March 10, 2025
Trump Repurposes Biden's Illegal Immigration-Enabling App to Turn It Into an App That Urges Illegals to Go Home
Outstanding. Can't wait for an Obama judge to rule that Trump has to keep Biden's app, and for Amy Coney Barrett to bless that ruling.
I'm sure you remember Biden's "CBP One App." The app enabled illegal immigrants to apply for asylum by checking a few boxes on a phone app. They would illegally immigrate to America and Biden would claim they were here legally because the app had assigned them a court hearing for their bogus asylum claims in like 6-10 years or whatever.
Trump has gently tweaked "CBP One." It's now the CBP Home app. Illegals can now use it to notify the government that they're leaving the US to go back home.
The Trump administration is rolling out a new app to replace the controversial CBP One app with the new replacement designed to facilitate the self-deportation of illegal immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security is announcing the CBP Home app -- which will launch with a self-deportation reporting feature for those in the country illegally. It replaces the CBP One app, which was expanded by the Biden administration to allow migrants to schedule appointments at ports of entry to be paroled into the U.S. Hundreds of thousands were paroled into the U.S. as a result. The Trump administration has ended the ability to use the app for that purpose. All CBP One apps will update to the new CBP Home app. "The Biden Administration exploited the CBP One App to allow more than 1 million aliens to illegally enter the United States. With the launching of the CBP Home App, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system," DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement. The app allows aliens to "Submit Intent to Depart" and submit information regarding their intent to leave the U.S. They can also provide information to verify they have left the U.S., a function limited to those who were paroled into the U.S. "The CBP Home App gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream. If they don't, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return," Noem said.
Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_ SCOOP: The Trump admin has repurposed the controversial Biden era CBP One cell phone app into a self deportation app called CBP Home that launches today. DHS tells me any migrants who had the prior CBP One app will have it auto update to this new app, & DHS can use data from prior CBP One registrations to track migrants for removal. The new app allows illegal aliens and migrants in the US to register with CBP to self deport. They fill out biographical information, including their countries of citizenship, which country they plan to return to, their alien registration numbers, contact information, and it allows them to upload photos of themselves to confirm their identity. All of it is then submitted to CBP, and they leave the country.
You may be asking yourself -- why would an illegal alien want to self deport? In a statement to FOX News -- DHS Secretary Kristi Noem answers that question.
"The CBP Home app gives aliens to option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream. If they don't, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return," Noem said. "The Biden administration exploited the CBP One app to allow more than one million aliens to enter the United States. With the launching of the CBP Home app, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system."
DHS says it is significantly cheaper for the US if illegal aliens decide to self deport, and limited ICE resources can instead be used to target criminal aliens.
Outstanding. Can't wait for an Obama judge to rule that Trump has to keep Biden's app, and for Amy Coney Barrett to bless that ruling.
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Democrat Fundraising Organization "ActBlue" Is Coordinating Violent Protests Against Elon Musk and Tesla
Gentlemen -- start your lawsuits.
It's time to bankrupt this corrupt grifter organization -- which deliberately allows foreign donors to illegally donate to Democrats, and which allows the fraud of "smurfing," whereby foreign donors, or donors who have already maxed out their donations, donate under an assumed name -- once and for all. Open their books. Open their books. Open their books. Here's one flier being passed around by Democrats, but not necessarily ActBlue. And the DOJ needs to start investigating criminally.There is a massive campaign to destroy Tesla through terrorism, going after both Tesla showrooms and Tesla drivers. There are mutterings about assassinating Elon Musk, a media campaign to ostracize and demonize him, and normal people want it to stop, as they should. They aim their ire at Musk because he is an easier target than thousands of activists. If only Musk were compliant we can get back to "normal," even if normal is a pattern of corruption that is bankrupting the country. Bankruptcy is in the future; the low-level civil war is right here and now. I look at this coordinated campaign and react with outrage at the people doing it and funding it. Many ordinary people look at it and see that convincing the protesters to act like adults instead of throwing tantrums and expect the authorities to stamp out illegal and disruptive activity. The former are like parents who keep giving children candy and an iPad to shut up their brats in exchange for temporary peace and quite, and those of us who want to impose order as adults who are socializing the children to participate in society.
ActBlue is a criminal organization, engaged in wide-scale money laundering from foreigners, including foreign governments, and of course in all likelihood USAID through the NGOs they fund. We already know that BLM was funded by USAID, and we have only scratched the surface.
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After a Six Week Review, SecState Marco Rubio Cancels 83% of USAID Grifter Spending
Do better, Marco. #DoBetter.
Sec. of State Marco Rubio announces major overhaul at USAID, cancels 83% of programs After a six-week review, Sen. Marco Rubio announced the cancellation of 83% of USAID programs, citing wasteful spending and harm to U.S. national interests. The move eliminates 5,200 contracts worth tens of billions of dollars, with remaining programs shifting under the State Department for better oversight. Rubio thanked staff for their efforts in implementing what he called a "historic reform." Key Details: Sen. Marco Rubio revealed that 5,200 USAID contracts have been canceled after a six-week review. The cuts affect tens of billions in foreign aid, which Rubio argued was not serving U.S. national interests. The remaining 1,000 programs will be administered under the State Department with improved oversight. ... "The 5,200 contracts that are now canceled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, and in some cases even harmed, the core national interests of the United States," Rubio stated. His move reflects growing scrutiny among conservatives regarding how taxpayer money is used in foreign aid, particularly under USAID, which has long been criticized for funding controversial projects abroad.The rest of the programs are being taken away from USAID and will be administered by the State Department. This leaves USAID in control of nothing, and presumably, it will be shut down.
Rubio thanked the Department of Global Engagement (DOGE) and USAID staff who worked tirelessly to carry out what he described as a long-overdue reform. The announcement is likely to spark debate in Washington, as Democrats and globalist policymakers have traditionally defended USAID's expansive role in international development.
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Stacey Abrams Goes on Allahpundit-Favorite Chris Hayes to Explain Why She Totally Deserved $2 Billion in Taxpayer Dollars
All on the taxpayer dime, of course.
Failed Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is facing condemnation from conservatives after she appeared on MSNBC to defend a $2 billion initiative under the Biden administration's EPA to purchase green energy appliances for Americans. "Stacey Abrams linked Power Forward Communities received $2 billion in tax dollars in 2024 after reporting just $100 in revenue the year before. They were so unqualified that the grant agreement required the NGO to complete 'How to Develop a Budget' training within 90 days," EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in comment provided to Fox News Digital on Sunday. "$2 billion in hard earned tax dollars should not have been doled out to this organization for many reasons, especially if they don't even know how to put together a budget. The Biden EPA 'gold bars' scheme is riddled with self-dealing and conflicts of interest, unnecessary middlemen, unqualified recipients, and massively reduced government oversight. The funds are currently frozen, and the DOJ and FBI are investigating." Zeldin's response followed Abrams joining MSNBC on Friday to defend the Biden administration granting $2 billion last year to a group called Power Forward Communities. The group is a consortium of housing nonprofits, such as Habitat for Humanity International, United Way Worldwide and Rewiring America. Abrams reportedly "played a pivotal role" in establishing the group, according to a LinkedIn post by Ian Magruder, who works at one of the coalition's partners, Rewiring America, Fox Digital previously reported. Abrams worked with Rewiring America to bring energy efficient appliances to a Georgia community in 2023 and 2024, she said on MSNBC while defending the billions in funds provided to Power Forward Communities. "What is this organization? What is your relation to to it? And what does it do," MSNBC's Chris Hayes asked Abrams during the program. "In 2023 and 2024, I led a program called Vitalizing De Soto. We worked in a tiny town in south Georgia to demonstrate that by replacing energy-inefficient appliances with efficient appliances, you can lower your cost. And in fact, we accomplished that for 75% of the community. They got appliances that are lowering their bills," Abrams said, explaining one woman in the Georgia town saw her energy costs slashed by half due to the project.
Abrams continued that the project was so beneficial to Americans, that a coalition of organizations joined forces to call on the EPA under the Biden administration to copy the program and deliver the same results nationwide. "Based on that program, a coalition of organizations -- famous organizations -- came together and said to the EPA, 'If we can do this here, we can do this for millions more Americans. Let us invest the money of America in lowering the cost for Americans.' And the EPA said, 'OK, great, go for it.' And they then granted those dollars to this coalition of organizations who came together, bringing 250 years and $100 billion worth of experience to doing this project," she said. The $2 billion was used for the "decarbonization of homes" in low-income communities and paid for new household appliances, such as water heaters, induction stoves, solar panels, EV chargers, and weatherization, according to an April 2024 press release from Power Forward Communities.
Steve Milloy
@JunkScience The EPA-Stacey Abrams grift revealed: @staceyabrams just told MSBNC's @chrislhayes that the Biden EPA gave her $2 billion to buy people new home appliances to reduce electric bills. So Democrats upgraded vote buying from Obama phones to Biden refrigerators.
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Hyperpartisan Senator and All-Around Scumbag Chris Murphy Abandons His Wife For His Much Younger Side-Piece, a Millennial Who Runs a Leftwing Propaganda Mill That Posts Democrat Talking Points Disguised as "Local News Reports"
He was spotted canoodling with the infant. Actually the NY Post says "cuddling" but I prefer the retro insinuation term "canoodling."
Mollie
@MZHemingway Semafor reports Democrat Chris Murphy has left his wife for Tara McGowan, who runs large Democrat propaganda sites purporting to be local news.
He was spotted canoodling with the infant. Actually the NY Post says "cuddling" but I prefer the retro insinuation term "canoodling."
Chris Murphy was spotted at a Washington, DC, watering hole on a date with a progressive media mogul and strategist who's boosted his efforts as a leading anti-Trump politician in Congress -- just months after the Connecticut Democrat announced he and his wife were separating. Murphy, 51, was caught "cuddling" with Courier Newsroom publisher Tara McGowan, 39, last Monday by the bar at the Red Hen, located just one mile north of Capitol Hill in the district's Bloomingdale neighborhood, a source told The Post, sharing a photo of the pair's romantic rendezvous. The source said Murphy wrapped his arm around McGowan's shoulder at one point, and the two were "being cutesy" while scanning the menu together for rustic Italian fare. The cozy outing took place the night before President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress, which the senator sat out.LOL. He took the night off to bang his schoolgirl sidepiece.
And what's this?
The Democratic lawmaker is apparently still married to his wife, Cathy Holahan, a lawyer based in Washington, as neither has filed for divorce in Connecticut or DC, per public court records. The couple announced they were parting ways last November. A DC Dem insider told Semafor that McGowan is having a love affair with the senator -- and shared a selfie of them on her private Instagram last week with the caption "not postponing joy." As of Monday morning, McGowan had deactivated her X account. Murphy and his wife met at the University of Connecticut's law school, married in 2007 and have two children together.
McGowan was until last year married to Michael Halle, a fellow Dem strategist and former senior adviser to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. He also served on the presidential campaigns of Buttigieg, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The Courier founder and publisher filed for divorce in May 2023, citing "irreconcilable differences," and the marriage was dissolved the following year in April, Rhode Island state court filings show. A self-described "childless woman voter," McGowan has used her personal platform and position for years at the digital outlet to promote Murphy, retweeting his TV appearances and touting his "pro-democracy" stances and policy priorities on gun control, immigration and foreign relations. "Beyond original newsletters, podcasts + social video series, COURIER's new national vertical will publish video opinion pieces from prominent pro-democracy leaders fighting for our rights and freedoms, like this call from U.S. Senator @ChrisMurphyCT to ban assault weapons in [America]," she reposted one of the outlet's X messages in November 2023, two months after her final divorce proceeding hearing. "Republicans wanted -- demanded -- border legislation. Democrats, led by @ChrisMurphyCT, negotiated a bipartisan deal," stated another Feb. 7, 2024, X post by Courier featuring a video interviewing Murphy.Apparently she's Soros-funded too. Duh. Even the very leftwing propaganda outlet Wikipedia finds fault with McGowan's propaganda:
Courier Newsroom is an American digital media company that operates news outlets and sponsors political content intended to support Democratic Party candidates. It microtargets voters via social media advertising with the intention to both inform and persuade. Courier's lack of transparency about its funding sources and glowing coverage of Democratic candidates have raised questions about its reliability and about the line between advocacy and journalism. Courier engages in political microtargeting and the Columbia Journalism Review described Courier's business model as "money from interested parties who seek a particular political outcome." Courier was founded by Tara McGowan, a political strategist and former journalist who previously worked for the Obama campaign and the SuperPAC Priorities USA Action. Courier was launched by ACRONYM and is now owned by Good Information Inc. ... The Courier Newsroom's local digital news outlets are not traditional town newspapers. Instead, they are websites designed to encourage people in key swing states to vote Democratic, while looking like local newspapers. The articles are promoted on social media such as Facebook, which does not prohibit the practice because the newspapers are for-profit. Funders include George Soros, Reid Hoffman, and movie producers. Courier Newsroom received $250,000 from Planned Parenthood between June 2021 and June 2022.Reid Hoffman? The guy rumored to be an Epstein client?
... The New York Times reported that Courier "published articles favoring Democrats and received millions of dollars from dark money groups. It was paid $2.6 million by a nonprofit linked to House Democratic leadership to promote articles." As of 2024, Courier Newsroom had spent more than $12 million on Facebook and Instagram ads. This number does not include spending on TikTok, which does not disclose advertising spending. In October 2024, Courier Newsroom spent over $6 million on political ads on Facebook, making them the third highest spender on political ads on Meta, trailing only the Harris and Trump campaigns themselves. According to the Columbia Journalism Review, "Courier's pattern of spending in the 2024 election cycle also raises inevitable questions about funding sources and demonstrates to what extent the network is a campaigning tool rather than local journalism." Courier's ads recruited participants "to a program that claims they can receive up to $400 for talking to their family and friends about 'voting for Kamala Harris and Democrats this election cycle.'" In February 2025, Tara McGowan addressed a summit of Democratic donors and operatives that had gathered to "discuss how the left's well-funded digital media ecosystem failed in the 2024 election." The meeting included representatives of the Emerson Collective, Catalist, Soros Fund Management, NowThis, and Crooked Media. The production of more effective short and long form video was discussed as was "how to better collaborate with influencers to push progressive messages out."Russian interference, you guys. Here's the website, though, bear in mind, the grift is to post stuff that looks like "local news coverage" on FaceBook. Those "articles" would presumably be better disguised than the website, which openly begs for donations to support "progressive media."
Constantly Underfoot
@ConstantUnder This is sadly funny on many levels.
1. It explains his sudden prolific posting and appearances.
2. He left his wife for free social media advice.
3. The new gal is Really bad at social media advice.
4.And did he decide to leave his wife now so he has 4 years to improve his image?
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ICE Agents Arrest Palestinian Activist Who Leads the Columbia Protests
Another pro-terrorist foreign agent.
Federal immigration officials have arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, the leader behind pro-Hamas campus protests at Columbia University. ICE agents detained Khalil at his university-owned apartment, and he now faces potential deportation as part of President Trump's crackdown on radical campus unrest. Key Details: Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia Apartheid Divest leader, was arrested by ICE agents Saturday night at his university provided residence. He remains under federal custody, with his green card and visa potentially being revoked. Khalil led demonstrations that included materials reportedly sourced from Hamas and Hezbollah. President Trump has pledged to pull $400 million in federal funding from Columbia over its failure to curb anti-Semitic campus activism. Diving Deeper: Federal immigration authorities arrested Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist who spearheaded radical anti-Israel protests at Columbia University, in an overnight raid at his campus-adjacent apartment. Khalil, who completed his graduate studies at Columbia in December, is now facing potential deportation and the revocation of his visa and green card. Khalil's attorney, Amy Greer, confirmed the arrest Sunday, stating that ICE agents entered his university-owned residence a few blocks from Columbia's main campus and took him into custody. Despite no longer being a student, Khalil remained in school-provided housing under a university policy that allows students to stay post-graduation. His arrest comes amid an intensifying crackdown by the Trump administration on left-wing campus unrest, particularly at elite institutions where anti-Semitic rhetoric and violent demonstrations have surged. Khalil was a key leader in Columbia Apartheid Divest, a group at the forefront of protests that descended into chaos, including the recent seizure of Barnard College's Milstein Library. Videos from the protest showed Khalil using a bullhorn outside the library, where rioters distributed Hamas propaganda, including pamphlets justifying the October 7, 2023, massacre of Israeli civilians. Demonstrators also passed around images of deceased Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed in an Israeli airstrike last September.The people who scream about "backlash" are the first to stoke hatred of others. Happy Monday, everyone. I hope that you've all adjusted to Daylight Savings Time better than I have.
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THE MORNING RANT: The Hartford Insurance is Canceling Coverage to the American Energy Institute Because It Promotes Carbon-Based Energy
The Hartford Insurance Company just notified the American Energy Institute that its insurance coverage is being cancelled because it’s the stated policy of The Hartford that it discriminates against carbon-energy advocates. This is in service to The Hartford’s radical Net Zero / DEI agenda.
I’m not engaging in hyperbole. The non-renewal notice from The Hartford to the American Energy Institute explicitly stated that, ”The reason for non-renewal is we have learned from your Facebook page that your operations include Trade association involved in promoting social / political causes related to energy production. This is not an acceptable exposure under The Hartford’s Small Commercial business segment guidelines.”Last last month, @4AmericanEnergy received a letter from @TheHartford informing me that our insurance policy was not going to be renewed. "The reason for nonrenewal is we have learned from your Facebook page that your operations include Trade association involved in promoting… pic.twitter.com/Go7wSZeJoS
— Fmr. Rep. Jason Isaac (@ISAACforEnergy) March 7, 2025
The Hartford continues to prioritize sustainable business practices, creating value for our stakeholders and leveraging our strengths to do well while doing good.Mr. Swift’s fanatical devotion to the left’s agenda is further revealed in that same report:
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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Jozsef Rippl-Ronai I reject a fair number of artworks because the reproductions on the internet are too small or too crappy, and Ace doesn't pay me enough to fly to every museum to take my own photos. This one is on the edge of too small, but I like it, so...
Jozsef Rippl-Ronai I reject a fair number of artworks because the reproductions on the internet are too small or too crappy, and Ace doesn't pay me enough to fly to every museum to take my own photos. This one is on the edge of too small, but I like it, so...
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The Morning Report — 3/ 10 /25
This alone is a powerful reason to completely reexamine our immigration policies, let alone the enforcement of mass deportation of all those here illegally. And in a similar vein, Thank you President Trump!
Kurt Schlichter observes:
Carney beat out former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, former government house leader Karina Gould and former member of parliament Frank Baylis in a contest in which just under 152,000 party members voted. It’s not clear when Carney will formally assume office. He and Trudeau are expected to meet in the coming days to determine the outgoing prime minister’s final day at the helm. The Wall Street wiz threw his hat in the race to succeed Trudeau in January, just a week after the incumbent announced he would resign before completing his term. Carney has never run for elected office before, making him somewhat of a political novice. However, he has served in various roles within the Canadian government for more than a decade — most recently as Trudeau’s appointed chair of the Liberal Party of Canada’s Task Force on Economic Growth. He previously served as the governor of the Bank of Canada before becoming the first non-Brit to run the Bank of England since it was founded in 1694So, from what I can gather, by all outward appearances, Carney is not an insane socialist like Castreau-Cescu or Freeland, but I assume his globalist pedigree is such that he won't be doing anything to move Canada rightward and firmly towards something resembling sanity. From the article, his antipathy to Trump is evident, although that might be merely playing to the audience that doesn't perhaps necessarily appreciate the latter's 51st state rhetoric. I'm sure our commenters from the great white north will weigh in with their assessment of the situation. While it's great that Kash Patel has charged the three soldiers with treason for selling secrets to China. The question remains, how are individuals like these, and indeed, all recruits not carefully vetted before being inducted?! Hello, Nidal Hassan?! And for me, Hello John Brennan?! And Brennan was hired decades ago?, in a seemingly saner time, or was that too an illusion? Meanwhile, Kash Patel is on the case:
The FBI arrested three people on charges of treason this week, and believe it or not, none of them are senators or congressmen. In a stunning blow to Chinese espionage efforts, FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrest of three Army personnel who thought they could sell out America's national security for Chinese cash. Two active-duty soldiers and one veteran are learning the hard way that treason doesn't pay.As to the three Chinese servicemen, I cannot determine if they are native-born American citizens of Chinese parentage or immigrants themselves. But the question of how they and their parents came here is of course crucial. Perhaps like many Chinese, immigrants or born here, they likely have relatives still back in China and that makes them vulnerable to coercion if their betrayal was not voluntary. And there are still many Chi-Com "police stations" still active and functioning in the Chinese American communities in the larger cities across the country that are nests of spies engaged in espionage as well as the coercion and monitoring of Chinese American citizens for nefarious purposes. Asiatic sharia law, in a sense.
This alone is a powerful reason to completely reexamine our immigration policies, let alone the enforcement of mass deportation of all those here illegally. And in a similar vein, Thank you President Trump!
Over the weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents reportedly detained an activist who participated in the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University last spring. Fox News’ Alexis McAdams posted on X that sources told her that Mahmoud Khalil, identified as a lead negotiator for the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” who graduated in December, was taken into custody by ICE at his university-owned apartment in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She also noted that student groups are “demanding” his release. Khalil’s attorney said federal authorities detained her client on Saturday night. Online records show a “Mahmoud Khalil” from Syria is in ICE custody at a detention facility in New Jersey.This comes after Trump froze $400 million in federal funding for Columbia over its tolerance and in reality fomenting of neo-anti-semitism on its campus before during and in the wake of the 10/7 Gaza pogrom on southern Israel. I wonder if Trump and ICE will re-examine the case of Ilhan the Bro-FO Omar who likely gained her citizenship under false pretenses and has been one of the loudest, shrillest voices of anti-Americanism in Congress for years. And of course George Soros, who despite proudly admitting to being a Nazi collaborator in the deportation and expropriation of the property of Hungarian Jews in 1944-45 has used his ill-gotten literal blood money to destabilize this country and western societies the world over for decades. Lastly, there are a number of essays highlighting the Democrats seeming self-inflicted implosion, most recently brought to the fore by their horrendous behavior during President Trump's speech last Tuesday.
Kurt Schlichter observes:
Every Republican president is Hitler, of course, but Donald Trump is somehow even Hitlerer than all of them. It was a theme in his first term, but during this election, even the corrupt eggplant masquerading as the incumbent got into the act. Trump was Hitler – no, he was Super Hitler. He was more Hitler than Hitler. And it’s a constant theme among the lesser lights of the Democrat Party. “This is what fascism looks like,” intone very serious politicians who seem to have no idea what fascism looks like. And the Trump/Hitler thing is all over social media. Every day, as Trump exercises the legitimate powers granted to him by the American people via winning the election, another leftist mediocrity with a five-digit follower account figuratively throws up his, her, or their soft, girlish hands and says, “OK. I’m calling it – he’s Hitler.”And that brings me to today's glittering jewel of cluelessness.
. . . “He’s Hitler” is a shorthand for leftist disapproval, much like the term “racist.” If you’re not a leftist – and sometimes if you are – you’re a racist. It’s not what you’ve done. It’s who you are. And the term is tossed around so promiscuously no one respects it. It doesn’t matter if you do thing X that they say is racist because you’re still going to be racist anyway. You can’t win. And when you can’t win, it’s not fair. And when it’s not fair, no one takes it seriously. It becomes a joke. No one cares. It’s like the boy who cried wolf, except they don’t teach that story in schools anymore because it privileges the male gender experience. And no, the story wouldn’t work if the boy who cried wolf were the she-male who cried wolf because the trans folks are often the ones crying “wolf,” and they hate irony almost as much as using the right restroom. . .
. . . Now, they could go in the other direction. They could attack Trump and his policies substantively. But this has several problems, not the least of which is that his policies are substantively awesome. One is that they don’t know how to do this. Leftists haven’t had to argue for decades. It’s the “The Daily Show” effect. They are smart, you see, so they don’t contend with the ideas of the bad people; they mock the bad people. The bad people are unworthy of having their ideas refuted. They should simply accept that they suck and submit. But what happens when the normal people stop caring about your insults and jibes? Then you’ve got nothing.
Jeffries (D-NY) in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday address to a joint session of Congress, saying that the Democratic Party was still trying to regain its footing. Slotkin, who gave her party’s response to Trump’s address, pushed back on Jeffries’ recent claims that Democrats had Trump and the Republicans “on the run” when it came to the major issues affecting everyday Americans. The newly-elected Michigan Senator suggested that the opposite was true — and even when asked directly, did not give a clear answer as to who she believed was leading her party. . . “There’s lots of leaders in both parties, but also a strategy, right? And I think that’s something that as Trump has been successful in flooding the zone and just, like, every day 15 things happening,” Slotkin continued. “We are still finding our footing. And I think you can’t get better until you admit you have a problem. And for me, that’s one of the things that I think some of the new voices in the party have really been agitating about, right? New senators, new representatives, new folks who are like, ‘Hey, we need to do more. And we need to be showing that we’re actually having a plan to stand up on really important moments of inflection.'Interesting observation by Slutkin — "I think you can’t get better until you admit you have a problem." And that begs the question what does she think the problem is?! The usual excuse they belch out is "messaging." Worse is that they let the mask slip from time to time blaming Americans for being to stupid for voting against their interests and that kind of bullshit. That and just declaring us, as Schlichter notes, for being Nazi racists who support literally Hitler. Of course it can't be the fact that everything the Democrats promote is antithetical to freedom, our culture, heritage, history and sanity, despite their proclamations of being the good guys. The record is clear. All of the misery, dislocation, suffering and wastage of blood, treasure and human potential for over 200 years is the fault of or has been made exponentially worse by the policies and actions of the Left and their epicenter in the Democrat Party. I cannot tell what is in Slotkin's heart and mind. If she had even a scintilla of awareness she would recognize what I say as truth. But of course, she like so many others have been generationally brainwashed to accept the fantasy of Democrats as the champions of peace, love, happiness and harmony as an absolute truth. And so they dedicate themselves as purveyors of that mythology in service of an evil that seeks absolute power over our lives, consciously or otherwise. The leopard is never going to change its spots. Have a good day. 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.
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Daily Tech News 10 March 2025
Top Story
- Nvidia's next GPU to launch will be the RTX 5060 Ti and it maybe - just maybe - might not suck. (WCCFTech)
The 4060 Ti had a 128-bit memory bus, leaving you with the choice of an 8GB model which didn't have enough memory, and a 16GB model which had more than the card's performance warranted, and which cost too much.
The 5060 Ti has a 128-bit memory bus again, and 8GB and 16GB models, but with GDDR7 the memory runs 33% faster. So if the price is right it could be a decent entry point for the new range.
If the card is available. And bits don't fall off.
So probably not, on reflection.
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March 09, 2025
Sunday Overnight Open Thread - March 9, 2025 [Doof]
Southerndown - Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
Howdy Hordelings! Hope you are enjoying your Sunday. Most of you are likely affected by the time change to Daylight Savings Time. Have you adjusted? Did you enjoy the additional evening daylight? Do you care? However you feel about the time change, it's good to have you here on the ONT. Step inside, enjoy the content, and grace everyone with your comments!
Howdy Hordelings! Hope you are enjoying your Sunday. Most of you are likely affected by the time change to Daylight Savings Time. Have you adjusted? Did you enjoy the additional evening daylight? Do you care? However you feel about the time change, it's good to have you here on the ONT. Step inside, enjoy the content, and grace everyone with your comments!
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Gun Thread: Second March Edition!
Did you spring ahead?
Did you spring ahead?
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Food Thread: A Parisian Sojourn
amazing sometimes impressive often edible efforts in his kitchen? Because my current kitchen in the 8th arrondissement has two pans, a couple of knives, a cheese grater, and that's about it! Lots of plates and glasses though! Okay, I may be exaggerating a bit, but it is spartan, has an induction cook top (I am looking forward to playing with that!), an adorable and tiny oven, and a tiny sink that seems designed to splash water everywhere!
I have been here for just a few days, and trying to orient myself with respect to food shopping and cooking gear is a challenge. Mostly fun, but the neighborhood is upscale, so buying a simple roast chicken for €17/Kg ($8.11/lb in a civilized currency and weight) has me highly motivated to cook!
And everything is different. The United States is a wonderful place, and one of the things that makes it so great is American Exceptionalism, which in this case drives us to make the best stuff. Stoves and refrigerators and cook tops and sinks and faucets and showers and washers and dryers and air conditioners and all of the wonderful conveniences that we take for granted. It's just...better in America!
So I will have to find some accommodation with the small cook top and the smaller freezer (No clear ice for me!) and all of the stuff that makes cooking easy.
But... there is an "On the other hand" coming!
Stay tuned for next week!
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First World Problems...
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Is Virulent Jew-Hate The Only Free Speech Allowed At Columbia University?
Let's play a little game... pretend that a group of "White Supremacists" (yeah, I know, they mostly don't exist) decided to parade across the Columbia University quad in KKK garb, then set up a "camp" where they built little gallows for mock lynchings. Oh, add in some signs about how the Emancipation Proclamation was an existential evil, and integration is genocide. And if we really want to add some spice to this, let's have the participants harass and sometimes attack every black person they see, and trash some buildings for good measure.
Sounds like fun, doesn't it! How long do you think these protesters would last before a few hundred NYPD riot police busted their heads, fighting for the privilege with thousands of counter-protesters from all over the country? How many robe-clad-racists would survive unscathed to make it to jail? And imagine the very public trials for dozens of insane and imagined charges cooked up by foaming-at-the-mouth prosecutors salivating at the thought of throwing some 20-year-old dipshit into jail for 10 years! We can have a robust discussion about whether this is constitutionally protected free speech (obviously not including physical violence), and that is an important discussion to be had in America. But the obvious difference between our imaginary protest and the very real and violent protests on the campus of Columbia University is that the administration of the university did nothing to protect the Jewish students from real danger, and did almost nothing to the protesters in spite of their clear and obvious violations of dozens of university rules, and state and federal law. Where were the U.S. Marshalls escorting Jewish students to class? Where was the 101st Airborne protecting the campus? They were nowhere to be found, because the administration of one of the oldest and most prestigious (hah!) universities in the world decided that violent Jew-hate is an acceptable expression of free speech. It is as simple as that. And in a simpler world that would be incredibly distasteful but legal (again, not including violence). After all, free speech that is anodyne is trivial. True free speech is offensive and challenging. But the second Columbia University accepted one penny of public money, they were bound by the strictures of the various federal and state laws governing discrimination, namely Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Columbia failed to protect its Jewish students from discrimination based on their religion. If Columbia University is institutionally anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist, and anti-Israel, and I believe they are, then they have a straightforward way of being allowed to express those opinions. Stop taking government money. Easy-Peasy! But they won't because they can't! They suckle at the government teat to the tune of $5 billion! So they are stuck! And it is glorious! Trump cuts more than $400 million in grants to Columbia over antisemitism concerns, potentially more to come
The Trump administration announced on Friday that it will rescind more than $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University, citing concerns over rising antisemitism on campus and the school's failure to address it. Earlier this week, the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Education (DoED) and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced the initiation of a "comprehensive review" of more than $5 billion in federal grant money that goes to Columbia, "in light of ongoing investigations for potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act" related to antisemitism on campus.I hope this hurts them. And I hope that every wealthy Jewish alum will stop giving. And I hope that no Jewish students apply to Columbia. And I hope that the massive corporate money flow to Columbia will slow to a trickle, because all of a sudden, it is appropriate for corporations to examine their funding of overtly racist programs (DEI anyone?). And yes, I am aware that some of this is a pipe-dream, but there will be incremental decreases, and that is entirely a good thing. All of this is a result of the 2024 election of President Donald Trump. You know, the unrepentant racist/Nazi who is literally Hitler! His hand-picked senior officials are busily tearing down the insane post-modern edifice that the Biden/Obama junta built. No more race-based funding and policies and set-asides. No more overt and covert funding of anti-Semitic organizations and anti-American organizations. Just a renewed focus on freedom for all. Sounds great! Of course they won't get everything. The rot is too deep in our government. But they are off to a rollicking good start, and if that means that Columbia University has to dig deep into their $15 billion endowment, well, you have to break some eggs to make an omelet!
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Sunday Morning Book Thread - 3-9-2025 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
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Daily Tech News 9 March 2025
Top Story
- AMD may finally be breaking the 16 core ceiling with the Zen 6, offering as many as 24 and even, well, 24 cores. (Hot Hardware)
The next generation is expected next year, and will offer 12 Zen 6 or 16 low-power Zen 16c cores on each CPU chiplet, with the standard two chiplets on desktop chips.
So 24 Zen 6 cores, or 32 Zen 6c cores which will run at about 75% the performance, which works out to... Exactly the same.
Zen 6 is expected to arrive on the AM5 platform, the same motherboards used for Zen 4 and Zen 5, so it should be a pretty healthy upgrade.
- Intel meanwhile is rumoured to be preparing a 52 core desktop chip. (TweakTown)
That's 16 full-size cores, 32 low-power cores, and 4 really low-power cores.
Intel's low-power cores are a separate design and run at about half the speed of the full ones, and Intel no longer supports hyperthreading on its consumer CPUs, but with that many cores it's hard to go wrong.
Except perhaps in power consumption, and even there Intel has reduced power draw of recent parts for horrifying to merely bad.
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March 08, 2025
Saturday Overnight Open Thread (3/8/25)
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Good evening boys and girls and everything in between. The 3 Amigos or whatever their stage names are have this evening off. You get me. Suck it up Buttercups.
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The Saturday Night Joke
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Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: Presence
Tiger MILF?
Steven Soderbergh. While best known for his breakout film Sex, Lies and Videotape, his award winning films like Erin Brockovich and Traffic, his Ocean's Number-of-people-on-the-Team films, and his flirtation with communist thugs (Che), he's actually made a lot of trash you've never even heard of. Or if you've heard of it, you didn't know he directed it. Or you knew he directed it but forgot it right after you heard about some controversy.
Like, did you know he directed the Magic Mike movies? Did you remember the controversy where he hired an actual porn star to star in his movie Girlriend Experience about a hooker? He directed Gina Carano's disappointing feature debut, Haywire. Perhaps most relevant to today's film, he also directed Contagion, which was a serious look at what would happen if Gwyneth Paltrow infected everyone with a deadly disease. It fit comfortably into the zombie genre (though there are no zombies) and felt kind of like a grown up entry into a hyper-sensationalized field. This strength, the low-key realism, was also its weakness. It felt competent without being lurid, but a little more luridness might also have been more fun to watch.Tiger MILF?Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:30 PM | Comments (332) | Trackbacks (Suck)
Hobby Thread - March 8, 2025 [TRex]
[Photo: Checkerboard Mesa, Route 9, East Entrance, Zion National Park, Utah]
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 officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread.
We gave the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies(TM) a spin. Turns out, the Wheel has a case of wanderlust. It said ROAD TRIPS and SCENIC DRIVES. Let's go for a ride!Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:30 PM | Comments (218) | Trackbacks (Suck)
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