The WEF has been a little different this year

DataRepublican (small r) at WEF

We have more challenging weather here in the USA than they seem to have in Davos this year, but I was surprised to see reports from DataRepublican as she is in the process of releasing a book. The recent reports of her deafness are confirmed by "X" posts by her long-time interpreter in Davos, as well as a few reports from her Mom. She is even more impressive than I had thought she was.

From her pinned "X" post article: The World Economic Forum Doesn’t Think It Rules the World. That’s the Problem.

When it comes to the World Economic Forum (WEF), there are two caricatures of the attendees – or “weffers” they like to call themselves.
In one version, they are mustache-twirling elites huddled in smoke-filled rooms, plotting a one-world government, mass surveillance, and “you will eat ze bugs!”
In the other, they are cast as saviors: the most powerful people on the planet convening in good faith to solve humanity’s biggest problems.
This week, @DataInterpretr and I spent quality time with the attendees. We took a different approach than most journalists – we did not ambush them with gotcha questions. Instead, we simply sat at tables, started conversations with staffers and speakers, and asked questions – lots of them.
What we got was neither caricature, but something much darker – a first-hand perspective of how tyranny is imposed from a ruling class that will swear up and down that they are not part of any ruling class–and that it controls nothing.
How can that be?

It is undeniably true that the WEF has been a source of coercive power. The clearest example came during COVID, when Klaus Schwab, working alongside the Big Four accounting firms, used the crisis to roll out ESG metrics. These frameworks stripped influence from ordinary stakeholders and concentrated it in the hands of activists and technocrats, while redirecting corporate capital toward left-wing causes.
To understand how that dynamic works, we must enter the mind of a weffer.
First, nearly all of them are either extremely wealthy or employed by people who are. Hotels cost $25,000 a night. Gucci is the default for handbags. Coats fall to the floor, trimmed with mink. And despite the sustainability rhetoric, the menus advertise meat proudly, with few vegetarian options in sight.
They do not understand that they are perceived as hypocrites. They are aware that some people see them as evil, controlling overlords… and they laugh at the idea, because in their own minds it is absurd.
Yet in another sense, it is true.

Alex Soros became an object of ridicule after his WEF remarks:

So, um, you know, so, um, you know… but when I see this, you know, when I look at this, um, you know, um, you know, uh, more globally regarding, regarding, you know, regarding democracy, I also say to myself, “When was this great time that everybody got along so well, and, you know, things were going so, so great?” I mean, I think, you know, um, uh, um, you know, the, um, you know, I think that we really have to be careful here in, you know, in this nostalgia, uh, for a time, uh, you know, for a time past, because a lot of the reactions we’re seeing in society are actually reactions to positive, uh, to positive things like, i- you know, like equality, uh, for women, um, you know, uh, and, um, uh, you know, and greater diversity.

For all that word salad, the key to remember is: Alex is representative.
They all speak this way. Every panel, every “dialogue,” follows the same pattern. Few people are trying to land a clear argument or persuade an audience. They speak to signal belonging, to demonstrate fluency in a shared language, and to impress one another.

The rest of this piece focuses on patterns of self-perception and thinking among attendees at the WEF. And attempts to zero in on some concrete positions from those attendees. It is fascinating and scary to think that so many of our "thought leaders" engage in so little thought.

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The Death of Globalization?

Matt Taibbi is not a conservative. Bearing that in mind, he has some interesting thoughts about Davos:

Forget Trump and Greenland. Howard Lutnick Gave the Davos Speech that Mattered

The death of globalization is the real headline from the international self-indulgence festival at Davos

After Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, the obligatory headline term was humiliation. “Lonely Trump Humiliated as Major Allies Refuse to Be Bullied,” was one of two Daily Beast stories on the theme, the other being “Trump, 79, Croaks Through ‘Peace’ Grift Speech After 48 Hours of Ritual Humiliation,” under the tag BORED OF PEACE. Jen Psaki on MSNOW chortled over his “humiliating ramble,” while Chris Hayes declared him “isolated and humiliated.”
Coverage of Trump long ago devolved into an homage to Pee Wee’s Playhouse, when comic Paul Reubens would get a secret word from Conky the robot in each show. After, audiences would have to shout in unison at every mention of it. I remember being in a room of stoned teenagers shouting “PLACE!” at the TV in 1986.

See hyperlinks and video at the link. Heh.

Trump news cycles are the same, only anchors shout TREASON! or FELON! or DICTATOR! His address on Greenland, NATO, and Emmanuel Macron’s sunglasses was blasted for a hundred reasons, many legitimate, but the real drama came from a non-Trump speech. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ripped his European hosts by declaring “Globalization has failed”:
Globalization has failed the West and the United States of America. It’s a failed policy. It is what the WEF has stood for, which is export offshore, far-shore, find the cheapest labor in the world and the world is a better place for it. The fact is, it has left America behind. It has left the American worker behind. And what we are here to say is that America First is a different model—one that we encourage other countries to consider—which is that our workers come first. We can have policies that impact our workers.

Video and more at the link, whether you agree with it or not. Taibbi notes that the Europeans had warning that this speech was coming, even at the end of the Biden Administration.

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This post concerns NATO, but DataRepublican mentions that Scott Bessent also talked about Japan as a possible Black Swan. And Japanese speakers don't seem too keen on becoming a "Nation of Immigrants".

Scott Bessent brought up an eye-opening datapoint in Davos.

Since 1980, the US has spent $22 trillion more on defense than all other NATO members combined. They preferred to ramp up welfare instead. That’s about two-thirds of outstanding US debt.

Have you said thank you once? pic.twitter.com/FNRYyni12N
— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) January 20, 2026

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Weekend

The Week In Pictures: Ice Ice Baby Edition

Minnesota can’t seem to get out of the news. Once a placid backwater, the state has now become synonymous with bats**t crazy. ICE came to town, and it brought left-wingers, both native Minnesotans and paid professionals, out in force. Things went from bad to worse, and a leftist mob invaded a church on Sunday morning, disrupting services. The mob was led by, among others, former CNN talking head Don Lemon. The Department of Justice, outraged, is pursuing criminal charges against some of the ringleaders.
Ice came to town in a more literal way, too: the high temperature today was -11, the low -22. The far left–i.e., everyone from the DFL Party to the Communist Party USA–declared today “ICE out” in Minneapolis, encouraging students to play hooky and businesses to close. It was, in any event, too cold to protest. I guess we can all be grateful that ICE didn’t come to Minnesota in July.

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Music

Fiddler on the Roof

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, January 17, People who keep us thinking past artificial intelligence

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:10 AM

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1 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2026 11:11 AM (Ia/+0)

2 ehtje5v6yhw5e6v

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 24, 2026 11:14 AM (HxSSW)

3
(deflated)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 24, 2026 11:14 AM (HxSSW)

4 th!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 24, 2026 11:15 AM (kgE5c)

5 morning, OT, another ICE involved shooting in Minneapolis being reported.

Posted by: old chick at January 24, 2026 11:16 AM (F3Dlr)

6 I've been redlined.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 24, 2026 11:16 AM (XeU6L)

7
How did Data Republican get into Davos? Were she and her mother operating in hotel cafes or something?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 24, 2026 11:17 AM (HxSSW)

8 'Wefers', eh.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 24, 2026 11:17 AM (XeU6L)

9 There's almost as many lines linking the Howard Lutnick article as there are lines in the article being linked.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 11:17 AM (ExV1e)

10 I want trade. I just want it controlled and fair. If it’s a level playing field I’m all for trade.

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 11:18 AM (Ryx1w)

11 Geez! I'd've thought Itzhak Perlman's wheelchair would've rolled off the roof!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 24, 2026 11:19 AM (L/fGl)

12 Anyone else keep getting Lutnick and Bessent confused? For some reason I can’t keep the two separate in my head .

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 11:20 AM (Ryx1w)

13 If anyone in ‘28 runs on nothing else but end nato he/she has my vote.

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 11:21 AM (Ryx1w)

14
These attendees are all funded by themselves or their institutions or governments. Yes, it's for the wealthy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 24, 2026 11:22 AM (HxSSW)

15 Data Republican sounds like a sharp cookie.

Is she hawt as well?

Posted by: Bulg at January 24, 2026 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

16 minnesota has always been bats___ crazy, I knew that as a kid.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2026 11:23 AM (rbvCR)

17 Donald Trump’s Approval Surges by Double-Digits With Hispanic Voters

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Don't they know he hates south of the border types?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 24, 2026 11:24 AM (L/fGl)

18
Trump news cycles are the same, only anchors shout TREASON! or FELON! or DICTATOR!

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Don't forget PED0PH!LE!

(masking it so ace doesn't get investigated)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 24, 2026 11:24 AM (HxSSW)

19 These attendees are all funded by themselves or their institutions or governments. Yes, it's for the wealthy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 24, 2026 11:22 AM (HxSSW)

Except it Gavin “Beach Ken” Newsom who is funded by his boyfriend Alex Soros.

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 11:25 AM (Ryx1w)

20 Data Republican sounds like a sharp cookie.

Is she hawt as well?
Posted by: Bulg at January 24, 2026 11:23 AM (77rzZ)

Here is a photo of her with DataInterprete(r). Data Republican is the blonde.

https://tinyurl.com/4bc22bfh

I wouldn't, personally, go with hawt. But that's not her strength.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 11:25 AM (ExV1e)

21 Anyone else keep getting Lutnick and Bessent confused? For some reason I can’t keep the two separate in my head .
Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 11:20 AM (Ryx1w)

Bessent is tall, filled out, soft spoken, wears gold-framed glasses and looks like an overly stylish banker, Lutnick looks like he owns a chain of very successful full service gas stations and acts like he is having the time of his life.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2026 11:26 AM (rbvCR)

22 Heard President Trump said remarks at Davos about foreign countries didn't do much in Afghanistan but saw nor read anything on this

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2026 11:26 AM (Ia/+0)

23 minnesota has always been bats___ crazy, I knew that as a kid.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2026 11:23 AM (rbvCR)

They elected someone crazier than Walz to be their governor. Crazier but more competent and probably less corrupt thought. Probably because he had no time to bleed.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:26 AM (KDPiq)

24 For all that word salad, the key to remember is: Alex is representative.
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Dumb people think you are also dumb.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 24, 2026 11:26 AM (RIvkX)

25 Young ladies seem nice enough

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2026 11:27 AM (Ia/+0)

26 or all that word salad, the key to remember is: Alex is representative.
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Dumb people think you are also dumb.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 24, 2026 11:26 AM (RIvkX)

Narcissism is rampant throughout the Left.

When you unequivocally prove a narcissist is wrong in a debate they will reluctantly give up but walk away still believing they are right.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:29 AM (KDPiq)

27 Bessent is tall, filled out, soft spoken, wears gold-framed glasses and looks like an overly stylish banker, Lutnick looks like he owns a chain of very successful full service gas stations and acts like he is having the time of his life.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2026 11:26 AM (rbvCR)

And if you hear them speak, Lutnick sounds like someone from NY and Bessent doesn't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 11:30 AM (ExV1e)

28 CLOSE YER TAGS!

Posted by: HTML POLICE at January 24, 2026 11:30 AM (8jDWW)

29 Thank you, K.T. Your Saturday morning offerings are the reason I stop by on this day.

Posted by: GrenadierX at January 24, 2026 11:30 AM (M3pDV)

30 What if Kamala and Alex had a baby?

It would immediately have a conversation with it’s parents.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:31 AM (KDPiq)

31 “Globalism has failed!”

Whether or not someone believes that, tells me to some extent what their premises are with respect to “globalization”.

You have to get it in your head the “elites” have been working towards the end of representative government or sovereign nations, consent of the governed, and self-determination for at least a hundred years.

Depending on what you believe their actual versus stated objectives are, globalism has been wildly successful. One might say similar things about our domestic organizations like the F.B.I, or the C.I.A., if they sometimes don’t make any sense, maybe you aren’t paying attention close enough.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 24, 2026 11:32 AM (UTyB6)

32 Trump needs to get out of nato. There will be teeth gnashing of course but it has to be done.

Problem is I suspect the gop is vehemently opposed to it. The defense industry pays everyone off D or R.

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 11:32 AM (Ryx1w)

33 Cozi TV has S1 E1 of Columbo

He looks so young!

Episode name is 'Murder by the Boob'??

No - scratch that - it's 'Murder by the 'Book'

Been hangin' around you people too long!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 11:33 AM (QGaXH)

34 DataRepublican's long-time interpreter is hawt. There are some X posts with them and some other guy in varioux X threads.

They just walked into the "American House". Unlike Gavin Newsom.

Posted by: KT at January 24, 2026 11:33 AM (7vIsy)

35 Forget Trump and Greenland. Howard Lutnick Gave the Davos Speech that Mattered

His speech really was a treat. They should be thankful that Trump didn't have Stephen Miller unleash a speech on them!

Posted by: t-bird at January 24, 2026 11:33 AM (4bj3d)

36 Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat

The World Economic Forum has admitted that the COVID-19 pandemic served as a test of the public’s willingness to comply with their vision for the planet.

X image: https://bit.ly/3NOD08J

There have been significant developments in the last 5 to 7 years on social, environment and technology front that could help raise "My Carbon" initiatives for shaping the future towards smart and sustainable cities.

COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility - A huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions of citizens across the world. There were numerous examples globally of maintaining social distancing, wearing masks, mass vaccinations and acceptance of contact-tracing applications for public health, which demonstrated the core individual social responsibility.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 11:34 AM (P5BPp)

37 Texas will avoid the freeze and have beautiful weather because Ted Cruz has ordered it.

He sarcastically responded to the Left’s outrage of a photo of him on a plane instead of in Texas holding everyone’s hand.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:35 AM (KDPiq)

38 Sorry I'm a little computer illiterate today. DH was advised to go to Emergency last night. I don't know that they found anything significant. He's home now.

Posted by: KT at January 24, 2026 11:36 AM (7vIsy)

39 Who is responsible for the death of the Global bug eaters.

Death of GBE should be a sport for all races and sexes. Even science fiction sexes.

Posted by: thug dolphin at January 24, 2026 11:36 AM (EyfuW)

40 19 Except it Gavin “Beach Ken” Newsom who is funded by his boyfriend Alex Soros.
Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 11:25 AM (Ryx1w)

I'm sure we Calif taxpayers paid for it either directly or indirectly...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 11:36 AM (QGaXH)

41 I wouldn't, personally, go with hawt. But that's not her strength.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Data Interpreter, on the other hand...

Posted by: Bulg at January 24, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

42 Some nut took a shot at a Border Patrolman in Minneapolis this AM. The Border Patrol returned the favor. The USBP has a high tradition of marksmanship from way back. If you need something to do while sitting out the storm, bring up Bill Jordan Shooting videos on YouTube.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 24, 2026 11:37 AM (gm9Sb)

43 Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said on Saturday, Jan. 24.

"Just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning," Walz posted on X. "Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now."

Posted by: old chick at January 24, 2026 11:37 AM (F3Dlr)

44 Speaking of retarded international bodies….

The UN this week, STRONGLY condemned the mass murder in Iran. If the ayatollah isn’t careful he may also receive a sternly worded letter.

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 11:37 AM (Ryx1w)

45 We do get our Abrams tank barrels from Germany and our B-52 engines from Britain. The Defense industry can make up their losses making better replacements.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:37 AM (KDPiq)

46 "Fiddler on the Roof" - a lot of things seem sort of precarious to me lately.

Posted by: KT at January 24, 2026 11:37 AM (7vIsy)

47 Kat Kanada @KatKanada_TM

Mark Carney’s WEF besties tell you how they think you should live.

These are the people who gave him a standing ovation for his recent WEF speech.

X video (01:2

: https://bit.ly/4qHU0fw

World Economic Forum: 10 Scariest Things Said

1) Machines
2) False memories
3) Brain implants
4) Meat
5) Anonymity
6) Own nothing
7) Penetration

Behavior
9) No elections
10) Depopulation

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 11:38 AM (P5BPp)

48 21 Anyone else keep getting Lutnick and Bessent confused? For some reason I can’t keep the two separate in my head .
Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 11:20 AM (Ryx1w)

Bessent is tall, filled out, soft spoken, wears gold-framed glasses and looks like an overly stylish banker, Lutnick looks like he owns a chain of very successful full service gas stations and acts like he is having the time of his life.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2026 11:26 AM (rbvCR)

I respect Bessent and what he has to say.

I like Lutnick - he's the 'happy warrior' type.

Glad they are both on our side....especially liked Bessent's take-down of Gavin the other day.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 11:38 AM (QGaXH)

49 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 11:38 AM (P5BPp)

Brain implants are a Musk thing. Granted they can be used for good or evil. So far it’s just been for good.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:39 AM (KDPiq)

50 Shooting in Minneapolis involving ICE moments ago.

Waltz uses it to attack Trump and ICE calling them "violent and untrained."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 24, 2026 11:39 AM (HXT0k)

51 That Alex Soros speech excerpt is...astounding. These people are diabolical dummies.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 24, 2026 11:40 AM (qBdHI)

52 There were numerous examples globally of maintaining social distancing, wearing masks, mass vaccinations and acceptance of contact-tracing applications for public health, which demonstrated the core individual social responsibility.
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Surely then, they will have even more enthusiasm and effusive praise when the populace starts expelling the illegal alien invaders en masse, no? A bounty would help

“We’re All In This Together” right?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 24, 2026 11:40 AM (UTyB6)

53 World Economic Forum: 10 Scariest Things Said

1) Machines
2) False memories
3) Brain implants
4) Meat
5) Anonymity
6) Own nothing
7) Penetration
Behavior
9) No elections
10) Depopulation
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 11:38 AM (P5BPp)

Interestingly, their continued love affair with "own nothing" could be their downfall as people seem to be increasingly fed up with the subscription economy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 11:40 AM (ExV1e)

54 Trump needs to get out of nato. There will be teeth gnashing of course but it has to be done.

He could just ignore them, too. They might ball up their little fists, but who would notice?

Posted by: t-bird at January 24, 2026 11:40 AM (4bj3d)

55 ICE is not so bad on our road. We’re at The Diner having Crab Cakes Benedict.

Posted by: Eromero at January 24, 2026 11:41 AM (zKPy8)

56
Natto > NATO

Posted by: naturalfake at January 24, 2026 11:41 AM (iJfKG)

57 Don’t shoot at agents or try to run them over and they won’t shoot back

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:41 AM (KDPiq)

58 COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility - A huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions of citizens across the world.

The learned lesson was that people are lizard brained. If you talk about "social responsibility" to them, it must be associated with death - as in: You Are Going To Die.

The "problem" of Climate Change is that death was always ten or more years away, and came in a myriad of vague forms like coastal flooding, hurricanes and famine/drought. Covid was You are going to die Right Now.

Clearly, they didn't learn from the Ten Plagues of Egypt, because nine of them were inconveniences at scale, the one that mattered was Death Right Now.

Instead of Dead Right Now, their remedy became Death Tomorrow from heart attacks, turbo cancers and dementia.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 11:42 AM (a4flb)

59 The legal Mexican-Americans don't want to compete with the illegal aliens.

Oh, and they really like that when you get a traffic ticket here, the cop isn't trying to shake you down for a bribe.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 24, 2026 11:42 AM (qFwJc)

60 Virginia has handed the triumvirate of MN ,NY and CA their Vodka and said watch this is how you do woke communism.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:44 AM (KDPiq)

61 data Republican has the sexiest thing a woman can have... a brilliant mind.

Posted by: MkY at January 24, 2026 11:44 AM (q6tQZ)

62 Interestingly, their continued love affair with "own nothing" could be their downfall as people seem to be increasingly fed up with the subscription economy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 11:40 AM

The speech clip they had in the video for the "own nothing" part was some white woman going on and on about "why would you want to own something? Just lease it. Lease your fridge, your oven, your cell phone..."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 11:44 AM (P5BPp)

63 Waltz uses it to attack ICE calling them “untrained."
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Recall that Americans were admonished by our betters that the completely inexperienced Barky would “learn on the job” ; and by twats just like Timmy. What’s the problem?

Good training!

Posted by: Common Tater at January 24, 2026 11:44 AM (UTyB6)

64 ICE is not so bad on our road. We’re at The Diner having Crab Cakes Benedict.

Lizzy's ?

The real test of the power-line resistance to freezing rain comes tonight. This morning was just a shot across the bow.

Ice is already melting on the roads, especially US80

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 11:44 AM (a4flb)

65 59 On deployment to MCAS Yuma, a fellow Marine got in a jam in San Luis MX. The Sgt Maj sent me and two other guys to get him out of the can. Problem solved when I looked at the desk Sgt and asked "Quanto Mordida?" $20 went a long way then.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 24, 2026 11:46 AM (gm9Sb)

66 The real test of the power-line resistance to freezing rain comes tonight. This morning was just a shot across the bow.

We need a Waffle House Status map to really know the severity.

Posted by: t-bird at January 24, 2026 11:46 AM (4bj3d)

67 Waltz uses it to attack ICE calling them “untrained."
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They were Border Patrol . Probably the most refrained law enforcement arm we have.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:46 AM (KDPiq)

68 33 Cozi TV has S1 E1 of Columbo

He looks so young!

Episode name is 'Murder by the Boob'??

No - scratch that - it's 'Murder by the 'Book'

Been hangin' around you people too long!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 11:33 AM (QGaXH)

Oh, AR, just one more thing

https://tinyurl.com/p66pkma9

Posted by: Detective Columbo at January 24, 2026 11:46 AM (w/O5Q)

69 These “weffers” are like the “PhD club” or Harvard graduates…. It sounds impressive but when you interact with a lot of them you start to realize they’re no more special than average Joe. BUT many think they’re special because they’re credentialed and that is precisely what makes them dangerous. I have a PhD myself so I understand how meaningless it truly is… I got mine for selfish reasons and I’m glad I did… and I can tell you for sure you don’t need to be impressed or intimidated by the PhDs or anyone who drops the “H-bomb” about themselves “casually” in a conversation

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 11:47 AM (xT8gx)

70 Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now." Walz

He should pull the violent, well trained protestors out of Minneapolis. Now.

Posted by: old chick at January 24, 2026 11:47 AM (F3Dlr)

71 The speech clip they had in the video for the "own nothing" part was some white woman going on and on about "why would you want to own something? Just lease it. Lease your fridge, your oven, your cell phone..."
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 11:44 AM (P5BPp)

Pay for everything... forever... until you can't pay and then have nothing. Until you die.

But, of course, if you were rich and important then you'd never run out of money and what is the value of an old serf?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 11:47 AM (ExV1e)

72 They have cleared out the protesters.

And behind the officers doing riot control are men with rifles and real bullets.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 24, 2026 11:47 AM (HXT0k)

73 COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility
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Nah, it was a compliance test, op, whatever. The proverbial powers that be wanted to see just how compliant the public would be if given specific instructions that obviously went against any rational thought.

By any measurement the test was a huge success.

To this day there are people married to the COVID protocols of that time. They're broken, mentally, but they will never abandon the protocols.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 24, 2026 11:48 AM (qwVdq)

74 Helen, Montana is a sanctuary city.

“ The Helena Police Department has announced its exit from a regional drug task force after the agency decided to collaborate with U.S. Border Patrol agents. …Petty (Chief of Police) added that he has “some concerns” with border patrol presence and that he wanted to ensure that HPD doesn’t get involved with immigration enforcement.
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God forbid you get involved with immigration enforcement!!!! They’d rather have ms13 running drugs in the city than work with ICE.this is in Montana mind you not California or Illinois.

Shows that red or blue state doesn’t mean much. Any city, even in deep red states over a certain population will be far left.

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 11:48 AM (Ryx1w)

75 data Republican has the sexiest thing a woman can have... a brilliant mind.

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She is extremely impressive.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 24, 2026 11:49 AM (qBdHI)

76 My neighborhood has all lines buried but I don’t know the situation with the transmission lines supplying the power. Hopefully they are cleared of all trees that could interfere.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:49 AM (KDPiq)

77 Tampon Timmy can eat shit and die

We’re All In This Together!

Posted by: Common Tater at January 24, 2026 11:49 AM (UTyB6)

78 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 24, 2026 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

79 A bit willowed but worth repeating.

I just wanted to pop in and express my gratitude and undying love for the First Lady, who is celebrating her birthday today.

She is an amazing, wonderful, beautiful, caring, tough as nails woman of faith whom I am nowhere near worthy of.

Through everything over the past years, she's still smiling and enjoying life.

Praise be to God.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at January 24, 2026 11:49 AM (Zz0t1)

80 Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said on Saturday, Jan. 24.

"Just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning," Walz posted on X. "Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now."

Or?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)

81 BUT many think they’re special because they’re credentialed and that is precisely what makes them dangerous.

Many think they’re special because they’re rich. They also think that their ideas are good because they're rich - so they're never inconvenienced by their stupidity.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 11:50 AM (ExV1e)

82 The speech clip they had in the video for the "own nothing" part was some white woman going on and on about "why would you want to own something? Just lease it. Lease your fridge, your oven, your cell phone..."

I look at those kinds of WEF speeches as yet another TED Talk for billionaires.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 11:50 AM (a4flb)

83 Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 11:48 AM (Ryx1w)

95% of all urban cities are blue unfortunately.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:50 AM (KDPiq)

84 Since 1980, the US has spent $22 trillion more on defense than all other NATO members combined.

Since 2000 we have spent about $15 Trillion on welfare in the US.

So 100% of our debt is WELFARE.

And can you name 1 person or 1 family that WELFARE has helped?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 24, 2026 11:50 AM (gbOdA)

85 That's very sweet, Sponge. I know she's lucky to have you too. Happy birthday to her, as well! Today would've been my grandpa's 120th birthday.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 24, 2026 11:51 AM (qBdHI)

86 Walz wants the "untrained" ICE agents out of his ice box and demanded PDT do it. Well, maybe PDT, in the spirit of compromise, says he will only send highly trained personnel, like a Marine Expeditionary Unit or a Ranger Battalion.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 24, 2026 11:51 AM (gm9Sb)

87 Location is W 27th St and Nicollete Ave.

Sign in store windows says " Tobacco [ampersand] Mas"

So it's that kind of neighborhood.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 24, 2026 11:52 AM (HXT0k)

88 95% of all urban cities are blue unfortunately.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:50 AM (KDPiq)

Yeah that’s my point. We talk all the time about blue or red states. But it’s really blue cities vs red counties where the battles lie.

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 11:52 AM (Ryx1w)

89 And can you name 1 person or 1 family that WELFARE has helped?
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 24, 2026 11:50 AM (gbOdA)

There's an entire community of Somalis in Minnesota who've been helped enormously by welfare.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 11:52 AM (ExV1e)

90 68 Oh, AR, just one more thing

https://tinyurl.com/p66pkma9
Posted by: Detective Columbo at January 24, 2026 11:46 AM (w/O5Q)

VERY NICE!

I scrolled down two to the one about replacing pride month with veterans month and noticed it has 112K upvotes, 0 down votes. Nice looking girl there too.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 11:53 AM (QGaXH)

91 >>>like, i- you know, like equality, uh, for women, um, you know, uh, and, um, uh, you know, and greater diversity.

>>>For all that word salad, the key to remember is: Alex is representative.

Imagine - Beavis and Butt-Head interbred and their offspring gained incredible power and wealth...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 24, 2026 11:53 AM (/lPRQ)

92 You and family have been in my prayers Sponge

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 11:54 AM (xT8gx)

93 Interestingly, their continued love affair with "own nothing" could be their downfall as people seem to be increasingly fed up with the subscription economy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 11:40 AM

The speech clip they had in the video for the "own nothing" part was some white woman going on and on about "why would you want to own something? Just lease it. Lease your fridge, your oven, your cell phone..."
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 11:44 AM (P5BPp)

Ugh, nobody loves their landlord. "Own Nothing" is Landlord X100.

"Own Nothing" is the exact historical analogue of "The Company Store" or "The sharecropper System".

You're never free. You can never get ahead. You're bound and tied in place by ongoing debt.

The "Own Nothing" people probably need to meet the acquaintance of a lonely lamppost. At a minimum they should never ever hold any power politically or in business. They are anti-freedom and anti-people and anti-you as a free man or woman.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 24, 2026 11:54 AM (iJfKG)

94 Natto > NATO

Posted by: naturalfake at January 24, 2026 11:41 AM (iJfKG)

There are studies that indicate that Nattokinase can reduce arteriosclerotic plaques. NATO I think is arteriosclerosis personified

Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2026 11:54 AM (rbvCR)

95 At what point precisely did this notion that nobody except the FEDS might concern themselves with illegal aliens, foreign nationals, enemy combatants etc?

It’s crazy. I know Jan Brewer in Arid Zone A got sideways with the JEF “administration” but it predates that by quite a lot. Decades. Has to.

I’m impressed that we live in a Digital Panopticon, with a gazillion law enforcement agencies high and low, from Sheriff, police, state patrol, rangers, militia, national guard, fbi, dhs, blah blah blah.

“Nope. Not my department”. Fuckng pathetic. Not only is everyone enjoined from lifting a finger, the invaders are stealing everything not nailed down, and working diligently on the shit that is

Posted by: Common Tater at January 24, 2026 11:54 AM (UTyB6)

96 can you name 1 person or 1 family that WELFARE has helped?
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 24, 2026 11:50 AM (gbOdA)

Is this a serious question?

- Ahmed Mohammed Al bin Mohammed,
Owner of several Learing Centers in Minesotta

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 11:54 AM (Ryx1w)

97 Yeah that’s my point. We talk all the time about blue or red states. But it’s really blue cities vs red counties where the battles lie.
Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 11:52 AM (Ryx1w)

Wouldn’t disagree. Red State governors have to tap down on the blue cities.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:54 AM (KDPiq)

98 nd can you name 1 person or 1 family that WELFARE has helped?

No, but I don't know anybody who works in government.

Posted by: t-bird at January 24, 2026 11:54 AM (4bj3d)

99 Or?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2026 11:49 AM

He'll encourage more and more lunatics to turn the city of Minneapolis into a complete insane asylum with absolutely no law enforcement until he gets his way.
or, he'll keep stamping his feet in protest because he lost face already.

Posted by: old chick at January 24, 2026 11:55 AM (F3Dlr)

100 Morn 'all...Walz is a liar about the shooting according to Bill Menughin{sp} a person I totally trust

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 11:56 AM (VE6XX)

101 In the prior thread, it was mentioned that the WEF is pushing the population replacement plan in the USA leading to guaranteed Democrat election victories.

Good to see this timely post from K.T. on the tyrannical WEF.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 24, 2026 11:56 AM (y171U)

102 Many think they’re special because they’re rich. They also think that their ideas are good because they're rich - so they're never inconvenienced by their stupidity.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 11:50 AM (ExV1e)

Watching billionaire owner of the Buffalo Bills, Terry Pegula, in his press conference the other day would abuse anyone of the notion that a rich guy is necessarily smart. The guy’s worth $7B and he came across as a blithering idiot…. I thought to myself: I should be worth at least $10B if this guys at 7…. Sigh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 11:56 AM (xT8gx)

103 By any measurement the test was a huge success.

It required broad spectrum censorship and draconian cancel culture.

I think the planets were in alignment for the C19 hoax. It required buy in from a lot of different domains, and installing Biden and his choir of demons united every America and God hating contingent. They needed to jack up adrenaline and cortisol levels in every person in the West so it was FUD on NO2 until the engine threw a rod.

Remember, control of the Executive is control of a multi-trillion dollar international slush fund. Everyone on the planet is on the take except the American Producers who are raped into a coma.

With X and the walking dead of the corporate news, I don't think they have the gravity they once did.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 11:58 AM (a4flb)

104 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 11:56 AM (xT8gx)

His daughter and wife appear pretty smart. She’s Asian if that makes a difference.

But the dumbest billionaire by leaps and bounds is Mark Cuban.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:58 AM (KDPiq)

105 > data Republican has the sexiest thing a woman can have... a brilliant mind.
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When she burst onto the scene on 𝕏 during the time DOGE was picking apart the NGO's she started working with the databases that were made public. She'd then put one of her own together to illustrate how the money was being laundered. It was impressive work.

My wife, who was a pretty smart database admin back in the day took one look at some of her stuff and just went "whoa."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 24, 2026 11:59 AM (qwVdq)

106 Becoming a billionaire is a lot of luck and willingness to fuck people over.

Yes there is also hard work and creating a product/sergice, etc. Blots of people work hard are smart and create successful businesses. Getting to billionaire status isn’t because you’re suuuuuuuper smart it’s a lot of luck and being at the right place and time, knowing the right people, etc.

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 12:00 PM (Ryx1w)

107 To this day there are people married to the COVID protocols of that time. They're broken, mentally, but they will never abandon the protocols.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 24, 2026 11:48 AM (qwVdq)

It was a Test of Big Govt powers.
The next Test will be against a group or class.
Imagine all the COVID forces (distancing, stay at home, rules) applied not to 300 Million people but to maybe 10 Million.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 24, 2026 12:00 PM (gbOdA)

108 All inidications are that Alex Soros is a bona fide idiot. One of the first things he did upon inheriting his father's legacy was to heavily invest Billions in Rivian EV Truck. Rivian took a financial dive, and Alex Soros lost nearly $3 Billion in very short order. Rivian's financial status was so poor that they stopped building their new manufacturing plant in Georgia.

Then, enter Joe Biden. Presumably to make Soros whole, the federal government under the Autopen's edict gave Rivian a $6.6 Billion loan. Keep in mind tha this gigantic loan was given AFTER Rivian shit the bed.

Posted by: Orson at January 24, 2026 12:01 PM (dIske)

109 85 That's very sweet, Sponge. I know she's lucky to have you too. Happy birthday to her, as well! Today would've been my grandpa's 120th birthday.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 24, 2026 11:51 AM (qBdHI)

OMG! I just read Sponge's comment more carefully and realized he wasn't talking about Melania Trump!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 12:01 PM (QGaXH)

110 His daughter and wife appear pretty smart. She’s Asian if that makes a difference.

But the dumbest billionaire by leaps and bounds is Mark Cuban.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 11:58 AM (KDPiq)

Sadly, Pegula’s wife (Kim)… who’s only about 58 years old, had a major health crisis a few years ago… sounds like a stroke and she’s not fully functional anymore. Daughter is a very good tennis player… I’d have to check to see if she’s still in the Aussie Open

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:01 PM (xT8gx)

111 Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 12:00 PM (Ryx1w)

Or having other dumb billionaires overpay for your mediocre internet company.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 12:01 PM (KDPiq)

112 Disappointed no ICE in Philadelphia yet

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2026 12:02 PM (Ia/+0)

113 Ford lost $10B on EVs. So Soros is smarter than Ford’s CEO. 🤣

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 12:02 PM (Ryx1w)

114 One of the keys to the current insanity was when the courts decided that American citizen taxpayers are on the hook for illegal aliens in the public schools.

I don’t know if the votes were there but those justices should have been impeached, and a “are you sure about that?” mob of torches and pitchforks ensued.

Apparently there is no other effective means of self-rule and the rest of it, without periodic reminders. Sadly.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 24, 2026 12:03 PM (UTyB6)

115 OMG! I just read Sponge's comment more carefully and realized he wasn't talking about Melania Trump!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 12:01 PM (QGaXH)

ARiK — You in the South Bay? I lived there for decades… still miss the Strand

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:04 PM (xT8gx)

116 Happy Birthday to the First Lady!

Posted by: Bulg at January 24, 2026 12:06 PM (77rzZ)

117 I’d like to think TPTB could never again in my lifetime recreate the C19 crisis: lockdowns, mandatory masking and vaccines, closing “nonessential” businesses and schools…

I know the population as a whole is stupid but good grief…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:07 PM (xT8gx)

118 And can you name 1 person or 1 family that WELFARE has helped?
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 24, 2026 11:50 AM (gbOdA)

the caseworkers for one

Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2026 12:07 PM (rbvCR)

119 Looks like ICE just shot some guy interfering with an arrest. Standby for sportiness...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 24, 2026 12:08 PM (3Ope8)

120 114 One of the keys to the current insanity was when the courts decided that American citizen taxpayers are on the hook for illegal aliens in the public schools.”

Plyler vs Doe, 1982

A case that came about because the Tyler Tx school district said that they weren’t going to admit illegals.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2026 12:09 PM (IUuBi)

121 One of the keys to the current insanity was when the courts decided that American citizen taxpayers are on the hook for illegal aliens in the public schools.

And free health care, don't forget about that blank check to illegals and their sponsors.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 12:09 PM (a4flb)

122 Looks like ICE just shot some guy interfering with an arrest. Standby for sportiness...

Is he equilibrating with the ambient?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t)

123 Ford lost $10B on EVs. So Soros is smarter than Ford’s CEO.

Sounds more like an intentional transfer of wealth when you put it like that!

Posted by: t-bird at January 24, 2026 12:10 PM (4bj3d)

124 So what happen with the latest FAFO in Minneapolis?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:10 PM (MeJZi)

125 122 Looks like ICE just shot some guy interfering with an arrest. Standby for sportiness...

Is he equilibrating with the ambient?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 24, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t)

Muerto

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 12:10 PM (VE6XX)

126 From the statement released by the Border Patrol, it sounds a lot like it was a protester or "ICE watch" that pulled the handgun and got killed for their stupidity

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 24, 2026 12:11 PM (HXT0k)

127 Imagine all the COVID forces (distancing, stay at home, rules) applied not to 300 Million people but to maybe 10 Million.

Like Germany's experiment back in the 1930s

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 12:11 PM (a4flb)

128 There is a video from an apartment across the street of five or six ice agents trying to subdue someone then a shot is fired. breitbart has it

Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 12:12 PM (qWRc4)

129
I know the population as a whole is stupid but good grief…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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To this day, I believe that the embracers of the Covid Panic would react exactly the same. That sort of reaction is baked into their psyches.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 24, 2026 12:12 PM (XeU6L)

130 126 From the statement released by the Border Patrol, it sounds a lot like it was a protester or "ICE watch" that pulled the handgun and got killed for their stupidity
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 24, 2026 12:11 PM (HXT0k)

Oh boy... At first I read it was an illegal....Whoever it was Walz and Frey and the Dems are to blame

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 12:13 PM (VE6XX)

131 At what point precisely did this notion that nobody except the FEDS might concern themselves with illegal aliens, foreign nationals, enemy combatants etc?

I believe that this is a mischaracterization of the issue.

Only the feds may enforce immigration policy. That's the court decision and unless Congress makes law stating otherwise, that's what will remain.

Also, the feds may not require states to assist unless they pay them to do so. That's the court decision and unless Congress makes law stating otherwise, that's what will remain.

States MAY choose to assist, as Texas does, or they may choose to ignore, as Minnesota does. I don't know that there has been a case about cities/states which explicitly act against federal immigration policy. Trump has tried to deal with by withholding funds but, of course, the judges are treasonous.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 12:13 PM (ExV1e)

132 The worst thing about Rivian is that Gov. Kemp of Georgia also sunk a billion or two of his taxpayers money into Rivian, and tha is all lost. But he made Alex Soros very happy, and Kemp is always welcome at his parties.

In case anyone was unclear about whose team Kemp is playing for.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2026 12:14 PM (IUuBi)

133 A 51 yr old guy got ventilated in Minneapolis. Fun weekend in sub zero weather

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 24, 2026 12:14 PM (e4I2N)

134 Officers are now handing out free pavement sandwiches and warm cop car rides to the smellies

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 24, 2026 12:14 PM (HXT0k)

135 Watching billionaire owner of the Buffalo Bills, Terry Pegula, in his press conference the other day would abuse anyone of the notion that a rich guy is necessarily smart. The guy’s worth $7B and he came across as a blithering idiot…. I thought to myself: I should be worth at least $10B if this guys at 7…. Sigh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 11:56 AM (xT8gx)

He's rich because he fracked. He's an Engineer type, not a PR guy. He's always been lousy with the Press. Being bad on tv doesn't make you stupid any more than being comfortable on tv makes you smart. The tragedy is the stroke/medical incident his wife suffered. She was supposed to be sitting in that seat and she was simply better than him at that public facing stuff.

As for the coach. That team showed up flat for the home opener, a nationally televised game. They failed to show up twice against the Pats. They also like to give up 250 yds rushing a few times per year. Now add in bad gameday management which has barely improved after years of high pressure games.

I like McDermott, but he's replaceable, and the team may be better for it. I'm just worried about roster turnover associated with the scheme change.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 24, 2026 12:14 PM (w/O5Q)

136 Nah, it was a compliance test, op, whatever. The proverbial powers that be wanted to see just how compliant the public would be if given specific instructions that obviously went against any rational thought.

By any measurement the test was a huge success.

To this day there are people married to the COVID protocols of that time. They're broken, mentally, but they will never abandon the protocols.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 24, 2026 11:48 AM

Yep, 100% agreed. The WEF was absolutely thrilled with how the Plandemic worked out. Successful test of worldwide governmental compliance as well as population compliance. It also reset enough people's brains such that now they are mentally broken, as you stated.

Not to mention the Great Reset is pushing forward with more and more younger generations on board with working from home (where your job can be easily outsourced to third world retards for cheap) as well as on board with not socializing in the real world and just staying home on their "social media" apps and having everything delivered to their homes.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 12:15 PM (P5BPp)

137 Suspect shot multiple times, died at hospital, CBP to have a press conference shortly.

Posted by: old chick at January 24, 2026 12:15 PM (F3Dlr)

138 One could argue that globalism raises the world in toto but, it hurts certain individuals and nations in the particular, including our own. Grasping this is what has moved me from being an open markets guy forty years ago (yeah NAFTA!) to virtually a mercantilist.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 24, 2026 12:16 PM (jc0TO)

139 Getting to billionaire status isn’t because you’re suuuuuuuper smart it’s a lot of luck and being at the right place and time, knowing the right people, etc.

For a while, the process was to come up with any business plan, didn't matter what it did or how stupid it was, it just had to have a clear objective of eventually being bought out by Meta or Google.

Take that plan and pass it around those who had access to cheap money (select Silicon Valley Bank clients) who would then start your Series A financing...

• build the airplane in flight
• get a couple more rounds of funding
• cook the books
• ????
• Profit! (sell to the aforementioned)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 12:17 PM (a4flb)

140 Watching billionaire owner of the Buffalo Bills, Terry Pegula, in his press conference the other day would abuse anyone of the notion that a rich guy is necessarily smart. The guy’s worth $7B and he came across as a blithering idiot…. I thought to myself: I should be worth at least $10B if this guys at 7…. Sigh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 11:56 AM (xT8gx)

Like people with PhDs, rich people (unless it's inherited wealth) tend to be really, really good at one thing which they've made a bunch of money from. They then tend to thing that being good at drilling for oil, say, which is the thing that made Pegula rich, means that they're good at other things.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 12:17 PM (ExV1e)

141 What do you do to counteract a media-driven narrative that vilifies the current administration just to win an election? Gold is at ~$5000/ounce and silver is >$100/ounce. How is this not a five-alarm indicator of the volatility regarding fiat currency? People make fun of Peter Schiff, but they also made fun of the “Big Shott “ strategy in 2008.
It’s likely that the NGOs and non-profits have been acting as a slush fund for political parties used for re-election money. We’re on the verge of revolution due to a dishonest media and minority party to sow chaos in order to sway voters in an election year. They’re looking for another George Floyd moment.
How many cities need to burn, and how many people need to die, in order to fuel their lust for political power?
It amazes me the lengths the left will go to regain control. People need to research color and violent revolutions used by Marxist. I know people who I consider extremely intelligent that believe this sh!t! It’s very disheartening!

Posted by: Unkaren at January 24, 2026 12:18 PM (zDIG9)

142 127 Imagine all the COVID forces (distancing, stay at home, rules) applied not to 300 Million people but to maybe 10 Million.

Like Germany's experiment back in the 1930s
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 12:11 PM (a4flb)

Was my exact idea that the Test would be against a religion.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 24, 2026 12:18 PM (gbOdA)

143 Not to mention the Great Reset is pushing forward with more and more younger generations on board with working from home (where your job can be easily outsourced to third world retards for cheap) as well as on board with not socializing in the real world and just staying home on their "social media" apps and having everything delivered to their homes.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 12:15 PM

The only "good" thing to come out of the Plandemic was the exposure for the country to see the corruption and depravity that has become the U.S.A.'s school system. D.E.I., BLM, LGBTQ+ propaganda; left/Marxist messaging; anti-U.S.A., anti-Christian, pro-Islam messaging, etc.

We knew teachers in general were becoming less and less competent over the past few decades, but the corruption and blatant radical left-wing/Marxist indoctrination and propaganda was eye-opening in it's audacity.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 12:18 PM (P5BPp)

144 Suspect shot multiple times, died at hospital, CBP to have a press conference shortly.

In a sane world, the press conference would center around criticizing the officer's grouping.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 12:18 PM (a4flb)

145 I definitely like the idea of water cannons. Soaking wet in subzero temperature is not good for protesting

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 24, 2026 12:20 PM (e4I2N)

146 Purple hairs are now setting up barricades to block police from securing the shooting areas. State police on scene ,flashbangs going off.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 12:20 PM (qWRc4)

147 One of the keys to the current insanity was when the courts decided that American citizen taxpayers are on the hook for illegal aliens in the public schools.

I don’t know if the votes were there but those justices should have been impeached, and a “are you sure about that?” mob of torches and pitchforks ensued.

Apparently there is no other effective means of self-rule and the rest of it, without periodic reminders. Sadly.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 24, 2026 12:03 PM (UTyB6)

Of course, Congress could have undone that. But they chose not to. And we (generally) keep sending them back.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 12:20 PM (ExV1e)

148 Another Cultural Marxist stooge throwing themselves for the cause

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2026 12:20 PM (Ia/+0)

149 Minneapolis LARPers need to up their game to get their Horst Wesel.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:20 PM (MeJZi)

150 Smellies are now trying to build a barrier with plastic trash cans across the street.

They're setting stuff on fire, black smoke

Now it looks like local PD are there pushing them back

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 24, 2026 12:20 PM (HXT0k)

151 I struggle with suicide in general, it seems a very selfish thing to do. But suicide by cop, or otherwise directly violently involving others, is completely disgusting. Society should completely shame such behavior.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 24, 2026 12:21 PM (hhkIi)

152 From the statement released by the Border Patrol, it sounds a lot like it was a protester or "ICE watch" that pulled the handgun and got killed for their stupidity
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 24, 2026 12:11 PM (HXT0k)

BP and ICE seriously need to be outfitted with bodycams so we can ensure that we always have unedited evidence in these cases.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 12:22 PM (ExV1e)

153 Meanwhile, Klobuchar issued a message on X to the Trump administration and Republicans.

"To the Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress who have stood silent: Get ICE out of our state NOW," she wrote.

The flow of Pirate money to Pols must be sweet!!

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 24, 2026 12:23 PM (gbOdA)

154 The shoot
Video tends to look like one cop pulled the pistol out of perp's waistband, someone yelled "gun" and he got shot.
Not great, but why did he bring a gun to a protest?

Posted by: MkY at January 24, 2026 12:23 PM (q6tQZ)

155 153 Meanwhile, Klobuchar issued a message on X to the Trump administration and Republicans.

"To the Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress who have stood silent: Get ICE out of our state NOW," she wrote.

The flow of Pirate money to Pols must be sweet!!
Posted by: r hennigantx at January 24, 2026 12:23 PM (gbOdA

Amy.. Ain't happening....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 12:23 PM (VE6XX)

156 Not to mention the Great Reset is pushing forward with more and more younger generations on board with working from home

That seemed to be the trajectory a few years ago, but if you go through LinkedIn or Indeed, most gigs are on-site, or at the most hybrid.

That is why you are seeing a huge increase in H1B scams where Pajeet will sponsor his whole village and bring them over to the US so that they can mostly soak up welfare, but a few find jobs from driving trucks, 3rd shift C-store or daytime liquor store, and adding coding slop to tech departments.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 12:23 PM (a4flb)

157 Walz is such a bitch punk.

Said "spoke with the White House"

Or, as what really happened: Called the WH switchboard and was left on hold.

Oh? Are these APCs rolling in?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 24, 2026 12:24 PM (HXT0k)

158 It’s like -9deg in Minneapolis. Just how stupid are these “protesters”… do they want frostbite?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:24 PM (xT8gx)

159 >>> The World Economic Forum has admitted that the COVID-19 pandemic served as a test of the public’s willingness to comply with their vision for the planet.

Explains the stupidity of virtually every dictate.
Surprised they didn't make people eat dog turds because they'd have cops beat you up if you didn't.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 24, 2026 12:24 PM (/lPRQ)

160 They're setting stuff on fire, black smoke

Now it looks like local PD are there pushing them back
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 24, 2026 12:20 PM (HXT0k)

That’s one of the darkly amusing parts of this. Their only real option to escalate is to start burning parts of their own city down, and that will force the local authorities to react whether they want to of not.

Worst case, they could let them burn their own city down, and who cares.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2026 12:24 PM (IUuBi)

161 Purple hairs are now setting up barricades to block police from securing the shooting areas. State police on scene ,flashbangs going off.
Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 12:20 PM

I love the angry woman shouting at the police force to go home! over and over and over.
umm, they aren't listening to you and don't care you have nowhere better to be. Today is not going to make you a celebrity, dope.

Posted by: old chick at January 24, 2026 12:24 PM (F3Dlr)

162 Crackdown is not only costing the DFL kickback money, MN could lose a Congressional seat next census.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:25 PM (MeJZi)

163 I struggle with suicide in general, it seems a very selfish thing to do. But suicide by cop, or otherwise directly violently involving others, is completely disgusting. Society should completely shame such behavior.

It’s kind of difficult when suicide is considered a remedy for a struggling life.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 24, 2026 12:25 PM (zDIG9)

164 Davos spelled backwards is Assholes.

Posted by: Swiss Miss at January 24, 2026 12:25 PM (R/m4+)

165 153. Newsmax had a Minnesota state senator on who is absolutely livid at Waltz. Said he hopes and investigation into waltz start soon and he’s removed because he is fomenting this and is an absolute disaster for the state.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 12:25 PM (qWRc4)

166 Not to mention the Great Reset is pushing forward with more and more younger generations on board with working from home (where your job can be easily outsourced to third world retards for cheap) as well as on board with not socializing in the real world and just staying home on their "social media" apps and having everything delivered to their homes.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 12:15 PM (P5BPp)

I think that the yoots are still on board with WFH but there seems to be growing sentiment against both social media and subscriptions. They seem to all still be in favor of pay over time, delivery, and shit like that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 12:25 PM (ExV1e)

167 Tammy Timmy also called the federal agents untrained.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:26 PM (MeJZi)

168 Purple hairs are now setting up barricades to block police from securing the shooting areas. State police on scene ,flashbangs going off.

I hope they run out of flash-bangs so they can substitute claymores.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 12:26 PM (a4flb)

169 Watching the idiots in Minneapolis. They aren't protesters, more like a mob. Nothing better to do than to get out in freezing weather and yell at officers throwing stuff at them and showing the world what assholes they are. Stupid people.

Posted by: Case at January 24, 2026 12:26 PM (E7+ue)

170 Well that's an odd typo

Tampon Timmy

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:27 PM (MeJZi)

171 Insurrection Act now... Shut this down

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 12:27 PM (VE6XX)

172 Looks like ICE just shot some guy interfering with an arrest. Standby for sportiness...

Good. More Please.

Posted by: Violence Is The Answer at January 24, 2026 12:27 PM (R/m4+)

173 115 ARiK — You in the South Bay? I lived there for decades… still miss the Strand
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:04 PM (xT8gx)

Still here Linus?

I'm in Orange County

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 12:27 PM (QGaXH)

174 Watching the idiots in Minneapolis. They aren't protesters, more like a mob. Nothing better to do than to get out in freezing weather and yell at officers throwing stuff at them and showing the world what assholes they are. Stupid people.
Posted by: Case

Time and a half for under 10 degrees

Posted by: MkY at January 24, 2026 12:28 PM (q6tQZ)

175 why did he bring a gun to a protest?
Posted by: MkY at January 24, 2026 12:23 PM (q6tQZ)

Because the people ramping up the insurrection are telling them to. Why wouldn't you bring a gun to confront literal Nazis?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 24, 2026 12:28 PM (ExV1e)

176 ARiK — You in the South Bay? I lived there for decades… still miss the Strand
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:04 PM (xT8gx)

I hit Post too soon - I worked in South Bay for a big aerospace company that also has sites in Tx

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 12:29 PM (QGaXH)

177 141 It amazes me the lengths the left will go to regain control. People need to research color and violent revolutions used by Marxist. I know people who I consider extremely intelligent that believe this sh!t! It’s very disheartening!
Posted by: Unkaren at January 24, 2026 12:18 PM (zDIG9)

Good point. They live in a different world from us. Totally different.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 24, 2026 12:29 PM (y171U)

178 I personally think it’s time to use the insurrection act. When you have a governor of a state continuing to push this stuff and make claims like he did this morning, this is basically insurrection. I don’t know where you go from here if you don’t have an ability to bring more force in to stop these people. Just having the Minneapolis Police Department or state police on the scene right now is keeping these protesters from over running the ice officers. It’s what should’ve been happening all along.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 12:29 PM (qWRc4)

179 yeah, attempt to arrest an illegal, another guy approached with weapon to intervene, struggle, guy shot.
Play a sjw hero, die, the illegal lives to live another day.

Posted by: old chick at January 24, 2026 12:30 PM (F3Dlr)

180 Historically illiterate scumbags, hope they get frostbite.

The Nazis arrested citizens of opposing political parties first.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:30 PM (MeJZi)

181 115 ARiK — You in the South Bay? I lived there for decades… still miss the Strand
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:04 PM (xT8gx)

Still here Linus?

I'm in Orange County
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 12:27 PM (QGaXH)

Moved to Texas a few years ago. Back in the day spent a lot of time in Seal Beach, Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach…. Still lots of relatives in the South Bay so visit regularly

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:30 PM (xT8gx)

182 If I was a store owner or resident behind the purple hair harpys I don't know if I could resist dragging a hose or hoses out, hooking to a faucet and spraying them down through a door or window. It would need to be through a security grill so they couldn't storm into my place.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 24, 2026 12:30 PM (hhkIi)

183 Crackdown is not only costing the DFL kickback money, MN could lose a Congressional seat next census.
---
Will.

And could be 2, given the reaction of the Dems, of how threatened they are.

I'll say it again:
We hold the House this year and win in 2028, the Dems won't win a President election again for 30 years.

I'm enjoying the feds tactic:
They shoot tear gas. Smellie tosses it back. They rush out and arrest the smellie.
Lol, dumb fucks

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 24, 2026 12:30 PM (HXT0k)

184 So this idiot wanted to die for... Illegals ?.. I'm just not getting this....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 12:30 PM (VE6XX)

185 How Not To Be Seen should update to

How Not To Get Killed

Posted by: Bad Andrew at January 24, 2026 12:31 PM (qIH9H)

186 Gaylord told them to bring a gun.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:31 PM (MeJZi)

187 So there’s already 5 dozen different stories out about how the shooting happened. Good grief.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2026 12:31 PM (IUuBi)

188 I hit Post too soon - I worked in South Bay for a big aerospace company that also has sites in Tx
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 12:29 PM (QGaXH)

We probably had the same employer.. the evil R… small world

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:31 PM (xT8gx)

189 Of course, Congress could have undone that. But they chose not to. And we (generally) keep sending them back.
——-

That’s my point. The judiciary is crooked, and so is congress. I’m not advocating for neck-tie parties, but (apparently) this is the only remedy.

Temporarily at best. Then the rot starts to set in again. It’s the human condition, ya gotta periodically hang the motherfuckers that are supposed to be preventing the necessity of .. hanging motherfuckers

Posted by: Common Tater at January 24, 2026 12:32 PM (55dRY)

190 Tim Walz should write a manifesto:How to Destroy a Great American City for Political Gain.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 24, 2026 12:32 PM (zDIG9)

191 I still maintain that the answer to mobs is having spears.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 24, 2026 12:33 PM (jc0TO)

192 And can you name 1 person or 1 family that WELFARE has helped?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 24, 2026 11:50 AM

My sister. She got pregnant and her husband left her with no high school diploma and no prospects for a job and no child support. She got on welfare and went into section 8 housing. She got a babysitter went to school finished her HS and went on to get a degree in computers, this was 1985 or so. She got a job working at firestone tire factory doing programming. Moved out of section 8 housing real quick and she never took another dime from welfare.

Granted the vast majority stay on welfare pretty much for life . My sister is the only welfare success story I know but there must be more out there.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 24, 2026 12:33 PM (0N4FZ)

193 Walz and Frey should be arrested

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 12:35 PM (VE6XX)

194 "Evil guns must have a way to render them useless when the temperature goes below freezing!"

Some nut in the Minnesota legislature

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 24, 2026 12:35 PM (gm9Sb)

195 182. Minnesota State Senator also said a Newsmax that no one is going into Minneapolis right now. So if you’re a store owner or a business, you don’t have any customers and haven’t had any for probably a month to two months. No one‘s gonna be able to stay open for long with that type of situation.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 12:35 PM (qWRc4)

196 192 And can you name 1 person or 1 family that WELFARE has helped?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 24, 2026 11:50 AM

Oh c’mon, that question is ridiculously easy. Every office holder in the dem party, for starters.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2026 12:36 PM (IUuBi)

197 toby or a lancer cavalry squadron, same difference

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2026 12:36 PM (Ia/+0)

198 The World Economic Forum has admitted that the COVID-19 pandemic served as a test of the public’s willingness to comply with their vision for the planet.
[ ... ]
COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility

Yeah, I think the problem with that is that they shot their wad. The world fell for it but at least our part of the world is now wise to the plan and won't fall for it again. I hope.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 24, 2026 12:36 PM (Fs0KI)

199 I personally think it’s time to use the insurrection act.

That is using a broadsword when a scalpel is in order.

Though it would take some time to train and put into action, will be effective and a great investment for years to come:

K9 Units to accompany ICE agents. If a Danger Hair gets too close, she will experience a totally different experience with a dog that doesn't involve peanut butter.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 12:36 PM (a4flb)

200 192 Granted the vast majority stay on welfare pretty much for life . My sister is the only welfare success story I know but there must be more out there.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 24, 2026 12:33 PM (0N4FZ)

Good to hear your sister's story. There need to be more people like her.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 24, 2026 12:36 PM (y171U)

201 Tim Walz should write a manifesto:How to Destroy a Great American City for Political Gain.

Posted by: Unkaren at January 24, 2026 12:32 PM (zDIG9)

And then a sequel- How I shared a lamp post with Mussolini.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 24, 2026 12:36 PM (snZF9)

202 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:30 PM (xT8gx

I understand why it is hard to leave CA. I thinks it's arguably the most beautiful state. I also think that Texas is arguably the least attractive state.

That said I wouldn't trade living in Texas with any other state right now.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 12:37 PM (KDPiq)

203 LARPer screaming at ICE demanding they kill him.

Geez

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:37 PM (MeJZi)

204 With spears, you don't even have to kill the perps. Stabbing them in the thighs and ass slows them down for an easy arrest.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 24, 2026 12:37 PM (jc0TO)

205 The problem with these so-called elites is that they think they are important, the media reinforces that narrative and they aren't in fear of decorating a lamppost.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 24, 2026 12:38 PM (7xrfc)

206 The biggest problem with welfare is that it is structured to keep people on it as job security for the bureaucrats that administer it. Or that was the biggest problem decades ago. It may be that the biggest problem now is the rules have been set up to for it be an easy fraud vehicle.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 24, 2026 12:39 PM (hhkIi)

207 Hope the dead "protestor" wasn't of "color"

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 12:39 PM (VE6XX)

208 Thank you for the Itzhak Perlman! Lil Pooky loved it, as did Pooky- he played The Rabbi in our high school production of "Fiddler On The Roof."

Posted by: pookysgirl wasn't in that one at January 24, 2026 12:39 PM (Wt5PA)

209 she will experience a totally different experience with a dog that doesn't involve peanut butter.

I understood that reference. Oh dear God, I understood that reference and I hate myself for it.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 24, 2026 12:39 PM (7xrfc)

210 Temporarily at best. Then the rot starts to set in again. It’s the human condition, ya gotta periodically hang the motherfuckers that are supposed to be preventing the necessity of .. hanging motherfuckers

That is exactly why Thomas Jefferson recommended Tree of Tyrant watering service on a reoccurring subscription plan.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 12:39 PM (a4flb)

211 PD just arrested another land whale.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 12:40 PM (qWRc4)

212 Adding all potential government benefits together pays more than working an entry level job. This is the Dole.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 24, 2026 12:40 PM (jc0TO)

213 188 I hit Post too soon - I worked in South Bay for a big aerospace company that also has sites in Tx
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 12:29 PM (QGaXH)

We probably had the same employer.. the evil R… small world
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:31 PM (xT8gx)

They send me a check every month. We may know some of the same people - esp if you ever took in-person Cleanroom.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 12:40 PM (QGaXH)

214 Walz wants the "untrained" ICE agents out of his ice box and demanded PDT do it. Well, maybe PDT, in the spirit of compromise, says he will only send highly trained personnel, like a Marine Expeditionary Unit or a Ranger Battalion.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Just respond with
"Or ?"

See if Swisher Walz can hang himself up by his nuts on a chain link fence.... searching for that squirrel pic..

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 24, 2026 12:41 PM (/lPRQ)

215 Fry is late for his own press conference.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:41 PM (MeJZi)

216 "The surest way to help the poor is to not let them feel too comfortable."

B.Franklin, printer and scientist

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 24, 2026 12:41 PM (gm9Sb)

217 It amazes me the lengths the left will go to regain control.
——-

To maintain control. This should not be remarkable, they were always going to have to be dragged away kicking and screaming.

They will always go completely scorched earth and burn everything down before relinquishing control.

You can vote Socialism in, but ya gotta shoot yer way out. These are not generally qualified people, and they have very, very comfortable lives. They have been enriching themselves for decades at the public trough. Over time, the theft becomes ever more brazen and extreme. But they will never go gently into that good night.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 24, 2026 12:41 PM (55dRY)

218 I understand why it is hard to leave CA. I thinks it's arguably the most beautiful state. I also think that Texas is arguably the least attractive state.

That said I wouldn't trade living in Texas with any other state right now.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 12:37 PM (KDPiq)

We made the right decision to move, but I do miss the ocean… nothing more peaceful than a jog along the Strand, looking north to Malibu imagining you can just make out Jim Rockford’s trailer…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:42 PM (xT8gx)

219 I understand why it is hard to leave CA. I thinks it's arguably the most beautiful state. I also think that Texas is arguably the least attractive state.

That said I wouldn't trade living in Texas with any other state right now.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 12:37 PM (KDPiq)

California attracts people who like comfort and superficialities.
Texas attracts those who like Freedom.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2026 12:42 PM (IUuBi)

220 My father refused any welfare benefits even at times when we would have qualified. He worked as many odd jobs he could until he found full employment again. My mother also worked.

I think he knew how easy it is to get hooked on freebies.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 12:42 PM (KDPiq)

221 Protesters shooting paint balls from behind barrels.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 12:43 PM (qWRc4)

222 215 Fry is late for his own press conference.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:41 PM (MeJZi)

This will go the same as the 5 year old child being arrested by ICE and used as bait I imagine...Like that they will lie to rev up the Protestors...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 12:43 PM (VE6XX)

223 They send me a check every month. We may know some of the same people - esp if you ever took in-person Cleanroom.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 12:40 PM (QGaXH)

Small world indeed! We might but the last time I had that training in person was.. 20 years ago or more

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:44 PM (xT8gx)

224 Why don’t we fly a drone over with tear gas

Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 12:44 PM (qWRc4)

225 Protesters shooting paint balls from behind barrels.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 12:43 PM (qWRc4)

High time they get lit up with a SAW.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 24, 2026 12:45 PM (snZF9)

226 Protesters shooting paint balls from behind barrels.

Someone is itching to get shot.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 24, 2026 12:46 PM (jc0TO)

227 I doubt Trump would take a call from Walz...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 12:46 PM (VE6XX)

228 Someone said that there was video from apartments of the BP shooting. Are there no engineers in those apartments that can set up a trebuchet on the roof to lob water balloons at the rioters?

Posted by: PaleRider at January 24, 2026 12:46 PM (hhkIi)

229 This will go the same as the 5 year old child being arrested by ICE and used as bait I imagine...Like that they will lie to rev up the Protestors...

I file this under "Their Accusations Are Their Confessions"

Because in their sick and twisted world their personal experience with using a 5 year old child as bait is to slut her him/her up and cover them with make-up.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 12:46 PM (a4flb)

230 Protesters shooting paint balls from behind barrels.

Someone is itching to get shot.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 24, 2026 12:46 PM (jc0TO

Water cannons would put an end to that.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 12:47 PM (KDPiq)

231 223 They send me a check every month. We may know some of the same people - esp if you ever took in-person Cleanroom.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 12:40 PM (QGaXH)

Small world indeed! We might but the last time I had that training in person was.. 20 years ago or more
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:44 PM (xT8gx)

One of the people that taught it transferred to Tx.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 12:47 PM (QGaXH)

232 Report on NDH's health status as of an hour ago on X:

Morning.

My mom needs prayers and positive energy right now. Her surgery to implant the impella yesterday went sideways, very sideways, and we almost lost her.

She is currently in the ICU on an ECMO and under sedation. Thankfully the Drs have no concerns with her neurological condition.

With everything that occured yesterday and into the night, my biggest fear was that the worsening of her overall health would inpact her abilty to receive a new heart, it will not.

Thank you to everyone for their support and we ask that you please keep her in your thoughts and prayers and share her story.

*To answer a question that came up, I do not have this platform, so I will only be posting updates via her account and GoFund.

Mistie

Posted by: Sharkman at January 24, 2026 12:47 PM (/RHNq)

233 Are the LARPers waving a Minnesota flag or is that Somalia?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:47 PM (MeJZi)

234 When you lose the Black Panthers, you just, lose.

https://tinyurl.com/d5k52zh5

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 24, 2026 12:47 PM (k1gZr)

235
221 Protesters shooting paint balls from behind barrels.
Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 12:43 PM (qWRc4)

That’s thr stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of. Shooting fake guns at people who have real guns?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2026 12:48 PM (IUuBi)

236 I recall a couple of years ago at Davos, one participant bemoaned how elites like her weren't being taken seriously any more.

And I recall Jordan Eason of CNN claiming that US troops were deliberately assassinating reporters and was forced to walk that back.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 24, 2026 12:48 PM (7xrfc)

237 High time they get lit up with a SAW.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 24, 2026 12:45 PM (snZF9)

There’s a scene in Predator (Schwarzenegger) where Jesse Ventura (yep the old MN guv) character is incensed that the invisible alien took out his friend so he fires this amazing weapon indiscriminately into a patch of jungle and just mows down everything in that area including moderately sized trees. A terrifying weapon that fires like a bazillion rounds a minute… is that a SAW?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:49 PM (xT8gx)

238 Someone has a 1960's playbook -"Power to the People!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:49 PM (MeJZi)

239 220 My father refused any welfare benefits even at times when we would have qualified. He worked as many odd jobs he could until he found full employment again. My mother also worked.

I think he knew how easy it is to get hooked on freebies.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 12:42 PM (KDPiq)

Some early Democrats recognized this and thought it a Bad Thing&trade:. Very little time passed until they realized welfare payments are indeed the opiate of the masses, then started giving that shit out like crazy.

Posted by: First taste's free, then you gotta vote Democrat at January 24, 2026 12:49 PM (TbWk/)

240 why did he bring a gun to a protest?

Powerline has a purported pic of the recovered gun. I'm not the expert on Gucci pews but it looks like some high-end variant of a Sig 320. Including the optic, maybe $1500 worth of gear.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 24, 2026 12:49 PM (Fs0KI)

241 I doubt Trump would take a call from Walz...

Or it would go along a lot like Less Grossman negotiating with the Flaming Dragons.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 12:49 PM (a4flb)

242 Bad Thing™

Posted by: First taste's free, then you gotta vote Democrat at January 24, 2026 12:49 PM (TbWk/)

243 Ventura had a 7.62mm mini-gun,

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:50 PM (MeJZi)

244 I like Fiddler on the Roof in its original Swahili.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 24, 2026 12:51 PM (xvV+O)

245 Posted by: Sharkman at January 24, 2026 12:47 PM (/RHNq

Prayers for NDH. It does make me think the US is probably the only country that makes this type of effort for a regular citizen.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 12:51 PM (KDPiq)

246 A terrifying weapon that fires like a bazillion rounds a minute… is that a SAW?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:49 PM (xT8gx)

I think that was a minigun. (Not usually hand carried)

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2026 12:51 PM (IUuBi)

247 Fry finally at podium

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:52 PM (MeJZi)

248 ok so what happened? reddit is all up in arms "another ICE murder!!"

eleventy!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 24, 2026 12:52 PM (emBoF)

249 I definitely like the idea of water cannons. Soaking wet in subzero temperature is not good for protesting
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Probably why they all went into the airport.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 24, 2026 12:52 PM (/lPRQ)

250 240 why did he bring a gun to a protest?

Powerline has a purported pic of the recovered gun. I'm not the expert on Gucci pews but it looks like some high-end variant of a Sig 320. Including the optic, maybe $1500 worth of gear.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 24, 2026 12:49 PM (Fs0KI)

Threaded barrel too. This is an expensive bit of gear this guy had on him.

Posted by: He was tooled up for sure at January 24, 2026 12:53 PM (TbWk/)

251 I really can see a gorilla war going in another year

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2026 12:53 PM (Ia/+0)

252 37 yr old Minneapolis white male is the dead perp.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:53 PM (MeJZi)

253 A terrifying weapon that fires like a bazillion rounds a minute… is that a SAW?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:49 PM (xT8gx)

That was an M134 minigun. That particular one sold at auction several years ago for $800k.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at January 24, 2026 12:54 PM (I8+9i)

254 Dropping off for a while.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 24, 2026 12:54 PM (QGaXH)

255 is that a SAW?

No, that's a GE Minigun. Bingle "M249" for a good example of a squad automatic weapon.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 24, 2026 12:54 PM (Fs0KI)

256 Frey is a serious ahole.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 24, 2026 12:54 PM (e4I2N)

257 256 Frey is a serious ahole.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 24, 2026 12:54 PM (e4I2N)

FBI should come in and arrest him

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 12:55 PM (VE6XX)

258 And dickwad Fry keeps stroking the fires of riots and death.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:55 PM (MeJZi)

259 ok I found the story

I'm seeing the nut job was 51 years old? not 37? regardless going after border patrol while they're apprehending an illegal alien criminal with your gun drawn is NOT SMART

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 24, 2026 12:55 PM (emBoF)

260 Insurrection act time Mr.President. Frey just as said six agents were pummeling a resident , then shot him to death. You can’t work with these people.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 12:55 PM (qWRc4)

261 Hollywood Weapons did an episode on Predators.

They couldn't re-create the mini gun scene cutting down the trees and plants. Just made a lot of holes in the jungle.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 12:56 PM (KDPiq)

262 clearly MN scum want PDJT to trigger the insurrection act.

I personally think it's best to hold off on that as long as humanly possible

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 24, 2026 12:56 PM (emBoF)

263 There’s a scene in Predator (Schwarzenegger) where Jesse Ventura (yep the old MN guv) character is incensed that the invisible alien took out his friend so he fires this amazing weapon indiscriminately into a patch of jungle and just mows down everything in that area including moderately sized trees. A terrifying weapon that fires like a bazillion rounds a minute… is that a SAW?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 12:49 PM (xT8gx)

No that was Bill Duke after Jesse gets bodied by the Predator. And it's not a SAW, it's a minigun, an electric-driven Gatling type automatic weapon.

Posted by: TJM would have gotten this right at January 24, 2026 12:56 PM (TbWk/)

264 Freyggot’s wife has to be a beard.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 24, 2026 12:56 PM (xvV+O)

265 Minneapolis police chief said the dead perp was 37.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 24, 2026 12:56 PM (MeJZi)

266 How does one speak with a house exactly?

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 12:57 PM (Ryx1w)

267 That’s thr stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of. Shooting fake guns at people who have real guns?
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2026 12:48 PM (IUuBi)

It is the "you can't hit me I'm not touching you" from the abusive sibling.

(head butting is the only response to that situation, then beat on him for "touching")

Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2026 12:57 PM (rbvCR)

268 265 Minneapolis police chief said the dead perp was 37.

I believe you! I just saw a Fox News story quickly

Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 24, 2026 12:58 PM (emBoF)

269 51, 37 whatevs.
The world is better off with a him gone.

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 12:59 PM (Ryx1w)

270 245 Prayers for NDH. It does make me think the US is probably the only country that makes this type of effort for a regular citizen.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 12:51 PM (KDPiq)

True that. And it doesn't get said enough.

Posted by: Joemarine at January 24, 2026 12:59 PM (y171U)

271 Hollywood Weapons did an episode on Predators.

They couldn't re-create the mini gun scene cutting down the trees and plants. Just made a lot of holes in the jungle.

Mythbusters did a bit with a minigun where they did blast through a moderately sized tree stump but it took a while.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 24, 2026 12:59 PM (Fs0KI)

272 250 240 why did he bring a gun to a protest?

Powerline has a purported pic of the recovered gun. I'm not the expert on Gucci pews but it looks like some high-end variant of a Sig 320. Including the optic, maybe $1500 worth of gear.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 24, 2026 12:49 PM (Fs0KI)

Threaded barrel too. This is an expensive bit of gear this guy had on him.
Posted by: He was tooled up for sure
======
Yep. Same as Uvalde murderer and several other tooled up asshole shooters. The ignorant tend to buy high end guns because they view them an extension of their persons and because 'they are the best'.

The serious operators are more into viewing guns as tools and an extension of their software (training), parts, reliability, and logistics, come into the picture at that point.

Lot of deadly shooters with just plain jane pew pew devices because they spend the time and money on training rather than equipment.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2026 12:59 PM (E4rtv)

273 Walz gave the order to hand the Minnesota National guard shot paint balls at people sitting on their front porch during the scamdemic. I thought that was stopped. If take that as mortal danger and shoot back.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 24, 2026 01:00 PM (xvV+O)

274 Jacob Frey his following his Chinese-provided script. He speaks as though his constituents are not very smart....might be right.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 24, 2026 01:00 PM (4b7CV)

275 Frey has already, in the last 5 minutes, incited insurrection 100 times more than what they claimed Trump said to incite.

Holy shit, this guy is basically calling for the citizens to attack the Feds; that the feds must leave.

The whole government of Minneapolis must be arrested-- they are in a state of open rebellion against the federal government

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 24, 2026 01:00 PM (HXT0k)

276 So the crowd was told to disperse in three minutes. That was almost 40 minutes ago. No wonder these people don’t do what they’re told. There are no consequences typically. Yes I no one got shot. I understand that. But the Minneapolis police either don’t have enough power to force these people to obey their commands or they don’t have that will.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 01:00 PM (qWRc4)

277 If you are afraid to be in.publuc because you might be arrested, you might be an illegal alien. Funny how that works.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 24, 2026 01:02 PM (4b7CV)

278 But the Minneapolis police either don’t have enough power to force these people to obey their commands or they don’t have that will.

I think it's will. Because they know what will happen to them if they try enforcing the law.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 24, 2026 01:02 PM (7xrfc)

279 Couple of mass shootings likely had less casualties because the perp liked the 100 round mags.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 01:02 PM (KDPiq)

280 So the crowd was told to disperse in three minutes. That was almost 40 minutes ago.

—

It’s like that Robin Williams bit about London cops who carried no guns. They say stop and if you don’t well say stop again.

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 01:03 PM (Ryx1w)

281 > Water cannons would put an end to that.
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I'm surprised the feds haven't resorted to that. It would be an awesome tactic right now... in the middle of winter... in Minneapolis.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 24, 2026 01:04 PM (qwVdq)

282 Appears the appears that the PD got the order to start firing a bunch more tear gas. They have managed to push the protesters back and get them to scatter a little bit.

Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 01:04 PM (qWRc4)

283 The Minneapolis director of emergency management just compared the feds to terrorists in 3rd world countries like Yemen.
Said, what i saw there is what I'm seeing here.

She is a globalist traitor to the US.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 24, 2026 01:05 PM (HXT0k)

284 Not to mention the Great Reset is pushing forward with more and more younger generations on board with working from home

That seemed to be the trajectory a few years ago, but if you go through LinkedIn or Indeed, most gigs are on-site, or at the most hybrid.

That is why you are seeing a huge increase in H1B scams where Pajeet will sponsor his whole village and bring them over to the US so that they can mostly soak up welfare, but a few find jobs from driving trucks, 3rd shift C-store or daytime liquor store, and adding coding slop to tech departments.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 12:23 PM

Yep, I see a lot of that where I work in auto industry. Only the company is giving Americans the shaft both ways. First since the merger in 2021, they slowly replaced about half the American workforce with an outsourced workforce of third world retards. Then over the past year, they have started to hire locally for in office work. But I notice very little of the new hires are the typical young white car guys and are more D.E.I. hires (Indians, minority women).

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 01:06 PM (P5BPp)

285 Can’t believe I misremembered the shooter of the minigun in Predator! Chalk it up to my 29 years….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 01:06 PM (xT8gx)

286 Helena MT is the capitol. Government town. ie, left.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at January 24, 2026 01:06 PM (iNp3L)

287 Saw this morning Arizona AG is rthe latest Marxist joining up with the Confederacy

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)

288 [1/2]
John Ʌ Konrad V
@johnkonrad

Tons of headlines from Davos. Here’s a quick run down…
Trump: we want Greenland & battleships!
Techbros: Look At Me. AI is the Captain now.
Carney: I’m not communist, Trump is the commie!
Starmer: We sold a major US Navy Base 😜
Newsom: You need to hate 🇺🇸 MORE
Macron: Netflix needs a gay Top Gun series
Bessent: ok but paint the jets pink and cast Newsom as the Rear Admiral
Milei: do that and I will chainsaw your TV!
von der Leyen: screw the Monroe Doctrine
China: ya’ll are so gullible… especially Canada
Finland: We can protect all of Europe ourselves
Zelensky : I hate all of you.
Wall Street: Thank god Kamala lost
James O’Keefe: there seems to be no forms of intelligent life anywhere
Al Gore: don't start chasing waterfalls, visit Tennessee
Christiane Amanpour: Al Gore and that Finnish guy are the only people who’ll talk to me
Kaitlan Collins: Al Gore is literally the only person who will talk to me

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 24, 2026 01:07 PM (zQlkF)

289 [2/2]
Danish King: I will find the guy flying that banner and guillotine him
Soros: I don’t even like myself
Posobiec: rear admiral newsom 😂
UN’s Guterres: it’s no fair, daddy Trump cut off my allowance
NATO’s Rutte: you’re welcome
Kerry Kennedy: I smoked six packs to sound like my brother
Qatar PM: yeah, Canada is screwed
Indonesian PM: Did you see me next to Trump?
WEF President: I don’t care anymore
Data Republican: thank god I’m deaf

https://is.gd/aoCXav

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 24, 2026 01:07 PM (zQlkF)

290 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 24, 2026 01:05 PM (ugDB

I admit still going to glory holes at your age is impressive. Hard on your knees I would imagine.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 01:07 PM (KDPiq)

291 Troll alert at 288

Posted by: Jen the original at January 24, 2026 01:07 PM (qWRc4)

292 The pistol could also be stolen.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2026 01:07 PM (rbvCR)

293 Holy shit, this guy is basically calling for the citizens to attack the Feds;

So is the police chief, he threw his federal law enforcement brothers under the bus. He's a disgrace.

Posted by: old chick at January 24, 2026 01:07 PM (F3Dlr)

294 251 I really can see a gorilla war going in another year
Posted by: Skip

Guerilla. Gorilla war is a different dynamic.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 24, 2026 01:07 PM (4b7CV)

295 Seems the perp had lots of ammo like he was gonna go on a shooting spree...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 01:08 PM (VE6XX)

296 Walz wants the "untrained" ICE agents out of his ice box and demanded PDT do it. Well, maybe PDT, in the spirit of compromise, says he will only send highly trained personnel, like a Marine Expeditionary Unit or a Ranger Battalion.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door

Send in some Green Beanies to organize the suppressed locals to throw off the illegitimate government of commies and foreign invaders.
IOW - other protesters seize the capital.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 24, 2026 01:08 PM (/lPRQ)

297 This death is a direct result of the left spreading the lie that ICE cannot arrest citizens

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 24, 2026 01:08 PM (HXT0k)

298 Posted by: old chick at January 24, 2026 01:07 PM (F3D

All blue city police chiefs are woke political hires.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 01:09 PM (KDPiq)

299 Guerilla. Gorilla war is a different dynamic.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 24, 2026 01:07 PM (4b7CV)

FREE HARAMBE

Posted by: Kindltot - Free Harambe! at January 24, 2026 01:09 PM (rbvCR)

300 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 24, 2026 12:23 PM

Regarding LinkedIn, the few times I decide to click on some of the articles sent to me in the weekly e-mail, it's someone propagandizing about the wonders of WFH and 4-day or 30-hour work weeks. Or people on social media sites complaining about how rough the 40-hr work week is for them, accusing all us gen-x-ers and boomers of having had it easy. Riiiiight.

Nevermind that most of us engineers have been for most of our careers working 50-60 hour work weeks with our salaried positions that come with "casual overtime". Which actually means we are mandated to work at least 1 hour of overtime per day or 5 hours per week (45 hours minimum). Because that is what is demanded for the job.

Nevermind that many boomers worked even more hours than that or worked multiple jobs to make ends meet for their families. Many working hard labor jobs outdoors.

These younger generations were born into abundance and have no idea how easy they have it.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 01:09 PM (P5BPp)

301 Saw this morning Arizona AG is rthe latest Marxist joining up with the Confederacy

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)

---------------

She's yet another ambitious Soros Butt-Bitch like Hobbs intent on stealing the Governor's race again (not to mention all the stolen Senate seats here in Arizona).

Posted by: ShainS -- 'The Warmth Of Collectivism' Is Code For 'Hell On Earth' at January 24, 2026 01:09 PM (zQlkF)

302 132 The worst thing about Rivian is that Gov. Kemp of Georgia also sunk a billion or two of his taxpayers money into Rivian, and tha is all lost. But he made Alex Soros very happy, and Kemp is always welcome at his parties.

In case anyone was unclear about whose team Kemp is playing for.
Posted by: Tom Servo
=====
He and Ratshitburger are on Team WEF and Team Chicoms becuz Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta wants it. That being said, Tennessee probably blew more buck in Blue Oval City complex around Memphis and the other EV scams financed by states.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2026 01:10 PM (E4rtv)

303 The illegal they were trying to arrest was wanted for violent assault...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 01:10 PM (VE6XX)

304 It is not cold enough to be Stalingrad

Posted by: Kindltot - Free Harambe! at January 24, 2026 01:10 PM (rbvCR)

305 Guerilla. Gorilla war is a different dynamic.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 24, 2026 01:07 PM (4b7CV)

Planet of the Apes!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 24, 2026 01:11 PM (xT8gx)

306 The police chief seems to be working hard to avoid any communication with any if the federal agencies. Seems like a delibetate act to be able to deny any contact with facts.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 24, 2026 01:11 PM (4b7CV)

307 Minnesota State Senator also said a Newsmax that no one is going into Minneapolis right now. So if you’re a store owner or a business, you don’t have any customers and haven’t had any for probably a month to two months. No one‘s gonna be able to stay open for long with that type of situation.

Hope they starve.

Posted by: Paris 1870 at January 24, 2026 01:11 PM (R/m4+)

308 If *I* got handed control in Minneapolis. "Lets get some pumper tanker fire trucks on scene. Any swat boys know how to operate these? we can't have the unarmored fire dept boys do it? " Add dye to the water in those tanks. Add antifreeze if needed. Bullhorn "Disperse now, the water cannons are ready if you do not" "Okay boys soak em down. Ready the tear gas grenades for those that remain, and boys be sure to put your ice cleats on before you go in to scoop up stragglers."

Posted by: PaleRider at January 24, 2026 01:12 PM (hhkIi)

309 296 251 I really can see a gorilla war going in another year
Posted by: Skip

Guerilla. Gorilla war is a different dynamic.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 24, 2026 01:07 PM (4b7CV)

Lots more chest-thumping involved.

Posted by: Equal poo-slinging at January 24, 2026 01:12 PM (TbWk/)

310 These younger generations were born into abundance and have no idea how easy they have it.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 01:09 PM (P5BPp)

Which is exactly what my father told me, and what my grandfather tried to engineer for my father.

That being said, "Live Poorer" is a really sucky political slogan no matter who says it.

Posted by: Kindltot - Free Harambe! at January 24, 2026 01:12 PM (rbvCR)

311 The Fiddler on the Roof video merely proves, once again, that all cultures are equivalent. I mean, just find any video of an African tribal orchestra...just as impressive, if not more so!
/sarc

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 24, 2026 01:13 PM (XMwZJ)

312 279 Couple of mass shootings likely had less casualties because the perp liked the 100 round mags.
Posted by: Opinion fact
======
Another short cut trying to use mechanical devices to make up for lack of training in changing mags.

For the average civilian or even police, full auto devices are useless. Military uses them for suppressive fire mainly but not needed for encounters that police or civilians engage in.

Semi auto shoots faster than a lot of people can control for the second shot. And less problems legally because the authorities frown upon spray and pray. In a real guerrilla action, wasting hard to replace ammo is also a stupid thing to do in most cases.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2026 01:14 PM (E4rtv)

313 So this idiot wanted to die for... Illegals ?.. I'm just not getting this....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 12:30 PM

I saw a video earlier this week on X, and I think ace or someone else shared it here as well, where the I.C.E. agent pulls up his vehicle to the person holding the camera and tells them "We're trying to arrest a child sex offender, and you're impeding us. That's who you're defending? Insane!"

AWFLs are insane. The woke mind virus has infected way too much of the U.S. population, especially the female population. That combined with females' seemingly innate quality to be easily controlled combined with being paid by leftist/Democrat groups to agitate combined with law enforcement across the country for decades now not prosecuting these people to the full extent of the law for lesser offenses has led to this.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 01:14 PM (P5BPp)

314 Appears the appears that the PD got the order to start firing a bunch more tear gas. They have managed to push the protesters back and get them to scatter a little bit.
Posted by: Jen the original

Mark 19 40mm Automatic Grenade Launcher / Machine Gun is a better tool for this.
Start with the CS grenades to bunch up or box in the violent mob, then coral them up into 40 ft cattle cars for processing. If they resist much switch over HE rounds.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 24, 2026 01:15 PM (/lPRQ)

315 All blue city police chiefs are woke political hires.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 01:09

O'Hara is especially obnoxious. He can take his police reform and shove it.

Posted by: old chick at January 24, 2026 01:16 PM (F3Dlr)

316 When it's all said and done the taxpayers of the country still want our billions of dollars back that Minnesota ripped off No this sideshow will not make that disappear.

Posted by: Case at January 24, 2026 01:16 PM (E7+ue)

317 also said a Newsmax that no one is going into Minneapolis right now. So if you’re a store owner or a business, you don’t have any customers and haven’t had any for probably a month to two months. No one‘s gonna be able to stay open for long with that type of situation.

Hope they starve.
Posted by: Paris 1870

Good.
Fuck you, war.

Posted by: Really?? at January 24, 2026 01:16 PM (Ryx1w)

318 "Troll alert at 288"

ShainS is a troll? I'll admit he can annoying at times but a troll?

How dare you!

Posted by: Ouch the Grouch at January 24, 2026 01:16 PM (k1gZr)

319 Looks like more cops, and for that matter more reporters , than protesters. Eight below will do that

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 24, 2026 01:16 PM (e4I2N)

320 303 The illegal they were trying to arrest was wanted for violent assault...
Posted by: It's me donna
======
My guess is a lengthy rap sheet. The mobs are defending pieces of shit that deserve in many cases to be hung by the neck until dead. Pedoes, rapists, murderers, and other vicious and violent thugs.

The mobs deserve to be in the same jail cells with those they are 'protecting' and we will see how that goes.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2026 01:17 PM (E4rtv)

321 No flakes yet. Fucking cold though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 24, 2026 01:17 PM (bss/y)

322 Mark 19 40mm Automatic Grenade Launcher / Machine Gun is a better tool for this.
Start with the CS grenades to bunch up or box in the violent mob, then coral them up into 40 ft cattle cars for processing. If they resist much switch over HE rounds.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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Water cannons are far more effective, getting soaked at zero degrees takes the fight outta the mobs. They also have enough force to knock the bastards down while soaking them and respirators, or other cope tools become waterlogged and useless.

Posted by: whig at January 24, 2026 01:19 PM (E4rtv)

323 Guerilla. Gorilla war is a different dynamic.

"Great channel. The best. Believe me."
-- The version of DJT that lives rent free in DU's head

Posted by: Oddbob at January 24, 2026 01:19 PM (Fs0KI)

324 She got a job working at firestone tire factory doing programming. Moved out of section 8 housing real quick and she never took another dime from welfare.

Granted the vast majority stay on welfare pretty much for life. My sister is the only welfare success story I know but there must be more out there.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 24, 2026 12:33 PM

Your sister's story is the ideal of how welfare is intended to work. But unfortunately, too many people do not have the desire to get off of welfare and better themselves like your sister. Too many people are lazy and find it easier to just do nothing and mooch off the American taxpayer. And still bitch and complain.

Just like there is a limit to how long one can get unemployment insurance benefits, there should a similar period for welfare. Along with a welfare office where one has to check in and confirm they are taking steps like your sister did to get themselves off of welfare.

Welfare should have requirements that need to be met to have it continue. And a firm end date (e.g. no longer than 2 years) as incentive to meet those requirements.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 01:19 PM (P5BPp)

325 In weather like this you wouldn't need full-force fire hoses or water cannons. A simple, light, non-damaging mist would do just fine.

Posted by: davidt at January 24, 2026 01:19 PM (Q+gd/)

326 If the mayor and his police force will not turn over illegals in their custody, then they're harboring fugitives and should be arrested on federal charges. It's way past time to shut this shit down.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 24, 2026 01:20 PM (3Ope8)

327 Paris was closely ringed by the Germans and the only real way in or out at the end was by hot air balloon.

For an interesting aside, the Communards were buying anything that could shoot and be shipped in crates by rail for the defense of Paris.
The Germans were capturing the trains and selling them to Bannerman's who accepted them, but advised the Germans that they were currently selling weapons to anyone who could pay, and the Parisians could pay.
The Germans said they didn't care, they would capture them again.
Bannerman's thought some of the guns got sold three times or more.

Posted by: Kindltot - Free Harambe! at January 24, 2026 01:20 PM (rbvCR)

328 > Water cannons are far more effective, getting soaked at zero degrees takes the fight outta the mobs.
Posted by: whig at January 24, 2026 01:19 PM (E4rtv)

I hear a cannon loaded with 32 pounds of grapeshot also works well.

Old ways are sometimes best ways.

Posted by: Napoleon BlownApart at January 24, 2026 01:20 PM (IG3/x)

329 Itzhak Perlman makes my doggie whine.

Posted by: mindful webworker - fiddling around at January 24, 2026 01:21 PM (OJSFI)

330 We are up to 1 degree but will not make it to 7. Looks like a high of 4.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 24, 2026 01:22 PM (+mUZM)

331 Guerilla. Gorilla war is a different dynamic.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 24, 2026 01:07 PM (4b7CV)
FREE HARAMBE
Posted by: Kindltot - Free Harambe! at January 24, 2026 01:09 PM (rbvCR)

Leave me outta this!

Posted by: Big Mike Obama, Hung Like A Donkey at January 24, 2026 01:22 PM (R/m4+)

332 Welfare should have requirements that need to be met to have it continue. And a firm end date (e.g. no longer than 2 years) as incentive to meet those requirements.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 24, 2026 01:19 PM (P5BPp)

There is in Oregon, there is a requirement for "being in school or receiving training" to qualify for long term benefits. However, it seems that the state is suddenly deciding there is a need to work as well, so there are a lot of new cashiers and receptionists around who you wouldn't previously have seen working.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 24, 2026 01:22 PM (rbvCR)

333 I woke up this morning at about 6, it was still dark, and I thought I heard someone crinkling up notebook paper. We have a metal porch roof outside our bedroom window, and it took me a minute to realize it was ice coming down on that roof. Weird sound.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2026 01:22 PM (IUuBi)

334 Why would anyone be willing to get killed so that the Democrat party can continue their coordinated fraud and rampant criminality. The stupid fucks think they're recreating the Paris communes or 1930's Madrid.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 24, 2026 01:22 PM (4b7CV)

335 I'll wait for Greg Bovino's news conference to know the actual facts on the ground.

Posted by: old chick at January 24, 2026 01:23 PM (F3Dlr)

336 Posted by: whig at January 24, 2026 01:14 PM (E4rtv)

In the case of two mass shootings the hundred round mags jammed after just a few rounds. I believe the Aurora theater shooting he switched to the shotgun after his AR jammed.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 24, 2026 01:23 PM (KDPiq)

337 "Minneapolis police chief said the dead perp was 37."

He should have been over his "I KNOW things and I will Change The World" phase, most prominent in mis-educated youth in their 20's.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 24, 2026 01:23 PM (vbXSk)

338 299 Guerilla. Gorilla war is a different dynamic.
Posted by: ErikInTexas at January 24, 2026 01:07 PM (4b7CV)

FREE HARAMBE

Kindltot

LOL!

Posted by: Paco at January 24, 2026 01:23 PM (2L+MU)

339 Water cannons are far more effective, getting soaked at zero degrees takes the fight outta the mobs. They also have enough force to knock the bastards down while soaking them and respirators, or other cope tools become waterlogged and useless.
Posted by: whig

Maybe if you used chili pepper water to warm them up a bit while they freeze.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 24, 2026 01:24 PM (/lPRQ)

340 COFFEE SUGGESTION ... For those of you in the path of the ice storm, you could brew some coffee while you still have power and store it in a Mason jar ... Then if you happen to lose power, you could reheat it in a saucepan over a "Muffin Tin Emergency Stove" fueled by 3-4 tea light candles ... There are lots of images and instructions on the internet ... For safety, I strongly suggest placing this reheating setup on your stovetop -- rather than a table or countertop -- and extinguishing the candles when not needed.

Posted by: Kathy at January 24, 2026 01:25 PM (zuKcR)

341 309 296 251 I really can see a gorilla war going in another year
Posted by: Skip

Harambe weeps.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 24, 2026 01:25 PM (IUuBi)

342 In weather like this you wouldn't need full-force fire hoses or water cannons. A simple, light, non-damaging mist would do just fine.
Posted by: davidt

That would be a snow cannon.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 24, 2026 01:25 PM (/lPRQ)

343 Canadian Healthcare.

Canadian woman euthanized against her will, according to official report

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Well, the government's position is their citizens don't know what's good for them.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 24, 2026 01:26 PM (L/fGl)

344 I really can see a guerrilla war going in another year
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That’s a safe bet, it’s been exactly that for decades now. (I know what you’re saying, it will escalate).

Posted by: Common Tater at January 24, 2026 01:26 PM (FmMvr)

345 FREE HARAMBE
Posted by: Kindltot - Free Harambe! at January 24, 2026 01:09 PM

Dicks out!

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 24, 2026 01:27 PM (jc0TO)

346 I always laugh at the word "Communard".

It sounds like a portmanteau word for "communist" and "retard"

Okay, that would be somewhat redundant, but not 100%. Some communists are evil rather than stupid.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 24, 2026 01:28 PM (IG3/x)

347 301Saw this morning Arizona AG is the latest Marxist joining up with the Confederacy

Posted by: Skip at January 24, 2026 01:06 PM (Ia/+0)

I'm sure when people start getting killed as a result of listening to her legal advice, she's going to agree that she should be held accountable - right?

https://tinyurl.com/3xdc6b42

Mayes, Walz, Frey et al; communimbeciles, one and all.

Posted by: Paco at January 24, 2026 01:28 PM (2L+MU)

348 Teargas and flash bangs now. It's -10 degrees--go home you idiots, you are not going to win this battle!

Sec. Noem to speak soon.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 24, 2026 01:29 PM (3ImbR)

349
A shame that it's too cold for Mrs. Walz to open the windows so she can smell smoke.

Posted by: Auspex at January 24, 2026 01:29 PM (Y8DZL)

350 This guy died today protecting an illegal who committed violent assault....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 24, 2026 01:29 PM (VE6XX)

351 Oh Europe can have water cannons but the U.S. cannot. Still if you bring in the Fire Dept and don't have super high force water pressure water out to be in the toolbox.

Of course the ALCU would scream about hypothermia if water was used in MN. I still think some anonymous regular citizens could lob some water balloons and make things less fun for the idiots preventing ICE from removing pedophile rapists.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 24, 2026 01:29 PM (hhkIi)

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