Sunday Overnight Open Thread (4/28/24)

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The Quotes of The Day

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“Many companies rushed in too fast with E.V.s that were too expensive and there was not as much of a market for them as they thought. That’s made it a lot tougher to sell those vehicles.” Sam Abuelsamid, transportation and mobility analyst at research firm Guidehouse Insights

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“It’s also not keeping with our universal health care. This should be a service that is provided and is covered by our health-care system. If people are feeling that they need to turn to private clinics for medical reasons, I see that as very problematic.” Dr. Heather Scott, head of the IWK’s division of obstetrics

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The Comments of The Week

Once again I have the difficult task of presenting to you the Best Comments on The Webz. Thank you each and every commenter.

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Gun Thread: End of April Edition!

Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!

Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving hell did it get to be the end of April Gun Thread? Next thing you know it will be the first Gun Thread of May! I am writing this earlier than my usual panicked last minute effort because someone whose initials are Weasel are heading to the farm-o on Thursday morning, and not returning home until sometime on Sunday. I'm having a second organic tree farming building constructed and need to finalize site preparations, and maybe get some shooting fundamentals practice accomplished too. Hear that? Shooting fundamentals practice.

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

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Food Thread: Little Donkeys! Yum!

When I think of Mexican food I think of three different kinds.

The first is real Mexican food in Mexico. There are all sorts of regional styles, and the best examples of those are delicious...really sophisticated cooking that is tremendously pleasing.

The second is the American version of that food, which can be quite good, but also stupidly fussy and pompous. A lot of high-end Mexican joints in this country are guilty of that.

The third kind is what I think of as "smashed beans and rice" Mexican. It's an Americanized version of generic Mexican food, and is usually on the left side of the price graph. And it can be crappy, just like every other sort of food.

But it can be loads of fun and scrumptious too! And it almost always starts with some salsa and chips, which if done well makes me smile! I love that stuff, and will always...ALWAYS...eat too much of it.

Burritos and enchiladas and other assorted Americanized Mexican food, served with a side of refried beans and some Mexican rice. Is it refined and elegant? Nope! Neither is a smashburger, which is damned close to the pinnacle of culinary achievement. But it sure does hit the spot!

There was a burrito joint near where I worked...it was someplace in Richmond or San Pablo...I don't remember. They made a burrito that was about five pounds of freshly grilled pork or chicken, filled with fresh ingredients and seasoned very well. Fantastic, simple, basic food. I still think about that stuff, mumblemumble years later!

Food is way too pompous and snobby for my taste. There is a time and a place for all sorts of foods, and the best chefs understand this.

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First-World Problems...

Not really a First-World Problem, but it is certainly a result of the incredible technological successes of the first world.

Or am I the only one who thinks that the projected trip time is a direct challenge to my driving prowess, ability to control my bladder, resistance to hunger, attention to speed traps, and most of all to my worth as a man?

I will beat Google Maps and its bitchy algorithm like a rented mule!

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Blue-On-Blue Fighting! Cheer For Casualties On Both Sides!

The Kennedy family is bathed in the blood of others: from Joe Kennedy's bootlegging criminality that built the foundations of their sordid little empire, to JFK's expansion of America's presence in Vietnam and cowardice in the face of communist expansion in our hemisphere , to the execrable Ted Kennedy's destruction of our immigration system, serial raping, and murder of Mary Joe Kopechne, and all of the other vile Kennedys who pillaged us mere mortals.

They are a horrid family, and the sooner they are cast on to the ash heap of history, the better.

But not until their internecine conflict helps defeat Drooling Joe Biden!

Inside the family feud tearing apart the Kennedys -- as RFK Jr.'s siblings endorse Biden over their brother

In a statement at the time, they wrote, "Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment" and "We denounce his candidacy."

RFK Jr. is a loon who says some pleasing things for the majority of Americans who are deeply suspicious of our government. He is correct about the Covid vaccine...sort of.

"Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese," he said, according to the video published by the Post. "We don't know whether it was deliberately targeted that or not."

And he is also 100% on board with throwing "Climate Deniers" in jail.

Regardless of his insanity, if he can pull votes from Drooling Joe, then we need him hail and hearty for the 2024 Presidential Election! Will he energize the moonbat wing of the Democrat Party? Will he alienate the solid, idiotic, reflexive Dem voter because the majority of the Dem royal family is supporting Senile Joe? Will he pull disgruntled Republican voters? Will he provide a sane-sounding alternative for disgruntled Democrats?

Who the hell knows! My suspicion is that he will draw disgruntled Democrats more than disgruntled Republicans, and that may mean the difference in some swing states.

But mostly I am cheering for Kennedy blood to be spilled. Lots of it...publicly, nastily, so that their reputations are tarnished, and their disgusting political machinations are exposed for all to see.

And when I say "blood," I mean both the metaphorical kind and the real kind. One of those ridiculous staged Kennedy touch football games descending into violence would immediately become my most-watched video of all time!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 04-28-2024 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading (Untap. Upkeep. Draw.). Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...

So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?

Disparage no book, for it is also a part of this world.

--Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav

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EMT 4/28/24

Happy Sunday.

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Daily Tech News 28 April 2024

Top Story

• There's never been a better time to get into Fallout 76. (Ars Technica)
  
  There's never been a worse time to get into Fallout 76 either. There's never been a time to get into Fallout 76.

  Fallout 76 is good now. Actually, it's always been good.

  Oh, really?

  Two weeks in, Fallout 76 is a lonely, glitchy, flawed mess. (Ars Technica)

  But baby that was years ago. I've left it all behind.

  Redownloaded it - like an idiot I got it at launch - to see if it had aged well.
  
  Went though character creation, all good, then my character couldn't move. At all.
  
  Looked it up online and the fix was - SIX YEARS after launch - to manually edit some config files.
  
  Nope.
  
  Uninstalled.
  
  Still trash.

  As strong as the rest of your reporting, huh Ars Technica?
  
  

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Saturday Overnight Open Thread (4/27/24)

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The Saturday Night Joke

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Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: Hundreds of Beavers

How often do we see a movie that is exactly what it says on the tin? Since mainstream movies aren't all named "Soulless Crap", those are out. But it's long been a practice in the indies to name your movie something you can't really live up to. The odds of exaggeration go up exponentially when there's a number in the title. Two Thousand Maniacs? More like two dozen maniacs. A Million Ways To Die In The West? Fifteen, tops! (It affects music, too! "Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover" has about four or five ways, depending on how you count. Shrinkflation was really bad in the '70s.)

Beaver count in Hundreds of Beavers? Literally hundreds. You lose track, there are so many. But the movie, knowing how often the audience has been betrayed, toys with us at first, giving us a couple of beavers here and there along with a lot of raccoons, bears, wolves, and other furry, skinnable critters, before the third act reveal.

But let us begin at the beginning.

Now THAT is a movie poster!

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, April 27

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, April 27

More cherry blossoms

I love it when Sharon (Willow's Apprentice) goes on a photo excursion and sends us great images of plants. Perhaps we would pay more attention to the beauty around us if we focused like she does.

How is your weather? We have had a touch of an April Shower, while the cherries are ripening (not the best for the orchardists, but we have gone through so much drought).

Anything going on where you are?

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May the power be with you

This fall foliage is in Utah
But PG&E in California plans to bury electrical cable
in similar landscapes

The Grid

Electricity and Petroleum are big issues right now, with politicians being sensitized to ecological issues. Gasoline prices are especially high in California. But the state seems to have a special ongoing problem with their electrical grid. Is your state having any problems like this?

Here's the Real Reason PG&E Rates Are Skyrocketing in California

California now holds the ignominious prize for the highest electricity rates in the nation, except Hawaii. How did we get into this predicament?

Because the California Public Utilities Commission -- the five-member agency appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom that regulates the prices, service and reliability of private energy utilities -- has failed to do its job.

There are other government entities that hand out cookies to energy companies without a care for who pays the bill. But the buck stops at the Public Utilities Commission to protect utility customers.

When a private utility like PG&E decides it needs to build new infrastructure -- say, to protect against wildfires -- it's the commission that determines if the infrastructure is necessary, if the utility's proposed costs for that infrastructure are fair, and if better and cheaper alternatives exist.

The commission enjoys limited scrutiny by the courts. Decisions made by other state agencies can be appealed to Superior Court. But only an appellate court can hear commission appeals, and taking that case is discretionary. This limited judicial review means that the Public Utilities Commission essentially answers to the governor alone.

As a former commission president, I know what keeping energy prices down requires . . .

Guess who wrote that?

Give up?

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival (4/27/24)

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Happy Saturday from the thawed Tundra. Hard to believe it is the last Saturday of April. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters (Rulz for those of you in Park Falls):

1) This is an open thread, feel free to lurk, opine & or bloviate away.
2) Be kind to one another. Or at least don't leave marks.
3) No running with sharp objects.
4) Have a nice weekend.

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Daily Tech News 27 April 2024

Top Story

• DOS 4 is now open source. (Hanselman)
  
  I never owned a DOS PC, but I know that DOS 4 was the one everyone hated.
  
  Anyway, you can now download it yourself. Warning: It does uses as much as 92k of RAM.

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Look Upon My ONT, Ye Mighty, And Despair!

Hello everyone! Friday night, relax and pop open a cold one while you enjoy the red-hot memes! We'll start with a fun fact:

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High Anxiety Cafe

Utah
@benstraussphotography

Avalanche. All the snow goes, down to the dirt. I didn't realize that happened. I always had an idea that snow was still left behind.

Walter the raven.

Cute puppy digs hole at beach, and they bravely, and futilely, tries to defend it from the encroaching ocean. The house always wins, kid.

Sorry I'm late, my car got run over by a horse.

I think I've linked this before, but it's a good one: a family of rescues, including a crow.

Raising a premature baby bat who got separated from its mother.

Raising a special needs duckling.

1. Nature is fucking gross. 2. The human body is fucking disgusting.

Little girl learns (or re-learns) how to walk.

Babies are easily amused. It's really nice hearing babies laugh. (How do they even know what's funny? I guess laughter is inborn, but... how? Why?)

Fast and Furious 11: Shanghai Bamboo Drift.

The cat stole the dogbed for the last time.

Rescuing a baby elephant.

Top ten baby elephants.

This baby elephant is officially too adorable.

Ron DeSantis is trying to find a home for this beautiful dog rescued from the chaos of Biden's border.

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Quick Hits 2: Tokyo Drift

Biden forgot the date of January 6th, even though he says it every third sentence.

President Joe Biden suffered yet another gaffe Thursday as he mixed up the date of the Jan. 6 riots during a glitzy fundraiser hosted by Hollywood stars Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones at their Westchester home.

Biden, the oldest-ever US president at 81, made the blunder as he ripped his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, 77, in front of the star-studded crowd.

"We'll certainly never forget the dark days of June 6, January 6th, excuse me," the commander-in-chief said, according to a White House pool report.

Video here.

Biden's chief of strategy tried to gently encourage Karine Jean-Pierre to leave the job she is so horribly incompetent at, but she was too fucking stupid to take the hint.

De facto White House communications chief Anita Dunn, 66, the wife of Biden personal attorney Bob Bauer, told colleagues she had decided to call in prominent Democrats to explain to Jean-Pierre, 49, that the time was ripe to move on, sources told The Post.

"There was an effort to have some outside folks who Karine knows and trusts talk to her about why leaving last fall would have made a lot of sense for her and her career," the source said, calling it an "effort to encourage her to move along."

Jean-Pierre, the person added, "had been in the job for a year and a half at that point, which is a pretty standard tenure for a press secretary in what is admittedly a very demanding job [and] Jeff and Anita [tried] to have folks that she would listen to and trust talk to her about why it might be wise to do that."

Jean-Pierre's predecessor, Jen Psaki, was press secretary for one week shy of 16 months before leaving to take a job as a host and analyst at MSNBC.

A second source told The Post that "Jeff [Zients] and Anita [Dunn] were trying to find Karine a graceful exit" because of the ugly optics of removing her against her will.

"There's a huge diversity issue and they're afraid of what folks are going to say," added this source, who said they learned of the effort from multiple people briefed by Dunn and confirmed at least one person from outside the administration did speak with Jean-Pierre.

The revelation of Dunn's plan is likely to make for awkward workplace dynamics, the first source said, but is unlikely to result in Jean-Pierre's departure.

"She has been pretty consistent in telling people from the minute she got the job that she was going to stay through the election," they said.

"I think Karine has decided to stay come hell or high water and that's that."

CNN's ratings disaster Poppy Harlow is bright enough to take the hint.

Veteran CNN host Poppy Harlow is leaving the struggling cable news network -- two months after the cancellation of "CNN This Morning," where a slew of on-air meltdowns had sparked last year's ouster of Don Lemon.

Republicans want the IRS to look into Chinese funding of anti-Israel protests and riots.

Oh, and China is also behind "Green Energy" propaganda, to cripple the country.

House lawmakers called on the IRS to investigate U.S.-based anti-Israel activist groups that have financial links to China, according to a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon on Wednesday.

Members of the House Ways and Means Committee said they are concerned that "foreign adversaries are taking advantage of loopholes to impact American political activity with little-to-no transparency."

The letter follows reports connecting the Chinese government to a network of U.S.-based nonprofit groups.

The People's Forum, a group that helped organize anti-Israel walkouts in New York City public schools, is bankrolled by Chinese propagandist and tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, the New York Times reported last year. The organization encouraged student protesters to shout anti-Semitic chants, such as "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," a slogan that calls for the elimination of the Jewish state.

"Not only do these activities raise serious national security concerns, but they also raise questions about whether organizations like this receive foreign funding from America's adversaries and whether the Internal Revenue Service ('IRS') is conducting oversight of entities like these," wrote the lawmakers in a letter to IRS commissioner Daniel Werfel.

The letter also raised concerns about other China-linked political groups. The Energy Foundation, a U.S.-based nonprofit that promotes climate change activism, operates primarily out of China and has significant ties to the government, Fox News reported in December.

The Energy Foundation has pushed for U.S. green energy policies that would benefit China, which dominates the global solar energy and battery industries.

Hamas and Iran are, get this, big fans of anti-Israel (and anti-Jew) protests on American "college" campuses.

An official with the Palestinian terror group Hamas and the supreme leader of Iran have praised the growing college campus protests in the United States against Israel's military offensive in Gaza, including pro-Hamas demonstrations at Columbia University that have driven fear into the hearts of Jewish students.

Columbia University in New York City announced a shift to hybrid classes after protestors set up a "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" last Wednesday. This led to the arrest of more than 100 people after Columbia University President Minouche Shafik authorized police to clear the camp. The demonstrators resettled the encampment, and there have been multiple reports of Jewish members of Columbia's community feeling unsafe due to the encampment.

The demonstration has prompted calls for the Biden administration to take away the school's federal funding and discipline the demonstrators, which some say should include revoking the visas of the students expressing support for terrorist groups.

Um, obviously. Stupid American brats have the right to chant "Death to America" in America. Nasty terrorist foreigners do not. Being here is a privilege, not a right.

Oh what am I talking about, The Regime has decided that every f*cking foreigner in the world has an inalienable right to mob up in America.

On Wednesday, Izzat Al-Risheq, a member of Hamas' political bureau, accused the Biden administration of violating student and faculty rights, claiming that they are only rejecting "the genocide that our Palestinian people are the subjected in the Gaza Strip at the hands of the neo-Nazi Zionists."

USA Today quoted the Hamas official as saying, "Today's students are the leaders of the future."

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also praised the protests.

"Western governments say the Resistance Front is terrorism," Khamenei wrote in a tweet. "This comes at a time when people flew Hezbollah's flag in a street in the US. The people of the world are supporting the Resistance Front because they are resisting & because they are against oppression."

Khamenei's "oppression" comment comes as the Islamic Republic of Iran has a notorious record for infringing on the rights of religious minorities through imprisonment. Iran also used lethal force to crack down on widespread protests in 2022.

Remember during the Iraq War when Bill Kristol would attack anyone questioning the war as giving support to terrorists?

He's not saying that anymore, is he?

Iran is begging students to stop Israel's war against its proxies. Half of Hez'ballah's commanders have been exterminated in the Hez'ballah stronghold of south Lebanon.

Israeli counterstrikes have killed "half of Hezbollah's commanders in southern Lebanon," Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant revealed on April 24. Gallant's remarks came as Israel launched an unusually intense wave of bombing sorties against the Iran-backed terrorist group's forces in southern Lebanon. "These were the men responsible for belligerent actions, for the drive to strike at the citizens of the State of Israel," Gallant said during a visit to Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Northern Command. The other half, he added, "are in hiding and abandoning southern Lebanon in the face of IDF actions."

Gallant signaled that Israel could escalate to a ground operation if mediated diplomatic efforts to get Hezbollah to withdraw from the border failed. "Our main objective was and remains to bring about a different security situation here and for residents of the northern State of Israel to be able to go back home to quiet and safety," Gallant said, referring to some 80,000 civilians evacuated from border communities. "The coming period will be decisive in this regard."

Crush those cockroaches.

Google fired another 20 of its disruptive pro-terrorist "workers," after firing 28 previously.

Google has fired more employees who were involved in protests over the tech company's cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. The workers held sit-ins at the company's offices in California and New York over Google's $1.2 billion contract to provide custom tools for Israeli's military.

Google has fired more employees who were involved in protests over the tech company's cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. The workers held sit-ins at the company's offices in California and New York over Google's $1.2 billion contract to provide custom tools for Israeli's military.

Google has fired an additional 20 employees who participated in a protest last week against the company's defense contract with the Israeli government.

This brings the total number of employees laid off due to the protest to 50, according to the group that organized the demonstrations, No Tech for Apartheid.

My count is 48 total but you know, Hamas sympathizers tend to inflate numbers, don't they?

Jane Chung, a spokesperson for the group, said some of the dismissed employees were "nonparticipating bystanders" during the sit-in protests held on April 16 at Google's offices in Sunnyvale and New York. The group labeled the tech giant's action as an "aggressive and desperate act of retaliation."

The media rule: If rightwingers get into a scuffle with cops, they "attacked hardworking policemen."

If leftwingers attack cops, write that there were "clashes with police." It's just a case of mutual combat -- no bad guys, no good guys, just all misunderstandings all around.

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The Fast and the Furious Short News Items

Zoom In: Meet the New Left, Which Embraces the Swastika as a Symbol of Wokeness.

Not terribly different from the old left, then.

The left is always looking for new transgressions. Their old ones have gotten stale -- so it's time to embrace the swastika.

Goodbye, intersectionality -- hello, "It's All One Thingism."

In this nebulous new cosmology, Palestinians -- even Hamas themselves -- aren't just engaged in a specific geopolitical fight over territory and resources. No, they're the tip of the spear of a perceived collective liberation against the West, the Global North, "colonisers," whatever you want to call the Bad Guys. It's a magical world in which all politics and world affairs once seen through intersectionality's colourful prism have been flattened into (somewhat ironically for self-proclaimed atheists) a more Biblical view of the world: black-and-white, good and evil.

"Palestine is every single issue in one issue," wrote Scarlett Rabe, a singer-songwriter who describes herself as an anti-racist mother and an abolition feminist/womanist, in a viral tweet in February. "It's reproductive justice. It's social justice. It's climate crisis... It's not just one issue; it's all the issues in one."

All One Thingism explains why a group of a few hundred masked protestors who chanted "Death to America" and "Hands off Iran" this week also employed the relatively meaningless slogan "From Chicago to Palestine." Or that another viral post on Instagram by a person wearing a "Fatties for a Free Palestine" T-shirt insisted that "Palestinian solidarity is not a niche issue. Fat liberation and Palestinian liberation go hand in hand."

During the Trans Day of Visibility, a Palestine flag flew above the Trans flag during some marches, with one sign explaining that "Liberations are linked." Some are even talking up BRICS as allies (maybe Putin and Xi aren't so bad after all?) and -- yes -- even looking back fondly at the Khmer Rouge.

See the article for the embrace of the swastika. Lefties are now defending defacing Jewish property with a swastika, arguing they've reclaimed it, like the word "queer," and are now using it as "a condemnation of genocide."

But Trump said "P*ssy."

Why It Matters: We have more details on the Secret Service agent who TLC's Snapped! and attacked a Senior Agent in Charge.

DEI concerns, indeed.

Now, the identity of the officer has been revealed, along with more details surrounding the strange situation. Michelle Herczeg was removed from her duties with the Secret Service on Wednesday. She was a former police officer with the Dallas Police Department and an Air Force veteran.

On Monday morning, Herczeg arrived at the base and began deleting apps from a male agent's personal cell phone before becoming increasingly agitated. She then engaged in erratic behavior, such as mumbling to herself, hiding behind curtains, and throwing menstrual pads and other items at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent. Herczeg continued making alarming statements, such as the other agents were "going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God."

Herczeg was heard screaming at the special agent in charge (SAIC), listing the names of female officers on the vice president's detail and asserting that they would support her and enable her to continue working. When the SAIC attempted to relieve her of duty, as a witness told Real Clear Politics, "that's when she snapped entirely."

Herczeg allegedly became physically aggressive, chest-bumping, shoving, tackling, and punching the SAIC. This prompted intervention from other agents present, with a heightened alarm as Herczeg was armed, although her gun remained holstered. Agents wrestled her to the ground, disarmed her, cuffed her, and then escorted her out of the terminal.

In prior coverage, RedState noted that the agent had previously been a subject of distress by staff and that the hiring process, including allegedly "DEI" practices, raised concerns among officers in the Secret Service, per reporting from Real Clear Politics.

She was a madwoman from Jump Street, and never should have been hired for any job in which firearms handling is a requirement:

In her 2016 lawsuit, Herczeg charged she was retaliated against for reporting sexual harassment and other wrongdoing by Dallas cops.

After Herczeg was allegedly assaulted by a male superior officer in May 2015, she claimed, "[i]ntimidation tactics were used as investigative tools to persuade Herczeg from seeking criminal relief against the officer who assaulted her," according to the Morning News.

The lawsuit also alleged that Herczeg was not allowed to return to a special crime reduction team after reporting the alleged assault and was also refused overtime patrol shifts, causing "stress and mental anguish from loss in payment compensation."

Herczeg further charged that DPD "tolerates unprofessional behavior such as fraternization and unprofessional male and female working relationships based on an atmosphere which finds the male officer in charge, regardless of rank or ability."

A Texas court dismissed Herczeg's suit and a court of appeals denied both her appeal in 2021 and a request for a rehearing the following year.

It sure seems like she's just a nutter and Drama Tornado anywhere she goes. And it sure looks like DEI practices were used to move her through the application process for a job involving guns and the protection of very high-ranking VIPs.

DEI requires you to hire the Mentally Diverse.

Who's Zooming Who: A good old-fashioned Drag Queen Story Hour has been perverted from its wholesome mission of indoctrinating kids into becoming gay and trans into a Palestinian propaganda struggle session!

Is nothing sacred?!

In a bizarre moment, a drag queen performing at a Massachusetts art center directed children in a pro-Palestinian chant.

Video footage shows the exchange during a "Queer Storytime for Palestine" event organized by the Valley Families for Palestine group at the Northampton Center for the Arts on April 14.

While reading her book "If You're a Drag Queen and You Know It," Lil Miss Hot Mess told the children: "If you're a drag queen and you know it shout 'Free Palestine.'"

The event included "dancing, celebrating Palestine culture, learning about queer heroes and doing arts and crafts," according to an Instagram post by the Valley Families for Palestine group. Event profits were donated to alQaws, a Palestinian organization "working for queer liberation."

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Half of Population Condemns Man Who Stood By Idly While a Woman Was Attacked; The Other Half Asks, What Did You Expect?

A thug physically accosted a woman, who struggled to free himself from the grasp of her attacker.

She gave a pleading look to a male seated about twenty feet away -- "Please help." The male did nothing. He barely moved.

So the question is: Was he a coward?

Or was he acting correctly and congruently with the incentive system society has created?

Maybe both, maybe both.

Don't forget:

Daniel Penny came to the aid of others.

He's now going to trial in October. For murder.

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