June 08, 2025
Food Thread: Bread, Champagne, and...Viking Flat Bread?
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First World Problems...
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It's Time To Hold Women Accountable For Their Destruction Of Men-Only Spaces Before They Get Our Full Support Against The Tranny Madness
Hard to argue her point!
There are women who are honorable, vociferous defenders of the apparently revolutionary concept that men and women are different and should compete in athletic endeavors in their own categories.
I know...I know... that's crazy talk! Why shouldn't a 6'4" man who grows his hair and tucks his junk be able to compete against a woman? And use the same locker room? As long as they have college athletic eligibility, what's the problem? And Olympic boxing? High school softball? Aren't men and women defined by social constructs, not biology, so all should be good? Yet there are women who are supportive of men competing against women, in spite of the overwhelming data that show that even surgically and chemically mutilated trannys still have a significant advantage. And the real fakers who never even bothered to get clipped have an even greater strength and speed advantage. It's interesting that the two highest-profile woman athletes who defend the horrid culture-breaking idea that trannys are women too (!) never had to compete against them. Megan Rapinoe would have gotten her ass kicked by any competent high school boy, so the idea that she would have gained any prominence in the soccer world had men been allowed to play on women's teams is laughable. And Simone Biles? How would she have done against post-pubescent boys with a massive advantage in strength, agility and speed? But neither had to deal with that sort of nonsense, yet are willing to sacrifice their fellow women on the altar of transsexual lunacy! Buck Throckmorton wrote a bit about the current brouhaha: Simone Biles Insults and Body Shames Riley Gaines While Advocating for Men Participating in Women's Sports Riley Gaines is ferocious in her defense of women in sports and in fact in our culture. I salute her for her fearlessness and her intellectual approach to the issue. She is a fantastic beacon of hope in this horrid and ridiculous mess that the Woke lunatics have created. But...where was society when the Women's MovementTM went after Men-only spaces with hammer and tongs? Men's locker rooms, men's clubs, men's sports, men in the military, men as cops and fire fighters...all of these traditionally Men's spaces were systematically dismantled in worship of equality and fairness. Where was Martina Navratilova? Where was J.K. Rowling? Probably cheering on the dismantling of the barriers between men and women. And that's fine. They are entitled to their opinions. But why should we support their current fight to protect women's sacred spaces when they didn't give a rat's ass about men's? Long-time commenter nurse ratched says it well:I’ve come to the realization that I no longer care about men “invading women’s sports and spaces.” I will start caring when women and girls get the hell out of men and boys spaces. After all, didn’t everyone cheer when girls demanded entry to the scouts? And to little league. And to the high school football teams. And how about the reporter ettes into men’s locker rooms. Hell, everyone supported Condi Rice when she demanded entry into Augusta iirc. How come inclusion and equality only works when it’s women barging into men’s spaces? Seriously. Respect and fairness works both ways. And just because women will not beat men in sports doesn’t make it any less wrong that they demand entrance. This has nothing to do with the tranny nonsense. That’s just sheer stupidity. Women started demanding the dismantling of boy and men’s spaces 50 years ago. Well. Payback is a bitch.
Hard to argue her point!
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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 6-8-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
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Daily Tech News 8 June 2025
Top Story
- While the rest of us are worrying about moving on from Windows 10 and updating out hard drives to SSDs, the government is preparing to move away from Windows 95 and floppy disks. (Tom's Hardware)
Fortunately it's nothing important and nobody's lives are at risk.
It's just the US Air Traffic Control system.
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June 07, 2025
Saturday Night "Club ONT" June 7, 2025 [The 3 Ds]
Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration of your Sunday through Wednesday ONT Crew - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. Dress as you please. Reading aloud and commenting are encouraged. The high-tops and lounge chairs are first come, first taken. The Club supports free speech and the right to toast and roast.
Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration of your Sunday through Wednesday ONT Crew - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. Dress as you please. Reading aloud and commenting are encouraged. The high-tops and lounge chairs are first come, first taken. The Club supports free speech and the right to toast and roast.
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Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 6/7/2025
Shot and reverse from Paddington. The first is Michael Bond, and the second is his creation, the bear from Darkest Peru.
In October of 1958, Michael Bond published the first of what would end up being 30 picture books and collections starring a small bear from Darkest Peru. Sent to London by his Aunt Lucy who has retired to the Home for Retired Bears in Lima, Paddington was adopted by the Brown family and had a series of small adventures over the next 60 years until 2017. It was then that Bond's final book, Paddington's Finest Hour was published with Bond passing that year.
Over the decades, Paddington has been adapted into different mediums, mostly television with his most famous example being a 1970s British television show that featured the bear as a stop motion puppet and all of the other characters as cardboard cutouts. This combination of his books and various adaptations has placed him in a special place in the hearts of the British public. I watched an interview with a British actor who, in an effort to describe the importance of Clifford the Big Red Dog to a British audience, compared the large red pup with Paddington, the explicit effort being to build up Clifford as this massively important cartoon character for the American psyche.
And I think he's full of bunk. Clifford isn't important to Americans. The closest might be Snoopy from Peanuts, but Snoopy was a minor character in an ensemble. Mickey Mouse? No one cares about him past five years old. Garfield? He's more of a joke than a beloved character. No, I don't think there is an American counterpart to the beloved picture book character.
And, of course, I bring him up because of the trilogy of movies starring Paddington Brown released over the past decade.
Now, I don't often do recommendations (I think it irritates people that I sidestep them most of the time), but I'm going to do this now: watch the Paddington films. I'll detail why later, but you won't be disappointed.
However, I write not to recommend, but mostly to wallow in one of the interesting areas of film that I always find fascinating: adaptation.
Paddington Brown
In October of 1958, Michael Bond published the first of what would end up being 30 picture books and collections starring a small bear from Darkest Peru. Sent to London by his Aunt Lucy who has retired to the Home for Retired Bears in Lima, Paddington was adopted by the Brown family and had a series of small adventures over the next 60 years until 2017. It was then that Bond's final book, Paddington's Finest Hour was published with Bond passing that year.
Over the decades, Paddington has been adapted into different mediums, mostly television with his most famous example being a 1970s British television show that featured the bear as a stop motion puppet and all of the other characters as cardboard cutouts. This combination of his books and various adaptations has placed him in a special place in the hearts of the British public. I watched an interview with a British actor who, in an effort to describe the importance of Clifford the Big Red Dog to a British audience, compared the large red pup with Paddington, the explicit effort being to build up Clifford as this massively important cartoon character for the American psyche.
And I think he's full of bunk. Clifford isn't important to Americans. The closest might be Snoopy from Peanuts, but Snoopy was a minor character in an ensemble. Mickey Mouse? No one cares about him past five years old. Garfield? He's more of a joke than a beloved character. No, I don't think there is an American counterpart to the beloved picture book character.
And, of course, I bring him up because of the trilogy of movies starring Paddington Brown released over the past decade.
Now, I don't often do recommendations (I think it irritates people that I sidestep them most of the time), but I'm going to do this now: watch the Paddington films. I'll detail why later, but you won't be disappointed.
However, I write not to recommend, but mostly to wallow in one of the interesting areas of film that I always find fascinating: adaptation.
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Hobby Thread - June 7, 2025 [TRex].jpg)
Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin and it came up with tree houses!
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The Ace of Spades Pet Thread [scampydog]
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I Like What You've Done With The Place Garden Thread
Back in the day, about 10 years ago, I used to post the garden thread every Saturday. Then KT took over and made the garden thread the juggernaut that it is today. Seriously, she does a way better job than I ever did. However, this week, she is unable to post, so I'm back for an encore. Welcome back to mediocrity!
I didn't have anything planned, so I'll just post about my garden. Y'all can talk about anything you'd like. Here is a picture of my garden:Posted by: WeirdDave at 01:00 PM | Comments (97) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Simone Biles Insults and Body Shames Riley Gaines While Advocating for Men Participating in Women’s Sports
Here is Simone Biles’ own website listing the companies Simone Biles endorses.
It’s going to be a long weekend for the crisis management teams at Coca-Cola and General Mills, among other companies that have hired Simone Biles as their spokesbigot.
Simone decided to very publicly attack Riley Gaines on social media yesterday, including a mockery of Ms. Gaines’ physique, as Ms. Biles assertively came out in favor of men competing in women’s sports, while sneering at Riley for losing to a man. Do Coca-Cola and General Mills stand by Ms. Biles? Do they agree that men should participate in women’s sports and share lockers and showers with female athletes?@Riley_Gaines_ You’re truly sick, all of this campaigning because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive OR creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender… https://t.co/pjpzuZ0AlO
— Simone Biles (@Simone_Biles) June 6, 2025
This is so disappointing. My take is the least controversial take on the planet.
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) June 6, 2025
Simone Biles being a male-apologist at the expense of young girls’ dreams? Didn’t have that on my bingo card.
Maybe she could compete in pommel horse and rings in 2028. https://t.co/Ptn35pyEvh
This is an excellent question for @Simone_Biles https://t.co/OmrXQVcYLE
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) June 7, 2025
All the horrific sexual abuse @Simone_Biles witnessed and spoke out against caused by one man, yet believes women should be forced to strip naked in front of men to validate the man's feelings.
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) June 7, 2025
You know how many gold medals you'd have if your "inclusive" dream came true? Zero. pic.twitter.com/VycE1BvAMP
Here is Simone Biles’ own website listing the companies Simone Biles endorses.
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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival
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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Barnes.) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Even the trolls have retarded feelings.
3) No, you may not run with sharp objects here.
4) Have a great weekend!
Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Barnes.) 1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice. Even the trolls have retarded feelings.
3) No, you may not run with sharp objects here.
4) Have a great weekend!
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Daily Tech News 7 June 2025
Top Story
- Move fast and blow up rockets: SpaceX is already preparing Starship Flight 10 for testing. (WCCFTech)
No launch date has been set just yet, but just over a week after Flight 9 suffered an attitude control failure, SuperHeavy Booster 16 underwent a static test fire in preparation for flight with the latest Starship module.
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June 06, 2025
Self-Service ONT
Sorry folks. We went out to dinner tonight and the restaurant was hideously slow. It took well over an hour for our meals to show up, which meant that I just got home 15 minutes ago, so...I've got a few videos that I uploaded earlier today and that's it. Since I'm falling down on the job, I'm giving you the assignment: Post links to your favorite memes in the comments. Self generated content for you. Or just make fart jokes as usual. Whatever.
Sorry folks. We went out to dinner tonight and the restaurant was hideously slow. It took well over an hour for our meals to show up, which meant that I just got home 15 minutes ago, so...I've got a few videos that I uploaded earlier today and that's it. Since I'm falling down on the job, I'm giving you the assignment: Post links to your favorite memes in the comments. Self generated content for you. Or just make fart jokes as usual. Whatever.
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Tilt-Shift Cafe
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CNN, MSNBC in Ratings Freefall; Fox News Primetime Now Outdraws CBS, ABC, and NBC
The sad! thing for MSNBC is that the group of DEI zeroes (including former RNC chairman Michael Steel) they put together to replace the overtly racist Joy Reid are doing even worse in the ratings than she did.
On to CNN. CNN already had bad ratings, but now the Coddled Antifa Viewers who rely on CNN to cover them in Bubble-Wrap and protect them from all information that might trigger them are abandoning them.
Jen Psaki is a ratings disaster for MSNBC.
The Psaki bomb has turned into a major Psaki dud for left-leaning MSNBC. The embattled cable news network -- which is expected to be spun off by parent company Comcast later this year -- has seen ratings plunge nearly 50% in the pivotal 9 p.m. slot since Jen Psaki took over full-time hosting duties from Rachel Maddow last month. The 46-year-old anchor, who made a name for herself with her quick-witted "Psaki bombs" while serving as former President Joe Biden's press secretary -- but has since insisted she never saw signs of his mental decline -- has drawn an average of 971,000 viewers since "The Briefing with Jen Psaki" debuted on May 6 through May 28, according to the latest Nielsen ratings. That's a staggering 47% falloff from the eyeballs attracted by Maddow and Alex Wagner in the timeslot. The drop-off is even more pronounced in the critical 25--54 age demographic prized by advertisers, where she drew just 78,000 viewers -- a 52% decline compared to the 161,000 that Maddow and Wagner drew during their shows this year.Joy Reid was fired by MSNBC earlier this year due to her own plummeting ratings. The Race Lady now says that MSNBC fired her because... Can you guess? This is too dumb to even write, but she says MSNBC fired her because they wanted to appeal to Trump and were afraid that Reid was getting too close to taking Trump down.
Ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid spoke out about her show being canceled on Monday, speculating that her race and network "anxiety" surrounding President Donald Trump played a role in her ultimately being fired from the liberal network. "I try not to speculate too much publicly because, again, I can't get inside the minds of other people. But I can tell you what other people have speculated about... There are lots of people at the network who are critical of Donald Trump. I mean, and they're still critical of him, I'm assuming, you know. So I don't think that's [it], but I do know there is a lot of anxiety both there and, I think, in every media. We're seeing it at CBS," she said, referring to Trump's lawsuit against the network over a "60 Minutes" interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. Reid spoke with Katie Couric in a video posted on her Substack page and on her YouTube channel. Reid's MSNBC show was canceled earlier this year. "We're seeing it at ABC, where allegedly 'The View' hosts were told not to go so hard on Trump. There's a push for people to, hey, do less Trump. Do more entertainment. Don't be hard on him," the former MSNBC host said, noting reporting that ABC's "The View" hosts were told to tone down their political discussions.Oh, and she insists that Trump really, really thinks about her all the time, Because Racism.
Couric pointed out that there was no difference between Reid and liberal hosts Nicolle Wallace or Rachel Maddow, to which Reid responded, "only in one way was I different. I'm a Black woman doing the thing." "I think that there is a difference for Trump in hearing the kinds of criticisms specifically out of a Black woman, it bothers him in a way it doesn't bother him like anything else. He's got this sort of tick about race, you know, and about, sort of criticism coming specifically from a Black woman because we've seen him lay out and dish out real abuse against Black women journalists," Reid said during her conversation with Couric.
The sad! thing for MSNBC is that the group of DEI zeroes (including former RNC chairman Michael Steel) they put together to replace the overtly racist Joy Reid are doing even worse in the ratings than she did.
At 7 pm, "The Weeknight" was down 36 percent compared to Joy Reid's 1.2 million average last year.
On to CNN. CNN already had bad ratings, but now the Coddled Antifa Viewers who rely on CNN to cover them in Bubble-Wrap and protect them from all information that might trigger them are abandoning them.
John Nolte points out that Fox News, a cable station, is beating all of the broadcast networks:
CNN, a far-left propaganda outlet that spreads disinformation and promotes violence against Jews, hit an astonishing ratings low during the week of May 26 to June 1. CNNLOL averaged only 374,000 primetime viewers, which is six times -- six times -- lower than the Fox News Channel average of 2.3 million primetime viewers.
Fox News topped all three broadcast networks during the week of May 26-30. NBC and CBS averaged only 2.4 million average primetime viewers, while CBS earned just 2.3 million. Fox News grabbed 2.7 million. ... CNN cannot survive much longer in its present form. As people move from cable to streaming, CNN is losing billions in the left-wing affirmative action called "carriage fees," and CNN's advertising revenue must be dismal. If the Trump administration outlaws Big Pharma ads, that might be the silver bullet.
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The Week In Woke
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states cannot discriminate against charities just because they're religious in nature. Seems obvious, but again, something that was in doubt.
Democrats just don't understand why normal people are running for them.
National Review is exactly what we thought they were:
Sean DavisThe lefties won! Abrego-Garcia will be shipped back to America. Where he will be tried for being the kingpin of a major human trafficking operation.
@seanmdav Standing athwart history, yelling, "Leave the gay pederast predator alone!" Impossible to parody.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, has been returned to the United States to face federal criminal charges, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday. For months, the Trump administration has been locked in an intense standoff with the federal judiciary over court orders for the government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return from El Salvador, where he was mistakenly deported in mid-March, in a situation that one federal judge warned could present an "incipient crisis" between the two branches. Abrego Garcia has been indicted on two criminal counts in the in the Middle District of Tennessee: conspiracy to unlawfully transport illegal aliens for financial gain and unlawful transportation of illegal aliens for financial gain. The indictment unsealed Friday afternoon accuses Abrego Garcia and others of partaking in a conspiracy in recent years in which they "knowingly and unlawfully transported thousands of undocumented aliens who had no authorization to be present in the United States, and many of whom were MS-13 members and associates."
The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states cannot discriminate against charities just because they're religious in nature. Seems obvious, but again, something that was in doubt.
This one is so easy that even Sotomayor gets it. Some FBI agents objected to the FBI memo targeting Catholics, accurately noting that this memo seemed to be confabulated purely to please the vicious race-Marxist demagogues of the Southern Poverty "Law" Center.
The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a Wisconsin-based Catholic charity group in a case centered on unemployment tax credits for religious institutions -- delivering a victory for faith-based institutions, who argued that the state's decision had violated the religious clauses under the First Amendment. In a unanimous opinion, the justices agreed that the state had engaged in an "unnecessary entanglement" in attempting to define whether religious groups should be entitled to an otherwise-available tax exemption based on the state's criteria for religious behavior. "When the government distinguishes among religions based on theological differences in their provision of services, it imposes a denominational preference that must satisfy the highest level of judicial scrutiny," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said, writing for the majority. "Because Wisconsin has transgressed that principle without the tailoring necessary to survive such scrutiny, the judgment of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion."
The FBI rushed to rescind the document after a whistleblower leaked it in February 2023. Then-FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in July 2023 that the memo came from "a single product by a single field office, which, as soon as I found out about it, I was aghast and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems." Yet Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has claimed Wray may have lied under oath because multiple FBI offices were involved in creating the memo. Grassley announced Tuesday that he found evidence that the memo had been disseminated to at least 1,000 FBI staff. "Is anyone really asking for a product like this?" an FBI employee in Phoenix, Arizona, wrote in a February 2023 email responding to the memo. "Apparently we are at the behest of the SPLC..." An FBI employee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, responded, "And yeah, our overreliance on the SPLC for hate designations is ... problematic." In addition to these emails, Grassley found the FBI produced at least 13 additional documents and five attachments that used the term "radical traditionalist Catholic" and relied on the SPLC.Left-wing groups are actually rallying to support the assassin that shot two people in the back merely for being Jewish.
Meet the Left-Wing Groups and Operatives Rallying Behind Jewish Museum Shooter Elias RodriguezMore grooming in schools as students are asked to consider becoming gay as part of a class assignment.
Soros-funded operatives, a Democratic Socialists of America caucus, and an anti-Israel student group among signatories of letter endorsing murders
A radical student group at Brandeis University. Members of a socialist organization affiliated with House "Squad" members. The treasurer of a Democratic super PAC funded heavily by George Soros. These are just some of the figures and groups calling to "free" Elias Rodriguez, the Chicago man police say confessed to the Washington, D.C., murders of two Israeli diplomats. Twenty-one organizations, along with Democratic activist Kamau Franklin, signed an open letter in support of Rodriguez organized by the Tariq El-Tahrir Youth and Student Network. It calls Rodriguez's shooting of Israeli diplomats Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky outside of the Capital Jewish Museum "fully justified," "eminently defensible," and "morally righteous." It also urges readers to "give pause to the zionists" and "GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA," a popular rallying cry among student radicals on Ivy League campuses like Columbia University and Harvard University. One signee, Unity of Fields, has been involved in the Columbia protests. Another signatory is the Liberation Caucus of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)--"Squad" members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), and Greg Casar (D., Texas) are members of DSA, the largest socialist group in the country. Franklin, who serves as treasurer of the Black Voters Matter Action PAC, a Democratic group that received $2.4 million from Soros and the Soros-funded Democracy PAC, signed the letter and promoted it on his Twitter page. So did the Brandeis Jewish Bund, a self-described "Anti-Zionist" group at Brandeis University, a school founded by Jewish Americans to address anti-Semitism in the American education system. Another signee, Bronx Anti War, was cofounded by Janet Goodman-Clarke, a member of the Soros-funded Jewish Voice for Peace. While many of the groups backing Rodriguez are not well known beyond radical activist circles, their ties to prominent Democratic lawmakers, donors, and organizations reflect the extent to which anti-Semitism has infiltrated the party. Ocasio-Cortez, for example, held a virtual event with DSA's New York chapter in December. She has not addressed the Liberation Caucus's signing of the pro-Rodriguez letter.
Florida high school students were drilled for being straight, asked to consider being gay, and told that straight people are to blame for overpopulation, according to course materials obtained by The Daily Wire. During a course for high school children in Miami-Dade County, students were assigned to complete a sexuality-focused questionnaire that asked a series of bizarre questions such as: "What do you think caused your heterosexuality?"; "Is it possible that being straight is just a phase you may grow out of?"; and, "Considering the menace of hunger and overpopulation, could the human race survive if everyone were straight like yourself?"From John Sexton: The New York Times' "conservative" David Brooks warns the Democrats that they're in more trouble than they know.
Advertisement Parents were shocked to learn that a professor made their children answer questions like this as part of a Miami-Dade College course being offered to high schoolers. The course, called "Preparing for Student Success," was designed for students to develop academic goals and come up with strategies to succeed in college and offered in Miami-Dade County, an area that has turned red in recent years. "It's not normal. I mean imagine if a person, anyone, goes close to your son and asks him these questions, I'd call the police," a concerned mother whose son was enrolled in the class told The Daily Wire. "It's perversion. Why are you talking about their sexuality to 15-year-old boys or girls? It's absolutely sick. It's sick." Other questions posed to the children included, "To whom have you disclosed your straight tendencies?" and "Why do you insist on showing off your heterosexuality?" The questionnaire ended by asking students what their reaction to it was and "about the assumptions you hold about what others are like."
Naming Imane Khelif as having XY chromosomes inflicted "irreparable psychological damage" on him, lefties whine.
I have a lot of Democratic friends who are extremely disappointed with their party leaders. They tell me that the Democratic Party is currently rudderless, weak, passive, lacking a compelling message. I try to be polite, but I want to tell them: "The problem is not the party leaders. The problem is you. You don't understand how big a shift we're in the middle of. You think the Democrats can solve their problems with a new message and a new leader. But the Democrats' challenge is that they have to adapt to a new historical era. That's not something done by working politicians who are focused on fund-raising and the next election. That's only accomplished by visionaries and people willing to shift their entire worldview. That's up to you, my friends, not Chuck Schumer." ... The Republicans have adjusted to the shift in the zeitgeist more effectively than the Democrats. Trump tells a clear story: The elites are screwing America. He took a free trade party and made it a protectionist party, an internationalist party and made it an isolationist party... Trump has taken the atmosphere of alienation, magnified it with his own apocalypticism, and, assaulting institutions across society, has created a revolutionary government. More this term than last, he is shifting the conditions in which we live. ... The Democrats' first core challenge is that we live in an age that is hostile to institutions and Democrats dominate the institutions -- the universities, the media, Hollywood, the foundations, the teachers unions, the Civil Service, etc. The second is that we live in an age in which a caste divide has opened up between the educated elite and everybody else, and Democrats are the party of the highly educated... For today's Democrats that means this: If people rightly distrust establishment institutions and you are the party of the establishment institutions, then you have to be the party of thoroughgoing reform. You have to say that Trump is taking a blowtorch to institutions, and we are for effectively changing institutions.
Algerian boxing bosses have issued a furious response to boxing's new world governing body for a "violation" of Imane Khelif's rights to medical confidentiality. A statement released by World Boxing last week, naming Khelif while outlining its new policy of gender testing, has "created psychological damage to our athlete" according to the Algerian Boxing Federation. In a letter the Federation President said the "consequences are immeasurable." He added that the statement had internationally harmed "our national sports movement" and that Khelif was not given "the right to defend herself" nor did World Boxing "hear from the doctors specialising in endocrinology who follow her."What about the damage this biological man inflicted on the women he punched in the face?
Man doesn't understand why he has been excluded from a women's book club. The Democrats' push to fund fake influencers who can sell the Democrats' gay agenda to straight men is going great. I've got my own suggestion for the Democrats: New York City's hottest Speaking to American Men influencer is Stefon.
It's a verdict that would make the Ayatollah smile. Today, in nominally liberal Britain, a man has been found guilty of a crime after he dared to burn a Koran in public. Hamit Coskun, a Turkish-born asylum seeker, has been convicted of a 'religiously aggravated public-order offence' over his -- quite literally -- incendiary protest outside of the Turkish consulate in London in February, against what he sees as the Islamist turn of Erdogan's Turkey. If nothing else, Coskun's stunt has exposed the Islamist-apologist turn of our own United Kingdom. On paper, Coskun has been convicted of 'disorderly behaviour within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress', motivated by 'hostility towards members of a religious group, namely followers of Islam', contrary to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and the Public Order Act 1986. But we all know what that word salad really means in practice, regardless of the judge's many assurances to the contrary. Coskun has been convicted, and fined £240, for blasphemy. All by a supposedly secular court. The judgement, handed down by district judge John McGarva, is an elaborate exercise in victim-blaming. Coskun was assaulted at the scene by two men -- first by a passerby armed with a knife, then by a delivery rider who kicked Coskun while he was on the floor. Remarkably, this is used as proof of his guilt. 'That the conduct was disorderly is no better illustrated than by the fact that it led to serious public disorder involving him being assaulted by two different people', says McGarva. Thank God he wasn't also wearing a short skirt, eh? Similar intellectual acrobatics were required to prove that Coskun was motivated by a hatred of Muslims. He claims his beef is with the religion, not its followers. But McGarva was having none of it, citing Coskun's belief that 'Islam is an ideology which encourages its followers to violence, paedophilia, and a disregard for the rights of non-believers'. Whether or not this is an accurate or fair reflection of the faith, as practised by Muslims around the world, is totally irrelevant. The judge decided there was no difference between Coskun's dislike of what he means by Islam and hatred of Muslims. So he hates Muslims because he hates Islam. I'm no legal scholar, but that strikes me as a rather circular argument. In a free society, you should be free to hate whoever and whatever you like, of course. Indeed, this ruling is another grim reminder of the subjective, authoritarian mess you find yourself in when you invite the state to police what is and isn't hateful -- whether that's racial, religious or whatever. Someone has to decide. And in this case it has been decided by a legalistic cretin who is totally blasé about ushering in medieval blasphemy prohibitions, albeit dressed up in hate-speech lingo.
Enjoying spiked? Britain may have abolished its blasphemy law in 2008, more than three decades after the last blasphemy trial went to court. But it has returned, zombie-like, through public-order and communications offences.... Brace yourselves for more. Not least as Coskun -- who either has balls of steel or is nursing a death wish -- has said he intends to go on a Koran-burning tour of some of the UK's other great cities.
Democrats just don't understand why normal people are running for them.
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The Marxist Media Pivots: Now They're Telling Lefties to Go to the Gym
As you know, the left has been celebrating weakness and frailty and poor health (both physical and mental) for its entire history. The strong have no need of a Mommy-Daddy God-State to protect them and provide them with food and phony affirmation.
In the age of Trump, though, they've gone positive bonkers. Time magazine, 2022: Exercise is just progressive-overload white supremacy.The White Supremacist Origins of Exercise, and 6 Other Surprising Facts About the History of U.S. Physical Fitness Aspects of the wellness world connect with conspiracy theories. If you've spent some time in bodybuilding forums, fitness Instagram, or really anywhere, this is not a surprise. Most recently, The Guardian covered the "wellness-to-fascism pipeline," detailing how some people in the wellness and fitness world are susceptible to conspiracies ranging from quacky antivax theories to full-blown Alex Jones brain. And last year, Time highlighted the "White Supremacist Origins of Exercise," in an interview with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, author of the book Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession. It turns out your far-too-online personal trainer might be sneaking a red pill into your protein shake. The reasons are many, including a lack of trust in modern medicine and the pharmaceutical industry, paired with long periods of isolation thanks to the pandemic. There's also the right wing influencers targeting incels, who might be convinced their deadlift stats are the reason for their lack of romantic success. It doesn't help that the fitness industry often leans on "One Weird Trick" to promote quick spot fixes and instant health benefits, which can then sprout into other types of forbidden "wisdom."From just three weeks ago: Vanity Fair wonders why protein is so hot right now, and says "Blame MAGA."
Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Protein? Blame MAGA. From the Liver King to the podcast bros to RFK Jr.'s MAHA constituents, America’s infatuation with protein has reached a fever pitch--and it's undeniably gendered.How can it be "gendered" when we can't even say what a woman is? The left just spent $20 million to conduct a "study" at a four-star hotel while loading "mini lobster rolls" into their fat weakling mouths to figure out how to "Speak to American Men." MSNBC provides the first fruits of this effort, telling fat, weakling Democrats to go to the gym, not for the purposes of health, fitness, longevity, and self-improvement, but for the grubby, gross motive of being better able to politically proselytize to young men.
They literally cannot think in any other terms other than Marxist ones. Why do people go to the gym? To give themselves a dopamine hit in order to get them the struggle of capitalist oppression. Squats are the opiate of the masses.
Do you even vote, bro? Democrats should look for new voters at the gym.
"Speaking with American Men" is a Democratic initiative to win young men, a group Democrats lost ground with in 2024.
After losing big with men under 30 in the 2024 election, Democrats have spent $20 million on a program called "Speaking with American Men" (SAM) to help figure out which "spaces" they need to show up in to fare better with this demographic. A smart place to start would be the gym; the booming men's fitness market is expected to more than double by 2029, growth driven by men under 25, who are joining gyms almost twice as fast as women. And as SAM co-director Ilyse Hogue and I wrote here last year, the right has done an excellent job parlaying young men's healthy interest in exercise into an embrace of reactionary politics. But it doesn't need to be that way. Across the political spectrum, craving the surefire sense of accomplishment the gym provides is an age-old response to an unstable political and economic environment.
If you weren't so gross, people might like you more, so yeah, maybe.
And historically, championing physical fitness with appeals to American manliness has not been a partisan issue. If the SAM initiative is going to net the Democrats more than online snark, its leaders should appreciate that this history suggests the party's path forward might just begin at the gym.
You should see him on the Fire Alarm Lat Pull machine.
In the vast digital universe targeting young men, the idea that exercise is imperative to self-actualization is inescapable. It's most obvious in fitness-focused influencers like Ashton Hall, whose six-hour "morning routine" recently racked up nearly a billion views on X. But plenty of public figures with grander concerns insist exercise is integral to achievement. Take Andrew Tate's obsession with "plummeting masculinity" or Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s quest to make America healthy again. A commitment to early-morning workouts, Tate advises, is Step 1 to asserting alpha dominance. Performing pullups, as the septuagenarian Kennedy does shirtless at Gold's Gym, is proof of political power. Such encouragement spans the political spectrum. While it's become more common to see Republicans like Paul Ryan or Pete Hegseth flaunting their fitness, Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden often promoted exercise as a personal and policy priority, and former Rep. Jamaal Bowman went viral in 2023 for benching 405 pounds while wearing a Working Families Party T-shirt.
... For more than a century, in moments of upheaval that raise questions about what it means to be a man, men have reliably sought a sense of agency in exercise.This whole article is intended as Marching Orders to the left: Stop writing articles about exercise being toxic masculinity white supremacy or else men are going to continue voting against you. She's now reduced to arguing against the left-wing anti-health, anti-male narratives the left has been spinning out for a decade.
The social and economic roots of the American man's fixation on fitness date to the early 20th century. When the world feels confusing or out of control, make a man of yourself, beginning with your body is an especially enticing proposition.I should also point out that their idea of appealing to men is exactly the same as their idea of appealing to women. They appeal to women by talking about anxiety and empowerment, and, because they don't recognize any differences between the sexes, they're going to appeal to men with the exact same Empowerment Overcomes Your Anxiety and Neuroticism pitch, too. They can only talk about working out in the only language they know, and that language is: Therapy.
...We could become a nation of sofites, huh?
Although the white-collar careers to which upwardly mobile young men aspired conferred superiority over the sweaty masses, this prestige came at a cost: so-called "desk diseases," as 19th-century doctors styled them, marked by sloped shoulders and sagging paunches. And President Teddy Roosevelt touted "the strenuous life" as a way for young men to resolve the paradox of progress. ... The unprecedented prosperity of the 1950s, with its many desk jobs, televisions and time-saving appliances, ushered in yet more anxiety about the softening of the American male -- among members of both major political parties. Worried that the sudden glut of leisure risked rendering boys unfit for military duty, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration launched what would become the Presidential Council on Youth Fitness in 1957. "We are not a nation of softies," Vice President Richard Nixon warned at its launch, "but we could become one." We are not a nation of softies, but we could become one.
Again, "self-actualization" is a concept pushed in self-help books written for an exclusively female audience. But I guess that's the target audience for this article. It's trying to persuade wine-and-Xanax addicted left-wing mad women to stop "problematizing" male interest in working out so that they stop chasing off voters. So every argument is basically, "So you angry crazy-women like 'self-actualization,' so just think about the gym being 'self-actualization for bro's.'"
Given the many physical and mental benefits of exercise, the latest push for men to self-actualize through fitness is hardly a negative -- or necessarily partisan -- development.
Experts agree that exercise is close to a "magic pill" for its many health benefits.You don't say. Weird you took the exact opposite position during the covid pandemic the left created. So... do you have any GAINZZZ? My only GAINZZZ are starting once again to get GAINZZZ, at the very bottom of the GAINZZZ ladder. I basically skipped out on exercise for a year and now I'm reduced to the n00biest of n00bs. Gotta get some N00B GAINZZZ, then. How about you?
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Have Trump and Musk Been Persuaded to End Their Feud?
White House aides scrambled to arrange peace talks Thursday after President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's vicious public spat threatened to derail the president's signature legislative agenda, Politico reported. Aides had arranged a private call for Friday, according to the outlet, though a senior White House official told The Daily Caller that while Musk "has expressed interest in a phone call, the President does not intend to speak to Musk today." Staff reportedly prodded Trump to avoid insults and act tactfully, arguing a skirmish with the world's richest man would only distract Republicans he still needs to muscle the multi-trillion-dollar package across the finish line, while Musk hinted at reconciliation after hedge fund titan Bill Ackman publicly begged the two men to "make peace for the benefit of our country." "Oh it's OK," Trump told Politico, responding to a question about the spat. "It's going very well, never done better ... the numbers are through the roof, the highest polls I've ever had and I have to go." The president's nonchalant response Thursday marked a stark contrast to the ugly, days-long social media exchange that began when Musk blasted the "big beautiful bill's" projected $2.4 billion price tag as "pork-filled" and a "disgusting abomination" on Tuesday. The SpaceX founder continued to unleash a barrage of posts attacking the legislation's fiscal impact, accusing Trump and congressional Republicans of abandoning conservative principles on government spending. Trump initially fired back with characteristic force -- branding Musk "CRAZY" and threatening to terminate the many federal subsidies and contracts his companies enjoy -- but White House staff successfully convinced him to temper his approach by Thursday afternoon, according to the outlet. "I don't mind Elon turning against me, but he should have done so months ago," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "This is one of the Greatest Bills ever presented to Congress ... I didn't create this mess, I'm just here to FIX IT. This puts our Country on a Path of Greatness." The reconciliation signals became clearer when Ackman posted his peace plea on X, writing, "I support @realDonaldTrump and @elonmusk and they should make peace for the benefit of our country." "You're not wrong," Musk responded at around 9:30 Thursday night, hours after implying the president was implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking ring, threatening to form a third party and suggesting Trump should be impeached.
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Job Growth Exceeds Expectations for Third Month Running
The U.S. added 139,000 jobs in May, marking the third straight month of stronger-than-expected growth. With wages up nearly 4% and all gains going to native-born Americans, the White House called it further proof of a "BOOMING" Trump-led economy. Key Details: Leisure and hospitality led with 48,000 new jobs, followed by transportation and warehousing (+5,800) and construction (+4,000). Real average hourly earnings rose nearly 4% over the past year, far surpassing forecasts. Since Trump took office, real disposable personal income has risen at a 7.5% annualized pace. According to the White House, 99.8% of all job gains under Trump have been in the private sector--a sharp contrast from the final two years of the Biden era, when one in four new jobs were government-funded. Diving Deeper: President Donald Trump's "America First Economic Agenda" is delivering, according to the White House's Friday statement celebrating May's stronger-than-expected jobs numbers. "President Trump's America First Economic Agenda has created a BOOMING economy--jobs are up, unemployment is down, wages are increasing, and inflation is dead," said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. "More than 139,000 good jobs were added to the private sector in May, all accounted for by American-born workers." The private sector has now accounted for nearly every job created since Trump took office in January. That includes four straight months of gains in construction, while wage growth for working Americans continues to beat expectations. Real average hourly earnings are up nearly 4% over the past year. The White House also emphasized that under Trump, real disposable personal income is growing at more than three times the pace of Biden's final year in office. The report also marks a reversal from the trend seen under Biden, where government jobs made up a significant share of employment gains. Under Trump, 99.8% of jobs added have been in the private economy. Leavitt argued that this reflects a return to a market-driven labor force: "Americans should continue to trust in President Trump, who continues to beat expectations." Council of Economic Advisers Chair Steve Miran noted on Fox News that over half a million jobs have been created since January--all going to native-born workers. "The President is succeeding in creating hundreds of thousands of jobs."
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