Democrats Plan "Strategic Walkouts" and Disruptions of Trump's Address to Congress Tonight

The Party of Geriatric Teenagers plans the usual sort of juvenile theatrics.

For some Democrats, and that number probably included Pelosi, the struggle against Trump had become an emotional thing as well. She had pursued and pursued Trump, and yet there he was, still in office. The next day, after he was acquitted, she would have an outburst, wagging her finger at the president and saying that despite the acquittal, "You're impeached forever. You're never getting rid of that scar."

Fast forward five years. Pelosi is now 84 years old and walking with a cane after a recent hip injury. Her party is in the minority, and incredibly, Trump is president again. After all her work, after everything -- Trump is president again. Tonight, he will give an address to a joint session of Congress. What to do?

First, a number of Democrats have threatened to boycott the speech. That's probably not a big scare for the White House -- it will just mean proportionately more wildly cheering Republicans. Democrats realize that, and most will likely show up.

So, what should the Democrats in the audience do? A new Axios report says some are planning to disrupt the speech, walking out at strategic moments: "Criticism of transgender kids was brought up as a line in the sand that could trigger members to storm out," Axios noted. Others have talked about bringing noisemakers or props, such as empty egg cartons.

It's hard to believe Democrats will actually do that. Are they really that dumb? Who knows?

As for Pelosi, the former speaker is urging fellow Democrats not to follow her example. She wants them to behave during the speech so that they can't be criticized for disrupting the president. "Any demonstration of disagreement, whether it's visual or whatever -- just let him stew in his own juice," Pelosi told the Washington Post. "Don't be any grist for the mill to say this was inappropriate."

It's hard not to laugh at the woman who, while sitting in the most visible spot in the House chamber before millions of viewers, tore up the president's speech and waved the torn paper in the air, now advises her fellow Democrats to show restraint. The bottom line is we don't know what Democrats will do. They might not know themselves.

More:

Some more moderate plans include wearing coordinated outfits to make political statements, with the Democratic Women's Caucus encouraging members to wear pink, while members of the Congressional Black Caucus have discussed wearing black.

So they're planning on wearing coordinated color-coded uniforms, like they're cogs in some dystopian future hell, like they're the ugliest, least sexy people in the dome society of Logan's Run.

Keep that in mind -- anonymizing themselves by wearing Cult Clothing to dissolve their individuality in the acid of group identity.

The Democrats earlier posted Hive-Mind Cult-Like messaging of them all repeating the same basic script.

Huff
@Huff4Congress

America does not have 45 Democrat senators. It has one single leftist hive-mind with 45 votes, a tangled rat-king of corrupt midwit cowards, a programmed conglomerate of NPC automatons without capability of independent thought.

Mike Lee and Elon Musk want to know who is puppet-mastering the puppets.

Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, exposed word-for-word messaging from Democrat leaders in opposition to President Donald Trump's address to Congress on Tuesday night.

"Who is writing the words that the puppets speak? That's the real question," Musk posted to X, responding to coordinated messaging from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.

Lee, after years of former President Joe Biden being called a puppet for behind-the-scenes puppet masters, noted there could be someone other than them running the party messaging.

"It's almost like someone's telling Democrats what to say," Lee wrote.

...

Musk noted the leading Democrats speaking in concert make them mere "actors."

"They are all actors reading a script," Musk wrote in another X post.

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk also weighed in.

"It's all fake and staged," Kirk wrote on X. "This act doesn't work anymore. Sad!"

Musk added that "lazy" Democrats should have their own thoughts, not those of someone else.

I think this incident is very telling as regards the basic psychology of the left and the right.

The left loves to sublimate their own individual identities into an amoeba-like mass. They are the party that still can't stop talking about Fucking Woodstock. They love protests, they love "mass movements," they love unleashing their ids and destroying things as part of a mass of rioters which acts without reason or conscience.

The right prizes individuality and is suspicious of "mass" movements.

The Democrats are the party of French revolutionaries storming the Bastille and murdering political prisoners suspected of "treason" against the Republic. They're the party of the Communist Revolution and of Mao and of Pol Pot's attempt to bring utopia to earth by the mass murder of doctors, teachers, and all professional class workers.

And while they reject the idea vehemently, they're also the party of adoring Hitler and feeling greater than themselves through state-coordinated, party-enforced mass psychosis.

They're the party of the viral rage and instant Holy Crusades.

They don't believe in God, but they do have quasi-religious feelings that make them feel part of the greater universe. Those feelings, which these miserable people yearn to feel again and again, are felt most strongly when they dissolve themselves into a massive human protoplasm of thoughtless passion and inchoate rage.

Most people seek transcendence, a feeling of being part of something greater. Democrats reject the idea of a God, so the "something greater" they worship is the mob. The conscienceless rage of the mob is their unifying unholy spirit.

They're the party of ecstatic violence. They are poor creators, but excellent destroyers and razers and arsonists.

It makes perfect sense that the Democrats keep resorting to the same playbook of enforced groupthink and coordinated mass peer-pressure. They think these tactics work on the public because they know these tactics work so well on themselves.

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Head of FBI's NY Field Office Resigns Under Pressure

He was told to resign or be fired. He took the coward's way out.

NBC "News" notes that the head of the office is a #Resistance operator.

Dennehy had a high-profile battle with acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove last month, penning a defiant email to staffers urging them to "dig in" after officials tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 riots at the US Capitol were forced out of their roles.

"Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy," the email read in part.

I know what you're thinking and yes, the head of the FBI NY office is none other than deceased character actor Brian Dennehy in what may be his least-celebrated role. Well-spotted, Dennehy-Watchers!

But this may be a more acute cause for his defenestration: The fact that he failed to follow the orders of AG Bondi in regards to the Epstein files. She wrote to Kash Patel about the insubordination of the FBI:

Before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein. In response to this request, I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein's list of contacts, and a list of victims' names and phone numbers.

I repeatedly questioned whether this was the full set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents. Late yesterday; I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related. to the investigation and indictment. of Epstein. Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence oft hese files. 'When you and I spoke yesterday, you were just as surprised as I was to learn this new information.

By 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, February 28; the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office- including all records, documents, audio and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained. There will be no withholdings or limitations to my or your access. The Department of Justice will ensure that any public disclosure of these files will be done in a manner to protect the privacy of victims and in accordance with law, as I have done my entire career as a prosecutor.

It is imperative that Trump break the back of the #Resistance, and he is certainly acting as if he knows that. He waited for the leftist bureaucrats to get over their butthurt and mass nervous breakdown; they never did, and wasted most of his first term by thwarting almost all of his legal and popularly-chosen policies.

He's not letting them do that this time. Saboteurs will be fired. I would hope that one firing would act to encourage the others, but it won't; they will all have to be purged. Trump needs to remove the American Baathist Party from all positions of power and influence.

Finally, we're getting what we voted for in 2016: Trump telling bureaucrats "You're fired."

Wack-a-doodle blue state governors and mayors are scrambling to hire the fired #Resistance workers, which just further confirms that they always were Democrat operatives "burrowed in" to the federal government to do work for the DNC on the taxpayers' dime.

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Oscars Broadcast Notches Third-Worst Ratings in History

The normies aren't revolting, they're just sick of Hollywood's mental illness and toxic narcissism.

John Nolte:

Only 2021, with 10.4 million viewers, and 2022, with 16.6 million, fared worse. Sunday's pathetic 18.1 million is the third lowest since 1974, when these numbers were first recorded.

Nolte points out the excuses the media is making: People have cut the cord so they couldn't see the broadcast on ABC, and there was no big exciting movie this year like Barbie or Oppenheimer.

Note that the latter isn't an excuse. Yes, when you're not making product that people like, they're not interested. How is this some kind of excuse for Hollywood?

Nolte points out that the Oscars were available on popular streamer Hulu this year, so the "cut the cord" excuse also rings hollow.

To prove just how lame those excuses are, one need only reach allll the waaaaaay baaaaaacccckkkk to ... 2023 -- or, the year before last.

In 2023, the Oscars were not streamed on Hulu or anyplace else. Nevertheless, more people (18.7 million) still tuned in.

Oh, and in 2023, there was no Barbenheimer craze. The frontrunner (and eventual winner) was Everything Everywhere All at Once, which only grossed $77 million domestic.

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For some 40 years, the Oscars reliably attracted anywhere from 32 million to 42 million viewers without breaking a sweat. The ratings collapse began in 2016 when President Trump was first elected, which is when the left lost its mind and, along with its mind, the self-control required to disguise just how much they hate us Normal People. This definitely includes the hateful, alienating, and insulting world of entertainment.

...

So, in less than a decade, a show that was once something that unified our culture around our shared love of movies and had not dipped below 32 million viewers since 1974, is now unable to attract even 20 million viewers.

Hollywood needs some bright shiny new transgressive sex practice to champion, and they rolled the percentile dice and the results came up, Celebrate "sex-work."

So that's what they did.

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Zelenskyy Pulls a George Costanza, Claims He Was Just Kidding When He Quit the Peace Talks

The headline is a reference to this Seinfeld episode.

What? That? I'm a joker, you know that. I kid!

Zelensky reaches out to Trump after "regrettable" meeting

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has extended an olive branch to President Donald Trump following what he called a "regrettable" meeting in Washington. Zelensky thanked Trump for past U.S. support and reiterated Ukraine's willingness to sign a mineral agreement "any time and in any convenient format." His remarks come as the U.S. has paused military aid to Ukraine, and Trump has signaled a preference for peace negotiations.

Key Details:

Zelensky acknowledged that the Friday meeting at the White House did not go as planned and expressed a desire for "constructive" future cooperation.

He highlighted Trump's past support for Ukraine, particularly his decision to provide Javelin missiles, as a pivotal moment.

The U.S. paused all military aid to Ukraine on Monday, with Trump telling Zelensky to return "when he was ready for peace."

Here's the statement this stupid actor posted on X:

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський
@ZelenskyyUa

I would like to reiterate Ukraine's commitment to peace.

None of us wants an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership to get a peace that lasts.

LOL. Please.

We are ready to work fast to end the war, and the first stages could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky -- ban on missiles, long-ranged drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure -- and truce in the sea immediately, if Russia will do the same. Then we want to move very fast through all next stages and to work with the US to agree a strong final deal.

We do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence. And we remember the moment when things changed when President Trump provided Ukraine with Javelins. We are grateful for this.

Sure, sure, sure. Now you're grateful. Two days ago you were sanctimonious and entitled and petulant, but now you're truly grateful.

Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be. It is regrettable that it happened this way. It is time to make things right. We would like future cooperation and communication to be constructive.

Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it in any time and in any convenient format. We see this agreement as a step toward greater security and solid security guarantees, and I truly hope it will work effectively.

Zelenskyy needs the US. We don't need him. He's a side-show and an irritant. And yet he acts like he's doing us a favor in taking billions from us (and squirreling away millions for himself and his cronies).

Same with Europe.

Emily Jashinsky put out a video noting that America was tired of Zelenskyy's and Europe's never-ending moral blackmail. Certainly. And I'd add that every US citizens has faced never-ending moral blackmail from the unreasonable left for more than ten years -- going back to 2007, when it was demanded of us that we praise an unaccomplished "community organizer" communist as New Black Jesus.

We are tired of the moral blackmail, and it no longer works. It now provokes us and angers us.

Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke

The endless theories about Zelensky's meltdown--Trump set him up, communication issues, Slavic mentality--are exhausting. There’s exactly one reason this happened: Zelensky himself. He's a petulant, arrogant, entitled fraud who lacks even a shred of statesmanship. He got away with his act for far too long because Western elites indulged him. That ended yesterday. The world saw the real Zelensky, not the manufactured caricature. No further analysis is needed. One man's character flaws caused this. That's it.

Slava America, bitch.

Europe is pretending that maybe they'll send their tiny armies to stand down Russia.

Via David Strom, Italy's Giorgia Miloni says "Not with Italian troops you won't."

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Not an Op: 22 Democrat Senators Blitz X With 22 Near-Identical Messages
Now It's 23

Do they not understand that this is creepy AF?

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

These 23 Senators all posted the same word for word script.

- Alsobrooks
- Baldwin
- Blumenthal
- Booker
- Cantwell
- Coons
- Duckworth
- Durbin
- Gillibrand
- Hirono
- Kaine
- Kelly
- Kim
- Lujan
- Markey
- Merkley
- Padilla
- Peters
- Schatz
- Schumer
- Van Hollen
- Warner
- Warren
- Whitehouse

Who's directing them to post this and who wrote the script?

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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

In just a few generations, Hollywood has descended into a self-referential malaise that treats itself as the arbiter of all things, and has contempt for the people who actually fund their activities. You know... the shrinking population of Americans who go to the movies. They insist upon making movies that do not engage their former customers, preferring to make us uncomfortable with an unending litany of leftist talking points. Gay is wonderful! Transexualism is even better! America sucks. White men are evil. Women are better at everything, and black and Hispanic women trump them all!

And that's just a short list. Gone are the days of even grudging respect for traditional American values...family, church, country are punch lines now. And with an entire industry untethered from its customers, and desperately pushing the most caustic, antisocial, anti-traditional themes possible, is it any wonder that we have the best actress award winner enthusiastic about....hookers?

Mikey Madison wins best actress for 'Anora'

"I also just want to, again, recognize and honor the sex worker community," she said. "I will continue to support and be an ally. All of the incredible people, the women, that I've had the privilege of meeting from that community have been one of the highlights of this entire incredible experience."

And not just enthusiastic. Supportive! Because being a "sex worker" (what a vile euphemism) in Hollywood's warped and twisted worldview is pretty much just like going to school and becoming a physician, or accountant, or doing the most important work on earth bearing and raising children.

We should honor them? How? Give awards for best alleyway BJ? Or maybe there should be two awards...one for quality and one for quantity. And maybe there should be a category for bestiality? Pulling trains? All the stuff that is most valued in women by Hollywood.

In a sane world in which women are actually respected, rather than considered only according to their genitalia and what they do with them, prostitution would be seen as a terrible consequence of lives gone wrong. Our culture would work to make prostitution -- an incredibly debasing life -- something to be shunned, and a life out of which we should help people.

Instead, Hollywood rejects objective morality and simple decency and revels in the degradation of our humanity. How else to continue their and their masters' work at the destruction of traditional American culture? But concurrent with that almost total detachment from their audience and their revenue stream is the increasing disinterest in their product. Most Americans don't much care about the politics of a bunch of rich, under-educated mimics who seem to think that because they are good at memorizing dialogue, their nasty opinions about the President and fascism and transgender lunacy are important -- and should be shoved down our throats at every opportunity. And don't forget Ukraine! The darling of every ignorant fool to walk that red carpet, unless they like Hamas more!

The movie industry is barrelling toward collapse, and they are too stupid to see it. Revenue has been down since 2019, and when corrected for inflation the numbers are even worse. Hopefully some of the slack will be taken up by small independent studios that will respond with a product that Americans actually want to see. But they will need to recognize the change that is in the air!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Bathers (Summer Scene)
Frédéric Bazille

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The Morning Report — 3/ 4 /25

Good morning kids. First, late yesterday the Senate confirmed Linda McMahon to head up the Department of Education. All things considered, I hope her mission is the complete dismantling of this bureaucracy that has done nothing to advance the actual education of America's children since its inception a little more than 45 years ago. President Trump himself within the last few weeks has stated that this is something he was seeking to do. In purely bureaucratic and governmental terms, given that each state and locality have their own Education departments and boards of education, I repeat, what is the actual function of a Federal level DoE and how does it differ from all of the others. Ditto every other bureau, department and agency with state and local counterparts. Ultimately, it is emblematic and symptomatic of the anti-American revolution vis a vis the consolidation and centralization of power in a geographic and governmental location running completely antithetical to the philosophical and structural underpinnings of how and why this nation was founded. The anti-DOGE reaction is not merely personal against Trump and now Musk. The most efficient and accountable government is one that is as decentralized as possible since it is or should be as close to the level of the citizen as practicable. GIven human nature, that does not 100% preclude corruption, waste, fraud or abuse, but it makes it that much more difficult and politically unprofitable to be a crook. Also, it's not merely the waste and the fraud, but it's what the money is being spent on in the first place. It is our own destruction and/or enslavement at the hands of tyrants with their go-along-to-get-along confederates who are happy to wet their beaks at the public trough, regardless of the consequences. Hello, GOP.

With all that said, you have to wonder what the heck Pam Bondi and Kash Patel are thinking in how they have handled the release of the Epstein files. With another huge cache of files supposedly set to be released either today or tomorrow, again, you have to wonder.

As I write this, Attorney General Bondi and FBI Director Patel seem to be hostage to rogue FBI leadership at the Bureau’s New York Field Office in a standoff over the Jeffrey Epstein files. If Bondi and Patel aren’t provided, and subsequently release to the public, these files immediately, they risk collapsing their own credibility and that of President Trump. They are playing a very dangerous game. . .
. . . So, now, we are told, AG Bondi and her underling, FBI Director Kash Patel, in whom we have all held such high hopes, are being thwarted by dastardly recalcitrant FBI leaders in New York. Seriously? Here’s a tip to AG Bondi and Director Patel: You are not doing your boss, President Trump, proud. In fact, if you don’t change your ways fast, you might represent for him the best opportunity to impress the rest of the populace with a post on Truth Social directed to you both that reads: “You’re fired!” Harsh? Maybe. But how about you stop making public pronouncements about your displeasure with FBINY, send five FBI SWAT teams up to the New York office, seize all FBI files related to Epstein, and if a single Bureau employee so much as raises a tiny whisper of protest, sack him/her on the spot? Sounds like a plan to me.

On a different front and on a more positive note, someone that most of us had trepidations about is Tulsi Gabbard. But here, and on something that is crucial, she gets it 100% right:

In a sane political environment, this would have passed as a decidedly unremarkable, albeit not quite one-hundred-percent accurate, observation. The U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, recently warned that “radical Islamist terrorism” is the biggest national security threat the nation faces today.

Gabbard said: “We look at the past four years of open borders, where we had tens of millions of people coming across our borders, many of whom we don’t know who they are or what their intentions are, very specifically the threat of radical Islamist terrorism here within our country is higher than it’s ever been before, not only because of Biden’s open borders, but because of his and his administration’s fear of being called Islamophobes.”

For Gabbard to speak of “radical Islamist terrorism” was not quite accurate, as there is nothing “radical” about Islamic jihad violence. It is mainstream and deeply rooted in the Qur’an and Sunnah. And “Islamist” is a phony word that corresponds to nothing in Islamic theology. It is just an attempt to distance Islam from the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings.

Nevertheless, her statement was a tremendous improvement over the Biden regime. FBI director Christopher Wray testified before members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 2021, saying: “The top threat we face from [domestic violent extremists] continues to be those we identify as Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVEs), specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race.”

Indeed, as Robert Spencer alludes, "Radical Islamist Terrorism" is a triple redundancy given the nature of Islam as it has been for over 1,500 years. Of course the only reason to absolve by completely ignoring the bloodbath unleashed on this nation alone by the adherents of Islam and claim some mythological white supremacist movement exists as an ever-rpesent threat to the survival of this nation is for Islam's temporary allies of convenience in the Democrat Left to slime and smear those who oppose the multi-generational Leftist enterprise of anti-American counter revolution in the name of gaining absolute power. That is until whoever God-forbid becomes the mullah of and Islamic Republic of America gets around to using the rusty hacksaw on the necks of the Democrats. They'll be first to go since their ranks are chock full of Jews, homosexuals and other Haram infidels/apostates or whatever that will be given their one free Islamic flying lesson from off the top of the Capitol Dome during the renaming of Washington as Wahabbington DC.

In any case, we can certainly blame Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants, Obama and the Clintons for literally whitewashing Islam. But really, with the ruins of the World Trade Center and Pentagon still smoldering just after 9/11/01, when George W. Bush unilaterally declared we were not at war with Islam despite the orgasmic ululations of glee and the passing out of candy and wild celebrations in every Mosque around the world and every Muslim neighborhood here and abroad, you knew we were in trouble.

Also, as a bit of a teaser, Robert Spencer will be our special guest on the next edition of the podcast which should be posting sometime this Friday afternoon so be on the lookout for that.

Perhaps as crucial as Tulsi Gabbard's declaration is Mike Johnson will have a freed Israeli hostage as his guest for President Trump's national address tonight:

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has unveiled his full guest list for President Trump’s first address to Congress this term — including key border officials, conservative media figures and a former Israeli hostage.

Johnson, 52, is bringing Noa Argamani, who endured 246 days in Hamas captivity, to observe Trump’s speech to a joint session of both chambers Tuesday.

“I am honored that Noa Argamani will be joining us at President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress,” Johnson told The Post. “Despite experiencing the unimaginable in the hands of Hamas, Noa has demonstrated incredible strength and courage.” “Her return gives us hope for the safe return of all Hamas hostages,” he added. “We must continue to work to bring each of them home and stand firm against those who commit such atrocities.”

In a bit of positive news, a Yemeni journalist actually blasted the United Nations for the targeting of Israel.

Well, a tiny flame in a sea of darkness. It's something, I guess. Yes, high time got the hell out of the UN and NATO.

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
• Robert Spencer: Now comes the tough part.
  Gabbard: ‘Radical Islamist Terrorism’ is Biggest National Security Threat
  
• AG Bondi and FBI Director Patel’s handling of the Epstein files reeks of weak-kneed bureaucracy—Trump may need to remind them how to "get 'er done" or show them the door.
  Trump’s People Are Playing a Dangerous Game
  

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Daily Tech News 4 March 2025

Top Story

• The secret weapon of AMD's 9070 XT graphics card: It exists. (Twitter)
  
  Retailers report they have received more stock so far of the 9070 XT than of all the new Nvidia cards combined, including the unreleased RTX 5070.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Nvidia says that it definitely didn't pay for the obviously paid pathetic puff-pieces posing as previews for the RTX 5070. (Twitter)
  
  The 5070, which launches this week, is not headed for favourable reviews. It increased the number of shaders over the older RTX 4070 slightly - 6144 over 5888 - but is down significantly over last year's 4070 Super with its 7168 shaders.
  
  And there hasn't been much improvement at all on shader performance or clock speed, so... Eh.
  
  It will probably still sell out, but that seems to be more a function of supply than demand.

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Monday Overnight Open Thread - March 3, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! Thanks for stopping by tonight's ONT. You could have chosen anywhere to spend the end of your Monday. Since you're here, you must have run out of better options. Kick back and enjoy a low key, easy going time. Join us - if you dare!

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Stealth Stalker Cafe

by Paul Wilson Image

ICYMI: The Milky Way with shooting stars and visible satellites.

Premium chicken.

Cat gains the trust of an abused rescue kitten.

Leggy fish.

ICYMI: Dogs run free in the carpet store.

Otters taking a siesta.

Playing ball with a bull. And horses love big balls too. They're fans of DOGE.

Synchronized bounding.

Orphaned baby kangaroo wants to go in his caretakers pouch.

Poor old dog has an annoyingly zoomy little sister. This poor old feller too.

Another case of zoomies.

The Rescue.

The Vandals.

This is why any money spent on "cat toys" is wasted.

Terrific surfing from a Strong Empowered Female Athlete. No notes!

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Trump Pauses All Aid to Ukraine Until Zelenskyy Commits to Good-Faith Negotiations and Stops Dressing Like a Hackysack Hobo

Lucas Tomlinson

@LucasFoxNews

BREAKING: The United States is pausing all U.S. military aid to Ukraine until President Trump determines the Ukrainians show a commitment to good faith peace negotiations, a senior Trump administration official tells Fox News.

"This is not permanent termination of aid, it's a pause," the official emphasized. "The orders are going out right now."

The official said this is in response to Ukrainian President Zelensky's conduct over the last week.

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Speaker Johnson "Prefers" To Keep Feeding The Beast, Instead Of Following The Will Of The People

Because of course he does! There is always a reason to kick the can down the road, even though DOGE has identified a huge amount of wasteful spending that can simply be cut. No questions asked. JUST CUT IT.

But his masters need that sweet, sweet cash, and if it drives America farther into the abyss of out-of-control budgets and interest payments, well, that's a penalty he is willing for us to suffer.

Johnson Backs Temporary Spending Bill, Says Congress Should Codify DOGE-Proposed Cuts Later

House Speaker Mike Johnson said on March 2 that he prefers passing a clean government funding extension to prevent a government shutdown through September before working towards including cuts recommended by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in fiscal year 2026 legislation.

Johnson’s plan may help reduce the chance of a government shutdown looming ahead of a March 14 funding deadline. Republicans previously sought to incorporate the DOGE cuts immediately in an appropriations bill, which likely would have been opposed by Democrats.

“We’re looking to pass a clean [continuing resolution] to freeze funding at current levels to make sure that the government can stay open while we begin to incorporate all these savings that we’re finding through the DOGE effort and these other sources of revenue,” Johnson during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.

“And then for FY26, for the next fiscal year, you’re going to see a very different process and a lot more efficient and effective spending for the people.” [bolding mine]

It's always f*cking next year...next budget...next term...next whatever.

One of the great things about President Trump is his ability to bypass, or simply ignore, the meandering, maddening, insane, delay-filled process of getting things done in Washington. It is so obviously part of the grift that it is internalized in every federal worker, from the guy who swabs the toilets to the Speaker of The House.

Speaker Johnson needs to get on board with cutting, and if he doesn't, and I don't expect him to, it is my most fervent desire that President Trump goes after him hammer and tongs. The American people have spoken, and they like the idea of DOGE leading the way to a halfway sane budget that reflects their wants and desires for America.

And not in seven years...Now!

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#OscarsSoLame: Hollywood Appeals to Middle-American Normies with a Land Acknowledgment

Toronto of the West.

The Academy Awards featured a brief land acknowledgment during the ceremony Sunday night that drew scorn on social media.

Actress Julianne Hough gave recognition to three Native American tribes in a 15-second segment during the 97th annual Oscars ceremony.

"We gather in celebration of the Oscars on the ancestral lands of the Tongva, Tataviam and Chumash peoples, the traditional caretakers of this water and land. We honor and pay our respects to indigenous communities here and around the world," Hough said early in the Hollywood awards show.

The short clip was roasted across social media platform X shortly after it aired.

"Performative nonsense. Give the land back if you're so woke," Sen. Josh Hawley's communications director, Abigail Jackson, wrote.

Washington Examiner contributor Brad Polumbo exclaimed, "i repeat: give it back or shut the f--- up!"

"Do the named indigenous groups ever have to acknowledge who they took the land from?" Libertas Institute President Connor Boyack asked.

"WHHHYYY" former Democratic campaign strategist Evan Barker wrote.

Marine Corps veteran Rick Swift remarked, "Will she be giving up her home?"

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Boston's Woke Mayor Offers Condolences to Family of Man Shot by Police;
The Criminal Was Stopped While Chasing Someone with a Knife, Trying to Murder Him

We need an Escape from New York style plan for the blue cities. Wall 'em up, leave them to their fates.

An off-duty Boston cop fatally shot a lunatic who was trying to stab people at a Chick-fil-A over the weekend, prompting city officials to fall over themselves to offer heartfelt condolences -- to the perp's family.

The officer was in the right place at the right time in Boston's wealthy Back Bay neighborhood Saturday evening when two people being chased by the knife-wielding man fled into the restaurant fearing for their lives.

The cop identified himself and ordered the suspect to drop his knife. When the armed maniac didn't comply, the officer shot him. The suspect was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, NBC10 Boston reported. There were no additional reported injuries.

At a press conference after the incident, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu -- who has been repeatedly mocked for a cavalcade of harebrained "woke" schemes during her brief time in office -- somberly expressed sorrow over the demise of the would-be stabber.

"My condolences and all of our thoughts are with the family of the individual whose life has been lost," Wu told reporters.

Other lefty Beantown officials fell in line to grieve the loss of the attacker, with Suffolk County, Mass., District Attorney Kevin Hayden, whose office is leading the post-shooting investigation, offering "thoughts and prayers" to the unidentified assailant's family and friends.

Wu, 40, was lambasted over the summer when she proposed a plan that would give illegal migrants and children as young as 11 voting rights in determining how millions of dollars in public funds are doled out in the city, a move ripped by critics as "tone-deaf" and "unserious."

She also raised eyebrows in December 2023 for hosting a secret "electeds [sic] of color" holiday party -- which white officials were expressly barred from attending.

She refused comment to the NY Post.

Woke aristocrats owe no answers to the peasants they reign over.

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Tim Walz: Why Sure I'd Consider Running for President in 2028

Walz is answering Frequently Non-Asked Questions, for some reason.

Everyone is saying the same thing after Tim Walz says he's ready to run for president in 2028

The American people laughed off the idea of failed Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz taking over the Oval Office after he suggested he might run for president in 2028.

The 60-year-old Minnesota governor did not rule out the idea of taking on Republicans in the next presidential election when pressed by the New Yorker.

'Look I never had an ambition to be President or Vice President. I was honored to be asked,' he said.

'If I feel like I can serve, I will. And if nationally, people are like, "Dude we tried you and look how that worked out," I'm good with that.'

When the politician was then asked point-blank whether he would ever run for president, he replied: 'Well I had a friend tell me, "Never turn down a job you haven't been offered."

'If I think I could offer something... I would certainly consider that. I'm also, though, not arrogant enough to believe there's a lot of people that can do this.'

He then explained that if the circumstances are right in 2028 and he has the right 'skill set' for the moment, 'I'll do it.'

'I'll do whatever it takes. I certainly wouldn't be arrogant enough to think that it needs to be me.

'I've always said this: I didn't prepare my life to be in these jobs, but my life prepared me well.

'And if this experience I've had and what we're going through right now prepares me for that, then I would.

Walz-Kaine 2028!!!

This seems preposterous, but who do the Democrats have as an alternative?

Everyone imagines that Gavin Newsom is the front-runner, but he presides over a failed state that he reduced to third-world status. Can you imagine Newsom running on spending tens of billions on free health care for illegals, race reparations, and the government's right to trans your children behind your back?

Although he's smoother than the ding-dong Kamala Harris, he speaks in the same gaseous riddles that Kamala does -- Adam Carolla says she's imitating Newsom -- and he's got the exact same losing issue profile that she has.

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VDH: Zelenskyy Still Seems to Believe That the Globalists Are Still in Power in the US

Ten takeaways from Cruelty Appreciator Victor Davis Hanson:

Victor Davis Hanson
@VDHanson

Ten bad takeaways from the Zelenskyy blow-up

1. Zelenskyy does not grasp--or deliberately ignores--the bitter truth: those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those with whom he obviously does not like or seeks to embarrass (cf. his Scranton, Penn. campaign-like visit in September 2024) alone have the power to save him. For his own sake, I hope he is not being "briefed" by the Obama-Clinton-Biden gang to confront Trump, given their interests are not really Ukraine's as they feign.

2. Zelenskyy acts as if his agendas and ours are identical. So, he keeps insisting that he is fighting for us despite our two-ocean-distance that he mocks. We do have many shared interests with Ukraine, but not all by any means: Trump wants to "reset" with Russia and triangulate it against China. He seeks to avoid a 1962 DEFCON 2-like crisis over a proxy showdown in proximity to a nuclear rival. And he sincerely wants to end the deadlocked Stalingrad slaughterhouse for everyone's sake.

3. The Europeans (and Canada) are now talking loudly of a new muscular antithesis, independent of the U.S. Promises, promises--given that would require Europeans to prune back their social welfare state, frack, use nuclear, stop the green obsessions, and spend 3-5 percent of their GDP on defense. The U.S. does not just pay 16 percent of NATO's budget but also puts up with asymmetrical tariffs that result in a European Union trade surplus of $160 billion, plays the world cop patrolling sea-lanes and deterring terrorists and rogues states that otherwise might interrupt Europe's commercial networks abroad, as well as de facto including Europe under a nuclear umbrella of 6,500 nukes.

4. Zelenskyy must know that all of the once deal-stopping issues to peace have been de facto settled: Ukraine is now better armed than most NATO nations, but will not be in NATO; and no president has or will ever supply Ukraine with the armed wherewithal to take back the Donbass and Crimea. So, the only two issues are a) how far will Putin be willing to withdraw to his 2022 borders and b) how will he be deterred? The first is answered by a commercial sector/tripwire, joint Ukrainian-US-Europe resource development corridor in Eastern Ukraine, coupled with a Korea-like DMZ; the second by the fact that Putin unlike his 2008 and 2014 invasions has now lost a million dead and wounded to a Ukraine that will remain thusly armed.

5. What are Zelenskyy's alternatives without much U.S. help--wait for a return of the Democrats to the White House in four years? Hope for a rearmed Europe? Pray for a Democratic House and a 3rd Vindman-like engineered Trump impeachment? Or swallow his pride, return to the White House, sign the rare-earth minerals deal, invite in the Euros (are they seriously willing to patrol a DMZ?), and hope Trump can warn Putin, as he did successfully between 2017-21, not to dare try it again?

6. If there is a cease fire, a commercial deal, a Euro ground presence, and influx of Western companies into Ukraine, would there be elections? And if so, would Zelenskyy and his party win? And if not, would there be a successor transparent government that would reveal exactly where all the Western financial aid money went?

7. Zelenskyy might see a model in Netanyahu. The Biden Administration was far harder on him than Trump is on Ukraine: suspending arms shipments, demanding cease-fires, prodding for a wartime, bipartisan cabinet, hammering Israel on collateral damage--none of which Westerners have demanded of Zelenskyy. Yet Netanyahu managed a hostile Biden, kept Israel close to its patron, and when visiting was gracious to his host. Netanyahu certainly would never before the global media have interrupted, and berated a host and patron president in the White House.

8. If Ukraine has alienated the U.S. what then is its strategic victory plan? Wait around for more Euros? Hold off an increasingly invigorated Russian military? Cede more territory? What, then, exactly are Zelenskyy's cards he seems to think are a winning hand?

9. If one views carefully all the 50-minute tape, most of it was going quite well--until Zelenskyy started correcting Vance firstly, and Trump secondly. By Ukraine-splaining to his hosts, and by his gestures, tone, and interruptions, he made it clear that he assumed that Trump was just more of the same compliant, clueless moneybags Biden waxen effigy. And that was naïve for such a supposedly worldly leader.

10. March 2025 is not March 2022, after the heroic saving of Kyiv--but three years and 1.5 million dead and wounded later. Zelenskyy is no longer the international heartthrob with the glamorous entourage. He has postponed elections, outlawed opposition media and parties, suspended habeas corpus and walked out of negotiations when he had an even hand in Spring 2022 and apparently even now when he does not in Spring 2025.

Quo vadis, Volodymyr?

Again, sorry for the light blogging. I'm a little sick, and I made it worse by taking Afrin a couple of hours before bedtime. Afrin is a serious stimulant and kept me up until 4am. I knew it was a stimulant (I've made this mistake before) but I thought, wrongly, that it would wear off if I took it two hours before bed.

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The Treacherous Lt. Bearclaw Pops Off

This is Alexander Vindman, who had previously been offered the position of Minister of Defense... of Ukraine.

PETE SEAT: I'm just some simple Indiana boy, but when I watched this event today, I want to know why our ally is allowed to disrespect the United States of America, the leader, the current leader of this free world.

VINDMAN: J.D. Vance owes Zelenskyy an apology. President Trump owes Zelenskyy an apology for the way he was treated.

SEAT: For what?

VINDMAN: I demand it.

SEAT: What?

VINDMAN: I demand that they give him an apology... If you're going to go ahead and say preposterous things like Zelenskyy owes an apology for being attacked, I'm going to go ahead and say something outrageous. Actually, I'm going to go --

SEAT: If the price of -- IF you say that Ukraine wants peace.

VINDMAN: I think J.D. Vance should resign. How about that? We're just going to go throw crazy stuff into the air.

SEAT: If you say Ukraine wants peace. If Zelensky wanted peace, then he would have kept his mouth shut.

VINDMAN: He did until there were lies.

I'd love to have any legal pretext to see this fat m'f'er's financial records.

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THE MORNING RANT: Who Said It - National Review or Brian Stelter?

I’m traveling, so I’m just going to slap up a quick post, noting that the incessant sniping at president Trump from false flag conservatives the polite right sounds little different than Brian Stelter and other far-left partisans in the media right now.

The reason, of course, is that publications such as National Review and the Wall Street Journal now share the politics and the agenda of ABCNNBCBS and the NY Times. The only difference is in how they go about trying to protect the left-wing status quo against a Republican president actually implementing the conservative reforms that “Conservative Inc” once pretended to support.

One of these two quotes is from CNN’s Brian Stelter, the other is from National Review’s Jim Geraghty. Can you guess which one is which?

1) Geraghty or Stelter?

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which disburses funds to PBS and NPR stations, gets $535 million a year in federal funding. So any official who seriously wanted to achieve billions in cost savings would start elsewhere.

2) Geraghty or Stelter?

If you’re going to cut or preserve a particular USAID program, cut it or preserve it on the merits. Don’t fool yourself into thinking you’re reducing the deficit or controlling the debt in any significant way.

The answers are below the fold…

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Barges
David Bomberg

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