Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Nov. 14
—K.T.
From November 7:
No freeze in East Texas yet, and here are three late bloomers in my garden that do well in the fall.Brugmansia (Angel Trumpet)
Ruellia (Mexican Petunia)
Turk’s Cap (a hardy Texas Native)
Tom Servo
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The day after Friday The 13th
—K.T.
Well, there have been lots of scary and confusing things happening lately, but two really Friday-the-13th-ish things from yesterday seem to have been resolved without major tragedies:
- The first major grounding of planes by the FAA since Pete Buttigieg was secretary
- The big boat crash in New Orleans: No fatalities!
And Ed Driscoll reminds us that yesterday was predicted to be the end of the world. From overpopulation.
Concerning the H.L Menken quote above, I have noticed that "government" can also include not only people with a talent to get elected, but also those with a talent to get OTHERS elected (or to get OTHERS to THINK they have a talent to get others elected. These people can really expand the size of government.
I might even suggest that the tens of thousands of trolls who warped their talking points on "affordability" in contacting millions of people on social media might be considered part of government. You know, as Ace reported: "The Republicans never figured out what we were doing," (Van) Jones said in-studio to a smiling Collins. "There's something called the American Accountability Network (AAN), tens of thousands of online humans, not bots, coordinated to make the affordability message a winning message online. 32.5 million people hit on Instagram every day. 88.8 million hit on Twitter, X, every single day. And 185 million Facebook hits every single day. And they never figured it out."
"The Republicans could not understand it wasn't bots. It was actual human beings," he said.
There are a couple of parts that stand out to me in the short segment above: There were tens of thousands of people organized to deliver a warped message to influence people, and the Republicans never figured it out. What were THEY doing?
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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
—CBD
Please submit any prayer requests to "Annie's Stew": apaslo @ hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:9/18 – Random Dave posted an update to his job progress. He is still looking for FT work, but has accepted a substitute teacher position (more flexibility for interviews, some income to slow the bleeding). He asks for prayers that the interview results he is waiting on will get back to him soon, especially if one is the “right job”. If any are “not the right job”, they would fall away soon and get back to him, and that if all of them are “not the right job”, the ‘right job” would show itself aggressively, so he doesn’t miss it! He also thanks the Horde and the folks at church for their prayers and support.
8/14 Update – Random Dave needs continued prayers for his job situation, that God would guide him to the right one soon, and also for prayers for M’s grandmother, who fell the other day and tore a ligament.
10/22 Update – M’s grandmother is healing well. She is mostly mobile now (on crutches), and occasionally has bouts of bad pain. They praise God for the healing and humbly request additional healing. Random Dave reports no real change on his job situation. He continues to pray for God to make the path known as he applies, and periodically deal with “good” interviews that end up going nowhere.
9/18 – Brother Tim posted that he has been overnight in his car more than indoors. He is convinced that his retirement/resignation was a severe error, a result of fatigue and depression. He asks for prayers.
10/17 – Bother Tim posted that he has been in the hospital for 3 weeks.
10/10 – Mile, okravangelist, requested prayers for Mama Publius, for grace and fortitude, and that she passes in her sleep. Mama Publius is in home hospice care.
10/24 Update – Mama Publius passed away this past week.
10/17 – Pooky’s Girl posted that she is in the hospital, because Wee Pooky is threatening to come early at 30 weeks.
10/24 Update – Pooky’s Girl’s contractions have been stopped. She is at 31 weeks along, so every week that Wee Pooky stays put is less time in the NICU.
10/31 – Annie’s Stew (and, I assume, all the Horde) ask for God’s blessings on Misanthropic Humanitarian as he steps away from the blog. We thank him for his service to the Horde and to Christ’s Kingdom.
10/31 – ChristyBlinkyTheGreat requested prayers that her mother’s eventual passing into heaven be in peace as she sleeps, without any pain or fear. She thinks it will be in the next few weeks or months, as she is approaching 96 years old.
11/4 – Teresa in Fort Worth sent an update that she is not feeling well. Every muscle and bone hurts, on top of the fatigue and weakness she was already experiencing. The nurse at UTSW thinks it may be due to receiving chemo on top of radiation, on the same day. The good news is that the CA19-9 number is 4.9, below the threshold of 37. This was her twelfth chemo treatment, marking a year since she started this protocol. She is worried that it may be a preview of how she will feel when the cancer starts to take over.
11/6 Update – Teresa is feeling better. They did a CT scan and nothing new popped up, so that is good. The pain may have been due to radiation combined with chemo.
11/7 – Dr_No would appreciate prayers for Sandy, who was admitted to the hospital on 11/2 and was diagnosed with a severe infection on her stomach. She is still hospitalized and has been moved twice to higher floors (never a good sign). Ron, a friend from college, could also use prayers. They FaceTimed, and Dr_No could tell something was wrong. Ron had a brain bleed/hemorrhage. It doesn’t look good.
11/7 – Mary Poppins’ Practically Perfect Piercing posted that he apologized for asking, but could use help regarding his self-loathing and chronic depression.
For submissions, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her: apaslo @ hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew.
Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.
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."
Daily Tech News 14 November 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Look out, there were llamas: Outlook did a thing. (Ars Technica)
Or more precisely, didn't do a thing.
Microsoft themselves explains:While we're working to mitigate impact, we've confirmed the issue may affect Microsoft 365 service connectivity for users in any region, more information will be provided in the Microsoft 365 admin center under EX1550543.
— Microsoft 365 Status (@MSFT365Status) November 12, 2026
What does that mean? Nobody knows. Here is a public replica of that admin center feed which many people could not access during the outage (or at all).
Does it explain what the problem was?
No. The most detail it gives is this:This was a technical issue not related to cyber or AI / agents. The incident was introduced by an issue during an earlier network capacity upgrade that surfaced following a recent network change. We have addressed the underlying issue and continue to restore service to remaining customers and regions.
Some people did something.
Reading between the lines, Microsoft fucked up monitoring so that a lot of healthy servers were automatically rebooted, dumping the load on other servers, which were then marked as unhealthy in turn and rebooted, leading to a circular wave of failures spanning the entire planet for 18 hours.
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God's Own ONT
—WeirdDave
Fair Friday, fellow travelers! Tonight, along with the regular videos, you're getting God memes. I found a whole folder of them that I forgot I had, so here you go!
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Friday the 13th Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Surfer photographed by drone
by NLV
Albino alligator is the prettiest girl.
Foul mouthed parrot. Some people sound just like this.
Removing a fishing net stuck around the neck of a whale shark.
Golden is interested in the new kittens.
A lion needs a chiropractic adjustment on his hip. I have to get this done from time to time. I'm a lion! Rarrh.
Zendaya gets a lot of acting out of one face.
Scary lightning blasting the earth and objects like it's the Death Star's laser.
Bird does his mating dance. All that's missing is an Austin Powers impression: "Do I make you horny, baby?"
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The Week In Woke
—Disinformation Expert Ace
America's ugliest little wallflower loser will ignore the public vote on banning males from girl's sports.
The statement was 148 words. Not one of those words was "girls."Tuesday, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said that she was going to back the Seattle School Board's unanimous vote to pursue legal action against Initiative 638 -- which would enforce separation of boys and girls in K-12 sports in Washington state.
Voters passed the measure by a 13-point margin last week, and it won in 36 of the Evergreen State's 39 counties. But after deliberating behind closed doors Monday, the Seattle School Board voted publicly to authorize potential legal action against the measure without hearing public testimony. And the mayor fully approves.
..."As mayor, I remain committed to building a Seattle where every person is welcomed, supported, and valued, and where all young people can thrive as their authentic selves. I support the Board's decision and its commitment to creating inclusive learning environments where every student has the opportunity to reach their full potential."
Remember, Seattle was one of the epicenters of the "No Kings" movement, where tens of thousands rallied against a president they accused of disregarding the will of the people. Yet when Washington voters overwhelmingly supported a measure Wilson opposes, she had no problem backing an effort to overturn it. Apparently, the will of the people is only worth defending when the people vote the right way.
Capping off Wilson's statement was a paragraph of political platitudes so empty it would make even a seasoned politician blush. She wants to build a Seattle "where all young people can thrive as their authentic selves," and "create inclusive learning environments where every student has the opportunity to reach their full potential."
Girls don't, of course. They'll continue to be dominated, harassed, and menaced by male cheaters with a bizarre hatred of women.
Earlier in the week I linked Laura Yakas, a "professor" of social work, whose "teaching" consists of her badly strumming her guitar, badly singing, and doing her "comedy" act for students going in debt hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a job that pays $50,000 per year. If you haven't seen that, do check it out.
Her "academic" work consists of making arguments about why the "neurodivergent" and "mad" should be given privileges. She means "mad" in the sense of "mentally ill." She's a pioneer in the field of "mad studies," and I strongly suspect she has a very personal interest in the subject.
I also strongly suspect she was hired precisely because she ticks the Intersectional Box of Obvious and Florid Mental Illness.
Her "academic" work is what you might expect.
Yakas' academic publications are equally unconventional, including her 2009 work, Femininity, Sexuality and Body Hair: The female body hair(less) ideal, which is no longer available online.In her chapter Love Is Merely a Madness in the 2023 Routledge academic book Exploring Sexuality and Disability: A Guide for Human Service Professionals, Yakas argues that society has historically treated people whose sexual identities or behaviors fall outside traditional heterosexual norms as mentally ill or abnormal. She challenges those beliefs, arguing that sexual diversity is natural and that labeling it a mental disorder is itself harmful.
In the same book, she co-authored the chapter Compulsory Monogamy Is Disabling: Connecting Disability Justice and Critical Non-monogamy with Nicole Ariel Lopez. In it, Yakas and Lopez argue that society's expectation that people should have only one romantic or sexual partner can be harmful and discriminatory. They compare traditional expectations of monogamy to discrimination against people with disabilities, arguing that both create barriers that prevent people from living as they choose. They advocate for greater acceptance of relationships involving multiple partners, arguing that people should be free to pursue love, sex, and companionship in ways that meet their individual needs.
She's an advocate for "Mad Pride." The pride that insane people should have in their insanity.
Like I said, this madwoman has a personal interest in Mad Studies.
Recently, after accidentally falling down a rather deep Google rabbit hole, I learned a new term: Mad Pride, which, in simple terms, is a movement trying to encourage society to view neurodivergence and other mental illnesses in a more positive light. "Mad" is a reclaimed term, meaning that, although it has been used in a derogatory manner in the past, people once targeted by the term now use it to self-describe themselves. Mad Pride as a movement began in the 1970s in response to coercive treatments in mental healthcare, which all too often attempted to subdue a patient and emphasized productivity and adherence to social norms, sometimes at the expense of actually improving their quality of life. ...
What is madness anyway?Recently, I spoke with Laura Yakas, a lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Social Work with an interest in Mad Pride. She Zoomed in from New Zealand, where she grew up, and where she is currently staying while she teaches remotely.
We started by getting clear on terms. While I had always thought neurodiversity referred primarily to conditions like Autism or ADHD, Yakas said she uses it to refer to mental health conditions more broadly. Yakas also differentiated between innate neurodiversity, which a person is born with, and acquired neurodiversity, which is often caused by trauma. For example, Autism would be considered innate and a condition like PTSD would be acquired.
Yakas further argued that there is a lot of overlap between madness and neurodiversity, and different people may prefer one term over the other for a variety of reasons. As a result, these terms are often used interchangeably. But, Yakas emphasized, someone who identifies with the ideals of Mad Pride would likely say that none of these conditions mean someone's brain is "wrong" or "broken."
The thrust of her "academic" work is claiming that neurodivergent people -- people with autism or insanity -- are actually the sane and normal ones, and the normal and sane ones are the abnormal and insane ones.
She's created a new Intersectional Category of privilege: "saneism," the belief that sane people have that their mental sanity allows them to see the world correctly and make logical judgments about it.
But this is just a "social construction" -- saneism proposes that what society calls "sane" is just what a bunch of bigots have agreed to in order to demonize insane people, The Real Heroes Here.
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"Neurotypical ... doesn't mean normal," Yakas explained. "It means someone whose neurotype is not being pathologized in their particular culture at this time."
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Yakas also argued that madness is, at least in part, socially constructed. There has been somewhat of a cultural shift in recent years in terms of viewing diagnoses like Autism and ADHD as a form of neurodiversity rather than as diseases needing to be cured. ...
Because of saneism, mad people are often denied the ability to define their own experience -- as evidenced by the push to cure autistic people of something much of the community doesn't view as a disease. Of her own experience, Yakas said that the messaging she received was, "I have a broken brain. Nothing that I'm saying is real. Everything is irrational."In many cases, stigma prevents mad or neurodiverse people from being able to define their own experience. It can also prevent mad people from entering mental health professions, which means that many of those treating mental illness don't have lived experience.
She wants lunatics to be part of the mental health system -- treating mental illness with their own mental illness. Which they also assert is not mental illness as all.
That's just your "saneism" talking, Bigot.
Speaking of insane people attempting to define reality for sane people:
TPUSA staffers discuss the Retard Tranny Wizard who attacked them.
And yes, the retard has they/them pronouns.
He was identified by law enforcement as Ciro Stephen Tomlian, 19, and booked into the Smith County Jail. He faces two counts of aggravated assault and one count of assault causing bodily injury.The Smith County Criminal District Attorney's Office could not be reached for comment Wednesday by The College Fix on what formal charges Tomlian may face. A jail spokesperson told The Fix on Thursday that Tomlain was booked out of jail Wednesday night on bond.
Tomlian was seen in a video vandalizing a Turning Point USA display, ripping down an American flag, calling the TPUSA members "fascist pieces of sh*t," and using a prop cane to smack a member's legs before he was subdued and arrested. He was wearing a cape and some sort of wizard hat at the time.
According to his Instagram account, Tomlian goes by he/they/she pronouns.
That doesn't even make sense. All three of those are subject pronouns. It has no object pronouns. So you'd say "I'd like to give she a punch in the mug"?
Even when playing a game for retards, zhe still makes the most retarded move possible.
The violence won't stop until people start knocking these people the **** out.
But you can't do that, of course. While this retard will be "sentenced" to time served for an unprovoked assault, you'd go to jail for a year for knocking she out in self-defense.
Speaking of that:
Via Steve Inman, a crackhead comes charging a guy out of nowhere, but joins the Ludacris Hall of Fame.
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Surprise! They Made the SAT "Less Demanding" to Hide the Fact That the Establisment Has Given Up Teaching Children to Read
Plus: FAA Orders National Grounding of All Flights
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Julia Cassidy for The College Fix:
SAT reading section is "less demanding" than in past decades, study finds
Changes could be attempts to increase equity, education expert says
We're dumbing educational standards down to "increase equity"? Well knock me over with a feather.
Why even bother? Just give them crap degrees. They're just going to use AI to write their papers anyway.
A recent study funded by Thomas Aquinas College is making waves after it revealed major changes to one of the nation's most well-known standardized tests.Johns Hopkins University's Institute for Education Policy released a study comparing older versions of the SAT with a current practice test. Although a change in difficulty cannot be established, researchers found substantial differences in the reading section that, across the examined dimensions, "point to the test becoming less demanding."
Questions now loom over whether expectations for college preparedness have declined, and whether the changes signal a deeper problem affecting the school system.
I don't think questions loom. I think obvious conclusions loom.
Through a comparative analysis of SAT forms from 1980, 1987, and a 2026 College Board practice test, researchers discovered substantial adjustments to the tests' reading section that transitioned away from longer, more traditional readings.The changes include significantly shorter passages, an 83 percent drop in vocabulary questions that require independent word knowledge, the near-total replacement of argumentative and persuasive texts with expository ones, and readings whose meaning can be grasped through context rather than assumed prior knowledge.
David Steiner, executive director of Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, told The College Fix that the test has indeed changed, but that the "report does not say that the test got easier."
You've shortened the passages because kids can't even read full magazine articles, let alone books. And by the way, I used to teach the SAT. A shorter passage means there's less text to scan through to find answers.
Steiner posited that the changes could be attempts to increase equity. "We know that children of more privileged backgrounds bring more background knowledge to a test on average, so by dialing back the amount of background knowledge required, you're enabling a more level playing field," he said.
Regarding the implications, Steiner told The Fix that different universities have different expectations, which can affect how they interpret these changes and weigh SAT scores.
He added that the test necessarily "moves in tandem with the rest of the education system," meaning it reflects trends such as grade inflation and reading declines that we see in schools.
And speaking of "moving in tandem with the education system:" everyone wants an A. And the dum-dums want all distinctions between "A" work and "B" work and "F" non-work eliminated.
Presto! Everyone is equal! Everyone gets a Participation A!
(Even if they don't actually participate.)
Joanne Jacobs:
Parents are lawyering up to challenge a bad grade -- or a teacher's unflattering comment -- on their child's report card, reports Zusha Elinson in the Wall Street Journal.In affluent Palo Alto, my daughter's old district, one mother is suing because her third-grader's report card said he needs to work on "cooperating with others."
A Palo Alto father filed suit after AI-detection software flagged his 10th-grade son's essay on The Crucible as "76% AI," writes Elinson. The teacher "gave him a D on the retake, bringing his final grade down to a C."
Takashi Kato, a Silicon Valley CEO, submitted a 1,162-page packet showing the sophomore's "drafting and revision process," and claimed detection software can be biased against non-native English writers. "He offered to accept a B to resolve the dispute," writes Elinson. He dropped the suit in September. The district says there was no settlement.
Many Silicon Valley parents are competitive overachievers who want their children to get into very selective universities. They think that takes a perfect report card. And they all have lawyers.
Below: A report on the grounding. "A national ground stop due to extraordinary circumstances and reasons of safety."
Supposedly this has nothing to do with a "nefarious attack." It's due to a "telecommunications outage." Though DHS Secretary Mullin says we're not sure what caused it yet. It could turn out to be a cyberattack.
But for the moment, there's no evidence that it is due to an attack.
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Greasy Gavin: Cutting Off Children's Body Parts is "Affirming Care" and Pot and Psychadelics Should be Legal and Heroin a Misdemeanor In Small Amounts, But We Have to Keep Weightlifting Teens from Buying Protein Powder and Creatine
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Unrelated but urgent: Via gp, the FAA has ordered an emergency stop to all takeoffs.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
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🚨 BREAKING: A NATIONWIDE GROUND STOP has just OFFICIALLY been issued by the FAA, citing "EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES and REASONS OF SAFETY" 🤯This means effectively ALL flights are blocked from taking off
There's no word yet on how long it will last or what specifically caused it.
Insane.
gp says it extends until 10pm.
Original post:
As Amy Curtis says, the Greasy Grifter Governor finally found a reason to demand ID:
Polymarket
@PolymarketBREAKING: Gavin Newsom bans sales of certain "muscle-building supplements" to Californians under 18, potentially including whey protein & creatine.
Note that whey protein is just protein from, well, milk whey, and creatine is a naturally-occurring substance found in meat.
These supplements -- protein and a substance made up of three amino acids -- may cause dangerous "side effects," says the guy whose made narcotics legal (or just a misdemeanor offense) throughout the state.
New California law will restrict sales of some muscle-building supplements to minors Legislation covers over-the-counter diet pills and weight-loss dietary supplements, taking effect Jan 1Energy drinks, pre-workout supplements linked to heart attacks, study finds
Gavin Newsom has signed legislation banning the sale of some "muscle-building supplements" to Californians under 18 years of age.The legislation (AB 2030), which was signed on Sept. 28, covers over-the-counter diet pills and dietary supplements for weight loss or muscle building. It will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2027.
"Nonprescribed, medically unapproved products may cause dangerous side effects," the governor's office said in its announcement. "Products can be mislabeled or contaminated with substances such as steroids."
Any chance that heroin, which is not a misdemeanor offense, might have some impurities in it, too?
By the way, I really doubt that "steroids" are being mixed into these very common, very safe supplements.
California's law restricts minors' access to supplements marketed for muscle building -- specifically, those that are "labeled, marketed or otherwise represented for the purpose of achieving weight loss or building muscle."
Ah, there's the problem.
Courts may consider whether a product contains "creatine, green tea extract, raspberry ketone, garcinia cambogia or green coffee bean extract," the legislation states.
Possessing cocaine in small quantities is a misdemeanor, but we have to worry about green tea extract, aka "caffeine."
The release cites research indicating that nearly one in 10 adolescents have used such products.
Wow, that many? One in ten?
What a crisis.
The American Herbal Products Association, based in Maryland, released a statement opposing the law.
"Lacking any scientific justification, AB 2030 casts a shadow over safe, beneficial products," said Robert Marriott, the association's vice president of regulatory and government affairs, in the statement.
Kristen Mag @kristenmagCalifornia: "WHEY PROTEIN IS TOO RISKY FOR KIDS!!"
Also California: "Yes actually 14 year old girls are old enough to consent to elective mastectomies."
Dr. Sigrid Wolf, a pediatric sports medicine physician at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, recently addressed the use of creatine products among teenagers, stating that evidence of benefits is limited.
Creatine is the most studied and most-used fitness supplement in the world. There is no question remaining about its efficacy.
"In some cases, they might even be dangerous," wrote Wolf, who is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics' sports medicine committee, in an article published on HealthyChildren.org, the American Academy of Pediatrics' parenting website.
"Creatine can come with negative side effects such as weight gain, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea."
By "weight gain," they mean muscle gain, which must be stopped.
As for diarrhea: Creatine can definitely cause that, and I've been suffering from it for a year. But I just fixed it: And the fix is as dumb and obvious as you'd guess: Fiber. I was getting almost zero fiber on a low-carb diet, and that combined with creatine was giving me GI issues. Fiber fixed it immediately.
The left is convinced that physical strength and fitness are right-wing -- they are, but just because the left is physically and mentally unhealthy and actually cultivates physical and mental infirmity as virtuous -- and they want to men weak because they believe, correctly, that weak men join the leftist herd.
Research articlePhysical strength as a heuristic cue of political conservatism
Mitch Brown, Donald F. Sacco, Aaron W. Lukaszewski, Ryan E. Tracy
Physically formidable men are motivated to pursue strategies to acquire resources and status through direct competition and the promotion of hierarchical social organization. In service of these priorities, these men support social policies favoring the use of aggressive bargaining and hierarchy-maintenance strategies. Given these associations, we hypothesized physical strength may function as a heuristic cue of political conservatism. Participants in four unique U.S. samples assessed the political orientation of men who varied in physical strength and musculature, considering various facets of what constitutes conservatism. Physically strong men appeared more conservative to perceivers. Neither type of conservatism (social versus fiscal) nor presence of wealth cues moderated effects. Perceivers further regarded liberty as most central to strong men's morality.
Note that study is about how people perceive strong men. It doesn't say anything about whether strength is correlated with conservatism. (But it is, of course.)
The point is, the left hates strong men. Too difficult to dominate.
Pansies at reddit think a lot about strong men:
What are your theories on why gym culture is so rightwing Upvote2y ago
someone asked a similar question about gun ownership in r/MARXISTRA but the answer is the same right-wing culture is self-actualization. that applies to everything, it's essentially ingrained that nobody is gonna do anything for you so you need to make your own money, pave your own way, and defend yourself by any means necessary. as a result, they're probably more likely to have the income and the desire to follow through with a gym routine/proper nourishment/supplemental aid/training. Does this mean you can't do it? Not at all, contrary to what some may tell you, going to the gym is one of the cheapest (and best) hobbies to have. Paying $20-30 for a membership for what means essentially unlimited access to equipment and sometimes training as well, along with the chemical pick up me of endorphins released during a good work out. This is all to say, you can theorize why gym culture is so right wing all day but if you want to change it in a meaningful way, the best way is to step in the gym first
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That same philosophy lead me down a dark path when I was a young teen first getting started in the gym. I'm happy I made it out.
Ze "made it out" of the gym.
...I'm surprised no one else said it because it seems highly obvious to me, but I think it is because of the associations between traditional masculinity and physical power. The right wing is obsessed with masculinity and masculinity is traditionally associated with strength and violence. I think that this intertwines with the individualism aspect that everyone has mentioned to produce an unfortunately right wing, and largely misogynist fitness culture.
A classic:
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Paul Sperry: Security Experts Warn That Islamists Pilots Present an "Insider Threat" to Air Safety
—Disinformation Expert Ace
This is one of those "duh no shit really" reports, but bear in mind that the entire Islamocommunist-captured establishment denies this obvious fact, so it's critical that the obvious be reported and documented.
When the Federal Aviation Administration reinforced cockpit doors after the 9/11 hijackings, it turned flight decks into fortresses to lock out terrorists. But what if a terrorist is already inside?That question has new urgency following the harrowing Sept. 30 attack aboard a FlyDubai flight in which a Muslim extremist (Islamist) pilot was forcefully stopped by a heroic pilot and brave passengers from crashing a plane bound for Israel.
Former aviation security officials say the FAA needs to reassess threats inside cockpits and the measures intended to counter them. They say this review is especially urgent because the agency has made insider threats to the cockpit more likely by recently forcing airlines to add a secondary barrier to the cockpit in the form of a metal gate on new planes.
Experts say the added security, while well-intentioned, could backfire following al-Qaeda's call last month for Islamist pilots to carry out more suicide attacks inside cockpits and for followers to infiltrate the ranks of pilots. Al-Qaeda has reestablished terror training camps in Afghanistan, along with recruiting and propaganda organs, echoing its pre-9/11 potency.
Don't worry, everyone! The Isamocommunist-captured establishment has decided that 9/11 never happened. It was all just a right-wing hallucination, so stop worrying about a dark "far right" fantasy and conspiracy theory, Racists.
Enhanced security measures designed to lock out threats could merely lock in an attacker....
Yeah, when the terrorist is in the cockpit already, beefing up the door just stops passengers from wresting him from the controls.
But we can't talk about the danger of Islamist pilots.
9/11 never happened, remember? Never forget means "Never mention again."
Also, the attempt to hijack a FlyDubai plane by an Islamist co-pilot didn't happen.
Aviation security experts also say airlines must do more to identify pilots who may hold extremist views or show signs of mental illness. At least two U.S.-based Islamist pilots have been suspended in the wake of the FlyDubai incident."Pilots who have openly espoused and supported terrorists should be grounded as unstable," said former airline executive Michael Boyd, president of Boyd Group International, an aviation consulting firm, in an interview with RealClearInvestigations. "Anybody who supports clear terrorism should be grounded; but of course, that gets muddy in the realm of free speech."
Meaning: They haven't been grounded already.
Weak vetting systemsSuicide by aircraft has long been a rare but concerning issue. Most documented cases have involved private planes, not commercial carriers. Mentally ill people -- including the German copilot who killed himself and 149 others on board when he locked the captain, who had gone to the bathroom, out of the cockpit and crashed a flight into the Alps in 2015 -- have long accounted for most cases. But experts say a disproportionate number of such tragedies involving major airliners have involved Muslim pilots, most of whom have expressed extremist views.
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While non-Muslims historically have been responsible for some cases of suicide pilots intentionally downing major airliners, three of the four cases directly linked to terror have involved Islamist pilots (9/11 is not included because it was a hijacking).
And also: It simply never happened, Bigots.
Read the whole thing and weep.
It's not just that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
They want to repeat it. This is not "forgetting," this is just replaying the old playbook with the Islamocommunist-dominated government acting as co-conspirators to the coming slaughters.
MAHA Consultant Calley Means: Susie Wiles Was Running a Buckraking Operation Out of the White House and Letting Big Pharma and Big Ag Write Policy If They Just Hired Her Lobbyist Daughter
—Disinformation Expert Ace
There may be reasons Susie Wiles was fired.
Ballard Partners' more than $88 million in lobbying revenue last year was, at the time, the most any firm had reported since the Lobbying Disclosure Act took effect in 1996, even after adjusting for inflation, a CBS News analysis of Senate lobbying disclosures found. Through the first three quarters of 2026, the firm has already surpassed that, reporting more than $98 million.The fortunes of Washington lobbying firms tend to rise and fall with changes in administrations, as companies hire them to try to influence policy. But after an election that saw government corruption polling as a top issue for voters, questions about who has profited from political connections are intensifying. Ballard Partners is now among those ensnared in the MAGA feud.
Over the weekend, I listened to the Joe Rogan interview with former MAHA advisor Calley Means. Means alleges that Susie Wiles and her "Talahassee lobbyist staffers" were running a very corrupt cash-for-policy operation out of the White House.
Note that Means stresses that he does not believe Trump knew about most of this. I mostly believe that -- Trump is a delegator and doesn't seem to get involved in anything except his three biggest issues.
For example, Means claims that it is an open secret that if you want her to push a policy, you hire her daughter, who works for one of the biggest lobbying firms, for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and then you get what you paid for.
He also claims that Means hid from Trump the truth about polling so Trump didn't know he was in political trouble. He claims she and her corrupt allies just pushed minor issues that moved few votes, like No Tax on Tips, as the clocked ticked down to midterms doomday.
I recommend listening to the first half. The second half is just repetitive and listless.
Google AI:
* The Allegations: Means accused Wiles and a close-knit group of White House officials of bowing to corporate lobbyists, prioritizing midterm campaign donations over public health, and blocking components of the "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) agenda championed by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.* Specific Claims: Means alleged that Wiles resisted initiatives to improve children's diets due to sugar-industry pressures, pushed for approvals of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes tied to tobacco donations, caved to kratom industry lobbying, and protected corporate interests regarding glyphosate/Roundup litigation.
Another claim: That she blocked what Means calls a "no-brainer," a reform to school lunch programs which would limit donuts and sugar soda and establish a minimum level of protein for meals.
He says she did this because of Big Sugar and Pepsi paid her to do it.
Calley Means, who resigned as a top federal health official two weeks ago after clashing with the White House, on Friday accused President Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, of bowing to "unrelenting" pressure from industry lobbyists while prioritizing political fund-raising over Americans' health.In a two-hour interview with the podcaster Joe Rogan, Mr. Means said that Ms. Wiles withheld support from his efforts to make children's diets healthier, citing the need for sugar industry money. He said her team demanded more approvals of flavored e-cigarettes, a top priority for major tobacco companies that donated at least $20 million to the G.O.P. in 2026. And he said they gave in to heavy lobbying from the kratom industry to relax proposed restrictions on products often referred to as "gas station heroin."
"Susie said to me many times: 'We need money for the midterms, Calley. We need money for the midterms,'" Mr. Means said.
Ms. Wiles and the White House were not immediately available to comment. The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services have responded to past allegations of lobbying influence on the administration's health care policies by saying the administration consistently acted in the best interest of the American people.
Mr. Means, a close ally of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who helped build the Make America Healthy Again movement, avoided criticizing Mr. Kennedy or Mr. Trump. He directed his ire almost entirely at Ms. Wiles, a former lobbyist and political consultant, who he asserted had "spent her career taking money," including from the pharmaceutical and pesticide industries and from the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, a former client.
As the blame game escalates after Republicans' stunning losses in the elections this week, Ms. Wiles is becoming a target of finger-pointing, with some former officials and MAGA supporters calling for her resignation.
Mr. Means framed Ms. Wiles and her top deputies as welcoming lobbyists into the White House while sidelining Mr. Kennedy and infantilizing Mr. Trump. Mr. Means made a larger argument about the corrosive role of corporate money in politics, but also suggested that the president should "exorcise" Ms. Wiles and her aides "from the White House."
Some of what Means claimed struck me as false or just stupid but the overall charge that Wiles was running a buckraking operation, with her daughter as a bagwoman, sounded plausible. Means is either telling the truth or he just made the case for a huge defamation case against him. We'll see if Wiles lodges such a lawsuit.
He claims that Wiles was behind pushing for liability immunity for Bayer for its glycosphate herbicide. She pushed this as a "national security issue," with the implausible claim that we had to grant Bayer immunity to keep the production of phosphorous (an ingredient in the herbicide) reliable for... making explosives.
That's the stupidest thing I ever heard. How do you make phosphorous available for bombs by making sure it's being used by the ton for herbicide?
Then again, Means' argument was itself stupid -- despite the fact that the government does not consider glycosphate cancer-causing, he wants everyone to be able to sue Bayer for producing glycosphate. He claims this is a "free market issue."
But any jury will reward a plaintiff with an injury millions and millions just to be nice, whether they find any connection between the deep-pocketed corporation or not. Surely Means is not so stupid as to not know this -- but he sure pretends he doesn't.
He's also one of those cranks who is determined to end vaping for adults -- but For The Children, you understand.
He does point out that the farm states of Kentucky and Iowa have the highest cancer rates in the world, particularly for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, and glycosphate is linked to Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. But the industry, and the government, blocks a scientific review of the claimed connection.
There must be some reason that two states in the developed west have such aberrantly high levels of cancer, and we should know why.
I don't know where I am on the policy-- I would like a review as well, and would grant immunity if the review found no cancer link to glycosphate -- but I sure don't like how the sausage being made here, with Big Pharam and Big Ag just delivering millions of dollars to Wiles and her friends and family in exchange for policy outcomes. (Allegedly -- we'll see.)
Give it a listen, make up your own minds.
I find this interesting: Stephen Miller, the man replacing Wiles, says he's going to start denying "big business" carte blanche as to its claimed needs.
That sure sounds like Miller thinks Wiles was delivering policy outcomes to deep-pocketed industries and corporations.
Though this makes it sound like Miller is chiefly interested in rejecting industries' claims that they need illegal workers:
The replacement of White House chief of staff Susie Wiles with her hardline deputy Stephen Miller shuts the door through which many CEOs softened Trump administration policies or sought favors, and sets the stage for more direct confrontation with business in the second half of Trump's term.Even CEOs skeptical of Trump's chaotic style and his hostility to trade and immigration found that they could, with the help of Wiles and now-former tech czar David Sacks, talk Trump out of his aides' most aggressive immigration moves, from worksite raids to canceling TSA PreCheck.
Means also disclosed what we on the right have known for years, that the leftwing bureaucrats circulate How to Subvert the President manuals in order to defy the orders of the duly-elected president.
"He's [Kennedy] got a 90,000-person agency. He's surrounded by demons who want him out and want him destroyed," former Kennedy adviser Calley Means told Joe Rogan. "And Trump's sitting at 2 million people.""So, his staff is all completely compromised?" Rogan asked.
"Yeah, for the most ... especially the whole infrastructure," Means, who resigned from the White House on Oct. 22, claimed.
He mentioned a manual titled something like "How to Subvert the President" being circulated among leftwing bureaucrats.
Why this was allowed, I don't know.
BTW: If you missed Buck Throckmorton's story about Ron DeSantis attacking the GOP's age-old and apparently incurable Terminal Corporatism, do give it a read.
"Young people have a very positive view of socialism compared to capitalism. The question is, why is that?""Some of it is the education in our universities. But I think a big part of that is, what they're comparing is not free enterprise versus socialism. What they're comparing is how government gets involved in business, and you have crony capitalism."
"The best kind of indirect supporters of socialism are some of these corporatist Republicans who propagate these crony policies."
"If it's cronyism versus socialism, there's going to be enough people who are going to choose socialism."
You may have heard that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick kept blocking attempts to limit the sale of Nvidia chips to China.
In May, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent President Donald Trump and top Cabinet members a classified memorandum detailing the relationship between the Huangs and the intelligence indicating that Alice Huang was a Chinese spy. The White House directed the Commerce Department to put Alice Huang's Megaspeed on the entity list of companies that pose national security concerns.Lutnick refused this request in May; he refused a second attempted crackdown order from Trump in August; and on Nov. 5, Lutnick reportedly stonewalled Trump again. And evidently, this wasn’t because Lutnick knew too little. Rather, the Commerce Department spent months last year conducting an investigation into Megaspeed and specifically whether it was illicitly smuggling Nvidia chips into China, only for Lutnick’s direct underling, Jeff Kessler, to invite Nvidia to reach out to Commerce about the case, bringing the department;s inquiry to an effective end.
I am sure it is just a coincidence that Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services firm that Lutnick led for 35 years before passing it off to his 20-something-year-old sons Brandon and Kyle, has a $362.3 million stake in Nvidia, which makes up 7% of Cantor's entire portfolio.
On a scale of "Not Surprised At All" to "Totally Surprised, Dumfounded Actually, Just Totally Blown Away," how surprised are you to learn this?
The practice of securing political power and then putting out your otherwise-unemployable children into positions where they can act as your bag-men is not limited to the Biden Crime Family.
There's some more good news: Now Stephen Miller is locking the lobbyists out. No White House staffer can even speak to a lobbyist without his express permission.
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Scott Bessent: I Had to Move to a Military Base Because the IRGC Is Sending Assassins to Kill Me At My Home Because Treasonous "Journalists" at the Wall Street Journal Showed Them Exactly Where I Live
—Disinformation Expert Ace
It's time to start publishing "journalists'" home addresses, and the bars they get drunk at, and the homes of the men and women they cheat on their wives with.
Oh wait we can't do that -- "journalists'" lives are too precious to risk, unlike normal Americans' lives.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh3h
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent just said "F THE IRANIAN LEADERSHIP" and that he had to move to a military base because the WSJ published his HOUSE ONLINE
"One of the reasons I had to move is because the WSJ printed a PHOTO OF MY HOUSE the DAY I bought it that has GEO-LOCATE on it! In a highly irresponsible way, the editor, we PLEADED with her NOT to print the location of my house, she DID ANYWAY." 😡
"We're NOT gonna be cowered...the IRGC are like a dangerous, cornered animal."
"I followed Secret Service instructions and moved from my home to a military base."
Pray for Secretary Bessent! 🙏🏻
The Journal ran an AERIAL VIEW of his $12.5 million home back in 2025
Bessent has led Operation Economic Outcast since August, the sanctions campaign CRUSHING Iran's economy, which made him a top Iranian target
This week the DOJ indicted three Iranian nationals tied to nearly 20 attacks and attempted attacks across Europe and the U.S.
Rubio and Miller had to move too.
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New Democrat Plan to Solve the "Housing Crisis:" Let's Inflate the Housing Market By Pouring Government Cash Into It and Letting People Who Can't Afford a Mortgage Buy Homes Until They Default
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Say.... wait a minute...
Isn't this how they created the 2008 housing market collapse the crashed the world economy?
And then blamed on Republicans?
Well, since they got away with it once, I guess it's time to crash the world economy again. For Great Justice.
And... "Affordability."
One of President Biden's economic officials wants to create a system where people can pay just $1,000 to buy a home.What could possibly go wrong?
$1,000 for an entire house.
The housing crisis of 2008 was caused by "Ninja" loans -- No Income, No Job.
Now we're adding to "no down payment, no money at all."
Just a free house. For a very nominal payment of $1,000, which I'm sure will be waived for Democrat Constituents.
A top Biden administration economic official is pitching Democrats on a low-down-payment proposal to bring millions of new homebuyers into the market, as incoming congressional leaders take stock of affordability measures that might help them notch early legislative wins.A new policy group chaired by former National Economic Council Director Lael Brainard is pushing for the creation of a Federal Housing Administration program to facilitate home purchases with as little as $1,000 down for first-time buyers who meet "strong underwriting criteria," according to a copy of the proposal reviewed by Bloomberg News.
Uh-huh. If they have only managed to save $1,000, they do not have "strong underwriting criteria." This fiction is added so they can say "But it's not like the 2008 housing collapse, we're only giving free houses to people with no money but who have 'strong underwriting criteria.'"
Housing is a key factor in the widespread frustration over the high cost of living that helped fuel Democrats' historic rout of Republicans in last week's midterm elections. Some 77% of Americans support zero-down payment loans for qualifying first-time buyers, according to a survey by the Kitchen Table Project, the Brainard group that debuted in June and calls itself a "policy pop-up."
What about all the other Democrat spending priorities?
Don't worry, Jerry. They write it off.
They write it off.
Proposals to provide down payment assistance generally take the form of "grants, and grants are a direct cost to the government, and we know that we already have additional fiscal priorities," Brainard added, pointing to Democratic agenda items like restoring Affordable Care Act and Medicaid subsidies along with food assistance. "We really looked for proposals that could be done with a minimal amount of taxpayer funding."
This is absurd. Down payments for homes are usually 20% of the value of the home. The average cost of a home in the US is $472,000. So a down payment would be something like $95,000.
The Democrats are proposing only a $1,000 down payment, and then pretending the $94,000 usually expected is just Free Money that will cost the taxpayers "a minimal amount."
They're really doing it all again.
Just like with their eternal bleat the Real Communism Has Never Been Tried.
Real Housing Bubble Collapse That Crashes the Global Economy has never been tried.
Update:
Evicting them for non-payment in a year is the comeback.Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 13, 2026 12:14 PM (RIvkX)
No one will be evicted for non-payment.
Posted by: Heavy Meta
Correct. That's the move: Let them take a house for $1,000, then make all attempts to evict and repossess illegal.
"Minimal taxpayer cost," you know.
THE MORNING RANT: Ron DeSantis Separates Himself from Legacy GOP with Attack on “Corporatism”
—Buck Throckmorton
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has come out swinging since the Republican wipeout in the midterm elections. I hope this is because he’s laying the groundwork for a 2028 presidential bid, since he is one of the few national Republicans in tune with heartland Americans. Among the topics he is discussing is the problem of “corporatism,” and how the back-scratching, crony capitalism that exists between government and many corporations repels conservative voters, while also fueling the popularity of socialism among non-conservatives.
Here are some quotes from Gov. DeSantis, as documented in a NY Post article titled “DeSantis says ‘corporatist Republicans’ drive young voters toward socialism after GOP’s midterm disaster”:
“Young people have a very positive view of socialism compared to capitalism. The question is, why is that?”
“Some of it is the education in our universities. But I think a big part of that is, what they’re comparing is not free enterprise versus socialism. What they’re comparing is how government gets involved in business, and you have crony capitalism.”
“The best kind of indirect supporters of socialism are some of these corporatist Republicans who propagate these crony policies.”
“If it’s cronyism versus socialism, there’s going to be enough people who are going to choose socialism.”
Gov. DeSantis’ attack on corporatism is welcome and politically necessary.
I have been pounding on the issue of crony capitalism and corporate misbehavior for years, not because I’m anti-business, but because I’m anti-socialism. Like the great Malcolm Forbes (who embraced the nickname “The Capitalist Tool”), I am trying to shame companies that give capitalism a bad name, because they actually empower the enemies of economic freedom.
Some of the topics I’ve covered include:
Beverage/snack companies are dependent on SNAP benefits (food stamps) for more than 20% of their revenue. Along with grocery stores, they lobbied furiously against changes to eligible SNAP products, since they are so reliant on taxpayer money being redistributed to them through the SNAP program. (“PepsiCo [Frito Lay] Snack Sales Decline as SNAP Restrictions Kick In” - 8/07/2026)
The “EV Transition” was largely an effort by various levels of government to redistribute wealth to EV manufacturers. I have written many articles documenting the incentives, mandates, federal rebates, regulatory credits, etc. that favored Rivian, Tesla, and other EV manufacturers at the expense of taxpayers not even purchasing those products.
“Pro-business” governors like Brian Kemp of Georgia flushed billions of taxpayer dollars into failed or failing EV-related ventures. These included $2 billion to Hyundai to build an EV assembly plant, $1.5 billion to Rivian for a plant that was never built, and $300 million to SK for a battery manufacturing plant that could not support the jobs it promised. The government redistribution of wealth from working people to favored corporations is neither capitalism nor free market economics. I prefer to call it venture communism.
Regarding data centers, one reason I believe there is such public opposition is that the public doesn’t trust elected officials not to provide data centers with taxpayer-subsidized utilities and tax abatements. I absolutely support data center construction so long as there is no crony capitalism involved, but it is understandable that voters with empty wallets are skeptical, especially since so many early data center proposals demanded taxpayer subsidization.
The problem with corporate behavior today isn’t just the crony capitalism, it’s also the morally bankrupt ethos that has become mainstream in corporations.
Prominently, this includes the embrace of what is effectively chattel labor. It can be in the form of foreign, low-paid, H-1B labor who can’t otherwise compete in the U.S. job market, or it may be subcontractors using off-the-books, illegal aliens as a source of untaxed and unregulated labor. I have documented multiple examples where subcontracted illegal laborers are living in slave-like conditions in the United States. Corporate America just winks at these abuses, then pawns off the cost of healthcare and other social services to taxpayers.
Even if not illegal, there are too many examples of executives looting their companies by taking short-term actions that enrich themselves but harm the company’s employees and shareholders. As an example, in an October 2025 piece titled “Unhelpful in the Battle Against Socialism’s Growing Appeal: Sherwin Williams Eliminates Employees’ 401(k) Match Amidst Stock Buybacks and Increased CEO Compensation,” I documented how Sherwin Williams:
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The Morning Report — 11/13 /26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. We'll start off with this item from the Are You freaking Kidding Me Files:
Officials decided an ancient method was the best way to decide the outcome of an election in Robertson County, Kentucky. When Republican Benny Ray Renner and Democrat Kristen Gifford Fryman tied with 91 votes each in the race for magistrate in the 2nd Magisterial District, it was up to officials to decide what to do next, KCRA reported Sunday. “Out of the 182 ballots cast, there was not a single vote that separated the two candidates once all precincts had reported their numbers back,” the outlet said. The Kentucky State Board of Elections recommended officials perform a coin flip to decide the outcome, and Fryman won...The coin used to decide the election was a quarter the sheriff had in his pocket.
Well all politics is indeed "local." But to any sane person, this puerile, irresponsible madness is just indicative of how far we as a nation and society have sunk. Is it really fair to use this idiocy as a barometer for the rest of the country? After all Kentucky is the state that inflicted Tom Massie on us. In any case, given the fact that much of the country is ignorant of the tyrannical bloody history of the Democrat Party, Socialism and Islam and in places where one thought that that ignorance was not the norm nevertheless voted it into power last week.
When an election produces outcomes that run completely counter to historical precedent, polling baselines, and raw mathematical probability, the dispute ceases to be a conventional political debate and transforms into an indictment of the process itself. The case asserting that this midterm was systematically subverted rests upon four primary pillars: statistical impossibility, software and algorithmic manipulation, unauthorized cyber penetration, and administrative chain-of-custody collapse. . . If elections cannot be independently verified and guaranteed as legitimate, this one may well be the last.
Given who and what will be in power come January that could very well be the case. Let's see who wins the coin toss in '28?!
On a separate note the ongoing war with Iran is evidently causing a major rift in the White House.
President Donald Trump on Thursday removed Vice President JD Vance from the Iran strategy, instructing him to focus on domestic issues.I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S...),” President Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month. Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal activity.”
The president rejected a negotiated deal with the Mullah regime. He asserted that the U.S. has succeeded in opening the Strait of Hormuz, removing Tehran’s sole leverage in the talks. . “We don’t need a deal with Iran,” he said. “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”
I'm wondering if this is purely about Iran or if there are some other tensions between the two that might be indicative that President Trump will be endorsing someone other than Vance to be at the top of the ticket for 2028. Frankly, Vance has not impressed me of late which given his continued refusal to distance himself from openly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic Tuq'r Qatarlson makes him a non-starter for me. YMMV of course.
We'll have to wait and see as the President himself is wont to say. On this and all the other myriad meshugas in the links I nevertheless bid you all to have a very good luck-filled Friday the 13th, triskaidekaphobia notwithstanding, then have yourselves a great weekend!
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- The Kentucky State Board of Elections recommended officials perform a coin flip to decide the outcome, and Fryman won. (of course she did, she's the Democrat - jjs)
Coin Flip Decides Kentucky County’s Tied Election Between Republican and Democrat Candidates
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Daily Tech News 13 November 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Jensen Huang, CEO and chairman of the worlds largest company (by market capitalisation), is now neither. (Tom's Hardware)
He had an affair - confirmed - with a Chinese spy - alleged - and also affairs - alleged - with two employees at Nvidia - confirmed.
He has been CEO since the company was founded - by him - in 1993, so there isn't exactly a carefully thought-out succession plan in place.
- Will he move on to run Terafab? (Tom's Hardware)
Maybe.
- Will Tim Apple take Jensen Nvidia's place? (Tom's Hardware)
Less likely.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - November 12, 2026
—Doof
Howdy Hordelings, and welcome to the Thursday ONT! Open thread, as always. On time, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Guardian Donkeys Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Bighorn ram near The Garden of the Gods
Kristin_Mae Photography
Scorpions glow under UV light.
Inside a giant glacier.
Gross giant beetle larva. Don't click.
Dutch town built to resemble a Lego village.
Out: Fungi are weird and gross
In: Fungi are weird and horrifying
Toucans, the Odd Pet of the Future.
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Quick Hits
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A man committed a truly demonic act -- he buried his infant son alive, inside a dog crate.
But people, possibly with some subtle direction from God, found the baby before he died.
Authorities in South Carolina managed to locate 11-month-old Koah Sharpe alive after he was allegedly buried in a dog crate by his father, Michael Comer. According to Global News, Comer had Sharpe on Monday when the infant was reported missing following Comer's arrest by the Lexington County Sheriff's Department. Comer was taken into custody on a burglary charge and for resisting arrest Monday night; Koah Sharpe was not with Comer when police apprehended him.
Early Tuesday afternoon, a search party located Koah Sharpe in the woods near Comer's father's home, where they noticed freshly disturbed earth. Sharpe was reportedly crying when authorities dug up the dog crate he was buried in. It had been covered with a towel, which created an air pocket that allowed the infant to survive about 24 hours underground.
I wonder if the father will plead postpartum psychosis and gather an army of cult supporters behind him.
Kurt Schlichter: The state GOP parties in Red States got fat and complacent about winning without even trying, and that laziness destroyed them this election cycle.
There's no one fatter and lazier than a deep red state's Republican organization, with few exceptions, and this bit us badly on the butt last week. Now, California is not a red state -- not anymore, though it was when I grew up there -- but this little story kind of sums up the problem with Republican organizations. They aren't about winning; they are social clubs. I was at some GOP event and sat down for rubber chicken next to somebody who proudly announced he was the Republican chair of, say, the 69th District and had been for 20 years. I asked him when the last time a Republican won in the 69th District was, and he looked at me like I was insane, like it never occurred to him that electing people might be a remotely relevant consideration for a district chair. The answer, of course, was "Never." The Republicans had never won it. But he had his gig, a nice seat on the dais, and that was what mattered. Not victory. Just his place in the social club that is the California Republican Party.In the red states, we got too used to winning easily. Far too used to it. We got so used to winning that it never occurred to us that we might not win, and it never occurred to us that we might have to work to win.
Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurleyApparently, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's call to round up the "criminals" in Washington includes the conservative justices: "I mean, of course, this Supreme Court as well has also kind of legalized a lot of his criminality." The Democrats are fast becoming a party of berserkers...
...Of course, the impeachment standard is actually not
"kind of legalizing" stuff, but it is no worse than the understanding of her other colleagues of the standard...
...This pack and the pen approach would expand the Court with an instant liberal majority while potentially removing conservatives through criminal charges.
Rep. Tom Emmer says he doubts Ilhan Nur Said Elmi will be in Congress much longer.
I do not believe this at all, but I like the optimism.
"She lied because you get naturalized as a citizen with your natural parent when they are naturalized, if you are under the age of 18. Well, she was not under the age of 18," Emmer said.Emmer argued that the citizenship question offers a cleaner route than any criminal case. "She would have to reapply to be a citizen -- it's an administrative procedure. She shouldn't be in Congress," he told Finnerty.
Any indictment, according to Emmer, is a separate matter that "will go through in court."
"Once it's established that she was over the age of 18 when she claimed to be a minor, she's no longer a citizen of the United States. And when she's no longer a citizen, she's not entitled to serve in Congress," he added.
Pressed on who would confirm her actual birth date, Emmer said, "I think the Department of Justice is finalizing that." He noted that "there are four different things that are being looked at, and that is one of them."
Via Ed Morrissey: it sure looks like the ugliest man in US history to think he has a realistic chance to be president got tipped by investigators that Nvidia might face an intelligence probe, then he and his wife (who he married for her heiress-money) dumped their Nvidia stock.
Trade With Congress @tradewithcong
Well, well, wellRep. Ro Khanna sold $NVDA right before Nvidia's CEO admitted to having a Chinese spy side piece
He's a member of the following:
- Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party Committee
- Taiwan Caucus
- High Tech CaucusApparently, federal agents informed some lawmakers last year that Jensen Huang might be the target of a foreign intelligence operation
He avoided a ~26% dip
The ugliest man in American history to mistakenly believe he could be president crusades against "corruption" and also claims he is against congressmen trading in individual stocks.
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