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The descent of American culture from a moderately religious, moderately moral nation, to its current depths was shockingly fast. Our moral compass is pulled in every direction, providing zero guidance. We have lost respect for the sanctity of human life, and that can be laid squarely on the fanatical love of abortion that sprang out of the Women's Liberation and Feminist movements. The glory of our country's Bill Of Rights, a revolutionary change in government's relationship with the People, has become a pale and dissipated relic. Free Speech? Only if it doesn't offend! A right to a speedy trial? Not if you aren't of the correct political bent! Free exercise of religion? Bake that cake!
We have become nihilistic, we have lost the ability to reason, we have detached facts and logic from the body politic, which now is fueled by an avalanche of hysterical ignorance being pumped into the public sphere by an out-of-control social media.
And what is this all driven by? The destruction of our educational system, courtesy of communism's long march through our institutions, has led to huge numbers of Americans who have no basis for seeing the world, and live hedonistically. "If it feels good, do it" might sound like a throwaway stupidity from Timothy Leary, but it has been embraced by a generation.
And the data back it up! Heartland Institutes deeply depressing series of polls expose a youth culture that is completely detached from America's traditions of freedom and liberty and individual responsibility. Sefton and I talked with Jim Lakely about it over at CutJibNewsletter Speaks. It was sobering.
It is easy to be lulled into the media's carefully scripted response to the surge in violence as the default response to uncomfortable ideas as a problem on both sides of the debate. And that is a lie. The Democrat/Progressive apparatus has embraced violence for as long as they have been in existence. Take a look at the history of the French Revolution for a harbinger of what may be coming to America. Rigid adherence to an insane orthodoxy of transsexualism, income redistribution, destruction of traditional morality, dilution of American Exceptionalism by a flood of third world savages...all of it can be laid at the feet of the left and its insane drive for power and control.
They do not want to win on the battlefield of ideas. Their political philosophy is indefensible, so there is no other option left to them besides violence. They don't want to convince us of the rightness of their ideas, they want us to accept them...or die.
Is that histrionic? No. Street violence, a progressive specialty, is now an everyday thing in some parts of the country. Physical intimidation is the norm. Just try to discuss the inadvisability of bringing discussions of sodomy, transsexualism, and homosexuality into the second grade classrooms in many school districts, and it is entirely possible that you will be silenced, and dragged out by the police. Try to counter protest at a "Free Palestine" march in NYC, and you might get beaten by the mob! Or pray outside of an abortion abattoir. Off to jail!
And of course it is also much worse. Donald Trump survived two assassination attempts. Charlie Kirk did not.
What's the answer? It all comes down to our educational system, and its total co-option by the progressive movement. Blue-haired, pierced loons are teaching our children that it is perfectly reasonable to choose genders, kill your political opponents, take the hard-earned money of the successful, and savagely denigrate all that has made this country the greatest country in human history.
Until education is purged of this, we will continue to slide into the abyss.
Howdy Readers! Welcome to the Reading Thread, your Sunday morning source for the insightful, lively and spirited discussion of books 'n stuff. I'm filling in for a while as this space re-invents itself under new management so please set your near-term expectations accordingly low.
What do we have this week? Why, it's none other than Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain and published in late 1884 in the UK and Canada, and in early 1885 in America where it counts. As I mentioned in the other editions of the Reading Thread you may not always get such fabulous selections as this.
Korrection Korner
I have again shamed my ancestors. Last week I wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published in 1846. WRONG! Fortunately, sharp-eyed commenter James Braden caught and corrected my error near the end of the comments.
I don't know if this correction was already made in the nearly 400 previous comments, but Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain published "Tom Sawyer" in 1876, not 1846. Clemens was only eleven years old in 1846.
Posted by: James Braden at September 07, 2025 01:42 PM (dKpV9)
Thanks James Braden! Before posting I recall thinking that 1846 seemed sort of early for publication, but didn't bother to follow up. Appreciate it!
Anyhoo, feel free to discuss reading and books in general and share your thoughts on this week's selection if you're so inclined.
I know you're just as excited as I am, so just jump below the fold to get started!
New procedure for clicking beginning this week. Rather than opening a PDF, clicking now takes you to the Gutenberg Project web page for the book with multiple download options.
Do you stop reading a book that proves unsatisfactory, or keep slogging thru to the end? How far have you gone in a book before deciding to abandon ship?
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So that's it for now, guys and gals. Come to class next week prepared to discuss reading 'n stuff, and remember, Reading is FUNdamental!
That's a lot of data to sift through but it spells years of trouble for the maintainers of the firewall, whether in China itself of in it client states Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Ethiopia, all of which run versions of the same totalitarian control software.
Didn't get a lot of time to test the tablets, but they are both set up and working fine.
The two 2560x1600 displays look great. The "paper-like" screen on the cheaper Idea Tab stands out in particular as a pleasant user experience. Colours don't pop quite the way they do on my OLED screens, but it's not washed out or muted, just not aggressive about grabbing your attention. It's listed as covering 72% of the NTSC colourspace, which is the number to look for - it's the equivalent of 100% sRGB. It doesn't seem to handle DCI-P3, which you'll find on televisions and OLED panels, but it's a perfectly good screen, and considering that it's on a budget tablet it's a very good screen. And the resolution is as sharp as you could ask for unless you have some very specific needs.
The CPU on the Idea Tab... Is a budget CPU.
Using the much more expensive Legion Tab (my price A$799), tasks are done before you can start to wait for them. Using the Idea Tab (my price A$249) it's not slow, exactly, but you can definitely feel the 2018 Arm A76 shouldering the weight of a 2024 version of Android.
Maybe I should have set up the slower model first.
I haven't tested sound extensively but the speakers on both tablets sound just fine at the default settings.
The 11" Idea Tab has a headphone jack and a microSD slot in addition to the USB-C port. The 8.8" Legion Tab has two USB-C ports, which might be useful, I guess, but I'd much rather they just return the headphone jack and microSD slot. (Reportedly the coming Legion Tab 4 will restore the microSD slot.)
I also need to test the pen that came with the Idea Tab. The web site doesn't say this, but according to 9to5Google that pen and only that pen also works with the Legion Tab. (You can also buy that pen by itself, but general-purpose Android pens aren't supported by the Legion Tab.)
Perfect opportunity to confirm this, or at least the first part.
Also mowed the lawn. Last time I did that I noted my cardiovascular health seemed to be shot from the earlier bout of RSV. It was just two days later that I got my scary blood pressure reading and found new things to worry about.
Last time I was worn out by the time I had mowed just the area directly in front of the house. This time my back was hurting by the time I had mowed that area and the much larger and much steeper stretch from the retaining wall bounding that first patch and the roadway, but I didn't need to take a break half-way through.
I mean, probably not, but nobody believed that stomach ulcers and gastric cancer were largely caused by bacteria until Barry Marshall chugged a beaker of H. pylori in 1984 and landed himself in hospital and in the history books - winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology for an unauthorised experiment on himself.
Vibe coded your way into disaster? Know literally nothing and can't find your way out? Now you can outsource your mess to a Polish tech team which maybe you should have done in the first place.
(I took a moment to look up the location of one of the countries mentioned in the article. Not the third world. Potentially a viable solution.)
Saturday Night "Club ONT" September 13, 2025 [The 3 Ds]
—Open Blogger
Blurry picture, but that's the charm of live music in small venue - one of life's perfections. You're there for the music, moment(s), and memories not the social media likes. Up front, easy peasy - if that's your thing. Smaller crowd - room energy. No Jumbotrons - well...there is that one bartender.
What are your all timers for listening to live music in small venues? Hit the comments.
Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration the 3D's - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. Don't worry, membership is free. All acting responsibly must relay their reasoning to the Horde through interpretive dance.
More live music - The Disco was listening to cover bands on the high seas a week or so ago and saw the dandy Gibson guitar below which would be a fine addition to his or any collection.
[Disco says: This guitar really caught my eye in the way the light hit the blend of black and brown. This was at a small venue on an NCL ship called "Syd Norman's Pour House". Syd Norman is a made up name with a made up history. Kitschy but fun. The band that was playing was very talented. There was a bit of over-produced schtick between the songs, but that's expected on a cruise ship.
That particular guitar may be available for purchase somewhere, but the one that I really, really want is much harder to find. Read on.]
The YouTube guitar giant's new signature model sports a lightweight mahogany body (just 7.2 pounds), and a custom TV Blue Mist finish
Rick Beato has been linked on these pages many times. His page is a rabbit hole of music greatness that can keep you informed and entertained for countless hours. Check it out!
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Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies
A guy goes on vacation to a tropical island. As soon as he gets off the plane, he hears drums. He thinks, "Wow, this is cool." He goes to the beach, hears drums. he eats lunch, hears drums. He tries to go to sleep, hears drums.
This goes on for several days and nights. It's driving him nuts!
He goes down to the front desk and asks, "Hey, what's with these drums? Do they ever stop? I cannot get any sleep.
The hotel staff replies, "No! Drums must never stop. Very, very bad if drums stop.
"Why?"
"When the drums stop, the bass solo begins."
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How do you catch a drummer? Lay down a snare. What’s the best way to confuse a drummer? Put sheet music in front of him.
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Drink of the Night
Playing card drinks - continuing the theme
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Keeping with the Theme of the Week
Not linking a big list - the Horde has their favorite haunts of live music. One person band in Florida, local watering hole, hard cores doing micro on macro level. What say you?
If you're into anarchy, off color hair, and youthful debauchery, Club Kafe 44 in Stockholm may be your bag.
AoSHQ Master Commenter Miklos recommended Caveau de la Huchette. And as typical, friend Miklos did not disappoint. Paris Jazz Club of awesomeness.
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Club ONT False Advertising
Yes! Beerometer. How many cases of beer per line, per shift. Line 3 is kicking ass.
I am disappoint. Closer look shows they are canning energy drinks, not beer.
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Club ONT History
Any ever tried pulque? No, morons...not pulling your pulque - the drink.
Drink fast. College flashbacks - sipping is discouraged.
One of the reasons pulque is relatively overlooked compared to other fermented beverages, such as kombucha (originating in ancient China) and kefir (hailing from the North Caucasus), is its exceedingly brief shelf life. Naturally fermented in an enclosed container over 12 to 24 hours, it reaches an alcohol concentration comparable to beer – roughly 4 percent to 6 percent – then rapidly spoils over the next 24 to 36 hours.
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Club ONT Domestic Duties
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Club Wholesome
Grandpa watering his garden spotted kids returning from a pool party with water toys pic.twitter.com/dSIldxKWzQ
Been a tough week. Club ONT has a heavy heart but clear eyes. Great to have the Moron Horde virtually in one place to connect with each other. You are not alone. We're all collectively struggling but in our own ways. Prayers all around. Having said that, the table in the corner is still wobbly. The bartender has matchbooks if needed.
Saturday Evening Movie Post [moviegique]: Rhinoceros
—Open Blogger
1) I only saw three movies in the last three weeks
2) They were all French: The classic war-orphan story from 1952, "Forbidden Games"; The "last of the French New Wave" 1981 film "Diva", and; from 1991, "The Lovers on the Bridge"
3) You guys aren't really into French films
4) Nobody's gonna talk movies, are they?
So I dug back into the archives and found an early post from eight years ago, when I switched to consistently including screenshots in my reviews and found this gem. It may be topical. (At the time I was using a maximum height of 250px so the pics may be small today.)
Rhinoceros
Imagine, if you will,Night of the Living Dead but with rhinoceroses. That would be a pretty good summary of Eugene Ionesco's play Rhinoceros, if you added in that the play is meant, at some level, to be a comedy. It was a movie I had always wanted to see, despite not knowing of its existence until a week ago. (I did know of the play, though.)
I stole this from a site called "Not Coming To A Theater Near You."
The premise is simple enough: A dispirited young accountant (Gene Wilder), bored to tears with life and drinking himself to death, is witness to a rhinoceros rampaging down the street of his small American town. (In the play, I believe it was a French town but even that may have just been a localization from Ionesco's original Romanian concept.) He does not find much interest in the incident, and in his neglect is upbraided by his dear friend, a rather uptight conservative fellow (Zero Mostel) with a love of culture and contempt for the manners of the everyday people around him.
When he goes to work the next day, his co-workers and boss are all discussing the issue, with one left-wing fellow talking about how the papers always lie, and raving of conspiracies and treason, and the others—while accepting the incident—treating it as a rather banal event. The hallmark of the story is how banal everything is to people, and the ordinary phrasing and clichés they use to discuss even the most extraordinary events.
Nixon...approves?...of rhinoceritis?
Things get knocked in to twelfth gear when the wife of a missing co-worker comes in breathless from having been chased down the street by a rhino. She came to deliver a key from her husband, who had gone out of town for the weekend and knew her boss would need it. "So conscientious!" sighs the boss, even as she relates that there's a rhino in the lobby of the building. Later on, she recognizes a rhino attacking outside the window as her husband.
"How do you know it's him?"
"Those are his glasses! Don't you recognize him?"
"Yes...and no..."
"Yes...and no..."
The first act is really quite a masterpiece of physical comedy and absurdity. The second is almost tragically absurd, as Wilder tries to help Mostel, who has been stricken with rhinoceritis. In the final act, Wilder and his office crush (a remarkably cute Karen Black) form a pact of love, though we already suspect that Black is doomed. While Wilder is struggling with the question of how to fight The Herd, Black insists that you have to let other people do what they want with their lives (even as they smash up the city and trample people). In the span of a few minutes they go from honeymooners to old married couple, and before you know it: rhinoceros! Wilder is left as the last man on earth, though even he seems as though he would give it up if only he could.
The Boy said, "The reason this works is because whatever it's a metaphor for, it's also about a guy dealing with the everyday problem of rhinoceroses!" And he's right. I take it as a metaphor for communism—Ionesco himself talked of left and right-wing, but his right wing were things like Nazis—and the perils of group think and mob mentality (hello, Global Warming! Social Justice Wariors! Public School Systems!), but the story stays very concrete in the actual problem of herds of rhinoceroses. This enhances the absurdity on the one hand while grounding it, however weirdly, in the set up reality. It follows its own rules, we would say.
The arc of a love affair...
It's very '70s. The music was a bit hit-and-miss, I thought. The Flower said "That was something different!" and I double-checked to see whether that was good or bad. Good, but not at all what she was expecting. The Boy and His Girl gave it a thumbs up. I liked it, too, quite a bit. It's not for everyone: There is a great deal of shouting, though it is about as good as shout-comedy can be, done by people who did it the best, and what's being shouted is pretty damn funny to boot. Also, you have to be able to accept the premise, but in a lot of ways, it's a lot easier premise to accept than the actual history that inspired it.
It is remarkably applicable today, which is probably why it keeps popping up in various forms and re-enactments. (Though it was a popular play and won Mostel a Tony, too.) Allegedly, Zombie Strippers is based on this movie. The movie was not well received at the time, for all the reasons that we like it today, I suspect: From what is essentially an artsy play, director Tom O'Horgan makes a rather accessible comedy that isn't bogged down by the sorts of politics that would get this movie a warm reception (and would be banal at best today, and incomprehensible at worst).
The poster in the back reads "Do not ever compromise yourself—that's all you have."
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, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. A spin of the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on surfing and waves.
I have faith that you can either find something in the content that resonates or contribute your own hobbying interests.
You might be tempted to say "I have no hobbies or interests." Bah. Dig around in the content and soak in the comments. Be curious. Glad you're here.
As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. All (legal) hobbying is welcome. However, politics, current events and religious debates can live in threads elsewhere. Current events are still on our minds, but let's stick to hobbying here. Pants are optional. Puns are welcome and encouraged.
Play nice. Don't be a troll and do not feed the trolls.
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Surfing is a hobby for some but a way of live for others. Are you a surfer? Were you a surfer at an earlier stage of life? Have you never surfed but curious to try?
Are you entranced by waves? Can you sit and watch waves break all day?
Even if you're not wise in the ways of the surfboard, the best places to surf are often in beautiful locations. This thread can be about surfing, the art of the wave, and the travels to enjoy memorable parts of the world.
We will do a separate proper Hobby Thread at some point on sea shells and related gathering, collecting and art projects.
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History of surfing:
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Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"
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Denise Romecki - ceramic wave
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"The Wave" in Newport, Rhode Island:
The feet and the accompanying wave are courtesy of artist and sculptor Katharine Worden, a familiar figure in the lively Newport art community. In 1983, Worden unveiled "The Wave." The design was a twist on Hokusai's famous work. Worden's wave swaps the intense majesty of Hokusai's piece for one that is a bit more humorous. A pair of feet stick straight out from the bronze wave pointing right towards any and all passerby.
Newport locals have taken "The Wave" under their wing in their own special way. In the summer, the statue's feet shine bright as the bronze is polished by the hands of passersby. During the winter, when Newport becomes cold, anonymous locals will put socks on the feet.
Gold Coast, Australia
California, United States of America
Jeffreys Bay, South Africa
Portugal
Indonesia
Southwest France
Oaxaca, Mexico
Oahu, Hawaii, USA
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Time for science:
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Surf board construction:
Most modern surfboards are not made of wood. These are:
This has nothing to do with surfing, but has everything do with waves and the US Navy. Since this is a quasi-smart military blog and some Morons have served in the Navy, it gets included:
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Stand up Paddleboarding is not surfing, but we will include for Hobby Thread giggles. Anyone do this?
Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did a horse theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.
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Notable comments from last week:
Honorable mention:
Thanks again to Ben Had for looking after the Hobby Thread horsing around.
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Words of wisdom:
"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).
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If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, contribute something from your personal hobbying. We will feature a different theme next time. What are you hobbying? We love showing off Horde hobbying. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.
Should your dog be able to make more choices concerning his or her social life?
Would you like your dog to be able to call you while you are out shopping or at work?
Related:
How scientists are building an 'animal internet' with phones for dogs and touchscreens for parrots
New experiments suggest technology could allow pets and zoo animals to choose their own social interactions and even make friends worldwide.
Researchers at Glasgow University are experimenting with digital tools to help animals communicate more directly with both humans and other species. From video calls for dogs to interactive touchscreens for parrots, the work is laying the foundations of what scientists describe as an "animal internet." The project goes beyond enrichment activities, aiming to give animals more autonomy in shaping their own environment, the Financial Times reported.
The Financial Times piece includes details from studies on dog and parrot internet arrangements. Some studies were conducted here in the USA.
Would you like to communicate with an animal via internet?
This incredible shot was captured by Shasta Schlitt (Everything Back Yard Chicken). Her rooster, Jay, jumped in to defend one of his hens from a hawk. The hawk didn’t survive the encounter, but Jay—though left with a few puncture wounds—pulled through and is doing well. What a brave protector!
Life can be rough for some of our pets.
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Meet The PetMorons
We are waiting for PetMoron news. It seems that most of them are photo-shy this week, or perhaps they are occupied on the internet.
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PetMoron Adjacent Animals
Encountered by Members of The Horde
Thanks again, KT, here are some more turtles. I meant to send this in last week but time escaped. These are fairly recent from earlier in July. Whenever you see them in the water, and they know you can't easily get to them, they will still keep a baleful eye on you while you're there--as you can see from the one on the thin branch. It's hard to see on the other one, as his head is positioned oddly (it's lower left in the picture), but I believe he's doing the same.
Thanks for the weekend threads!
BeckoningChasm, East Tennessee
They are fun!
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From jsg:
This is Charlie. Charlie hangs out on the back garage light at least 3-4 times a week.
We like Charlie. He's very low maintenance.
Charlie is great!
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Thank you for sharing your pet and animal photos and stories with us today.
If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:
petmorons at protonmail dot com
Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
Very nice landscaping at the NY Mets baseball academy/complex in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic. They really do very nice work and take pride in manicuring the facility.
Thanks again for all the posts you do!
-scampydog
Thanks, scampydog! You described that landscaping perfectly!
It's September, and here are some scenes from a farmer's market in Ogden, Utah, where an enthusiast has been encouraging people to grow fruit trees, including under winter protection. What looks good to you?
Have you ever sold produce at a farmers market?
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Architecture and Landscaping
Keep up on the latest trends:
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Ah, Nature
Related plants from New York State, Sarah Hinkling:
Red Clover:
Water Mint:
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Feature Flower
KUDZU
They are not all bad.
- fd
Yes, THAT kudzu. The one that swallows stationary school buses.
Kudzu is edible and is used medicinally, but may not be as useful for alcohol misuse as sometimes hoped. It has some drug interactions and side effects.
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Actually, this is from a cousin. This geranium was about to be discarded after a funeral, but she heard it calling, "you can save me" as she held it over the trash can. Looks pretty good now.
What's going on in your garden? Harvesting anything? Saving anything?
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Hope everyone has a nice weekend.
If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:
ktinthegarden at g mail dot com
Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.
Frames of reference have all changed - for some of us
—K.T.
But for others, the story remains the same
(credit - Statues and the People They Salute)
I don't have much of a "theme" for today's thread. I have been reading from some sources that normally do not catch my attention, but I have had a hard time bringing my thoughts together.
WE HAVE A PROBLEM: Student support for violence, bans on ‘controversial’ speech hits ‘record highs’ in annual survey. “More than a third of students would ‘at least rarely’ accept the use of violence to stop a campus speech (34%), 10 percentage points higher than its 2021 survey, while majorities would block other students from attending such a speech (54% versus 41% in 2021) and shout down a speaker (71% from 66%), all ‘record highs.'”
The problem is that the universities accept and teach these attitudes.
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Are we allowing kids to think that they could become legends for killing people designated as oppressors?
They told us that words are violence. That silence is violence. That speech must be policed, feelings must be protected, and disagreement is a form of oppression. But somehow, actual violence? Stabbings, riots, threats, mobs, glorifying terrorism - that gets a free pass. Or worse, a blue check and a book deal. We’re watching the collapse of moral clarity in real time. The same people who light candles every September 11 and post “never forget” are now cheering for movements that chant “globalize the intifada” - a phrase that, in practice, means suicide bombings, knife attacks, and rockets fired at kindergartens. We saw it on October 7. We’ve seen it for 20 years. And yet, those who say “free Palestine” with no qualifiers are treated like moral leaders, while those who raise concerns about Hamas, radical Islam, or jihadist slogans are treated like bigots. Look at who gets promoted. You’ve got an openly radical academic like Mohamed Mamdani - who supported Hamas “resistance,” called the NYPD a terrorist organization, and praised violent uprisings -running for mayor of New York. The city that buried thousands after 9/11 is now seriously entertaining putting a pro-intifada ideologue in charge of its police and schools. This isn’t progress. It’s surrender. And now? We have people getting murdered for the crime of being conservative and for holding the wrong views.
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Charlie Kirk seemed to be keeping his priorities in mind. Do you remember the few moments when it was thought that he might survive, but be paralyzed, sort of like Dennis Prager? This is Dennis, with some thoughts about Charlie:
As an American, we have lost the most articulate spokesman for America and its unique value system—a country founded to be free, based on Jerusalem and Athens, the Judeo-Christian value system and the Greek emphasis on logic and reason. Charlie was a uniquely gifted individual who, in his teens, created the largest movement of young Americans committed to preserving and growing America and its ideals. He tirelessly went from campus to campus, from Oxford to Utah, dialoging with any student who wished to debate him. Using his vast reservoir of facts and his exceptionally speedy and articulate mind, he gave them what seemed to be unlimited amounts of time, and then calmy eviscerated all their anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Judeo-Christian positions. I watched an inordinate number of these exchanges and thanked God that Charlie Kirk was there to do this work. America’s youth in particular have lost a moral and intellectual leader, one who would, perhaps, have one day become their president.
As a committed Jew, I thank God regularly that a non-Jew, a committed Christian, became one of the few great public spokesmen on behalf of Israel and the Jewish communities outside of Israel. Few Jews could match Charlie’s knowledge and eloquent arguments on behalf of those two entities.
As Dennis, I have lost a very close friend. Charlie repeatedly visited me in the various hospitals that I have been in since November 12 of last year, when I suffered a catastrophic fall which has left me paralyzed. When members of the nursing staff heard that Charlie Kirk was visiting me, my room became the most popular one in the hospital. Charlie brought me the manuscript of his forthcoming book arguing that everyone—Christians as well as Jews—should observe Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, just as he and his family had begun to do from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. It is a measure of our close relationship that he dedicated the book to me. His brilliant exposition of these arguments provide clear evidence for the non-necessity of a college education for most young Americans.
My heart breaks for his young widow, Erika, and for his two children, who have lost as great a man and a father as children can have. And for Charlie, who did not live to see them grow up. For one of the first times in my 20 years with my wife, Sue, I have seen her sob uncontrollably. The Prager home is in deep mourning, as are the homes of countless Americans. The loss to us personally and to the country generally is immeasurable.
Dennis Prager
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Hard for me to see how employers can bear the liability now of keeping on board anyone who expresses deadly wishes for another or celebrates the death of another.
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus)
[Yes Tommy, pray for Mis. Hum.]
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. What a trying week it has been. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Whitefish Bay)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate within the AoSHQ guidelines.
2) Be kind, be nice.
3) No running with sharp objects.
4) Have a great weekend.
I received the following prayer from a friend who I attended church with. I thought I would share with you before our regular Prayer Revival.
Lord, thank you for our relationship. Without you and your wisdom I would be lost. You have provided for me and my family again and again. You have protected me, comforted me, and have given me strength when I was tired and weak. Thank you.
I'm scared, Lord, and I don't know what to do. Evil seems to be everywhere and on everyone's minds. You tell me to forgive, but I'm finding it hard to. You tell me to love my enemy, but I'm finding that impossible. I feel lost, surrounded by Satan's lies. You tell me to see the good in people, but I just can't anymore. Even parts of my family and friends have been tricked by the enemy. The evil one has used the world to convince them that sin is acceptable. That your word doesn't have to be followed, because it doesn't line up with what they want to believe. Help them, like you have helped me, to see your light. Help them realize this is spiritual war and that there is only one side that is righteous. Your side.
Lord the enemies are at the gates, what am I to do? I trust you, but please help me, my family, and your church. We are all in danger from the evil one. We are hurting and in need of your strength. When you said that the world would hate me because of you. I didn't realize how true that would be. Faith in you is the only comfort I have. Don't let the world shake that faith.
Jesus, I pray you have mercy on all who have died in your name. From the ancient Apostles to Charlie Kirk, all who have bled in your name, Lord help them and their families. Help the people who are confused, help the people who have turned from you and are now lost in ideology and hate. Help me to not hate those who support Satan and his evil ways. Help my children to stay in their Baptismal grace and for them to not fall into confusion and mental illness. Help your Church, we are suffering right now.
Lord, we are waiting for your return. Please hurry, we need your Kingdom here on earth. This world is lost and we need your mercy more than ever. I pray for my enemies, I pray for your grace to forgive and help me to not get lost in this world. In your Father's name, Amen.
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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
8/20 – rickb223 sent an update. His wife, Stacy, was diagnosed with Stage 4 endometrial cancer on 3/5/23. She had been seeing an oncologist in Plano, TX, but after two years, the chemotherapy was no longer working, and was doing more harm than good. They wanted to try and let her body heal for a couple of weeks. She went on hospice 8/1/25. They thought they would have more time, but God had other plans. She went Home at 10:20 am, to be with her father, brother, granddaughter, and our Lord.
8/22 – NR Pax requests prayers for his father, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s on 8/20.
8/30 Update – Dad was in the ER all Tuesday night after taking a tumble. He is on medication for Parkinson’s so now it’s a matter of seeing how much that helps.
8/23 – SpeakingOf could use prayers. SpeakingOf’s father’s lung cancer has returned, and due to dad missing SpeakingOf’s mom, dad does not want any treatment and is in hospice. SpeakingOf is worried and fearful and heartbroken and would appreciate God’s mercy at this time.
8/23 – Tecumseh Tea gave a status. She is steadily improving from her heart attack. She said she feels mostly like herself again. She is looking for a new cardiologist, since the one she saw had zero interest in her or her heart.
8/28 Update – Tecumseh Tea is in the hospital again with heart issues. Please pray that they can figure out what is going on and how to treat it.
8/25 – Grammie Winger posted that Rev is doing well, but she was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer last week.
9/6 Update – grammie winger sent her love and how much the Horde has meant to her over the years. She said her time is being measured in days and weeks now, and that soon she will go to that place that Jesus has prepared for her. She said she will miss the group so much.
8/25 – BurtTC is dealing with a family matter and could use some prayers.
9/4 Update – BurtTC’s mother passed away. BurtTC asked for prayers for her family, who suffering the loss. Her soul is safe and at peace in heaven.
8/26 – Axeman would appreciate prayers. He just gave the verbal approval to move his mom to hospice.
8/27 – Ben Had sent an update on JT. He is doing well and sends a “Hiya” to the Horde.
8/28 - Grumpy and Recalcitrant asks for prayers for Pixy Misa, who runs the morning tech thread. Pixy has been suffering from edema (water retention and swelling of the extremities). In addition to the swelling, there has been significant pain in both feet, and now one hand. Please pray that the doctors and nurses take this problem seriously. Pray that God guides their minds and hands in the diagnostic and treatment processes, so that Pixy may be restored to full health. Pray that He sustains Pixy through this health trial.
9/6 Update – Grumpy and Recalcitrant sent an update: Pixy has been on medication to reduce the water retention, and has shed many pounds in a short time, and has a cream to apply to his feet to help with the pain. Both are helping a lot in short order. Things are not fully back to normal yet, but there has been big progress and a lot of relief from how bad it was. Thank you for your prayers, Horde.
8/30 – Accomack requested prayers for his wife, who is hospitalized with babesiosis that advanced to hemolysis. She is anemic to begin with and won’t be discharged until her red blood count returns to normal.
9/1 Update Mrs. Accomack should be discharged on 9/2. Thank you for your prayers.
8/30 – The Walking Dude requested prayers for his mother, who fell and broke her hip. She is in the hospital, and will be in rehab for weeks/months? She is 90 years old. Please pray for her recovery. Thank you very much; he really appreciates the prayers.
9/5 – Inogame requested continued prayers for his wife. It seems like they may have two blessings on the way, not just one, since there seems to be a second heartbeat. In a few weeks they will know for sure. He asks for prayers that they be doubly blessed if the Lord wills it.
9/5 – Teresa in Fort Worth gave an update that she was very ill (throwing up), and was going to spend a day or two at the hospital while they figure out what is going on (and give her IVs due to dehydration). It doesn’t seem to be related to the cancer.
9/7 Update – Teresa still cannot keep solid food down. The CT scan showed something odd (metallic) in her stomach, so she will have an MRI on 9/8.
9/6 – Tbodie sent an update on a son, who has pancreatic cancer at age 36. He just finished his sixth round of chemo. Please pray that the family will know that God is in control and that the son and daughter-in-law will know He is there for them.
9/6 – “Perfessor” Squirrel sent his thanks to the Horde for their prayers over the past few weeks, as he went through a difficult time at work. He announced he will be moving to a new job (at the same university) on 9/22. It will be similar work as before, but a different boss, and that is good.
9/6 – vmom deport deport deport asked for prayers for Sophia, age 12, who was still fighting for her life with a bullet in her brain after the trans school shooting in MN.
9/7 – Moki would be grateful for prayers for a nephew who just had a heart attack. He is 54 years old, and has 3 kids under age 5.
9/7 – GWB requested prayers for a neighbor who is suffering after multiple back surgeries and in a LOT of pain.
9/9 – Pookysgirl asked for prayers as Pooky has a procedure to hollow out his prostate on 9/23. They are not sure of the long-term implications of his acute kidney injury, but his kidneys are recovering. God has worked miracles to keep Pooky with them in the past, as an answer to many, many prayers.
9/11 – D sent an update for Susan, his wife, and her battle with cancer: Thank you, everyone, again for your prayers for Susan. Her cancer markers went down at the last Dr visit, but she is back to having abdominal pain that is making it hard to eat right. They are trying to get her weight up and thank God for the good days they do have. The really good news is that she is able to walk around again without the fear of falling over.
9/11 – Annie’s Stew asks for prayers of comfort for Charlie Kirk’s family (first and foremost), prayers for this country as we all grieve, and that God would reveal His will for us, as we move forward as individuals and as a country.
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2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.
The first is the i5 120, a six core part that has the exact same specs as the Core i5 12400 from 2022, mostly because that's what it is. Admittedly not an awful part, particularly if you didn't run a workload that would make good use of the "efficiency" cores, because it didn't have any of those.
The second is the i5 110, a six core part that has the exact same specs as the Core i5 10400 from 2020, mostly because... Yeah. The 10th generation chips didn't even have "efficiency" cores yet, so you're safe there. But you will need to find a five year old motherboard and DDR4 RAM for it, because none of this modern stuff will work.
And a couple of older models I dug out to see how things have improved over the years.
Couple of things immediately evident:
First, the more expensive Legion Tab boots much faster, which it should do since it has a much faster CPU (Arm X3 vs. A76 cores).
Second, while the Legion Tab has a glossy screen, the Idea Tab is matte. Very matte. Lenovo's marketing material describes it as "paper-like" and at first glance that is correct.
UTF-8 is the default implementation of Unicode, and Unicode is an attempt to create a single alphabet that can encode every human symbol ever, from all languages including ones we can't read and ones that have syllabaries or pictograms rather than alphabets, and also everything else.
But it's just an alphabet. There is no embedded context as to what language you are using if the same symbol appears in more than one. Which happens all the time.
Which makes it impossible to write anything that can be read unambiguously.
If you are wondering how the AI learned to generate useful fake medical data, then your most likely guess is precisely correct: It was trained on real human medical data.
The issues here are large enough and obvious enough to provide roosting space for the entire former eastern seaboard population of the passenger pigeon.
Well that was tough. It was unbearable to hear. I cannot imagine what it was like to have to give that speech, thinking of those tiny orphaned children.
“If you thought my husband’s mission was powerful before, you have no idea… You have no idea what you have just released across this entire nation, across the world." pic.twitter.com/5Yl0zU6w8I
Bumfuzzle. To confuse. Probably derived from the Old English dumfoozle, which is even better.
Cattywampus. I know this word as catty-corner, others say kitty-corner, and others, catawampus.
Gardyloo. Apparently this was the warning people in Edinburough would shout to passers-by in the street when they were about to dump their latrines (piss-pots, I guess) on to their heads.
A toilet in a castle was called a garderobe. It was just a closet of a room (a robe, I guess, like a wardobe) with a seat and a hole. The hole went down to a cesspit or else right down outside the wall, perhaps to fill the moat with brown trout.
So I think "gardeloo" must be something like "Look out, I'm using the garderobe."
Taradiddle. Nonsense, either twaddle or just a lie.
Snickersnee. A long cut-and-thrust knife of the 1700s.
Widdershins. Counter-clockwise.
Lollygag. To waste time, to lie around lazily.
Flibbertigibbet. Someone who can't stop talking, or who is flighty. I know this one from Erg's favorite movie, Joe vs. The Volcano.
Usage: David French is a quakebuttock, though if that is from cowardice or sexual anticipation, I cannot say for certain.
Humdudgeon: an imaginary illness or pain; a loud complaint about nothing.
This is interesting to me because I've been watching British detective shows and keep hearing the word "humbug," but used in the sense of "a kind of hard candy" rather than "nonsense." Maybe the original word used to say "nonsense" was "humdudgeon," but then people started using the shorter "humbug."
Usage: Jonah Goldberg is a fubsy fellow, and also likes kahhk.
Firkin: I just recently found out that "barrel" is a specific size/shape of cask -- a middle sort of size -- and that different casks have different names. "Firkin" is the smallest of these.
I think I sort of knew that: "Cheap Street" in old towns means "Market Street." Not "Low Quality Goods Street."
Update: I realized recently that all of the towns in Agatha Christie books named "Chipping something," like "Chipping Cleghorn," mean "the market at Cleghorn."
Clutch. Apparently this means "claw."
Aha! So "in his fiendish clutches" means "in his fiendish claws."
Compass. "To compass" as a verb means to "search for something."
Copener. A lover. Like a copulator.
Couth. Known. The past participle of the Old English cunnan, to know, which survives in the word ken. Beyond my ken = beyond my knowledge. I guess "uncouth" might mean uneducated? Or it can just mean "unknown" as in "a stranger," or "a foreigner," maybe.
Dayrim. Dawn, break of day.
Frippet. This is a good one: a pretty, frivolous young woman. Almost like flibbertigibbet.
Actually I know who said that, it was weft-cut loop. (Most of this post was written almost a year ago. I don't know when weft-cut loop said that. He probably doesn't even remember.)
I just came across this word, searching for a synonym for "ramble:"
pootle: to move somewhere slowly and with no real purpose.
Banana Dream added this one today:
unbosom
intransitive verb
1. To confide (one's thoughts or feelings).
2. To relieve (oneself) of troublesome thoughts or feelings.
3. To reveal one's thoughts or feelings.
4. to make known, disclose (as information previously kept secret)
| ...unbosomed his fear of dying only to his closest friends..
I'm going to use this in an engineering report somewhere. Just watch me. I'll sneak it in somehow.
I shelled out $15 (American) for a book called The Indispensable Dictionary of Unusual Words and I'm not eating that kind of outlay as a pure loss so here are some from the M's:
mang. to lead astray or to go astray. as an adjective, anxious or puzzled.
manqueller. A murderer.
manustupration. Masturbation. This seems to be closer to the original Latin for the term.
deliberate erotic self-stimulation," 1711 (earlier as mastupration, 1620s), from French masturbation and directly from Modern Latin masturbationem (nominative masturbatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of Latin masturbari "to masturbate."
The long-standing speculation is that this Latin word is altered (probably by influence of turbare "to disturb, confuse") from *manstuprare, from manu, ablative of manus "hand" (see manual) + stuprare "defile" (oneself), from stuprum "defilement, dishonor," related to stupere "to be stunned, stupefied" (see stupid).
That's a pretty bang-on etymology, really.
marplot. "An officious plot-marrer." That doesn't help me at all.
meable. "easily penetrated." This list was made for David French.
merdivorous. "eating dung." Again, a David French word.
meacock. An effeminate or cowardly man. Again....
mentulate. "well-hung." Mentula is Latin for penis. This isn't a word about David French, but one he uses frequently in his dating life.
migniard. dainty, delicate, mincing. Most words, I'm learning, describe David French.
mird. to meddle, or to fool around sexually. Like mirding a marriage by sleeping with the wife? I dunno. Back to David French.
miserotia. Aversion to sex.
mixty-maxty. mixed up, confused.
Mithridatism. an immunity to poison gained by slowly ingesting increasing dosages of the toxin. Named for Mithridates VI of Pontus, who gained poison immunity this way.
moll-buzz. A pickpocket specializing in picking the pockets of women (molls).
mome. a crashing bore, a buffoon.
momzer. an impossible person, a useless person, a pest, a liar, a troublemaker, a "nothing."
montjoy. a medieval French battle cry.
mool. dry earth or a grave.
morology. nonsense, foolishness.
mortpay. also called "Deadpay," payments incorrectly (or fraudulently) made to a dead soldier.
mossback. a conservative. Hey, why I oughtta...
mouthfriend. a false friend. Weird, I would have guessed it meant "a really really good friend."
mytacism. Using the letter M incorrectly, or to the extreme.
To wrap up:
mataeology. Useless or foolish conversation.
If you like this thread you might see another post like this in the future. If you don't like this thread, you also might see another post like this in the future. Seriously, fifteen bills is a big expense, I have to amortize that outlay over multiple posts.
Some nice posts about normie liberals waking up to the absolute cesspool of murder ideation and mental illness of their fellow lefties, and declaring they're walking away.
Also, some various less-political normies who now feel the courage to say enough is enough.
2. (Though she doesn't say she's a Democrat and might not be. But she's a nurse calling out the Murder Nurses who are praising the murder.)
3. A Christian who's always been afraid to speak up, speaks up.
4. As Kyle Becker remarks someone in management had "The Talk" with Katy Tur and told this braindead Tit Model that she was not allowed to advocate for murder on TV. I guess it's a rule this Keith-Olbermann Dick-Riding Whore wasn't aware of.
6. The liberal who asked the last question of Charlie Kirk, about transgenders, was trying to prove that the left wasn't violent. Now he confesses that he sees that they are.
7. A guy who is almost certainly a member of the Rainbow Coalition says he's quitting the left.
Left-wing Twitter right now is a schizophrenic scene where 50% of people are saying "nobody is suggesting Charlie deserved to get shot through the throat" and the other 50% very clearly suggesting "Charlie deserved to get shot through the throat" https://t.co/3RRBe1x9Bc
The attempt to blame left-liberals for Kirk's murder relies on the same dangerous theory liberals invoked to blame conservatives for the white supremacist slaughters in Buffalo, Charleston and the El Paso Walmart (e.g., those who accuse Dems of "replacing" Americans with immigration inspired those massacres).
Everyone says bad things about the other side in politics. The left calls MAGA fascist and the right calls the left deranged commies. You're not responsible for psychopaths who murder in the name of your cause (it'd be like blaming pro-life advocates for the murders of abortion doctors, which liberals also do).
As Kirk himself said: "WORDS ARE NOT VIOLENCE. ONLY VIOLENCE IS VIOLENCE." Stop trying to convert words and the expression of views into criminal violence.
No, Gleen, it's not the same. We are not attacking the left for having differences of political opinion. We are not attacking them for having weird beliefs.
We are attacking them for celebrating assassination and murder. We are attacking them for calling for the next "pew pew" against the President Donald Trump.
If Trump goes down -- we are at war.
You are right that most words are not violence. But some words are: Specifically those calling for someone to be killed, or praising an assassin for killing someone, with hopes that additional assassins will emerge.
That is what we are condemning. I do grant that some people are making the mistake of attempting to criminalize mere strong political invective -- but what we're really incensed by is that Taylor Lorenz continues to praise Luigi Mangione for his assassination and absolutely zero people in the supposedly "Respectable" media have even so much as chastised her for it.
Indeed, CNN had her on to giggle about it.
Either the left stops openly glorifying violence and calling for Trump or other Republicans to be "pew pewed" -- their puerile, cutesy way of saying "shot" -- or the right is going to start publishing our own Pew Pew Lists.
This is not a difference of political opinion. We on the right will not have a "debate" about whether leftwing assassins are allowed to murder us, our friends, or our leaders.
That will be a civil war situation.
It's not up for debate. Leftwingers arguing that it is justified to murder me, my friends, and my family, and my president, are not offering a political position. They are openly conspiring to commit murder, and we don't debate murderers. We arrest them and, if necessary, we kill them.
The left cannot put itself above the social compact. The basline, rock-bottom social compact is just "you and I are in the same tribe, the same nation, and I agree to not murder you if you agree not not murder me. And we also agree not to incite our more dangerous, mentally-unstable members to kill each other, either."
If we do not have that, we do not have a country, and we are in state of war. The rules of society do not apply, only the rules of war and violence do.
Larry Correia
@monsterhunter45
These poor fools are missing the big picture.
When there's a killing the left always tries to assign the killer to the right. We're used to it. And the vast majority of the right always overwhelmingly condemns the killer.
Only this time all the moderate normie republicans out there saw MILLIONS of liberals celebrate and justify the brutal murder of a man... all because that man held beliefs similar to theirs. Beliefs that regular Americans consider completely normal and common sense.
These normal folks were going about their day, then they saw some shocking brutality, and before they could even process it all their liberal friends were dancing in the blood and gleefully justifying it. "He deserved it for believing X and Y." And that normal person realized that they also believe X and Y, so them getting murdered would be just as celebrated too. At best they saw a "Murder is bad, BUT... he deserved it for believing X and Y."
And the lights go on.
It doesn't matter how hard the left scrambles to put the shooter in some particular ideological bucket to cover their asses and take no blame (as usual), because regular America saw how fucking gleeful libs were when somebody just like them dies horribly, and they realized that the left wants them dead. Not metaphorically. They want you to die. Some of us have known this for a long time because we pissed off the left somehow previously, but for the regular folks coming to that understanding is a life changing moment.
You ain't brushing this one off, Glenn.
We are not going to have a debate over whether we are legitimate targets for leftwing murderers.
If the left continues to cover up for its murderers, to celebrate murderers, to call for additional murders -- then we will too. If it's the rule for one, it's the rule for all.
Tim Hannan
@TimHannan
1 guy acted alone and they want to go to war? It's like they just were looking for any reason.
First of all: He didn't act alone. He had accomplices, who all thought this was a nice antifa lark.
Second of all:
Shoe
@shoe0nhead
one guy acted alone. then we saw the reaction of millions. some posting with their full names and faces. teachers, childcare workers, healthcare workers, hr professionals, game developers. hundreds of thousands of people that walk amongst every day, who live next door to us, people i thought were friends, people i thought were normal people celebrating the gruesome public execution of a father shot in the fucking throat in front of his young children, celebrating because he politically does not agree with them. we saw their real beliefs when the " in this house believe" shitlib mask was ripped off. sociopathic freaks.
This is what takes this from being "one man's crime" to a crime supported by, encouraged by, and covered up half the nation.
Either murder is forbidden for all or it is permitted for all. We will no longer permit the left's asymmetry of privilege to commit "glorious revolutionary murder" because they think they're on the right side of history.
Democrats accuse GOP for escalating political violence in wake of Kirk's assassination
Accuse the GOP for escalating violence? Not accuse them of?
Oh well, it's just a paid "professional writer," we can't expect them to understand how written speech and grammar work.
A growing number of Democratic lawmakers and political commentators have suggested that Charlie Kirk and the Republican party bear responsibility for the escalation of political violence in the country.
...
For years, videos of Kirk debating left-leaning college students would go viral, giving birth to the popular phrase of "owning the libs" used within conservative circles.
Kirk's death has garnered condolences from both his allies, like Trump, to those politically opposed to him like former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris. However, others haven't been so sympathetic to Kirk or his family, insinuating that he and the Republican Party is partly to be blamed for the rise in political violence in the country.
On Thursday --just a day after Kirk's assassination -- Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) appeared on CNN, saying that all Americans "need to turn down the rhetoric" which is inciting violence. But he also pointed his finger at Republicans for being the main culprit.
"Let's be serious about where this violence is coming from," Moutlon said. "Of extremist violent attacks in America, extremist murders 76% are from right wing extremists. 4% are from left wing extremists. I condemn that 4%, but we also need to be honest about as a nation, about where this violence is coming from."
Moulton's comments come as Trump has vowed to target left-leaning groups espousing rhetoric which he says is responsible for Kirk's assassination, and other acts of political violence, including the assassination attempt on his own life.
Former Biden era White House press secretary turned MSNBC host Jen Psaki had accused Trump of escalating the tensions between conservatives and liberals in his video addressing Kirk's death.
"[T]here was a line at the end that I think -- I just wanted to raise and read," Psaki said. "At the end of this four-minute video, he [Trump] says, 'For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today. And it must stop right now.'"
Psaki then stated, "And, obviously, there's a lot of rhetoric that is problematic. A lot of it is coming from one particular side and from one particular building. But what can be done, I fear, when this is an escalation, already, in less than 24 hours of this shooting?"
On Wednesday, CBS Mornings host Nate Burleson asked former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy if Kirk's assassination will lead Republicans to reflect on how their own rhetoric may be contributing to political violence.
Disinformation Expert Lizzy
@StarChamberMaid
CNN: Trump saying leftwing radicals are the problem is inciting violence.
More:
CNN is saying this isn't ideological but rather the "male loneliness epidemic"
Oh, perfect.
It's the videogames' fault, huh? Not the far-left internet radicalization pipeline?
The Reaping Phase
@AceofSpadesHQ
was the Trantifa Assassin radicalized on BlueSky? I don't know, but I know the repulsive Assassin Prep Media would be doing deep dives about Joe Rogan and Tim Pool if this were a right wing shooting.
Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old antifa demon brainwashed by hateful leftwing professors, was turned in by his father who was a former sheriff. The father basically told the kid that he had to turn himself in and go to prison.
He looks just like the grainy pictures the FBI distributed. There can be no doubt.
He even has the five o'clock shadow I noticed.
The "cultural phrases" on the bullet casings turned out to be:
* "Catch, fascist"
* "Bella ciao" (a reference to an Italian song used by resistance fighters in WWII that antifa uses as military anthem)
* A confusing reference that is reportedly a tip-of-the-hat to the LGBTQ mafia's.... "furry community." It's something like "bulges, notices, OWO" which, they say, are in-jokes in the furry community. Garrett? Confirmation or...?
Update! Here's the explanation, from XTC, who now has some additional explaining to do:
"OwO what's this/dis?" is a Furry thing.
And combined with the *notices bulge*, it means that he found out a "girl" he found hot is a dude, and is even MORE into it now.
Posted by: XTC
In addition, we know of an accomplice that is so far unnamed and uncaptured. In discord messages, Robinson spoke with someone who promised to leave the rifle at a "DROP POINT." This might have just been an illicit gun sale, or it might have been a promise to leave the gun in the sniper's nest so that Robinson wouldn't have to walk it into the campus.
We don't know who this person was. Was it an antifa member with access to rifles? And what of the Person Place or Thing who promised that Charlie Kirk would be "vaporized" "tomorrow," and wrote a song called "Charlie Kirk Dead at 31"? Was this a coincidence? Or was this the person who promised to leave the rifle at the "DROP POINT"?
We don't know. Developing, I guess.
Update:
Now, it appears that Robinson did not act alone in the shooting.
Governor Spencer Cox announced during an FBI Press Conference this morning that Robinson received instructions on Discord to pick up a rifle and an engraved case from a drop point.
He coordinated with others on the chat group Discord before the assassination, arranging with a so-called “friend” to retrieve the weapon.
🚨 BREAKING: It's just been confirmed Charlie Kirk's killer was a devout anti-fascist and seemingly viewed Kirk as a Nazi, engraving "Hey fascist, catch!" and anti-Nazi Italian resistance song "O Bella Ciao" pic.twitter.com/nziuadUB30
Your disgusting Regime media, which continues to cover up the left's, by which I mean their own, starring role as the mentors to the assassin:
Kyle Becker
@kylenabecker
MSNBC is deliberately misleading their left-wing viewers about the motives of the Charlie Kirk assassin.
The network claims there is "no theme" when it comes to Tyler Robinson's bullet casings.
He literally wrote "hey fascist! catch!" and Antifa phrases on bullet casings.
Just like there was "no motive" when a radical k*lled two children at a Minnesota church even though he had "kill Trump" and anti-Christian messages on the weapons.
And there was "no motive" when a 14-time repeat offender stabbed Iryna Zarutska and said "got that white girl."
What else is new? MSNBC has become an accomplice to political violence.
MSNBC is deliberately misleading their left-wing viewers about the motives of the Charlie Kirk assassin.
The network claims there is "no theme" when it comes to Tyler Robinson's bullet casings.
He literally wrote "hey fascist! catch!" and Antifa phrases on bullet casings.… pic.twitter.com/qua10d9gk5
One thing I don't get: the leftwing media along with rightwingers with perfect credentials are attacking Kash Patel and demanding his firing.
The reason? He announced that the "person of interest" they were looking for a couple of days ago had been captured. That man was then released, but apparently the complaint is that Kash Patel kept the public informed about a person of interest being located and questioned.
Chris Rufo, who is obviously no liberal NeverTrumper, is making this case.
"Person of interest" means just that. It does mean "suspect," but a suspect is, get this, just a suspect (suspected person, not convicted person) wanted for questioning and alibi-checking, not the proven culprit. I don't know how smart people can be so unsophisticated to think that when Kash Patel told people that the person of interest they were looking for had been found, he was making an iron-clad promise that "This is the guy! This is the guy!" and should be fired for making this promise.
Let me make this clear: Law enforcement is usually non-transparent and hides all of their investigatory steps precisely because they don't want people hearing about persons of interest and getting excited by it.
If you want Kash Patel to be transparent about all of his investigatory steps, then you have to accept that some of the steps he reports will end up being dry holes and false leads.
Now, if you want him to act like a normal law enforcement guy and just say absolutely nothing until they make an arrest, then complain about feeling "misled" by his efforts to keep you informed and in-the-loop.
If you actually want transparency, then you have to accept that sometimes you will hear people are being questioned who turn out to be perfectly innocent.
If you don't want transparency, and want law enforcement completely stonewalling until they're reading to bring charges, then keep running your mouths.
So Kash Patel interviewed one person of interest who turned out to be innocent and then, in less than 48 hours, found the culprit.
And we're demanding he be fired? Less than 48 hours wasn't fast enough?
Sometimes I think people on the right just expect to lose and even want to lose.
I wonder if he was fearless. I wonder if he was scared. I wonder if he just did it anyway?
-- Mike Rowe
Low-T High-Calorie Potato Brian Stelter: "Matthew Dowd is no longer an MSNBC political analyst, according to a network source." Matt Dowd, former Disney Groomer Corporation Political Director and John McCain advisor (of course), is the one who blamed Charlie Kirk's shooting on the real assassin, Charlie Kirk, claiming that Charlie's "hateful words lead to hateful actions."
"For years, the radical left has compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to NAZlS... this type of language is DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for the terrorism we're seeing in our country today.
And it must stop RIGHT NOW!"
Fat-F*ck Pritzker blames Trump's rhetoric for the ramp up of political violence! May he rot in hell! [CBD]
Podcast: Jim Lakely of Heartland.org joins us to discuss the blockbuster polls they have released over the last week. Americans 19-39 seem to be embracing socialism, overt redistributionist policies, destruction of our rights, and international control of our country! But there is hope on the horizon!
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Forgotten 80s Mystery Click I'm gonna get high, man, I'm gonna get loose/
Need me a triple shot of that juice
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