Wednesday Morning Rant

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Of all the things this midterm election was about, "climate change" - remember that? - wasn't one of them. Middle-aged or older lefties still care, and a lot the youth still care (or say they do), but virtually nobody was voting climate change this year. It was not an electoral issue and practically nobody even mentioned it on the campaign trail. The Democrats weren't trumpeting how important "fighting climate change" is and the the Republicans weren't even bothering with their typical limp-wristed "sure it's a problem, but won't someone please think of the share prices" response because they didn't have to. It never came up.

Despite being muted this year, however, "climate change" remains a powerful weapon and with the communists surging into commanding majorities next year, it absolutely will be a legislative pursuit. It won't be as big as the headline-grabbers like "impeach everyone" or "turn USAID back on" or "open the border" or the virtually inevitable "government shutdown" will be, and that might be helpful to the cause. They can - and will - move on it even if they don't talk much while dismantling everything they can in the name of Mother Gaia. The Party used the increasingly-ghoulish John Kerry to telegraph is intent. At a UN climate change junket in Turkey, he made the preposterous assertion that the recent election demonstrates that the American public sees "climate change" as a "voting issue." It was an election where the issue basically didn't exist, but whatever. Any port in a storm.

So expect more destruction in the name of "climate change" and less opposition to insanity that is already in the works. Reuters provides us with examples of both. First up is a UN-mandated - through the back door, so nobody has to actually pass it or sign a treaty - international wealth transfer scheme wearing the familiar vestments of the Church of Climate: the humble carbon credit. All members of the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) are on the hook for it, since it's an ICAO rule and applies to its members. Spoiler alert: everyone's a member. Like most agencies, the ICAO was invented for reasonable purposes like ensuring consistent navigation rules, airport names, aircraft and airport classification, maintenance standards, etc. Also like most agencies, it is a tool of revolutionaries to impose their will. The scheme imposed by the ICAO - called the "Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation" (CORSIA) - becomes mandatory next year and is expected to cost the commercial aviation industry at least 5% of its total annual profits. Dollars extracted from airlines will be transferred to those selling carbon credits. The carbon credit sellers are usually poor countries with jungles. Carbon credits are also usually naked fraud, but no matter.

That'll be fun. While I would like to expect domestic airlines - with the full support of the administration - to just ignore this stupid scheme and dare the ICAO to levy unenforceable fines, I don't think that will happen. I just expect to see a "carbon offset" fee on the receipt the next I fly internationally, if that ever happens. The one upside to the way the ICAO snuck this through is that it applies only to international flights. The average European passenger will get corn-holed by this much more than the average American passenger - at least until our domestic communists impose a national version of the same. You can be sure that it is on their list, and that they won't talk about it too much.

What will hit harder and worse will be the broader degradation of the domestic power situation. For a vision of the future, one needs only to look at Europe and specifically at Germany. Germany, one of the more retarded European countries when it comes to energy, is now reaping the consequences of its energy policy and the policies it has helped impose on the rest of the continent through the EU. Electricity prices there are surging as the "decarbonization" chickens come home to roost. The wind isn't blowing much, and Germany needs the wind to blow. The rest of Europe is also struggling, as hydroelectric production is down and most "renewables" aren't producing enough. Germany's generation capacity - and to a lesser but still significant extent, the rest of Europe's - is increasingly dependent on its increasingly strained natural gas infrastructure. Europe is stuck. They've built too much expensive, unreliable infrastructure. But it's okay, comrade - your chocolate ration will still be increased:

While renewables continue to displace fossil fuels, lower emissions and provide growing volumes of low-cost electricity, the latest market turmoil highlights that utilities still ⁠have work to do to ensure power systems remain fit for purpose.

See? The unreliable power that is spiking in price is nonetheless high in volume and low in cost. Reuters says so!

Expect the assault on gas, coal and nuclear to be reinvigorated next year. While they are loudly impeaching everyone and bleating about whatever comes up when they spin the wheel from day to day, expect the congressional committees to quietly advance as much energy destruction as possible. American energy must be destroyed, and it doesn't matter that "climate change" wasn't an election issue. The communists sweeping into office will treat it as a mandate to undo as much energy progress as possible. John Kerry just made that perfectly clear. He may be a wizened and largely disfavored old husk with a face stuffed full of cheap mattress batting by a plastic surgeon who clearly hates him, but that may be intentional. "Climate change" is not going to be front and center over the next two years, but it will be a continuous - and probably quiet - pursuit.

Whether Secretary Wright can stymie them for a year or two is an open question, but they will work manfully to accomplish their goals.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 Wah hey!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 11, 2026 11:00 AM (amcLV)

2 Wah hey?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 11, 2026 11:01 AM (amcLV)

3 The Democrats weren't trumpeting how important "fighting climate change" is and the the Republicans weren't even bothering with their typical limp-wristed "sure it's a problem, but won't someone please think of the share prices" response because they didn't have to. It never came up.

Proof it was bullshit from the get go.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2026 11:01 AM (ST3HN)

4 Captain Two Times??

Posted by: dantesed at November 11, 2026 11:02 AM (Oy/m2)

5 It's all the data centers causing climate change. Duh.

Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

6 What's so bad about carbon?

Posted by: I gotta ask at November 11, 2026 11:04 AM (2Ez/1)

7
POKER MONKEY

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 11, 2026 11:04 AM (iqcvy)

8 " Any port in a storm."

As long as it's in a low tax state, amirite?"

Posted by: John effin Kerry, Gigolo, Statesman at November 11, 2026 11:05 AM (r7+Q7)

9 CC did kinda come up in the context of the New Big Bad Boogeyman Datacenters, but otherwise I agree it was yesterday's news ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 11, 2026 11:06 AM (iFTx/)

10 What's so bad about carbon?
Posted by: I gotta ask

It's racist. Duh.

Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2026 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

11
What's so bad about carbon?
Posted by: I gotta ask at November 11, 2026 11:04 AM (2Ez/1)

Some of that carbon is used to make conservatives, so the world needs the icky Conservative Carbon Cooties to go away.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 11, 2026 11:06 AM (iqcvy)

12 Thanks Joe, good reminder. And sickening. Trump was (is, sorta, still) a speed bump to all the most idiotic and destructive nonsense degrading our society and world. Climatic idiocy a major one.

I don't think the idiots can reverse or impede much for the next 2 years. But, as many have pointed out for various reasons, if a Dem is in the WH in 2029, the free-fall trajectory interrupted in 2017 and 2025 will largely resume.

Really, really further reinforces one's respect and admiration for one's fellow citizens.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2026 11:07 AM (U/Byj)

13 From the last thread:

Of course, Donkey commie cocksuckers being commie cocksuckers, none of those aliens look like Sil from Species.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 11, 2026 11:02 AM

Morena Baccarin from the "V" reboot would also be acceptable.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2026 11:07 AM (2ocoG)

14 "Stop Climate Change" is as foolish a slogan as "Stop Continental Drift."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 11, 2026 11:08 AM (amcLV)

15 Recycling is our national religion.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 11, 2026 11:08 AM (2Ez/1)

16 Morena Baccarin from the "V" reboot would also be acceptable.
Posted by: Ian S.

Hubba hubba.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2026 11:09 AM (ST3HN)

17 There is a delicious irony that people were upset over $4 gas and voted in people who will create $6 gas.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 11, 2026 11:10 AM (j/uCq)

18
...I don't think the idiots can reverse or impede much for the next 2 years....

Au contraire!

We'll be helping Our Good Friends Across the Aisle to override all of Trump's vetoes.

Believe it.

Posted by: Thune and the Thunettes at November 11, 2026 11:10 AM (YSUhf)

19 What's so bad about carbon?

Carbon dioxide helps the atmosphere trap heat. The problem is that while it does so very effectively in a lab, the actual Earth does not behave at all like the isolated lab experiments (assume a spherical... planet?). And the commies are just hoping they can take over before everyone finds that out.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2026 11:11 AM (2ocoG)

20 Mississippi Senate seat race about to flip red, still a few trunk boxes of ballots to count. Incredible.

Posted by: Ripley at November 11, 2026 11:12 AM (GUOwU)

21 Do intra -EU flights count as international or domestic for the purpose of this stupidity? I really hope it’s international. Give the Europoors more of what they desperately crave.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 11, 2026 11:12 AM (j/uCq)

22 Stop Climate Change" is as foolish a slogan as "Stop Continental Drift."
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 11, 2026 11:08 AM (amcLV

Reunite Gondwanaland!

Posted by: RI Red at November 11, 2026 11:13 AM (X8GIH)

23 We'll be helping Our Good Friends Across the Aisle to override all of Trump's vetoes.

Thune actually has announced they're finally going to approve all of Trump's judicial nominations for the last 2 years before the new Senate.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2026 11:13 AM (2ocoG)

24
Some of that carbon is used to make conservatives, so the world needs the icky Conservative Carbon Cooties to go away.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 11, 2026 11:06 AM (iqcvy)

That was always one of the most disturbing possible lines of pursuit for the Green Maoists. Carbon is a pollutant, people are carbon based, most of you need to go. The Hellscapes of Equity sounds like a hell of a vacation spot, but I wouldn't wat to live there.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 11, 2026 11:14 AM (r7+Q7)

25 22 Stop Climate Change" is as foolish a slogan as "Stop Continental Drift."
Posted by: Captain Obvious

"Whip Inflation Now!"

Posted by: Jerry Ford at November 11, 2026 11:14 AM (2Ez/1)

26 Reunite Gondwanaland!
Posted by: RI Red at November 11, 2026 11:13 AM

Is this about me?

Posted by: Wakanda at November 11, 2026 11:16 AM (2Ez/1)

27 Colorado has big plans for high speed rail. I saw a linked in post about it and all the comments were “who the fuck needs this I just drive if I need to get to Colorado Springs”.

Get ready for $100B federal tax to be stolen like the way it was stolen in California.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 11, 2026 11:17 AM (j/uCq)

28
From the last thread:

Of course, Donkey commie cocksuckers being commie cocksuckers, none of those aliens look like Sil from Species.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 11, 2026 11:02 AM

Morena Baccarin from the "V" reboot would also be acceptable.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2026 11:07 AM (2ocoG)

And Mathilda May from Lifeforce. Etc.

I mean, we're still going to all die screaming from these aliens, but at least it'll be screams of ecstasy before our horrible deaths.

And don't think that you 'ettes are totally immune either. There's bearded Mirror Universe Spock... uhhhh, and I guess that's it for hawt male Evil Aliens. You 'ettes will have to chime in, I haven't got the foggiest idea who the Evil Alien Hunks are.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 11, 2026 11:17 AM (iqcvy)

29 "Thune actually has announced they're finally going to approve all of Trump's judicial nominations for the last 2 years before the new Senate.
Posted by: Ian S"

What were they waiting on? I'll believe it when I see it.

Posted by: fd at November 11, 2026 11:17 AM (6SIvd)

30 "...going to approve all of Trump's judicial nominations..."

Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at November 11, 2026 11:18 AM (2Ez/1)

31 Expect the assault on gas, coal and nuclear to be reinvigorated next year. While they are loudly impeaching everyone and bleating about whatever comes up when they spin the wheel from day to day, expect the congressional committees to quietly advance as much energy destruction as possible.

I expect they'll bring back the 2030 mandates for mpg and emissions along with the fines and punishments they had previously. Which will then usher in default EV mandates again.

This is the result of the Republican Party not doing anything to convert executive orders into law.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 11, 2026 11:18 AM (P5BPp)

32 That was always one of the most disturbing possible lines of pursuit for the Green Maoists. Carbon is a pollutant, people are carbon based, most of you need to go.

Carbon's just an excuse. Bill Gates has stated that we need to kill billions of people to create utopia.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2026 11:19 AM (2ocoG)

33 "Thune actually has announced they're finally going to approve all of Trump's judicial nominations for the last 2 years before the new Senate.
Posted by: Ian S"

What were they waiting on? I'll believe it when I see it.
Posted by: fd

They were waiting to see which way the House & Senate went. Now they will need those judges to keep them out of prison.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2026 11:19 AM (ST3HN)

34 There is a delicious irony that people were upset over $4 gas and voted in people who will create $6 gas.

Yes. democrat voters are selfish and stupid and will get their $8 a gallon gas and like it and blame Trump that it's not $10 a gallon.

Posted by: Bizarro World at November 11, 2026 11:20 AM (Ssbab)

35 Mississippi Senate seat race about to flip red, still a few trunk boxes of ballots to count. Incredible.
Posted by: Ripley

Vote curing takes time, comrade.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 11, 2026 11:20 AM (X8vlu)

36 It is comical the people that ran on a platform of "gas is too expensive" are now you go move forward on trying to ban the use of fossil fuels

Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2026 11:21 AM (sKqQm)

37
Carbon's just an excuse. Bill Gates has stated that we need to kill billions of people to create utopia.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2026 11:19 AM (2ocoG)

"Dead and forgotten in a mountain of expended brass" was always a bit of darkly humorous hyperbole. Never thought that it'd be my probable end.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 11, 2026 11:22 AM (iqcvy)

38 Mississippi turning into California when it comes to vote counting was absolutely not on my 2026 bingo card.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at November 11, 2026 11:23 AM (j/uCq)

39 can stymie them
That's racist

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 11, 2026 11:23 AM (xhR2q)

40
Stop Climate Change" is as foolish a slogan as "Stop Continental Drift."
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide!!!

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 11, 2026 11:24 AM (iqcvy)

41 Spot on. Thanks, Joe.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at November 11, 2026 11:24 AM (d9Cw3)

42 As usual, the biggest thing they're going to aim for will be Disarming the citizens.

But not the gangs. Gangs are the DSA's footsoldiers.

Posted by: XTC at November 11, 2026 11:26 AM (j9ROB)

43 Any mention of "climate change" seems to be one of those social markers, like noticing someone wearing a septum ring.

Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2026 11:27 AM (TN0g+)

44
[renders a sharp salute]

To my fellow Vets.

I can hear 'To The Colors' in the back of my mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 11, 2026 11:27 AM (XeU6L)

45
Apropos of nothing....

Here's the new trailer for "Werwulf":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL1EFACsWag

Can't tell of this looks good or not. Eggar's last two movies didn't really impress me. They were alright, I suppose.

"Werwulf" appears to have the stink of "people are the real monsters", which is rarely a good sign.

Ah well, opening on Christmas for your viewing pleasure...

What? It couldn't open on Kwanzaa?

Posted by: naturalfake at November 11, 2026 11:27 AM (YSUhf)

46 Bacon and eggs consumed. As always, I feel much better.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 11, 2026 11:28 AM (amcLV)

47 32 Carbon's just an excuse. Bill Gates has stated that we need to kill billions of people to create utopia.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2026 11:19 AM (2ocoG)

Bill Ayers, Bill Gates...

...Malthusians are always going to Malthusian. Privileged people who grew up in the 50s and 60s want to be the last people to ever exist. They cannot imagine civilization, or even humanity at all, going on without them once they're gone.

Posted by: XTC at November 11, 2026 11:29 AM (j9ROB)

48 What's so bad about carbon?
Posted by: I gotta ask at November 11, 2026 11:04 AM

When it's all up in my BCG?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2026 11:29 AM (OTgAC)

49 Posted by: XTC at November 11, 2026 11:29 AM (j9ROB)

Hey, Man. Good to see you!

Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2026 11:30 AM (77rzZ)

50 I don't think Congress can force the 2030 mandates back into force - were these vacated by the BBB or did the administration have authority to waive them?

And I thought the Senate was in fact confirming judicial nominees the last 18 months. It was the other parts of the executive calendar, non-judicial nominees, that they we inexcusably freezing by the pro forma sessions.

Posted by: rhomboid at November 11, 2026 11:30 AM (U/Byj)

51 The climate change hustle. I hate it. Governments establish a system of credits and permissions, create a market around them, and then staff the gatekeeper apparatus with regulators, auditors, enforcers, and other assorted toll collectors. The entire ecosystem now gets paid to keep its racket growing. What could possibly go wrong?

Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2026 11:30 AM (2bFN5)

52 The entire ecosystem now gets paid to keep its racket growing. What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2026 11:30 AM

I know, right?

Posted by: Greta the Doom Goblin at November 11, 2026 11:32 AM (2Ez/1)

53 One of the greatest jazz albums evah, Milt Jackson "Goodbye," 37 mins:
youtube.com/watch?v=6LYr2nL4jMs

Posted by: gp at November 11, 2026 11:33 AM (Jr5Lq)

54 Which is worse: the climate change scam or the solar power scam?

Posted by: dantesed at November 11, 2026 11:33 AM (Oy/m2)

55 Which is worse: the climate change scam or the solar power scam?
Posted by: dantesed

They're both part of the same scam.

Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2026 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

56 Talk about your Russian collusion!

https://tinyurl.com/59749t4a

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 11, 2026 11:34 AM (fDryU)

57 Which is worse: the climate change scam or the solar power scam?
Posted by: dantesed

Yes.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2026 11:35 AM (ST3HN)

58 Thx Joe.
You'd think that the people who believed in man made climate change would be decent enough to end themselves and therefore end their carbon footprint. But they don't do I guess it's just a matter of degree and virtue signaling

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2026 11:36 AM (FroOw)

59 Philistines upon you, America:

https://tinyurl.com/3y7vhkbs

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 11, 2026 11:36 AM (fDryU)

60 I forgot all about the EV scam as well.

Posted by: dantesed at November 11, 2026 11:37 AM (Oy/m2)

61 BB Bill ended $7500 EV subsidies. Well done!

Posted by: gp at November 11, 2026 11:39 AM (Jr5Lq)

62 But muh gas prices.
-every Republican voter, apparently

Meanwhile gas tax is climbing to $1/gallon and Becerrrrrrra is talking mileage tax.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2026 11:40 AM (RIvkX)

63 I forgot all about the EV scam as well.
Posted by: dantesed

Solyndra Batteries.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2026 11:41 AM (ST3HN)

64 I saw a post go by where someone was noting that everywhere they go they are surrounded now by not Americans: people that don't speak your language, don't share your culture, don't share your religion, don't share your history, etc.

The left's response? You don't have any right to feel comfortable.

Someone should discuss the left's view on safe spaces with the left...they seem to have forgotten

Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2026 11:42 AM (sKqQm)

65 55 Which is worse: the climate change scam or the solar power scam?
Posted by: dantesed

Yoo-hoo!

Posted by: The Recycling Scam at November 11, 2026 11:42 AM (2Ez/1)

66 59 Philistines upon you, America:

https://tinyurl.com/3y7vhkbs
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
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It's fine, it's fine. We all know the discrimination is from the approved demographic and religion.

Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2026 11:43 AM (2bFN5)

67 Wait...John Kerry is still alive?

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 11, 2026 11:44 AM (n5tGW)

68 I don’t know how we can be so worried about climate change when people lack even the most rudimentary access to basic healthcare and the price of groceries is so high and they can’t afford to put gas in their tanks and ice is going to take their parents away because they are brown and the planet is getting warmer and landlords can literally make them homeless for no reason.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 11, 2026 11:45 AM (PB58D)

69 BB Bill ended $7500 EV subsidies. Well done!

Posted by: gp at November 11, 2026 11:39 AM

It ended the subsidies, but did it end the fuel economy and emissions targets and the fines and banishment of sales that came along with it? Not to mention the carbon credit scam that Elon Musk and Tesla made billions on from all the US ICE-focused automakers.

What is to prevent Democrats from bringing all that back when/if they take the White House and increase majorities in Congress through fraud/demographics in 2028?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 11, 2026 11:46 AM (P5BPp)

70 What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at November 11, 2026 11:47 AM (2Ez/1)

71 67 Wait...John Kerry is still alive?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 11, 2026 11:44 AM (n5tGW)

That's a matter of debate.. Define alive...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2026 11:47 AM (+gK6I)

72 67 Wait...John Kerry is still alive?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

Ol’ horse face? Of course!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 11, 2026 11:47 AM (PB58D)

73 What’s old is new again.

I hear some people expressing surprise at the Democrats agenda of attacking free speech, trying to jail their enemies, DEI, trannie love, abortion for all, free healthcare for all on your dime, attacking the Second Amendment, going after the energy companies, higher taxes and the rest of it.

Really? They told you this was what they were gonna do. Why didn’t you believe them?

Posted by: Vengeance at November 11, 2026 11:48 AM (TylIK)

74 Wait...John Kerry is still alive?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

By the way, he served in Vietnam.

Posted by: Bulg at November 11, 2026 11:48 AM (77rzZ)

75 67 Wait...John Kerry is still alive?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

He's probably sleeping in the barn.

Posted by: dantesed at November 11, 2026 11:49 AM (Oy/m2)

76 I don’t know how we can be so worried about climate change when people lack even the most rudimentary access to basic healthcare and the price of groceries is so high...

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 11, 2026 11:45 AM

Speaking of grocery prices...

Walmart and Kroger are quietly rolling out an internal store technology across America that could either modernize retail or bankrupt the middle-class family budget.

Starting across thousands of locations heading into 2027, traditional paper price tags are being ripped off grocery shelves and replaced with cloud-connected digital screens. Raise the price of bottled water by 20 percent the second the afternoon temperature hits 90 degrees. Surge the cost of ground beef, milk, and sandwich bread between 5 PM and 6 PM when exhausted commuters are rushing home from work. Drop prices at 10 AM on a Tuesday, then hike them right back up the minute the after-school crowd walks through the sliding doors.

Every price change happens wirelessly in seconds from a central corporate dashboard. No store employee has to touch a single shelf.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 11, 2026 11:50 AM (P5BPp)

77 Really? They told you this was what they were gonna do. Why didn’t you believe them?
Posted by: Vengeance at November 11, 2026 11:48 AM (TylIK)
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Hardly anyone believed Hitler...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at November 11, 2026 11:51 AM (amcLV)

78 I guess we'll be shopping at 10AM on a Tuesday.
Heh, that sounded like Forrest Gump in my head.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 11, 2026 11:52 AM (n5tGW)

79 Wait until they add facial recognition and AI to those pricing systems to make individualized pricing.

Ask chat gpt about cold symptoms? The price of Nyquil jumps 20% just for you as soon as the store cameras see you walk in the door.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 11, 2026 11:54 AM (PB58D)

80 I mean, Democrats were cash starved and a lot of funding was provided by anti 2a groups. Did people think one had nothing to do with the other.

You now have large populations of states like Minnesota who just elected another Dem dick juggler saying they are going to ignore the new laws they are proposing. I’m betting some of those people voted for Democrats. Lol.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 11, 2026 11:54 AM (TylIK)

81 Wait...John Kerry is still alive?
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

By the way, he served in Vietnam.
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For which side?

Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2026 11:55 AM (TN0g+)

82
The scammy essence of climate change is sitting in plain sight. If it's an existential threat, why aren't we bombing China? Look at their coal consumption, look at the Asian Brown Cloud. They've got to be the single biggest threat to the planet. (Byron York pinned the Dems down on this in a Democrat primary debate, to the audience's derisive hoots, as if he hadn't nailed the issue precisely.)

Also, why aren't we dumping truckloads of money on survival education? Why doesn't our elementary educaitonal system have mandatory classes in swimming, basic agriculture, HUNTING, fire-building, shelter-building, map-making, wound treatment, stuff like that instead of "why all the white boys are bad"?

Sorry I keep posting this. No GOPer or for that matter no hard-headed conservative ever seems to throw this back in the lefties' faces; they just feebly argue statistics.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2026 11:56 AM (XJ22o)

83 I don’t know how we can be so worried about climate change when people lack even the most rudimentary access to basic healthcare and the price of groceries is so high and they can’t afford to put gas in their tanks and ice is going to take their parents away because they are brown and the planet is getting warmer and landlords can literally make them homeless for no reason.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 11, 2026 11:45 AM (PB58D)

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We just returned from two weeks traveling all throughout Israel and The West Bank -- and you wouldn't believe how well "The Palestinian Genocide" is going!

Bodies stacked up like cordwood everywhere!

While we were in the West Bank (sadly the location of Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Jericho), our tour group was actually protected by "Palestinian Tourist Police" because they depend so much on tourist money -- they don't want any bad publicity of tourists being assaulted or robbed.

/Amidst all the dead "Palestinians" rotting on the streets ...

Posted by: ShainS at November 11, 2026 11:56 AM (MpNcg)

84
While we were in the West Bank (sadly the location of Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Jericho), our tour group was actually protected by "Palestinian Tourist Police" because they depend so much on tourist money -- they don't want any bad publicity of tourists being assaulted or robbed.

The PA has turned into a pretty standard third world kleptocracy - which is much much better then what Hamas did

Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2026 11:57 AM (sKqQm)

85 Really? They told you this was what they were gonna do. Why didn’t you believe them?
Posted by: Vengeance at November 11, 2026 11:48 AM (TylIK)

Because democrat voters are stupid, stupid people who think they are the smartest, smartiest, smartysmart people ever while being selfish adult children.

Just take a close look at one.

Posted by: Bizarro World at November 11, 2026 11:59 AM (Ssbab)

86 Asian Brown Cloud sounds like some disease.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2026 11:59 AM (Cqx++)

87 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 11, 2026 11:54 AM

The hidden camera and smartphone tracking layer inside the shelf.

The digital price tag is only half of the hardware. The real power sits inside the black plastic rail holding the screen and its direct connection to the store app in your pocket.

Kroger's EDGE shelving system integrates with overhead sensors and small optical cameras designed to measure how many seconds a shopper stands in front of a product, along with basic demographic cues. At the same time, Walmart's VusionGroup rails use ultra-precise Bluetooth Low Energy beacons that ping your smartphone the second you walk into the store with the Walmart app installed.

Because your store app knows your past purchase history, your home address, and whether you buy name-brand organic food or store-brand basics, the system knows exactly who is standing in Aisle 4. Federal Trade Commission investigators and US Senate committees have already raised alarms that combining digital shelves with app tracking allows stores to test your personal pain threshold and flash personalized "deals" that are actually higher than what the person next to you is paying.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 11, 2026 12:01 PM (P5BPp)

88 > Every price change happens wirelessly in seconds from a central corporate dashboard. No store employee has to touch a single shelf.
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Walmart's been doing this for about 2, maybe 3 years. Sam's Club too. It you have either app on your phone, and have created a shopping list (or are just browsing) the price will reflect what the algorithm says you'd be willing to pay. Based on your buying history.

I've seen the price on certain items change in real time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 11, 2026 12:01 PM (RORbl)

89 Mark Steyn:

In response to Saturday's column, several Texan readers pointed out that what happened in the midterms owed as much to shifting demographics as to any "affordability" concerns. Over nineteen million persons were registered to vote in the state on Tuesday, which is a near eight per cent increase on the 2022 midterms - or close to a million-and-a-half new "Texans".

How many of them voted for the Democrats? Answer: all of them. Compared to 2022, Governor Abbott got the same number of ballots - approximately four-and-a-half million ...but the Democrat nominee improved the party's vote haul by 1.7 million, and thereby won. You do the math.

In the first eighteen months of the Trump Administration, just shy of one million "migrants" were deported or "self-deported". But how many invaders had Joe Biden let in? Estimates vary from close to seven million (per the Heritage Foundation) to twenty million (per Trump's new chief of staff). So, for every migrant deported, between two and seven get to stay.

And the President now says that's "too tough". Good luck re-taking Texas in 2028.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 11, 2026 12:02 PM (P5BPp)

90 "Climate wasn't a voting issue" is right, and right that it will be a legislative one. The disagreement is why it wasn't a voting issue. Voters did not stop caring about the weather; this was an election about what things cost, and any policy that arrives as a line on a receipt loses that election no matter who proposes it.
That test is not partisan. The UN aviation scheme is a small cost handed to passengers. A tariff is a much bigger one handed to the same households, and the administration has just said it is keeping the tariffs for the rest of the term. If cost is the yardstick voters actually used this year, then attacking a carbon fee while defending a consumption tax is choosing which costs count.
And the scale is the uncomfortable part: CORSIA is a rounding error next to the tariff schedule. Disclosure: I work on TheBareNews, an AI-native publication; the Left and Right columns are AI-written and there is no original reporting. The tariff side, in figures: https://tinyurl.com/2aqzbc59

Posted by: Nolan Prescott at November 11, 2026 12:03 PM (FLVuG)

91 No clicking those links.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 11, 2026 12:05 PM (X8vlu)

92 "Asian Brown Cloud sounds like some disease.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr."

If you ask a philosopher he'll see that you pays.

Posted by: Greggery Peccary at November 11, 2026 12:06 PM (6SIvd)

93 'And the President now says that's "too tough".'

He must not walk away from his best platform plank, just because two lefty martyrs killed themselves. If that's all it takes to get a Prez to reverse course, no governance is possible.

Lefties nurture true believer martyrs, and gleefully wave their bloody shirts. See Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle."

Posted by: gp at November 11, 2026 12:06 PM (Jr5Lq)

94 Walmart's been doing this for about 2, maybe 3 years. Sam's Club too. It you have either app on your phone, and have created a shopping list (or are just browsing) the price will reflect what the algorithm says you'd be willing to pay. Based on your buying history.

I've seen the price on certain items change in real time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 11, 2026 12:01 PM

I am going to have to test this out on Kroger's website here in Michigan. I have been using Kroger Clicklist pickup since before Covid. So for about 7-8 years now. Have not shopped inside the store at all during that time. I usually create my order around 9-10pm the night before I want to pick up my order the next morning.

I'll have to compare adding a product at my typical time 9-10pm at night and then adding a product the next morning at 7-8am or so. And add in a comparison to adding a product at 5-6pm during peak times.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 11, 2026 12:07 PM (P5BPp)

95 The scheme imposed by the ICAO - called the "Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation" (CORSIA) - becomes mandatory next year and is expected to cost the commercial aviation industry at least 5% of its total annual profits.
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First I have heard of this theft scheme, and I follow the news!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 11, 2026 12:08 PM (9bQjB)

96 82....If it's an existential threat, why aren't we bombing China? Look at their coal consumption, look at the Asian Brown Cloud. They've got to be the single biggest threat to the planet....

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Agree. China accounts for about a third of the world CO2 emissions, yet they get a pass. Western government and people are easier targets/easy money. The Asian Cloud - I was in Jinan, and it is crazy thick. I put a mask on - pre-Covid, for you comedians.

Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2026 12:09 PM (2bFN5)

97 Every price change happens wirelessly in seconds from a central corporate dashboard. No store employee has to touch a single shelf.

The fact people get hung up on this stuff amazes me. You pay more then half your income in taxes. Well Trump brought inflation down to 3% it was well over 10% every year under Biden.

Yes Walmart surge pricing stuff means you'll pay more if you go at a busy time for that product. Why does that $.10 matter compared to say...your tax bill?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2026 12:09 PM (sKqQm)

98 When is enough enough?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 11, 2026 12:09 PM (X8vlu)

99
The Bloomington (Indiana) City Council voted unanimously to pass an ordinance that "prohibits the distribution and deployment" of ASI. The ordinance, which was backed by the Safe AI Forever Institute, defines ASI as a "system or entity capable of significantly outperforming humans on essentially all cognitive tasks" that can operate without "continuous human oversight." Covered models are prohibited from being activated by any user interface within the borders of Bloomington, regardless of where the underlying developer is located. Students at nearby Indiana University won't be booted off of ChatGPT just yet, as the city is yet to designate any models "superintelligent."

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2026 12:09 PM (Cqx++)

100 Nood ace.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 11, 2026 12:10 PM (NcvvS)

101 Asian Brown Cloud sounds like some disease.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Sounds like an accident after an all you can eat Chinese buffet.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2026 12:10 PM (ST3HN)

102 While we were in the West Bank (sadly the location of Nazareth, Bethlehem, and Jericho)...

Posted by: ShainS at November 11, 2026 11:56 AM (MpNcg)
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Nazareth is in the Galilee, sovereign Israeli territory, not in ~~the West Bank~~ Judea and Samaria.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 11, 2026 12:11 PM (fDryU)

103
I think it is high time that it becomes de rigueur for persons hauled before Congress to address the person questioning them as "Smarmy Little Shit". To wit:

"Is there a question coming my way, Smarmy Little Shit?"

"Did you compose that long and pointless preface yourself, Smarmy Little Shit, or was that a staffer's work product?"

"Is it painful to be as cognitively challenged as you are, Smarmy Little Shit?"

"You could only wish that I held you in as high in esteem as 'contempt', you loathsome Smarmy Little Shit."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Vote! Vote! Vote! at November 11, 2026 12:11 PM (ixS3i)

104 If international regulatory bodies exist at all they need to have no authority to pass rules absent the approval of the U.S. Europe can make all the rules they want to steal from their citizenry but no way should Euro-trash have the power to tax us, unless we are in their country and everyone else is paying the same tax.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 11, 2026 12:12 PM (9bQjB)

105 nood

Posted by: gp at November 11, 2026 12:12 PM (Jr5Lq)

106 The PA has turned into a pretty standard third world kleptocracy - which is much much better then what Hamas did

Yeah, the PA is basically the best case "two state solution". Gaza has chosen much more poorly.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 11, 2026 12:13 PM (2ocoG)

107 Agree. China accounts for about a third of the world CO2 emissions, yet they get a pass.

Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2026 12:09 PM

Then there is India, a country full of people shitting in public all over the country as well as using their waterways as garbage dumps. Not to mention their ridiculous "holidays" where they dump massive statues in waterways.

Yet we're importing their culture here and doing nothing to stop them from doing all that here.

Insane.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at November 11, 2026 12:14 PM (P5BPp)

108 That is correct climate change was not as important as "affordability" and that is what killed the GOP in those ruby red states that should have been a lock . Now even the TX supreme court is only 1 retirement away after the Dems won 4! More seats in that court.

And the death if the electoral college is on the horizon if only 4 or 5 more states sign on all of which have Dem legislatures and governorships

Libs be living out all over

Posted by: Paul at November 11, 2026 12:20 PM (NH2VP)

109 The "front wheel drive" scam

Posted by: Sparticus in Training at November 11, 2026 12:24 PM (Ouooh)

110 Every price change happens wirelessly in seconds from a central corporate dashboard. No store employee has to touch a single shelf.

Yet another strike against building out more data centers?

Posted by: Community Notes at November 11, 2026 12:24 PM (PVBkQ)

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