Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, April 11

The famous Pat* reminds us that it is spring!

I caught our forsythias at peak, early last week.

Forsythias just say "Spring"!

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Old Civilizations, Wonderful Things

Still true

It was a relief to see the astronauts make it safely through re-entry and successfully splash down in the Pacific last night. I read that Congress would not allocate funds for much new development for this mission, so much of the technology was 50 years old. But when lunar landings start again, with rovers and a planned permanent moon base, new technology will be contracted out to private firms.

The artist's rendition of a future moon base here reminds me of some of the torn-up landscape we passed this week from the probably-doomed high-speed rail project in California. Except that there was a lovely ranch house a few hundred feet away, over a small ridge.

Is California government, with Gavin Newsom and Eric Swalwell, a dying civilization?

If you gave away $126 billion to subsidize free flights between LA and San Francisco at current demand levels, you could fund roughly 150 to 200 years of travel before the money runs out. https://t.co/8ro72lJIfc

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) April 8, 2026

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One wonderful thing that has happened in California recently is that Victor Davis Hanson is looking and sounding much better after his cancer surgery (with a complication). He is a tough guy. Some commentary from him below.

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The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[That's not a reasonable likeness of me]

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Wild Rose)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind. Be nice. The ban-hammer is omnipresent .
3) Running with sharp objects is not looked upon with approval. You have been notified.
4) Have a great weekend!

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Daily Tech News 11 April 2026

Top Story

• Look around, find the worst price! But don't buy before you come to Micro Center because we can't be beat! Our prices are insane! (WCCFTech)
  
  And not in a good way. Elsewhere it would cost you an eye-burning $1600 to buy 128GB of RAM right now.
  
  At Micro Center it's over $4000.
  
  Western Digital and Samsung SSDs meanwhile have tripled in price in just the last three months, and there's little relief there with even cheaper brands using YMTC flash increasing by 50% or more.
  
  
  

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Please Be gentle. It's My First ONT

Welcome to the ONT! Tonight we're going to consider the difference between reality and fantasy.

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Fang-Fang Banger and Democrat Smear Merchant Eric Swalwell is Melting Down as Campaign Staffers Quit and More Sexual Assault Accusers Come Forward

As they say: Every "Male Feminist" should come along with a rape whistle to warn the unwary.

A former staffer claims that Swalwell raped her when she was too drunk to consent. Twice.

From the SF Chronicle, quoted by Red State:

A woman who worked for nearly two years for Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading candidate for California governor, said she had sexual encounters with him while he was her boss and alleged he twice sexually assaulted her when she was too intoxicated to consent.

[...]

The woman said Swalwell began pursuing her within weeks after she was hired at age 21 to work in the Democrat's district office in Castro Valley in 2019. Swalwell messaged her on Snapchat, she said, sending images of his genitals and seeking nude pictures of her in return.

She said Swalwell, who is married and 17 years her senior, tried to kiss her in her car when she drove him home from a donor meeting one night. Driving him to another event weeks later, she said Swalwell pulled out his penis in the car and asked her to perform oral sex on him. She said she did so in a parking lot.

He took it out.

In September 2019, the woman said, Swalwell invited her out for drinks and she became so severely intoxicated that she does not remember the rest of the night. She said she woke up naked in Swalwell's hotel bed and could feel the effect of vaginal intercourse. She said Swalwell distanced himself from her afterward and the relationship faded.

The woman also alleged that Swalwell sexually assaulted her five years later, when she was no longer a staffer, where, after a charity gala, she was "so inebriated that she only remembers snippets of the night, including pushing Swalwell away and telling him, 'No,' while he allegedly forced himself on her."

Apparently she told two people about the second sexual assault, at about the time it happened.

More accusers are coming, says Democrat-friendly leak receptacle CNN.

Three other women who spoke with CNN also alleged various kinds of sexual misconduct by the Democratic congressman -- including Swalwell sending them unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos.

One woman who connected online with Swalwell over her interest in Democratic politics says she ended up extremely drunk inside his hotel room after a night out with the congressman, with little memory of what occurred. Earlier in the night at a bar, he kissed her and touched her leg without her consent, she said.

Another woman, who described receiving unsolicited nude messages from Swalwell, was social media creator Ally Sammarco. She said she initially reached out to the congressman on Twitter to discuss politics. "I truly never thought he would respond -- I had like 1,000 followers at the time," she said. "And he actually responded."

CNN also adds: She told family members and friends about the sexual assault a day or two after it happened.

So the Democrats are terrified that two Republicans will win the jungle primary and they will be locked out of the governor's mansion. To reduce those risks, they have to drive some of the other Democrats out of the race and consolidate around a couple candidates -- or better yet, one single candidate.

Gee, I wonder who benefits from this and I wonder who is screaming the news out on Twitter but totally wasn't behind this coordinated political-"journalistic" hit:

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The Ocho Cafe

Flying the Columban CriCri jet, an experimental aircraft even tinier than the Acrostar from Octopussy. (Hey that's almost The Ocho but with pussy.)

Remote-control dirt buggy racing.

The Trampoline Event, baby goat division. And this is from 12 years ago so it's not AI! (There are so many fake "cute animals on trampolines" videos I don't even click on them.)

Cat surfing.

World's longest alpine rollercoaster. Sitting is a sport at The Ocho, you know.

Racing down an Alp at 70mph on a skateboard.

Out-of-control kayaking down a drainage ditch.

I've linked this before, but: paragliding with your best friend.

The "Jetman Flying Suit" -- it's an engine and short stubby wings you wear on your back.

Obligatory Armored MMA fight: two-handed axes. One fighter enters the ring playing his two-handed ax like a guitar. The opponent puts his axe on his shoulder and fires it like a bazooka. I don't know why AMMA isn't on network TV every Sunday.

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British News Anchor: Europe Has No Energy, Little Food Production, Little Industry, and Virtually No Military. It Is Heading for a "Dark Ages" Not Seen For 1000 Years.

They've deliberately destroyed their own civilization.

M.A. Rothman
@MichaelARothman

𝐀 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒 𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏'𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐆𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀 -- 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐄'𝐒 𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐓 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐍𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐏𝐄

GB News' Alex Armstrong laid out the geopolitical map that American media refuses to draw: this war isn't about toppling Iran. It's about 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 -- and America is winning on every front.

Start with oil. The Strait of Hormuz carries 𝟒𝟓% 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚'𝐬 𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲. Trump effectively captured Venezuela's oil supply in January. As Armstrong put it: "𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘸𝘩𝘰'𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯. 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴." China is in the middle of a tariff negotiation with Trump -- and suddenly its entire energy supply depends on American goodwill.

Then Europe. With Russian energy off the table and domestic energy hollowed out by the "𝘭𝘦𝘧𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘰," Europe is becoming 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐚𝐬. Armstrong: "𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 ��𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘰."

Armstrong connected the dots to what the Pentagon calls 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 -- Greenland through the Panama Canal, the entire Western Hemisphere secured as a self-sufficient American economic and security zone. "𝘕𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘯𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥, 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦-𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢."

The most striking part was his warning for Britain: "𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘞𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 60% 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥. 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘺. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥." He described Britain heading toward 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 as America withdraws from its traditional role.

When a foreign ally's own news anchors are publicly acknowledging that Trump's strategy is working -- even as it leaves them behind -- that tells you everything about who has the leverage.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐰𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐭: 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬. 𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬.

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The Week in Woke

Thanks to @ComradeArthur/ArthurK.

Sad! Another storybook Hollywood marriage ends! Diff'rent Strokes actor Todd Bridges, who I imagine was on some terrible celebrity reality shows in the late nineties but hasn't worked since, is getting divorced from his photographer/designer wife of three and a half years

She's a very handsome woman.

Bridges filed a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage (Divorce) Without Minor Children on Tuesday, according to Maricopa County Superior Court records in Arizona.

No children? Really? This surprises me.

City Journal: The Supreme Court has turned decisively against woke ideology on transgenderism.

First: Gorsuch's woke betrayal, insisting that a transgender who wanted to LARP as a woman at a funeral home during funeral services for the dead could not be fired or demanded to dress as a man. The mourners, Gorsuch decided, would just have to stop being transphobes.

In Bostock v. Clayton County, the Supreme Court found that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation. Such an interpretation would have surprised anyone alive in the 1960s, when the federal government routinely fired employees even suspected of being gay. But this aspect of the ruling wasn't that controversial in 2020. Most Americans supported same-sex marriage and, outside of certain religious employers, few businesses had any reason to fire workers because of their sexual orientation.

But Bostock included a companion case that led to a far more sweeping ruling. A Michigan funeral home employed a biological male who later experienced gender dysphoria and decided to "live and work full-time as a woman," including by wearing female attire. Concerned about how grieving families might react to a man dressed as a woman, the funeral home fired the employee. The Court's majority, in an opinion by Neil Gorsuch, held that federal civil rights law prohibits terminations based on gender identity. Mourners, in effect, would have to get with the times.

But since then, the Court has turned.

The gender-identity aspect of Bostock immediately raised pressing legal questions. Did Title IX require schools to allow biological males to compete on female teams? Did the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause bar bans on "gender-affirming" surgeries for minors? Did the law require religious hospitals to remove healthy reproductive organs to facilitate gender transitions?

In the wake of Bostock, the answer to these questions, and others, seemed to be yes. Society was expected to "affirm" gender identity, support adolescents seeking puberty blockers, and accommodate social transition. Parents faced pressure to accept their child's transition; public schools were said to have duties to adopt gender-identity curricula, manage student transitions, and permit biological males to compete in female sports. Those who resisted risked being labeled bigots.

But then the "arc of the moral universe" began bending rightward. After Bostock, state legislatures across the country prohibited medical gender procedures for minors, even with parental consent. Sports fans objected to biologically male athletes like Lia Thomas winning against female athletes. Even some who accepted Bostock's sexual-orientation holding grew uneasy with its implications for gender identity.

Perhaps the most effective political ad of the 2024 presidential election spoke to this issue: "Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you." On Inauguration Day, President Trump signed an executive order declaring, "It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female." Critics may have thought the order was mere symbolism, but Trump's policy reflected the position around which public opinion had coalesced--that asserting biological truth does not constitute bigotry.

The Supreme Court soon adapted to this shift. Consider six rulings over the past year that all point in the same direction.

United States v. Shilling allowed the Department of Defense to discharge transgender service members.

United States v. Skrmetti held that states could prohibit medical gender treatments for minors.

Mahmoud v. Taylor ruled that parents have a religious-liberty right to opt their children out of learning about "LGBTQ-inclusive books."

Trump v. Orr allowed the State Department to print passports that list only a person's biological sex.

Mirabelli v. Bonta found that schools cannot secretly transition students to another gender without telling their parents.

Chiles v. Salazar held that Colorado could not prohibit therapists from counseling people to be comfortable with their biological sex.

Finally, in a seventh, still-pending case, West Virginia v. B.P.J., the Court will likely rule that colleges can exclude biological males from female sports.

One year after having been #cancelled by the lunatic left for "denigrating the seriousness of domestic violence," Dax Sheppard and Kirsten Bell are still apologizing.

Let's look at the horrible offense they committed:

Dax Shepard is speaking out about that Kristen Bell anniversary post backlash.

On the April 6 episode of his "Armchair Expert" podcast, the "Parenthood" star, 51, addressed the controversy surrounding Bell's Oct. 17 Instagram post celebrating their wedding anniversary. The "Good Place" actress, 45, wrote, "Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who, after [an] episode of 'Dateline,' once said to me: 'I would never kill you. A lot of men have killed their wives at a certain point. Even though I'm heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would.'"

The post sparked outrage as some fans argued Bell was making light of domestic violence and that it was tone-deaf during Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Speaking with his guest Nikki Glaser on "Armchair Expert," Shepard alluded to the situation when he dismissed "all these people that are convinced I'm beating Kristen," arguing those who were "outraged" about the post were people who have "never been in a relationship."

Who doesn't have Domestic Violence Awareness Month marked on their calendars?

Regarding these people never being in a relationship: Yes, they're all femcels who are bitterly jealous that other women have known the touch of a man. "Based Camp" examines the evidence that these gross and smelly women are actually "Spiteful Mutants" who are embittered for being excluded from the relationship market and are attempting to destroy society as vengeance. Simone explains that people who are "malformed" in some way, by choice, by birth, by psychology, or by self-mutilation, seek to undermine other people's ability to successfully mate. Here's a Guy With A British Accent talking about Spiteful Mutants as a mental maladapation which then produces a phyiscally-maladapted form (though I imagine the causation also goes the other way).

Do you object to you children being raped by gangs of barbaric foreign invaders?

Well, an Islamic professor has simple advice for you, Racist: "Get over it."

This is their country now. You'll play by their rules.

[The College Fix:]

The Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University recently told social media users to "get over it" in response to concerns about a link between "rape gangs" and Islam.

Professor Jonathan Brown dismissed concerns about the crisis in the United Kingdom in two now-deleted X posts, the Daily Caller reported.

Rupert Lowe, an Independent Member of Parliament, wrote in a post on X, "There is a link between the rape gangs and one particular religion -- we have seen it again and again and again at our inquiry."

"That religion is Islam. As a country, we must have the courage to face up to that fact," he wrote.

Brown replied, "get over it."

He then wrote the same phrase in response to another user who called his remark "absurdly evil."

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Steve Inman's Wide World of Justified Violence Open Thread

These are violent posts. I'll warn you for the really bad ones. In all cases it looks like the party who deserved the violence, got the violence. Or at least got it worse.

Two drunk chubby men have a punch up, or a slap off, or some weird thing. I don't know if anything was injured here except for dignity.

"And what are you gonna do?" -- the last words of a stupid belligerent drunk. The idiot was sailing his chin out there like a flag on Washington's Birthday.

I don't even know.

Man wants to show he trusts his girlfriend so much he'll let her drive a golf ball off of his groin. Men are stupid.

Goonies R Good Enough to beat you down.

Don't abuse dogs.

Compilation of various FAFOs. The first clip shows thieves attempting to rob a gun store, with results that you are probably expecting. Skip that if you don't like seeing people get shot. But let me recommend going to 0:39 to see an all-girl street fight, with all of the ho's wearing cocktail dresses. So much hair pulling and kicking a downed ho. And one girl hangs a Full Boob out of her dress after being knocked on her ass. It's niiiice. Also there's a classic clip at 1:34.

Mexican drunk plays Street Matador with people's cars and then they get out of their cars and it's not so funny now is it?

Antifa sitting in the street gets a nice little head-check from a car.

Shirtless tweaker mutant gets the Daniel Penny treatment.

Thug tries to intimidate an unimposing looking guy but most thugs are actually pussies.

A Goth antifa looking Karen advances on a young man (who is also wearing all black) and discovers why the Olympics Committee forbids men competing with women in physical sports.

A Cultural Enricher stops a train by holding open the door while the passengers keep telling her to close the door so that they can be on their way. She refuses. She actually has plenty of room and time to get on the train, but she's either holding the door for someone else who isn't even on the platform, or just holding up the train to run her mouth and prove that She the Queen Here. At some point, a helpful young gentlemen intervenes and gently escorts her ass to the concrete.

An Australian yob advances on police women armed only with tasers, while armed with a knife. This one has a surprise ending that I wouldn't want to spoil. Kinda violent but worth it!

An idiot advances on a man who tells him to go away. The man then explains why the idiot should leave: "I'm trying to save you." This is a cool-ass line I could imagine Rambo saying and you might wonder, But does he have the skills to back this line up? You be the judge.

This is rough: Street bandits attempt to stop a truck by standing in front of it. Two problems with that plan: one, the truck's driver does not owe you care and kind treatment, and two, he's driving a fucking truck. DO THE MATH, SUB-CRETINS.

This is a compilation of five clips. The first two show well-earned Beefhammer Ballets. The fourth I have to warn you about: A Cultural Enrichment Outreach Coordinator refuses to exit the car at a police stop and then opens fire on the cops. The cops then demonstrate what hours at range practice can do for you. If it's not clear, this results in a killing or at least a very deep Red Nap.

This Cultural Enricher is in a stand-off with police as he holds a knife to the neck of a woman, as Cultural Enrichers frequently do. For some reason he decides to give up his hostage and advance on the gun-armed cops with his knife. I don't know what what he was thinking, but the cops were thinking they should shoot him dead, and they do.

This is the worst one. But also the best one, if you can deal with graphic content. Two men have a verbal argument when one, out of nowhere, just straight up stabs the other in the belly with a long knife. The stabbed man staggers away, and the knife-wielding attacker follows him. And then he learns he should have just walked away because the stabbed man, backed into a life-or-death situation, fights back.

An oldie:

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Buzzfeed: "Blue Flags" Women Should Look for to Let Them Know a Man Is Acceptably Liberal

But... would this liberal man actually be interested in dating a woman, I wonder?

Women Are Sharing How To Detect Whether A Man Is Actually Liberal From A Mile Away, And You're Gonna Want To Take Notes

Do yourself a favor and bookmark this one for future reference.

Done and done! And I mean done.

Posted on Mar 27, 2026

In 2026, political views are a major indicator of compatibility in dating. But most people aren't exactly disclosing this information on a first date, which means you're often left decoding subtle cues to gauge which side of the aisle someone's on.

This detective work can be exhausting, so we asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to share the telltale signs that a man is liberal.

They mean they were lazy and had no ideas so they asked their commenters to write a post for them. I have to start doing that. I did it a couple of times, years and years ago.

Here are the real bangers of advice women give to other women to deliberately sabotage them and keep them from being sexual competition or attracting any mate at all:

1. "He's definitely left-leaning if he's not afraid of the word tampons."

--Anonymous, 45, Female, Chicago

2. "If a man supports LGBTQIA+ rights. Even better, if he can say another man is hot without fearing people will think he's gay."

--Anonymous, 55, Female, Philadelphia

Right off the bat, they're telling you their ideal male mate is a gay man who is also looking for the ideal male mate. The second one says that she wants her man to go out of his way to signal that he's actually gay.

There are a lot of eligible men who do that. They are all gay.

3. "He doesn't ask for a body count within the first few dates. Any conservative or Trump supporter I've gone on a date with would ask, without fail, within the first few dates -- usually on the first date."

--Anonymous, Female, Florida

I want a man who doesn't care how many dozens of men have been inside men.

Oh I've got just the ticket -- have you considered a gay man?

5. "The biggest blue flag is if he's in therapy and is comfortable working through his issues and trauma with professionals."

--Anonymous, 48, Female, Ohio

I mean... at this point, I would usually start making up my own joke entries, but I don't have to.

Here's another one pining for a gay man:

6. "If he's excited to use toys in bed because it'll help YOU finish. Toys are not his competition! If he's excited for whatever gets you off, that screams 'feminist who cares about his partner's pleasure and is secure in his masculinity.' Two qualities you likely won't find in conservative men."

--Anonymous, 33, Female, Minnesota

"I want a man who really knows his way around a realistic dildo."

Below: Another "I want a man who is essentially a woman" post.

7. "It's always a good sign when he has close positive platonic relationships with women. My now husband is very close with a female friend, had a close female mentor at work that he spoke positively about, and spoke with a lot of respect and fondness about multiple female friends."

"He had close guy friends too, but honestly, his close female friendships helped him grow emotionally and communicate well, so it wasn't expected for me to be the only one to meet all his emotional support needs. When we all hung out, there was never a whisper of anything sexual, and he was always respectful of everyone. He also has a good relationship with his sister and mom."

--Anonymous

Okay so a guy who has a large harem of girl friends is either a real player or he's, you know.

8. "Stanley Cups scream liberal to me, for some reason."

--Anonymous

Stanley cups are those large oversized drinking cups that became a huge trend due to women bloggers asking Stanley to make them in pretty colors. They had been intended for men working outside in construction or jobs like that, so Stanley thought that slate gray was all the color needed. No, these women bloggers told them, women will buy them if you make them in pretty colors.

Stanley gave in, just to shut them up, and for once, loud-mouthed demanding broads were right. Trend-chasing easily-influenceable women who spend all their time on the internet lifestyle-comparing with other women turned them into a national craze.

I'm not saying you have to be that kind of person to own one. Let me just admit this so that you can all make fun of me and add it to my list of heterosexuality-doubts: I own one too. (Honestly, it is too big. It really should be used... by dudes working outside for whom an oversized cumbersome drinking cup is worth it because they are hundreds of yards from a fountain or convenience store. I only use it to try to get in my daily creatine.)

Anyway, by saying that a man should really be into the nearly exclusively female trend of 2019 of buying Stanely cups in pretty colors, yet another woman says that what she looks for in a man is another woman.

9. "I think a good indicator that a man is liberal-leaning is if they don't shy away from conversations about women's health, like someone's period. Even better if they're comfortable buying tampons for their girlfriend, wife, daughter, etc.
Now, could a person with those qualities also be conservative? Sure, but I have not met any yet. Oh, and attending International Women's Day events in support of their girlfriend, wife, or daughter is also nice."

--Anonymous, 33, Female, Canada

Literally every other post is a wish for a man to be just another girlfriend -- who treats at dinner -- or a gay friend.

10. "He doesn't get mad at women when you drop hard facts about misogyny and the microaggressions women deal with frequently."

--Anonymous

"I want to pop off all the time and never be challenged! Because I want 'equality' in relationship where my word is his command as if he were a subordinate!"

11. "If he wears his sweater around his shoulders, he's probably liberal."

--Anonymous, 45, Female, New Jersey

Again, this is a preppy woman's kind of look. Well, preppy women, and Jm J. Bullock from Too Close for Comfort.

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13. "Literally any complaint about the economy and prices is a blue flag in my opinion. I live with a lot of MAGA who refuse to admit they're paying almost twice as much for groceries now than they did under Biden. This is how I figured out my neighbors across the street are Democrats, too. They were trying the same litmus test on me, saying, 'Oof, these tariffs are killing me.' I was like, 'YES, THEY ABSOLUTELY ARE.'"

"People who aren't MAGA don't go on the offense or make excuses for the state of the economy right now. We know Trump is screwing it up and don't care to save face for him."

--Anonymous, 31, Female, Colorado

Just curious: Was this also a Blue Flag when inflation hit over 20% under Biden or nah? Nah, right?

14. "A big blue flag for me is when I tell a man I'm a mechanical engineer and they don't act disgusted, or tell me it's a man's job, or that I'm too manly. Conservatives never respond positively to the fact that I'm an engineer; liberals always seem genuinely interested, ask questions, and are complimentary. Conservatives turn it into a pissing contest by suddenly asking about cars, machinery, or other random things, and get upset when I know the answers."

--Anonymous, 42, Woman, Arizona

90% of modern "feminism" is just the demand that anytime a woman says something, a man agrees and praises her for saying it. They are very, very keen on this point: Anything they think, say, or do must be validated and praised.

This is such a distinctly feminine form of narcissism that it was noted 23 years ago by the left-wing Onion, back when it was occasionally funny.

We haven't had a "look for a gay man as a mate" one in a while. Let's fix that.

17. "Big blue flag is when he's flattered when a gay man flirts with him because he knows most gay men only pick cute straight men."

--Anonymous, 38, Female, US

Back to "I want a man who is actually a woman:"

18. "He knows a few (or more) female professional athletes and their stats -- not just that they are beautiful."

--Anonymous, 50, Female, Tacoma, WA

This is all deeply narcissistic stuff. I'm sure a lot of men would prefer it if their girl was into sports or video games -- but they do not demand it as a litmus test for compatibility.

20. "Liberal guys generally try to pronounce uncommon names correctly and go out of their way to do so. This shows that they value people and respect the way they see/identify themselves, and usually this transfers to any person who uses non-traditional pronouns (they/them, etc.) See how often Trump and other Republicans purposely mispronounce the names of people they don't like or respect? It's the same for most conservative men, I find."

--Anonymous, 42, Male, San Antonio, TX

Oh a male is adding what he looks for in a man. Finally, some honesty. Again: "I want a man who is not just a gay man but the gayest of gay men."

Another repeat: "I want a man who narcissistically and pointlessly spends a lot of time and money on therapy like I do."

21. "My partner is willing and able to discuss his emotions in depth, asks for (and respects) my opinions, shows genuine respect and care towards everyone in his orbit, is kindly curious about everyone he meets, and strives every day to become a better man and person through therapy and self-reflection. He takes in the world around him and thinks about how he can help everyone have a better life experience. It's not all about him!"

--Anonymous, 34, Female, WA

It should never be all about him. It must always be all about me.

25. "The guy I'm dating said something along the lines of, 'Can you believe what that orange f*ck has said lately?' I literally lit up inside!

--heroiccan516

Oh my days (I keep hearing that from British people and I want to use it instead of "OMG"), find another OCD obsession. You're so boring and basic.

Why can't he just be a gay and/or a woman?

26. "Nail polish on men usually indicates a progressive mindset. It's an expression of self that shouldn't be reserved for women. It's also a sign that they are secure enough in themselves to be expressive, not bottling things up until they can't cope."

--chilltable846

Hey liberal ladies, have I got the perfect emotionally-incontinent, obsessive, vindictive, politics-obsessed cuck dreamboat for you!!!

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Putin Mocks Effete Effeminate Rent-Boy-Associate Keir Starmer

Putin has been sending his illegal sanctioned "Shadow Fleet" oil tankers through England's bathtub -- or its former bathtub, as you'll see -- the English Channel.

Keir Starmer told Putin to stop using the Channel for the illegal transport of sanctioned oil or he'd seize the shadow ships. And you know that when Keir Starmer acts tough, people take notice.

So Putin sent his own warships into the Channel to protect the ships.

England used to own the English Channel. Owning the English Channel protected it from invasion many times, from the French during the 100 Years War though World War II. Operation Sea Lion, I think Hitler called the plan to invade England, cancelled because the Nazis realized any attempt to reach English shores would result in disaster.

And now? Not only does England no longer "own the seas," it can't even patrol its own Channel.

Russian frigate escorts sanctioned tankers through British waters despite PM's vow to seize vessels

Vladimir Putin has openly defied Sir Keir Starmer's threat to seize sanctioned Russian vessels by sending a warship to escort them through the Channel.

The Admiral Grigorovich, a Black Sea fleet frigate, accompanied a pair of shadow fleet ships on Wednesday while a British naval vessel followed behind.

Positioned on the Royal Charlotte, a boat almost 10 miles from Dover, The Telegraph observed Putin's flotilla cruising past the south coast while RFA Tideforce, a Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker, trailed in their wake.

Last month, Sir Keir gave special forces the authority to capture the armada of rusted ships illegally ferrying oil to support Russia's war in Ukraine, saying he would hit the shadow fleet "even harder" if they sailed through British waters. However, Britain is yet to seize a single Russian vessel.

The Prime Minister has repeatedly faced criticism regarding the state of the Royal Navy and Britain's Armed Forces. After an Iranian-made drone hit RAF Akrotiri, HMS Dragon, Britain's only deployable destroyer, was sent to the Middle East, but took three weeks to arrive and has already had to return to port as it suffers water supply issues.

They have one (1) deployable destroyer, which is a light-middleweight warship. This should be a class of warship England can deploy dozens of.

In a speech on Saturday, Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, is expected to pile further pressure on Sir Keir, urging him to publish the long-delayed defence investment plan. She will state that there is "no plan for rearming Britain".

Donald Trump, the US president, has previously described the Navy's two aircraft carriers as "toys" while his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, mocked Britain's "big, bad Royal Navy".

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Admiral Grigorovich -- a 3,620-ton frigate armed with anti-ship, cruise and surface-to-air missiles -- sailed between the two 600ft tankers Universal and Enigma shortly after 9am on Wednesday as they headed west toward Plymouth.

Universal reportedly departed from the Russian port of Vysotsk on Jan 18.

The Russian-flagged tanker is believed to be on a mission to deliver crude oil to bolster the Kremlin's coffers, which are straining to fund Putin's war machine.

In September, she was outlawed in British waters for attempting to "destabilise Ukraine or undermine or threaten" Kyiv by exporting oil from Russia to fund its invasion.

England is a tiny gay poodle with a big bark and big ideas about how the world should be run with absolutely no capacity to actually act. Their idea of "acting" is to whine at the US into doing its bidding.

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Shock, Surprise: Study from Finland Proves That "Transgender" Procedures Do Not Mitigate Mental Illness-- They Greatly Increase and Exacerbate It

Sorry I should have given you a "please be seated safely" warning but I'm just so stunned by this news I'm not quite thinking clearly.

This was published April 4.

"Psychiatric Morbidity" means "mental illness."

Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland in 1996--2019: A Register Study

ABSTRACT

Aim

To examine the prevalence of severe psychiatric morbidity among gender-referred adolescents, focusing on gender differences and outcomes related to medical gender reassignment.

Methods

Finnish nationwide cohort of all under-23-year-old gender-referred individuals between 1996 and 2019 (n = 2 083) and 16 643 matched controls. Cross-tabulations with X2 statistics and Cox regression were used to analyse the data.

Results

Gender-referred adolescents showed significantly higher psychiatric morbidity than controls both before (45.7% vs. 15.0%) and ≥ 2 years after referral (61.7% vs. 14.6%).

That's big right there. Yes, we all expect that most "transgenders" have a constellation of mental illnesses. And this study shows that those who seek transgender therapy have a much higher incidence of "psychiatric morbidity," 45.7% vs. 15.0% as seen in the general population.

That's not news -- although the psychiatric community ignores all this mental illness and does not treat it, following instead the unproven, unevidenced theory that all of someone's mental illnesses are caused by their being "born in the wrong body" and will be cured by cutting their tits and dicks off.

They never concede the possibility that it is the constellation of mental problems -- autism, schizophrenia, depression, neuroticism -- that instead causes them to fall prey to the sales pitch that chopping off their genitals will be the Magic Bullet that cures all that ails them.

But again, that's not the big finding. The big finding is that while 45.7% of those seeking transgender "therapy" were mentally ill before contacting the transgender clinic, 61.7% were mentally ill two or more years AFTER receiving the transgender treatment that was supposed to cure all their other "psychiatric morbidities."

Those referred after 2010 had greater psychiatric needs than earlier cohorts, both before (47.9% vs. 15.3%) and ≥ 2 years after (61.3% vs. 14.2%) referral.

In other words: It's gotten worse since the Transgender Bomb was dropped on the world staring around 2010. "Earlier cohorts" means those seeking such treatments before the transgender terrorists mau-maued the medical community to completely stop treating "Transgender" Patients for their many other mental illnesses and just give them the "magic bullet" of "gender-affirming care." Before 2010 -- before "Jennifer" Pritzker used the Pritzker family fortune to set up a pressure group to pound psychiatrists into compliance -- psychiatrists would treat transgenders for their other illnesses.

But now? Just the magic bullet. Just give them sterilizing doses of cross-sex hormones and all of their other mental illness will evaporate like soft fog on a sunny spring morning.

Except, of course: The mental illnesses do not evaporate after the magic bullet. They get worse, for some reason.

If any of you can guess the reason why mentally ill people get more mentally ill after a huge dose of exogenous superphysiological cross-sex hormones, please let me know in the comments. If I like your answer, I will award you five Ace of Spades Kids Klub Clue Crew points which you can redeem for toys and small fries.

It gets worse: This Magic Bullet Miracle Treatment of chopping off healthy organs and flooding the body with exotic experimental hormones absolutely destroys the brains of the children it's given to.

This is ghastly:

Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up--rising from 9.8% to 60.7% in feminising gender reassignment and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising gender reassignment.

Male to Fake Female treatments increased the incidence of mental illness from 9.8% to 60.7%.

Female to Fake Male treatments increased the incidence of mental illness from 21.6% (Bitches Be Crazy already) to 54.5%.

And yet they continue insisting that if you don't allow and even fund Franksenstein genital-swapping experiments, you're not providing "necessary health care."

Read those numbers again.

This is the kind of thing societies have violent purges over. I don't mean the transgenders, I mean the absolute Satanic monsters performing and advocating for these dangerous and rabidogenic -- I word I just made up for "crazy-making" -- procedures.

After adjusting for prior psychiatric treatment, all gender-referred adolescents had similarly elevated risks of psychiatric morbidity, with hazard ratios approximately three times higher than female controls and five times higher than male controls.
Conclusion

Severe psychiatric morbidity is common among gender-referred adolescents and appears to be more prevalent in those referred after the recent surge in referrals. Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment.

You don't say.

Summary

Gender-referred adolescents show high psychiatric morbidity, yet gender differences and mental health trajectories after medical gender reassignment remain poorly understood.

These adolescents had markedly higher psychiatric morbidity than controls before and after referral, with treatment needs often persisting and even intensifying after medical interventions--on some, they might even have a negative impact.

Findings emphasise the need for thorough psychiatric assessment and ongoing treatment throughout medical gender reassignment.

How about we just stop the "gender reassignment" treatment entirely until we've cured/mitigated the rest of the mental illness and can determine whether seeking "transition" is actually just a symptom of the underlying insanity?

More about this study:

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Me-Again Kelly: I Agree That Nefarious Jews Manipulated the Simple-Minded Egotist Trump to Bend Him to Their Hebraic Design; In Fact, I'm Sure That the Archjew Mark Levin Would Have Me Killed

From her "interview" with Ana Kasparian, who just declared "Israel must not be allowed to continue to exist" last week:

ANA KASPARIAN (GUEST): There are, in my opinion, people within our country who are less interested in their American patriotism and more interested in serving as Israeli operatives, and I think Mark Levin happens to be one of those people. So, these pressure campaigns, right, these threats, these efforts to literally destroy your life and your livelihood if you don't play ball, I do think that those intimidation tactics have been very successful in this country, and it's about time we push back, and I'm happy to see that people like you are pushing back.

I'm pushing back myself. I've lost jobs. I've lost opportunities as a result of how vocal I've been on this issue. But I care about my country more than I care about my pocketbook, and it's really important for us to live in a sovereign country.

On top of that, when it comes to the manipulation tactics that were used against Trump, not to rob him of his agency, at the end of the day he's the commander in chief and he made the decision. However, we can't deny the fact that Trump has an ego, as anyone who wants to be president very likely has, and it's easy to manipulate him by stroking his ego. So telling him these, like, these magical stories about how he's going to be the world's hero by, like, demolishing the Iranian regime and freeing the Iranian people, and it's going be so easy, you're going get so much credit for it. I think those manipulation tactics are also very effective on someone like Donald Trump, who likes to see himself as a hero.

MEGYN KELLY (HOST): I think that's all you need. That's all you need. I don't think you need to go blackmail. I mean, I'm open minded to the possibility of blackmail because, honestly, my past nine months have proven to me that they will stop at nothing to get you to bend the knee. Nothing. And I'm just a podcaster. I'm a journalist. Imagine if you're the president of the United States. I don't think they would stop at anything. And I mean Israel and its emissaries, foreign and domestic.

I actually believe that Mark Levin would like to have me killed. I do believe it. I think he'd be thrilled to see me taken out, like, actually. That's so fucking crazy to me, Ana. There's no one, no one politically who I would ever wish that upon, ever. There's no one whose death I would celebrate. There's no one whom I would intentionally endanger with really crazy ass rhetoric.

He knows what he says about Tucker, about me, about many others is actually endangering. To over and over call somebody a neo-Nazi, to suggest that they want Jews killed because they say things like, 'young people no longer support Israel.' It's so irresponsible. It's lunacy.

KASPARIAN: It is.

KELLY: There's something wrong there. There's something wrong. There's something going on there.

I just want to remind everyone again that for the past nine months, Me-Again Kelly has actively defended and promoted Cavernous Nostrils as that vicious race-hustling madwoman has spun out one lunatic slander after another about the widowed Erika Kirk, claiming she is a lesbian, that she grooms the children she pretends to help out of the sex trade to have sex with her, and that she either participated in or covered up the murder of her husband because Jews were afraid they had lost control over.

Cavernous Nostrils has been priming her fucking deranged cultist loser audience to murder Erika Kirk to avenge Charlie Kirk for nine fucking months, and not only has Me-Again Kelly refused to condemn her even once, she has promoted her as an important voice that must be heeded.

Derek
@DGPsalm3

Erika Kirk is facing constant death threats and people wishing death on her because of the retarded "investigation" by Candace Owens that Megyn Kelly fully supports, and Megyn couldn't possibly care less. Not even worth mentioning.

However, she wants to pretend she's in danger from Mark Levin. What a disgrace she has become.

And this narcissistic bitch dares whine that criticism of herself is "endangering?"

How I wish it were, Me-Again.

Me-Again is and always has been a frivolous gossip, dumb bunny, and drama-farmer. Every thing about Me-Again is about Me-Again. No matter what the story is, Me-Again is the star subject.

And so here we are in the US/Israeli war against the 47-year-old murderous terrorist tyranny of Iran, and who is the Real Victim Here? That's right, Me-Again Kelly.

Me-Again is the Living Meme:

Trump just blasted Me-Again, Cavernous Nostrils, Islamic Agent Tuq'r Qarlson, and high-carbohydrate clown Alex Jones:

If you have trouble reading that, here are some key parts:

Ryan Saavedra
@RyanSaavedra

5h

🚨 BREAKING: President Donald Trump goes nuclear on Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones

"They think it is wonderful for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to have a Nuclear Weapon"

"They have one thing in common, Low IQs."

"They're stupid people, they know it, their families know it, and everyone else knows it, too! Look at their past, look at their record."

"They've all been thrown off Television, lost their Shows, and aren't even invited on TV because nobody cares about them, they're NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS, and will say anything necessary for some 'free' and cheap publicity."

"Now they think they get some 'clicks' because they have Third Rate Podcasts, but nobody's talking about them, and their views are the opposite of MAGA -- Or I wouldn't have won the Presidential Election in a LANDSLIDE. MAGA agrees with me."

"Hand Flailing Fools like Tucker Carlson, who couldn't even finish College, he was a broken man when he got fired from Fox, and he's never been the same -- Perhaps he should see a good psychiatrist!"

"Megyn Kelly, who nastily asked me the now famous, 'Only Rosie O'Donnell,' question"

"'Crazy' Candace Owens, who accuses the Highly Respected First Lady of France of being a man, when she is not, and will hopefully win lots of money in the ongoing lawsuit. Actually, to me, the First Lady of France is a far more beautiful woman than Candace, in fact, it's not even close!"

"Bankrupt Alex Jones, who says some of the dumbest things, and lost his entire fortune, as he should have, for his horrendous attack on the families of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, ridiculously claiming it was a hoax. These so-called 'pundits' are LOSERS, and they always will be!"

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THE MORNING RANT: There Is Massive Industrial Investment Under Way in the U.S. Due to Repatriation of Manufacturing

The March jobs report was released last week, and it “unexpectedly” showed that jobs are being created in numbers well in excess of what was predicted by “experts.”

“Job Growth Shatters Expectations in March, in Boost to Trump” [Politico – 4/03/2026]

178,000 jobs were created, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%. This happened despite the number of federal employees being at the lowest level since the mid-1960s (thanks to Trump and DOGE taking a chainsaw to the government payroll.)

Left-wing partisans and tariff-hating “free traders” who seek to enrich China at the expense of the U.S. have been blind to what is going on. But thanks to the tariff regimen imposed by Donald Trump, there is an industrial renaissance blossoming across America.

I write a lot about the auto industry, because I know it very well. What I am seeing is a massive reinvestment in auto manufacturing in this country, and it is reasonable to extrapolate that there is similar industrial reinvestment in other industries.

Nearly every major auto manufacturer is committing billions of dollars to new plants, or expanding existing plants. The announcements for these projects tend to include some statement to the effect of ”We want to move vehicle production closer to our customers,” while also acknowledging that tariffs are a compelling incentive to bring manufacturing to the states.

Before Trump-era tariffs, Nissan was domestically manufacturing about 45% of the vehicles it sells in the U.S. That figure now exceeds 60% and the company is targeting 80% in the near future. Nissan has recently expanded its Tennessee plant, and its chief executive for the Americas, Christian Meunier, was recently quoted as saying, “The tariff was not a bad thing for us because it forced us to really accelerate our plan. We need to build where we sell. There’s no magic.”

Just a few days ago, Hyundai’s CEO announced a major new American expansion, spending another $26 billion and creating 25,000 new direct jobs. Hyundai is also aiming for 80% of its U.S. sales to be vehicles manufactured domestically.

Mercedes is moving production of its GLC SUV from Germany to the U.S., and expanding its manufacturing footprint in Alabama: “Mercedes-Benz to Pour $4B Into Alabama Plant as Trump Tariffs Reshape US Auto Strategy”

Mercedes North America CEO Jason Hoff says localizing production for high-volume models just makes good business sense given tariffs.

Toyota continues to increase U.S. production: “Toyota to invest $1 billion to increase U.S. production in Kentucky, Indiana plants” [CNBC - 3/23/2026]

“Toyota’s investment in the U.S. is for the long-term, tied to our philosophy of building where we sell and buying where we build,” Toyota Motor North America Chief Operating Officer Mark Templin said in a statement.

General Motors had been importing some vehicles from China. That production is coming back home: ”GM’s Buick Envision production shifting from China to US in 2028;
The onshoring of production is designed in part to mitigate tariffs that have driven up the price of the compact SUV and cut into sales” [Wards Auto – 01/23/2026]

This headline is from a year ago, when Honda started this massive round of U.S. investment:

“Honda to produce next Civic in Indiana, not Mexico, due to US tariffs” [Reuters – 3/03/2025]

I live in the South, in an area ringed by auto assembly plants built in recent decades. Those plants have brought a great deal of prosperity – not just directly from jobs at those plants, but in suppliers that have sprung up, and suppliers to suppliers, etc. There is wealth being created and cash flowing in, and the prosperity continues to circulate and recirculate from all the jobs and spending within those supply chains.

And remember, what I’m discussing here is just from the auto industry. The industrial renaissance is across all industries.

Carig Fuller of Freightwaves has been monitoring the trucking industry, which is suddenly having a golden era. The crackdown on foreign drivers who should not have been issued CDLs is certainly benefiting legitimate trucking companies, but beyond that, the absolute volume of freight being hauled by trucks is spiking upward as the domestic economy heats up: “Truckload volumes and spot rates hit multi-year highs; It’s not just capacity: Truckload volumes hit multi-year highs” [Freightwaves – 3/19/2026]

Freightwaves is also reporting a surge in rail freight:

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy
John Singer Sargent

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The Morning Report -- 4/ 10 /26

Good morning kids. With the situation in the Strait of Hormuz still fluid let us turn our attention to the Straight-UP Whores mewling a sellout right here at home. Forget President Trump sabotaging the midterms for the GOP with the military strikes on Iran, What will destroy him and us is the political suicide bomb that guarantees our destruction in this and maybe several election cycles to come, if not permanent national and societal suicide. The GOP and dear Lord please not President Trump himself is are seriously about to revive Amnesty and worse for Illegal aliens with this so-called "DIGNITY ACT." Meh, National Death with INdignity, and it's not an Act they're putting on. At least not from the cheap seats where I'm sitting.

Despite President Donald Trump winning on the promise of “mass deportations,” a handful of spineless Republicans, alongside Democrats, are trying to push a mass amnesty act known as the DIGNIDAD Act — or, for English speakers, the DIGNITY Act.

The legislation is billed as not being amnesty, but would give millions of illegal aliens — both so-called DREAMers/DACA and non-DREAMers/DACA — a legal status. But co-sponsor Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., insists it’s not amnesty, so much so that she’s screaming at people on X to “READ. THE. BILL. BEFORE. YOU. OPEN. YOUR. MOUTH.”

So I read the bill.
And frankly, it might be worse than just amnesty

And it is. In the near term it will be the MAGA movement's death knell and in the long term as I stated it will cement imported alien cultures antithetical to any semblance of America as founded and indeed given the nature of Islam, one that seeks our submission or death on its unholy quest to conquer the world, by subsubsuming the one adversary that has until now effectively held it in check, that being the United States of America. And the word"United" is seriously in doubt in 2026 as we approach or 250th anniversary. And yet. . .

The past five years have seen a massive migration of Americans out of heavily Democratic counties and into ones where Donald Trump won majorities in each of the past three elections. That’s according to an exclusive analysis by Issues & Insights of the latest Census Bureau and election data.

Most analyses of internal migration patterns look only at state-level data. And what they show is that blue states are losing population to red states, and have been for many years.

I&I wanted to go deeper, so we used the latest Census data on migration between counties, and compared that with how these counties voted in the past three presidential elections.

What we found was that millions aren’t just moving out of blue states, but are moving out of blue counties within states.
Trump won 2,589 counties in each of the past three elections. From 2020 to 2025, those counties gained 5.4 million people due to net migration — which measures how many people move into and out of an area. The 433 counties where Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris carried the day saw a net loss of 5.43 million people.

And the 121 counties in which Trump won at least one of the past three elections saw a net gain of 29,000 people over those years.

Keep hope alive my friends, but buy firearms an ammo all the same.

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Daily Tech News 10 April 2026

Top Story

• A hacker has reportedly broken into the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China, and made off with... Carry the twelve... Ten petabytes of data. (CNN)
  
  That's the equivalent of 70 billion Apple II floppy disks, or the total data in all the DNA strands of six and a half dromedaries.*

  CNN cannot verify the origins of the alleged dataset and the claims made by FlamingChina, but spoke with multiple experts whose initial assessment of the leak indicated it was genuine.
  
  The alleged sample data appeared to include documents marked "secret" in Chinese, along with technical files, animated simulations and renderings of defense equipment including bombs and missiles.

  Oops.

  Hofer, who reviewed the sample of the leak, said he was able to contact on Telegram a person who claimed they had carried out the hack. The attacker claimed to have gained access to the Tianjin supercomputer through a compromised VPN domain.
  
  Once inside, the attacker told Hofer they deployed a "botnet" - a network of automated programs that were able enter the NSCC's system and then extract, download and store the data. The extraction of 10 petabytes of data took around six months.

  One question arises: Where did the hacker get 70 billion Apple II floppies?**
  
  * Content may settle in shipping.
  ** Or six and a half dromedaries, for that matter.***
  ***Grok tells me that dromedaries are far too big and half far too much DNA, but if I substitute honeybees the statement is accurate to within 15%. I don't necessarily recommend this if you're planning a barbecue.

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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - April 9, 2026 [Doof]

Photo from Lexi, Mystery Click for the first Moron you probably thought of

Thursday night ONT has arrived, and so have you. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Off-Roading Cafe

Two idiots engage in a Flip-Off Fight.

Taking the train down from an 1850 meter peak at Lake Gelmer, Switzerland.

English words and phrases that derive from sailing jargon. Common English words with no known origin or analogy in any other language. "Dog," for example, is a complete mystery.

Just for some controversy, here's a vid that claims five of the greatest guitarists are overrated hacks who only play one note ever ten seconds. Yes he means Clapton, but he also means David Gilmour. And of course he means Keith Richards, who I've long heard described as sloppy. I don't endorse this. I am linking it only for the clickbait.

In Soviet Russia dudes are thrown at a water balloon.

They're animals, man! How can they do that?! Actually I suspect this is AI but I'm kind of done with attempting to screen them out.

Shred the gnar, man.

Classic Bentley. (Which is James Bond's car in the books, though that was a Blower Bentley, not the Speed Six which won Le Mans.)

Hashtag #LifeGoalz.

A shelter for handicapped dogs shows that every life is worth living.

When cats think you're not around, they're even louder and more annoying than usual.

Lunch with your donkey.

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