John Gilberts @300

Danny Haiphong is awesome. Thanks.

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 26 2025 19:01 utc | 304

Re population? Children are not an endangered species. Any one who starts with that premise is a crackpot. Racists might have a problem with too few children of their preferred color, but they are simply contemptible. And by the way? Worrying about the global population and its melanin percentages is the other kind of globalism, the kind often called imperialism. So-called globalism as a movement of cultural revolutionaries aiming to undermine humanity itself—apparently as a non-profit service!—is also crank. That’s the sort of thing that gives conspiracy theory a bad name. It is amusing to think about the people worried about global population so often seem to believe that worrying about global climate is innately evil. But climate change brings ups issues that might cost the ruling class money. Dutiful servants always say, Government out of the boardrooms! Government into the bedrooms. Same difference.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Sep 26 2025 19:26 utc | 306

Get yer programs! Get yer programs!
Can’t tell your players without yer program:
Wm. Gruff: Stuck on “TDS”
Brennan: ditto
seer: stuck on “the Blob”

(Hope my “unordered list” renders properly here; where’s my preview already?)

Posted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 26 2025 20:38 utc | 308

Gorilla Radio: Chris Cook, Tyson Strandlund, Dan Kovalik, (corrected from above)

https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-tyson

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 26 2025 20:52 utc | 310

Posted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 26 2025 20:38 utc | 308

Looks like it’s you stuck on TDS … but Gruff is fool enough to believe he can somehow get you to admit it.

For those who don’t believe that a genuine mental health disorder is at work here … just take a look at the pregnant young women taking heavy doses of Tylenol … posting videos of themselves making public displays of self harm.

I don’t hate those women, I certainly have no hate for their babies … and I have seen a lot of things in the past five years that I never expected to see … but I really, really never expected young women going nuts like that, just for no other reason than to prove they disagree with everything Trump says. There’s got to be some bigger problems at work here, than one single polarizing politician.

I guess these women are to health, the way the old guard socialists are to economics. Maybe that’s a little bit of a stretch … but I’m not sure which side I am being unfair to.

Posted by: Tel | Sep 26 2025 21:15 utc | 312

Europe 5.5 USA 2..5
Afternoon fourballs:

5:25pm: Scottie Scheffler/JJ Spaun lose 3&2 to Jon Rahm/Sepp Straka

5:41pm: Bryson DeChambeau/Ben Griffin lose 1 up to Tommy Fleetwood/Justin Rose

5:57pm: Cameron Young/Justin Thomas win 6&5 against Ludvig Aberg/Rasmus Hojgaard

6:13pm: Sam Burns/Patrick Cantlay tie match with Rory McIlroy/Shane Lowry

Earlier…

Morning foursomes:

DeChambeau/Thomas lose 4&3 to Rahm/Hatton

Scheffler/Henley lose 5&3 to Fitzpatrick/Aberg

English/Morikawa lose 5&4 to McIlroy/Fleetwood

Cantlay/Schauffele win 2 up against MacIntyre/Hovland

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 26 2025 22:23 utc | 314

Posted by: Tel | Sep 26 2025 21:30 utc | 313

‘The man who mistook his wife for a hat’ (Oliver Sacks) was a great read. Had a copy back when I was studying psych at uni.
I’d like to read more of his works if I ever manage to find the time.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Sep 27 2025 0:23 utc | 316

Not Suspicious At All…

https://x.com/KitKlarenberg/status/1971587661472379033

“All the most irredeemable… out in coordinated full force on digital ID cards for Britain…”

‘I am not a number I am a free man!’ (The Prisoner)

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 27 2025 4:09 utc | 318

Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and its aftermath, continue to reverberate throughout the blogosphere in wildly stochastic patterns — beyond anyone’s power of prediction. Everything seems upside-down. We’re all adjusting our spectacles and preparing our gear for landing on a new political equilibrium, after this continual sequence of earthquakes. The new video evidence of a detonating lavalier mic radically narrows the rolodex of likely suspects: How many institutions regularly develop demonically ingenious assassination technology? Your daily Jeopardy question: Which country is known as “the assassination nation”?

The lavalier evidence also draws a much stronger focus on TPUSA security staff — especially “brown-shirt guy” signaling just to Kirk’s right at the fatal moment. Probably Candace Owens knows the name of “brown-shirt guy” — our apparent triggerman. She certainly could find out, with her connections into the Zionist cesspool called Turning Point. Candace has said that only two people can stop her investigation: her husband, or Erika — and that’s where things can get emotionally elaborate, to say the least.

Because a lot of folks, Aleph included, have gradually acquired a nearly instinctual distrust of a woman who keeps dabbing her eyes while never shedding a tear. Nick Fuentes is near the top of my list of commentators I dislike. Lately Fuentes embarrasses himself by deflecting blame from Israel, as if he took the silver coins at some point. But at the same time (since everything’s upside-down) his skepticism about Erika’s performative performances feels real:

Erika Kirk Suspicious & Benefited From Charlie Kirk Passing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRqWLDxrNlc

A youtoob reply to Fuentes sums up numerous concerns:

I’m glad Erika Kirk is rubbing someone else the wrong way. There’s just something so inauthentic about her entire demeanor and behavior post assassination that I can’t exactly put my finger on but is very off-putting and eerie. Her parents have a sketchy background in the defense industry, she allegedly has some weird history in Romania and she allegedly got set up with Charlie in Israel. I know it sounds kind of crazy but it’s not an uncommon phenomenon to have intelligence agencies honey pot someone with a romantic partner to use as a handler. Look at Kash Patel’s girlfriend for instance. Now, she is at the helm of TPUSA and could possibly be a running mate with JD Vance in the future not to mention the immense fortune she inherited.

Lady Macbeth for president!

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Sep 27 2025 8:10 utc | 320

The US is run as the best Mafia money can buy
@ psychohistorian | Sep 27 2025 5:18 utc | 319

This is why Coppola’s Godfather series is such a pinnacle: The story has a central concern with underworld morality. The strict Catholic code of Corleone crime-family ethics: some things you just don’t do, or if you do, you pay the consequences.

Everyone knew that basic folk wisdom before Coppola made it into a movie masterpiece. Post-Coppola, we should have even better acquaintance with such ethical systems. For instance: You can’t ride a mafia escalator to the top, and then decide to turn around, as if you got there on talent, start playing Mr. Cleanjeans. No way. I thought you knew that. I would have certainly thought that Charlie Kirk knew that. Was his fatal flaw pride, or innocence?

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Sep 27 2025 8:34 utc | 322

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Sep 27 2025 8:10 utc | 320
——————————————————————————
Since you seem to be a fan of the “exploding lavalier mike” scenario (I have to say I’m agnostic on the whole thing), I’ve seen a YooToob video by some guy that seems to debunk that theory pretty well: since the lavalier wouldn’t have simply exploded, but would have essentially been a miniature gun that fired a projectile, there would have to be recoil (equal and opposite reaction, Newton and all that), which was not at all evident; Kirk’s shirt would have been violently pulled away from his body.

In any case, it seems like a pretty iffy thing to believe in. And frankly it seems like wishful thinking on the part of those who’d like to pin this on Israel/Mossad. (Not that I wouldn’t put anything like this past them, especially after the pager assassinations; it just seems dubious in this case.)

Do you actually think that’s what how Kirk was killed?

Posted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 27 2025 8:52 utc | 324

Is that Gavin “No, I’m not running; no, really, I’m not at all interested” Newsom?

Posted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 27 2025 9:06 utc | 326

it must be reminded that we are talking about an extreme minority here. So much that, behind its excessive media exposure, it doesn’t have any effect for the rest of the society neither its demographics nor family. Personally I would rather look into poverty and capitalist exploitation to explain the harm done.

Posted by: xiao pignouf | Sep 27 2025 8:30 utc | 322

I have to second that. And will add that the expressions of hate towards an already troubled minority are unnecessary and disturbing. Live, and let live.

Population growth is typically governed by the logistical equation. It puts a rate of change (the birthrate) in relation to various inhibiting factors from the outside. There are three basic modes of stability in the dynamics: zero, one, and periodic swings somewhere in between (depending on the boundary conditions). One represents the maximum population for the limiting ecosystem in the model. Zero is reached when the inhibiting factors for a given birthrate overpower the population.

Now arguing with that against queer couples is a bit over the top, methinks. Biological arguments don’t mix too well with politics.

Posted by: persiflo | Sep 27 2025 10:02 utc | 328

Stew Peters accuses “brown shirt and sunglasses” in this seminal podcast:

Mic Drop: Kirk Assassinated by Weaponized Lavalier
https://rumble.com/v6zgytu-mic-drop-kirk-assassinated-by-weaponized-lavalier.html

That’s the assassin. That’s the guy that pushes the detonator which perfectly aligns with the explosion that pushes that projectile through Charlie’s right side of his neck and out the left side creating the exit wound.

Other sources identify this “brown shirt guy” as Dan R. Flood, currently listed under the “staff” tab at tpusa.com/team/ …

Head of Risk Strategy–Executive Protection and Cybersecurity
Dan Flood serves as Turning Point USA’s Chief Asset Management Officer which oversees our Asset Management, Distribution and Risk Mitigation.
Dan is a graduate of Texas A&M University, where he received his Bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences. Dan was raised in a military and law enforcement family in Texas, where he learned at an early age about service to our nation and the US Constitution.  Upon graduation of highschool, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, where he specialized in Counter-Terrorism.  After the Marine Corps, he then began a career in the Executive Protection industry where he was first introduced to Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA in 2016.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Sep 27 2025 10:17 utc | 330

highschool, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, where he specialized in Counter-Terrorism.

A death squad member

Posted by: Exile | Sep 27 2025 10:27 utc | 332

Exile33@101:27

Yup “Counterterror” is terror

Posted by: will moon | Sep 27 2025 10:39 utc | 334

xiao pignouf | Sep 27 2025 8:30 utc | 322

I was around farm animals and wild animals have my life. I once saw it in two bulls that had been locked away from cows for a long time. When put out with the cows, they preferred each other.
I also saw it once in working dogs that were on a property that only used males not females as working dogs.
Many -places will only have male dogs as a femail cannot work when heavily pregnant and while the pups are young, then the pups have to be disposed – either sold, given away or put down.
But that particular property was the only place I have seen that occur and it began with just one dog that would mount anything.

What two consenting adults do in their private live is their business. What people do in public is public business. If this stuff wasn’t so heavily promoted by governments universities and schools it would not bother me.
Quite a number of countries now have banned the alphabet genda propaganda. Russia, China, Hungary, Georgia, a number of African states and others. Coupled to that they promote the family.

Some of that stuff coming out of the US afew years bag, drag day for children ect. Those video’s it was bad what was being done to young childrens minds. One woman in particular – she was a teacher and on facebook bragged about how she had convinced about 40% of the pre puberty children in her class that they wanted to be the opposite sex. She was proud of her achievement. Because it has been much promoted by all western governments, my sister, my former wife could see nothing wrong with that sort of thing.

Throughout human history have developed odd beliefs, many times, they simply cease to exist after developing odd beliefs.
The Australian aboriginal people were I think, the most stable societies in existence until the arrival of the British.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 27 2025 11:17 utc | 336

Mark2 | Sep 27 2025 12:28 utc | 338

This began with some clown with TDS calling me MAGA. Prior to that he/she took offence at me using the term woke.
Two parts to woke – Greta Thunberg climate change plus alphabet genda. With the alphabet gender stuff, child grooming is the worst.

You make a comment after I rote something about the child grooming videos that were coming out a lot several years back. I don’t think it a coincidence that you put in a comment straight after that.

The problem with the woke world is that is comes from an urban environment where people have lost any understanding of life. Everything is artificial. A world divorced from any reality.

Your ‘opinion’ holds about as much water as a sieve.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 27 2025 12:46 utc | 338

We watch the desperation of the Europeans now that they are running out of Ukrainians. With the defeat of the west in the war against Russia, much of the western world now seems to have dropped into total insanity.

When I looked into it, there was a documents 11 or 12000 children had gone missing from the Russian areas of bandera held Ukraine. One investigative journalist had track one rat line from Ukraine to Britain where a number of these children were trafficed through to the pedophiles of Britain. People high in UK government involved.

If you look at the governments of Europe and the anglo world that are fanatical about destroying Russia, they generally are the same ones that promote the woke agenda.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 27 2025 13:10 utc | 340

PeterAu1 337
“Im my opinion.
You were around farm animals too long,”

Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 27 2025 12:28 utc | 338

What an asinine comment-you belong in primary school with that type pf retort.

Posted by: canuk | Sep 27 2025 13:24 utc | 342

Posted by: William Gruff | Sep 26 2025 18:23 utc | 296

.

.

If you don’t understand that modern media is 100% a Blob construct, lad, you are beyond reach.

Posted by: seer | Sep 27 2025 13:36 utc | 344

Okay, so I reckon everyone is curious how that went with the homeless USian I took in one day … she still lives with me, it’s been three weeks today. The experience is eminently enjoyable.

Early on I had the feeling she was parachuted in like an angel on a rescue mission. As it is in such earthly circumstances, in truth we have to rescue each other. In my case it was a case of depression and possible PTBS which had me immobilized regarding my own situation with the home, but after being wakened with breakfast for a while and adapting to her sleeping schedule I feel considerably better. The same goes for her: after recovering for two weeks, she got three model jobs in three days. One with my neighbour, who has an agency, then one with a big brand who searched soemeone on facebook, and finally with the real pros from modelwerk who snatched her right out of the line 3 bus.

She is the second angel that I saw (and recognized). Both were black. She likes to talk about it, which I love. For some reasons I feel quite connected to the idea (and even the soul) of the „African village“, without having set foot on the continent myself. It might be to do with the recent influx of Africans we see in Hamburg; I realized that some of these peoples can do things that no one else of the many ethnicities which are living here does. They can be proud, for instance. The UPS guy’s smile when I see him in the yard. The west Africans talking loudly on their phones all the time. The Mamas in their huge and colourful dresses … one day on a bus ride, a mother (in a gigantic dress) was talking to her young daughter (in German!) how she felt not seen and appreciated on her job as a cleaning woman. I overheard it, got up and went over, bowed to her and said „thank you“ – she was all smiles and glowing. Their youth, who sometimes look so much more grown – it is them who I see reading books about the FED and talk level-headed about policy matters on the train.

My new friend grew up in South Central, LA. They just have to get along there somehow, she says. And they have to deal with a lot of historical baggage, of course. „Some of the bad experiences we are making come from unresolved spiritual tasks of our ancestors“ she told me, and that is an incredible piece of wisdom. It helps me to accept my fate, while at the same time not completely identifying with it.

It’s a bit weird she ended up in this dire situation in the first place. An ugly romance may happen to everyone, but then no one really cared when she decided to leave him whatever the cost. The girl that I actually love introduced her to me on a jam session, and it felt like she was saying „here, care for her“ which makes a lot of sense spiritually because she is herself very slow to build trust. Well, I am very patient, unfazed and confident, and now this starts working out too. The USian had already made some bad experiences with men who brought her in, which is unspeakably ugly but apparently common, so I built her a small enclosed corner in the far side of the room, while leaving a still cozy but essentially open space for myself next to the pantry.

I’m good at room design, and now everyone who comes in is taken by the beauty we managed to create in such a short time against all the odds. She didn’t have a cent left at one point, but we’re already sharing the kitty. And then, things like this dinner party yesterday happen. Because this place is actually an artist studio we got visited by a group of people from Köln with a travel guide (who is a friend) wanting to see Pilar’s art. It was a lovely evening, leaving the fridge full again.

Posted by: persiflo | Sep 27 2025 13:40 utc | 346

osted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 26 2025 20:38 utc | 308

.

.

And you appear to be stuck on bolshie dogma, lad.

Posted by: seer | Sep 27 2025 13:46 utc | 348

>>> “What were the odds BEFORE Kirk was killed – ‘taken out’ ???” <<<

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 27 2025 8:57 utc | 326

.

.

Yes, motive is pretty clear here. But who and how? Don't follow the guy or any MSM for that matter, and if his name broke through to even me, he held a high station. Now what?

Posted by: seer | Sep 27 2025 13:59 utc | 350

Posted by: canuk | Sep 27 2025 13:23 utc | 342

.”Be gone, troll.”

Posted by: seer | Sep 27 2025 14:05 utc | 352

Your intellectual sophistication is simply astonishing.

Posted by: canuk | Sep 27 2025 14:11 utc | 352

seer revives his inaugural ,”The Most Retarded Post I have Read Today”, for this idiotic tripe:

“No, the mafia would kill fewer people, turn a profit, and carry far more public approval. You probably think I’m joking.”

Posted by: seer | Sep 27 2025 13:52 utc | 350

Posted by: canuk | Sep 27 2025 14:16 utc | 354

Straight from the UN Secretary General’s mouth:

But here’s the problem. Investments in the right infrastructure are not keeping up. For every dollar invested in renewable power, just 60 cents go to grids and storage. That ratio should be one-to-one.

UN Secretary General speech from July 22, 2025

Translation: solar and/or wind power costs are actually 200% of the cost of the solar PV/wind itself.
As I have consistently stated: LCOE numbers for solar PV and wind are bullshit.

Posted by: c1ue | Sep 27 2025 14:39 utc | 356

Posted by: canuk | Sep 27 2025 14:16 utc | 355

.

.

Be gone, troll.

Posted by: seer | Sep 27 2025 14:49 utc | 358

Posted by: canuk | Sep 27 2025 14:35 utc | 356

.

.

Be gone, troll.

Posted by: seer | Sep 27 2025 14:50 utc | 360

Blair’s institute. TBI is pushing a single national data library and a new “front door” to patient records, embedding Britain’s health system within Oracle’s infrastructure.

The cash has turned TBI into what insiders call a “tech sales & lobbying operation for Oracle.” Its agenda mirrors Ellison’s global push to unify national data sets. He has been explicit about what matters most:

“The NHS in the UK has an incredible amount of population data,” he said, though it was too “fragmented” at present.

Two weeks later, TBI published “Governing in the Age of AI: Building Britain’s National Data Library”, echoing Ellison and describing the NHS as “fragmented and unfit for purpose.”

The NHS dataset is uniquely valuable. Unlike anything in the US or Europe, it contains comprehensive health records dating back to 1948. Its potential commercial value from drug development to genome sequencing is estimated at £10bn a year

https://nitter.poast.org/wikileaks/status/1971900917537550407#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 27 2025 15:06 utc | 362

I just have to report this from Reuters

Trump orders deployment of troops to Portland, ICE facilities
Trump said troops would protect “War ravaged” Portland, Oregon, and ICE facilities from “domestic terrorists.”

I moved out of Portland in 2018. Trump is trying to start a bogus left/right war to hide other failures and maintain control….will both sides demand the Epstein files?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 27 2025 15:41 utc | 364

psychohistorian | Sep 27 2025 15:48 utc | 366

Comes across normal on my laptop. I see seer likes to use a two dot spacing to fill up the thread. From memory, I think sites have to be set up in both computer mode and mobile device mode as both display differently.
Problems appear to be with mobile devices.

About the only problem I have is the username links on the main page don’t work. Once a thread gets going, I usually click on the last username in a thread and that takes me straight to the last post in that thread. From there I read back up. Now I have to click through the pages. Only a very minor annoyance though.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 27 2025 16:01 utc | 366

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 27 2025 15:41 utc | 365

.

.

So who do you think is firing bullets at ICE? What should be done about the violent freaks firing them?

Posted by: seer | Sep 27 2025 16:21 utc | 368

Trump is trying to start a bogus left/right war to hide other failures and maintain control….will both sides demand the Epstein files?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 27 2025 15:41 utc | 365

######

The rats will fight over the crumbs as the colonial loot runs dry.

One of America’s biggest social problems is that the social fabric has been shredded, and red hates blue and vice versa.

The US could have super weapons and the debt could magically disappear, but as long as people are at each other’s throats, the entire society is DOA.

Instead of a “peace President” who doesn’t understand grade school geography, America really could use a “uniter.” The problem is that the issues to unite over are bad for TPTB.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 27 2025 16:27 utc | 370

Posted by: canuk | Sep 27 2025 16:25 utc | 370

.

.

Be gone, troll.

Posted by: seer | Sep 27 2025 16:30 utc | 372

Posted by: too scents | Sep 27 2025 16:34 utc | 374

.

.

So your solution to violent freaks is to punish everybody else? Why not just punish the violent freaks?

Posted by: seer | Sep 27 2025 16:38 utc | 374

punish everybody else?

Posted by: seer | Sep 27 2025 16:38 utc | 375

—

Its an old OLD problem ==> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax

Unfortunately there is no general solution to Parento inequality ==> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency

I myself favour free rides ==> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem

Posted by: too scents | Sep 27 2025 16:46 utc | 376

FULL SPEECH: Russia Exposes Western Hypocrisy, Condemns Israel, Calls for Multipolar World | AC1G

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff5eDcSGPeI [ 20 mins

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 27 2025 16:48 utc | 378

@ Peter AU1 | Sep 27 2025 16:47 utc | 378

—

Compare and contrast with Portland’s Upper West Side ==> https://www.pdxmonthly.com/news-and-city-life/2025/04/west-side-portland-editors-note

Portland is a city of stark contrasts.

Posted by: too scents | Sep 27 2025 16:53 utc | 380

and nebulous links are a waste of time.

Posted by: seer | Sep 27 2025 16:52 utc | 380

—

Your posts are a new benchmark for ignorance.

Posted by: too scents | Sep 27 2025 17:04 utc | 382

Posted by: too scents | Sep 27 2025 17:04 utc | 383

.

.

No, that’d be you, bolshie.

Posted by: seer | Sep 27 2025 17:10 utc | 384

Yes, the peasants have always looked down on city dwellers for their decadent luxury and sinfulness—which I strongly suspect boils down to, city dwellers don’t own land, and we peasants don’t care if they all die.
steven t johnson | Sep 27 2025 17:20 utc | 386

And what land have I owned?
I dont bother to read your shit, but that was addressed to me. I only read that part not the rest of your long winded shit.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 27 2025 17:26 utc | 386

George Galloway and his family – have been detained at Gatwick airport.

https://nitter.poast.org/KitKlarenberg/status/1971967730116169878#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Sep 27 2025 17:45 utc | 388

“What does the autopsy say?

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Sep 27 2025 10:31 utc | 334”

The cancelled autopsy?

Who cannot be questioned?

Posted by: Mary | Sep 27 2025 18:05 utc | 390

I can find no evidence of protesters firing bullets on ICE in Portland.

Posted by: Oscar Romero | Sep 27 2025 19:28 utc | 392

@ 378 Peter and 381 tooscents

<a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/09/trump-says-hell-send-troops-to-portland-authorizes-full-force.html"Trump authorizes "Full Force" to battle crime-ridden Portland.

I wish I could give you the real scoop as to what is happening in Portland.

But I can not.

I live in the Portland area, frequently drive through downtown, follow the local news, and understand the trends.

I can say unequivocally that local news just does not care about impartiality any longer. The Oregonian has long ago outed itself as Frankfurt, Liberal, Climatist, and stoker of the Duopoly narrative of “freedom on the left and fascism on the right.” (The flip being communism on the left and freedom on the right)

But by and large, the Oregonian minimizes negative stories on local corruption, the inability to police crime, and a rampaging homeless population that, as you can see from Peter’s Twitter links, has no intention of turning down a free meal ticket, not when camping gear, clothes, food, clean needles, and cheap drugs are handed out for humanitarian reasons.

Being homeless doesn’t look so bad, until you get up close. Until you smell it. Until you see the deranged behavior of the souls writhing in hell.

Shame on the people in my state, including Washington, Oregon, and California, but certainly shame on the people in neighboring red states and communities that have no ability to offer up any meaningful alternative.

As I said, fair news reporting in my neck of the woods, has gone completely dark. Intel and Dutch Brothers, the two largest corporations in the state, are reorganizing and/or leaving for cheaper pastures.

At the Salvation Army food banks, I see lines of people and cars (even Teslas, 4Runners, and generally better than what I have) probably because of grocery costs rising but also because we are a nervous producer of food. But we are more or less a food desert, caught between 10$/gallons of milk at the Hoity-toity grocery stores where every clerk has a septum ring (even the males) and exclusive Kroger stores where security checks your receipt on the way out because of rampant theft.

Oregon (the west coast) is dying.

I can not tell you, like I said, if Portland really needs Federal Police because of local police being too strained, understaffed or underfunded.

As I said, fair reporting has gone dark.

Instead, we will soon be witnesses to another great stoking of the simmering anger that TPTB manage expertly and where the pink-haired pawns and the fairy brutes on the right clash in OldTown or Pioneer Courthouse Square a la 2016-2019.

Or a redux of Federal Officers defending their building.

Oregon is dying.

Too expensive.
Corrupt leadership.
Homeless/drugs epidemic.

Shame on us.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | Sep 27 2025 19:40 utc | 394

Do you actually think that’s what how Kirk was killed?
@ George the Zeroth | Sep 27 2025 8:52 utc | 325

What does the autopsy say?

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Sep 27 2025 10:31 utc | 334
————————————————————————————–
I don’t know.
Is that a rhetorical question? If so, do you know the answer?
Has there even been an autopsy? If so, have the results been released?
I haven’t been following things that closely.

Posted by: George the Zeroth | Sep 27 2025 20:19 utc | 396

persiflo | Sep 27 2025 13:40 utc | 347

schoene Erinnerung – an die Frau die Deutsch sprach – ich kann die Szene in meinen Augen sehen. Ich haette nicht den Mut ihr Danke zu sagen.

Posted by: fanto | Sep 27 2025 21:01 utc | 398

By the way, as to the simple-minded equation of rural with in-touch-with-reality, consider that rural is usually admired because it’s religious. Yes, nothing says in-touch-with-reality to these fakers as the yokels talking to God and getting instructed in His ways by the local clergy. Religiosity in this inverted view of reality is confused with morality. I say that cant is reactionary woke.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Sep 27 2025 21:06 utc | 400