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Good morning kids. And so today is Election Day. As we have been discussing for at least the past couple of weeks if not longer, the direction if not the ultimate fate of whatever remnants of America as founded that still remain is at stake. I know that the phrase "the most important election of our lives" is trotted out every two to four years, but perhaps it's my no longer being a kid as well as facing some critical medical issues that has done more to focus my mind on things than otherwise might've been the case, but given the state of the world, our nation, history and who and what we are dealing with makes the stakes pretty obvious regardless of what your own personal situation might be.
. . . France – along with many of its neighbors – faces the specter of a species of revolution that may end up replacing Western freedoms with some hideous hodgepodge of Communism and sharia law. In Warsaw, too, this past weekend, people began taking to the streets in large numbers. But the Polish crisis could not be hardly different from the one afflicting Western Europe. In Paris and elsewhere, governments that have slavishly followed the EU’s globalist-minded directives instead of attending to the needs of their own people are paying the price for it. In Warsaw, on Friday, a group of five judges who had been appointed by parliament but not yet sworn in by the president, Karol Nawrocki, occupied the building of the Constitutional Tribunal, whereupon one of them, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, illegitimately and peremptorily removed the court’s president and deputy leader, appointed herself to take their place, and ordered the court building surrounded by police.
Polish member of the European Parliament warned Americans against voting for Democrats in the 2026 midterm elections, arguing that socialism could threaten their freedoms and lead the country down a similar path Poland experienced under communist rule. Dominik Tarczynski delivered the warning during an appearance on Fox News’ Saturday in America as he discussed political unrest in Europe and the dangers of socialism.
“Socialism is death, slavery, lack of any freedoms. Please don’t do it. Don’t go through 70 years of occupation like Poland did,” Tarczynski warned.
It took the human race thousands of years of suffering under tyranny and slavery to arrive at the Age of Enlightenment, 1685–1815, during which the absolute powers of spiritual despots and monarchs were overthrown in favor of the construction of constitutions of common law and declarations of human rights, including the rights to one’s own thought, faith, and expression; the rights of property; and the right to pursue personal happiness through freedom of enterprise. The citizens became the sovereign, and the government became the servant. These societal compacts of law wrought an unprecedented change in human fortunes toward individual liberty and societal harmony. The era gave birth to an explosion of artistic expression, scientific discovery, and industrial invention, culminating in most of the benefits we enjoy in our modern age
I recently came across a news item that made me reflect on our strange political environment —always a painful experience.
Bernie Sanders, the ancient socialist senator from Vermont, delivered a tirade against artificial intelligence, claiming that it had provided the tools for unscrupulous hackers to break into unauthorized bank accounts.
Even as he railed about an “evisceration of our privacy rights,” Sanders introduced legislation to “ban artificial superintelligence and temporarily pause advanced AI development.”
. . . Progressives want to pause data centers today because they killed off nuclear power decades ago — a chain of causation that can lead, quite literally, to the dark ages.
The best illustration of the horror of change and lack of forward-thinking by this sect can be found in their favorite means of transportation: trains and bicycles.
I mean, these are 19th-century technologies: the first steam-powered locomotive made its appearance in 1804 while the bicycle was invented in 1817.
Nevertheless, progressives spend enormous amounts of taxpayers’ money to promote these comfy old machines.
The socialist mayor of Paris, France, spent hundreds of millions of euros and destroyed her perfect city to install bike lanes. . . The socialist craves a return to the communal womb — to a society as unchanging and dogmatic as anything experienced by our medieval ancestors.
The dream is of Utopia, but what you get is Cuba, a place where the population is too hungry and too cowed to worry much about data centers.
That, in brief, is my complaint and concern about progressive conservatism of the Bernie Sanders kind. . . But by confusing their hopes with reality, progressives have tumbled into a fallacy and seem determined to drag us there with them.
Like Goethe’s Faust, they believe they can “pause” society in a perfect moment of universal harmony and sustainable prosperity.
That way lies damnation.Human societies are dynamic, complex systems, assembled through a historic process of trial and error and always adapting to changed conditions.
They can’t be paused, any more than one can pause a Cat 5 hurricane — but they can be made maladaptive, contradictory, and ultimately self-destructive.We are no exception.
Although this is quite a good piece, the author attributes way too much altruism on the evil Commies when all they want to do is exert absolute, total and permanent control on society, period, end of story,
And on that note, I invite you to peruse the Politics and associated links to try and read the tea leaves.
And of course GET OUT AND VOTE, LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW because depending on the outcome, there might not be one, at least not the one we had wished for, or more accurately worked our asses off and sweated bullets for... and in some cases like Ashli Babbit and Charlie Kirk as well as some of our ancestors who survived socialism in th third world and Nazi occupied Europe, took bullets for.
On that note, as always I nevertheless bid you all to have a good day,
and say a prayer for our sacred nation and society that we carry on regardless of today's outcome, and that Leftism and Islam one day soon are returned to the fiery pit from which they slithered.
Bernie Sanders, the ancient socialist senator from Vermont, delivered a tirade against artificial intelligence, claiming that it had provided the tools for unscrupulous hackers to break into unauthorized bank accounts. . . When one delves into the matter, a pattern emerges. . . The socialist craves a return to the communal womb — to a society as unchanging and dogmatic as anything experienced by our medieval ancestors.The dream is of Utopia, but what you get is Cuba, a place where the population is too hungry and too cowed to worry much about data centers. Progressives stand against progress — AI, data centers, cars, nuclear power, anything that would make our lives better
The Islamists and Socialists have become sinister allies with a common goal as they attempt to destroy our rights under common constitutional law. In a Sinister Vise of Darkness
The decision to destroy Iran’s goal of obtaining a nuclear bomb was, obviously, the correct, rational one that only a Democrat would object to. If the mission had ended there, all would have been fine. But the decision to go one step further and attempt to bring down the fanatical regime, with its obsessive hatred of America and Israel, was a miscalculation that was no doubt inspired by the Iranian people’s mass demonstration against the regime. Trump’s Miscalculation on Iran
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . The U.N... AND HISTORY
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS
The party has abandoned American Jews and Western values in its hunger for power — and that didn’t start with El-Sayed, with Platner or even with Zohran Mamdani. . . The DSA has made no secret of its plans to overtake the Democrat Party and wear it as a skin suit. Now they’ve reached critical mass, and their anti-western, anti-Jewish mind virus has infected the party’s highest ranks. Democrats’ fury at Haley Stevens means the party’s antisemitic transformation is almost complete
Meet the 'Jews for Melat' Supporting Denver's Socialist, Israel-Hating Congresswoman-To-Be 'Judaism Beyond Zionism':
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The foundations of Britain’s online regulatory regime were established under the Conservative government of former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The Online Safety Act 2023 granted Ofcom extensive new powers to oversee internet services, including social media platforms, search engines, and websites that host user-generated content.T The British Government’s War on Online Speech Is Escalating.
Extraordinarily, the Nowak family revealed that the footage of the final moments before 18-year-old Henry’s death, which caused shock around the world, showing officers callously dismissing the teen’s assertion that he could not breathe, was not provided to them until it was shown in court during Digwa’s trial. Family of Handcuffed Stabbing Victim Henry Nowak Accuse Police of Manipulating Case to Save Face
Though boasting many of the same natural advantages as San Francisco, the Bay Area city is awash in dysfunction, especially in enforcing public order and preventing crime. Oakland’s Experiment in Anarchy
When the administrative state collapses, and the rubble bounces, how will we know what to do and how to build the world that is to come? Imagining A Future With 'Social Learning'
The House of Representatives and Senate possess the constitutional authority to judge disputed elections involving their own members, even after state officials have certified the results. Democrats need a net gain of just three to four seats in each chamber to wrest control from Republicans, potentially threatening President Donald J. Trump’s legislative agenda during the final two years of his presidency. Congress Could Decide Its Own Majority After the Midterms.
Polling depends heavily on the pollster’s “assumptions,” the choices he or she makes about the variables that will be included and the weightings to give those variables. Predictions Are Hard, Especially About the Future
An accreditation crisis gives the American Psychological Association a unique opportunity to restore scientific integrity and evidence-based practice over ideology. The APA’s Chance for Reform
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And Ireland, Estonia, and the Netherlands as well.
"We've been working all night and morning to disconnect the affected units from the network."
Wut.
CEO Stephan Moelans said that while the company has been working "very hard" to protect its fridges against the vulnerability, physical modifications to its units are required. The company says switching units to a secure internet connection is the simplest solution in the meantime, a measure carried out by most of its customers in the wake of the France attack.
It seems at least that this attack is on a smaller scale because many companies notice eventually if you keep stealing their wallets.
Tachyum Slovakia is responsible for most of the development of Tachyum's thus far non-existent 1024-core CPU. Tachyum Slovakia is a subsidiary of Tachyum Inc., and that subsidiary filed for bankruptcy on October 22.
Tachyum Inc. could continue work, maybe, except that Tachym Inc. is a subsidiary of Tachyum Ltd. based in the Cayman Islands, which is also the target of liquidation proceedings.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Icky dust will hurt you when you are doing the wiring. It will hurt you even if you are not seeing it.
Good evening Horde. Welcome to the Monday overnight thread. The bar is open and the refrigerator has been freshly re-stocked with Rootbeer.
Welcome to the Monday night ONT which means vintage overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Pants are optional. This ONT is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Fauci is fair game.
[Top photo: Frostop Rootbeer stand, Sandy, Utah. The chain folded in the early 1980s.]
The Monday ONT has dialed up the wayback machine with very random results.
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A-1 taxi in Laredo, Texas - 1982. The company is still operating but at a different location. It claims to be one of the longest-running taxi companies in the area. The building on the photo was on Farragut Street, but there is no evidence it still exists.
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The Ace of Clubs Lounge on Route 90 in Lake Charles, Louisiana - 1979 (not to be confused with the Ace of Spades Club ONT). No evidence the Ace of Clubs still exists (at this location or otherwise nearby) or that the building remains.
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Octopus Car Wash was a chain in Minneapolis ("many hands to serve you"). This location was likely on University Avenue, near the St. Paul border. All locations are closed and the plastic octopus mascots were sold off. There is a current business in Minneapolis called Octopus Car Wash & Detail center that is not related, but trying to echo the former namesake.
Anyone ever seen (or have) one of the original octopus mascots?
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The Clown Motel is still operating at 521 N Main St in Tonopah, Nevada.
The motel opened in 1985, founded by siblings Leroy and Leona David. They built it next to the historic Old Tonopah Cemetery (established around 1901) as a tribute to their late father, Clarence David. Clarence, a miner who died in the 1942 Belmont Mine fire, had collected more than 150 clown figurines and statues.
It has different ownership but still operates as "America's Scariest Motel" with 31 basic rooms, ghost-hunting gear rentals and a gift shop and clown museum.
Exact photo date unknown, but believed to be post-2019.
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"Dinosaurland" was likely an advertisement for the region rather than a specific location by that name. No evidence this billboard still exists but this photo was taken in 1991 on Route 40 near Vernal, Utah.
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Jumer's Castle Lodge, 117 N. Western Ave. in Peoria, Illinois - 1980. The building is still standing but no longer operates as the original Bavarian themed hotel and restaurant.
James Jumer opened the Lodge (with restaurant and lounge) around 1970 on the site of the former Kramer's Drive-In. The Jumer's chain expanded to several locations in Illinois and Iowa but filed for bankruptcy in 1999.
The original architecture has been preserved and the location is now an assisted living facility.
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Beauty Shop, Browning, Montana - 1987. Believed to be on the Blackfeet Reservation but specific location unknown.
Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
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Main Street, Columbus Junction Iowa - 2003.
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Spot Cleaners at 2701 Madison Street, Seattle, WA - 1980. Both the business and building are long gone.
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Union League, 140 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA - 1905.
The club was founded in 1862 as a patriotic society supporting the Union and Abraham Lincoln. The clubhouse was completed in 1865 and remains the organization's headquarters. There have been renovation and expansions but the building largely looks the same today.
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One of roughly 20 themed fiberglass corn statues created in 2015 for the Community Corn Project by the Vinton Guild of Fine Arts. Benton County, Iowa. Still exists on the city hall grounds at the intersection of 2nd Avenue and East 4th Street.
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2 [106 names] 'Don't Be Jealous'
3 [57 names] '88C+u'
4 [54 names] 'Polls are for strippers'
5 [52 names] 'Duncanthrax'
6 [38 names] 'Count de Monet'
7 [36 names] 'I gotta ask'
8 [35 names] 'Shaking my head'
9 [35 names] 'mikeski'
10 [27 names] 'Helena Handbasket'
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Livestock guardian dog puppy seems to be attempting to herd a two year old girl.
You shall not pass: Raccoons attempt to intimidate a cat but the cat just gives them the thousand-yard stare. Does not move at all. He merely waits, and calculates.
EXCLUSIVE: A Honduran illegal alien who was arrested by ICE in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge, issued a deportation order, then ordered released from ICE detention by a Clinton-appointed federal judge on "due process" grounds has now been arrested & charged w/ raping a woman in her Minnesota home while working as a handyman after his release. Police say the rape was captured on the woman's internal home surveillance video.
Authorities in Ramsey County, MN have charged 42-year-old MARCOTULIO MELENDEZ DIAZ with felony 1st degree criminal sexual penetration w/ coercion. According to the criminal complaint, on October 11th, MELENDEZ DIAZ allegedly overpowered and repeatedly raped the female victim in her own home in Mounds View, MN against her will while working as a handyman, and the assault was captured on the woman's internal home surveillance system video. He is in custody on $150,000 bond and will face up to 30 years in prison if convicted. ICE has placed a detainer on him.
ICE sources tell FOX that MELENDEZ DIAZ was initially caught and released at the Texas border by the Biden administration in April 2024. ICE arrested him in Minnesota in January 2026 during Operation Metro Surge and transferred him to ICE detention in Texas where he initially crossed the border illegally. An immigration judge issued him a deportation order on 3/30/2026 and MELENDEZ DIAZ appealed. But on 8/7/2026, a federal judge in the Western District of Texas, Judge Orlando L. Garcia (Clinton appointee) ordered MELENDEZ DIAZ released from ICE custody and granted his habeas petition on grounds of "due process", and MELENDEZ DIAZ made his way back to Minnesota.
The Board of Immigration Appeals then rejected MELENDEZ DIAZ's appeal on 10/9/2026 and issued him a final deportation order, and two days later, police say he raped the Minnesota woman in her home.
Frustrated ICE sources say this alleged rape would have never happened if MELENDEZ DIAZ had remained in ICE custody.
I've reached out to Judge Garcia's office & courtroom deputy for comment.
Pro-terrorist antiamerican communist and adulterer Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy has suffered a stroke.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is "awake and alert" after being hospitalized for a stroke over the weekend, the New York Times reported, citing his chief of staff.
He was attending a hockey game when he suffered the stroke.
"We can't stand with hate. We can't stand with Hasan Piker," Stevens told reporters after the morning service. "All I can do is lead with love and integrity."
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"When young Jewish women have to hide their Star of Davids to walk across the University of Michigan campus, we have gone too far. When young men have to wear ball caps over their yarmulkes, for being Jewish, we have gone too far," Rogers said. "This is more a statement about standing together against hate and the future of this state and this country than it is anything else."
Church attendees told the Free Beacon that they were encouraged to see the display of bipartisanship at the service and that it might even change some votes.
"I thought [the joint appearance] was interesting. It could be taken as bipartisan, people working together on both sides, Democrat and Republican. That could be a good thing," the first churchgoer said. "But it also could be a dig [that] elevates the tension," she added.
Another woman leaving the church said she hadn't "made up her mind yet" on the election, but was "very pleased that [Rogers] did stay for the whole service."
"We do have a lot of candidates who come when they're running for something, and he did stay for the whole service," she said. "So I appreciate that."
David Hogg 🟧
@davidhogg111
If you supported Haley Stevens now is your time to speak out, denounce her as the Republican she is and apologize for supporting a traitor.
Femboy terrorist mouthpiece Wajahat Ali warns that if Michigan doesn't "elect" the Muslim Brotherhood Candidate Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, peaceful Mulsims will resort to terrorism in response:
Wajahat Ali
@WajahatAli
Nov 1
If, God forbid, Abdul loses, this will be a watershed moment in Democratic politics.
The fire will rise.
It's over.
People will be radicalized against corporate, pro-Israel Dems. There will be a reckoning.
If, when, he wins, it will be a watershed moment.
And that reckoning will still come.
Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
If the Trump administration and our@FBIDirectorKash doesn't conduct a raid on the home of @WajahatAli and his entire mosque by tomorrow at 10 am EST, then we will know we are a conquered country.
Muslims should not be allowed to make these types of brazen threats of Jihad.
Asked if Palestine has the right to a homeland, the Five Foot Five Fedayeen Fireplug answered immediately and simply: "Yes."
Asked if Israel has the right to a homeland, he said "Yes, but... Israel will have to accept" conditions he doesn't spell out, but which, in another answer, seem to be that Israel will have to accept that Palestinians have the right not just to Gaza and the West Bank but all of Israel.
So yes, Israel can exist, so long as it is actually Arab-dominated Palestine.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed (and how I pray to the Lord I never have to write that name again after tomorrow, except in a post-mortem (and you can take that as you wish)) says that boys should be allowed to wag their pickles in front of girls in changing rooms because we have the internet now and you can see anything you want to see so obviously young girls should be forced to look at weirdo's cocks against their consent.
It's just the "free flow of information," you know.
.@AbdulElSayed says it’s ok for MEN to be in girl’s locker rooms.
Why?
“Well because they are going to find out about it on the internet anyway”
DOUTHAT: What is taught in school? What happens with transgender kids on sports teams and so on, right? Like, these are places where rights are in conflict. Right? What do you think happens there?
EL-SAYED: I don't know if that's actually true. I think we manufacture these social issues, because here's the thing about it. Ross, you have an iPhone in your pocket, probably. Or is it iPhone or Samsung? You have a phone in your pocket, right?
DOUTHAT: Yeah.
EL-SAYED: You can get access to everything and anything in the whole world, all the world's information in your pocket. The notion, somehow, that you are going to prevent your child from being exposed to something that you may find disagreeable, and that that is going to be because of school, is so profoundly outdated.
So what you're saying is that it's okay to f*** nine year old girls because porn exists?
Because, of course, you have all the information, and they have all the information. So here's the thing about it. I think it's really important for us to recognize that the free flow of information is actually a beautiful thing.
It's really important. And the most important thing you can do is not try to protect a person from seeing a thing. It's about trying to make sure you coach your kid through the world that you are engaging with them and saying, 'here's what I believe, here's what you may see in the world, you get to make your choices about who you're going to be in the world.' But that's going to require us to make do with the fact that, like, the internet is a real thing, and this debate about, like, quote-unquote what's taught in the classroom, I think has been made into a cultural flashpoint, because a lot of the folks who want to make this a topic of conversation don't want to be talking about the real issues that we face.
Rich Lowry
@RichLowry
In trying to minimize the wrong of girls being exposed to male genitalia in locker rooms, AES proves much, too much.
He advances an argument that would mean adults never trying to protect kids from *anything*, since they can be exposed, in theory, to whatever it is on the internet at any time.
What is supposed to be a clever defense of the indefensible turns out to be one of the most sweeping, and stupid, arguments we've ever heard for trans radicalism
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed rejects, get this, the two state solution and argues that Palestinians' have a "right to self-determination" over all of Israel.
But remember, all he wants to talk about is "affordability" and health care, right?
Remember when Abdul was trying to pretend to care about prices and health care, not whether or not Israel has a right to exist or if he and his family have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood? He was lying the whole time, it's all he cares about. https://t.co/0jBKR6teq6
And if a group disfavored by the media party refuses to answer at such high rates -- what is the skew within that group? That is, among the Republicans who do answer, is it the case that Republicans voting Democrat are the most likely "Republicans" to answer a leftwing pollster's questions?
I don't know. Seems likely to me, though.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 UPDATE: New York Times just warned their blue wave final midterm polls are being flooded by white Democrats, with white Republicans answering **LESS THAN 2020**
"The persistence of this kind of nonresponse bias introduces the risk of a systematic polling error like those in 2016 or 2020."
"This cycle, Democrats are once again responding to Times/Siena polls at a much higher rate than Republicans. Across these final battleground polls, registered white Democrats were about 30 percent likelier to take the poll than registered white Republicans. That's actually a bit higher than in the final polls in 2020."
Show up.
Make their worst fears come true.
I suppose it's also possible that Republicans aren't answering pollsters' phone calls because we're dispirited or ashamed of our votes for Trump -- but, of course, pollsters also predicted big wins for Democrats in 2024. NBC claimed that Kamala Harris would smoke Trump by 5 points.
CNN's Harry Enten has been warning Democrats that the polls routinely, persistently, systematically overstate Democrat vote-share by around 3.5% in every single election, and if you adjust current poll figures to reflect that, suddenly Democrat gains in the Senate vanish into gas like yesteday's chalupa from Brian Stelter's colon.
c Abbenante
@EricAbbenante
Oct 30
Harry Enten looks over the 'spooky data' for the Democrats heading into the 2026 midterms:
Harry Enten: "They need to win in states that Donald John Trump didn't just win two years ago, but won by double digits.
Senate flips in states that the party lost by ten or more points in the last presidential election.
The number is 0 since 2011.
There have been times in which the polls actually suggested, hey, Republicans might actually lose in some of these Trump won states. And then it didn't happen. And we've seen it happen time and in time out.
GOP has beat the final Senate poll average by 4.1 points in states Trump won in the prior presidential election.
So if the past polling errors hold in these Trump one states, then all of a sudden Republicans are able to hold on to the United States Senate and with ease."
Wave goodbye, to the blue wave.
Communist front-group NBC has a poll that shows Republicans with a higher approval rating than Democrats, and higher approval on most of the main issues of the campaign, but you wouldn't know that from NBC's headline:
NBC News
@NBCNews
A new national NBC News poll finds key groups that boosted Trump in 2024 are shifting toward Democrats ahead of Tuesday's elections.
What they mean is that some left-leaning groups that shifted towards Trump in 2024 are now shifting back to the Democrats.
NBC News' final election poll has the Democrat Party with worse favorable ratings than the Republican Party and Republicans still leading on who would do a better job on the economy, immigration, and corruption. https://t.co/Z6uylREP9f
Pollsters know this better than anyone. How are they addressing their pending credibility crisis? Some, like NBC's pollster, have shifted sharply away from their blue-wave predictions. Their new data shows Republicans suddenly leading on all of the presumed big issues in the election -- the economy, immigration, and corruption:
Even on the unpopular Iran war, Democrats only lead by five points, and only by one point on inflation, AKA "affordability." It's a wash on "protecting democracy," even before respondents got to absorb Democrats' attempt to defraud voters in Alaska with The Two Dans Sullivan plot. The GOP has a two-point lead on the economy, a five-point margin on corruption, and an eleven-point lead on immigration despite the two-year hysterics Democrats and the media have pitched over ICE and deportations.
Democrats lead on inflation by a single point -- one single point -- and on Iran by 5%.
I keep thinking back to how off he polls were in 2020 and how leftists are gleeful about the deaths of non-leftists. And the pollsters admit that Dems are far more invested in talking to pollsters than GOPers. Imagine if the results don't pan out like the doomsayers are predicting? Not saying it will happen, mind you, but the shrieking about RIGGED and HACKED THE ELECTION would be loud enough to reach the orbit of Saturd
When the right took power, they installed judges they liked, which the left could not abide.
This entire coup is a dry run for what they plan in America -- take over the courts, pack them with leftists who will rubber-stamp every authoritarian measure the left decrees.
Crisis began with right-wing victory, court control
The Constitutional Tribunal is responsible for checking the compatibility of laws, policies and international agreements with the national constitution.
It has been a major bone of contention between the current pro-European government and the main opposition party, national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS).
PiS drastically transformed the country's justice system after winning election in 2015, including establishing political control over top courts such as the Constitutional Tribunal and the Supreme Court. This was done in part by cancelling the appointments of judges selected by the previous government and choosing its own.
Back in 2016, opponents of Law and Justice protested outside the building shouting "Democracy!" and "Constitution!"
The European Union's top court ruled in December 2025 that the Constitutional Tribunal was not "independent and impartial," because of politicized appointments made by the since-defeated Law and Justice government. The EU withheld billions of euros in funds to Poland during the nationalist PiS-led governments of 2015 to 2023, saying their judiciary reforms had subverted democratic checks and balances.
And when leftists dominated the courts, they were of course "independent and impartial," according to the EU.
Pro-EU government promises to reform court
After Donald Tusk's pro-European coalition took office in 2023, it pledged to restore the rule of law and reform the court.
Yes, "reform" of the same kind Democrats are vowing for the US.
But President Karol Nawrocki, a Law and Justice ally, has acted to thwart those efforts since his election as president in 2025. Earlier this year, Nawrocki refused to swear in several judges nominated by parliament.
Which I assume he has the power to do.
Meanwhile, the tribunal's chief judge, Bogdan Swieczkowski, a former deputy justice minister in the Law and Justice administration, declined to seat judges elected by the current parliamentary majority.
So to "save democracy," they stripped duly elected and appointed officials of their offices.
Sound familiar?
A statement appeared on the tribunal's website on Friday saying Swieczkowski had been suspended. "Restoring the rule of law is our obligation," Prime Minister Tusk wrote on X on Friday evening. "After years of lawlessness under PiS this is a difficult process, sometimes painful and it requires decisive action. There is no other way."
Eggs must be broken for omelets to be made.
"I am certain that the Constitutional Tribunal will function as it should," he said in a televised speech. "Also, independently of me and in line with the constitution.
"The task of the executive branch, and therefore mine, is to ensure its safety and working conditions, and I intend to fulfil my duty."
To ensure "safety" I have to assume all powers of a dictator.
Polish MEP Dominik Tarczyński is explaining what is happening right now at Poland's Constitutional Tribunal, calling it nothing less than a COUP D'ÉTAT!
"In Poland, we have a liberal-left government led by Donald Tusk, who is the Prime Minister. What is happening right now with the Constitutional Tribunal is that they want to take it over and fill it with their own people.
Why? Because they want to get rid of the Polish currency, bring us into the eurozone, and eliminate our secure borders. They are being pushed by the Germans, who want to spread the burden of illegal migration and send migrants to Poland.
First of all, the Polish złoty is our constitutionally protected currency. They have to change the Constitution to replace it, and without the Constitutional Tribunal, they cannot do that.
>b?So, number one, they want to get rid of our currency and force us to adopt the euro and join the eurozone. Then they want to take our gold reserves, the largest in the European Union, to Frankfurt, to the European Central Bank, which is a German-based institution.
They also want to open our borders. And they want to make sure that when they lose the next elections, which are coming next year, the Constitutional Tribunal will be unable to do anything to stop their actions or reverse what they have done.
There are many more reasons, but I want you to understand one thing: they are under German influence. They are globalists, and we are fighting not just for Poland, but for Europe.
Be like Poland. Be strong. Our nation is strong, and we are going to win this fight!"
One week before the EU and Donald Tusk orchestrated a coup against Poland’s Constitutional Court and duly elected president…
PIERS MORGAN: “So basically, you would like all Muslims banned from every European country?”
DOMINIK TARCZYŃSKI: “Well, I don’t care about any other European country. I don’t want them in Poland.”
And there it is… Poland’s sovereignty, its borders, and its right to decide who enters its country. The EU globalists couldn’t stand it. https://t.co/g7XEJLEK0W
Comrade Arthur linked this, noting that this is the reason the left is so determined to drive Pete Hegseth out of office and have a leftist globalist proto-tyrant put in his place.
You can't win a Color Revolution without having the military's leadership as co-conspirators.
InfantryDort
@infantrydort
And now we understand the absolutely rabid obsession with destroying Pete Hegseth.
I've been in the Army since before 9/11. Served under many secretaries.
Only in the past 18 months have I experienced:
>politicians warning me not to follow illegal orders
>billboards outside military bases telling me to report war crimes
>the media attacking anyone who has a positive thing to say about the man, and defending anyone who hates him
>stunning volume of leaks from senior officials trying to undermine him, and the lionizing of the leakers by the press
>being called a war criminal myself, hundreds of times a day
>a sustained media narrative portraying virtually every firing or senior officer removal as a "purge"
>public efforts by retired officers, advocacy groups, and political figures to mobilize service members and military communities against administration policies
>influential "Americans" publicly cheering for Iran
This is just to name a few. I've NEVER experienced anything like this before. And it's becoming abundantly clear that the concerted effort to divide the military from within was stunted when Hegseth took over. Anyone desiring color revolution needs control of the military. That's color revolution 101.
Is it starting to make sense yet? Now you see the obsession over him in particular. It's not a coincidence. And it damn sure isn't because of his culture war.
It's because by all objective metrics, he runs a military that snatches rogue leaders from their beds, destroys entire militaries, and successfully mobilizes assets to save one downed pilot in the middle of enemy territory by building an Air Force base... in the middle of enemy territory. Secures the border, dominates the hemisphere. Hunts drug cartels. The list goes on.
He is by all meaningful accounts, effective at wielding the machine. And that is why they drool at the thought of removing him.
In years past you'd be hard pressed to find a junior Soldier who knew the name of the cabinet secretary above them.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Monday indicated that Democrats would consider their "next steps" on Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., when lawmakers return to Washington after the midterm elections.
Stevens earned near-universal condemnation from Democrats this weekend after she broke ranks to endorse former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., to represent the Wolverine State in the Senate. Rogers is facing Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who narrowly defeated Stevens in the party primary.
"We will have a discussion about appropriate next steps upon our return," Jeffries told Politico on Monday. "Haley Stevens made a terrible decision, blindsided everyone and isolated herself from the House Democratic Caucus."
Democrat propagandist Anderson Cooper shed any pretense of being a journalist and just attacked Stevens for flip-flopping, as she had earlier (begrudgingly) endorsed Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.
Stevens kept explaining why she had changed her position, but the Objective and Neutral Journalist Who Supports Women just kept interrupting and talking over her and re-asking the same question-- why did you change your mind? -- with a tone that suggested maybe it must be just because of her menses.
Cooper repeatedly rejected her explanation that it was about Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed's open embrace of anti-semitic tropes and influencers. Cooper's too smart to buy that convenient story.
Yes, Chunk Uggo just said that. Van Jones, like many black leftwing Democrats, doesn't fully support the rather obvious Muslim Supremacy agenda, therefore he's a dirty Jew-lover.
Cenk Uygur
@cenkuygur
Oct 31
If you're black, I have the easiest Halloween costume for you. Wrap an Israeli flag around you, and just start calling everyone you see an antisemite. Voila, you're @VanJones68.
Anderson Cooper just can't understand a very simple proposition:
Eyal Yakoby
@EYakoby
Haley Stevens:
"I don't like seeing the Democratic nominee standing with a person who said America deserves 9/11."
Byron York
@ByronYork
"It sounds like you're upset with me, too, Anderson." Indeed, it did. But did Haley Stevens expect that, by switching her support from a Democrat to a Republican, she would receive the media's Liz Cheney Country Over Party award? If so, she was badly mistaken.
I'm not kidding about Anderson Cooper implying that maybe Hayley Stevens is just crazy due to her Monthly Woman Problems. Here zhe is lapping it up as Debbie Dingell suggests that Stevens might just be mentally unwell.
"I have been worried about her all week," Dingell says. In other words: concerned about her mental stability.
Anderson Cooper just nods. But zhe'll freak out of Trump says Megyn Kelly had "blood coming out of her wherever."
Meanwhile, the Muslim Manlet Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, who is Five Foot Nothin' but thinks he's a super-tough guy who can bully anyone around him with his Big Shrimp Energy, does what he literally always does and tells the press that they're not allowed to ask him any questions that cast him in a negative light.
Remember, when Trump does this, it's an Assault on Our Cherished Fourth Estate, but when Princess Tinymeat here does it, he's just being a rambunctious little scamp!
Lol Abdul El-Sayed demands that the media not ask him questions about Haley Stevens endorsing Mike Rogers:
"If you ask me questions about two folks not here right, I'm going to be less interested in answering." https://t.co/PAWWIsFs7R
Andrew Stiles has documented the Muslim Manlet's practice of bullying the women and effeminate beta men who cover him by constantly berating them and telling them they're only allowed to ask him about Affordability and the Drumpfuhrer.
Democrat channels 'small-dog energy' in yappy outbursts when pressed on ties to terror groups and sympathizers
Abdul El-Sayed exudes a volatile combination of "toxic masculinity" and "small-dog energy" on the campaign trail, especially when fielding questions from the press. The Michigan Democrat, who claims to be 5-foot-9 in basketball shoes, is trying to become one of the shortest men to serve in the U.S. Senate since the advent of modern nutrition.
When questioned, El-Sayed has a tendency to yap incessantly while lecturing journalists--mostly the female ones--on how to do their jobs. This is sometimes referred to as mansplaining and is generally regarded as obnoxious. El-Sayed is particularly sensitive to questions about his familial ties to terrorist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as his many relationships with individuals who support terrorism. He has repeatedly suggested that reporters who ask those questions are racist and un-American.
Some would argue that El-Sayed's relentless bullying of hardworking journalists is an assault on the First Amendment that threatens to erode the foundations of our cherished democracy. Alas, it is consistent with the sentiment expressed in a letter the candidate signed in 2012 urging Egypt's then-newly-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, and the Muslim Brotherhood to "purge the media ... as quickly as possible."
"No, no, no, no, no. Let me just stop there," El-Sayed recently interrupted Fox News anchor Bret Baier midway through a question about the Muslim Brotherhood. "You are asking this question to raise a question about whether or not I have dual loyalty. ... Be a journalist."
Earlier this month, El-Sayed challenged the intelligence of a female journalist, Audrey Fahlberg of the Free Press, when she asked about his reluctance to comment on the death of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei because "there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad." The candidate, who has not publicly denied using steroids to enhance his compact frame, struggled to control his rage while berating Fahlberg. "Ask smart questions, I'll answer smart questions," he sneered.
Some context: El-Sayed has also denounced journalists for asking "dumb" questions about whether Israel or Iran is bigger threat to the United States. He has consistently refused to provide an answer.
A compilation of the Itty Bitty Islamist trying to scare people with his tiny dick:
He notes that the Five Foot Five Fedayeen Fireplug constantly makes Gaza and Hamas the centerpiece of his campaign -- which really annoys black people, who keep saying, correctly, "he cares more about the West Bank than the west side of Detroit" -- but when you then ask him about his extremist views, he says "Why are you asking me about that, my campaign is about 'affordability,' why won't you ask about that?"
Weill, my Mighty Miniature Mamluk, it's because you never stop talking about Gaza and why Hamas is Our Friend.
And he points out that Jazz-Hands Jihadi Zohran Mamdani plays the same game:
Yehuda Teitelbaum
@chalavyishmael
14h
I have to say, after years of listening to Democrats call Trump supporters cultists who blindly follow their leader and punish anyone who steps out of line, watching the reaction to Haley Stevens today has been incredible.
She refused to support a candidate whose views she finds morally repugnant. She gave him multiple opportunities to address her concerns, and ultimately decided that she couldn't support him. She even went so far as to endorse his Republican opponent.
And the entire Democratic establishment lost its mind.
What exactly do these people think Stevens has to gain from this?
She's not going to become a Republican. She's not going to suddenly find herself welcomed into conservative politics. She's damaged her standing with her own party, alienated people she has worked alongside for years, and has likely destroyed whatever political future she had with Democrats.
You can disagree with her decision or think she made a terrible political calculation. But I find it very difficult to look at someone willingly accepting those consequences and conclude that she's doing it for personal gain.
I have disagreed with Stevens on plenty of things, and I expect I will continue to disagree with her. But I have a tremendous amount of respect for someone who is willing to take a stand when it actually costs them something.
Abdul El-Sayed is one of the most transparently dishonest politicians I've watched in a long time.
He constantly tells people he's Michigan First. He wants to talk about Michigan, he cares about Michigan, his priority is Michigan.
Fine. Then why does he spend so much time talking about Gaza?
Watch the clip below. This man brings up Palestinians and Israel constantly. He has absolutely no problem making foreign affairs part of his political identity. But the second someone challenges him on what he's saying, suddenly he doesn't want to discuss foreign policy anymore. He's running to represent Michigan, you see.
Mamdani does exactly the same thing in New York. They get to make whatever inflammatory statements they want about Israel, but when someone asks them to defend those statements, we're told that they're focused on their constituents and have more important things to worry about.
In No One Is Above the Law News, Democrat Operative and Flake John Bolton Learns No One Is Above the Law
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He has pled guilty to illegal retention of classified information. He will pay a $2.25 million fine, forfeit his federal pension, and could spend 60 months in prison.
But, of course, a plea deal means prosecutors have agreed to recommend far less than that, and probably zero time at all.
Deep Leaks
@DeepLeaksHQ
15h
IT'S OFFICIAL: John Bolton is now a FELON after pleading GUILTY to unlawful retention of national defense information
He and his mustache have agreed to pay a $2.25 MILLION fine, face up to 60 MONTHS in prison, and forfeit his pension.
"As Mr. Bolton just admitted, he put our national security at grave risk in violation of the law," the DOJ said
🚨🚨 BREAKING: Former Vice President Mike Pence has been IMPLICATED in The DOJ's investigation of former National Security Advisor John Bolton related to Pence's framing of General Flynn to get him fired, his illegal possession of classified documents and his role in January 6th.
Bolton recently described Pence as a "consistent ally" during President Trump's first term. Pence is reportedly also being probed for unlawful leaks including sensitive national security matters from the Trump White House to the leftist media. Pence and Bolton are said to be facing indictment by a federal grand jury for a litany of federal crimes. They are the very definition of "the enemy from within". May Justice be swift and fierce for these traitors.
🚨 SHOCKING REVELATION: Reports are surfacing that the FBI raid on former NSA John Bolton wasn't solely about classified documents from his book. He was raking in massive cash from foreign sources 😲 and might have been involved in smuggling sensitive intelligence!! https://t.co/1yeDaIJgQR
Naturalized Violent Insurrectionist Isa Lemgruber Casahuga, aka "Baby Pamper," Who Celebrated and Giggled Over the Vile Public Execution of Charlie Kirk to One of His Friends and Coworkers, Now Fake "Apologizes"
At @UTSA for Pick Up the Mic, a student read a poem celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk with such glee, then told me I was brave to be out here without my neck covered.
I told her I’d pray for her.
This is the climate. We pick up the mic anyway. https://t.co/ZfipQsosaF
Some months ago I saw someone on YouTube who said he had a consulting job, doing social media research on potential corporate hires. He said that he's told to search for extremist political positions, including the woke ones. He said that young morons are making themselves essentially un-hirable for life with crap like this.
Is this what this whore realized? Or did her family tell her that she was shaming them?
Or did this violent immigrant insurrectionist realize that lying about extremist political positions on her naturalization paperwork was fraud and grounds for denaturalization?
Owen Gregorian
@OwenGregorian
Oct 31
University of Texas Vows It 'Will Not Tolerate' Incitement of Violence After Student's Giddy Poem Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Murder, 'Will Handle This Incident Consistent with the Law' | Cassandra MacDonald, The Gateway Pundit
The University of Texas System issued a pointed statement Thursday after a viral video showed UT San Antonio student Isa Casahuga-Lemgrube gleefully reading a poem at a Turning Point USA campus event that celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Board of Regents Chairman Kevin Eltife and Chancellor John Zerwas said they were aware of the incident and declared, "We will not tolerate the incitement of violence or the threat of incitement of violence by any member of our UT community. UT San Antonio will handle this incident consistent with the law."
The student, who introduced herself at the microphone as "Pamper Baby," told the crowd she had taken a Plan B and felt guilty as an immigrant before launching into a deranged parody of "The Night Before Christmas."
She recited lines including "It was the night before the Kirkiversary and all through the house not a creature was stirring not even a mouse" and "as we solemnly remembered a shot to the neck," then invited people to a "Squirt for Kirk" event.
Afterward, she told Texas Youth Summit founder Christian Collins he was "brave" for being on campus "with no protection, no nothing, no like neck brace."
Collins posted the video of the incident, writing that she read the poem "with such glee," and saying he will pray for her.
Internet sleuths quickly identified the student as Casahuga-Lemgruber, a UTSA student in the class of 2030 majoring in International Relations and Diplomacy.
She attended St. Agnes Academy.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, a website was registered under her name, http://isacasahuga.com, and published the poem in full along with family details identifying her mother as Houston realtor Paula Lemgruber Casahuga and her father as Guillem Casahuga, a partner at Arthur D. Little.
The site states that her parents are from Brazil and Spain. Her mother, who also appears to be a leftist, referred to her children as "citizens of the world."
There have been mass calls for the family to be deported.
UT San Antonio spokesperson Joe Izbrand also told the San Antonio Express-News that the university is aware of the incident and takes the matter seriously.
"The sentiments expressed do not reflect the values of our university," Izbrand stated. "The university is reviewing the circumstances through its established student conduct processes, consistent with applicable state and federal law and university policies."
Citing FERPA privacy protections, the school declined further comment on any specific disciplinary action.
Kirk was fatally shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.
I'm pretty sure it's one of those, because this is obviously as insincere as Kristi Noem's ex-husband's foam hooters.
@EricLDaugh Her lawyer writes very well. That was a legal apology so she wouldn’t either get sued or be put on a terror watch list by the FBI, although deranged people like that should be. https://t.co/ydioIxNZsn
Congresswoman Who Lost to Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed in Primary Endorses Mike Rogers, Condemns the Muslim Brotherhood-Linked Antisemite's Hate
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Democrats are condemning her, ejecting her from the party, and claiming she's just a sore loser.
But, as Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed observed after one of his cousins shot children to death at a Jewish school: "Hurt people do hurt people."
Democrat Congresswoman had planned to rally with Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed and Democrat racial gang-leader James Clyburn on Sunday. She had one demand for her re-endorsement of Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed: She wanted him to reject Hasan Piker's Nepo Uncle Chunk Uggo's antisemetic ad claiming that bananas and eggs cost more because Jews are stealing them to make bombs out of them to kill innocent non-terrorist Gazans.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed refused this minor reparative step. The Very Online Left condemns Trump for refusing to apologize or compromise, but they imitate him like Japanese girls used to imitate Gwen Stefani.
Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed then said she wasn't welcome at the "unity" rally and did not share Democrat Party pro-terrorist "values."
So she announced she would not be part of the "unity" rally.
Daniel Friedman
@DanFriedman81
18h
Haley Stevens was going to do a Democratic unity rally with Abdul El-Sayed and James Clyburn where she was going to encourage her supporters, many of whom have serious reservations about El-Sayed, to vote for him.
This was very important for El-Sayed, because Stevens is popular among Jewish and black Michigan Democrats and Clyburn is an icon among black voters nationwide. El-Sayed has weakness with both of these groups and needs to shore them up going into election day.
Stevens's condition was that he make an unambiguous, unqualified condemnation of the antisemitic rhetoric his friends, supporters and surrogates have been using, including in ads run in Michigan.
El-Sayed refused to do this, and instead asked Stevens not to appear at the event. At that point, Stevens realized that he was not interested in unity with her or her supporters and that she could no longer support him for Senate.
El-Sayed is an antisemite. He is friends with antisemites Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur. He will not condemn them. He will not condemn the awful things they say.
He has had multiple opportunities to condemn their hateful rhetoric, and he always says: "He is not part of a campaign, nobody speaks for me but me, and I'm not here to talk about that."
That's not good enough. If that is how a Republican talked about Nick Fuentes or Richard Spencer, it would be the biggest controversy in the race. The fact that so many Democrats are willing to tolerate this from Abdul El-Sayed is an indictment of the entire party.
There is no coalition that can include both the Jewish Democratic members of Temple Israel and supporters of the Hezbollah terrorist who tried to murder their preschool children. Abdul El-Sayed made a decision about who he wanted in his tent.
Haley Stevens was late to realize it, but it is admirable that she finally decided to be an upstander instead of a bystander. No Nazis in the US Senate.
And then Stevens went further: She endorsed Republican Mike Rogers, first online, and then later at press conference.
She appeared with Rogers and was attacked as "a traitor" by Democrats who find such demonizing language too crude for their sophisticated dick-port mouths.
BREAKING: Protester Disrupts Haley Stevens and Mike Rogers Press Conference
Just minutes after Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan's Senate race, a protester reportedly interrupted their press conference, repeatedly shouting, "Haley Stevens is a traitor!"
According to accounts from the scene, staff quickly ended the event and escorted both politicians away as the commotion unfolded.
Democrats always support women's choices so of course they all accepted Haley Stevens' choice and applauded her for it.
Just kidding, they kicked her out of the party entirely. Here's the chairman of the Michigan Democrat Party excommunicating this kaffir apostate for not embracing Allah:
Matt Whitlock
@MattWhitlock
Every liberal influencer and talking head saying "Haley Stevens calling out antisemitism just ENDED her political career in the Democrat party..."
Says a lot more about the Democrat party than Haley Stevens.
Noted Feminist Who Supports Women James Carville likened Haley Stevens to a "used condom" because he supports women and they choices they make except if they make a choice contrary to his own.
Haley Stevens, who voted with Joe Biden 97.5% of the time and with Trump only 6% of the time was excommunicated from the Democrat Party today because she wouldn't go through the humiliation ritual of donning the hijab like Peggy Flanagan and Kathy Hochul, nor would she endorse a guy with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood whose friends think America deserved 9/11 and who can't bring himself to denounce the IRGC.
Graham Platner who is a rapist with an infatuation for Nazism and sending nudes to underage girls on Kik while jerking off in a port-a-potty was not kicked out of the party.
If you're a registered Democrat holding out hope that there's going to be some great revival and return to the party of JFK, stop wasting your time. Your party is captive by terrorists, low IQ foreigners, illegal aliens, and people who hate this country and everything it stands for. It's gone. It's not coming back. Just leave it.
Democrats are taking it well. Enjoy -- after this insane leftist bitch physically attacks multiple people, a cop finally wrestles her to the ground.
At which point, she whines and complains that he's attacking her.
Of course.
BREAKING: Abdul El-Sayed supporters are now attacking people at a free speech event in Michigan. https://t.co/uBehhR6FNb
BREAKING: A psychotic Abdul El Sayed supporter just VIOLENTLY TACKLED a young Jewish girl after the girl said, "If she were walking around in Iran like this, what would happen to her?"
JUST as Haley Stevens endorses Mike Rogers.
*Lunges at her*
"F**ing get over here, btch!"
The cop then MANHANDLED her.
LOCK HER UP. These people are VIOLENT and DERANGED
This is going to surge in America unless we defeat them on Tuesday
There's more to this story -- the media's attempt to brand Haley Stevens as a crazy traitor.
But I'll talk about that in a later post.
Which you probably already saw a lot of because I stupidly posted this draft in the sidebar.
THE MORNING RANT: A Little Good News Regarding the Business of Petroleum
—Buck Throckmorton
Valero to Purchase and Restart a Shuttered Texas Refinery
Although the inflation-adjusted price of gasoline in America is virtually unchanged over the past two decades, it is higher than where it was before the flow of Iranian oil was cut off to global markets. Also contributing to the problem of elevated fuel prices is the lack of refining capacity in the United States. This is especially true regarding diesel. The carbon hysteria of the past few decades, along with Democrat administrations’ war on petroleum has dissuaded capital investment in new refineries.
With that background, there was some great news announced this past week – Texas-based Valero Energy is purchasing a mothballed refinery in Houston.
The refinery had previously been operated by Dutch chemical company Lyondell, but in obedience to the E.U.’s anti-carbon “net zero” obsession, Lyondell shut the plant down after announcing its closure in 2022. The puppet-masters of the Biden administration were so passionately anti-petroleum that mothballing the refinery was also a way for Lyondell to help gain regulatory favor for its ongoing U.S. chemical operations.
The pure-play oil refiner plans to restart 165,000 barrels of daily light, sweet crude processing capacity by the end of 2027 at the former LyondellBasell Industries NV facility, according to a press release Friday. The $320.5 million deal with Lyondell is expected to close by the end of the year, Valero said. The plant sits adjacent to a Valero refinery that’s capable of processing more than 200,000 barrels of oil each day.
This refinery can produce diesel and jet fuel in addition to gasoline. Production will re-start in 2027.
*****
BP’s CEO on Renewables Debacle: “We Have Not Been Careful Stewards of Shareholder Capital”
Meanwhile, another European petroleum corporation that tried to pivot into being a “clean” energy company is taking a massive write-down on that failed endeavor. Fortunately for British Petroleum, its traditional refining is producing solid profit to help offset the losses from its pretend-energy division.
BP expects to take between $3 billion and $4.5 billion in post-tax impairment charges in the third quarter of 2026, primarily related to its energy transition businesses, even as stronger refining margins provide a significant earnings boost.
To abide with the edicts of the European state religion (The Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse), BP had even started to claim that its initials stood for “Beyond Petroleum.” BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 was during the time that BP was promoting itself as being “beyond petroleum.” What this revealed is that the anti-carbon activists running BP were distracted by the “renewables” nonsense and had become indifferent to responsibly running a petroleum company.
With BP taking this new $4.5 billion write-off for failed “renewables” projects, its current CEO, Meg O’Neill, is acknowledging that “We have not been careful stewards of shareholder capital.”
While Ms. O’Neill has a regrettable history of voicing support for Net Zero goals, she has also hedged on timelines, as well as the practicality of reducing carbon output without natural gas. It would be so refreshing if oil company executives would start fully and unabashedly advocating for the product their industry produces, rather than pandering to enviro-communist politicians who want to eliminate the companies they head.
• Illegal hiring practices that exclude U.S. citizens.
• Surveillance pricing that charges customers different amounts for the exact same product from the same store.
• The use of unvetted, sub-contract labor.
Those of us who defend the prosperity brought about by free markets have always had our work cut out for us, because socialists promise “free everything” by the confiscation of others’ wealth. To make our economic case, we need businesses to operate as good corporate citizens, consistent with America’s historic culture of being a high-trust society. The motivation for a corporation to refrain from deceptive trade practices should not be the fear of legal consequences. Ethical behavior should be the default. Similarly, non-exploitative employment practices should be the expectation of Western capitalism, not something that must be compelled.
This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.
My latest at The American Spectator covers Instacart's persistent ethical transgressions & how this hampers the defense of capitalism. The latest: Instacart settled with the Justice Dept for discriminating against US citizens in favor of H-1B hires. https://t.co/FSphwbgiwb
Good morning kids. Hope you all had a relaxing and fun Halloween weekend. But as we all know tomorrow is it, unless you can still vote early wherever you may be you can cast your ballot today.
Haley Stevens is a “proud Democrat” who bashed GOP candidate Mike Rogers just this past summer.
So think about how bad Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed must be for Stevens to cross the political aisle and endorse Rogers, the Republican candidate she initially dismissed, for senator from Michigan.
So bad that El-Sayed dismissed an attack on a synagogue full of children by blaming Israel, claiming that “hurt people hurt people.”
So bad that when El-Sayed was asked whether Iran or Israel was the greater threat to the US, he answered both.
So bad that El-Sayed refused to denounce an advertisement that blamed Israel for high inflation.
Stevens had begged for El-Sayed to stop blaming the Jewish state for everything wrong in this world, and El-Sayed refused. . . Stevens has nothing to gain here. The Democratic machine, which prioritizes winning over morals, will disown her. She’s not looking for a future as a Republican. There is no money, no glory in this. There is only principle. Haley Stevens hasn’t changed, the party has changed, beholden now to the deranged “Free Palestine” antisemitic mob that cheers the terror of Hamas. She’s tried cautioning the Democrats. She’s tried convincing them. In the end, she came to the realization that so many Jewish-Americans have, to their sadness: The party has abandoned them. Hopefully her bravery will make a difference with voters this Election Day. Heed her warning.
Veteran Democrat strategist James Carville was slammed for disgustingly comparing Michigan Dem Rep. Haley Stevens to a “used condom” after she endorsed Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers over lefty candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
Carville said Stevens wasn’t even worth a used condom to Democrats after she broke with the party days before Election Day and sold her soul to the GOP for “two cheeseburgers” in his vulgar remarks Sunday.
“But your political career is over … if you think that these Republicans are gonna treat you as anything other than what they view you as, and that is, let me just break the news to you: a used condom,” Carville said Sunday in an episode of the podcast, Politicon.
Meh, for whatever it's worth both President Trump and speaker Mike Johnson invited Stevens to escape the Democrat hellhole and join the GOP. Carville is a criminal degenerate. You have to wonder what in the hell goes on between him and wife Mary Matalin. Or has she been murdered, dismembered and fed to his pet alligators.
In any case, as has been reported the usually reliably Democrat black voters in Michigan have some serious issues with el-Sayed so maybe Rogers could shock everyone with a win if blacks either stay home or even pull the lever for Rogers.
In 2026, the media have lectured us for months that the impending blue wave is the inevitable electoral payback for Trump’s crippling inflation, soaring gas prices, and war abroad—despite the fact that similar conditions did relatively little electoral damage to Democrats in 2022. . . We are also told that flipping a Texas Senate seat to the Democrats, with a possible James Talarico victory, will be a landmark turning point, given that a Democrat has not held such a seat in 33 years. Perhaps.. . We are also apprised that this inevitable blue wave reflects a nationwide disgust with Trump that will doom the last two years of his presidency. Perhaps again. .. And a midterm loss, especially in the second term, can sometimes even boost a president’s popularity. Indeed, in 1998, Clinton reached the highest approval level of his presidency at 73 percent and would leave office in January 2001 with an approval rating of 66 percent. . .
. . . In sum, we should remember a few things about the upcoming midterms.
First, the blue wave may not materialize, just as the red wave did not materialize in 2022, despite public unhappiness with the Ukraine war, inflation, and gas prices.
Of note is that VDH, no Pollyanna to be sure and well-versed in American and global history is remaining positive whatever the final score may be after tomorrow.
What can we hope for this year? Can Republicans defy history a third time? Better yet, can they manage until 2028 if they lose?
Let’s say that Democrats have a good night. It’s doubtful they will pick up forty seats like in Election 2018. Multiple sites have suggested as many as sixteen swing congressional districts. Let’s imagine that Democrats win enough swing seats to get a five-seat majority in the House of Representatives. . . Not only does Jeffries have to contend with opponents to his left, but a moderate faction within the current Democratic House conference will push him from the right. They have their love of capitalism, America, the police, and their rejection of pro-Palestinian extremism. . . My optimistic appraisal is that Republicans maintain a slim House majority. Party activists get excited in a banner year for their side, and they think they can push the most ideologically polarizing and still carry the day. . . Despite possible dark outcomes taking hold on Election Day 2026, we can hope for more than a silver lining to propel the larger MAGA for the future. At best, Democrats will take back the House on paper but accomplish nothing because of DSA v. Moderate Dem infighting. In the meantime, Republicans can capitalize on their Big Beautiful Bill; Trump will have resolved the Iran war, gas prices will go down, and Republicans can win big again in 2028.
. . . What the Democrat Party has become is truly horrific. Like Frankenstein’s monster, its political body is comprised of dead parts: Islamic supremacy, racial grievance, class warfare, cultural Marxism, cultish communism, child sacrifice, child mutilation, sexual deviance, and pagan gods. Everything the Democrats celebrate today is disgusting, gruesome, and deserving of an R-rating.
A lot of Americans have drifted from the Democrat to the Republican Party over the last few decades.
It is apt that the two Republican presidents of the last century that Republican voters rate most highly — President Reagan and President Trump — both spent parts of their lives as members of the Democrat Party.
=At what point does it not become obvious that the Democrat Party has become the “safe space” for grotesque evils?
When an illegal alien rapes and/or murders an American girl, Democrats in public office and Democrats working as “journalists” show more compassion for the rapist/murderer than they do for the broken victim.
This is monstrous, abhorrent, anti-American behavior that I would not have thought possible thirty years ago. Most of us remember a time when Americans took care of and protected other Americans. We beat back those who threatened our peace, and we hunted monsters that hurt American children. Now Democrats describe the monsters among us as victims and ignore the dead American girls and their suffering American families altogether. What a ghoulish, soulless party the Democrats have become.
God-willing may tomorrow be the harbinger of the complete destruction and extinction of the anti-American Democrat Left.
have a good day.VOTE EARLY & OFTEN!!!
ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
Victor Davis Hanson: The predicted blue wave may never materialize. And even if Democrats retake Congress, history suggests Trump could emerge stronger, not weaker, with the presidency's expansive powers. Midterm Election Incoherences, Misadventures, and Paradoxes
Haley Stevens is a “proud Democrat” who bashed GOP candidate Mike Rogers just this past summer. So think about how bad Democrat nominee Abdul El-Sayed must be for Stevens to cross the political aisle and endorse Rogers, the Republican candidate she initially dismissed, for senator from Michigan.So bad that El-Sayed dismissed an attack on a synagogue full of children by blaming Israel, claiming that “hurt people hurt people.” Haley Stevens’ act of bravery as her party abandons Jewish voters
The Democrats clearly believe it evil to oppose them in any way, and in fact believe that so strongly that several have already tried to kill Trump, another has murdered Charlie Kirk merely for using his freedom of speech, and numerous others enthusiastically celebrate these acts of assassination. Creation (Musk) vs Destruction (Democrat Party)
In yet another case of a conspiracy theory becoming established fact, the U.S. Treasury Department has confirmed that the nation’s largest banks consistently discriminated against customers based on political and social considerations. Debanking And Government Power
The survey “shows a total foreign-born (also called immigrant) [legalized and illegal] population of 50.4 million — up slightly from the 50.2 million in the 2024 [survey],” alongside 290 million U.S.-born Americans, says an October 30 report from the Center for Immigration Studies. Trump’s Policies Shrink Migrant Population in the U.S.
In Trump v. Barbara, the Supreme Court makes birthright citizenship depend on irrationality. The Folly of Trump v. Barbara
Spending on federal social programs reflects the aging population, as more Americans reach retirement age and become eligible for programs like Social Security and Medicare. The demographic problem compounds the debt problem as the cost of caring for elderly citizens continues to rise and spending cuts can trigger democratic backlash. The Trump administration is attempting to mitigate these costs through a massive anti-fraud drive spearheaded by Vice President J.D. Vance. The U.S. National Debt Has Reached 100 Percent of GDP.
Toronto native Daijohn Richards, 23, faces armed robbery charges and has a Canada-wide warrant out for his arrest over the break-in that unfolded Thursday at the $2.1 million property belonging to MAC Group CEO David Morton. Morton, 75, his wife, Doriana Zohil-Morton, and their adult daughters were attacked — allegedly by Richards and two other men — but amid the chaos that unfolded in the Bridle Path neighborhood, Richards was shot by one of the culprits, according to investigators. Toronto home invasion suspect wounded during break-in was allowed to walk free from hospital: cops
s EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
For a family paying tuition, “universal” apparently comes with expensive fine print. Colorado will help pay for preschool, provided the school accepts conditions the Catholic plaintiffs say require them to abandon their religious practices. Colorado’s ‘Universal’ Preschool Program Meets the First Amendment
From Vietnam-era campus protests to institutional influence, progressive ideas reshaped American politics and the Democrat party from within and without. How The New Left Transformed The Democrat Party
It won’t just be on October 31st that Democrats will show up at your door asking for treats (money). What’s in a name? Ask Democrats
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
According to the document, a binational treaty from 1970 sets the border between the two nations. Only the federal governments of both countries can set the borders. In its statement, Mexico’s government said it would pursue the matter and ensure the treaties are respected. Mexico Rejects Texas Claim to 9 Cartel-Controlled Islands in Rio Grande Border Dispute
EU-supported politicians attempted a coup d’etat in Poland and lost due to the bravery of the Polish president Karol Nawrocki and the thousands of Poles who support him. The EU Met Its Waterloo In Warsaw
The alliance in Europe between hard-line socialist parties, eco-warrior Greens, and Islamists has often raised the question of the extent to which leftists understand their progressive values clash with those of their new Muslim bedfellows. German Left Admit in Private They Are Afraid of Their New Pro-Palestine Allies
In this case, the patch of cellular structures sits in the northeast quadrant of a 24-mile-wide/7,000-foot-deep unnamed crater on the western rim of 85-mile-wide and 10,000-foot-deep Quinisset Crater. Despite the vague label giving by the scientists, this geology matches perfectly with numerous other images taken by MRO in the mid-latitudes, and also matches well with other orbital data that has confirmed the presence of near surface ice in such geology. More “cellular structures” inside Martian crater
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The University of San Francisco announced Friday that “The Don” — a costumed figure sporting a pencil mustache and a green Spanish-style hat that has patrolled the sidelines since 1932 — will officially step aside at the start of the spring 2027 semester. California college caves to woke students by canceling mascot after 90 years
ALSO: The Morning Report cross-posts at CutJibNewsletter.com usually within an hour or so of posting here, if you want to continue the conversation all day.
The company saw net outflows of $3.64 billion (not $3.64 as Slashdot claimed) due to loss of trust, but has $170 billion in assets, which is kind of a lot.
Written entirely in Rust with no actual Linux code in it, but compatible enough that Rocky Linux 10 runs perfectly happily on top.
It doesn't support all the platforms Linux runs on, only modern Intel/AMD PCs, and it doesn't include the breadth of driver support Linux does. But it works, and it was developed, with AI assistance, in just 11 days.
This was done in the hardware by setting a limiting register that can never be changed on consumer cards, only allowing more expensive workstation and server models to achieve full performance.
But someone discovered a bug in the hardware that lets anyone with a consumer card basically crash it so that the register is cleared.
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Sunday ONT. Appreciate you stopping by. Open thread, as always. Fashion and music, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
[Top photo: Tanbark Ridge Tunnel - Blue Ridge Parkway mile marker 374.4- Weaverville North Carolina]
🚨 BREAKING: President Trump offers Rep. Haley Stevens (D) a spot in the Republican Party, and Speaker Johnson is worried for her safety after she backed Mike Rogers
Wow!
TRUMP: "I'd LOVE to have her. Mike, you talked to her!"
JOHNSON: I sent her a note...I told her how courageous she was...she's a good person...I encouraged her to stay safe. 🙏🏻
Think about that. A sitting Democrat congresswoman endorses a Republican, and the Speaker of the House feels he has to tell her to stay safe!
BECAUSE THE LEFT IS PSYCHO.
Her own mother says Haley was chased out of a park and called a "Zionist pig" this year
Not sure if this video has appeared in any previous threads. I could watch it all day!
🚨WATCH: Dramatic video shows an ICE agent forcefully pushing away a woman who tried to obstruct an active enforcement operation. https://t.co/vXAhyDw62L
Imagine putting together an entire halftime show based off of one woman doing a cover of Thunderstruck on xylophone……and having it KICK TOTAL ASS! https://t.co/BH2BWW5ibO
Kids get candy from most houses. These ideas are better!
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'Ette Couture (Courtesy of Piper)
It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.
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Thanksgiving 2026: Color Schemes That Look Polished and Feel Like Fall
Thanksgiving asks a lot of an outfit. It needs to survive a long meal, a warm kitchen, a cool porch, and at least a few photographs.
This year’s freshest direction leans into color stories that feel seasonal yet modern. Khaki with cream and tangerine offers a warm, approachable mix. Charcoal and mustard deliver clean contrast. Chocolate brown and olive bring earthy sophistication. And burgundy with blush pink remains the pairing everyone is talking about.
Khaki, Cream, and Tangerine
Khaki and cream create a soft, easy base that reads polished rather than plain. A pop of tangerine adds festive energy without tipping into costume territory. It is the kind of combination that feels intentional without trying too hard.
Chocolate Brown and Olive
Chocolate acts like a warmer black. It is rich, grounding, and flattering. Olive adds depth without competing. Together they feel elevated and sophisticated, the sort of look that is refined without being fussy.
Charcoal and Mustard
Charcoal provides a cool-leaning neutral. Mustard, ideally a golden or slightly muted ochre rather than pure yellow, injects warmth. The contrast is clean, modern, and perfectly polished for anyone who wants a fall feel without traditional earth tones.
Burgundy and Blush Pink
The season’s most talked-about pairing. Burgundy brings depth and richness while blush pink softens it and lifts the overall look. The tension between deep and delicate feels slightly unexpected. It is festive without being obvious.
For the Gentlemen
A cable-knit or fine-gauge sweater in burgundy, olive, or chocolate over tailored trousers or dark denim, finished with loafers or clean sneakers, is more than enough. A navy blazer adds polish without formality.
Thanksgiving is about gathering and good company. The right outfit simply lets you enjoy this time with a gentle nod to the season instead of looking like you were styled by the centerpiece. It frees you up to worry about more pressing matters, like the cranberry sauce setting or remembering to take the biscuits out of the oven before the smoke alarm goes off. Not that this has ever happened, of course.
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This made me laugh probably more than it should have
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DJ Doof - Heart Edition
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Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!
Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the First November Edition? I'm certain many of you were hoping for another October edition, but the Gun Thread always marches forward in the pursuit of excellence and to that end, we've now moved on to November.
I'll likely be in and out of the comments this evening, so please have a good time and try not to burn the place down. Thanks.
With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?
So which is it, aiming or no aiming? A dichotomy, I say! A dichotomy!
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M14 v M1
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T20 - Grenades!
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Annie Oakley
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Rifle Boring Machines
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Uranus is Weird
Not mine. Yours.
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Our Pal The Forging Hammer
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Highway Patrol!
This week's episode: Careless Cop!
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The Phantom Planet
Uranus, perchance?
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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.
A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid
Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!
Please note the new and improved protonmail account gunthread at protonmail dot com. An informal Gun Thread archive can be found HERE. Future expansion plans are in the works for the site Weasel Gun Thread. If you have a question you would like to ask Gun Thread Staff offline, just send us a note and we'll do our best to answer. If you care to share the story of your favorite firearm, send a picture with your nic and tell us what you sadly lost in the tragic canoe accident. If you would like to remain completely anonymous, just say so. Lurkers are always welcome!
That's it for this week - have you been to the range?
Food Thread: Beef-In-A-Bag And Other Deliciousness
—CBD
I made short ribs last weekend, and used a technique that is sure to raise the hackles of that small and deluded core of com-symps who reject modern cooking conveniences.
Yes...it was Sous Vide! And it was great. And all Sous Vide did was give me complete control over what was essentially a long slow braise at a very low temperature! The development of the roasted flavors that come via the Maillard reaction was a bit of a cheat, as I used homemade beef stock and Guinness Stout!
Delicious! Even if it did use a frog-invented technique!
Let's talk about bread. Specifically the utter, obscene, offensive ridiculousness of artisanal bread that costs $25 or $50 or $60...per loaf! You think I am kidding? Here is Martin Auer, a NYC bakery and clip joint that sells a rye loaf for $60. And if you aren't mortally offended by that price, just look at the other products he sells.
Flour, water, yeast, salt. That's it. The equipment necessary to make good quality bread that is better than supermarket bread and approaches the quality of many bakery's products is less than $100, and I'll bet that many of you have most of it anyway.
Sure, you can buy artisanal flour harvested by bare-breasted nymphs under a full moon, and milled with stones from Stonehenge, but good quality flour is $5 for a five-pound bag. Rye flour is more, but you only need about a pound of it for a large loaf.
I have been baking for a long time, so I have reasonably good dough-handling skills. It takes me about 15 minutes of work to make an excellent sourdough loaf that is better than 99% of the bread I have eaten. And sourdough is more difficult than good old white bread for sandwiches! You can make very good bread in a matter of a few minutes with what you have on hand at home. And it will be a fraction of the price of the supermarket stuff, and almost certainly better.
I am second to none in my pomposity and snobbishness when it comes to food and drink, but charging that much for a simple loaf of bread is simply f*cked.
And next week (if I remember) I will address the stupidity of the $8 Chocolate Chip Cookie!
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Long-time commenter and existentially flawed Manhattan maker "naturalfake" mentioned a drink I haven't had in forever. The Aviation is a classic cocktail when judged by its ratios, but the ingredients are a bit different....
Because I didn't have this stuff...
I made one with Crème de Cassis, which is a liqueur made from currents, and is most famously used in a drink called a "Kir," which is just dry white wine with Cassis to taste! Fun before dinner, and worth trying. "naturalfake" warned me that my Aviation with Cassis was not going to be as good, and he was correct, but it was still a tasty drink.
Of course I then ran to the store for a bottle of the real thing, and this was the result.
It is a nicer color than it looks...a delicate purple...and it was a success!
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Well, let us revisit one of the most important questions in cooking...to soak or not to soak your beans! DadCooksDinner weighs in with his instant pot solution, and because I am a traditionalist and a Luddite, I disapprove!
I either use canned beans or I soak the dried beans overnight. Anything else is an affront to the cooking gods and they will exact retribution!
Which reminds me, I think I am going to make a pot of WeaselBeenz!
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I have pontificated at length about the pleasures of expanding one's wine horizons. Yes, there are people who are content to drink Cabernet or Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc for their entire lives, and are perfectly content, and probably not bad people who kick puppies and pull the wings off flies.
But there are many other less-well-known grapes that are made into wonderful and usually less expensive wines for every day drinking. Here is a photo of a good bottle of a Spanish wine called Albariño, made from the grape of the same name.
It's inexpensive, delicious, and a great party wine because it isn't monstrously alcoholic. A nice crisp drink for a warm fall day! And yes, the gentleman in the background cooked the fantastic pork at the recent Texas Meet!
The moral of this story is to try the other grapes that winemakers use. They aren't paying a premium for the name of the grape, so in general there is more value in the bottle!
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Okay...now what? I had a lot of egg whites from the six egg yolks that went into my spectacular coffee ice cream with Heath Bars. So I made meringues, even though I didn't need an additional dessert, don't really like them that much, and wasn't expecting the brats to clean out the larder.
Yes, it is because I am a cheap bastard and don't like to waste. So I spent my time, a few bucks worth of sugar and cocoa powder, and I guess some natural gas to heat the oven. All so I wouldn't waste a few cents worth of egg whites.
I took them out too soon so they fell a bit. They were modestly pleasant to eat, but not something I will return too anytime soon...until I make ice cream again and have unused egg whites. Yes...it is a vicious circle!
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Maybe I am insufficiently attuned to the modern zeitgeist, but I don't give a shit who is touting the products advertised to me.
Do I like Mariano Rivera? Of course I do! He was the reason I didn't have to watch the end of the 9th inning when the Yankees were winning...back in the day when they actually won stuff. Lights out, seemingly a good man (maybe), and his attitude toward baseball and life was refreshing.
But what the hell does he know about hot sauce?
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The great garlic experiment of 2025-2026 was a resounding...meh. Send all of your excellent home-grown garlic to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.
About the Bourbon Bubble...I think it has burst, but the category is also suffering from the inflation that affected everything else (Thanks Biden!). I think the sweet spot is still $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.
The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!
You can't see it? You can't see it. YOU CAN"T SEE IT!
That is the perfidy of the spider! The evidence, its web, is invisible to the camera, so a charge, trial, and execution is impossible.
But I know it is there. And there will be consequences.
Replace the fixture? Of course. That is the minimalist response. Also in the mix is a removal and replacement of the ceiling and wiring. And certainly replacement of the ceiling joists is a reasonable approach.
I could rant for pages and pages about the evils of government largesse replacing private charity. It doesn't work, it never worked, and it will never work. A cursory glance at Europe and it sclerotic economy will buttress the argument that governments are horrendously inefficient at everything they do, so why not ensure that they do as little as possible?
Luckily, Americans are an amazingly caring and generous people outside of the cities, and there are many thousands of charitable organizations that do yeoman's work caring for those in need.
And as humans are wont, some are poorly run. Some are purposefully designed to enrich their staff. Some are flat-out scams.
And of course, because this is America, organizations have arisen to inform us of the relative quality of these charitable efforts. And that is a very good thing, because most of us will have difficulty reading IRS Form 990, which is just the beginning of the labyrinth that is financial reporting.
One website I use is called CharityWatch, and they seem to be rigorous and consistent in their evaluations. And that's nice, because I don't want to have to wade through some bullsh*t political screed just to see the cost to fund-raise compared to total revenue!
One of the things I think is important is the salaries of the administrators and board. It is glaringly obvious that there are some non-profit organizations that should be stripped of that designation and thrown into the general pile of companies in it for the almighty buck. And don't get me started on universities and hospitals that hide behind their non-profit status to evade the taxes that every other provider of a product or service has to pay!
Sadly, there are more ways for charities to obfuscate and redirect and flat-out cheat than there are watchers, so there is always a risk that the $25 you sent to XYZ charity is actually being funneled to some NGO that hides wetbacks from ICE. But careful reading of the materials provided by the charity will provide clues.
For me? I look for the most direct line between my dollar and the recipient. Tunnel to Towers Foundation is a good example of a well-run charity that doesn't piss away its donor's money on stupid sh*t. They used to send me stuff in the mail, which I think is a waste. So I called them, and a real person answered the phone! I asked that all communication be via e-mail to save a few bucks. And I have never again gotten anything in the mail! Is that a big deal? No, but it shows that they are serious about their work.
I am not touting CharityWatch or Tunnels To Towers. There are many fine organizations that are aligned with your charitable interests, and a bit of research into them will minimize the possibility of waste or fraud.
And speaking of charities! All of the profit from The Deplorable Gourmet goes to a couple of excellent and efficient charities.
What? You don't know what that is? It is the greatest cookbook of the 21st century! And a perfect Christmas gift, or even better a wonderful book to bring to your Thanksgiving host. It is elegant, well written, and everyone is wearing their best in the photos. It's even got original art! Plus, the food is great.
Email confirmed as once used by the Muskily Heterosexual James Talarico found in leak of emails of Fling.com sex dating site:
An email address that James Talarico's attorneys confirmed belonged to and was at one time used by the Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate appears in a database search result associated with the adult dating website Fling.com's 2011 data breach. A Fling.com account was created with Talarico's email address just before Talarico began teaching sixth graders.
The result lists the username "mohawk787" and an account creation timestamp of December 26, 2010, at 20:56:49. The profile's interests field lists "FETISH," "GROUPSEX," "SEXUAL RELATIONS," "ONLINE FLIRTING," and "OTHER."
Townhall shared the information described in this article with the Talarico campaign and requested comment Friday morning, and in response, a mere 35 minutes later, received a four-page, detailed letter from legal counsel for Talarico that addressed some, but not all of the information described in this report.
"Well I can't believe the trans-child-obsessed Confirmed Bachelor James Talarico is into group fetish shit," said noted void phantom Doctor Nullity, The Man Who Never Existed
I'm not the guy who noted this, I saw it on X (Razib Khan maybe), but The Bulwark could be "audience capture". It might have started as the Frum / 90s-Kristol / NRO classic Eisenhower Republicanism. But nobody was reading the Bulwark except leftists.
Tallyrand has a quote on this, "I am their leader so I must follow them".
Same goes for David French, Christianity Today, and the "Anxious Bench" side of Patheos. They may have started out Christian. But it wasn't Christians signing their checks.
Flashback: "trans man" Lawyer freaks out after a judge denies "his" motion. He's ultimately arrested. "He" makes so much drama he was just recruited to develop a new CW show.
I'm just wondering if this flighty high-calorie pyrsyn is also in the news today for other reasons....
Update: No, it's not. Zee/Zem says they's name is like "Rob Hopkins" or something. Story here, courtesy of The Blade
[Song title]
Don't breathe down my neck, no
I got no trophies on display
I sign them away
I mean what the heck
All of your promises
Don't fill me with pride no
I just wanna get out on the floor
And do the Cuban slide, slide, slide, slide
From Anonosaurus Wrecks:
@NBCNews
Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away, the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media.
Podcast: The Brazil and Israel elections, the evil left, and more!
We call on France to exercise restraint when dispersing the freedom fighters on the streets of Paris. These brave warriors for justice must receive immediate humanitarian aid, and their safety must be guaranteed in accordance with international law. Failure to comply will leave us no choice but to bring a case before the ICJ, in close cooperation with that renowned champion of human rights, Afghanistan.
Forgotten 80s Mystery Click: Garrett's Sus iPod Edition Everybody wants you
Everybody wants your love
I'd just like to make you mine, all mine Just imagine he's singing that to a dude. BTW I thought this was a completely different band from Garrett's Sus iPod, the Bay City Rollers.
Podcast: The Nobel Peace Prize farce, Ilhan Omar in hot water, Talarico's disappearance, Guilfoyle is a crook, Should Nidal's execution be streamed, Bugs Bunny, and more!
