THE MORNING RANT: Kooks, Fringe Ideas, and Media Misclassification of Actual Scandals as “Conspiracy Theories”

We have a problem. There are delusional people pushing preposterous stories, which we used to label “conspiracy theories.” There are also partisan journalists, joined by liberal politicians, who label inconvenient scandals that harm the left’s agenda as being “conspiracy theories.”

So, I have two theses to posit today:

1) Because of the left’s misuse of the term “conspiracy theory,” there is a need for a new term for actual kookie theories.

2) It has become difficult to dismiss actual kookie “conspiracy theories,” because the left applied that term to so many truths that it sought to delegitimize. Quite simply, it is not outrageous to assume that anything the left calls a “conspiracy theory” is actually true.

The term “conspiracy theory” has been defanged because it is as ridiculously misused and overused as “racist,” “Nazi,” “fascist,” and “white supremacist.” Just like those other terms, conservatives now joke about being a “conspiracy theorist” because so many stories in the past decade that were framed as “conspiracies” have turned out to be true. We even joke, “What is the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth?” Answer: “About six months.”

There are abundant examples of this, including discussions about the provenance of the Covid virus. In the early 2020s, arguing that the virus originated in the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology was a forbidden “conspiracy theory” that would get a person deplatformed from social media, but it is now accepted as the almost certain source of the virus. Similarly, arguing that Covid “vaccines” did not prevent the contraction or transmission of the virus was also a deplatformable “conspiracy theory” that proved to be true.

The New York Post was deplatformed from Twitter for its reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop, while Facebook throttled posts that linked to that “conspiracy theory,” which of course was not a conspiracy theory at all. It was the truth, and those in government coordinating with media to bury the story knew it was true, which was an actual conspiracy.

Following Hurricane Helene’s flooding in North Carolina, there were allegations that FEMA employees in the field were withholding aid to those storm victims who were visibly Trump supporters. Government-funded PBS sought to quash those verifiably true allegations by calling them “conspiracy theories.”

“Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories Cloud Helene Recovery Efforts in Hard-hit Areas” [PBS – 10/05/2024]

The facts emerging from Hurricane Helene’s destruction are heartrending: Businesses and homes destroyed, whole communities nearly wiped out, hundreds of lives lost, hundreds of people missing. Yet this devastation and despair is not enough for the extremist groups, disinformation agents, hucksters and politicians who are exploiting the disaster to spread false claims and conspiracy theories about it and the government’s response. According to former President Donald Trump, the federal government is intentionally withholding aid to Republican disaster victims.

Now that Donald Trump is President and FEMA is answerable to him, the truth has come out. As reported by Matt Taibi at Racket News, ““Politicized distribution of hurricane aid money before the 2024 election was no ‘isolated incident,’ a Homeland Security follow-up report sadly concludes.”

But there are still fringe theories being promoted. Several conservative pundits whom I used to respect have gone off the deep end, including Candace Owens, who is now insinuating that Donald Trump was involved in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

“Candace Owens Hits a New Low, and Accuses Trump of Assassinating Charlie Kirk” [Townhall – 10/23/2025]

Mark Pulliam of Misrule of Law shared a recent piece of his about a candidate running for Tennessee State Senate, Gary Humble, who has some rather exotic views. Mr. Humble has been quoted as saying:

Do I believe that factions of our government coordinated with other foreign entities to attack Americans on 9/11? Yes.

Do I believe the CIA was involved? Yes.

Do I believe Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened? Yes.

Do I believe that the towers coming straight down in a straight line fashion was not the work of planes crashing into the buildings but a controlled demolition? Yes.

Do I believe that building 7, just next door, also fell during a controlled demolition, while the other two buildings purportedly fell because of airliners? Yes.

I believe those things, unequivocally.

In our correspondence, I expressed to Mark my frustration that it is hard for conservatives to find the words to write about fringe candidates who promote what we used to call “conspiracy theories” because of how the left has misused that term to slander any conservative who isn’t a RINO or controlled opposition.

What are your thoughts? What term do you use?

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Frau mit Eisbecher
Dieter Asmus

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The Morning Report — 10/27/25

Good morning kids. I think I speak for the vast majority if not all of you good people when I say that I am huge fan of the work of Prof. Victor Davis Hanson. Not just because he is a confirmed lurker and devotee of Ace's brand of cruelty, but the breadth and depth of his knowledge of history and his personal experience as an educator and a farmer, especially during the past several decades of the Leftist/Democrat destruction of the once great state of California.

To say that VDH knows what he's talking about is a vast understatement.

In the late 1850s, “Bleeding Kansas” was the term used to describe the escalating cycle of violence, when surrogates for the Union and soon-to-be Confederacy fought each other over whether Kansas would be admitted as a free or slave-owning state.

As the assaults and killings increased, radicals set the agenda. The logical next step was the nightmares of Fort Sumter and Bull Run.

Those calling for restraint and peaceful resolutions were considered weak and traitorous. The thuggish and violent, instead, were praised as the true idealists and patriots, the real “base” of their respective parties. We have witnessed a growing wave of left-wing assassins and would-be assassins in the last few years: James Hodgkinson, Luigi Mangione, James Crooks, Ryan Routh, Elias Rodriguez, and Tyler Robinson, who have targeted Republican House leaders, CEOs, Donald Trump, Jews, and Charlie Kirk. For months, leftists vandalized or torched anything to do with the Tesla brand, and with virtual impunity, they sometimes went after individual Tesla owners. Jews walked in the shadows on campuses, where mobs cheered Hamas killers.

Despite my effusive and well-deserved praise of Prof Hanson, as you perhaps have surmised, now comes the very big BUT and it's right in the lede of this otherwise well-written, as per usual, essay

America again flirts with its own “Bleeding Kansas”—a cycle of partisan violence and defiance where lawless zealots are hailed as patriots and the rule of law bleeds away.

Where pray tell is this "cycle of violence." All I have seen, not just since President Trump descended the escalator of Trump tower just over 10 years ago now, but since I was a child in the 1960s are acts of political incitement and terrorism committed solely by Leftists, Democrats and those who seek the destruction of the American republic and the acquisition of absolute power in service of that end.

Can anyone name for me any organization of the size, breadth and depth of Antifa, BLM, the Weathermen, Earth Liberation Front, CAIR, La Raza, or any other group that neither the illegitimate and discredited SPLC, ADL or every other phony watchdog group refuses to name, that is their equivalent that exists on our end of the political/societal/cutural spectrum.

So, with all due respect to Prof Hanson, if there was a cycle of violence it would only last for exactly 1 RPM. The bodies of the Antifans and BLMsters would've been stacked like cordwood long ago and the Democrat Party dissolved, as it should've been in 1865.

not too long ago, the [so-called quote-unquote] president of the United States and his number one law enforcement agent publicly denied the existence of a group of violent commie anarchist yobbos who exist to tear down the country. Why would Biden and Wray do such a thing? Because the Democrat Party is in cahoots with Antifa and shares their goal of toppling the U.S. government. . .

Flashback to the 2020 debates: Trump warned that Antifa was a radical Left-wing militant group, and Joe Biden claimed Antifa was not a real organization, it was just “an idea”.The Dems knowingly tried to cover up their brown shirts. The Dems and Antifa are the same entity.

That last sentence = Bingo. The question is, do the Democrats really think that fomenting and directly or indirectly funding and even planning/directing the attacks themselves are going to terrorize the vast majority of Americans shift their support from conservatism or at the least normalcy to their party and their repulsive, amoral, perverted criminal anti-civilization agenda. They sure seem to be banking on it.

What they are hoping for is an equal and opposite reaction against some Democrat politician, media/entertainment personality or institution that they can then use as their cassus belli to go after us should God forbid come the day (as it likely will unfortunately) when they once again control all the branches of elected government to go along with their stranglehold on the corrupt judiciary and the still extant bureaucracy that President Trump and team are working to completely destroy or at a minimum seriously defang.

And so this happened

Security officers opened fire on a U-Haul truck that accelerated toward them outside the U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda, California, during an anti-ICE protest, in a dramatic incident caught on video. The events unfolded near the end of a day-long demonstration against federal immigration enforcement operations staged at the base.The truck reversed quickly toward officers guarding the bridge to Coast Guard Island, despite instructions to stop, resulting in a volley of gunfire. The truck then began accelerating forward.

Photographer Rick Villaroman, who was at the scene, said, “He just hit the gas and sped towards them. And that’s when they opened fire. About 20 to 30 rounds.”Witnesses said the vehicle struck two bystanders before the masked driver stopped briefly, appeared to check his phone, and then drove off. According to Villaroman, the driver abandoned the truck nearby after it had been parked outside the base for most of the day.

The Coast Guard said the vehicle’s actions posed a direct threat to security personnel. Notably, U-Haul trucks have been used in multiple terror attacks and attempted terror attacks in the U.S. and Canada in recent years. Most notably, an Islamic State jihadist admitted to the U.S. from Uzbekistan on a Diversity Immigrant Visa, used a U-Haul to murder eight people on a crowded bike path in Lower Manhattan in 2017.

We cannot go on like this, We must break the back of the (anti-)American Left and its epicenter in the Democrat Party. And as we have noted many many times, it all starts in the schools where Democrat terrporists are made. Unless and until the brainwashing mills from Pre-K through Post-Grad are dismantled and remade in our image, we will face an indenting string of terrorists of both the James Comey and Luigi Mangione variety forever, until either they or we and our progeny are defeated. It really is us or them. A time for choosing, indeed.

On an altogether different note, is there some massive extraterrestrial object lurking behind the Sun?

Paging Roy Thinnes! Report to the Doppelgänger! For those not of a certain age, click here for the reference,

Have a good day!

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• Victor Davis Hanson: America again flirts with its own “Bleeding Kansas”—a cycle of partisan violence and defiance where lawless zealots are hailed as patriots and the rule of law bleeds away.
  The Left is ‘Bleeding Kansas’
  
• Why would Biden and Wray do such a thing? Because the Democrat Party is in cahoots with Antifa and shares their goal of toppling the U.S. government

  "Flashback to the 2020 debates: Trump warned that Antifa was a radical Left-wing militant group, and Joe Biden claimed Antifa was not a real organization, it was just “an idea”. The Dems knowingly tried to cover up their brown shirts. The Dems and Antifa are the same entity.

  Why Are the Mental Bellyflops Denying Antifa's Existence Again? This Might Be Why...

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Daily Tech News 27 October 2025

Top Story

• Why open source may not survive the rise of generative AI. (ZDNet)
  
  Actually a real concern.
  
  Open source depends on copyright. If you write something - software, here, but anything - it is your creating and you have the right to sell it, or to give it away, on terms you decide. Large open source projects need to get permission from all their contributors to include their code in their project.
  
  Generative AI trashes all of that. The products of generative AI are not generally copyrightable, and they don't keep track of where things came from either. A piece of code from AI could be nominally original, or it could be adapted from an open source project, or it could be copied verbatim from a copyrighted source that the AI might not even have had legal access to (Anthropic had to pay out $1.5 billion over similar problems with its training data).
  
  And you can't tell.

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Sunday Overnight Open Thread - October 26, 2025 [Doof]

The Sunday night ONT is here. So are you. Lurkers welcomed, regulars tolerated. Open thread, as always.

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Gun Thread: Final October 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 final October edition? Happy Halloween! Do you get trick-or-treaters?

I'm happy to be home from all the traveling recently, but definitely missing seeing all of all y'all in Texas. Only 51 or so more weeks until TXMoMe XI!

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

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Food Thread: The Bitterness Of Life, And Great Pasta

I went to a new (to me) Italian market about 10 minutes away. It's got the quaint name of "Uncle Giuseppe's," which masks the rather large size and comprehensive selection. It's really a regular supermarket with an Italian focus, including a very nicely stocked deli, and fresh pasta!

Which is cruel and horrible, because I am still a bit plump from my Paris sojourn. Yes; unlimited quantities of great bread and even greater cheese will do mean things to one's waistline.

Anyway, I walked past the fresh pasta and immediately thought of Pasta With Brown Butter And Sage, which I think is a marvelous and minimalist example of Italian cooking. If I feel fancy, and I lose another few pounds, I might add some good Italian sausage to the pasta.

But in the meantime I am staying true to a low-carb diet.

Well, sort of.

I did make a Rye-Sourdough boule yesterday, but only because we had guests. I swear I didn't eat much.

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First-World Problems...

Some of you will recognize that plumbing fixture. Others will be mopping up the mess after your washing machine feed lines ruptured.

Or...you know...not.

I don't know how often feed lines rupture. I have stainless steel lines, and I can't imagine that robust water lines such as those fail very often, but the conventional wisdom is to turn off the water when you are away.

Okay. I do that. Faithfully!

So I have saved my home from presumably countless floods! I feel so virtuous!

But I also faithfully forget to turn the water back on, so the first load of laundry after a trip is always a clown show.

"The washing machine is broken!"

And even better, when one of the brats comes to the house when we are gone and wants to do laundry, the phone calls are reminiscent of an Abbott And Costello sketch.

"The washing machine is broken!"

No it isn't. The water is turned off."

"How do I turn it back on?"

"Just flip the lever behind the machine."

"Where?"

"On the wall behind the machine."

"I don't see it."

"It's got two steel water lines running from it!"

"All I see is one big tube!"

"That's the dryer. Please call your college. I want a refund."

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Bring Proper English Back To Public Discourse. And The Mayor Of Chicago Is A Retard

"Illegal Alien" is a legal term to describe someone who has entered this country illegally, or who has overstayed legal, temporary permission to enter the country. There is no racial connotation. There is no sex connotation. There is no class connotation. It is a neutral term that is a perfect descriptor!

But the left has always made one of the tenets of its malign philosophy the destruction of traditional, logical language. George Orwell wrote about it at length, and 80 years later his thoughts are fresh and prescient, in particular in Politics And The English Language, and 1984.

Orwell would recognize the idiotic and incompetent mayor of Chicago as one of the foot soldiers in the left's battle against the English language!

Chicago Mayor Spazzes Out Over 'Racist' Term 'Illegal Alien'

Johnson called the term "racist" and sarcastically suggested that he should also call black people "slaves."

This is race-baiting on the most elemental level. Linking an objectively neutral term and activity to some nefarious race-based motivation is prime leftist doublespeak, and we on the right have been bombarded by it for many generations.

Race...class... sex...religion...political philosophy...they are all fair game.

Of course, calling people "fascists" is nothing new. The communists of the 1930s threw that term around just as cavalierly as their modern versions. But now they have expanded the manipulation of language to include everyone who is even modestly at odds with their political ideology. Fly an American flag? You're a fascist. Put on a coat and tie to go to church? You're a racist. Believe in the rule of law? You are a Nazi! Believe in the right of Jews to live in peace in their ancestral homeland? You are a racist colonizer.

But these are not just pejoratives; they are part of a careful campaign to shift definitions of previously unacceptable behaviors to sound far more benign. "Illegal Alien" sounds bad, because it IS bad! "Undocumented Immigrant," or simply "Migrant," sounds like somebody who dropped their ID on the subway. That's not so bad! Let's be nice to him and pay for his $3,000 ER visits and SNAP benefits and cell phone and housing and maybe even give him a CDL so he can get a job and kill Americans on the roads!

Take back the language! "Illegal Alien." "Criminal." "Rapist." "Pedophile." "Rioter." "Adult." "Assault Rifle." "Woman." "Man."

These words have clear, precise meanings in our wonderful language. We cannot allow the left to blur those definitions, or we get nonsense like "Undocumented Newcomer," "Minor Attracted Person," "Gender Fluid," Mostly Peaceful," "Harm Reduction," "Our Precious Democracy," "Reproductive Freedom," and a host of other terms carefully chosen to blur reality with the ultimate goal of subverting traditional culture, law, religion, and rational social opprobrium.

Simply using clear language to describe our many cultural, social, and political issues will go a long way towards solving them.

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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 10-26-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]

HT: fd

Welcome BACK 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. 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?

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Daily Tech News 26 October 2025

Top Story

• Clippy in the server room with a portable blender: Microsoft hopes Mico succeeds where Clippy failed as tech companies warily imbue AI with personality. (AP News)
  
  Mico is the new horrifying AI-driven mascot of Microsoft's inescapable AI-driven offense to reason, Copilot.
  
  Mico is... A grape? A purple raspberry? I don't know exactly, but kill it with fire.

  "When you talk about something sad, you can see Mico's face change. You can see it dance around and move as it gets excited with you," said Jacob Andreou, corporate vice president of product and growth for Microsoft AI, in an interview with The Associated Press. It's in this effort of really landing this AI companion that you can really feel."

  I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.

  Tech-savvy adopters of advanced AI coding tools may want it to "act much more like a machine because at the back end they know it's a machine," Reimer said. "But individuals who are not as trustful in a machine are going to be best supported - not replaced - by technology that feels a little more like a human."

  "We glued artificial fur to our woodchipper so that you will feel comfortable as we feed you into it."
   

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Saturday Night "Club ONT" October 25, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration the 3D's - The Disco, The Dino, and The Doggo.

The D's don't have Jacks or better - looks like the Horde is opening.

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Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: Trick 'r Treat (2007)

The fall typically brings a spate of horror films as moviegoers seeking safe thrills head to the cineplex in advance of Halloween, which simultaneously expands its reach into the summer while being consumed by Christmas on the other end. While the stores are already full of Santa Clauses, the movie holiday window actually seems to narrow over time—nobody's watching "It's A Wonderful Life" in October.

Oddly, this year, the cineplexes are not exactly flooded with horror fare: The (perhaps final) entry in the Conjuring series; The (perhaps not final) entry in the Black Phone series; Good Boy (a horror movie with a dog as the final girl); and of course, scads of throwbacks, like Halloween, etc.

We happened upon the New York Film School's first horror movie marathon to help get in the spirit—a side-effect of going to Knott's Halloween Haunt in September is that by the time October rolls around, we've pretty much moved on, emotionally—and they showed, in one day, Funhouse (1981), Phantom of the Mall (198, In the Mouth of Madness (1991), Meathook (2024), and Re-animator (1985). We skipped the last, having just seen it.

But we also caught one special event from Fathom (at a price of $60 for the two of us, plus popcorn and a soda!), on the semi-obscure, semi-cult, semi-classic Trick 'r Treat, an anthology picture that feels like the last gasp of an era.

Even the lollipop is a thread that runs through more than one story.

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Hobby Thread - October 25, 2025 [Roaming Rex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. A spin of the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on travel themes.

Are you thinking "I don't even know what that means and I don't get around much these days but I'm eager to learn more. I can't wait to get into the content!" I knew it. Enjoy.

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Ace of Spades Pet Thread, October 25

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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, Home and Nature Thread, Oct. 25

Happy Week before Halloween!

From The Famous Pat*

This is the right side of my front porch. The pumpkin, I bought from the neighbor kids. The green pair are immature butternut squashes (might as well make use of them). The other item grew on a zucchini vine, which grew out of the bottom of a compost cage - that was its mother, but it was apparently fathered by a pumpkin last year. I don’t know what to call it - a zookapumpkin? A pump-zini?

What do you think, Horde? Interesting front porch!

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Costumes and Symbols of "The Baddies"

Do you know one when you see one?

One of my lefty social media friends posted one of those stupid 20-second "stories" - - the kind that end mid-sentence and disappear after 24 hours - - on the theme of a lefty discussion group centering on the "monsters" of the world wearing well-tailored suits.

No, make that "exquisitely" tailored suits.

This reminded me of a frequent misquote of C.S. Lewis along these lines (once apparently by Ronald Reagan):

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.

The actual quote of C.S. Lewis is much more nuanced and detailed:

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern."

From the second preface to The Screwtape Letters

When we think of "The Baddies" of a police state, how often do we think of the costumes of the bureaucracy of that police state? White collars and suits rather than skulls?

Do the women of the bureaucracy of a police state have costumes? What about the women of the bureaucracy of a "thoroughly nasty business concern"?

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The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[Meme: H/T - Frankie]
[Music: H/T Hadrian]

*****

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Clarksville)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind, be nice.
3) No. You may not run with sharp objects. I believe your Mother's note is a forgery.
4) Have a great weekend!

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Daily Tech News 25 October 2025

Top Story

• Tech companies have maxed out their credit cards in wild pursuit of the AI let's-not-call-it-a-bubble. (Notebook Check)
  
  Debt held by those companies has increased fourfold over the past ten years, to a total of $1.35 trillion.
  
  If the bubble bursts abruptly, the most highly leveraged of those companies - and their lenders - are going to be in a world of pain.
  
  As is the economy, meaning everyone who didn't borrow all that money and set in on fire chasing phantasms.

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It Was A Dark And Stormy Night. Suddenly, An ONT Rang Out! The Maid Screamed!

Howdy folks! Welcome to Friday night. Ever feel like you've been here before?

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