Quick Hits

Live voting in the House to end the shutdown.

Lumpy Jack: The GOP isn't "taking away Obamcare subsidies." Those "emergency temporary subsidies" were always designed to expire.

During a portion of an interview with NPR aired on Monday's broadcast of "All Things Considered," Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) stated that the Affordable Care Act subsidies that were at issue in the government shutdown are not being taken away by Republicans, since "Democrats designed those tax credits to expire at [the end of] this year." And Republicans were saying they would take about extending the tax credits.

You know when pay channels offer you teaser rates of $3 per month for three months? And then the price zooms up to $15 per month but they trust you're not paying attention and will keep paying forever to watch old episodes of Hello Larry?

That's every single Democrat spending "plan." They claim the spending will only be for a short period of time and then when that time is up, guess what? It was always intended to be permanent spending until the end of days.

Two major proxy advisory firms -- which I guess analyze corporations and recommend to shareholders who to vote for in corporate board elections -- are telling Cracker Barrel shareholders to dump the Woke DEI marketing executive who drove the stock into the ground.

Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis advised investors to vote against the re-election of Gilbert Dávila, a DEI specialist, at the annual shareholder meeting on Nov. 20 -- slamming his "faulty" board-level marketing expertise.

The proxy firms seemingly implied that Dávila -- also one of Cracker Barrel's top individual shareholders -- played a significant role in the company's rebranding.

"Dávila is highlighted in board materials as one of two marketing specialists among the independent directors. He is also a member of a standing board committee whose purview is to assess social and political risks to the company's business," ISS wrote in a note.

However, the proxy firms did not push for the removal of CEO Julie Felss Masino, who took over the chain in November 2023.

Why?

Let me guess: Because she's a woke white woman with ginormous Attitude Glasses, which give her enhanced powers to Judge You, right? And we can't impose male standards of success or failure on woke women, who are alternately Super-Empowered Girlbosses or Damsels who need rescuing as the circumstances may require.

In more woke corporate news, the new non-woke head of Paramount devised a tricky way to get the woke non-workers to quit: He demanded that they "RTO," or Return to Office, and finally take off their Covid Jammies and put on normal work clothes and go to the office to work like all people have done since... well since people have had jobs.

Six hundred people quit, which I imagine was not unwelcome by the owners.

Fortune, which used to be a business magazine and is now just another woke propaganda outfit, highlights the "cost" to the company of the severance packages.

As if those aren't being paid gladly.

About 600 employees in the company's Los Angeles and New York offices at the vice-president level and below took the buyout, according to company disclosures filed on Monday--and the severance packages set Paramount back $185 million. The filings cited restructuring costs "associated with actions to align the business around our strategic priorities."

I do understand and appreciate the advantages of working from home. (Obviously.) And I know this is a boon to many, and many workers will put in a good day of work from home.

But I've also seen all those "Day in the Life" Tik-Toks of entitled non-workers spending their whole day "at work" drinking Himalayan frog tea or whatever. And if that's what a lot of Millennials and Zoomers are doing at work, I cannot imagine what they're doing at home in their jam-jams.

Musk's AI Grok is based. It refuses to role-play as a transgender, because that would require denying biological fact.

Julie Kelly does not think much of The Blaze's "bombshell" revelation of the J5 bomber based entirely on gait analysis. Actually, her theory is that there is no J5 bomber, and that the video of someone walking around the Capitol on the evening of January 5 does not show that person actually planting bombs. She thinks the bombs -- or "bombs" -- were planted on January 6h. I would guess (but do not know) she thinks that the bombs were planted opportunistically after trouble had started, to sweeten the case against MAGA and the J6ers.

Whatever the merits of that theory, here's her new reporting:

ulie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2

5h

I spoke this morning with the individual believed to be "Person of Interest 3" (POI3) in the FBI's original pipe bomb investigation related to January 6.

I will not name this individual to protect his privacy since he just found out today (by me) that he had been under FBI surveillance for allowing another individual--"Person of Interest 2" (POI2)--to use his Metro card to travel to Washington DC for Stop the Steal events on Jan 5 and Jan 6.

I think this is the Metro card the FBI believes was used by the "bomber." I don't know if Kelly believes that.

POI2, according to a Congressional report published last year, was seen on security cameras on the morning of Jan 5 "photographing a dumpster next to the location where the RNC pipe bomb would later be planted." In the days after Jan 6, the FBI considered "POI2's movements to be 'highly suspicious' and considered POI2 as a 'possible accomplice' to the pipe bomber."

Both POI2 and POI3 were placed under physical surveillance by the FBI's Washington Field Office.

POI2 told investigators in an interview on Jan 19. 2021 that he had "traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend First Amendment activities on Capitol Hill on January 5 and that throughout the day, POI2 photographed 'objects bearing numerals' including doors, dumpsters, and other objects and intended to use these photographs in a book he was writing."

Both men were ruled out as suspects by late Jan 2021.

POI3 is a 66-year-old man currently employed by the Air Force. Here is what he told me today about the use of his Metro card by his friend (POI2) who he has known for more than 55 years.

"I have a friend who came up for the January 6 Stop the Steal protest, he lives out of state. I've known him since 1969, we went to elementary and high school together. He's from my understanding not affiliated with anything illegal or immoral. He is kind of like an evangelist, a religious educator [who] goes all around the world preaching the gospel but he's very Republican, very pro-Trump person.

He is probably 67 [years-old] now. He was probably 63 on January 6.

He came up a day before or a couple days before the January 6 date and I took him to the Metro. He stayed at my house. I took him to the Metro and I let him borrow my Metro card. I have an extra Metro card, I have one that I use to ride the Metro every day and one that I keep [as] my personal thing.

This was during the pandemic so I was working from home the entire time. So he went downtown the day prior to January 6 and he was downtown on January 6. I know he was doing some type of journaling for this event. I know he posted some stuff on Facebook. He was keeping a log telling everybody about all the events and activities that took place.

And then I think on the 7th of January, I took him back to Dulles to catch his flight. He came up again for the inauguration [this year] and I let him stay at my house again.

Now that relates to my friend who I've known since elementary school who I grew up with.

I lived next door to this individual who supposedly is identified as the pipe bomber from everything that I've heard. I've lived in this house [in Falls Church, Virginia] since 2003. So in 2021, they had moved in the year before, her and a gentleman. I knew them purely in passing exchanges, pleasantries on the street. I never went into their house so I don't have any idea of their political leanings in any way, shape, or form.

I've been contacted and I did look into the paper and when a picture of this supposed person came up, I said, yes that looks like her.

All I can say is there's two people involved in this that I know--my friend who I went to elementary school and high school together who asked for a favor to let him stay at my house during the January 6 rally.

As it relates to this lady, this policeman, other than her living next door to me, I have no involvement with her in any way shape or form. It was my understanding they worked for the Metropolitan Police Department, that's all I know and they were not here that long.

They just lived next door to me."

I will have much more to say on this shortly.

She does not think much of The Blaze's "scoop" or of Kyle Seraphim's various accusations.

Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2

The allegations in The Blaze, the deceptive (and inconsistent) framing by Seraphin and his acolytes--which I will get to soon including his suggestion POI2 was the alleged pipe bomber's boyfriend lol--and this so-called "whistleblower" report promoted by Tom Massie all rely on the notion that the FBI pulled surveillance of these two men to cover up for the "pipe bomber" neighbor.

But as this man told me today, the true account of what happened is very straightforward. And I can tell you after speaking with him, he is extremely sincere, talked very plainly about what happened over those few days, and had no idea he (or his friend) had been a subject of the initial pipe bomb investigation.

That is why surveillance of both men ended--not some batsh*t conspiracy theory promoted by the likes of The Blaze and the "Suspendables" that somehow the FBI KNEW the neighbor was the pipe bomber and pulled the agents off the case.

More about her take on Seraphim's claims here. Seraphim is now saying he was actually surveilling the suspect publicized by The Blaze much earlier, and was pulled off that surveillance detail. I don't know. I believe it when I hear someone else confirming this.

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Hmm: GOP Senators Snuck a Provision Into the Shutdown Deal Granting Them the Right to Sue Over "Arctic Frost" Invasions of Privacy/Weaponization of Government

The GOP did something sneaky that is not at the direct expense of their voters?

What is going on? What madness is this?

Some may say they engaged in self-dealing here, but I think there's plenty of positive public policy here. We need the Deep State exposed, and moreover, exposed to legal process.

Sue. Sue like the wind.

A new provision was quietly inserted into Congress's shutdown deal as part of a broader appropriations bill late Monday, giving lawmakers the right to sue the federal government over the FBI's "Arctic Frost" surveillance campaign that targeted Republican senators and conservative organizations.

Under the new language, senators whose phone records were seized during Special Counsel Jack Smith's probe into the 2020 election can take the government to court -- and claim at least $500,000 per violation. The move comes after revelations that Smith's team, operating under former President Joe Biden's Justice Department, subpoenaed cellphone metadata belonging to GOP senators between January 4 and 7, 2021, as part of the so-called "Arctic Frost" investigation.

"It's designed to put real teeth into federal law that prohibits the executive branch from surveilling the Senate," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told the Daily Caller News Foundation. "Arctic Frost was a grotesque abuse of power. It was Joe Biden's Watergate." Cruz added that the measure is "a common sense provision to ensure that no Department of Justice -- Democrat or Republican -- ever does that again."

Cruz, who said last month that AT&T refused to hand over his records but was barred from notifying him due to a court order, is among several senators whose data were secretly subpoenaed. Judge James Boasberg, then chief judge of the D.C. District Court, approved the nondisclosure orders that kept lawmakers in the dark. The new provision would now make such secrecy illegal, requiring service providers to immediately alert a Senate office if its data is requested by federal authorities.

Notably, the measure applies retroactively to 2022, meaning those affected by Smith's subpoenas can pursue damages.

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Democrats, however, were quick to protest the late addition. "I'm shocked that a huge change in policy would be dropped into a bill at the last minute, and the first that most senators learn about it is in the press," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) complained. "That's not lawmaking at a way that representatives can be informed."

Of course.

I know the GOP is supposed to be "against lawsuits" but here's how that's worked out in actual reality: The left writes every law to grant a private right of lawsuit to vindicate left-wing fake "rights," and the right never responds in kind.

Meaning the real policy is: Liberals can sue for everything, conservatives can sue for nothing.

If we're going to be sued for everything, then I want the reciprocal right to sue for everything myself.

"Sue everybody!" as noted Legal Whiner Saul Rosenberg advises.

And speaking of Ted Cruz --

and speaking of "Judge" Boasberg --

and speaking of impeachable behavior by left-wing rogue "judges" --

Ted Cruz has scheduled impeachment hearings for "rogue judges," including "Judge" Boasberg, who illegally ordered phone companies to not alert the victims of an illegal search that their records were being illegally searched.

Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights Chairman Ted Cruz on Monday scheduled a hearing on the possibility of impeaching "rogue" federal judges.

The hearing comes after Republicans complained that some judges have intervened with President Donald Trump's executive orders. Several lawmakers have introduced legislation this year that seeks to curb rogue judges, after multiple judges issued nationwide injunctions on some of Trump's agenda, instead of focusing on the people in the specific case.

Yeah I know "nothing will happen" but at some point you just need to start taking shots on goal.

I'm making no factual assertions,
but this is the face of a man who volunteers
to coach youth soccer because he's a fan
of energetic ball-play

More:

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) asked Attorney General Pam Bondi Thursday to unseal some "grand jury materials" from the FBI's Arctic Frost probe that would reveal special counsel Jack Smith's reasoning for seeking her and other Republicans' personal phone records.

Smith obtained call logs for at least 10 GOP lawmakers -- including Blackburn -- and the Tennessee senator wrote to Bondi requesting her "to use every tool ... to uncover a key component of the weaponized, Biden-era Arctic Frost investigation," according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Post.

That "key component" is an application for a non-disclosure order signed by DC US District Chief Judge James Boasberg, forcing phone carriers keep secret for one year Smith's subpoenas for the documents, which included the Republicans' addresses, inbound/outbound call and text records, and payment information.

"It is our understanding that this application is currently under seal in the Arctic Frost grand jury materials," Blackburn said. "We urge you to immediately unseal and provide this application that accompanied the gag order."

Boasberg has been a thorn in the side of the Trump administration's immigration policies after he issued a court order blocking deportation flights of alleged gang members to a Salvadoran mega-prison in March.

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Analysis: The Transgender Tulip Bubble Has Popped

Eric Kaufman, writing at Skeptic:

A few weeks ago, I published results from six waves of the massive Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) annual survey of undergraduate students. The data were unequivocal: the share of students identifying as a gender other than male or female--that is, as non-binary--peaked in 2023 and has halved in the two years since. This is a stunning reversal in the culture that will reverberate through society and politics in the coming years.

The survey captures over 50,000 students per year from nearly 250 leading American universities. Its size guarantees statistical power and enables us to look at small subgroups like trans or queer people. FIRE data is a random sample, a small percentage of each university's student body, and I wanted to be sure it triangulated with two surveys capturing a much greater share of the total. One comes from the elite Andover Phillips prep school near Boston; the other is run by Brown University's student newspaper. Both interview a far higher share of their target pool than FIRE surveys (up to 50 percent for Brown freshmen, and 75 percent in the Andover case). As Figure 1 shows, these surveys corroborate the "peak trans" pattern in the FIRE data, revealing a rapid decline since 2023.

Note that chart actually shows students saying their neither male nor female -- i.e., "non-binary" -- and is not about transgenderism per se. But transgenders would claim to be of the other sex, so it's hard to find them in these surveys. The author argues (plausibly) that the "non-binary" delusion is closely correlated with the trans delusion, but some, like pro-life/anti-groomer activist Billboard Chris, think it's an error to conflate the two.

The article also responds to technical criticisms like claims that these figures aren't weighted by demographics. That's both above my pay grade and below my threshold of actual interest.

Make up your own minds. I'm not your daddy.

Or... am I...?

Son?

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I expand more fully on these findings in my University of Buckingham Centre for Heterodox Social Science report, which also found that the decline in non-binary identification was matched by a 10-point drop in unconventional sexual identification. Namely, in students identifying their sexual orientation as something other than heterosexual or homosexual--such as pansexual, queer, questioning, bisexual, or asexual. Many students who identify as neither male nor female also identify as sexually non-conforming, so the correlation trend is unsurprising.

Sexual orientation has been measured in more youth surveys for longer than gender identity has been. While gay and lesbian share remained flat through 2020 to 2025, Figure 2 shows that the broader non-heterosexual group--covering bisexual, queer, pansexual, asexual, questioning, and other labels--rose steeply to 2023 and then fell across a wide range of surveys.

See the link for the chart. Preposterously, identification as non-heterosexual rose to 40% at some schools. It's so depressing I don't want to reproduce the chart here.

Here, in my digital home. My home!

The non-heterosexual proportion peaked at around 30 percent overall, reaching as high as 40 percent at progressive-leaning Ivy League schools like Brown and 50 percent in liberal arts colleges such as Smith College. Importantly, the decline in non-conforming sexual orientation parallels the decline in non-conforming gender identity, suggesting a common underlying dynamic.

Well, Smith is famously Finishing School for Lesbians.

Identification as non-heterosexual has also fallen, though not as dramatically as identification as "neither male nor female."

Classic pattern of social contagion or viral mental illness.

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Why is the trans curve bending downward? Are young people becoming more conservative and religious? No. The same FIRE student surveys that show non-binary gender and queer sexuality dropping like a stone find no shift to the political right over time, and no rise in the share affiliating with a religion. Students are also no more supportive of free speech, and no more opposed to shouting down speakers, than they were in 2020. They are as woke as ever, just less trans and queer.

Oh well that's just great.

Peter Heck at NottheBee is a high school teacher and he says these stats match his direct-but-anecdotal observations.

While it's purely anecdotal, I can testify that from my own vantage point as a public high school teacher that the researchers are not imagining things. Not long ago, many schools across the country became pronoun battlegrounds, with students cycling through new "identities" every semester, and teachers instructed to oblige and rat out their colleagues who refused.

Today, pronoun announcements have all but disappeared. The once-growing cluster of self-identified non-binary students has shrunk dramatically. Whatever once felt like an unstoppable cultural wave now looks like what many warned it was all along: a disastrous social contagion.

But now must come The Great Reckoning:

While the trend may be reversing, the damage remains. Adults who have been entrusted with the well-being of our children, who should have been a bulwark of stability and truth, instead bent the knee to ideas that were, from the start, patently unscientific and philosophically incoherent. Administrators, professors, teachers, board members, and counselors all treated biological reality as hateful. Feelings were elevated above facts, and the ideological whims of a political crusade were permitted to rewrite human nature.

But, like the Japanese soldiers at the end of World War II -- and I still do not know which side I wanted to win that war; Demon Attack Survivor Tucker Carlson teaches me that both sides had heroes and villains, like Winston Churchill and also Jews -- they are still fighting to the last man for the last beach on the last island.

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Federal Judge May Sanction Gavin Newsom's Transgender Government For Lying in Legal Filings About California's Determination to Trans Children Behind Their Parents' Backs

Gavin Newsom is playing hide-the-salami.

I mean, you already assumed that, but I mean he's playing it in court.

The state of California knew it would lose a case involving transing children behind their parents' back. So the state claimed they had changed the policy, thus "mooting" the case. Judges can't rule on moot cases, usually, so the manuever was designed to take the case out of the judge's hands before he could rule and establish precedent.

And then---

Whoops!

Whoopsie!

-- the supposedly "changed" policy popped right back up in teacher instruction materials, again telling teachers to trans children behind their parents' backs.

The judge is, how you say, arribiato.

Federal judge threatens to sanction California for 'misleading' him in 'gender secrecy' case

"Forced outings," when students are already publicly identifying as the opposite sex in school and demanding others use fake pronouns to them.

They're already "out" to everyone in the world -- except their parents.

Scott Penis just doesn't want their parents to know.

Groomers and pedophiles always tell children to keep special secrets from their parents.

State claimed lawsuit over muzzling teachers, hiding students gender identity from parents was moot because it removed FAQ page with challenged policies, but they secretly popped up again in required teacher training.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has repeatedly slurred a federal judge by name, echoing President Trump's history of diatribes against judges even before the current Democrat started copying the former Democrat's social media style and insulting nicknames.

The perceived contender for the 2028 Democratic nomination for president may cluck his tongue again when he sees the latest order from U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez in a lawsuit against The Golden State's alleged mandate on school districts to hide from parents their children's asserted gender identity at odds with sex.

The President George W. Bush nominee ordered state Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Department of Education to "show cause" on why they should not be sanctioned for "misleading" Benitez so he would remove them from the suit by teachers who allege their school district muzzled them and parents of "gender incongruent children."

The state defendants' motions to dismiss and opposition to the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment claimed that CDE had "withdrawn and conclusively replaced" an FAQ page that contained the challenged policies, which they claimed was the "only basis" for being named defendants and thus made the case moot, Benitez wrote.

"However, evidence demonstrates that the CDE may have merely moved the challenged content of the FAQ page to a new, required 'PRISM' training module," as documented by the plaintiffs' lawyers at the Thomas More Society, the judge said, ordering state defendants to explain their behavior Nov. 17 in court.

"From day one, officials from the local school district all the way to the governor's mansion have tried to deflect responsibility" but "have now been caught not only lying to California taxpayers but attempting to mislead the Court to escape accountability," TMS Executive Vice President Peter Breen said in a statement.

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It's the latest setback for state leaders in the case, in which Benitez has repeatedly sided with the plaintiffs.

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The society filed an application for sanctions Friday, pointing to a California Family Council article Nov. 3 on the new PRISM teacher training that includes a screenshot of a slide with "language very similar to the FAQ page" that the CDE took down.

The article links to a recording of a PRISM training, which it dubs an "LGBTQ 'Loyalty Test,'" that CFC describes as part of a curriculum mandated by the California Safe and Supportive Schools Act, developed in consultation with LGBTQ advocacy groups including the ACLU, Trevor Project and California Teachers Association.

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It makes explicit that school staff cannot tell parents if their children identify as the opposite sex, because they still have "a reasonable expectation of privacy" even if they are open about their gender identity at school. Schools can only disclose this to parents in "limited circumstances" such as "issues involving safety or wellness."

CFC said the training also falsely characterized the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act in a test at the end of the training, claiming it forbids schools from sharing a child's gender identity with parents when FERPA actually "protects parents' right to access their child's records, not the state's right to withhold them."

In other words, they claimed the law required the exact opposite of what it required. It transformed a parent's right-to-know into a teacher's duty-to-conceal.

And then, while maintaining that the "law" required a teacher to have a duty-to-conceal, they claimed that no such duty exists so the case should be thrown out because it's a moot issue.

There is a law. There isn't a law. There is a policy. There isn't a policy.

Whatever Gavin Newsom's Transgender Government identifies as at any stage of the lawsuit.

While taking down the FAQ page left school districts "in a state of ambiguity" rather than confirming they could disclose gender identity to parents without student permission, the state defendants tried to play it both ways, "affirmatively telling school districts that Parental Exclusion Policies were legally required, while arguing mootness to this Court."

Very much related: An update to the dude in lipstick wagging his pickle at women in a women's changing room at Gold's Gym.

There's a Transgender Cinematic Universe cross-over later in the tale.

The story, which you mostly know from last week:

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New Democrat-Media Hoax Drops: Shock Emails Prove Trump Knew Epstein Was Recruiting Underaged Girls! And Knew One of the Victims!
Unmentioned: Yes, We Knew He Knew, He Kicked Epstein Out of Mar-a-Lago. And the Victim Absolves Trump.

Just more defamation and lies from the Lugenpress.

Not the Bee has a good recap. The charge made is that it is now "proven" by emails that Trump knew Jeffrey Epstein was recruiting underaged girls.

Except we already know that, because we already knew that Trump caught Epstein trying to recruit girls from Mar-a-Lago, and kicked him out of the club permanently for it.

The Democrat-Media Party attack deliberately omits to mention that (though the emails "revealed" by the Democrats also point that out -- again).

This isn't just old news -- it's old, exculpatory news, altered and fabricated to look like new, inculpatory news.

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DEI Ding-Dong Kamala Harris: I Campaigned Brilliantly Against Donald Trump and Played a Keen Game of Three Dimensional Chess Against Him (Which, If You're Being Fussy, I Lost)

I can hear the naysayers neighing -- they're saying:

"Ace, you are linking this story because it is ludicrously easy content where you don't even have to write a single word, the story tells itself and the objections to Kamala Harris are so obvious that you don't even have to mention them. This is just an easy lay-up post where the commenters will provide all the commentary so you can blow off work for an hour and just watch Office re-runs."

YES.

OF COURSE.

Duh, naysayers.

What, are you gonna narc on me?

That's against the Bro Code, you know.

Bro's don't narc.

Bro's snark but they don't narc.

Jason Cohen of the Daily Caller:

Former Vice President Kamala Harris said on "Storehouse & Friends" Sunday that she was determined to prevent President Donald Trump from beating her at "three-dimensional chess" during her 2024 presidential campaign.

Harris lost all seven swing states and the national popular vote to Trump in 2024. The former vice president said on the show that she recognized the Trump campaign's strategy and sought to ensure it did not affect her own.

"I was aware of my opponent's strategy. And I wasn't about to fall prey or fall into those traps," Harris said." And part of his strategy, and those around him, was to try and take me off our game and message."

"And I wasn't about to be distracted by those flames that he was trying to throw to get me away from one of my highest priorit[ies], which was talking to people about the economy and their well-being, in terms of their financial well-being," she added. "I understood the game that was being played and I made a decision that I wasn't going to get played."

Harris then cackled for several seconds while at least one of the hosts said, "Chess, not checkers."

"Yeah. Three-dimensional chess," Harris responded.

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UK PM and Effeminate Pussy Keir Starmer Vows He Will "Fiiiiiight" Any Move to Depose Him

Before that: This Effeminate Pussy just reduced the formerly "special relationship" between the UK and the US by announcing that the UK will no longer share "some" intelligence with the US... to protect his communist ally Maduro in Venezuela.

This is a major breach of our alliance.

The United Kingdom has suspended some intelligence sharing with the United States, its close ally, over the U.S. military's lethal strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean, since London thinks the attacks are illegal and does not want to be implicated, multiple outlets reported on Tuesday.

The decision to halt intelligence sharing, which took place earlier this fall, highlights the range of skepticism regarding the Trump administration's legal justification for the vessel strikes, which so far have killed at least 76 people.

The U.S. garners intelligence from a variety of sources, including the UK, which oversees some territories in the Caribbean and offers information that assists the U.S. in identifying boats suspected of smuggling narcotics in the region.

The gathered intelligence is normally delivered to the Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATFS), based in Key West, Fla., which works on monitoring and detecting suspected illegal trafficking targets and conducting counter-narcotic operations.

More than a dozen countries, including close U.S. allies, have liaison officers based at JIATFS, which is led by Coast Guard Rear Adm. Jeff Randall.

The British have radar bases and listening stations in the Caribbean. You've seen James Bond movies. They're like all set in the Caribbean. It's kind of stupid.

So this isn't nothing. The British are denying us intelligence collected at Jamaica, the Bahamas, etc.

If you missed it, Argentina is talking tough again about seizing the Falkland Islands from the British, and this time, I say we side with Argentina.

Not that these ponces will care much. They just signed over the nearly-unhinhabited but strategically useful Chagos Islands to Mauritius... which is very friendly with expansionist Red China.

These are the islands where the US maintains an absolutely vital base at Diego Garcia. The US will continue to have access to that base, for a while, as the UK negotiated a 99 year lease (on something they formerly owned)... but China will build its own base right next to ours soon enough. (The British negotiated a 24-mile buffer zone around Diego Garcia. Pretty sure a Chinese base 25 miles away would still be a threat.)

Back to the headline story:

Even the effeminate pussies at the Guardian admit that their ally Keir Starmer is the most unpopular PM in UK history.

However, they put a Happy Spin on it.

Yes, Keir Starmer is Britain’m's most unpopular PM ever. That could liberate him

Amazing. Hitler similarly felt liberated as the Wehrmacht dissolved. He felt so liberated he decided to YOLO a bullet into his own temple and liberate his cerebral cortex from his brain stem.

Forget the public vitriol and use the next four years to get things done -- first and foremost, whatever it takes to stop Reform

Somewhere in Greater Britain, a chicken cries out, "Help! I'm being sexually assaulted!"

(That is a real old-school reference.)

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As often, Wes Streeting dares say what all can see: that there is "deep disillusionment in this country at the moment" and "a growing sense of despair about whether anyone is capable of turning this country round". The "change" Labour promised is not yet visible; we still lack a guiding light towards better things to come.

Note that name "Wes Streetling" for later.

Yet, even so, the current vitriolic state of public opinion is perplexing and alarming. Keir Starmer is the most unpopular prime minister ever.

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As prime minister, he's short on charisma, they say: more seriously, he lacks political agility, ingenuity or instinct for where the wind blows.

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Polling guru John Curtice warns them to stop chasing Reform voters: they've gone.

Labour's leader is failing; there's no denying it when pollsters suggest no leader could ever return from these unplumbed depths.

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Unsurprisingly, panic on the back benches will make talk of leadership change rife if May's elections go as badly as predicted -- or, some suggest, sooner. I see aficionados reaching for the Labour party rulebook, reminding one another of a little-noticed but key change made at last year's conference. It's now easier to challenge a sitting leader at any time of year with a nomination backed by 20% of Labour MPs -- currently, 80 of them. Before, a leader was safe except in a brief pre-conference window.

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Here's ministers' paradox: Labour's only hope lies in despair. Assume they will be wiped out whatever, so use this massive majority for four more years to follow their natural social democratic instinct: make radical tax reforms, raising plenty. Expect to lose the next election, so do everything now. Forget opinion polls and focus groups; let voters see sincerity in their purpose. The only way to restore some respect is to do transparently what they think most right and fair.

Well that's a plan. As with Hitler: YOLO it.

Remember how Labour got this huge majority: It was emphatically not because the public craved more feckless IngSoc communism and control. Just a few years before, the public handed the "Conservative" party an enormous majority, one of the largest in history.

No, Labour only won because the "Conservative" continued allowing hundreds and hundreds of thousands of immigrants, many "boat people" criminals escaping justice in their own home countries, and absolutely would not change this policy no matter how much their own voters demanded it.

Their own voters were not yet ready to embrace the "extremism" of Reform, so they choose the path of self-harm -- political cutting -- of voting for Labour to send a message.

A message Labour itself didn't get either, though they make insincere claims about wanting to "stop the boats."

There was never any desire for a return of IngSoc. People just wanted the boats stopped. Now they have more destructive socialism and more boat criminals.

The General Electios won't take place for a while. I think that Guardian scrunt mentioned May. We'll get to the May elections below.

But members of Keir Starmer's disaster-party are scheming to depose him before the scheduled party leadership vote.

Keir Starmer, the most demasculated man in the world -- even Justin Castreaux at least uses his left-wing effeminancy to smash mish -- vows he will "fight" with every atom of male strength he has, which is three. Three atoms of male strength.

Allies of the prime minister are making it clear he would fight any challenge to his leadership from Labour MPs.

There are fears from those loyal to Sir Keir Starmer that his job might be under immediate threat, perhaps as soon as shortly after the Budget in a fortnight's time.

Critics say it is evidence that Downing Street is "in full bunker mode" which "won't help the government out of the hole we're in."

You know who else went into full bunker mode?

I'm not the only one thinking about Hitler. Me and Important Conservative Thought Leader Nick Fuentes have Hitler on our minds.

Friends of Sir Keir are deeply worried about what they see as plotting going on to try to replace him and are seeking to make clear what they see as the grave risks of a leadership challenge.

You don't want none of this smoke, Friend-O.

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Wednesday Morning Rant

Goodbye, Mister Lincoln

In my day-to-day commerce, I usually pay cash. If I am not doing something for which I need plastic, I usually don't use it. I get some odd looks sometimes, but it's my preference. It also makes splitting the bill at restaurants easy. Recently, I've noticed that some computerized cash registers stopped reflecting reality. If the bill came to $15.02 and I put in a $20 bill, the computer changes the total deposited to $20.02 and then returns $5.00 even. Or if the bill comes to some other fraction - say $5.27 - the bill changes to $5.25 as soon as I put in cash.

I missed it, but the US Mint has decided to stop producing pennies. They ordered their last set of blanks this year and have apparently finished - or are about to finish - the final run of pennies. The reason is cost. Pennies cost nearly a nickle to produce and the Mint expects to save in excess of $50 million per year by ceasing penny production. But the oddity to me is how rapidly stores are front-running penny scarcity.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Brigand and His Wife in Prayer
Léopold Robert

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The Morning Report — 11/12/25

Good morning kids. Just a quick shout-out to co-blogger and friend Buck Throckmorton for a fantastic, free-wheeling and fast hour of conversation on the latest episode of the podcast (linked here as well as in the sidebar as well as available on the usual outlets listed below)

We focused mostly on the climate change scam, which is his area of expertise, and veered into a few other things as is our wont to do.

In any case, over the last year or so, coincidentally or not with the start of the Trump 2.0 administration, much of the hysteria over climate change/global warming mercifully is on the wane and heading for oblivion. Of course until the next wave of globalist/Leftist-induced mass hysteria hits us over the head in yet another attempt to enslave humanity and destroy civilization so that the aforementioned cabal of Blofeld wannabes can lord over us peon/slaves/untermenschen.

As noted, one of the foremost among them, none other than Bill Gates himself has publicly and most vociferously renounced the global warming myth.

Bill Gates's recent comments about the importance of adaptation echo former World Bank chief economist Larry Summers's response to the concept of “sustainability,” the moral rock on which the church of climate change was built. Though still a “serious” problem, Gates no longer regards human-caused climate change as an existential threat. “People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future,” Gates said. “Surprisingly, excessive cold is far deadlier [than extreme heat], killing nearly ten times more,” he admitted.

I assume that upon hearing his apostasy against Leftist dogma, you didn't get a warm and fuzzy feeling but instead smelled the proverbial rat about the size of a mastodon. Bill Gates and his big tech cronies are pushing AI hard and heavy.

Considering AI and everything associated with it vis a vis the technology that powers it requires massive amounts of energy, there is no way for it to exist without fossil fuel energy. So, Gates' denunciation of Global Warming Climate Change is mercenary in the extreme. And considering what he and his ilk crave, absolute power and the desire to reshape humanity and society in their image, there is no doubt that AI will be used mostly in pursuit of that cause, not for the advancement of humanity as we mere human beings imagine and desire.

While we're on the subject of apostasy, I've written about Sen. John Fetterman a few times over the past year or so, especially in the wake of the October 7th Islamic invasion and mass wave of butchery on Israel from Gaza. Since then he has been the very dim candle within the Category 10,000 hurricane of Israel/Jew hatred in the Democrat Party.

His latest outburst if you will was in raging against the party's holding America hostage with the Schumer Shakedown Shutdown Shitshow.

In the debate over the federal government shutdown, U.S. Senator John Fetterman, D-PA, has been the only Democrat to be critical of his party’s role in creating the debacle. In an interview on Sunday’s CNN show State of The Union with Jake Tapper, Fetterman said,  “I feel like the Democrats really need to own the shutdown. I mean, we’re shutting it down.” In addition, Fetterman noted that the problem of “42 million Americans” facing “food insecurity” would be solved if Democrats “just reopen our government.”

Fetterman continued to blast his party’s neglect of Americans in need. He claimed, “Now we are hurting the very people that we fight for, and now we’re getting nothing for them if we continue to keep our government shut down.”

These comments are both accurate and courageous, as Fetterman stands alone among Democrats. Yet, the Senator is comfortable going his own way. No other Senator wears shorts and a sweatshirt in the halls of Congress. He has also shown tremendous perseverance, publicly dealing with his stroke and clinical depression.

So is Fetterman merely trying to walk a tightrope in a state that despite the hardcore leftist strongholds of Philly and Pittsburgh is generally Republican if not necessarily conservative. But then again, his base of support wouldn't come from there. Doesn't he risk the ire of his party's leadership who could easily replace him with someone more, pliable shall we say. But regardless, When Schumer or whoever cracks the whip 99 out of 100 times Fetterman will vote the party line. As an aside, and not coincidentally, vis a vis the aforementioned about Gates, Pennsylvania is oil and coal country. Black gold in them thar hills.

But given the issues at hand, exactly what is the party line? Right now, they appear to be melding into some sort of Marxist/Islamist entity as we can clearly see with the rise of Mamdani as well as the continued presence of such execrable beasts as Bernie Sanders and Titty Caca Ocasio. And with Schumer now seen as a sellout to Trump now that the shutdown is virtually over with the Democrats having essentially nothing to show for it.

Elsewhere, this headline and story is something we've been screaming about since forever:

America needs a 40-year pause in immigration—it was a major 20th century success: The population of America after the Civil War exploded, driven by immigration, which caused constant problems in Europe and the westward expansion of America, growing 25-30 percent every decade. . .

. . . The difference today from the 1880s to 1920s is the massive amounts of illegal immigration we have allowed, which went on steroids during the dark years of Joe Biden. That unvetted mass immigration is new, but the havoc it is wreaking is not. We saw it in the real wage decline of white and black Americans, which has only gotten worse since 2014. Because universities and the teachers they cranked out into public schools purposely stopped teaching real American history to focus only on the warts, most Americans today do not know that America has been around this block. 

And as if to underscore the problem, I give you:

Michigan Senate Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Deleted Post Calling Border Patrol 'White Supremacists' and Blaming US for Illegal Immigration . . . The revelation comes after reports that El-Sayed deleted other posts supporting the 'defund the police' movement

As you can see and infer as I have from several of the links, it won't be very long before the Islamic hordes link up arms with Antifa, BLM, street gangs of the indigenous and imported variety to hold us hostage or worse, all at the behest of the Mamdanis and Titty Caca's of the Party.

Perilous times ahead, my friends. CAIR, ANTIFA and everyone who supports, funds and protects them must be collectively destroyed, before they destroy us.

HOW we are to accomplish that act of self-preservation, given the corruption of our government and crucially our justice system, is the question.

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

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• The population of America after the Civil War exploded, driven by immigration, which caused constant problems in Europe and the westward expansion of America, growing 25-30 percent every decade.
  America needs a 40-year pause in immigration—it was a major 20th century success

• Mamdani's rise was not 'random,' said anti-Semitic activist Linda Sarsour, who boasted of mobilizing a CAIR-tied PAC to support the socialist's mayoral campaign. (His socialism takes a backseat to Islam - jjs)
  CAIR Teased a 'Major' Expansion to Its Political Operations After Oct. 7. Two Years Later, Its Network Is Taking Credit for Mamdani's Win—and Pledging To Do More.
  

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Daily Tech News 12 November 2025

Top Story

• Japanese investment group SoftBank has sold its entire stake in Nvidia for $5.83 billion. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Do they know something I know?
  
  Apparently not, because they also sold their stake in T-Mobile for $9.17 billion, making a quarterly profit of $16.6 billion, and are planning to use the funds to invest further in OpenAI.
  
  
  
• J. P. Morgan says current plans for AI datacenter buildouts would require revenues of $650 billion per year forever to deliver a 10% return. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's the equivalent of $180 for each and every Netflix subscriber worldwide.
  
  Per month.
  
  Eternally.
  
  It's not a bubble.

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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - November 11, 2025 [Doof]

America - she has her flaws, but she's still the greatest!

Howdy, Hordelings - and Happy Veterans Day. The ONT proudly salutes those who served, past and present.

Note - I will be an absent host for an hour or 2 tonight. Many thanks to the Doggo for launching (and babysitting?) tonight!

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Veterans Day Cafe

armygirl
@armygir36701799

9h
At pre
cisely 11:11 a.m. each Veterans Day (Nov. 11), the sun's rays pass through the ellipses of the five Armed Services pillars to form a perfect solar spotlight over a mosaic of The Great Seal of the United States.

Thank you for your service, Veterans!

The Doctor
@TennantRob

14h

Veterans Day, more accurately known as Armistice Day, is celebrated on November 11, because that is when the Great War to end all wars concluded.

After the Korean and Vietnam wars, it was renamed Veterans Day.

Thanks to all who have and are serving.
Thank you for your service.

Bill Draper Photography

A very primal forest in Vancouver. Probably AI because AI ruins everything.

ICYMI: The good life.

More of the good life.

Trump bailed out the NYC Veterans Day Parade in 1995.

Murmurration at sunset.

Border collie gently herding a baby sheep. (Who thinks the collie wants to play head-butt.)

Cat thinks he's the T-1000.

A WWII veteran, 98 years old, dons his uniform again.

A cat adopts herself, and all of her family, to a kind stranger.

Stealth baby.

Dancing with your baby sister.

Veterans Day at Parris Island.

You know that "hurricana"/"hurricane" martial arts move that Black Widow does? (And every female action hero...?) Where they jump up at your neck, wrap their legs around your neck and head, and then flip you on to the ground? Well, maybe this is just footage from a movie, or maybe this is the hurricana performed for real...

"God Bless America" played at the closing of today's Veterans Day Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.

So that's why they're called "ducks!"

King of Muscle Beach.

Raising the flag, with spirit.

I buy drugs to work harder to make more money to buy drugs to work harder to make more money to buy drugs...

Dude really paints the details in his landscapes.

No let me show you how to really churn a puddle...

Night of the Living Karens.

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Quick Hits

The Bee:

That's only partly a joke -- yes, Tucker Carlson is now a believer in chemtrail conspiracy theories now, too.

So here's my rule on conspiracy theories:

I think everyone gets one or two free conspiracy theories. If you don't have any unconventional beliefs, you're kind of boring. You do not have, as Michael Scott said, a "child-like sense of wonder."

If you have three to five conspiracy theories, then I'd say you have a preference for the fantastical and dramatic and you prefer action-thriller movie plots to pedestrian but much more likely explnations. You like big, bold, often-gibberish theories that are more interesting than dull reality.

If you believe in six to ten conspiracy theories, well, now I think you're kind of a loon and maybe a bit credulous and low-IQ. Now I think you just believe in conspiracy theories because they're pretty simple.

But, if like Tucker Carlson, you now believe in ALL OF THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES, I don't think you're a loon.

I think you're a grifter playing the loons for Paranoia Clicks.

I think I mentioned this once or twice, maybe just in the comments, but I kind of liked Joe Rogan -- I don't really watch him, I just see clips every once in a while -- precisely because he was so open-minded that his brain sometimes falls out. He'll believe anything. Has no working bullshit detector at all, except for the bullshit detector that tells him everything, anything "The establishment" or "conventional medicine" or "leading authorities" tell him must be a lie.

While I think that's moronic, I also do enjoy being a little irresponsible once in a while. No I do not believe, as frequent Rogan guest Graham Hitchcock (or whatever) claims, that there were world-traveling ancient civilizations that fell and completely disappeared before the earliest known civilizations like Babylon.

I don't believe that... but I'd kind of like to, because it's a silly Pulp Fiction conceit which, if true, would make the world a more magical, goofier place.

So I don't mind when people toss around basically-harmless conspiracy theories. The "archeological establishment doesn't want you to know of unknown ancient civlizations that crossed the seas in advanced oceangoing ships and had cultural exchange with each other! They're covering up the evidence because it would be TOO SHOCKING to realize that human civilization once rose and fell and completely vanished from the earth!"

Nonsense, but fun. And if you believe that, there's not going to be any bad consequences.

Maybe we didn't have to be so serious all the time and obsessed about the Right Answers but we could sit back, untuck the shirt, unbutton the top button, and just have a nice harmless Bullshit Session.

So I didn't mind when Tucker Carlson started with the UFO crap. I figured he was doing it for ratings, being some kind of modern-age PT Barnum. And if people believed in flying saucers, so what? And maybe it was some kind of sharp critique on modern media myth-making. Who knows.

But now Tucker Carlson embraces every paranoia and every primitive subterranean fear and hatred and packages it up for a (largely foreign!) internet audience.

And now it doesn't seem so funny.

And now it doesn't seem so harmlessly, friskily irresponsible.

Now it seems like a very cynical and nasty and greedy operator is peddling fear and hatred to confused and spiritually-lost people looking for answers and oh yeah, the answer is always Israel and Jewish Perfidy.

Maybe it's time to tuck our shirts back in, because, as usual, nasty, stupid, evil-minded people ruin every party.

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The GQ Clips of the Sydney Sweeney Struggle Session Were Misleading.
The Full Interview is Worse.

So says Pirate Wires, who watched the whole thing.

Inside The Sydney Sweeney GQ Interview From Hell

wherein sydney, who evidently has a voluptuous iq, stares into the depths of a gotcha reporter's soul instead of apologizing for being hot
Blake Dodge

...

Assuming the clips were less forgiving than the full-length interview because of the laws of the internet, I listened to the whole thing. Come to find out: it's actually worse than the clips. It's really bad. I honestly can't deal with it.

The reporter's whole vibe was kind of: BuzzFeed nark in little white sneakers crossed with your best friend's mom who's not really authorized to discipline you but is mad at you for something that you did?

She front-loaded just about every question with an accusation ("context") and raised eyebrows that betrayed the feelings she wouldn't say out loud....

Katherine replied: given stuff like Euphoria (which doesn't take a moral stance on the different problems it explores, like teen drug use), Sydney's career doesn't look very political. And yet: "you have become very swept up in politics. And so I wondered if that has surprised you, as you put your ideas and yourself into art, not commentary."

*this was the first among many times in the interview that Sydney had to process the different levels of fuckery in the question with her face muscles*

"I've always believed that I'm not here to tell people what to think," she said. "I'm just here to kind of open their eyes to different ideas. And so I think that's why I gravitate towards characters and stories that are complicated and are maybe morally questionable and characters that are, on the page, hard to like, but then you find the humanity underneath them."

After sort of affirming (?) the idea of artists keeping themselves "a little bit" separate from politics, Katherine moved on to the cultural obsession with Sydney reaching a kind of climax: "Did your sense of your own fame change this year?"

(First of all, what?)

Cue Sydney's extremely sane answer:

"No. I surround myself with a really, really strong group of people who have been in my life since I was little. And they take me out of Hollywood, take me out of this bubble, and remind me what the real world is. And that that's where I exist. The idea of fame -- it doesn't apply to my personal life. I'm just Syd."

"You can't feel the difference in the volume at times?"

"If I turn on my phone, yes. If I have my phone off, and I'm home, no."

"So what is it like now being single?"

Lol. You may not see how that is a natural follow-up question, but Katherine sure did. After Sydney produced and starred in the rom-com Anyone But You, she played a "game" of letting rumors fly about a romance with Glen Powell, her co-star, Katherine asserted.

"We all now know that that was a projection, let's say, on our parts -- that wasn't real. But it occurred to me that maybe that story doesn't go so viral if you're not a very private person," Katherine said. "I imagine there are personal benefits to being private about your personal life, but are there also professional benefits to being private about your personal life?"

Wow, so, the question was roughly: is Sydney really private, or is she just pretending to be, such that the secrecy makes her even more rich and powerful?

*facial processing*

"The professional benefits for me and being private -- is for my own just health and sanity. If I let everybody in all the time, I have nothing for myself." She's just 28 years old, Sydney said; she's still going to make mistakes and grow. "And I think that it's important to be able to do that without having to say every single thing all the time."

"Right. Okay."

Lol.

"I don't really let other people define who I am," Sydney said.

"I'm happy to hear that. I have a lot of secondhand concern for you lately," Katherine said while fake laughing. "We're sort of talking around this American Eagle ad right now."

Aha.

The whole piece is good. I don't want to excerpt more.

Sydney Sweeney's small movie, Christy, about a female boxer with an abusive husband/coach, did poorly at the box office, but...

1, it's a small-budget movie about a niche figure. Who expected it to break records?

2, almost every movie is bombing now, including the much bigger box office and much-promoted love letter to Antifa bombers starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

3, this was plainly a passion project for Sydney Sweeney, one she probably only got made by agreeing to do some more commercial fare. Again, how much do we expect passion -- or vanity -- projects to make?

Christian Toto says we should support it, as she's a culture war icon.

I don't even know if she's "on the right." I watched her movie Immaculate, about a virgin nun becoming pregnant and being celebrated by creepy members of a Catholic church as the New Madonna. It's a halfway competently made movie, with a semi-"clever" gimmick to set it apart from Rosemary's Baby, but... did you see it?

It's the most egregiously anti-Christian and stridently pro-abortion commercial movie I've ever seen. I mean, I'm not much of a Christian and I'm an abortion moderate and even I was like, "What the hell is this nasty propaganda?"

I don't even want to tell you the ending. It's... it goes as far as you could possibly go in a pro-abortion, anti-Christ direction.

Remember Mac's joke headline in the Always Sunny abortion episode? "What if they aborted Jesus?" It's along those lines.

And she's in charge of her career. She picked this film to make.

I don't want to jump on her because I kind of like her but this is not a right-wing culture warrior. I'll praise her for not wading into political issues outside of her actual art, and I will definitely give her props for mogging a femcel CHUD, but I'm not going to hail her as a MAGA spokesmodel.

Eh. If she refunds the $7 I spent to buy the movie, maybe I'll buy a matinee ticket to Cristy.

I'm not going to see a feminist empowerment lady-boxer movie -- a sort of movie I have no interest in -- just to put money in the pockets of someone who made more money by age 20 than I've made in 20 years.

Eh. I already supported Matt Walsh, despite finding him to be tedious and annoying. I don't know how much money I have to spend on Culture War Bonds, as the now-insane Ya Boy Zack says.

Isn't "supporting" movies for identity-politics and political reasons a left-wing thing?

Gay entertainment zine The Hollywood Reporter:

In the new film Predator: Badlands, a young Predator monster, Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), is bullied by his domineering father for being too small and weak, learns important lessons about the value of sensitivity, and meets two feisty women (one a robot, the other an alien) who will become his besties for life. He might as well audition for the school musical. Or move to New York City at the end.

That's the joke a friend and I made as we walked out of Dan Trachtenberg's surprisingly soft-hearted addition to the Predator canon, a movie that pushes its franchise mythology in a decidedly sweet direction. Some viewers might miss the macho brutality of Predators past, but Dek's adventures in self-confidence and chosen family may well satisfy plenty of others. This Predator is queer and we should say it.

Meanwhile: Billy Bob Thornton says he's tired of know-nothing celebrities pontificating about every political and cultural issue.

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To Honor Veterans Day, the Repulsive Traitor Media Launches a Military-Cemetery Race Hoax

Wait, another race hoax? Didn't we just have a race hoax? The black student who was "lynched" by white supremacists at a black college?

Except there was videotape showing him hanging himself? And his roommate immediately went out to the press and said, "no, he wasn't lynched, he's been suicidal for months"?

Oh well, this is a brand-new race hoax. Hope you like it!

It's MAGA Country in the graveyard!

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Trump Pardons 77 American Citizens Unjustly Targeted by the Fully Weaponized Deep State

Good.

The same people whining that prosecuting James Comey for his long, sustained career of perjuring himself before Congress is "politically vindictive" are the exact same people demanding that run of the mill protesters and their lawyers be jailed for dissent.

These people were part of the "alternative electors" scheme -- a legal theory which may well be doubtful, but it has never been illegal, until now, to attempt a doubtful legal theory.

Margot Cleveland for The Federalist:

President Donald Trump pardoned 77 U.S. citizens targeted by Democrat attorneys general for their participation in alternative elector efforts and challenges to 2020 presidential election vulnerabilities. A memo obtained exclusively by The Federalist explains the theory behind the presidential pardons issued to defendants charged with various violations of state criminal law -- a novel theory but one that corners the Democrats behind the weaponization of the criminal justice system.

On Friday, the Trump Administration began contacting the scores of Republicans still facing criminal charges in a handful of blue states for their service as alternative electors -- or connection to the alternative electors -- conveying the president's decision to pardon them. The official pardon provides that "the President grant[s] a full, complete, and unconditional pardon for all conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of Presidential electors, whether or not recognized by any state or state official, in connection with the 2020 Presidential Election."

President Trump's pardon adopts the recommendation the Office of U.S. Pardon Attorney Edward R. Martin provided in a 15-page memorandum obtained exclusively by The Federalist. In that memorandum, Martin detailed the numerous illegal changes to election laws that proceeded the 2020 presidential election, stressing that "[l]awsuits brought to challenge the unconstitutional changes to election laws, procedural violations, ineligible voters, and election irregularities were dismissed by courts on technical and procedural grounds rather than being fully adjudicated on the merits."

To preserve those legal challenges, the Republican electors in the contested states met and cast votes as alternative electors for Donald Trump, transmitting those results to Congress consistent with, as the memo explained, "core Article II and Twelfth Amendment federal functions." Martin's memorandum further explained:

Those actions were taken based on sound historical and legal precedent, and ensured that legislatures in the Challenged States could select the rightful winner of the Election in the event the legislatures or the courts determined there had been a flawed calculation of votes or an unconstitutional deviation from state election law resulting in the wrong electoral votes being counted.

Martin, of course, is right, as The Federalist detailed in "The Left's 2020 'Fake Electors' Narrative Is Fake News." As The Federalist reported and as Martin also explained in his memorandum, the Trump campaign's submission of alternative electors mirrored the process the Kennedy campaign used in 1960 after the acting governor of Hawaii certified the Republican electors to Nixon. There, as in Trump's case, Kennedy had filed a challenge to the results in state court, and accordingly Democrats certified three alternative electors to cast their ballots for Kennedy in the event the court ruled in his favor.

Two of the three Democrat electors were retired federal judges and yet they certified -- as did the Trump alternative electors -- that they were "duly and legally qualified and appointed" electors for Kennedy. The Democrats further certified "the votes of the state of Hawaii" were given to Kennedy. Kennedy later prevailed in his legal challenge, with his alternative electors then casting their votes in his favor.

Notwithstanding the clear precedent for using alternative electors, former FBI Director Christopher Wray, with then-Attorney General Merrick Garland's explicit approval, launched a criminal investigation into Donald Trump, his lawyers, and the alternate electors based on the supposed "fraudulent certificates of electors' votes [] submitted to the Archivist of the United States" for Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin. Whistleblowers have since revealed "that the FBI wasn't merely targeting Trump or a few high-level officials, but potentially more than 150 individuals."

Read the whole thing.

Speaking of the Rigged and Fraudulent Election of 2020, aka "The Most Secure (and 'Fortified') Election In History of Mankind" -- the Supreme Court will finally take up the minor little matter of 30 blue (or purple states) illegally and unconstitutionally counting votes invalidly cast after Election Day.

This is no quibble about a date on a calendar -- the Constitution itself specifies that votes for office will be held on a specific Election Day.

And during the "Most Secure (and 'Fortified') Election in the History of Mankind," states controlled by Democrats at the time, whether they be blue or purple, all counted tens of thousands of improper votes, including undated votes and votes clearly cast after the Constitutionally-sanctioned Election Day.

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether federal law prohibits states from counting ballots that arrive after Election Day.

President Donald Trump has long railed against mail-in voting and has argued that allowing ballots to be counted after Election Day creates opportunities for fraud. He's claimed that the practice undermines voter confidence by making it impossible to quickly announce final results.

However, the laws of about 30 states authorize counting mail-in ballots after Election Day, with officials contending that the grace period aids voters -- including military personnel -- whose ballots are delayed for reasons outside their control.

The Supreme Court announced in a routine order list Monday that it will grant review in challenges the Republican National Committee and the Mississippi Libertarian Party filed against that state's law allowing mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they arrive within five business days after the election.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the challengers and struck down the Mississippi law last year, holding that it is at odds with a trio of federal laws establishing a uniform, nationwide day for voting in federal elections.

In June, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, a Republican, asked the Supreme Court to take up the issue, arguing that the federal appeals court's decision will have "destabilizing nationwide ramifications."

They always dishonestly use an exceptional circumstance to make a normative, general rule.

Military personnel are overseas at the direction, which they cannot legally refuse, of the government. They are at the whim of logistics and chance when it comes to posting their mail-in ballots.

A special rule can acknowledge that military ballots, and only military ballots, are deemed to have been cast and received by Election Day without granting every Democrat operator in the country a free five-day "grace period" after the election to harvest ballots from homeless people and dementia patients dying in hospitals to overturn the results of an election already decided.

Meanwhile, Jake Tapper -- who is both a Noted Excoriator of Election-Deniers, as well as being a well-compensated Election-Denier himself, has never before witnessed such authoritarian affrontery.

Brace yourselves -- SJW dweeb, six-time undisputed world champion at DM Griefing, and ambiguously-gendered Democrat chair-sniffer Jake Tapper is offended!

Again!

Six times this week alone!

Can you believe Lara Trump said that Joe Biden was showing signs of cognitive decline?! What a viciously insightful utterance!

Jake Tapper just can't even with all this!

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Jimmy Kimmel's Nasty Wife: I Disassociated From Family Members As if I Were Programmed by a Cult Over Them Refusing to Match My Hysterical Anti-Trump Energy

Jimmy Kimel's Whatever-the-Opposite-of-a-Trophy-Wife is does not admit she is mentally unstable, but she makes several key psychiatric admissions that could support a diagnosis of mental illness:

* "When Donald Trump was first elected, I was so upset, I mean, we all were"

* She admits she is "angry all the time" and understands that this "isn't healthy, at all"

* She says she feels "a little bit of sympathy" for people in her family who are conservative, claiming that they are being "deliberately misinformed everyday," while she says she has all the real facts at her fingertips

* She says that family members believing things other than what she does "hurts me so much"

* She further shows a possible Narcissistic Personality Disorder by asserting that everything is about her: When her family members vote for Trump, she claims, they are "voting against" her fat husband and his stupid show (which I believe she produces -- so she's a nepo baby)

* She says this is not about "Democrat versus Republican" but about "family values" as she freely admits -- brags, actually -- about "having lost relationships with members of my family"

* She says she's "immediately mad" at "certain aunts, uncles, cousins" when she reads left-wing media ragebait stories, saying that she gets "really angry" and then she dashes "many emails" collecting the ragebait stories and telling them "here are ten reasons not to vote for Trump." She then says that "ninety percent" of these family members ignore her -- gee, wonder why -- but, worse yet, some of them actually respond with "insane responses." Which, between you and me, are just telling her she's wrong.

* She says "I hate that this has happened," as if her own boxwine-fueld midnight nastygrams to family members have noting to do with her estrangement from family members

* She says she is "in constant conflict" (with family members, I assume" and that "it's really hard"

* Finally, she admits to her cult-mentality by saying "I wish I could deprogram myself in some way, but I get, I get really angry"

These are real quotes. I may have missed a word here or there but this is all real. She is going on podcasts with her Unfunny TV Clown Chubby Hubby and confessing that she is a deeply mentally disturbed woman, and, for some reason, proud of it.

I mean, seriously, there is so much psychiatric cud to chew over in just three minutes that one can only imagine what an entire fifty-minute hour of psychological counseling would stir up.

Kirsten Fleming at the NY Post:

Jimmy Kimmel's wife has a very healthy way of dealing with family members who don't share her political persuasion.

When our president does something she doesn't like, Molly McNearney gets angry at her "aunts, uncles and cousins" who helped put him in office -- and hectors them with anti-Trump emails.

Shockingly, this has led to some "lost relationships."

Speaking on the "We Can Do Hard Things" podcast, Molly McNearney complained about family members who voted for President Trump because it was "them not voting for my husband and me and our family."

But deep down, McNearney, who is also her husband's executive producer for "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," even knows she's the one who has lost the plot.

"I wish I could deprogram myself in some way," she said recently on the "We Can Do Hard Things" podcast.

So why doesn't she go ahead and do it? Reboot the machine and upload a new operating system. Cut back on politics instead of cutting off her right-leaning loved ones.

After all, McNearney's displeasure with her relatives, she insists, is not just politics -- it's about "values."

Yet when she explains the rifts, she reveals that she values politics -- and fealty to her husband -- over blood and free thinking. Hmmmm.

"It hurts me so much ... my husband is out there fighting this man, and to me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family," she said.

"And I unfortunately have kind of lost relationships with people in my family because of it."

McNearney has somehow deluded herself into believing that her husband, whose literal job is to be a clown on late-night television and make America laugh at the end of a hard day, is now the unelected leader of the Trump resistance.

This is a serious national health crisis, and no one says anything about it, because almost all of the expErTs we should all TrUsT are all suffering from the same ten-year-nervous breakdown and insisting that it's perfectly normal.

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After Shutdown Climb-Down, Democrats In Meltdown

I don't mean to discombobulate you, but the Party of Reason and Emotional Stabilityis having a, get this, hysterical overreaction to normal, everyday, fairly trivial things that sane and emotionally-temperate people can barely find the energy to care about.

Democrat Party Fanzine The Hill: Democtats Rage as Spending Bill Heads to House.

The Hill's Mike Lillis and Sudiksha Kochi report tensions are boiling over within the Democratic Party, just a week after the party was riding high off its sweeping success in last Tuesday's elections.

"What Senate Dems who voted for this horseshit deal did was f-- over all the hard work people put in to Tuesday's elections," Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), a former head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, posted on the social platform X. "Healthcare matters. Not platitudes."

Fox: Liberal media neurotics, hysterics, and smoothbrains turn on Democrats.

Liberal media figures are calling out the Democratic Party after eight senators voted with the GOP on a plan to reopen the government, accusing the party of caving as they try to end the longest shutdown in history.

Ex-CNN host Don Lemon, "The View" co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg, former CNN journalist Chris Cillizza and more were among members of the media lambasting the Democratic caucus members who voted to advance a plan to re-open the government on Sunday.

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Lemon posted on TikTok and said the Democrats "caved."

Goldberg said during "The View" on Monday, "eight Senate Democrats threw in the towel by siding with the GOP to advance a vote that could lead to the government reopening."

Others specifically took aim at Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the Senate minority leader.

Hostin said, "Shame on you the first time. You do it twice, three times, four times, shame on me. Shame on the Democrats for even believing that the Republicans will, you know, even vote on it."

"So the bottom line is, the Democrats went into, after a blue wave, the American people saying, 'We do want [an] opposition.' The working people want the Democratic Party to fight for them. And now, they just caved and surrendered. I think Chuck Schumer -- his days are over. And if he cannot keep his caucus together, he needs to go. He needs to be replaced," she added.

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Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, who founded Zeteo, also called on Schumer to resign in a post on social media.

So let's not bury the lede: Charles Schumer is on the chopping block. Or the slopping block*, because he's a rumpled elderly sow. His bid to appear to be as fighty and zany as Retarded Congresswoman AOC failed completely. No one's buying it.

Some Democratic lawmakers also called for Schumer to step down.

"Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can't lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?" Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif, said in a post on social media on Sunday.

Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., also said in a post that the vote was "another example of why we need new leadership."

The favorite televised doomscrolling feed for bitter femcel women and developmentally-delayed homosexuals who want to sound smart at grown-up parties, CNN, writes:

Schumer didn't vote for bill to reopen the government. He's facing liberal fury anyway.

He's facing liberal furries? Well keep facing them. Don't turn your back on liberal furries. Unless you want to be yiffed in the keister.

No he didn't vote for cloture on the CR, but it is common knowledge (or at least a well-informed common assumption) that he told the "moderate" purple state senators and the retiring Dick Durbin to end the shutdown while he continued playing John Jay Rambo screaming "It's not over, it's never over!" while shooting up generic computer equipment.

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There is no immediate threat to Schumer's leadership, according to multiple Democratic sources. Not one of the Democrats calling for Schumer to step down as leader is a current member of his caucus. Still, frustrations are mounting privately among Senate Democrats that Schumer and his leadership team lacked a long-term plan to secure real concessions from the GOP in the funding fight-- and that the party ultimately ended up without a tangible legislative win, according to a half-dozen Senate Democratic sources. And there is growing chatter about what it means for his future after the 2026 midterms and if he chooses to run again in 2028.

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Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona wouldn't directly say whether he had confidence in Schumer. Asked by CNN about the Democratic leader's handling of the shutdown, Kelly pivoted to President Donald Trump, whom he called "an irrational president who doesn't care about the American people."

Pressed again on whether he had confidence in Schumer, Kelly conceded that it had been a "rough" time for Senate Democrats. "I've been here four and a half years now, and [Schumer has] been the leader, and I understand why people look at this and say, well, this was kind of a rough period," he said.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, pressed if he had confidence in Schumer, was also mum on the leader's future. "I was glad to see that kind of unity," Van Hollen said. "I'm disappointed in the result, but we will fight on another day."

Alexandria Donkey-Chompers' fellow Skwad member, Hamas Terrorist and Future Muckbang YouTuber Rashida Tlaib also called for the Jew to be thrown under the bus.

But, you know, day that ends in a -y and all that.

Axios, a wannabe Politco only read by groomers when they're shitting out yesterday's deposit of shame, writes:

"Sen. Schumer has failed to meet this moment and is out of touch with the American people," progressive Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Minn.) said in a post on X.

Said Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a moderate who is running for U.S. Senate, said "if [Schumer] were an effective leader, he would have united his caucus to vote 'No'" on the Senate shutdown deal.

Driving the news: In addition to Moulton and Tlaib, Reps. Mike Levin (D-Calif.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) called for Schumer to step down between Sunday night and Monday afternoon.

"It is time for us to have somebody who can stand up to Trump and someone that is unwavering, somebody who is more strategic, and, frankly, somebody with guts," Thanedar said in a phone interview.

Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) told Axios that Schumer "should not" remain as leader.

Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) said in a statement to Axios: "If I were a senator, I would be asking Senator Schumer to step down as minority leader. He's simply cannot meet this moment."

Flashback: Only Reps. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) and Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) called for Schumer to step aside when he voted for a Republican spending bill in March.

Ramirez doubled down on Monday, writing on X: "I've said it before, and I will say it again ... Schumer needs to resign."

Zoom out: Other Democrats skirted just up to the line.

"If I had a vote it would be for Patty Murray," Rep. Emily Randall (D-Wash.) told Axios, referring to her home state's senator.

Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.) criticized Schumer both for his handling of the shutdown and his refusal to endorse New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, posting on X, "Profile of scourge? Next."

Profile of scourge? What? Does he think scourge rhymes with courage?

I'm not Joe Dead Poets Society over here but, you know: It does not.

This is a party of retards.

Zoom in: Those lawmakers join a cohort of grassroots groups actively trying to orchestrate Schumer's ouster.

Indivisible is urging Democratic voters to call their senators and tell them "time for Chuck Schumer to step aside" and launching a program to promote candidates in Senate Democratic primaries who are "firmly committed to opposing Schumer" as leader.

Progressive group MoveOn also joined the chorus Monday, telling Axios' Holly Otterbein that around 80% of its members voted in a survey that Schumer should quit his leadership role.

More from Politico 4 Kidz: Reports of extreme snippiness on conference calls!

A private call of House Democrats devolved into a furious vent session Monday afternoon as lawmakers fumed about a group of Senate centrists cutting a deal with Republicans to end the shutdown.

Why it matters: Over a dozen House Democrats spoke on the call, with the vast majority slamming the deal, sources told Axios -- a volume that reflects deep outrage between the two chambers.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) said the public is incensed at what they see as Democrats caving on the shutdown fight, telling her colleagues, "People are f**king pissed."
Nearly "everyone [was] strongly against" the deal, said one House Democrat who was on the call but spoke on the condition of anonymity to share details of a private discussion.

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Zoom in: Roughly half of those who spoke on Monday's call either directly criticized Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) or did so implicitly by agreeing with previous speakers who tore into him, sources said.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the former chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, argued that either the Senate leader "can't control his caucus" or he "gave his blessing" to the deal.

Yeah, as I keep saying, this is one of those less-common Democrat performances of Failure Theater.

Chuck Schumer is so angry that exactly eight Democrats -- precisely the number needed, given Rand Paul's never-ending "I'm not like the other grrrls" Goth Tween act -- voted to end the shutdown that he busted out his world-renown Crocodile tears to show his extreme pissiness. Video below the fold.

Democrat House members are demanding their fellow congressmen vote it down:

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Several hours after the call, House Democratic leadership sent out an email to members' offices instructing them to "VOTE NO" on the shutdown deal.

House members have been on a two month break.

Must be nice.

Must.

Be.

Nice.

Mike Johnson told them to all Get Your Ass to the Choppahs and return to DC for a vote planned for tomorrow. And he did say return ASAP, because, due to the Democrats' shutdown theater, a lot of air traffic controllers are skipping (unpaid) work and there are flight delays and cancellations aplenty.

Happy Tuesday!

And of course:

Happy Veterans Day! I sincerely thank all the veterans who have served and fought to keep this nation safe.

Bonus: Chucky Schumer's Fake Tears make a fresh appearance. This sociopathic nebbish turns on the fake waterworks whenever he's called upon to appear "sincere," despite being a soulless, ruthless, and craven political operator who only exists to manipulate people into ceding power to him.

Enjoy Chuck watering his flabby cheeks with Tactical Eye Piss.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

The conspicuous apathy when it comes to the murder of Christians by Muslims is nowhere more obvious than in Nigeria, where the bloodshed is savage and everywhere, and has been for 15 years. But it is focused on Christians, because that is what Muslims do. They are a bit more than 50% of the population of Nigeria, and their playbook is ancient and clear...convert, pay, or die. And since Nigeria is a poor country, and its Christian population is committed to actual Christianity, rather than the post-modern mess of Christianity in the West, they are killed.

They are killed because they are Christian. They are killed because they are devout. They are killed because the revolutionary political philosophy that is Islam will tolerate no other social construct, especially one that recognizes the individual.

But mostly they are killed because they are poor and black and conservative Christian, and the West simply does not care about the deaths of poor black Christians, because they do not fit into the hierarchy of class and race and colonizer status that elevates an Arab rock-thrower shot by Israeli soldiers to the top of the grievance list.

If Mainstream Christianity wanted to elevate the murders of 100,000 Christians to a prominent place in its discussions of every other social issue, it could. Perhaps it could supplant the pressing issues of giving communion to adulterers, or performing marriages for polygamists, or ordaining two-spirit, non-binary, gay transsexuals.

Look close to home...at the carnage of our inner cities. Blacks murder blacks at an unimaginable rate, and nobody cares. Jews are beaten in the streets of our cities, and nobody cares. Christians are harassed and condemned by Muslims in Dearborn, and nobody cares.

Conservative religion is anathema to the post-modern West; they see it as perhaps the most significant enemy of their overarching goal of the destruction of traditional culture and Judeo-Christian philosophy. And, of course it is! Accepting traditional interpretations of scripture and accepting its authority, personal morality guided by that scripture, traditional views of marriage, abortion, etc! That repulses our elites, and they will not defend it. Add blackness to the mix, and we see the current situation in Nigeria as the culmination of three generations of post-religious thought.

President Trump was absolutely correct in calling out the government of Nigeria. There is a genocide brewing there (and, sadly, in other places), and pushing back against Islam in Nigeria would be a welcome addition to the efforts of Israel in the Middle East.

Because it is a war, and only a few in the West recognize it!

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