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

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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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Mid-Morning Art Thread

The Grateful Poor
Henry Ossawa Tanner

I posted this a long time ago, but it was cleaned and restored recently, and it is worth another look.

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The Morning Report — 11/11/25

Good morning kids. First of all and most importantly, today is Veterans Day. And so, for those of you who have worn the uniform and for those who continue to serve, my admiration for you all is beyond measure. Thank you for your service, dedication and sacrifices. God bless you all, and keep you safe.

Now on to the news. So the Schumer Shitshow Shakedown Shutdown is now officially over. I jumped the gun yesterday in declaring it over insofar as the vote that was held was merely the cloture vote to bring the official vote to the full Senate. And so it goes. Given the fact that the midterms are just about a year away, which of course is both an eternity and right around the corner in terms of politics. As I had stated yesterday, both the polling and the improving economy means this will not redound negatively on President Trump and the GOP, despite the full court press propaganda campaign by the media to make it otherwise. What this episode will do is further set the Democrats at each other's throats to see which faction comes out on top. The tyrannical commie criminals who fake being "Moderate" and the in-your-face full-on Communists who perceive that openly espousing the destruction of America as founded and Judeo/Christian Western civilization will attract legions of future voters and lead them from victory to victory. Yes it's a steel cage tag team match to the death between Beelzebub/12th Imam vs. Stalin/Mao Tse-Tung.

The fold likely reinforces the convictions held by many voters on the Left that Washington Democrats are giving them mere lip service and threatens Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) continued hold on his leadership position.

Meh, pass the popcorn and let them tear each other apart. That said, unfortunately for us normal human beings, there will be no Mutually Assured Destruction. Regardless of which faction comes out on top, their common trait of an unslakable thirst for absolute power while defecating on our mass grave, after squeezing every last drop of blood and treasure from our bodies means that the Democrat Left or whatever brand name it might change into will still remain.

So, whether Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk are/were both flashes in the pan, what they both have managed to achieve in a very short time has the potential to blossom into the complete undoing of the Leftist enterprise. Whether that comes about in our lifetimes or if at all remains to be seen.

But that said, the forces of darkness and evil and their instrumentality of destruction with its epicenter in the Democrat Party will not rest and will resort to greater and greater levels of violence to conquer us.

Today, we see familiar signs of foreign wars on our own streets: the normalization of political violence, the collapse of enforcement authority, the ideological capture of civil institutions, and the strategic demoralization of those still willing to stand post. These are no longer foreign indicators, but domestic realities. What we are seeing in the streets of Chicago and New York is not random violence; it is the very thing we swore an oath to protect against. It is insurgent in nature, symbolic in purpose, and deeply strategic in effect. 

When Border Patrol agents are ambushed in an American city, it is not merely a crime; it is an assault on the institution charged with upholding the boundary of American citizenship.

Citizenship is more than paperwork. It is the covenant that binds a people; the shared rights, duties, and the consent to govern ourselves together. Without it, sovereignty is an empty word. . . We’ve reached a point where the narrative surrounding immigration enforcement has been fully inverted. Those upholding the law are portrayed as tyrants, aggressors, and racists, while those obstructing it are framed as defenders of freedom and justice. . .

. . . This Veterans Day, we must say the quiet part out loud: the war we fought abroad has come home. The difference is that we no longer call it war. We call it politics. We call it protest. We call it compassion. But we know the truth. We were trained to recognize insurgency, subversion, and the collapse of legitimate authority. We were trained to defend boundaries, not just lines on a map, but the moral and legal foundations of a free nation. That fight is now ours again. 

At the height of the anti Vietnam War Protests that raged on streets and campuses across the country, culminating in the shooting at Kent State in May of 1970 the rallying cry of the Leftists was "Bring the War Home!" And here we are 55 years later and the war is at home. In many ways it is a civil war and fought not just with bullets, bricks, molotov cocktails and such but with subversion and treachery as was amply demonstrated by Clinton, Comey, Brennan et al who subverted the institutions and agencies that are there to keep us safe and free by turning them into heinous tools of oppression and repression made all the more uglier than the Gestapo, Stasi and KGB by virtue of the fact that they sprang from among us right here in the bastion and stronghold of freedom and liberty or what was supposed to be those. Considering we have not fired a literal volley back at the enemy, and certainly not committed any pre-emotive or unprovoked acts of violence on them, it's not much of a war is it. It's more of a simmering pogrom against us.

Again, happy and blessed Veterans Day to you all, and long live the cause of freedom - OUR CAUSE, Here and now in this hour! And may the terrible swift sword of justice and vengeance smite those who seek our destruction. Amen.

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

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• The vote ends a disastrous shutdown for Democrats, but the civil war for the soul and direction of the party is just beginning. (Tagteams of Beelzebub/12th Imam vs. Mao/Stalin - jjs)
  Senate Passes Funding Bill to End Schumer Shutdown
  
• "Despite the obstacles, a determined Trump administration is restoring the rule of law and equal justice under the law. The day of reckoning for treasonous Deep State plotters is coming.
  The Misrule of Law (Hat tip to Cob and colleague Buck Throckmorton! - jjs)
  
• There’s an anti-Left storm brewing among the once conservative/libertarian Generation Z, which follows a predictable and dangerous path that’s left a trail of destruction throughout history.
  There’s an Anti-Left Storm Brewing on the Right, and It’s Ominous (Meh, I'm not seeing it - jjs)

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Daily Tech News 11 November 2025

Top Story

• Micron has pressed pause on its new facilities in upstate New York, but has simultaneously hit fast forward on its work on factories in Idaho. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Not sure exactly why the switch. I wouldn't want to be building anything located in New York City right now, but it's not.
  
  
  
• Speaking of "you can't build that there" datacenters in California are sitting vacant waiting for the lights to come on. (Bloomberg / Yahoo)
  
  Some of them have been waiting for six years.
  
  Silicon Valley Power says it is working on upgrades to support its new customers and expects work to be complete on the 6th of Never.
  
  

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Monday Overnight Open Thread (11/10/25)

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Scandi Rapid Transit Cafe

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Urquhart Castle, Scotland
by Stuart Mckay Photography

I wish I were gay so I could toss off a few lines from Brigadoon.

Early day today. I'm still dragging after a weekend of low sleep and low ambition.

PAWS

Like the Millennium Falcon hiding on the Star Destroyer. It works!

This puppy isn't even trying to be cute, it just happens.

This puppy might be trying a little to be cute, and he's nailing it.

I choose you as my mate. (I posted this before but I didn't note the context of this Gift of Stone. By the way, the guy here sounds like Evil Ed saying "You're so cool Brewster." And yes, I rewatched Fright Night for Halloween. One critique I've always had: I never understand the geography of this town they're in. Supposedly the vampire has a big old mansion standing just yards from normal suburban houses, and then you walk through the suburb and suddenly you're in a dark cramped alleyway.)

Dog gives his O-face.

Many dogs are guardian dogs.

Dog picks out random strangers to play fetch with.

Sometimes cats get pounced, too.

ICYMI: Dealing with an undersized bully.

The kid singing the angelic (ishtari?) chorus for the Lord of the Rings score.

When you're stuck in a pit of ocean water but the tides are kind.

Some Pig!!!

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The Head of the BBC and Its Head of News Both Resign In Wake of Revelations They Deliberately Pushed Fake News About Trump's Role in the (Also Fake) J6 Insurrection

The BBC Panorama ran stealth-edited video to make it appear that Trump was urging his followers to go to the Capitol and "fight like hell." The claim being made was that Trump told them to riot.

It was a literal stitch-up -- they framed Trump by stitching together different speeches.

Konstantin Kisin
@KonstantinKisin

23h

You don't have to be an uncritical fanboy of President Trump to be horrified at just how much lying the media around the world did about him. They said he was involved in election interference while they were the ones doing it!

Now the head of the BBC and the head of news at the BBC have been forced to resign.

The BBC's boss and its head of news quit on Sunday following accusations of bias at the British broadcaster, including in the way it edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump.

The publicly funded BBC had been under mounting pressure after an internal report by a former standards adviser, which cited failings in its coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, transgender issues and a speech made by Trump, was leaked to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.

Terrorist propaganda outlet claims they "quit." In fact, they were forced out, more credible outlets report.

Trump welcomed the departures, criticising the two as "very dishonest people" after the BBC's flagship Panorama programme edited two parts of one of his speeches together so he appeared to be encouraging the Capitol Hill riot of January 2021.

Tim Davie, who has led the British Broadcasting Corporation since 2020, defended the organisation, saying its journalism was seen as the gold standard around the world. But he said mistakes had been made and he had to take ultimate responsibility.

Deborah Turness, the CEO of BBC News, also resigned. In an email to staff she said: "I want to be absolutely clear recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong."

Lie.

Widely respected around the world, the BBC still tops polls in Britain on the most trusted news brand and has huge reach in the country, providing news, entertainment and sport.

But the corporation, which is funded by a licence fee paid by all television-watching households, comes under intense scrutiny from some newspapers and critics on social media, which object to its funding model and perceived liberal stance.

"Perceived." By the way, do you know that "British Men" and "British Teens" keep attacking people with knives?

The Telegraph revealed more left-wing bias, based on leaked memos:

The leaked internal report said BBC Arabic had shown anti-Israel bias in its reporting of the war in Gaza and that an effort to cover a group campaigning for single-sex spaces had been suppressed by a small group of staff who saw it as hostile to the transgender community.

BBC Arabic was anti-Israel? Not the BBC itself?

LOL.

Also revealed today : some time back the BBC ran a story about a mass grave of Palestinian civilians, secretly buried by the IDF. Internal documents leaked today show that the BBC had hard evidence that the story was a hoax, yet they ran it anyway.

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And as for the second item: The story would have been about the need for single-sex spaces to protect women but the transgenders spiked the story.

Per the NYT: Trump is now threatening to sue the BBC for defamation.

To the tune of... one billion dollars.

President Trump on Monday threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion for a documentary that his lawyer claimed included "malicious, disparaging" edits to a speech Mr. Trump delivered on Jan. 6, 2021.

The legal threat came in a letter from Alejandro Brito, one of Mr. Trump's lawyers, to the BBC that was obtained by The New York Times. The letter demanded a full retraction of the documentary, an apology and what his lawyers said would be payments that "appropriately compensate President Trump for the harm caused."

The letter said that if those demands were not met, "President Trump will be left with no alternative but to enforce his legal and equitable rights, all of which are expressly reserved and are not waived, including by filing legal action for no less than $1,000,000,000 (One Billion Dollars) in damages."

The letter said: "The BBC is on notice" and concluded: "PLEASE GOVERN YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY."

Noted scrupulously non-partisan media analyst and Sex Machine Brian Stelter called the double resignation "very notable."

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Is This Something?

Hunting Season looks a bit like a generic revenge actioner but it's got Mel Gibson and he's really good at revenge actioners. Alas, it's not directed by Mel Gibson, but maybe some of his over-the-top ideas for cinematic violence were used.

The final moment of the clip is good.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Embarasses George Stephanolopous But Stephanopoolous Filibusters and Talks Over Him and Ends the Interview

George Stephanolpolous -- or Slopadopolous, as Trump calls him* -- tried to lecture Scott Bessent that Republicans should give in to Democrats shutdown demands.

Bessent reminded the former (and current) Democrat spokesman and spinner that he had previously called Republicans "terrorists" for shutting down the government in 1995.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday for calling Republicans "terrorists" during the 1995 government shutdown.

Stephanopoulos asked Bessent on Sunday's "This Week" about the Trump administration's plan to end the ongoing government shutdown. Bessent reminded Stephanopoulos about his own experience handling a government shutdown when he served as an advisor to former President Bill Clinton.

"The best way to do it -- and look, you were involved in a lot of these in the '90s," Bessent said. "And, you know, you basically called the Republicans terrorists and, you know, you said that it is not the responsible party that keeps the government closed. And so, what we need is five brave, moderate Democratic senators to cross the aisle, because right now it is 52--3, 52--3. Five Democrats can cross the aisle and reopen the government. That's the best way to do it, George."

"I can disagree with you about the history there, but we don't have a history lesson right now," Stephanopoulos responded.

"No, no, no. George, George, George," Bessent interrupted. "If you want, I've got all your quotes here. I got all your quotes here, George."

Stephanopoulos claimed that Bessent's comments were a "mischaracterization of history" and then repeated his original question.

In a 2000 PBS interview, Stephanopoulos described how there were concerns over whether the Democrats or Republicans would be blamed more for the government shutdown that occurred in late 1995 and early 1996. He said the Democratic Party's strategy relied on accusing Republicans of "blackmailing the country" for shutting down the government.

"Our strategy was very simple. We couldn't buckle, and we had to say that they were blackmailing the country to get their way. In order to get their tax cut, they were willing to shut down the government, throw the country into default for the first time in its history and cut Medicare, Social Security, education and the environment just so they could get their way. And we were trying to say that they were basically terrorists, and it worked," Stephanopoulos said.

Below, you can see Slopadopolous repeatedly talk over Bessent to keep his viewers in the dark about his prior statements.

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