Morning

Monster Monday.

Sunday Afternoon

Enjoy

Poll-Driven Party Can't Read Polls

Is immigration a good thing for the USA

Yes 79% (Highest ever)
No 17% (Lowest Ever)

Gallup pic.twitter.com/THrYZmkQtd

— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) September 7, 2025

Rotten Institutions

We've all seen what happens when the non-government portion of The Blob is activated for a supposedly righteous cause.  They help ensure we do things like invade Iraq, and are very good at it.

They've all pretty much gone silent on Russia and Ukraine.

In recent months, dozens of Russians have been expelled from the US and returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities.

When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US. Those dossiers, outlining their political beliefs and criticisms of Putin, could be used to prosecute them back home, campaigners believe.

The rest is behind the paywall, but you get the idea.

I am sure some of this has to do with Bezos destroying the Post, which for both good and ill was the way The Blob sent their memos to the rest of DC.

But most of it is just that these organizations were also just influence schemes for the worst people in the world, and when the wind shifts...

Worst Person/Great Point

I am quite sure that Dems are currently being told not to say things like this.

Morning

Sunday funday.

Saturday Happy Hour

Enjoy

Boom

I used to put these kinds of predictions on my calendar regularly. I should start doing that again.

Mommy He Shot Me Back

Some insight into what turned the tech guys into Nazis:

Mozilla guy (Eich) donates money to support banning same sex marriage. People - importantly, his employees! - get mad and he loses his position, eventually.  This is not being tossed out a window.  More importantly, who shot first, here? 

This is presumably what Marc Andreessen complains about on the rich guy group chat as he justifies going full MAGA to the beneficiaries of his patronage.

The American Empire

Not quite where I have always imagined.

Senator Pudding Brain

CIA not beating the allegation of "storage closet for elite failchildren."

Apparently there was a video, too (both since deleted).

This wasn't a slip. It was in a written speech and blasted out on social media.

Slotkin's only 4 years younger than I am. This was still an era were you grew up "knowing" this stuff through basic osmosis if your parents flipped on PBS occasionally, even aside from what you should have just learned.

Admittedly I knew this stuff a bit more than the average bear because my mom was a child in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, but still...

You can read coverage of the speech here, from a liberal outlet which puts in convenient ellipses to obscure the stupid part. The whole thing is the same fucking speech a certain kind of Democrat has been giving for 20 years, in which nothing can be justified separate from "national security" and a "threat from China."

Improving lives in America isn't a "national security" issue. You don't have to frame it that way.

Bernie Sanders: we should take these actions to improve the lives of Middle Class Americans (boo, hiss, communism)

Centrist Dipshit Senators: we should do unspecified things to improve the lives of Middle Class Americans because scary China (swoon, wow, so smart, brilliant)

John Blutarsky was closer to reality:

Friday Night

Rock on.

Leprechaun Barbecue

After many reports that Trump was trying to "induce" Eric Adams out of the race for mayor, he is, in fact, going to keep running. At least for today.

Short version is that he needs to drop out by 9/11 or he stays on the ballot, though there are a couple wrinkles.

Stay Away

Businesss keep your money and people out.

Around 450 people were arrested, said the Atlanta office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in a social-media post. The post described the people as “unlawful aliens.”

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Among those detained at the factory were South Korean employees of LG Energy Solution on business travel. Hyundai Motor said it believed that it didn’t directly employ any of those detained. LG Energy said Friday it was cooperating with the South Korean government and relevant authorities to ensure the employees’ safety and secure their prompt release from detention.

Certain kinds of business travel are of course perfectly legal for people from visa waiver countries, but don't expect agents with a quota to know or care. Heckuva job, here:

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Tori Branum is a Marine Corps veteran, firearms instructor, and Republican candidate for Georgia’s 12th congressional District.

She’s also a proud “America first” supporter of President Donald Trump. On Thursday, as agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security were still carrying out a raid at a Hyundai plant in rural Bryan County, just outside the district Branum is running to serve, she expressed pride in something else: her purported role in causing the raid, which resulted in the arrest of 450 people, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

“How do I feel about it? Good,” Branum tells Rolling Stone. “I have no feelings about the law. What’s right is right and what’s wrong is wrong.”

Certainly helping My President's plan to attract foreign investment.

Donald The Dove

Sorry, Mr. President, sir, this going to make giving you that Peace Prize (you were the best nominee!) a bit harder.

US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Friday that directs the Department of Defense to be known as the Department of War.

Y'all Motherfuckers Lying And Getting Me Pissed

I suppose a minor difference between reactionary centrists and the MAGA right is that the former are proud of being the smartest boys in the room, believing they know things they do not know and understand things they do not understand, while the latter embrace being dumbasses.

The former think you can win with debate club in the Marketplace Of Ideas and the latter are just, "fuck you, we're in charge."

Suspected

We're all enemy combatants now.

Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

Reiterating: drug smuggling is not a capital crime nor even (in itself) violent.

Monthly Jobs Report

There was some drama (nerd drama) earlier as the database tools weren't working, but +22K jobs for the month - shitty number, though the reality could be even shittier because lol nothing matters.

You need about +150K per month to keep up with population growth.

Gotta fire whoever the new guy is.

Morning

What will distract us from kitchen table issues today?

Happy Hour

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