Halloween Miscellany

Content remaining after some disappeared:

One of the greatest ironies of the COVID era, for me, was watching people whose self-concept revolved around championing multiculturalism, Indigenous wisdom, and respect for non-Western traditions suddenly demand absolute conformity to a single Western biomedical approach to health.
Traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and countless Indigenous healing traditions around the world emphasize the health of the whole organism, its environment, and the cultivation of balance and resilience over fighting a particular pathogen.
Yet during COVID, discussions of these perspectives—overall health, fitness, mental health, nutrition, and internal balance—were met with ridicule and even censorship, while people who refused the novel allopathic pharmaceutical intervention were excluded from most aspects of society.
It was so dark that it was hard to appreciate the parody. People whose entire cultural narrative revolved around multiculturalism were insisting that everyone conform to the dominant Western biomedical establishment—a system consolidated through Rockefeller-era reforms, backed by oil wealth, that marginalized traditional approaches to medicine.
Anyone who refused to conform to the system during the Covid era was treated as an ignorant savage, too stupid or dangerous to participate in society.
And anyone who practiced holistic medicine and rejected the novel allopathic intervention was labeled "hesitant"—someone who needed to be "educated." The colonial irony was breathtaking. Here were the self-appointed champions of Indigenous wisdom, assuming the familiar role of the enlightened colonizer, arriving to educate the ignorant savages out of their supposedly primitive beliefs.

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POETRY

The Poet Laureate of Halloween

Edgar Allen Poe turned his terrors into art, revealing a darker truth about the American dream. His nightmares are ours, too.

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It looks like Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest (Kehlsteinhaus) has been gutted, perhaps beyond repair. It’s an important historical site & lasting monument to the Führer’s monomania.
I wrote about a visit there for @LawLiberty in 2023: https://t.co/9L3ZiCSQGT
Yours truly in the lift. 1/2 https://t.co/vCZcIbI8Xi
— Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair) (@_HelenDale) October 24, 2026

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The Founding

October 31, A Daily Dose of the American Rev

On this day in 1780 General Nathanael Greene wrote George Washington, expressing his great concern over the condition of the army in the Southern Department (of which he was about to assume command) and describing his pleas for arms and provisions. “I shall have the satisfaction of having done all in my power,” he concludes, “and if there is not public spirit enough in the people to defend their liberties, they will well deserve to be slaves.” The entire letter is a good read and a very interesting look at how desperate the situation was as the fateful year 1781 approached.
Philadelphia October 31st 1780
Sir,
On my arrival at this place I laid your Excellency’s letter before Congress and addressed them on the business of the Southern department. I am happy to inform you that my appointment is perfectly agreeable to their views and wishes. But I am sorry to acquaint you that from the best account I can get of the state and condition of the troops in that quarter, nothing is to be expected from them, unless large supplies can be forwarded from the Northward. They are altogether without clothing and blankets, and totally unfit for any kind of service. To carry them into the field in this condition will only fill the hospitals and sacrifice the lives of a great many valuable men. Arms are not less wanting than Clothing, and Waggons as much as either. Men I believe may be had if it was in our power to equip them for the field. But how we shall do this is difficult for me to imagine. Congress can furnish no money, and the Board of War neither clothing or other necessaries. Indeed the prospect is dismal, and truly distressing.
I beg your Excellency to urge unceasingly the necessity of forwarding supplies for the southern Army, as it will be impossible to carry on a winters campaign without clothing.
I have laid before Congress an estimate of our wants; but there is not the shadow of a prospect of their being furnished unless constant attention is paid to the business. And I am apprehensive as soon as I am gone, and no one left to urge our wants they will soon be forgotten.
The late success of the Militia against Col. Ferguson, I am in hopes will be attended with good consequences. It will give a severe check to the Tories and spirit and confidence to the Whigs. A report prevails this day that Lord Cornwallis has retreated precipitately from Charlotte, towards Camden.
The detachments of the Enemy that sailed lately from New York are landed at Portsmouth in Virginia; and it is said the shipping are pushing up the rivers. The troops have taken possession of the great bridge, by which I am told they command all the lower Counties.
How to employ our little force if we are attacked both in Virginia and N. Carolina at the same time is difficult to determine. My first object will be to equip a flying Army to consist of about eight hundred horse and one thousand Infantry. This force with the occasional aid of the Militia will serve to confine the enemy in their limits and render it difficult for them to subsist in the interior country.
I see but little prospect of getting a force to contend with the enemy upon equal grounds and therefore must make the most of a kind of partizan war until we levy and equip a larger force.
Such was the difficulty of getting provisions and providing the means of transportation that Genl Gates writes in his last letter that the Army was in the utmost danger of disbanding.
Congress have invested me with the same powers they gave to Genl Gates, and annexed Maryland and Delaware to the Southern department.
The arrangement of the Army has taken place, and I hope upon a footing which will render it more respectable than it has been, provided the business of Finance can be got into some regular order: but that is our weak side; and I wish our distresses may be painted in their true colours to the Minister of France, as he intimated to Baron Steuben that your Excellency did not appear to be apprehensive of any difficulty from the state of our affairs.
I have made application to the Merchants of this city for clothing for the Southern army; but they excused themselves as having engaged more already than they can perform. I intend to try to put subscriptions on foot in Maryland and Virginia for the purpose of supplying clothing. Whether it will produce any good or not time only can determine. At any rate I shall have the satisfaction of having done all in my power; and if there is not public spirit enough in the people to defend their liberties, they will well deserve to be slaves.
General Knox promised to send forward a company of Artillery if your Excellency approved thereof I wish they may come forward without loss of time. This State have promised to lend me one thousand stand of Arms upon a promise of their being replaced which I beg your Excellency to give an order for, as this was the only footing they could be obtained upon. I have the honor to be With every sentiment of respect and esteem Your Excellency’s Most Obedient Humble Servant.
Nath. Greene M. General

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WEEKEND

The Week In Pictures: Trick Or Treat Edition

The conjunction of Halloween and the midterms could be considered ominous, but it’s good for meme-makers. Otherwise, this week’s news was mostly last week’s news–riots in France and Ilhan Omar, still unsure about whom, exactly, she has been married to.

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Hope you have some fun 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, Thread before the Gardening Thread, Oct. 24

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

FRANCE: For a carefully-worded piece which might help someone who is not too far gone over to the left understand that the problem with immigration in France is not just about recent immigration, consider sharing this piece on Mere Anarchy by Theodore Dalrymple.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:48 AM

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1 Hello?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 31, 2026 11:51 AM (iIyc0)

2 Hi.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 31, 2026 11:51 AM (LOvBA)

3 Nathaniel Greene is one of the most undervalued and unsung RW participants. Not only did he do great service as a general, he was also the quartermaster general who actually got Congress to do even the little bit they did.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 11:53 AM (Riz8t)

4 Nathaniel Greene is one of the Almost Forgotten leaders of the founding of America.
Battle of Guilford Courthouse was the end of Cornwallis, though he didn't realize it. They do a very nice reenactment if you are in central NC for it.

Posted by: Unsportsmanlike Conduct is a Capital Crime to Me at October 31, 2026 11:57 AM (+dxte)

5 Nate Greene a big man still in RI. Got a dozen elementary and Jr High Schools named after him.
Not many others from here after him.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 11:57 AM (sl73Y)

6 Greene's body is interred in a Square in Savannah.

Posted by: Big Honor at October 31, 2026 11:58 AM (vFcoN)

7
Heh.

You gotta love Elon Musk. Fun sense of humor for halloween.

https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2116399240880480429?s=20

Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 12:01 PM (YSUhf)

8 'consider sharing this piece on Mere Anarchy by Theodore Dalrymple.'

Ha, I already had it bookmarked. Must've read it.

Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 12:02 PM (Jr5Lq)

9 To this day, the way people wrote back then just ... I don't get it. Of course, I don't get how verbose business writes now.

Just get to the point.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:02 PM (5GaC4)

10 Willowed:

Heh.

You gotta love Elon Musk. Fun sense of humor for halloween.

https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2116399240880480429?s=20

Elon is having way too much fun. He's the world's richest man, he's personally moving humanity forward, and he still has a sense of humor. It's not fair, I tells ya! Imma become a leftist. Isn't that where all the envious people go?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 12:02 PM (Riz8t)

11 Elon is having way too much fun. He's the world's richest man, he's personally moving humanity forward, and he still has a sense of humor. It's not fair, I tells ya! Imma become a leftist. Isn't that where all the envious people go?
Posted by: Archimedes

I think Elon is not afraid to hire brilliant minds of all kinds.
Those aren't all his ideas. Probably some janitor who's now a gazilionaire...

Posted by: MkY at October 31, 2026 12:06 PM (ik4bQ)

12 Thx K.T. , hope you are well
The county just north of mine in the Mid Hudson, Greene County , is named for Nathaniel

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 31, 2026 12:06 PM (f8snw)

13 Elon is having way too much fun. He's the world's richest man, he's personally moving humanity forward, and he still has a sense of humor.

Not a fan of automated cars. Skeletons or not.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:07 PM (5GaC4)

14 You gotta love Elon Musk. Fun sense of humor for halloween.

https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2116399240880480429?s=20

Very Elon thing to do.

Rivian has a Ghostbusters mode for their cars this year where the dash screens show '59 Cadillac gauges instead of the modern ones and the horn is the Ecto-1 siren and stuff. Why can't we get fun stuff like that in ICE cars?

Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:09 PM (QZThv)

15 Good morning KT, its afternoon here now, and lunch time

Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 12:09 PM (Ia/+0)

16 The most criminal aspect of Covid to me was the basic banning of Ivermectin and HCQ as prophylactics.

I believe the reason is they were doing a world wide test group for cancer research ( mRNA) and if you cure people with these prophylactics it would ruin the test group.

Posted by: polynikes at October 31, 2026 12:10 PM (Ti9vn)

17 Harry Houdini died 100 years ago today.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 31, 2026 12:10 PM (8B4gm)

18 The most criminal aspect of Covid to me was the basic banning of Ivermectin and HCQ as prophylactics.

They're off-patent, which ruins Jeffrey Epstein's "start a pandemic and get rich on the cure" scheme that he pitched to Bill Gates.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:12 PM (QZThv)

19 They still make medical students vow to respect indigenous medicine in Minnesota.

Posted by: KT at October 31, 2026 12:14 PM (X8QDB)

20 Thanks for "Witch Doctor," KT. It was my favorite song when I was 4 years old. It was succeeded in my affections the next year by "The Battle of New Orleans."

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at October 31, 2026 12:14 PM (VV/pN)

21 If you want to feel better this Saturday morning, Wikipedia is now whining in its fundraising messages that fewer people are using Wikipedia.

Turns out that with the advent of AI to answer questions, there is no need to turn to that incredibly biased source.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 31, 2026 12:16 PM (aD4fx)

22 They still make medical students vow to respect indigenous medicine in Minnesota.

It's all performative though, as KT wrote. Even the most woke doctors do telemedicine by Zoom, not by smoke signals.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:17 PM (QZThv)

23 Love Elon... The knives are out for him.. The dems are ready to go after him "when" they win back the house and Senate... Drooling over the prospect.... Can't let that happen... Happy Halloween

Posted by: It's me donna at October 31, 2026 12:17 PM (+gK6I)

24 I had more content on Ukraine, Elon Musk, etc. but it disappeared! Halloween!

Posted by: KT at October 31, 2026 12:18 PM (X8QDB)

25 The most criminal aspect of Covid to me was the basic banning of Ivermectin and HCQ as prophylactics.

To me ? The basic banning of not only common sense, but what we've all known ... or anyone that didn't just sleep through basic public education ... about how things work.

How your own immune system works. Suddenly, it was shots forever. Because you "couldn't develop immunity".

Hell, if that was the case ? Lets all just lie down and die now.

Covid was the emergence of the American Academic Priesthood. And all that chose to worship them.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:18 PM (5GaC4)

26 Turns out that with the advent of AI to answer questions, there is no need to turn to that incredibly biased source.

Yeah. Google's AI is terrible for doing actual AI things, but it's fantastic at showing me everything I need from a search without actually clicking through to whatever site and getting bombarded by ads.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:19 PM (QZThv)

27 Brief tangiential: Ross Bagdasarian aka Dave Seville & the Chipmunks

"Shana Alexander, Life magazine in 1959, noted that Bagdasarian was the first case in the "annals of popular music that one man has served as writer, composer, publisher, conductor and multiple vocalist of a hit record, thereby directing all possible revenues from the song back into his pocket." Alexander also found it remarkable that Bagdasarian "can neither read nor write music nor play any musical instrument in the accepted sense of the word."[38] Bagdasarian owned Chipmunk Enterprises, which sponsored Chipmunk-related sales. By 1963, some 15 companies were using or planned to use Alvin figures. By that year, Billboard magazine estimated the total income from the Chipmunks' record sales (including overseas sales) and record club sales to be around $20 million ($161 million adjusted for inflation in 2025 dollars).
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This was a minor part of his career.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 12:19 PM (WY+aP)

28 Yeah. Google's AI is terrible for doing actual AI things, but it's fantastic at showing me everything I need from a search without actually clicking through to whatever site and getting bombarded by ads.

Grok is quite good for answering questions - I increasingly use it as my research assistant.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 31, 2026 12:20 PM (aD4fx)

29 Traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and countless Indigenous healing traditions around the world emphasize the health of the whole organism, its environment, and the cultivation of balance and resilience over fighting a particular pathogen.
________

Did the West kind of have the same thing with the four humors?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 31, 2026 12:21 PM (JzUSu)

30 Grok is quite good for answering questions - I increasingly use it as my research assistant.

Everything of why its all falling to shit. In one sentence.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:26 PM (5GaC4)

31 I was wondering the other day about Germany. The German state today is a combination of principalities, regions and other sorts of unusual political entities, which were pulled together into a unified (for given value of Unified) through eliciting pan-Germanic themes of culture, land, custom and language. This was done in the face of the fact that the various German peoples actively disliked each other and remembered what they had done to each other since the fall of Rome, and before.
The current left and greens are striving mightily to erase that history, custom and language in the favor of globalism, and I wonder what will happen when the common ties holding the German peoples together are gone.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 12:28 PM (rbvCR)

32 Tusk is going on TV in two and a half hours to explain that his coup isn't really a coup.

Apparently, his henchmen ordered the plane carrying the President of Poland not to land at a Polish airport, but the military pilots ignored that and landed anyway.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 31, 2026 12:29 PM (aD4fx)

33 Tusk is going on TV in two and a half hours to explain that his coup isn't really a coup.

If you have to explain why it isn't a coup, it's a coup.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 12:29 PM (Riz8t)

34 Why can't we get fun stuff like that in ICE cars?
Posted by: Ian S

You can. They're called "infotainment screens" and they're terrible.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 31, 2026 12:29 PM (PLy7M)

35 Did the West kind of have the same thing with the four humors?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Yeah, pretty much.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 31, 2026 12:31 PM (PLy7M)

36 The current left and greens are striving mightily to erase that history, custom and language in the favor of globalism, and I wonder what will happen when the common ties holding the German peoples together are gone.

Now apply this globally. To not only all cultures and regions. Apply it to business. Apply it to why Nation-States did what they did for a few hundred years recently.

And set it in tune with the Industrial Revolution.

Now ... this will all change when that great, big, beautiful Internet gets chopped up. And it will.

Then people will think its the New Dark Ages. But it won't be. They'll just have to go back to paper records and libraries.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:32 PM (5GaC4)

37 > The most criminal aspect of Covid to me was the basic banning of Ivermectin and HCQ as prophylactics.
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Abolishing most civil rights (depending on location) was pretty significant. It obviously varied by city and state, but some governors and mayors were very aggressive in pushing draconian steps to keep the public under control.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 31, 2026 12:33 PM (RORbl)

38 "it's fantastic at showing me everything I need from a search without actually clicking through to whatever site"

Very often, sites plural. Way better than clicking through twelve StackExchange posts looking for the precise answer you need. It makes old-fashioned web search feel like pawing through old library card catalogs.

Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 12:34 PM (Jr5Lq)

39 If you have to explain why it isn't a coup, it's a coup.

Nothing says "not a coup" like ordering the police to seize the court building on the Friday night of a holiday weekend; and then trying to block the return of the Polish President who was on his way to Senegal when he heard about the coup, and turned his plane around.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 31, 2026 12:35 PM (aD4fx)

40 Really ? We just thought it was a catchy beat and a fun video with the USC band.

Posted by: Fleetwood Mac at October 31, 2026 12:35 PM (5GaC4)

41 The most criminal aspect of Covid to me was the total elimination of the Nuremberg Code, in which no patient can be forced to be a guinea pig in an experiment. And only with "informed consent" can a patient be allowed to be a guinea pig.

Get the jab or lose you job!

Posted by: no one of any consequence at October 31, 2026 12:37 PM (LOvBA)

42 Abolishing most civil rights (depending on location) was pretty significant. It obviously varied by city and state, but some governors and mayors were very aggressive in pushing draconian steps to keep the public under control.

It exposed people for who they are. Although few own up to it now.

"Crushed Glass !!! It all looks like Crushed Glass !!!".

And don't question the science. You just don't understand how Pharma works.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:37 PM (5GaC4)

43 "trying to block the return of the Polish President who was on his way to Senegal when he heard about the coup, and turned his plane around."

If I ever end up on a plane to Senegal, I think I'd welcome any excuse to turn around and go back home.

Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 12:38 PM (Jr5Lq)

44 Many around here where in that " Take the jab or lose your job"
Thankfully I wasn't.

Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 12:39 PM (Ia/+0)

45 Get the jab or lose you job!

Like I said, it exposed both sides. The "do this because Authority said so" bunch. And the "Oh My God lets all panic now" side.

It exposed both sides for the hypocrisy of how they would talk about Jenny McCarthy. That dirty Anti-Vax bitch. We took the jab, why is she too good ? Its the rules, don't ya' know.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:40 PM (5GaC4)

46 39 If you have to explain why it isn't a coup, it's a coup.

Nothing says "not a coup" like ordering the police to seize the court building on the Friday night of a holiday weekend; and then trying to block the return of the Polish President who was on his way to Senegal when he heard about the coup, and turned his plane around.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
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I think the resignation of LaGarde at the Euro Central Bank and Tusk's coup are related. I think the EU is having a US Dollar liquidity problem which is why they continue the war on Russia and have to get Eastern Europe into the Eurozone despite the fact that none of them meet the legal requirements. One of those sticking points is the Polish Constitutional Court (TK) has held Polish Constitution and sovereignty on some matters is NOT under the EU courts. von Leyden cannot have this. Tusk plans to move Poland to the Euro, that requires putting Polish gold into the common EU reserve, and Poland has to accept at a minimum 100k migrants (their fair share). To do this, Tusk has to have the Constitutional Court taken over.

I think entire EU financial structure is about to come unglued. Continued.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:42 PM (E4rtv)

47 Very often, sites plural. Way better than clicking through twelve StackExchange posts looking for the precise answer you need. It makes old-fashioned web search feel like pawing through old library card catalogs.

Why everything is falling to shit in three sentences.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:42 PM (5GaC4)

48 Thus the adamant refusal to end the war in Ukraine via their puppet thief Zelinsky. Eurozone desperately needs those frozen Russian assets to backstop their financial system (about 275 billion or so). They have tried repeatedly to take it but first Orban in Hungary and later Trump prevented that. So to recoup the useless billions they spent on Ukraine, they proposed issuing bonds based on the interest payments (which they steal) on the frozen Russian assets.

This is war for the sake of bankers in the EU and their lackey politicians. Russia would do the world a favor by simply targeting the next WEF and/or Bilderburg, Atlantic Council, etc. meeting with missiles.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:45 PM (E4rtv)

49 I think entire EU financial structure is about to come unglued. Continued.

Economists who aren't retarded have said the EU is financially untenable since before it happened. The EU itself is of course doing all of the worst possible things to accelerate the ungluing though.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:45 PM (QZThv)

50 This is war for the sake of bankers in the EU and their lackey politicians.

War Is a Racket.

Posted by: Smedley Butler at October 31, 2026 12:46 PM (5GaC4)

51 New frontiers in journalism.

https://tinyurl.com/2vbbmstc

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 12:46 PM (ndZc7)

52 ---

Tusk was bruted into office by the EU. He is an EU tool.
The EU orchestrated his take over attempt which illustrates
what bumbling fools comprise the EU.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 12:46 PM (WY+aP)

53 Our neighborhood has few young children these days, and my wife wants to go out to dinner rather than wait for those few kids to ring our doorbell. But I am torn! I like meeting younger families.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 31, 2026 12:46 PM (WYfFt)

54 >>>49 I think entire EU financial structure is about to come unglued. Continued.

Economists who aren't retarded have said the EU is financially untenable since before it happened. The EU itself is of course doing all of the worst possible things to accelerate the ungluing though.

Posted by: Ian S.
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They want to keep the Russian billion$ they stole.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 12:49 PM (WY+aP)

55 If I ever end up on a plane to Senegal, I think I'd welcome any excuse to turn around and go back home.
Posted by: gp

OMG! I left the microwave on!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 12:49 PM (ndZc7)

56 43 "trying to block the return of the Polish President who was on his way to Senegal when he heard about the coup, and turned his plane around."

If I ever end up on a plane to Senegal, I think I'd welcome any excuse to turn around and go back home.
Posted by: gp
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Senegal's stability is extremely rare in Africa, never had a coup, had elections on a regular basis, no wars with neighbors, no tribe v. tribe slaughters, etc. etc.

Like Botswana, one of the rare islands of stability in a chaotic Africa.

What is not reported is that Nawrocki was accompanied by former Polish special forces types. Senegal is worried about the Wagner group and Prigozhin's son running it. Has become an outright warlord and drug trafficker in West Africa threatening stability in adjoining countries.

Now reports are that the military refused the President's request to land at the military airport but the pilots did it anyway.

It appears that a Tusk whose party got only about 30 percent of the vote in 2023 was trying to exile the President elected nationwide in 2025 with over 50 percent of the vote.

This is the leftist version of democracy, Heads I win, Tails you lose.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:51 PM (E4rtv)

57 I think entire EU financial structure is about to come unglued. Continued.
Posted by: whig

Thanks for continued updates and insights.

EU and Canadian economic behavior is so unhinged conspiracy theories pop up effortlessly.

Posted by: Auspex at October 31, 2026 12:52 PM (Y8DZL)

58 Everything I know about Senegal I learned from watching movies by Ousmane Sembène.

Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 12:52 PM (Jr5Lq)

59 You can. They're called "infotainment screens" and they're terrible.

That was my point. ICE car screens are mostly terrible and not fun. The EV makers at least have the fun.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:53 PM (QZThv)

60 Thanks for blowing the margins.

Posted by: nurse ratched. at October 31, 2026 12:53 PM (VrUCR)

61 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 12:54 PM (u82oZ)

62 It appears that a Tusk whose party got only about 30 percent of the vote in 2023 was trying to exile the President elected nationwide in 2025 with over 50 percent of the vote.

This is the leftist version of democracy, Heads I win, Tails you lose.

Yeah. While everyone was celebrating the end of USAID, the WEF has been busy keeping CIA color revolutions afloat.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:56 PM (QZThv)

63 Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Lefties are now furious that conservatives like Patrick Stewart. It must be exhausting.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 12:57 PM (QZThv)

64 EU and Canadian economic behavior is so unhinged conspiracy theories pop up effortlessly.

I'd say their behavior is logical.

Their host ... US ... seems tired and pissy. They're flailing about to figure out what to do next.

Most illogical is the old-heads that just can't stand to let the EU go, and build a fence along the Canadian border.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 12:57 PM (5GaC4)

65 That the polish cops, last night, who are not restrained by idiot judges as ours, were having conversation with the demonstrators instead of whacking them with billy clubs was a tell.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 12:57 PM (WY+aP)

66 49 I think entire EU financial structure is about to come unglued. Continued.

Economists who aren't retarded have said the EU is financially untenable since before it happened. The EU itself is of course doing all of the worst possible things to accelerate the ungluing though.
Posted by: Ian S.

Currency unions are a bad idea because each EU country has different productivity, different taxes, etc. etc. Conglomerating all of them into a mess has enervated Germany which originally benefitted, led to stupid overspending by the EU Southern countries, led to nosebleed tax rates in productive EU states like Netherlands, etc.

And was always designed as a political, not economic, way to make the EU a superpower. And the whole Euro project has failed and now the bill is coming due.

The truth is the EU Central Bank is held together by debt and that debt is causing serious destruction of EU economies under the Euro. Now, like any failing empire, the quest is on to bring in new territories to loot them to preserve the status quo a bit longer. Or end up in a war with Russia that destroys the debt by repudiation.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 12:57 PM (E4rtv)

67 I sang the Witch Doctor song in front of kindergartners with a coworker (who late said, not a singer, but a musician) at the local grade school.

The teachers were aghast. Kindergarteners were puzzled, and a preschool kid, one that rode on my bus, said "Mr. [NaCly], we said NO singing."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 12:59 PM (u82oZ)

68 Currency unions are a bad idea because each EU country has different productivity, different taxes, etc. etc.

One of the reasons why Poland has done so well economically is that they still have their own currency, and aren't locked into the Euro.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 31, 2026 12:59 PM (aD4fx)

69 With wars a few win but most lose
Practicality do nothing but read about wars and the misery it causes. As the sign says at the Quakers meeting house
War isn't the answer but doesn't ask what the question is.

Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:00 PM (Ia/+0)

70 Love Elon... The knives are out for him.. The dems are ready to go after him "when" they win back the house and Senate... Drooling over the prospect.... Can't let that happen... Happy Halloween
Posted by: It's me donna at October 31, 2026 12:17 PM (+gK6I)

Being the richest man on the planet, he could cause every single one of them immeasurable pain and suffering. They need to STFU and STFD.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 31, 2026 01:01 PM (hmYU4)

71 And was always designed as a political, not economic, way to make the EU a superpower. And the whole Euro project has failed and now the bill is coming due.

I've called it a "cargo cult United States", because it's very clearly built on US envy. Meanwhile it's made Europe's position vs. the US far worse.

Posted by: Ian S. at October 31, 2026 01:03 PM (tUj8P)

72 Or end up in a war with Russia that destroys the debt by repudiation.

Posted by: whig
----

Putin alluded to that in one of his press conferences. He finished by saying something about, they should study their previous attempts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:03 PM (WY+aP)

73 Their host ... US ... seems tired and pissy. They're flailing about to figure out what to do next.

Most illogical is the old-heads that just can't stand to let the EU go, and build a fence along the Canadian border.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked

I think it is more to the point that the EU is realizing that its salad days of bleeding the US via unfair trade and making the US defend them from stupid actions is done. And even Obama, while he spoke nice to the Euros and played around with some of their idiocies like the Color Revolt in Ukraine, announced a pivot to Asia.

Our future trade is more with Asia than a dying and tired EU and thus NATO is essentially a dead weight expenditure on the necessary security measures that the US needs to have to guard its commerce there. That does not include a large army and prepositioned expensive logistics based in Europe.

With Iran, the Euros again show their uselessness by trying to restrict US base usage and if we cannot use those bases for real challenges (that primarily benefit the Euros and our Asian allies now), then we no longer need them at all.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:04 PM (E4rtv)

74 "Poland has done so well economically" I looked it up. Yes indeed! IDNKT.

Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 01:04 PM (Jr5Lq)

75 You can't make a superpower out of shoveling money to the world's population coming through your door.

Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:04 PM (Ia/+0)

76 Seen a comment but not the story on the Eagles Nest fire, a German Antifa Communist has been arrested for it

Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:05 PM (Ia/+0)

77 >>>>>> The teachers were aghast. Kindergarteners were puzzled, and a preschool kid, one that rode on my bus, said "Mr. [NaCly], we said NO singing."

Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Sad commentary on the state of the nation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:06 PM (WY+aP)

78 Posted by: naturalfake at October 31, 2026 12:01 PM (YSUhf)

I can understand not trusting tinyurl, but at least try trimming the URL in other ways. like, lopping off the ?s=20 at the end, or replacing the slash in x.com/[thingy] with a space.
Margins don't want to cuddle after you blown them.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 31, 2026 01:06 PM (88C+u)

79 "Harry Houdini died 100 years ago today."

Any update on his condition?

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 31, 2026 01:07 PM (5Op5D)

80 I've called it a "cargo cult United States", because it's very clearly built on US envy. Meanwhile it's made Europe's position vs. the US far worse.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Every European country that is still vigorous is not in the Euro zone nor accepting masses of migrants. Every country within the Eurozone is dying and the EU dictating massive migrants brought in that do nothing than consume is simply an idiotic Keynesian idea economically. It destroys the government bottom line because borderline retards are never going to be able to support the massive social spending Europe does nor provide much other than menial labor for any hi tech modern economy.

Socially and politically, it destroys the civil societies in those countries because Islamic hordes have no intention to become Europeans but to conquer.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:07 PM (E4rtv)

81 Where did this idea come from that adding spaces wont blow the margins?

Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 31, 2026 01:09 PM (5Op5D)

82 74 "Poland has done so well economically" I looked it up. Yes indeed! IDNKT.
Posted by: gp
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Tusk has German ancestors including one grandfather who served in the Wehrmacht. Patriotic Poles call him a mutt serving van Leyden.

But Tusk (because of German pressure) has cancelled multiple big infrastructure projects that would lead to economic advances like new port facilities, etc. Each of these projects that began under the opposition have been cancelled and Poles noticed that only Germany would benefit from these cancellations.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:10 PM (E4rtv)

83 76 Seen a comment but not the story on the Eagles Nest fire, a German Antifa Communist has been arrested for it
Posted by: Skip
======
Not really broken up about it frankly. Tear down the remainder and put a plaque up.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:11 PM (E4rtv)

84 Pulling 50% of our military out of Europe and our missiles out of
England will create a great pucker factor and deep introspection.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:11 PM (WY+aP)

85 Every country within the Eurozone is dying and the EU dictating massive migrants brought in that do nothing than consume is simply an idiotic Keynesian idea economically.

When asked who eventually pays the bill ? Old Keynes replied "We all die in the end.".

Thanks England. For another really, really stupid socio-political philosophy.

And thanks Ivy League. For being so unpractical that you'd actually push dumb shit like this.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:12 PM (5GaC4)

86 The Covid debacle was also a means to fracture all of our non-governmental societal structures. Suddenly, we could no longer rely on our church communities or trust our neighbors or family members. It was very sad. It reminded me of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 31, 2026 01:14 PM (OlzlW)

87 after some disappeared

You know who else disappeared?

Posted by: The Invisible Man at October 31, 2026 01:14 PM (0sNs1)

88 Pulling 50% of our military out of Europe and our missiles out of England will create a great pucker factor and deep introspection.

And also worry the Euros. I assume you're talking about the Old American Cold Warriors.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:15 PM (5GaC4)

89 I can understand not trusting tinyurl, but at least try trimming the URL in other ways. like, lopping off the ?s=20 at the end, or replacing the slash in x.com/[thingy] with a space.
Margins don't want to cuddle after you blown them.

Posted by: 88C+u
---

Please explain about distrusting tinyurl.
I don't have a clue.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:15 PM (WY+aP)

90 "Harry Houdini died 100 years ago today."

Any update on his condition?
Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 31, 2026 01:07 PM (5Op5D)

*removes Pug Mahon mask*

TAAA-DAAAHH!

Posted by: Harry Houdini at October 31, 2026 01:15 PM (0aYVJ)

91 Erasing a historical building doesn't erase history

Actually watching Mark Felton video on the fire Adolf actually H8ed the location

Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:16 PM (Ia/+0)

92 Braenyard

Me not having any singing talent and still singing also has something to do with that request.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:16 PM (u82oZ)

93 Harry probably still votes

Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:16 PM (Ia/+0)

94 Socially and politically, it destroys the civil societies in those countries because Islamic hordes have no intention to become Europeans but to conquer.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:07 PM

Inshallah, effendi!

Posted by: Abdul al Merry & Mohammad bin Pippin at October 31, 2026 01:17 PM (0sNs1)

95 Putin alluded to that in one of his press conferences. He finished by saying something about, they should study their previous attempts.

Posted by: Braenyard
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US so far has refused to support the EU directly stealing it so now the EU is trying to issue bonds based on interest from the frozen assets. That means a permanent state of war between Ukraine and Russia. Orban blocked the original plan and so had to go. I'd imagine it is now back on the table again.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:17 PM (E4rtv)

96 "Harry Houdini died 100 years ago today."

Any update on his condition?
Posted by: A random guy on the net at October 31, 2026 01:07 PM (5Op5D)

Ain't gotten out of the grave yet.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 01:18 PM (1Ff7Z)

97 It's a bit unnerving about Poland. IIRC, it was one of the few, if not the only "European" country to prohibit the Muslim hordes from settling there.

And, FWIW, there's an awful lot of chatter on the Internet about a massive amount of civilian unrest being fomented... here and abroad to usher in "regime change."

I think we'll know for sure shortly after the elections here. And it might not matter how they turn out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 31, 2026 01:18 PM (RORbl)

98 "Please explain about distrusting tinyurl."

I'm guessing that an uncustomized tinyurl provides no clue to where it will lead, so some are wary of clicking on them. I think they can be customized to lead to a prelim landing site that reveals the dest URL.

Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 01:18 PM (Jr5Lq)

99 Margins don't want to cuddle after you blown them.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 31, 2026 01:06 PM

I'm always up for a cuddle, though.

Posted by: The Barrel at October 31, 2026 01:18 PM (0sNs1)

100 The Covid debacle was also a means to fracture all of our non-governmental societal structures.

Maybe as intended. But it revealed the foolishness of those who believed in those structures.

Covid was the Emperor screaming "Hell Yes I'm Nekkid". It was The Wizard flipping back the curtain himself.

And Covid was many of the rest of us still screaming "He's Got Clothes" and "We're Not Supposed to See Back There !!!"

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:19 PM (5GaC4)

101 Are blown margins a smartphone-only nuisance? I never see their consequences on desktop.

Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 01:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

102 84 Pulling 50% of our military out of Europe and our missiles out of
England will create a great pucker factor and deep introspection.
Posted by: Braenyard

It is simply time to disband NATO lock stock and barrel. Like China with its Panda face and its Dragon face, the EU does a similar fan dance with NATO stroking US egos and EU crapping on us at every chance.

We should revert to bilateral treaties instead of these hideous multinational borgs that always seem to be getting into Uncle Sam's pocketbook and putting us on the hook for Americans dying for countries that can't or won't defend themselves and are even now allowing massive invasions disguised as migrants. Screw that deal.

Like trade, sign with countries that deal with us fairly and ignore the rest.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv)

103 >>>I think we'll know for sure shortly after the elections here. And it might not matter how they turn out.

Posted by: Martini Farmer
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That's what Trump said. When the elections are over he's a free man and he's going to do whack-a-do.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:22 PM (WY+aP)

104 Well, I voted... I'm in CA so it won't matter but I've never missed a vote.

Posted by: It's me donna at October 31, 2026 01:22 PM (4WM7K)

105 Too bad there isn't a magic shot to make Paul a thinking caring human being.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:23 PM (GN2QT)

106 Like trade, sign with countries that deal with us fairly and ignore the rest.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:21 PM (E4rtv)

I don't even know who you are anymore. But I like it. I'm having a JackStraw moment.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:23 PM (5GaC4)

107 And, FWIW, there's an awful lot of chatter on the Internet about a massive amount of civilian unrest being fomented... here and abroad to usher in "regime change."

I think we'll know for sure shortly after the elections here. And it might not matter how they turn out.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
====
Democrat Labor Unions have called for Election Day nationwide strikes as a way to put their people on the street for mayhem. SEIU is one of the plaintiffs in the 9th Circuit courts trying to stop DoJ investigations into election fraud. Etc. Etc.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:23 PM (E4rtv)

108 Halloween. Barbara Tuchman on Joseph Stilwell.

Visiting an old teahouse dating from the Ming dynasty, he noted that the bridge leading to it was built in zigzag form to thwart evil spirits who, unable to maneuver angles according to Chinese belief, would fall into the water at the turns. Elsewhere observing the number of gods and shrines in all the houses, he remarked that the main point of religion in China “seems to be an effort to scare away evil spirits who are continually trying to do them harm.”

By chance or perspicacity he had hit upon a central fact of Chinese life—fear of Feng shui, the demons, ghosts and devils who bring evil upon men.

Posted by: 13times at October 31, 2026 01:23 PM (6iKlf)

109 Actually full looting of the frozen Russian assets has been stymied more than anything by Belgian (and some other) concern that doing so will make them vulnerable to future Russian legal action under BLEU (a Soviet-era financial-legal arrangement that was deemed to remain in force after 1991). Russia can via arbitration go after Euroclear, the Belgian repository where the frozen assets reside.

There's also concern beyond the very specific issues arising out of BLEU about such a large seizure of sovereign assets without any process. The continuing trade relations (= Euro imports of Russian energy) as the context of such an expropriation only make it more dicey.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 31, 2026 01:24 PM (U/Byj)

110 Please explain about distrusting tinyurl.
I don't have a clue.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:15 PM (WY+aP)

Example

https://tinyurl.com/53emfde9

Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 01:24 PM (rbvCR)

111 It's me donna

I got tickets to the Trump Rally in Salina tomorrow. Going with one of the widows.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:24 PM (u82oZ)

112 I hope that I am never so deranged that I am the subject of a meme, such as the crying woman I. The glasses and green shirt who was upset about Hillary's loss.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 01:24 PM (JrHfD)

113 Hey Minnesota, does indigenous medicine include Somali?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:25 PM (GN2QT)

114 101 Are blown margins a smartphone-only nuisance? I never see their consequences on desktop.

Posted by: gp
---

Someone could make bank by creating an app for phone addicts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:26 PM (WY+aP)

115 Too bad there isn't a magic shot to make Paul a thinking caring human being.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:23 PM (GN2QT)

The Japanese have just released information on a successful stem-cell treatment for Parkinsons so there may be hope for him as well

Posted by: Kindltot at October 31, 2026 01:26 PM (rbvCR)

116 And, FWIW, there's an awful lot of chatter on the Internet about a massive amount of civilian unrest being fomented... here and abroad to usher in "regime change."

And again, this "lag" - even between what people see with their own eyes and how long it takes to process it - just blows me away.

We've had Civil Unrest for about a decade now. Open Riots for a few years.

Yet NOW we're talking Civil Unrest ? Really ?

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:26 PM (5GaC4)

117 101 Are blown margins a smartphone-only nuisance? I never see their consequences on desktop.
Posted by: gp at October 31, 2026 01:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

I've never had any issues on my small smartphone.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 31, 2026 01:26 PM (OlzlW)

118 Hitler's Eagle Nest drew about €20 million/year. Not bad for a tourist trap.

Has there been any mention of motive?

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:27 PM (GN2QT)

119 I'm in the Yogi Berra camp on making predictions, but I'm expecting Rs to keep the House and pick up one or two in the Senate, and not expecting anything significant in the way of "civil unrest", regardless of the election score. To me it all sort of falls in the endless anticipation of "civil war" of which not the smallest bit ever develops.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 31, 2026 01:28 PM (U/Byj)

120 Hitler's Eagle Nest drew about €20 million/year. Not bad for a tourist trap.

Has there been any mention of motive?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:27 PM (GN2QT)

Yes. The Treaty of Versailles and a desire to return Germany to Regional Power Status.

But that's not important right now.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:29 PM (5GaC4)

121
Well, I voted... I'm in CA so it won't matter but I've never missed a vote.
Posted by: It's me donna

=================

Same. Although we may defeat the "billionaire" (i.e., soon to $100,000) tax.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 31, 2026 01:29 PM (mmrXZ)

122 Example

https://tinyurl.com/53emfde9

Posted by: Kindltot
----

Yeah, well, we all know about the Admiral. There are long time
trusted members here and there are unknown nics. I never click
an unknown nic and rarely read them.
Hit and runs degrade the thread.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:29 PM (WY+aP)

123 "My old job consisted of telling White people they were evil, and then giving $200m/yr to Somalian NGOs with no strings attached. I did this for 20 years. The private sector, for some reason, does not value these skills and I'm struggling to find a job.

This...THIS is what I voted for.

it’s about dei officers in the federal government being cleaned out and many being unable to find new jobs because they were put on “dei watchlists” that come up in google searches in the exact same way it did for right wingers who had their lives ruined by journalists. then he starts applying for dei jobs in the private sector but can’t get one because no one wants to hire someone with dei shit all over their resume. then they find a conservative activist and ask him if he’s happy with all of this and his response is “these people are all anti-white, of course I’m glad they can’t find jobs.”

This is Trump's fault."

https://tinyurl.com/435mxk89

Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 01:30 PM (Riz8t)

124 I really appreciate the doses of the American Revolution as well as everything else you do for this site . Thanks, K.T.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 01:30 PM (xz+xK)

125 Has there been any mention of motive?
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:27 PM

Hurt people hurt people.

Posted by: Abdulrahman "Abdul" Mohamed El-Sayed at October 31, 2026 01:30 PM (0sNs1)

126 I don't even know who you are anymore. But I like it. I'm having a JackStraw moment.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked
======
I largely stay out of defense debates over NATO because my opinion doesn't matter. Never believed the free trade bullshit even though my economics profs tried to inculcate that in me. I agreed with Perot in 92 for example. I can appreciate past European contributions to culture and society but hate their attitudes and governments that put America last. And what is coming out now from Euroland from their ruling elites is pure putrid globohomo trash.

In foreign affairs, I am Jacksonian and hate multilateral gibberish and more so, I dislike the people that believe in it. Most of my former colleagues believed in how wonderful international organizations are and those in defense/nat sec, how NATO shows the way to institute democracy everywhere bullshit.

I was never with them. But as my focus was on domestic politics, I could be non committal about it in discussions as I had to get along with the type.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:31 PM (E4rtv)

127 BLEU is the Belgium-Luxembourg Economic Union, which negotiated a BIT (Bilateral Investment Treaty) with the then-USSR. It was just kept in force by mutual agreement after the Soviet dissolution and I believe has served as the legal framework for Russian-European investment and finance interaction ever since.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 31, 2026 01:31 PM (U/Byj)

128 121
Well, I voted... I'm in CA so it won't matter but I've never missed a vote.
Posted by: It's me donna
=================
Same. Although we may defeat the "billionaire" (i.e., soon to $100,000) tax.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
----

Thank you both. Being there is important. Showing up. Being counted letting every other Republican in that civic waste land that they are not alone. On the six o'clock news when they tally up the votes yours will be there.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:33 PM (WY+aP)

129 The Covid debacle was also a means to fracture all of our non-governmental societal structures. Suddenly, we could no longer rely on our church communities or trust our neighbors or family members. It was very sad. It reminded me of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers".
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at October 31, 2026 01:14 PM (OlzlW)

I never want to forget, but sometimes wish I could forget:
>The phone call from the pastor of my church at the time who was checking in on members two weeks into the lockdown, and his reaction when I told him I was going to the first church that opened, as I no longer believed the pandemic narrative. They were streaming prerecorded services at that time. It was sad.

>Arguing with my brother about taking the vaccine. We each thought the other's position was nuts, but quickly agreed to table the discussion. He's been gone just over a year now.

>Father's Day 2020. I attended my first live service at my new church. No masks. Packed shoulder-to-shoulder. No social distancing. Shaking hands, smiling - even embracing. It was an oasis of fellowship within the wasteland of despair that permeated everything..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at October 31, 2026 01:33 PM (08OqX)

130 118 Hitler's Eagle Nest drew about €20 million/year. Not bad for a tourist trap.

Has there been any mention of motive?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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Since the alleged perp was pantifags, I am guessing he thought it would prevent the AfD from power or some nonsense. Too stupid to realize the real Not Sees are running the EU now and parties like the AfD are trying to save Europe from the abyss of Muslim slavery.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:33 PM (E4rtv)

131 Antifa Communists it is their motive

Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:33 PM (Ia/+0)

132 I was never with them. But as my focus was on domestic politics, I could be non committal about it in discussions as I had to get along with the type.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:31 PM (E4rtv)

I think that's a mistake. Because you rarely see folks that can distinguish between Domestic and International Politics.

Which are two different things. We can be a Classical Liberal as we wish, in the Domestic. As Libertarian as we please.

But Internationally ? That's Fools Gold. And Borders are International. As is Trade. All the rest.

But the argument is Moot. We've fucked this experiment. Now we're just waiting to divide up the pie to start again.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:34 PM (5GaC4)

133 Well, I voted... I'm in CA so it won't matter but I've never missed a vote.
Posted by: It's me donna

Don't pat yourself on the back too much. I'm about 2/3 the way through putting up my Xmas lights. Take THAT!

Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 01:34 PM (Riz8t)

134 I largely stay out of defense debates over NATO because my opinion doesn't matter. Never believed the free trade bullshit even though my economics profs tried to inculcate that in me. I agreed with Perot in 92 for example. I can appreciate past European contributions to culture and society but hate their attitudes and governments that put America last. And what is coming out now from Euroland from their ruling elites is pure putrid globohomo trash.

In foreign affairs, I am Jacksonian and hate multilateral gibberish and more so, I dislike the people that believe in it. Most of my former colleagues believed in how wonderful international organizations are and those in defense/nat sec, how NATO shows the way to institute democracy everywhere bullshit.

I was never with them. But as my focus was on domestic politics, I could be non committal about it in discussions as I had to get along with the type.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:31 PM (E4rtv)
==
I can't say I was ever that much against them, but I acknowledge their having been taken over by globocommie and no longer do their function as imagined when put in place. (cont)

Posted by: Black JEM at October 31, 2026 01:35 PM (8uHt+)

135 I really appreciate the doses of the American Revolution as well as everything else you do for this site . Thanks, K.T.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 01:30 PM (xz+xK)

You might like this then:

https://allrevolutionarywar.com/

She also has a yt channel.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 01:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

136 Thank you both. Being there is important. Showing up. Being counted letting every other Republican in that civic waste land that they are not alone. On the six o'clock news when they tally up the votes yours will be there.
Posted by: Braenyard
========
Yep. Massive numbers of GOP in CA that are being subjugated by fake and gay fraudulent mail in ballots and foreigners. Sad. Trump is trying to do something about it and the Democrat judges there are all against him.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:35 PM (E4rtv)

137 I can't say I was ever that much against them, but I acknowledge their having been taken over by globocommie and no longer do their function as imagined when put in place. (cont)

Agree.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 01:35 PM (Riz8t)

138 Too bad there isn't a magic shot to make Paul a thinking caring human being.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:23 PM (GN2QT)

There is. Comes in a brass bottle.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 01:36 PM (0kX4S)

139 Trump is trying to do something about it and the Democrat judges there are all against him.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:35 PM

You say that like it's a Bad Thing.

Posted by: (D)emocrats & the MSM at October 31, 2026 01:37 PM (0sNs1)

140 >>>Content remaining after some disappeared:

A goblin got it!!!??!

Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 01:37 PM (odBC9)

141 Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 01:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 31, 2026 01:38 PM (xz+xK)

142 Too bad there isn't a magic shot to make Paul a thinking caring human being.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 31, 2026 01:23 PM (GN2QT)

There is. Comes in a brass bottle.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 01:36 PM (0kX4S)

Barbara Eden ? Back in the day ?

Piss on Paul. I'm claiming that.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:39 PM (5GaC4)

143 >>>Hope you have some fun this weekend.

You, too, K.T.

Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 01:39 PM (odBC9)

144 There is. Comes in a brass bottle.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 01:36 PM (0kX4S)

I opened one of those things and wished I hadn't! It caused me so much trouble.

Posted by: Harold Ventimore at October 31, 2026 01:39 PM (1Ff7Z)

145 whig

* Serried ranks of 'Rons and 'Ettes in uniform, with some from the Vietnam era to today. Even the AF vets are standing tall. *
*Surrounding the vets are a crowd of colorful Morons*

"Whig, Front and Center. "

Attention to Orders.
By order of the Horde cognoscenti, I present you with the AoSHQ Distinguished Service Order for trenchant analysis and reporting on the Polish Coup D'Etat."

Hand Salute. Ready, Two.

-you may now return to the ranks.-

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:40 PM (u82oZ)

146 This is brilliant.

The Singularity is now

We were told the Singularity would arrive like a comet – a date, a flash, a headline. It won't. It's already here, and it looks like a press release nobody reads.

Look at biology, just the last six months. A pill that doubles survival in the deadliest cancer. A single infusion that edits a gene – no pills, no refills, no return visits. A man living on a pig's kidney. Each one, alone, is a story. Together, they are a slope.

And the same slope runs through AI, energy, rockets, materials. Each field now accelerates the others. That is what the Singularity actually is: not the moment machines wake up, but the moment progress starts feeding on itself faster than we can absorb it.

Here is the part nobody says. The bottleneck is no longer science. It's permission. The body is becoming a software problem, but our institutions still run on paper, committees and fear. The science is exponential; the bureaucracy is linear. And when a linear system meets an exponential one, the linear one doesn't win. It gets bypassed. Europe should listen carefully.

https://tinyurl.com/c2j45ahv

Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 01:40 PM (Riz8t)

147 Joe Kidd, I appreciate that your pastor was working to maintain connections with his flock, but I assume it was his reaction to your statement that disappointed you.

When I said "no longer rely on our church communities" I meant that we were forbidden by the government from gathering together. Although our congregation did have a visitor report us to the health department, which was creepy. There were definitely some people who did stupid and evil things in their quest to keep everyone "safe."

Posted by: Emmie at October 31, 2026 01:41 PM (OlzlW)

148
Go all the way back to Gerhart Schroeder getting the Gazprom pipeline started 'cause the Euroweenies could tell everybody what to do, how high they could jump or when to sit down. The Russians went along until they didn't.

The global left are scolding Karens who fantasize that they are still in charge and will sue you if you don't go along. Ask Elon.

Posted by: Auspex at October 31, 2026 01:41 PM (Y8DZL)

149 cont..

I remember having a conversation with my boss about China's inclusion into the WTO. I was against it, on a number of grounds, which I realize now were spot on for a 30 year old.

I remember the one world government stuff when GWHB was president and I admit I poo pooed that. I now think back on it and realize the global elite at that time were already trying to take over, they just needed to take care of the pesky Americans.

They almost did it. But in the end, Americans get pretty honked off at that type of stuff. Had the left been smarter about the immigration stuff, it may have succeeded. But I now know why DC wanted immigration "reform" when no one in the voting public wanted anything like that.

As I have said - they are getting desperate. Trump's election scared them. Then the reaction of the monied class to Biden on technology development freaked many of them out. This election will not knock MAGA out, and if things continue on this path - Rubio, Vance or DeSantis will be the next president, with more MAGA in congress, and more support to attack the judiciary. By then both Canada and Brazil will have been dealt with. It's almost over.

Posted by: Black JEM at October 31, 2026 01:42 PM (8uHt+)

150 And the same slope runs through AI, energy, rockets, materials. Each field now accelerates the others. That is what the Singularity actually is: not the moment machines wake up, but the moment progress starts feeding on itself faster than we can absorb it.

Yeah. We're going back to the Dark Ages for a bit. Self-Inflicted.

Not all the way back. But a regression. No doubt about it.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:42 PM (5GaC4)

151 I know we don't respond to trolls, but Trump got fooled just like many originally.
It has really pissed him off. Hence, RFKJr.

Posted by: From about That Time at October 31, 2026 01:43 PM (sl73Y)

152 Color Me Shocked

You had an AF pilot / astronaut rescue a stunningly attractive woman from thousand's of years of isolation.
She has a skimpy outfit, calls you master, and has additional magic powers.
And nothing happens. Until marriage.

Change that to a US Naval Aviator, and the show could not be broadcast in the US.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:43 PM (u82oZ)

153 I can't say I was ever that much against them, but I acknowledge their having been taken over by globocommie and no longer do their function as imagined when put in place. (cont)
Posted by: Black JEM

There is a certain sort of American desperate to be thought of as serious thinkers and they end up being Europhile kiss asses and these are primarily in our ruling class. And then you have the Euro educated classes, many have a deep loathing for America and Americans because at the heart of it, is envy. 1914, Europe was the center of the world for civilization. 1945, Europe was in ruins, broke, and dependent on the US (or worse, the Russians for the Eastern bloc).

And they know deep down, their ancestors destroyed European civilization and this gave Europeans essentially nihilism and a deep loathing for the US as optimism that the future can be better.

So I like individual Europeans, get along fine with the strivers and the working class, but their intellectual class is mean, petty, destructive, and envious toward Americans. And asskissing Europhiles in our chattering class simply adore being abused by Euro intellectuals as in Chip Diller--Thank you sir may I have another!

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:43 PM (E4rtv)

154 As I have said - they are getting desperate. Trump's election scared them. Then the reaction of the monied class to Biden on technology development freaked many of them out. This election will not knock MAGA out, and if things continue on this path - Rubio, Vance or DeSantis will be the next president, with more MAGA in congress, and more support to attack the judiciary. By then both Canada and Brazil will have been dealt with. It's almost over.
Posted by: Black JEM
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Well said. Disagree with nothing you've said.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:45 PM (E4rtv)

155 Change that to a US Naval Aviator, and the show could not be broadcast in the US.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:43 PM (u82oZ)

The damn show really was good, on all levels. A lot of shows back then just were.

LandMan started off like that. Until it wasn't.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:46 PM (5GaC4)

156 Also Bewitched. Great show.

They just "had it" back then. Look, marriage ain't easy. Those shows handled it quite well.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:47 PM (5GaC4)

157 There's some asshole on CBC offering analysis of the elections.

One thing I've noticed repeatedly is libs saying President Trump is historically unpopular. Are they just polling their offices, friends and family?

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 01:48 PM (Sco7b)

158 One thing I've noticed repeatedly is libs saying President Trump is historically unpopular. Are they just polling their offices, friends and family?

All national news media you see on TV comes from NYC and DC. All national sports media you see on TV comes from NYC and LA.

Yes. Its an echo chamber.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:49 PM (5GaC4)

159 129 Joe Kidd, I told the leader of our Elder Board that if they decided to hold services in defiance of Polis's orders, I would support that. He said the board was weighing the options and trying to follow the scriptural exhortation to submit to authorities. Later, they decided the church closures had gone on long enough and were going to start meeting in person again. Just in time, Polis allowed us to open up again, so we didn't have to violate any government orders after all.

Posted by: Emmie at October 31, 2026 01:50 PM (OlzlW)

160 Color Me Shocked

Well, we remember the good stuff better. And there was a lot of it. Even the game and variety shows.
Art Linkletter. Lawrence Welch, Ed Sullivan. Concentration, Let's Make a Deal, Hollywood Squares and many more examples.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea level schlock, not so much. Although I remember mocking it at the times.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:50 PM (u82oZ)

161 Are they just polling their offices, friends and family?
Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 31, 2026 01:48 PM (Sco7b)

Basically, yes. The Left lives in a bubble.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 31, 2026 01:51 PM (0kX4S)

162 148
Go all the way back to Gerhart Schroeder getting the Gazprom pipeline started 'cause the Euroweenies could tell everybody what to do, how high they could jump or when to sit down. The Russians went along until they didn't.

The global left are scolding Karens who fantasize that they are still in charge and will sue you if you don't go along. Ask Elon.
Posted by: Auspex
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Schroeder after his stint as chancellor became head of GazProm's European import company.

The question I want to know is who was idiotic enough to destroy European manufacturing via Green Stupidity. The Green stupidity in Germany was almost a copy of the Morgenthau plan of deindustrializing Germany. Bringing in masses of Islamic violent idiots more so. Eurozone ditto.

None of these things make economic sense so the rigid support of these idiocies has to be political. And I think the answer is restoring aristocracy over peasants in Europe with a lot fewer peasants around by attrition and subjugation by ruling class pet Islamists. The stupid ruling class there probably thinks that moving to Islam will keep them in power as a new state religion.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:52 PM (E4rtv)

163 GARDEN THREAD IS UP
Go see what the Spooks are about

Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:52 PM (Ia/+0)

164 Well, we remember the good stuff better. And there was a lot of it. Even the game and variety shows.

As you said, though, there was also plenty of absolute crap. Supertrain anyone?

Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 01:52 PM (Riz8t)

165 The stupid ruling class there probably thinks that moving to Islam will keep them in power as a new state religion.
Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:52 PM (E4rtv)

They probably don't believe in a higher power anyway, so they don't care if they're Christian, Muslim, or nothing. It's power that matters to them.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at October 31, 2026 01:53 PM (1Ff7Z)

166 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea level schlock, not so much. Although I remember mocking it at the times.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:50 PM (u82oZ)

Have Gun, Will Travel was as good a morality play as anything. They just crapped on the entire Black Hat / White Hat stuff. I loved it. Still watch it.

Laugh In did better Political Satire than anything now. Hell - Johnny Carson was a better watch. Just more real.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:54 PM (5GaC4)

167 >>>Here is the part nobody says. The bottleneck is no longer science. It's permission. The body is becoming a software problem, but our institutions still run on paper, committees and fear. The science is exponential; the bureaucracy is linear. And when a linear system meets an exponential one, the linear one doesn't win. It gets bypassed. Europe should listen carefully.

https://tinyurl.com/c2j45ahv

Posted by: Archimedes
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Musk said something, rhyming in a very positive way, about
AI, healthcare and the exponential creation of remedies to
heretofore incurable maladies.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:54 PM (WY+aP)

168 The stupid ruling class there probably thinks that moving to Islam will keep them in power as a new state religion.

Its the same stupid class that believes Keynes. They don't know exactly "how" it'll turn out. Just that it'll turn out right.

You know, faith.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:55 PM (5GaC4)

169 Braenyard

We live in miraculous times that would feel like a Singularity to our forebears.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:55 PM (u82oZ)

170 157 There's some asshole on CBC offering analysis of the elections.

One thing I've noticed repeatedly is libs saying President Trump is historically unpopular. Are they just polling their offices, friends and family?
Posted by: Stateless

Republicans no longer respond to polling. That is clear across the board. So a Dem heavy sampling means less popularity for Trump. I'd imagine that the CBC viewers would get the vapors if they knew that Obama's second term led to low approval ratings as well. That is what led, in part, to Trump winning in 2016. Obama's policies were never popular, the idea of Obama being a salvation for racial peace meant his popularity was artificially inflated for a time until his meanness, his hypocrisy, and his hatred of Americans got noticed. Classic Europhile and Muslim Brotherhood in orientation

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:56 PM (E4rtv)

171 Trump's Reformation Day message.

https://tinyurl.com/yck5zfzh

A Catholic friend of mine theorized that the most significant reason Islam has not conquered the world is the Catholic Church.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 01:58 PM (ndZc7)

172 They probably don't believe in a higher power anyway, so they don't care if they're Christian, Muslim, or nothing. It's power that matters to them.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Likely. There is a reason that the Bible says do not put your trust in princes.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 01:58 PM (E4rtv)

173 Musk said something, rhyming in a very positive way, about AI, healthcare and the exponential creation of remedies to
heretofore incurable maladies.

And I'll say BULLSHIT !!!

No program, or search engine, is going to fix a damn thing. Not one damn thing. They don't think.

Now - can online stuff remove the Doctor from getting paid to hear your symptoms and give a script that really ... we should be able to just get ourselves ?

Maybe.

But no. There is no fucking Intelligence in that data-center ruminating on the cure to cancer. Not how this shit works at all.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 01:58 PM (5GaC4)

174 158 One thing I've noticed repeatedly is libs saying President Trump is historically unpopular. Are they just polling their offices, friends and family?
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They are writing history for your grandchildren.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 01:59 PM (WY+aP)

175 A Catholic friend of mine theorized that the most significant reason Islam has not conquered the world is the Catholic Church.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Certainly true in medieval times, unfortunately, under the banner of tolerance, I don't see that resistance in the hierarchy to stopping the flow of immigrants and the Catholic Church has lost its hold on national rulers. Back in the day, the threat of excommunication carried both political and social costs for rulers. Not even attempted now because it would be 'mean' to the casual types.

Not any different than other Christian sects though or even the Jewish faith. Each contain a percentage of secular types that would make deals with the devil if it made them feel 'nice'.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 02:02 PM (E4rtv)

176 A Catholic friend of mine theorized that the most significant reason Islam has not conquered the world is the Catholic Church.

I'd ask you friend how many divisions The Pope commands. And how many militias.

And how much money the Catholic Church pours into politics that restrict the private ownership of guns.

Then I'd tell your Catholic friend to shut the fuck up.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 02:03 PM (5GaC4)

177 Posted by: Color Me Shocked
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I color you somewhere between ignorant to non-existent.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 31, 2026 02:03 PM (WY+aP)

178 169 Braenyard

We live in miraculous times that would feel like a Singularity to our forebears.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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And yet, the chattering classes fear that their hold on the rest of is fading and that makes their talons dig deeper to hold onto their power today because they fear it will be gone soon.

Reminds me of 1914 actually. The old aristocratic class (King Edward's funeral in 1910 is a reminder there of the times) was giving way to the newer order domestically as technological changes no longer supported a fatuous elite class running everything by birth. And that led the aristos to overreact in a series of crises until Europe fell into the abyss in 1914.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 02:06 PM (E4rtv)

179
It was so dark that it was hard to appreciate the parody. People whose entire cultural narrative revolved around multiculturalism were insisting that everyone conform to the dominant Western biomedical establishment—a system consolidated through Rockefeller-era reforms, backed by oil wealth, that marginalized traditional approaches to medicine.

They are mouth breathers whose drool cups need to be emptied continually. Many faces badly in need of a fist, IOW.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at October 31, 2026 02:07 PM (ixS3i)

180 Posted by: Color Me Shocked
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I color you somewhere between ignorant to non-existent.

I assume he's Scogg.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 02:07 PM (Riz8t)

181 technological changes no longer supported a fatuous elite class running everything by birth

Hey now, some of us still aspire to the fatuous elite class.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 02:08 PM (Riz8t)

182 I can't say I was ever that much against them, but I acknowledge their having been taken over by globocommie and no longer do their function as imagined when put in place. (cont)
Posted by: Black JEM
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I was in academia and had to from graduate school onwards. Fortunately I have a poker face and others like to blabber. Learned that trick working in politics and the military before grad school.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 02:10 PM (E4rtv)

183 My theory if one can call it that is the Marxists Propaganda Ministry works against President Trump 24/7. And anyone watching it gets drilled on everything is his fault.

Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 02:10 PM (Ia/+0)

184 Reminds me of 1914 actually.

Rent-Seeking. A phrase that I first heard, back in the day, from those who were very, very Liberal Democrat. As in "Burn It All Down". Obama made a point of this.

It makes sense. Those who have worth not by what they DO, or not even what they KNOW, but just what they CONTROL. Like collecting RENT.

Part of today in politics is who gets to collect the RENT. I guess its always been this way. We're just seeing the flop of how the serfs want to pay the rent.

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 02:11 PM (5GaC4)

185 I was fatuous so now I order only skinny lattes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're All Dan Sullivan Now [/] at October 31, 2026 02:11 PM (ndZc7)

186 Even the AF vets are standing tall.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:40 PM

Someday a miracle will occur.

Is today that day?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 31, 2026 02:11 PM (0sNs1)

187 Hey now, some of us still aspire to the fatuous elite class.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Why, I aspire to eternal salvation, not material things. Have my weaknesses but focusing on the world to come tends to clarify what is important now.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 02:11 PM (E4rtv)

188 Even the AF vets are standing tall.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 31, 2026 01:40 PM

I assume the Dining Facility is taking orders for the Airman Steaks.

Fly, Fight, and Eat !!!

Posted by: Color Me Shocked at October 31, 2026 02:13 PM (5GaC4)

189 Hey now, some of us still aspire to the fatuous elite class.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 31, 2026 02:08 PM

Cardboard-level AoSHQ membership?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 31, 2026 02:13 PM (0sNs1)

190 nood gardening

Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 02:15 PM (odBC9)

191 163 GARDEN THREAD IS UP
Go see what the Spooks are about
Posted by: Skip at October 31, 2026 01:52 PM (Ia/+0)

Posted by: m at October 31, 2026 02:16 PM (odBC9)

192 Rent-Seeking. A phrase that I first heard, back in the day, from those who were very, very Liberal Democrat. As in "Burn It All Down". Obama made a point of this.

It makes sense. Those who have worth not by what they DO, or not even what they KNOW, but just what they CONTROL. Like collecting RENT.

Part of today in politics is who gets to collect the RENT. I guess its always been this way. We're just seeing the flop of how the serfs want to pay the rent.
Posted by: Color Me Shocked
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I would agree. My economic tastes in undergrad ran toward public choice and von Mises Austrian school.

But I had commie profs and Keynesian Samuelson types as well as reading classical economic theory. Marxism and Samuelson gloss on the innumerate Keynes never made intrinsic sense to me. Economics undergrad.

Posted by: whig at October 31, 2026 02:16 PM (E4rtv)

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