme Court Justice Kamala Harris.

Don't think so...
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Professor/NYT columnist Tressie McMillian Cottom urges Dems to double down on identity politics "[Trump] tapped into one of the most powerful of American identities, he tapped into white identity...That means you should double down on identities of your base."

LOL
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Ann Seltzer, who turned herself into a laughingstock with her absurd "Kamala is winning Iowa by 3" poll (Spoiler: Trump won by 13.5%) offers up this cope: Maybe my poll was right, but galvanized the GOP into turning out in huge numbers!
It's hilarious watching one person after another, one institution after another, burn up all of their prestige and credibility in one great Bonfire of the Vanities
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Via andycanuck: Scott Jennings describes the NeverTrump Industrial Grifting Complex
Oh no! Frum flounces:
David Frum
@davidfrum

De-registered as a Republican today.

Thanks to bonhomme. I have to tell you, though, that I bet he's announced this ten times before. All of these guys just keep writing the same articles and x-posts, always saying the same time: "At long last I've decided to quit the GOP." They get to sell the same article 15 times to the leftwing media.
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