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Nearly half of households headed by immigrants, those legally and illegally living in the United States, are on one or more forms of welfare, a Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) analysis of Census Bureau data reveals. . . Meanwhile, just 28 percent of households headed by native-born Americans are on welfare, and just 31 percent are on welfare that includes both tax credits.
Countries with the highest welfare-users in the U.S. include Afghanistan, 87 percent, the Dominican Republic, 78 percent, Guatemala, 77 percent, Honduras, 75 percent, and Mexico, 67 percent.
Interesting that Somalia isn't on that list, but then again, that's not even welfare as such, as opposed to outright naked, dictionary definition criminal fraud on the most massive scale ever seen. Of course the nature of government handouts themselves, regardless of who the recipient is is another story entirely and the nature of charity and who foots the bill.
There was a time when being indigent absolutely disqualified you from being granted citizenship. Of course there are several things going on here that collectively have one goal in mind and that is the collapse of American society and its transmogrification into a socialist state based on the inversion/perversion of history and annihilation of our American heritage and indeed Judeo-Christian Western civilization going back millennia.
. . . an example of what are commonly called Trojan Horse initiatives — mass movements whose outward purpose seems to be providing material help to the downtrodden, but whose real objective is to draft poor people into service as revolutionary foot soldiers; to mobilize poor people en masse in an effort to overwhelm government agencies with a flood of demands beyond the capacity of those agencies to meet. Cloward and Piven calculated that the flood of demands which they were recommending would break the budget, jam the bureaucratic gears into gridlock, and bring the system crashing down. Fear, turmoil, violence and economic collapse would accompany such a breakdown — providing perfect conditions for fostering radical change. That was the theory.
Cesar Chavez’s birthday is a holiday in six states, there are over a dozen streets that carry his name in California alone, and far more schools across the country are named after a child rapist. And now some of those streets may be renamed and Chavez statues may be coming down.
Well, considering Chavez was vocally and virulently anti-illegal immigration, himself often referring to them as "Wetbacks," I'm surprised that the left has yet to airbrush him out of history as a white hispanic a la George Zimmerman. Then again Martin Luther King Jr., who believed in content of character above color of skin has yet to have his statues demolished and MLK Blvds. re-renamed.
. . . a white American 6-year-old was punished for blasphemy against Black Lives Matter (by saying “any life” matters).
A six-year-old white girl was punished because she wrote “Black lives mater/any life [sic]” after a lesson about Martin Luther King in March, 2021—because blacks are treated as sacred by American culture, especially in public schools.
Here's hoping for saner years to come.
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Naini, also the agency’s deputy of public relations, was assassinated just days after Israeli forces eliminated the clerical regime’s de-facto leader, Ali Larijani, and its anti-protest enforcer Gholamreza Soleimani. Hours before his death, Naini insisted that Tehran was still able to build missiles despite the US forces’ bombardment from Operation Epic Fury. Spokesperson for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards killed in strike, state media reports
The slain Islamic regime’s top dog tried to rally the world’s Muslims against the U.S. and Israel. Larijani’s Last Words
“I think, you know, we’re also still dealing with the environment that Joe Biden created, which was, which was depleting those stock holes and not sending them to our own military, but to Ukraine, which is when — every time we reach back and look at any sort of a challenge we have, it goes back to, well, send it to Ukraine,” Hegseth continued. Hegseth Blames Biden For Drained US Stockpiles Amid Iran War
Operation Epic Fury has become a loyalty test dividing the populist Right, as panic, misinformation, and opportunism threaten to fracture a movement that can’t afford to split. The Case for Epic Fury
The CIS analysis looked at the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement to learn which countries have the most immigrant welfare-users in the U.S. Overall, about 47 percent of households headed by immigrants are on one or more forms of welfare. When the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit is included as welfare, that percentage rises to 54 percent. Analysis: Nearly Half of Immigrant Households in U.S. Are on Welfare
... one of Rep. Veronica Escobar's (D-Texas) staffers illegally impersonated a lawyer in order to assist detainees. Benito Torres lied about his credentials so that he could have access to illegal aliens and provide them cell phones. Escobar did not respond to Melugin‘s request for comment, which is hardly surprising. Is she trying to figure out how to protect Torres from the consequences of his own actions? Or is she busy covering her own backside? Dem Rep’s Staffer Impersonated Lawyer to Help Illegal Aliens
Controversy is again raging over the fate of the Salt River wild horses, protected under state law as a natural treasure, after the Arizona Department of Agriculture awarded a new management contract requiring the removal of more than half the herd — despite a state law that authorizes removals only for humane reasons related to the health and safety of individual horses. Why Is a Democrat Governor Undermining a Conservative Conservation Success Story?
“Two sources” confirmed to Axios that Comey had been subpoenaed. The subpoena of Comey reportedly “relates to his alleged role in the drafting of a January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA)” claiming that Russia allegedly interfered in the 2016 President election between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and now-President Donald Trump: Report: James Comey Subpoenaed Over DOJ ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Probe
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
His podcast has become a remorseless roll call of Holocaust deniers, antisemites, Islamic extremists and World War II revisionists. While attacking Trump, Carlson eagerly softball-interviews people who love both Hitler and Stalin. Quite the achievement. Douglas Murray: Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump
The defamation trial against Joseph “Afroman” Foreman came into our lives and out of it so fast it almost seems like magic engineered by the ghosts of Thomas Jefferson and Tupac to light up the country for some good old-fashioned American fun. And by old-fashioned American fun, I mean using vicious mockery against government officials. In this case, seven Adams County sheriff’s officers in Ohio who cannot take a joke, but can kick down a door, mishandle cash, eat your lemon poundcake, and cry about being made into a meme. AFROMAN WINS! Let's All Make Fun of the Government Together!
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“If we just keep upgrading our tech, human life will keep getting better...That something saves time is seen as a good in itself... It subordinates human values to machine values: speed and efficiency.” AI and the Myth of the Machine
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
“I need people who are high-net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state, right?”...“Now, there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. Okay, cut me the checks if you want to be supportive. But maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded.” (Deafening/glass-shattering chorus of "Go Fuck Yourself" causing massive sonic boom south to north along the Atlantic Coast - jjs) Kathy Hochul Begs Rich People Who Fled New York For Florida To Return And Foot Bill For ‘Generous Social Programs’
The Trump administration announced new policies to lower the amount of capital banks must hold. The proposal was introduced Thursday, and it comes in the wake of President Donald Trump’s March executive order on mortgage credit. Trump Proposal Loosens Recession-Era Bank Regulations
The last time U.S. gas prices approached $4.00 per gallon was in September 2023, when, under former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden, the price per gallon hit $3.83. Still, the current peak price has a ways to go to reach its highest point over the past 30 years, which occurred in 2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic, when gas cost $4.92.
age-hits-biden-era-levels/">U.S. National Gas Average Hits Biden-Era Levels.
The university’s Catholic Ministry Instagram account published an invitation Wednesday advertising an end-of-the-month “student-led, queer-affirming discussion of the intersection of our faiths and our queer identities.” President of the Georgetown University College Republicans Shae McInnis told the Caller that Catholic Ministry’s decision stood against Catholic Church teachings. Inside The Queering Of America’s Oldest Catholic University
What force, movement, or personality is rising in American politics, or anywhere, that becomes dominant and shoves Trumpism aside? MAGA Isn’t Dying Because Of The Iran War
Chaves Robles, whose term is slated to end in May, explicitly stated that his opposition to socialism and communism – and an escalation in human rights abuses by the Cuban Communist Party at home – were the reason for his decision. ‘We Must Clean the Hemisphere of Communists’: Costa Rica Cuts Ties to Cuba
...the focus of exoplanet research is now shifting from simply finding these planets to studying them directly, with the potentially habitable worlds listed above the most interesting of all. Astronomers might not find alien life or civilizations on these worlds, but at a minimum they will be doing the first preliminary scouting for humanity’s the first interstellar missions. textScientists compile catalog of the 69 known rocky exoplanets in the habitable zone
Today we finish our week-long tour of the five largest moons of Uranus, all discovered by astronomers before the start of the space age, and imaged successfully if not very completely by Voyager-2 when it did its fly-by of the planet on January 24, 1986. Uranus’ moon Oberon, of which we know little
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, uses her female privilege to lecture the rest of us about how people can learn a lot from same-sex couples. Gavin Newsom's Wife Lectures About Same-Sex Lessons
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“Kamala Harris is a dunce who’s a word salad shooter who I don’t know what her policies are,” Carolla stated during the program. “She’s for transing the prisoners. She’s against transing the prisoners. She’s for fracking. She’s against fracking. She’s been to the border but she hasn’t been to the border. She’s a dope.” Adam Carolla Says What Many Conservatives Are Thinking About Kamala Harris
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Said US memory maker Micron, whose most recent quarterly results showed three times the revenue and nine times the profit of the same period the previous year.
At reasonable prices, so as you might expect the flood has been mopped up pretty damn quickly.
If you're in Australia and don't have easy access to Walmart, look around for Radeon 9070 XT cards which for some reason are steeply discounted right now, sometimes selling for less than the slower Radeon 9070.
I expected shortages and price increases, and some Nvidia 5000 series cards have all but disappeared from US store shelves, but overall... Not so much.
Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday night ONT. Last full day of winter. I, for one, am ready for Spring! Are you? It's also college basketball tournament time. Has your bracket been busted yet? Wanna talk about those things? Wanna talk about something else? You've come to the right place!
Jessica Foster joined Instagram in late December of last year, but during that short period of time, she managed to grow her following on the Meta-owned social network to over 1 million. And it’s not hard to see why; she is very beautiful (some might say suspiciously so), she serves in the US Army, and is an avid Donald Trump fan, constantly posting photos alongside the American president.
But there is something off about Jessica. Even ignoring her seemingly perfect looks, you can’t help but raise an eyebrow when you see that online searches yield no results about her. Apart from the carefully crafted Instagram account, Jessica Foster doesn’t exist. And that’s because she’s not a real person, but an AI-made avatar designed for a very specific demographic.
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Whoever created Jessica Foster appears to have done so to funnel her gullible followers to OF, where they pay for more raunchy content, messages from her, and tips. Apparently, the account violates the platform’s terms of service, which state that every account must be linked to a verified human being, and all AI-generated content must resemble that specific real person and be tagged with a #AI label.
I'm starting to go with the default opinion that every photo or video I see online is AI unless proven otherwise.
Jerry Garcia with The Dead at Madison Square Garden, Sept. 15, 1987.
Credit: AP Photo/Corey Struller
One of Grateful Dead legend Jerry Garcia’s favorite instruments was his trusty, custom-built, wood-grained guitar nicknamed “Tiger.”
Now “Tiger” could be coming back to Chicago after local guitar collector Bobby Tseitlin bought it at auction for $11.56 million, which was briefly a record for a guitar sale. (A black Fender Stratocaster used by Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour sold at the same Christie’s auction last week for $14.5 million.)
Tseitlin, 44, is co-founder of Family Guitars, a Chicago company that collects historic instruments and is “home to some of the most legendary instruments ever played,” per its website. For the past 20 years, Tseitlin’s passion project has been collecting guitars, he told Rolling Stone.
Tseitlin isn’t about to store his famous guitars where no one can see them, though. He lends them out to musicians to play and keep them alive.
True to form, Derek Trucks of Tedeschi Trucks Band was on stage at the Beacon Theatre in New York the night after the auction, playing a Garcia tune on Garcia’s beloved guitar. Trucks attended the auction with Tseitlin, launching online hope he would be playing it soon. Fans got their wish.
Derek Trucks and Bobby Tseitlin with Jerry Garcia's custom Tiger guitar.
Credit: Instagram
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Last week, Tseitlin purchased it at Christie’s in New York City during a multi-day auction featuring prized possessions of the late Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay.
Some trips are long, some are strange, and some are so good, you can’t help but keep 'em going! After reuniting with the Grateful Dead last year to release Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale, we couldn’t resist keeping the journey rolling. This year, we’re beyond excited to collaborate once again on our fifth Dogfish Head x Grateful Dead beer.
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This goodness is swimming to shelves nationwide in 6‑pack / 12‑oz cans as we speak ... er, type!, and will be available coast-to-coast beginning Mar. 2026. You can grab both of our Grateful Dead collaborative brews, Juicy Pale Ale and Citrus Daydream Lager, at your favorite local retailer or use our Fish Finder to track them down near you.
If you’ve ever wondered whether animals have a sense of humor, the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards might just have the answer. This photography competition celebrates those perfectly timed moments in the animal kingdom when creatures appear surprisingly human.
Instead of the usual dramatic wildlife shots, the contest focuses on the lighter side of nature — the awkward, unexpected, and downright hilarious moments animals find themselves in. And honestly, some of these photos look like wildlife accidentally walked into a comedy sketch. So scroll on, enjoy the laughs, and get ready to see wildlife from a whole new — and much funnier — perspective.
Check them all out. It's a single page - not a stupid click-through thing.
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Not sure if this is a thing everywhere, but seniors give their jerseys to the teachers who had the greatest impact on their lives. Thank you to the teachers who really make a difference in these kids' lives. pic.twitter.com/K6RrMa6DJt
This is the song that is playing in the background. Very powerful lyrics about how precious the gift of time is.
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You know that thing that happens with "the algorithm" - you casually mention something at some point, then your phone starts showing you ads and/or social media posts about it? Well this topic is something that I have been thinking about for a while. Just thinking! I was going to look up the history / background on what warrants something being called a road, or a street, or an avenue, etc. Again - I was only THINKING about it. Well, guess what hit my X feed yesterday...
He explains the differences between terms like roads, streets, avenues, and boulevards and there’s actually a meaning behind when each one is used pic.twitter.com/YohPbejXGS
Interesting. But very creepy that "the algorithm" fed me something that I didn't even say out loud.
Does this ever happen to you??
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DJ Doof - This Date in Music History Edition
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On this date in 1982: Ozzy Osbourne guitarist and former Quiet Riot member Randy Rhoads was killed when the plane he was riding in crashed.
Born on this date in 1953: Billy Sheehan, bass guitarist, with American hard rock supergroup Mr. Big, who had the 1992 US No.1 & UK No.3 single 'To Be With You'. He has also worked with Steve Vai and David Lee Roth.
Born on this date in 1952: Derek Longmuir, Scottish drummer and a founding member of the 1970s pop group, Bay City Rollers
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No but really, they announced a joint $40 billion nuclear power project.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
6h
🚨 JUST IN: FBI Director Kash Patel announces a stunning +490% SURGE in arrests of online child predators, the location of 6,200 missing children, and the arrest of 300 human traffickers
I VOTED FOR THIS! Protect the children and destroy crime nationwide 🇺🇸
Patel also confirmed a 112% surge in violent offender arrests, a -20% plummet it homicides and robberies, and seizing enough fentanyl to kill 178M Americans @RapidResponse47 @FBIDirectorKash
This is huge! Keep pushing!
Remember this op? Pushed by the same people telling you that Iran was "no threat"?
Shawn Farash
@Shawn_Farash
1h
490% surge in arrests of child predators.
But he's "covering for pedophiles" and "nothing is happening"
Another narrative destroyed
What was the FBI doing for four years under Biden?
Oh right -- they were diverting anti-terrorism assets to try to frame the president of the United States.
Former FBI Director James Comey has been subpoenaed in the wide-ranging "grand conspiracy" case against the ex-officials who investigated and prosecuted President Trump, two sources with knowledge of the situation tell Axios.
Why it matters: The investigation has produced more than 130 subpoenas since cranking up last year, the sources say, and targets top officials who worked under former presidents Obama and Biden.
The officials, including Comey, have all decried the investigation as political persecution and lawfare.
Zoom in: The Trump administration's grand conspiracy theory posits that Democratic officials bent the rules, broke the law and lied under oath to investigate, prosecute and otherwise undermine Trump from his election in 2016 through his federal indictments in 2023.
The Comey subpoena, issued last week, relates to his alleged role in the drafting of a January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) concerning Russia's election interference that favored Trump.
The assessment referenced the now-widely discredited Steele Dossier, whose inclusion "ran counter to fundamental tradecraft principles and ultimately undermined the credibility of a key judgment," according to a "Tradecraft Review" completed in June under Trump's current CIA director, John Ratcliffe.
Ratcliffe then referred Comey and former CIA director John Brennan for prosecution.
C3
@C_3C_3
29m
This is when the Deep State messed up...
The Mar-a-lago raid by the Biden (Obama) Administration was part of the ongoing Russiagate conspiracy.
This opened the door for a grand jury in Florida and not in the safety of DC.
Oops!
The Oscars' ratings fell yet again.
Variety
@Variety
Mar 17
The 98th annual #Oscars ratings hit 17.9M viewers, down 9% from last year and lowest since 2022:
Danielle Gill
@danielledsouzag
6h
The Oscars, which mocked Turning Point USA's Super Bowl halftime show, got lower ratings than the TPUSA halftime show.
TPUSA's Halftime Show got 25 million household views. The Oscars got 17.9 million views.
The American people are done being lectured by out-of-touch elites.
I wonder why. Maybe it has something to do with Hollywood showering awards on the progressive vanity project, the explicitly pro-antifa terrorism One Battle After Another.
Which by the way, bombed, ironically enough.
Ann Coulter
@AnnCoulter
Liel Leibovitz in the Free Press: "As a work of art, One Battle After Another is irredeemable. It feels like the sort of thing written by a committee of socialist college sophomores cracking each other up ...
"Paul Thomas Anderson seems interested more in purring for his fellow progressives than in making interesting movies ..."
New left-wing/reich-wing darling Joe Kent: Trump bombed Iran because Israel was secretly behind the 2024 assassination attempt and he knows that Bibi will wack him unless he does what Bibi says.
Are the seminar calls going to tell me I'm "selling out" for saying he's a left-wing flake with strong Nazi sympathies?
On @wethefifth yesterday, I said I suspect these people have slices of mental illness.
Kent speculates that Israel tried to assassinate Trump – the most pro-Israel president in history, with a town named after him – in order to… what? Install President Kamala Harris?
BTW, apparently he claimed that he had Secret Information about the Jewish Plot to Kill Trump that he wanted to share with the FBI. Dan Bongino says that's a lie, he specifically told this Nazi Flake that he would personally brief him on the facts of the Butler assassination attempt, and hear his Interesting Theory if he wanted to share it, but he never did.
Apparently Kent wavers between thinking Israel told Crooks to kill Trump and that Iran told Crooks to kill Trump.
But he's got the Secret Facts, yannow.
Jacktron
@jacktronprime
3h
Dan Bongino demolishes Joe Kent AKA Vindman 2.0 on Butler, reveals he offered Kent a briefing but Kent never took it.
"I want you to know something. I offered Joe face-to-face and you know it, Joe, don't bullsh*t people. I offered him a briefing on Butler. Did he show up the FBI headquarters to take it? No way. He did not. That's a fact, bro. You are a liar and a bullsh*tter. And you know it. I offered you that briefing and you didn't take it. You have hidden knowledge about something that happened at Butler? He's got hidden knowledge, folks. Amazing. The president, he was shot in the head. in Butler. He was shot in the head. No one spoke out more about the secret service failures in me. My first week on the job, I had the case agent in my office with an entire team, including a former secret service agent, briefing me about Butler. You know something? Spit it out! Grow a pair! Spit it out! You got some hidden knowledge?
You see the grift though? Well, we don't know nothing. I know something. Black box, I got it. Watch my podcast. The FBI examined 35 accounts linked to Crooks. I thought we didn't analyze anything. I thought they told me that I thought they said that. Including social media, bank and other online accounts. But we don't know nothing. We don't know nothing about nothing. Amazing by the way, how keep this up. The same people out there, clan of people who were telling you out there that Iran's no threat can constantly tell you or imply at least that Iran was behind this kid produced no evidence. They tell you they know something and then they go but Iran's no threat. You just implied Iran tried to shoot Trump at with through this kid. Which story is it mother? Which story is it? Get your story straight. We don't have any evidence of that.
Yes, Iran wants to kill Trump. Yes, this kid is a lunatic. It happens all the time a sadly. John Hinkley, Arthur Bremer, people lose their minds and do stupid stuff. Here's another more from this article. You guys can read it yourself. The home was completely swept, every device was collected and accessed. There were reports out there say we didn't get into certain devices. That's false. That is just made up. Joe would have known that if he would have read the article or just showed up at our office. "
He is just Alexander Vindman 2.0. He is a liar and has zero credibility.
Take everything he said last night and dump it in the garbage.
"I know Iran doesn't want a nuke because it said it doesn't want a nuke"
Trump Makes a Minor Joke About the Element of Surprise in War, and the Very Professional, Educated, and Smart Media Takes It All In Stride With Perfect Calm and Equanimity
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Just kidding, they're freaking out.
First, let's establish that Trump has a warm relationship with Japan's MJGA PM:
He also effusively praised her during the joint interview.
Then a retarded Japanese gardner wandered into the White House lockers and somehow found a suit that fit him. Posing as a journalist, he asked, "If Japan and the US are friends, why didn't you tell them you were about to launch a surprise strike on the Iranian leadership which was, amazingly, all meeting together at the same place at a location we knew about?"
Well he didn't say the last part. I filled that in for him.
So Trump was a little surprised at this retarded gardner asking stupid retard questions, and answered in a joking way.
This might actually be Trump's funniest moment 😂
Japanese Reporter: Why didn't you tell us before you struck Iran?
Jake Tapper, who pretends to be a journalist on TV and pretends to be an autist on Twitter, objects that akshually the PM wasn't even born at the time of Pearl Harbor.
Well, Jake, neither was Trump. Because it's a joke.
Trump was also not alive yet on Pearl Harbor Day, Jake. This was a joke about the importance of keeping surprises in war. As everyone with a functional brain recognized. https://t.co/NCwVAadltg
John Solomon: US Intelligence Recorded Foreign Powers Discussing Routing USAID Money to Joe Biden in 2024, But They Hid This From Trump
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He also faults Trump for not talking about this.
Now, he doesn't say that foreign power is Ukraine, but in a clip I posted yesterday, he talked about the Ukraine plotting to use US taxpayer money to interfere in the election on behalf of Joe Biden.
I don't know why he's omitting the "Ukraine" part now; maybe his source confirmed it, but only if he agreed to not name Ukraine.
The New Darling of the Grifter Left and Grifter Right, Joe Kent, Seems to Have Flounced From His Job Because He Knew He Was Under Investigation for Illegal Leaking
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Gee, I wonder which podcasters he may have been leaking to.
Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent is now at the center of a reported federal investigation, with multiple sources indicating the FBI is probing whether he leaked classified information--an inquiry that, notably, appears to have been underway before his abrupt resignation earlier this week.
According to Semafor's Shelby Talcott, who cited four sources familiar with the matter, the investigation predates Kent's departure from his post and focuses on whether sensitive intelligence was disclosed to individuals not authorized to receive it. Talcott initially reported that three sources confirmed the probe, later adding a fourth.
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Kent announced his resignation publicly on X, framing his exit as a break over foreign policy. In a lengthy post, he argued he could no longer support what he described as an unnecessary conflict with Iran. "I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran," Kent wrote. "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby."
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President Trump weighed in as well, offering a blunt assessment of Kent's departure and his stance on Iran. "I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security," Trump said. "But when I read his statement I realized, it's a good thing that he's out because he said that Iran was not a threat. Iran was a threat, every country realized what a threat Iran was. The question was whether or not they wanted to do something."
The timeline now raises obvious questions. Kent's resignation was publicly tied to his disagreement over Iran policy--but the existence of a preexisting FBI investigation suggests there may have been far more unfolding behind the scenes than he wanted to admit.
Dana Loesch
@DLoesch
18h
Huh.
Seems like the guy was trying to get ahead of a damning story he brought on himself by leaking whatever he could get his hands on to the press, no matter how it affected our nation. Now his reported (and apparently fairly recent) conversion to the right, exclusion from intel briefings due to suspicion, and recent posts contradicting everything he's saying now have clarity.
If you anticipate being tried in court, it's useful to announce your solidarity with a small but passionate group of political lunatics. They'll do jury nullification on your behalf.
🚨 Tucker Carlson disgustingly defends 1930s British fascist Oswald Mosley - who was so aligned with the Nazis that he married at Joseph Goebbels’ house in Berlin, with Adolf Hitler as a guest - even calling him “patriotic.”
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) March 19, 2026
I saw this same wicked shit when Andrew Breitbart died - opportunists claiming to know what Andrew would've done or said or told them "in private," etc. It's the perfect "but you can't disprove it" bullshit move con artists always use. https://t.co/R55JsrKR38
You'd be amazed at how often the secret and conveniently unwitnessed wishes and words of the deceased, expressed to tangential, ambitious characters reflect perfectly what those tangential, ambitious characters wanted to do and say anyway. Crazy, that.
The Russian Empire Restorationist, Alistair Crowley Satanist, and New Rasputin is a fan of Tuq'r and Kent:
Granny Groyper agrees -- even if it is true that Joe Kent was passing classified information, we must not prosecute him, because it would "rip the GOP apart."
Megyn Kelly
@megynkelly
You wanna rip the GOP apart right to its core and prevent a single America First voter from participating in the midterms? Indict Joe Kent and Tucker Carlson. See how that works out.
And how would she know this? She has never been "MAGA," by her own admission. The furthest she will lie is to say she is "MAGA-adjacent."
By the way, here's where Cavernous Nostrils is now: Posting photo collages suggesting Erika Kirk killed her husband.
I certainly don't mean to age-shame anyone, as I'm very, very close to age 29 myself.
But Me-Again Kelly absolutely freaks out when you point out she's a senior citizen playing to the Gen Z Groyper set, so I'm going to keep on hitting her on this.
The small number of "Republicans" who agree with Tuq'r and Me-Again does not doom them at all. To be a major hit in the country, you only need the support of a tiny percentage of the public. If 0.1% of the people support you, congratulations, you're a millionaire.
And the more "selective" viewership of these two crusty Nazis actually puts money in their pockets: the "alt-right," now revealed to mostly be unreconstructed Nazis who just want to remake MAGA in Der Furher's image, feel like a small and isolated group because, of course, they are. But small, isolated groups have a lot of internal solidarity, and they will gladly put money in the pockets of any grifters who make them feel validated.
In case you missed it:
CNN:
“MAGA GOP view of Trump, approve is 100%. If you are a member of MAGA in the GOP, you approve of Donald John Trump. 0% say that they disapprove… he’s the 1972 Miami Dolphins.” pic.twitter.com/ELYv9d5OPM
Official Twitter Account of Republic of Somaliland: We Have Proof That Ilhan "Omar's" Real Last Name is "Elmi," Changed to Hide the Fact That Her Father is a Genocidal Warlord
—Disinformation Expert Ace
And to defraud the US immigration system, of course.
I have to correct something I have repeatedly gotten wrong: I have long called Ilhan "Omar" by the name Ilhan "Omar" Nur, to stress that "Omar" is not her real name. She falsified her name to fraudulently emigrate on an Omar family visa.
I kept saying her real last name is "Nur." That's wrong. Nur is her father's first name, not his surname.
Her actual real last name is "Elmi." Apparently her father, Nur Elmi, began using the name "Omar" to hide his identity.
REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND
@RepOfSomaliland
🧾 Receipts: Ilhan Omar's original last name was Elmi before it was changed.
This evidence was available, but the Obama Justice Department refused to investigate.
Her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, and their father, Nur Said Elmi (also known as Nur Omar), used multiple names across different countries. Part of the family fled to the United Kingdom, while Ilhan Omar and others entered the United States under their father's assumed name, "Omar."
These name changes and split identities were used to conceal the father's true war crimes and identity.
Marriage details:
* Groom: Ahmed Nur Said Elmi
* Bride: Ilhan Abdullahi Omar
(real name Ilhan Elmi)
🧾 Receipts: Ilhan Omar’s original last name was Elmi before it was changed. This evidence was available, but the Obama Justice Department refused to investigate.
Between 1981 and 1991, the Somali military in which Colonel Nur Omar Mohamed, Ilhan Omar's father, served as a senior officer executed a brutal and systematic campaign of genocide targeting the Isaaq people of the modern day Republic of Somaliland.
This dark chapter in Africa's history, which was known as the Isaaq Genocide, was a merciless military campaign that resulted in the killing of over 200,000 Isaaq civilians. It also involved widespread forced displacement, scorched‑earth destruction of the second and third largest cities (Hargeisa and Burao), aerial bombardement of almost every other single city, town and village in Somaliland, and two decades of large‑scale red-terror style tactics against the civilian population of Somaliland.
It was carried out through relentless aerial bombardments -- planes repeatedly strafed fleeing refugees -- summary executions, burning of entire villages, deportations, land‑mining of water sources and homes, Holodomor style government enforced man-made famines (the Dabadheer Drought) and the use of paramilitary units such as the Somali Armed Forces' "Dabar Goynta Isaaqa" (The Isaaq Exterminators), composed exclusively of non-ethnically Isaaq soldiers, to enact mass killings under Somalia's military direction.
War-damaged houses in Hargeysa, a major city in northern Somalia, 1991.
Eyewitness testimonies documented "mass executions by firing squad, forced disappearances, looting, mass torture, mass surveillance, rape used as a weapon, curfews and mass killings of civilians even in areas with limited resistance or lawful liberation movement activities, such in Berbera where thousands of government soldiers were stationed. Isaaq civilians across what was then the Somalia Republic, were detained and executed en-mass by Somalia government execution squads led by Colonels like Ilhan Omar's father.
Across the country civilians were forced from their homes into dehumanising conditions, including many kept in dungeons, underground prisons and pits. Even famous Isaaqs such as Somaliland's most renowned poet 'Hadraawi' did not escape this torture and years of detention under the most brutal and unsanitary conditions imaginable. Even in Mogadishu, deep inside neighbouring Somalia -- and almosr 1,500KM from Somaliland's capital of Hargeisa -- Isaaq civilians were being killed in their homes, in the city and on Mogadishu's beaches. The Jazeera massacre of 1989 is a particularly brutal example that is etched in history.
At the heart of this brutal military regime was Colonel Nur Omar Mohamed, Ilhan Omar's father. His rank, authority, membership of the regime Daarood clan, and 10+ years of having climbed the hierarchy in Somalia military to the rank of Colonel, placed him squarely in the Somali military's command hierarchy during and at the height of its Isaaq genocide campaign. Based on his position, loyalty to the regime, and his role in the military, it is virtually certain that he had intimate knowledge of and involvement in the planning, conception, direction and execution of the genocide.
By both legal and historical standards, despite Ilhan Omar's team's spin in numerous recent articles which have been placed in left-leaning online publications, the logical conclusion that Ilhan Omar's father was almost certainly intimately involved in the Isaaq Genocide is unmistakable. It is supported on the balance of probabilities and the totality of circumstantial and inferential evidence available indicates, more critically, that it meets the threshold that this was the case 'beyond reasonable doubt'.
Oh, and that account wants you to know that Somaliland is not the same country as Somalia.
REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND
@RepOfSomaliland
Mar 17
Dear Americans,
The good people of Somaliland did not steal your hard-earned tax dollars.
Somaliland is not Somalia.
Think South Korea vs. North Korea -- same language, similar names, but completely different ethics, morals, realities, economies, and systems.
Professor Shahid Bolsen will explain.
Sincerely,
The Republic of Somaliland
Okay so Somaliland is very opposed to Somalia. But I trust them a lot more than the pirate filth of Ilhan Elmi's murderous family.
REPUBLIC OF SOMALILAND
@RepOfSomaliland
Mar 15
Somaliland withdrew from its union with Somalia in 1991 after war and mass atrocities committed against its people by Somalia.
- Egypt and Syria formed the United Arab Republic, then separated.
- Senegal and Gambia formed the Senegambia Confederation, then separated.
- Czechia and Slovakia formed Czechoslovakia, then peacefully separated.
- Serbia and Montenegro formed a union, then separated.
- The United Kingdom joined the European Union, then left.
If political unions around the world can dissolve, why is Somaliland treated differently?
September, 2024. CNN's Kaitlan Collins pulls up a clip of Trump in 2016 talking about Somali migrants in Minnesota.
Collins played the clip because she was about to bash Trump with Ilhan Omar before the election and wanted to show Trump's "racist and inflammatory" comments.… pic.twitter.com/sdjqWwStgp
The EU and Japan Hint They Might Do Something to Protect Shipping in the Strait of America
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I don't believe them. This is very gauzy and gaseous.
Trump should just declare that only ships transiting to the Western Hemisphere will be protected. All other ships? Iran, do your worse.
Jacqui Heinrich
@JacquiHeinrich
NEW: UK, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, & Japan issue joint statement expressing "readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts" to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, welcoming nations engaging in prep/planning & coordinating SPR releases and ways to increase output.
Calls for Iran to "cease immediately its threats, laying of mines, drone and missile attacks and other attempts to block the Strait to commercial shipping, and to comply with UN Security Council Resolution 2817"
"Appropriate efforts" means "we issued this paper statement."
We condemn in the strongest terms recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian infrastructure including oil and gas installations, and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces.
We express our deep concern about the escalating conflict. We call on Iran to cease immediately its threats, laying of mines, drone and missile attacks and other attempts to block the Strait to commercial shipping, and to comply with UN Security Council Resolution 2817.
Freedom of navigation is a fundamental principle of international law, including under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
The effects of Iran's actions will be felt by people in all parts of the world, especially the most vulnerable.
Consistent with UNSC Resolution 2817, we emphasise that such interference with international shipping and the disruption of global energy supply chains constitute a threat to international peace and security. In this regard, we call for an immediate comprehensive moratorium on attacks on civilian infrastructure, including oil and gas installations.
We express our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait. We welcome the commitment of nations who are engaging in preparatory planning.
That's the extent of their commitment: they express their readiness to "appropriate efforts" and welcome the commitment of other nations to "preparatory planning."
Does the current conflict in Iran represent an inflection point in the strategy of war?
Israel has honed its skills at decapitating the various Islamic terrorist organizations that have besieged it since its founding, using a combination of electronic (and other) intelligence gathering, sending clandestine services into the hearts of those organizations, carefully cultivating spies within and without those terrorist groups, and probably most of all, being nimble and able to respond very quickly to actionable information.
But the vast improvement in missile technology, coupled with the revolution in drones that allows surveillance in real time and almost instantaneous attacks, has shifted the paradigm. No longer are the leaders mostly safe from attack. And that has been used to great effect in Iran, with the top tier of leaders mostly killed, their replacements mostly killed, and even their replacements killed, or so far down the organizational command structure that their decisions are not yet considered important.
That brings unbelievable uncertainty to the conduct of the war, and while any competent armed force has contingency plans for loss of leadership, those plans are by definition locked into a strategy that has become useless.
No plan survives first contact with the enemy
Who said that is debatable, but it was probably von Moltke (or Clausewitz). But it is axiomatic, and the destruction of Iran's leadership has thrown the entire country into chaos, with its military response simply reactive, without any strategic goal other than to cause damage wherever it can. That is not a plan for victory.
In addition to its military's lack of coordination, its justly feared internal security apparatus is able to detain or kill street protesters, but has lost central command, so there is very little intelligence being gathered on the growing rebellion.
It is a recipe for disaster on all fronts, and regardless of whether the Mullahs can retain control, or the army or IRGC stages a coup, the days of Iran being a regional power and exporting its brand of Shia Islam terror across the world are over.
And all of this was accomplished with superb human and technical intelligence, real-time military action on that intelligence, and amazingly accurate munitions that simply did not exist a generation ago.
Imagine the beginning of World War II, If Great Britain had been able to kill Hitler and Göring and Himmler and Goebbels and Bormann and Keitel and Raeder and Donitz and von Ribbentrop and a few dozen others at the top of the Nazi hierarchy. Or far more chilling...imagine if in May 1940 Nazi Germany had killed Churchill and Bevin and Portal and Montgomery and Dowding and Slim.
The counter-argument from the increasingly unhinged supporters of Iran is that martyrdom is a victory. Well, then in a few weeks when the entire hierarchy of the Iranian Mullahcracy is dead, we should declare victory for Iran! Then the people of Iran can reconstitute some semblance of a government, and we can leave, with the admonition: "Don't make us come back!"
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On Wednesday night, the Washington Post reported that "U.S. officials detected unidentified drones above the Washington Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live" and that those officials have not yet determined where they came from. . . One of the sources, who the newspaper says is a "senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity" said that the military is currently monitoring threats more closely due to the "heightened alert level as the United States and Israel strike Iran."
. . . Back in the fall, several news outlet reported that both men had moved to military bases, along with Donald Trump's Homeland Security advisor, Stephen Miller. Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also had to move to a military base. According to the Atlantic, other members of the administrative have as well.
Well we are at war with Iran, which, it cannot be stressed enough, has been at war with us for 47 years but the difference is we finally have a President who understands the threat to our national security and the peace of the world that an Islamic Iran poses.
“Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran,” Trump said. “A relatively small section of the whole has been hit. The United States knew nothing about this particular attack and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen.” “Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility,” Trump added. “NO MORE ATTACK WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar – In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before.”
. . . The South Pars gas field is the world’s largest natural gas reserve and is jointly operated by Iran and Qatar.
Considering we have military bases in Qatar and they are putatively an ally, as well as the effect on world markets the crippling of this field would have, this might have something to do with Trump's response to Israel's attack. But that said, either we are in this to win it or what the hell are we doing in the first place?
Democrats’ DHS funding blockade, framed as civil liberties, instead weakens core security agencies during wartime—exposing Americans while advancing an increasingly radical agenda. . . Financed in part by malign foreign powers who seek to defeat the United States, radical left activists have co-opted the Democrat Party. Rep. Brad Schneider of Illinois, head of the supposedly centrist New Democrat Coalition, typifies the illogic. “My concern about DHS is their absolute disregard of the Constitution and American citizens’ civil rights,” he said, adding, “So until we see officers who abuse citizens’ civil rights held to full account, until we restore full congressional oversight, I’m not giving another penny to ICE and CBP.”
. . . By providing the energy, funding, and activists who increasingly guide the Democrat Party, the Marxist wing has become its base, electing avowed Socialists including Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Zohran Mamdani, Rashida Tlaib, and more than 100 other officials. A Fox News survey released last week found record 38% support for socialism, including 66% of very liberal voters. Many Democrats are defunding Homeland Security because of the current Middle East war, not despite it. In their heavily refracted perspective, Iran is a peaceful nation that, as Sen. Mark Warner, top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, claims, poses no threat to America. To the Marxist wing and growing numbers of other Democrats, Iran balances the “genocidal” or “apartheid” regime in Israel. . .
. . . Auric Goldfinger told James Bond that he didn’t want a dialogue; he wanted Bond to die. Likewise, the Marxist wing isn’t seeking compromise. It seeks to bring down American exceptionalism by replacing American history with the 1619 Project, action civics, and critical race theory. My center-left friends steadfastly want it to be true that radical leftists share common values with other Americans. They don’t.
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The Duke lacrosse hoax showed how accusation can outpace evidence—and how media, politics, and grievance can turn fiction into “truth” with lasting damage. The Ultimate Race Hoax
A “source” reportedly confirmed to the Jerusalem Post that Israel had launched airstrikes on “facilities linked to Iran’s gas and oil industry.” The South Pars Gas Field is described as “the world’s largest natural gas reserve” Trump Calls for Israel to Stop Attacks on Iran’s South Pars Gas Field
The U.S. intelligence community cautions that the Islamist government remains relatively intact and, should it survive the current military operation, U.S. intelligence agencies believe it will “seek to begin a years-long effort to rebuild its military, missiles and UAV forces.” Tulsi Gabbard Tells Senate that Trump’s Iran Strikes Are Strategic Success.
CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Democrats’ DHS funding blockade, framed as civil liberties, instead weakens core security agencies during wartime—exposing Americans while advancing an increasingly radical agenda. The Marxist Wing of the Democrat Party
Unless things change, a new dark age is upon us in the West. A devolutionary war?
Despite the nature of the allegations, which are reportedly supported by hallway surveillance footage, the Fairfax County Public Schools principal, Georgina Aye, waited until March 12 to notify families. Her email described the incidents blandly as “the student touching students’ buttocks while they were transitioning in the hallways,” according to 7News. Fairfax County Protecting Illegal Immigrant Charged With Groping At Least Dozen Girls
Despite that the sheriffs have been elected by Republicans and appointed to the State Immigration Enforcement Council by Republican Gov. Ron De Santis and Republicans, the council members are collaborating on a letter to President Trump calling for a more liberal focus on immigration policy. Florida Sheriffs Call for ‘Path to Citizenship’ for Illegal Migrants with Jobs
THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE
Gov. Gavin Newsom had a choice. When independent journalist Nick Shirley exposed over $170 million in suspected fraud in California's government-funded programs, he could have promised accountability. The fraud involved daycare centers, hospices, and adult care facilities billing taxpayers while allegedly delivering nothing. Newsom could have said his administration would investigate. . . Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is calling out Newsom. "Why can't you celebrate any journalist or any activist doing that?" Fetterman asked during a podcast interview. "And Governor Newsom put out a disgusting video implying that he's a pedophile or he's that… why? That's kind of a smear. You want to disagree, but to imply that someone in one of the most gross kinds of terms like that — it's like, hey, shouldn't we agree, eliminate all the waste? Democrat Senator Nukes Gavin Newsom Over His Creepy Smear of Nick Shirley
The decision reinstates employees, voids Kari Lake’s actions as acting CEO, and restores most USAGM and subagency operations and broadcasts. Federal Judge Orders Voice of America to Reinstate Dismissed Staff, Resume Broadcasts. https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/03/18/senator-pushes-taxpayer-spending-transparency-as-part-of-anti-somali-fraud-drive/
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED, AND OTHER ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
The special guest of the Mayor at the breakfast was Mary Robinson, former Irish president and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “Her solidarity is many things: unwavering, sincere, and chief among them Irish," gushed Mamdani. Mamdani Compares Irish Experience in America to 'Palestinian' 'Oppression'
James’ kangaroo-court win over Trump was set back big-time last year when an appeals court tossed Engoron’s near-$400-million fine as “excessive” and a violation of the Eighth Amendment; unless the state courts are completely corrupted, the entire verdict should be reversed in due course. Since this case otherwise stands as huge warning that doing business in New York exposes you to nakedly political lawfare, the state will be far better off when that reversal lands — ideally, with language harshly slamming James and Engoron for making a travesty of justice. Turns out Mar-a-Lago wasn’t overvalued, Tish
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Chat AI models aren’t actually thinking; they are mimicking thoughts, emotions, and intelligence. Artificial, Not Intelligent
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
The decision to hold the benchmark federal-funds rate steady in a range between 3.5 percent and 3.75 percent was approved on an 11 to 1 vote. Fed governor Stephen Miran, appointed to fill an unexpected vacancy last year, dissented. Fed Holds Rates Steady
Under former [so-called quote-unquote] President Joe Biden, the department created the National Parents and Families Engagement Council ostensibly as a “partnership between parents and families, educators, district leaders, and entire school communities to support student success.” But behind the scenes, the short-lived council was composed of hand-picked activist organizations that focused on radical racial, gender and immigrant-focused ideologies. As Defending Education notes, “not a single right-of-center or conservative parent group was invited” to participate. EXCLUSIVE: Biden Junta Conspired With Teachers Union-Tied Orgs To Shape Far-Left Parents Council, Docs Reveal
Yet the school-choice movement is burning up the nation: Too many families are now wise to what a racket union-controlled public schools have become. Choice is no cure-all, but at least it gives students an escape from a monopoly system run with zero regard for their interests. Teacher union greed is fueling a national demand for school choice
Senate Democrats are currently blocking the SAVE America Act, which would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID to cast a ballot. They insist the legislation is unnecessary, arguing noncitizen voting is already illegal. 22 Times Democrats Invited Noncitizens To Vote In U.S. Elections
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY
In one bizarre line of questioning, for instance, once-rising Democrat star Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), who delivered the response address to Trump’s address to Congress last year, claimed that the president is preventing the United States from free and fair elections and suggested he would “try and steal” another election in the future. Democrats Turn Markwayne Mullin Confirmation Hearing into Debate on DHS Shutdown, 2020 Election, ICE
Democrat Texas congressional candidate Bobby Pulido addressed criticism of his past behavior and social media posts by claiming his humor sometimes “doesn’t translate.” Pulido, an award-winning musician challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz, has a lengthy record of troubling past behavior. Democrat Candidate Says He’s Not A Creepy Pervert, Just Mexican
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS
Israel issued evacuation orders two weeks ago for all Lebanese civilians living south of the Litani River, an area that comprises about one-eight of Lebanon’s territory. Hundreds of thousands of civilians responded to the order, but some refused to leave their homes, including some Christian villagers who felt they should have no part in Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah. Hezbollah militants have been known to lurk around Christian villages, viewing them as safe havens from Israeli airstrikes. Israel Announces ‘Ground Operations’ in Lebanon as 1 Million+ Displaced
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
For over six decades, the disastrous communist policies of the Castro regime have forced Cubans to live through inhumane conditions of abject misery. The situation in Cuba has dramatically worsened in recent weeks after the rogue communists abruptly lost access to the virtually free oil it had been receiving for decades from the Venezuelan socialist regime following the United States’ arrest of dictator Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026. Cuba’s Puppet President Miguel Díaz-Canel Vows ‘Unbreakable Resistance’ in Anti-Trump Rant
Jan Jekielek told the Daily Caller about the scale and horror of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) forced organ harvesting and the tactics they use to “other” religious minorities — including Christians. ‘Killed To Order’: Shining Light On CCP’s Forced Organ Harvesting
After two-week lull, 16 Chinese aircraft entered Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone. Meanwhile, Japanese diplomat underscores his nation’s support for Taiwan and Taiwan’s Premier visits Japan. China’s Air Displays Fail to Deter Emerging Taiwan–Japan Alignment
Even though scientists have known for more than a century that the Sun’s eleven-year cycle of flipping the polarity of its magnetic field is the fundamental cause of the sunspot cycle, they actually know very little about the dynamo that causes that magnetic field, as this study implies. They not only don’t have any understanding of the fundamental processes that creates that dynamo or causes it to flip polarity every eleven years, they still aren’t entirely sure where it is located within the Sun. Solar scientists: We finally think we know the location of the Sun’s dynamo (Zombie Frank Zappa asks "does it hum?" - jjs)
Several organizations have canceled celebrations to mark this month’s Cesar Chavez Day after allegations surfaced that the commemorative holiday’s namesake may have engaged in sexually inappropriate behavior with both adults and children. (Meh he hated illegal aliens as much as we do, which is his real crime! - jjs) Cesar Chavez Day events canceled following sexual abuse allegations
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Section 230 shields website operators from lawsuit over the behaviour of commenters. But it also serves as a shield for website operators that deliberately inculcate certain behaviours in their users - or that censor users to block behaviour they find undesirable.
It's a people problem, basically. There is not single technical or legislative answer to this mess.
Production currently only covers 80% of demand, and nobody is rushing to fill the gap because everyone who behaved that way went bankrupt in previous memory boom/bust cycles.
That is, the commands are visible to humans but invisible to AI agents.
I'm more concerned about the opposite approach, where invisible-to-human instructions are fed to AI agents, but I see no reason why this couldn't be used that way as well.
Good evening Horde. The time has come for very random mid-week shenanigans of the post-cafe overnight variety. Did I mention the shenanigans were random? They are indeed random.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Pants are optional. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Leave Tucker, Megyn, Candace and anyone similar to threads elsewhere. Your reward is an open bar with as much virtual alcohol as JQ can serve.
This is Bethan's Rock. Who is Bethan and why does Bethan have a Rock? Glad you asked.
Bethan's Rock is on display at Poole Museum which is a maritime museum, art gallery and cultural center located in Poole, Dorset in the southwest of England. A main focus is a preserved 13th-century shipwreck known as the Mortar Wreck which is presented alongside various artifacts the vessel was carrying when it sank. The museum also features a 2,000-year-old Poole Logboat which is an Iron Age vessel found in 1964 during dredging work in Poole Harbor.
Per Atlas Obscura:
In the summer of 2019, a young girl by the name of Bethan was visiting Poole Museum with her mom. While exploring all the site had to offer, she and her mother began to discuss what museums do and why. Inspired by her visit, Bethan felt eager to support the museum's collection. She decided to donate her most precious treasure, something that she felt was appropriately significant and valuable: her favorite rock. Curators placed Bethan's Rock in a glass cabinet, just like many of the museum's other valuable artifacts, where visitors are now able to appreciate the piece as much as Bethan once did.
The rock donated by five year old Bethan became a social media phenomenon in 2021 after showing up on a Reddit post. If you're ever in Poole, stop by and have a look. Admission to the museum is free (but I doubt they're taking more rock donations).
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Random music trivia:
Look at this gent playing keyboards in the video for "Video Killed the Radio Star" in 1981. It was the first music video aired on MTV. The band's name is The Buggles.
Oddly, he was not a member of the band, did not play on the actual studio recording of the song, and reportedly did not write the song or contribute musically to the track's composition or production.
At the time of the video, the band itself only had two members - Geoff Downes and Trevor Horn (a third, Bruce Wooley, was involved when the song was written but was not with the band at the time of the video). Horn handled vocals, bass and guitar and Downes played keyboards. But the guy playing keyboards in the frame above wasn't Geoff. It was a cameo by a keyboard player that Horn knew and worked with in London in the late 1970s.
Who was the guy? Hans Zimmer. You might have heard of him. He went on to compose soundtracks to many movies, including like The Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean, Crimson Tide, Gladiator, Batman, the Dark Knight, Inception, The Last Samurai, No Time to Die, Dune, Rush (the racing movie, not the Canadian trio), Top Gun:Maverick and more. What's your favorite Zimmer score?
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My apologies if this has appeared on the ONT previously but I can't recall. If this is a repeat, pretend to forget and enjoy anew. Apparently the US National Institute for Standards and Technology sells standard material samples on its website. You can shop online for...
Forty grams of domestic sludge costs $758.
Three jars of standard peanut butter costs $1246.
Five vials of Organic Contaminants in Smokers' Urine (Frozen) costs $1854. (For the record, frozen organic contaminants in non-smokers is the same price.)
Four 70 gram jars of baby food composite costs $1246.
So many questions...
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Intentionally crashing locomotives used to be an attraction in the late 1800s. Must have made an almighty sound. Amazingly, someone put together a three part series with the full history. Lots of old photos and maps.
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In case you missed it among all the St. Patrick's Day festivities, March 17 also marks the date of the launch of Vanguard 1 in 1958. It was the first satellite with solar panel and remains the oldest artificial object still in orbit around the Earth. Communications were lost in 1964. To give you a sense of size, Nikita Khrushchev nicknamed it the "grapefruit" satellite. Sputnik 1, Sputnik 2, and Explorer 1 were launched before but none are still in orbit.
A Netherlands engineer built a car for his pet goldfish, Blub, who drove the vehicle a distance of 40 feet in one minute to break a world record.
Thomas de Wolf constructed a four-wheeled vehicle with a water tank for a driver's seat. The vehicle is steered by analyzing the movements of the goldfish inside the tank.
The ONT is not a music thread and it is not a movie thread. But what if we combine them? Wednesday cinema preview released today that will be of interest to Iron Maiden fans:
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ONT Legal Docket
The home of rapper Afroman was raided by Adams County deputies in 2022 when they served a search warrant looking for drugs. They found no drugs and brought no charges. They took $4000 in cash and eventually returned $3600 (there is a dispute about the amount involved). They also damaged the home and refused to pay for the repairs.
Afroman was not amused and put out a song and video titled "Lemon Pound Cake."
The video was ostensibly to earn money to pay for the damage. It took issue with the officers involved and used his own security footage. Video footage showed police ramming down his door, searching his wardrobe, opening CD cases, and at one point briefly glancing at a lemon pound cake on his counter. Thus the name of the song...
Seven officers sued him over the video on defamation grounds. Afroman attended depositions and trial adorned in an American flag outfit.
The unfortunate loser in all of this? The Adams County police department in Colorado received a deluge of unhappy emails and social media messages in support of Afroman. The problem is that the whole thing took place in Adams County, Ohio.
The Adams County Sheriff's Office has received a flood of social media comments, DMs, and phone calls about the #Afroman defamation trial. It’s clear this is important to a lot of people. There's just one small issue: that's the ACSO in Ohio. We are the ACSO in #Colorado.… pic.twitter.com/MJWtu96YbR
— Adams County Sheriff's Office (Colorado) (@AdamsCoSheriff) March 18, 2026
Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking ?? Thank you for your attention to this matter. We aim to whelm.
This is Molly. Her favorite human started packing for college and Molly immediately went full duffel defense mode. Doesn’t want her owner to leave because best friends simply don’t leave each other behind. the purest golden loyalty ❤️ pic.twitter.com/4kRFgN0ozq
Remember the days when two Republicans led the jungle primary for California governor, meaning, if that survey support translates to actual votes, the only two people competing in the election would be those two Republicans? No Democrats allowed? No "Independent Socialists" running as spoilers?
Again, this isn't a primary poll -- it's a poll of the so-called "jungle primary" where everyone runs no matter what the party. The top two vote-getters here advance to the general election.
Conservative commentator Steve Hilton had the support of 17% of likely voters and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco had the backing of 16%, according to a poll released Wednesday by UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies and co-sponsored by The Times.
Last time I checked, the Democrat with the most support is noted Chinese Spy Eric Fartwell. I think he had 13%.
-- A generation ago, Poland rationed sugar and flour while its citizens were paid one-tenth what West Germans earned. Today its economy has edged past Switzerland to become the world's 20th largest with over $1 trillion in annual output.
It's a historic leap from the post-communist ruins of 1989-90 to today's European growth champion that economists say has lessons on how to bring prosperity to ordinary people -- and that the Trump administration says should be recognized by Poland's presence at a summit of the Group of 20 leading economies later this year.
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The guest invitation to the G20 summit is mostly symbolic; no guest country has been promoted to full member since the original G20 met at the finance minister level in 1999, and that would take a consensus decision of all the members. Moreover, the original countries were chosen not just by GDP rank, but by their "systemic significance" in the global economy.
But the gesture reflects a statistical truth: In 35 years -- a little less than one person's working lifetime -- Poland's per capita gross domestic product rose to $55,340 in 2025, or 85% of the EU average. That's up from $6,730 in 1990, or 38% of the EU average and now roughly equal to Japan's $52,039, according to International Monetary Fund figures measured in today's dollars and adjusted for Poland's lower cost of living.
Poland's economy has grown an average 3.8% a year since joining the EU in 2004, easily beating the European average of 1.8%.
As someone pointed out on Twitter: They somehow managed to prosper economically without allowing in millions of unvetted, unskilled immigrants. Weird, I thought that was impossible.
Poland is saving money by not having to demolish the statues of its previous heroes just because Hostile Culturally-Aggressive Colonizers demand it.
Meanwhile, in Wales:
Another billionaire has fled California to escape the coming tax on all assets, including unsold stock and property. (Usually we tax things when a dollar value is "realized" -- made real -- through a sale; this new scheme to seize the means of production would require you to estimate what your assets might be worth and pay a tax on them every year. That shouldn't lead to people going to jail; just ask Trump, who got hit with a half-billion dollar civil penalty for over-estimating the value of his assets in a private loan context.)
Billionaire Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick admits strategically moving to Texas before California wealth tax
Kalanick says Dec 18 move to Austin was timed 'prior to January' deadline for proposed billionaire tax
Billionaire and Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick officially joined the exodus from California, revealing he moved to Austin, Texas, just weeks before a proposed wealth tax could have targeted his estimated $3.6 billion fortune.
"Just to be clear, on December 18, I moved to Texas. I don't know what's so specific about December 18, but let's just say it's prior to January," Kalanick said in an interview with TPBN.
"I get a little bit [of] FOMO on like, these people going to Florida. I'm like, dude! Why so much Florida action?" he continued. "Come on, homies."
Kalanick left his San Francisco home for Texas just 14 days before the new year, when the retroactive residency deadline for the proposed billionaire tax would take effect.
While it has not yet qualified for the November ballot, the proposal -- backed by the Service Employees International Union--United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) -- would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of California residents with more than $1 billion in wealth. The tax would be due in 2027, and taxpayers could spread payments over five years, with additional fees, according to the California Legislative Analyst's Office.
If the measure is approved by voters, anyone who was a California resident on Jan. 1, 2026, would owe the tax, according to the proposal. Based on Forbes' estimates, Kalanick could owe roughly $180 million.
And now you get nothing. Eat it, Commie scum.
You people are such absolute fuck-ups. You'd have to ration sand in a desert.
Meanwhile, Nurse Kathy Hochul is begging the wealthy to move back to NY so that they may seize their assets:
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New York Gov Kathy Hochul is begging wealthy people who have moved to Florida and Texas to come back to New York and pay taxes. 🤣
"I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state. Now, there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. OK, cut me the checks if you want to be supportive, but maybe the first step should be go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home."
"I have to look at the fact that we are in competition with other states who have less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals. And I would say remote work changed everything."
"There were people who could only work in an office in Manhattan and work in New York state. And they were captives to our state, they were going to stay. We saw that that's not the case. Wall Street businesses looking at Texas, they're not going there because they have a nicer governor. They're going there because of the tax rate."
New York Gov Kathy Hochul is begging wealthy people who have moved to Florida and Texas to come back to New York and pay taxes. 🤣
"I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state. Now, there are some patriotic… pic.twitter.com/B4ql1ktcq6
LOL, the woman who locked everyone inside their homes for two years thinks she's a "nice governor" and that people should want to live under her evil reign of malicious incompetence.
Are you kidding me, you ridiculous tiny Napoleon-complexed manlet?
Now Paul is on the edge of having a point here, as he claims that Markwayne Mullin voted to not stop welfare programs for refugees.
But he moves off that point to whine about Mullin having said that he understood why Paul's liberal neighbor beat up the annoying, self-righteous Libertarian Leprechaun.
"Instead of explaining your vote to continue these welfare programs for refugees, you decide to transfer the blame. You told the media that I was a 'freaking snake' and that you completely understood why I had been assaulted," Paul said in his opening remarks. "I was shocked it would justify and celebrate this violent assault that caused me so much pain and my family so much pain."
He added, "I just wonder if someone who applauds violence against their political opponents is the right person to lead an agency that has struggled to accept limits to the proper use of force."
You chose to lash out at me. You went on to brag that you'd already told me to my face that you completely understood and approved of the assault. Well, that's a lie. You got a chance today. You can either continue to lie, or you can correct the record," Paul continued. "You have never had the courage to look me in the eye and tell me that the assault was justified, so today you'll have your chance. Today, I'll give you that chance to clear the record. Tell it to my face, if that's what you believe. Tell it to me today. Tell the world why you believe I deserve to be assaulted from behind. Have six ribs broken and a damaged lung. Tell me to my face why you think I deserved it."
You simpering little fairy. Now I want to beat the shit out of you, too.
This is a grown man whining not about being beaten up ten years ago, but whining that another man wasn't sufficiently sorrowful that he'd gotten beaten up. He's like the pussy still whining in tenth grade that in third grade he'd gotten a wedgie.
Maybe it's time for another wedgie.
Note Paul does not demand he answer as to why he cast the vote he did. No, it's all about appeasing the light-loafered malignant dwarf's feelings.
And he's doing the fake tough-guy thing of saying "tell it to my face" in a building with 100 people present including security and tv cameras.
Why don't you try the "tell it to my face" act alone, outside, in a private little spot?
You ridiculous little bitch!
Context for the below post: "Sinners" a movie starring black people directed by a black guy. It's about black people being attacked by evil vampires. White vampires, I should clarify, as if you didn't guess that.
It was absurdly overnominated for Oscars because of its DEI credentials -- sixteen nominations, tying, I believe, the most-nominated film in history, The Godfather.
This... jumped up vampire movie got 16 nominations and won four Oscars.
But the DEI schemers thing it was unfairly robbed due to #MuhRacism:
The founder of the Columbia Anti-Semitic League, the foreign national Rubio and Trump tried to deport only to be blocked by a lowly district court judge, says it's racist to ask a Muslim to condemn terrorism.
🚨WTF — Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil (Green card holder with ties to terrorism who liberals protected from deportation) says it's “very racist to ask a Palestinian to condemn Hamas.”pic.twitter.com/KkQuyBJS2Q
California Bridge to Nowhere Remains Unfinished, Now Costs $114 Million
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Every time I see a dead critter by the highway I wonder: Why can't we build gently-sloping pedestrian bridges, topped with grass and bushes, for wildlife to cross over safely? It's not just good for them; people crash their cars due to deer all the time.
Well, a government filled with left-wing fuck-up grifters is why.
In 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom broke ground on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing (WAWC), a project featuring an overpass for animals atop ten lanes of the 101 Freeway in Southern California.
At the ceremony, Newsom boasted that the state had committed $54 million. He promised to "complete the job within another $10 million," before seeming to hedge on whether that final sum would do the trick.
Officials projected a 2025 completion date for the overpass, and estimated that the entire project -- which includes the bridge and other ancillary developments -- would cost $92 million, some of it coming from private philanthropists.
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Pratt, a cougar-sweater-wearing environmental activist who serves on WAWC's Partner Leadership Team, is the program's public face. She is also a regional executive director of the national Wildlife Federation. In 2021, the group received a $25 million grant from "Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation" for the bridge that bears the late philanthropist's name.
That money apparently was not enough. This past January, donning a hard hat and a "#SAVELACOUGARS" jersey, Pratt announced a possible $21 million overage. She effectively blamed President Trump, attributing the multimillion-dollar overrun to "tariffs, inflation, [and] labor problems."
"There's no boondoggle," she said. "Given the times we're living in," a potential $21 million overage is "not that bad."
Over $100 million for a bridge which only needs to bear the weight of, checks notes, skunks and the occasional herd of deer. Oh, and six inches of dirt, maybe.
This is not an overpass for vehicles. It does not need to bear the weight of multiton trucks driving at 75mph. The engineering needed here is pretty forgiving.
But still, they can't finish it for less than $114 million.
And if you think that will be the final bill, I've got a Butterfly Bridge to sell you.
(Yes, the bridge must also serve as a path for butterflies. Think of the additional engineering requirements to bear the weight of several dozen butterflies.)
How can you degenerates literally be bad at everything?
Here's how: They're all taking a piece.
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Why has a project primarily consisting of a bridge for animals cost over $100 million? One reason is that Newsom and WAWC's philanthropic supporters apparently don't mind it becoming a patronage program.As the WAWC-endorsing Wildlife Crossing Fund notes, citing the California Department of Transportation's estimate, "for every $1 billion spent" on wildlife crossings, "13,000 jobs are created."
A group of experts apparently adds to the operation's expense. A fungi whiz, Pratt says, worked as a WAWC habitat designer, periodically scrutinizing root samples under a microscope. A contracted soil scientist said his process involves assessing local dirt to "rebuild it ... as close to nature as possible."
1, that's a scam, 2, you build a slope, a bridge, put some dirt on it, and it's done. It's close enough to nature. We just want animals crossing here, not attempting to build animal cities.
By the way: I think any path covered in dirt would be "closer to nature" than the highway it spans, no?
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At the groundbreaking ceremony, Newsom envisioned WAWC as a catalyst for the construction of wildlife crossings across the state. California, he boasted, set aside $105 million "to replicate projects like this all up and down the state." Pratt reportedly thinks "hundreds more crossings are needed."
Here's the thing: their own incompetence and greed keeps them from accomplishing any of the things they claim to want to accomplish. If they'd built this... bike path with dirt for something reasonable like $15 million, then yeah, this would serve as a model for building additional bridges.
But at a cost of $114 million and climbing for one incomplete bridge? No. You have once again fucked everything up for everyone, including the animals.
But you'll all still get paid, right? That's the important thing.
BREAKING - Gavin Newsom's wildlife "bridge to nowhere," promised to cost California taxpayers $50 million in 2022, has more than doubled to $114 million and it's still unfinished.
California wanted to build a $100 million butterfly bridge. This is the woman they put in charge.
"There's no boondoggle," she insists. The $21 million cost overrun is "not that bad." pic.twitter.com/Mpm8YqqK6d
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) March 18, 2026
BREAKING: @BethPratt, the woman responsible for California's $114 million animal bridge boondoggle, has responded to our investigation with a rambling Facebook post blaming the weather and "unprecedented biodiversity collapse."
[A]n asshole is somebody who looks at a painting of two toddlers doing something totally normal for toddlers and decides that it represents homosexuality and then thinks that publicly saying that is somehow edgy and clever. Instead it is doing what we accuse the Left of, that is sexualizing young children. If that describes you, own it.
Reports: The A-10 Thunderbolt, better known as The Warthog, has been unleashed on Iran It's a heavily armored (the pilot sits in a titanim bathtub) slow-and-low loitering plane with a massive minigun firing depleted uranium rounds. The capability it brings is the ability to just fly big circles over the country waiting for a target to present itself. This is a weapons platform for eliminating vehicles and personnel. Its first task might be strafing the seas, clearing out any remaining attack boats and minelayers.
Update: My ballpark estimate for a reasonable cost for a wildlife overpass (suitably padded to sate the thirst of Democrat grifters) was $15 million. Turns out, that was a good estimate. That's how much it cost Denver to build one.
Podcast: CBD and Sefton discuss the obvious incompatibility of Islam with free societies, John Bolton is a disloyal sleaze, The SAVE Act is in the muck of Senate RINOs, the crappy quality of anti-American propaganda, and more!
Some people liked Candace Owens because she was a black woman who told hard truths about BLM and black criminality. But this was always a grift. She started out as a race hustler for a grift, then hustled race the other way to grift conservatives, and now she's back to being a race-hustler for the left again. Specifically, she is now claiming that people pointing out that she is legitimately low-IQ and can't pronounce half the words her AI-generated teleprompter script points out to her is racist and just Ben Shapiro's way of saying the n-word without quite saying it. You see, you can only say that black people are smart, and if you see a dumb one that doesn't know how to pronounce simple words while she poses as an investigatory journalist, you have to pretend she's actually smart or you're a racist. Weird, that doesn't sound very conservative, let alone "#Based," to me. To prove how much she hates racism, she then says that Ben Shapiro's Jew ancestors were masters of the slave trade.
Ami Kozak: Every single Tucker Carlson episode consists of him claiming he didn't say the things he said in the last episode Also: this is the manipulation Tucker does that i hate the most. It's so cowardly. All he does is smear people (and Jews, generally), and then claim "I have nothing against [the person or group I just smeared.]" He'll even claim "I love [x], actually." Just again and again and again. It's all a lie, of course. A year ago he smeared Jews but added how beautiful he thought Israel was, and then two weeks ago, he said Israel is ugly as dog-shit and nothing beautiful has been built there "since 1948." Just got this email from Dracula: "I love Van Helsing, actually, he's one of my personal heroes, if I'm being honest. I will claw the heart out of his belly and bathe in his blood before the children of Babylon, but I have nothing but respect for Van Helsing, actually. Love is the answer. Except for the followers of the Christ whom I am commanded to turn into my dark army of Satan. And I totally don't worship Satan, I just think we should listen to both sides. Hugs and kisses, may Van Helsing burn in the blood-red fires of hell throughout eternity, even though I consider him a close and dear friend, Vlad called Dracul."
