February 12, 2025
Slumpday Cafe
Venice
Feral dog thanks human for food. Puppy feeding time. Wednesdays am i rite But it's all downhill from here. Mirror Man. Lion purrs like a Harley. Misbehaving baby elephant is scolded and goes running back to mama. Beautiful cloud formation: I see a dog looking covetously at a bush he can pee on. The sun, photographed for a year and a half as it traces a symbol across the sky. FAFO -- But who found out?! Inman: Duck hunt more like duh, c*nt am i rite Gym bully brought his fists to a throat-punch fight.
Venice
Feral dog thanks human for food. Puppy feeding time. Wednesdays am i rite But it's all downhill from here. Mirror Man. Lion purrs like a Harley. Misbehaving baby elephant is scolded and goes running back to mama. Beautiful cloud formation: I see a dog looking covetously at a bush he can pee on. The sun, photographed for a year and a half as it traces a symbol across the sky. FAFO -- But who found out?! Inman: Duck hunt more like duh, c*nt am i rite Gym bully brought his fists to a throat-punch fight.
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Quick Hits
Dylan Mulvaney, the man in a dress who just joined Congress,
and Chuck Schumer
The Democrats are doubling down on transgenderism.
Not yet.
Update: It's also not "charges." It's a civil suit. I think it's to compel action. If she succeeds, and they continue to resist, I think then she could seek charges for violating a court order.
Lt. Bearclaw:
The DOJ has dropped the corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. The DOJ accused Biden of having manufactured a case against Adams due to Adams' complaints about flooding his city with illegal aliens.
Dylan Mulvaney, the man in a dress who just joined Congress,
and Chuck Schumer
The Democrats are doubling down on transgenderism.
And so it begins. Posted by: Guy who always thinks things are beginningAnd so it begins:
Newly sworn-in Attorney General Pam Bondi held her first U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) press briefing Wednesday where she announced federal charges filed against the state of New York, specifically Gov. Kathy Hochul, the state's AG Letitia James, and Commissioner Mark Schroeder of the state's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). "New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops today," Bondi said. Bondi's department has already sued the city of Chicago, the state of Illinois, and Cook County over their so-called "sanctuary" laws that shield illegal aliens from federal immigration enforcement. "New York didn't listen, so now you're next," Bondi said. "This is a new DOJ," declared Bondi, "and we are taking steps to protect Americans."Some earlier reports said that Alvin Bragg was being charged. He isn't.
Not yet.
Update: It's also not "charges." It's a civil suit. I think it's to compel action. If she succeeds, and they continue to resist, I think then she could seek charges for violating a court order.
Lt. Bearclaw:
Alexander S. VindmanCan't wait until we find a papertrail of USAID funding to him.
@AVindman Quietly, Hegseth announces a major policy change, ruling out Ukraine joining NATO. This is a complete capitulation to Putin, justifying his wars of aggression starting with Georgia in 2008. This will embolden Putin and undermine the interests of peace in Ukraine and Europe. A major blow to U.S. national security.
Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald This is always what DC does with its failed wars. Those who start them always blame those who finally have to end them. Everyone knew Ukraine was losing and NATO's "victory goals" were impossible. Since only Trump admitted it, they'll blame him for losing their failed war.
The DOJ has dropped the corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. The DOJ accused Biden of having manufactured a case against Adams due to Adams' complaints about flooding his city with illegal aliens.
I'm "meh" on this. Yes, Biden probably ordered the Code Red but they wound up finding a lot of donations from Turkish construction companies going to Adams. There's talk that Adams may change his party registration to Republican. He is polling badly in the Democrat Primary-- but could probably win the GOP primary, if he changed a few positions and actually promised to govern as the tough-on-crime mayor he claimed he'd be.
The Justice Department under President Trump has dismissed the bribery case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, citing political motivations behind the prosecution under the Biden administration. The decision follows Adams' claims that the charges were retaliation for his criticism of Biden's handling of the migrant crisis. Key Details: The Trump DOJ instructed the Southern District of New York to dismiss the charges without prejudice, allowing for potential future prosecution. DOJ officials cited concerns that the case was politically motivated and interfered with Adams' reelection campaign. Adams has shifted his stance on immigration and attended Trump's inauguration, signaling a potential political realignment.
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Amazon Releases Trailer for Its New Woke Piece of Crap
Everything at Amazon under Jennifer Salke is about making movies and shows for woke women only. Sure, every once in a while they get the order to do something for male subscribers and green-light a Terminal List or Reacher, but all the rest of it is girl-power nonsense like Rangz of Power or Wheel of Time.
Men like action movies. Women do not. Every man can attest to this. We try to get our ladies to watch action movies -- they don't like them. But leftwing feminist ideologues like Jennifer Salke want to condition men to see women as strong and powerful, so they take genres that appeal to men only and fill them with female girlboss characters. This is not done for entertainment or for profit; this is done strictly to achieve the feminist goal of making men comfortable with submitting to Stronk Empowered Women. This is so annoying to me. Men do not attempt to interfere when, say, Hollywood remakes Little Women for the tenth time. We do not demand that men be given more prominent roles. We do not demand that the movie be filled with Diversity Casting to better Appeal to the Modern Audience. We leave women alone to make what they want, and enjoy what they want. But leftwing women will absolutely not leave men alone, ever. Our tastes and habits and even trivial entertainment preferences must always be shaped and molded to twisted to the contours demanded by ballbusting, controlling women. Who is going to watch this? Seriously? Who is the audience for this? All the fans of Viola Davis who were just champing at the bit to see her in another knockoff White House Down shoot-'em-up?Posted by: Ace at 05:37 PM | Comments (509) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Kristi Noem: We've Now Clawed Back the Illegal Payment of $59 Million to a Pakistan-Owned Hotel to House the Poor and Oppressed of Tren de Aragua
Not only were we paying double the usual occupancy rates, but this hotel is literally owned by the government of Pakistan.
The media's new talking point is that Trump and Musk are presenting claims of fraud "without evidence."
No evidence at all!Not only were we paying double the usual occupancy rates, but this hotel is literally owned by the government of Pakistan.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has successfully clawed back $59 million dollars in payments that were inappropriately sent to house illegal aliens at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City last week. The hotel is owned by the government of Pakistan. "Secretary Noem has clawed back the full payment that FEMA deep state activists unilaterally gave to NYC migrant hotels. FEMA was funding the Roosevelt Hotel that serves as a Tren de Aragua base of operations and was used to house Laken Riley's killer. There will not be a single penny spent that goes against the interest and safety of the American people," DHS released in a statement Wednesday. The FEMA employees who made the payments have been fired. "Effective immediately, FEMA is terminating the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants. Firings include FEMA's Chief Financial Officer, two program analysts and a grant specialist," DHS released in a statement Tuesday. "Under President Trump and Secretary Noem's leadership, DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people."The media keeps demanding "evidence" that the Biden Remnant is spending money fraudulently. The Administration provides them with evidence, and they pretend they didn't see it. I mean that literally. The Democrats brought a blind man connected with an "NGO" who says he doesn't see any fraud, none at all.
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Pete Hegseth Announces That Manliness Is Permissible Again in the US Armed Forces
Pete Hegseth got up at 5am yesterday to do a little PT with the troops under his command.
Sean Spicer noted that Hegseth and Trump maybe want to draw a comparison between Hegseth and the "last two Secretaries of Defense" who "could not pass a physical." Indeed:Posted by: Ace at 03:23 PM | Comments (557) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Trump: I Spoke With Putin and We Agreed to Begin Peace Negotiations Immediately
More of Hegseth's speech:
More of Hegseth's speech:
Lord BeboUpdate:
@MyLordBebo FULL SPEECH: The US secretary of defense Hegseth says: - The Bloodbath Must End - Returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic goal and pursuing this false goal will only increase suffering - The US does not believe that Ukraine's membership in NATO is a realistic outcome of the upcoming negotiations - If there are any peacekeepers in Ukraine, it will not be under the auspices of NATO and not in accordance with Article 5 of the Charter - US troops will not go to Ukraine, US military presence cannot be part of security guarantees - It is Europe that should provide Ukraine with more military aid - 2% is not enough, Trump calls on Europe to increase military spending to 5% of GDP - The US is facing threats to its own borders and will focus on protecting them - Communist China is a threat to US borders and US prioritizes such threats - The US will no longer tolerate NATO's unequal defense policies that create dependency
Got willowed, but here it is - this Friday in Munich JD Vance and Rubio will lead a conference to end war in ukraine. Posted by: runner
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Cygnus Poll: Trump Has 42% Approval... From Black Men
The headline says this "dooms" the Democrats, which seems accurate.
President Donald Trump has Democrats on the ropes with his surging support from African Americans, prompting a poll to declare that "black men love Trump." In a new Cygnal survey shared with Secrets, Trump has a shocking 42% approval rating from black men, a massive edge over any past Republican president. Brock McCleary, Cygnal vice president of polling, told Secrets, "Forty-two percent of black men approving of Trump's job so far is no small thing. Unlike Democrats' approach previously, this isn't about placation or offering new attractive policies with no follow-through. His popularity and approval surges because he does the things he says he'll do -- and that's a breath of fresh air for everyone." ... In his elections, he has picked up slightly more black voter support than other Republicans, but since 2020, his support has soared as Democrats have turned uber-liberal on social issues. That led the Cygnal analysis of its monthly survey to declare, "Black Men Love Trump. The political realignment from November appears to be accelerating as Trump continues to make inroads with historically Dem-leaning constituencies. 42% of black men approve of the job Trump's doing, and 4-in-10 have a favorable opinion of him." The results match other recent polls, including a John Zogby Strategies survey featured in Secrets that showed the so-called Obama coalition swinging behind Trump.That isn't the only core group of the Democrat coalition that's abandoning the Marxist party. The CBS poll showing Trump with 53% job approval also showed young voters swinging to Trump. Voters 18-29 approve of Trump by ten full points, 55% to 45%. This is Trump's second-best age cohort, after only (buffs nails) Gen X, which supports Trump 56% to 44%. Even the Millennials support Trump 52% to 48%.
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Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed as Director of National Intelligence
Great news!
One down, two to go! It was a vote of 52-48 -- Mitch McConnell was the only "Republican" to cross over and join with his allies the Democrats.Posted by: Ace at 12:13 PM | Comments (675) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Wednesday Morning Rant
How much, and where?
Big news yesterday about cuts to the Department of Education amounting to around $880 million, with around $100 million of that specifically being cut from DEI-type programs. No matter who you are, that is a lot of money and I am glad to see it get sliced out. It does make me wonder, however, just how much money it actually is. With numbers this large, it is usually easier to understand it by looking at it in its own context.
So how much is $880 million, to the Department of Education? It should be a lot, because Ed shouldn't exist at all, but is it? Per the Department's FY2025 budget proposal as put forward by the Biden administration, I guess the answer is, "kinda." We don't do "budgets" anymore, of course, but we do at least pretend to track spending and per the linked document, the 2024 appropriations amounted to $79.6 billion, with Biden asking for $2.9 billion more for this fiscal year. Yesterday's cuts represent 1.1% of the 2024 appropriation.
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Mid-Morning Art Thread [Kris]
Childe Hassam
This is a painting of the busy street in front of the New York Stock Exchange during the early Twentieth Century. Today the street is blocked off to motorized traffic, but Hassam depicts a wide boulevard full of pedestrians and horse-drawn buses, taxis, and other vehicles. The Stock Exchange is on the center-left. Straight ahead is the Greek-temple-like Federal Hall building where George Washington was sworn in, and the Bill of Rights was written. This painting depicts symbols of America’s political and financial power in the middle of its most populous city. Childe Hassam was an American Impressionist. One of Impressionism’s goals was to capture a moment in time. The modern world was particularly attractive to these artists. Its busy lifestyle inspired them to capture its fleeting moments, to give an impression of what this world felt like. The rush of modernity, moving at a blur, was captured in fuzzy brushstrokes and hurried technique. I like the composition of this piece. The artist places the viewer high over the street, maybe four or five stories above the crowd, looking down and out over the crowded streetscape. The high angle dwarfs the human figures and makes the buildings seem taller. I like how Hassam decided not to put the viewer too high up. The vanishing point and horizon line are near the canvas’ center. To me, the buildings appear to loom over the street and the people, and me. They look less like buildings and more like cliff-faces. Hassam used a tall and narrow canvas that mimics the buildings’ height and makes the street seem narrow. In your mind’s eye, put this scene on a horizontal canvas. Notice how you lose the view and the impact. Hassam would have to either zoom the view out to something more panoramic and lose detail or zoom in and lose the deep view down the street or the buildings that line the street. Either way, the urban canyon effect is wrecked. Another trait of Impressionism is its depiction of color and light at a specific moment in time. In Lower Manhattan, it is near midday. The sun is high in a blue, cloudless sky. The buildings on the left have a white and gold shine. The buildings on the right cast a deep shadow over the street and people — but notice what else is going on with the lighting. Not only does the sunlight shine down at a steep angle so that the Stock Exchange is in full sun, but a beam of light shining down Wall Street in the distance also points right on it. Hassam casts two huge spotlights onto the Exchange. He wants me to see it, to focus on it especially. I decided to look this location up on Google Maps. According to StreetView, it seems that Hassam exaggerated scale some. Unfortunately, StreetView’s angle is very different (it’s street view after all), so my comparison is limited. Over the one hundred eighteen years since Hassam painted Lower Manhattan, some of the buildings have changed, but not the important landmarks. In the painting, the road seems wider and the buildings taller. Additionally, Federal Hall looks more distant here than Google Maps. I think the artist manipulated perspective and proportions to impress me. In this painting, Childe Hassam depicted New York City, and this location specifically, as a bright, clean, busy urban center. The mood is mostly positive. I see a lot of pride here. It also feels a little oppressive. From this angle, the buildings create this narrow passageway flanked by a long, tall wall that seems to have no end. I’m above the bustling fray but far below the canyon ridge. I think Lower Manhattan accurately conveys the sense of smallness I felt when I first visited Manhattan. This work is about the wealth, power, and prestige of the United States of America, and maybe of New York City specifically.
Childe Hassam
This is a painting of the busy street in front of the New York Stock Exchange during the early Twentieth Century. Today the street is blocked off to motorized traffic, but Hassam depicts a wide boulevard full of pedestrians and horse-drawn buses, taxis, and other vehicles. The Stock Exchange is on the center-left. Straight ahead is the Greek-temple-like Federal Hall building where George Washington was sworn in, and the Bill of Rights was written. This painting depicts symbols of America’s political and financial power in the middle of its most populous city. Childe Hassam was an American Impressionist. One of Impressionism’s goals was to capture a moment in time. The modern world was particularly attractive to these artists. Its busy lifestyle inspired them to capture its fleeting moments, to give an impression of what this world felt like. The rush of modernity, moving at a blur, was captured in fuzzy brushstrokes and hurried technique. I like the composition of this piece. The artist places the viewer high over the street, maybe four or five stories above the crowd, looking down and out over the crowded streetscape. The high angle dwarfs the human figures and makes the buildings seem taller. I like how Hassam decided not to put the viewer too high up. The vanishing point and horizon line are near the canvas’ center. To me, the buildings appear to loom over the street and the people, and me. They look less like buildings and more like cliff-faces. Hassam used a tall and narrow canvas that mimics the buildings’ height and makes the street seem narrow. In your mind’s eye, put this scene on a horizontal canvas. Notice how you lose the view and the impact. Hassam would have to either zoom the view out to something more panoramic and lose detail or zoom in and lose the deep view down the street or the buildings that line the street. Either way, the urban canyon effect is wrecked. Another trait of Impressionism is its depiction of color and light at a specific moment in time. In Lower Manhattan, it is near midday. The sun is high in a blue, cloudless sky. The buildings on the left have a white and gold shine. The buildings on the right cast a deep shadow over the street and people — but notice what else is going on with the lighting. Not only does the sunlight shine down at a steep angle so that the Stock Exchange is in full sun, but a beam of light shining down Wall Street in the distance also points right on it. Hassam casts two huge spotlights onto the Exchange. He wants me to see it, to focus on it especially. I decided to look this location up on Google Maps. According to StreetView, it seems that Hassam exaggerated scale some. Unfortunately, StreetView’s angle is very different (it’s street view after all), so my comparison is limited. Over the one hundred eighteen years since Hassam painted Lower Manhattan, some of the buildings have changed, but not the important landmarks. In the painting, the road seems wider and the buildings taller. Additionally, Federal Hall looks more distant here than Google Maps. I think the artist manipulated perspective and proportions to impress me. In this painting, Childe Hassam depicted New York City, and this location specifically, as a bright, clean, busy urban center. The mood is mostly positive. I see a lot of pride here. It also feels a little oppressive. From this angle, the buildings create this narrow passageway flanked by a long, tall wall that seems to have no end. I’m above the bustling fray but far below the canyon ridge. I think Lower Manhattan accurately conveys the sense of smallness I felt when I first visited Manhattan. This work is about the wealth, power, and prestige of the United States of America, and maybe of New York City specifically.
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The Morning Report — 2/12 /25 
So along came Trump and truth be told, I voted reflexively for him if for no other reason than to prevent a president Hilary. But here we are after the past three elections with one of the most unlikely of men who may as Newt Gingrich correctly observes "Be the Most Consequential’ president Since Lincoln For Taking ‘Sledgehammer’ To the Establishment.
He'd be the most consequential because he was at the barest of minimums willing to at least make the attempt to do so and while it is too early to tell if he will succeed, he is causing the heads of this multi-headed hydra that has consumed our society, our government, way of life, security and hope for our future lo these past many years and decades to explode in violent reaction. If he can starve that cancerous beast of its blood — Our money with which they use to forge the chains to bind us and in some cases the rope with which to hang us — then that will indeed be a giant leap forward in Making America, not merely "great" again but making America AMERICA again! But among the monster's most predictable reactions is an out of control and generally corrupt judiciary that is usurping Trump's legitimate power and authority under the pretext that he is abusing his and usurping the legislative branch's vis a vis the power of the purse. What will indeed cement Trump's place in history as truly consequential will be his willingness and ability to tell the Judiciary to piss up the rope it intends to put around his neck. If Trump can confront let alone slay the undead Demon that is Marbury v. Madison then combined with the dismantling, dismemberment and destruction of the shadow government that is the Deep State bureaucracy controlled by the Democrats and their RINO remora, will make him the greatest of Great Emancipators of all real Americans. May it be THY will, oh Lord. While I am not sanguine about the notion of relocating Gazans and/or supposedly transforming Gaza into Riviera Two, if for no other reason than it likely would become Beirut Two and perhaps result in a repeat of not only 10/7 but for us another 1983 Marine Corp Barracks truck bombing. The real problem can be summed up in one word – Islam You're never going to win hearts and minds with that madness coursing through the hearts and minds of the locals. And that's also why Iraq and Afghanistan were such abject disasters. It would have been like defeating the Nazis while allowing the Nazi Party to retain power.
At the very least, Trump putting this in the public consciousness along with the abject wastage of billions and near trillions of our dollars will change hearts and minds right here at home! And his going after the Dept. of Ed to me is also a big freaking deal. Preventing future generations from being brainwashed is also a big part of our Emancipation!
So along came Trump and truth be told, I voted reflexively for him if for no other reason than to prevent a president Hilary. But here we are after the past three elections with one of the most unlikely of men who may as Newt Gingrich correctly observes "Be the Most Consequential’ president Since Lincoln For Taking ‘Sledgehammer’ To the Establishment.
He'd be the most consequential because he was at the barest of minimums willing to at least make the attempt to do so and while it is too early to tell if he will succeed, he is causing the heads of this multi-headed hydra that has consumed our society, our government, way of life, security and hope for our future lo these past many years and decades to explode in violent reaction. If he can starve that cancerous beast of its blood — Our money with which they use to forge the chains to bind us and in some cases the rope with which to hang us — then that will indeed be a giant leap forward in Making America, not merely "great" again but making America AMERICA again! But among the monster's most predictable reactions is an out of control and generally corrupt judiciary that is usurping Trump's legitimate power and authority under the pretext that he is abusing his and usurping the legislative branch's vis a vis the power of the purse. What will indeed cement Trump's place in history as truly consequential will be his willingness and ability to tell the Judiciary to piss up the rope it intends to put around his neck. If Trump can confront let alone slay the undead Demon that is Marbury v. Madison then combined with the dismantling, dismemberment and destruction of the shadow government that is the Deep State bureaucracy controlled by the Democrats and their RINO remora, will make him the greatest of Great Emancipators of all real Americans. May it be THY will, oh Lord. While I am not sanguine about the notion of relocating Gazans and/or supposedly transforming Gaza into Riviera Two, if for no other reason than it likely would become Beirut Two and perhaps result in a repeat of not only 10/7 but for us another 1983 Marine Corp Barracks truck bombing. The real problem can be summed up in one word – Islam You're never going to win hearts and minds with that madness coursing through the hearts and minds of the locals. And that's also why Iraq and Afghanistan were such abject disasters. It would have been like defeating the Nazis while allowing the Nazi Party to retain power.
At the very least, Trump putting this in the public consciousness along with the abject wastage of billions and near trillions of our dollars will change hearts and minds right here at home! And his going after the Dept. of Ed to me is also a big freaking deal. Preventing future generations from being brainwashed is also a big part of our Emancipation!
It seems to me increasingly that the only way our now bankrupt academic community can be reformed is not by reforming it but by completely shutting it down. Either we fire the entire teaching and administrative staffs at these colleges and put in new people (as Trump is now attempting in the federal government), or we close these colleges down completely and start from scratch to establish new institutions completely free from this poison. The halfway measures we are doing so far however are not working. Too many people who run our universities want to teach leftist propaganda and bigoted hate. Too many are actually ignorant buffoons who can’t think critically and really know nothing about the history of our country and its fundamental principles of freedom, individual responsibility, and private enterprise. All they know is that they hate America, its white population, and want it all destroyed. Trying to reform such things just isn’t going to work, because the bad stuff is too deeply ingrained. As long as these people remain so will the cesspool. More radical and fearless action is required. It is time to tear these places down completely, and build anew.As I responded to this essay from friend and friend of the blog Robert Zimmerman about his desire to go absolutely scorched earth: It starts with the unions and then its the educators of the future teachers. That's what Billy Ayers was all about when he stopped making pipe bombs. But unless we can deprogram the past few generations of the brainwashed and prevent future generations from being brainwashed then a total purge of every Leftist freak in the classroom is what is required. How we do that while maintaining the Constitution is the trick. Solve that and win a Republic! 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
- CPS profits from family separation, turning child welfare into a billion-dollar industry where courts, agencies, and service providers cash in on every removal. It’s a racket that must end.
The State Sanctioned Kidnapping Industry: How CPS and Its Allies Profit from Destroying Families
- Daniel Greenfield: But USAID would rather throw out half a billion dollars worth of food than give it to Americans.
Use USAID’s Food Stockpiles to Lower US Food Prices
- A federal judge’s decision to bar Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from reviewing the Treasury Department’s payment system is most likely a temporary setback — but it illustrates the urgent need to secure a permanent win for transparency. Progressives are panicking because their 100-year, largely successful assault on American constitutional government is in danger of being reversed. Thanks to Musk’s wise plan to follow the money, he has a historic opportunity to mount a coup — not on behalf of himself or President Trump, but for We the People.
Make the DOGE revolution stick: Let Musk and taxpayers reveal what’s really in America’s checkbook
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Daily Tech News 12 February 2025
Top Story
- Average CPU speed actually went down in 2024, for the first time in twenty years. (Twitter)
There's a lot of speculation as to why, but no clear answers. The fastest available desktop CPUs are two years old, with no replacement models in sight. Meanwhile Intel has dropped its hyper-threading support - multiple threads per CPU core - which meant multi-threaded scores declined for newer chips.
But this average includes AMD chips which still have hyper-threading, and Apple chips which never had hyper-threading, so who knows?
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February 11, 2025
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - February 11, 2025 [scampydog]
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
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Snow Day Cafe
Photograph of the total solar eclipse of July 1991,
taken in Chiapas, Mexico
Puppy tries to take an even smaller puppy for a walk. Compilation of dogs covering their poor ears when the baby's crying. Doggos and toddlers. If you're not cheating you're not trying.
Photograph of the total solar eclipse of July 1991,
taken in Chiapas, Mexico
Puppy tries to take an even smaller puppy for a walk. Compilation of dogs covering their poor ears when the baby's crying. Doggos and toddlers. If you're not cheating you're not trying.
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DOGE Announces $881 Million in Cuts at the Department of Education; Trump and Musk Field Questions from the Fathomlessly Corrupt US Press
Trump and Musk both answer questions from the press.
What an idea, a government that says what they're going to do,
then does what they said what they were going to do,
and then calmly and candidly explains what they're doing and why.
I absolutely love the White House's communications. They are wide-open and responsive, even to their bitter enemies of the Communist Junta Press Corps.
Trump and Musk both answer questions from the press.
What an idea, a government that says what they're going to do,
then does what they said what they were going to do,
and then calmly and candidly explains what they're doing and why.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced $881 million in cuts to Education Department contracts, targeting diversity training and research programs. Key Details: About 170 contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences were terminated. The cuts include 29 diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training grants worth $101 million. The move comes as President Trump is expected to issue an executive order to wind down the Education Department.This is just the easy stuff, the lowest-hanging fruit. I'm sure he can trim another $2-3 billion without much trouble at all. DOGE is also targeting fake "science" -- allegedly scientific NGOs are handing out (taxpayer funded) grants to do "studies" on DEI and that crap.
President Donald Trump is taking aggressive action to slash taxpayer funding for politically motivated research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), following years of wasteful spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire reports that Trump attempted similar cuts during his first term, but Congress blocked his efforts. Key Details The NSF awarded one in ten grants between 2021 and 2024 for projects focused on DEI, social justice, or race-related issues, according to a Senate report. Trump's administration is slashing funding, leading to layoffs of up to half of NSF's staff and capping NIH administrative expenses at 15% of grants. Federal judges are attempting to block Trump's budget cuts, but senators like J.D. Vance argue that such judicial overreach is unconstitutional.This should put the fear of Musk into the bureaucrats:
Trump introduced the country to the leader of DOGE's tiger teams, a young go-getter named Mr. X. Note that the press and the Democrat Party and the Deep State -- but I repeat myself not once, not twice, but thrice -- has been running ops for weeks attempting to make Trump jealous of Musk, or to cause problems between them. They're a pair of Aces and the press is trying to get them to fold their hand. It's not working. They appear to genuinely like and respect each other.
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor #BREAKING: Elon Musk just announced in the Oval Office DOGE is investigating federal employees with high net worth despite low pay Many, MANY corrupt feds are sweating right now! Including Fauci's cronies
I absolutely love the White House's communications. They are wide-open and responsive, even to their bitter enemies of the Communist Junta Press Corps.
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Tom Homan: We Think We've Identified the Person Who Leaked Details of ICE Raids. That Person Will Be Fired, and Will Lose His Pension, and Will Go to Jail.
At least he says he thinks he knows who leaked the details of the Aurora, CO leak.
He says he thinks, but does not know, the California ICE raid leaks came from the FBI.Posted by: Ace at 05:45 PM | Comments (404) | Trackbacks (Suck)
FBI Suddenly "Discovers" 2,400 Records About the JFK Assassination They Previously "Lost"
3. Lee Harvey Oswald was recruited as a CIA asset to spy on leftwing pro-Cuba groups but turned out to be an angry, mentally-ill communist and wound up killing Kennedy. The CIA wanted to hide its association with him, so they covered it up for 60 years. I rate this is as pretty likely. I think most people assume this (at the very least). This is the least-damaging version of the conspiracy theory. The CIA recruits a mentally-ill angry young man and loser with a messiah complex, and that mentally-ill angry young man then tries to change history. We hear about "blowback" from covert operations. Wikipedia:
2. The CIA had a direct role in the assassination of... Lee Harvey Oswald. This builds off the last one. "I'm just a patsy," Lee Harvey Oswald said on camera as he was moved through the Dallas police building. The CIA, realizing that Oswald would talk up his connections to the CIA, even if fairly insubstantial, recruited strip-joint owner Jack Ruby to kill Oswald to silence him. Ruby was later diagnosed with lung cancer, which he died from in 1967. Did he already know he was dying? Conspiracists think he knew he had lung cancer and that's why the CIA was able to convince him to kill Oswald and take the fall -- he was dying anyway, and the CIA would pay a lot of money to his family members. I don't know about this one. It always seemed strange that this dirtbag just decided to execute Lee Harvey Oswald because, as he claimed, he wanted to spare Jacqueline Onasis of the heartache of Oswald's trial. I mean: Sure. Whatever, dude. 1. Oswald was part of a team of assassins the CIA hired to kill Kennedy, and was the only one caught. (Or the designated "patsy.") This is obviously the one that JFK assassination buffs really want to prove. I've always doubted this one. To kill Kennedy, the plotters wouldn't have to just kill Kennedy. They'd have also have had to secure permission to kill him from the man who'd replace Kennedy, LBJ, and RFK the Attorney General. You can't get away with killing a president if you don't have the government pre-corrupted to do a slipshod job of investigating and guarantee you they will throw the case and let you get away with it. This last part is why I've doubted these claims since I first got interested in them in high school. Can it really be that most of the top echelon of government, the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, etc., were all on-board with killing him? Could you really have a Conspiracy So Vast that it would make Hillary Clinton blush? And note that the theory that Oswald was part of the conspiracy but a designated patsy conflicts with the theory that he was a CIA asset. If he's a CIA asset, you wouldn't want him for the patsy. It can be traced back to the CIA. What do you think?
The FBI just discovered about 2,400 records tied to President Kennedy's assassination that were never provided to a board tasked with reviewing and disclosing the documents, Axios has learned. The still-secret records are contained in 14,000 pages of documents the FBI found in a review triggered by President Trump's Jan. 23 executive order demanding the release of all JFK assassination records. Why it matters: The discovery -- 61 years after Kennedy was killed in Dallas -- follows decades of government reluctance to release all documents related to the assassination, which fueled a mountain of conspiracy theories. The existence of the new documents was disclosed Friday to the White House, when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence submitted its plan to disclose the assassination records under Trump's order. Zoom in: The contents of the newly found records are closely held secrets. The three sources who relayed their existence to Axios said they hadn't seen the documents. But the discovery of thousands of records on one of the most scrutinized events in U.S. history is likely to raise questions about the procedures for vetting and releasing information across the entire government.Here are the four possibilities that I see, ranked from least damaging to most damaging. I'm at the point where I'm hoping for "most damaging." 4. Nothing important is disclosed -- there is no there there. I think there's a good chance that we find out that the Warren Report was basically accurate. I was into JFK assassination stuff in high school. A lot of the case for conspiracy is built on questions of irregularities in procedures or paperwork. For example, the emergency room doctor who treated Kennedy put in his notes that there was a bullet wound in his high upper back. But the Warren Report said that the "Magic Bullet" went through his neck, not his back. The implication -- or explicit claim -- was that the ER doctor's notes were accurate, but the Warren Commission needed to lie about the Magic Bullet passing through Kennedy's neck, so they just moved the wound. My last belief in the assassination conspiracy theory was ended by the OJ Simpson trial. I watched as the defense alleged a Conspiracy So Vast, and built their case on various claims of irregularities or unanswered questions -- why was there some kind of blood preservative found in the vials of blood recovered from the crime scene? (Or whatever it was -- I'm hazy on it now.) So the OJ Simpson trial convinced me that in any investigation, if you ask questions about every single bit of paperwork or evidence, you can manufacture doubt where there's really, absolutely no doubt at all. It made me re-evaluate how suspicious -- or non-suspicious -- it is to find tiny discrepancies in paperwork or witness accounts. They're always going to be there. Always.
"This is huge. It shows the FBI is taking this seriously," said Jefferson Morley, an expert on the assassination and vice president of the nonpartisan Mary Ferrell Foundation, the nation's largest source of online records of Kennedy's killing. He sued the U.S. government for more records.
"The FBI is finally saying, 'Let's respond to the president's order,' instead of keeping the secrecy going," Morley said.
3. Lee Harvey Oswald was recruited as a CIA asset to spy on leftwing pro-Cuba groups but turned out to be an angry, mentally-ill communist and wound up killing Kennedy. The CIA wanted to hide its association with him, so they covered it up for 60 years. I rate this is as pretty likely. I think most people assume this (at the very least). This is the least-damaging version of the conspiracy theory. The CIA recruits a mentally-ill angry young man and loser with a messiah complex, and that mentally-ill angry young man then tries to change history. We hear about "blowback" from covert operations. Wikipedia:
Blowback is the unintended consequences and unwanted side-effects of a covert operation. To the civilians suffering the blowback of covert operations, the effect typically manifests itself as "random" acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public--in whose name the intelligence agency acted--are unaware of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge (counter-attack) against them.So, if this turns out to be true, the CIA's covert op against anti-Castro groups winds up producing a CIA-connected-and-protected asset killing the CIA's boss. Obviously, these "patriots' then cover up any connection they have with Oswald.
2. The CIA had a direct role in the assassination of... Lee Harvey Oswald. This builds off the last one. "I'm just a patsy," Lee Harvey Oswald said on camera as he was moved through the Dallas police building. The CIA, realizing that Oswald would talk up his connections to the CIA, even if fairly insubstantial, recruited strip-joint owner Jack Ruby to kill Oswald to silence him. Ruby was later diagnosed with lung cancer, which he died from in 1967. Did he already know he was dying? Conspiracists think he knew he had lung cancer and that's why the CIA was able to convince him to kill Oswald and take the fall -- he was dying anyway, and the CIA would pay a lot of money to his family members. I don't know about this one. It always seemed strange that this dirtbag just decided to execute Lee Harvey Oswald because, as he claimed, he wanted to spare Jacqueline Onasis of the heartache of Oswald's trial. I mean: Sure. Whatever, dude. 1. Oswald was part of a team of assassins the CIA hired to kill Kennedy, and was the only one caught. (Or the designated "patsy.") This is obviously the one that JFK assassination buffs really want to prove. I've always doubted this one. To kill Kennedy, the plotters wouldn't have to just kill Kennedy. They'd have also have had to secure permission to kill him from the man who'd replace Kennedy, LBJ, and RFK the Attorney General. You can't get away with killing a president if you don't have the government pre-corrupted to do a slipshod job of investigating and guarantee you they will throw the case and let you get away with it. This last part is why I've doubted these claims since I first got interested in them in high school. Can it really be that most of the top echelon of government, the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA, etc., were all on-board with killing him? Could you really have a Conspiracy So Vast that it would make Hillary Clinton blush? And note that the theory that Oswald was part of the conspiracy but a designated patsy conflicts with the theory that he was a CIA asset. If he's a CIA asset, you wouldn't want him for the patsy. It can be traced back to the CIA. What do you think?
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Nancy Mace Alleges Her Ex-Fiance and Three Other Men R*ped Her
Her allegations are specific and one assumes she has evidence of them. She alleges these men were taking secret photos of women while undressed and that they drugged Nancy Mace and took advantage of her.
But she says the state of South Carolina threatened to investigate her.
This... Well, there's definitely bad behavior going on here on someone's part. Either Mace is a bad actor and making herself out to be Joan of Arc, or South Carolina officials are protecting sex criminals.
So this statement is 100% true -- but it's also 100% true of most leftwing feminists, who constantly allege that they have been sexually assaulted. Has the Times ever accused leftwing feminists of making rape part of their brand?
Representative Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican who in recent weeks has floated a run for governor, on Monday night accused her former fiancé and three other men of having drugged and raped her and other women, and of filming and taking lewd photographs of women and underage girls without their consent. In a stunningly graphic speech on the House floor that had little precedent, Ms. Mace said the men, whom she named and displayed photographs of on a placard where lawmakers more typically display charts and graphs on policy issues, were involved in the "premeditated, calculated exploitation of innocent women and girls in my district." "You've booked yourself a one-way ticket to hell," she said, referring to the men directly at one point in a speech that lasted close to an hour. "It is nonstop. There are no connections. So I and all of your victims can watch you rot into eternity." On the floor of the House, Ms. Mace was protected by the speech and debate clause, even as she accused the men of repeatedly assaulting incapacitated women and filming it. The clause provides lawmakers immunity from criminal prosecutions or civil suits, such as for slander, when they are acting "within the legislative sphere." Ms. Mace offered no evidence to support the accusations, although she said she had plenty of such material. She refused to answer any follow-up questions from reporters outside the Capitol on Monday night and did not respond to a separate request to provide corroboration. The New York Times has not independently verified any of the allegations. In a statement not long after Ms. Mace finished speaking, Patrick Bryant, the former fiancé whom she accused by name, denied her account. "I categorically deny these allegations," he said. "I take this matter seriously and will cooperate fully with any necessary legal processes to clear my name." Ms. Mace has long made her personal trauma part of her political brand.
Nice, NYT. Say, have you ever pointed out that Hillary Clinton poses as a hero of women while defending her credibly-accused rapist husband? Or that Kamala Harris ran on protecting women from Trump while her husband was slapping girlfriends and knocking up nannies?
In the past, she has shared the story of being molested at a swimming pool when she was 14 and said that for years she blamed herself, because she had been wearing a two-piece bathing suit. She said she was raped when she was 16, leading her to drop out of high school, before pulling herself out of a downward spiral and becoming the first woman to graduate from the military college the Citadel. Ms. Mace has tried to position herself as the ultimate defender of women's rights, even as she has expressed unequivocal support for President Trump, who has been found liable for sexual abuse, and a cabinet member who has been dogged by an accusation of sexual assault that he has denied.
In recent weeks, Ms. Mace has made a campaign out of her measure to bar transgender individuals from using women's restrooms and changing rooms in the Capitol complex. A onetime moderate who has made a full-bore turn to Trumpism as she has tried to game out her own political future in a tribal party, Ms. Mace has been vocal in recent weeks about her interest in running for governor in her state. So has Alan Wilson, the South Carolina attorney general, whom she targeted in her speech on Monday as a "do-nothing attorney general" and accused of treating women who came forward like criminals. "During the last year, as I turned everything over to law enforcement, I was told I, as a victim, would be investigated," she said. A spokeswoman for Mr. Wilson, Jaqueline Lane, said that Ms. Mace's statements regarding the conduct of the attorney general were "categorically false" and "politically motivated." "At this time, our office has not received any reports or requests for assistance from any law enforcement or prosecution agencies regarding these matters," said Ms. Lane, who added that neither Mr. Wilson nor anyone in his office had heard of Ms. Mace's allegations until she spoke out on Monday night.
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Kristi Noem and Trump Fire the FEMA CFO Who Defied Trump's Order and Illegally Sent $59 Million to Luxury Hotels to Shelter Illegal Aliens
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson BREAKING: This is Big. Senior DHS Official has just confirmed to me that FEMA's Chief Financial Officer Mary Comans was just fired for illegally funding migrant luxury hotels in NYC against the orders of President Trump. Comans is arguably most powerful person at FEMA, controlling billions in funding. "Effective immediately, FEMA is terminating the employment of four individuals for circumventing leadership to unilaterally make egregious payments for luxury NYC hotels for migrants. Firings include FEMA's Chief Financial Officer, two program analysts and a grant specialist.
Under President Trump and Secretary Noem's leadership, DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people." This is an earthquake
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Google Calendar Deletes Black History Month and, Get This, "Pride" Month; Google Maps Includes the "Gulf of America"
LOL. I mean they are, but not in the way these idiots think. Here's Google's explanation: They tried meet the left's demand for an identity-based holiday every other day, but found it was impossible to keep up when the left just kept adding more and more Identity Days to the calendar.
Google Calendar has removed cultural celebrations like Black History Month, Women's History Month and Pride Month as President Trump cracks down on diversity, equity and inclusion policies. The calendar has also erased Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day and Hispanic Heritage Month from its pages, as earlier reported by The Verge. Google users attacked the calendar changes, and accused the tech company of trying to curry favor with Trump. "Calendar used to capitulate to fascism," one user wrote on Google's Calendar Help page. "This is shameful. Reinstate these calendar dates!!!" "These bootlickers have immediately shown us who they are," another user wrote on the help page. "I thought I was the only one who noticed! Let's spread the word! Google are Nazi sympathizers."
... "Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world," a Google spokesperson told The Post in a statement. "We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing -- and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn't scalable or sustainable," the spokesperson added Those who wish to include additional holidays can subscribe to a third-party calendar, import calendar events or create their own events, Google said.Earlier Google announced they were "curbing" DEI. Given the fact that it's illegal, and Trump won't be rewarding lawbreakers as Biden did.
... On Monday, Google officially switched the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America" on its Maps app. Trump's preferred title will only be seen for those searching in the US.
The company said it will also revert back to using Mount McKinley, not Denali, for the mountain in Alaska per Trump's executive order.
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