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Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread.
This is the second anniversary of TRex assuming the Hobby Thread helm. Hooray! That makes this my 105th Hobby Thread (not counting a few previous oddball contributions through MisHum). Thank you all for being here and participating. None of this works without you (even the lurkers).
In honor of the occasion, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) took the night off and left a note that said "all of the above." What does that mean? Read on hobbyists...
We all started somewhere. We found our hobbies and interests because someone showed us or we stumbled into it. As kids, we don't know what we don't know. We try things (sometimes voluntarily and sometimes less so). We get exposed to different things and sometimes we light up, even if we had no idea it would resonate until we tried it.
How many hobbies and interests started as childhood sparks? Even better, what childhood sparks blossomed into life-long hobbies? School, summer camp, YMCA, scouts, church groups, parents, relatives, neighbors, etc.
The archery theme last week was a great example of an activity many kids would not get the chance to try unless an adult took the time to make it happen.
What adult hobbies were ignited in your childhood? What hobbies did you try and HATE? What hobbies do you wish you would have tinkered with more as a child?
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What are you hobbying?
As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. All (legal) hobbying is welcome. We have a theme, but no need to stick with the theme. Even if the theme does not speak to you, find something else or offer something else relating to hobbying. Leave politics and religion to threads elsewhere (unless your hobby is building or restoring churches). Pants are optional. As always, puns are welcome and encouraged.
Play nice and do not be rude. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls.
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Random scouting merit badges:
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Not getting lost is an activity:
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Bird calls:
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Young rex's adventures with watercolor painting were not fruitful.
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When do kids learn robotics?
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Get into the water!
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Adorable:
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Friendship bracelets are a camp craft type thing:
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Leatherworking for beginners:
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How to make a massive backyard zipline:
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Is your hobby motorsports? Hope you're enjoying the 24 Hours of LeMans. Have you been to the race in person?
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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did an archery theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.
Notable comments from last week that are, in part, responsible for the theme this week:
Notable hobbying comment from the Friday ONT comments:
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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 your own. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.
FYI I sometimes comment on Ace of Spades as Geoff Shotts.
Anyway, here is Dini, enjoying the shade.
She just turned 11 and is a Lab/Basset mix. Super sweet, loves kids. She's not as spry as she used to be, but still loves walks and trips to the local creek.
Thank you
Awww, love Dini. She looks like a wonderful dog.
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We have heard rumors of a couple of new pets for which we have not received photos. In the meantime, here's another photo of Saijo:
PetMoron Adjacent Animals
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Hey Katy,
Just thought the horde would appreciate my garden friend this morning. It is a screech owl, we get a pair that nests here every year. I have a lot of water about, bird baths and a fountain and a fish pond. I think they appreciate the water. I got pretty close to him before I even noticed him. He was right where I turn on the water. Made my day.
Weekreekfarmgirl
That's a bold owl - out so near to you during daylight hours! Such a great surprise to find him looking at you!
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Greetings lovers of all things pets and pet adjacent,
Just a few pics from over the last few weeks or so showcasing why I absolutely love living in the country. Featured are the deer who have slowly started trusting us enough to come within 25 yards of the house. Of course it probably helps putting out some snacks for them now and again. Our two Peacocks, the male is the one with the bright turquoise neck, a few wild turkey's and a little frog who has decided to make his home under our evening coffee table.
Love seeing all the contributions to The Pet Thread and look forward to it every week.
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Wonderful! Love the frog.
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Thank you for sharing your pets 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:
Penstemon cobaea close-up, showing the "bearded tongue" characteristic of the genus
Don in Kansas has a fine summary on his experiences growing penstemons, back on May 9: Tongues with Beards. Here are three of several he is growing. Click on the link for photos and description of others, along with growing tips:
One of my long-term projects is to find out which penstemons will do well in Kansas. I've got around twenty species planted in various parts of the yard, many of which are coming into bloom now. The Kansas natives such as Penstemon cobaea, above, have done very well. In general, most species I've tried have been easy and haven't needed attention beyond weeding and occasional watering during dry spells. . .
P. wrightii is native to west Texas, a place much drier than Kansas. Surprisingly, all the rain from last year's freakishly wet summer didn't bother it at all, nor did 0℉ in January or 12℉ in March. It's been blooming for three weeks now, and it should continue for at least one and possibly two weeks more. Although the individual flowers aren't large, there are a lot of them, and the color is vivid.
Penstemon Strictus
P. strictus, the “Rocky Mountain Penstemon,” grows throughout the Rocky Mountain states. It’s easy and tough, and will likely grow anywhere that the climate isn’t too extreme.
Interesting variety of beautiful flowers from different parts of the country at the link above, with helpful growing tips from Don.
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Edible Gardening/Putting Things By
By-Tor has a big update on his container garden with some good tips:
Tomatoes are going great guns. The plants are getting huge. No reds yet but they’re coming.
Peppers are the same. Zucchini and squash as well.
Dill is maxed out; I may have to dry them and store, then plant more. Or maybe trim the tops and see if it grows out.
Long hot days on the horizon, with lots of water, portend a successful harvest.
Most of these are in containers or grow bags; I’m a little surprised at how well they are doing.
The veggies and strawberries look great! You might think about freezing some dill, depending on how you intend to use it (maybe as immature seed heads for pickles?)
Keep the zucchini and summer squash picked small, since you are growing the plants in containers.
Next week, maybe we'll post By-Tor's instructions for making Fried Green Tomatoes.
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Protecting your holiday celebrations from yellow Jackets
This week, a yellow jacket stung me while I was feeding the garden kitties. WOW. Haven't felt pain like that in a while!
Later that day, we found a nest set up in a torch that was not far from one of the kitty-feeding locations, a few inches from the ground. Those insects were buzzing around in an erratic fashion that was really unnerving. Glad that this didn't happen to me:
Stung by dozens of yellow jackets. There was no sense of where exactly the pain was coming from because there was no sense of where the pain wasn’t. https://t.co/meu5XqucPr
For your neighbors who are infected with suicidal empathy:
A lovely yellow jacket queen skulking on the ground to find a suitable nesting site to establish a new colony. She can sting but is quite docile. Yellow jackets have a bad rap for obvious reasons, but they do serve a purpose in the woods by preying on pests and consuming carrion. pic.twitter.com/XGRmXueJPt
This is Magnolia figo, common name banana shrub. My plant buying got a little over enthusiatic last fall but managed to get it through the winter under lights. I finally put it outside 10 days or so ago and the buds are opening. It's only hardy to Zone 8 so I'm ooing to keep it pruned to container size and cross my fingers this coming winter again.
It is fragrant but to me the fragrance is more floral than banana like. It does have the magnolia fuzzy buds.
I like this plant and its fragrance. Probably attracts yellow jackets.
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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.
Some of us have come a long way. Others may not have come a long way. What makes the difference?
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Reading for the Big Anniversary
Planning on reading any books in preparation for the Big Day?
How about essays? Looking at the sidebar here at AoSHQ?
250 inspired essays on what we love about America, from The Wizard of Oz to Zippo lighters, from The 1st Amendment to Vicks VapoRub, Waffle House, and...
It was another busy week in the news, highlighted by the election for Mayor of Los Angeles, in which Democrats snatched victory from the ballot box of defeat with the now-familiar flood of post-election votes. As in the past, many were suspicious.
Graham Platner was in the news again. In any past era, his escapades would have led to a hasty substitution of a more plausible candidate. But the Democrats, as we have observed over the years, don’t embarrass easy.
An attempted decapitation in Ireland and a successful stabbing murder in Texas riled the public but elicited perverse reactions from the Left.
War hero Scott Pelley made a graceful, low-key exit from CBS, bringing his ignominious career to an end. And, speaking of the press, President Trump had a close encounter with NBC’s Kristen Welker, which meme-makers enjoyed. There was much more besides. . .
Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.
Air Conditioning got a lot of comments as an American invention last week:
197 Air conditioning is the single reason I would never want to live in any other time period. Its my consistent answer when somebody says "yeah it would be cool to live in the roman days" Uh..no. "wow ancient egypt would be cool" Uh...no. Viking times would be killer, long houses and mead and.." Uh..no, I can buy mead and sit in my long house with the AC.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 06, 2026 01:11 PM
The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
—Misanthropic Humanitarian
[Black & bitter as my soul.]
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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival there are just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Omro)
1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind. Be nice. Let's keep that permanent record clean, shall we?
3) Running with sharp objects is a No-No.
4) Have a great weekend!
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
3/28 – Hrothgar asked for prayers for a dear and long time close friend and former neighbor, Daniel, who is scheduled for open heart surgery in mid-April. Prayers for his wife would be appreciated as well, as she will be carrying a heavy load for the next few months.
5/16 Update – Hrothgar sends thanks for the prayers for Dan. Thanks to his attitude and the miracles of modern heart surgery, Daniel is back home and in good spirits and mobile. He still has a lot of rehab ahead, but it sounds like a pretty good recovery to be home only 20 days after being on the table!
3/28 – Jordan61 posted that Mr. Jordan61 is back in the hospital. His sepsis has returned and gotten into where his compression fracture is, and he has vertebral osteomyelitis. The doctor is supposed to come in today and let them know the plan.
5/26 Update – Mr. Jordan61 had his last antibiotic infusion on 5/24 and his PICC line was removed on 5/26. He will have follow-up blood work in 2 weeks but for now, all looks good!
4/3 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. Her chemo seems to be holding things steady for now. Unfortunately, as she is receiving a steroid, she has gained about 25 pounds. Her blood sugar has also jumped up about 40 points (which only happens when she is on steroids).
6/1 Update – Teresa had a CT scan and has seen the surgeon. Everything looks good/stable. There are no new tumors and the ones that are there have pretty much stayed the same or shrunk. No metastises seen. Additional good news is that she can stay on the current medication, and just alternate it with other meds. She continues to respond extremely well to the protocols. She sends her gratitude for each and every prayer.
4/18 – Smell the Glove could use some prayers as therapy and rehab occur after gout/sepsis.
5/2 Update – The gout has cleared and the infection in the lower back is healing.
5/18 Update – Smell the Glove may be out of rehab this week, but still would need wound care at home. Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes!
5/11 – rez986 asked if anyone had an update on Neidermeyer’s Dead Horse’s health. The last info Annie’s Stew has was from January, 2026, that he’d been given 6 months to live due to heart failure and was being treated and waiting for a transplant at Mayo.
5/16 Update – Dash my lace wings! posted that NDH is recovering well. IrishEi posted that NDH did receive a heart transplant and that she is doing well. She also posted a link to NDH’s X account, and her fundraising page.
5/23 – rez986 sent thanks for the updates on NDH. It is much appreciated.
5/15 – Toad-O requested prayers for his second ex-wife, the mother of his two children. They were divorced 25 years ago, and 3 years later, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and the children came to live with Toad-O. The ex-wife is now suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s, and has been living with Toad-O’s daughter and her husband. The ex-wife fell last month and and cracked 2 vertebrae, and just was taken to ER with a rapid heartbeat and low blood pressure due to dehydration. Prayers are appreciated for her and also for the daughter who has sacrificed a lot to care for her.
5/16 – Anna Puma requested prayers for the family of Dan Fordice, who was killed when the aircraft he was flying crashed. He leaves behind a wife, 3 children, and many friends. He was a Warbird flyer, a CEO, and a veteran of the 2/20th SFG.
5/16 – Tonypete asked for prayers for Jane who is dying of breast cancer, and for Cheri who is in jail (again) for drug related crimes.
5/20 – D gave an update on his wife Susan and her continued battle with cancer. Her cancer markers are still headed in the right direction. She is on a new antibiotic, and it is causing some side effects, but it is keeping her out of another surgery, so that is a win. Thanks again to everyone for their prayers. May 1 marked one year since they found out about the cancer, and Susan is doing so well.
5/20 – E gave an update. She and her family were having financial struggles a few months ago, and asked for prayers. E sends her thanks for the prayers, and wanted to let people know that things are getting better, thanks to the Horde’s prayers and their church family. They have resolved their mortgage issue and her husband has resumed his side gig making deliveries. They are also cutting monthly expenses. They would like continued prayers as they deal with the insurance company of the person who crashed into (and totaled) E’s vehicle. Insurance only offered half the replacement value, so that struggle is still going on.
5/23 – San Franpsycho sent a praise report. His prayer to become a grandad has been answered, and Girl F will have a baby in December. Girl F still plans to attend grad school, but will delay a year, which means they will depend on them for child care. This pleases San Franpsycho to the nth degree!
5/23 – Vmom deport deport deport would appreciate prayers. She has been freaking out about her eyesight. Her eye doctor says she has myopic macular degeneration.
5/23 – I used to have a Different Nic could use some prayers as he waits for the results of a biopsy of a mass on his prostate.
6/2 Update – I used to have a Different Nic sent in an update. He has been diagnosed with risk group 2 prostate cancer. It appears to be localized to the prostate but this will be verified via another scan. He has doctor appointments lined up for the next month or so before he starts treatment.
5/23 – George V sends his thanks for the prayers on behalf of his wife, when she had a heart valve replacement. The procedure went very well and she is doing great in the rehab program. But prayers are still needed. There are indications of problems in her lymph nodes that showed up in the scans checking her heart. She will have a biopsy in June, as well as a biopsy on a skin lesion that is looking suspicious. Thank you for all prayers.
5/26 – Doof posted a request for prayers for his mom. She is back in the hospital. She is very weak from one or more infections, and is sleeping a lot. She isn’t really talking when she is alert for a few minutes.
5/27 – Grannysaurus Rex asked for prayers for Sherry, a co-worker, who is being tested for possible cancer of the blood.
5/29 – Bulg requested prayers for his sister, her husband, their four children, and the rest of the family as his sister is dying. She is in palliative care in the hospital, with a lot of blood clots, and is not expected to last long.
6/5 Update – Bulg asks for continued prayers for his sister and the family. He visited, and her condition had improved a lot. She was conscious and lucid. Bulg and his brother had a nice visit with their sister, and also got to visit with her family (husband, kids, grandkids). Bulg is grateful for the reconciliation with his sister and prays that she may be with them for a long while.
5/29 – huerfano requested prayers for her brother, R, whose appendix “got hot”. Luckily he was with his daughter, who got him to ER quickly, and surgery was scheduled for 5/29.
6/6 Update – R had surgery, but his appendix was already leaking, so the surgery was more complicated and required lavage of his internals. He has been back at his daughter’s house since 6/1, and is thinking he’s ready to go home. Unfortunately, that’s 500 miles.
5/29 – Beltway Elite posted that s/he had just signed forms for her/his mom to enter hospice. Mom’s quality of life has been declining since she had a stroke several years ago, and she hasn’t been able to speak or swallow solid food recently.
5/30 – RandomDave posted that he would appreciate prayers as he searches for work. He has had some good job prospects/interviews over the past week.
6/2 – Ellipsis (…) sent in an update. We had prayed for a friend of hers who was going through cancer treatment. It’s been a little over a year, and her port is out now and her hell is over. She is battered and bruised, but clear. Thank you to the Horde for prayers, and praise to Jesus.
6/4 – Teresa in Fort Worth’s niece (Amanda) received a heart transplant a few months ago. One of the complications of that was that her kidneys started failing, and she needed a kidney transplant. On 6/3, she received a new kidney and it appears to be working. Hallelujah! The family is so grateful for the gift from the donor’s family.
6/6 – Skip requested prayers for his boss and wife. Their oldest daughter passed away the day before her 30th birthday. They had also lost a son some years ago unexpectedly. They still have 2 daughters.
6/9 – “A” requested prayers for a long-time friend now suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease, who just fell and broke his hip. He came out of the anesthetic really confused. His wife and family also need prayers of support and strength to help him.
For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign 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. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. 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.
With eight Arm A720 cores backed by four lower power A520 cores (it's not a Qualcomm chip so it tells you that up front) it's no speed demon. It delivers about half the performance in both single and multi-threaded tasks of AMD's entry level laptop 5600U chip from 2021.
Not only have Nintendo's patents faced unwelcome re-examination, but even if Nintendo should win, damages are capped at $30,000. No, I didn't lose a few zeroes there.
Despite facing headwinds from Nintendo's legal team, Palworld has sold around 25 million copies in early access, on a development budget of around $7 million.
Company PocketPair raised the money in-house, leaving the once struggling developer awash with cash.
Years ago, I posted about Boji the Subway dog, who lived most of his life in the Istanbul (I think) public transport system. He just rode the subways and ferrys and trains all day. And he was very polite and well-behaved in the system.
The story of Boji the dog riding public transport for 5 years.
Wikipedia says that that part about being adopted by a rich man is true. He was adopted after someone tried to frame Boji for pooping on the subway, which he never did. Boji is a Good Boy.
Boji was adopted by Ömer Koç in 2022[8] after an image with feces on a tram seat was shared on social media with the title "IBB's permanent dog BOJI defecated on the tram". IBB Spokesperson Murat Ongun shared a video on the same social media channel, taken by tram security cameras, showing a person putting feces he had brought with him on the seat.[9][10] It was revealed that Boji was in the shelter during the day of the incident.[11]
In March 2024, Boji was spotted out in public again, this time in London with Koç on a London bus.
Anything for clicks, huh?
Oh well. I'm glad everyone #BelievedBoji.
When your 18-year-old dog, who used to love water, is partially blind, and wants to play in the rain. again.. It's like seeing him be a puppy again..🐕🐾🥺❤️ pic.twitter.com/lDZujVEtLh
This is a rough one. One of the worst "Woke" posts yet.
Sorry. But this one got dark.
It's not me, you understand.
This is what the left is doing.
But let's start of light, stupid, and artistically vapid.
Has-been Bruce Springsteen and Never-was Chris Robinson of the Black Crows -- yes, THE Black Crows, the band with one lame "hit" to its credit -- won't shut up about their insipid leftwing politics and fans (the Black Crows have fans? Seriously?) are sick of it.
The Black Crowes' frontman Chris Robinson and rock icon Bruce Springsteen recently faced backlash over their political comments, which PR experts say reflect a growing frustration among Americans who feel musicians have become more interested in lecturing fans than entertaining them.
Robinson sparked controversy when he allegedly criticized fans chanting "USA" at a Florida concert and questioned what Americans had to be "so proud of right now," prompting some audience members to boo and walk out of the show, according to TMZ.
Meanwhile, some fans recently labeled Springsteen a "traitor" after he criticized the current state of America during a concert in April. Springsteen told the crowd that America had become seen by "many" as a "reckless, unpredictable, predatory rogue nation" under President Donald Trump's administration.
Since kicking off his Land of Hope and Dreams Tour, the singer has repeatedly unleashed blistering attacks on Trump during his shows, blasting the administration as "corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless and treasonous."
Doug Eldridge, founder of Achilles PR, told Fox News Digital that the response to Robinson and Springsteen's remarks signals a broader sentiment among Americans.
"At this point, it's fatigue," Eldridge said.
"Much like compounding interest, it's not a linear calculation; it's accumulation," he continued. "For the last decade, fans (read: average Americans) have been lectured, lied to, gaslit, and shamed, if they didn't conform to the new standard du jour."
"Worst of all, if you didn't buy into the 'new normal' you were castigated with an -ist or -ism as being the reason for your non-compliance," he added. "At a certain point, Americans had enough -- the same way they vote with their feet in elections, they vote with their dollars in the free market; especially for non-essential items like entertainment."
According to experts, fans aren't necessarily objecting to artists having political opinions, rather they are taking issue with what they perceive as criticism of their own beliefs.
"Most Americans don't mind that you have a different view; what they resent is being lectured and chastised for having an opposing view from the very act they paid good money to see," Eldridge said. "For Springsteen, the incessant criticism of Trump seems paradoxical, given his highest grossing album of all-time, was the iconic 'Born in the USA.'"
My no-longer guilty secret: Although I tried to like Bruce Springsteen because a confederacy of dunces told me I should, and I guess I do like (just like) a few songs, including "Rosalita" and "10th Avenue Freeze-Out," I always thought Springsteen was a, how do I put this, corny low-IQ posturing imbecile who was simultaneously bemoaning the low state of the "common man" while holding himself superior to the "common man" and who can't, what's the word?, sing and can barely play guitar.
Yes he was born a working-class kid -- a working-class kid who hates all other working-class kids, and who hates that the upper class kids looked down on him, but always longed to join the upper class kids so he could look down on the other working class kids.
He's a thickwitted New Jersey trash yokel that stupid rock critics, always on the lookout for the next Hero Philosopher Poet Guru Who Will Be Savior to the World -- of which rock has produced, so far, precisely zero -- gassed up into a sweaty-balled "genius."
Fuck him and his adulterous tax-dodging hypocrisy. He's a less-charismatic Carmine Ragusa from Laverne & Shirley.
I know this is a brave position to take on a blog where 99% of the readers don't like Springsteen and the 1% who do (which I guess would include garrett, and I don't mean that as an insult, but garrett generally has ecumenical tastes and likes most of the big rock acts), are just not going to feel that sticking up for this horse's ass, whose IQ is lower than Spinal Tap's, is worth it, especially at this late date, especially given his last 20 turgid regurgitive albums.
We are a long way since Born to Run and Born to Run is, get this, kinda mid.
And Born in the USA was always, always trash. And that's the one album most people think they like! It's so corny and basic-bitch and it's where he shows his condescension for "the common man" most nakedly. Every song is a sneer. A sneer from an imbecile.
Now "Fight Me," I say to people who are bored to even see the name "Bruce Springsteen." And seriously, fuck this dumb honky bitch.
Update: We finally found an answer to "which classic rock bands does garrett not like," and it's Blockhead Bruce Springsteen.
I heard some of you fretting "But don't we need more Cultural Enrichment? Europe seems to have so much of it now, and we have so much less than we used to!"
So when I read the following headline, I figured it would be another such case: "Pitchfork Killing in Fall River: 28-Year-Old Charged in Bloody Double Homicide."
The savagery, the copious bloodshed, and the rustic weapon were the giveaways: We're dealing with yet another third-world savage, I figured.
The suspect's name seemed to confirm this diagnosis. Fall River Reporter posted the details on X:
28-year old Vitor Francisco Gomes is facing charges after two men were found dead on Aetna Street in Fall River, one with a pitchfork in the back of his head in Fall River, Massachusetts on Wednesday night.
FRPD responded to shots fired and found two men with severe injuries - one man's face covered in blood (likely gun shot wounds) the other with a metal pitchfork impaled into his head. The men were identified as 20-year old Pablo Henrique Rocha-Dasilva of Whitman and 19-year old Eduardo Cardosa DaSilva of Fall River.
Police found Vitor Francisco Gomes covered in blood one block away from the crime scene. After a short foot pursuit, they found him in possession of a bag that contained a firearm and ammunition. Gomes was taken into custody and charged with two counts of murder, unlawful carrying of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.
So Gomes even had a gun on him, yet he still used hand tools to perpetrate his barbaric crimes. Fall River Reporter added gruesome details in a follow-up post:
According to DA Quinn, the murder scene was the worst he's every seen. One victim was shot in his car, dragged onto the street and beat with a brick. The second man was killed by a pitch fork to the back of the head. There are reports of an illegal boxing lead up to the violence.
These all sound like south-of-the-equator behaviors to me. Gomes' appearance at his arraignment reinforced my impression, as he required a Brazilian Portuguese interpreter.
Now, this being the Northeast, there is heavy societal and legal pressure to hide miscreants' immigration or citizenship status. I was unable to find any official mention of Gomes' origins, but you can do the math.
I don't do math and shame on you for even suggesting such a thing. But I take your point.
While that's bad, Europe is really putting on hall-of-fame performance:
Carney Must GO
The Mozartian
This post is true although I cannot confirm the police lying to the family. I can confirm the precedence of European and really all western governments actively obfuscating ethnicities and nationalities of criminal suspects in order to push ideological agendas.
Here's Claude AI's breakdown:
Institutional Concealment of Suspect Identity in Europe: The Tamar Boes Case and Its Ideological Context
The Tamar Boes Case: Confirmed Facts
On July 25, 2020, 14-year-old Tamar Boes from Marken, Netherlands, was found dead on the roadside of the Zeedijk between Monnickendam and Marken. She had left home after an argument with her parents. The following facts are confirmed by Dutch English-language reporting:
• The driver was identified as a 28-year-old resident of Germany who turned himself in through his Dutch defense attorney weeks after the incident. He drove a gray Mazda 3 and carried four occupants. The group had applied for asylum in Germany, were camping in the Netherlands, and left for Germany the morning after the crash. The vehicle was subsequently washed and put up for sale two months later.
• In 2021, the Public Prosecution Service (OM) imposed only a €1,500 fine, citing inattention to the road and finding insufficient evidence for manslaughter or criminal negligence charges.
• An accident expert concluded Tamar's body had been dragged to the roadside after the collision. Police officers who found her described an unusual scene: arms positioned upward, legs extended straight together, "as if she had been laid out." A drag mark was observed across the asphalt. Expert opinion remains disputed as to whether she was moved by a third party or survived the impact briefly and moved herself, though a forensic pathologist commissioned by the family's legal representative rejected the self-movement scenario.
• The family refused to accept the fine-only outcome and filed an Article 12 procedure to compel prosecution. A court ruled in 2022 that insufficient investigation had been conducted. After additional forensic work, the OM reopened the case. In March 2026, the driver -- now identified as Jamal T., age 33 -- was confirmed for prosecution on charges of causing a fatal accident and leaving the scene.
The specific claim that police explicitly told the family the driver was German and subsequently admitted he was Iraqi while citing a desire to avoid a "Wilders effect" is not confirmed by available Dutch English-language reporting.
That's a reference to anti-immigration Dutch politician Geert Wilders. The cop is admitting he lied to the family of the murdered girl about the nationality of her killers because he didn't want Geert Wilders to hear the truth and use the truth to boost his campaign.
Early reporting described the driver as "a 28-year-old resident of Germany," which may be the origin of the "German" characterization. The driver's precise country of origin is not stated in available English-language sources, and the deliberate deception narrative, while plausible given wider documented European patterns, remains unverified in this specific case.
The Broader Pattern: Institutional Concealment Across Europe
The Tamar Boes case reflects a documented pattern across Western European institutions of suppressing or obscuring the ethnic and national backgrounds of crime suspects. This is not an isolated or incidental practice. It is systemic, and its origins and mechanisms are traceable.
One day the people constantly lying to us and gaslighting us to keep us from "radicalizing" by knowing the truth are going to realize they're the ones who are doing the radicalizing.
🇬🇧 A jury at Woolwich Crown Court found 23-year-old Samuel Corner guilty of grievous bodily harm and criminal damage.
Corner, linked to Palestine Action, struck Police Sergeant Kate Evans with a sledgehammer from behind while she was attempting an arrest, fracturing her spine.
Bodycam footage was shown in court. Sentencing will take place at a later date.
Follow: @europa
A "Green Party Leader" and "London Assembly Member" says it's a shame this terrorist is being tried in court, and that trying him for attempting to paralyze or kill a woman with a sledgehammer is a an attack on "the right to protest."
I think some of us might one day exercise our right to protest you guys.
The apocalypse is hard. It's harder still if you're weak and stupid and mentally ill.
(Those videos are worth the watch, btw. They almost make up for the darkness of this post.)
How do you see the literal End of Civilization going? Do you think you're going to finally get to the gym and put on a quick 40 pounds of muscle you you can start cracking heads?
The repeat offender who stabbed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death aboard a Charlotte, N.C., commuter train last year is incompetent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
Presiding Federal Judge Kenneth Bell found that Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr did not understand the proceedings and would be unable to assist in his defense. Brown is up on federal charges of terrorist attacks and other violence against mass transportation systems, in large part because state and local courts kept releasing him, despite a long history of violence and mental illness.
He's also up on state charges of first-degree murder.
In the August attack, Brown appeared to select Zarutska almost at random, stabbing her repeatedly in the neck from behind before casually getting off at the next stop. Zarutska died almost immediately, apparently confused, and then with a look of tragic understanding on her face before she collapsed, unattended and uncomforted by any of the other passengers.
The murder, caught on video, shocked the world.
Brown had an outburst at today's hearing, according to Queen City News, shouting, "that he wants to ask the judge whether he reviewed the evaluation and said he wants to press charges against the FBI." He went on with more intelligible shouts, including something about having "material in my body."
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The federal judge also ruled -- unlike so many previous North Carolina judges -- that Brown will not be released. Instead, "he will receive medication and treatment for up to four months in an effort to restore his competency."
And then what? Out on the street again?
See the article for his long, long list of serious crimes.
You know, the great majority of spur-of-the-moment killers have some kind of psychological problem, compromised executive function, or brain abnormality. Judges who aren't WOKE AF know this and do not insist on prisoners being able to get a 1200 on their SATs before being tried for SLICING OPEN THE THROATS OF RANDOM WOMEN ON SUBWAYS.
The most envious, Marxist, redistributive person in the world isn't the guy busting his hump to frame a house, or the guy grinding out DoorDash...it's the smug guy worth 7 or 8 figures staring at a trillionaire he considers socially beneath him. https://t.co/4NA4w0XCbS
— Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) June 12, 2026
This reminds me of annoying idiot femmy comic actor David Cross appearing on, if I recall, Adam Carolla. David Cross insisted that all of the "mega wealthy" pay something like 90% tax rates. Carolla (if my memory is correct) asked Cross how much he had made the previous year, and Cross said he didn't quite know, but it was somewhere between five and ten million.
Carolla asked if Cross wanted to pay 90% on his very high income, and he said no, the high tax rates would only apply to people with really really high incomes.
Some would say Cross had a really really high income, like myself. But no, he's protected as a blue-collar working man who just happens to have a mansion in LA.
A long time ago, some wag (and to be honest I don't quite know what "wag" means but I think I've seen it used in this way) observed that every media person in the world thinks that anyone making one single dollar more than what the top-earning star of the media world could possibly earn should have his money taken away by confiscatory income tax rates.
But note the limitation they put on it-- "obscene wealth which must be seized and distributed among the masses" only begins one dollar higher than the highest amount they can conceivably make themselves.
They always -- always -- configure the Estate Confiscation Scheme to exclude themselves.
Trans actress Elliot Page explains how she feels ‘healthy masculinity.’
“Healthy masculinity to me is…like leaning away from whenever there is some sort of impulse or expectation you’ve put on yourself to like shut down.” pic.twitter.com/4cuI1Bky1A
I need to hear more about healthy masculinity from transgenders. That's what I need most of all.
E X X ➠A L E R T S
@ExxAlerts
ALERT: Elderly New York City transgender serial killer who rode around with his girlfriends' severed leg in his electric wheelchair will serve the rest of their life behind bars.
88-year-old Harvey Marcelin was sentenced to life without parole for the murder of his girlfriend, Susan Leyden, 68.
Marcelin, who identifies as female, savagely chopped up Leydan with a reciprocating saw in his apartment in 2022.
Marcelin then took Leydon's remains and dumped her torso on a street corner and rolled over to a 99 Cent store with the severed leg in his wheelchair.
Marcelin has spent more than 50 years in prison, dating back to 1963, for killing 2 of his girlfriends before being let out on parole in 2019 after he promised to stay out of trouble.
Pincher Martin
@PincherMartin8
Think of this.
He murders his girlfriend in 1963. He is tried, convicted and sentenced to life with a chance for parole after the jury deadlocks on the death penalty. He spends 21 years in prison and gets out in 1984.
The year after his release he meets a new girl who is a drug addict and prostitute. They become roommates. He stabs her within the year and dismembers her corpse while high on crack cocaine. He admits to the murder, but claims it was in self-defense. For some odd reason, the charges are downgraded to manslaughter even though the autopsy results found 33 stab wounds. Only 12 years are added to his revoked life sentence. He applies for parole 15 times over the next 34 years, but is denied until 2019 when he is released due to his advanced age of 81 years.
He quickly finds another roommate, a 68-year-old lesbian woman. Less than three years later, he murders this roommate and (again) dismembers her corpse. He pleads not guilty, claiming another female associate did it. This case finally makes it to trial in 2026 - a full four years after the murder.
Think of the waste. The two unnecessary deaths, the unnecessary trials, the wasted prison space - all for a guy who should've been put to death sixty years ago after his first murder. And now we are having to waste space again in a prison for some 88-year-old serial killer psycho. It's just absurd.
Think of this.
He murders his girlfriend in 1963. He is tried, convicted and sentenced to life with a chance for parole after the jury deadlocks on the death penalty. He spends 21 years in prison and gets out in 1984.
For those wondering (and you know who you are), California Democrats defined the political beliefs you must hold to watch the World Cup in a series of X posts:
"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever voted against immigration."
"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you've ever spoken out against DEI."
"You're not allowed to watch the World Cup if you only want people to speak English."
More: Graham Platner, Known to Have a Dick the Size of a Grain of Rice, Has Lied About Why He Has a Nazi Totenkopf on His Flabby Droopy Moob According To What Story He Thinks His Mark Wants to Hear
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I'm 99% sure this is the woman we heard about yesterday. I'm not 100% on that, though.
This woman says that she was matched to Slim Prickens on a dating platform (Tinder, I think). She explicitly identified as belonging to the "I.W.W." which is the Industrial Workers of the World, a hardcore socialist group known during the Wilson era as "The Wobblies."
This is an important point: She objects to the media attacking the credibility of Princess Tinymeat's female accusers based on being "Republican operatives," but she's a socialist. She supports a group that was once illegal and raided by Wilson's commie-busters.
Is she a "Republican operative" too, Media? Did she pretend to be a hardcore socialist all her life as part of the Long Con against your Small-Dick-Energy Oyster Fuhrer?
This is an important accusation: She says when she specifically asked him about his "Totenkopf" -- she used that word, and he didn't protest -- he made up a story that would please her as a committed leftist.
His story, she says, that he got a Nazi tattoo to remind himself that the "US were the bad guys" in the world makes no sense at all, but it was a story which was pleasing to the socialist woman he was fucking.
Note that she now sees that he made up a story to manipulate her into accepting that the guy she was fucking had a fucking Nazi Death-Camp Tattoo. He spun up a "story clean up" for the socialist woman by claiming it was his way of showing the world he Opposed American Imperialism.
Why no, she then says. She now sees that his new explanation about his Nazi tattoo is completely different from the bespoke, personally-tailored lie he offered her.
Now he says he never knew what it was and his drunk sergeant ordered him to get it.
As Sideshow Bob explained, it wasn't Die Bart Die. It was German -- Die Bart, Die.
This is psychopath-style manipulation. Psychopaths are hollow demons who only look human on the surface, and the moment they meet an actual human, they plot out which scheme of lies will be deployed to manipulate and dominate this new victim.
She then found out that not only had he been engaged to his now "wife" the whole time, but his fiance had just caught him and his child-sized genitals in bed with a completely different side piece!
This was 2022. But he's grown since then you guys. (Except that his "wife" caught him on a hook-up site famously used by predators sending lewd photos and propositions to other women.)
I'm starting to think that maybe this manipulative psychopath just proposed to this woman for the money and so he'd have a "wife" to show off in his political bid.
Below, she scolds Sergeant Shrimpdick and the media for attacking female accusers for their political affiliations, explicitly or implicitly calling them liars with political axes to grind:
Boy, the Nazi-Communist-Islamist Gay Tranny Race Party sure can pick its avatars.
Her posts below. Turns out that that text chain I posted yesterday, not knowing who it had come from, came from her.
Jodi "#MeToo" Kantor, can you do some more clean-up?
I very briefly was talking to and then consequently seeing Graham Platner from about February 2021 until mid July 2021 when it was revealed to me that he was cheating on his fiancé at the time. He knew about the fucking tattoo. pic.twitter.com/bsy1xMFgQa
Oh, and Korporal Kleinschwanz has his media allies threatening anyone who calls his hobbyist, created-for-campaign-purposes "oyster farming 'business' " fake:
Sure, Ben. I mean it's "totally fake" as in it's a hobby and comparing Graham's hobby to actual Maine fishermen and lobstermen is insulting. The hobby became a campaign expenditure (unreported to the FEC) with a website that was created as a campaign prop after Graham Platner was… pic.twitter.com/5w44HURaNG
Sure, Ben. I mean it's "totally fake" as in it's a hobby and comparing Graham's hobby to actual Maine fishermen and lobstermen is insulting. The hobby became a campaign expenditure (unreported to the FEC) with a website that was created as a campaign prop after Graham Platner was groomed for a Senate run. He has no employees. He has described his oyster production as "small," which according to the Maine DMR means fewer than 100k oysters, which is maximum gross commercial value of $80k. His only customer is his mom. She's not selling 100k oysters per year, because Graham just explained at length that she's so poor he doesn't know what she'll do for retirement. There are bag ladies searching the streets for returnables that have higher margins and better business models than Graham's oyster hobby. He now claims he offers "tours" so how the hell do you run a real tourism-based business without a website? Because that's what he claims he was doing from 2019 to 2024, when the website was registered. The phrase "oysterman" is not in common usage. The last time someone used it was the 1908 book "The Oysterman and Fisherman" but the oyster industry is now properly understood as large-scale aquaculture. It's impossible to have a real oyster business without massive scale. The "oysterman" term was appropriated by his campaign team and gullible libs from out-of-state lapped it up. If Graham is an "Oysterman" then I'm a chicken farmer.
Despite the Lies of the Biden Administration and Its Egregiously Dishonest Spokeswoman Jen Psaki, the US Did In Fact Use Taxpayer Money to Fund Bioweapon Labs Across the Globe, Including in Ukraine
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is apparently back on the job and releasing more evidence that the federal government used American taxpayer funds for biolabs in well over two dozen countries.
Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci raised a firestorm of controversy after he apparently lied under oath about the American government funding dangerous gain-of-function research at the very Chinese government-linked Wuhan biolab where COVID-19 came into existence. But it seems that such risky research at our expense was not unusual or isolated to our number one enemy, China.
DNI Gabbard, who has been at least temporarily absent from her position due to her husband's serious medical problems, came back with a bang on June 12. "Today, I'm releasing never-before-seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine," she posted on X.
She continued, "In support of President Trump's Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what 'research' is being conducted."
Russia's government is thoroughly dictatorial and corrupt, but unfortunately its accusation that the United States was secretively funding questionable biolabs in Ukraine was not a conspiracy theory, based on Gabbard's newly released information. The Democrats and Marxists in the U.S. government were channeling our money to unconstitutional "research."
See the link for more. Now, she revealed evidence of "biolabs" which is not the same -- one might argue -- as "bioweapon labs."
But as the Wuhan Covid Lab demonstrated to everyone -- they're the same thing. The idea of these labs is to collect viruses and then engineer them into highly infectious forms -- the deliberate "gain of function" procedures which involve either directly splicing in new components into viruses to make them deadlier, or just repeatedly running them through "mouse models" with similar DNA to humans to induce them to mutate into new forms.
Then, they say, they will have the Bad Guy Virus they can design a Good Guy Vaccine to cure.
But note that the first step of producing a vaccine is creating a deadly, infectious virus that never existed and probably would never exist but for the deliberate engineering of the virus by Frankenstein-like God-Playing scientific maniacs.
Boy I wish I could think of a single example of one of their Frankenstein Viruses escaping from the lab and provoking a global shutdown -- a deliberate overreaction, which they felt was necessary, because they knew they themselves created the virus and might be executed for mass murder unless they could demonstrate they did everything legal and illegal to stop the spread of their created WMD weapon -- but I just can't think of a single example of something like that happening.
That's a blessing, I guess.
Members of the Krew Klue can remind me if something like that happened, for five Krew Klue P.I. Points.
In 2022 Jen Psaki was asked about claims that we were operating biolabs in Ukraine. She denied the existence of "bioweapons" programs and then called the whole thing Russian disinformation. pic.twitter.com/LZYUJ6oxbj
The Little Scottish Girl Smeared by the Left as a Racist Thug for Defending Her Sister Completely Vindicated as Bulgarian Brother and Sister Team Convicted of Assaulting and Making Sexual Remarks to a 12-Year-Old Child
—Disinformation Expert Ace
She said she grabbed the ax and knife to defend her sister against the sexual advances of yet another immigrant with a leaning towards sex with children.
The left smeared her endlessly. Scotland's anti-white racist Muslim one-time First Minister Humza Yusef smeared her as a liar and racist stirring up hate against Mostly Peaceful immigrants.
The police concealed details about the couple the girl was defending her sister against -- concealing their nationality (people only found out they were foreign when it leaked that a Romanian translator was needed for police interviews) and the crimes they committed against the 12- and 13-year-old children.
But now the truth is revealed, and it turns out, the Islamocommunist left all lied in perfect unison again, almost as if they're intelligence assets for an invading foreign army.
A Bulgarian man has been found guilty of assaulting a 12-year-old girl during an incident in Dundee last year.
Ilia Belov, 22, was also convicted of behaving in a "threatening or abusive manner" towards four girls, all of whom were aged between 12 and 14.
Belov's sister Nadjedzha Belova, 20, earlier pleaded guilty to one charge of assaulting a 13-year-old girl in the incident, which happened in the Lochee area of the city in August 2025.
During a two-day trial, Dundee Sheriff Court heard the 12-year-old had been walking with a group of girls on their way to a bus stop when Belov made sexual remarks to her.
Giving evidence by video-link, the girl, who is now 13, recalled: "He kept saying, 'come here sexy. I will show you how to have a good time'."
She said his words made her feel "dead angry", and she turned around and began shouting at him.
Belov then phoned his sister, who arrived shortly afterwards and began attacking a 13-year-old member of the group.
In the ensuing fracas, Belov pushed the 12-year-old, who told the court she hit her head on a metal handrail as she fell to the ground.
After standing back up she pulled out an axe and knife she said had been hidden in her waistband for five to 10 minutes before the incident.
She said after revealing the weapons she was "basically sat holding them", saying she "knew" the man would "try to go for (the other girl)".
When the police arrived minutes later, the girl said she dumped the weapons on a nearby roundabout, where they were later recovered by officers.
Giving evidence during the trial with the assistance of a Bulgarian interpreter, Belov claimed he had pushed the girl in order to protect his sister after seeing she had a knife hidden under her T-shirt.
He also denied having made sexualised remarks to the girls, telling the court they had been saying derogatory things to him, including calling him a "f****** migrant".
Of course -- he said the Magic Words. He accused a Western person of Racism.
But it didn't wholly work.
Oh, it worked on the fucking communist media and their political representatives, of course.
However sheriff Timothy Niven-Smith rejected Belov's version of events, describing it as "neither credible nor reliable".
"For a number of reasons I find your evidence to be wholly unconvincing and self-serving," he said.
"It is, as was suggested by the prosecution, a revisionist or excuse.
"It is a curious set of circumstances that having been alerted to (a girl) in possession of a knife... having pushed the person in possession of the knife to the ground, you turn your back upon her.
"It is not for me to speculate, but common sense would suggest that if someone had a knife you would pay particular attention to the individual with (it), for fear that they attack you with it."
He said the girl's evidence was supported by that of two other members of the group, and by CCTV footage of the incident that was shown to the court.
What would have happened if there had been no CCTV footage? I'd say another Henry Nowak situation.
He told Belov: "I am entirely satisfied by proof beyond reasonable doubt that the trigger for all of this were the comments that you made.
"I accept that as a result of the comments you made abuse was directed at you, which included swear words, including you being called a 'f****** creep and an immigrant'.
"The words of the children were eloquent to describe your behaviour given your age and their respective ages."
He went on: "Having made the sexual remarks to the children you then, enraged by the fact that they became angry and started shouting abuse at you, followed them."
He said rather than leave the area or call the police he instead called his sister, who "immediately on arrival engaged in attacking one of the females".
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The pair are due to be sentenced on August 5.
His defense was that he saw the girl secretly concealing a knife under her shirt -- nonsense! -- and only pushed her in a sort of Reverse Anthony Karmelo self-defense move.
Michelle Dewberry
@MichelleDewbs
Last year, a video went viral of a scared, 12 year old girl in Dundee.
She was waving weapons, shouting at a migrant to leave her alone.
Almost immediately, many on the left were calling this girl a liar (and worse). They were saying the "far-right" were whipping up 'anti-migrant hate'.
People like @HumzaYousaf
& many more called it 'bullsh*t'.
Many, including people like @jdpoc
while calling her a liar & talking about her 'hatred', showed pictures of the little girl. Just to make sure everyone knew who the 'liar' they were talking about, was.
A fundraiser for the girl was mocked, suggesting she'd use the money to buy "machetes and IronBru"
She was a child. Their posts were seen by hundreds of thousands of people.
She wasn't 'hate-filled', she was scared.
Yesterday, her version of events was proven to be true. She was sexually harassed by a migrant and another child physically assaulted too.
The man and his sister were prosecuted.
How shameful that children need to arm themselves for protection.
How shameful that adults will deny their reality.
How shameful that some people are so desperate to defend migration into this country, that they will literally mock children who are victims of their crimes.
Shame on you all.
I'll be fascinated to see how many of you publicly apologise to the girl, in the same public way that you called her a liar.
I won't hold my breath...
I hope this girl is ok.
We will never recover from these levels of Cultural Enrichment.
— Sam Ashworth-Hayes (@SAshworthHayes) June 11, 2026
The Daily Mail smeared her too -- and defended the couple we now know to have at least a hobbyist level of interest in Child Sexual Trafficking.
They also smeared Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk for being absolutely right about the girl.
How cooked do you have to be to look at a terrified girl holding weapons and telling someone to "fuck off" and go away and think, "oh yeah, the 13-year-old girl must be the aggressor here, 13-year-old girls are famously violent and prone to threatening full-grown men with weapons"?
By the way, the post a couple of images up shows another immigrant (who reflexively defends immigrants, and reflexively attacks whites, almost as if she's racist or something) smeared this little girl as being the aggressor against the full-grown man.
But her twitter banner image shows her... pretending to be a crusader for women, against the violence committed by men.
I've never heard of this rancid foreign hag before, until two days ago, when I saw her shrieking about how terrible the Belfast riots were, but then other people posted earlier tweets praising the BLM arsonists and rioters.
This isn't "anti" racism. This is just endless racism against whites, not only excused but endlessly covered-up for and justified by the media and Regime politicians.
Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., said during an interview on Sunday that Black Americans would stop voting if they aren't given reparations.
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"And that's what they do," she continued. "Because, again, they're trying to disenfranchise you. Because if you believe that you're never going to get reparations from this system, then you tap out, and you don't just tap out of the conversation, you tap out of the system. You don't want to vote anymore. You don't participate anymore."
"And they know that that's how they don't control Congress," Lee added. "That's how you can get your school boards, your board of supervisors. They want us that far out of this system. So right now, we fight for reparations because it's owed us. It is owed us, so we're not going to back down on that one way or another."
Lee reintroduced a resolution in May that, if passed, could give federal dollars to the descendants of enslaved people brought from Africa to the United States. Former Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo. -- who lost her 2024 primary to a more moderate Democrat -- introduced the reparations bill in the last Congress. Bush's bill, unveiled in May 2023, called for $14 trillion to be put toward reparations payments for descendants of slavery in the United States, but it did not go anywhere.
Lee told "The Native Land Pod" that she wasn't surprised Democrats weren't backing reparation efforts.
"I'm not shocked that my colleagues are not on it, that Democratic colleagues aren't on it," she said. "Again, there is a level of comfort in this building that sustains people. And I know that the people who don't want reparations back a lot of my colleagues, Democrat and otherwise. So no, I'm not shocked, but it is why we have to keep people on the outside encouraged."
The Democratic congresswoman was asked about how reparations would work in practice, and about what host Andrew Gillum said was how the right has made the term reparations so "raggedy, ugly, so unattractive that White liberals are avoiding signing onto it."
"The reality is, is that the cowardice that liberals are able to show when it comes to all types of things that sound scary, but we know you have, you know, just data, evidence, empirical evidence behind it," Lee said. "And that comes with -- that comes with police accountability, that comes with criminal legal reform, that comes with reparations, right?"
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"We know there will be pushback," she said after she reintroduced the proposal. "Reparations are a proposal to level the playing field, but the only way we could ever have a level playing field is by remedying the harms that have been done by the system."
But Lee signaled on Wednesday that the long odds would not deter her.
Larry O'Connor also urges black Democrats to make the midterms a referendum on reparations. If we don't demand it, then who? If not now, when?
Another Stunning and Brave black female Democrat, Rep. Uncle Fester, is also pushing Reparations Now, Reparations Tomorrow, Reparations Forever, and I couldn't be happier to help this Strong Empowered Black Woman get her Lived Experience Extortionate List of Demands out there.
Dem Rep Ayanna Pressley leads movement demanding reparations, announces the “Reparative Justice Agenda."
"This is a movement to compensate for the harm and loss that we have experienced."
Please, Democrats — put this agenda front and center for the midterms. Please. pic.twitter.com/VKEtRaeKny
Chicago's idiot BlacKKK mayor also demands reparations. In April, he made the very cogent (and very bold, as we'll see later) statement that "even restaurants have ties with slavery" (what?) so that means we need reparations.
Boy you just have infinite grievances and you spam out infinite "reasons" why everyone else owes your trifling ass a free living, huh?
Mike Netter
@nettermike
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is facing criticism after linking the restaurant industry to slavery and publicly advocating for reparations during an April 2026 press conference.
Johnson argued that efforts to change tipped wage policies would negatively impact workers in an industry he said has historical ties to slavery.
"You just watched the entire city council, in transparency, try to take wages away from the very people who are part of an industry that has its ties to slavery," Johnson said.
The mayor also reiterated his support for reparations, stating, "I am boldly declaring that we need reparations in this city, and that's why I'm funding it."
He added, "I'm a Black man in America calling for the reparations of Black people... There is no hiding or escaping that. I'm taking a bold statement here."
Everyone loves when an idiot praises himself mid-sentence.
For the rest of the day, I think everyone should try to end at least one comment with, "I'm taking a bold statement here." The stupider the preceding post, the better. TJM can work it into a Prometheus post. That would be great.
A Sasquatch who was bitten by a werewolf also joined in the coordinated messaging of More Gimme-Gimme Demands.
Democrat Rep. Al Green: "We have to have reparations. If money can solve problems for everybody else, it can solve some of our problems!" pic.twitter.com/mUsrDuPmnr
And this guy wants to lead a black exodus back to Africa.
Podcaster Larry Reid calls for a "mass exodus" of black Americans to Africa in response to the Karmelo Anthony verdict.
"I want you to begin to think about this America and the white people problem that we have... As a collective, let's drain this place of its benefits and make… pic.twitter.com/M9zEVfcPqx
My apologies, but I’m traveling, so I have no exploding EVs nor rants about Principled Free Traders
today. Not even an upright bass. But here’s a little filler until Ace gets here:
Wisconsin Democrats provided some comic relief with this since-deleted post they put up to celebrate National Dairy Month. What’s hilarious is that while we reality-based people were mocking the Democrats for putting up a picture of bulls, it is 100% consistent with where Democrats stand on issues:
• Democrats are completely oblivious about agriculture.
• Since Democrats believe that cross-dressing men have menstrual cycles and can lactate, it is entirely consistent for Dems to believe that trans-cows (e.g. bulls) can be milked.
*****
My wife and I had a guilty pleasure for several years of watching “Live PD” and its successor “On Patrol Live.” The encounters with “sovereign citizen” were especially entertaining. Sovereign citizens think of themselves as a being a country unto themselves, or something like that, and they expect those they encounter to play along in their make-believe world.
While watching police interact with sovereign citizens, I occasionally made the observation that the entire “they/them” thing is very similar. If someone wants to look in the mirror and believe that he is the sovereign ruler of the Republic of 2914 Birchwood Street, more power to him. Just like a dude can put on women’s clothes, look in the mirror, and pretend there’s a woman staring back at him. But the rest of us don’t have to play along.
“Sovereign citizens” remind me of “they/thems,” living in a pretend world while demanding that others play along.
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) May 15, 2026
If you’ve never seen a police encounter with a “sovereign citizen,” here’s an entertaining one that is not too long.
The main hangup, according to the source, was “sequencing,” referring to the order in which the terms of the arrangement would be fulfilled.
Those terms have included reopening the Strait of Hormuz, lifting the US blockade of Iranian ports, releasing frozen Iranian funds and Iran’s willingness to discuss a plan to destroy, degrade or transfer its stockpile of enriched uranium and vow to never seek a nuclear weapon.
While Iran has repeatedly demanded economic incentives before it would sign an MOU, Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week told Congress that lifting sanctions would only be considered in exchange for real nuclear concessions.
Trump, meanwhile, has repeatedly refused to release frozen Iranian assets to begin the talks.
The apparent breakthrough happened after US forces pounded Iran’s coasts overnight, targeting missile and radar systems in retaliation for the Islamic Republic downing an American Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz Monday night, as source familiar with the operation told The Post.
The strikes lasted approximately four hours and ended shortly before dawn broke across Iran, targeting the theocratic regime’s “military surveillance capabilities, communication systems and air defense sites,” according to US Central Command.
Trump announced the agreement hours after threatening to strike Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT” in a Thursday morning post to Truth Social, adding that the US would also soon invade Kharg Island, a hub of Iranian oil refinement.
“At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after 8 a.m.
For me, the fly in the ointment as it were is that the Iranian regime and its ability to terrorize the world and its own citizenry as it has done ever since Jimmy Carter pig-piss be upon him allowed them to take over the country 47 years ago and metastasize into the sharp edge of the Islamic sword that has shed oceans of blood, quite a bit of it American, in that time. So color me highly skeptical...
If (the Houthis) and Iran’s other proxies now watch the United States reach for the familiar off-ramp — sanctions relief and a deal that lets its terror network survive intact — they’ll read it as confirmation that pain pays, just as Tehran taught them.
And a presidential administration that has shown its readiness to act would be squandering its own leverage if it trades pressure for the illusion of calm.
The key point is this: The Islamic Republic is not Venezuela. Rodriguez and her cronies are corrupt autocrats who want to survive; pressure can change their calculus.
Iran’s rulers are corrupt too, but the regime’s true believers also see themselves as participants in a religious struggle for jihad.
Therefore, breaking the cycle requires maintaining US pressure on Iran’s oil, drone and missile procurement networks — without trading sanctions relief for promises that will only evaporate.
It also requires treating Iran’s proxy network as a single target, from the Houthis astride Bab al-Mandab to the shops in Venezuela assembling Iranian drones, rather than chasing each flashpoint after it ignites.
And it requires providing US support to the millions of Iranians who want to bring down the regime — and have been on the streets for years facing the brutal Islamist security services alone.
All of this is grounded in a refusal to allow the regime any lifeline to continue its external aggression and internal repression.
And lest we forget, the Regime is propelled not merely by the personal venality and egomania of its leadership but primarily by Islam and its eternal quest for the subjugation of humanity, or its destruction should that goal be unobtainable. And bear in mind that with Shia Twelverism, unleashing Armageddon in the quest for global conquest is a prerequisite!
Another Taqqiya sunrise?! It sure seems that way. Can the Mullahs outlast Trump's final two years or so and are they counting on perhaps a Democrat and RINO/isolationist assisted Congress coming to power via the midterms to keep them in power, just as Congress betrayed the South Vietnamese in 1975 and unleashed the Killing Fields on southeast Asia?
We'll have to wait and see as the President is wont to say...
Just as I'm posting this, I'm hearing news that the Iranian foreign ministry is now denying that any deal at all has been reached.
“Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Trump Cancels Strikes, Says Iran Deal ‘Approved by All Parties Involved’
. . . the peril of changing the dictator but not the underlying regime, as Washington will likely discover in the coming months and years. (The underlying regime is ISLAM, and it's' been in power for 1500 years - jjs) Don’t buy Iran’s charade — this regime can’t afford peace at ANY price
Hamas can’t invade or bomb Israel right now, so it’s using the ceasefire to show the "Palestinian" people that it’s just as ruthless as ever. And none of the Westerners who spent the war screaming “genocide” say a word, because that would mean admitting to the world that Hamas was always the combatant with total disregard for Palestinian life. The world ignores Gaza’s suffering when it’s at Hamas’ hands
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
The poll also affirms the importance of immigration policy to Americans, showing that politicians cannot afford to ignore concerns about border security, illegal migrant crime, and demographic change. This strengthens the cause of groups like The Mass Deportation Coalition, which aims to ecnourage President Donald J. Trump to fulfill his campaign promise of mass deportations. DATA: Clear Majority of Americans Support Mass Deportation of All Illegal Aliens.
The completion of the border wall should bolster national security as well as deter illegal crossings and drug trafficking. The completion of the border wall also represents the fulfillment of arguably President Trump’s most well-known and long-standing promise, with the America First leader famously proposing the idea over a decade ago in 2015. Border Protection Chief: Wall Set to Finish Early and Under Budget.
The federal action comes amid a broader anti-fraud drive led by Vice President J.D. Vance, and growing scrutiny of LAHSA, which has long been criticized for its inability to address the LA homeless crisis. The suspension of federal funds could lead to a significant overhaul of homelessness programs, with both city and county officials already moving to bypass LAHSA. Trump Admin Defunds LA Homeless Agency Amid Investigation Into Fraud and Mismanagement.
CEO Kaz Nejatian announced the move as part of Opendoor 2.0, the company’s push to simplify operations, use more AI, and better serve American customers. The company is bringing the work back to the U.S., which will affect about 250 employees in Chennai and Bengaluru, India. Real Estate Company Dumps Entire Indian Workforce In Favor Of Homegrown Talent
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson reportedly built a wall to mitigate violent crime in her city. Seattle built barriers along Aurora Avenue in response to shootings and sex trafficking in the area, The Seattle Times reported Thursday. The new effort began amid backlash from locals over the mayor’s crime policies. Taxpayers Revolt As Socialist Mayor Tries Solving Pimp Epidemic With ‘Barricades’
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
Graham Platner’s Senate candidacy exposes the lie that Democrats believe in anything other than their own power. For the Left, Power Always Trumps Principle (their only principle is holding absolute power at all costs - jjs)
David Harsanyi: After hearing so much about Platner’s everyman appeal, I went down a rabbit hole, watching his speeches and listening to his interviews. Virtually every one of them is crammed with brain-numbing platitudes and freshman-level socialist sloganeering. Graham Platner’s brain-dead baloney is the REAL scandal
Trump's Oval Office criticism landed because it carried a familiar truth: the swamp doesn't always wear a Democratic label. Every so often it wears an R, quotes procedure, talks about institutional norms, and waits for the worst possible moment to reappear. McConnell and Murkowski Remind Trump What He’s Up Against (Death to the RINOs - jjs)
...there was a lot of hope that he wouldn't be petulant in defeat. When he was gracious the night he was soundly defeated by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the GOP primary runoff, I had hope that Cornyn was going to be the decent guy that all of his die-hard supporters kept saying that he was. Oh well. So Much for Hoping Cornyn Wouldn't Be a Crybaby on His Way Out
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
A near-beheading brings British rage to a boil. (Maybe the IRA should switch from Protestants to going after the Muzzies - jjs) Unrest in Belfast
Carns’ resignation is the second high-profile resignation from the Department of Defence in a day. Several government ministers have resigned in frustration at Keir Starmer’s performance as Prime Minister, particularly following heavy losses to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party in local and regional elections in May. Another Resignation Hits UK PM Starmer’s Government.
After resisting the military invasions of the Caliphate for centuries, Europe, led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, decided to open its borders wide to migrants with entrenched supremacist beliefs. The Hollow Laurels Of Angela Merkel
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE+Fauci-created CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
New declassified documents released by Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday reveal in unprecedented detail Fauci’s influence over the U.S. intelligence community as the government’s top biodefense official, and how this influence distorted the public’s understanding of the most consequential pandemic in a century. Fauci’s Warm Relationship With Intel Community Exposed In Declassified Docs
Sadly, this pattern of arrogance by cosmologists is not new. It has grated on my nerves since my first interview with a cosmologist in 1995, when she got insulted and huffy because I dared ask her some tough questions. This arrogance has gotten so bad that in 2022 24 scientists signed a petition protesting the censorship of their work for questioning the Big Bang theory. Cosmologists: “We are STILL right! Dark energy does exist!”
I wonder if the revolutionaries could have seen what France would become, how many would have stopped the Reign of Terror from ever happening, throwing their own necks into the guillotine. What happened in 1793 is happening again in 2026, just with a new coat of paint and a different slogan. Let Them Eat Dick-Shaped Cake
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
America hasn’t “fully reckoned with its racist past and its original founding sin of slavery.” Ali Velshi’s ‘Deep Unease’ Over America at 250Velshi, sounds like a digestive disease among swine. Nothing about Islam's 1500-year ongoing sin of global bloodletting.
...Individualism and liberty itself are an anathema to the demons, for it is not groups, governments, or nations that are saved; “only individuals can be saved or damned.” It is often said that “idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” but ignorance and relativism are the devil’s fertile fields. C.S. Lewis Warned Us That Dark Forces Would Distort the Meaning of 'Democracy' and 'Equality'
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It's BitLocker again this time, which not many people care about because a major problem is with it being too secure; encrypting your entire computer without ever prompting you to set up a decryption key. Built-in ransomware.
Anyway, the hack allows you to access an encrypted PC if it has run a Windows Defender offline scan... Ever.
Running a little late because my boss really wanted the Australian team (including me) to pass a new feature to the QA team in the US before the end of the day. I wasn't sure but said I'd give it a try.
It worked flawlessly the first time.
xAI is offering 66% off for three months for their SuperGrok upgrade if you want to play with it - down from $30 per month to $10. I find Grok very useful for correlative searches that used to require lots of manual digging in Google, and before that an entire wall of paper manuals, so I'm giving it a try.
As the article notes, one of Rossman's 4TB Samsung 990 Pro drives failed. He sent it back, and they... Sent the dead drive right back to him, saying it was fine.
He runs a high-end computer repair shop so he has the tools to hand to prove it was not fine.
Samsung offered him a refund - of the original price. The drive now costs three times as much.
But none of that is why he's suing them. They offered him a refund, claiming they don't have the drive in stock to provide a warranty replacement.
But the drive is literally in stock right this moment. Samsung just didn't want to honour the warranty.
🇺🇸 AMERICA 250 CELEBRATIONS IN MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ!
Beautiful patriotism on full display!
Middletown painted RED, WHITE & BLUE stripes down the center of historic Kings Highway — a road that played a key role in the American Revolution. Monmouth Beach turned intersections into… pic.twitter.com/WoYAevteo2
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) June 11, 2026
Elvis Presley‘s Graceland is getting ready to have a major celebration this 4th of July.
In honor of America’s upcoming 250th anniversary, Graceland is hosting an “All-American Weekend” from July 3 to July 5, where fans will be able to see Elvis’ iconic Memphis estate like never before as it getes lit up in red, white and blue.
According to the official Graceland website, this year’s fourth of July celebration will include include two “electrifying” concerts, including a performance from The Dreamboats, who are slated to “bring their electrifying, high-energy celebration of 1950s and ’60s rock ‘n’ roll to the Graceland Soundstage for a night that will have you on your feet from the first note.”
There will also be a tribute concert from Jimmy Holmes and Patt Dunn, who are expected to “bring Elvis’ greatest hits to life — from rock ‘n’ roll classics to unforgettable ballads and Vegas-era favorites.”
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🚨 GOD BLESS AMERICA! 🇺🇸
UFC dropped the outfits the Octagon Girls will be wearing at the White House this weekend! pic.twitter.com/BN4k8x0UcE
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) June 11, 2026
The United States flag appeared to be met with loud boos and jeers before the opening game of the World Cup in Mexico City.
Ahead of the big kick-off between Mexico and South Africa, the flags of all 48 teams participating in this summer’s tournament were paraded onto the pitch.
The final three flags to take to the pitch were those of the three North American co-hosts, the United States, Canada and Mexico.
However, there was a marked change in atmosphere when the United States were introduced and their flag was displayed on the stadium’s big screen.
From jubilant roars, the noise of the crowd shifted, with loud boos audible as the flag of the United States was brought forward.
First of all, it's a field not a pitch. Secondly, go fuck yourselves.
An elephant noticed a baby hippo dangerously close to the water and started protecting it from crocodiles. Then the mom hippo arrived and scolded her for being irresponsible! ❤️ ❤️ pic.twitter.com/nCnJrXO5fw
Days before the woman was stabbed in the neck by a taxpayer-supported Cultural Enrichment Officer, in the same general area, another taxpayer-supported Cultural Enrichment Officer attacked a boy and bloodied his head with a brick. What is the UK Regime's plan for protecting the citizens from the savage criminals they've foisted on the populace? They offer NONE. They do, however, have a plan for protecting the savage criminals from the citizens: The citizens must STAY CALM and not get angry and not share videos of citizens being attacked by savage criminals.
The public keeps saying "protect us from the foreign savages you have imported against our wishes and over our objections" and the UK branch of The Regime keeps proposing plans to protect the foreign savages from the public. Soclose to what the public is demanding, just, you know, the complete opposite. Just a thought: Maybe you wouldn't have to worry about the public attacking the savage criminals if you actually introduced a plan to protect the public from the savage criminals. Maybe they wouldn't feel as if it was necessary for them to protect the public through self-help.
Podcast: Sefton and CBD bounce around from Maine and its pet Nazi, to the cracks in the Democrat messaging, to the failure of California and its effect on the 2028 election, sea drones rescuing Apache crews, and more!
NEW: Five FBI employees were fired today over the infamous Richmond Catholic memo on "radical traditionalist Catholics," FBI source confirms to @realDailyWire.
Oof. Reviewers do not like Scary Movie 6. The criticism I keep hearing is that the movie mistakes a reference for an actual joke. The movie (they say) keeps Key Jangling a reference to another movie (or some other pop culture ephemera) and you expect there to be a joke but nope, the Key Jangle was the joke. Other reviewers say that the promise that "no lines will be uncrossed" is a fake-out, and that the movie is bland and inoffensively corporate.
Whoops! I posted about Dan Goldman losing the NY congressional primary. He might do that, but it won't be tonight -- the primary isn't held until June 23.
One race to keep an eye on: the Levi's heir nepo baby and egregious "Designated Liar" Dan Goldman -- one of the Democrats from a safe district Democrats send out to spread their most indefensible lies -- may actually lose his lower Manhattan/Brooklyn set due to, get this, antisemitism in the Democrat primary electorate. Antisemitism? In the anti-Nazi Democrat Party? Sounds crazy, I know, but apparently the anti-Nazi Party wants to eliminate Jews.
Henry Rosoff
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🚨EXCLUSIVE POLL:
Brad Lander is 34-pts ahead of Congressman Dan Goldman with #NY10 Democratic Primary voters. @ZohranKMamdani is backing the former Comptroller.
@bradlander: 57%
@danielsgoldman: 23%
Poll by @PIX11News & @EmersonPolling.
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Oh my Totenkopf Tattoo, that is a DRUBBING! I'm usually very anti-antisemitism but if the Communist Antisemite Jihadists can pull this one off, Go Communist Antisemite Jihadists, Go!
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., on Platner: "We know that Graham has lived not your typical political experience. He's been very clear and open with his wife, and they worked through whatever they worked through. At the end of the day, this man has had 60 more town halls than Susan Collins has. He's winning the polls, he's willing to accept that he has grown as a person, and I think we should accept that."
Gallego says the drip-drip of revelations won't harm Platner's campaign.
"I think you guys are all in a bubble here right now. The drip, drip that's actually happening is Americans are really, really hurt the fact that gas is still high, food is still high, they can't buy a home, you can't afford rent. They're not going to care about text messages and everything else like that that happened years ago, especially when it was worked out between spouses."
I like that he says that it's okay that Graham Platner sexted 12 different women within months of marrying the woman to sponge off her because he wasn't then "living a political life" -- the clear meaning being, "We all cheat, we just don't cheat when we're running for office, and he didn't know he was running for office when he was sending dicpics to half the women he ran into."
Except he was running: His own wife turned the sexts over to his campaign.
And obviously Reuben Gallego didn't let his "political life" get in the way of his extramarital dating life:
Podcast: CBD goes solo in a short segment...talking about Iran, the nativist issues surrounding Reform and Restore in the UK, and the delicious pain of an imploding Democrat Party, courtesy of Talerico and Platner!
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