I have no comment; I’ll let the headline do the talking:
– – – – – – –
On a note that is entirely irrelevant and in no way any sort of commentary on AOC, here is a link to a Wikipedia article that may prove generally interesting:
First headline, a sad story of an accident:
People just fall onto trains tracks, it seems.
But then:
Huh.
To be fair, both *articles* tell much the same story, and both include remarkably clear security camera images showing the numerous individuals wanted by the police in relation to the attempted murder (now felony murder, it would seem). But it’s strange the way the first headline obscures the real story.
After the overly-dramatic crocodile tears about the January 6 “insurrection,” the one where somehow a bunch of wholly uncoordinated chuckleheads were somehow going to violently overthrow the government of the United States armed with placards using a strategy of milling about, a news story emerges of an apparent attempt at *actual* terrorism:
Fella had what appears to be somewhat lazy homemade grenades and pipe bombs. He was either targeting or attending an “Oath Keeper” rally, the article is unclear on the point. However, there’s this:
Sheriff’s deputies found a piece of paper titled “direct action checklist,” where Smith made a list of clothing, armor and gear to bring, including listed items such as a helmet and shaded goggles, a gas mask, duct tape and flammable rags.
In his backpack, they also found a helmet with a logo on it that had been seen at other protests in cities such as Portland, where Smith had spent time, Gualtieri said.
In affidavits, the arresting detective, under the “aggravating/mitigating” section of the report, notes “Antifa” and requests a high bail. In one of the reports, the detective wrote “Antifa/Anti gov/Extrem.” However, Gualtieri said it was too early to say with which group Smith may be affiliated.
Uh-huh.
Is it any wonder that much of the fandom is PO’ed about the direction Star Wars has gone under Disney?
The High Republic Adventures: Galactic Bake-Off Spectacular
Torban “Buckets of Blood” Buck and Kantam Sy face off in a brutal, intense, ruthless… bake-off!
Lightsabers and Jedi robes are put aside in favor of whisks and aprons as the two competitors bake Master Yoda’s special pastry recipe. But the recipe requires one extra special ingredient: a story! “Buckets of Blood” and Kantam recount the tale of an epic battle as they whisk away, both hoping to win the prize of Padawan approval.
Daniel José Older and Vita Ayala team up in this heart-warming one-shot. Plus, bake Master Yoda’s pastries yourself, with the recipe included in the back!
For ᚠᚪᛣᚳᛋ sake. Who is this *for*?????
Gotta give props to a supervillain who is good at what he does. Witness what’s going on in formerly great Britain:
When the pinnacle of demasculated privilege encounters the real world… hilarity results.
These two guys went to Mexico and went off the beaten track without any functional understanding of the local culture and criminal situation, and met people they were convinced were the cartel… but who may have been the local self-defense civilians defending *against* the cartel. Their panic is freakin’ *hilarious,* and fundamentally counter-productive for them had they met the *actual* cartel. I can imagine the meltdown these men would have had had they made the mistake of wandering into downtown Tremonton, Utah, on a day when some ranchers decide to go to the diner with their guns on their hips.
This avoidance of accepting the realities of the world *and* choosing to be passive victims? Yeah, that’s not a good long term survival strategy, although it may have served them well this time… if the people they met were indeed cartel members, they found the Americans to be laughably pathetic and let them go out of pity. Great Odin, man… how are you going to defend your women when the time comes? Yeesh.
Best advice: ᛗᚪᚾ ᛏᚻᛖ ᚠᚢᚳk ᚢᛈ
Or… dunno. Stay hilariously useless. I’m sure there are some in the warlords council who would have use for you…
I had thought of linking to a page I found with a bunch of unedited cartel videos. The State Department would do well to mandate that any American intending to visit Mexico or points south, or regions in the United States with uncontrolled borders, watch a few hours of those videos before being sent on their way. But I decided against directly linking because, holy carp, those vids will mess with your calm. But they will also show you the reality of a “defund the cops” world.
I can quit for the day, go back to bed, try again tomorrow. Nothing will surpass this.
There’s some family-unfriendliness/NSFW language and notions here, but if you’re interested in the very latest in academic gibberish about Alphabet People, this Reddit post will hook you right up.
One of the more tiresome conspiracy theories of recent years says something along the lines of “the political leadership class are a bunch of vampiric pedos, running vast trafficking rings and performing Satanic rituals.” There is no need to bump up the perceived evils of socialists, authoritarians, grifters, pervs, collectivists, commies and the other degenerate genetic defectives who populate the halls of power… the banal realities are awful enough to negate any excuse to keep the majority of them in power.
So a day or two ago a video started making the rounds seeming to show Gropey Joe getting kinda handsy with a little boy who secretly slips him a vial full of what looks like blood. Turns out the video is doctored; the original video is from July 2021 and shows Biden giving the kid something, probably a face mask (*why* he does that is unclear since the kid is already wearing a mask). Sure, a kid handing blood to a man who looks about 15 minutes in a Hollywood studio makeup chair from a starring role on “What We Do In The Shadows” is creepy… but as propaganda, it’s not necessary. The original video is creepy enough. Any other context an old man pressing this much child flesh would result in a media freakout, and perhaps deservedly so. Witness the compare/contrast between the doctored video and the original, with minimal but appropriate commentary:
US Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut did not just attend a Communist award ceremony, he gave a speech there and handed out an award.
Blumenthal, one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, presented certificates of special recognition from the Senate to three winners of the “Amistad Award,” given annually by the Connecticut People’s World Committee, an affiliate of the Communist Party USA and the Marxist People’s World news site.
Once the news started coming out that Blumenthal was giving aid, comfort and awards to Communists, he tried the old “I’m shocked, SHOCKED to find Communism going on in here” bit.
Go ahead and speculate about just how likely it is that he ended up at a Communist party affair without knowing it was a Communist party affair. He’s a freakin’ US Senator. Either he’s lying (and thus knew that he was aiding the Communists) and should be ejected from the Senate, or he’s a monumental dumbass and somehow he and his *entire* staff including security detail missed that little detail, and should be ejected from the Senate.
Imagine the response if a Republican Senator gave out at award at a US Nazi party ceremony.
And as it traditional for Communist sympathizers, Blumenthal is strikingly rich. This is from 2012, so imagine what he’s worth today after nearly a decades worth of additional grasping and graft:
Blumenthal’s 2011 financial disclosure forms filed this week show the senator with an average net worth of $112 million, up from the previous year, when the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics estimated his average net worth at $73 million.
Perhaps Richard Blumenthal should be examined by the FBI for links (financial and otherwise) to Communist China. Maybe he and Eric Swalwell could share a deportation flight to Beijing. Maybe the US could trade them for Peng Shuai or Jack Ma, either of whom would bring far more benefit to America than Communist sympathizers and other traitors.