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September 23, 2025
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My theory about that server farm in NYC attached to the cellular network: https://cheq.ai/blog/8-bizarre-click-farms-discovered-and-how-they-worked/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
It's not to attack the phone network, there are far less expensive ways to do that, it was to sell fake social media engagement, and probably a lot of the scams you get in text messages come from it.
…my officiant role in Idaho went well. What happens in the pre processional stays there but I was a bit nervous. In the moment thought I Elmer Fudded the first my lawfully wedded but in the post game nobody had noticed. The youngsters were nervous and were a bit breathy but also no errors. The plane trip home fucked dog…
First sunrise of fall.
Fair amount of color in northern Wisconsin.
The WSJ defendants moved to dismiss the Epstein birthday card libel complaint. Thought they might move to transfer to SDNY where their lawyers are. But NY and FL libel laws close enough and both have anti-SLAPP laws. With disclosure of the entire card by Congress it will be very hard to defeat the motion.
“ The plane trip home fucked dog…”
I assume you were dissatisfied in some way with your journey, but due to the ellipsis I am left in doubt.
Ryan Routh was found guilty on all charges. He responded by attempting to mill himself by stabbing himself in the neck with a pen.
Sorry, Ryan, but “John Wick” was fiction — and anyway you’re no John Wick.
NPR was reporting on the Jimmy Kimmel reinstatement today. About 2/3 of the way through the story - after getting the Progressive-Leftist-Man-On-The-Street interviews with citizens super proud of their accomplishments in defeating the Evil Orange censors with crowd pow-wah - the announcer got around to the sad trombone part of the story, where the conservative-toned networks have declined to resume broadcasting Kimmel and instead will broadcast local news or other more interesting material, like the crops report.
At this point the announcer intoned that ABC still has leverage over these recalcitrant markets: They have the power to withhold sports broadcasting of college and professional ball.
I thought, as I heard this, 'Perfect'. That's the ticket. You won't take the dog food, so we're going to block your sports ball. Absolutely perfect. Do it. NPR, and apparently ABC, really think this is going to improve their market share? They would broadcast this kind of sentiment? Watch Kimmel, or else?
It would seem that they cannot stop reminding us of who they are, even when they're losing they're obnoxious.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115255130298104593
Trump -
"After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form. With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option. Why not? Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win. This is not distinguishing Russia. In fact, it is very much making them look like “a paper tiger.”
Knee replacement has been accomplished! Thank you to the whole giant team who cleaned the various rooms for my health, made me comfortable, explained as many times as I asked, guarded me against post-op infection 🤞), imaged the knee, operated the robot, kept me safe under anesthesia, did the cutting, brought me back around, and showed me how to navigate while the knee heals.
Thank you also to those here who offered advice on the procedure!
I would like to know who paid for the SIM farm found by the Secret Service. 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards must have been expensive.
@Jamie Speedy recovery!
Get well soon Jamie, looking forward to your news about the marathon.
Speedy rebound, Jamie.
Re SIM farm - similar setups have been found in East Asia, owned by Chinese gangs (aka "Pogo") to support their sidelines of identity fraud - their original business is offshore internet gambling. Maybe with Chinese government connections.
Somebody mention Jimmy Kimml?Peachy said...
Jimmy Kimmel - Racist and Sexual misogynist Predator.
9/23/25, 10:30 AM
"Big Mike said...
Ryan Routh was found guilty on all charges. He responded by attempting to mill himself by stabbing himself in the neck with a pen."
Needed a better weapon:
'Tracing its roots back to the illustrious 19th century, Wahl Eversharp stands as a beacon of classic pen craftsmanship reimagined for the modern era. With a rich legacy spanning decades, the brand blends timeless design principles with cutting-edge engineering to produce fountain pens that exude unparalleled quality.
Godspeed, Jamie.
Rep. Jim Jordan
@Jim_Jordan
🚨BREAKING: Due to our oversight efforts, GOOGLE commits to offer ALL creators previously kicked off YouTube due to political speech violations to return to the platform.
“ I would like to know who paid for the SIM farm found by the Secret Service. 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards must have been expensive.”
It will be interesting. It may be social media influencing money or commie attack, we don’t know. If I wrote sf I would make a team that saw scammers in their virtual lair and attacked them by frenzied online battles to the death. “Execute the sql query Mr. De Croix! And save the log file on the hard drive, in five seconds disconnect the d drive from the network and power everything else down. By God they will not see the contents of that directory!
After having called President Trump a communist, Kamala Harris now says she supports Zohran Mamdani, a communist.
This same communist demon - wrote a Orwellian hate manifesto/ leftist thug inspiration to assassinate book for
Antifa-Soviets..
I have come to the conclusion that no story about President Trump, good or bad, should be paid attention to for at least 72 hours after anything is reported. Not even the current UN story. Stopped elevator? Teleprompter not working? Microphone cutoff? Causes and theories abound. Which are true? Or will we ever know?
Aggie said:
"Watch Kimmel, or else?
It would seem that they cannot stop reminding us of who they are, even when they're losing they're obnoxious."
That is who they are. Vile extremist leftists.
"Causes and theories abound. Which are true?"
Wait to see what the NYT reports. It's not that.
I realized this moring that I see the sunrise every day as it happens in 2 minute 3 second intervals, each lasting about 20 seconds. The back end of the track I run on faces east, so I see the change with every lap. Today was spectacular.
Lets all point and laugh at the fraudulent schniveling over-paid bitches on the tv.
HOLY CRAP! Turning Point USA has MORE THAN DOUBLED their new inquiries for high school and college chapters, going from 60,000 to OVER 120,000 following Charlie's memorial in Arizona, per
@AndrewKolvet
.
The movement is surging. The energy is REAL! 🇺🇸
"We are on the cusp of having a TPUSA or Club America chapter in every HS and College campus in America."
@Jamie
Congrats on becoming a cyborg - practice your intimidating look when you announce it. (wishing you a fast recovery)
@Jamie, walk as much ans possible and exercise that knee. Remember to concentrate on tightening the muscles that stabilize the joint as you walk until it becomes something you do automatically.
Good luck and best wishes.
and now a word from Megyn Kelly.
Cardinale is gone. Loren, Andress, Bardot survive.
I have no words;
“ there is a viral social media trend where some pregnant women—often described in media and posts as liberal or left-leaning—are filming and sharing videos of themselves taking Tylenol (acetaminophen) as a form of protest against recent statements by President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This appears to have started on September 22-23, 2025, following Trump’s announcement linking Tylenol use during pregnancy to a potential increased risk of autism in children.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15126539/pregnant-liberal-moms-taking-tylenol-tiktok-donald-trump.html
And she'll have fun, fun, fun 'til her Daddy takes her T-bird away!
I wonder if someone could write an LLM tool that by crawling Twitter and blog comment-sections, could detect the talking-point phrases of the day faster than normal humans can detect them. It would be interesting to see how subtle that kind of detection could be made. I'm sure it would be easy to create something that would note that some of today's talking-points included the specific words "loose affiliation" (whoever mailed out that one gets points for the Paul Simon reference), since so many tweets/posts appeared almost simultaneously on multiple sites using those words.
But would it be possible for a machine-learning algorithm to detect not just the words "Epstein files," but their being shoehorned into contexts in which they are mostly irrelevant?
I think the biggest challenge would be separating actual disseminated talking points from very similar human-created slop spread by parroting.
Also: What's the deal with the one-line tweets complaining about any profanity? They don't all come from the same account, but they're phrased mostly the same, so I assume that this is some kind of bot. But who is doing this and why?
Actually I do have a few words: I’m hoping the story is a hoax.
"“ there is a viral social media trend where some pregnant women—often described in media and posts as liberal or left-leaning—are filming and sharing videos of themselves taking Tylenol "
Trump should go on TV and proclaim "Do not jump in the lake!"
@Immanuel Rant -
I'LL BE BAHCK.
Eva Marie said...
I have no words;
“ there is a viral social media trend where some pregnant women—often described in media and posts as liberal or left-leaning—are filming and sharing videos of themselves taking Tylenol (acetaminophen) as a form of protest against recent statements by President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Called it.
All you have to do is assume the worst about leftists and you will seldom be wrong.
If you want a quick estimate of the relative degree of political corruption in a US state, look at their electricity rates. In the continental US there aren't really natural obstacles to power generation, or there haven't been for a long time. These rates are determined entirely by political policies that create local cost structures, because someone wants to feed off artificially raised costs.
CA - 33.5 cents/kwh
NY - 26.18
IL - 18.33
TX - 16.28
Etc - https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a
Trump should go on TV and proclaim "Do not jump in the lake!"
Better yet, he should proclaim that he’s in favor of breathing.
Kimmel monologue at last thanks some people on the right for free speech support, otherwise everything is the Trump menace, and gives signs that the show isn't going to be funny.
Regarding pens as weapons and their potential effectiveness in stabbing necks:
There's a market for "Tactical Pens." These are pointy metal or plastic objects with a pen inside, and they may evade detection with security screenings. Some of them are sharp, but most are rounded off and instead used to cause pain points.
Yes, airport security staff are fully aware. I'm not sure if all security screeners would spot them.
I'm happy to read the procedure went well, Jamie. Keep following the good advice and you'll be up and about in no time.
I doubt it will be soon Prof. Drout. People are rather quick to pick up on the phrasing of the day, because it is usually an odd phrase from the start, which makes it suspicious. Like the escalator magically stopping and then the teleprompter going out; once was odd enough, twice is more than coincidence.
If he told Democrats not to vote for him…?
Jamie - speedy recovery!
We’ve gone from Free Speech! for everyone everywhere to Must Listen! for everyone everywhere.
So Europe and Kiev have convinced Trump that defeating Russia will be a cakewalk, and so Trump said, "Well, if it really is a cakewalk, you don't need us, have at it!"
There are theories that Trump is far more clever than people give him credit for, and theories that he is an erratic fool. Time will tell. It is so hard to know what is really going on because all we see are glimpses through the secrecy and lies of what is really going on.
good morning.
The Disturbing Ties Between the SPLC and Antifa. “The organization that put Charlie Kirk’s organization on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan ahead of his assassination last week also has a long history of carrying water for the violent Antifa movement that President Donald Trump has targeted for investigation.”
SLPC = terrorism for corrupt left.
DM reports:
Husband of HR exec in Coldplay KissCam debacle was actually at same concert with a date
LINK
also has a long history of carrying water for the violent Antifa movement that President Donald Trump has targeted for investigation
…my hope is we get a few of those crazy walls from DOJ showing how all these organizations are connected…like the way we got for the mafia and al quaeda. The people who won’t want to believe still won’t believe it but then the crazy is on them…
The UN HQ should be moved to Lagos, Nigeria.
I think that Zelensky, who is, BTW, a native Russian speaker and certainly has read the novel in Russian as a boy or young man, thinks that he is Tsar Alexander, from War and Peace, who refused to negotiate with Napoleon, and eventually, Napoleon's army was exhausted, and went away.
It's a strategy, it's worked before. I suppose it comes down to friends, will Europe fold first, Germany is basically in a depression since the Nord Stream was blown up, but they are still raring for a fight, Fred Merz is, anyway, the Russians call Germany "Greater Estonia," France and Britain doing little better, and all of their leaders are far more unpopular at home than Trump is.
The second question is, if it really does start to get rough for Russia economically, will China step in to help them, given that China knows that if Russia falls, it will have no serious allies against the US, which is itching for a war over Taiwan, which then can be used as a platform to subjugate the mainland.
There are two lands in the world, as far as the neocons and neoliberals are concerned: "Dar al-Islam," land of surrender, and "Dar al-Harb," land of war.
Kamala didn’t choose Pete for VP because she recognized that having two DEI hires on the ticket could not win. There’s a max DEI quota at play.
Tim in Vermont (AKA "Jaq"): "...the US, which is itching for a war over Taiwan..."
What exactly is your evidence for this Jimmy Kimmel-ish assertion?
ICE facility shot up in Dallas by sniper. Sniper took his own life before capture, which is only confirmed death, but 3 victims hit and at least one in critical condition.
The Democrat Party and their surrogates are a terrorist organization
How many rent control apartments released when UN move out
Court Dismisses Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok’s Constitutional Challenge to His Termination
"A federal judge ruled that Strzok hadn’t produced sufficient evidence for his First and Fifth Amendment challenges to his 2018 firing.
...
While the full ruling is under seal, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia publicly released a summary of her ruling, in which she dismissed Strzok’s claims that his First and Fifth Amendment rights had been violated by the termination.
“The Court ... finds that [Strzok’s] interest in expressing his opinions about political candidates on his FBI phone at that time was outweighed by the FBI’s interest in avoiding the appearance of bias in its ongoing investigations of those very people,” Jackson wrote."
More at the link.
“a government threat to silence a comedian the president doesn’t like is anti-American. This show is not important. What’s important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this.”
——Jimmy Kimmel
“I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 million dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.”
——Donald Trump
"Trump is existential threat to America" -- Joe Biden in his speech "Battle for the Soul of the Nation".
"We will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well," [Latisha James] said in an interview with NBC News. "We want to investigate anyone in his orbit who has, in fact, violated the law." -- Latisha James
Today I broke Grok. Twice in the same thread I hit him/her/they with hard questions. Twice him/her/they glitched and timed out, circling back to its last previous response. Is this Groks defense mechanism when it’s hit with questions it can’t or doesn’t want to answer? Incidentally these were political questions. By way of contrast and as a test, I ask Grok to solve the three body problem - a mathematical problem that at present is unsolvable. Grok came back with a very informative and credible response.
Google Caves: "The silenced are a rapidly growing movement with loud voices"
"In the wake of No Pasarán's's restoration to the internet, astounding news from Ashley Oliver of Fox News: Google to reinstate banned YouTube accounts censored for political speech.
Google vowed on Tuesday to offer YouTube accounts that were permanently banned for political speech the ability to be reinstated, and the big tech giant admitted that it once faced pressure from the Biden administration to remove content about COVID-19.
… "Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect," the lawyer representing Google wrote."
More, lots more, at the link.
Wow! I just got a more concise, cogent and credible answer from ChatGPT on the first try. Why do I keep using Grok except to see how PC it is. Or to see whether it will use the Hindustan Times as a primary source.
"In the wake of No Pasarán's's restoration to the internet, astounding news from Ashley Oliver of Fox News: Google to reinstate banned YouTube accounts censored for political speech.”
And yet the Left continues to freak out about the firing of a 3rd rate nighttime comic as a threat to democracy.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/5106211
Why do we have Green Berets in Taiwan?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/telling-the-truth-about-war-over-taiwan-general-michael-minihan-troops-china-military-power-memo-leak-11675023652
Generals have been writing that the window to "deter" China is closing fast. What does that mean? That we expect China to attack us while she is still too weak to win? Or more likely, do we want the war to happen before it is too late for us to win?
Jimmy Kimmel is a liar. I don't lie here, I am occasionally mistaken, and when I see that, I post an apology and a correction. BTW, I don't post that when somebody claims to have "refuted" my arguments by claiming that no true American believes them.
The United States recognizes Taiwan as part of China, and the Taiwanese government proclaims themselves the legitimate government of all of China. It's a civil war.
It's kind of fascinating, because we are trying to do with Taiwan, break it off from China, exactly the same thing that Russia is doing in Ukraine. Puts China in a tough position, but I think that finally Xi has come to the conclusion that it's position as right under the law, that Taiwan is part of China is not going to save it.
Remember that Taiwan has been part of China since the Middle Ages. Imperial Japan conquered it, then used it as a springboard for an invasion of the mainland that cost China many millions of lives. After WWII when Mao tried to reclaim the island, the US military sent warships into the Taiwan Strait and militarily engaged the Chinese. For what purpose? Because we want the island to put us in a position to completely blockade China and subjugate her, the same way Japan did.
If you want to believe the propaganda, go ahead, but I would suggest you read a little history and think about the stuff they tell us.
Remember that those YouTube channels were silenced on the demand of the Biden Administration, and they had not violated any YouTube terms of service.
The reason China annexed Taiwan in the Middle Ages was because it was a remote fishing island of no importance until Western powers began landing there and raising trouble.
Jaq said...
"...Because we want the island to put us in a position to completely blockade China and subjugate her, the same way Japan did."
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Sovereignty is determined by the will of the people. The Taiwanese want to be independent of China, and will fight for it if necessary. That is all that needs to be understood.
"Milei is bringing prosperity to Argentina" - Elon Musk, Sep 2024
One year later Trump is giving it bailout.
The problem with libertarianism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
"I don't lie here, I am occasionally mistaken, and when I see that, I post an apology and a correction." Really? Because I have corrected your claim that the US overthrew Assad three or four times in these pages, you have never come up with any kind of evidence in response, and yet you were repeating the claim just yesterday as if it were a well-known fact.
The fact is that the Syrian people overthrew Assad, with a lot of help from Turkey and a little from Ukraine. The US and Israel didn't have a damned thing to do with it, except tangentially, in that Israel's destruction of Hezbollah with exploding beepers removed one of his principal allies.
It is also utterly untrue that the US wants a war with China. It's perfectly obvious that the US is desperately trying to find some way to avoid a disastrous war, and that the only country in East Asia that wants war is China, which is already committing acts of war against the Philippines, and openly planning to make war on Taiwan. And Jaq still hasn't figured out that the will of people of Taiwan is the only thing that matters in the question of who owns the place. History is utterly irrelevant, and not believing in self-determination is in fact unAmerican.
"The Taiwanese want to be independent of China, and will fight for it if necessary"
You mean like the Donbas?
Besides, none of my analysis depends on what you think, or what I think, it depends on what Xi thinks.
"You say that like it's a bad thing." <<-- How do you read a sentiment like this if you are China?
BTW Dr Weevil, I don't bother with your comments any more. Too many plainly false statements, like the one about Bandera, too many "refutations" that depend on taking the word of Ukrainian propagandists as gospel, (appeal to authority) or that if Russians agree with something, it must automatically be a lie (attribution fallacy), or that I am not a loyal American (no true Scotsman). I am willing to take the risk that one day you will make a solid point and I will miss it. If you really want me to read your comment, keep it to two lines, and I will probably not be able to help it.
About 1200 of the 1800 detainees IN FLORIDAS alligator alcatraz CAN NO LONGER BE FOUND OR TRACED? They dont have ovens in Florida do they? What a fukstory desantis and that place is... Instead of myriads of fake investigations why dont they spend some time looking for the "brown people" (and if not, see if you can guess why) :(
Jaq just can't stop lying. I've never quoted a Ukrainian government source in my life, and the vast majority of my sources are not Ukrainians at all, and many of them are in fact Russians, translated by Americans or Estonians, who provide the actual video so anyone can check whether their subtitles are correct or not.
And I don't personally care whether Jaq reads my comments, because I know he will ignore them or lie about them, as he does here. I only reply to him for the benefit of third parties who might be tempted to believe him if no one objected to his filthy lies.
He still hasn't offered a smidgeon of evidence that the US or Israel had any role in the overthrow of Assad, which seems to have taken both by surprise.
As for Dinky, the story is that 1200 of the 1800 residents of Alligator Alcatraz are no longer in the Alligator Alcatraz database. Oh no! All that means is that they've been moved to the Already Deported database, because they're back home now. The Alligator Alcatraz database naturally includes only current residents!
There is of course zero evidence that anything close to a majority of the residents of the Donbas ever wanted to be part of Russia. When they voted on it in 1991, it was one-sixth. And I've quoted more than once the Russian who complained that he thought 20% of the men of the Donbas would volunteer to fight for their pseudo-independence, but only 1/2 of 1% did, and they were all drunks and losers. So "like the Donbas" is a stupid and dishonest thing to write. I've already refuted that comparison more than once.
Thanks to trump(I knew he would make a mess of things) COLA release most likely up to 2.7% , October 15th the news. If you have a MEDICARE GIVEBACK (like we do almost 15 years collecting) I get to keep the extra $84 bucks for my NYRA wagering account. That's at least a solid daily double wager. trumps still costing everything higher so possible may go up another tick,, it was an easy call when this guy got in charge. Love Advantage program ,good as my 2g's a month family plan I had before retiring. wait till you see the BIG BEAUTIFUL TAX ASSESSMENT trump put on ya, for health premiums. In life .sometimes you do get what you deserve. :)
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