Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of The ONT

Howdy to all my gray box friends. Boy, it's been quite a week, huh? It seems that we are living in interesting times.

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Absent Friends Cafe

The Taiwanese Blue Magpie
Lovely plumage

Well that was tough. It was unbearable to hear. I cannot imagine what it was like to have to give that speech, thinking of those tiny orphaned children.

But I have a nice cafe for you.

Dog enjoys a hot dog at the game.

This dog loves exploring.

This dog explored a little too much.

Poor dog thought his cat-brother had died, so he tried to revive him. No good deed goes unpunished.

Talking to your dog, teaching him English. He does his best.

Dogs are greater propagandists than the communist Satanic media!

Penguin training.

The spatula-tailed hummingbird.

Mutt Mukbang.

Husky is a real chatterbox.

Compilation: Dogs sneeze explosively.

Dog demands affection.

Compilation: Some dogs are good at the "hands-in" challenge, others are doing their best.

This pit bull is very dangerous. Beware.

This husky is also a toughguy.

Baby skunks are cute little squeakers.

Rescuing a stray dog who just gave birth to a litter of puppers.

Some say dogs are man's best friend. I say, depends on the dog.

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Erika Kirk, the Young Mother Made Widow by the Left's Latest Antifa Assassin, to Speak to the Nation at 8:15 about the Martyr Charlie Kirk

"You have no idea of the fire you have ignited in this wife. The cries of this widow will echo around this world like a battle cry."

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You Too Can Build a Stronger, Stupider Vocabulary!

Some words from ExpressWriters.com:

Bumfuzzle. To confuse. Probably derived from the Old English dumfoozle, which is even better.

Cattywampus. I know this word as catty-corner, others say kitty-corner, and others, catawampus.

Gardyloo. Apparently this was the warning people in Edinburough would shout to passers-by in the street when they were about to dump their latrines (piss-pots, I guess) on to their heads.

A toilet in a castle was called a garderobe. It was just a closet of a room (a robe, I guess, like a wardobe) with a seat and a hole. The hole went down to a cesspit or else right down outside the wall, perhaps to fill the moat with brown trout.

So I think "gardeloo" must be something like "Look out, I'm using the garderobe."

Taradiddle. Nonsense, either twaddle or just a lie.

Snickersnee. A long cut-and-thrust knife of the 1700s.

Widdershins. Counter-clockwise.

Lollygag. To waste time, to lie around lazily.

Flibbertigibbet. Someone who can't stop talking, or who is flighty. I know this one from Erg's favorite movie, Joe vs. The Volcano.

Some words from Mental Floss:

Quakebuttock: A coward.

Usage: David French is a quakebuttock, though if that is from cowardice or sexual anticipation, I cannot say for certain.

Humdudgeon: an imaginary illness or pain; a loud complaint about nothing.

This is interesting to me because I've been watching British detective shows and keep hearing the word "humbug," but used in the sense of "a kind of hard candy" rather than "nonsense." Maybe the original word used to say "nonsense" was "humdudgeon," but then people started using the shorter "humbug."

Cuggermugger: whispered gossiping.

Is that related to "hugger-mugger," meaning jumbled confusion or secrecy? It must.

Another few from Mental Floss:

Bumfodder: toilet paper.

Well that makes sense.

Betweenity. Indecision, being of two minds.

Clinchpoop. Someone lacking the social graces and gentlemanly bearing that we all share.

Scarebabe. Something that scares a baby. Not sure why you need a word for that. Everything scares a baby, except a boob.

Ventoseness.Windy, as in full of empty talk, or full of flatulence.

Yex. An archaic word for a hiccup or burb.

More from RD.com:

Pronk. A weak or foolish person

Fubsy. Squat or portly.

Usage: Jonah Goldberg is a fubsy fellow, and also likes kahhk.

Firkin: I just recently found out that "barrel" is a specific size/shape of cask -- a middle sort of size -- and that different casks have different names. "Firkin" is the smallest of these.

A few very old words this I picked up from this very, very old dictionary.

Cheaping. A market.

I think I sort of knew that: "Cheap Street" in old towns means "Market Street." Not "Low Quality Goods Street."

Update: I realized recently that all of the towns in Agatha Christie books named "Chipping something," like "Chipping Cleghorn," mean "the market at Cleghorn."

Clutch. Apparently this means "claw."

Aha! So "in his fiendish clutches" means "in his fiendish claws."

Compass. "To compass" as a verb means to "search for something."

Copener. A lover. Like a copulator.

Couth. Known. The past participle of the Old English cunnan, to know, which survives in the word ken. Beyond my ken = beyond my knowledge. I guess "uncouth" might mean uneducated? Or it can just mean "unknown" as in "a stranger," or "a foreigner," maybe.

Dayrim. Dawn, break of day.

Frippet. This is a good one: a pretty, frivolous young woman. Almost like flibbertigibbet.

Sozzled. Drunk.

Swive. To copulate.

H/T commenter: bafflegab, meaning gobblygook.

Actually I know who said that, it was weft-cut loop. (Most of this post was written almost a year ago. I don't know when weft-cut loop said that. He probably doesn't even remember.)

I just came across this word, searching for a synonym for "ramble:"

pootle: to move somewhere slowly and with no real purpose.

Banana Dream added this one today:

unbosom

intransitive verb
1. To confide (one's thoughts or feelings).
2. To relieve (oneself) of troublesome thoughts or feelings.
3. To reveal one's thoughts or feelings.
4. to make known, disclose (as information previously kept secret)
| ...unbosomed his fear of dying only to his closest friends..

I'm going to use this in an engineering report somewhere. Just watch me. I'll sneak it in somehow.

I shelled out $15 (American) for a book called The Indispensable Dictionary of Unusual Words and I'm not eating that kind of outlay as a pure loss so here are some from the M's:

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The Week In Woke Waking Up

Some nice posts about normie liberals waking up to the absolute cesspool of murder ideation and mental illness of their fellow lefties, and declaring they're walking away.

Also, some various less-political normies who now feel the courage to say enough is enough.

1.

2. (Though she doesn't say she's a Democrat and might not be. But she's a nurse calling out the Murder Nurses who are praising the murder.)

3. A Christian who's always been afraid to speak up, speaks up.

4. As Kyle Becker remarks someone in management had "The Talk" with Katy Tur and told this braindead Tit Model that she was not allowed to advocate for murder on TV. I guess it's a rule this Keith-Olbermann Dick-Riding Whore wasn't aware of.

5. "I can't be a liberal no more."

6. The liberal who asked the last question of Charlie Kirk, about transgenders, was trying to prove that the left wasn't violent. Now he confesses that he sees that they are.

7. A guy who is almost certainly a member of the Rainbow Coalition says he's quitting the left.

8. Another gay man says "I'm out."

9.

10. Left-leaning woman with rainbow-colored hair and a nosering says "I'm done."

11. "I'm leaving the Democrat Party.

12. TikTok male says he's disgusted by the videos laughing at murder.

13. Gay guy goes off.

14. "Left-leaning moderate" woman walks away.

15. Black man is donzo.

16. Older normie Democrat male is out.

17. Chinese national says "People who celebrate murder is asshoe."

18. Lifelong Democrat and Asian immigrant says "I just registered Republican."

There is great darkness, but there is also hope.

Plus: Some brain-damaged Assassination Inciters Find Out.

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Some Thoughts

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald

The attempt to blame left-liberals for Kirk's murder relies on the same dangerous theory liberals invoked to blame conservatives for the white supremacist slaughters in Buffalo, Charleston and the El Paso Walmart (e.g., those who accuse Dems of "replacing" Americans with immigration inspired those massacres).

Everyone says bad things about the other side in politics. The left calls MAGA fascist and the right calls the left deranged commies. You're not responsible for psychopaths who murder in the name of your cause (it'd be like blaming pro-life advocates for the murders of abortion doctors, which liberals also do).

As Kirk himself said: "WORDS ARE NOT VIOLENCE. ONLY VIOLENCE IS VIOLENCE." Stop trying to convert words and the expression of views into criminal violence.

No, Gleen, it's not the same. We are not attacking the left for having differences of political opinion. We are not attacking them for having weird beliefs.

We are attacking them for celebrating assassination and murder. We are attacking them for calling for the next "pew pew" against the President Donald Trump.

If Trump goes down -- we are at war.

You are right that most words are not violence. But some words are: Specifically those calling for someone to be killed, or praising an assassin for killing someone, with hopes that additional assassins will emerge.

That is what we are condemning. I do grant that some people are making the mistake of attempting to criminalize mere strong political invective -- but what we're really incensed by is that Taylor Lorenz continues to praise Luigi Mangione for his assassination and absolutely zero people in the supposedly "Respectable" media have even so much as chastised her for it.

Indeed, CNN had her on to giggle about it.

Either the left stops openly glorifying violence and calling for Trump or other Republicans to be "pew pewed" -- their puerile, cutesy way of saying "shot" -- or the right is going to start publishing our own Pew Pew Lists.

This is not a difference of political opinion. We on the right will not have a "debate" about whether leftwing assassins are allowed to murder us, our friends, or our leaders.

That will be a civil war situation.

It's not up for debate. Leftwingers arguing that it is justified to murder me, my friends, and my family, and my president, are not offering a political position. They are openly conspiring to commit murder, and we don't debate murderers. We arrest them and, if necessary, we kill them.

The left cannot put itself above the social compact. The basline, rock-bottom social compact is just "you and I are in the same tribe, the same nation, and I agree to not murder you if you agree not not murder me. And we also agree not to incite our more dangerous, mentally-unstable members to kill each other, either."

If we do not have that, we do not have a country, and we are in state of war. The rules of society do not apply, only the rules of war and violence do.

Larry Correia
@monsterhunter45

These poor fools are missing the big picture.
When there's a killing the left always tries to assign the killer to the right. We're used to it. And the vast majority of the right always overwhelmingly condemns the killer.

Only this time all the moderate normie republicans out there saw MILLIONS of liberals celebrate and justify the brutal murder of a man... all because that man held beliefs similar to theirs. Beliefs that regular Americans consider completely normal and common sense.

These normal folks were going about their day, then they saw some shocking brutality, and before they could even process it all their liberal friends were dancing in the blood and gleefully justifying it. "He deserved it for believing X and Y." And that normal person realized that they also believe X and Y, so them getting murdered would be just as celebrated too. At best they saw a "Murder is bad, BUT... he deserved it for believing X and Y."

And the lights go on.

It doesn't matter how hard the left scrambles to put the shooter in some particular ideological bucket to cover their asses and take no blame (as usual), because regular America saw how fucking gleeful libs were when somebody just like them dies horribly, and they realized that the left wants them dead. Not metaphorically. They want you to die. Some of us have known this for a long time because we pissed off the left somehow previously, but for the regular folks coming to that understanding is a life changing moment.

You ain't brushing this one off, Glenn.

We are not going to have a debate over whether we are legitimate targets for leftwing murderers.

If the left continues to cover up for its murderers, to celebrate murderers, to call for additional murders -- then we will too. If it's the rule for one, it's the rule for all.

Tim Hannan
@TimHannan

1 guy acted alone and they want to go to war? It's like they just were looking for any reason.

First of all: He didn't act alone. He had accomplices, who all thought this was a nice antifa lark.

Second of all:

Shoe
@shoe0nhead

one guy acted alone. then we saw the reaction of millions. some posting with their full names and faces. teachers, childcare workers, healthcare workers, hr professionals, game developers. hundreds of thousands of people that walk amongst every day, who live next door to us, people i thought were friends, people i thought were normal people celebrating the gruesome public execution of a father shot in the fucking throat in front of his young children, celebrating because he politically does not agree with them. we saw their real beliefs when the " in this house believe" shitlib mask was ripped off. sociopathic freaks.

This is what takes this from being "one man's crime" to a crime supported by, encouraged by, and covered up half the nation.

Either murder is forbidden for all or it is permitted for all. We will no longer permit the left's asymmetry of privilege to commit "glorious revolutionary murder" because they think they're on the right side of history.

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The Democrat-Media Party Insists That It's Conservatives Who Incited the Murder of Our Most Beloved Conservative Influencer Charlie Kirk

You guys, you're the ones who created the climate of violence that caused a leftwing assassin who never read any of your words to murder your friend and hero.

Democrats accuse GOP for escalating political violence in wake of Kirk's assassination

Accuse the GOP for escalating violence? Not accuse them of?

Oh well, it's just a paid "professional writer," we can't expect them to understand how written speech and grammar work.

A growing number of Democratic lawmakers and political commentators have suggested that Charlie Kirk and the Republican party bear responsibility for the escalation of political violence in the country.

...

For years, videos of Kirk debating left-leaning college students would go viral, giving birth to the popular phrase of "owning the libs" used within conservative circles.

Kirk's death has garnered condolences from both his allies, like Trump, to those politically opposed to him like former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris. However, others haven't been so sympathetic to Kirk or his family, insinuating that he and the Republican Party is partly to be blamed for the rise in political violence in the country.

On Thursday --just a day after Kirk's assassination -- Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) appeared on CNN, saying that all Americans "need to turn down the rhetoric" which is inciting violence. But he also pointed his finger at Republicans for being the main culprit.

"Let's be serious about where this violence is coming from," Moutlon said. "Of extremist violent attacks in America, extremist murders 76% are from right wing extremists. 4% are from left wing extremists. I condemn that 4%, but we also need to be honest about as a nation, about where this violence is coming from."

Moulton's comments come as Trump has vowed to target left-leaning groups espousing rhetoric which he says is responsible for Kirk's assassination, and other acts of political violence, including the assassination attempt on his own life.

Former Biden era White House press secretary turned MSNBC host Jen Psaki had accused Trump of escalating the tensions between conservatives and liberals in his video addressing Kirk's death.

"[T]here was a line at the end that I think -- I just wanted to raise and read," Psaki said. "At the end of this four-minute video, he [Trump] says, 'For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today. And it must stop right now.'"

Psaki then stated, "And, obviously, there's a lot of rhetoric that is problematic. A lot of it is coming from one particular side and from one particular building. But what can be done, I fear, when this is an escalation, already, in less than 24 hours of this shooting?"

On Wednesday, CBS Mornings host Nate Burleson asked former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy if Kirk's assassination will lead Republicans to reflect on how their own rhetoric may be contributing to political violence.

Disinformation Expert Lizzy
@StarChamberMaid

CNN: Trump saying leftwing radicals are the problem is inciting violence.

More:

CNN is saying this isn't ideological but rather the "male loneliness epidemic"

Oh, perfect.

It's the videogames' fault, huh? Not the far-left internet radicalization pipeline?

The Reaping Phase
@AceofSpadesHQ

was the Trantifa Assassin radicalized on BlueSky? I don't know, but I know the repulsive Assassin Prep Media would be doing deep dives about Joe Rogan and Tim Pool if this were a right wing shooting.

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Antifa Assassin Captured

Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old antifa demon brainwashed by hateful leftwing professors, was turned in by his father who was a former sheriff. The father basically told the kid that he had to turn himself in and go to prison.

He looks just like the grainy pictures the FBI distributed. There can be no doubt.

He even has the five o'clock shadow I noticed.

The "cultural phrases" on the bullet casings turned out to be:

* "Catch, fascist"

* "Bella ciao" (a reference to an Italian song used by resistance fighters in WWII that antifa uses as military anthem)

* A confusing reference that is reportedly a tip-of-the-hat to the LGBTQ mafia's.... "furry community." It's something like "bulges, notices, OWO" which, they say, are in-jokes in the furry community. Garrett? Confirmation or...?

Update! Here's the explanation, from XTC, who now has some additional explaining to do:

"OwO what's this/dis?" is a Furry thing.

And combined with the *notices bulge*, it means that he found out a "girl" he found hot is a dude, and is even MORE into it now.

Posted by: XTC

In addition, we know of an accomplice that is so far unnamed and uncaptured. In discord messages, Robinson spoke with someone who promised to leave the rifle at a "DROP POINT." This might have just been an illicit gun sale, or it might have been a promise to leave the gun in the sniper's nest so that Robinson wouldn't have to walk it into the campus.

We don't know who this person was. Was it an antifa member with access to rifles? And what of the Person Place or Thing who promised that Charlie Kirk would be "vaporized" "tomorrow," and wrote a song called "Charlie Kirk Dead at 31"? Was this a coincidence? Or was this the person who promised to leave the rifle at the "DROP POINT"?

We don't know. Developing, I guess.

Update:

Now, it appears that Robinson did not act alone in the shooting.

Governor Spencer Cox announced during an FBI Press Conference this morning that Robinson received instructions on Discord to pick up a rifle and an engraved case from a drop point.

He coordinated with others on the chat group Discord before the assassination, arranging with a so-called “friend” to retrieve the weapon.

Posted by: SMOD

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BREAKING - Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin in custody

A 22 year old Utah man, Tyler Robinson, is in custody for the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Addendum [CBD]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

La Table de cuisine
André Derain

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The Morning Report — 9/12/25

Good morning kids. As of the time I am composing this post, the authorities are still on the hunt for Charlie Kirk's assassin and any confederates. Now there's a word pregnant with meaning in this context and certianly all the suffering, misery, dislocation and waste of human life and potential that that Democrat Left have inflicted on this country for two centuries. Yesterday in the comments I quipped that given the current wave of domestic terrorism incidents, I wouldn't be surprised if the shooter was either transexual or transexual-adjacent. So while the killer or killers remain at large dd evidently the weapon and some ammunition have been recovered at the scene hat seem to support my snarky yet potentially accurate assertion.

Reports from Steven Crowder and the Wall Street Journal indicate the ammunition found by the alleged assassin’s gun was marked with transgender messages.
. . . CNN noted the ammo was “scrawled with cultural phrases.” Breitbart News can report that sources familiar confirmed that the ammunition had such messages — like transgender and antifa — on them. 10 KJRA reported that Charlie Kirk “was answering a question about transgender shooters when he was fatally shot during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.”

I'm sure the editors at CNN regard "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" and "FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA" as well as this pair of classic Leftist/Democrat sayings: "COLORED DRINKING FOUNTAIN" and "WHITES ONLY" as cultural phrases too.

As I noted yesterday that Charlie Kirk, may his memory be for a blessing, one of the most ardent champions of free speech for everyone should be silenced as he was attempting to practice what he preached is among the bitterest of ironies to be endured. And it underscores the unvarnished harsh reality of the Democrat Left

Charlie Kirk is dead because the modern Democrat Party wanted it this way. They could not stand 15 feet in front of him and debate his logic, so they took the coward’s path. They put a bullet in him from 200 yards away. This was not random, and it was not isolated. It was the predictable consequence of years of poisonous rhetoric, media collusion, and a political class that has normalized violence against conservatives.

A would say to Rep Harrigan that it's not the "Modern Democrat Party" but the Democrat Party almost since its inception if not certainly at the point when Tammany Hall founder Aaron Burr needlessly and cold-bloodedly slew Alexander Hamilton. And the rest as they say is history.

Again, at the risk of being repetitive but I think it's a crucial point and one which we discussed on the past two episodes of the podcast and which I have raised in many an editorial lo these many years now, unless and until American academia is completely purged of the anti-American, anti-Western, anti-Judeo/Christian rot that not only created or at best nurtured the monster who took Charlie Kirk from us but the criminal savages murdering, raping and burning our cities and towns to the ground.

We must utterly, ruthlessly and completely destroy the Castration/Indoctrination to Assassination Pipeline of the Democrat Left. President Trump has vowed to . .

Trump Vows to Catch ‘Each and Every’ Person or Organization Involved in Assassination of Charlie Kirk

Unless that includes the NEA/AFT, the DNC Gates, Ford, Rockefeller, Macarthur and all the other Foundations that are funding our national suicide America will barely make it to 250 let alone 275 or beyond. Certainly not as it was founded nor as we had hoped it could be.

If I am not mistaken there are laws on the books in several states holding parents accountable for the criminal actions of their children, which came about over the past few years in the wake of the wave of school shootings. Should this law not also extend to teachers and professors who pumped their brains full of Marxitst propaganda and in the case of transexuals, the frankenstein doctors who pumped them full of powerful psychoactive hormones?

Along with the sick, twisted panoply of pornographic obscenities from some of this nation's most despicable wastes of life in and out of government blaming Kirk, Trump and America itself for Charlie's martyrdom, there are a few that are postulating that his assassination was indeed a turning point for the nation.

Some say positive in that it awakened the sleeping giant in all of us and others to the perilous and dangerous road we are on that Charlie himself passionately pleaded against, but I fear it might also be waving a red flag at the leftist bull in that its okay to go full Luigi Mangione on anyone and everyone that Leftists slime as Nazi/Fascist/white supremacist/Islamophobe/Transphobe etc, ad nauseum. Again, as discussed in the podcast about 18-39 year-olds alarmingly supporting socialism/authoritarianism in the United States it flies in the face of the rosy optimism of some of the pundits' painting a positive outlook for the nation in the wake of Charlie Kirk's influence prior to his being taken from us.

Treat Campuses Like Terrorist Training Camps Charlie Kirk is dead because 1 in 3 students support violence against opposing speakers.

Preach it Daniel Greenfield.

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.

Have a great weekend.

BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS




• Daniel Greenfield: Charlie Kirk is dead because 1 in 3 students support violence against opposing speakers.
  Treat Campuses Like Terrorist Training Camps
  
• Seattle Public sshools won’t let parents opt out of gender lessons. (And this is how we get psychos who slaughter Catholic school children in prayer and evidently Charlie Kirk - jjs)
  Defying the Supreme Court to Push the Trans Agenda 

• Michael Walsh: The following is the late Charlie Kirk's essay for our book, Against the Corporate Media, published exactly one year before his assassination yesterday and reproduced here in its entirety. 
  Charlie Kirk: 'The Falling Half-Life of a Lie'

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Daily Tech News 12 September 2025

Top Story

• AI use in large companies - over 250 staff - is showing a decline, with adoption rate falling from 14% to 12% since June, the largest drop off ever recorded by the survey. (Gizmodo)
  
  Which is not saying that much since the survey has only existed for two years.
  
  But not good news if your company was planning to burn through $115 billion in the next four years and just signed up for a $300 billion five-year cloud services plan.

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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - September 11, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Welcome to the Thursday ONT. Open thread, as always - also some fun and interesting stuff in the content. Glad you're here - now come on in!

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9/10-11 Cafe

Rainbow as seen from heaven

Another vid from Yankee Stadium.

Rescuing a dog with heavy metal. Not the song. I mean the excavator.

The Malingerers.

Arguing with the left.

A golden family.

An adoption story.

A self-adoption story.

Siblings play.

Steve Inmann, for some justice, which I'm ravenous for:

Brazillian beat-down buffet.

I think alcohol was involved.

Sloppy, but it worked.

Street justice compilation.

More street justice.

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Quicker Than Usual Hits

We will not forget and we will not forgive. 9/10-9/11 will be remembered as the left's Apocalypse.

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Trump Remembers the Victims of 9/11; Will Award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom; Vows to Go After "Radical Left Lunatics"

JusttheNews:

President Donald Trump on Thursday participated in ceremonies honoring the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the 24th anniversary of the event.

"This morning, we recall the light of America's best and bravest and the love they showed in their final moments In their memory, we make a solemn pledge and a noble promise: we will honor -- always -- our great heroes," Trump said.

"On that fateful day, savage monsters attacked the very symbols of our civilization," he added. "Yet here in Virginia, and in New York, and in the skies over Pennsylvania, Americans did not hesitate. They stood on their feet, and they showed the world that we will never yield, we will never bend, we will never give up, and our great American flag will never, ever fail."

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Oh No! This Is Just Turrible!

JTLOL posted this:

jimtreacher.substack.com
@jtLOL

"The real victims are the people who posted gleeful celebrations of Charlie Kirk's cold-blooded murder, under their own names" -- journalists, typing away at this very moment

Little did he know, the report had already been filed:

Wired exclusive: "Right-Wing activists" are naming, shaming, and doxxing the assassin-cheerleaders, and some of those assassin-cheerleaders are getting, they claim, death threats!

Oh no! You literally just spent 24 hours proclaiming that people should be murdered and now some other people are saying you should be murdered!

What have you done to deserve such a thing as this?!?!

You truly are The Real Victims Here!!!

What can I do to ease your burden?! Because I'm very, very #Concerned about your feelings of safety or non-safety.

Right-Wing Activists Are Targeting People for Allegedly Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Death


Extremists and an anonymously run website are posting identifying details about people accused of celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder online. Some of those targeted are now getting death threats.

Far-right influencers and violent extremists are posting identifying details about people they view as celebrating or glorifying the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. The campaign has been swift and widespread and has already led to at least one person losing their job and others receiving death threats.

It's "extremist" to name people cheering on political assassinations -- but not extremist at all to cheer on political assassinations. Got it.

What was it the left used to tell us when they still had the power to cancel us over Mean Tweets....? Ah yes: "Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences for your speech."

Pro-assassination murder-drunk lefties, welcome to the Consequences of Your Speech.

OUT: Cancel Culture.
IN: Consequence Culture [h/t Ace].

Posted by: Shain

PS, it's not the "Far-right" who supports this -- It's the entire right.

There is no more "moderate right." You shot it in its neck yesterday, vermin.

We tried persuasion. You killed our top persuader.

Now we're embracing socio-legal/governmental coercion -- exactly as you did, when you have the juice to do so.

Douglass Mackey
@DougMackeyCase

Take a close look at many of the groups we see over-represented in celebrating Charlie Kirk's death:

-Teachers
-Healthcare Professionals
-Government Workers

These are NOT radical blue-haired freaks. They are the highly-indoctrinated Democrat rank and file.

Oh no! What about their precious careeers, though! They spent six years in college pursuing DEI Studies! What about their careers?!?!

The left is out in force saying "pew pew" -- their infantile, puerile, cutesy way to say "shoot people with guns until they are dead and leave behind orphans."

But oh no! This website documents them saying more Republicans need to be "pew-pewed."

And they feel threatened when someone does something to make them feel like they're on a "pew pew" list themselves!

This can't be happening! It's just too terrible!

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Paramount Seeking to Buy Majority Position in Spun-Off Parent Company of CNN; Will Fold It Into CBS "News"

Mediaite:

Paramount Skydance is planning to make a majority cash bid for CNN parent company Warner Bros. Discovery in an effort to consolidate the media giants, according to reporting in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

"The bid will be for the entire company, including its cable networks and movie studio," people familiar with the situation told WSJ.

Skydance is run by David Ellison, son of multi-billionaire Larry Ellison who co-founded Oracle Corporation.

Skydance officially merged with Paramount in an $8 billion deal just weeks ago after CBS agreed to settle a lawsuit with President Donald Trump for $16 million. Trump had claimed that a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris was "unfairly edited" and put him at a disadvantage in the 2024 election.

Note the fear. They know that the monkeys have been running around the zoo shitting all over everything for 20 years and they're afraid that reasoning humans might put them back in their cages.

Dylan Byers reported that Bari Weiss might end up with a big position overseeing both irredeemable anti-journalistic outfits. He doesn't say if this is based on sources' statements or is just his idle, clickbait speculation:

Dylan Byers
@DylanByers

Very real possibility now:

Paramount buys Warner Bros. Discovery, unites CBS News and CNN, and expands Bari Weiss's purview as "editor-in-chief" or "co-president" to include both...

Speaking of CBS: Despite having almost zero viewers, CBS's despised morning show thinks it has the swagger to casually support Charlie Kirk's murder.

Nate Burleson says that it's time for Republicans to reflect on our responsibility for political violence. He also declares that Charlie Kirk "offended" some "groups," and therefore he's responsible for his own murder.

He shouldn't have "offended" special protected "groups" that are allowed to murder you, you see.

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But Trump Didn't Lower Prices Yet!: Inflation Comes In at Negative 0.1%, Meaning Prices Came Down in July in Absolute (not Just Relative) Terms

Trump has been making the case for months that we are no longer in Biden's "transitory inflation" phase. Jerome Powell never pre-emptively raised interest rates due to Biden's inflationary spending, and actually lowered them just before the election to boost Biden's chances, despite inflation still being well above the target rate.

Meanwhile, he refuses to lower interest rates for Trump, despite 1, inflation near the 2% target, and 2, signs of a weakening job market.

Well, inflation for July had been "expected" by "experts" to come in at 0.3%, for an annualized rate of 3.6%. Instead, they came in at -0.1%, meaning prices went down, and if this rate were annualized, prices would come down 1.2% for the year.

As I've said, the fed fears deflation because people will tend to sit on their money if they know their money increases in value just by hoarding it.

Will he finally reduce rates? Allegedly he's considering doing so for later this month, but just by a small amount. 0.25% or 0.5%.

He's a left-wing deep state ideologue so he'll do whatever he can to push us into recession.

Stocks hit fresh records Wednesday after new inflation data bolstered investor confidence about coming Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts.

A surge in shares of Oracle, which said artificial intelligence had fueled an "astonishing quarter," sparked a broader rally in AI-related stocks. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite rose to new closing highs, a day after all three major indexes did so.

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A gauge of wholesale inflation showed prices unexpectedly edged 0.1% lower in August, after jumping a month earlier. Economists had expected a 0.3% monthly rise. An equivalent readout on consumer prices is due Thursday.

"Just out: No Inflation!!!" President Trump posted on his social-media platform.

Unexpectedly.

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Some Thoughts on the Charlotte Murder

Note from Ace: While we wait to hear about Charlie Kirk, and wait for the next MSNBC incitement to leftwingers to assassinate more Republican normies, TJM has some thoughts about the Iryna Karutska slaying.

So, I live outside of Charlotte, NC, but I simply don't consume local news. I never have, no matter where I've lived. I'm just not of the generation that reads local newspapers or watches local broadcast news. However, the story of Iryna Zarutska has fascinated me, and I think it's partially driven by a small discussion my wife, Dolley, and I had when we first moved to the area.

We moved to the city's environs because she got a major job offer from a major employer. We didn't want to pay Mecklenburg County house prices, so we ended up settling on a house in a rural/suburban area in an outlying county. Then the discussion started about how she would get to work. She eventually just settled on driving (I work remotely for a company based in another city and can work anywhere), but for a time she looked into using the light rail, the same light rail that Zarutska was murdered on.

So, it's caught my eye since news of it first broke in the final week of August.

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