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A little history

tLakeside Joe provides the Cliff’s Notes version of the Muslim Brotherhood’s origins.

Islam’s Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, a 22 year old Muslim who admired Hitler’s hatred of the Jews and persistently wrote to Hitler to express his admiration and his desire for Hitler’s Nazi Party to collaborate with Islam.

When Hitler rose to power, his Nazis supported al-Banna, a school teacher, to grow the Muslim Brotherhood into its ally in the Middle East; by 1938, the membership of Muslim Brotherhood topped 200,000.

During World War II, members of the Muslim Brotherhood spied for Hitler’s Nazis in the Middle East and fought for Hitler as Nazi troops in two specially formed Muslim Waffen-SS Handschar Divisions (see Religion of Peace). ‘Handschar’ is German for scimitar, the curved saber used by the Islamic troops of the Ottoman empire.

Above is Hitler with Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and a close ally of al-Banna, in Berlin, where he lived as Hitler’s VIP guest from 1941 to 1945 before joining al-Banna in Egypt in 1946.

Funny, innit, how interwoven all Earthly evil seems to be?

Bibi straightens out UN assholes

Just telling it like it is, that’s sll. Which you can be sure is really going to chap the ass of certain types, who always seem to have their little panties in a bunch over some lame-ass bullshit or other anyway.

Netanyahu at the United Nations
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has consistently been a powerful and clear public speaker, and he kept that pattern as he passionately spoke before the United Nations on Thursday. Before he even said a word, dozens of delegates left the room in protest of Israel’s very existence, but Netanyahu was not deterred and spent the next 40 minutes dispersing truths to these “moral cowards.” Here are some of the highlights:

  • Bibi started off talking about how the victory over Iran is a victory for the West and how many leaders of the hypocritical countries who had just walked had privately called and thanked him for Israel to do what they never had the courage to do.
  • He then spoke about his deceased brother and the Six-Day War. He reminded the world that this war was again a situation where Israel was vastly outnumbered, yet triumphed. Bibi pointed out that this was before Israel even controlled the territories that the world is now saying all attacks on Israel are about: Gaza, Judea-Samaria, and the Golan. He relayed his dead brother’s words as a mantra: “We’re going to win. We have no other choice.”
  • Netanyahu spoke in detail about the horrors of October 7, the evils of Hamas, and the 7-front war Israel has been fighting for three years. He went on to talk about the actions and war in Judea-Samaria, followed by his praise of the partnership of Israel and the United States.

Bibi echoed words that I had said on Rosh Hashanah about the dangers of social media; the antisemitic lies of media in general; and described the media campaigns against Israel as an “eighth front.” He called out by name the nation of Qatar, and how it has taken over so many Western universities and media. He pointed out other problems with Qatar, including the funding of Hamas and the housing of its leaders. He went on to talk about Turkey and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the “tyrant,” and countered the lies that are used to attack Israel by the media. He took particular aim at Zohran Mamdani, calling out his hatred for Jews.

As he discussed antisemites and this eighth front, Netanyahu made a powerful statement: “The days when Jews were defenseless victims, marched to the slaughter, are over. Today, we have a state. Today, we have an army. Today, we have a people ready and willing to defend ourselves.”

You tell ’em, Bibi. Hopefully, the US will always be right there at your side, armed and ready to stand with you to the end, because the enemy Jews have been battling for several centuries is the selfsame implacable, hate-driven, bloodthirsty., mindlessly genocidal, semi-literate, feral Moslem foe confronting Americans (which country the Muzzrats have referred to as “The Great Satan” for the last, oh fifty years or so, BTW) as well.

Update! Did somebody say something about a “shared enemy” just now? Why, yes; yes, I believe someone did.

‘We Want Islam For This Country’: Muslims In Texas Lay Out Vision For Islamic America
The organization hosting the event has plans for a 40,000-square-foot Islamic facility near Plano, Texas

Shaykh Uthman ibn Farooq laid out a vision for an Islamic America during a livestreamed event at the Sufaraa Center in McKinney, Texas, last week. Authentic Ilm Mission, which hosted the event, has plans for a 40,000-square-foot facility near Plano, Texas, and used the livestream featuring Farooq to fundraise for the multipurpose school and Islamic community center.

“We love this country,” Farooq said. “We want good for this country. And that’s why we want Islam for this country, ’cause we think that’s the best thing. And we’re not going to be ashamed of that.”

He went on to argue that Muslims are fully within their constitutional rights to adhere to Sharia law. “We’re Muslims. That’s our identity, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The Constitution of this country protects that. That’s our right to believe in the Sharia. Yes, I said it. That’s our right.

Like hell it is, goat-fucker. I’ve read the US Constitution so many times it’s come to be as familiar to me as the inside of my mouth, but I can recollect no endorsement, commendation, or anything whatsoever about any “right” to believe in or practice your stupid sharia law, but there’s a whole section condemning your right to force it on others against their will.

In fact, our Founding Fathers rejected Pisslam entirely, and despised Moslems as the dangerous,
quasi-human drains on Western Civ that they are.

In the wake of President Trump’s executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and his earlier calls for a blanket Muslim ban, debate has raged about religious freedom in America and the degree to which Muslims are protected under the First Amendment. Those on the far right often contend that Islam is incompatible with democracy and “Western civilization”. Muslims, they argue, will undermine democratic institutions, seeking to establish Sharia law.
Which they say so themselves—openly, pridefully, unashamedly.

The Founding Fathers talked about Islam quite a bit, and it was almost always negative. Even with stories of Islamic terrorism dominating news feeds for the last couple decades, the average American of 1800 had a much dimmer view of Islam than the average American of 2017. It was precisely because Islam was so universally mistrusted in early America that it served as an ideal rhetorical device in debating the extent of religious freedom in the new republic. Should religious freedom extend to all religions or only to different Protestant sects? Only Christians? Should non-Protestants be allowed to hold office? Would it be possible that a Muslim could openly practice his religion, vote, and even be elected to office?

Most colonists got their views of Islam not through America’s earliest Muslims, but through European attitudes toward Islam. Since Islam’s inception in the 7th century, there was a fundamental rift between the new religion and Christianity. Muslims, viewing their religion as the final, perfect version of God’s revelation, allowed for a semi-tolerance of Christianity and Judaism as “people of the book”, as they were imperfect revelations that had come before. 8 For Christians on the other hand, Islam was openly heretical. It is no mistake that in Dante’s Inferno, Muhammad occupies the eighth circle of Hell along with the other “schismatics”.

As he should; Dante, driven by a creative fire and artistic vision most of us can’t even begin to imagine, was definitely onto something when he put Mohammad in his proper place: Hell.

Go live in Tehran, Addis Ababa, or Mogadishu, fuckface; you and your loathsome, dress-wearing ilk ain’t American, ain’t ever gonna be, and simply don’t belong here. In addition, I cannot find any mention in the Constitution of your “right” to undermine this nation, tear down  its remains, and then remake it according to the Neanderthal, pig-ignorant precepts of your gutter pseudo-religion, thereby forcing your totalitarian shitrapy on a populace strenuously opposed to what you’re doing—those of us who are even aware of it, sadly. At any rate, just git, you foul, warped, sick-minded creature.

Plenty more of this madman’s spittle-flecked, foam-mouthed ravings at the link. Be sure to take note of his plaintive, empty protestations proclaiming his supposed “love” for America, even while declaring his sneak-thieving plan to do away entirely with America as it now exists and construct a very different America in its place. Like his “liberal” allies of convenience, he sure does love him some America…the America tha exists only in his imagination, that is, not the one we actually have.

Wonder if this camel-humping towelhead will bother to keep the old name—the United States of America— or replace it with “Sharialand” or “Allahcountry” or “Dar al Harbia” or something else more suitable.

Batman hangs it up

And seeing the writing on the walls of Gotham City, all going the way of the alarming new Moslem/Communist alliance of convenience, who could blame him for throwing up his hands and stalking away in disgust?


(Via Ed)

Dramatic exit

Only in baseball does things like this happen. Which is a YUUUGE part of the reason I was such a diehard fan of The Game for most of my life.


Beautiful. MAN! Dusty in here, ain’t it?

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Memezapoppin’!

Welcome to this week’s installment of our Wednesday meme feature, folks. Links to the “found via” sources will be attached to the specific MiQ’s (Memes in Question) whenever I can remember them, which likely won’t be very often. Only the first two memes will appear above the fold to save on bandwidth usage, since I assume not everybody who shows up at this here websty will want to see all of them. This intro will appear at the top of each week’s Memezapoppin’! post. Enjoy, funny-pitcher lovers.

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A look ahead

Miguel GFZ takes a look at the ugly, trying days to come.

59% of Democrats polled directly support a military coup d’etat with an extra13% not giving a shit if it happens. That is a total of 72% of D-Assholes willing to burn the ship they are riding (and us) as long as the captain dies. They are willing to kill America both the idea and the people.

And that is enough for you to understand why so many of them are voting Socialist/Communist.

I have been thinking and mulling about this for a while now and I just did not want to openly talk about it, but I believe a very uncivil war will happen sooner than I wish, and we will end up stacking bodies in town squares everywhere because they will do the same to us if we let them.

You will be asked to stop being polite or let politeness be engraved in your tombstone as reason you are no longer breathing.

My thoughts as well. Sure, the prospect of strife, bloodshed, and (un)civil war is indeed horrific beyond comprehension. BUT…the veritable certainty that we’ll end up subjugated, imprisoned, and murdered in job lots by a Communist dictatorship run by the current crop of mentally deranged “liberal” psychos is no less scarifying. They are now openly saying this is what they want to do; as with the jihadis, we really need to take them at their word, not just shrug off their openly-avowed intentions.

What with so many putative Reich-wingers preemptively, obsequiously foreswearing any and every act of violent resistance in defense of American liberty (whatever miserable shreds and tatters are left of it that we haven’t long since given up, that is), it seems that the original valiant, indomitable spirit of our Founding Fathers has been forever lost—rather, willfully abandoned.

As for the poll results Miguel discusses above, I can’t help but be put in mind of Grant’s sharpish riposte to his ranking subordinates who were in dread of the next breakout ass-whupping they were about to get from Lee which, to them, seemed as certain as tomorrow’s sunrise:

Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what are we going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.

Probably the wisest, best pre-battle advice ever offered to any group of increasingly timorous, drubbing-conditioned field-rank officers, I’d say. In the end, Grant prevailed over one of the most able Generals of all time, as we all know, not so much because of his brilliant generalship and/or tactical acumen, but more because of his own iron will, dogged determination, and plain old guts.

Grant, Lee, Longstreet, Sherman, Jackson, and before them Washington, Nathanael Green, the wily “Swamp Fox” Francis Marion—these men are every natural-born Amercan patriot’s heritage, his proud, legitimate ancestral birthright—not the pusillanimous, cross-dressing, scrotum-licking pussies of the Repugnant Left. Hopefully, we’ll all remember, reclaim, and renew that sacred inheritance ere the end.

A long-overdue move

Wait, whut, you telling me they haven’t been already?

‘Needs to happen’: U.S. lawmakers move to designate American Muslim activists as foreign terror organization
The state of Texas already considers CAIR, the Quran-promoting Council on American-Islamic Relations, a terror group.

So do several foreign nations.

Now there’s a move developing in Congress to have CAIR officially labeled as a foreign terrorist group.

A report at the Center Square said the push is coming from key congressional members.

The group has asked the Trump administration to consider designating CAIR, which promotes Islam, as a terror group.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, already had called for that designation.

Now U.S. Rep. Randy Fine, of Florida, is sponsoring a plan to instruct the State Department to determine whether CAIR meets the criteria for an FTO label.

“It is a foreign terrorist organization,” he said in an interview with the Center Square. “I mean, CAIR was founded as an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. It’s the front for Hamas.”

Hamas is the terror organization that several years ago invaded Israel in an act of war and slaughtered some 1,200 civilians, kidnapping hundreds more.

U.S. Rep. Earl S. “Buddy” Carter, of Georgia, said, “It’s something that needs to happen.”

Sheeeeiit, pal, it’s something that should’ve happened YEARS ago. After 9/11/01, it’s somewhat difficult to fathom how it hasn’t…or why.

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He isn’t right every time

Of course he isn’t; being as human as anybody else, he can’t be. But when he’s right, the man is fucking-A RIGHT.

This would be one of those times.

The whole durn thang.

TRUMP DID THE FOLLOWING:
– Called out the UN for ignoring Christian persecution worldwide while obsessing over America
– Demanded every ICC member resign immediately from that rogue anti-American tribunal
– Called Communist Cuba a failed state that will fall, then watched officials storm out
– Declared there is no human right to illegal immigration, only the right to stay a sovereign nation
– Scorched UNESCO globalists for pushing mass migration that destroys Western cultures
– Said there is NO global government and there will be NO global taxes while he is president
– Bragged that America cut the UN budget 15% and killed over 4,000 bureaucracy jobs
– Boasted of the most secure border in American history with ZERO illegal aliens admitted
– Declared America is BACK, stronger than ever, and in a GOLDEN AGE after Biden’s dark age
– Mic-dropped failed globalist leaders: while others talked peace, he MADE peace
– Vowed Iran will NEVER get a nuclear weapon and said the Middle East bully is finished
– Teased a huge post-election decision: strike a deal, or annihilate the Islamic Republic
– Exposed Iran as weak and desperate, not strong, and predicted Iranian terror’s end
– Slammed cowards and traitors leaking fake “low munitions” claims mid-conflict
– Took a victory lap over capturing Maduro and signing the largest oil deal in history
– Laid down the Donroe Doctrine: no threats get a foothold in the Western Hemisphere
– Refused to apologize for crushing drug cartels, calling them the ISIS of the hemisphere
– Locked in permanent Greenland security rights that shut out China, Russia, and adversary investment
– Renamed Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence and vowed America stays #1 over China
– Closed with a nationalist call to strengthen nations, grow economies, and God bless America

And that’s just a non-exhaustive list.

Amazingly enough, it is. About damned time a US Prexy had balls enough to beard the UN lion in its very den, sayeth I. Via Ace.

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Queer community SPLINTERED!!!

Shocking, unexpected, and extravagantly out of character, I know.

The August 31 Instagram post from Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, a lesbian bar in Greenfield, was upbeat, teasing a new DJ lineup and a volunteer meetup. But partway down the rainbow-hued post labeled “UPDATES!” was a sentence that would splinter the queer community in this small Pioneer Valley city and beyond. “It is with love we inform our immunocompromised disabled divas we will be opening Saturday nights as mask optional,” wrote Last Ditch.

Previously, patrons were required to wear a well-fitted KN-95 mask “or better” at all times.

The new policy was not received with love.

“Just say you’re being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with,” wrote one commenter.

“people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience,” posted another.

“I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists [sic],” wrote a third.

Oh, forgot to mention “pathetic” up there, didn’t I? Feel free to throw that in in your heads, gang. Mea maxima culpas for that most lamentable lapse.

Link all squinched up in the original Insty post, so I just went with Ed’s excerpt.

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Life, imitating art

Okay, I gotta admit, when I saw this my mind was well and truly blown.

Here’s the Answer to Those White House Tweets Teasing That ‘Something’s Coming’
CNN, MS NOW, and Politico were banned from White House briefings by President Donald Trump last week for being “fake news.” They responded by making a joint statement on Monday announcing they would be suing to get their access restored.

Then other media outlets that were involved in the pool coverage of the White House said they would be suspending their coverage of Trump and the White House in response to the ban of the outlets.

The whining was something.

Then the White House teased that “something was coming” and advised people to watch the White House X account.

The White House appears to be getting ready to do an end run around the legacy media. They just posted this tweet.


Now, all that’s hilarious enough already, yeah. BUT, just to make the whole scenario even more delicious, jam-packed with rich, buttery goodness, and SOOO good for you, here’s the rest of the story.

See, I just happen to be about a third of the way through Book 5 of Kurt Schlichter’s awesome Kelly Turnbull series of novels, this one titled Crisis, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but the introduction of a new character, a highly atypical female TeeWee news-wench name of Avery Barnes. Check it:

“Hey,” said a woman’s voice from behind Turnbull, one with a lightly suppressed Southern lilt. “You in the leather jacket.”

Turnbull pivoted, assuming he’d draw the SIG and go for a Mozambique drill on his interlocutor – two in the chest, one in the hat rack – if it came to that. But his kill plan wasn’t necessary, at least not at that moment.

The woman calling to him was a pretty blonde in her early 30s, clearly a reporter since a cameraman was standing next to her, munching on a green apple and looking bored. He was dressed like a hobo, as field cameramen generally are, but she was extremely put together. She looked like she was about to walk into her suburban Georgia Baptist church for the first time after getting divorced, with a slightly too-tight red dress that hovered above her knees, loads of make-up, and every hair locked into its assigned place. The mic she held said “Trump News Network” in gold letters.

SO. If the White House staff haven’t come up with a name for this new venture yet, I may could offer a suggestion.

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Gratitude

Q: Do dolphins understand and/or experience human emotional reactions such as gratitude?

A:

Those signs the Magic 8-ball just mentioned:

Massimo
@Rainmaker1973

She didn’t just swim away: she came back with gifts.

After rescuers freed her calf from a fishing net, a mother dolphin began regularly leaving fresh fish on a dock as a touching “thank you” gesture.

In July 2025, a dolphin calf became entangled in fishing gear near a marina. A man named Tom and other local boat owners successfully freed the calf and reunited it with its distressed mother. Days later, people at a nearby dock started discovering neatly placed fresh fish each morning.

Initially suspecting a prank, they checked surveillance footage and were stunned to see a dolphin surfacing at night, gently placing fish on the wooden dock before swimming off. The behavior was soon linked to the recent rescue, leading many to believe the mother dolphin was deliberately thanking the man who helped save her baby.

She repeated the act multiple times. While marine biologists are cautious about attributing human emotions like gratitude to animals, they note that dolphins possess high intelligence and complex social awareness. Real or symbolic, the story has captured hearts worldwide as a beautiful example of the special bond between humans and dolphins.

Awwww.

(Via Ace)

Bullshit artist

Y’know, for a fella who starts his article off by saying “I don’t normally comment on political races,” he sure packs a helluva wallop.

Calling Bullsh-t on James Talarico
Jesus is not your campaign surrogate.

I don’t normally comment on political races, but when I see someone who is as fundamentally full of sh-t as James Talarico, I believe it is my duty to say something about it. James Talarico is now the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Texas, having defeated Jasmine Crockett in the 2026 primary. He has discovered a political instrument more powerful than a Super PAC, more versatile than a focus group, and considerably harder to interview: Jesus Christ. After generations of right-wing Protestant pastors hijacking the message of Jesus and turning him into some kind of political football, you have to hand it to James. After all, he is shameless enough to say, why not me?

Down in the backwater leftist stronghold of Austin, Texas, Talarico is selling progressive politics with a halo. He has shamelessly transformed Jesus into a mouthpiece for leftist progressivism. But that same feeling that we used to get when we watched the PTL Club pervades his aura. I have to hand it to American Protestantism; despite its amazing versatility, it can still make you feel dirty, cheap, and used.

Talarico’s maneuver is a simple one for the simple-minded. He selects biblical passages that he can bastardize and put into the service of leftist progressivism, as if it were a direct command from the Lord Jesus Christ to the White House and the U.S. Senate. Jesus becomes a mouthpiece for the massive expansion of government, open borders and illegal immigration, and NGOs. However, the clarity of his stance rolls into the fog the moment that the fate of an unborn child enters the discussion.

It would be too simple to call him a political whore. But I have to say that hearing him speak makes me nostalgic for Jasmine Crockett. Talarico has shamelessly peddled the God-loves-abortion argument that was vomited out by his professors at the far-left seminary he attended in Austin. Just a quick review of the course catalogue puts the “seminary” in the same political hotbox as any American progressive propaganda center these days. As a survivor of Harvard Divinity School, I can recognize all the usual fluff: Activism and the Old Testament Scriptures, Womanist and Feminist readings of the New Testament, Immigration and the Old Testament, Communication for Ministries of Social Justice. At Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, there is not even a pretense to read the Bible through anything other than a Marxist, feminist lens. The historical texts never stood a chance.

What is especially loathsome about these seminaries is that they seem to barely read the printed word and have no real interest in what the Gospels actually say. Their efforts have been directed toward “demythologizing” the gospel (Rudolf Bultmann), finding the secular meaning (Paul van Buren), secularizing the message (Harvey Cox, The Secular City), or drawing a picture of God to their liking, literally conjured up from thin air (God the Problem, Gordon Kaufman). Then there are the feminist wackos like Mary Daly, the “theologian” who despised all men, would not accept men into her classroom, and would only refer to God as “Goddess.” For any serious scholar who actually wants to study Augustine, Aquinas, Athanasius, Luther, or the actual Bible, stay the hell away from a mainstream Protestant seminary. They wouldn’t know a Bible if it fell off the shelf and hit them over the head. They haven’t even lifted their heads out of Das Kapital for the last 75 years.

“It would be too simple,” you say? I dunno, myself; seems to me that calling the smarmy cockholster a “political whore” meets the case quite nicely.

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You may not be interested in war…

But war is interested in YOU.

Eric S. Raymond
@esrtweet

The city of Narva, Estonia, sits at the Russian border, on the Narva river, opposite the zone where the Russians have declared a curfew for its inhabitants and a no-go zone for people who don’t already live there.

Narva is 87% ethnic Russian.

There are intelligence reports that Russia has been building hospital facilities near this border.

Russian border guards have been spotted shoring up the banks of the Narva River in exactly the way you would expect if you thought they were going to throw expedient military bridges across it.

Russian border guards have also removed a set of buoys in the river marking the Russian-Estonian border, sparking a formal protest from the Estonian government.

Putin has claimed the right to intravene militarily to protect “oppressed” ethnic Russians in the near abroad. The invasion and annexation of Crimea was justified on these grounds.

These are all facts. Draw your own conclusions.

A few more cold, hard facts from Stephen, including what may end up being the one that really tells the story (bold mine).

But here’s where it gets truly disturbing: “The city of Narva, Estonia, sits at the Russian border, on the Narva river, opposite the zone where the Russians have declared a curfew for its inhabitants and a no-go zone for people who don’t already live there.“

Narva is 87% ethnic Russian, a result of Russian colonization efforts in the Baltics, both during the Czarist and Soviet era. “Putin has claimed the right to intervene militarily to protect ‘oppressed’ ethnic Russians in the near abroad,” Eric posted. “The invasion and annexation of Crimea [in 2014] was justified on these grounds.”

I make zero predictions, none whatsoever, about what comes next.

It seems absolutely insane by most measures for Putin to make warlike moves like these while virtually all of Russia’s conventional combat power remains committed to his own Forever War in Ukraine.

But then I’m reminded of a quote attributed to Dwight Eisenhower: “If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.”

Maybe a real test of NATO resolve — and perhaps fracturing the alliance, if Putin can make a joke out of Article 5 — is the Russian leader’s way of enlarging the unsolvable problem of Ukraine.

And if NATO resolve is not found wanting?

I’m not sure I want to know, but I’m not the one throwing the dice on the banks of the Narva River.

Disturbing, no?

Lessee…

Aiight, just for the sheer hell of it, were gonna try something here.

InmanVid.mp4

Swiped from the esteemed (and usually estoned and esdrunked*) Boilerdoc, for purposes of gratuitous experimentation. Now to hit “Publish” and see if it actually works.

Update! Well, that’s nice and all, but not quite what I was aiming for. You can click on the “InmanVid” link to watch the vid, but I was hoping to embed the stupid thing. Oh well, I am NOT gonna spend the rest of my natural life fumble-fucking around with this shite.

* That’s one of my all-time favorite riffs from my dear departed friend Chris Pfouts

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Fake Phony Fraud(s), S'faccim: two excellent descriptors coined by the late great WABC host Bob Grant which are interchangeable, both meaning as they do pretty much the same thing

Mordor On The Potomac: Washington, DC

The Enemy: shitlibs, Progtards, Leftards, Swamp critters, et al ad nauseum

Burn, Loot, Murder: what the misleading acronym BLM really stands for

pAntiFa: an alternative spelling of "fascist scum"

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Notable Quotes

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
—Claire Wolfe, 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution

Claire's Cabal—The Freedom Forums

FREEDOM!!!

"There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
—Daniel Webster

“When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill.”
—Charles Bukowski

“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
—Ezra Pound

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
—Frank Zappa

“The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.”
—John Adams

"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."
—Bertrand de Jouvenel

"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."
—GK Chesterton

"I predict that the Bush administration will be seen by freedom-wishing Americans a generation or two hence as the hinge on the cell door locking up our freedom. When my children are my age, they will not be free in any recognizably traditional American meaning of the word. I’d tell them to emigrate, but there’s nowhere left to go. I am left with nauseating near-conviction that I am a member of the last generation in the history of the world that is minimally truly free."
—Donald Sensing

"The only way to live free is to live unobserved."
—Etienne de la Boiete

"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

"To put it simply, the Left is the stupid and the insane, led by the evil. You can’t persuade the stupid or the insane and you had damn well better fight the evil."
—Skeptic

"There is no better way to stamp your power on people than through the dead hand of bureaucracy. You cannot reason with paperwork."
—David Black, from Turn Left For Gibraltar

"If the laws of God and men, are therefore of no effect, when the magistracy is left at liberty to break them; and if the lusts of those who are too strong for the tribunals of justice, cannot be otherwise restrained than by sedition, tumults and war, those seditions, tumults and wars, are justified by the laws of God and man."
—John Adams

"The limits of tyranny are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
—Frederick Douglass

"Give me the media and I will make of any nation a herd of swine."
—Joseph Goebbels

“I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.”
—Ronald Reagan

"Ain't no misunderstanding this war. They want to rule us and aim to do it. We aim not to allow it. All there is to it."
—NC Reed, from Parno's Peril

"I just want a government that fits in the box it originally came in."
—Bill Whittle

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