The Week That Was Woke
—Disinformation Expert Ace
From October 2025: Talarico is subliminally screaming his actual sexual preference to us.
Transextremist and heretic James Talarico keeps referring to women as "neighbors with uteruses" who of course need "abortion care" almost as much as gender-affirming care, but now he's trying to correct himself to just say "women" once in a while.
Headline of the Week: Democrats' Greatest Fear: The GOP Will Turn James Talarico Into a Creepy, Unmanly Weirdo.
Oh that's just silly. How could we do something like that? What are we, Jewish Mind-Wizards who can hypnotize people into believing something completely crazy?
A mentally ill antifa terrorist who praised the murder of Charlie Kirk done got arrested for having sex crimes.
"I never saw this coming" said someone who thought you were talking about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire, but then, when you told him you said an antifa thug was a sex criminal, said "Oh yes, that makes much more sense."
A queer-identified Antifa activist who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk has been arrested in upstate New York on suspicion of felony child sex crimes.Justin Robert Stroup, 37, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., was arrested on April 30 by the New York State Police following a joint investigation involving Plattsburgh City Police and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). He allegedly shared child sex abuse material.
Stroup is a leftist activist and guitarist for the left-wing death metal band Dead Solace. The band announced on Instagram after the news of his arrest that they were immediately disbanding.
"This decision follows recent actions by a member that do not align with our values, our expectations of one another, or the respect we believe should exist within our community," the band said in a statement.
In 2022, Dead Solace performed a charity concert in Burlington, Vt., co-organized by Planned Parenthood.
After Charlie Kirk was assassinated last September, Stroup wrote on Facebook: "Rest in P*SS you dirty f*cking fascist." Earlier that year, he wrote, "I think it's time to get militant with my anti bigotry once again."
You're not going to believe this but it turns out he's a squat, fat, blobby kobold with a neckbeard.
Timothy Lawrence Reed, 35, is accused of breaking into a north Portland home occupied by a mother and her children, threatening to kill the family, and then assaulting a pursuing officer as he tried to evade arrest.The attack happened around 11:35 p.m. on May 14 when officers responded to a reported burglary in progress in the 3900 block of North Overlook Terrace. A woman called 911 to report that a stranger had entered her home while she and her children were inside.
The woman told 911 that the intruder threatened to kill everyone in the home. Armed with a stick, the woman chased the suspect from the home.
The suspect was located in Overlook Park. Police said he ignored repeated commands and continued running through the neighborhood, prompting a prolonged foot pursuit.
"I'm not afraid of you, pig!" Reed shouted in the police body camera video. "I'll f*cking kill you!"
As the chase moved north of North Prescott Street, Reed allegedly suddenly turned toward an officer and struck him on the head with a large rock.
Since 2022, suspect booking photos are no longer allowed to be released without a conviction in Oregon due to a law passed by Democrats in response to this journalist's reporting on the 2020 BLM-Antifa riots.
An investigation into Reed's criminal history shows that just three days before the assault, he was arrested in Portland for felony unlawful use of a weapon, escape, resisting arrest, menacing, and second-degree disorderly conduct. On May 13, the day before the rock attack, he was released without bail by Judge Chanpone Sinlapassai.
You're not going to believe this, but he looks like a gangly Genderfuck Witch with hideous teeth who wears belly-shirts despite being nominally male and also having a chubby middle.
People don't join antifa because their dating life is too hectic, you know.
A swishy steroid case in California spent Memorial Day kicking over flags because Democrats love The America That Can Be But Never Will Exist.
Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok
Parents are SUING Rochester Memorial elementary school after a male student who identifies as transgender entered the girl's bathroom with their 3rd grade daughter and peeked under the stallThe principal allegedly responded by saying the girl should use a different bathroom if she isn't comfortable.
NJ committeewoman and Democrat -- obviously -- was just arrested for driving DUI with a child in the car. She got hit with a child endangerment charge, too. Now she's caught driving with a suspended license. The rules and laws just don't apply to woke Democrats, especially woke Democrat women. They're fighting the oppressor by becoming the oppressor class.
The whole family is criminal trash that would be too unseemly to appear on COPS.
Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok
Illegal from El Salvador who had charges for drugs, rape, sexual assault, and property damage was let out of prison by sanctuary politicians in Virginia before RAPING a woman, per DHSDemocrats want foreign criminals on our streets raping and murdering Americans
Elementary school principal bars parents from their children's elementary school graduation, to punish them for ICE's arrest of an illegal alien. This woke Karen naturally cites Muh Safety and Muh Concerns as a valid reason to punish American citizens for the lawful detention of an illegal alien.
Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok19h
BREAKING: @TempeElementary Principal Bronwyn Sternberg sent a letter to families informing them that parents and guests will NOT be allowed to attend students' graduation after a reported illegal alien parent and her child were arrested by ICE near the school.
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Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Greeks are unhappy being written out of their own foundational national myth in the upcoming The ODEIssy.
To the cast and creative team of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, We write to you as Greeks, not as fragments of antiquity, not as echoes from museum displays, and not as characters sealed in marble, but as a living people whose story has never stopped being written.First, we wish you well.
Cinema has always carried the power to reimagine ancient texts, to cross borders of language and time, and to reintroduce old stories to new generations. Homer's Odyssey belongs, in many ways, to the shared cultural imagination of humanity. We understand the ambition behind bringing it to the screen on a global scale, and we recognise the artistic tradition of reinterpretation that has surrounded these epics for centuries.
But we also ask you to consider something that is often overlooked in modern retellings of Greek stories.
We did not vanish.
Greek people did not disappear after the age of myth. Greek culture was not frozen in classical marble. Greek language was not extinguished in antiquity.
We are still here.
...
At every stage, something essential remained unbroken: language, memory, and cultural continuity.
Greek is still spoken today, the oldest continuously surviving language in Europe. Not reconstructed. Not revived. But lived.
That continuity matters when stories like The Odyssey are retold.
Odysseus is not only a universal symbol of endurance, struggle, and homecoming. He is also part of a cultural inheritance that has been carried through every one of those historical layers -- retold by Byzantine scholars, preserved in manuscripts copied through the medieval world, studied during the Renaissance, and still taught, spoken, and reinterpreted in Greece today.
This is why conversations about representation matter deeply to us.
We are not asking for exclusion or limitation. We are not arguing against diversity, nor against reinterpretation. Greek culture itself has always been shaped by exchange, migration, and encounter across centuries.
What we are asking is something simpler and more human.
That when Greek stories are retold on a global stage, Greek people are not rendered invisible within them.
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So as you step into Homer's world - into seas, wanderings, gods, and returning kings - we ask that you carry this awareness with you:
That Greece is not only a setting in antiquity.
It is a living country.
Greek people are not historical figures.
We are contemporaries.
...
We did not vanish.
We are still here.
It's interesting, if a little sad, that the only answer to a Muh Representation argument is another Muh Representation argument.
The Mandala Effect and Gorp made $101 million over the four-day (actually five) day weekend, matching the original low projections, but beating the revised, even-lower projections of $80 million. Which I now wonder wasn't an effort at expectations-lowering so that Disney could claim they matched expectations.
Something kind of amazing has been happening since the weekend, beginning Tuesday. The independent, super-low-budget, YouTuber-made horror film Obsession -- which is about a Low-T Beta Cuck who wishes for a hot girl to love him more than she has ever loved before, and then discovers that the love of an obsessed, magically-deranged psychotic stalker isn't so wonderful --has been slowly catching up to the Star Wars film's daily takings, and has now overtaken it.
Obsession' Has Dethroned 'The Mandalorian And Grogu' At The Box OfficeBy Paul Tassi
There is effectively no precedent to describe what's happening with Obsession right now, the low-budget horror film that has achieved milestones like increasing 39% in revenue in its second weekend after word-of-mouth spread.
But that was even more impressive given that it was going up against the first new Star Wars movie in seven years, The Mandalorian and Grogu, which did win the weekend handily. But now? Obsession is...beating it.
Daily box office tracking is now showing that Obsession is now beating The Mandalorian and Grogu handily as of this Wednesday, earning $5.6 million domestically to Mando's $4.1 million on that day. And again, this is the second week of Obsession's release (this Wednesday is practically a non-existent drop from last Wednesday) and this is Mando's first week.
It also appears that Obsession could be heading into a third weekend where its revenue increases from last week's $24 million. That would now be going up against both The Mandalorian and Grogu and fellow YouTuber-directed, low-budget horror film Backrooms, which is now projected to make a mammoth $40-60 million, resulting in back-to-back hits for the genre. But Obsession is still in a league of its own in terms of its earning trajectory.
Backrooms itself is based on YouTube short films, and directed by the original YouTuber.
There's every chance that Obsession will battle Backrooms for the #1 spot, dropping Mufflerrepair and Gauges to #3 in its second weekend. Beaten by two low-budget YouTube movies.
Film Threat's Chris Gore says it's "riveting." He says it's "going to be huge." Allen Ng agrees it's "anxiety-inducing" but also says that the mysteries posed by the film aren't resolved. They both agree that this is intended as the first film in a franchise, so they're not going to properly finish it now.
Eh, I'm not sure I object to that. The thing about WTF Bizarro Mysteries is that they're not supposed to be resolved. The solution to the mystery would be antithetical to the point of posing a question which is supposed to be imponderable, without an answer.
I have thoughts about this. I'm a big fan of thrillers. Thrillers are just mysteries with simpler plots and lots of running around and yelling.
I'm also a fan of Twilight Zone WTF premises. This kind of thriller just has something impossibly strange happen in the opening, and promises you, don't worry, by the end, we'll have explained this impossibly strange situation in a logical and satisfying manner.
But here's the thing: That promise is a lie 95% of the time. The more bizarre and fantastical your opening gambit is, the less likely it will be that you can conjure any sort of explanation of any degree of plausibility or satisfaction. And this whole subgenre depends on starting off with the most outlandish and impossible premise you can think of.
That's why 90% of these stories end with some variation of "It was all a dream... or was it?" or "Oh my God, we've been dead the whole time! We're in hell!" The most original and startling the opening, the more you can be sure that the cameras are all in comas imaging it all in some kind of group hallucination.
Because seriously, what the hell kind of "logical" explanation can you actually come up with to explain this nonsense?
Normal thrillers-- those without the sci-fi/fantasy/bizarro weirdness premise -- also struggle to explain why anything in the movie actually happened. North by Northwest famously makes no real sense, and is just one set piece after another.
So my point is that anyone who likes this kind of thing and has been around the block a few times goes into it knowing there will almost certainly not be a satisfying and logical third-act explanation, and that the enjoyment will just derive from the freaky-deaky premise and the exploration of that through the second act. These movies (and books and stories) are all journey, no destination.
Every once in a long while, a thriller or Twilight Zone thriller will actually conjure up an ending that does make sense and does answer all of your questions. And that will become an instant classic.
But that is definitely not the way most of these go.
So if Backrooms never explains what's going on -- 1, it's not supposed to, the question is more interesting than any possible answer and 2, any answer they give will be stupid so why don't they just save us the disappointment and say We May Never Know the Motive.
Hollywood trembles in fear of the havoc the internet has wrought and will continue to wreak on its core business. Execs wake up in a cold sweat from a nightmare that blockbusters have been replaced by 30-second TikTok videos. And, yikes, they almost have. But perhaps the key to a prosperous future is collaboration.Enter "Backrooms": A disquieting and smart new horror film from A24 that, for now, can only be seen in theaters, yet is the brainchild of 4chan and YouTube users. Its director Kane Parsons is just 20 years old and his movie is already an uncommonly hot title with the younger set. Eighty-eight percent of its packed preview night audiences around the country were under 35.
You can see why. While the main character of "Backrooms," Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), is a sleep-deprived, middle-aged man whose dreams of being an architect have been crushed as irreparably as his marriage, a youthful energy pervades Parsons' strange and engrossing journey into the unfurnished abyss.
The seed of "Backrooms" was planted in 2019 when a user posted an image on the website 4Chan of an architecturally unsettling room -- tinted yellow with fluorescent lights, patterned wallpaper, ceiling tiles and gray carpet. People wrote horror stories online about the picture, which led to the detailed lore of the Backrooms, a labyrinth of eerie spaces accessible by hidden portals around the world.
Parsons turned the trend into a popular YouTube series with millions of views when he was 16. And he rooted his creation in documentary-style "found footage," like "The Blair Witch Project."The director used that same on-edge aesthetic for his debut feature, which is set in no-smartphones 1990. Clark, who runs Cap'n Clark's Ottoman Empire, a failing furniture store, stumbles into the Backrooms when he walks through a wall in his building's basement.
The confused man tells his therapist, Mary (Renate Reinsve of "Sentimental Value"), who has her own demons, about what the messed-up oddity he's found. And Clark sounds completely insane.
"It's like the store just continues, I guess?," he says.
I love when arrogant but untalented people find out they're completely untalented and that their previous "success" had just been due to connections in the industry.
Now, reviews are coming for Backrooms, and while decent enough, they are not sky-high like a few other horror entries this year, including the runaway hit from just two weeks ago, Obsession, which is on its way to make 100x its budget amidst 95% and 94% critic and audience Rotten Tomatoes scores. Backrooms, in contrast, has a 78% Rotten Tomatoes score right now with three dozen reviews in. How does that stack up against the other horror offerings of the year? Here's the list of major releases:Obsession -- 95% critic score
Send Help -- 93% critic score
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple -- 92% critic score
Hokum -- 88% critic score
We Bury the Dead -- 88% critic score
Backrooms -- 78% critic score
Primate -- 78% critic score
Und so weiter.
Eh. I'll see it on streaming.
Either way, The Marzipan and Gorget will drop to #3 in just its second weekend.
Last week, I mentioned that I would put up a thread for older/less-known movie recommendations. Please consider this that thread!
No corporate slop. Movies from an earlier, less stupid era, or smaller/unnoticed movies that people might have missed.
Oh: Question for y'all. I tried to watch Spider-Noir but I don't see any way to choose the "Authentic Black and White" version. I get a title screen that tells me I can select this, "Below," but there's nothing "below" for me to click on.
The "True-Hue color" version looks decent and I'd probably watch a lot of it in color anyway but I'm cheesed that I don't have the option to watch in B&W as promised.
Can you help a blogger out? What am I missing?
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The Soldier Who Was Mocked by Unemployed Nazi Gerald Platner Speaks
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Let me ask veterans here: If you collect full 100% disability from the military, are you able to also work? Because Platner claims to be an "oyster farmer" but also receives full 100% "disability." It seems to me he's that either:
1, he can work, but is bilking the system, because he's another Bernie Sanders laybout who refuses to work and exists perpetually on welfare;
or,
2, he actually can't work, but pretends to be an "oyster farmer" because that sounds like he might actually do some rough-handed work and wants to hide the fact that he's a layabout like his hero Bernie Sanders.
Any ideas? How can he be both so incapable of labor that he's on 100% full disability while also being an "oyster farmer"?
Which is it-- is he a Workin' Man or a Welfare Case? It can't be both, can it?
Update:
Ace, I'm a disabled Vet,yes you can draw 100% and still work.Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
I know lots of 100% disabled vets who work. Lots of them work for federal, state, and local governments.Posted by: lin-duh
I guess "disability" here doesn't have the meaning one might assume it does.
Okay, I guess I should have figured he wouldn't commit benefits fraud right out in the open.
But I've also read he declares no income from his "job" as an "oyster farmer." I think it's his wife's business, and he does not declare income from it on his income tax forms.
Update: From commenters, I think I can guess how this works: You get a percentage "disability" from various wounds you take while in service. This number is not dependent on whether you are or are not actually disabled. It's just a tally of woundings, and you're paid a stipend for life based on that, and it's called "disability" but isn't what your average man on the street would call "disability."
Is that right?
Next item: You may remember that the Nazi Communist Gerald Platner mocked a US soldier who had been shot by a terrorist. Platner laughed about the shooting of an American soldier, critiqued the soldier's abilities, declared that he was incompetent, and said further that he "didn't deserve to live."
That soldier now reveals himself in the WSJ:
Steve Guest @SteveGuest1h
Army combat veteran and a Purple Heart recipient Teddy Daniels in the Wall Street Journal: I'm the Soldier Graham Platner Mocked
"Flannel shirt and all, Graham Platner is Tim Walz on steroids. An entitled brat who campaigns with socialist Bernie Sanders. A real man by the lights of the Democratic Party, he presents himself as "relatable" to working-class Americans, but in reality he's a typical elitist who believes blue-collar, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth rural Americans are stupid and racist. I couldn't care less about the comments he made about me, but they are a reflection of his character. I never thought I'd see the day when Democrats would even consider backing a candidate like this."
https://wsj.com/opinion/im-the
Democratic men are having an identity crisis. Maine's Graham Platner, the party's presumptive nominee for U.S. Senate, is a prime example. Mr. Platner presents himself as a savior for working-class Americans while his background screams the opposite and his offensive comments about fellow veterans--including me--speak poorly of his character.
The tough-talking Marine veteran struts around in a Carhartt jacket and jeans, but recent reporting relates that he comes from a prestigious family where he had access to an elite private-school education and a lifestyle of privilege. He also plays up his job as an "oyster farmer," but the only client mentioned in his federal financial disclosure was the restaurant his mother owns.
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Flannel shirt and all, Graham Platner is Tim Walz on steroids. An entitled brat who campaigns with socialist Bernie Sanders. A real man by the lights of the Democratic Party, he presents himself as "relatable" to working-class Americans, but in reality he's a typical elitist who believes blue-collar, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth rural Americans are stupid and racist. I couldn't care less about the comments he made about me, but they are a reflection of his character. I never thought I'd see the day when Democrats would even consider backing a candidate like this.
28 Don't forget, Platner also mocked Chris Kyle.Posted by: Bulg
Oh I did forget that. He claimed Kyle was murdering civilians to pad his kill-count.
Update: Some say the scam isn't the disability -- it's the claim of being an "oyster farmer."
Oyster farming is not really "work," it is - as far as I can tell - either a hobby for eccentrics or a grift. I knew an oyster farmer and it seem you have to get a plot from the state - something like an allotment in UK, where you sign up and wait on a list and then pay a small fee, but then you contract out the actual, you know, farming - the digging and shit.Posted by: bob
The Nazi Public Masturbator Who Is Sexually Aroused by the Smell of Male Feces has been attacking Susan Collins for sending him off to war. She voted for the Iraq War, he says, which resulted in this non-working Nazi being shipped off to fight in a war he never signed up for.
Of course, the Nazi Korprophiliac is lying. Collins did vote to authorize military action in Iraq, but Platner signed up for the military two years into the Iraq War, which means his claims of having been sent there against his will by Susan Collins are just more Nazi shit-aroused propaganda.
In new news, Collins points out that not only did he sign up knowing he'd be going straight to war, but additionally, he then signed up to be a mercenary in Blackwater after he was discharged by the US Military.
Now I'm using the word "mercenary" as the left uses it. I have never thought there was anything wrong with military men signing up to make a large salary doing what they had just been doing for Uncle Sam for a small salary. To me it's like giving up your amateur status in golf to accept a prize (which only declared pros can receive).
But that's the way the left sees it-- if you're a private military contractor, you're a "mercenary." And "screw them, I feel nothing," as Platner's no-doubt supporter DailyKos said of four murdered contractors.
This once again proves this Nazi feces-fanatic is lying about Collins "sending him to war." He was a private citizen with no further military obligations when he signed a private contract with a private military contracting firm. Did Susan Collins force this Nazi scum to take a signing bonus and nice salary?
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No One Believes Jill Biden's "Gaslighting" Campaign -- Especially Not the Leftwing Media Operatives and Democrats Who Conspired to Cover This Up, and Now Have Pretend They Were "Fooled" by a Conspiracy They Were Always Part of
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Trump has Questions about "Doctor" Jill Biden's new op:
Fox News @FoxNews2h
JUST IN: President Trump launches a scathing attack on Jill Biden after she admitted that she thought her husband was having a "stroke" during their infamous 2024 presidential debate.
"She said that she thought he was having a 'stroke,' and various other really bad things, and yet never rushed onto the stage to help her troubled husband, as any good wife would do."
"As many have asked, did my strong performance in that debate cause him to, plain and simple, 'choke,' leading to his ignominious defeat, or were there other reasons? Nobody else knows the answer to that, BUT I DO!!!"
Leftwing CNN reporter: Jill Biden's story is "revisionist history," Democrat sources tell me she's lying and "gaslighting" the American voters now just as she did back then.
Dasha Burns @DashaBurnsMay 28
A former senior Biden campaign advisor tells me Jill Biden's comments are "revisionist history."
"She and a handful of other close advisors around President Biden kept gaslighting us, telling those of us on the campaign we were the ones who were wrong, and that he just had a 'bad night.' I think she saw the reputational harm this caused her and is therefore taking a new position."
@playbookdc
Politico's Alex Thompson, who had some low level of credibility on this for at least permitting the question of Biden's mental fitness, before throwing it away to co-write his book "exposing" this with Dementia Denier Jake the Fake Tapper:
Alex Thompson @AlexThompOne former Biden official reacts to this with just: "she's lying."
Stephen L. Miller @redsteezeWhat Alex is admitting here is that a former Biden official knew Biden was senile, but did not say it at the time, and is now calling Jill Biden "bullshit" for saying it now.
Alex, do you see how much this reflects badly on you for protecting this person so you could sell books?
First Democrats (including Democrat Comms Media) covered up Biden's senility. Then they covered up the cover up by demanding the story go away and no one search for accountability except from the Five Designated Fall-Guys, Biden, "Doctor" Jill, and his three most senior co-conspirators.
Democrats are angry that "Doctor" Jill is ruining their cover-up of the cover-up:
The media is pretending it's shocked and outraged about being "tricked" into repeating the Bidens' lies to the public every week for four years -- but will a single media interviewer ask "Doctor" Jill hard questions about why she didn't immediately drive Joe to the hospital if she had "never, ever" seen this behavior "before or since" and was "frightened" that he was "having a stroke" on stage?
In fact she immediately whisked the Shambling Withered Husk off to a post-debate rally and paraded his Grim Mockery of Human Life before a crowd of horrified spectators, telling him "Joe, you did great! You answered every question, you knew all the facts!"
If the media really want to prove they're not in on the con, they'll confront her.
It's not even necessary that they get her to agree to an interview. They can just send a question to her and her PR people asking them why she left Biden on stage to die of a stroke, and report her refusal to answer the question.
But.
They.
Will.
Not.
Because "journalists" have the same interest that the Democrat Party does -- they want to smother this fire, not add oxygen to it, to grant political cover and advantage to (you'll never guess!) the Democrat Party they all vote for and belong to and scheme behind-the-scenes with.
They were on it. Period. They supported the now-acknowledged lie for as long as was physically possible and then acted shocked and offended when the lie was exposed.
They will just continue passive-aggressively shunning the Bidens, hoping they will take the hint and stop embarrasing them by exposing their own complicity in the Cheapfake Op on the American public.
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Seattle's Communist Woke Wallflower Mayor Says She Refuses to Investigate Medicaid Fraud In Her City Because That Would Hurt Our Precioius Nomadic Pirates
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Seattle socialist mayor will NOT investigate fraud at Somali-run daycare centers, calls it attack on immigrants"This whole issue is not really about fraud," said Wilson. "It's about dividing and conquering. It's about making an immigrant community a target."
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said the city has no intention of investigating fraud claims in taxpayer-funded social programs, claiming the concerns are an effort to target immigrant communities rather than address legitimate financial irregularities.
In an interview with KOMO News, Wilson was asked if she had authorized the Seattle Police Department or the city's Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs to investigate fraud charges involving daycare providers, particularly those in Somali and other immigrant communities. The mayor responded: "No."
"This whole issue is not really about fraud," said Wilson. "It's about dividing and conquering. It's about making an immigrant community a target. There's no reason to assume based on the identity of a daycare operator that their small business is doing anything wrong."
She added that "it's problematic to have random people showing up to daycares" and emphasized that "the fear in the Somali community is real" and "the fear in immigrant communities are real," saying her administration is "taking that very seriously."
Huh, how about that. She's saying it's the Somalis who would be found responsible for defrauding the Americans living next to them and stealing from them.
And then she applies the usual Democrat Rule that Minorities Are Immune from the Law and Allowed to Steal and Kill without Consequence.
#BecauseRacism.
Plus, an exclusive from Alpha News: Somalis are fake employees at fake businesses claiming fake injuries to, get this, pillage and loot from actual American taxpayers.
EXCLUSIVE: Former Minnesota employee reveals suspected fraud scheme of 'fake injuries' at Somali businessesWith the benefit of hindsight, Janeen Balsimo thought, "wow, so the fraud went as far as the employee was a fake employee, probably with fake injuries, because there is no people at these places."
ByDr. JC Chaix and Liz Collin
It's perhaps yet another kind of Somali fraud that we haven't heard much about, and one that may involve fake businesses, fake injuries, and fake workers' comp claims.
Janeen Balsimo retired in the fall after working as a Minnesota state employee for nearly 30 years. She joined Liz Collin on her podcast.
Balsimo spent her last years at the Department of Human Services (DHS) in the Tort Recovery Unit as a tort specialist.
She said that she wanted to blow the whistle on workers' comp cases after what she noticed the last couple of years at her job--as hindsight and the exposure of fraud throughout Minnesota provided even more perspective.
Balsimo explained how she "recovered taxpayer dollars where another party should have been paying for the bills. For instance, like auto accidents or work comp. So we would get cases from attorneys representing the client."
"And then when the case would settle, we would get paid, the attorney would get paid his fees. DHS would get paid our portion. And then the client would be awarded whatever type of injury that they had back, usually got more awards than neck or arm. So they would get anywhere from $20,000 to $150,000 for their award for their injuries," Balsimo explained.
However, she noticed a strange trend emerging in her normally routine work. "About a year ago, I can remember my caseloads of Somalian cases were going way up. They were going up so much I even confided in another coworker. She had noticed it as well," Balsimo said.
She said "that's when I noticed my Somali cases, they all worked at a daycare center, an adult care center, a hospice or an autism center. And I found that really strange and they ended in the LLC because I had to keep typing it over and over and it was just really strange to me."
"Then I retired a few weeks before the Nick Shirley exposure ... and one day I was watching a video and I noticed the names of the businesses he was investigating. And they looked really familiar. Like I almost remember the name of the businesses just by typing them all the time and just dealing with them. And I could not believe it ... it all came together, Balsimo said.
"I went, oh my gosh, this was like a wow moment. These cases were probably fraudulent," she added.
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Tennessee’s GOP State Government is Subsidizing the Relocation of Cultural Adversary Starbucks; How Did TN Leaders Promise $30M that Hadn’t Yet Been Approved in a Public Forum?
—Buck Throckmorton
I dislike corporate welfare in general. I passionately dislike corporate welfare for corporations fleeing anti-business blue states, because the economic freedom in the states they flee to is their financial incentive. But a red state offering corporate welfare to a woke corporation fleeing the nest it soiled absolutely enrages me.
Starbucks is relocating a significant portion of its operations from the communist carnival of Seattle to the state of Tennessee, which is paying Starbucks to bring its radical political agenda and employees to the conservative state. Thanks to Governor Bill Lee and the Tennessee State Funding Board, $30 million dollars is being redistributed from Tennessee taxpayers to the left-wing coffee purveyor. Unlike some corporate welfare, this isn’t even comprised of tax incentives. It is an 8-figure cash payment from the state to a corporation whose executives have shown nothing but spitting contempt for the values of the state it is relocating to.
“TN State Funding Board approves $30 million incentive for Starbucks” [The Tennessean – 5/21/2026]
Tennessee’s State Funding Board approved the $30 million payout during a meeting on May 20. State incentives would cover an average of $15,000 per job created.
I know plenty of Tennessee small business owners who could hire more actual Tennesseans if the first $15,000 of salary was subsidized by the state. How obscene is it that a small manufacturing plant in Murfreesboro, staffed by patriotic Christians, doesn’t get a dime in assistance when it expands and hires more employees, but a corporation like Starbucks that is openly contemptuous of Tennessee’s conservative values is getting paid to colonize the state with its woke agenda?
During the announcement, Gov. Bill Lee touted the state’s “fiscally conservative approach to business.”
If taking money from taxpayers and giving it to an activist left-wing corporation is a “fiscally conservative approach to business,” what might be considered fiscally irresponsible?
How woke is Starbucks? As documented in Unherd, “Like so many companies, the coffee giant was swept up in the political maelstrom of 2020 and 2021. It pledged $100 million for businesses focused on “advancing racial equity”. It allowed employees to wear activist clothing and accessories to work, provided that the clothing supported the Black Lives Matter movement. In many Starbucks stores, June Pride Month celebrations went from discreet lapel pins to wall-covering shrines.”
So Tennessee is reimbursing Starbucks $30 million of the $100 million the company shelled out to “advance racial equity.” Some Tennessee politicians are not happy about this, including U.S. Rep. John Rose, a Republican candidate to replace (term-limited) Bill Lee as governor. He called the Starbucks incentive "corporate welfare" that is "beyond the pale." Marsha Blackburn is the overwhelming favorite to win this year’s Republican gubernatorial primary, but she has not yet commented on the Starbucks payout. I recommend that she gets on the right side of this issue quickly. If not, John Rose may gain some traction.
A ray of hope is that many Starbucks employees don’t want to leave the comfort of the asylum they call home.
Starbucks office workers are reportedly balking at orders to relocate to the company’s new $100 million Nashville hub, with some left-leaning workers repulsed by the prospect of living and working in the capital of deep-red Tennessee.The java giant has been struggling to persuade employees to move from Seattle — even after warning some they could lose their jobs if they refuse, Bloomberg News reported.
As I was typing this piece, I just noticed something significant that I had previously missed. Something stinks:
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The Morning Report — 5/ 29/26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Supposedly a "deal" of some sort is in the works or on the verge of being reached with the regime in Tehran to end hostilities. As I have stated repeatedly, I have the greatest respect and admiration for President Trump, but I cannot imagine any agreement that they would ever agree to that removes the hardline Islamic elements from power, even partially let alone completely. It is they who have terrorized and brutalized their own people and spilled rivers of blood all over the world in the cause of Islamic global conquest, quite a bit of it American, over the past 47 years thanks to the complicity/idiocy of Jimmy Carter in helping unleash the Mullahs on the world. And in that time allowing them to nearly develop a functioning nuclear weapon by stockpiling tons of enriched uranium and perfecting long range missiles that for now threaten the region but perhaps can soon reach much farther. Were it not for Israel's and America's military and covert operations to thwart all of that with Epic Fury and the IDF and ongoing Mossad's campaign
of liquidating Iranian scientists, an Iranian mushroom cloud might well have vaporized Tel Aviv, Dubai, Riyadh or Vatican City or even London or Washington DC by now.
There is no alternative than the absolute and unconditional surrender of the Mullahs. If not, then the aforementioned nightmare scenario might one day become a reality. Who could have ever imagined 9/11 until it happened? There is no doubt in my mind that had Bin Laden have nukes, NYC and DC would be a radioactive dead zone.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said that the proposed agreement with Iran is “a surrender document.” And we appear to be “negotiating America’s unconditional surrender to Iran.” . . . because there’s literally no other option. Unless he wants to take over the whole country, because that actually would achieve regime change, it would end their nuclear program, it would reopen the strait. But you’re talking about using 300,000 Americans for a country that’s twice the size and population of Iraq. I don’t think even Ranger Pete Hegseth wants that. So the only other option is to sit down at the table and actually have a negotiation. Let’s just be honest, though, he’s not only lost the war, he’s losing the negotiation as well.”. . But, short of taking over Iran, “there’s literally no other option.” . . . Later, Moulton said that Trump “has a hope and a prayer that he might get some semblance of the nuclear deal that Obama handed to him.”
This mealy-(semen-encusted) mouthed scumbag finally lets slip what he and the traitorous bastards of the Democrat/Left want: America defeated/humiliated/destroyed and Iran to actually get an atomic weapon which is what Obama and his cohorts were nearly successful in delivering. The JCPOA along with billons in palletized cash sent to Iran during his 8 year reign of error got them very close to achieving nuclear capability.
Police reportedly responded to a call alleging the sound of gunshots had been heard at Barrett’s home, according to the same audio, which was shared on X by freelance journalist Andrew Leyden. In the audio, the dispatcher indicates police units are responding to “the suspicious noise” at a residence that has “24-hour security coverage for a high-priority resident of the county.”
Chris Rabb, a Pennsylvania House candidate backed by the "Squad" and other far-left figures, once called for the death penalty for corporate CEOs, whom he likened to "gang leaders." His words mirror increasingly violent rhetoric from the left directed at business leaders. In a 2005 blog post, Rabb said executives "should fry," citing a report that 300 CEOs were paid salaries and bonuses totaling $12 billion.
They're gunning for us, LITERALLY...
But we're evil and so must be eradicated. On the flip side of that we have this complete debasement.
‘George Floyd Square’ To Remember Him With Gift Shop. . . Also a restaurant, bar and self-cleaning toilet.
Have a great weekend,
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
- Also a restaurant, bar and self-cleaning toilet.
‘George Floyd Square’ To Remember Him With Gift Shop
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Daily Tech News 26 May 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Anthropic has raised another $65 billion as it approaches a planned $1 trillion IPO. (Tech Crunch)
Buy the dip. Or just stand back and enjoy the crashing sounds.
- Anthropic has also released Claude Opus 4.8. (Anthropic)
It's 0.1 louder.
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Thursday Overnight Open Thread - May 28, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Sunrise in Sydney Australia - From Kaz
Howdy Hordelings! So -- nowhere else you'd rather be than the Thursday night ONT, eh? Then let's go to it! Content provided for those who care. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?
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Thursday More Like Fursday Amirite Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Super-cell over Horbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
From Unwetterfreaks
Red Bull built a small skatepark and then lofted it into the air via hot-air balloon.
A couple of cutie foxes recovering after injuries.
This is what I'm looking for except crows.
I think I probably linked this recently, but if I didn't, this squirrel wants more affection.
He's 1000% more masculine than James Talarico.
Puppy turns a simple level-check into Extreme Engineering.
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Judge Clears Way for Trump to Tighten Verification for Mail-In Votes; Scott Bessent Touts New IRS Rules to Identify Antifa's Funders; OMB Director Russ Vought Acts to Make Sure That Federal Grants Go to US Citizens Not Foreigners and Illegal Aliens
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A lot of #Winning.
Democrats actually opposed Trump's rules to tighten verification of mail-in votes by saying that if voter names were checked against lists of US citizens, Democrat voters would be barred from voting.
Yes. Yes they will.
That is the point. Your llegal alien hordes are not allowed to vote and they should be disqualified from voting.
But hey, you say this Never Ever Happens, so this should have no effect on Democrat vote totals.
Right?
The Democrats pretended they were worried about "inaccurate" citizenship lists but we all know they're terrified of accurate ones.
Besides, the judge ruled: Every single federal requirement is subject to some error in implementation but we don't rule them all unconstitutional, given that people have the right to appeal and have errors corrected.
Duh.
A federal judge on Thursday cleared the way for President Donald Trump to implement his executive order tightening mail-in voting, slapping down Democrats' arguments for now that federal efforts to police voter rolls with citizenship checks was illegal.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointed jurist, ruled that Democrats failed to show they have standing at present to challenge the order or have suffered any harm that would warrant a preliminary injunction.
You'll love this: He ruled the Democrats had no standing to challenge the rules. They could establish no "harm" to themselves.
Nichols rejected several of the Democrats' arguments that Trump's executive order could disenfranchise millions of voters, including that creating state-by-state citizenship lists to check voter rolls would somehow be harmful, even if they were inaccurate.
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The judge also rejected the notion that the federal government sending information to the states about voters would somehow violate voters' privacy.
"Plaintiffs fail to demonstrate that such action--that is, the sharing of name, age, and residence information between and among government agencies, if already known to the federal government--would cause a harm sufficient to establish Article III standing," he ruled.
Bessent says the IRS will track donations to the terrorist group Antifa.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday highlighted changes to IRS reporting policy that would help the federal government identify the funding sources for Antifa.The organization has faced considerable scrutiny in recent years amid its repeated civil disturbances and involvement in anti-law enforcement activities. Speaking from the White House, Bessent pointed to a change in policy that would require non-profits to identify their grant recipients.
The grant-subgrant system is set up to disguise Democrat money-laundering. Terrorists have members called "cleanskins" -- terrorists who have no known criminal record or association with terrorists. These "clean skins" are used to infiltrate organizations and pull levers in favor of terrorists.
(Note a "cleanskin" can also refer to an undercover cop who has no publicly-known association with cops, so he can be infiltrated into a criminal group.)
Likewise, Democrats have "cleanskin" NGOs that they can pour US taxpayer money into. And then these "clean" NGOs donate to dirty NGOs and straight up terrorist organizations -- or Chinese covid labs adding furin cleavage sites to viruses.
The Grantee/Subgrantee system is designed precisely so that Democrats can divert taxpayer money to illegal/antiamerican/pure Democrat pillager groups. They money is given to the "clean skin" NGOs, who then immediately send the money off to where it was always intended to go, the "dirty skin" groups.
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Toxic Incompetent Radical Leftwing Propagandists Are Finally S-Canned at 60 Minutes, and the Left is (You'll Never Guess!) Hysterical
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze2h
60 Minutes was genocided.
Lunatic Trash-Karen Sharyl Alfonsi threw her last hissy-fit over Bari Weiss holding up her hit-piece about CECOT to get comment from the object of her hit-piece -- the Trump Administration, of course -- and then publicly complained about her employers. (And probably did some leaking, but we'll just have to guess about that.)
One of her previous acts of Democrat Party Service was attacking Ron DeSantis for arranging a deal for the Magic Vaccine, which the media claimed was absolutely necessary for the survival of the species, to be made available through the large market chain Publix.
She asserted that DeSantis had made this deal in exchange for a $100,000 donation -- and would not take Democrats' word for it that they pitched and negotiated this deal with Publix themselves.
And ergo, the $100,000 donation was irrelevant.
Meanwhile, this ugly crone is claiming she was fired for her "honest" journalism.
Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew3h
"Honest" -- like in her dishonest piece about Ron DeSantis and the Publix Supermarket chain, linking Publix being given a COVID vaccine contract in exchange for a $100,000 contribution to DeSantis?
Deceptive Editing: Alfonsi confronted Gov. about the Publix deal, but 60 Minutes edited his response by omitting the portion of his answer explaining that CVS and Walgreens were tied up administering vaccines in long-term care facilities at the time, and that Publix was simply the first pharmacy to volunteer and prove it was ready for the larger roll-out needed.
Florida's emergency management director -- a Democrat -- publicly stated that the decision to use Publix was made by his office, not the Governor, and that undermined entirely the conspiracy narrative that was the foundation of the 60 Minutes story.
Other Democrats in Florida and Publix pushed back against the story.
But that didn't slow Alfonsi or 60 Minutes down since De Santis was, at that time, considered to be the frontrunner for the GOP POTUS nomination in 2024.
"In a Sunday night tweet directed at "60 Minutes," Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Jared Moskowitz wrote, "I said this before and I'll say it again. [Publix] was recommended by [Florida Division of Emergency Management] and [Florida Department of Public Health]. Period! Full stop!"
"No one from the Governors office suggested Publix," Moskowitz added. "It's just absolute malarkey."
Is it that kind of "honest" journalism you are referring to??
A Democrat mayor of Palm Beach alled the story "intentionally false" as well, saying this wasn't just "bad information," it was a deliberate, calculated lie:
But she had a potential Republican presidential candidate to take down for her Democrat masters, and went forward with the false, defamatory propaganda anyway.
And for some reason, Bari Weiss had doubts about her credibility, honesty, and professionalism!
Here's her meltdown over being fired -- or, actually, these people aren't employees, so they're not fired.
Their contracts are just allowed to blissfully expire without renewal.
Dylan Byers @DylanByersMay 27
NEW: Sharyn Alfonsi goes scorched earth on Bari Weiss:
"Over the weekend, my contract with CBS News expired, drawing to a close nearly twenty years with the network, including more than a decade at 60 Minutes.
Following an intense editorial dispute over our CECOT story, repeated attempts by my representation to establish a path forward were met with absolute silence from network executives. The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over.
In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like "modernization" and "restructuring" to explain away my departure. Don't be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom.
Well, they're resorting to euphemisms because they consider in unprofessional to just tell the truth about you: You're a batshit crazy partisan who is too unattractive and probably has too checkered a past to go directly into Democrat politics so you work from the shadows in the media.
How's that? Is that better than the euphemism?
Weiss also let go of a 60 Minutes producer, and replaced him with Nick Bilton.
The media are screaming that he has no prior television journalistic experience even though he's been an investigative journalist at the NYT and Vanity Fair.
And they're screaming for simple turf-protection reasons: They have a guild and they don't want non-guild-members replacing them so that they lose their phoney-baloney jobs.
I've got five words for you: Learn to fucking code, bitches.
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Muslim Man Shouts Allahu Akbar as He Stabs Three Citizens In Switzerland; a Leftist SWATs Amy Coney Barrett to Get Cops to Kill Her; a Man Threatens to Kill Erika Kirk and Blow Up Every TPUSA Event
—Disinformation Expert Ace
The red-green coalition continues killing us.
At some point, we're not going to put up with this any longer.
And then things will get interesting for the left.
And you should never wish to live in interesting times.
A leftist attempted to get cops to execute Amy Coney Barrett by calling in a fake report of a shooting at the residence, which of course causes cops to come armed and ready to kill any possible "attacker" on-scene.
Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck4h
Someone tried to get Amy Coney Barrett, her kids and husband killed last night. That's what swatting really is: Attempted murder. Cops come in guns blazing expecting a shootout. People who initiate these should go to prison for life. Thankfully, the cops talked with her security first and prevented a potential tragedy. The left has embraced evil.
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh3h
🚨 HOLY CRAP! A leftist just tried to get Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and her family KILLED by SWATTING her, reporting "gunshots" at her house last night
Barrett notably signed onto the ruling against racial gerrymandering, which harms Dems.
Swatting = ATTEMPTED M*RDER
In 911 audio, they said: "Units responding to suspicious noise...unknown if it's going to be a swatting situation."
Whoever made the call committed an act of terrorism. Lock them up.
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Formerly Beloved British Series "Doctor Who" Is Now So Toxically Woke and Unpopular That No Actors Are Willing to Step Into the Role
Formerly Beloved British Car Brand Jaguar Loses 99.4% Of Its Profit Year-Over-Year
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Who can say why. It's all a mystery.
The role has been cursed by wokeness, and now no actors want to play Doctor Who, because they don't want to be associated with the "baggage" of the previous seasons of woke poison.
Although the show is currently on a long unplanned hiatus, the BBC had planned a "Christmas" special-- which became a New Years Special during its woke years because the show didn't want to acknowledge Christmas*. But even the "Christmas" special is in doubt because they just can't find an actor to play Doctor Who.
This is probably due to the fact that they are determined to do more woke gender- and race-bending stunt casting but the potential DEI Doctors don't want to jump into this garbage swamp at any price.
Everything woke turns to shit:
The Doctor Who Christmas special could be exterminated as the BBC is allegedly unable to find a new lead star.The show is in a state of flux after ending its latest series in May 2025 with the sudden departure of Ncuti Gatwa as the Time Lord.
The ungrateful gay immigrant flounced when he was asked to be a jury panelist for their boradcast of Eurovision. The rumor that went around was that she refused because Israel was a contestant. The "official" reasons for the sudden withdraw all seem like bullshit -- too tired! his schedule is so hectic! -- and they keep changing. Soon after he was announced to no longer be Doctor Who. Which suggests the BBC was sick of him after his horrible ratings. People with horrible ratings don't get to act like entitled divas for long.
Former companion Billie Piper appeared to replace Gatwa as the show's new Doctor, when the character underwent a regeneration at the end of the episode.Piper's inclusion was a "very last-minute" decision, according to the star, and came after a sharp decline in viewership ratings. The BBC opted to put the show on hiatus for the remainder of 2025, meaning there was no festive special, but showrunner Russell T Davies wrote an episode, starring Piper, that was due to be released this December.
However, it's been reported that the special might be scrapped as bosses are struggling to find anyone to take on the permanent role of the 16th Doctor, as Piper's appearance will be for one episode only. Instead, the BBC would forge ahead with a new series airing Easter 2027."With less than seven months to go, [the special] looks like it's hanging in the balance," a source told The Sun.
"The problem is that they have found it difficult to find anyone who'll take on the part of the 16th Time Lord, partly because it now feels like a role that comes with all the baggage of the most recent series.
The source added: "There are fears that even if they do manage to pull something together, it is going to be a poor cousin to previous Christmas specials which have always been adored by fans." The BBC declined to comment.
Have they?
..."Rest assured, Doctor Who is going nowhere," Phillips said at the Edinburgh TV Festival, with Lindsay Salt, the BBC's director of drama, saying they were "committed" to bringing the show back.
What an unfortunate and revealing way to phrase that.
Phillips addressed a potential end to the BBC's "great" production partnership with Disney+, adding: "Going forward, with or without Disney, Doctor Who will still be on the BBC. The Tardis is going nowhere."
LOL. It's like she's subconsciously trying to admit the truth.
Gatwa, 32, said he left the programme because "it's a role that demands a lot of you, physically and emotionally and mentally".
And Judaically.
Speaking of woke disasters:
Remember Jaguar's aggressive repositioning from a car for wealthy men looking for a little speed and style to a transgender toaster for mentally-ill folx on welfare?
Their profits dropped, and this is not a joke, 99.4%.
The Guardian claims it's all due to Trump's tariffs (which are now a very reasonable 10%), a cyberattack, and generally poor conditions in the auto industry.
It has nothing to do with deciding that rich men were no longer the target clientele but rather transgender mutants living in public housing.
Jaguar Land Rover annual profit falls 99% after US tariffs and cyber-attack take tollBritain's largest carmaker says sales also hit by competition in China as it publishes financial results
by Jasper Jolly
Jaguar Land Rover's annual profits have slumped by more than 99% as it counted the cost of US tariffs and a cyber-attack that disrupted its factories for months.
Britain's largest carmaker made only 14m pounds in profit before tax and exceptional items in the year to March, down from 2.5bn pounds the year before, according to financial results published on Thursday.
The manufacturer, which employs 33,000 people in the UK, suffered a series of blows as Donald Trump's automotive industry tariffs caused turmoil in its important export market.
That was followed by a damaging cyber-attack on the last day of August that forced the company to shut down most of its systems and factories for weeks, with disruption rippling on through the autumn.
The tariffs, which Trump raised to 25% before agreeing a deal for 10% for the UK, hit US demand for JLR's luxury cars, before supply of products was halted by the attack. As a result, revenues fell to 22.9bn pounds, down by more than a fifth compared with the previous 12 months.
Did anything happen to the brand that might have caused demand to fall, I wonder?
JLR also said sales were hit by competition in China, where a huge number of carmakers are introducing new products.
JLR was not alone in struggling with tough conditions within the automotive industry. The Japanese manufacturer Honda on Thursday reported its first annual loss in 70 years as a listed company.
Honda was forced to write off 1.6tn yen (7.4bn pounds) in investments in electric cars after Trump removed subsidies for battery vehicles, pushing it to a loss of 423bn yen.PB Balaji, who took over as chief executive of JLR only a few weeks after the hack, said: "JLR faced a challenging year with revenue and profit affected by multiple headwinds, including a pause in production following the cyber incident."
However, he said the company "ended well" and had "come back resiliently".
Uh-huh. Your anus is very resilient but there's just so much pounding it can take.
No mention of this:
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Fidel Castro's Daughter Doesn't Deny That Blackface-Wearing Gay Canadian Justin Trudeau Might Be Her Bastard Half-Brother
—Disinformation Expert Ace
He looks like Castro, and he's a stone-cold authoritarian communist bitch. Almost as if he was trying to impress the man he knew to be his father.
His mother was said to be enamored of Fidel Castro and would visit the country a lot. Whether her cuck husband Pierre Trudeau approved or objected impotently, we don't know.
Apparently this rumor has been "debunked." Allegedly Trudeau's mother did not meet Fidel Castro until 1976 -- allegedly -- and Castreau was born in 1971.
So this could just be a bunch of hooey.
But Castro's own daughter seems to accept the possibility of the "conspiracy theory" being true.
Alina Fernandez, the exiled daughter of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, was pressed on Tuesday night over claims that former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is her "half brother," and did little to put the long-running conspiracy theory to rest.The claim, mentioned by President Donald Trump in his 2024 Save America book and pushed by online believers, alleges that Castro is Trudeau's real father, not Pierre Trudeau.
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"For years we've heard rumors that Justin Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada , could be your half brother. What do you think about it?" she said.
Fernandez smiled and apparently unwilling to give up any family lore, she replied: "The only thing I can say is that his mother used to visit the country very often."
"Well that may be a tell then," the host followed. "I guess that's a half answer."
"Yes," her guest responded.
"Do you plan to call him and maybe find out?" Pavlich pressed.
"No, no," Fernandez said. "If he wants he's welcome but I won't, I won't. I think he keeps that to himself and you have to respect that."
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Gavin Newsom: The State Will Tax the Enemies of the Democrat Party at a 100% Rate to Save Democracy
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Seizing the estates of political enemies. Sounds very democracy-savey.
He says they will change California law to seize 100% of recompense paid to Californians from the weaponization fund for Biden Regime abuses.
Well, I'll tell you, I've been sick of liberal state governments paying out jackpot awards to Antifa and BLM "protesters" who beat cops and get arrested in return. The Democrat Party is using taxpayer funds to pay its terrorist street militias to beat up cops and menace citizens.
So it's time for the federal government to impose a 100% tax on payouts to "protesters," especially those of Antifa, BLM, the John Brown Rifle Club, etc.
Tit for tat. If you want to go full Civil War -- We're your huckleberry. You'd be a daisy if you'd oblige us.
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DOJ Now Investigating Obvious Perjurer For, Get This, Obvous Perjury
—Disinformation Expert Ace
My first reaction to hearing about the DOJ investigating the perjurious elderly lunatic whore was negative. I didn't like the "optics" of the DOJ investigating Trump's enemies.
But then I remembered the context: The Democrats turned the entire prosecutorial network, state and federal, into a machine for prosecuting Trump and his allies and even the lawyers defending Trump and his allies from their prosecutions.
Let me posit: It would be criminal to not use the prosecutorial resources of the country to prosecute Democrats and their lunatic fabulists.
We have been told many times that "No one is above the law."
And that includes Democrats, who are actually criminals. The only reason we weren't routinely arresting and jailing Democrats was the prudential consideration that jailing the political opposition, even when they were criminals in league with foreign powers and poisonous anti-American terrorist groups, was that prosecuting your political opponents, even when warranted, would kick off a cycle of each party attempting to jail each other each time the White House changed hands.
But they already began this cycle. And they've already announced their criminal intention to prosecute everyone associated with Trump, and possibly just his voters and supporters, the moment they can steal another election.
Given these facts, we have no choice but to adapt to the new poisonous reality the Democrats have created and use the machinery of political prosecutions against them.
From David Strom, although she clearly lied about the entire sham story -- and ripped it off from an episode of Law & Order: SVU her mentally-demented mind remembered -- she's being specifically investigated for lying about being paid to bring charges against Trump.
She straight-up lied about her expenses being paid by deranged communist billionaire Reid Hoffman, who desperately needs some prosecutorial resources devoted to him as well.
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
I am agnostic on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As Sefton and I discussed on our recent podcast, AI can be useful, but it certainly isn't ready for prime time, and it can also be overbearing and immensely irritating.
That's because the hysteria in corporate America about inserting AI into absolutely everything has become ridiculous. Instead of rolling it out into their businesses as needs and opportunities arise, many companies are shoehorning it into every part of their operations, including most annoyingly, customer service. Sending an email to a company with a question or issue about a product or service shouldn't become an exercise in futility as one wades thorough the often nonsensical responses of an AI system. AI phone systems are particularly annoying, especially since its ability to provide meaningful assistance is in its infancy. Does one really have to wade through three minutes of perky AI voices just to speak to a human, or even worse, leave a message because "Call volume is higher than average?"
I am not a luddite...AI absolutely has its uses, and is becoming a powerful tool, in particular in technical fields where the prompts are tailored, and the databases are specified. And it can be a superb web search engine...sifting through the millions of pages of nonsense to get useful information.
But it has become so pervasive that I find myself reflexively rejecting its presence...disabling it whenever I can, or simply moving on to other, more human-friendly companies and websites that don't shove AI in my face.
DuckDuckGo Installs Surge 30% as Consumers Reject Google 'Force-Feeding' AI with Search Engine
DuckDuckGo, which positions itself as a privacy-focused alternative to Google, has experienced a significant increase in user adoption following the search giant’s announcement of major changes to its search platform that heavily incorporate AI.TechCrunch reports that DuckDuckGo claims that U.S. app installs increased by an average of 18.1 percent week-over-week during the period from May 20 to May 25, compared to the previous week of May 13 to May 18. The growth was sustained for six consecutive days and reached a peak of 30.5 percent on May 25. On iOS devices specifically, the rate of installation was even more dramatic, with week-over-week growth averaging 33 percent and peaking at 69.9 percent.
The surge in interest comes in direct response to Google’s announcement at its annual I/O developer conference that AI would take over its search engine, as previously reported by Breitbart News:
This isn't an endorsement of DuckDuckGo. But it's a great example of what many people are doing in every facet of our technological lives. And it reminds me of the EV craze! Auto companies built EVs at a frantic pace, carefully ignoring the reality that their customers simply didn't want them. As Buck Throckmorton has ably demonstrated on these pages over the last few years, the EV insanity has come crashing to earth, because of the immutable laws of economics.
My guess is that AI will find its niche and become an indispensable tool for certain industries and certain people (it already is for many!), but it will be nothing more than an occasionally useful tool for most people.
Will it take over the world? Probably not. The last time I checked, AI couldn't repair an air conditioner or fix the plumbing or frame a house. It can make fun videos though!
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