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Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social platform, as he often does. The Friday afternoon post stated, "Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect. The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States." It is unclear how significantly this could impact governmental programs and policies, but certainly it will shake up the federal government.
Next, Trump went so far as to say that Joe Biden was so totally incompetent mentally and physically that he had nothing whatsoever to do with the autopen scandal and would be lying if he said he did.
The president insisted, "The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him. I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
I suspect they will claim that any document with the claimed signature of the president is presumptively real and therefore lawful, and that any undoing of that presumption must be on a case-by-case basis and by clear and convincing proof.
I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. Before I haul out the holly and start setting up for Christmas today, I’ll take advantage of the opportunity to clear the spindle of a few items that didn’t warrant an entire post unto themselves.
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Principled Free Traders Hit Hardest
There is emerging bad news for all the America-last “free traders” who celebrated the loss of American jobs during the era of unilateral surrender to foreign mercantilism. Specifically, President Trump’s effort to re-shore American manufacturing is reducing the trade deficit and creating new manufacturing jobs here at home.
This is just one of many stories about manufacturing jobs being reshored to the US:
This article documents how GE is moving production of washers and dryers from China to Kentucky, creating 800 jobs in Louisville alone, while directly investing $490 million into the US economy with the plant’s construction and tooling. In addition, GE has announced contracts worth more than $150 million to US businesses who will be suppliers to the Kentucky operations.
Donald Trump’s policy of repatriating jobs is having its desired impact. Wealth retained in this country, which then circulates through the American economy, propels Gross Domestic Product (GDP) upward. It’s already starting to happen.
The U.S. trade deficit narrowed more than expected in August as businesses imported fewer goods against the backdrop of higher tariffs, a trend that if sustained could be a potential tailwind for economic growth in the third quarter.
The monthly trade deficit decreased by an impressive 24% in August, injecting about $20 billion into the US economy that otherwise would have been sent overseas.
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What if ICE had Door Dash do Its Work for Them?
Last Friday I wrote about the black market of illegal, foreign labor that constitutes much of the actual workforce delivering meals for companies such as Door Dash and Uber Eats.
A few days later, Turning Point’s Savannah Hernandez offered up a humorous idea to make ICE’s job easier. Rather than chasing down people who are in the country illegally, ICE can just order Door Dash or Uber Eats and have them show up at ICE’s front door.
All ICE has to do to get illegals out of NYC is order Uber eats and DoorDash all day.
Guaranteed 100% success rate that their delivery person will be an illegal using someone’s stolen social security number.
Basically ordering illegals straight to their door. The perfect plan.
Because I have always understood what a fraud the entire green energy scam is, I have never been at risk of getting suckered into any “renewable energy” investments. I also know that the “winners” in this sector have been those scamming the government for grant money, and those scamming credulous investors out of their savings. Celebrities have been especially good marks for those promoting the climate scam, because celebrities are not only wealthy, but they are often naïve and gullible.
Aspiration Partners, a Marina del Rey green investing firm, collapsed after executives pleaded guilty to using falsified documents to defraud celebrity investors. The company attracted backers including Leonardo DiCaprio, Drake and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer before filing for bankruptcy in March.
Amidst its pure financial fraud, Aspiration was also peddling carbon credits, which people are finally starting to realize is a form of fraud too. While my moral compass would never allow me to participate in a scam against celebrities, I do feel a little schadenfreude when I read that these green crusaders got swindled by con men pushing the climate hoax.
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Is Chicago in a Doom Loop or a Death Spiral?
Goldman Sachs was left holding the bag after a sale of Chicago municipal bonds was largely rejected by investors.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. took down a portion of a $454 million debt deal from Chicago on Wednesday even after boosting yields on the sales-tax bonds that hold higher ratings than the city. The bank was left with roughly $75 million of unsold bonds issued through the city’s Sales Tax Securitization Corp., according to a Chicago spokesperson.
Goldman priced the bonds too cheaply for the risk inherent in issuing bonds on behalf of a failing city, and even when the yield was increased in an attempt to draw in more buyers, Goldman still couldn’t sell all the bonds. As a result, Goldman is stuck with about $75 million dollars in bonds to be repaid by the city of Chicago…if they’re ever actually repaid. Investors seem pretty skeptical, otherwise Goldman wouldn’t have had to eat those unmarketable bonds.
Chicago’s financial default seems inevitable, as it keeps raising taxes while running off its productive, tax-paying citizens. Investors know what time it is. Goldman just figured it out.
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The Market is getting ahead of the credit rating agencies.
Even though the City of Chicago is not at junk bond status (yet), the market is… https://t.co/zyzNJ9yoM3
Who Would Insure a Container Ship Carrying Lithium Batteries?
A container ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles spontaneously erupted in a massive fire that was so toxic and intense that nearby communities were ordered to shelter in place.
A fire broke out aboard the 8,212 teu ONE Henry Hudson while docked at Yusen Container Terminal in the Port of Los Angeles late Friday evening. The incident prompted a major emergency response involving nearly 200 firefighting personnel and sparked a shelter-in-place order for nearby communities.
Predictably, it turns out that the ship’s cargo included containers carrying lithium batteries.
The contents were described as general cargo, but [Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr Mark] Leahey did confirm that shipments of lithium batteries were included.
The ship has been hauled out to sea where it remains under close watch “to ensure there are no re-flashes.”
For now, this incident is being referred to as an “electrical fire.” I’ve done a little digging, and as best I can tell, this “electrical fire” is only the second incident ever at the Port of LA that required neighboring residents to shelter in place. The previous occurrence was in 2018, due to a chemical spill.
Fortunately, the crew was safely evacuated because the ship was in port, but these ship-borne fires involving EVs and lithium batteries are becoming dangerously common.
[h/t to Mr. CBD for sending me this story.]
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Don’t Mess with the Gulf of America
The 2025 hurricane season ends this weekend, and for the first time since 2015, there was not a single hurricane making landfall on the United States coast. Not only were there no hurricane strikes, but there were zero hurricanes at all in the Gulf of MexicoAmerica this season.
The Gulf of Mexico had a long history of catastrophic, category 5 hurricanes, but so far there has never been a hurricane in the Gulf of America. It should have been renamed a long time ago, since hurricanes are clearly afraid of entering the Gulf of America.
Ponder this, there has NEVER been a hurricane in the Gulf of America. Had we known hurricanes wouldn’t mess with our Gulf, we might’ve changed the name sooner.
My pal Scott McKay at The American Spectator has a new book out, titled “Blockbusters.” It’s the third in his Mike Holman series, in which the protagonist is involved in a conservative takeover of the entertainment industry. It’s a good read, and timely too, considering all the media upheavals going on, including the imminent sale of debt-laden Warner, as well as conservative-ish media conglomerate Sinclair making a bid for Scripps.
Throckmorton’s First Law of Live Music: “If there’s an upright bass in the band, it’s probably going to be good.”
At the Throckmorton household, we have a strictly-enforced house rule of “no Christmas before Thanksgiving.” Since the fridge is full of Thanksgiving leftovers, I suppose it’s safe to start gearing up for Christmas now.
Here’s Dailey and Vincent with the Bill Monroe classic, “Christmas Time’s a-Coming”
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that . . . “I must unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I went on, right now I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the guardsmen that we’re talking about, highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of 2023, outstanding in every way, she’s just passed away. She’s no longer with us,” he said:
It is now all too painfully obvious, at least to me, that Army Specialist Beckstrom died in the line of duty, in defense of our nation. Or at least what vestiges of it remain after decades of destruction, division and dissolution that have, as Abraham Lincoln once described it, rotted away at its vitals. To say that we are in a state of civil war in my view is incorrect, but we are for sure in a state of siege by an axis of evil representing ideologies and people that are simultaneously foreign and domestic, and who share a rabid fever dream of obtaining absolute power with zero compunction and now a desire to employ the most violent means at their disposal.
President Trump says he’ll ‘permanently pause migration’ from all ‘Third World Countries’
. . . He will additionally “denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization,” he wrote in the long post.. . “Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation. Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for — You won’t be here for long!” the post said. Trump’s comments came following a deadly ambush on two National Guard members near the White House on Wednesday, which investigators say was carried out by Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal. Lakanwal, 29, entered the US in 2021 from Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Biden administration’s withdrawal as part of the “Operation Allies Welcome” program.
Well, Amen to all of that. What the President did not say, and for obvious reasons cannot say is that one of the two major things that are non-compatible with Western Civilization is ISLAM. It is and has been for 1,500 years a tyrannical totalitarian death cult Hell bent of the conquest and subjugation of the entire human race by every means necessary. Islam is like a virus. First mass migration to non-muslim countries, especially those in the west where freedoms and civil rights and a notion of multicultural puarlaism allows them to over time corrupt and co-opt those societies without fear of backlash. All one has to do is look at England and France for starters and what each hs done to itself since the end ofWorld War 2 and the dissolution of their respective colonial empires that together encompassed a huge segment of Islamic majority nations. And Islam is now on the verge of completely subsuming their host countries into the Muslim "Ummah" or community.
On a positive note, it is certainly a good thing that the President along with Governor Abbott of Texas have moved to make the Muslim Brotherhood a designated terrorist organization. But again, the MB as well as Al Qaeda, ISIS and all the rest as horrid and dangerous as they are, are not the threat. They are merely the symptoms of the real threat and disease which is Islam itself. Those organizations and all the rest exist to spread Islam by force of arms and terrorism.
Look, this is something that happens whenever you have the left-wing politicians making comments like they are making. I mean, when you have someone like Elissa Slotkin, who is encouraging the military to disobey the commander-in-chief, when you have someone like Jon Ossoff, who is saying that having the troops in Washington, D.C., is an embarrassment, when you have someone like Abigail Spanberger, who is saying let your rage fuel you. These are the type of things that lead to this kind of action.” He added, “You know many of are blessed with children and grandchildren and we teach then that words matter and our left-wing politicians need to understand that. This is a result of all of that, as well as them wanting to defund the police, wanting to attack our law enforcement. All of that needs to stop, and it needs to stop now.”
Good on Rep Buddy Carter for telling it like it is. The Democrat/Left have been the enemy inside the gate for over 200 years.
And they too have embraced a foreign anti Western ideology that was imported into this nation almost a center ago, namely socialism. Its adherents and high priests who preach it have done so from the pulpit of the American classroom and lecture hall. Unless and until that is stopped, we are doomed.
Surprise surprise: The younger generations have now glommed onto Socialism, of all things, as something that will be their savior. Will Donald Trump's ascendancy lead us to a rekindling of America as founded, or merely a speed bump on the road to Hell, because if the trends are correct will the rise of Mamdani and his ilk be a one-off or as I fear our future.
Having sown mutiny in the ranks, it is ominous that we hear talk like this, since electoral politics being what it is and the Democrat proclivity to steal them on top of the vicissitudes of the electorate to change for the hell of it, this is kind of ominous when, and not if, there is a Democrat or Democrat Socialist SOCIALITE who takes the White House
The Purpose of the ‘Illegal Orders’ for Military Narrative is Beginning to Take Shape —
“The View” co-host Joy Behar invoked the Nazi Nuremberg trials on Tuesday in her warning to service members who may be following “illegal orders” from the Trump administration.
While discussing the Pentagon’s investigation into the members of Congress featured in the video, Behar recommended the audience watch a recently released film called “Nuremberg,” a movie based on the Allied trials of Nazi leaders after World War II. . .
. . . JEn Piss-Hockey Psaki and MSNOW amplify the ‘Dems will prosecute anyone taking part in the Mark Kelly investigation’ intimidation campaign:
Psaki: “What do you think the consequences should be for people who are abiding by following these steps from the Commander In Chief?”
Kirschner: “They’re following unlawful commands from Donald Trump. And if you’re committing offenses and your defense is going to be ‘I was just following orders’ — You know, that didn’t work out so well at Nuremberg.”
When they gain power again, The Left is going to come after all of us with a vengeance. Mark my words.
I'll leave it at that. Have a great weekend.
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“I must unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I went on, right now I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of West Virginia, one of the guardsmen that we’re talking about, highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of 2023, outstanding in every way, she’s just passed away. She’s no longer with us,” he said: President Trump: National Guardsman Sarah Beckstrom Dies Following D.C. Attack
Look, this is something that happens whenever you have the left-wing politicians making comments like they are making. I mean, when you have someone like Elissa Slotkin, who is encouraging the military to disobey the commander-in-chief, when you have someone like Jon Ossoff, who is saying that having the troops in Washington, D.C., is an embarrassment, when you have someone like Abigail Spanberger, who is saying let your rage fuel you. These are the type of things that lead to this kind of action.” He added, “You know many of are blessed with children and grandchildren and we teach then that words matter and our left-wing politicians need to understand that. This is a result of all of that, as well as them wanting to defund the police, wanting to attack our law enforcement. All of that needs to stop, and it needs to stop now.” GOP Rep. Carter: Comments from ‘Left-Wing Politicians’ Led to DC Shooting
In a feature titled “The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists,” author Amanda Montell contends the settlers who arrived in Plymouth were “not escaping religious persecution” at all but instead “left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas,” insisting they “were no doubt eager to continue building their patriarchal theocracy in the hope that Jesus would soon return.” Far‑Left Nation Mag Trashes Thanksgiving: Says Pilgrims Were ‘Doomsday Cultists’ — ‘Time to Reckon America’s Radical Origins’
The Cook County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved $7.5 million to make the program permanent last week, Fox News reported. Cook County is the second-largest county in the U.S. and includes the city of Chicago. (Brandon Johnson's gonna need a lot of bitches on the street and a lot of dealers in Cabrini Green to make that hustle work! Meh, Big Daddy Pritzker will just shake down whitey everywhere else!- jjs) Cook County in Illinois Makes Guaranteed Basic Income Program Permanent
California is known for pushing hundreds of bills through its Legislature each year, but many residents don’t realize what Democrat leaders have approved until the laws take effect. Top Five Craziest Laws Hitting California In 2026
In its one-page order in Blanche v. Perlmutter, the high court deferred consideration of a request from the Trump administration to temporarily stay (“pause”) a September injunction issued by a three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. That directive sought to block the administration from firing Shira Perlmutter, who led the U.S. Copyright Office in the Library of Congress until her termination in May. SCOTUS Punts On Trump’s Firing Of Library Of Congress Official (For Now)
Viewers must have watched in a transfixed revulsion. Here were what appeared to be two melting candlesticks and a stud version of Chainsaw Massacre’s Leatherface openly daydreaming about a racially kinky sexual political conspiracy for their own enjoyment. Fascinating. Joy Reid Partakes In Democrat Tradition Of Openly Sharing Sick Fantasies
CNN’s possible sale to Paramount could mark the first real chance in years to replace activism with accountability and steer the network back toward honest journalism. Is CNN About to Turn Red?
There was a time when a student opinion page stood as ground zero for honest disagreements. Young adults tested ideas, challenged assumptions, and sharpened arguments under bright lights. When Campus Editors Fear the Truth More Than Debate
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
. . .Klobuchar triumphantly claimed that power bills have surged by 11% under Trump, blaming him for higher utility costs and a spike in past-due balances. It was supposed to be another zinger against Trump. But once again, reality intervened. Klobuchar Humiliated Herself and Accidentally Destroyed Biden
POLITICS
With Carlson now openly antisemitic and hostile to Christians and Republicans who support Israel, why is Turning Point USA still partnering with him? Turning Point USA Has A Tucker Carlson Problem
The October 2022 attack on the bridge came when a truck bomb blew up two of its sections and required months of repairs. The blast killed the truck driver and four other people in a car nearby. Moscow decried the attack as an act of terrorism and retaliated by bombarding Ukraine´s civilian infrastructure, targeting the country´s power grid over the winter. Russia Jails Ukrainian Partisans on Terrorism Charges Over Crimea Bridge Bombing
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Both nations have robust Muslim populations today but played critical roles in the early development of the Church. Over 30 percent of Lebanon remains Christian, the majority of that population Catholic, and its constitution requires the president of the country to be a Maronite Christian. Turkey – after the collapse of the Byzantine Empire, the imposition of secularism under founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and the return of Islamism under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – is a less welcoming country to Christians, though Erdogan is expected to meet with the pope personally. Pope Leo XIV Sets Off to Turkey and Lebanon on First International Tour as Pontiff
Politics will not succeed in rehabilitating the narrative of man-made, CO2-based climate change to suppress, once again, both the dialogue with the AfD and the critical debate on the Green Deal. Is the German AfD Firewall Finally Cracking?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
The HHS’s final review left critics empty-handed, underscoring that current medical evidence overwhelmingly backs protecting children from risky, irreversible sex-change treatments. A Day That Will Live in Infamy for Child Gender Ideology
John Stossel: A reflection on the only reason we get to celebrate Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving Socialism
Nearly five years since America lost the great conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh, he delivered his final annual rendition of the true story of Thanksgiving in November 2020, just months before his untimely passing. Many are keeping the tradition alive and ensuring the upcoming generations know what led to the first Thanksgiving and what it is truly a celebration of. Five Years Later: Rush Limbaugh’s Final Rendition of the True Story of Thanksgiving
“His recovery in the last month has been absolutely crazy. It’s amazing,” said Apuzzo’s father. “It is Thanksgiving, so I can say… thank you to this community for all the support that we have received.” Apuzzo has another six months of therapy to fully recovery, but doctors say he has a strong chance to fully heal. 15-Year-Old Athlete Walks Out of California Hospital After Paralyzing Spinal Injury
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This won't make the datacenter any more reliable, it will just make it easier for customers to switch over to somewhere else the next time it goes down.
It won't work. There are too many VPNs, they're too easy to create, and too easy to use. The Great Firewall of China leaks like a sieve, so the UK doesn't stand a chance.
Musical Interlude
Song is Golden from the movie KPop Demon Hunters, which is about a KPop (Korean pop music) group that, uh, hunts demons.
The movie is supposed to be pretty good, though when Hololive EN did a watchalong stream, Kronii rolled her eyes so hard that her motion-tracking sensor picked it up.
Perhaps no other meal has ever said “It’s Thanksgiving and I’ve burned all the bridges with my family” quite like this extravagant feast. pic.twitter.com/t3drHmmARj
CAUTION! SEXUAL CONTENT WARNING! A male hedgehog tries to stick it to a female hedgehog, and that's not easy, on account of all the sticky bits. She's not making it easy for him. Her quills are all up. I know how that story goes.
Via amuse's substack, Rush Limbaugh had written about the first Thanksgiving in one of his books and sometimes read the passage aloud before the holiday.
This, dear reader, is the real story of Thanksgiving. It wasn't just a meal shared with Native Americans--though they did indeed feast together, celebrating the bounty of their harvest. No, the true reason for giving thanks was far greater: the Pilgrims gave thanks to God for guiding them to the principles that allowed them to survive and then thrive--the principles of hard work, private property, and individual liberty. It wasn't socialism that saved them; it was capitalism. It was the power of personal responsibility and the freedom to reap the fruits of one's own labor that turned near-starvation into abundance.
Below, two clips of Limbaugh talking about this. The first clip is shorter -- about eight minutes -- and the second clip is longer -- about 33 minutes. Your choice!
The latter clip is the last time Rush addressed this before he died.
Trump Blasts Biden For Allowing In Unvetted Afghan Terrorists, Orders a Vetting of Biden's Afghans
—Ace
I don't like posting this sort of stuff on Thanksgiving, but I missed the story yesterday, as I was out for a big chunk of the late afternoon.
After this, I'll just post Thanksgiving-themed open threads.
I know JJ covered this. I'll just re-cover it.
The left had the predictable response to one of Biden's unvetted Afghan terrorists being let through the open border. You'll never see this coming -- it was Trump's fault, for posting National Guardsmen in DC.
Trump forced Biden's terrorist to shoot wo brand-new Guardsmen, you see. He provoked the terrorist by providing law and order.
[I]nstead of directing outrage toward the assailant, prominent progressive voices turned their fire on Trump -- claiming the Guardsmen were in harm's way only because the administration sent them into the city.
New Yorker writer Jane Mayer insisted the troops "never should have been deployed," claiming she had watched them "pick up trash" and suggesting their presence was merely "for political show." Progressive YouTuber Keith Edwards went further, accusing Trump of an "illegal deployment" and asserting that the Guardsmen "would be fine" were it not for the president's decision to reinforce the capital.
Others leaned into the same narrative. Liberal commentator Wajahat Ali declared the National Guard "should never have been deployed in Washington, DC," while additional activists claimed Trump would now "twist this tragedy" into justification for strengthening law-and-order measures nationwide.
The two West Virginia National Guard members critically wounded in Wednesday's ambush near the Farragut West Metro Station have now been identified as Andrew Wolfe and Sarah Beckstrom -- young soldiers who had taken their oaths less than a day before gunfire erupted on a downtown Washington sidewalk.
Wolfe, 22, was identified first after Musselman High School in Inwood released a statement confirming the alumnus was one of the soldiers struck. The school said the community was "deeply saddened" and urged residents to pray for him. Wolfe was rushed into surgery and remains in critical condition.
In an address to the nation Wednesday, President Trump blamed Joe Biden's Afghan parole program for the brutal ambush of two National Guard soldiers in downtown Washington, saying the shooting was a direct result of the previous administration's decision to fly tens of thousands of unvetted evacuees into the country.
Trump said DHS officials had already told him the suspect taken into custody was an Afghan national who arrived during Biden's chaotic 2021 withdrawal. "He was flown in by the Biden administration in September 2021 on those infamous flights everybody remembers," Trump said from Palm Beach. He called Afghanistan "a hellhole on Earth" and said Biden "extended this man's status under legislation he signed -- a disastrous president, the worst in the history of our country."
Trump said the attack "shows the single greatest national security threat facing our nation," arguing that Biden's policies brought in "20 million unknown and unvetted foreigners" without regard for the consequences. He pledged to re-examine every Afghan brought in under Biden and remove anyone who has no legal right to be in the country. "If they can't love our country, we don't want them," he said.
Law-enforcement sources said the suspect -- 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal -- arrived under Operation Allies Welcome, the Biden-era resettlement program that made roughly 90,000 Afghans eligible for special visas and placed many of them in cities nationwide. Lakanwal was sent to Bellingham, Washington, one of the designated hubs for Afghan refugees. About 800 were resettled statewide in 2022, according to the Immigrant & Refugee Health Alliance.
Sources say Lakanwal overstayed his visa and was in the country illegally when he allegedly staged Wednesday's attack.
Biden flooded America with unvetted Afghan evacuees.
"You've got blood on your hands": Mark Kelly ripped for reaction to D.C. Guard shooting
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Critics pointed out that Kelly's remarks came less than two weeks after he, Rep. Elissa Slotkin, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal rolled out a video and legislative package aimed at blocking Trump's authority to deploy the National Guard. The group's "No Troops in Our Streets Act," announced November 13, was framed as an effort to constrain the administration's ability to send Guard units into troubled areas--while the accompanying public messaging warned service members about following what Democrats described as "unlawful" orders.
He ginned up hatred against the National Guardsmen, just like they ginned up hatred against ICE and Border Patrol -- and then attacks went up on our border personnel by over 1000%.
They knew the same would happen with the Guard, and they either didn't care, or actively hoped their left-wing allies would "step up" their "resistance."
That tone has been simmering for days, and Wednesday's shooting poured gasoline on the fire. "Democrats and liberal pundits have been claiming Trump's deployment order is illegal since they were deployed," commentator Tim Pool posted. "Then y'all went out and said, 'You must defy illegal orders.' These Guardsmen were targeted." Kenny Cody, opinion editor at Human Events, was even more blunt: "You told people to disobey the President. You've got blood on your hands, Mark."
A young man named John received a parrot as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary.
Every word out of the bird’s mouth was rude, obnoxious, and laced with profanity.
John tried and tried to change the bird’s attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else he could think of to ‘clean up’ the bird’s vocabulary.
Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot. The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot and the parrot got angrier and even ruder. John, in desperation, threw up his hand, grabbed the bird and put him in the freezer. For a few minutes, the parrot squawked and kicked and screamed. Then suddenly there was total quiet. Not a peep was heard for over a minute.
Fearing that he’d hurt the parrot, John quickly opened the door to the freezer. The parrot calmly stepped out onto John’s outstretched arms and said “I believe I may have offended you with my rude language and actions. I’m sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions and I fully intend to do everything I can to correct my rude and unforgivable behavior.”
John was stunned at the change in the bird’s attitude.
As he was about to ask the parrot what had made such a dramatic change in his behavior, the bird spoke-up, very softly, “May I ask what the turkey did?”
One of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot in a violent ambush on Wednesday afternoon has been identified as Andrew Wolfe, according to his former high school. “Our Applemen community is deeply saddened to learn that Musselman High School alumnus, Andrew Wolfe, was one of the National Guardsmen injured in the shooting in Washington, D.C. today,” Musselman High School in West Virginia posted on Facebook. Wolfe is currently undergoing surgery and is in critical condition after Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, allegedly opened fire on him and a female National Guard member near the Farragut West Metro Station in Northwest DC in what’s being probed as a possible terrorist attack.
The evil bastard Democrats have more innocent blood on their hands. This is yet one more act of barbarism that they and they alone are responsible for. Until my last breath, all the pain, suffering dislocation and wastage of life, money and human potential that has laid us low for over 200 years is directly the fault of Democrat Leftist policy, corruption and criminality in their ongoing and never ending lust for absolute power.
In September 2021, then U.S. Senate candidate JD Vance warned that Joe Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal and reckless refugee resettlement would “create an opportunity for terrorists.” He blasted the administration for flooding America with “thousands of unvetted people,” a failure he said put Americans at risk. As the nation’s newly sworn vice president in January 2025, Vance doubled down on the warning, telling CBS, “We know that there are cases of people who allegedly were property vetted and then were literally planning terrorist attacks in our country.”
. . . The idea that these people are vetted is a lie, and we need to call out that lie. Now, if we do that of course, what they [leftists] say is “the reason you don’t want these Afghans in your community is because you are a racist.” Well, that’s not true. I don’t care about the color of their skin. Here’s what I care about — that according to Pew Research, 40 percent of people who live in Afghanistan believe that suicide bombings are an acceptable way to solve a problem. Are we allowed to say that I don’t want 100,000 people unvetted from a country where nearly half the people think suicide bombing is an OK way to solve a problem? Because I don’t want that. Shortly after being sworn in as vice president in January, Vance squared off against CBS Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan, who claimed, “These people are vetted!” Vice President Vance responded sharply, saying, “Just like the guy who planned a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago?”
Critics are lambasting MS NOW correspondent Ken Dilanian for seemingly suggesting the suspect who critically injured two National Guardsmen near the White House was reacting to “controversy” surrounding uniformed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in American cities.
Dilanian, a justice and intelligence correspondent for the network, pitched his two cents on the devastating shooting while on-air Wednesday afternoon.
“[O]f course, you know, there’s so much controversy happening in the United States right now with ICE, who are also wearing uniforms and wearing masks. And so there’s, you don’t know, people walking around with uniforms in an American city. There are some Americans that might object to that. And so apparently this shooting has happened,” he said during an MS NOW breaking news report.
The shooting, which law enforcement officials said was a targeted “ambush,” critically wounded two National Guardsmen, including one who was believed to be shot in the head.
Ken Dilletantian went on to blame the Jews for all the carbon emissions over the crematoria at Auschwitz during World War 2 for being a major cause of global warming.
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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
Victor Davis Hanson: A generation sidelined by debt, ideology, and stalled adulthood is drifting—but it won’t stay lost if society restores real opportunity, accountability, and purpose. Can the Lost Generation Be Found?
In September 2021, then U.S. Senate candidate JD Vance warned that Joe Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal and reckless refugee resettlement would “create an opportunity for terrorists.” He blasted the administration for flooding America with “thousands of unvetted people,” a failure he said put Americans at risk. As the nation’s newly sworn vice president in January 2025, Vance doubled down on the warning, telling CBS, “We know that there are cases of people who allegedly were property [sic] vetted and then were literally planning terrorist attacks in our country. JD Vance in 2021: Biden’s Afghan Refugee Chaos ‘Creates Opportunity for Terrorists’
The New York Times reported that the two National Guard members were shot “at the entrance to the Farragut West Metro Station.” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth described the shooting as “cowardly” and said, “[It will] only stiffen our resolve to ensure that we make Washington D.C. safe and beautiful.” WATCH: Three Shot, Including Two National Guardsmen, in Washington, DC
"Of course, you know, there's so much controversy happening in the United States right now with ICE, who are also wearing uniforms and wearing masks. And so there's, you don't know, people walking around with uniforms in an American city. There are some Americans that might object to that. And so apparently this shooting has happened." The Shootings of National Guard Soldiers Are Understandable If You're a Loony Left-Wing Reporter
Only in the world’s richest country could tens of millions of people persuade themselves that refusing to buy a cup of coffee for 24 hours constitutes a coherent form of economic protest. Economic blackouts and economic illiteracy
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Less than a year into President Donald Trump’s second term, one of his once-strongest allies is resigning from Congress, fueling rampant speculation about what precipitated their sudden and shocking political breakup. How Did Marjorie Taylor Greene End Up Here?
Since the regime change, Bangladesh has experienced a severe surge in Islamic radicalization as well as an increased involvement of Pakistani radical Islamic elements in the country. The further Islamization of Bangladesh and the empowerment of Islamic radicals will impact not only the national security of Bangladesh itself and of India, but the security of the international community on a global scale. Bangladesh: Interim Government and Pakistan Paving the Way for Islamic Radicalism (John Kerry to perform a George Harrison medley - jjs)
John Stossel: A reflection on the only reason we get to celebrate Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving Socialism
America wasn’t ‘founded by immigrants’ but by English settlers who carried their culture across the Atlantic and established a new nation. The Pilgrims Were English Ethno-Nationalists
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This comes out of one of the manifold lawsuits for wrongful death levied against OpenAI by the families of, well, crazy people.
And OpenAI actually seems to have a point:
OpenAI claims that over roughly nine months of usage, ChatGPT directed Raine to seek help more than 100 times.
Why didn't you tell him to seek help?
(Produces list of dates, times, and messages.)
We did.
But according to his parents' lawsuit, Raine was able to circumvent the company's safety features to get ChatGPT to give him "technical specifications for everything from drug overdoses to drowning to carbon monoxide poisoning," helping him to plan what the chatbot called a "beautiful suicide."
Y'know, back in the Paleozoic era there were these things called libraries.
Razors pain you;
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful;
You might as well live.
Not directly, but like WhatsApp you could simply run through all the possible numbers - even easier in this case because they are sequential - and access every single piece of data. And there was no rate limiting.
Ilya Sutskever (co-founder of OpenAI and now running his own company) and Yann Lecun (chief of AI at Meta) point out that the age of just scaling things up and getting better results is already over, and that all the money in the world can't make AI actually useful without much more research.
Lecun goes further and says - as I do - that LLMs are simply not a path to real intelligence. He lays out four key elements needed for intelligence, and notes that LLMs do not feature any of them.
Musical Interlude
There was much twitterpation in my anime fan circle when I discovered this one, because we only knew the song from this much later version:
Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - November 26, 2025 [Zombie Rex]
—Open Blogger
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.
Welcome to the Wednesday night ONT which means another edition of overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and sit a spell. Good will offerings of amusing puns are happily accepted. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. No, this is not an officially recognized Food Thread. Don't be a traffic cone.
"Hey Willie! Time for the Wednesday night ONT. You read while I go find the cat..."
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I know what you're thinking. Turkey, turkey, turkey. Everyone talks about Thanksgiving in terms of turkey. Turkey on the table, turkey pardons, turkeys falling from the sky, etc.
What about the cranberry? When does the small but mighty cranberry get its turn in the spotlight?
I'm glad you asked...
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"Vaccinium macrocarpon" is the botanical name for the American cranberry.
Vaccinium macrocarpon, commonly called American cranberry, is native to bogs, swamps, and wet shorelines in parts of northern and eastern North America. It is a low-growing vine or trailing shrub (to 6" tall and spreading) with small, glossy leaves. Small, nodding flowers with white to pink, recurved petals bloom from late spring into early summer. The flowers are followed by plump, red to dark purple, ovoid to round, 0.5" diameter fruits. The leaves of this plant are a larval food source for the bog copper butterfly, the flowers are visited by bees, and the fruits are eaten by birds and occasionally small mammals.
The genus name Vaccinium comes from an ancient Latin name apparently derived from a prehistoric Mediterranean language. Its origin and meaning are generally considered to be lost to time.
The specific epithet macrocarpon means large-fruited, in reference to the relatively large size of the fruit of this species.
The common name cranberry derives from the Germanic kraan, meaning "crane" and bere, meaning "berry," possibly in reference to the appearance of the flowers.
Commercial cranberry cultivation reportedly started in the United States in 1816. Captain Henry Hall found a cranberry vine thriving in some sand on Cape Cod (Dennis, Massachusetts). He became the first person to successfully cultivate cranberries.
He noticed that the wild cranberries in his bogs grew better when sand blew over them. Captain Hall began transplanting cranberry vines and spreading sand on them. Others quickly copied his technique.
The idea of growing and selling cranberries commercially caught on. Local landowners converted their swamps, wetlands, peat swamps and wet meadows into cranberry bogs.
By 1885, Plymouth County had 1,347 acres under cultivation. Barnstable County had 2,408 acres. By 1900, the number of acres tripled, making Cape Cod a household name for cranberries.
What came next? Naturally, cranberries in a can.
In 1912, a lawyer named Marcus Urann bought a cranberry bog. Based at a facility in Hanson, Massachusetts, he sought ways to extend the short selling season of the berries. Canning them made cranberries a year-round product. He and two others eventually formed a cranberry cooperative.
Cranberry Juice Cocktail was introduced in 1933 and the jellied cranberry sauce became available nationwide in 1941. Yes, the technical term for the tube of jiggling cranberry in a can is "sauce."
The cranberry cooperative group added members from Wisconsin, Oregon, and Washington, and became the National Cranberry Association in 1946. In 1957, it became Ocean Spray after acquiring the name and logo from a fish company in Washington. You might have heard of it. It remains a cooperative, with over 700 farmers.
An exemption for agricultural cooperatives in the Capper-Volstead Act of 1922 gave "associations" making agricultural products limited exemptions from anti-trust laws.
[Source: assorted nuggets from across the interweb]
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Cran facts:
Americans consume 5,062,500 gallons of jellied cranberry sauce. It takes four million pounds of cranberries - 200 berries in each can.
Only about five percent of America's total cranberry crop is sold as fresh fruit. The rest go into juice, jelly, sauce, and dried fruit (craisins).
The five states known for growing cranberries are: Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington. Wisconsin alone accounts for over 50%.
It takes approximately 4,400 cranberries to produce one gallon of cranberry juice.
Cranberry vines are evergreen perennials that can live for over 100 years and produce fruit for up to 65 years in commercial cultivation.
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Do cranberries grow in water? No! Bogs are flooded just before the harvest. The vines are gently jiggled. The berries are released and float to the surface where they are scooped up. They can be dry picked (think of a process that runs a comb through the vines), but about 90 percent of cranberries are picked using wet harvesting techniques.
Four little air pockets inside each berry allows them to float.
More knowledge here:
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Thinking of becoming a cranberry farmer? This is good story telling and a very well made film.
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Incumbent Senator John Cornyn (RINO - TX) betrayed his party and his country by voting in favor Biden's Afghan resettlement bill in 2021. Cornyn voted to bring in the Afghan who shot two National Guard soldiers on US soil. A vote for Cornyn is an endorsement of importing unvetted, radicalized murderers. [Buck]
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Tucker Carlson claims that it's weird that Ted Cruz is interested in the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, because he has "no track record of being interested in Christians," then blows off the massacre of Christians by Nigerian Muslims, saying it might or might not be a real concern Tucker Carlson enjoys using the left-wing tactic of "Tactical Ignorance" to avoid taking positions on topics. Is Hamas really a terrorist organization? Tucker can't say. He hasn't looked into it enough, but "it seems like a political organization to me." Are Muslims slaughtering Christians in Nigeria? Again, Tucker just doesn't know. He hasn't examined the evidence yet. He knows every Palestinian Christian who said he was blocked from visiting holy sites in Bethlehem, but he just hasn't had the time to look into the mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria that has been going on since (checks watch) 2009. He doesn't know, so he can't offer an opinion. Wouldn't be prudent, you know? Don't rush him! He'll sift through the evidence at some point in the future and render an opinion sometime around 2044. Of course, if you need an opinion on Jewish Perfidy, he has all the facts at his fingertips and can give you a fully informed opinion pronto. Say, have you ever heard of the USS Liberty incident...? You'd think that the main issue for Tucker Carlson, who pretends to be so deeply concerned about Palestinian Christians being bullied by Jews in Israel (supposedly), would be the massacre of 185,000 Christians in Nigeria itself. But no, his main problem is that Ted Cruz is talking about it, "who has no track record of being interested in Christians at all." And then he just shrugs as to whether this is even a real issue or not.
Whatever we do we must never "divide the right," huh?
Tucker is attacking Ted Cruz for bringing the issue up because he's acting as an apologist for Jihadism, and he can't cleanly admit that Jihadists are killing any Christians, anywhere. There is no daylight between him and CAIR at this point.
One might conclude that Tucker Carlson himself isn't interested in the plight of Christians -- except as they can be used as a cudgel to attack Jews. Just gonna ask an Interesting Question myself -- why is it that Tucker Carlson's arguments all track with those shit out by Qatarian propaganda agents and the far left? That if Jews crush an ant underfoot it is worldwide news, but when Muslims slaughter Christians it elicits not even a vigorous shrug?
I once glimpsed Garth in the penumbra betwixt my wake and sleep. He was in my dream, standing afar, not looking my way, nor did he acknowledge me. But I felt seen. And that's when I knew I was a traveler on the right path. I'm glad he's still with us.
Greetings, Traveler. If you still have not experienced Garth Merenghi -- Author, Dream-weaver, Visionary, plus Actor -- the six episodes of his Darkplace are still available on YouTube and supposedly upscaled to HD. (Viewing it now, it doesn't appeared upscaled for shit.) I think the second episode, "Hell Hath Fury," is the best by a good margin. Try to at least watch through to that one. It's Mereghi's incisive but nuanced take on sexism.
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