Ace of Spades Pet Thread, Valentine's Day

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Holiday Weekend

Happy Valentine's Day! It's also Washington's Birthday Weekend, and if you are stuck indoors, here are some old-fashioned bouquets to remind you of his era.

Dobbin House Tavern, Feb. 6

To chase away the bitter‑cold winter blues, we offer a glimpse of summer from the Dobbin House gardens. Each week, we gather and arrange fresh blooms for the deep, inset windows of Rev. Dobbin's 18th‑century stone home - - now the cozy setting where our guests enjoy menus of fine food and drink.

We like to imagine that Isabella Dobbin herself filled these very rooms with similar, homemade arrangements in 1776, brightening her household just as they brighten ours today. With the Gettysburg countryside blanketed in white, viewing this burst of color gives us comfort, as it promises warmer days ahead. We hope it brings a little warmth and cheer to you as well.

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Happy Valentine's Day! Caution: sexual predators are not just on Epstein Island

Have you been turning to coverage of the Olympics to get away from more depressing news? Might not always help.

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The new revelations from the Epstein Files are a disappointment so far to people who expected to be able to prosecute participants in a massive child sex ring, but do they help to explain some history?

A woman who flirted with Epstein in emails, accepted thousands of dollars of gifts from him, and was his unofficial attorney was Obama's top vetter and Ethics advisor.

Just spectacular stuff.

2017. Jeffrey Epstein's good friend Kathryn Ruemmler explains that she ran Obama's vetting and ethics department and was responsible for vetting all of Obama's cabinet members.

Ruemmler also said that she was saddened because Trump had "debased" the Presidency.

Ruemmler was so close to Epstein that she called the convicted sex offender "Uncle Jeffrey."

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The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few house keeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in sanctuary blue cities.)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind. Be nice. Be exceptional, don't be Pretti Good.
3) Running with sharp objects? You have to be kidding us, amirite?
4) Say an extra pray or two for our country and the people attempting to right the ship.
5) Have a great weekend!

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Daily Tech News 14 February 2026

Top Story

• Japan is taking advantage of the fact that Taiwan's leading-edge chip factories are booked solid to re-enter that section of the market with a new joint venture called Rapidus. (WCCFTech)
  
  Rapidus was launched in 2022 - well before the current chip shortage - as a venture between eight companies including Sony, NEC, and Toshiba, to regain Japan's position in chip technology. Its main goal was to introduce 2nm chips.
  
  It's now on track to start mass production next year, scaling to 25,000 wafers per month in 2028.
  
  That's a year behind TSMC and Intel, but in the current market they won't have problems finding customers.
  
  This second article offers some background. (MSN)
  
  Right now the most advanced chips produced in Japan are at the 40nm node. That's widely used in automotive systems and other embedded tasks, but rubbish for advanced systems - it was introduced in 2008. So Japan is planning to jump 20 years into the future in one go.

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Roses Are Red, Violets Are Free. Because I Love You, Have Tonight's ONT!

Hello everyone! Welcome to Friday night. Let's start with an infographic about those nasty Republicans

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Friday the 13th Cafe

Lichtenstein Castle, southern Germany

Very neat video of Lichtenstein Castle, basically hanging off a cliff.

Baby elephants is asshoe.

Dogs is asshoe.

Border collie understands the assignment.

Jump rope with a friend.

Introducing a baby to a horse. Which personally, I wouldn't, but it all turns out okay.

Flashback: Life during the covid panic.

Watching a scary movie.

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Obama White House Counsel and Epstein Fixer Katherine Ruemmler Resigns from Top Post at Democrat Law Firm Due to Increasing Revelations About Her Close Personal Friendship with Democrat Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

CNN buries the fact that she was Obama's top legal advisor.

Kathy Ruemmler, top Goldman Sachs lawyer, resigning amid Epstein fallout

Kathy Ruemmler, the chief legal officer at Goldman Sachs, said Thursday night she is resigning amid fallout from the Justice Department's release of millions of pages of Jeffrey Epstein documents.

Her resignation is effective June 30.

Her announcement comes as she has weathered numerous news stories in recent weeks examining her relationship with the disgraced financier.

Ruemmler and those around her have insisted she had a professional relationship with Epstein.

"Since I joined Goldman Sachs six years ago, it has been my privilege to help oversee the firm's legal, reputational, and regulatory matters; to enhance our strong risk management processes; and to ensure that we live by our core value of integrity in everything we do," Ruemmler, a former Obama White House counsel, said in a statement to CNN. "My responsibility is to put Goldman Sachs' interests first. Earlier today, I regretfully informed David Solomon of my intention to step down as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of Goldman Sachs as of June 30, 2026."

Look how they just snuck that in there, burying it in long boring self-justifying quote that they knew for a fact that readers would gloss over. (I know, because I glossed over it myself, and didn't notice that CNN had stealth-acknowledged her connection to Obama.)

If you didn't have conservative media to tell you better, you'd think that this was just some random rich lawyer quitting her job. You would have no idea whatsoever about what makes this newsworthy.

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Trump Ends Obama Executive Order Giving the EPA the Power to Regulate Carbon Dioxide Without Any Congressional Authorization

That's clumsy. Putting it differently: Congress never authorized the EPA to treat carbon dioxide as "pollution."

Barack Obama lawlessly arrogated himself that power and declared that carbon dioxide -- a naturally occurring molecule that has always been present in our atmosphere and indeed is absolutely necessary for plant growth -- was "pollution."

And then began "regulating" it as he saw fit.

Trump just reversed that and the left is very, very bitter and sad.

US President Donald Trump has reversed a key Obama-era scientific ruling that underpins all federal actions on curbing planet-warming gases.

The so-called 2009 "endangerment finding" concluded that a range of greenhouse gases were a threat to public health. It's become the legal bedrock of federal efforts to rein in emissions, especially in vehicles.

The White House called the reversal the "largest deregulation in American history", saying it would make cars cheaper, bringing down costs for automakers by $2,400 per vehicle.

Environmental groups say the move is by far the most significant rollback on climate change yet attempted and are set to challenge it in the courts.

Speaking in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said the 2009 ruling was "a disastrous Obama era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers".

"This radical rule became the legal foundation for the Green New Scam, one of the greatest scams in history," added the Republican president, about the Democrats' climate agenda.

Former President Barack Obama, who infrequently comments on the policies of sitting presidents, said that repealing the finding would make Americans more vulnerable.

"Without it, we'll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change -- all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money," he wrote on X.

Lee Zeldin
@epaleezeldin

21h

The Obama Admin couldn’t get the votes needed in Congress to amend the Clean Air Act and regulate greenhouse gases, so without hesitation they decided to just ignore the law and jam through trillions in regulatory costs on the American people.

The Trump Admin is proudly following the law, saving $1.3 TRILLION for the American people, lowering new car costs by over $2,400 per vehicle, and getting rid of the climate participation trophy for manufacturers to install Obama Switches that shut vehicles off at red lights and stop signs. Period.

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Is This Something?

There's a new fantasy series about King Arthur called The Pendragon Cycle: The Rise of Merlin. (Pendragon is Arthur's surname.) I think it was produced by Jeremy Boering, formerly of the Daily Wire.

I think the series requires a DW subscription to review.

Reviewers are refusing to review it because a series about King Arthur during the period of the Christianization of Britain includes Christian themes.

Joe Rogan recently interviewed Oscar-winning screenwriter Roger Avary on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. During their three-hour discussion, Avary mentioned that he's been watching the show The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin on Daily Wire+. He had high praise for the show, comparing it to the classic King Arthur movie, Excalibur.

"Mainstay producers are no longer reliable," he complained, adding that they're spending billions of dollars to make "Lord of the Rings things," while Pendragon was made for very little and has flown under the radar of pop culture. He admitted that he went into the show thinking he wasn't going to like it, but was pleasantly surprised: "This is, to me, as good as classic television."

So why aren't more people watching the show?

I reviewed The Pendragon Cycle for GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT. To say that I am "not its target audience" is a mixed statement. I love Arthurian legend, but the show and the novels it was based on embrace Christian themes that I was sure would feel too proselytizing. I agreed to review it out of curiosity, but I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. Rise of the Merlin should work for a wide audience, but for some reason, it isn't getting the attention it deserves.

Major critics are not reviewing The Pendragon Cycle. The only reviews being given are from content creators and pre-existing fans of its host service, The Daily Wire. Despite advertising on social media, YouTube, and releasing trailers, very little attention has been given to Rise of the Merlin. Even Melania got the courtesy of bad reviews from the press.

Here's the trailer:

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Tim Walz: ICE Hurt Our Illegal-Alien-Based Economy and Now We Demand Reparations from the US Taxpayer

Tom Homan just ended Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, declaring the operation a success.

Border czar Tom Homan on Thursday formally wrapped up "Operation Metro Surge" in Minneapolis, declaring the multi-week federal push a success after more than 4,000 illegal aliens were arrested in and around the Twin Cities.

Speaking to reporters, Homan said the coordinated effort with state and local partners delivered "the successful results we came here for," arguing that Minnesota communities are "much safer" as a result of stepped-up enforcement carried out under President Trump.

But federal agents are not leaving the city entirely. Homan made clear that officers will remain in place to remove convicted criminals and to assume custody of migrants being held in local jails.

"Prioritization of public safety threats doesn't mean we forget about everybody else," he said, reiterating the administration's commitment to enforcing immigration law across the board. "We're going to enforce the immigration law. We're going to have a mass deportation. President Trump promised that, and we're committed to that."

You might think that Tim Walz would say "thank you" for ICE deporting 4,000 criminals from Minneapolis. You might think he'd say "thank you" for winding down the more aggressive part of the operation, to focus instead on collecting illegals from jail.

You'd be wrong, you big dummies on the level of Lamont Sanford.

Tim Walz is complaining that the local economy, based almost entirely on illegal alien labor and purchases along with prodigious amounts of federal benefits fraud by Somalis, has been hurt by deportations.

His proposal? He wants you to pay the state "deportation reparations."

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is demanding taxpayers bail out businesses after federal agents arrested more than 4,000 illegal aliens in the Minneapolis area -- arguing that Washington "broke" parts of his state's economy by enforcing immigration law.

Speaking after White House border czar Tom Homan confirmed the scale of the operation, Walz said the crackdown left Minnesota facing "economic ruin" and insisted the federal government "needs to pay for what they broke here." His administration is advancing a $10 million taxpayer-funded relief package aimed at small businesses that lost workers or customers once illegal aliens were detained or deported.

"What can we start doing on the economic recovery, the damage that has been done to our economy?" Walz said, singling out immigrant-owned small businesses.

State economic officials claim revenue has fallen sharply because workers are staying home and customers are avoiding certain commercial areas. Matt Varilek, a senior economic development official, warned of "massive reductions" in foot traffic and income. Henry Garcia, a Colombian-born grocery store manager in St. Paul, said sales were cut in half. "My customers are afraid to go shopping," Garcia said. "Sales dropped by half, and goodwill doesn't cover rent ... We need more grants."

Throughout his remarks, Walz praised Minnesota's immigrant community broadly and invoked the Statue of Liberty, declaring, "There is no Minnesota without our immigrant community." He did not distinguish between legal immigrants and illegal aliens.

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Unexpectedly, Inflation Comes In Below "Expert" Expectations

Weird how this keeps happening.

The "target" rate of inflation the Fed is trying to get to is 2.0%.

In January, increased prices by 0.2%. Over a full 12 months, that would be 2.4%.

Also, over the past 12 months, inflation was at 2.4%. Just a bit over target. Just a scotch above the level the Fed actually wants to see.

But I thought Trump's Tariffs would kill us worse than insurrectionists killed AOC on January 6.

Some of the decreases from December's report are notable, even in categories where prices still increased incrementally. Food went from +0.7 to +0.2, for instance. Energy prices actually dropped by significant amounts across the board, -1.5% overall and -3.2% for gasoline. Fuel oil fell 5.7% in January in a month where demand would be peaking. Electricity prices fell by a tenth of a point. Only natural gas showed a significant increase of 1.0% in January.

However, the year-on-year numbers in CPI for the first twelve months of the Donald Trump administration look pretty spectacular when it comes to an affordability argument:

Overall YoY inflation: 2.4%
Food: 2.9%
Food at home: 2.1%
Food away from home: 4.0%
Energy: -0.1%
Energy commodities: -7.3%
Gasoline: -7.5%
Fuel oil: -4.2%
Energy services: 7.2%
Electricity: 6.3%
Utility gas service: 9.8%
Core CPI less food and energy: 2.4%

It's not perfect, but it's pretty darned good. The big problems here are electricity and gas, both of which the Trump administration is already working to expand.

The Wall Street Journal notes that since inflation came in high last January -- Biden's last month in office -- inflation has fallen.

The latest annual number had some help, since a high inflation reading from January 2025 has now dropped out of the past 12 months of data. Month over month from December, consumer prices in January rose a seasonally adjusted 0.2% and core prices rose 0.3%.

Don't forget, Wednesday's jobs report came in above "expectations" as well, with Trump adding 172,000 private sector jobs, and cutting 42,000 government " " " jobs " " ".

It's almost as if "experts" have some built-in, unchangeable cognitive bias that always make their predictions wrong and always in the same (anti-GOP) direction.

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Propganda Media and Propaganda Tech Monopolices Conspire to Cover-Up Newest Trans Mass Murderer's Trans Identity and Deny There's Any Kind of an Epidemic of Trans Mass Violence

A couple of weeks ago, I thought of Elliot Rodger.

You remember that name, right? He was the first nationally-notorious "incel," a sad loser angry at the rejection he experience when he approached women. So in 2014, he declared a "Day of Vengeance" and killed six people and wounded 14 more.

Obviously, horrific.

For ten years since then, various government "anti-hate" authorities have monitored "incel" accounts and groups like MGTOW to make sure there would never be another Elliot Rodger. For years the media has run stories about the "right-wing incel radicalization pipeline" and sought to deplatform accounts which might inspire another Elliot Rodger.

Well, there was only one similar case that I remember. A few years after Elliot Rodger, a Canadian loser shot some women.

So, two cases.

But a huge amount of media and government "anti-hate" interest in this phenomenon. This phenomenon of two.

Meanwhile, we have now seen five mass shootings by trans extremists, and this doesn't count the "Ziz" trans murder cult -- they killed their victims individually, not in one incident -- or the murder of Charlie Kirk, murdered by gay furry on behalf of his tranny lover.

And the trans movement itself uses the same DAY OF VENGEANCE language that Elliot Rodger did to incite further violence, explicitly calling for violence against normies in the various "Trans Days of Vengeance" they declare.

I just saw a new meme encouraging violence, by declaring that "EVERY DAY IS TRANS DAY OF VENGEANCE."

And even with the bodycount mounting -- and the victims being mostly children -- the media continues not noticing that the trans cult is explicity -- not impliedly, explicitly -- calling for the murders of normies as justifiable "vengeance," and more and more psychotic trannies are answering the call.

Quillette bravely posted a video about this yesterday, pointing out that the so-called "experts" in the social sciences and the brave truth tellers of the media have absolutely refused to even acknowledge a rising problem of trans mass violence, and spend all of their time denying it. And Quillette does make the same comparison I did to the "experts" and media reaction to Elliot Rodger.

Indeed, not only do they not investigate the connnection between transgenderism, insane trans propaganda about a "genocide" against them coupled with calls for a "Trans Day of Vengeance" against their oppressors, the complete failure of psychiatrists to diagnose and treat the accompanying mental illnesses in trans people, the effects of powerful exogenous hormones plus psychotropic drugs, and the actual growing list of trannies who murder children en masse, they actively deny any such thing is happening at all:

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That Nice Irish Man That Is Wasting Away in Detention? Yeah, There's a Reason He Won't Just Leave the Country and Go Back Home

You will of course remember the case of the longtime visa overstayer from Ireland who is currently in ICE detention because he overstayed a 2009 visa and never took any action to make his status legal until Trump was about to deport him. Then he quickly applied for a green card -- which has not been issued yet, which means he remains deportable, it's not a get-out-of-deportation filing -- and then just as quickly married a US citizen. All last year. As ICE was closing in on him.

You may remember that racist "libertarian" Nick Gillespie, better known by his "street name" Goth Fonzie, thinks that all of you "Heritage Americans" should be shocked out of your pro-border-enforcement views because this particular illegal alien is white, and whites need to protect each other, yeah?

He has not commented on the fact that all the pro-border-enforcement people he strongly implied were animated by racist hatred have all chimed in to say, "Deport him, I don't care if he's white, red, brown, or blue."

Now this Irish illegal alien that you Heritage Americans are racially compelled to support claims that ICE detention is "absolute hell" but for some unexplained reason will not just go back to Ireland -- which he can do. ICE gives you that option. You can remain in detention as your final deportation orders come down, or you can just go home.

So if detention is "absolute hell," then you would think that emerald-green Ireland would be preferable, right?

Well, it would be. Except for one little thing.

The whole reason the man came to the US was to flee the Irish police who had charged him with drug dealing.

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Stellantis’ $26 Billion EV Write-Off Follows the CEO’s looting of the Company; Ford’s EV Disaster Results in a Company-Wide Loss of $8 Billion in 2025

The tide of red ink washing over legacy auto manufacturers just keeps getting worse, as the cost of their EV misadventures are now being reflected in losses, write-offs, and course corrections.

A few months ago, Ford announced that it’s long-overdue pivot from EVs would result in total write-offs of almost $20 billion, including $12 billion in Q4 2025 alone. That was enough to cause Ford to record an overall, company-wide loss in 2025 of $8 billion.

“Ford reports Q4 profit miss, $8 billion net loss for year as EV unit losses hit results” [Yahoo Finance – 02/10/2026]

Jim Farley’s comments on Ford’s 2025 performance, claiming that the company ”delivered a strong 2025,” would be comical if it weren’t for the fact that his mismanagement is hemorrhaging capital from the once-great auto manufacturer.

"Ford delivered a strong 2025 in a dynamic and often volatile environment," Ford CEO Jim Farley said in a statement. "We improved our core business and execution, made significant progress in the areas of the business we control — lowering material and warranty costs and making real progress on quality — and made difficult but critical strategic decisions that set us up for a stronger future."

Meanwhile, Stellantis (Dodge, Jeep, Chrysler, Ram, Fiat, Peugeot, etc) just announced that its failed EV efforts are going to cost the company an eye-popping $26 billion in charge-offs.

“Chrysler Parent Stellantis’ Shares Fall 25% As It Takes $26.5 Billion Write Off Amid EV Retreat” [Forbes – 02/06/2026]

Antonio Filosa, who became Stellantis’ CEO just 8 months ago acknowledged Stellantis’ mistakes in pushing EVs on consumers who refused to buy them. He also correctly pointed out that the previous CEO, Carlos Tavares, had inflicted “poor operational execution” on the company. That is a polite way of saying Tavares just about destroyed the company by promoting an “EV transition,” while at the same time manipulating production, sales, and pricing for short-term results that provided himself obscene compensation.

Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa said the charges “reflect the cost of over-estimating the pace of the energy transition that distanced us from many car buyers’ real-world needs, means and desires.”

As I wrote at The Blaze in December 2024 when Tavares was pushed out, Stellantis sales were now in free fall, its product-pipeline was barren, and its dealers were in revolt. But it was less than a year earlier that Tavares awarded himself (with board consent) a $39 million compensation package, making him the highest paid executive in the auto industry.

As US sales plunged 36% by the end of 2024, dealers accused Tavares of “reckless short-term decision making” that caused “rapid degradation” of the Dodge, RAM, Jeep, and Chrysler brands. They claimed that not only was the product line stale and over-priced, but that popular products had been eliminated with the intent to replace them at a later date with electric products. To goose short-term profits, Tavares slashed vehicle production and eliminated headcount, resulting in a short-term cost savings that created long-term problems.

When European dealers advised Tavares that consumers were rejecting EVs and pleaded for Stellantis to seek regulatory relief from EV mandates, Tavares betrayed the dealers and sided with the regulators, even as competitors such as Volkswagen and Renault sought regulatory relief.

The Stellantis disaster lies at the intersection of the EV delusion and the management crisis afflicting major corporations, in which self-serving executives are willing to destroy their companies for personal gain, or otherwise not perform their jobs in fiduciary service to shareholders. From that Blaze piece:

Tavares failed to serve his company, shareholders, customers, or franchised dealers. Instead, he served two masters: himself and the globalist eco-bureaucracy that seems content to watch Stellantis collapse as a manufacturer of gasoline-powered vehicles.

To maintain both civil and economic order, investors and corporate boards must take responsibility for preventing further destruction of institutions like Stellantis. Greedy and self-serving leaders, such as Carlos Tavares, cannot be allowed to undermine companies at the expense of all other stakeholders.

To bring this all full-circle, at least the Stellantis board did push Carlos Tavares out eventually, replacing him with a CEO who seeks to manufacture and sell vehicles that consumers actually want to buy. Inexplicably, the CEO of Ford Motor Company, who has cost the company $20 billion to date by pursuing the EV fantasy, is still running the company and boasting of the great job he is doing.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848-1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872-1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875-1895)
Auguste Renoir

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The Morning Report — 2/13/26

Good morning kids. No triskaidekaphobia here... In taking down the Maduro regime in Venezuela and reinvigorating the Monroe Doctrine, President Trump has perhaps put himself in a bit of a pickle?

Russia has indicated it will defy U.S. sanctions and other restrictions enacted by U.S. President Donald J. Trump against the exportation of oil to Cuba. In what the Kremlin is describing as a “humanitarian” arrangement, the Russian Embassy in Havana states that “as far as we know, Russia is expected to supply oil and petroleum products to Cuba as humanitarian aid in the near future.”The decision by the Russian government comes as Cuba faces its worst energy crisis in at least a decade. Following the ouster of Venezuela’s Marxist dictator, Nicolás Maduro, by the U.S. military earlier this year, Cuba lost a key supplier of oil and fuel, turning what was already a dire situation facing the Caribbean island’s communist government into an unprecedented crisis.

Of course Russia has had a longstanding relationship with Cuba going back to the Soviet era as a forward base of communism right on our doorstep so to speak. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Estern bloc, the Cuban economy has essentially been on life support, propped up by the Latin American Communist dictatorships that both the Soviets and the Castro regime helped foster over the past 66 years. And with Maduro gone and much of Latin America turning away from socialism towards freer and more open societies, Cuba might very well be at long last on the verge of liberation.

Aside from the aforementioned longstanding ties, My guess is that Putin is trying to use Cuba as a way to leverage a more advantageous outcome with Ukraine vis a vis the supposed peace negotiations.

So the question is, weird as it is the same as it was in 1963 during the Cuban missile crisis, what will the US Navy do if it encounters a Russian tanker or cargo ship heading towards Cuba on the high seas?

Russia is at best a major rival if not a strategic enemy of the United States, but what the hell is Mexico's excuse?

Two Mexican Navy ships docked in Cuba on Thursday carrying humanitarian aid for the Caribbean island nation in the middle of a severe energy crisis.

The ships carried hundreds of tons of food and supplies. The Mexican government said that one ship contained 536 tons of food – including milk, beans, sardines, and cookies – while the other contained about 277 tons of powdered milk, according to the Associated Press.

The arrival of aid comes weeks after President Donald Trump increased pressure on the Cuban economy, threatening tariffs against any nation that supplies Cuba with oil. Cuba has since instituted increasingly strict rules around the use of its remaining fuel supplies. . .

. . . “The energy pressure that Trump is exerting on Cuba places Mexico in a dilemma that is very characteristic of its entire history of diplomatic relations with the United States and Cuba,” Cuban historian Rafael Rojas told The Guardian. “Mexico is yielding to the demands of the United States – and on the other hand it maintains its solidarity with the island.”
. . . “I don’t think it’s any mystery that we are not big fans of the Cuban regime, who, by the way, are the ones that were propping up Maduro,” (Secretary of State Marco)Rubio said the day after Maduro’s arrest.

We took out Maduro because he was running tons of lethal drugs into America and had very close ties with both the Chi-Coms and the Iranians, all of which posed an incredible threat to our national security as well as the safety of our citizenry. Considering the illegal alien border invasion, the destruction and chaos that has come from Mexico for decades is arguably orders of magnitude worse!

Mexico's leader, Claudia Scheinbaum is an avowed socialist and no great fan of America. So, if we seize some Mexican ships or send them down to Davy Jones' Locker, what of it?

I certainly hope the long-suffering Cuban people can at long last taste freedom and move their country forward. To see the heads of leftists and Commies here explode as the statues and murals of the Castros, Marx and Lenin are dynamited and sledgehammered off the walls of Cuban buildings is just too delightful to anticipate.

¡Viva Trump, y Cuba Libré Ahora y Por Siempre!

Have a great weekend!

And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

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Daily Tech News 13 February 2026

Top Story

• 30% of Microsoft's code is written by AI. (Times of India)
  
  And 40% of its bugs.
  
  
  
• In entirely unrelated news, Microsoft recently introduced a critical security vulnerability into Notepad. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The flaw was triggered by simply opening a text file in Markdown format and accidentally clicking on a suspicious link that Notepad helpfully made completely invisible.

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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - February 12, 2026 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Thursday night ONT time. You made it! Good job. Now check out the content and join in the gray boxes. What's on your mind tonight?

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You the Dog Now Man Cafe

Yoshinoyama, Japan
from WasabiTool

I think my paw is broken!

He brought you an early Valentine's day flower.

An AI reconstruction of New York City before it turned into a shithole, circa 1746.

Deep thoughts on the mathematics of size A4 paper. It's a lot better than it sounds.

Dad brings home a stray dog.

Stray dog adopts a master by jumping into her car and refusing to leave.

The notoriously bad 1982 Tron Holiday Special. Disney was so embarrassed about this special they destroyed all copies of it and most people never even heard of it.

Dog reads an interesting email.

Man has always dreamed of throwing a large rock off a cliff.

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