Delusional Mentally-Ill Suspect Immediately ID'd as "Possibly White" by CNN's Erin Burnett Kills Four Over Delusional CTE Self-Diagnosis

He halluciated having been in the NFL, and then went to the NFL's corporate offices to get vengeance for his hallucination.

The crazed gunman who killed an NYPD officer and three other people in a Midtown skyscraper on Monday evening was carrying a note in his pocket that expressed grievances with the NFL and claimed he suffered from CTE -- a brain injury linked to head trauma, sources told The Post.

Shane Tamura, 27, cited the NFL in the writings, which were found after he fatally shot himself in the chest on the 33rd floor of 345 Park Ave. -- a swanky skyscraper that houses the football league's corporate headquarters.

The mentally ill man wanted to shoot up the NFL's offices on levels 5 through 8 -- but "mistakenly went up the wrong elevator banks" and ended up on a higher floor, Mayor Eric Adams confirmed Tuesday.

In his three-page ramblings, Tamura blamed football for his apparent struggle with the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and pleaded for his brain to be studied in the wake of the massacre, law enforcement sources said.

He also specifically referred to Terry Long, the former Pittsburgh Steelers player who was diagnosed with CTE after downing antifreeze to kill himself 20 years ago.

"Terry Long, football gave me CTE and it caused me to drink a gallon of antifreeze," the note stated, according to sources.

"You can't go against the NFL, they'll squash you."

"Please study brain for CTE. I'm sorry. The league knowingly concealed the dangers to our brains to maximize profits," Tamura continued. "They failed us."

The NFL has offices elsewhere in the Park Avenue high-rise, and one of its employees was among those shot, though not fatally.

Adams confirmed Tamura's note "alluded to having CTE from playing NFL" -- even though "he never played in the NFL."

"It appears as though he was going after the employees of the NFL," the mayor confirmed on Fox 5.

"We're still going through the suicide note to zero in on the exact reason, but at this time it appears as if it's something attached to his belief he experienced CTE from the NFL."

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Tamura, who lived in Las Vegas and had a known mental health history there, initially opened fire in the building's lobby before taking the elevator to the 33rd floor, where he turned the gun on himself.

He shot a fifth person, who survived the attack.

This maniac never played in the NFL, or even college. He played only high school football.

The below photo of the maniac killer was publicized early into the incident.

CNN straight-up lied and claimed the killer was "possibly white," because that's the only race the Gaslight Media allows people to mention in crime stories.

In what sense is he "possibly white," apart from in your own hallucinations and wishcasting? Does Erin Burnett suspect a Soul Man-style scenario? Did she think the killer was C. Thomas Howell?

CNN's Erin Burnett is being skewered for reporting that the gunman who opened fire in a Midtown skyscraper -- killing an NYPD cop and three others -- was "possibly white" after viewing the initial security footage released immediately after Shane Tamura's deadly rampage.

In the photos first shared online, Tamura, 27, was captured in broad daylight walking into 345 Park Ave. with a Palmetto State Armory AR-15 rifle in his hand.

Burnett said police knew the gunman had "sunglasses, mustache, male, possibly white" during a broadcast shortly after the shooting Monday evening.

The chilling image of Tamura with the AR-15, however, showed him with a possibly darker or ethnically mixed complexion.

Early police reports also suggested the suspect might be of Middle Eastern descent.

Online critics slammed Burnett's statement for being too premature and presumptive.

"He may be a bunch of different things, basically anything BUT white," one internet commenter said.

"CNN should be shut down. They have not reported a truthful story in what seems like forever," another commenter on X said.

Black commentators are questioning CNN's determination to gaslight the country.

Greg Forman also points out that CNN's Tater is boohoo whinin' and cryin' that Trump is talking about yanking the broadcast licenses of the Gaslight Media.

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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Moves to End Obama-Era "Finding" That Carbon Dioxide Causes "Endangerment" to Humans, Which Would Be the "Largest Regulatory Action in the History of America"

Politico for Kidz (TM) aka Axios is shook.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Tuesday he's issuing draft plans to overturn the agency's 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare -- a move guaranteed to spark litigation.

Weird how Obama impose this rule on bureaucratic authority alone and yet bureaucratic authority isn't enough to un-impose it.

Why it matters: It's President Trump's most direct effort to rip out climate regulations root and branch -- and make it harder for a successor to impose new ones.

The "endangerment finding" provides a key legal underpinning for regulating heat-trapping gases from cars, power plants and more under the Clean Air Act.

Driving the news: "This is been referred to as basically driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion," Zeldin said on Ruthless, the popular conservative podcast where he announced the plan.

Catch up quick: EPA issued the finding in response to a landmark 2007 Supreme Court decision, Massachusetts v. EPA, which held that greenhouse gases are pollutants under the Clean Air Act.

The ruling led then-President Obama in 2009 to issue an order allowing EPA to establish emissions standards for sources shown to reasonably affect health and welfare.

Zeldin has said the decision stipulated that EPA was authorized -- but not obligated -- to regulate greenhouse gases.

The big picture: Researchers and environmentalists have warned ahead of the proposal that it conflicts with the scientific consensus on the unfolding harms from climate change.

"It is callous, dangerous and a breach of our government's responsibility to protect the American people from this devastating pollution," the Environmental Defense Fund said ahead of the long-expected plan.
And Dan Becker of the Center for Biological Diversity said in a statement Tuesday: "By revoking this key scientific finding Trump is putting fealty to Big Oil over sound science and people's health."

State of play: Zeldin argued that he's in favor of less pollution, and cast emissions rules as a distraction, saying "this is an economic issue."

"We want clean air, land and water. Conservatives love the environment, want to be good stewards of the environment," he said.
But he alleged there are people who want to "bankrupt the country" in the name of battling climate change.

Friction point: Zeldin said the agency welcomes a battle over what he called faulty conclusions about climate harms. The EPA administrator would make the final determination after a public comment period.

"We're going to go out to public comment. We're not afraid of allowing the public to weigh in," Zeldin said.

What we're watching: Certain legal battles if and when EPA finalizes the draft proposal after the comment period.

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Opponents of EPA's greenhouse gas regulations "might be able to fast-track their elimination by bringing lawsuits alleging that -- without an underlying endangerment finding -- the rules are arbitrary and capricious," ClearView Energy Partners said
earlier this year.

Zeldin says the rollback of this "finding" could save Americans $1 trillion in unnecessary "green" redtape.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin will rescind the Obama administration's endangerment finding declaration in the "largest deregulatory action in the history of America," he announced Tuesday on the "Ruthless" podcast.

Zeldin joined the "Ruthless" podcast to break the news that the EPA would nix the declaration that insisted greenhouse gases like carbon monoxide and methane endanger human lives. Zeldin will officially make the announcement that will drive "a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion" later in the day in Indiana.

"A lot of people are out there listening, they might not know what the endangerment finding is. If you ask congressional Democrats to describe what it is, the left would say that it means that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, carbon dioxide is an endangerment to human health. They might say methane is a pollutant, methane is an endangerment to human health," Zeldin said.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin will rescind the Obama administration's endangerment finding declaration in the "largest deregulatory action in the history of America," he announced Tuesday on the "Ruthless" podcast.

"That's an oversimplified, I would say inaccurate way to describe it," Zeldin continued. "The Obama administration said that carbon dioxide, when mixed with a bunch of other well-mixed gasses, greenhouse gasses, that it contributes to climate change. How much? They don't say... they say that climate change engenders human health, so because of these different mental leaps... then there were all sorts of vehicle regulations that followed."

"Ruthless" co-host Josh Holmes noted that endangerment finding is "the hub to the spoke of the left's environmental agenda, essentially," to which Zeldin agreed.

"This has been referred to as basically driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion," Zeldin said.

"Most Americans, we care about the environment, we want clean air, land and water. Conservatives love the environment, want to be good stewards of the environment. There are people who then, in the name of climate change, are willing to bankrupt the country," he continued. "In the name of environmental justice, they will get tens of billions of dollars appropriated to their friends rather than actually remediating environmental issues."

One regulation that will be affected is the mandatory "idle stop" of a car's engine at red lights.

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

The primary function of the corporation is to enhance shareholder value. Expecting anything more from them is a recipe for disappointment, for either the shareholders or the larger culture, or both.

Do I want American corporations to be patriotic and act in the best interests of the country and its citizens? Sure! That sounds great in theory, but it turns quickly into a massive problem. Who gets to decide what is patriotic? Who gets to decide what is best for America?

Senior VPs of Human Resources? The board of directors? The CEO? The hourly employees on the shop floor? The shareholders?

We have seen how well that has turned out over the past generation, as corporations across the country have gone insanely Woke, and have acted in ways that many Americans think are antithetical to the political philosophy on which our country is grounded: Just look at Budweiser, Disney, Target, Nike, GM, and many more. Yet those boards of directors approved the behaviors that sent their stock prices crashing, and in the case of their frantic drive to be the poster children for DEI and AGW gutted generations of merit-based hiring in favor of a rabidly racist system that was almost guaranteed to destroy corporate value, radically shifted the direction of the company toward EVs, or made movies that glorified transsexual insanity, and on and on and on...

But it also works the other way, when corporations pursue the bottom line without any regard for their workers, their country, or their own long-term health. Off-shoring manufacturing and customer service, and using imported foreign or illegal labor to save the higher cost of American workers makes some financial sense in the medium term, but geopolitical realities rarely recognize earnings per share as important. China's implosion, a new and radically different perspective in Washington, and the long overdue response of the American body politic to the insanity of corporations actively rejecting everything "American," is a powerful incentive to pay more attention to America and American workers.

But can we count on that shift to be permanent? No, of course not, and that is why the election of Donald Trump is so important, and the 2028 election of J.D. Vance (or a similar nationalist/populist) is vital.

JD Vance Slams Big Tech’s Labor Shortage “Bullsh*t Story” — Calls Out H-1B Visa Abuse

The Vice President stated that he disliked seeing American companies firing thousands of American workers, then claiming there is a labor shortage.

“But I don’t want companies to fire 9,000 American workers and then to go and say, we can’t find workers here in America.”

“That’s a bullsh*t story,” he said.

The next step is to reduce the number of H1B visas issued (maybe to zero for a long while until our education system catches up?), and tighten the requirements so that it isn't carte blanche for American corporations to reduce labor costs by injuring Americans! Will that increase the labor costs of many corporations? Maybe. And I don't care. It might also improve the products, and increase consumer spending. But again...I don't care. Employing Americans and reinforcing our shared culture is more important than some improvement on GM's bottom line. And if GM won't make that decision, then government should step in.

The same thing is necessary to rein in the horrid, racist hiring practices of many corporations. They want to hire 50% disabled black two-spirit mechanical engineers?With the appropriate laws passed and strictly enforced...they can't. They will have to hire using the now strange method of choosing the best people, regardless of color or sexuality or political bent.

And yes, I am arguing for more government interference in what ideally should be a private decision between employer and employee. But we have to admit that what worked reasonably well for a very long time has become an anachronism, as corporate profit has become distorted by competing pressures of Woke lunacy and MBA-driven profit over all other considerations.

Perhaps in a generation, if our universities return to actual education (or even better...disappear), our corporations return to recognizing that shareholder value cannot be created with Woke policies, and our culture discards the absolute insanity of the last generation, we might succeed without government and legal interference, but I doubt it.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter] And the Apple and Spotify feeds for CJN's podcast should be working!

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Morning
Edvard Munch

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The Morning Report — 7/29/25

Good morning kids. President Trump's second term has certainly yielded some incredible results on so many issues, here at home, most significantly is his crusade against illegal immigration and its destructive consequences to our national security, sovereignty, culture and economic well-being. On the international front, discounting his tariff regime which in the long term will rejigger our relationships with many nations and result in net gains for our economy, and especially this latest agreement with the EU which as we discussed yesterday is a pretty huge deal.

But, the president has been touting his abilities as a peacemaker in bringing warring nations to the negotiation table.

President Donald Trump has brokered on average about one peace deal or ceasefire per month thus far in his presidency, following Monday’s ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia. . . “Now this would be six that we’ve stopped. I have … stopped six wars in the last — I’m averaging about a war a month,” he said.

Trump has brokered a number of ceasefires and peace deals since returning to office, the most prominent being the agreement between Israel and Iran after the “12-day war” between the countries. That war culminated after Trump approved devastating strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.

The sides agreed to a ceasefire on June 23, and it took effect on June 24.

Another major deal brokered by Trump and his administration is between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Rwanda. The countries reached a peace agreement in late June to end a 30-year-long conflict between them. . . In yet another deal, Trump announced a ceasefire with Ansarallah, commonly known as the Houthi jihadist terror organization, in Yemen in May, which took Israel by surprise. As part of the deal, the Houthis agreed to stop targeting U.S. ships and the U.S. agreed to stop bombing Yemen. Though the Houthis and the U.S. reached a deal, the group has continued to target Israel.

Finally, Trump brokered peace between Egypt and Ethiopia in June regarding a conflict over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile River.

I read "Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam" and immediately thought TRUMP Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, HOTEL and CASINO . . .

Seriously, as I and others have pondered vis a vis Trump and Israel and negotiating with Hamas, it just makes no sense whatsoever. In the wake of France's PM Emanuel Macron's despicable announcement of his support for a "Palestinian" state . . .

The Trump administration says it boycotted a United Nations conference promoting the two-state solution on Monday, calling the event a “publicity stunt” and an “insult.”

“This week, the U.N. will serve as host to an unproductive and ill-timed conference on the two-state solution in New York City,” State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said in a statement. “This is a publicity stunt that comes in the middle of delicate diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.”

Bruce said the conference will “prolong the war, embolden Hamas, and reward its obstruction and undermine real-world efforts to achieve peace.”

Instead of participating, Bruce said the United States will continue leading efforts to end the fighting and deliver a permanent peace.

“Our focus remains on serious diplomacy: not stage-managed conferences designed to manufacture the appearance of relevance,” she said.

The boycott comes after President Donald Trump drew attention to what he described as “real starvation” in Gaza. . . . “We’ll be helping with the food,” Trump said. “We can save a lot of people. That’s real starvation. I see it, and you can’t fake that.”

It would have been helpful had the President pointed out the rather salient fact that it's Hamas that caused and exacerbated the humanitarian crisis by its brutal invasion and butchery against Israel and Israel's righteous and justified response in defending itself. Plus the fact that Hamas uses its own people as cannon fodder to advance their own cause — the Islamic crusade to wipe out every Jew on the planet and convert all of Earth into an Islamic world.

Rewarding a fictitious people and nation created in the basement of KGB headquarters in 1964 with land. And not just any land, the land of Israel, which can only happen with the eradication of its citizens whose ancestors have had an historic presence there for over five millennia.

There can be no negotiation with Hamas, because Hamas is just the cutting edge of Islam itself. And that is sadly a truth that dare not be uttered lest one be called racist and Islamophobic despite nearly 1500 years of documented barbarism and bloodshed committed in the name of Islam.

Oh well. Great that we pulled out of UNESCO but we need to dismantle Turtle Bay.
From the East River to the General Assembly, the parking shall be free!

So an horrific mass shooting in NYC gets all kinds of coverage,

but a mass stabbing spree at a Michigan WalMart is all but ignored. My reporting on it yesterday notwithstanding.

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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Daily Tech News 29 July 2025

Top Story

• Tea is the gift that keeps on gifting. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Not only is it good with honey when you have a nasty cold which I do right now, but just when you thought it couldn't get any more hacked, it do.
  
  Now 1.1 million "private" messages have escaped into the wild.

  While the company initially insisted that the hack only affected its "legacy" database and users who signed up before February 2024, according to the independent researcher and data trove reviewed by 404 Media, Tea remains unsafe, way beyond the scope of the original hack, and private messages sent as late as last week are accessible and vulnerable to further exposure.

  At first glance, the app has no security whatsoever and never did.
  
  The Verge tries to make a big deal of the nefarious actions of the elite hackers, but the fact is that all of the data was public the entire time.

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Monday Overnight Open Thread - July 28, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! The Monday night ONT has arrived. Please step on in and see what awaits!

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Q-Branch Cafe

Q designed this cat hoverpack.

Now listen closely, 007, this desk has a few interesting features.

Slick ride.

It may be an electric eel, but you'd better manhandle it just to make sure.

It's a parrot that transforms into an alarm clock.

Instant disguise for our black operatives.

It's like Maximum Overdrive except with a dog and a hose.

Dog plays with his special aquatic friend.

Dog is surprised to see Feline Agent 13 in his new hiding place.

Bullfighter forgets to look both ways before crossing.

Border collies just can't stop working.

Pooch swimming hole.

This bird must be popular.

Two kittens are literally inseparable.

93-year-old WWII vet gets to score a touchdown on his old field.

Senior dogs get the zoomies.

Pocket candle.

Abducting an evil river otter and attempting to reform it into a law-abiding non-evil creature.

Fish has Main Character Syndrome. And this one too.

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Lowly District Court Judge Discovers That Congress's Power to Decide What Taxpayer Money Is Spent On Is "Likely Unconstitutional"

This c*nt, who should be impeached, declares that Congress must continue giving money to the abortion mill Planned Parenthood forever. The Constitution demands nothing less.

A federal judge on Monday blocked enforcement of a provision in U.S. President Donald Trump's recently enacted tax and spending bill that would deprive Planned Parenthood and its members of Medicaid funding, saying it is likely unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston issued a preliminary injunction after finding the law likely violated the U.S. Constitution by targeting Planned Parenthood's health centers specifically for punishment for providing abortions.

That provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed by the Republican-led Congress denied certain tax-exempt organizations and their affiliates from receiving Medicaid funds if they continue to provide abortions.

The U.S. Department of Justice argued that "the bill stops federal subsidies for Big Abortion" and urged Talwani not to let Planned Parenthood and its members "supplant duly enacted legislation with their own policy preferences."

Talwani, an appointee of Democratic President Barack Obama, said the law's text and structure made clear that it was crafted to cover every member of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the parent organization, even if they were not named.

That specificity likely transformed the provision at issue into an unconstitutional "bill of attainder," an act of Congress that wrongly seeks to inflict punishment without a trial, the judge said.

The media tried to pretend she merely overruled an executive order, rather than a law passed by Congress and signed into law by the President.

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Woke Mob Comes for Sydney Sweeney (Again)

It's almost as if ugly women want pretty women to hide themselves away, and black racists want white people to live their lives in shame of their skin color.

Leftist TikTok is in full pitchfork-and-torch mode after a new ad for American Eagle jeans featuring actress Sydney Sweeney used a play on words, with some claiming it's full-on Nazi propaganda.

The ad features Sweeney, 27, clad in a pair of the brand's jeans and a denim jacket, talking about her jeans/genes.

"Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color," she intones in a spot.

"My jeans are blue," she says as she flashes her blue eyes.

The "Nazi propaganda" video is below.

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Even Left-Wing CNN and Axios Admit That Trump Has Won Completely on Tariffs

Axios: Trump won. Europeans and "experts" sad.

In the Trump-dominated global economy, the U.S. gets plenty but gives nothing in return.

Why it matters: This is the reality of the asymmetric trade deals touted by the White House, which show how far foreign leaders will go to safeguard access to the U.S. market.

Say that was Trump's and Bessent's guiding principle, wasn't it?

Which the "experts" claimed was false?

The big picture: Trump announced agreements with Europe and Japan in which both agreed to drop their tariff rates to zero, promised eye-popping investments in the U.S., and opened markets to American producers.

In return, those countries get some assurance on their tariff rate -- both 15%, and both of which could have been worse -- even if it puts their industries at a disadvantage.

What they're saying: "Both Tokyo and Brussels apparently viewed the price of a 15% tariff worth paying in light of the alternative of higher tariffs, uncertainty and counter-retaliation," Wendy Cutler, former acting U.S. trade representative under Obama, tells Axios.

The White House said that smaller nations -- including Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia -- would also lower their tariffs and open markets to U.S. producers.

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Von der Leyen did not say what the U.S. conceded in the agreement when asked by a reporter.

"I think we hit exactly the point we wanted to find -- rebalance but enable trade on both sides," von der Leyen said in response to the question.

The word "re-balance" means that she agrees that trade was out-of-balance before.

CNN also admits Trump won:

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"Keep Colbert" Protest Shows How Few Fans the Uncomfortably Uncharismatic Unfunnyman Actually Has, Even in a Left-Wing City of Nine Million

The Stephen Colbert Fan Club could fit inside Brian Stelter's pants.

Along with Brian Stelter, I mean.

What a joke.

A Big Apple rally in support of on-his-way-out "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert drew fewer than two dozen people Sunday -- with even the NYPD cops on scene quickly calling it a day since most of the demonstrators left after just a few minutes.

Organizers said the "We're With Colbert" gathering outside the CBS Broadcast Center on Manhattan's West Side said it was meant to be part of a nationwide call for "integrity."

LOL.

"Our country is not perfect, never has been," said the event's organizer, who would only identify himself as Matt and said his nickname is "Slim."

"But we've always had the First Amendment, and now Mango Mussolini is trying to take that from us," he said, referring to a derogatory nickname for President Trump.

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"This is a First Amendment attack," a protester who refused to give her name said of the closing-down of the show. "We can't stand for that."

Why would lefties refuse to give their names? They face no Right Wing Cancellation Mobs.

I've got a thought: Maybe because they're paid "protesters."

The last real late night host Jay Leno criticized Colbert for alienating half the country and destroying late night talk shows.

Former late-night comedy giant Jay Leno thinks today's TV hosts are fools for falling back on one-sided political humor -- explaining they're isolating half their audience with the endless partisan jabs.

"Why shoot for just half an audience all the time? You know, why not try to get the whole?" Leno, 75, told Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation CEO David Trulio during a recent interview.

"I don't understand why you would alienate one particular group, you know, or just don't do it at all," the former "Tonight Show" host ​said. "I'm not saying you have to throw your support or whatever, but just do what's funny."

​Leno said such conflicts are exactly why ​he pointedly avoided partisan political humor during his 22 years as the ​king of late night -- with one analysis cited by Trulio showing he made fun of both sides of the aisle in equal measure throughout his career.

"Funny is funny," Leno said. "It's funny when someone who's not​ ... when you make fun of their side​, and they laugh at it, you know, that's kind of what I do."

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"I like to think that people come to a comedy show to kind of get away from the things, you know, the pressures of life, whatever it might be," Leno said. "And I love political humor, don't get me wrong, but it's just what happens when people wind up cozying too much to one side or the other.

"You have to be content with half the audience because you have [to] give your opinion."

When NBC demanded cuts at the Tonight Show, due to its falling ratings, Jay Leno famously gave up $10 million of his own salary to keep the entire staff employed.

So far I haven't heard Stephen Colbert offering to take the Jay Leno Challenge.

We've talked about this already, but: the real story is that the entire model of broadcast television is collapsing.

[T]he strongest evidence that Paramount's sacking of Colbert was definitely but not solely a gift to Trump comes, ironically, from Colbert's sharpest supporter, his former boss at The Daily Show Jon Stewart. On his podcast--keep that gig, Jon--the once-a-week TV host mused about the network on which he toils, Comedy Central. "Without 'The Daily Show,' Comedy Central's kind of like Muzak at this point ... I think we're the only sort of life that exists on a current basis, other than 'South Park.'"

If "late night" were all that was at risk, there would be more than two original programs on an entire television network, one of which was delayed until streaming rights were granted.

That's a reference to the South Park geeks holding out on a deal until Paramount allowed them to sell the show to other streamers, which is where the real money is.

And it's where the relevance is. I don't watch any broadcast TV until/unless it goes on to streaming. South Park being stuck on Comedy Central and Paramount's little-watched streaming service will result in the show being entirely forgotten.

I've already forgotten it. I only remember it when they advertise some big special episode like the Kathleen Kennedy one.

The financial turbulence in Hollywood extends well beyond the narrow time slot between 11:30 p.m. and 1:30 a.m. on three broadcast networks. It's about the rest of the schedule as well. Television as we have known it for more than 75 years in America affirmatively is going extinct, and practically nobody has reckoned with the implications of that.

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But cable isn't the only issue. Of the top 68 highest-rated single programs on all television in 2024, broadcast or cable, 65 were sporting events; number 39 was the Sunday Night Football studio show during a weather delay in October. Only two scripted shows, CBS's Tracker and Young Sheldon (which ended last year), made the top 100. Sports are the last thing keeping the broadcast/cable television apparatus alive, and the gradual movement of sports programming into streaming, most notably Amazon's grab of a share of the NBA contract for next season, signals that will meet its end, too.

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[E]ven talking about winners and losers in [late-night tv] obscures the ratings reality. The CBS Late Movie, a rerun it aired against The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in the 1970s and '80s, had an audience in 1972 of nearly seven million adults per film, nearly three times as many viewers as Colbert's "top-rated" Late Show a half-century later. The movie cost nothing but library rights. The Late Show costs $100 million a year.

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The Trump business gave Paramount an excuse internally to do something the conglomerates have resisted for a while but know they must eventually: begin the demolition of their linear television product. This may start in late night but it won't end there, as before long--maybe a decade--everything moves into the streaming networks....

The giant problem is that, while the old business model for televised entertainment is dead, the new business model doesn't yet exist.

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Full-Tilt Left-Wing "Fact" Checker Glenn Kessler Takes the Buyout and Leaves the Washington Post

From Instapundit.

As you know, the Washington Post sent out an email telling its woke staffers that they should accept the "voluntary" buyout package if they felt they could not "align" with the Post's new non-woke agenda. The not-so-subtle implication was: Either take the buyout or you'll be fired and just get the customary two-weeks' paycheck.

All of the left-wing propagandists are outing themselves, resigning because they know for a fact they cannot be objective and do not wish to be. They wish to be paid propagandists.

The Washington Post will not be replacing Kessler with another "fact" checker. Apparently the Post's new management has realized that left-wing "fact" checking is just Democrat-Communist propaganda dressed up to look like neutral reportage.

Kessler made that fact painfully clear, even to the water-heads of the Washington Post.

Of course he's also a George Soros minion, denying that Soros funds the politicians he funds.

Kessler is claiming that Soros doesn't fund Alvin Bragg. They always make claims like this -- Soros' Open Society Foundation funds the Workers and Family Party which in turn funds and supports left-wing Soros Prosecutors. See? No funding here at all! Totally false! Four Pinocchios!

Fact-checking the fake "fact" checker with actual facts:

The Daily Mail:

The Washington Post's chief fact checker accepted a buyout and is leaving the newspaper without a replacement.

Owner Jeff Bezos and CEO Will Lewis have taken a slew of recent steps to try and help the paper shed its left-wing reputation.

Glenn Kessler, editor and chief writer of The Fact Checker, announced on Monday that he is leaving the Post.

'After more than 27 years at The Washington Post, including almost 15 as The Fact Checker, I will be leaving on July 31, having taken a buyout,' Kessler said on Facebook.

'Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicians in Washington, especially in this era, the financial considerations were impossible to dismiss.'

The fact checker said he tried to help the newspaper find his replacement, but was unsuccessful.

'I didn't want The Post to have a gap in fact-checking coverage during this fraught period in U.S. history. But we couldn't work out an agreement,' Kessler said.

I interpret that this way: Kessler wanted the buyout because he knew he would be fired in August if he didn't take it, but "offered" to keep doing left-wing "fact" checks until they found a replacement for him.

And management told him "No thanks, we're good, clear out your desk."

'In 2018, when the Fact Checker team was compiling a database of more than 30,000 Trump claims, I told the New York Times that "I have the best job in journalism."

Of course! You're a bitter left-wing propagandist who was paid to type up bitter left-wing propaganda talking points from the DNC.

'I still believe that, and I'm sorry to leave without a replacement lined up. But it's the right time for me. I hope The Post finds someone to carry on this important project.'

...

'When I started in 2011, there were only a handful of fact-checking organizations around the world, and I have been thrilled to watch the movement expand across the globe. So many of these brave and diligent fact checkers have become good friends,' Kessler said.

Yeah I'll bet. I would bet that, besides being "friends," you're all open political allies, all are in the same slack channels coordinating the same talking points from the same "experts," aka "Democrat-Communist Party approved shills."

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Europe Surrenders to Trump In "Biggest Deal Ever Made" -- 15% Tariffs on European Goods, 0% Imports on American Imports, Over a Trillion Dollars in Purchases of US Goods
EU Newspapers Agree: Europe Got Rolled

The "experts" insisted that Trump's bid to reduce tariffs on US good while imposing a "baseline tariff" of 10% (or 15%) on the world was doomed to fail and would plunge us into a recession.

Trump (and Scott Bessent) calculated that the US market was far too lucrative for any country to write off and that this gave the US huge leverage in negotiating access to our market.

The "experts" were, get this, wrong again.

via @Geigercapital and @JB_simple, respectively.

Europe will impose 0% tariffs on US imports and in return, America will tax all European imports at 15%.

President Donald Trump on Sunday announced a landmark trade deal with the European Union, locking in $750 billion in U.S. energy exports and setting a 15% tariff on EU imports. The deal keeps steel and aluminum duties in place while opening EU markets to U.S. goods, military equipment, and investment.

Key Details:

Trump unveiled the agreement alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at a joint press conference following a private meeting at Trump Turnberry in Scotland.

The EU committed to $750 billion in U.S. energy purchases and an additional $600 billion in direct investment into the American economy.

While the U.S. set a 15% baseline tariff on European imports, EU countries agreed to remove tariffs on American goods and ramp up military equipment purchases from the U.S., potentially reaching into the "hundreds of billions," Trump said.

Diving Deeper:

President Trump on Sunday announced a sweeping new trade agreement with the European Union that both sides say will reshape the economic relationship between the world's two largest markets. Speaking alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen from Trump Turnberry in Scotland, the president said the deal marks a turning point after years of imbalance.

"The European countries were essentially closed to us," Trump said. "You weren't exactly taking our orders, you weren't exactly taking our agriculture... but now it's open."

Under the deal, the EU agreed to purchase $750 billion in American energy products, a major win for the U.S. oil and gas sector. Von der Leyen also confirmed that Europe would inject another $600 billion into the U.S. economy through investments on top of existing commitments. The agreement also sets a baseline 15% tariff on European imports into the U.S., including automobiles, while maintaining existing 50% duties on steel and aluminum.

When the tyrannical socialist Ursula von der Leyden, leader of the EU's parliament of traitors, was asked what concessions the US had made to Europe in exchange for Europe's generosity, she couldn't think of a single one:

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THE MORNING RANT: Functioning Gas Cans With Vents Are Legal Again!

[This header picture is my cherished, heirloom-quality gas can with a vent and a gimmick-free spout. – Buck]

There was a huge victory for normal Americans last week in the battle against our bureaucratic overlords in Washington DC, who are both hostile to freedom and bereft of common sense.

The national gas can nightmare is over. Thank you, Donald Trump! Thank you, Lee Zeldin!

Urban dwellers and those who have servants do all their manual labor may not have understood how despised the vent-less gas cans were, but to that huge group of Americans who actually work with power tools, the gas can regulation was probably the most hated and ridiculed government regulation since the 55-mph national speed limit.

Elections matter, and the election of Donald Trump as president, and his appointment of Lee Zeldin as EPA Administrator, are resulting in a profound rollback of the eco-communist agenda that Democrats were imposing through EPA regulations.

Lee Zeldin’s EPA put out this press release last week:

“Make Gas Cans Great Again by Improving Flow” [EPA Press Release – 7/24/2025]

Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued letters to portable fuel container (PFC or gas can) manufacturers encouraging them to add vents to gas cans to ensure safe and effective refueling. This announcement comes in response to years of complaints about slow, frustrating fuel flow from modern gas cans.

Concurrent with the EPA’s press release, Administrator Zeldin tweeted this mockery of the EPA regulation that he is casting aside, ”Gas cans used to POUR gas. Now they just DRIBBLE like a child’s sippy cup. The Trump EPA’s message to gas can makers: VENT THE DARN CAN and let it FLOW BABY FLOW!”

Gas cans used to POUR gas. Now they just DRIBBLE like a child's sippy cup. The Trump EPA’s message to gas can makers:

VENT THE DARN CAN and let it FLOW BABY FLOW! pic.twitter.com/9rMRfoLJCc

— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) July 24, 2025

What is so important about Mr. Zeldin’s announcement of gas can freedom is that he isn’t just triumphantly announcing the return of vented gas cans. No, he is also inviting ridicule upon anyone who might try to defend the government-mandated dribble-cans. No Democrat president (or “polite” Republican president) would ever roll back this regulation, but now that Trump and Zeldin have done so, it is not possible for any Democrat or RINO politician to advocate for the return of the ventless gas can without bringing ridicule upon themselves.

These awful gas cans have been a subject I have written about many times here at Ace of Spades. In fact, it was shortly after I started contributing here in late 2019 that I wrote the first column of mine that was widely linked at conservative websites and social media. While I’ll note that “Make something Great Again” is not terribly original in the Trump era, I am tickled that the title of the EPA’s press release led off with, “Make Gas Cans Great Again…”

My piece back in December 2019 was titled, “Make Gas Cans Great Again & Lock Up the ‘Snow Blower Vote’"

If you’ll indulge me in a quick touchdown dance, here is a bit of what I wrote at the time:

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Venus, Adonis, and Cupid
Annibale Carracci

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The Morning Report — 7/28/25

Good morning kids. Let's start off with a bit of good news that broke late yesterday.

President Donald Trump announced a sweeping trade agreement with the European Union (EU) on Sunday, setting a baseline 15 percent tariff on European imports — including automobiles — while keeping existing 50 percent duties on steel and aluminum in place. As part of the deal, the EU committed to purchasing $750 billion in U.S. energy products. Trump announced the agreement during a press conference with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after a private meeting at Trump Turnberry in Scotland. . .

. . . “We don’t know what that number is,” he said, but went on to note that the purchase of military equipment would be in the “hundreds of billions of dollars.” 

Moreover, the EU will pay a 15 percent tariff rate to import products into the U.S., ranging from automobiles to other goods. 

“So we have a tariff of 15% we have the opening up of all of the European countries, which I think I could say were essentially closed,” Trump said. “I mean, you weren’t exactly taking our orders, you weren’t exactly taking our agriculture, and then you would have smaller things, but for the most part, it was closed, and now it’s open.” 

This is kind of a pretty big Effin' deal, and we'll know how big in the short term by how the propaganda media distorts and/or totally ignores it as it continues to push Epstein-Epstein nonstop while also ignoring Obamagate or painting it as a Trump witch hunt/persecution of the Dog-eating commie. Of course the markets will no doubt have their own reaction to the news of this deal reflecting sentiment over the long term.

As Trump 2.0 demolishes much of the insanity of the regulatory state, this item, along with the renewed commitment to take full advantage of America's vast fossil fuel resources while we and much of the world come to our senses and abandon the green energy/climate change madness is most welcome indeed.

Car Lovers Rejoice! After 50 Miserable Years, CAFE Standards Are Dead

. . . One of the most important provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill has gone completely unnoticed, but promises to make the auto industry great again.

For 50 years, the federal government has been forcing fuel economy standards on auto companies. If the average fuel economy of the cars sold in a year exceeded a federal standard, the companies had to cough up enormous penalties.

Passed in 1975 as a way to deal with an energy crisis (that was caused by government price controls), “corporate average fuel economy” (CAFE) standards – required the fleet of cars sold by an automaker to achieve an arbitrary miles-per-gallon goal. If they missed the goal, they paid hefty annual fines.

CAFE standards along with many other onerous regulations did much to strangle American dominance of the automobile industry. So hallelujah to this news and it comes after General Motors announced last week it's expansion of manufacturing of gasoline-powered trucks and SUVs.

Shifting gears completely, there was a mass-stabbing attack at a Michigan Walmart over the weekend and despite the carnage, a hero citizen with a gun managed to stop the maniac cold.

Dramatic video shows a heroic Walmart shopper armed with a gun confronting a knife-wielding maniac moments after he allegedly stabbed 11 people inside the Michigan store on Saturday night.

In wild cellphone footage shared on X, the brave man, identified by family members as Marine veteran Derrick Perry, is seen yelling at the suspected attacker to drop the weapon in the parking lot of the superstore in Traverse City, about 255 miles northwest of Detroit.

Perry is being praised for his actions, with some even suggesting he should be nominated for the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “Give this man the recognition his actions deserve,” one commenter said. “Good men who are armed save lives.”

. . .On Sunday, authorities identified the suspect as Bradford James Gille, 42. He faces charges of terrorism and 11 counts of assault with intent to murder following the shocking stabbing spree in Traverse City — a popular Michigan tourist destination. His victims range in age from 29 to 85, with six of them over 60, Grand Traverse County Sheriff Michael Shea said. They are all expected to survive. Shea revealed that Gille has a history of arrests for drug offenses and vandalism.

All things considered, Michigan, the situation in the Middle East, open borders and my first thought was that the perp was a Religion-of-Peace Peacenik. Surely something set this psycho off and if all we hear is radio silence in the coming days, you can be sure this sicko is somehow Democrat/Leftist inspired or otherwise motivated.

Funny how we haven't heard any calls from the usual quarters for common sense knife control! Pfft.

And this leads in to my shot/chaser segment of the day. First up the shot from annoyingly and dangerously clueless dolt Adam Milstein

On one hand, the Islamo-left alliance, a coalition between far-left ideologues, anarchists, and Islamists, is working to dismantle America from within. On the other end of the political spectrum, white supremacists, while a fringe movement, still have the capacity to take weapons into their hands and kill Americans.

In addition, a dangerous new ideology is taking root on the American right. What began as a sensible “America First” doctrine to prioritize American interests has, in some circles, morphed into an “America Only” worldview that seeks to isolate the United States from the outside world and abandon its global responsibilities as leader and ally of free nations.

These groups may seem to have little in common, but all of them advance ideologies that are deeply hostile to America’s founding principles and its international interests. They aim to reshape the very fabric of our society. Alarmingly, through years of strategic planning, infiltration and coordinated efforts, they appear to be making real progress.

What an abject asshole. While there are for sure dozens if not hundreds of examples of Islamic, Leftist and Islamo-Leftist violence that have spilled rivers if not oceans of blood over the past few centuries, especially going back 1500 years to the founding of Islam itself.

I defy Milstein or anyone to point to any mass organized "FAR RIGHT" movement or organization that has perpetrated any acts of mass or singular political terrorism. And please define for me the political manifesto of this so-called "Far Right" Sorry, Isolationism and some nebulous bullshit about defying our founding principles is just that. So because I reject the insanity of America as the world's policeman and endless wars all over the world purely for the growth of the political class' stock portfolios makes me into some sort of extremist, eh Milstein?

Shame on FrontPage Mag for publishing this idiot's essay that does nothing to advance the cause of warning the public about the real dangers we face and instead muddies the waters and creates phantasms for us to chase.

"On the other end of the political spectrum, white supremacists, while a fringe movement, still have the capacity to take weapons into their hands and kill Americans." And yet it has yet to happen, certainly to even the tiniest fraction of what happened during the summer of 2020. Funny, what about black supremacists? I guess he never heard of BLM or the Black Panthers, or Black Liberation Army. All Milstein is attempting and failing to do is to take a swipe at President Trump and normal sane America who reject Milstein and his ilk.

Now the chaser:

Law enforcement has grappled with a wave of alleged or confirmed arsons, shootings, threats against government officials and mass rioting stemming from outrage at Trump’s policies or U.S. support for Israel. In the months following Trump’s reelection, media outlets and “experts” quoted in their articles predicted that America might see a resurgence of mostly right-wing or white supremacist violence on his watch. (RELATED: Outfit Behind Slanted ‘Terrorism’ Studies Pleads For Private Donors After Trump Funding Cuts) “That analysis never made any sense, but was always the a priori assumption of research conducted by left-leaning academics incentivized to tell the government the narrative it wanted to hear, in order to receive more government ‘countering violent extremism’ funding,” Kyle Shideler, senior analyst at the Center for Security Policy, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “No matter how many attacks were organized by jihadist terrorists or committed anarchists or communists, ‘Extremism’ was a problem to be found only on the political right, and specifically was the fault of their main political opponent’s rhetoric.”

“Whether Donald Trump won or lost, either result was taken as evidence for an increase in ‘Far Right’ extremism,” Shideler, who has a history of briefing law enforcement officials, told the DCNF.  “Even a decrease in ‘hate groups’ could be identified as evidence of their growing power. Heads we win, tails you lose,” Shideler added, referencing media coverage of a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) report which claimed that extremist groups decreased in 2024 as their views “entered the mainstream.”

Meanwhile, an April study from Rutgers University and the National Contagion Research Institute found that more than half of self-identified “left of center” Americans believe murdering Trump — who was nearly assassinated ahead of the 2024 election — is at least somewhat justified. Nearly 40% of respondents also said “it is at least somewhat acceptable (or more) to destroy a Tesla dealership in protest” of Musk, according to the researchers.

“These attitudes are not fringe — they reflect an emergent assassination culture, grounded in far-left authoritarianism and increasingly normalized in digital discourse,” the study said.

Oh give me a break, Milstein! I'm sure his next column will paint the Michigan mass-stabber as a Far-Right terrorist!

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Roger Kimball: From Reims to the Rio Grande, history repeats—but in Trump’s America, the border holds, and the ghosts of appeasement find no sanctuary.
  History’s Hard Lessons and America’s New Resolve
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: Progressive overreach alienated the middle class, replacing working-class roots with elite dogmas—and now the Democrats are reaping the whirlwind they sowed.
  The Graveyard of Progressive Misadventures
  
• One of the most important provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill has gone completely unnoticed, but promises to make the auto industry great again.
  Car Lovers Rejoice! After 50 Miserable Years, CAFE Standards Are Dead

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Daily Tech News 28 July 2025

Top Story

• Intel's network and edge ("NEX") division is headed out the door to join Altera as the company cuts everything that isn't nailed down and some things that are. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's not being shut down, just spun off. Intel will keep a major though not necessarily a majority stake.
  
  Intel's share price is down 8% on the latest quarter's results following a $2.9 billion loss.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - July 27, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! The time has arrived for the Sunday ONT! Thanks for stopping by. What's on your mind today? Care to dazzle us with wit and wisdom? Entertain us with humor? Something else you need to get off your chest? The comment section is here for you - perhaps even for you long-time lurkers who are itching to become regulars. Come on in!

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Gun Thread: Late July Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be late July? Know what's coming next? August! August is coming next! Going to be a quick one tonight, guys and gals, as I goofed around and waited until the last minute to write something.

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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