Caption: Yes, I know there is a Communist, Green, Peace and Freedom, and Libertarian Party, but they don’t seem to grab the national political stage. The Democrats should rename themselves the National Socialist Worker’s Party to try and bring their name into line with their philosophical bent.
SciFi Parties (image)
Your spacecraft crashes on a barely habitable planet and lands on spores that will likely eat the ship. What do you do? (Image) Get naked!
There are different sorts of parties.
A Note to Angry Woke Females
You’ve bought into the ginned-up hyperbole in media, Democrat, and academic circles that Trump’s supporters are a threatening patriarchal army of stormtroopers, and you’re the brave resistance, fighting the good fight from your romanticized underground. You believed that they were going to be coming for you, kicking in doors and dragging you off, forcing you into those idiotic Handmaid Tale outfits, and breeding you against your will.
And now you’re going to spend the next two months commiserating with other paranoid lefties, re-shaving your head and putting on 25 pounds from binge/grief eating, and preparing for the lowering of the Orange Curtain (so much worse than the Iron Curtain of your socialist co-religionists!) over your imagined Amerikka.
And then, a couple of weeks after the inauguration, you’ll discover that no one has come for you. You shaved your head, quit your job at the vegan bookstore, got a few more piercings and a Planned Parenthood solidarity tattoo on your right butt cheek, stopped paying the rent on your apartment (since you’ll soon be in a camp), and braced yourself for the ominous knock at your door.
But nobody came. Not on the first day of “Trump II: the Re-Trumpening.” Not during the first or second week.
And then you’ll stagger out into the street, bloated and bleary-eyed from crying yourself to sleep, blinking in the sunlight, and running your hand over the ugly stubble on your stupidly shaved head. You’ll see happy and optimistic citizens walking around with purpose as they begin to enjoy a newly liberated America, with an economy that’s picking up and civil rights that are being protected.
And it will dawn on you: We don’t hate you. We don’t even know you. Your angry social media manifestos and your slam poetry meant to overturn the capitalist system have had no impact other than making you unnecessarily miserable. The patriarchy isn’t afraid of you or obsessed with controlling you. It doesn’t care about you one way or the other because it’s not a thing. You’re not a member of an exciting, transgressive new gender because there are still only the two.
You’re just a gullible goofball who fell for the lies of the most hateful, oppressive grifters to appear in America. If you can accept that realization, get through the shame, and repent – renouncing the leftist devils and all of their evil ways – we’d love to have you join us as we do our best to undo the damage of the last four years.
(By the way, on your imbecilic charge of GOP “Nazism,” I am begging you to read just a little bit of history. The acronym “Nazi” refers to a party of “German socialist workers.” Hitler opposed international socialism, NOT because he was a conservative/right-winger, but because he was a xenophobe who wanted German NATIONAL socialism. Do you see the through-line there? Hitler vs. Stalin was a socialist-on-socialist battle royale.)
The Poor Man’s Cocaine
The UAE has launched a new anti-drug strategy as the country — and the broader Gulf — contends with an influx of captagon, often called the “poor man’s cocaine.” Fenethylline or fenetylline is a codrug of amphetamine and theophylline and so a mutual prodrug of both. It is also spelled phenethylline; other names are amphetaminoethyltheophylline and amfetyline. The drug was marketed for use as a psychostimulant under the brand names Captagon, Biocapton, and Fitton. Construction companies in the Middle East purchased it to distribute to their workers. A French company set up manufacturing in Syria, where the bulk of Captagon is produced. It started as a scheme to get more work out of the “wogs” doing the heavy lifting, and now that they’re hooked on it, the drug is becoming a problem with the “guest workers” in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, etc.
From what I’ve learned, the local elite Muslim youth (not foreign workers) who have difficulty finding cocaine to get high on have found that they can get loaded on Captagon cheaper, and it’s available. Ooops.
Before you ask, of course, there’s a French Connection.
Bullet Points:
** If an alien on a planet 65 million light years away is looking at Earth through a telescope, they see dinosaurs.
** Millions saw the apple fall. Only Newton asked why.
** Just before Tuesday’s presidential election, the Biden-Harris administration quietly waived mandatory terrorism sanctions on the embattled Palestinian government—even as it determined that the government’s leaders are paying imprisoned terrorists and inciting violence in breach of U.S. law.
The State Department, in a non-public notice to Congress, determined that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are not complying with agreements to curb terrorism against Israel and end the “pay-to-slay” program, which rewards imprisoned terrorists for committing acts of violence.
Those violations should trigger American sanctions, barring members of the Palestinian government from obtaining U.S. visas. The Biden-Harris regime nonetheless used its executive power to waive the sanctions.
** My family is addicted to MacGyvering, and it’s becoming a problem when I visit my kids. Every time something in their house breaks, instead of doing the sensible thing of replacing it or calling someone qualified to fix it, we all group around the offending object with a manic look in our eyes, and everyone gets a try at fixing it while being cheered on or ridiculed by the rest.
** According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, agents at the El Paso Port of Entry discovered 11,100 rounds of 7.62 ammunition in recent days concealed in a pickup truck being driven by a Mexican national. “The volume of this seizure is substantial,” CBP El Paso Director of Field Operations Hector Mancha said in a press release. “To put it in perspective CBP officers working at El Paso area ports seized 15,678 rounds of ammunition in all of fiscal year 2021, 7,224 rounds in fiscal year 2022 and 11,205 rounds in fiscal year 2023.”
** Trump’s nomination of Kash Patel as FBI Director will throw the permanent Washington D.C. swamp creatures and their pals in the Legacy media into a complete frenzy, and it will be glorious to watch. If Patel took over, most of the FBI would resign. He would be a perfect fit.
The New World Order (revisited)
The tears of the Davos Crime syndicate are indeed delicious. Here’s the thing, Globalists: The New World Order has SUCKED for America, and Americans are sick of it.
Endless, POINTLESS wars, half of which we lost or walked away from in shame, the gutting of our manufacturing base, an invasion of tens of millions of illegals, 35 TRILLION in debt – we are done. America First.
Europe – sort your shit out. We have babysat you for 70 years. Russia can’t even conquer Ukraine; they aren’t rolling into Berlin anytime soon; they want to sell you oil. Let them. And let Trump negotiate an end to the war.
Iran’s currency crashed on the news of Trump’s return. Brace for the impact, Islamo-Nazis. Release the hostages, just like Khoemeni did when Reagan swept that boob Carter out of office. Or else. You now have permission to make peace with Israel.
For the many millions of Americans and billions of foreigners who have never read the U.S. Constitution, show me in there where it says it is our job to police the world. The only way to prevent the American Empire from crashing down is to STOP BEING AN EMPIRE. Return to the Republic as the Framers, and Lincoln saw us to be, not the cash cow and war machine Dick Cheney thinks we should be.
This whirlwind has been coming for a long time. Buckle up.
Just when you thought that the Planet was Safe…
The Tomorrow War 2 teaser opens with Chris Pratt’s character, Dan Forester, haunted by the memories of the past war. The scene cuts to a futuristic lab, where scientists study the White Spikes remnants, learning of an even deadlier species lurking beneath the ice. An unexpected visitor from the future, heavily injured, arrives to warn that humanity’s previous victory triggered a new global invasion—stronger, faster, and more intelligent enemies than before.
As Earth braces for a second war, humanity turns to advanced technology, time travel, and even the help of alien species. We see a glimpse of massive battles with drones, mechs, and new weaponry. A key twist reveals that the real enemy may not be the creatures themselves but something more sinister controlling them. Dan and his team must prepare for an all-out battle to save their timeline and the universe’s future.
Costco Butter
Few regulatory agencies seem familiar with the expression, “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” Common sense also seems alien to them. How else can one explain that the FDA pushed Costco to recall 80,000 pounds of butter because the packaging didn’t have an allergy warning saying that the “cream” listed on the ingredients is a form of milk?
Identify the Feature Film/Series
A
B
Identify the Aircraft
1
2
3
4
5
Not an Me-163 in British livery.
Parting Shot
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On identity the aircraft put in Snoopy doghouse , for fun.
We have had Snoopy on the dog house, Snoopy shooting down the Red Baron, and the Red Barron shooting down Snoopy in the past (Curse you Red Baron). I’ll keep my eye out for a cool Snoopy graphic and we can do it again.
A is The Rock set on Alcatraz Island prison.
B is probably The Last Remake of Beau Geste
A is correct
B probably is not – close but no cigar.
1qThe Rock, March or Die, F7F Tigercat, Bristol F2b
Identify the Feature Film/Series:
A. The Rock
B. March or Die
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Grumman F7F Tigercat
2. Bristol F.2b
3. McDonnell Douglas RF-4B
4. North American OV-10B(Z), German target tug variant
5. De Havilland DH 108
Very good!
Legalize Archimedes Plutonium!
I suspect a few of the Usenet-era folks will know what that means.
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Democrats and National Socialism? We should be so lucky as to have “national”. The entire point is to abolish any sense of American identity. At least for people who check any of the following boxes: straight, white, Christian. And that’s why we will not walk away from Empire. How long has it been since our armed conflicts have served the interest of the American people as a whole? The purpose of Empire is not just corporate, but also to use the military and economic might of the US to crush their enemies. Hint: EVERYONE, including the general American public, are their enemies. We’re just lower on the list. And you know there is A List. “I like you, Sully. That’s why I’m going to kill you last.”
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Just made it through airport security. My domestic flight is for some reason out of the international terminal. What a shitshow. I had my first transsexual TSA agent (that I know of). The … person looked like actor Michael Shanks (Stargate) in a bad wig. And two full sleeves of tats. Actually this person was one of the most professional TSA people. It just got worse from there. Demographic stereotypes. Enough said. And apparently Miss Massachusetts is on this flight, on her way to some other contest. They just announced it at the gate. For some reason. I was wondering why some blonde girl was wandering around in a green pantsuit sort of thing with a white silk sash.
Happy landings…you’re lucky that MikeW (the OTHER Mike) isn’t flying, he’d be doing barrel rolls because he can.
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I have come to dread flying commercially. It’s ok when somebody picks me up in a Gulfstream. It’s not the flight; it’s the process, the humiliation, the crowded cabin, the yowling infants, the asshole kicking the back of my seat, the crappy food. TSA can be good or bad. I’ve experienced both. Usually, in small airports such as Reno, they’re very polite and helpful.
Agreed. Manchester (MHT) beats Boston Logan by a country mile, TSA-wise. Colorado Springs (and yes, Reno) were way better than Denver. I don’t know how Dulles compares with DCA in terms of volume, but Dulles had the worst TSA I’ve ever encountered. They left me alone, but they were openly laughing about giving white families a hard time. And they were doing it. So it’s DCA for me.
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There seems to be a trend of wearing a loud-print beach towel as a cape while going through security. Saw it again this morning. Not sure if there is any significance other than “big towel not fit little carryon bag” but so far it’s all been black women doing it. Sometimes I feel like I’m in John Wick world where there’s all this other stuff under the surface that normies simply aren’t aware of. Or it’s just random idiots wearing towels.
I definintely need a towel. Is there a website where I can order a good one?
Amazon.
Bamboo fiber.
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Are they TSA approved?
As Ford Prefect told Arthur Dent, a towel is the most useful bit of travel kit a being can have. I’d forgot that. Perhaps those women are disguised space aliens.
Also, somewhere in my parents’ house is a towel I had signed by Douglas Adams. He burst out laughing when my friend and I showed up with towels instead of his nice shiny new hardback book to sign. That was, goodness, 40 years ago. 😮
You also need the electronic thumb thingy (Electronic Sub-Etha Signaling Device) or the towel won’t be of much use. Dolphins don’t need them and of course, neither do mice.
a minor quibble: “…to undo the damage of the last four years.”
the last sixteen years, ever since BHO was inaugurated
IMHO, Joe Biden’s just a bank who”s been disbursing moneys (income from taxes) to various supporters in several countries: call me paranoid.
Agreed.
I’d push it back to cover 1992 and on. The Clintons did a lot of damage to the intelligence community. Having to read insurgents their rights when ‘arresting’ them? Pshaw.
I hear that Biden entertained Hitler in the White House yesterday, and they got on famously.
the dims and rinos alike are squalling bloody murder over gaetz, hegseth and the rest of trump’s picks. he must be right on the money. they say “trump loyalists”. isn’t that a requirement? i didn’t see any conservatives in biden’s regime. “unqualified”? like buttboy, the admiral, et al were? the rinos better wise up, there’s a new boss in town and he isn’t afraid to fire folks no matter what color necktie they wear.
The howls are like Wagner: Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla to my ears.
Where could angry woke females read accurate history about the leaders of Germany and Russia fighting? Where could they learn the best description of the political spectrum is more or less centralization of control?
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2A covers every form of weapon. But safety risk is still a thing, so don’t point it at me and I don’t believe you that it’s unloaded. Minimum punishment for ignoring a safety rule is ten million counts of reckless endangerment?
That’s right. I forgot that they can only read Alinsky.
“The State Department” is out of sync with Biden Inc? That’s interesting.
“The volume of this seizure is substantial,” 11100 rounds? That’s almost 3 times what’s in my closet! The horror!
The loss of 11K rounds wouldn’t put much of a dent in my supply unless we’re talking 50 BMG specialty rounds.
More than two parties? It has been shown mathematically that multi-party systems collapse to two parties over time. It makes sense, and seems inevitable if the winner has to have more than 50% of the votes, but I never saw the “proof” so I can’t grade it.
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Captagon sounds like an ingredient in a dystopian fiction novel. Like soma in Brave New World.
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Angry woke females are another result of “you’re so special!” and “everyone gets a trophy.” To be told, “I honestly don’t know who you are and I don’t care a bit about you” is like an insult.
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Recreational Plutonium? Tell me more! Back in 2010 (I had to look it up) I said I liked the idea of getting the A4W nuclear reactors used on aircraft carriers and spreading them around the country – a widely distributed power grid. That was before I had even heard of the small, modular reactor concepts, and picking the A4W was because it has NSN (stock number) and can be widely produced to available prints. At least in concept.
Different parties: “There ain’t no party like the Dictator Party ‘coz the Dictator Party don’t stop.” Kevin “Hognose” O’Brien, SFC, SF, Ret., proprietor of the WeaponsMan blog before he passed way too early several years back, R.I.P., archived here, hie thee hence and be ye entertained and enlightened:
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https://weaponsman.com/category/kevins-archive/
MacGyvering. Indeed, the trick is knowing when to call the plumber. Are your family members allowed to consult YouTube, or do you deduct points for that? I confess that YouTube has bailed me out more than once. In a past decade, I found the info I needed to repair a friends Chinese copy of the Tokarev pistol. More recently, our mini-fridge got zapped by a power surge. (Yes, it is plugged into a surge protector now). I learned about the starter relay/overload protector, then found one on Amazon for $7. To coin a phrase, “Cool!”.
YouTube tutorials are acceptable for reference because some are made by maniacs and will screw you up if you’re totally clueless.
Does anyone think the swamp will just fold? Won’t resist? Look at the recent “secret vote” vote to pick a new Senate leader. Did any of the new Senator elects get to vote? Pogo, “We have met the enemy and he is us”, applies.
Seems some Border Patrol boots on the ground are deciding not to retire now. Others, retired may come back. Perhaps retired FBI agents who quit in disgust will come back and man a special group to purge the agency?
” man a special group to purge the agency”
I like this:
The Wall Street Journal reported today that the Trump transition team is drafting an executive order to “create a board to purge general officers.” Such a board, the article’s subhead warned, “could upend military review process and raise concerns about politicization of military.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump-prepares-a-pentagon-plucking-committee/
This is from the CBP POE El Paso. It happened in August…
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-seizes-more-90000-rounds-ammunition-leaving-us
The Rock movie is great because it had real SEALs in it.
Both legends Harry Humphries and Denny “Snake” Chalker along with Joe Hawes of ST3 are in various scenes.
I attended some excellent training from their company GSGI right after they finished filming “The Rock.”.
“The Rock” is probably the best post-Roger Moore ‘James Bond’ movie ever. (I like the campiness of Roger Moore James Bond movies, so sue me.)
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Especially when you work the timeline of Sean Connery’s character and he gets arrested and put in prison just after Sean Connery stopped playing James Bond. In “The Rock” SC plays a British Secret Service ’00’ rated spy, who has a lot of information on crap in America (who shot Kennedy, yada yada yada.) Connery’s cool portrayal works especially well with Cage’s weird but effective acting style.
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It is a favorite in the Beans’ household lineup of movies.
The swamp will NOT go quietly. Re the blue women, the are deluded, plain and simple. Since I’m old and broken, I’m not at the age where I just pay the man, rather that trying to fix anything anymore…sigh
in re “My family is addicted to MacGyvering…”
kudos to your family. We’ve gotten into the rut/cesspool of “as soon as anything doesn’t work the way ‘it should’, everyone says ‘toss the GD thing out and get a new one'”
we weren’t exactly poor, but, back in the ’50s, if the family (we had only one) TV didn’t work, I pulled the tubes and took them down to the store to check them out (and purchase a new new one if one were wonky – and if that didn’t work, I’d pull the chassis and start sniffing (and looking for signs of heat damage) the resistors and capacitors. The folks were still watching the same tiny screen (with magnifier) when I went off to college.
The “someone qualified to fix it” is usually charging too damn much these days.
When the wife (“y’ shouldn’a bought a house if y’ didn want to fix whatever goes wrong! if I can change diapers in the middle of the night, you can at least fix the pipes/wires/whatever when you git home [from a 12 hr+ day]”) and I moved into our first house, I became plumber, carpenter, and electrician.
I say again: kudos to your family!
Patel for FBI?
Trump tried to install Patel to serve as deputy director of the CIA or FBI in the final months of his presidency, according to multiple reports, but backed down after then-CIA Director Gina Haspel and then-Attorney General William Barr threatened to resign over the move, with The Times reporting Barr vowed Patel would help lead the FBI “over my dead body.”
Shoulda done it.
Are Patel’s legs long enough to step over Barr’s carcass? Or will he have to crawl over, pausing to raise an American flag on Mt. Suribachi?
I like that imagery.
Maybe he’ll just use a hockey stick with old glory lashed at the top to pole vault over Barr’s bloated half decomposed swamp carcass. And stick the landing!?
I like that imagery.
Haspel and Barr blocked Patel? Interesting. Is this ideology or tribalism? (I deliberately did not use capital-T tribal, though it fits here.) Will we transition from the “most Jewish administration ever” under Biden to the most Indian (so far … just you wait) administration ever under Trump II?
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Indians are and will not be content to be good little tech (regardless of H1b or naturalized) drones. The Chinese term for it is high-tech coolies. The Chinese, and other high-IQ East Asians more generally, somehow don’t seem to have the verbal dexterity and manipulation/spin skills and penchant for rules lawyering needed to rise to actual power in Western governments, so high tech (albeit well paid) coolies the East Asians will remain. (At least on the official, public side. I’m not talking about the organized crime side.) But the high-IQ fraction of South Asians have both the tools and the Will to Power. The coming tribal clashes in American Halls of Power will be “interesting.” Just don’t think too hard about whether you’re one of the elephants, or the grass.
“And it will dawn on you: We don’t hate you. We don’t even know you.”
And we don’t want to know you.
No, we don’t.
“gullible goofball”
RHSM, I applaud the whimsical and irenic nature of this post, but “goofballs”? Surely you meant “Satan’s whores.”
Did /pol cook up the shave head prank? If not, why not.
It’s a family blog, LSP.
If the Dems rebranded themselves truthfully, they’d call themselves the N-SEPs. National Socialist Elitist Party. Because a vote for a Dem candidate is a vote for an elitist proto-nuevo-feudalist ruler.
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It’s the truth. Find me a Dem candidate that doesn’t think they are truly above the great unwashed masses. To the extent that they will steal, cheat, rape, kill with nigh unto impunity, just like early feudal lordlings. Which is, one can get away with just about anything as long as the money keeps climbing the chain of graft and command.